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Avar

Member of a Central Asian nomadic people who in the 6th century invaded the area of Russia north of the Black Sea previously held by the Huns. They extended their dominion over the Bulgarians and Slavs in the 7th century and were finally defeated by Charlemagne in 796.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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The Crusades
14 March 1647
The Thirty Years War: Prince-elector Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria is forced to sign the Truce of Ulm by France and Sweden. The Truce forced Bavaria to renounce its alliance with Ferdinand II the Holy Roman Emperor.
20 March 1848
As revolution spreads through Europe and the German states, Kind Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
12 May 1191
King Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
13 August 1704
English commander, the Duke of Marlborough, wins the Battle of Blenheim in Germany, in which Anglo-Austrian forces under Marlborough and Prince Eugene defeat a combined French and Bavarian army.
12 October 1810
The Bavarian royal family invite the citizens of Munich to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince Louis to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen, this initiating the first Oktoberfest in Germany.
20 October 1827
During the Greek War of Independence, the combined fleets of the British, French and Russian navies destroying the Egyptian and Turkish fleets at The Battle of Navarino, off the coast of Greece.
8 November 1923
In Munich, Germany Adolf Hitler launches the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to seize control of the Bavarian government, with hopes of going on to seize power in the whole of the country. 
 

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