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Maximilian I. 1459-1519. HRE 1493-. Expanded Hapsburg empire by marriage and conquest. Italian Wars.
Messenian Wars. 735-715BC. Sparta dominates Messenia. 650-600BC Sparta crushes revolt.
Metaurus, Battle. 207BC. Rome defeats Carthaginian invasion in 2nd Punic War.
Mithradatic Wars. 88~63BC. Mithradates defeated. Romans annex Pontus.
Moravian Church. Unitas Fratrum. 1457-. Protestant Hussite sect. 1467 Split from Utraquists. 18C German Pietist revival.
Mornay, Philippe de. 1549-1623. French Huguenot leader in Wars of Religion, 1562-98. Reconciled Henry III, Henry of Navarre.
Mursa, Battle. 351. Roman civil wars. Rebel Magnentius defeated by Constantius II. 54,000 dead.
Mylae, Battle. 260BC. Roman navy defeats Carthaginians in first Punic War.
Mysore Wars. 1767~99 Moslems vs British in India.
Nanking Peace. 1842. Opium War. Britain gains Hong Kong. Trade opened.
Napoleon I, Bonaparte. 1769-1821. French general. Emperor of France by coup d’etat 1804-14. Disastrous Moscow campaign 1812. Defeated at Waterloo 1815. Exiled to St. Helena. Napoleonic Wars. Napoleonic Code. Hundred Days.
Napoleonic Wars. 1803-15. France conquers most of Europe until Waterloo. Paris Treaty. Wars of Coalition.
Nepal. Newars, Mongolians. 1769 Gurkhas unite. 1845 Rana dynasty.
Nijmegen, Treaties. 1678-9. Ended Dutch Wars.
Norway. 872 United by Harald Fairhair. 1130- Civil wars. 1397 Danish. 1814 Swedish. 1905 Independent. 1940-45 Germans occupy.
Opium Wars. 1839-42 Hong Kong ceded to Britain. 1856-60. French, British force China to open trade, legalize opium. Demonstrated European weapon superiority. Nanking Treaty.
Orléans, Philippe II, duc d’. 1674-1723. French soldier Wars of Grand Alliance, Spanish Succession. Regent for Louis XV.
Paix des Dames. Cambrai Treaty. 1529. Francis I’s mother and Charles V’s aunt negotiate halt to Italian Wars.
Pan-Slavism. 19C Slavic unity movement. Caused Russo-Turkish War 1877.
Paris. Son of Priam. Carried Helen back to Troy, starting the Trojan Wars. Shot Achilles. Judged first beauty contest.
Paris, Treaties. 1229 Ends Albigensian Crusade. Louis gains Toulouse. 1327. England loses territory to France. 1763 Ends Seven Years War. Britain gets French holdings in Canada. Spain gets American territory. 1783 Ends American Revolution. US borders fixed. 1814 Ends Napoleonic Wars, restoring 1792 borders. Napoleon exiled to Elba. 1815 Ends Hundred Days. 1790 borders, reparations. Napoleon to St. Helena. 1856 Ends Crimean War. Black Sea neutral. Regulated Laws of High Seas. 1898 Ends Spanish American War. Spain cedes Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico to US. 1947. Settled European borders after WWII.
Paullus, Aemilius. 229-160BC. Roman victor at Pydna, 168BC. Ended Macedonian War.
Peloponnesian War, Second. 431-404BC. Sparta defeats Athens, beginning Greek decline.
Persian Wars. 490-479BC. Greek city-states repel Persian invasion.
Pillnitz, Declaration of. 1791. Holy Roman Empire, Prussia support Restoration in France. French Revolutionary Wars.