Events Tagged: "partition"

Partition of Armenia - Rome and Persia divide Armenia, ends centuries of conflict

Treaty of Verdun - Carolingian Empire permanently divided: Lothair gets Middle Francia and imperial title, Louis gets East (Germany), Charles gets West (France)

Death of Lothair I - Middle Francia divided among his three sons, imperial title to Louis II

Treaty of Mersen - Louis the German and Charles the Bald divide Lotharingia after death of Lothair II

Treaty of Wedmore - Guthrum converts to Christianity, England divided between Wessex and Danelaw

Venice gains 'Quarter and Half-Quarter' of Byzantine Empire - controls three-eighths of former Byzantine territories, becomes imperial power

Buda falls to Ottomans - Hungary divided into Ottoman Hungary, Royal Hungary (Habsburg), and Principality of Transylvania

First Partition of Poland - Catherine the Great takes eastern territories with 1.8 million new subjects

Second Partition of Poland - Catherine the Great takes vast Lithuanian and Ukrainian lands, 3 million new subjects

Third Partition of Poland - Poland disappears from map, Catherine the Great takes remaining eastern territories