Since 1780, they had ruled the Habsburg Netherlands, or Austrian Netherlands – a terrain comprising most of modern-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Why was this illustrious couple hitting ...

Today marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas Müntzer’s execution after he led a mass revolt that was both religious and social ...

Paul-Loup Chatin and Mick Schumacher are upbeat about Alpine’s progress as it looks towards its second 24 Hours of Le Mans ...

David Roth The Austrian Jew David Roth was born in 1808 in Cassovia (now Košice in Slovakia, but then it was part of Hungary ...

The dual-careers of Peter Paul Rubens, working as both a court painter and a highly respected European diplomat, won him ...

The nationalism of maimed nations is a powerful and dangerous thing. Located right in the core of Europe, Hungary has struggled against just about every current flowing through the continent, crushed ...

There was a time when French kings did weigh heavily on papal elections, jostling for influence with other powerful Catholic monarchies, from the Spanish king to the Hapsburg emperor. Those days ...

Both bride and groom wore coordinating outfits in the French style, fashioned from cloth ... and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol". Following the nearly four-hour ceremony, the ...

In 1631, under the Treaty of Bärwalde, France agreed to provide financial support to help the Nordic nation in the Thirty Years War against Habsburg Austria; Sweden's royal family is descended from a ...

Carême takes place during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte after the French Revolution. The chef, played by Benjamin Voisin, ...

A decade later, following his failure to be elected emperor, the French king Louis XIV created the League of the Rhine to isolate the Austrian branch of the Habsburgs from Spain. During this period, ...