Cities

In 1715, the Naval Academy was opened in St. Petersburg, followed ten years later by the Academy of Sciences.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Spring of Nations in 1848, when citizens took to the streets of Vienna demanding the introduction of reforms in the country, Franz Joseph I took power, leading to the creation of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867.

On 9th August 1918, the flight over Vienna took place - a propaganda action by Italian pilots who, during World War I, dropped propaganda leaflets in the districts of Vienna, calling on the Austrians to end the war.

One of the Medici was Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.

Bremen briefly lost its independence twice.

In 1973, an African American, Tom Bradley, became mayor of Los Angeles for the first time.

The city's greatest prosperity occurred in the 18th century, during the reign of Maria Theresa Habsburg.

The first people lived in Munich between the 7th and 6th centuries BC.

St. Petersburg's streetcar network was launched in 1907.

Practical power in the city rested in the hands of about 40 of the wealthiest families, whose members sat on the city council.