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1541 – Riga joins League of Schmalkalden. [4] 1547 – Sigismund II of Poland in power. [1] 1558 – Riga area besieged by Russians. [1] 1561 – Territory converts to Lutheranism from Catholicism. [citation needed] 1581 – Riga is granted status of Imperial Free City. 1582 – Polish in power. [4] 1584 – Calendar riots begin. [5] [10]
The history of Riga, the capital of Latvia, begins as early as the 2nd century with a settlement, the Duna urbs, at a natural harbor not far upriver from the mouth of the Daugava River. Later settled by Livs and Kurs , it was already an established trade center in the early Middle Ages along the Dvina-Dnieper trade route to Byzantium.
Pages in category "History of Riga" ... History of Riga; Timeline of Riga; A. Art Nouveau architecture in Riga; B. Battle of Riga (1215) Battle of Riga (1919)
Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation (Latvian: Rīgas vēstures un kuģniecības muzejs) is housed by the Riga Dom Cathedral ensemble in the heart of the Old Riga, Latvia. It originated in 1773 as a private collection of Nikolaus von Himsel, a Riga doctor. [1] It is the oldest museum in the Baltic States. [2]
Free City of Riga (German: Freie Stadt Riga, Latvian: Rīgas brīvpilsēta) is a city-state, which existed in modern times, one of the German state formations that arose in the medieval Baltic during the crisis of the Livonian Confederation at the end of the 16th century. The main governing body of the city during these years was the Riga City ...
Spain and the United States signs the Pact of Madrid. 1955 Spain joins the United Nations. 1959: Spanish miracle: A period of economic growth began. 1973: Spanish miracle: The period ended. 1975: History of Spain (1975–present) 6 November: The Green March forced Spain to hand over its last remaining colonial possession, Spanish Sahara, to ...
Ilse Bing (1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. [49] Gerda Taro (1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War, becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline. [50]
The female figure at the top of the Freedom Monument is affectionately called Milda, [2] because, according to Lithuanian author Arvydas Juozaitis, the model for the sculpture was a Lithuanian woman Milda Jasikienė, who lived in Riga. [3] [4] However, the Riga Monument Agency says there are no historical records supporting this claim. [5]