Devastated by European diseases to which they had no immunity, and civil wars, in 1532 the Incas were defeated by an alliance composed of tens of thousands allies from nations they had subjugated ( e. g. Huancas, Chachapoyas, Cañaris ) and a small army of 180 Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro.

In European Spain, or just " the Peninsula " in the jargon of the Spains, after economic and human ravages of the Napoleonic Invasion ( 1808 ) and the War of Liberation ( 1808 – 1814 ) there ensued the aforementioned Latinamerican conflicts, in addition to the Carlist wars, the liberal-conservative wars, and the bleeding of people and resources into Latin America.

The background to the wars lies in the incomplete emergence of nation-states on the European territory of the Ottoman Empire during the second half of the 19th century.

Superpowers, such as the European great powers, had always felt no compunction in intervening in civil wars that affected their interests, while distant regional powers such as the United States could declare the interventionist Monroe Doctrine of 1821 for events in its Central American " backyard ".

The growing English colonies along the American seaboard to the south and various European wars between England and France during the 17th and 18th centuries brought Acadia to the centre of world-scale geopolitical forces.

Despite occasional entanglements with European Powers such as the War of 1812 and the 1898 Spanish-American War, U. S. foreign policy was marked by steady expansion of its foreign trade and scope during the 19th century, and it maintained its policy of avoiding wars with and between European powers.

That year the loss of North Vietnam to the communists and the rejection of his proposed European Defense Community ( EDC ) were serious defeats, but he remained optimistic in his opposition to the spread of communism, saying " Long faces don't win wars ".

As Dahomey's kings embarked on wars to expand their territory, they began using muskets and other firearms traded with French and Spanish slave traders for young men captured in battle, who fetched a very high price from the European slave merchants.

The imperative of avoiding a third Franco-German conflict on the scale of those of two world wars paved the way for European integration starting in the 1950s.

He counseled friendship and commerce with all nations, but warned against involvement in European wars and entering into long-term " entangling " alliances.

Spain's European wars led to economic damage, and the latter part of the 17th century saw a gradual decline of power under an increasingly neglectful and inept Habsburg regime.

They also became indispensable in financing the military capability of Habsburg Spain in its long series of European and North African wars, though, with the exception of a few years in the 17th century, Spain itself ( Castile in particular ) was by far the most important source of revenue.

As the general European wars abated during this time, the European and American navies were able to focus on countering the Barbary pirates and the pirate threat soon faded.

One group of opponents of this point of view, including many European nations, maintain that all civilized nations have certain norms of conduct expected of them, including the prohibition of genocide, slavery and the slave trade, wars of aggression, torture, and piracy, and that violation of these universal norms represents a crime, not only against the individual victims, but against humanity as a whole.

* During the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion, known as the Beeldenstorm in the Netherlands, Protestants destroyed traditional ( by then considered Catholic ) imagery in churches, including paintings, sculptures and other representations.

It further stated the United States ' intention to stay neutral in European wars and wars between European powers and their colonies, but to consider new colonies or interference with independent countries in the Americas as hostile acts toward the United States.

The Swedes were not happy with the Danes ' frequent wars on Schleswig, Holstein, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania, which were a disturbance to Swedish exports ( notably iron ) to the European continent.

Large tracts of the fertile farmland to the north of the country — in the Free State region of South Africa — were lost to European colonists in wars during the 19th century.

The immense debt resulting from Isma ' il's projects provided a pretext for increasing European control, which culminated with the British invasion in 1882.

He would later provide guitar duties for singer Enrique Iglesias in 2000, which culminated in a series of high-profile televised performances and a European tour.

His tenure of the office coincided with the critical period in Prussian and European affairs which culminated in the revolutions of 1848.

; 1933-1945: The German Nazi persecution started with the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, reached a first climax during the Kristallnacht in 1938 and culminated in the Holocaust of the European Jewry.

For example, nineteenth century European and American ideas of race and eugenics culminated in the attempts of the Nazi-led German society of the 1930s to deny not just reproduction, but life itself to a variety of people with " differences " attributed in part to biologic characteristics.

Pombal was thus an important precursor for the suppression of the Jesuits throughout Europe and its colonies, which culminated in 1773, when European absolutists forced Pope Clement XIV to issue a bull empowering them to suppress the order in their domains.

Under van Otterloo, the orchestra made an eight-week European tour in 1974 which culminated in two concerts in Amsterdam and The Hague.

This deployment was culminated with a port visit to Bremerhaven, West Germany, the first visit by a nuclear-powered ship to a European port.

In 1997, the WWF created the European Championship and Smith became the first ever holder of the title, winning a tournament in Germany, which culminated in him defeating his own tag team partner, Owen Hart in the finals, which made Smith a double champion.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, IFIAS created networks and conducted projects to help the former communist countries in their transition to democracy and pluralism, which provisionally culminated with the admission of ten new members to the European Union on May 1, 2004.

After a management career with several food manufacturing businesses which culminated in an appointment as Managing Director of Red Mill Snack Foods Ltd in the Black Country and Red Mill Company BV, the Netherlands, he was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999.

Likewise, in Europe's Inner Demons he tracked the historical sources of the mania for scapegoating minorities which, within Christendom, culminated in the Great European witchhunt.

In recent seasons Wales have taken massive strides under former player Iestyn Harris who has coached Wales to back to back European Cup successes, which culminated in a Four Nations appearance in 2011.

Such gestures inaugurated a period of effective Russian supervision, which culminated with the Organic Statute administration of the 1830s ; the Danubian Principalities grew in strategic importance with the Napoleonic Wars and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire, as European states became interested in halting Russian southwards expansion ( of which a noted development was the annexation of Bessarabia in 1812 ).

The steady European interest in Kaká culminated in his signing with Italian club AC Milan in 2003 for a fee of € 8. 5 million, described in retrospect as " peanuts " by club owner Silvio Berlusconi.

His second European tour culminated on 17 April 1992 at Champ-de-Mars in Paris where he sang in front of 75, 000 people.

When addressing the European public, the China-based Jesuit missionaries strove to present Confucianism, as represented by its Four Books, in favorable light-the effort culminated with the publications of Confucius Sinarum Philosophus in 1687 in Paris.

He was a protagonist in cosmic ray research with the nuclear utilization of photographic emulsions exposed to high energy cosmic radiation, work which culminated in 1954 with the European G-Stack collaboration.

An eventful season culminated with the receipt of a red card, for punching Lawrence Dallaglio, in Bath Rugby's 30-48 European Challenge Cup final defeat to London Wasps on 25 May 2003.

This is a reflection of the tradition of secular humanism which culminated in the 18th century " Age of Enlightenment " and which allowed the great progress in science and technology which accompanied the " European miracle ".

This culminated in the National Theater of Senegal being the first African Shakespearean to tour major European capitals in 1974.

On the European stage Roma won an Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960 – 61, coming close to European Cup victory in 1983 – 84 ( lost the one-legged final played at home against Liverpool after a penalty shootout ), and finishing as runners-up in the UEFA Cup for 1990 – 91 ( two-legged aggregate defeat against Internazionale ).

Not unexpectedly, United went out of the European Cup to Milan in the semi-finals to a 5 – 2 aggregate defeat and fell behind in the League.

European mercenaries, US, and Belgian troops were called in by the Congolese government to defeat the rebellion.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits ( trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs ; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom ; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union ) and its misses ( he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that " my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea ").

This defeat and Ellac's death ended the European supremacy of the Huns, and soon afterwards they disappear from contemporary records.

After the defeat of Napoleon, a new European order was established at the Congress of Vienna.

After the defeat of Napoleon, who caused the dissolution of that first German Empire, Prussia, and the German states continued to stand aloof from imperialism, preferring to manipulate the European system through polices such as those of Metternich.

First was the foundation of Edo ( in 1603 ) to whole inland economical developments, second was the Meiji Restoration ( in 1868 ) to be the first non European power, third was after the defeat of World War II ( in 1945 ) when the island nation rose to become the world's second largest economy.

* 1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.

defeat Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners ' Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.

* 1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.

Following Labour's fourth consecutive defeat in the 1992 general election, Kinnock resigned as leader and resigned from the House of Commons three years later in order to become a European Commissioner.

By 1875 France had recovered from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and a new government began to militarily expand and reassert itself again as a player in European politics.

* 1683 – Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.

When the northern Italian cities inflicted a defeat on Frederick at Alessandria in 1175, the European world was shocked that such a thing could happen.

This defeat in the Travancore-Dutch War is considered the earliest example of an organized Asian power overcoming European military technology and tactics ; and it signaled the decline of Dutch power in India.

After his defeat, Napoleon deplored the fact that his dream of a free and peaceful " European association " remained unaccomplished.

Ultimately, the United States ' proposals and actions did not stop the factors of European nationalism spawned by the previous war, the repercussions of Germany's defeat, and the failures of the Treaty of Versailles from plunging the globe into a Second World War.

The idea of a European cup competition was shaped after World War I which brought the defeat and collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The war ended with a defeat for Sweden, leaving Russia as the new major power in the Baltic Sea and an important new player in European politics.

With the defeat of Napoléon in 1814 / 1815, the balance of power in Europe and in the European colonies shifted in Britain's favor.