#TodayInHistory – June 21
June 21 – Some important events on this day. 68 👉🏼 Roman General Vespasian conquers Jericho during the Great Jewish Revolt 1498 👉🏼 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by […]
#TodayInHistory – June 20
June 20 – Some important events on this day. 451 👉🏼 Battle of the Catalaunian Plains: Roman and Visigoths forces defeat Attila the Hun in north east France 1214 👉🏼 […]
#TodayInHistory – June 19
June 19 – Some important events on this day. 1306 👉🏼 The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Robert the Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven 1829 👉🏼 Sir […]
#TodayInHistory – June 18
June 18 – Some important events on this day. 618 👉🏼 Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three […]
#TodayInHistory – June 17
June 17 – Some important events on this day. 656 👉🏼 Ali ibn Abu Talib elected the 4th Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. 1462 👉🏼 Vlad III the Impaler attempts […]
#TodayInHistory – June 16
June 16 – Some important events on this day. 1784 👉🏼 Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes 🥻 1794 👉🏼 1st stone laid at biggest Dutch grain windmill De […]
#TodayInHistory – June 15
June 15 – Some important events on this day. 763 BC 👉🏼 Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1215 👉🏼 […]
#TodayInHistory – June 14
June 14 – Some important events on this day. 1276 👉🏼 While taking exile in Fuzhou, southern China, from advancing Mongol invaders, remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold coronation […]
#TodayInHistory – June 13
June 13 – Some important events on this day. 1373 👉🏼 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world’s oldest extant) signed in London 1381 👉🏼 Peasant army marches into London. During the […]
#TodayInHistory – June 12
June 12 – Some important events on this day. 1381 👉🏼 Peasants’ Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath 1830 👉🏼 Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French […]
#TodayInHistory – June 11
June 11 – Some important events on this day. 1184 BC 👉🏼 Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes 631 👉🏼 Emperor Taizong of Tang […]
#TodayInHistory – June 10
June 10 – Some important events on this day. 1190 👉🏼 Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (modern Turkey) leading an army […]
#TodayInHistory – June 9
June 9 – Some important events on this day. 68 👉🏼 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by […]
The mystery of WWII bomber plane that still lies in North Carolina’s Badin Lake
Apparently some North Carolina lakes of considerable depth generate as many legendary tales, expecially fish tales, but not only. Badin Lake, just outside the town of Albemarle, is not an […]
“Without weapons, violence or hate”: France’s biggest-ever bank robbery
In Belgium exists an old saying that say people who are willing to get their hands dirty can often make money. It was certainly the case for Albert Spaggiari, the […]
#TodayInHistory – June 8
June 8 – Some important events on this day. 452 👉🏼 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun 793 👉🏼 Vikings in long ships from modern-day Norway plunder St Cuthbert’s monastery […]
