February 12 - Some important events on this day 1700 👉🏼 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between...
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February 11 - Some important events on this day 55 👉🏼 Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship,...
The "Sin-Eater" is a profession that survived until the last century: in short, grieving family members of a recently deceased...
February 10 - Some important events on this day 60 👉🏼 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta...
February 9 - Some important events on this day 474 👉🏼 Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire together...
We are in Beddgelert, North Wales, just south of Snowdon. Meaning literally the grave of Gelert, Beddgelert was once described...
February 8 - Some important events on this day 1587 👉🏼 Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle...
In these days, from 7 to 17 February, ancient Romans were celebrating agricultural festivals of Fornacalia. It was a festivity...
February 7 - Some important events on this day 1238 👉🏼 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir 1301...
It was autumn 1819 when the body of a 15-year old girl was found floating along the estuary of the...
February 6 - Some important events on this day 1508 👉🏼 Maximilian I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, 1st Emperor in...
February 5 - Some important events on this day 146 BCE 👉🏼 Punic Wars, between Rome and Carthage, come to...
The legends concerning Father (or King) Frost are inspired by ancient traditions about this mythical figure that in ancient times...
February 4 - Some important events on this day 211 👉🏼 Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire...
February 3th is the day dedicated to the holy protector of the throath, Saint Biagio (known in English as Saint...
The island that Saint Aidan (born around 590 and died in 651), an Irish monk that restored Christianity to Northumberland,...
February 3 - Some important events on this day 1377 👉🏼 Mass execution of population (between 2,500 and 5,000) of...
Candlemas, also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed...
Groundhog Day, on February 2, claim that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day sees its shadow...
February 2 - Some important events on this day 506 👉🏼 Alaric II, king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Lex...
Imbolc is a holiday with a variety of names, depending on which culture and location you’re looking at. For istance,...
February 1 - Some important events on this day 772 👉🏼 Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1587...
UK-based Anno Distillers recently launched what it calls the "world’s strongest gin", a spirit so strong that it comes with...
January 31 - Some important events on this day 314 👉🏼 St Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope...
The ancient Romans had a festival for nearly everything and, if you were a god, you got your own holiday....
Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, wrote a tragic note to his wife in the early hours of this day,...
January 30 - Some important events on this day 1647 👉🏼 After nine months of negotiations, Scottish Presbyterians sell captured...
January 29 - Some important events on this day 661 👉🏼 Rashidun Caliphate, then the largest empire in history, ends...
January 28 - Some important events on this day 1077 👉🏼 German King Henry IV is absolved by Holy Roman...
In 1979, during restoration works in an apartment near the center of Vienna, at Tuchlauben 19, a sensational find was...
