As story goes today, 25th March 2021, Venice turns 1600 years old. But Venice, was it really founded on March...
History
Exactly ten years ago, on a Friday afternoon, March 11, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan struck off...
In ancient Roman religion, the Salii were the "leaping priests" (from the verb saliō "leap, jump") of Mars supposed to...
Juraj Jánošík, the outlaw who supposedly robbed the rich and gave to the poor (a deed often attributed to the...
February 28 - Some important events on this day 202 BC 👉🏼 Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu...
February 27 - Some important events on this day 1693 👉🏼 1st women's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published in London, England...
The Anthesteria, in Ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια, was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus, "dead and reborn"....
February 26 - Some important events on this day 1616 👉🏼 Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon...
February 25 - Some important events on this day 1570 👉🏼 Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England for...
February 24 - Some important events on this day 303 👉🏼 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued...
February 23 - Some important events on this day 303 👉🏼 Roman Emperor Diocletian begins his policy of persecuting Christians,...
February 22 - Some important events on this day 1632 👉🏼 Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" is...
February 21 - Some important events on this day 1173 👉🏼 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury...
February 20 - Some important events on this day 1280 👉🏼 Japanese Imperial Court orders all temples and shrines to...
February 19 - Some important events on this day 356 👉🏼 Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples 1594 👉🏼...
February 18 - Some important events on this day 1519 👉🏼 Hernán Cortés leaves Cuba for the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico...
February 17 - Some important events on this day 1510 👉🏼 Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque first conquers the city...
February 16 - Some important events on this day 374 👉🏼 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 600 👉🏼...
It was drawn 2,000 years ago and does not depict superheroes, cute little animals or thieves in a luxury car,...
February 15 - Some important events on this day 399 BC 👉🏼 Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the...
February 14 - Some important events on this day 270 👉🏼 One of many St. Valentine beheaded. 1014 👉🏼 Pope...
The Romans held their dead in great respect. They were "di manes", the "good" dead, or honoured ancestors never to...
February 13 - Some important events on this day 1258 👉🏼 Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to...
February 12 - Some important events on this day 1700 👉🏼 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between...
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...
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...
