May 31 - Some important events on this day. 1279 BC 👉🏼 Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great...
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As he lay dying on this day, May 30, 1778, the great French writer Voltaire noticed that the lamp next...
May 30 - Some important events on this day. 1431 👉🏼 Hundred Years' War: 19 year old Joan of Arc...
May 29 - Some important events on this day. 1176 👉🏼 Battle at Legnano: Lombard League beats Frederick Barbarossa and...
Germany's Volkswagen is the largest car maker in the world, after Toyota. Its 590,000 employees produce around the world nearly...
May 28 - Some important events on this day. 585 BC 👉🏼 Solar eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales,...
May 27 - Some important events on this day. 1679 👉🏼 Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful...
May 26 - Some important events on this day. 451 👉🏼 The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the...
Urban legends are fascinating bits of history that often contain at least some kernel of truth. In Yazoo, located north...
May 25 – Some important events on this day 1720 👉🏼 The Ship "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, bringing...
May 24 – Some important events on this day 1595 👉🏼 Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed...
May 23 – Some important events on this day 1568 👉🏼 The Netherlands declares independence from Spain 1618 👉🏼 Second...
May 22 – Some important events on this day 334 BC 👉🏼 The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats...
May 21 – Some important events on this day 1792 👉🏼 Mount Unzen on Japan's Shimabara Peninsula, erupts creating a...
May 20 – Some important events on this day 1293 👉🏼 Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed 1310 👉🏼 Shoes...
May 19 – Some important events on this day 1182 👉🏼 The high altar of Paris cathedral Notre Dame is...
May 18 – Some important events on this day 1291 👉🏼 After 100 years of Crusader control, Acre is the...
May 17 – Some important events on this day 218 👉🏼 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet ☄️ 1527...
May 16 – Some important events on this day 1204 👉🏼 Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, is crowned as the...
May 15 - Some important events on this day 1252 👉🏼 Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda,...
Three-year-old June Devaney, recovering from pneumonia at Queen’s Park Hospital in Blackburn, England, is kidnapped from her bed on this...
May 14 - Some important events on this day 1607 👉🏼 English colonists establish the 1st permanent English settlement in...
Back in the the 1770s and 1780s, living conditions in the United Kingdom were literally catastrophic. The Industrial Revolution meant...
May 13 - Some important events on this day 1637 👉🏼 Cardinal Richelieu of France reputedly creates the table knife...
May 12 - Some important events on this day 1215 👉🏼 English barons serve ultimatum on King John which eventually...
May 11 - Some important events on this day 330 👉🏼 Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes the capital of the Roman Empire...
May 10 – Some important events on this day 1497 👉🏼 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for his first voyage...
Thomas Blood tried to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London on this day, May 9, 1671. He...
May 9 – Some important events on this day 1386 👉🏼 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England (oldest diplomatic...
The beautiful England’s Clifton Suspension Bridge, originally designed by the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, stands 101 metres above...
