Independence Day is celebrated on this day in the United States because the famous Declaration of Independence by which the states seceded from Great Britain was adopted...
This day in 1849 marked the birth of Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, the last Queen of Bavaria. Namely, Bavaria was a kingdom (1806-1918) after the abolition of the monar...
On this day died the famous British politician Sir Robert Peel, after whom British police officers got their nickname (“Bobbies“). Namely, Sir Robert, as Hom...
On this day in the year 69, Roman troops in Egypt elected Vespasian as the Roman emperor. This took place during the tumultuous era after the death of Nero, in which ther...
On this day in 1997, Great Britain ceremoniously transferred the sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China. The reason for the return of Hong Kong to C...
On this day, members of the Assassin sect killed the reigning King of Jerusalem Conrad of Montferrat. It was the era of the Third Crusade, when the Christian knights foug...
On this day, the bloodthirsty Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II was finally ousted. He had earned his nicknames “Bloody” and “Damned” mostly because of the terrible massacres...
The final round of the 1925 presidential elections was held in Germany on this day, where for the first time in the history the German President was directly elected. As...