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, in 1932, Manuel II, the last King in the history of Portugal, died. This country was a kingdom for nearly 800 years, but just in the era of Manuel II, the mo...
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 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 in 1770, a comet passed closer to Earth than any other comet in recorded history. Namely, the comet popularly known as Lexell’s Comet (official designation D/...
On this day the signal for help when in trouble, today known as the SOS signal, was adopted throughout the world. It is a combination of short and long Morse signals in t...
On this day in 1971, William Lawrence Bragg, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in the field of science, died. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics when he was only 25...
The seat of the Hohenzollern dynasty was thus moved to Berlin. The core of the German Empire was built around that city in the 19th century. On this day in 1415 Burgrave...