The reign of the famed Song dynasty in China began on this day in 960. The technological and cultural achievements of that dynasty make it one of the most important in Ch...
It is estimated that 830,000 people were killed. The reason for such a record death toll is in the fact that most of the population lived in dwellings carved in a specifi...
On this day Haiti was struck by a powerful (magnitude 7.0) earthquake. The epicenter was located 25 kilometers from the capital Port-au-Prince, at a depth of 13 kilometer...
On this day Julius Caesar, with his 13th legion, crossed the Rubicon River thus making himself and his legionaries, automatically sentenced to death under Roman law. Cros...
St. Francis de Sales, a renowned saint of the Catholic Church, died on this day in 1622. By the year of birth – 1567 – he was roughly of the same generation as Galileo Ga...
On this day, exactly on Christmas Day in 1100, the first Crusader King of Jerusalem was crowned. His name was Baldwin, and he came from the illustrious family of the Coun...
According to tradition, St. Thomas the Apostle died a martyr’s death on this day. That saint is often known as “Doubting Thomas” because he didn’t believe the other apost...
The famous St. Francis Xavier – one of the greatest missionaries in the history of the Catholic Church – died on this day. By birth he was probably Basque, a member of th...