On this day the famous English King Richard the Lionheart arrived to the Holy Land to participate in the Crusade. He landed his fleet numbering hundreds of ships at the c...
On this day in 1950, the Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal. Therefore, he became the only Australian field marshal in history...
On this day, at the age of only 24 years, Dante’s muse Beatrice Portinari died. Dante Alighieri saw, it seems, this Florentine girl only twice in his life, but it was en...
On this day the famous Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy was ratified, thus forming the Vatican City State. In earlier centuries, when Italy ha...
On this day in 1654, French King Louis XIV, also known by the nickname the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil), was crowned. Louis XIV was one of the most influential kings in Frenc...
On this day in 1808, Napoleon’s brother Joseph Bonaparte was crowned King of Spain in Madrid. It was the highest honor that Napoleon had secured for any of the members of...
On this day the corpse of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, also referred to as the “Angel of Death” or “White Angel”, was exhumed in Brazil. Mengele was one of the most wan...
On this day in 1872, the last Russian Empress (Tsaritsa), Alexandra, was born. She was born in Darmstadt in Germany, and was of a German-British origin. Specifically, Ale...