Emperor Maximilian I Habsburg was born on this day in 1459. He was one of the most important rulers in early modern Europe. Namely, he transformed the Habsburg dynasty in...
On this day Pope Clement V issued the papal bull Vox in excelso (Voice from Heaven), officially dissolving the powerful Order of the Knights Templar. The Pope did this at...
The Arab League was founded on this day in 1945. This organization has gathered together all the Arab states. It was founded by six member states, including Egypt, Syria,...
The Hungarian Soviet Republic was founded on this day in 1919 as the second state in world history based on communist ideology (after Soviet Russia). The Hungarian Soviet...
This day in 1854 marked the first public meeting of a party named the Republican Party in the U.S. Later, that party grew into one of the two leading parties in U.S. poli...
This day in 2004 marked the death of Juliana, former Queen of the Netherlands. She ruled the Netherlands for almost 32 years – from 1948 to 1980 – and then abdicated in f...
The European Parliament began its first session on this day in 1958, in Strasbourg. It then functioned as a supreme parliamentary assembly body for the three European com...
On this day the German Army secretly took positions in Hungary. Namely, Hungary was, since before World War II, a signatory of the so-called Tripartite Pact, and an ally...
