Japanese admiral Mineichi Koga was killed on this day in 1944. At the moment of his death, he held the position of the supreme commander of the Combined Fleet of the Impe...
On this day in 1885 there was an incident in the area of contact of two great empires – the Russian Empire and the British colonial empire. This so-called Panjdeh Inciden...
On this day Francisco Franco’s forces seized the Spanish capital of Madrid. It was the Spanish Civil War, which had already lasted for almost three years and finally came...
The Vikings attacked Paris in the year 845, in one of their invasions deep into the French mainland. Namely, the Vikings were people from Scandinavia who began a major ex...
The Norwegian King Sigurd I spent the time from 1107 until 1110 at a crusade during which his followers allegedly didn’t lose a single battle. This day in 1130 marked the...
On this day in 1939, Nationalist forces initiated their final offensive during the Spanish Civil War. Only a small part of Spain, the area between Madrid, Valencia and Al...
On this day in 1199, the mighty English king Richard the Lionheart suffered a deadly wound. Namely, on that evening he was shot by a crossbowman while walking around a ca...
On this day the Kingdom of Yugoslavia joined the Tripartite Pact, whose membership included Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. The treaty was signed by repr...
