On this day the Russian Empire declared its so-called “armed neutrality” during the American War of Independence. That meant confronting the UK in an attempt to isolate t...
It is estimated that the strongest bomber attack in the history of warfare was conducted on 9 and 10 March 1945, when U.S. bombers attacked the Japanese capital of Tokyo....
On this day back in the year 241 BC, the Romans won a great military victory, defeating their main rivals – the Carthaginians – on the Mediterranean Sea.
He conquered even Nazareth, the place where Jesus grew up, and Cannes, the place where Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding, according to the Bible. It is generally...
The Muslim emirate on the Mediterranean island of Crete was destroyed on this day in 961. Crete was under Muslim rule almost the entire previous century-and-a-half. Namel...
On this day the young Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed the commander-in-chief of the French forces in Italy (French: Général en chef de l’Armée d’Italie). He...
The treaty was signed by the Bulgarian prime minister, Hitler’s foreign minister von Ribbentrop, Mussolini’s foreign minister Count Ciano, and Hiroshi Oshima,...