August 30, 2020 • 27m
April 21, 753 BC: The Roman world was certain of its foundation date for more than 1000 years. The mythical tale, Ab Urbe Condita,...Read more
August 30, 2020 • 27m
The defeat of Alesia, in 52 BC, marked the end of the well-known “Gallic War”, immortalized by its winner, Julius Caesar. Year zer...Read more
September 6, 2020 • 27m
In the middle of the 8th century, the chancellery of the bishops of Rome was on the verge of becoming a spiritual heir to the West...Read more
September 6, 2020 • 27m
The fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire – a power descending from none other than ancient Rome. Its symb...Read more
September 13, 2020 • 27m
Despite its worldwide fame, Lascaux is no longer considered to be the “Palace of Versailles” or the “Sistine Chapel” of prehistory...Read more
September 20, 2020 • 27m
In 1911, the expedition led by the Norwegian Amundsen reached the South Pole, beating the British Scott to the punch. The story of...Read more
September 27, 2020 • 27m
The assassination of Henri IV, peacemaking and reformist king, is as much a canonical scene in the History of France as it is a de...Read more
October 4, 2020 • 27m
Why was Socrates condemned by the city of Athens? Was the figure of the master thinker, who could subvert the youth, really a dang...Read more
October 11, 2020 • 27m
On 25 August 1270 Louis IX died on the hill above Carthage. He was the only king in the history of France to die outside of nation...Read more
October 18, 2020 • 27m
On October 17, 1961, at the call of the FLN, 20 to 30,000 Algerians from France peacefully marched through Paris. 12,000 people we...Read more
October 25, 2020 • 27m
The expression “Spring of Nations” inspired the more recent “Arab Spring” of 2011. Also known as the Springtime of the Peoples, th...Read more
October 25, 2020 • 27m
The capture and looting of Emperor Qing Xianfeng's two summer palaces in Beijing (Peking) was the culmination of the Second Opium ...Read more
November 1, 2020 • 27m
The American revolution is sometimes watered down to the point where it can become an almost silent revolution.
November 8, 2020 • 27m
What happened in the year 1000? Nothing: this date does not correspond to any major event. The passage from the first to the secon...Read more
November 15, 2020 • 27m
What if Blake and Mortimer had been right in the Mystery of the Great Pyramid? The history of the seventeen-year reign of Akhenate...Read more
November 22, 2020 • 27m
The Arab chronicles of the fourteenth century bristle with a rumor: from the farthest lands to the west of the known world, across...Read more
November 29, 2020 • 27m
In the middle of the 8th century AD, in the heart of Central Asia, on the borders of present-day Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, a batt...Read more
November 29, 2020 • 27m
On April 21, 1526, the little king of Kabul Babur boldly took northern India from the Sultan of Delhi, Ibrahim Lodi. With his vict...Read more
December 6, 2020 • 27m
Apart from Tolstoy's readers, few people actually know about the battle of Borodino, fought some 100 km from Moscow. Even today it...Read more
December 6, 2020 • 27m
Before the attacks of 2001 took its place, September 11 was associated with another global event: that of the overthrow of the soc...Read more