@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1180, Manuel I Komnenos, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, dies, leading to the empire's slow decline.
On this day in 1529, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops begin the first Siege of Vienna.
On this day in…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1338, the first naval battle with artillery takes place during the Hundred Years’ War between England and France.
On this day in 1846, Johann Galle and Heinrich d’Arrest discover the planet Neptune at the Berlin Observatory.…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1994, the Nordhordland Bridge in Norway, the world’s first free-floating bridge, opens.
On this day in 2006, a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany, kills 23 people and injures 11.
On this day in 2013, Angela Merkel and…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1170, the Kingdom of Poland is established, unifying various duchies and principalities under a single entity.
On this day in 1792, France's National Convention abolishes the monarchy and declares France a republic.
On this d…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1519, explorer Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda on an expedition that would ultimately circumnavigate the globe.
On this day in 1870, Rome is captured by the Italian army of King Victor Emmanuel II, comple…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1940, Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki allows himself to be captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz to gather information for the resistance movement.
On this day in 1946, the Council of Europe is founded following W…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1066, Norwegian king Harald Hardrada begins his invasion of England.
On this day in 1939, radio show Germany Calling, presented by William Brooke Joyce, nicknamed “Lord Haw-Haw”, begins broadcasting Nazi propaganda.
On this d…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1394, King Charles VI of France orders the expulsion of all Jews from his kingdom.
On this day in 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reports the existence of bacteria.
On this day in 1939, the Soviet army invades Poland from the e…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1976, Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into Yerevan Lake.
On this day in 1979, two families escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
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@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1830, the first inter-city railway in the world, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opens.
On this day in 1916, tanks are used for the first time in battle, by the British at the WW1 Battle of the Somme.
On this day in 193…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1812, France's Grande Armée enters Moscow during the Napoleonic Wars.
On this day in 1930, the Nazi party (NSDAP) wins 107 seats in German elections.
On this day in 1938, the world's largest airship, Graf Zeppelin II, makes i…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 122, the construction of Hadrian’s Wall begins in northern Britain to secure the northern boundary of the Roman Empire.
On this day in 1791, King Louis XVI accepts the new constitution, the first written constitution after the F…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1624, Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates the first practical submarine, on the Thames in London.
On this day in 1940, four teenage boys find the Lascaux cave in Montignac, France, and discover 17 000-year-old cave paintings.
On th…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 9, the Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, making the Rhine the border of the Empire for the next four centuries.
On this day in 1297, Scottish rebel William Wallace def…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1945, Vidkun Quisling, head of the Nazi-controlled Norwegian government during WW2, is sentenced to death. The name Quisling would become synonymous with “traitor”.
On this day in 1952, the European Parliament forms in Strasbour…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1839, scientist and astronomer John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
On this day in 1855, the Crimean War's Siege of Sevastopol ends when Russian forces abandon the city.
On this day in 1886, the Berne Convent…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1504, Michelangelo’s masterpiece, the statue of David, is unveiled in Florence.
On this day in 1888, the first six matches are played in the English Football League, the world's oldest football league.
On this day in 1888, Pe…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1909, Eugène Lefebvre becomes the first pilot to die in an aircraft.
On this day in 1911, poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa.
On this day in 1923, Interpol is founded in Vienna.
O…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 1944, Germany fires the first long-range V-2 missile at an Allied target during WW2.
On this day in 1991, the Soviet Union officially recognises the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
On this day in 1991, Russia'…
@mediafaro.bluesky.mediafaro.orgOn this day in 301, San Marino, one of the world's smallest nations and oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
On this day in 1944, Anne Frank is sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.
On this day in 1953, the Europ…