1948 Olympics Open in London: The Austerity Games After WWII

Nebuchadnezzar II’s forces breached the walls of Jerusalem, systematically dismantling the First Temple and deporting the city’s elite to Babylon. This destruct…

The Praetorian Guard broke into the palace and found two emperors arguing. Pupienus and Balbinus had ruled Rome together for 99 days, spending most of it feudin…

Gordien III est proclamé empereur de Rome.

Twelve years old and they handed him a collapsing kingdom. K'inich Janaab Pakal became ajaw of Palenque on July 29, 615, after enemies had sacked the city and k…

Beginn der eigentlichen Belagerung von Konstantinopel durch die Awaren und Sasaniden, nachdem am 29. Juni bereits eine awarische Vorhut die Gegend um die Stadt …

Twenty-two thousand residents of Thessaloniki were chained together and marched to slave markets across the Caliphate—the largest single human haul from a Byzan…