On this day – 18th May
1302 The weaver Peter de Coningk led a massacre of the Flemish oligarchs. 1652 In Rhode Island, a law was...
18/05/2011
HISTORY
The Long Trip to Botany Bay
Diabolical conditions abroad the hulks, the floating prisons which took up the slack when transportation to America ended, forced Britain...
17/05/2011
The White Rose, Silenced Voices of Hitler’s Germany
Fifty-four years ago three German students were arrested. A few days later they were hauled before the Volksgerichtshof (“People’s Court”),...
16/05/2011
On this day – 17th May
1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi saw the belts on Jupiter’s surface 1756 Britain declared war on France, beginning the French...
16/05/2011
Who was Alexander Selkirk?
Cast away on a desert island, surviving on what nature alone can provide, praying for rescue but fearing the sight...
16/05/2011
On this day – 16th May
1770 Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15. 1881 In Germany...
15/05/2011
Magna Carta
Magna Carta (Latin for “Great Charter”) is one of the most celebrated documents in English history. At the time it...
15/05/2011
On this day – 15th May
1718 London lawyer James Puckle patents the machine gun 1829 The US Congress designates the slave trade as piracy 1918 ...
15/05/2011
Montezuma II – the last ruler of the Aztecs of Mexico
Montezuma II, the 9th huey tlatoani (great speaker) of the Aztecs of Mexico, came to power in 1502 at the...
15/05/2011
Elizabethan England
Many must have predicted a bleak future for England when the 22 year old princess Elizabeth succeeded her half sister...
15/05/2011