www.historynotes.info – Page 2 – This website grown up from my love for the history. It may be considered as a collection of articles about the events and people in history that I am especially interested in.

Mazzini’s ‘Young Italy’

The situation facing the forces of liberalism and nationalism in Italy in 1830 was apparently more hopeless than that facing...

30/06/2016

The union of Holland and Belgium under the Dutch king, William I, in 1815 had been one of the less...

14/04/2016

The rise of the Zulu empire under its warlike king Shaka (r.1816 -28) sent shock waves throughout southern Africa, triggering...

05/04/2016

Blenheim Palace: a magnificent rival to Versailles. Blenheim is only a few miles out of Oxford at the edge of...

22/02/2016

In AD 350 the gladiatorial games were as popular, magnificent and widespread as they had ever been. An unbroken history...

09/02/2016

Hawara mummies created a sensation when they were discovered, and in 1997 visitors to the British Museum found the first...

06/02/2016

The main stages in the development and expansion of the Serbian States were also stages in its relationship with the...

03/02/2016

Hideously unjust and psychotic in their devotion to duty, the Inquisitors went to any lengths to wring confessions from their...

01/02/2016

The [British] royal family had not been that concerned by the wars of the 1860s and 1870s when children found...

31/01/2016

France was England’s principal rival in the race to found colonies in North America in the 17th and 18th centuries....

22/12/2015