History & Mythology( Page 6 of 38 )

1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem. 1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage 1579 Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox...

1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death 1550 Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe 1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge 1754 -...

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1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain 1785 James Hutton, geologist, publicly reads an abstract of his theory of uniformitarianism for the first time at the meeting of the Royal...

706 Remains of Chinese Emperor Gaozong,his wife Empress Wu Zetian and family members interred in Qianling Mausoleum by Emperor Zhongzong,outside Chang'an on Mount Liangshan 1843 An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston,...

1633 Galileo Galilee forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II 1870 - The U.S. Congress created the Department...

1547 Great fire in Moscow 1576 Battle of Haldighati ends with defeat of Maharana Pratap's forces, which were severely outnumbered by Akbar's forces. 1788 US Constitution comes into effect 1834 American inventor and businessman Cyrus Hall McCormick...

1777 - The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the "Stars and Stripes" as the national flag of the United States. 1822 Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society...

1415 - Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa. 1825 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the rights for $400. 1888 - The...

1776 - The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence. 1793 - 1st public zoo opens in Paris 1933 - Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were in a car accident on...