On the night of August 16 into the 17th in the year 986, under a Balkan sky that one eyewitness swore had just dropped a...
On the morning of August 16, 1513, the fields and low hills around the village of Guinegate—today called Enguinegatte—in the French province of Artois looked...
On a warm August day in 1461, the final independent fragment of the Eastern Roman Empire did not fall in a blaze of heroic last...
On the morning of August 14, 1385, the plateau of São Jorge, a modest rise of land between Leiria and Alcobaça in central Portugal, looked...
On a hot August morning in 29 BC, the streets of Rome filled with the kind of noise that only a city recovering from twenty...
On a summer morning in the year 1121, in a narrow, wooded valley west of what is now Tbilisi, a king who had spent decades...
On a blistering August morning in 955, the plains east of Augsburg baked under a sun that turned iron helmets into personal ovens. Dust rose...
On the morning of August 9, 378, the fifth of the Ides of August by the Roman calendar, Emperor Valens ordered his standards forward from...
On a late-summer day in the eighth month of 685 BC, specifically the Gengshen day that corresponds to August 8 in the Gregorian reckoning, two...
On a summer day in the Thessalian plain near the modest town of Crannon, in August 322 BC, two armies faced each other under a...
