On the eighth day of the seventh lunar month in the tenth year of the Shaoxing era—corresponding to August 21, 1140 by the Western calendar—near...
Seventy-five years after the fighting stopped, a Byzantine historian named Leo the Deacon walked the plain near Anchialus on the Black Sea coast and still...
On the nineteenth day of August in the year we now call 14 AD, in a villa at Nola in Campania, the man who had...
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...
