Picture this: It’s May 16, 1220. England is still reeling from the chaos of King John’s disastrous reign—the man who lost half of France, signed...
On May 11, 868 CE, in the bustling workshops of northern China during the waning years of the Tang Dynasty’s Xiantong era, a modest merchant...
On May 10, 1534, after twenty days of open-ocean sailing from the walled port of Saint-Malo in Brittany, French mariner Jacques Cartier and his crew...
Picture this: it’s May 8, 1429. A ragtag French army stands in battle formation on the north bank of the Loire River outside the city...
Picture this: It’s May 9, 1754, in a bustling print shop on Market Street in Philadelphia. The air smells of fresh ink and woodsmoke. Benjamin...
On May 7, 1253, a burly Flemish Franciscan friar named William of Rubruck stepped aboard a ship in Constantinople and sailed into the Black Sea—known...
On May 6, 1527, the Eternal City woke up to hell wearing a white cloak. Rome had seen invaders before—Gauls in 390 BC, Visigoths under...
Picture this: It’s May 5, 1260, in the rolling grasslands of northern China, just north of the Great Wall that the Mongols had already smashed...
Picture this: it’s May 4, 1471, in the lush Gloucestershire countryside just south of the sleepy market town of Tewkesbury. The air is thick with...
On May 3, 1621, in the echoing halls of the English House of Lords, Sir Francis Bacon—Lord Chancellor of England, knight, viscount, philosopher, and one...
