On April 10, 1633, something utterly bizarre happened on Snow Hill in the heart of London. A respectable apothecary named Thomas Johnson hung a peculiar...
Picture a crisp spring morning in the Roman province of Pannonia Superior, April 9, 193 AD. The legionary camp at Carnuntum buzzes with raw energy....
Picture this: it’s April 8, 876 AD—Palm Sunday in the Christian calendar, a random spring morning along the muddy banks of the Tigris River about...
On a misty April morning in 1788, a squat, sturdy river craft nicknamed the Adventure Galley—sometimes called the Mayflower of the West—nudged through thick fog...
Picture the North African coast in early 46 BC. The sun beats down on a narrow strip of land squeezed between the Mediterranean and a...
Picture this: it's April 5, 1242, on the frozen expanse of Lake Peipus, a massive inland sea straddling what is now the border between Estonia...
On April 4, 1581, at the docks of Deptford on the Thames, Queen Elizabeth I’s England threw the biggest, cheekiest party the Tudor world had...
Picture this: April 3, 1367. Dawn cracks over the dusty hills of La Rioja in northern Castile like a reluctant eyelid. A river called the...
Picture this: April 2, 1107, in the rugged foothills south of Isfahan, the glittering heart of the vast Seljuk Empire. Dust swirls under the hooves...
On April 1, 1572, the Duke of Alba supposedly "lost his bril." In Dutch, *bril* means "glasses," but it was also the nickname for the...
