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...
Picture a misty spring morning in the Welsh hills near Bala, 1230. A crowd of more than eight hundred Welsh warriors, farmers, and nobles gathers...
Picture this: it’s May 1 in the year 305 AD, deep in the Roman province of Bithynia. The sun beats down on a hill just...
Picture this: a ragtag fleet of wooden ships bobbing on the Strait of Gibraltar under a blazing North African sun. It’s April 30, 711 AD—give...
On April 29, 1854, in the quiet legislative chambers of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Governor William Bigler dipped his pen and signed a single piece of paper....
Picture this: It’s April 28, 224 AD, in the sun-baked plain of Hormozdgan, somewhere in the rugged foothills of what is now southern Iran near...
