On April 27, 1578, in a dusty horse market just outside the Bastille in Paris, six flamboyant young noblemen turned a tennis-court insult into a...
Picture this: April 25, 1185. The narrow Kanmon Straits off the southern tip of Honshū churn like a pot of boiling miso. Thousands of wooden...
Picture this: it’s April 24, 1655, in the rugged Cottian Alps of the Piedmont region, where snow still clings to the high pastures and the...
Picture this: April 23, 1014. Good Friday. The sun rises over the windswept flats north of Dublin, where the River Tolka meets the sea in...
On April 22, 1500, a Portuguese nobleman named Pedro Álvares Cabral wasn’t trying to discover anything new. He was trying to get to India for...
Picture this: April 21, 753 BC. No marble forums yet. No legions marching in perfect lockstep. Just two feral brothers, raised on wolf milk and...
Picture this: It’s April 20, 1290, in the lush meadows just outside Winchester, the ancient capital of Anglo-Saxon kings. Trumpets blare, banners snap in the...
Picture this: It’s April 19, 1012, in the muddy flats of Greenwich on the Thames. The air reeks of salt, smoke, and spilled southern wine....
On a spring day in 133 BC, high on the acropolis of Pergamon in what is now western Turkey, a 37-year-old king named Attalus III...
On April 17, 1362—Holy Saturday, the day before Easter—the Teutonic Order’s Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode stood amid the smoking ruins of Kaunas Castle and...
