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...
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...
