In 1701, the governor of New France and representatives...
On This Day in History
In 1829, the Treaty of Lewistown was signed between...
In 1343, Breton nobleman Olivier de Clisson was executed...
In 902, the Muslim conquest of Sicily, overseen by...
In 781, the earliest and oldest recorded eruption of...
In 1619, the House of Burgesses, the elected and...
In 1148, the Siege of Damascus came to an...
In 1540, Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry...
In 1299, Osman I invaded the territory of Nicomedia...
In 1581, the northern Low Countries—most of the modern...
In 1609, the Sea Venture, an English ship part...
In 1911, American academic and explorer Hiram Bingham III...
In 1829, American inventor William Austin Burt patented his...
In 1598, William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice,...
In 356 BC, one of the Seven Wonders of...
In 1592, as part of the first invasion of...
In 1817, Georg Anton Schäffer of the Russian-American Company...
In 387 BC, Roman forces were handily routed by...
In 1865, seven men, including two guides, led by...
In 1191, the two-year Siege of Acre, a battle...
