The Lewis and Clark Expedition began its journey home, having crossed the western United ...

Grotius was permitted to have books sent to him in prison, and these were transported in a large chest. Over time his guards became less vigilant regarding the chest’s contents which led his wife and maid-servant to propose a plan to smuggle him out by hiding him inside ...

Following its enactment on 21 March 1804, the Napoleonic Code became the foundation of the French legal system and was gradually extended to territories under French control during the Napoleonic ...

Bismarck submitted his resignation on 18 March, two days before formally leaving office, and dedicated the rest of his life to writing his ...

Only two tracks on Dylan’s debut album were his own compositions and it failed to hit the Billboard 100. The album sold less than 5,000 copies in its first year and earnt Dylan the nickname ‘Hammond’s Folly’ from record ...

At approximately 10:34 a.m. Moscow time, Alexei Leonov floated outside the spacecraft Voskhod 2 and remained there for just over twelve ...

A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end ...

Commanded by Lieutenant William Calley, the troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in hamlets around the South Vietnamese village of Son ...

The abdication of Nicholas II removed a deeply entrenched autocracy, but the Provisional Government that assumed power struggled to assert control and, within months, its authority was challenged by the Bolsheviks, leading to the October ...

What made the FBI’s list unique was that it brought dangerous fugitives to nationwide attention. The development of the internet has made the list’s reach global, though it is still an exclusively ...