The interdict deprived the Venetians of their spiritual salvation, and was therefore a formidable ...

The Pazzi family in Florence launched their unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Medici family with an assassination attempt against the brothers Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ ...

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, a French highwayman who was found guilty of killing a man during one of his robberies, was the first victim of the French decapitation ...

The Easter Rising began in Dublin, with the aim of securing an independent Irish ...

Marking the first major formula change in 99 years, ‘new Coke’ is widely heralded as one of the biggest marketing failures in ...

Thomas Stevens departed San Francisco on a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, to become the first person to cycle around the ...

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Marie and Pierre Curie proved the existence of the new element radium when they chemically isolated one-tenth of a gram of pure radium ...

The first sighting had been of Point Hicks, but it wasn’t until the ship had travelled some distance along the coast to what is now known as Botany Bay that Cook and his crew felt they had found a suitable ...

Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica, one of Catholicism’s most sacred ...