The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General ...

Gibbon’s six volume history traces the collapse of the Roman Empire from the rule of the Five Good Emperors until the end of ...

A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile ...

The decision to repeat a horse race from the original celebration the following year led to the establishment of the annual festival at which beer halls and carnival stalls soon began to ...

The Pope granted the Latin title Fidei defensor to Henry after he published a book in which he defended Catholic doctrine against the criticisms levelled at it by Martin Luther in his Ninety-five Theses during the early stages of the Protestant ...

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware ...

By the end of the competition Rocket was the only engine to complete the full course without suffering any damage, securing Stephenson the contract to manufacture locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway that opened the following ...

Keen to consolidate the newly-united Germany, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck turned to diplomacy in an attempt to ensure the status quo in ...

Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite ...

The closure of Palmer's Shipyard was a devastating blow to the people of Jarrow, where unemployment had hit ...