The first European to land on Easter Island was the Dutch admiral Jacob Roggeveen, who paid it a single day’s visit in 1722. He and his crew found a population that they described as being of mixed physical types who worshiped huge standing statues with fires while they prostrated themselvesContinue Reading
The customarily sober and understated William entered Exeter in triumphal procession: ‘Armed cap a pee. A plume of white feathers on his head. All in bright armour, and forty two footmen running by him.’ Fifty gentlemen and as many pages attended him and supported his banner, which bore the inscriptionContinue Reading
The Thirty Years’ War was a major European war that occurred during the 17 th century. Whilst the conflict took place mainly in the area of modern day Germany, it involved many of the great European powers at that time. The Thirty Years’ War had a profound impact on Europe,Continue Reading
On a clear day, a Viking longship at sea could be seen some 18 nautical miles away. With a favourable wind, that distance could be covered in about an hour – which was perhaps all the time that the monks at Lindisfarne had to prepare themselves against attack on oneContinue Reading
Uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. For several years before 1905 and especially after the humiliating Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), diverse social groups demonstrated their discontent with the Russian social and political system.Continue Reading
4000 Defenders Of Pilenai Commit Mass Suicide When Attacked By Teutonic Knights On February 25, 1336, Pilenai, a hill fort in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania attacked by large Teutonic forces, tried in vain to organize a defense against the larger and stronger invader. Losing hope, the defenders decided toContinue Reading
October 5, 1789: “Thousands of Parisians, many of them women, marched 12 miles to Versailles, the residence of Louis XVI and the location of the National Constituent Assembly. The aims of this crowd varied. Some were desperately hungry and wanted to petition the king and his government to alleviate breadContinue Reading
June Purvis considers the power of the hunger strike and the importance of this radical form of protest to the suffragettes’ political arsenal 100 years ago “They fed me five weeks by the nose and at the end of that time my nose what they called ‘bit’ the tube, andContinue Reading
Harald “Blåtand” Gormsson was a King of Denmark and Norway who lived during the 10th century AD. He was responsible for the unification of Denmark. Following this feat, Harald set his sights beyond the borders of his own kingdom, and conquered Norway. Whilst the majority of his subjects were followersContinue Reading
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