This song was composed for a smoking concert at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1877. The song was first published by the author and Archie West, a college friend, in Dublin in 1877 under the above […]
On April 30, 1877, French poet, humorous writer and inventor Charles Cros submitted a sealed envelope containing a letter to the Academy of Sciences in Paris fully explaining his proposed method, called the paleophone. Though […]
September 2, 1494: King Charles VIII of France starts the Italian Wars by invading Italy with an army of 20,000+ men to enforce his claim on the Kingdom of Naples.