Welcome to January 21st, a date that has witnessed remarkable events across the globe. Before we delve deeper into more ...

On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the United States' first known case of novel ...

This season will see the rise of Jacobin revolutionary Robespierre and the execution of France's King Louis XVI. "The difference between a history lesson and not is that we deal with these things ...

The Hope Diamond first appeared in the historical record in 1666, when a French gem merchant named Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ...

The ship’s demise on this day in 1906 demonstrated the terrifying dangers of the treacherous waters in the Pacific Northwest Teresa Nowakowski Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis ...

“You can’t be crushed by this history.” To mark the anniversary ... Bawdy, anti-royalist cartoons ridiculed Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI in the 18th century. Over 1,500 satirical ...

But temporary arches have a long history in this country ... a bust of America’s ally Louis XVI, and an obelisk commemorating America’s war dead. The pièce de résistance was to be a statuary figure of ...

After Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were forced out of ... its perfectly manicured grounds and learning all of the fascinating history behind it. And you might want some help in exploring that ...

On 20th September 1792 at Valmy, 120 miles to the east of Paris, the army of the French Revolution faced Prussians, Austrians and French royalists heading for Paris to free Louis XVI and restore ...

These events shaped this week in world history.

Louis XVI remains one of the crucial characters in modern history – as much for what he did not do as for what he did – and this is now the best biography of him in any language. Only a selection of ...