The Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing) was signed on the HMS Cornwallis anchored at the city, and it ended the First Opium War (1839–1842) between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China. It was the first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treaties. Trade wars and economic power struggles between Europe […]
The Zulus never had an independent country again.
Regardless of the daunting challenges, China will be an economic superpower for decades to come.
The sack of Rome, considered by most historians to mark the fall of the Western Roman Empire, happened on this day, August 27th, 410AD. It was the first time in 800 years that Rome had fallen to a foreign enemy. The Empire had been in decline for almost two centuries, with invasions, on and off, […]
Revolt
A bear-ly believable encounter
The failure of the Right in Spain, however discouraging, should not be projected onto the Right in Europe generally.
The arrival of Strongbow was described in the Annals of Ulster as “the beginning of the woes of Ireland”.
The traffickers charged €2,400 per person for safe and comfortable travel, and only pretended to have found the migrants in rafts once they reached Italian waters.
Calling workers back to the office
Changed small County Mayo village forever
Mickey Devine was the last man to die on the hunger strike