- Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer)
- Vasco da Gama (Portuguese explorer)
- Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese explorer)
- João de Castro (Portuguese explorer)
- Pedro Álvares Cabral (Portuguese explorer)
- Amerigo Vespucci (Italian explorer)
- Juan Sebastián Elcano (Spanish explorer)
- Ferdinand Magellan (Spanish explorer)
- Samuel de Champlain (French explorer)
- Jacques Cartier (French explorer)
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Spanish explorer)
Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He was one of the founders of the « Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade » (Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade) and passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807 which ended the British sl
Year 859. Queen in Asturias for nine years Ordoño I, son of Ramiro I. With these two monarchs, the Cantabrian line of succession of Fruela Pérez has been definitively imposed on the throne of Oviedo against the extinct lineage of the first Asturian king Don Pelayo. Ordoño I is trying to impose the s
On February 15, 1898 at 9:40 p.m., an unexpected explosion disturbed the nightlife of Havana. An explosion on the US battleship Maine it irremediably sank it... two officers and 266 sailors lost their lives. After 115 years, that episode is still the subject of controversy and mystery, since it is
Entry taken from the books From Covadonga to Tamarón and From war to unification. The case of Fernando I de León is a paradigmatic example of the interrelationship between the peninsular medieval kingdoms and domains. Born as an infant of the kingdom of Pamplona, he served as count of Castile a