Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his assassination brought tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia to a boiling point. Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia, which Serbia partially accepted. However, Austria-Hungary used the partial acceptance as a pretext to declare war on Serbia, which in turn led to the outbreak of World War I.
On September 26, 1908, around 11 p.m., a train rolled into the tiny Bezdany station near Vilnius. Several dozen people were waiting on the platform. Among them was a gray-haired man with a bushy mustache. None of the travelers had any idea that the moustached stranger was ZIUK, i.e. Józef Piłsudski,
The ever-increasing presence in Morocco forces an unbearable economic effort and throws the country into open war. More than 65,000 soldiers are sent there from 1912, when the protectorate is established. This is a conflict that nobody favors, except for the young officers of the Africanist army, wh
The p east of Athens this is how the epidemic that hit the city became known from Athens between 430 BC and 427 BC, causing great mortality among the local population. The reports recount the symptoms and agony of those who fell ill and speak of the despair of the population in the face of the chao
In the heart of the Hundred Years War, a real civil war opposes the Armagnacs , loyal to the royal family, and the Burgundians who allied themselves with the English. Since 1389, King Charles VI has regularly suffered from fits of dementia. A regency council was exercised by his brothers, of whom Lo