After a siege that had lasted six months, the gates of Valencia were opened for the Cids army on June 15, 1094, and Rodrigo entered the city the following day. The conquest of Valencia was not only a moral blow for the Muslims of the peninsula, but also seriously endangered the Almoravid domains clo
On May 16, 1770, the marriage of Marie-Antoinette de Habsbourg-Lorraine with the Dauphin Louis-Auguste de Bourbon is celebrated at Versailles, the official royal residence since Louis XIV. Admittedly very (too) young and of diametrically opposed characters, they nevertheless carry the hope of the dy
The water that reached the city of Rome through the aqueducts was stored in large tanks from where it was distributed to bakeries, houses, bathrooms... The excess water from these priority uses ended up in the sewage network: the Cloaca Máxima . Its construction began in the 6th century BC. by King
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets The problems between England and Scotland at the end of the 13th and 14th centuries are well known to the public thanks to the famous film Braveheart. In the blog we have talked in other entries about the causes that originated the conflict such as the d