- Charles II of Spain
- William III of England
- Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire
- Frederick William I of Prussia
- Victor Amadeus II of Savoy
On January 28, 1896 Walter Arnold of East Peckham (in the county of Kent) became the first driver of a car who was penalized for speeding. He was driving about 8 miles per hour (almost 13 km / h) when the maximum speed allowed in the city was 2 miles (just over 3 km / h). The penalty imposed on him
Residents of mid-19th-century San Francisco were used to seeing all kinds of quirky characters on their streets. The gold rush was on its last legs and a veritable tide of outlaws, settlers, opportunists, and people of the most diverse stripes had flocked like flies to honey, attracted by the promis
The year 1571 was the turning point for the Ottoman Empire and by extension for Hellenism. For the first time, since 1453, the Turks suffered a terrifying military defeat, outside the Echinacea islands, in the so-called naval battle of Nafpaktos. The defeat of the Turks filled the Greeks with ho
Who would go down in history as Philip V of Macedonia born in 238 BC His father was Demetrius II, grandson of the legendary Demetrius Poliorcetes, one of the most prominent rulers of Antigonid Macedonia. When Philip was only nine years old, his father died, leaving his uncle Antigonus as regent of t