History of Europe

• THE 26 CHRISTIAN MARTYRS OF NAGASAKI

  On February 5, 1597, 26 Christians (Jesuits, Franciscans and Japanese converts) were crucified on the hill of Nagasaki (Japan) by an imperial order based on to a lie, according to which these Catholic priests would actually be the advance guard of a conquering Spanish army. Crucifixion of the marty

• HOW MANY SPANISH POPES WERE THERE IN THE PAST?

  Historical, social and cultural moments are always associated with the names of different popes. Were there Spanish potatoes? What was his legacy? Of the 266 Popes recognized by the Catholic Church of Rome in these two thousand four years of history were Spanish:Dámaso (Pope number 37), Callistus I

• LUIS CADARSO AND KING (1843 - 1898)

  If we succumb, it will be with honor, and we will gladly sacrifice our lives whenever we can do something for the benefit of our unfortunate country The ships captain Luis Cadarso died for Spain, in the defeat of Cavite, when he tried to evacuate the Reina Cristina his ship burned due to the 81 h

• THE CRUEL REALITY OF AL ANDALUS

  The academic world has sought to contrast the image of an Edenic al-Andalus with that of a fanatical, backward and genocidal Spain How did the Christians of Al Andalus disappear? This was the life and resistance of the Mozarabs. The Arab leader Almanzor captured Christian slaves in his military r

• FELIPE II AND HIS OBSESSION FOR BOSCO

  – And has the black dog appeared again? – I see and hear him everywhere, his barking wakes me up. spells so that it doesnt come back, it scares me Fascinated by his sarcastic and grotesque works, the Wise King was an obsessed collector of Boschs works. So much so that he died in agony surrounded

• Go to the front

  Leaving for the front. This is a subject that is little discussed in the writing of history on the First World War. If the fights are always very well described, the one-way trip to death, for many men, is not often studied. How do they reach eastern France, or the other different European fronts su

• 1830:the great prison reform

  Correctional colony of Eysses and Prison of Petite Roquette One of the greatest prison reforms was put in place under the July Monarchy, in particular because of the growing crime rate and the highest recidivism rate in Europe. This reform concerns the entire penitentiary system and aims to hygieni

• Illuminate the writings:the technique of illumination

  The illumination and more particularly the illuminated letters are something other than a vulgar formatting. Attention to detail and precision are two characteristic elements of this way of highlighting a piece of writing. This art which gives so many colors to the writings was born in the Middle Ag

• The Bayeux Tapestry

  Bayeux tapestry:a ten-century-old object of desire In July 2018, in the context of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron officially announced the loan of the famous Bayeux Tapestry to Great Britain, the loan being granted from 2020. In reality, this cultural project hides important economic contracts between th

• "Winter Is Coming"...about the Late Middle Ages

  Global warming, melting ice, endangered species… These are terms that are becoming more and more widespread today and which are more than familiar to us, in a 21st th context. century where the environment becomes an extremely politicized subject. In fact, climate has often played a major role in hu

• Notre Dame de Paris presented in 5 minutes

  On April 15, we celebrated the sad anniversary of the fire that damaged Notre-Dame de Paris. Héritages wanted to return this time to its construction to pay it a new tribute. A jewel of our heritage and of Gothic architecture, the complexity of its construction, the cradle of great technical innovat

• Carlos I of Spain or Carlos V of the Germanic Empire

  Carlos I. King of the crowns of Castile and Aragon (as Emperor of Germany he is Carlos V). He was born on February 24, 1500 in Ghent (Belgium). Son of Juana I and Felipe I. Two teachers were in charge of his education:Chievres and Adriano de Utrecht, who later became Pope Adriano VI (1522-1523). On

• Philip III of Spain

  Felipe III was king of the crowns of Castile, Aragon and Portugal. He was born on April 14, 1578 in Madrid. He was the son of Felipe II and his fourth wife, Ana de Austria. he was proclaimed king the same day of the death of his father, September 13, 1598; with him began the decline of the Austrian

• Philip IV of Spain

  Philip IV was king of the crowns of Castile and Aragon. He was born on April 8, 1605 in Valladolid . He was the son of Felipe III and his wife Margarita de Austria. Philip IV came to the throne on the death of his father. From the age of ten, he was entrusted to the care of Don Gaspar de Guzmán (Co

• Felix Lope de Vega

  Félix Lope de Vega was a Spanish poet and playwright who, along with Cervantes, Quevedo and Calderón de la Barca, is part of the plethora of literary artists of the Spanish Golden Age , born under the protection of the imperial splendor and the gradual decline and inquisitorial fury of the Habsburg

• Elizabeth II of Spain

  Isabel II was queen of Spain. She was born on October 10, 1830 in Madrid. She is the daughter of Fernando VII and is his fourth wife, María Cristina. . He had not yet turned three years old when his father died, who, by will, left his wife María Cristina, the guardianship of his daughters, the regen

• Garcia Sanchez I of Navarre

  García Sánchez I was king of Navarre . Son of Sancho Garcés I, whom he succeeded under the tutelage of his mother, Queen Tota, and his uncle, Jimeno Garcés. Jimena (daughter of Sancho Garcés I and sister of García Sanchéz I) was married to King Alfonso IV of León; For this reason Navarre intervened

• Charles III of Spain

  Carlos III was king of Spain , maximum representative of the enlightened despotism of the 18th century, Carlos III was the prototype of numerous Spanish liberals who would live in the two following centuries. Empowered by almost three decades of reign in the Two Sicilies and intelligently seconded b

• Diego Velazquez

  Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born in 1599, on Sunday June 6, 1599 he was baptized , by the lawyer Gregorio de Salazar — priest of the church of San Pedro, Seville — a boy, born in the same city eight or nine days before, whom he named Diego. The boy was the son of Juan Rodrigues de Silv

• Alexander VI

  Alexander VI was a Roman Pope who occupied the seat of Saint Peter in the period 1492-1521 and who would stand out as one of the most significant figures of the Renaissance. Abandoning the evangelical model of life, the Renaissance pontiffs were more concerned with their political projection and sta