History of Europe

• The first firefighters in history

  The most famous of the fires that devastated Rome It was the year 64 A.D. at the time of Nero . The legend places the emperor in the Maecenas Tower contemplating the fire and playing (to say the least) his lyre. Fires were frequent in Rome . A densely populated city, with a lot of flammable mater

• The origin of the Latins.

  I dont know if it has happened to you too, but I have always related the term «aboriginal » with the original inhabitants of Australia, although «aboriginal » means native to the place where he lives / primitive settler of a place (regardless of whether it is Australia, Argentina, China, Spain...).

• Hannibal and Rome. enigmas of history

  Here we begin a new category with the enigmas of History. Enigma:«Why didnt Hannibal take Rome after the victory at Cannae? » In the year 216 B.C. Hannibal faces at Cannae eight Roman legions, cavalry and auxiliary troops (composed of allies), in total more than 80,000 men. On the other hand, Hann

• You too, Brutus, my son. Enigmas of History.

  This famous phrase uttered by Julius Caesar when he was assassinated by a group of conspirators in the Senate. Traditionally it is believed that he was referring to Marcus Junius Brutus, son of Servilia, who in turn was Julius Caesars lover for a long time. It was even believed that he could be h

• Túbal, the first Basque king.

  Túbal He was the first inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula. Grandson of Noah, considered the first king of Spain in the work of authors such as Father Juan de Mariana (General History of Spain): «Túbal, fifth son of Jafet and grandson of Noah, was the first man who came to Spain. After the univ

• strange deaths. Aeschylus

  To situate ourselves, Aeschylus he was a Greek playwright born in Eleusis, near Athens. He was the first of the great tragic of this city. Predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides, he is the founder of Greek tragedy. He fought the Persians at Marathon in 490 BC, at Salamis in 480 BC, and possibly at

• The "ugly" history (from our mentality) of Rome

  The Romans left a political and cultural legacy that influenced the world for centuries and that still remains in time today. The history of Rome lasted for more than a thousand years and, for better or worse, is rooted in our political, cultural and literary traditions, and even in our way of think

• Testimonies of public events and private passions in Ancient Rome

  A few years ago, those who painted walls, buildings, wagons... were called hooligans and were persecuted, today things have changed and they already have spaces where they can develop their urban art and are even hired to decorate the shutters of some shops once canvases of his nocturnal escapades.

• On January 1st… (it doesn't matter what year you read this)

  On January 1 it seems appropriate to talk about the origin of our calendar and, for this, we have to go to the lands bathed by the Nile almost 5000 years ago. The Egyptians divided the year into 12 months of 30 days (360) and 3 seasons of 4 months (Flood of the Nile or Akhet , seed or Peret and gat

• Economic bubbles, debt packages, junk debt… in Babylon

  We usually think that the phenomenon of economic bubbles is rather recent, and it is not. The habit of some humans to place their greed above the common good is much older. We can find traces of it in the times when the first laws appeared. One of the most popular Mesopotamian objects is the Code o

• How did the Romans count on their fingers?

  I would dare to say, and I think I am not mistaken, that counting with the fingers is surely the oldest way of counting in history, and although it was mentioned by the classics, no ancient treatise on the subject has survived, so it seems that the technique was transmitted mainly through oral tradi

• The retirement pension in Ancient Rome

  The emperors thought that if they had the people with a full stomach and from time to time they gave them a few days of entertainment -via fights in the arena, races in the circus or performances in the theater-, it would be enough to keep the plebs happy and that no one would question his governmen

• "Pass under the yoke", when the Samnites humiliated the Romans

  Back in the fourth century B.C. Rome was an incipient Republic, compressed in the center of the Italian peninsula, whose only alternative for growth was to absorb all those peoples that surrounded it in its expansion. After imposing itself on other peoples of Lazio in the so-called Latin Wars, Rome

• Face to face with the emperors of Rome

  Many of us would have liked, for different reasons and reasons, to have a face to face with one of the emperors of Rome, a very difficult issue today. So, we have no choice but to bring them back to life using artificial intelligence, Photoshop, historical references and the hand of Canadian designe

• La Retirada, January-February 1939. The culminating point of Spanish exile in the Civil War

  In memory of the exiles of all wars, innocent victims of the greatest drama caused by the foolishness of men. When Gipuzkoan territory was lost to the Navarrese columns in September 1936, the first mass exodus of refugees to France in the entire Spanish Civil War . A total of 20,000 people embarked

• Saharawis, from recognized Spaniards to forgotten stateless

  Integration for ones already recognized as a possibility, although within the framework of the UN and with an agreement between the parties, by the former president Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2007 and that, for others, despite what has been pointed out, it is not at all in line with the politic

• Forty years of Spain in NATO

  Thus, more than the past, walking in the present, the here and now:war in Ukraine, NATOs position in the face of the conflict (of which it is not known when it will end), expansion of its members (Finland and Sweden), opposition to it (Turkey vetoes them for being a sanctuary of Kurdish terrorists f

• IV Historical Micro-essay Contest Desperta Ferro

  As a tradition, this 2022 returns to be the long-awaited IV Historical Micro-essay Contest Wake Up Ferro Editions. And what do we ask of you when we summon it? The same as in previous editions, that you show us your knowledge and expertise as historians by writing a non-fiction historical essay and

• Death of Maria Rosa de Madariaga

  Maria Rosa de Madariaga Álvarez-Prida , exceptional historian born on February 9, 1937, in a Madrid in the midst of war, whose childhood and youth were spent while Spain still maintained her protectorate in Morocco, just the subject that would end up monopolizing her historical work. She trained at

• Gunpowder Roura, missed opportunity

  The new gunpowder had characteristics that made it revolutionary compared to common gunpowder. It seemed obvious that it would be a clear competitive advantage for the army that used it first. José Roura He was born in Sant Feliu de Guíxols in 1797. He received his doctorate in science from the Facu