The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1765. It imposed a tax on all paper goods in the American colonies. This tax was met with widespread anger and protest by the colonists, who argued that they should not be taxed by a government in which they had no representation.
Martin Luther laid the foundations of the Protestant Reformation in October 1517, when he wrote his 95 Theses in response to the sale of indulgences during the construction of St. Peters Basilica in Rome. The opposition between Catholics and Protestants will be growing during the modern era. It led
The Roman Emperor Constantine II could very well have gone down in history because of, among other things, the mess of names he had:his name was Heraclius Constantinus Augustus, although he also appears as Flavius Constantinus Augustus and in his time he was known as Kōnstantinos Pogonatos, i.e. C
In Rennes, a tomb of soldiers buried in the Jacobin convent and identified as belonging to the royal army was discovered • INRAP / SERVICE DE PRESSE Traces of the last act of the war in Brittany were recently found with the identification of two mass graves in Rennes. They are located in the Jac
We are going to talk about one of the oldest cities in History -if not the oldest-, understanding as such those that have been inhabited continuously from its foundation to the present day. If I tell you that his name was Gubla, it wont sound familiar to most; if we look at its biblical name, Gebal,