The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and a Norwegian army under King Harald Hardrada and Tostig Godwinson, Harold's exiled brother. The battle was a decisive victory for the English, who killed both Harald and Tostig. However, the English army was severely weakened by the battle and was defeated by the Normans at the Battle of Hastings two weeks later.
When the Ottomans led by Sultan Mehmed II took Constantinople on May 29, 1453, putting an end to the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire, they practically controlled all the territories that had formerly been part of it. But a Byzantine Greek state remained independent on the northeast coast of
Both in the Middle and Near East, Mesopotamia, China, Anatolia and the Greco-Roman world, there were great archives and libraries that have disappeared today. The last of all those great libraries was the Imperial Library in Constantinople. It was founded by Constantine the Great sometime between 3
The beginning of the fourteenth century was not easy for Castile . The death of Sancho IV in 1295 marked the beginning of an extremely turbulent period. The succession dispute of the infantes de la Cerda, supported by the Aragonese king Jaime II, reached its peak during the minority of Fernando IV (
The Battle of Montcornet was a small-scale conflict by the standards of the gigantic carnage of World War II. What made it unique was the fact that it was the first successful counter-attack by French forces against the German invaders in that fateful May 1940, as well as the fact that the attack wa