Important Events

The Council of Florence was an ecumenical council of bishops and other clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, People’s Spring or the Year of the Revolution, were a series of political upheavals across Europe in 1848.

The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 was a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in the Dutch East Indies that changed the face of the archipelago where Krakatoa, a gray volcano in the Pacific Ring of Fire, is located in the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java.

Sputnik-1, initially baptized Iskusstvenni Sputnik Zemli and then spelled Esputinique-1, was the first artificial satellite, that is, the first object put into orbit around a celestial body, in this case the Earth.

The Little Ice Age was a period of relatively cool climate from the beginning of the 15th century.

The Second Berber War, also known in historiography as the Algerian War, was the second of two armed conflicts that occurred in the early 19th century between the United States and the nominally subordinate North African city-states of the Ottoman Empire: Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis, generally referred to as the Berber States.

The Golden Bull is an imperial code written in document form that was the most important of the “fundamental laws” of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356 onward.

The luso-mamluk naval war was a naval conflict between the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and the Portuguese Empire in the Indian Ocean, provoked by the lusitanian expansion in India following the definition of the route to the Subcontinent through the Cape of Good Hope in 1498.

The Irish famine of 1740-41 was possibly similar in magnitude to the famine of 1845-49.

The winter of 1709, called the great winter of 1709, was an episode of intense cold in Europe, which left a lasting mark on people’s minds because it caused a subsistence crisis that led to a famine.