Important Events

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.

The Serbian Revolution consisted of two uprisings by the Serbian population under Ottoman rule, initially against the local Ayans and Janissaries, and eventually against Port itself, which led to the creation of the autonomous Principality of Serbia over time.

The 1518 Treaty of London was a non-aggression pact between the major European powers.