9564 BCE — Atlantis sinks
It’s Atlantis. Everyone knows the basics: an advanced civilisation on a large island or small continent in the Atlantic Ocean,...
November 15, 2023
Legendary
circa 2600 BCE — Gilgamesh becomes King of Uruk
Gilgamesh is the title character of one of the oldest known literary works, the Epic of Gilgamesh, which dates from...
July 22, 2023
circa 2500 BCE — Gilgamesh ends his reign as King of Uruk
Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk for many years, but was not well-loved by his subjects, as he was an...
July 12, 2023
June 11, 1184 BCE — The Trojan War ends
At least, according to the calculations of Eratosthenes, it ended on this date. You know the story: Paris and Helen,...
February 4, 2023
April 16, 1174 BCE — Odysseus reclaims the throne of Ithaca
Tradition holds that this is the day that the Odyssey ended: that Ulysses returned to Ithaca, recruited his son and...
January 24, 2023
circa 605 BCE — The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are constructed
One of the Seven Wonders of the World (the original seven, now usually called the wonders of the Ancient World),...
December 19, 2022
May 31, 1043 — Lady Godiva makes her famous ride
While there actually was a real Lady Godiva – although, as a Saxon, her name was more likely Godgifu or...
May 4, 2022
1212 — The Children’s Crusade sets out for the Holy Land
The Children’s Crusade is the name given to a variety of fictional and factual events which happened in 1212 that...
April 4, 2022
June 26, 1284 — The Pied Piper plays Hamelin
The legends are very specific: in the year 1284, the town of Hamelin, in the in Lower Saxony region of...
March 22, 2022
November 18, 1307 — William Tell shoots an arrow off his son’s head
William Tell – or, in the languages of his native Switzerland: Wilhelm Tell (German); Guillaume Tell (French); Guglielmo Tell (Italian);...
March 19, 2022
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