April 27, 1805 — The Battle of Derna commences
The first extra-territorial land battle fought by the armed forces of young United States of America. It is the source...
April 29, 2021
The Complete History
October 19, 1806 — Benjamin Banneker dies
Benjamin Banneker was born a free black man in Virginia in 1731 – his mother was also a free black,...
April 24, 2021
December 14, 1812 — French begin retreat from Moscow
It is possibly the most notorious defeat in military history, a textbook example of strategic and logistical errors: Napoleon’s retreat...
April 19, 2021
January 8, 1815 — The Battle of New Orleans takes place
In the annals of military pointlessness, few battles are quite as ridiculous as the Battle of New Orleans. It was...
April 14, 2021
June 18, 1815 — The Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was the final defeat of Napoleon, and the end of the Napoleonic Wars. On the one...
April 12, 2021
June 16, 1816 – A party at the Villa Diodati inspires Mary Shelley to write “Frankenstein”
It must have been some party. George, Lord Byron was the host, and his guests were the recently married Percy...
April 9, 2021
February 23, 1821 — John Keats dies
John Keats was one of the great Romantic poets, a fact all the more surprising considering that he died at...
April 7, 2021
July 8, 1822 — Percy Bysse Shelley dies
One of the greatest of the Romantic Poets, Shelley was the husband of Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) and a...
April 4, 2021
September 20, 1822 – Alexander Pearce and five others escape Macquarie Harbour
Alexander Pearce was a convict in the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, a “secondary punishment” penal colony located on Sarah Island...
March 29, 2021
September 27, 1822 – Alexander Pearce and his fellows kill and eat the first of their number
Pearce and his five fellows – Alexander Dalton, Thomas Bodenham, Matthew Travers, Robert Greenhill and John Mather – had been...
March 24, 2021
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