November 4, 1804 — Sacajawea joins the Lewis and Clark expedition
Probably the most famous member of Shoshone tribe of North American Indians, Sacajawea (or Sacagawea, depending on your translation) is...
May 4, 2021
Politics & War
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
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
May 12, 1828 — Nat Turner sees a vision urging him to rebellion
Nat Turner’s first vision was a striking one: the Spirit appeared to him and told him to take up Christ’s...
February 4, 2021
February 11, 1831 — Nat Turner sees his second vision
Nat Turner was a slave in the fields of Virginia. Unusually well-educated and literate for a slave, Turner’s intelligence was...
January 24, 2021
August 21, 1831 — Nat Turner’s Rebellion begins
Nat Tuner was a black slave in Virginia who believed he was divinely inspired to lead his people to freedom....
January 19, 2021
November 5, 1831 — Nat Turner sentenced to death
In August 1831, guided by visions sent from God (or so he claimed), black slave Nat Turner led a rebellion...
January 14, 2021
June 6, 1835 — John Batman makes a treaty with the Wurundjeri people
John Batman was a Tasmanian who organised a syndicate of investors to fund him and some other settlers to build...
January 9, 2021
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