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
Religion
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
May 3, 1865 — Abraham Lincoln is buried
The remains of Abraham Lincoln and his son, William Wallace Lincoln, were placed on a funeral train which left Washington,...
September 29, 2020
July 23, 1892 — Haile Selassie I born
Born Tafari Makonnen, Haile Selassie I could trace his descent through the royal house of Ethiopia back the 13th century...
April 19, 2020
April 8, 1904 – Aleister Crowley begins writing “Liber Al vel Legis”
Crowley began writing the Liber Al vel Legis – literally, “The Book of the Law” in 1904 and wrote one...
February 2, 2020
April 24, 1916 — The Easter Rising commences
In 1916, with the hated English overlords distracted by the First World War, a group of Irish revolutionaries decided that...
November 9, 2019
June 29, 1916 — Roger Casement is sentenced to death for treason
Sir Roger Casement was still a young man when he toured colonial Africa and South America in the early years...
October 29, 2019
December 16, 1916 — Rasputin is murdered
Rasputin is one of the legends of the Twentieth Century. He was definitely real, but has been imputed with supernatural...
October 14, 2019
November 26, 1922 — Carter and Carnavon find King Tut’s tomb
If not the greatest archaeological find of the Twentieth Century, certainly the best known. King Tut – well, Tutankhamen really...
August 14, 2019
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