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Otto the Great – Founder of the Holy Roman Empire

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor’s victory over Berengar, winning Italy, drawing in the Chronicle of Otto von Freising (Manuscriptum Mediolanense), Schäftlarn, before 1177 On November 23, 912 AD, Otto I,...

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Man is Man’s Wolf – Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Portrait by John Michael Wright On December 4, 1679, Thomas Hobbes passed away. The philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment and the political theorist of the Absolutism is...

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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

Sophie Scholl (1921-1943) On February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans brought a suitcase full of leaflets to the University of Munich, calling for passive resistance against the Nazis, and...

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Catherine de Medici and St. Bartholomew’s Day

Fresco representing the wedding of Henri II and Catherine de Medicis On April 13, 1519, Italian noblewoman and Queen of France Catherine de’ Medici was born. Catherine played a key role in the reign of...

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Encore un Moment – The Life of Madame Du Barry

Madame Du Barry (1743 – 1793) On April 22, 1769, Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry, better known as Madame du Barry, was introduced at the French court. Originally being only a seamstress, Madame du Barry...

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Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle and the Marseillaise

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle singing La Marseillaise On April 25, 1792, French army officier Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle during the French Revolution composes the ‘Chant de guerre pour l’armée du...

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Frida Kahlo’s struggling Life and Extraordinary Art

Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) On July 6, 1907, Mexican painter Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was born. She is probably best known for her impressive self-portrait and is still admired as a...

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Alexis de Tocqueville and the Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859) On July 29, 1805, French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville was born. He is best known for his Democracy in America, where he analyzed the rising...

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The Affair of the Diamond Necklace – Harbinger of the French Revolution

“The Queen’s necklace”, reconstruction, Château de Breteuil, France On August 15, 1785, the Cardinal de Rohan was arrested and the ‘Affair of the Diamond Necklace‘, an extraordinary expensive piece of...

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The Congress of Vienna in 1814 – Redrawing the Map of Europe

Emperor Franz I received Tsar Alexander I of Russia and King Frederick William III of Prussia, who had gathered to take part in the Congress of Vienna, at the Tabor Bridge on 25 September 1814. On...

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Quo usque tandem, Catilina – Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy

Cicero Denounces Catiline, fresco by Cesare Maccari, 1882–88 On October 21, 63 BC, Roman philosopher, politician, and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero presented evidence to the members of the Roman senate...

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Georg Forster – Naturalist and Revolutionary

Georg Forster (1754-1794) On November 27, 1754, German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary Georg Forster was born. At an early age, he accompanied his father on...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero – Truly a Homo Novus

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BC) On January 3, 106 BC, Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist Marcus Tullius Cicero was born. Besides his...

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The Sugar Act and the American Revolution

John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence, showing the Committee of Five presenting its work to Congress On April 5, 1764, the Sugar Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. The Sugar Act, also...

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Lawrence of Arabia – The Man and the Myth

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) On May 19, 1935, archaeologist and British Army officer Thomas Edward Lawrence died fatally injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset. Renowned...

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Niemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu bauen!

Waving over the Berlin Wall, photo: wikipedia You might wonder, why we have a German headline today. But, this is an original quote, and also a very famous one about the Berlin Wall… On June 15, 1961,...

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Pablo Picasso’s Guernica

Pablo Picasso‘s Guernica, 1937, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain On July 12, 1937, Pablo Picasso presents his famous painting Guernica for the very first time at the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris...

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Scientist and Politician François Arago

Francois Arago On February 26, 1786, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer François Arago was born. Arago discovered the principle of the production of magnetism by rotation of a nonmagnetic...

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Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans

Entrance of Joan of Arc into Reims in 1429, painting by Jan Matejko On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc aka the Maid of Orleans was burned at the stake. Joan of Arc is considered a heroine of France for her...

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Harry Johnston and the “Scramble for Africa”

Sir Harry Johnston (1858-1927) On June 12, 1858, British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator Sir Harry Johnston was born. His interest in zoological specimens gave him a lucrative...

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