December

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Stricken by a fascination with the sky at a young age, Johannes Kepler would go on to be regarded as one of the foremost scientists in…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons More than six decades before the British withdrew the colonial government, the seeds for an independent India were planted on December 28, 1885. The Indian National…

Wikimedia Commons The silence of a cold British night was broken by one of the most famous murders of the Middle Ages on December 29, 1170: four knights of King…

Just two months after making the first successful kidney transplant in South Africa, cardiologist Christiaan Barnard did the unthinkable: at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, the surgeon successfully moved…

Working from the Mount Wilson Observatory 20 miles to the northeast of Los Angeles, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed stunning findings on December 30, 1924: the Milky Way Galaxy was not…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Almost a decade after the Canadian Parliament Buildings burned to the ground in Montreal, Queen Victoria of England made a decision which would reorient the sprawling…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Almost five decades after Martin Luther launched the Reformation with Ninety-Five Theses on the door of Wittenberg Church, the Council of Trent — the exhaustive Roman…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Almost two centuries after Genghis Khan captured much of Asia, the remnants of the vast Mongol Empire were beginning to disintegrate. For the better part of…

The iconic Encyclopædia Britannica was the brainchild of the printer and bookseller Colin Macfarquhar and the engraver Andrew Bell. In 1778, the Scottish printer and his partner formed the “Society…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Almost four years after the first battle in the Anglo-Irish War, those seeking an independent Irish Free State got what they wanted on December 6, 1922.…