Eiffel Tower Opens: Paris Unveils Its Iron Giant

Imperial troops stormed Rome's walls on May 6, 1527, after their commander Duke Charles died from a stray bullet while wearing his conspicuous white cloak. His …

The Constable of Bourbon died in the first wave, shot off a scaling ladder before his unpaid army even reached Rome's walls. What followed wasn't a battle. For …

Manco Inca brought 100,000 warriors to reclaim Cuzco from roughly 200 Spanish defenders. The numbers weren't even close. But those 200 had horses, steel armor, …

The problem wasn't that most English people couldn't read Latin. It's that their priests couldn't either. Henry VIII's 1536 order for English Bibles in every ch…

For the first time, an English farmer could walk into his parish church and read God's words in his own language. Henry VIII—the same king who'd broken with Rom…

Francis Xavier arrived in Old Goa to begin a decade of Jesuit missionary work across Asia. His presence transformed the region into the administrative heart of …