Saint Marinus Founds the World's Oldest Republic

Agrippa's fleet destroyed Sextus Pompeius's armada at Naulochus off the coast of Sicily, sinking or capturing nearly all 300 enemy ships in a single afternoon. …

Gregory didn't want the job. He'd been living as a monk, and when the previous pope died of plague, Gregory tried to flee Rome to avoid being chosen. He was cau…

Visigothic King Wamba marched his army into southern Gaul and crushed the rebellion of Hilderic, the governor of Nimes who had seized power with local support. …

The Arab emir Umar al-Aqta had been raiding deep into Byzantine Anatolia for years, and the Byzantines had had enough. At the Lalakaon River in 863, a Byzantine…

Richard I received the crown of England at Westminster Abbey, beginning a reign defined almost entirely by warfare abroad rather than governance at home. He dep…

Mamluk cavalry lured the Mongol vanguard into an ambush at Ain Jalut in Palestine, then counterattacked and destroyed the invaders in a decisive rout. The victo…