McKinley Falls to Anarchist Bullet: Roosevelt Rises

The Maya Long Count calendar began its current cycle on this day, anchoring a sophisticated system of timekeeping that tracked thousands of years with mathemati…

The Battle of the Frigidus wasn't just Theodosius I defeating a usurper — it was the last time a Roman army fought under pagan standards against a Christian emp…

Columbus had already been to La Gomera once before and turned back. This time he left the Canary Islands on September 6, 1492, with three ships and roughly 90 m…

Magellan didn't make it. He'd been killed in the Philippines 16 months earlier. Of the five ships and 270 men who left Spain in 1519, one ship and 18 men return…

They'd already tried once. The Mayflower and a second ship, the Speedwell, set out together — but the Speedwell leaked so badly they turned back twice. Some pas…

A September hurricane drives the Spanish galleon Atocha to the ocean floor off Key West, dragging down 40 short tons of gold and silver alongside 260 souls. Thi…