In History - Page 4

1519 Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlán after an invitation from Aztec ruler Moctezuma. Shortly after the welcoming festivities, conflict broke out, eventually causing Moctezuma to be...

1512 The artwork painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was exhibited to the public for the first time. 1604 At Whitehall Palace in...

1616 Dutch Captain Dirk Hartog made the second recorded landing on Australian soil by a European. This island of the West Australian coast was later...

1775 The first published African-American female poet, Phillis Wheatley, was freed from slavery. 1851 Under the title The Whale, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was first published by Richard...

1582 This date does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain due to their adoption of the Gregorian Calendar that year. 1634 A...

1795 Napoleon Bonaparte of France was nationally recognized for suppressing armed counter-revolutionary rioters to protect the National Convention. 1824 Mexico, adopting a new constitution, became a federal...