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Not everyone knows how to work a time machine. But I built this one myself and I made it super user-friendly for the time-traveling novice. Plus I wisely made it compact. Most time-machines are clunky with a bunch of gears and levers and an instruction manual that would put even the...
We have another beginning. There's been plenty beginnings before this, of course, but the year 1700 seems to be yet another one. We have the beginning of the House of Hanover in England, the American Revolution in the British colonies, the founding of St. Petersburg in Russia, not to mention the beginnings...
The 80's and 90's. These decades are leading up to a brand new century, and there's plenty going on. We have a 10 year-old tsar, a war between Spain and France, the Glorious Revolution in England, the first mention of the pub where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien will meet...
The king was just beheaded. This was a big deal, and not just for England, but for every country with a monarch...which was basically every country. The people could not only depose a king, but try, convict, and sentence him to death? Interesting times. Ready to immerse yourself in the...
Ready to immerse yourself in the 20's 30's and 40's of the seventeenth century? Click here for a YouTube playlist of music & ambience that will sweep you away. (Feature Photo: painting of King Charles I of England by an unknown artist in the 1630s; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1620...
Ready to immerse yourself in the early 1600's? Click here for a YouTube playlist of music & ambience to sweep you away. (Feature Photo: Galileo presenting his ideas before his peers; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1600 RULERS & ROYALTY: Elizabeth I is queen of England – Phillip III "The Pious" (Habsburg line)...
1590 RULERS & ROYALTY: Elizabeth is on the English throne – Philip II is king of Spain (House of Habsburg) – Albert Fredrick is Duke of Prussia (he is the second Duke of Prussia of the Hohenzollern family) – Feodor I is tsar of Russia February 15, The Polish astronomer, Galileo Galilei,...
This is where England keeps poking Spain. And then Spain sends an Armada. (Feature Photo: Known as the "Armada Portrait," this painting depicts Queen Elizabeth I after her victory over the Spanish Armada) 1570 RULERS & ROYALTY: Elizabeth I is queen of England – Charles IX is king of France...
Ever wonder where the name for the drink came from? Well, it came from Mary I, queen of England. Between 1553 and 1558, Mary ascended the throne (executing the 16 year old Lady Jane Grey for having usurped it before Mary got to London) initiated widespread persecution against Protestants, married her...
Henry VIII divorces his first wife. Not only did he divorce her, but he broke with the Catholic Church to do so. He's the head of the Church of England now, so he begins the "dissolution of the monasteries." In other words, he enters them one by one and claims their...
Enter the Habsburgs. They ruled a crazy amount of Europe and the Americas. (Feature Photo: Interior of Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1519 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry VIII is on the English throne, Catherine of Aragon is Queen (daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile (died back...
Here comes the sun. It's just not where it used to be. (Feature Photo: 1872 painting of Nicolaus Copernicus entitled Conversations with God by Jan Matejko; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1500 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry VII is king of England, Elizabeth of York is queen consort – No Holy Roman/German Emperor – Maximilian...
(Feature Photo: A woodcut illustration of the city of Nuremberg with its castle in 1493; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1485 RULERS & ROYALTY: Richard III is king of England until August when he dies and Henry VII becomes king – Fredrich III is Holy Roman Emperor – Isabella I is queen of Castile and León,...
(Feature Photo: An original Gutenberg Bible, Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1470 RULERS & ROYALTY: Edward IV is deposed as king of England, and Henry VI is reinstalled as king – Enrique IV is king of Castile and León, Spain – Louis XI is king of France – Fredrich III is Holy Roman Emperor – Lorenzo di' Medici...
Welcome to the second half. The second half of the fifteenth century marks the ending and beginning of many things. For instance, you know how England and France have been at war forever? That ends here. In fact, they call it "The Hundred Years' War" because it literally took that long to come...
(Feature Photo: The Arrest of Joan of Arc by Adèle Martin in 1835; Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1420 RULERS & ROYALTY: Henry V (House of Lancaster) is king of England – Charles VI is on the French throne Henry V, king of England, marries Katherine, the daughter of Charles VI, king of...
