1525: Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz’s mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union 1789: The first American novel, William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy” is published by Isaiah Thomas 1793: Louis XVI of […]
By Martin Banks MEPs have reacted with fury to President Donald Trump´s recent threats to impose sweeping tariffs on Europeans over Greenland.
Our goal is, through specific actions, to achieve water security in our country, Cyprus President, Nikos Christodoulides, said Monday at the inauguration ceremony of “Cleo” and “Erato”, two GLS-type water tanks of the Nicosia District Local Government Organisation, with a total capacity of 17,200 cubic meters.
The Environment Ministry has approved 42 water-supply projects worth €75.5 million to address water shortages, including desalination plants for islands receiving them for the first time.
1265 First English Parliament is summoned without royal command, in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. It meets in Westminster Hall. 1841 China cedes Hong Kong Island to Britain during the First Opium War 1921 Republic of Turkey is declared from the remnants of the Ottoman Empire 1942 Nazi officials hold the […]
The US is acting with impunity and believes its power matters more than international law, the head of the UN has told the BBC. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, António Guterres said Washington’s “clear conviction” was that multilateral solutions were irrelevant. What mattered, he continued, was the “exercise of the power and influence […]
Andrew Liveris AO has been appointed chair of the American Australian Association (AAA), marking a leadership transition for the organisation.
Something remarkable has been happening to opera in Greece. Since 2017, when the Greek National Opera left its historic Olympia Theatre in downtown Athens and moved to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on the city’s waterfront, the company’s relationship with its audience has been transformed. Sold-out performances have become the norm; the quality and […]
379: Theodosius installed as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire by Emperor Gratian, charged with repelling the Goths 1812: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and Third Divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo during the Peninsular War 1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, […]
Nasa’s mega rocket has been moved to the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the final preparations get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. Over almost 12 hours, the 98m-tall Space Launch System was carried vertically from the Vehicle Assembly Building on the 4-mile (6.5km) journey […]
