Constantinople’s fall, Dunkirk evacuation, Everest summit, Einstein’s relativity, and key births of Kennedy and Patrick Henry.

The Fall of Constantinople took place on May 29, 1453, after a siege which began on April 6. The battle was part of the ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of medieval period, Christianity and Roman Empire ...

GREEKS still consider Tuesday an unlucky day. May 29th 1453, was a Tuesday; the day that Constantinople, the place they called—and often still call—the queen of cities, or simply “the city” was ...

India, May 31 -- From Constantinople's fall to IMEC ambitions, geography continues shaping trade, power, and India-Europe strategic convergence.

Archon Grand Logothete, Referendarios, Dikaiophylax, Rhetor, Chartophylax: The honorary titles bestowed by the Patriarchates, ...

During his general audience on April 29, Pope Benedict XVI continued his teachings on the great medieval writers of the Church from the East and the West. He offered his reflections on St. Germanus, a ...