HISTORY

1814 – Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean 1828 –

Our final Documents in Detail webinar for the 2020-21 school year, and the last in our years-long series “Selections from

1816 – 2nd Bank of US chartered 1827 – George Canning becomes British Prime Minister upon the resignation of Robert

Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, died April 9, 2021 at the age of 99. He married the future

Philip Mountbatten married then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947 and the pair’s marriage is longer than any other royal union in history.

At the turn of the 20th century, the United States was in the grip of a full-blown smallpox epidemic. During

Murder of Interest 1483 Edward V (aged 12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England. He is never

When Seal Team Six carried out a raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011,

For four years, from 1914 to 1918, World War I raged across Europe’s western and eastern fronts, after growing tensions

Today we are pleased to feature a post by Stacy Moses, a teacher at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, NM.