World History

Stained glass panel of King Louis IX of France carrying the Crown of Thorns, made in Paris around 1245 to 1248

The First Paris Student Strike Began Over a Wine Bill and Lasted Two Years

Eleanor Whitcombe · October 25, 2026

Colour photograph of delegates seated at the United States and Austria desks in the United Nations General Assembly hall, New York, late 1960s

Fifty-Five Years Ago Tonight the UN Gave China's Seat to Beijing in One Vote

Marcus Delacroix · October 25, 2026

Marble head of Zeus Ammon with ram's horns, Roman, about 120 to 160 AD

A Persian Army of 50,000 Vanished in the Egyptian Desert and People Are Still Looking

Jonah Okafor · October 24, 2026

Photograph of the Yugoslav federal parliament building in Belgrade with flames in its windows and a crowd in front of it on 5 October 2000

Serbia Votes Tomorrow. The Last Time Its Students Beat a Strongman Took One Day

Marcus Delacroix · October 24, 2026

Brass planispheric astrolabe made in Persia in 1654, with a degree scale divided in sixtieths around the rim

Why a Minute Has 60 Seconds: Babylon's Maths Just Outlived the Leap Second

Eleanor Whitcombe · October 24, 2026

Photograph of three women at a polling place in 1957, one checking a book of registered voters, with a voting booth and an American flag behind them

Why Your Vote Is Secret: A Gold-Rush Colony Invented the Ballot in 1856

Marcus Delacroix · October 24, 2026

Photo of a round clay school exercise tablet with rows of cuneiform signs, Mesopotamia, c. 20th to 16th century BC

The ABC Order Is 3,400 Years Old and Nobody Knows Why A Comes First

Eleanor Whitcombe · October 23, 2026

Photo of a Day of the Dead ofrenda piled with orange marigolds, painted skulls, candles, oranges and papier-mâché skeletons

Day of the Dead Was Reshaped by Friars, a Printmaker and a Bond Film

Eleanor Whitcombe · October 23, 2026

Colourised scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles, in blue, budding from an infected cell, in yellow

Ebola Was Found Fifty Years Ago in a Thermos Flask Sent From a Mission Hospital

Marcus Delacroix · October 23, 2026

The Queens Museum, the former New York City Building at Flushing Meadows where the UN General Assembly met from 1946 to 1950, photographed in 2018

Eighty Years Ago the United Nations Moved Into a Skating Rink in Queens

Marcus Delacroix · October 23, 2026

Ink cartoon from February 1962 showing two groups of men in hats and overcoats meeting on a bridge, the figures labelled Abel and Powers passing each other, under the title Better Relations Through Trade

Before Hubbard Came Home, the Cold War Traded Prisoners on a Berlin Bridge

Marcus Delacroix · October 22, 2026

Photograph of the twelfth-century Lewis chessmen, carved from walrus ivory, set out on a red and white board in the British Museum

Why We Say Checkmate: A Persian Phrase That Followed Chess Out of India

Eleanor Whitcombe · October 22, 2026

Black and white aerial photograph of the colliery spoil tips on the hillside above Aberfan, with the terraced streets of the village along the left edge, from the 1967 tribunal of inquiry report

Aberfan at 60: The Coal Tip That Buried a School After Ignored Warnings

Marcus Delacroix · October 21, 2026

Fragments of the Fasti Antiates Maiores, the pre-Julian Roman calendar painted on plaster, showing the columns of months with festival names

Why October Is the Tenth Month, and Why Two Emperors Could Not Rename It

Eleanor Whitcombe · October 20, 2026

A 1918 American poster showing Uncle Sam shaking hands with a boy with a clock for a head, announcing that daylight saving ends on Sunday 27 October

Why We Still Change the Clocks: A Wartime Coal Measure That Never Went Away

Marcus Delacroix · October 20, 2026

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Around the World in Sculptures

History All Day Staff

A German WWII military tank recovered from the Czarna Nida River

'It's Worth a Fortune': Missing Bergepanther Used by Nazi Germany During World War II Discovered

Carissa Moore

A historical X-craft midget submarine displayed in a museum

These Tiny Submarines Changed the Course of the War at Normandy

Georgia McKoy

The Colosseum in Rome

Discover What Living in Ancient Rome Was Really Like

Alyssa Miller

Man is surprised to hear about what unfolded during the recent F1 Grand Prix of Monaco

Historical Facts That Sound Fake But Are Completely True

Georgia McKoy

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Mother Of Eight Becomes Unlikely Hero After Rescuing Shipwrecked Sailors in Scotland

Lydia Iseh

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Archeologists Discover an Ancient Mayan City in the Forest That's Been Hidden for 2,000 Years

Lindsey Charleston

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Introducing the Man Who Thinks He's the Real Jesus

Ene Ayegba

Police Search a Man's Home For Stolen Art and Find a Perfect Condition WWII Artifact Instead (Complete with a Torpedo)

Riley Brown