World’s History

02 November 2026 18:03

#OnThisDay in 1517, priest and scholar #MartinLuther nails a piece of paper to the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the #ProtestantReformation.⛪

World’s History

02 November 2026 13:02

#OnThisDay in 1946, the first Royal Command Performance at a public cinema, the Empire, Leicester Square.🎞️

World’s History

02 November 2026 08:57

#OnThisDay in 1688, #WilliamIII of Orange sets off a second time the Netherlands to liberate England, Scotland and Ireland from the tyrannical King #JamesII of England during the #GloriousRevolution.🍊

World’s History

01 November 2026 14:55

#OnThisDay in 1917, allied forces launch an attack on Turkish positions at Beersheba, in #Palestine, beginning the Third Battle of #Gaza.

World’s History

01 November 2026 10:50

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!🪦🧟🎃🐈‍⬛🕯️

World’s History

31 October 2026 16:55

🎃 A bronze figurine of Pazuzu, the Assyrian/Babylonian demonic god. 1800-800 BCE.

University of Tübingen, Germany.

📷 Photo by Museopedia. 

#Pazuzu #Mesopotamia #Babylon #Assyrian #History #AncientHistory #Halloween

World’s History

31 October 2026 12:55

#OnThisDay in 1944, Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.📝

World’s History

31 October 2026 08:50

#OnThisDay in 1811, Jane Austen’s 'Sense and Sensibility' is published anonymously.📕❤️

World’s History

30 October 2026 14:50

🎃 Lamia is a female or hermaphroditic demon found in Greek mythology who devoured children and seduced men. 

📝 Article by Liana Miate. 
🖼️ Paintings by John William Waterhouse and Isobel Lilian Gloag. 

World’s History

30 October 2026 10:50

AWARD-WINNING!🏆 We’re delighted to announce that Paul Kenny won an award at the Royal Automobile Club’s awards ceremony for 'Whitney Straight'!🏁

World’s History

29 October 2026 16:50

#OnThisDay in 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove missiles from Cuba, ending the #CubaMissileCrisis.🚀

World’s History

29 October 2026 12:45

This #BlackHistoryMonth, discover five Black journalists who should be as popular as Orwell📰

World’s History

29 October 2026 08:45

🎃 A Greek lead curse figurine and miniature coffin from the Kerameikos, Athens. The figures usually had their limbs twisted or had pins inserted into them. The inscription in this example curses an enemy during a trial. 420-410 BCE. 

📷 Photo by Giovanni Dall’Orto. 

#History

World’s History

28 October 2026 15:15

#OnThisDay in 1918, #SpanishFlu outbreak in London and leads to 2,200 deaths.🦠

World’s History

28 October 2026 11:15

#OnThisDay in 1936, Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would allow her to marry King Edward VIII, thus forcing his abdication.💍

World’s History

02 November 2026 16:04

#OnThisDay in 1512, the ceiling of the #SistineChapel in Rome, one of Italian artist #Michelangelo’s finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time.⛪🎨

World’s History

02 November 2026 11:02

#OnThisDay in 1993, the Women's Royal Naval Service is fully disbanded.🚢

World’s History

01 November 2026 16:55

#OnThisDay in 1811, Jane Austen’s 'Sense and Sensibility' is published anonymously.📕❤️

World’s History

01 November 2026 12:50

#OnThisDay in 1940, the Battle of Britain ends.🪖

World’s History

01 November 2026 08:50

#OnThisDay in 1517, priest and scholar #MartinLuther nails a piece of paper to the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the #ProtestantReformation.⛪

World’s History

31 October 2026 14:55

#OnThisDay in 1485, King #HenryVII of England is crowned.👑 Learn 7 facts about the seventh Henry on the throne

World’s History

31 October 2026 10:55

#OnThisDay in 1942, Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieve material which would lead to the decryption of the German #Enigma code.

World’s History

30 October 2026 16:55

She appears in literature as early as the 6th century BCE and is said to be fearsome to look upon, with an ugly face, the upper body of a woman, and the lower body of a serpent.

World’s History

30 October 2026 12:50

In 1940, #RMSNiagara was secretly carrying 8 tons of British gold bound for America when it hit a German mine and sank off the coast of New Zealand...🪙 ⚓

World’s History

30 October 2026 08:50

#OnThisDay in 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.⛓️

World’s History

29 October 2026 14:45

The Vikings had a terrifying myth about the end of the world. Was it inspired by a real deadly disaster?⚔️🛡️🛶

World’s History

29 October 2026 10:45

⚔️ On this day in 312 CE: Constantine I defeats Maxentius in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.

🖼️ Painting by Giulio Romano. 

World’s History

28 October 2026 17:15

👑 On this day in 939 CE: Æthelstan dies. 

📝 Article by Michael McComb.
📷 Images by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Adrian Pingstone.

#Athelstan #England #History #OnThisDay

World’s History

28 October 2026 13:15

#OnThisDay in 1932, Sylvia Plath, American poet, is born.🔔

World’s History

28 October 2026 09:11

#OnThisDay in 939, Edmund I succeeds #Athelstan as King of England.👑