At his accession as king of Macedonia in 336 BC, Alexander the Great inherited a small kingdom in northern Greece. From the beginning of his...
Catherine de Medici was a prominent figure of the Renaissance in France, born on April 13, 1519 in Florence, Italy. She became queen of France...
Marie-Antoinette ascended to the throne of France as queen in 1774, at the age of 19. Her marriage to King Louis XVI was a political...
The period in which Julius Caesar lived was a tumultuous time in Roman history. He emerged in a context of civil wars and fierce political...
The March on Washington in 1963 took place in a crucial context of the struggle for civil rights for African Americans in the United States. At that...
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned due to his active commitment against the apartheid system in South Africa. He was a staunch anti-apartheid activist, fighting for racial...
Socrates was a renowned Greek philosopher, born around 470 BC in Athens. He is often considered one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy. At the...
Marie Gouze, known as Olympe de Gouges, was born on May 7, 1748 in Montauban, France. Her exact origins remain unclear, but she is generally...
Joan of Arc had several historical reasons for wearing men's clothing. First of all, it allowed her to protect herself from the sexual violence that...
Jeanne d'Arc was born in 1412 in Domrémy, a small village located in the northeast of France, during the Hundred Years' War, a conflict between...
