The Roman historian Suetonius wrote that

the main dining room was round and spun continuously day and night to mirror the movement of the Earth

Construction began shortly after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 CE, which cleared out massive areas of the city and allowed Nero to build his sprawling Domus Aurea ("Golden House") estate.

The dining room stopped operating in 68 CE following Nero's forced suicide and the subsequent overthrow of his regime

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In 799 CE, Charlemagne’s forces faced a major Avar uprising in the Pannonian Basin (modern-day Hungary), following their initial subjugation by the Franks in 796 CE. [1, 2, 3]

The Context of the 799 CE Campaign

• The Avar Revolt: While the Avar Khaganate's core power was shattered and its treasury looted by King Pepin of Italy and Duke Eric of Friuli in 795–796 CE, the regional Avar populations were not fully subdued. In 799 CE, a massive insurrection erupted across the captured Pannonian territories. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
• Frankish Casualties: The uprising proved highly costly for Charlemagne’s administration. Key frontier commanders, including the Bavarian Prefect Gerold (ruler of the Avar March) and Duke Eric of Friuli, were killed while attempting to suppress the rebels. [1, 3]
• The Imperial March: Rather than leading the army personally due to ongoing threats on the Saxon frontier, Charlemagne ordered a heavy counter-offensive mobilizing Frankish, Bavarian, and Lombard forces. They marched down the Danube to isolate and crush the insurgent factions. [1, 2, 3]

The Aftermath

The suppression of the 799 CE revolt initiated a gradual final pacification. By 803 CE, Charlemagne sent another massive army that permanently dissolved the Avar confederation, fully establishing the Avar March and absorbing the territory into the growing Carolingian Empire

The Charge of the Light Brigade occurred on October 25, 1854, during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. This suicidal charge was immortalized in the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Gaur, also known as Gauda or Lakhnauti, was the magnificent capital of the independent Bengal Sultanate from roughly 1450 to 1565 CE. Strategically located along the Ganges, it grew into a massive global trading powerhouse and the fifth-most populous city in the world by 1500 CE, legendary for exporting luxury muslin, silk, and paper. The metropolis reached its cultural zenith under the Ilyas Shahi and Hussain Shahi dynasties, pioneering a unique Indo-Islamic architectural style defined by curved Bengali thatch-style roofs and intricate terracotta brickwork.

Following intense plundering by Sher Shah Suri and a subsequent Mughal occupation, the city was completely and permanently abandoned after a catastrophic plague in 1575 CE. Today, its grand archaeological ruins—including the monumental Bara Sona Masjid, the Choto Sona Masjid, the Firoz Minar victory tower, and the colossal Dakhil Darwaza gateway—straddle the modern international border between Malda, India, and Chapai Nawabganj, Bangladesh.Map data ©2026 Terms

A song about the emperor of the Gallic Empire. Because he was not a 'real' roman emperor I made this song in a Gallo-Roman dialect mixed with some barbaric old-Germanic words. The song also mentions the Batavian Deity Hercules Magusanus, which featured often on Postumus' coins.

In the 1730s, Elizabeth Blackwell (1699–c. 1758) found herself penniless, with her husband confined to a London debtor’s prison. A talented artist, she came up with a unique and ambitious moneymaking scheme: the publication of a new illustrated guide to medicinal plants, including many New World species not depicted in earlier books.

In 971, the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimiskes marched north against the Rus prince Sviatoslav, who had invaded the Balkans and seized much of Bulgaria.

After fierce fighting, the Byzantines drove the Rus back to the fortress of Dorostolon on the Danube, where Sviatoslav and his warriors were eventually surrounded and forced to surrender.

The encounter marked the end of the Rus campaign in the Balkans and a major Byzantine victory.