Mussolini and up to 30,000 supporters from across the country, the Blackshirts, embarked on a calculated and audacious march to Rome to seize power.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Mussolini and up to 30,000 supporters from across the country, the Blackshirts, embarked on a calculated and audacious march to Rome to seize power.
While preparing for the decisive Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine reportedly witnessed a Christian cross which may have been accompanied by a Latin inscription which roughly translates as ‘In this sign, you will conquer.’
Romulus’ overthrow facilitated Odoacer’s rise and the transition to the Ostrogothic Kingdom.
While the republic’s first government was based on a self-governed assembly known as the Arengo, the current system in San Marino has been in place since the Statutes of 1600.
Galileo was sentenced to house arrest where he remained for the final nine years of his life.
Hungarian-born geologist Laszlo Toth attacked and seriously damaged Michelangelo’s Pietà statue with a hammer.
Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica, one of Catholicism’s most sacred buildings.
Antipope John XXIII made the Medici Bank the official bank of the Papacy.
The Saturnalia festival was dedicated to Roman god, Saturn.
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