Jean de Valette led a heavily outnumbered garrison to defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Great Siege of Malta, halting westward expansion.
Spurned by King Charles II, Catherine of Braganza sought refuge in a Portuguese custom. This simple act made tea England's national drink.
The Grand Hotel bombing was one of the many acts of violence in the tug-of-war between Margaret Thatcher and the Irish Republican Army.
From 1973, the IRA carried out waves of bombings in London to force a withdrawal from Northern Ireland and damage the British economy.
Pivotal events, including Stalin’s death, popular uprisings in Poland and Germany, and even a plane hijacking, all paved the way for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
The five demands of the IRA that fueled the 1981 hunger strike in Northern Ireland.
In postwar France, Épuration, or denazification, referred to the administrative and juridical sanctions the authorities imposed on those who collaborated with Nazi Germany in World War II.
Almost 194,000 people fled Hungary after the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Countries all over the world stepped in to help solve the Hungarian refugee crisis.
