Historical Enigma

09/06/2023

Wars with peculiar or unexpected causes: The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748).

08/06/2023

Wars with peculiar or unexpected causes: The Pastry War (1838-1839)

07/06/2023

Wars with peculiar or unexpected causes: The Football War (1969).

07/06/2023

🌍 in 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed, dividing the newly discovered lands of the New World between Spain and Portugal. 🌎 This landmark agreement shaped the course of colonization and exploration in the Americas.

06/06/2023

06/06/2023

in 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord, considered to be the largest amphibious operation in history. The size of the force that invaded Normandy on D-Day and beyond was staggering.

Two million men were ultimately shipped to France, while 11,000 aircraft and thousands of boats were involved in the assault, including 139 major warships. By the end of the first day the Allies had a toehold in German-occupied France, though not without devastating loss of life.

📸 Landing ships putting cargo ashore on Omaha Beach, at low tide during the first days of the operation, June 1944

06/06/2023

Wars with peculiar or unexpected causes: The War of the Stray Dog (1925).

05/06/2023

05/06/2023

Wars with peculiar or unexpected causes. The number one list is the Pig War of 1859.

04/06/2023

In May 1989, nearly a million Chinese, mostly young students, crowded into central Beijing to protest for greater democracy and called for the resignation of Chinese Community Party leaders deemed too repressive.

04/06/2023

One of the longest-recorded wars in history.