On this day 90 years ago, the end of German reparations payments after the First World War was decided. Many of you may remember the Treaty of Versailles from history classes, where it is often portrayed as decidedly harsh and one of the reasons for the fall of the...
159 years ago today, the Battle of Gettysburg began in southern Pennsylvania. About two years earlier, the southern states had seceded from the United States in response to the election of Lincoln, an opponent of slavery, as president. For the seceded Confederate...
229 years ago today, the French National Convention adopted the Constitution of the First French Republic.
Great Britain forced the lease of Hong Kong for 99 years - but implicitly the empire assumed that the territories would remain permanently, the time frame serving only to save China's face.
As early as September, he presented the French people with a new constitution that transformed the political system into a presidential system.
On this day 73 years ago the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) was adopted. Since then, it has served as the constitution of the West German federal republic and, after 1990, also of the reunited Germany. For months, the 4 mothers and 61 fathers of the Basic Law had worked on...