Early in 1776, King George consented to the hiring of thousands of Hessian mercenaries to assist the British troops already in ... In 1820, George III died at the age of 82, blind, deaf, and ...

Did you know that one of New Jersey's schools recently celebrated its 250th anniversary? A brief history of some of the state's oldest schools.

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Its goals were to rally the troops, win foreign allies ... Congress declared that they would not be under King George III’s rule anymore and would go to war to be an independent nation.

King Charles III sent condolences ... The late queen’s uncle, Prince George, the Duke of Kent, also died in a plane crash in 1942 while visiting troops in Iceland. And her first cousin, Prince ...

Since 2020 our team has been investigating the links between the RA and its colonial past. Research into the Royal Academy of ...

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Ethiopia is pushing for the return of sacred artifacts taken by British forces during the 1868 Battle of Magdala.

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivor Tova Friedman says she thought she was the "only Jewish child in the world".

Birth of mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. 1736: Handel’s “Alexander’s Feast” premieres at the Covent Garden Theatre, Lo ...