Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) was one of the most influential figures in European history, known…
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23 August 1898
The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London. The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration refers…
23 August 1898
The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London. The 1898 Southern Cross Expedition was an…
23 August 1991
The World Wide Web is opened to the public. The World Wide Web (WWW) was invented by British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989…
23 August 1973
A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their…
23 August 1831
Nat Turner’s slave rebellion is suppressed. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner%27s_slave_rebellion’]
23 August 1328
The Battle of Cassel where French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers. On 23 August 1328, the Battle of Cassel took place near the…