Months Past

Sentenced on charges of corruption on 27 January 1302, Dante Alighieri never saw the city again.

The Pope, in a bull of 22 November 1903, ended the use of the male singers in the Sistine Chapel, who had previously dominated men’s opera.

The women’s army, regarded as superior to its male counterpart, last saw action at Cana on 4 November 1892.

Edith Lanchester was abducted and committed on 25 October 1895, causing a national outcry.

After the death of Harold on 14 October 1066, Edgar Ætheling’s claim to the throne gained support.

Luigi Galvani discovered that the spinal cords of a frog carried an electric charge on 20 September 1786.

The first of three articles that proved the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery was published in The Times on 16 August 1921.

An unprecedented force of 86,000 men fought against Hannibal’s Carthaginian army on 2 August 216 BC.

Atahualpa, the last true emperor of the Incas, was killed on 26 July 1533.