The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD - Sky HISTORY
WEBAt 1 pm on 24 August, Mount Vesuvius announced its awakening with a violent eruption. An enormous dark cloud shrouded the blue sky above the volcano. The column of volcanic pumice, hot gasses and ash, pushed upwards of 9 miles into the atmosphere and spread across the skyline like black ink on blotting paper.
Nostradamus: Which of his predictions came true? - Sky HISTORY
WEB3. The Coming of Adolf Hitler. Nostradamus has been credited with quite a few 20th Century predictions, and the rise of Adolf Hitler is often cited as one of them. And, to be fair, his writings do provoke a slight chill of recognition. ' From the depths of the West of Europe,' Nostradamus wrote, 'A young child will be born of poor people'.
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WEBFools' gold: British history's most famous court jesters. View more. Find out more about the shows on Sky HISTORY's TV channel, with plenty to read and watch on your favourite historical topics.
The history of Remembrance Day | Sky HISTORY TV Channel
WEBAt 11am on Armistice Day, on 11th November 1919. The event, inaugurated by George V, was held in Buckingham Palace, following a banquet the previous evening to honour the French Republic. A permanent version of Armistice Day is better known as 'Remembrance Day' and occurs every 11th November. The time and date are significant as WW1 ended …
When the Vikings ruled in Britain: A brief history of Danelaw
WEBVikings. On 8 June 793 AD, a group of seafaring Norse people from Scandinavia crossed the North Sea and landed on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, just off the northeast coast of England. They ransacked the important Christian monastery of St Cuthbert and in doing so heralded in the time of the Vikings, an age that would last for another 300 years.
The real story of the Chernobyl divers | Sky HISTORY TV Channel
WEBAlexei Ananenko, Valeri Bespalov and Boris Baranov are the three men who made up Chernobyl's so-called 'Suicide Squad'. They bravely entered the basement of the nuclear reactor to try and save the lives of millions of people. History is littered with events that evoke powerful memories with the utterance of just one word….
Popery, puritans and witches: The reign of King James I and VI
WEBAscended the throne on 24 March 1603. Coronation: Westminster Abbey, 25 July 1603 as King of Great Britain and Ireland. Died: Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire, 27 March 1625. Buried Westminster Abbey. King James is famous for three things: Popery, puritans and witches. Popular history will always associate him with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 …
Gorbachev's Reforms: 4 reasons the Soviet Union collapsed
WEBMikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died on 30th August 2022 at the age of 91, following a "long and serious illness". For much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union was the largest country in the world: a vast and seemingly permanent superpower locked in a Cold War with the West. But in 1991, it simply ceased to exist ...
The biggest conspiracy theories in history
WEBThe Illuminati are the go-to villains of countless conspiracy theories. They are the ultimate ‘shadowy elite’, secretly installing world leaders, manipulating financial markets, and generally behaving like a sprawling network of Bond villains. The truth is rather more mundane, however. There was a real group known as the Illuminati, but ...
New Evidence: The Informant who told the CIA that Hitler survived …
WEBOne thing we can say for certain is that ex-CIA agent Bob Baer will be listening. For the last few years, Baer has been leading a team of investigators on a manhunt that asks the question, did Hitler survive the Second World War? Hunting Hitler has seen Baer and his team travel across South America on the mission to find evidence that supports the …
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