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Macau first became a major settlement and trading post with the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century. In 1557, the Portuguese established a…
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Macau first became a major settlement and trading post with the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century. In 1557, the Portuguese established a…
Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory in the Eastern Caribbean. In 1962, Anguilla was joined to St. Kitts and Nevis as an associated statehood. Resentment…
This landlocked country in southern Africa can boast two of the most colourful tribal and historical festivals on the continent; Incwala and Umhlanga, the reed…
Bahrain is an archipelago of 33 islands. From the 1860s, Bahrain had been a British protectorate. Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa was made the first…
In 1947, India was partitioned by the British, creating the 'Dominion of Pakistan', which was two separate regions to the north-west and northeast of India.…
With India to the south and the Himalayas to the north, it's easy to think of Nepal as a small country, yet with a population…
Celebrates the arrival of the Bo tree sapling in Anuradhapura, brought by Ashoka’s daughter, Sangamitta. Lord Buddha is said to have attained Enlightenment by meditating…
On December 13th 1974, the Maltese constitution was substantially revised. This effectively changed Malta from being a Commonwealth realm into a republic. The British monarch…
The first colonists from Europe to have a presence in Kenya were German, but in 1890, the region came under the control of the Imperial…
The region of modern-day Burkina Faso did not attract colonial attention until the late nineteenth century. By 1898, the kingdoms that now make up the…
In 2014, ISIS launched an offensive in Iraq taking control of about a third of Iraqi territory including the second-biggest city, Mosul. The war to…
The Battle of Ayacucho was a decisive military encounter during the Peruvian War of Independence. This battle took place on the high plateau near Ayacucho,…
Though the exact location and the year aren't known, Clement is accepted to be have been born in what is modern-day North Macedonia about 840…
Saint Ambrose was an archbishop of Milan during the 4th century. He became an important ecclesiastical figure of his time and was one of the…
Finland had been part of the Russian Empire since 1809. Following the Russian revolution and the defeats in the First World War, movements within Finland…
Fatimah bin Muhammad was the youngest daughter and the only child of the prophet Muhammad and Khadijah who lived to adulthood, and therefore part of…
St. Nicholas’ Day falls on the 6th of December each year, but the holiday celebrations actually start the day before (on December 5th) on St. Nicholas’ Eve. Also known…
The legend of Santa Claus can be traced back to the 3rd century in Patara, in what is now modern-day Turkey, to a monk named St. Nicholas.…
It is generally a two day holiday, with December 3rd also a holiday but the second date for the holiday may fall before or after…
The Chatham Islands Territory is a group of about ten islands that lies 650 km (500 miles) to the east of the south island of…