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Founding monarchs in Europe
- CharlemagneCharlemagne's year of birth remains uncertain, though most scholars now accept 748 as the correct date. Einhard, his biographer, claimed Charlemagne was 72…
- OdoacerThe name Odoacer remains a puzzle for historians, with no single origin story accepted as fact. Some scholars trace the word to Germanic roots meaning luck…
- AugustusOn the 23rd of September in 63 BC, a boy named Gaius Octavius drew his first breath inside a family estate on Rome's Palatine Hill.
- Stefan DušanOn the 21st of August 1331, Stefan Dušan captured his own father at Petrich. The man who had been crowned king just months earlier now turned against the…
- TheseusA young man named Theseus stood before a massive stone on the road from Troezen to Athens. It was a rock with a hollow just large enough to receive objects…
- CadmusA young man named Cadmus stood on the shores of Phoenicia, watching his sister Europa vanish into the sea. Zeus had carried her away from the land where she…
- RurikEast Slavic and Finnic tribes drove the Varangians back beyond the sea in 860, 862. The Chuds, Slovenes, Krivichs, Meryans, and Ves refused to pay them…
- Bohdan KhmelnytskyOn the 17th of September 1620, the Battle of Cecora ended with the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's father, Mykhailo. Young Bohdan stood among many other…