August

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons After years of development, the French Government made a startling declaration on August 19, 1839: the Daguerreotype photographic process would be “free to the world” in…

Click to view full Infographic In the southeast of Italy, approximately 170 miles from Rome, the tiny town of Cannae would be the scene for the last major threat to…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Though hostilities had officially ceased more than a year before with the surrender of the last Confederate Army, no declaration of reunification had occurred for the…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Charged by the Royal Society in 1766 with recording the transit of Venus across the sun, Lieutenant James Cook took on one of the longest voyages…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Already with a foothold in India and seeking to expand in order to compete with Portuguese rivals Estado da India, the British East India Company opened…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons For the better part of a decade, the English sought a near-mythical warrior from Scotland responsible for the deaths of countless administrators and soldiers. After finally…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Though first begun in 1881, workers on the Panama Canal – one of the world’s most important waterways – did not begin laying concrete until August…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The wealthy city-state of Venice, bustling with trade at all times, had a critical problem: hostile boats from other seafaring regions attacking merchant ships spreading Venetian…

*Image Credit: Wikipedia Few discoveries in the history of medicine could be said to have had more of an impact than that of bacteria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the Dutch scientist…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Far in the northwestern corner of Pennsylvania, on a leased stretch of land just outside Titusville – a community of only 250 people – Colonel Edwin…