The Modern Historian
29 December 2008

On this day in history: First Spanish Republic ended, 1874

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In February, 1873 King Amadeo I abdicated from the Spanish throne. Three years earlier, following the revolution against Queen Isabella II, ...
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20 December 2008

On this day in history: Electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time, 1951

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In 1934 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi produced nuclear fission for the first time for which he received the Nobel Prize for Physics fou...
19 December 2008

On this day in history: Emily Brontë died, 1848

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Born on 30th July 1818 at the Parsonage in Thornton, near Bradford, Yorkshire, Emily Jane Brontë was the fifth of six children of Revd. Pat...
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