On May 23, 1618, Protestant nobles in Prague committed an act of violent protest that would ignite one of the most devastating conflicts in European history. In what became known as the Defenestration of Prague, angry Bohemian aristocrats threw three Catholic representatives of the Holy Roman Emperor out of a window of Prague Castle. This…
On December 30, 1922, representatives of Soviet Russia and three other Soviet republics signed the Treaty of Creation of the USSR, formally establishing the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This act brought together diverse peoples and territories into what would become one of the two superpowers of the twentieth century, fundamentally shaping world history for…
