Daily history quiz
Can you place the stories they never taught you?
Ten true stories from the archive, every one drawn from published sources. Your job: guess when each happened. New set every day.
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One Letter Helped Unleash the Sack of Rome
A single letter from a semi-literate Swiss mercenary toppled one of the most powerful men in Renaissance Europe, and nobody remembers his name.
When did this happen?