In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for 18 August 2050 in France as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022.Jun 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
28 April 1945: Adolf Hitler briefly emerges from his bunker beneath the ruins of Berlin to survey what's left of his Thousand-Year Reich. A photographer snaps this final image of the German Fuhrer.Apr 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1945 #28
West German school children pause to talk with two East German border guards beside an opening in the Berlin Wall during the collapse of communism in East Germany, November 1989.Aug 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1989
28 May 1937 – Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer, is founded.May 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1937 #28
On this day in 1386 the Universitat Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.Oct 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
This is war: a Ukrainian girl, last night, at Sighetu Marmatiei border crossing point, in Romania. Photograph by Alexandru Culac.Feb 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/Romania
On this day in 1939, World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on the country from the west.Sep 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1939
Early morning fog in the canal, Park Oog, Al, a residential area in Utrecht, the Netherlands.Jun 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1906 a new electoral law is ratified in the Grand Duchy of Finland, guaranteeing the first and equal right to vote in the world. Finnish women become the first in Europe to receive the right to vote.Jul 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
19 May 1991 – Breakup of Yugoslavia: With the local Serb population boycotting the referendum, Croatians voted in favour of independence from Yugoslavia.May 2023 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
Robe and Axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, who was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1864. During his tenure, he executed 514 people.Dec 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #m
On this day in 1990, in a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.Dec 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #m
4 July 2004 – Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history.Jul 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
17 May 1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais identifies the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.May 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1902 #17
On this day in 1351, 30 French knights challenge an equal number of English swordsmen to a pre-arranged battle at Guillac. The ensuing bloodbath will be called 'Le Combat des Trente' or the 'Combat of the Thirty.' It's held up by chroniclers as the epitome of chivalry.Mar 2023 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
Centuripe, an ancient town in eastern Sicily with a history that goes back to at least the 5th century BC.Jun 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #5
Salvamontisti din Sibiu si Arges dormind pe iarba dupa o lunga actiune de salvare.Aug 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/Romania
14 June 1158 – the city of Munich (Munchen) is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.Jun 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1158 #14
On this day in 451, Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigoth ruler Theodoric I defeat Atilla the Hun on the Catalaunian Plains (near Chalons in present-day France). It's one of the last major battles to be fought by an army of the old Western Empire.Jun 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
14 July 1789 – The Bastille, a fortress and prison in Paris, is stormed by a crowd during the flashpoint of the French Revolution.Jul 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
31 December 1992 – Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.Dec 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1523 – Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day.Jun 2023 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1965, Winston Churchill, aged 90, dies of complications from a stroke. The great figure who embodied man's will to resist tyranny passed into history this morning, reports the New York Times.Jan 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
5 May 1821: Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.May 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1978 the last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden.Jan 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1453, the great city of Constantinople falls to the Ottomans marking the end of the thousand-year Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.May 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #Byzantine
Flat arches with 'hanging' masonry supporting the arena floor of the Colosseum: precise Roman construction using no mortar. Laid upon a frame that was then removed, the central keystone has held the bricks in place since the 1st century AD.Jan 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
25 December 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union and turns over his presidential powers — including control of the nuclear launch codes — to Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Federation. The USSR itself is officially dissolved the next day.Dec 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1805, the Royal Navy defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar. The triumph is decisive yet costly; Britain's best admiral, Horatio Nelson, is fatally wounded on the quarterdeck of his flagship, HMS Victory.Oct 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
International Women's Day: We congratulate you, dear women! Soviet Union, 1963.Jul 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1963
15 December 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus, the first successful soft landing on another planet.Dec 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
Post-Soviet visual: sale of watermelons in the Bessarabsky market, Kiev, Ukraine, 1992.Oct 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1918 Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, and his family are murdered by the Bolshevik at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.Jul 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1918
15 October 1917: Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari was executed by a firing squad in France for spying for Germany.Oct 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
5 August 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008Aug 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
21 April 1918: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as The Red Baron, is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France during World War I.Apr 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1918 #21
On this day in 1938 – Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Edouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.Sep 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1938
A rare, priceless Roman glass vessel known as a cage cup that was discovered in a cemetery in France has been conserved and restoredDec 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
The wreckage of Kursk nuclear-powered submarine of the Russian navy raised in floating dry dock.Oct 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.Jan 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1995, Moscow comes frighteningly close to ordering a nuclear strike on the United States after mistaking a Norwegian research rocket for an American submarine-launched ballistic missile.Jan 2023 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1897 Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.May 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1897
Act of 23 August 1944 – King Michael dismissed the pro-Nazi Germany government of General Ion Antonescu, placing Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of World War II.Aug 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #f #1944
Ivan the Terrible cradling his wounded son, Ivan, in Ilya Repin's painting Ivan the Terrible killing his sonNov 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
Lithuania, 1989: Baltic Chain of Freedom protest. Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians symbolically denounce the 50th anniversary of the Soviet-Nazi Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact that led to their annexation by Stalin's USSR.Jul 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1989 #50
On this day in 1939: First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.Aug 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1939 #178
Remember, Remember the 5th of November: The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foiled the Gunpowder Plot, which planned to blow up the House of Lords and assassinate King James I.Nov 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
19 August 14. Roman Emperor Augustus (born Gaius Octavius) died aged 75. He was Julius Caesar's adopted son (and heir) and the first emperor of the Roman Empire from 27 BC until his death and the first ruler of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. His reign initiated an era of relative peace and prosperity.Aug 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #born-Gaius-Octavius #and-heir #m #75 #19 #14
10 years ago, on 13 January 2012 at 21:45, the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany. 32 people died.Jan 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
2 December 1804: At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.Dec 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1066 William the Conqueror lands in England at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest.Sep 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1066
1941 Soviet propaganda poster which reads: ‘Napoleon suffered defeat and so will Hitler!’Nov 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
28 December 1895 – The Lumiere brothers perform their first commercial public screening for around 40 paying visitors at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, a date traditionally been regarded as the birth of cinema.Dec 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1943, in Greece, the Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces took place: the mass murder of the town's entire male population over the age of 12.Dec 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #f
The Hungarian mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath John von Neumann died 65 years ago today in Washington D.C.Feb 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
Soldat und Tod (The soldier and Death), painting by Hans Larwin, Austria-Hungary, 1917.Aug 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #The-soldier-and-Death #1917
On this day in 1959 the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (Луна 2) impacted the Moon, becoming the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body.Sep 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1959 #2
A sunny winter day in the town of Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Oblast (Region), Russia.Mar 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #Region
The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.Jan 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day 1812, during the French invasion of Russia: Following the Battle of Borodino seven days earlier, Napoleon and his Grande Armee captured Moscow, only to find the city deserted and burning.Sep 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1812
95 years ago today, the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi was struck by a passing tram. He died three days later.Jun 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #95
On this day in 1014, the Irish defeat the Vikings near Dublin at the Battle of Clontarf. The victory comes with a cost though: Ireland's High King Brian Boru is slain in the fighting.Apr 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1014
4 August 1944: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others. She will die in the spring of 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.Aug 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #f #1944 #4
Russia’s oligarchs are now worth more than a third of the country’s GDP - making it the world’s most economically captured major country.May 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1571 the naval Battle of Lepanto, between the Christian forces of the Holy League and the Ottoman Turks, is fought, the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat.Oct 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
19 November 1942, Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.Nov 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
7 September 1812, the French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, is fought near Moscow and results in a French victory.Sep 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1812 #7
On this day in 44 BC, Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, is stabbed to death by 30 Roman senators. The conspirators hope that the assassination will help restore the imperiled Republic. It doesn't.Mar 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 323 BCE, Alexander the Great dies. Although just 32, he leaves behind one of the ancient world's largest (albeit shortest-lived) empires.Jun 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #albeit-shortest-lived #323 #32
On 3 February 1966, humankind achieved its first soft landing on the Moon - the achievement belongs to the Soviet space probe Luna 9Feb 2022 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe
On this day in 1357 Emperor Charles IV lays the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.Jul 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1357
This day in 1945, American and Soviet troops meet on the Elbe River, near Torgau, Germany. This contact meant that the two allied powers had effectively cut Nazi Germany in half.Apr 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1945
Today in 1914, Germany outmaneuvers and outfights Imperial Russia at the Battle of Tannenberg. More than 100,000 of the Tsar's troops are captured after four days of fighting. The victory makes heroes of Hindenburg and Ludendorff; the Russian commander, Samsonov, kills himself.Aug 2021 ⋅ Vucea ⋅ r/europe ⋅ #1914 #000 #100
