April 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord—the day ordinary men changed the world.

This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

The map itself is undated, but there are clues it was created in 1491: It quotes a book published that year, and Christopher Columbus may have consulted the map (or a copy) before his great voyage.

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In March 1774, British Parliament punished the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party with the Coercive Acts, which closed the Port of Boston, reduced Massachusetts’ powers of self ...

In the 18th century, much of the Western world was ruled by monarchs. But that began to change 250 years ago this month, ...

Namma Metro Blue Line: The first phase of Namma Metro’s Blue Line, connecting Central Silk Board to KR Pura via Outer Ring Road, is expected to open by mid-2026. Meanwhile, the Yellow Line to ...

Two or three decades ago these glasses were the object of much discussion and debate about just how many of them were genuine mid-18th century creations and how many were later recreations of the ...

There are only dips in the level ground where those houses, rotten and forgotten, lie covered by a century's worth of ... inhabitants of the westernmost colony in what would become Canada.