On May 23
On May 23, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Defenestration of Prague and the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War (1618).
On this day
On 23 May 1618 Bohemian Protestant nobles threw two Catholic imperial regents and their secretary from a window of Prague Castle, an act of defiance against the Habsburg crown that triggered the Bohemian Revolt and ignited the Thirty…
Also this week in history (May 20 – May 26)
On 20 May 1498 the Portuguese commander Vasco da Gama anchored near Calicut (Kozhikode) on India's Malabar Coast, becoming the first European to reach India by sea.
On 24 May 1844 Samuel F. B. Morse transmitted the message "What hath God wrought" from the Capitol in Washington to his partner Alfred Vail at a railroad station in Baltimore, the first public demonstration of his electromagnetic telegraph…
Following the collapse of the Caliphate of Córdoba in 1031, al-Andalus fractured into rival taifa kingdoms.
On 24 May 2019 same-sex marriage became legal in Taiwan, making it the first jurisdiction in Asia to grant marriage equality.