Mary Ann Bernal

History Extra On 10 February 1306, the most important political murder in Scottish history took place. John Comyn, “the Red”, was slau...

Ancient Origins Almost 700 years after his death, a team of scientists and historians have produced comprehensive virtual images of the...

June 23 1314 The Battle of Bannockburn. This significant battle helped the Scots regain independence from England and secured the t...

February 10 1306 Robert the Bruce murdered his leading political rival John Comyn in front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in D...

October 14 1066 Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of Wi...

August 10 955 Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeated the Magyars (Hungarians), ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of ...

June 21  217 BC Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal destroyed a Roman army under Consul Gaius Flaminicy in a battle at Lake Trasimenus...

BBC News It was destroyed almost 500 years ago but for the first time the remaining fragments of Robert the Bruce's ornate tomb are ...

February 10 1306 Robert the Bruce murdered his leading political rival John Comyn in front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in D...

October 14 1066 Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William...

June 23  79 Titus succeeded his father Vespasian as the tenth Roman Emperor.  930 The world's oldest parliament, the Iceland Par...

March 25 47 BC Ptolemy XII, King of Egypt and brother of Cleopatra, drowned in the Nile, probably with an assist by Julius Caesar, w...

February 10  60 it is believed St Paul was shipwrecked off the coast of Malta on this date. 1098 Crusaders defeated Prince Redwan of...

October 14 222 Pope Callixtus I was killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere (west bank of the Tiber River) after a 5-year reign in whic...