David Tollen, Author at Pints of History

This week in history: Encyclopaedia Britannica

by David Tollen | Dec 12, 2019 | The Early Modern Age

This week in 1768, Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell of Scotland published the first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. It had just 3 volumes—quite a contrast to the thirty-two volumes of the fifteenth and final edition, published in 2010. Despite small...

This week in history: Napoleon III

by David Tollen | Dec 3, 2019 | The Early Modern Age

This week in 1852, Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte became Emperor of France. His father was the younger brother of the original Napoleon. And his mother was the daughter of the famous Josephine – the long-term mistress and eventually wife of the first Napoleon — by...

This week in history: Queen Elizabeth

by David Tollen | Nov 18, 2019 | The Early Modern Age

This week in 1558, Elizabeth Tudor was declared queen of England and Ireland, following the untimely death of her half-sister, Queen Mary. Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII by his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Her first and most important job as queen was to...

This week in history: The Sistine Chapel

by David Tollen | Nov 5, 2019 | Classical Civilization

Photo by Antoine Taveneaux, reproduced with permission under the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license This week in 1512, the Vatican revealed the newly-painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, for the first time. Renaissance master...

This week in history: Annie Edson Taylor

by David Tollen | Nov 1, 2019 | The Early Modern Age

On October 24th 1901, Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to “raft” over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive. She accomplished this feat on her 63rd birthday with the intent of securing her finances, through speaking engagements and other publicity....

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