Roman Emperor Septimus Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and ...

In September 1940, King Carol II’s armoured train hurtled towards ... “Like how Congo belonged to King Leopold of Belgium. Beny looked at the underlying assets, and the value was there.” ...

Walden Chamber Music Society Presents Works by Hayden and Mozart Walden’s Sunday February 9 concert will be held at the ...

Throughout its long history, Leopold Cafe has withstood the test of time, surviving the 26/11 terrorist attack and emerging stronger, like a Phoenix. It also navigated the challenges of the COVID ...

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...

In Belgium, King Leopold II was hailed as the “Builder King” for his wondrous works. But overseas, in the Congo Free State, lay the horrific truth: Leopold was more of a butcher than a builder.

Near the end of the 17th century, Emperor Leopold I of Austria took refuge in the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians at Pasau, when 200,000 Ottoman Turks besieged the capital city of Vienna ...

While Mozart was commissioned to compose “La Clemenza di Tito” to honor the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia, the story itself is borrowed from another opera composed a half ...

Ever since Herbert Kickl's far-right Freedom Party edged a win in September's legislative elections with 29% of the vote, Austria's centrist politicians have tried to block Kickl from becoming ...