Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the ...

Why was Tsar Ivan known as "The Terrible"? His mental health issues, that made him prone to paranoia and rage among other things, caused him to leave a high death toll and general destruction ...

Emperor Naruhito hopes that his visit to Mongolia to commemorate Japanese wartime detainees who died there under harsh ...

Biggest controversy: Šćepan managed to take the throne by dressing for the job he wanted. In 1762, Russian tsar Peter III had been deposed after only six months, by his wife, Catherine The Great ...

And in an expeditious manner, no less, as he bribed a Greek from Morea who had just entered the service of the Montenegrin Tsar to assassinate his new master. And he did so, as we mentioned at the ...