Principia Published: How Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Appeared on July 5, 1687 and Transformed the Human Understanding of the Universe

On July 5, 1687, a book appeared in London that changed the world. Its title, in the Latin that all serious natural philosophy was then conducted, was Philosophiae Naturalis Princi

Venezuela Independence: How the First Spanish American Republic Declared Freedom from Spain on July 5, 1811

On July 5, 1811, in the grand hall of the newly established National Congress in Caracas, forty delegates of the seven united provinces of Venezuela cast their votes for a document

The First Package Tour: How Thomas Cook Organized the World’s First Publicly Advertised Excursion on July 5, 1841 and Invented Modern Tourism

On the morning of July 5, 1841, a brass band struck up at Leicester’s Campbell Street Railway Station, and approximately 485 members of the Leicester Temperance Society climb