Browsing: July 12

A Brief History On July 12, AD 70, the army of Titus Caesar Vespasianus, a Roman general that would later become Roman Emperor, finally attacked the walls of the city of Jerusalem after a 6 month siege, succeeding in taking the city 3 days later. Digging Deeper By taking Jerusalem, Titus effectively ended the Jewish revolt and in a punitive measure he had the Second Temple destroyed, a temple that has yet to be rebuilt.  The Second Temple, known as Herod’s Temple, had stood for nearly 6 centuries until its destruction.  The Jews never recovered from this defeat, and the…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on July 12th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On July 12, 100 B.C., Julius Caesar was born by what many believe to have been the first Caesarian section. On July 12, AD 70, the army of Titus Caesar Vespasianus, a Roman general that would later become Roman Emperor, finally attacked the walls of the city of Jerusalem after a 6 month siege, succeeding in taking the city 3 days later. On July…

A Brief History On July 12, 1979, the island nation of Kiribati came into being as the Republic of Kiribati, a group of islands in the Gilbert Island chain of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean.  Prior to independence, Kiribati was a territory of the United Kingdom. Digging Deeper Consisting of a single island and 32 coral atolls, the nation is home to about 120,000 residents.  It is the main island and capital you may be familiar with, Tarawa atoll, which itself is divided into North and South Tarawa Islands.  Half the population of Kiribati lives on Tarawa. World War II…

A Brief History On July 12, 2022, we acknowledge that we finally got around to trying the gourmet coffee offered by Coffee Brand Coffee.  As someone who drinks at least a pot of coffee each day, coffee is an incredibly important part of my life.  After growing up drinking coffee with cream and sugar, and then with only cream, the quality of the coffee was masked and did not matter so much.  After switching to drinking black coffee, a whole new world of discerning the quality of the coffee was discovered and became a critical part of my choice of…

A Brief History On July 12, 1776, famous explorer English Captain James Cook set sail from Plymouth on what was to be his final voyage.  The premier English explorer of the Pacific, Cook had taken voyages from 1768-1771 and 1772-1775, greatly expanding British knowledge of the Pacific, its islands, aits people.  Cook’s third voyage would take the route around Africa to the Indian Ocean and on to the Pacific. Digging Deeper Captain Cook was given the task of returning a young man named Omai (Mai in his native language) to his homeland of the island of Raiatea, one of the…