Momentous events
Big events happen somewhere specific. These stories take you to the squares, buildings and fields where history turned, and explain what happened there.
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The Parish of San Francisco de Asís
Calle San Francisco 2
Mutabor 
The ruined pyramid of Userkaf at Saqqara
The site where 904 people were killed in a single day
The Paardekraal Monument: A Commemoration of a Boer Vow
The tragedy at Libreville: the plane crash that killed Zambia's football team
The restored douiria of the Mouassine Museum
Derb Hammam 5, Marrakech ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵯⵛ مراكش
Mutabor 
The Independence Monument in Lomé
The British Occupation of the Cape Colony
The Battle of Magersfontein and the Black Week of 1899
The Siege of Paardeberg on the banks of the Modder River
The multi-dynasty history of Tomb KV12
The Sun Mercantile Building in Phoenix
The Syndicate's transformation in downtown St. Louis
Olive Street 915, Saint Louis
No Other
The Battle of Sabine Pass
Dowling Road 6100, Port Arthur
No Other
The Eighth Regiment Armory
The 8,500-Year-Old Blood Run Site
The Restoration and Relighting of Clarks Point Light
The Fort Smith Confederate Monument
The Magnificent Stone Sentinel: Huntington's Memorial Arch
The Arkansas Confederate Soldiers Monument
A bronze Confederate soldier in MacArthur Park
The Batesville Confederate Monument
The Retreat from Resaca
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock Statue
The 1812 night landing that took Fort Mackinac
Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site
Empty Sky: A memorial to New Jersey's 9/11 victims
Edmund Bassick's gold mine rentals in Bridgeport
Marble obelisk marking the C&O Canal's completion
The legacy of Julien Dubuque at the Mines of Spain
Henry B. Plant Museum
West Kennedy Boulevard 401, Tampa
Friendly Jane 
The 41-meter tower spared by an 1196 edict
The coastal fortress of Rocca Aldobrandesca
Psalm 104: A Celestial Symphony of God's Creation
The Battle of Passo del Pertus
The 15th-century Villa Varda in Brugnera
Verona's Industrial Engineer: Enrico Carli's Legacy
The Ossario Piccoli Martiri di Gorla
The ruined Tour d'Ancone on the Corsican coast
La porte de Perpignan in Elne
The Museum of the Great War in the Château de Péronne
Place André Audinot, Péronne
Nicolo Ciampini 
A tangible piece of history in Fontainebleau Forest
Pont du Gard: The Aged Whisperer of Stone and Water
Route du Pont du Gard 400, Vers-Pont-du-Gard
Nicolo Ciampini 
The history of the ruins of the Convento de San Agustín in Segovia
The 13th-century Church of St James the Great in Toledo, Spain
The ruined convent of Garrovillas de Alconétar
The relocation of the 1587 defensive tower in L'Hospitalet
Plaça de Josep Bordonau i Balaguer, l'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Nik Frost 
The Mosaic that Marks Plaça Catalunya's National Day Commemoration
