Milestones

Jews are banished from France by Philip II.

Start of the Thirty Years’ War, a religious war in Central Europe initiated by the Defenestrations of Prague.

Constantinople is formed by Constantine and is the new capital of the Roman Kingdom.

Albert Einstein publishes his theory of general relativity.

United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union sign a treaty banning the use of nuclear weapons in space.

Christians are persecuted by Diocletian.