The message, placed by the Norwegian archaeologist Anders Lorange in 1874, offers an extraordinary insight into the Viking burial practices and the archaeological methods of the 19th century.

"Impression, Sunrise," from 1872, an oil-on-canvas work by Claude Monet, was an important part of the Société Anonyme 1874 exhibit in Paris. It's the work to which the term "impressionism" was ...

On April 15th, 1874 a group of artists including Monet, Renoir, Morisot, and Degas held a radically new art exhibition in Paris. Breaking with the traditional academic painting style of the time ...

Ernest Shackleton was born on this day, February 15, 1874. The Co Kildare man died in 1922 having become one of Ireland's best-known explorers of the Polar Regions. When you ask people to name ...