History On This Day publishes posts about major events that happened in history today. Our short, yet informative posts typically take less than two minutes to read and cover a wide spectrum of global history. We currently have over one hundred different themes and categories to search from. History On This Day was founded in February 2017 in Toronto, Canada. As amateur historians, we initially started with just daily posts on Instagram. Our goal was to showcase iconic photos with brief and captivating synopsis. Over the past year, we have rapidly grown our social media following and are now engaging with fans from around the world.