The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty...
Heisei is the current era name in Japan. The Heisei era started on January 8, 1989, just one day after the death of the reigning Emperor, Hirohito. His son, Akihito, succeeded to the...
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas , was the first major land battle of the American Civil War,...
The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Eastern War was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of France,...
The Edo period , also referred to as the Tokugawa period , is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo...
The Quiet Revolution was the 1960s period of intense change in Quebec, Canada, characterized by the rapid and effective secularization of society, the creation of a welfare...
The War of Attrition was a limited war fought between the Israeli military and forces of the Egyptian Republic and the...
The Cuban Revolution refers to the revolution that led to the overthrow of the United States proxy ruler General Fulgencio Batista's regime on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement...
The Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment is a term used to describe a phase in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century, in which Reason was advocated...
The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960–1279 CE; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by...
The Thirty Years' War was a religious war principally fought in Germany, where it involved most of the European powers. The conflict began between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy...
Apollo 1 is the official name that was retroactively given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 mission. Its command module was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on...
The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed...
The Great Fire of London, a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666, was one of the major events in the...
The Battle of Stalingrad is a commonly used name in English sources for several large operations by Germany and its allies and Soviet forces conducted with the purpose of ensuring possession...
The Early Middle Ages is a period in the history of Europe following the fall of the Western Roman Empire spanning roughly five centuries from AD 500 to 1000. Aspects of the evolution of the...
The early modern period is a term used by historians to refer to the period in Western Europe and its first colonies which spans the three centuries between the Middle Ages and the...
The Late Middle Ages is a term used by historians to describe European history in the period of the 14th and 15th centuries . The Late Middle Ages were preceded by the High Middle Ages...
The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium BCE when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – this was the...
The Warsaw Uprising was a World War II struggle by the Polish Home Army to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. The Uprising began on 1 August 1944, as part of...
Canopus was the code name for France's first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted on August 24, 1968 at Fangataufa atoll. In 1966, France was able to use fusion fuel...
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought on April 6 and April 7, 1862, in southwestern...
The Three Kingdoms period is a period in the history of China, part of an era of disunity called the Six Dynasties following immediately...
The Six-Day War , also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli...
The Swing Era was the period of time when big band swing music was the most popular music in America. Though the music has been around since the late 1920s -early 1930s, being played by...