The Delhi Sultanate , or Sultanat e Hind / Sultanat e delhi refers to the many Muslim...
The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, also known as the 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival, ran from May 16 to 27, 2007. Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The...
The Battle of Grunwald took place on 15 July 1410 with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led by the Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło, ranged against...
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, fought near the village of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, from April 30 to May 6, 1863. The battle pitted...
The Declaration of Arbroath was a declaration of Scottish independence, and set out to confirm Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and its use of military action when...
The Nara period of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794. Empress Gemmei established the capital of Heijō-kyō . Except for 5 years , when...
The Smiling Buddha was the first nuclear test explosion by India on May 18, 1974 at Pokhran. It was also the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the permanent five members of...
Trinity was the first test of technology for a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States on July 16, 1945, at a location 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what is...
In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed from 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The...
Early Modern France is the early modern period of French history from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century ....
The Battle of Dunbar was the first major battle in the First War of Scottish Independence. King Edward I of England had invaded Scotland in 1296 to punish John...
The Southern and Northern Dynasties followed the Jin Dynasty and preceded Sui Dynasty in China. It was an age of civil war and political disunity. However...
The Greek Civil War , fought from 1946 to 1949 by the Governmental forces, receiving logistical support by the United Kingdom at first and later by the United...
The Bad Tour was the first solo world tour by Michael Jackson which was sponsored by Pepsi-Cola that started on September 12, 1987 in Tokyo, Japan and ended on January 27, 1989 in Los...
The Georgian era is a period of British history, normally defined as including the reigns of the kings George I, George II, George III and George IV, i.e. covering the period from 1714 to...
The Mughal era is the historic period of the Mughal Empire in India, it ran from the early sixteenth century, to a point in the early eighteenth century when the Mughal Emperors' power had...
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British East India Company's army on the 10th of May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and...
The Decline of the Roman Empire, leading to the Fall of the Roman Empire, or the Fall of Rome, was the end of the Western Roman Empire. Edward Gibbon, in his famous study The Decline and...
The Pacers-Pistons brawl was an altercation that occurred in a National Basketball Association game between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers on November 19, 2004 at The Palace of...
The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta Campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864, just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Despite the implication of finality in...
The Azuchi-Momoyama period came at the end of the Warring States Period in Japan, when the political unification that preceded the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate...
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenid Persian Empire was the first of the Persian Empires to rule over significant portions of Greater Iran, and followed...
The Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey...
Tsar Bomba , literally "king Bomb", is the Western name for the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb by its developers — the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated....
The Regency period in the United Kingdom is the period between 1811 and 1820, when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son, later George IV, was instated to be his proxy as...