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Gallic Wars
Gallic Wars
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The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes, lasting from 58 BC to 51 BC. The Romans would also raid...

Georgia Gold Rush
Georgia Gold Rush
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The Georgia Gold Rush was the first significant gold rush in the United States. It started in 1829 in the present day Lumpkin County near county seat Dahlonega, and soon spread through the...

Georgian era
Georgian era
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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...

Germanic Iron Age
Germanic Iron Age
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The Germanic Iron Age is the name given to the period A.D. 400–A.D. 800 in Northern Europe and it is part of the continental Age of Migrations. It follows the Roman Iron Age and the...

Ghanaian presidential election, 2008
Ghanaian presidential election, 2008
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A presidential election was held in Ghana on 7 December 2008, at the same time as a parliamentary election. Since no candidate received more than 50% of the votes, a run-off election was...

Gideon v. Wainwright
Gideon v. Wainwright
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Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), is a landmark case in United States Supreme Court history. In the case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under...

Glorious Revolution
Glorious Revolution
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The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (VII of Scotland and II of Ireland) in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians with an...

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath who wrote primarily in Latin and French. He occupies...

Great Depression
Great Depression
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The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries. It was the largest...

Great Depression in Australia
Great Depression in Australia
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The Great Depression of the 1930s was an economic catastrophe that severely affected most nations of the world, and Australia was not immune. In fact, Australia, with its extreme dependence...

Great Depression in the United States
Great Depression in the United States
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The Great depression in the United States began on "Black Tuesday" with the Wall Street crash of October, 1929 and rapidly spread worldwide. The market crash marked the beginning of a decade...

Great Famine
Great Famine
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The Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mór meaning "the great hunger" or an Drochshaol meaning "the bad life") was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and...

Great Fire of London
Great Fire of London
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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...

Great Hanshin earthquake
Great Hanshin earthquake
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The Great Hanshin earthquake (阪神・淡路大震災, Hanshin-Awaji Daishinsai), or Kobe earthquake as it is more commonly known outside Japan, was an earthquake that occurred on Tuesday, January 17...

Great Northern War
Great Northern War
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The Great Northern War (1700-1721) was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Poland-Lithuania and Saxony engaged Sweden for the supremacy in the...

Great Plague of London
Great Plague of London
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The Great Plague was a massive outbreak of disease in England that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. The disease was historically identified as...

Great Siege of Gibraltar
Great Siege of Gibraltar
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The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the American War of Independence. This was the largest action fought...

Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery
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The Great Train Robbery is the name given to a £2.6 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. The bulk of...

Greco-Turkish War
Greco-Turkish War
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The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, also called the War in Asia Minor or the Greek campaign of the Turkish War of Independence or The Asia Minor Catastrophe, was a series of military events...

Greek Civil War
Greek Civil War
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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...

Greek War of Independence
Greek War of Independence
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The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution (Greek: Ελληνική Επανάσταση Elliniki Epanastasi; Ottoman Turkish: يونان عصياني Yunan İsyanı) was a successful war of...

Guadalcanal campaign
Guadalcanal campaign
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The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, was fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of...

Gulf War
Gulf War
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The Persian Gulf War or Gulf War Ar: ام المعارك in Iraq was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force from...

Gunpowder Plot
Gunpowder Plot
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The Gunpowder Conspiracy of 1605, or the Powder Treason or Gunpowder Plot, as it was known at the time, was a failed assassination attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics against...

Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's artistic individual all-around
Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's artistic individual all-around
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Men's artistic individual all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium on August 14. For each competitor in the men's qualification, the...

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