The Kalamazoo Tornado of 1980 struck downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 13, 1980. The tornado, which touched down at 4:09 pm, was rated F3 on the Fujita scale. The tornado killed 5 people...
The Kamakura period is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura Shogunate, officially established in 1192 by the first Kamakura shogun Minamoto...
The Kanva dynasty replaced the Sunga dynasty in Magadha, and ruled in the eastern part of India from 71 BCE to 26 BCE. The last ruler of the Sunga dynasty was overthrown by Vasudeva of the...
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre , was a mass execution of Polish military officers, policemen and civilian prisoners of war ordered...
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by...
The Khmelnytsky Uprising was a Cossack rebellion in Ukraine in 1648–1657 (1654) which turned into a Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland. Under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky...
The Kidans were an ethnic group whose language belonged to the Mongolic group. Kagan Ambagyan founded the Kidan state in 911. The Kidan state covered a significant portion...
The Kitos War , translation: Rebellion of the exile is the name given to the second of the Jewish-Roman wars. The name...
The Klondike Gold Rush, infrequently referred to as the Yukon Gold Rush or Alaska Gold Rush, was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and for gold prospecting, along the Klondike River near...
The Kofun period is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538. The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating from this era. The Kofun period follows the...
Kohl v. United States, 91 U.S. 367 , was a court case that took place in the Supreme Court of the United States. It invoked the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and is...
The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korea and South Korea regimes, with major...
The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts in Kosovo: Tensions between the two communities simmered throughout the 20th...
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass was a pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9–10, 1938. On a single night, 92 Jews were murdered, and 25,000–30,000...