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Nanban trade period
Nanban trade period
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The Nanban trade or the Nanban trade period in Japanese history extends...

Nanboku-cho
Nanboku-cho
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The Nanboku-chō period , spanning from 1336 to 1392, was a period that occurred during the...

Nanking Massacre
Nanking Massacre
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The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, refers to a six-week period following the Japanese capture of Nanking, then capital of the Republic of China, on...

Napoleonic Era
Napoleonic Era
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The Napoleonic Era is a period in the History of France and Europe. It is generally classified as including the fourth and final stage of the French Revolution, the first being the National...

Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars
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The Napoleonic Wars involved Napoleon's French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789...

Nara period
Nara period
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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...

New York City blackout of 1977
New York City blackout of 1977
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The New York City Blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City from July 13, 1977 to July 14, 1977. The only neighborhoods in New York City that were not...

New York Draft Riots
New York Draft Riots
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The New York Draft Riots (July 13 to July 16, 1863; known at the time as Draft Week), were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed...

Newark riots
Newark riots
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The 1967 Newark Riots were a major civil disturbance that occurred in the city of Newark, New Jersey between July 12 and July 17, 1967. The six days of rioting, looting, and destruction left...

Ngô Dynasty
Ngô Dynasty
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The Ngô Dynasty was a dynasty in Vietnam. Around the year 930 AD, as Ngô Quyền rose to power, northern Vietnam was a province and vassal state of China and...

Night of the Long Knives
Night of the Long Knives
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The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer (help·info)) or "Operation Hummingbird", or, more commonly used in Germany "Röhm-Putsch" was a purge that took place in Nazi...

Nimrod Expedition
Nimrod Expedition
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The British Antarctic Expedition 1907–09, otherwise known as the Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a...

Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt
Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt
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The Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, New Kingdom. The Nineteenth Dynasty was founded by Vizier Ramesses I, whom...

No Gun Ri Massacre
No Gun Ri Massacre
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No Gun Ri Massacre was an incident during the Korean War in which an undetermined number of South Korean civilians were killed by soldiers of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment between July 26...

Nordic Bronze Age
Nordic Bronze Age
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The Nordic Bronze Age is the name given by Oscar Montelius to a period and a Bronze Age culture in Scandinavian pre-history, ca 1800 BCE - 500 BCE, with sites that reached as...

Norman conquest of England
Norman conquest of England
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The Norman conquest of England began in 1066 AD with the invasion of the Kingdom of England by the troops of William, Duke of Normandy , and his victory at the Battle of Hastings....

Norman Invasion of Ireland
Norman Invasion of Ireland
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The Norman invasion of Ireland was a Norman military expedition to Ireland that took place on 1 May 1169 at the behest of Dermot MacMurrough , the King of Leinster. It was...

North-West Rebellion
North-West Rebellion
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The North-West Rebellion (or North-West Resistance or the Saskatchewan Rebellion) of 1885 was a brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under...

North African campaign
North African campaign
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During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 16 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western...

Northern Wars
Northern Wars
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Northern Wars is a term used for a series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe in the 16th and 17th century. An internationally agreed on terminology for these wars does not...

Northwest Indian War
Northwest Indian War
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The Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), also known as Little Turtle's War and by various other names, was a war fought between the United States and a confederation of numerous American Indian...

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