Posts listed alphabetically by author. List of posts by topic is here.
John S. C. Abbott| |De Soto Discovers The Mississippi
G. Mercer Adam| |Fur Companies Abolished
Jane Addams| |Women’s Suffrage Movement, Part 1
Charles G. Addison| |Knights Templar Founded
Ahmed Ibn Mahomet Al-Makkari| |Saracens Invade Spain
Sir Archibald Alison| |Poland’s Downfall
The Sicilian Vespers| |Michele Amari
Roald Amundsen| |Discovery of the South Pole
Norman Angell| |Militarism Before World War I
Sir Alexander J. Arbuthnot| |Clive Establishes British Supremacy in India
Johann W. Von Archenholz| |Buccaneers Sack Panama
William Archer| |Portugal’s 1910 Revolution| |Spanish Civil War Prelude
James F.J. Archibald| |The Boer War
Edward Armstrong| |Protestant Struggle Against Charles V – The Smalkaldic War
Francis Bacon| |Perkin Warbeck’s Rebellion
Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett| |Greco-Turkish War of 1897
The Astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins| |First Men on Moon
Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné| |The Peasants’ War in Germany
Jean-M.-Vincent Audin| |Luther Begins the Reformation in Germany| |Calvin Driven From Paris to Geneva
James Baikie| |The Origin of Greek Alphabet Discovered
Simeon E. Baldwin| |The Hartford Convention
Sir Robert Stawell Ball| |Copernicus Revolutionizes Astronomy
James Balmes| |Spanish Inquisition Established
George Bancroft| |The Boston Tea Party| |American Colonies Oppose the Stamp Act
Hubert Howe Bancroft| |The Battle of Manila Bay
Dr. Edgar J. Banks| |Archeological Excavation of Crete
J. Ellis Barker| |The First Balkan War
Arthur Barlow| |Walter Raleigh’s American Investment
John S. Barry| |The Pilgrims Settle Plymouth, Massachusetts| |The Hartford Convention
Joan Bautista| |Magellan’s Voyage Around the World
George Lewis Becke||Australia Discovered
The Venerable Bede| |Augustine’s Missionary Work in England
Alexander Graham Bell| |The First Airplanes
Robert Bell| |Ivan the Great Unites Russia and Breaks the Tartar Yoke (A.D. 1462-1505)
Sir Walter Besant| |Crusader Empire Rules Constantinople
George Best| |Frobisher Searches for the Northwest Passage
John Bigelow (edited)| |Benjamin Franklin Experiments With Electricity
Otto von Bismark| |Battle of Sedan
Bjornstjerne Bjornson| |Norway Establishes Her Independence (1905)
Giovanni Boccaccio| |The Black Death Reaches Europe
Henry George Bohn| |Early History of Printing
John Bonner| |Scott Captures Mexico City
Demetrius Charles Boulger| |Tartars Invade China 200 BC| |The Opium War of 1840
Sir John G. Bourinot| |After the American Revolution, Wherse Did the Loyalists Go?
Francis Bowen| |Pius IX Flees Rome
Arthur G. Bradley| |Britain Captures Quebec
Sir David Brewster| |Discovery of Gravity
John S. Brewer| |The Field of the Cloth of Gold
James Franck Bright| |Great Britain Expands Control of Egypt
John R. Brodhead| |British Capture New York
William J. Brodribb| |Crusader Empire Rules Constantinople
Sydney Brooks| |English House of Lords Falls
Peter Hume Brown| |Scotland’s Presbyterian Reformation
George Bryce| |The 1837 Canadian Rebellion
Henry Bryden| |Cape Colony Acquired by Great Britain
Edward Bulwer-Lytton| |Volcano Buries Pompeii
Jacob Burckhardt| |Modern Recognition of Scenic Beauty — Crowning of Petrarch at Rome
John Burgoyne| |The Battle of Bunker Hill
Gilbert Burnet| |Monmouth’s Rebellion| |The Glorious Revolution
John Hill Burton| |Union of England and Scotland
John B. Bury| |Final Division of Roman Empire
James Davie Butler| |The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Charles Campbell| |The First Legislature in America| |Slavery Injected Into Virginia
Duncan Campbell| |Great Britain Acquires Nova Scotia
Thomas Carlyle| |Murders of Louis XVI and Murat; Civil War in France| |Of Cromwell’s Rule In England and the Restoration| |The House of Hohenzollern Established in Brandenburg| |John Knox and Scotland’s Reformation| |The Great Elector Grows Prussia
Andrew Carnegie| |The Age of Steel Begins
William Carol| |Mexico Plunged Into Anarchy
Edmund James Carpenter| |USA Acquires Hawaii
Arthur Cassini| |The Russian Revolution of 1905
Benvenuto Cellini| |Charles V Sacks Rome
Pascual Cervera| |The Cuban Campaign
John Senison Champlin| |The USS Monitor Versus CSS Merrimac
Emile Chevallier| |Assyrian Empire Destroyed
Chuan-sen| |The Boxer Uprising
Richard William Church| |Dante Composes he Divine Comedy
Winston S. Churchill| |Britain Prepares for World War I| |Meeting at Fashoda
Charles Clement| |Painting the Sistine Chapel
Henry R. Cleveland| |The Reign of Elizabeth I of England
Joseph Edmund Collins| |Canadian Confederation Established
Christopher Columbus| |Columbus Discovers America
Ferdinand Columbus| |Columbus Discovers America
Émile Combes| | France Separates Church and State
Philippe De Comines| |France Annexes Burgundy
Sir Robert Comyn| |Charles IV Publishes His Golden Bull
James Fenimore Cooper| |The Tripolitan War of 1804
Julian Corbett| |Drake Captures Cartegena; Raids Cadiz
Alonzo B. Cornell| |Telegraph Invented
Lord Charles Cornwallis| |Yorktown Surrenders
Gaspar Correa| |Vasco Da Gama Sails Around Africa and Opens the Sea Route To India
Sir George W. Cox| |Saladin Takes Jerusalem From the Christians| |The First Crusade
Homersham Cox| |Early Christian Martyrs
William Coxe| |Hapsburg Dynasty Founded
Sir Edward Creasy| | Arminius Drives Romans Out of Germany| |Defeat of the Spanish Armada| |Battle of Metaurus| |The Battle of Blenheim| |The Battle of Hastings| |Battle of Tours| |Battle of Saratoga| |Syracuse Defeats Athens| |The Battle of Marathon| |Attila the Hun Invades the Western Roman Empire| |The Battle of Gaugamela| |Joan of Arc at Orleans
Eyre Evans Crowe| |The War of the Flemings with Philip the Fair of France
Mme. Marie Curie| |Early Science of Radioactivity
John Daniels| |The Reform of the Congo Horror (1908)
Charles A. Dana| |Fall of Vicksburg
Joseph Darras| |Holy Roman Emperor Takes Control of the Papacy
Charles Robert Darwin| |Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Published
C.M. Davies| |The Dutch Crisis 1672
Jefferson Davis| |Confederate Government’s Last Days| |South Secedes from the United States
Henry B. Dawson| |Yorktown Surrenders| |California Acquired by the United States
Samuel Edward Dawson| |Cabots Discover North America Mainland
Alfred Deberle| |Bolivar and South American Independence
Daniel Defoe| |Great London Plague
Joseph Deharbe| |Orthodox, Catholics Split
Harry Denicke| |The Hanseatic League’s Story
John Charles Dent| |Upper and Lower Canada United
Christianity Comes to Scandinavia| |Samuel Astley (SA) Dunham
Alexis De Tocqueville| |The Coup D’etat of Louis Napoleon
Emile J. Dillon| |Persia’s 1907 Revolution
Isaac d’Israeli| |The Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre
Robert K. Douglas| |Confucius| |France Takes Vietnam
Alexander Dow| |Muslims Invade India
Arthur Conan Doyle| |The Boer War
John A. Doyle| |Declaration Of Independence (USA) Signed
Andrew S. Draper| |The Cuban Campaign
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy| |Great Potato Famine in Ireland
Stephen P.H. Duggan| |The Berlin Congress of 1878| |The Second Balkan War| |The First Balkan War
Samuel A. Dunham| |Islamic Power Declines in Spain| |Christianity Comes to Scandinavia
Thomas Henry Dyer| |From the Heroic Years of the Dutch
Wolfram Eberhard| |First Imperial Dynasty of China| |The Republic of China
Frederick Augustus Edwards| |Italy in Africa 1896
Charles Wyllys Elliott| |Revolution in Haiti| |Andros’ Stuart Rule in New England Ended
George E. Ellis| |William Penn Founds Philadelphia
William T. Ellis| |The Turkish-Italian War
Edwin Emerson| |Mexico Plunged Into Anarchy
Prince Eugene Of Savoy| |Turkish Threat on Europe Finally Vanquished
John Evelyn| |London’s Great Fire
A. M. Fairbairn| |Calvin Driven From Paris to Geneva
George R. Fairbanks| |Spain’s First Settlements in Florida
Frederic William Farrar| |The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ| |Nero Persecutes the Christians
Jules Favre| |The Third Republic Established
Cyrus W. Field| |The Laying of the Atlantic Cable
George Finlay| |Roger Ravages the Byzantine Empire| |Ottomans Conquer Constantinople| |Siege of Missolonghi
John Francis| |The Bank of England Established
Benjamin Franklin| |Benjamin Franklin Experiments With Electricity| |How the American Revolutionary War Ended| |Young Ben Franklin
Frederick The Great| |The Seven Years War
George Friedman| |Pondering Hitler’s Legacy
Jean Froissart| |The Jacquerie Rebellion| |Battles that Began the 100 Years War
Richard Frothingham| |Battle of Lexington
Bampfylde Fuller| |The Panama Canal Opens
Charles A. Fyffe| |The Austro-Prussian War| |Napoleon’s Russian Retreat| |Mexico Rejects Maximilian| |Spanish Demand Constitution| |First Carlist Revolt
James Gairdner| |The Battle of Agincourt| |Richard III King; Princes Murdered
Giuseppe Garibaldi| |Kingdom of Italy Established
Samuel R. Gardiner| |The Thirty Years War| |The Gunpowder Plot
François Xavier Garneau| |The Lachine Massacre| |La Salle Explores Length of Mississippi River
Charles E.A. Gayarré| |First French Colony in the Louisiana Area
Eric Gustave Geijer| |Sweden Liberated
Edward Gibbon| |Commodus’ Bad Reign| |Constantinople Founded| |Justinian Code Published| |The Visigoths Sack Rome| |Early Career of Julian the Apostate| |Attila the Hun Invades the Eastern Roman Empire| |Timur’s (Tamerlane) Conquests| |Attila the Hun Invades the Western Roman Empire| |Roman Empire’s Extent and Defense| |Roman Empire’s Society and Economy| |Roman Empire’s Government
Perceval Gibbon| |Spanish Civil War Prelude
Arthur Gilman| |Pyramid Builders of Egypt
William E. Gladstone| |Catholic Emancipation in Ireland
George R. Gleig| |British Burns Washington, D.C.
Col. George W. Goethals| |The Panama Canal Opens
Oliver Goldsmith| |Romans Conquer Britain| |Alexander the Great Reduces Tyre; Founds Alexandria
Edmund Gosse| |The First Modern Novel
Richard Gottheil| |A Russian Pogrom Against the Jews
James Grahame| |The Battle of Bunker Hill| |American Colonies Oppose the Stamp Act
Genevieve Grandcourt| |The “Immortality” of Tissues
Ulysses S. Grant| |Lee Surrenders at Appomatox
Thomas Colley Grattan| |Revolution in Belgium
Horace Greeley| |The First Battle of Bull Run
John R. Green| |Of Cromwell’s Rule In England and the Restoration| |Henry VIII Causes Himself to be Head of the Church of England| |Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign| |Alfred the Great’s Reign| |Germans Conquer Britain| |Augustine’s Missionary Work in England| |The English Reformation and Wolsey’s Fall
Ferdinand Gregorovius| |Holy Roman Emperor Takes Control of the Papacy| |First Great Jubilee of the Roman Catholic Church
F. Grenfell Baker| |First Swiss Struggle for Liberty| |Swiss Win Independence
J. Grattan Grey| |Australian Confederation Proclaimed
George Grote| |Fall of Troy| |Solon’s Early Greek Legislation| |Cyrus Begins the Persian Empire| |The Ancient Olympics| |The Great Plague at Athens
Luo Guanzhong| |Romance of the Three Kingdoms
John H. Gubbins| |Christianity Introduced Into Japan
François P. G. Guizot| ||Empire of the Franks Splits and Decays| |The February 1848 Revolution In France| |The Reign Of Terror| |Charlemagne| |Clovis Founds the Frankish Empire| |Napoleon’s Russian Retreat| |The King of England Claims Throne of France| |Christians Persecuted in Gaul| |The Carolingian Dynasty Began
Henriette Guizot de Witt| |The February 1848 Revolution In France
Henry Hallam| |The End of the Star Chamber
James Halliwell-Phillipps| |Hamlet, Drama’s Apex
Alexander Hamilton| |Hamilton Establishes the United States Bank
Edward B. Hamley| |Capture of Sevastopol Ends Crimean War
Joseph Von Hammer-Purgstall| |The Turks Establish Foothold in Europe
Gabriel Hanotaux| |The 1871 Paris Commune
John Wesley Hardin| |John Wesley Hardin, Gunfighter
Ida Husted Harper| |Women’s Suffrage Movement
William Jerome Harrison| |Photography Invented
Frederic Harrison| |Cromwell’s Ireland Campaign
Moses Harvey| |England’s First Overseas Colony
Arthur Hassall| |French Fronde Outbreak
Nathaniel Hawthorne| |Early New England Classroom
John Hay| |Republicans’ First National Campaign| |Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation| |South Secedes from the United States
William Hazlitt| |The Coronation of Napoleon| |How Medieval Venice Was Governed| |Revolutionaries Storm Bastille
J. F. C. Hecker| |Medieval Dancing Mania| |The Black Death Reaches Europe
Arthur Helps| |Atlantic Slavery Begins| |Slavery Legalized in Americas
Ernest F. Henderson| |The Peace Of Constance Secures The Liberties Of The Lombard Cities
Herodotus| |Histories| |Thermopylae
Richard Hildreth| |King Philip’s War| |Salem Witchcraft Trials| |USA Acquires Florida| |British Burns Washington, D.C.
Joseph A. Hill| |The United States Adopts the Income Tax
Karl Hillebrand| |Goethe and the Intellectual Revolt of Germany
John S. Hittell| |Gold Discovered in California
Thomas Hodgkin| |Venice Founded
David G. Hogarth| |The Origin of Greek Alphabet Discovered
Gideon H. Hollister| |The First Written Constitution In The World
Hermann Von Holst| |Jefferson’s Party Defeats the Federalists
J. Castell Hopkins| |The Boer War
Charles F. Horne| |The First Airplanes| |The Thirty Years War| |The Russo-Japanese War| |The Search for the North Pole| |German Siege of Paris
Henry H. Howorth| |Genghis Khan Founds the Mongol Empire
Sam Houston| |The Texas Rebellion
Robert Reid Howison| |English Settle Virginia
Gardiner Greene Hubbard| |The Suez Canal Opens
Elbert Hubbard| |Women’s Suffrage Movement, Part 2
Thomas Hughes| |Livingstone’s African Discoveries| |Alfred the Great’s Reign
Victor Hugo| |The Battle of Waterloo
David Hume| |Magna Charta Signed| |Egbert Becomes King of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy| |Wars of the Roses| |Canute Becomes King of England
William W. Hunter| |How the Indian Caste System Began
Thomas H. Huxley| |Blood Circulation Discovered
William Inglis| |The Sinking of the Titanic
John Kells Ingram| |The European Slave Trade Abolished
Jurichi Inouye| |The Sino-Japanese War
John Ireland| | France Separates Church and State
Washington Irving| |Spain Conquers Grenada| |Saracens Destroy the Great Library| |An Arab Looks at U.S. Politics| |Mohammed
Lady Catherine Charlotte Jackson| |France Breaks Up Holy Roman Empire
Thomas Jefferson| |Jefferson’s Party Defeats the Federalists| |Declaration Of Independence (USA) Signed
Walter Jeffrey| |Australia Discovered
Edward Jenks| |Gold Discovered in Australia
William H. Jervis| |Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
John Heneage Jesse| |The Battle of Bunker Hill
Rossiter Johnson| |McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign| |Sherman’s March Across Georgia
W. Knox Johnson| |Reign of Catherine the Great
Reginald F. Johnston| |The Chinese Revolution of 1912
David Starr Jordan| |Luther Burbank’s Accomplishments
Samuel M. Jordan| |Persia’s 1907 Revolution
William G. Jordan| |The U.S. National Association of Governors Began
Josephus| |Maccabaeus Liberates Judea| |Romans Crush Jewish Revolt; Destroy Great Temple
Kaiser Willhelm II| |The End of the German Empire
Nikolay M. Karamzin| |The Cossacks Conquer Siberia
Daniel P. Kidder| |Brazil Becomes Independent
Thomas Kirkup| |The Communist International 1864-1873
George W. Kitchin| |Voltaire in Geneva
William I Knapp| |1868 Spanish Revolution
Charles Knight| |England Looses Her Last French Territory| |Stephen Versus Matilda| |Germans Conquer Britain| |The English Civil War| |Domesday Book Completed| |Napoleon’s Egyptian War
Julius Koestlin| |Luther Begins the Reformation in Germany
Vladamir Korolenko| |A Russian Pogrom Against the Jews
Prince Peter Kropotkin| |The Russian Revolution of 1905
Alphonse Lamartine| |Absolutism Ends in France| |Europe’s First Battle Against Republican France
Stanley Lane-Poole| |Fatimites Conquer Egypt
Pierre Lanfrey| |Battle of Austerlitz
Andrew Lang| |Battle of Bannockburn
Samuel Langley| |The First Airplanes
Ring Lardner| |From the Early Days of Baseball
Simon Somerville Laurie| |Comenius Modernizes Education
Gustave Le Bon| |How the Indian Caste System Began
Stephen Leacock| |Union of South Africa Formed
William E.H. Lecky| |Wesley Begins Methodism| |Catholic Emancipation in Ireland
Francois Lenormant| |Assyrian Empire Destroyed
R. Legendre| |Alexis Carrel Transplants Blood Vessels and Organs
Charles Edwards Lester| |The Texas Rebellion
George Henry Lewes| |The Birth of Modern Scientific Methods
Lawrence Lewis| |Hamilton Establishes the United States Bank
Henry George Liddell| |Death of Antony and Cleopatra| |Romans Establish Republic| |The Decemvirate in Rome
Abraham Lincoln| |Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation| |South Secedes from the United States| |The Republican Party Begins| |Battle of Gettysburg
Father John Lingard| |Rebellion of Wat Tyler| |Becket’s Murder| |How the House of Commons Began in England| |Henry IV Begins Lancaster Rule
David Livingstone| |Livingstone’s African Discoveries
Livy| |Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal At Zama And Subjugates Carthage
David Lloyd-George| |Women’s Suffrage Movement, Part 2
Sir Oliver Lodge| |Galileo’s Discoveries| |Neptune Discovered| |Galileo Recants| |Early Science of Radioactivity
Richard Lodge| |Absolutism Ends in France| |Rienzi’s Revolution in Rome| |Council of Constance 1414
Jack London| |San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Charles Lowe| |Consolidation of Germany
John M. Ludlow| |How the American Revolutionary War Ended| |Slavery Injected Into Virginia
George C. Macaulay| |Herodotus’ Histories (translator)
Thomas Macaulay| |The End of the Star Chamber| |The English Civil War
J. MacGowan| |The Sino-Japanese War
Agnes M. Machar| |Canada Versus USA 1812-1814
Niccolo Machiavelli| |The Rise And Fall Of The Borgias
Alexander Slidell Mackenzie| |“I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!”
Robert Machray| |The Chinese Revolution of 1912
John P. Mahaffy| |Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony
Alfred Thayer Mahan| |Farragut Captures New Orleans| |The Monroe Doctrine| |When Fighting Sail Matured
Sir John Malcolm| |Nadir Shah Captures Delhi
Karl Mantzius| |Building the First Theatre In England
Gugllelmo Marconi| |Radios’ First Triumph
Clements R. Markham| |Chile Captures Lima| |Columbus Discovers South America| |First Combat Between Modern Warships
John Marshall| |The First Written Constitution In The World
Bon Louis Henri Martin| |The Edict of Nantes Revoked| |Third Estate Joins French Parlement
William.A.P. Martin| |The Boxer Uprising
Harriet Martineau| |The Battle of Navarino
Gaston Maspero| |The Dawn Of Civilization
David Masson| |Westminister Assembly Establishes Presbyterianism in England
Bat Masterson| |Gunfighters of the Old West
Charles Edmund Maurice| |The Holy Alliance – European Reaction Under Metternich| |1848 German Revolutions
Sir Thomas Erskine May| |English Reform Bill of 1832 Passes
Justin McCarthy| |Earls Flee Ireland| |Corn Laws Repealed in England
Ezra Meeker| |Life on the Oregon Trail
Wolfgang Menzel| |The Battle of Waterloo| |The Seven Years War| |Leipzig Battle of the Nations| |Henry the Fowler’s Reign
Charles Merivale| |The Jews’ Final Revolt Against Rome
Joseph François Michaud| |Louis IX Leads The Last Crusade
Jules Michelet| |Joan of Arc’s Trial and Execution
H. H. Miles| |Cartier Explores Canada| |Quebec Founded
Henry Hart Milman| |Solomon Builds the Great Temple||England Expels the Jews| |End of the Knights Templars| |Great Pope/Anti-Pope Schism Begins
Helmuth von Moltke| |Battle of Sedan
Theodor Mommsen| |The Gracchi and Their Reform
Artaud De Montor| |Hildebrand’s Papal Triumph
James Cotter Morison| |Louis XIV Establishes Absolute Monarchy in France
John Morley| |Voltaire in Geneva
William O’Connor Morris| |Ireland Joined to United Kingdom
Johann L. Von Mosheim| | Roman Emperor Constantine Converted | |Arianism and the First Nicene Council
John Lothrop Motley| |William of Orange Murdered; Netherlands Divides
Andrew N. Mouravieff| |Czar Vladimir Converts to Christianity
Napoleon III| |Caesar Conquers Gaul
Wilhelm Mueller| |Russo-Turkish War 1877
Sir William Muir| |Mamelukes Usurp Power In Egypt
NASA Mission Evaluation Team| |First Men on Moon
Johann A. W. Neander| |Arnold of Brescia Versus Saint Bernard
John Cardinal Newman| |Christianity Appears
John Nichol| |Lord Byron and the Greek War of Independence
John G. Nicolay| |Republicans’ First National Campaign| |Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation| |South Secedes from the United States
Barthold Georg Niebuhr| |The Foundation of Rome| |Brennus Burns Rome| |Julius Caesar Murdered
Kate Norgate| |Philip Breaks the Angevin Empire
Simon Ockley| |Muslims Conquer Syria| |Mohammed
Margaret Oliphant| |Venice Doge’s Coup| |Nicholas V Rebuilds Rome
Denison Olmsted| |Enormous Growth of Cotton in America
Pietro Orsi| |The Second War of Italian Independence| |Final Italian Unification
John G. Palfrey| |Puritan’s Great Migration to New England
Frederick Palmer| |The First Balkan War
Edward H. Parker| |Japan Repels The Mongols
Francis Parkman| |France in Canada
James Parton| |The Battle of New Orleans| |Andrew Jackson Becomes President| |The South Carolina Nullification Crisis
Andrew A. Paton| |The Massacre of the Mamalukes
James K. Paulding| |Washington’s Inauguration and Farewell Address
Edwin Pears| |Constantinople Taken by the Western Crusaders| |The Turkish Revolution of 1908
Arthur Robert Pennington| |Hildebrand’s Papal Triumph
Samuel Pepys| |Of Cromwell’s Rule In England and the Restoration
Matthew C. Perry| |Japan Reopens Relations With Outside World
Sir Thomas J. Pettigrew| |Jenner Introduces Vaccination
Antonio Pigafetta| |Magellan’s Voyage Around the World
Gifford Pinchot| |US Environmental Movement Begins
Hernando Pizarro| |Pizarro Conquers the Incan Empire
Plato| |The Last Days of Socrates
Pliny the Younger| |Volcano Buries Pompeii
Plutarch| |Pyrrhus Attacks Rome| |Julius Caesar Murdered| |Pericles| |Theseus Founds Athens
Edward A. Pollard| |Battle of Gettysburg
Marco Polo| |Japan Repels The Mongols| |Height of the Mongol Power In China
Polycarp| |Letter to the Philippians
Arthur Ponsonby| |English House of Lords Falls
William H. Prescott| |Pizarro Conquers the Incan Empire| |Cortes Captures the Aztec Capital
John Webb Probyn| |Kingdom of Italy Established
Francis Pulszky| |Franch Takes Algiers
Manuel Jose Quintana| |Balboa Discovers the Pacific
Tai-Chi Quo| |The Chinese Revolution of 1912
Charles C. Rafn| |Vikings Reach America
Alfred Rambaud| |Tatars Conquer Russia| |Peter the Great Suppresses the Streltsi| |Poland 1831 Revolt
David Ramsay| |Canada Versus USA 1812-1814
Sir William Ramsay| |Early Science of Radioactivity
Henry S. Randall| |The Louisiana Purchase
Leopold von Ranke| |Prussia Proclaimed a Kingdom| |The Earliest Jews
George Rawlinson| |Pyramid Builders of Egypt| |The Ancient City of Babylon| |Reign of Persia’s King Sapor I
Emil Reich| |Unification of Germany| |Austria-Hungary Annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina
Sir Edward Reed| |Japan’s First Emperor
J. Ernest Renan| |Christianity Appears
James Renwick| |First Practical Steamboat
Alfred Von Reumont| |Masaniello’s Revolt At Naples
Thomas W. Rhys-Davids| |The Foundation of Buddhism
George Ripley| |Pestalozzi’s Method of Education
William Robertson| |The Peace of Augsburg and the Abdication of Charles V| |Battle of Pavia
Réné François Rohrbacher| |Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
Theodore Roosevelt| |The Cuban Campaign| |Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky| |Battle of Lake Erie| |French in the Ohio Valley| |Frontiersmen Before the American Revolution
William H. Rule| |Spanish Inquisition Established
Saga Of Eric the Red, author unknown| |Vikings Reach America
Felix Salm-Salm| |Mexico Rejects Maximilian
Edgar Sanderson| |Abd-el-Kader and France’s Conquest of Algeria
Alfred Sandham| |The Founding of Montreal
Yoshitami Sannomiya| |The New Japan
Winthrop Sargent| |Braddock’s Defeat
Frederick Sayer| |The Siege of Gibralter 1782
Herman Scheffauer| |San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Friedrich Von Schiller| |The Netherlands Revolts Against Spain
Sir Walter Scott| |Napoleon’s First Campaign| |William Wallace, Braveheart| |Napoleon Crushes Prussia
Henry Dwight Sedgwick| |Final Italian Unification
Raphael Semmes| |The USS Kearsarge Versus CSS Alabama
Lewis Sergeant| |Lord Byron and the Greek War of Independence
Garrett P. Servtss| |Luther Burbank’s Accomplishments
Henry Seton-Karr| |Norway Establishes Her Independence (1905)
William H. Seward| |Erie Canal Opens
Robert Sewell| |The Beginning of the Vijayanagar Empire
Henry I. Shaw, Jr.| |Marines Land on Guadalcanal
W. Morgan Shuster| |The Strangling of Persia
William Siborne| |The Battle of Waterloo
Henryk Sienkiewic| |Nero’s Rome Burns
Paul C. Sinding| |Union of Denmark Sweden and Norway
Jean C. L. Sismondi| |Savonarola’s Career
Oliphant Smeaton| |Lorenzo de Medici and Florence’s Renaissance
Samuel Smiles| |The First Railroad
Arthur D. H. Smith| |Radios’ First Triumph
Tobias G. Smollott| |The Siege of Londonderry and the Battle of the Boyne
J. Paterson Smyth| |Wycliffe Translates The Bible Into English
William Smyth| |Prussia Invades Silesia
Robert Southey| |Mendoza Settles Buenos Aires| |The Battle of Trafalgar| |The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Henry H. Sparling| | France Separates Church and State
Arthur P. Stanley| |Arianism and the First Nicene Council
Sergius Stepniak| |Russian Nihilism
Henry M. Stephens| |The Congress of Vienna 1814-15
William B. Stevens| |Settlement of Georgia
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell| |The Battle of Lepanto and the Destruction of the Turkish Navy
Joseph Story| |The Constitutional Convention of the United States
William Stubbs| |Feudalism in France and England
Maximilien De Béthune, Duc De Sully| |Henry of Navarre Ends French Religious Wars
Charles Sumner| |The Alaska Purchase
Algernon Charles Swinburne| |The Career of Mary Queen of Scots
Henry Von Sybel| |The Third Crusade
John Addington Symonds| |Early Renaissance
Tacitus| |Germanicus in Germany| |Nero’s Rome Burns
Isaac Taylor| |Jesuits Founded
Louis Adolphe Thiers| |John Law Promotes The Mississippi Bubble| |The South Sea Bubble Bursts
Lowell Thomas| |How to Handle Arabs| |Arabs Enter World War I| |Lawrence Launches Arab Desert Campaign
Henry Tipper| |Bach Lays the Foundation of Modern Music
Leo Tolstoy| |The Russo-Japanese War
T. Adolphus Trollope| |Charles V Sacks Rome
Thomas F. Tout| |Innocent III Exalts the Papal Power
Henry F. Tozer| |Orthodox, Catholics Split
Henry Duff Traill| |The Glorious Revolution
Richard Chenevix Trench| |The Trial and Burning of John Huss
Nikolai Turgenieff| |Russian Serfs Freed
Hatton Turner| |First Balloon Ascension
Mark Twain| |Mark Twain’s Mississippi River
Edward Upham| |The Janissaries Massacred
David T. Valentine| |The Dutch Found New York
Arminius Vambery| |Joseph II Attempts Reform In Hungary| |The Hungarians Revolt| |John Hunyady Repulses the Turks| |The Turkish Revolution of 1908
Henri Van Laun| |Molière Creates Modern Comedy
Amerigo Vespucci| |America’s Namesake’s Second Voyage
Orville J. Victor| |Battle of Gettysburg
Pasquale Villari| |Savonarola’s Career
Kazimierz Waliszewski| |St. Petersburg Founded| |Battle of Poltava
Sir Adolphus W. Ward| |The Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation
Warren Commission| |President Kennedy’s Assassination
George Washington| |Braddock’s Defeat
Edward J. Wheeler| |Radio’s First Triumph
James Talboys Wheeler| |Akbar Establishes the Moghul Empire In India| |The Sepoy Mutiny
Andrew D. White| |Russian Serfs Freed| |Cardinal Richelieu’s Administration
Henry White| |The Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre
Stanley White| |Persia’s 1907 Revolution
Henry Beckles Willson| |The Beginning of British Power in India
James H. Wilson| |Fall of Vicksburg
John Ancrum Winslow| |The USS Kearsarge Versus CSS Alabama
Isaac M. Wise| |Christianity Appears
Paul Ferdinand Willert| |Burgundy’s Zenith
Gardner F. Williams| |Diamonds Discovered in South Africa
James Albert Woodburm| |The Missouri Compromise
Woodrow Wilson| |Woodrow Wilson’s New Democracy
William H. Withrow| |Exile of the French Settlers in Acadia
Evelyn Wood| |Capture of Sevastopol Ends Crimean War
Frederick C. Woodhouse| |End of the Knights Templars| |The Teutonic Knights
Xenophon| |Crisis of Xenophon’s Quest for Home
Andrew W. Young| |The Constitutional Convention of the United States
Cole Younger| |The Northfield Bank Job
Israel Zangwill| |Women’s Suffrage Movement, Part 1
Passeges were selected from longer works by these authors from Gutenberg and other public domain sites. This list represents some of the finest historians of our past. It allows every history enthusiast to have exposure to the truly greats in the most painless way possible: 1,000 word daily servings.