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Absolutism Ends in France| |Richard Lodge| |Alphonse Lamartine

Abd-el-Kader and France’s Conquest of Algeria| |Edgar Sanderson

After the American Revolution, Where Did the Loyalists Go?| |Sir John G. Bourinot

The Age of Steel Begins| |Andrew Carnegie

Ages of History| |Jack Le Moine

Akbar Establishes the Moghul Empire In India| |James Talboys Wheeler

The Alaska Purchase| |Charles Sumner

The Alaskan Boundary Settlement| |John W. Foster| |F. C. Wade| |Goldwin Smith

Alexander the Great Reduces Tyre| |Oliver Goldsmith

Alexander the Great Wins the Battle of Gaugamela| |Sir Edward S. Creasy

Alexis Carrel Transplants Blood Vessels and Organs| | R. Legendre| |Genevieve Grandcourt

Alfred the Great’s Reign| |Thomas Hughes| |John R. Green

Algiers: Franch Takes Algiers| |Francis Pulszky

America’s Namesake’s Second Voyage| |Amerigo Vespucci

Andrew Jackson Becomes President| |James Parton

Andros’ Stuart Rule in New England Ended| |Charles Wyllys Elliott

Another Earliest Movies| |Jack Le Moine

An Arab Looks at U.S. Politics| |Washington Irving

Arabs Enter World War I| |Lowell Thomas

Arianism and the First Nicene Council| |Johann L. Von Mosheim| |Arthur P. Stanley

Arminius Drives Romans Out of Germany| |Sir Edward Creasy

Arnold of Brescia Versus Saint Bernard| |Johann A. W. Neander

Assyrian Empire Destroyed| |Francois Lenormant| |Emile Chevallier

Atlantic Slavery Begins| |Arthur Helps

Attila the Hun Invades the Eastern Roman Empire| |Edward Gibbon

Attila the Hun Invades the Western Roman Empire| |Sir Edward S. Creasy| |Edward Gibbon

Augustine’s Missionary Work in England| |The Venerable Bede| |John R. Green

Austria-Hungary Annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina| |Emil Reich

Australia Discovered| |George Lewis Becke and Walter Jeffrey

Australian Confederation Proclaimed| |J. Grattan Grey

The Austro-Prussian War| |Charles A. Fyffe

Babylon: The Ancient City of Babylon| |George Rawlinson

Bach Lays the Foundation of Modern Music| |Henry Tipper

Baghdad Railway Deal Goes to Germans| |Jack Le Moine

Balboa Discovers the Pacific| |Manuel Jose Quintana

The Bank of England Established| |John Francis

Bastille: Revolutionaries Storm Bastille| |William Hazlitt

The Battle of Agincourt| |James Gairdner

Battle of Austerlitz| |Pierre Lanfrey

Battle of Bannockburn| |Andrew Lang

The Battle of Blenheim| |Sir Edward Creasy

The Battle of Bunker Hill| |John Burgoyne, James Grahame, and John Heneage Jesse

Battle of First Marne| |Jack Le Moine

Battle of Gettysburg| |Orville J. Victor| |Edward A. Pollard| |Abraham Lincoln

Battle of Hastings| |Sir Edward Creasy

Battle of Lake Erie| |Theodore Roosevelt

The Battle of Lepanto and the Destruction of the Turkish Navy| |Sir William Stirling-Maxwell

Battle of Lexington| |Richard Frothingham

The Battle of Manila Bay| |Hubert Howe Bancroft

The Battle of Marathon| |Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

Battle of Metaurus| |Sir Edward Creasy

The Battle of Navarino| |Harriet Martineau

The Battle of New Orleans| |James Parton

Battle of Pavia| |William Robertson

Battle of Poltava| |Kazimierz Waliszewski

Battle of Saratoga| |Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

Battle of Sedan| |Helmuth von Moltke| |Otto von Bismark

Battle of Thermopylae| |Herodotus

Battle of Tours| |Edward S. Creasy

The Battle of Trafalgar| |Robert Southey

The Battle of Waterloo| |Wolfgang Menzel| |William Siborne| |Victor Hugo

Battles that Began the 100 Years War| |Sir John Froissart

Becket’s Murder| |Father John Lingard

The Berlin Congress of 1878| |Stephen P.H. Duggan

The Beginning of British Power in India| |Henry Beckles Willson

Belgium: Revolution in Belgium| |Thomas Colley Grattan

Big History| |Crash Course

Birth of a Nation| |D.W. Griffith

The Birth of Modern Scientific Methods| |George Henry Lewes

The Black Death Reaches Europe| |J. F. C. Hecker| |Giovanni Boccaccio

Blood Circulation Discovered| |Thomas H. Huxley

The Boer War| |Arthur Conan Doyle| |James F.J. Archibald| |J. Castell Hopkins

Bolivar and South American Independence| |Alfred Deberle

Borgia: The Rise and Fall of the Borgias| |Niccolo Machiavelli

The Boston Tea Party| |George Bancroft

The Boxer Uprising| |Chuan-sen| |William.A.P. Martin

Braddock’s Defeat| |Winthrop Sargent| |George Washington| |Captain De Contrecoeur

Brazil Becomes Independent| |Daniel P. Kidder

Brennus Burns Rome| |Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Britain Captures Quebec| |Arthur G. Bradley

Britain Prepares for World War I| |Winston S. Churchill

British Burns Washington, D.C.| |Richard Hildreth| |George R. Gleig

British Capture New York| |John R. Brodhead

Buccaneers Sack Panama| |Johann W. Von Archenholz

Buddhism: The Foundation of Buddhism| |Thomas W. Rhys-Davids

Building the First Theatre In England| |Karl Mantzius

Burgundy’s Zenith| |Paul Ferdinand Willert

Cabots Discover North America Mainland| |Samuel Edward Dawson

Calvin Driven From Paris to Geneva| |A. M. Fairbairn| |Jean M. V. Audin

Reign of Catherine the Great| |W. Knox Johnson

Cartier Explores Canada| |H. H. Miles

Caesar Conquers Gaul| |Napoleon III

California Acquired by the United States| |Henry B. Dawson

Canada Chooses Not Join American Revolution| |John McMullen

Canada Versus USA 1812-1814| |Agnes M. Machar| |David Ramsay

The 1837 Canadian Rebellion| |George Bryce

Canadian Confederation Established| |Joseph Edmund Collins

Canute Becomes King of England| |David Hume

Cape Colony Acquired by Great Britain| |Henry Bryden

Carlist: First Carlist Revolt| |Charles A. Fyffe

The Carolingian Dynasty Began| |François P.G. Guizot

Catholic Emancipation in Ireland| |William E. Gladstone| |William E.H. Lecky| |Daniel O’Connell

Charlemagne| |François P.G. Guizot

Charles IV Publishes His Golden Bull| |Sir Robert Comyn

Charles V Sacks Rome| |Benvenuto Cellini| |T. Adolphus Trollope

Chile Captures Lima| |Clements R. Markham

China Awakens 1905| |Wu Ting Fang| |Adachi Kinnosuke| |A Chinese Cambridge Man

China: The Republic of China| |Wolfram Eberhard

The Chinese Revolution of 1912| |Robert Machray, Reginald F. Johnston, and Tai-Chi Quo

Chivalry| |Léon Gautier

Christianity Appears|J. Ernest Renan, Isaac M. Wise, and |John Cardinal Newman

Christianity Comes to Scandinavia| |Samuel Astley (SA) Dunham

Christianity Introduced Into Japan| |John H. Gubbins

Christians Persecuted in Gaul| |François P. G. Guizot

Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony| |John P. Mahaffy

Clive Establishes British Supremacy in India| |Sir Alexander J. Arbuthnot

Clovis Founds the Frankish Empire| |François P.G. Guizot

Collaborative History Blogs Go Mainstream| |Sadie Bergen

Columbus Discovers America| |Christopher Columbus| |Ferdinand Columbus

Columbus Discovers South America| |Clements Robert Markham

Comenius Modernizes Education| |Simon Somerville Laurie

Commodus’ Bad Reign| |Edward Gibbon

Communists: The Communist International 1864-1873| |Thomas Kirkup

Confucius| |Robert K. Douglas

Confederate Government’s Last Days| |Jefferson Davis

Congo Horror: The Reform of the Congo Horror (1908)| |John Daniels| |M. Van Housen

The Congress of Vienna 1814-15| |Henry M. Stephens

Constantinople Founded| |Edward Gibbon

Constantinople Taken by the Western Crusaders| |Edwin Pears

The Constitutional Convention of the United States| |Andrew W. Young| |Joseph Story

Copernicus Revolutionizes Astronomy| |Sir Robert Stawell Ball

Corn Laws Repealed in England| |Justin Mccarthy

Cortes Captures the Aztec Capital| |William H. Prescott

The Cossacks Conquer Siberia| |Nikolay M. Karamzin

Cotton Industry’s Early Development| |Thomas F. Henderson

Cotton: Enormous Growth of Cotton in America| |Charles W. Dabney| |Robert B. Handy| |Denison Olmsted

Council of Constance 1414| |Richard Lodge

The Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation| |Sir Adolphus W. Ward

The Coup D’etat of Louis Napoleon| |Alexis De Tocqueville

Crete: Archeological Excavation of Crete| |Dr. Edgar J. Banks

Crusader Empire Rules Constantinople| |William J. Brodribb| |Sir Walter Besant

The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ| |Frederic William Farrar

The Cuban Campaign| |Andrew S. Draper| |Theodore Roosevelt| |Pascual Cervera

Czar Vladimir Converts to Christianity| |Andrew N. Mouravieff

Cyrus Begins the Persian Empire| |George Grote

Of Cromwell’s Rule In England and the Restoration| |Thomas Carlyle, John R. Green, and Samuel Pepys

Cromwell’s Ireland Campaign| |Frederic Harrison

D-Day Summary (infographic)| |Corey Truman

Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky| |Theodore Roosevelt

Dante Composes he Divine Comedy| |Richard William Church

Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Published| |Charles Darwin

The Dawn Of Civilization| |Gaston Maspero

De Soto Discovers The Mississippi| |John S. C. Abbott

Death of Antony and Cleopatra| |Henry George Liddell

The Decemvirate in Rome| |Henry G. Liddell

Declaration Of Independence (USA) Signed| |Thomas Jefferson| |John A. Doyle

Defeat of the Spanish Armada| |Sir Edward Creasy

Diamonds Discovered in South Africa| |Gardner F. Williams

Diaz Falls in Mexico| |Mrs. E.A. Tweedie| |Dolores Butterfield

Discovery of Gravity| |Sir David Brewster

Discovery of the South Pole| |Roald Amundsen

Dinosaur’s True Colors Revealed| |Jack Le Moine

Domesday Book Completed| |Charles Knight

Drake Captures Cartegena; Raids Cadiz| |Julian Corbett

The Dutch Crisis 1672| |C.M. Davies

The Dutch Found New York| |David T. Valentine

The Earliest Jews| |Leopold von Ranke

Early Christian Martyrs| |Homersham Cox| |Polycarp

Early New England Classroom| |Nathaniel Hawthorne

Early U.S. Battleships| |Jack Le Moine

Earls Flee Ireland| |Justin McCarthy

The Edict of Nantes Revoked| |Bon Louis Henri Martin

Egbert Becomes King of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy| |David Hume

Erie Canal Opens| |William H. Seward

Election Day, 2018| |Jack Le Moine

Electronic Painting| |Jack Le Moine

Elizabeth I: The Reign of Elizabeth I of England| |Henry R. Cleveland

Empire of the Franks Splits and Decays| |François P. G. Guizot

The End of the Star Chamber| |Henry Hallam| |Thomas Macaulay

England Expels the Jews| |Henry Hart Milman

England Looses Her Last French Territory| |Charles Knight

England’s First Overseas Colony| |Moses Harvey

The English Civil War| |Lord Thomas Macaulay| |Charles Knight

English House of Lords Falls| |Arthur Ponsonby| |Sydney Brooks| |Captain George Swinton

English Reform Bill of 1832 Passes| |Sir Thomas Erskine May

The English Reformation and Wolsey’s Fall| |John Richard Green

English Settle Virginia| |Robert Reid Howison

US Environmental Movement Begins| |Gifford Pinchot| |The Governors| |Graham Taylor

Europe’s First Battle Against Republican France| |Alphonse M. L. Lamartine

Exile of the French Settlers in Acadia| |William H. Withrow

Fall of Troy| |George Grote

Farragut Captures New Orleans| |Alfred Thayer Mahan

Fashoda: Meeting at Fashoda| |Winston S. Churchill

Fatimites Conquer Egypt| |Stanley Lane-Poole

Fate’s Intersections| |Jack Le Moine

The February 1848 Revolution In France| |François P. G. Guizot, and Henriette Guizot de Witt

Feudalism in France and England| |William Stubbs

The Field of the Cloth of Gold| |John S. Brewer

Final Division of Roman Empire| |John B. Bury

Final Italian Unification| |Pietro Orsi| |Henry Dwight Sedgwick

The First Advice Columnist| |Jack Le Moine

The First Airplanes| |Charles F. Horne| |Samuel Langley| |Alexander Graham Bell

The First Atomic Bomb| |Carl Maag| |Steve Rohrer

The First Balkan War| |J. Ellis Barker| |Frederick Palmer| |Stephen P. Duggan

First Balloon Ascension| |Hatton Turner

The First Battle of Bull Run| |Horace Greeley

First Combat Between Modern Warships| |Clements R. Markham

The First Crusade| |Sir George W. Cox

First Imperial Dynasty of China| |Wolfram Eberhard

The First Legislature in America| |Charles Campbell

First Partition of Poland| |James Fletcher

First Men on Moon| |NASA Mission Evaluation Team| |The Astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins

The First Modern Novel| |Edmund Gosse

First Practical Steamboat| |James Renwick

The First Railroad| |Samuel Smiles

The First Transcontinental Railroad Completed| |John P. Davis

The First Written Constitution In The World| |Gideon H. Hollister| |John Marshall

Florida: USA Acquires Florida| |Richard Hildreth

The Foundation of Rome| |Barthold Georg Niebuhr

France Annexes Burgundy| |Philippe De Comines

France Breaks Up Holy Roman Empire| |Lady Catherine Charlotte Jackson

France in Canada| |Francis Parkman

France Separates Church and State] ] Émile Combes| || John Ireland| | Henry H. Sparling

France’s Wars Series| |Jack Le Moine

Benjamin Franklin Experiments With Electricity| |John Bigelow (edited)| |Benjamin Franklin

French Fronde Outbreak| |Arthur Hassall

French in the Ohio Valley| |Theodore Roosevelt

Frobisher Searches for the Northwest Passage| |George Best

From the Early Days of Baseball| |Ring Lardner

Frontiersmen Before the American Revolution| |Theodore Roosevelt

From the Heroic Years of the Dutch| |Thomas Henry Dyer

Fur Companies Abolished| |G. Mercer Adam

Future Speculations| |Various video creators

Galileo’s Discoveries| |Sir Oliver Lodge

Galileo Recants| |Sir Oliver Lodge

German: The End of the German Empire| |Kaiser Willhelm II

1848 German Revolutions| |C. Edmund Maurice

Germanicus in Germany| |Tacitus

Germans Conquer Britain| |John R. Green| |Charles Knight

German Siege of Paris| |Charles F. Horne

Consolidation of Germany| |Charles Lowe

Genghis Khan Founds the Mongol Empire| |Henry H. Howorth

Gibraltar: The Siege of Gibralter 1782| |Frederick Sayer

Goethe and the Intellectual Revolt of Germany| |Karl Hillebrand</a

Gold Discovered in Australia| |Edward Jenks

Gold Discovered in California| |John S. Hittell

The Golden Bull “Hungary’s Magna Charta” Signed| |Author known only as “E.O.S.

Gore’s 2000 Election Recount Demands| |Unknown

Governors: The U.S. National Association of Governors Began| |William G. Jordan| |The Governors

The Gracchi and Their ReformS| |Theodor Mommsen

Great Britain Acquires Nova Scotia| |Duncan Campbell

The Great Elector Grows Prussia| |Thomas Carlyle

The Great Athens Plague| |George Grote

Great Britain Expands Control of Egypt| |James Franck Bright

The Great London Plague| |Daniel Defoe

Great Pope/Anti-Pope Schism Begins| |Henry Hart Milman

Greco-Turkish War of 1897| |Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett

Green Sahara| |Jack Le Moine

Gunfighters of the Old West| |Bat Masterson

The Gunpowder Plot| |Samuel R. Gardiner

Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen| |Benjamin Chapman

Haiti’s Revolution| |Jack Le Moine| |Thomas Carlyle

Haiti: Revolution in Haiti| |Charles Wyllys Elliott

Hamilton Establishes the United States Bank| |Lawrence Lewis| |Alexander Hamilton

Hamlet, Drama’s Apex| |James Halliwell-Phillipps

Code of Hammarubi| |Hammarubi

The Hanseatic League’s Story| |Harry Denicke

Hapsburg Dynasty Founded| |William Coxe

The Hartford Convention| |Simeon E. Baldwin| |John S. Barry

USA Acquires Hawaii| |Edmund James Carpenter

Height of the Mongol Power In China| |Marco Polo

Henry IV Begins Lancaster Rule| |John Lingard;

Henry the Fowler’s Reign| |Wolfgang Menzel

Henry VIII Causes Himself to be Head of the Church of England| |John R. Green

Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River| |Henry R. Cleveland

Henry of Navarre Ends French Religeous Wars| |Maximilien De Béthune, Duc De Sully

Herodotus| |Histories| |George C. Macaulay (translator)

Hildebrand’s Papal Triumph| |Arthur Robert Pennington| |Artaud De Montor

History and God| |Jack Le Moine

Hitler Meets Finland’s Mannerheim| |Audio Recording

The Holy Alliance – European Reaction Under Metternich| |Charles Edmund Maurice

Holy Roman Emperor Takes Control of the Papacy| |Ferdinand Gregorovius| |Joseph Darras

The House of Hohenzollern Established in Brandenburg| |Thomas Carlyle

How the American Revolutionary War Ended| |American Diplomatic Commission| |John M. Ludlow

How The House of Commons Began in England| |John Lingard

How to Handle Arabs| |Lowell Thomas

The Hungarians Revolt| |Arminius Vembery

“I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!”| |Alexander Slidell Mackenzie

Income Tax: The United States Adopts the Income Tax| |Joseph A. Hill

Indian: How the Indian Caste System Began| |Gustave Le Bon| |William W. Hunter

20 of the Most Important Moments in Internet History| |Todd Gilchrist

How the Internet Began| |Unknown

Ireland Joined to United Kingdom| |William O’Connor Morris

Italy in Africa 1896| |Frederick Augustus Edwards

Ivan the Great Unites Russia and Breaks the Tartar Yoke (A.D. 1462-1505)| | Robert Bell

The Jacquerie Rebellion| |Jean Froissart

James II Invades Ireland| |Tobias G. Smollott

The Janissaries Massacred| |Edward Upham

Japan Reopens Relations With Outside World | |Matthew C. Perry

Japan Repels The Mongols| |Edward H. Parker| |Marco Polo

Japan’s First Emperor| |Sir Edward Reed

Jefferson’s Party Defeats the Federalists| |Hermann Von Holst| |Thomas Jefferson

Jenner Introduces Vaccination| |Sir Thomas J. Pettigrew

Jesuits Founded| |Isaac Taylor

The Jews’ Final Revolt Against Rome| |Charles Merivale

Joan of Arc at Orleans| |Sir Edward S. Creasy

Joan of Arc’s Trial and Execution| |Jules Michelet

John Hunyady Repulses the Turks| |Ármin Vámbéry

John Knox and Scotland’s Reformation| |Thomas Carlyle

John Wesley Hardin, Gunfighter| |John Wesley Hardin

John Law Promotes The Mississippi Bubble| |Louis Adolphe Thiers

Joseph II Attempts Reform In Hungary| |Arminius Vambery

Julian: Early Career of Julian the Apostate| |Edward Gibbon

Julius Caesar Murdered| |Barthold Georg Niebuhr| |Plutarch

Justinian Code Published| ||Edward Gibbon

Kavanaugh Confirmed to Supreme Court| |Jack Le Moine

The USS Kearsarge Versus CSS Alabama| |Raphael Semmes| |John Ancrum Winslow

Kingdom of Italy Established| |Giuseppe Garibaldi| |John Webb Probyn

The King of England Claims Throne of France| |François P. G. Guizot

Knights Templar Founded| |Charles G. Addison

End of the Knights Templars| |Frederick C. Woodhouse| |Henry Hart Milman

La Salle Explores Length of Mississippi River| |François Xavier Garneau

The Lachine Massacre| |François Xavier Garneau

The Last Days of Socrates| |Plato

Last Turkish Invasion of Europe| |Sutherland Menzies

Lawrence Launches Arab Desert Campaign| |Lowell Thomas

The Laying of the Atlantic Cable| |Cyrus W. Field

Lee Surrenders at Appomatox| |Ulysses S. Grant

Leipzig Battle of the Nations| |Wolfgang Menzel

The Lewis and Clark Expedition| |James Davie Butler| |Robert Southey

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation| |John Hay| |John Nicolay| |Abraham Lincoln

Livingstone’s African Discoveries| |David Livingstone| |Thomas Hughes

London’s Great Fire| |John Evelyn

Lord Byron and the Greek War of Independence| |Lewis Sergeant| |John Nichol

Loretta Young’s Crisis| |Jack Le Moine

Lorenzo de Medici and Florence’s Renaissance| |Oliphant Smeaton

Louis IX Leads The Last Crusade| |Joseph François Michaud

The Louisiana Purchase| |Henry S. Randall

Louisiana: First French Colony in the Louisiana Area| |Charles E.A. Gayarré

Louis XIV Establishes Absolute Monarchy in France| |James Cotter Morison

Luther Begins the Reformation in Germany| |Julius Koestlin| |Jean-M.-Vincent Audin

Luther Burbank’s Accomplishments| |Garrett P. Servtss| |David Starr Jordan

Maccabaeus Liberates Judea| |Josephus

Magellan’s Voyage Around the World| |Joan Bautista| |Antonio Pigafetta

Magna Charta Signed| |David Hume

Mamelukes Usurp Power In Egypt| |Sir William Muir

Marines Land on Guadalcanal| |Henry I. Shaw, Jr.

The Career of Mary Queen of Scots| |Algernon Charles Swinburne

Masaniello’s Revolt At Naples| |Alfred Von Reumont

The Massacre of the Mamalukes| |Andrew A. Paton

McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign| |Rossiter Johnson

Mexico Rejects Maximilian| |Charles A. Fyffe| |Felix Salm-Salm

Medieval Dancing Mania| |J. F. C. Hecker

Mendoza Settles Buenos Aires| |Robert Southey

Mexican Independence| |Joel R. Poinsett

Mexico Plunged Into Anarchy| |Edwin Emerson| |William Carol

Militarism Before World War I| |Norman Angell| |Sir Max Waechter

Mississippi: Mark Twain’s Mississippi River| |Mark Twain

Missolonghi: Siege of Missolonghi| |George Finlay

The Missouri Compromise| |James Albert Woodburm

Modern Recognition of Scenic Beauty — Crowning of Petrarch at Rome| |Jacob Burckhardt

Mohammed| |Washington Irving| |Simon Ockley

Molière Creates Modern Comedy| |Henri Van Laun

The USS Monitor Versus CSS Merrimac| |John Senison Champlin

Monmouth’s Rebellion| |Gilbert Burnet

The Monroe Doctrine| |Alfred Thayer Mahan

Montreal Founded| |Alfred Sandham

The Moon Begins| |Jack Le Moine

The Mormons Migrate West| |Thomas L. Kane

Murders of Louis XVI and Murat; Civil War in France| |Thomas Carlyle

Muslims Conquer Syria| |Simon Ockley

Muslims Invade India| |Alexander Dow

Nadir Shah Captures Delhi| |Sir John Malcolm

Napoleon’s Egyptian War| |Charles Knight

Napoleon: The Coronation of Napoleon| |William Hazlitt

Napoleon Crushes Prussia| |Sir Walter Scott

Napoleon’s First Campaign| |Sir Walter Scott

Napoleon’s Russian Retreat| |Charles A. Fyffe| |Francois Guizot

The Netherlands Revolts Against Spain| |Friedrich Von Schiller

Neptune Discovered| |Sir Oliver Lodge

Nero Persecutes the Christians| |Frederic William Farrar

Nero’s Rome Burns| |Henryk Sienkiewic| |Tacitus

The New Japan| |Yoshitami Sannomiya| |Tokiwo Yokio| |Ito Hirobumi

Nicholas V Rebuilds Rome| |Mrs. Margaret Oliphant

North Pole: The Search for the North Pole| |Charles F. Horne

The Northfield Bank Job| |Cole Younger

Norway Establishes Her Independence (1905)| |Henry Seton-Karr| |Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Olympics: The Ancient Olympics| |George Grote

The Opium War of 1840| |Demetrius Charles Boulger

Oregon Trail: Life on the Oregon Trail| |Ezra Meeker

The Origin of Greek Alphabet Discovered| |James Baikie| |David G. Hogarth

Orthodox, Catholics Split| |Henry F. Tozer| |Joseph Deharbe

Ottomans Conquer Constantinople| |George Finlay

Painting the Sistine Chapel| |Charles Clement

Panama Canal: USA Acquires Rights to Build the Panama Canal| |A. Maurice Low| |Chauncey M. Depew

The Panama Canal Opens| |Col. George W. Goethals| |Bampfylde Fuller

The 1871 Paris Commune| |Gabriel Hanotaux

The Peace of Augsburg and the Abdication of Charles V| |William Robertson

The Peace Of Constance Secures The Liberties Of The Lombard Cities| |Ernest F. Henderson

The Peasants’ War in Germany| |Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné

Pericles| |Plutarch

Perkin Warbeck’s Rebellion| |Francis Bacon

Persia’s 1907 Revolution| |Samuel M. Jordan| |Stanley White| |Emile J. Dillon

Pestalozzi’s Method of Education| |George Ripley

Peter the Great Suppresses the Streltsi| |Alfred Rambaud

Petrarch: Modern Recognition of Scenic Beauty — Crowning of Petrarch at Rome| |Jacob Burckhardt

Philip Breaks the Angevin Empire| |Kate Norgate

Philip’s War: King Philip’s War| |Richard Hildreth

Photography Invented| |William Jerome Harrison

The Pilgrims Settle Plymouth, Massachusets| |John S. Barry

Pius IX Flees Rome| |Francis Bowen

Pizarro Conquers the Incan Empire| |Hernando Pizarro| |William H. Prescott

Poland 1831 Revolt| |Alfred Rambaud

Poland’s Downfall| |Sir Archibald Alison

Poland Wants In| |Jack Le Moine

Pompeii: Volcano Buries Pompeii| |Pliny| |Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Pondering Hitler’s Legacy| |George Friedman

Pontiac’s Uprising| |E.O. Randall

Pope Launches Crusade| |Jack Le Moine

Portugal’s 1910 Revolution| |William Archer

Great Potato Famine in Ireland| |Sir Charles Gavan Duffy

Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges| |William H. Jervis and Réné François Rohrbacher

President Kennedy’s Assassination| |Warren Commission

Printing: Early History of Printing| |Henry George Bohn

Prussia Invades Silesia| |William Smyth

Prussia Proclaimed a Kingdom| |Leopold von Ranke

Puritan’s Great Migration to New England| |John G. Palfrey

Pyramid Builders of Egypt| |George Rawlinson| |Arthur Gilman

Pyrrhus Attacks Rome| |Plutarch

Quebec Founded| |Henry H. Miles

Radioactivity: Early Science of Radioactivity| |Mme. Marie Curie| |Sir William Ramsay| |Sir Oliver Lodge

Radios’ First Triumph| |Edward J. Wheeler| |Gugllelmo Marconi| |Arthur D. H. Smith

Early Renaissance| |John Addington Symonds

Revolution in Belgium| |Thomas Colley Grattan

Richelieu: Cardinal Richelieu’s Administration| |Andrew D. White

The Reign Of Terror (A.D. 1794)| |François P. G. Guizot

Republicans’ First National Campaign| |John Hay and John G. Nicolay

The Republican Party Begins| |Abraham Lincoln

Richard III King; Princes Murdered| |James Gairdner

Rienzi’s Revolution In Rome| |Richard Lodge

Roger Ravages the Byzantine Empire| |George Finlay

Roman Empire’s Extent and Defense| |Edward Gibbon

Roman Empire’s Government| |Edward Gibbon

Roman Empire’s Society and Economy| |Edward Gibbon

Roman Emperor Constantine Converted| |Johann L. Von Mosheim

Romance of the Three Kingdoms| |Luo Guanzhong

Romans Conquer Britain| |Oliver Goldsmith

Rome Versus Carthage| |Florus

Romans Crush Jewish Revolt; Destroy Great Temple| |Josephus

Romans Establish Republic| |Henry G. Liddell

Roses, Wars of: Wars of the Roses| |David Hume

Russia Absorbs Finland| |John Jackol| |Baron Von Plehve| |Baron Sergius Witte| |J.N. Reuter

The Russian Front in World War II| |Video

Russian Nihilism| |Sergius Stepniak

A Russian Pogrom Against the Jews| |Richard Gottheil| |Vladamir Korolenko

The Russian Revolution of 1905| |Prince Peter Kropotkin| |Arthur Cassini

Russian Serfs Freed| |Andrew D. White| |Nikolai Turgenieff

The Russo-Japanese War| |Charles F. Horne| |Leo Tolstoy

Russo-Turkish War 1877| |Wilhelm Mueller

The Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre| |Henry White| |Isaac d’Israeli

St. Petersburg Founded| |Kazimierz Waliszewski

Saladin Takes Jerusalem From the Christians| |Sir George W. Cox

Salem Witchcraft Trials| |Richard Hildreth

San Francisco Earthquake of 1906| |Jack London| |Herman Scheffauer

Sapor I: Reign of Persia’s King Sapor I| |George Rawlinson

Saracens Destroy the Great Library| |Washington Irving

Saracens Invade Spain| |Ahmed Ibn Mahomet Al-Makkari

Savonarola’s Career| |Pasquale Villari| |Jean C. L. Sismondi

Scotland’s Presbyterian Reformation| |Peter Hume Brown

Scott Captures Mexico City| |John Bonner

The Second Balkan War| |Stephen P. Duggan| |Capt. A.H. Trapmann

The Second War of Italian Independence| |Pietro Orsi

The Sepoy Mutiny| |J. Talboys Wheeler

Settlement of Georgia| |William B. Stevens

Sevastopol: Capture of Sevastopol Ends Crimean War| |Edward B. Hamley| |Evelyn Wood

The Seven Years War| |Wolfgang Menzel| |Frederick The Great

Sherman’s March Across Georgia| |Rossiter Johnson

The Sicilian Vespers| |Michele Amari

The Sinking of the Titanic| |William Inglis

The Sino-Japanese War of 1894| |J. MacGowan| |Jurichi Inouye

Slaves: The European Slave Trade Abolished| |John Kells Ingram

Slavery Injected Into Virginia| |Charles Campbell| |John M. Ludlow

Slavery Legalized in Americas| |Sir Arthur Helps

Smalkaldic War: Protestant Struggle Against Charles V – The Smalkaldic War| |Edward Armstrong

Solon’s Early Greek Legislation| |George Grote

Solomon Builds the Great Temple| |Henry Hart Milman

The South Carolina Nullification Crisis| |James Parton

The South Sea Bubble Bursts| |Louis Adolphe Thiers

South Secedes from the United States| |Jefferson Davis| |John Hay | |John Nicolay| |Abraham Lincoln

Spain’s First Settlements in Florida| |George R. Fairbanks

Spain Conquers Grenada| |Washington Irving

Spanish Civil War| |Video

Spanish Civil War Prelude| |William Archer| |Perceval Gibbon

Spanish Demand Constitution| |Charles A. Fyffe

Spanish Inquisition Established| |William H. Rule| |James Balmes

Spanish Reconquista: Islamic Power Declines in Spain| |Samuel A. Dunham

1868 Spanish Revolution| |William I Knapp

Stamp Act: American Colonies Oppose the Stamp Act| |James Grahame| |George Bancroft

Stephen Versus Matilda| |Charles Knight

The Strangling of Persia| |W. Morgan Shuster

The Suez Canal Opens| |Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Sweden Liberated| |Eric Gustave Geijer

Switzerland: First Swiss Struggle for Liberty| |F. Grenfell Baker

The Swiss Win Independence| |F. Grenfell Baker| |Lina Hug and Richard Stead

Syracuse Defeats Athens| |Sir Edward S. Creasy

Tatars Conquer Russia| |Alfred Rambaud

Tartars Invade China 200 BC| |Demetrius Charles Boulger

Telegraph Invented| |Alonzo B. Cornell

The Teutonic Knights| |Frederick C. Woodhouse

The Texas Rebellion| |Sam Houston| |Charles Edwards Lester

Theseus Founds Athens| |Plutarch

The Third Crusade| |Henry Von Sybel

Third Estate Joins French Parlement| |Henri Martin

The Third Republic Established| |Jules Favre

The Thirty Years War| |Samuel R. Gardiner| |Charles F. Horne

Timur’s (Tamerlane) Conquests| |Edward Gibbon

Titanic Sinks: The Sinking of the Titanic| |William Inglis

Is Today’s FBI Letter Unprecedented?| |Jack Le Moine

The Tombstone Gunfight| |Jack Le Moine

The Trial and Burning of John Huss| |Richard Chenevix Trench

The Tripolitan War of 1804| |James Fenimore Cooper

The Turkish-Italian War| |William T. Ellis

The Turkish Revolution of 1908| |Edwin Pears| |A. Rustem Bey| |Arminius Vambery

Turkish Threat on Europe Finally Vanquished| |Prince Eugene Of Savoy

The Turks Establish Foothold in Europe| |Joseph Von Hammer-Purgstall

Unification of Germany| |Emil Reich

Union of Denmark Sweden and Norway| |Paul C. Sinding

Union of England and Scotland| |John Hill Burton

Union of South Africa Formed| |Stephen Leacock

Union of Upper and Lower Canada| |John Charles Dent

U.S. History| |Crash Course

Vasco Da Gama Sails Around Africa and Opens the Sea Route To India| |Gaspar Correa

Venice: How Medieval Venice Was Governed| |William C. Hazlitt

Venice Doge’s Coup| |Margaret Oliphant

Venice Founded| |Thomas Hodgkin| |John Ruskin

Vicksburg: Fall of Vicksburg| |Charles A. Dana| |James H. Wilson

Vietnam: France Takes Vietnam| |Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas

Vijayanagar Empire: The Beginning of the Vijayanagar Empire| |Robert Sewell

Vikings Reach America| |Charles C. Rafn| |Saga Of Eric the Red, autor unknown

The Visigoths Sack Rome| |Edward Gibbon

Voltaire in Geneva| |John Morley| |George W. Kitchin

Walter Raleigh’s American Investment| |Arthur Barlow| |Robert R. Howison;

The War of the Flemings with Philip the Fair of France| |Eyre Evans Crowe

Washington’s Inauguration and Farewell Address| |James K. Paulding

Rebellion of Wat Tyler| |John Lingard

Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign| |John Richard Green

Westminister Assembly Establishes Presbyterianism in England| |David Masson

When Does a Country Begin?| |Jack Le Moine

When Fighting Sail Matured| |Alfred Thayer Mahan

Who Are Historians?| |Jack Le Moine

Why Trump Won| |Jack Le Moine

William of Orange Murdered; Netherlands Divides| |John Lothrop Motley

William Penn Founds Philadelphia| |George E. Ellis

William Wallace, Braveheart| |Sir Walter Scott

Wesley Begins Methodism| |William E.H. Lecky

Women’s Suffrage Movement| |Ida Husted Harper| |Israel Zangwill| |Jane Addams| |David Lloyd-George| |Elbert Hubbard

Woodrow Wilson’s New Democracy| |Woodrow Wilson

World History I| |Crash Course

Wycliffe Translates The Bible Into English| |J. Paterson Smyth

Crisis of Xenophon’s Quest for Home| |Xenophon
Yorktown Surrenders| |Henry B. Dawson| |Lord Charles Cornwallis

Young Ben Franklin| |Benjamin Franklin

Your Mama’s Mama’s . . . Mama in History| |Jack Le Moine

Zama: Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal At Zama And Subjugates Carthage| |Livy

Zenith of Papal Power| |Thomas F. Tout

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