History
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History
Study of the past
Conspiracy theory
Attributing events to improbable causes
Jolly Roger
Pirate flag
Human history
Archaeology
The study of the past through material culture
Coat of arms
Heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon
Civilization
Stratified complex society
National flag
Flag of a country or nation
Radiocarbon dating
Method of chronological dating using radioactive carbon isotopes
Hammer and sickle
Symbol of communism
Heraldry
Profession, study, or art of creating, granting and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol
Star and crescent
Symbol
Historiography
Study of the methods used by historians
Philately
Study of stamps and postal history and other related items
Great man theory
Theory that history is shaped primarily by extraordinary individuals
Genealogy
Study of many families and the tracing of lineages
Numismatics
Study of currencies, coins and paper money
Vexillology
Study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags
Archive
Accumulation of historical records
War flag
Variant of a national flag
Chronology
Science of arranging events in order of occurrence
Periodization
Process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time
Epigraphy
Study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing
Human history
Different topic world history
Palaeography
Study of historic handwriting
History by continent and region View All
History of China
Account of past events in the Chinese civilisation
History of Europe
Historical development of Europe
History of Korea
History of Africa
Historical development of Africa
History of the Middle East
Ruthenia
Medieval exonym for Rus'
History of Antarctica
Past events regarding the continent of Antarctica
Genetic history of Europe
Aspect of history
History of the Americas
Aspect of history
History of the Balkans
Aspect of history
History of South America
Historical development of South America
History of Scandinavia
History of Scandinavia and its peoples
Tributary system of China
Network of loose international relations focused on China
History of Central Asia
Historical development of Central Asia
History of Asia
History of Southeast Asia
Aspect of Asian history
History of the British Isles
Historical development of the British Isles
Maritime history
Study of human activity at sea
History of the European Union
Aspect of history
History of the Caribbean
Jiangnan
Geographic area in China
History of North America
Zhongyuan
Place in Henan, People's Republic of China
History of West Africa
Occurrences and people in West Africa throughout history
History of the Mediterranean region
History by country and subdivision View All
History of Israel
History of ancient Israel and Judah as well as modern Israel
History of Palestine
Study of the past in the region of Palestine
Thirteen Colonies
British colonies forming the United States
History of Iran
Aruba
History of the Caribbean island
Roanoke Colony
Former colony in present-day Dare County, North Carolina, United States
Hudson's Bay Company
Canadian retail business group and former fur trading business
History of the United States
Slavery in the United States
Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Historical region in Central Europe
History of Japan
History of Australia
Australian history
History of Canada
Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
Early settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts
History of South Africa
South African history
History of Egypt
Historical development of Egypt
Silesia
Historical region of Central Europe
Plymouth Colony
English colonial venture in America (1620–1691)
History of the Philippines
History of England
Historical development of England
History of Ireland
History of the island and its population, from 12000 years ago to the present
Massachusetts Bay Colony
English possession in North America between 1628 and 1684
History of Germany
Racial segregation in the United States
Historical separation of African Americans from American white society
History of California
History by city View All
History of Rome
History of city of Rome and Roman civilization
History of Athens
Aspect of history
History of London
Historical development of London
History of Baghdad
History of the capital city of Iraq
History of New York City
History of Jerusalem
History of a western Asian city
History of Los Angeles
History of Delhi
History of Delhi, India
History of Paris
Aspect of history
History of Istanbul
Aspect of history
History of Mumbai
Aspect of history
History of Dubai
Wikimedia history article
History of Chicago
History of Chicago
History of Kolkata
History of Kolkata, India
History of Berlin
History of Saint Petersburg
Aspect of history
History of Naples
Aspect of history
History of Dhaka
History of the capital city of Bangladesh
History of Lagos
Aspect of history
History of Vienna
Aspect of history
History of Shanghai
History of the city of Shanghai, China
History of San Francisco
History of the city of San Francisco, California, United States
History of Mexico City
Aspect of history
History of Beijing
Aspect of history
History of Moscow
Aspect of history
History by ethnicity View All
History of the Jews in Europe
Aspect of history
History of the Romani people
Aspect of history
History of the Kurds
Aspect of history of the Kurds
History of the Basques
Ethnic history
History of the Assyrians
Ancient Mesopotamian people of Assyria
History of the Cossacks
Aspect of history
Coptic history
Aspect of the history of Egypt focusing on the history of the Copts
Historical cities, towns and archaeological sites View All
Babylon
Kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BC, located in modern-day Iraq
Constantinople
Capital city of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire, the Latin and the Ottoman Empire
Göbekli Tepe
Archaeological and UNESCO World Heritage Site
Pompeii
Ancient city near modern Naples, Italy
Sparta
City-state in ancient Greece
Jericho
Palestinian city in the West Bank
Troy
Ancient Homeric-era city in northwest Asia Minor
Carthage
Archaeological site in Tunisia
Uruk
Ancient city of Sumer and Babylonia
Ephesus
Ancient city in Turkey
Jamestown, Virginia
Fort and town established in the Virginia Colony
Nineveh
Ancient Assyrian city, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Teotihuacan
Ancient Mexican city
Tenochtitlan
Former city-state in the Valley of Mexico
Persepolis
Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire
Antioch
Ancient city in Turkey
Königsberg
Historic Prussian name of Kaliningrad, Russia
Cahokia
Archaeological site near East St. Louis, Illinois, USA
Ur
Ancient Mesopotamian city-state
Tyre, Lebanon
City in Lebanon
Memphis, Egypt
Ancient capital of Inebu-hedj, Egypt
Knossos
Bronze Age archaeological site on the island of Crete
Mohenjo-daro
Archaeological site in Sindh, Pakistan
Ancient Corinth
City-state in ancient Greece
Byzantium
Ancient Greek city, forerunner of Constantinople
History by topic View All
Aryan race
Racial grouping
Green Revolution
Period of high agricultural technology transfer in the 1950s and 1960s
History of the Internet
History of the Internet, a global system of interconnected computer networks
Meditation
Aspect of history
History of artificial intelligence
History of the automobile
Aspect of history
Classical Hollywood cinema
Style of filmmaking characteristic of American cinema between the 1910s and the 1960s
History of Islam
History of cricket
Historical summary of cricket
History of basketball
Account of the history and development of the sport of basketball
Jewish history
History of photography
The invention and development of the camera and the creation of permanent images
History of television
Development of television
History of the camera
History of the technological development of cameras
History of slavery
History of Christianity
New Hollywood
1960s–1980s American film movement
Ninth generation of video game consoles
Gaming generation since 2020
History of the telephone
Aspect of history
Chronology of the universe
History and future of the universe
History of chess
Aspect of history
History of the Catholic Church
History of agriculture
Notable events in the history of how plants and animals were domesticated and how techniques of raising them for human uses was developed
Third-wave feminism
Aspect of feminism beginning in the 1990s
History of film
Aspect of history
Prehistory View All
Neolithic
Archaeological period, late Stone Age, prior to Bronze Age
Paleolithic
Prehistoric period, first part of the Stone Age
Stone Age
Prehistoric period during which stone was widely used by humans to make tools and weapons
Cradle of civilization
Locations where civilization emerged
Neolithic Revolution
Transition from hunter-gatherer to settled peoples in human history
Prehistory
Span of time before recorded history
Mesolithic
Prehistoric period, second part of the Stone Age
Early human migrations
Spread of humans from Africa through the world
Proto-Indo-Europeans
Prehistoric ethnic group
Control of fire by early humans
Aspect of human history
Beringia
Geographic region of Asia and North America currently partly submerged
Recent African origin of modern humans
"Out of Africa" theory of the early migration of humans
Prehistoric Egypt
Period starting at the first human settlement and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt
Upper Paleolithic
Subdivision of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age
Ubaid period
Prehistoric period of Mesopotamia
Lower Paleolithic
Earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic
Behavioral modernity
Transition of human species to anthropologically modern behavior
Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
Neolithic–Eneolithic archaeological culture
Proto-writing
Symbol system that conveys information, but does not record language
Middle Paleolithic
Archaeological period, part of Stone Age
Naqada III
Last phase of the Naqada culture of ancient Egyptian prehistory
Neolithic Europe
Era of pre-history
Funnelbeaker culture
Archaeological culture
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
Archaeological culture
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Neolithic culture in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant about 10,800–8,500 years ago
Ancient history View All
Roman Empire
Period of Imperial Rome following the Roman Republic (27 BC–AD 476)
Israelites
Confederation of Iron Age Semitic-speaking tribes of the ancient Near East, who inhabited a part of Canaan
Mesopotamia
Historical region within the Tigris–Euphrates river system
Ancient Egypt
Egyptian civilization from the 31st century BC to the 1st century BC
Ancient Greece
Greek civilization from the 12th-century BC to the 1st-century BC
Achaemenid Empire
Ancient Iranian empire (550–330 BC)
Maya civilization
Mesoamerican former civilization
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Political change in late antiquity that came with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Silk Road
Trade routes through Asia connecting China to the Mediterranean Sea
Trojan War
Greek mythological war
Roman Republic
Period of Roman history (c. 509 – 27 BC)
Indus Valley Civilisation
Bronze Age civilisation in South Asia
Moors
Medieval Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta
Celts
Ethnolinguistic group
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle between Ancient Greeks and Achaemenid Empire
Sasanian Empire
Last pre-Islamic Iranian empire (224–651 AD)
Huns
Extinct nomadic people in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe (4th-6th centuries)
Hellenistic period
Period of ancient Greek and Mediterranean history
Sumer
Ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 5500 to 1800 BC
Phoenicia
Ancient Semitic civilization
Babylonian captivity
Period in Jewish history during which inhabitants of the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon under the Neo-Babylonian Empire
Maurya Empire
Former Indian imperial dynasty
Assyria
Major Mesopotamian East Semitic kingdom
Philistines
Ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan
Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
Ancient kingdom in the Balkans
Post-classical history View All
Ottoman Empire
Turkish empire (ca. 1299–1922)
Byzantine Empire
Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Holy Roman Empire
Confederation of Central European states (800–1806)
Black Death
1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa
Middle Ages
Period of European history from the 5th to the late 15th-century
Mongol Empire
Empire in Eurasia
Kingdom of Jerusalem
Crusader state established in the Southern Levant by Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 after the First Crusade
Hundred Years' War
Anglo-French conflicts, 1337–1453
Abbasid Caliphate
Third Islamic caliphate (750–1258)
Crusades
Religious wars of the High Middle Ages
Wars of the Roses
Dynastic civil war in England during the 15th-century
Fall of Constantinople
1453 Ottoman capture of the Byzantine capital
Umayyad Caliphate
Second Islamic caliphate (661–750)
Vikings
Medieval Scandinavian seafarers, traders, raiders and settlers (8th-11th centuries)
Anglo-Saxons
Germanic tribes who started to inhabit parts of Great Britain from the 5th century onwards
Knights Templar
Catholic military order, 1118 to 1312
Inca Empire
Empire in pre-Columbian America
Battle of Poitiers
Battle in 1356 during the Hundred Years' War
House of Medici
Italian banking family and political dynasty
Kievan Rus'
State in Europe (c. 880 to 1240)
House of Habsburg
European dynastic family until 1780
Delhi Sultanate
Indian Islamic dynasties based in Delhi (1206–1526)
Yuan dynasty
Mongol-led dynasty of China (1271–1368)
Order of Assassins
Nizari Shias in the mountains of Persia between about 1090 and 1275
Tang dynasty
Imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907
Early modern history View All
Mughal Empire
Early modern empire in South Asia ruled by a Muslim dynasty of Turko-Mongol origin
American Revolutionary War
American War of Independence 1775–1783
French Revolution
Revolution in France from 1789 to 1799
British Empire
Territory ruled by the United Kingdom
Salem witch trials
Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
Renaissance
European cultural period of the 14th to 17th century
East India Company
16th- to 19th-century British trading company
Seven Years' War
Global conflict between Great Britain and France from 1756 to 1763
Thirty Years' War
Major war in Central Europe (1618–1648)
Prussia
European country, existing from 1525 to 1947
French and Indian War
North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War
Kingdom of Prussia
German state from 1701 to 1918
American Revolution
1765–1783 ideological and political movement in North America
Age of Enlightenment
17th- to 18th-century European cultural movement
Ming dynasty
Former empire in Eastern Asia, 1368–1644
Dutch East India Company
17th-century Dutch trading company
English Civil War
Series of wars in England, 1642–1651
Atlantic slave trade
Slave trade between Africa and the Americas
Joseon
1392–1897 Korean dynasty
Spanish Empire
Colonial empire between 1492 and 1976
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
Habsburg monarchy
Former monarchy in Europe from 1282 to 1918
Maratha Confederacy
Indian imperial power that existed from 1645 to 1818
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1569–1795 bi-confederate monarchy in Europe
Cossacks
Ethnic group of current Ukraine and Russia
19th century View All
American Civil War
1861–1865 conflict in the United States
War of 1812
Conflict between United States and British Empire
Mexican–American War
Armed conflict between the US and Mexico (1846–1848)
Russian Empire
Historical empire that extended across Eurasia and North America (1721-1917)
German Empire
Central European state, 1871–1918
Confederate States of America
Unrecognized state in North America (1861–1865)
British Raj
Colonial rule in India (1858–1947)
Austria-Hungary
1867–1918 empire in Central Europe
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle of the Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars
Early 19th century European wars involving the French Empire, ruled by Napoleon I
Crimean War
1850s conflict between the Russian and Ottoman empires and their allies
Indian Rebellion of 1857
1857–58 uprising against British Company rule
Great Famine (Ireland)
Famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1852
Battle of the Little Bighorn
1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
Battle of Trafalgar
Major sea battle of the Napoleonic Wars
Industrial Revolution
1760–1840 period of transition from agrarian to industrial society through mechanized manufacturing
Battle of the Alamo
Major battle of the Texas Revolution
Spanish–American War
1898 conflict between Spain and the United States
Gilded Age
Era of US history from the 1870s to the late 1890s
Boxer Rebellion
1899–1901 anti-foreign uprising in China
Franco-Prussian War
1870-1871 military conflict between France and Prussia
Taiping Rebellion
Rebellion in Qing dynasty China
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
American Old shootout
Louisiana Purchase
Acquisition by the United States of America of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana
Austrian Empire
Empire in Europe from 1804 to 1867
20th century View All
World War II
1939–1945 global conflict
1948 Arab–Israeli War
Second and final stage of the 1947–1949 Palestine war
Iranian Revolution
Revolution in Iran from 1978 to 1979
Pan Am Flight 103
1988 terrorist bombing in Scotland
World War I
1914–1918 global conflict
Vietnam War
War in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975
The Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Use of nuclear weapons in World War II
Soviet Union
Country in Eurasia (1922–1991)
Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
Military confrontation between India and Pakistan alongside the Bangladesh Liberation War
1992 Los Angeles riots
Riots following the beating of Rodney King
Six-Day War
1967 war between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria
Chernobyl disaster
1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
Titanic
British passenger liner that sank in 1912
Israeli Declaration of Independence
1948 declaration of Israel's independence
Nazi Germany
German state from 1933 to 1945
Korean War
1950–1953 war between North and South Korea
Columbine High School massacre
1999 mass shooting in Columbine, Colorado, US
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the United States
Nanjing Massacre
Episode of mass murder and rape committed by Japanese troops
Unit 731
Japanese biological, chemical warfare unit (1936–1945)
Second Intifada
2000–2005 Palestinian uprising against Israel
Gulf War
1990–1991 war between Iraq and American-led coalition forces
Cold War
1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
21st century View All
September 11 attacks
2001 Islamist terror attacks in the U.S.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Russo-Ukrainian War
Armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine since 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Disappearance of passenger aircraft flight in 2014
Afghanistan
Country in South Asia
Iraq War
War in Iraq from 2003 to 2011
2017 Las Vegas shooting
Mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Indian Ocean
COVID-19 pandemic
Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2
Syrian civil war
Multi-sided war in Syria (2011–present)
QAnon
American far-right conspiracy theory
January 6 United States Capitol attack
Violent disruption of the presidential election certification on January 6, 2021
Killing of Osama bin Laden
U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.
2003 invasion of Iraq
United States-led military invasion
2020 Beirut explosion
Accidental ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut, Lebanon
Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
2020 U.S. drone strike killing of an Iranian major general
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Conflict between NATO Western forces and the Taliban
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
2020 war involving Azerbaijan against Armenia and Artsakh
November 2015 Paris attacks
Series of terrorist attacks in Paris, France, on November 13, 2015
War on terror
International military campaign that started after the 11 September 2001 attacks
Christchurch mosque shootings
2019 terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand
7 July 2005 London bombings
Islamist suicide terrorist attacks in London
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Megathrust earthquake off the east coast of Japan
2008 Mumbai attacks
Terrorist attacks in India