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- Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Explained
- Aceh War Explained
- Acid rain Explained
- Action of 18 February 1639 Explained
- Affair of Fielding and Bylandt Explained
- Afghanistan conflict Explained
- Air raid on Bari Explained
- Air raids on Japan Explained
- Algerian War Explained
- Alizarin Explained
- All Souls Day Explained
- Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine Explained
- Allied invasion of Italy Explained
- Allied invasion of Sicily Explained
- American Civil War (1861-1865) Explained
- American frontier Explained
- American Indian Wars Explained
- American Revolution Explained
- AMIA bombing Explained
- Anglo-Egyptian War Explained
- Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland Explained
- Anglo-Spanish War Explained
- Anglo-Zulu War Explained
- Apollo 6 Explained
- Apollo program Explained
- April 2015 Nepal earthquake Explained
- Arab Cold War Explained
- Arab Spring Explained
- Arab–Israeli conflict Explained
- Armenian genocide Explained
- Armistice Day Explained
- Armistice of 11 November 1918 Explained
- Asian Relations Conference Explained
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Explained
- Assassination of Admiral Coligny Explained
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy Explained
- Assassination of Julius Caesar Explained
- Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Explained
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Explained
- Attack on Pearl Harbor Explained
- Australasian Antarctic Expedition Explained
- Austro-Prussian War Explained
- Aztec Empire Explained
B
- Balkan Wars Explained
- Balkans campaign Explained
- Balkans theatre Explained
- Banana Wars Explained
- Battle in the Bay of Matanzas Explained
- Battle of Actium Explained
- Battle of Adwa Explained
- Battle of Almansa Explained
- Battle of Amba Aradam Explained
- Battle of Amiens Explained
- Battle of Ane Explained
- Battle of Antietam Explained
- Battle of Anzio Explained
- Battle of Arras Explained
- Battle of Balaclava Explained
- Battle of Belleau Wood Explained
- Battle of Bergen Explained
- Battle of Borgerhout Explained
- Battle of Borodino Explained
- Battle of Britain Explained
- Battle of Brunete Explained
- Battle of Buena Vista Explained
- Battle of Buna–Gona Explained
- Battle of Cassel Explained
- Battle of Castricum Explained
- Battle of Chipyong-ni Explained
- Battle of Chosin Reservoir Explained
- Battle of Cocos Explained
- Battle of Coronel Explained
- Battle of Dak To Explained
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu Explained
- Battle of Dogger Bank Explained
- Battle of Dreux Explained
- Battle of Dunkirk Explained
- Battle of Ekeren Explained
- Battle of El Guettar Explained
- Battle of Fleurus Explained
- Battle of Fort Sumter Explained
- Battle of France Explained
- Battle of Gembloux Explained
- Battle of Gibraltar Explained
- Battle of Guam Explained
- Battle of Haarlemmermeer Explained
- Battle of Haengju Explained
- Battle of Hampton Roads Explained
- Battle of Hasselt Explained
- Battle of Heiligerlee Explained
- Battle of Hill 609 Explained
- Battle of Hohenlinden Explained
- Battle of Ichi-no-Tani Explained
- Battle of Inchon Explained
- Battle of Inkerman Explained
- Battle of Iwo Jima Explained
- Battle of Jemmingen Explained
- Battle of Jiuliancheng Explained
- Battle of Kapyong Explained
- Battle of Kasserine Pass Explained
- Battle of Khe Sanh Explained
- Battle of Kissingen Explained
- Battle of Lake Erie Explained
- Battle of Landen Explained
- Battle of Leipzig Explained
- Battle of Lekkerbeetje Explained
- Battle of Lens Explained
- Battle of Leuven Explained
- Battle of Lodi Explained
- Battle of Lowestoft Explained
- Battle of Mactan Explained
- Battle of Majuba Hill Explained
- Battle of Málaga Explained
- Battle of Manila Explained
- Battle of Marciano Explained
- Battle of Mars-la-Tour Explained
- Battle of Midway Explained
- Battle of Mohács Explained
- Battle of Monmouth Explained
- Battle of Monte Cassino Explained
- Battle of Mookerheyde Explained
- Battle of Mühlberg Explained
- Battle of Nagashino Explained
- Battle of Narva Explained
- Battle of Nieuwpoort Explained
- Battle of Nördlingen Explained
- Battle of Öland Explained
- Battle of Oosterweel Explained
- Battle of Palo Alto Explained
- Battle of Passchendaele Explained
- Battle of Plymouth Explained
- Battle of Port Arthur Explained
- Battle of Porto Bello Explained
- Battle of Princeton Explained
- Battle of Quatre Bras Explained
- Battle of Queenston Heights Explained
- Battle of Rijmenam Explained
- Battle of Rocroi Explained
- Battle of Saint-Denis Explained
- Battle of Saint-Malo Explained
- Battle of Saragossa Explained
- Battle of Seonghwan Explained
- Battle of Sinop Explained
- Battle of Solebay Explained
- Battle of Solferino Explained
- Battle of Steenbergen Explained
- Battle of Tabu-dong Explained
- Battle of Taegu Explained
- Battle of Tannenberg Explained
- Battle of Texel Explained
- Battle of the Alamo (1836) Explained
- Battle of the Atlantic Explained
- Battle of the Bulge Explained
- Battle of the Downs Explained
- Battle of the Falkland Islands Explained
- Battle of the Frontiers Explained
- Battle of the Grebbeberg Explained
- Battle of the Lys Explained
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge Explained
- Battle of the Pyramids Explained
- Battle of the Slaak Explained
- Battle of the Somme Explained
- Battle of the Sound Explained
- Battle of the Wilderness Explained
- Battle of the Yellow Sea Explained
- Battle of Tunmen Explained
- Battle of Turnhout Explained
- Battle of Verdun Explained
- Battle of Vigo Bay Explained
- Battle of Yashima Explained
- Battle of Zacatecas Explained
- Battle on the Zuiderzee Explained
- Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue Explained
- Bay of Pigs Invasion Explained
- Belgian Revolution Explained
- Bengal famine of 1943 Explained
- Berlin Blockade Explained
- Berlin Crisis of 1961 Explained
- Bitwa pod Mińskiem Explained
- Boer Wars Explained
- Boipatong massacre Explained
- Bombardment of Algiers Explained
- Bombardment of Brussels Explained
- Bombing of Chongqing Explained
- Bombing of Tokyo Explained
- Boston Tea Party (1773) Explained
- Boxer Rebellion Explained
- Brabant Revolution Explained
- Brazilian Revolution of 1930 Explained
- Brown v. Board of Education Explained
- Burma campaign Explained
C
- Cairo Conference Explained
- California Gold Rush Explained
- Capture of Brielle Explained
- Capture of Geertruidenberg Explained
- Capture of Maastricht Explained
- Capture of Portobello Explained
- Capture of Rome Explained
- Casablanca Conference Explained
- Centennial Olympic Park bombing Explained
- Charge of the Light Brigade Explained
- Chernobyl disaster Explained
- Chilean Civil War of 1891 Explained
- Chinese Civil War Explained
- Chouannerie Explained
- Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage Explained
- Civil Rights Act of 1957 Explained
- Civil rights movement Explained
- Cold War Explained
- Cologne War Explained
- Columbine High School massacre Explained
- Communist uprising of 1935 Explained
- Constitutionalist Revolution Explained
- CONTOUR Explained
- Coronation of Elizabeth II Explained
- Crimean War Explained
- Croydon typhoid outbreak of 1937 Explained
- Crucifixion of Jesus Explained
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Explained
- Cuban Missile Crisis Explained
- Cuban Revolution Explained
D
- Dano-Swedish War Explained
- Day of the Dead Exhibit Explained
- Day of the Dead Explained
- Death and state funeral of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Explained
- Declaration of Independence (1776) Explained
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill Explained
- Defiance Campaign Explained
- Die Wende Explained
- Dieppe Raid Explained
- Documenta 14 Explained
- Doolittle Raid Explained
- Driving under the influence Explained
- Dunkirk evacuation Explained
- Dutch East Indies campaign Explained
- Dutch famine of 1944–1945 Explained
- Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem Explained
E
- Earp Vendetta Ride Explained
- Easter Rising Explained
- Eastern Air Lines Flight 605 Explained
- Eastern Front Explained
- Edo period Explained
- Election of Barack Obama (2008) Explained
- Election recount Explained
- End of World War II in Europe Explained
- English Civil War Explained
- Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD Explained
- European theatre of World War I Explained
- European theatre of World War II Explained
- Eva Peron Explained
- Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II Explained
- Evil eye Explained
- Exercise Tiger Explained
- Expedition of the Thousand Explained
- Expo 2010 Explained
- Exposition Universelle Explained
F
- Falklands War Explained
- Fascist and anti-Fascist violence in Italy Explained
- First Anglo-Dutch War Explained
- First Battle of Bull Run Explained
- First battle of Schooneveld Explained
- First Battle of the Marne Explained
- First Indochina War Explained
- First Italian War of Independence Explained
- First Matabele War Explained
- First Sino-Japanese War Explained
- Floods of Po river november 1951 Explained
- Football War Explained
- Four Days’ Battle Explained
- Fourth Anglo-Dutch War Explained
- Fourth Phase Offensive Explained
- Franco-Prussian War Explained
- Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) Explained
- French Fury Explained
- French Revolution Explained
- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Explained
G
- Gallipoli campaign Explained
- Gaspee Affair Explained
- Genpei War Explained
- German bombing of Rotterdam Explained
- German campaign of 1813 Explained
- German invasion of Belgium Explained
- German invasion of the Netherlands Explained
- German occupation of Latvia during World War II Explained
- German Peasants’ War Explained
- German reunification Explained
- German Revolution of 1918–1919 Explained
- Gold Rush (1848) Explained
- Gravettian Explained
- Great Eastern Crisis Explained
- Great Fire of London Explained
- Great Patriotic War Explained
- Greek Civil War Explained
- Gresford disaster Explained
- Guadalcanal campaign Explained
- Gulf War Explained
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Explained
- Gwangju Uprising Explained
H
- Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing Explained
- Hindenburg disaster Explained
- Hook and Cod wars Explained
- Hundred Days Offensive Explained
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Explained
- Hungnam evacuation Explained
- Hurricane Earl Explained
- Hurricane Florence Explained
- Hurricane Harvey Explained
- Hurricane Hector Explained
- Hurricane Ian Explained
- Hurricane Irma Explained
- Hurricane Isaac Explained
- Hurricane Katrina Explained
- Hurricane Maria Explained
- Hurricane Matthew Explained
- Hurricane Michael Explained
- Hurricane Sandy Explained
I
- Incan Empire Explained
- Incunable Explained
- Indian independence movement Explained
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 Explained
- Indonesian National Revolution Explained
- Information Age Explained
- International Geophysical Year Explained
- International military intervention against ISIL Explained
- Interwar period Explained
- Invasion of Normandy Explained
- Invasion of Poland Explained
- Iran hostage crisis Explained
- Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict Explained
- Iranian Revolution Explained
- Iraq War Explained
- Iraqi Civil Wars Explained
- Iraqi conflict (2003–present) Explained
- Irish Civil War Explained
- Irish Free State offensive Explained
- Italian and Swiss expedition Explained
- Italian campaign Explained
- Italian front Explained
- Italian War of 1551–1559 Explained
J
- Jameson Raid Explained
- Japanese occupation of the Philippines Explained
- Japanese repatriation from Huludao Explained
- John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry Explained
- John F. Kennedy 1961 presidential inauguration Explained
- Johnstown Flood Explained
- June 1976 protests Explained
K
- Kalinga War Explained
- Kamakura period Explained
- Kastner train Explained
- Kent State shootings Explained
- Kettle War Explained
- Kofun period Explained
- Korabl-Sputnik 1 Explained
- Korean conflict Explained
- Korean War Explained
- Kristallnacht Explained
L
- Lady Be Good Explained
- Landing at Anzac Cove Explained
- Landing at Saidor Explained
- Laotian Civil War Explained
- Last battle of the battleship Bismarck Explained
- Liberation of France Explained
- Liberation of Paris Explained
- Louisiana Purchase (1803) Explained
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition Explained
M
- Manassas Campaign Explained
- Manstein Plan Explained
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Explained
- Mariana and Palau Islands campaign Explained
- Markham Colliery disaster Explained
- Marriage Explained
- Martial law in Poland Explained
- Martin Luther King Jr. Explained
- Massacre of Naarden Explained
- Mau Mau Uprising Explained
- Maundy Thursday Explained
- May 68 Explained
- Mayan Civilization Explained
- Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II Explained
- Mediterranean campaign of 1798 Explained
- Meiji Explained
- Mercury-Atlas 9 Explained
- Mesopotamian campaign Explained
- Mexican Day Of The Dead Festival Explained
- Mexican Revolution Explained
- Middle East Theatre of World War II Explained
- Middle Eastern theatre of World War I Explained
- Military history of Australia during the Vietnam War Explained
- Miracles of Jesus Explained
- Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam Explained
- Mukden Incident Explained
- Muromachi period Explained
- Mỹ Lai massacre Explained
N
- NATO bombing of Yugoslavia Explained
- Naval history of World War II Explained
- Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign Explained
- Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa Explained
- Neil Armstrong lands on the moon (1969) Explained
- Nepalese royal massacre Explained
- New Zealand Wars Explained
- Newfoundland Loggers’ Strike Explained
- Nigerian Civil War Explained
- Nile Expedition Explained
- Nine Years’ War Explained
- Normandy Campaign Explained
- Normandy landings Explained
- North African campaign Explained
- Northern Crusades Explained
- Northern Wars Explained
O
- Occupation of Poland Explained
- Occupation of the Baltic states Explained
- Occupy movement Explained
- Occupy Wall Street Explained
- October 2017 Northern California wildfires Explained
- October Revolution Explained
- Olympic Games Rio 2016 Explained
- Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Explained
- Operation Barbarossa Explained
- Operation Boomerang Explained
- Operation Crossroads Explained
- Operation Diadem Explained
- Operation Market Garden Explained
- Operation Overlord Explained
- Operation Plunder Explained
- Operation Sourisak Montry VIII Explained
- Operation Tempest Explained
- Opium Wars Explained
- Order of battle of the Waterloo campaign Explained
- Ottoman wars in Europe Explained
- Overland Campaign Explained
P
- Pablo Picasso Explained
- Pacific War Explained
- Pan-American Exposition Explained
- Panama crisis of 1885 Explained
- Panama–Pacific International Exposition Explained
- Paraguayan War Explained
- Partition of India Explained
- Philippine Revolution Explained
- Philippines campaign Explained
- Piazza della Loggia bombing Explained
- Pilot Plan for Brasilia Explained
- Polish Round Table Agreement Explained
- Polish–Soviet War Explained
- Poor People’s Campaign Explained
- Potsdam Conference Explained
- Prague uprising Explained
- Proclamation of the Republic Explained
- Protests of 1968 Explained
R
- Raid on the Medway Explained
- Revolt of the Batavi Explained
- Revolutions of 1989 Explained
- Rhineland Offensive Explained
- Rif War Explained
- Rim Fire Explained
- Romanian Revolution Explained
- Russian Civil War Explained
- Russian conquest of the Caucasus Explained
- Russian invasion of East Prussia Explained
- Russian Revolution Explained
- Russo-Japanese War Explained
- Russo-Turkish War Explained
S
- Sack of Antwerp Explained
- Salt March Explained
- Scanian War Explained
- Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow Explained
- Second Anglo-Afghan War Explained
- Second Boer War Explained
- Second expedition to Palembang Explained
- Second French intervention in Mexico Explained
- Second Hundred Years’ War Explained
- Second Italo-Ethiopian War Explained
- Second Matabele War Explained
- Second Phase Offensive Explained
- Second Quebec Conference Explained
- Second Schleswig War Explained
- Second Sino-Japanese War Explained
- Second Sudanese Civil War Explained
- Selma to Montgomery marches Explained
- September 11 attacks Explained
- Sharpeville massacre Explained
- Siege of Arras Explained
- Siege of Barcelona Explained
- Siege of Bergen op Zoom Explained
- Siege of Breda Explained
- Siege of Cawnpore Explained
- Siege of Eger Explained
- Siege of Geertruidenberg Explained
- Siege of Grave Explained
- Siege of Groenlo Explained
- Siege of Haarlem Explained
- Siege of Hulst Explained
- Siege of Jülich Explained
- Siege of Leiden Explained
- Siege of Leningrad Explained
- Siege of Maastricht Explained
- Siege of Madrid Explained
- Siege of Mafeking Explained
- Siege of Namur Explained
- Siege of Nijmegen Explained
- Siege of Ostend Explained
- Siege of Paris Explained
- Siege of Sevastopol Explained
- Siege of Tobruk Explained
- Siege of Tripolitsa Explained
- Siege of Vienna (1683) Explained
- Siege of Warsaw Explained
- Silesian Wars Explained
- Simon Bolivar Explained
- Sinking of the RMS Lusitania Explained
- Sinking of the RMS Titanic Explained
- Sino-Indian War Explained
- Sioux Wars Explained
- Six-Day War Explained
- South-East Asian theatre of World War II Explained
- Soweto uprising Explained
- Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Explained
- Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Explained
- Spanish Civil War Explained
- Spanish–American War Explained
- Spillover of the Syrian civil war Explained
- Spring Offensive Explained
- St. Elizabeth’s flood Explained
- Stedinger Crusade Explained
- Steel strike of 1919 Explained
- Stonewall riots Explained
- Storm Ciara Explained
- Strategic bombing during World War II Explained
- STS-107 Explained
- STS-121 Explained
- STS-41-B Explained
- STS-51-L Explained
- STS-95 Explained
- Suez Crisis Explained
- Sugar Ray Robinson-Bobo Olson Explained
- Sukhoi Explained
- Summer of Love Explained
- Summerland disaster Explained
- Syrian civil war Explained
T
- Taiping Rebellion Explained
- Taishō Explained
- Tehran Conference Explained
- Ten days’ campaign Explained
- Ten Tragic Days Explained
- Tet Offensive Explained
- The Beach Boys Explained
- The Blitz Explained
- The Great Depression (1929-1939) Explained
- The Great Depression Explained
- The London 2012 Summer Olympics Explained
- The Netherlands War of Independence (second part) Explained
- The Prussian Invasion of the Netherlands Explained
- The Vajont dam disaster Explained
- Third Anglo-Dutch War Explained
- Transition from Ming to Qing Explained
- Treaties of Nijmegen Explained
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire Explained
- Trojan War Explained
- Tryst with Destiny Explained
- Tulip mania Explained
- Tunisian Campaign Explained
U
- U-boat Campaign Explained
- Ukrainian War of Independence Explained
- UN retreat from North Korea Explained
- United States Bicentennial Explained
- United States invasion of Panama Explained
- Uprising of 1953 in East Germany Explained
- Urartu–Assyria War Explained
V
- Victorian era Explained
- Victorian gold rush Explained
- Victory in Europe Day Explained
- Video game Explained
- Vietnam War Explained
- Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign Explained
- Vostok 3 Explained
W
- Walcheren Campaign Explained
- War in Afghanistan Explained
- War in Iraq Explained
- War of Canudos Explained
- War of Jenkins’ Ear Explained
- War of the First Coalition Explained
- War of the Fourth Coalition Explained
- War of the Jülich Succession Explained
- War of the League of Cambrai Explained
- War of the Second Coalition Explained
- War on drugs Explained
- War on terror Explained
- Wars of the Three Kingdoms Explained
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Explained
- Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia Explained
- Warsaw Uprising Explained
- Watergate scandal Explained
- Wedding Explained
- Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten Explained
- Western Allied invasion of Germany Explained
- Western Desert campaign Explained
- Western Front Explained
- White Friday Explained
- Winter War Explained
- Women’s March Explained
- Woodstock Explained
- World War I Explained
- World War II in Yugoslavia Explained
- Wright brothers’ first flight (1903) Explained
Y
Z
Others
- 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Explained
- 17th Academy Awards Explained
- 1908 Messina earthquake Explained
- 1912 Summer Olympics Explained
- 1936 Summer Olympics Explained
- 1938 British Empire Games Explained
- 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine Explained
- 1947–1949 Palestine war Explained
- 1948 Arab–Israeli War Explained
- 1950 FIFA World Cup Explained
- 1952 Republican National Convention Explained
- 1953 Flint–Beecher tornado Explained
- 1954 Geneva Conference Explained
- 1958 FIFA World Cup Explained
- 1958 Lebanon crisis Explained
- 1960 Democratic National Convention Explained
- 1960 U-2 incident Explained
- 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion Explained
- 1968 Democratic National Convention Explained
- 1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill Explained
- 1974 FIFA World Cup Explained
- 1976 Summer Olympics Explained
- 1980 Summer Olympics Explained
- 1981 Spanish coup d’état attempt Explained
- 1981 warning strike in Poland Explained
- 1988 Armenian earthquake Explained
- 2000 Summer Olympics Explained
- 2001 Gujarat earthquake Explained
- 2002 FIFA World Cup Explained
- 2004 Summer Olympics Explained
- 2006 Commonwealth Games Explained
- 2006 FIFA World Cup Explained
- 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup Explained
- 2008 Summer Olympics Explained
- 2010 Haiti Earthquake Explained
- 2017 California wildfires Explained
- 2017 Chiapas earthquake Explained
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic Explained
- 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake Explained
- 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN Explained
- 2nd millennium Explained
- ʻUrabi revolt Explained
- Австро-турецкая война Explained
- 三十年战争 Explained
- 마산-군산 진격 전투 Explained