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Japan1615Wars
The Siege of Osaka ended Japan's century of civil war and consolidated Tokugawa power, ushering in an era of unprecedented peace and cultural flourishing.
The Sengoku period was an era of civil war, political fragmentation and social change in Japanese history. - summary
Hungary1526Wars
Ottoman victory over Hungary redirected the empire's expansion into Europe and established Ottoman dominion over the Balkans for nearly two centuries.
The Battle of Mohács took place on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, in the Kingdom of Hungary. - summary
Italy1525Wars
The Spanish victory over French forces in Italy shifted the balance of Renaissance power dynamics and established Spanish military dominance in Europe.
The Battle of Pavia, fought on the morning of 24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–1526 between the Kingdom of France and the Habsburg Empire of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor as wel… - summary
Spain1492Wars
Columbus's Atlantic crossing initiated European colonization, global trade networks, and the displacement of indigenous civilizations.
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and early 19th century. - summary
Iraq1365Wars
Ashur-uballit I's military campaigns transformed Assyria into the ancient Near East's dominant imperial power and established tributary networks.
The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem was an aborted siege of Jerusalem, then capital of the Kingdom of Judah, carried out by Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. - summary
Global602Wars
The twenty-six-year conflict between empires devastated the Levant and enabled Islamic conquest within a generation.
The Roman–Persian wars, also called the Roman–Iranian wars, took place between the Greco-Roman world and the Iranian world, beginning with the Roman Republic and the Parthian Empire in 54 BC and ending with the Byzant… - summary
Italy535Wars
Byzantine-Gothic conflict that devastated the Italian peninsula and ended classical Roman civilization in the West.
Ostrogothic Ravenna refers to the time period in which Ravenna, a city in Northeastern Italy, served as the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, which existed between 493 and 553 CE. - summary
Tunisia146Wars
The destruction of Carthage by Rome ended the Punic Wars and established Rome's dominance over the Mediterranean.
The siege of Carthage was the main engagement of the Third Punic War fought between Carthage and Rome. - summary
Italy135Wars
The first major slave rebellion against Rome in Sicily mobilized over 70,000 enslaved workers and revealed the structural tensions of slave-dependent agrarian empires.
Sicilian Avenue is a Grade II listed, pedestrianised Edwardian avenue in Holborn, London, that runs diagonally between Southampton Row and Bloomsbury Way. - summary
Italy30 BCEWars
Octavian's victory over Antony and Cleopatra ended the Hellenistic world and made Rome undisputed master of the Mediterranean, ushering in the Pax Romana.
Greece in the Roman era refers to the period of ancient Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically, from the Roman Republic's conquest of mainland Greece in 146 BC u… - summary
Global130000 BCEWars
Systematic competition for resources and territory between early human populations established patterns of organized violence that would define all subsequent warfare and geopolitical history.
Group dynamics is a system of behaviors and psychological processes occurring within a social group, or between social groups. - summary
Global2019
On this day (07/18), 7 years ago: A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing 36 people and injuring dozens of others.
The Kyoto Animation arson attack occurred at Kyoto Animation's Studio 1 building in the Fushimi ward of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, on the morning of 18 July 2019. - summary
Global2015
On this day (07/17), 11 years ago: At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
A suicide car bombing occurred on 17 July 2015 in the Iraqi city of Khan Bani Saad, targeting a local marketplace. - summary
Global2015
On this day (07/27), 11 years ago: Seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.
On 27 July 2015, three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants dressed in army uniforms opened fire on a bus and then attacked the Dina Nagar police station in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, India. - summary
Global2006
On this day (07/11), 20 years ago: Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
The 2006 Mumbai train bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts on 11 July 2006. - summary
Global1999
On this day (08/02), 27 years ago: The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
The Gaisal train collision occurred on 2 August 1999, when two trains carrying about 2,500 people collided at the remote station of Gaisal in West Bengal, India. - summary
Global1996
On this day (07/25), 30 years ago: In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
The 1996 Burundian coup d'état was a military coup d'état that took place in Burundi on 25 July 1996. - summary
Global1987
On this day (07/24), 39 years ago: Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
Hulda Hoehn Crooks was an American mountaineer, dietitian and vegetarianism activist. - summary
Global1983
On this day (05/20), 43 years ago: First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.
In 1983, the disease that would become known as AIDS was still largely invisible to the general public, though medical professionals were beginning to piece together a troubling pattern. - summary
Global1980
On this day (08/01), 46 years ago: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is an Icelandic stateswoman and theatre director who was the fourth president of Iceland, serving from 1980 to 1996, the first woman to hold the position and the first in the world to be democrat… - summary