Search
2138 matches.
Turkey334Wars
Alexander the Great's first victory over Persian forces in Asia Minor shattered the myth of invincibility and launched his conquest of the eastern world.
The battle took place on the road from Abydus to Dascylium, at the crossing of the Granicus in the Troad region, which is now called the Biga River in Turkey. - summary
Greece490 BCEWars
Athens' improbable victory over Darius's invading Persians secured Greek independence and enabled the Classical era's cultural flourishing.
The Greco-Persian Wars, also called the Persian Wars, were a series of armed conflicts involving various Greek city-states and the Achaemenid Empire from 499 BC to 449 BC. - summary
Europe130000 BCEAwards
Evidence of ochre pigment use and symbolic marking suggests early aesthetic and possibly ritualistic expression among Neanderthal populations.
Together with religion and other cultural universals of contemporary human societies, the emergence of figurative art is a necessary attribute of full behavioral modernity. - summary
Global9700 BCEDisasters
The abrupt climatic shift and sea-level rise transformed human settlement patterns, triggering mass migration and the conditions that enabled permanent agriculture.
End plate potentials (EPPs) are the voltages which cause depolarization of skeletal muscle fibers caused by neurotransmitters binding to the postsynaptic membrane in the neuromuscular junction. - summary
Global9650 BCEDisasters
The Younger Dryas climate catastrophe (~9650 BCE) triggered the shift from nomadic hunting to sedentary farming in the Levant, fundamentally reshaping human civilization.
Agriculture in Canada is a shared jurisdiction and the department works with the provinces and territories in the development and delivery of policies and programs. - summary
Iraq3400 BCETech launches
The emergence of cuneiform marks humanity's first writing system, revolutionizing record-keeping and enabling complex administrative governance.
The Urdu alphabet is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu. - summary
Iraq2330 BCEWars
Sargon of Akkad's conquests represent the first documented empire-building campaign with written records of large-scale organized military operations across Mesopotamia.
War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, o… - summary
United States2022
The high-profile defamation trial captivated millions on social media, raising questions about celebrity, abuse allegations, and digital justice.
John Christopher Depp II is an American actor, musician, and filmmaker. - summary
United States2021Elections
Senate acquitted Trump of incitement over the Capitol riot, cementing Republican protection of a sitting president's actions.
president and only federal official to be impeached twice. - summary
United Kingdom2016Elections
A single-question ballot, a 1.3-million-vote margin, and the start of the UK's exit from the bloc that defined its postwar economy
The second produced the opposite answer by a 3.78-point margin: 17,410,742 votes to leave, 16,141,241 to remain. - summary
Global2014
On this day (08/03), 12 years ago: The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. - summary
Global2006
On this day (07/30), 20 years ago: An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.
The 2006 Qana airstrike was an airstrike carried out by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) on a three-story building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30, 2006, during the… - summary
United States1997Tech launches
The DVD standard displaced VHS and became the dominant home media format for nearly two decades, revolutionizing consumer entertainment distribution.
In the United States public school system, released time or release time is time set aside during school hours, typically an hour a day or a week, for students to voluntarily receive off-campus private religious educa… - summary
Global1997
On this day (05/19), 29 years ago: The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
The Sierra Gorda is an ecological region centered on the northern third of the Mexican state of Querétaro and extending into the neighboring states of Guanajuato, Hidalgo and San Luis Potosí. - summary
Global1976
On this day (09/10), 50 years ago: A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision was a mid-air collision that took place on September 10, 1976, when British Airways Flight 476 en route from London to Istanbul, collided mid-air with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550… - summary
United States1958Tech launches
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce's simultaneous invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 was the foundational breakthrough that made miniaturization, computing, and the digital age itself possible.
The idea of integrating electronic circuits into a single device was born when the German physicist and engineer Werner Jacobi developed and patented the first known integrated transistor amplifier in 1949 and the Bri… - summary
Vietnam1950Wars
French colonial forces clashed with Việt Minh guerrillas in a grinding conflict that would consume a decade and reshape Asian geopolitics.
What began as a colonial police action in 1950 metastasized into a full-scale war that pit nationalist insurgency against Western military power, ultimately exposing the limits of firepower against political will. - summary
Japan1945Wars
The bomb that ended everything, and the surrender that followed.
Location of formal signing: USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay - key fact
Germany1933Protests
Days after Hitler's rise, the Nazi regime organized the first systematic boycott of Jewish-owned shops, signaling organized persecution and economic exclusion.
The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses was a nationwide boycott on various commercial establishments such as shops, warehouses, banks, doctor's offices, law firms, and notaries across Germany on 1 April 1933. - summary
Germany1930Elections
The Nazi party's stunning electoral surge in Depression-era Germany signaled the crisis of liberal democracy and democracy's near-fatal vulnerability.
The Basic Law also requires that the federal legislature enact detailed federal laws to govern elections; electoral law(s). - summary