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Global1996
On this day (07/18), 30 years ago: Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
It was the biggest overland flood in 20th-century Canadian history. - summary
United States1992Elections
Bill Clinton's victory over incumbent George H.W. Bush marked a decisive shift in American politics, ending 12 years of Republican control and reshaping the 1990s agenda.
Bush and vice president Dan Quayle and the independent ticket of businessman Ross Perot and vice admiral James Stockdale. - summary
Global1991Tech launches
On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted a message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup announcing that the World Wide Web was now available to anyone with internet access. - summary
United Kingdom1979Elections
First female British Prime Minister's election reshaping Anglo-American conservatism and industrial policy.
She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the office. - summary
Cuba1962Wars
In October 1962, the United States discovered that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, roughly 90 miles off the Florida coast. - summary
Germany1948Wars
The Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Western airlift response became the first major Cold War crisis, demonstrating resolve and technological capability under pressure.
During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. - summary
United States1939Tech launches
Pan Am's Boeing 314 Clipper completed the first regular passenger service across the Atlantic, shrinking the world before World War II erupted.
Aircraft type: Boeing 314 flying boat - key fact
Germany1933Wars
How a fire became the match that lit totalitarianism.
The Reichstag, seat of the German parliament, went up in flames on the evening of February 27, 1933-just weeks after Adolf Hitler became chancellor. - summary
United States1920Tech launches
KDKA's first commercial radio broadcast established mass wireless communication as a transformative medium for news, entertainment, and culture.
Radio broadcasting is the transmission of signals, especially audio, to receivers using radio waves over a wide area. - summary
Australia1915Wars
Churchill's gamble turned into eight months of trenches and blood.
A navigation error placed the ANZACs about a mile north of their intended beach, depositing them at the base of steep cliffs held by Ottoman forces under Mustafa Kemal. - summary
Global1914Wars
A teenager's bullets topple empires and launch total war.
On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip fired two shots in Sarajevo that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. - summary
Pakistan1900Disasters
Indus Valley's largest city shows repeated flood deposits and abandonment layers indicating catastrophic environmental collapse of a major Bronze Age civilization.
2500 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation, and one of the world's earliest major cities, contemporaneous with the civilisations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Minoa, and … - summary
Germany1871Revolutions
Otto von Bismarck spent the 1860s engineering a series of wars that would bind the fractious German states into a single nation under Prussian dominance. - summary
England1534Elections
Henry VIII's break with Rome through parliamentary act establishes the Church of England and reorients English religious and political authority.
The English Reformation began in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away first from the authority of the pope and bishops over the King and then from some doctrines and practices of the Catholic Chu… - summary
Holy Roman Empire1517Protests
Luther's challenge to papal indulgences ignites the Protestant Reformation, fracturing Western Christianity and triggering centuries of religious and political upheaval.
What might have remained an academic grievance exploded into continental upheaval when Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar operating in territories adjacent to Wittenberg, launched an aggressive campaign selling indulgen… - summary
Spain1492Wars
The fall of Granada's Nasrid Emirate ended 780 years of Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula, unifying Catholic Spain and launching the Age of European Exploration.
In January 1492, Spanish Christian forces under the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella captured Granada, the last Muslim-controlled territory on the Iberian Peninsula. - summary
England1066Wars
William's coronation following his Norman victory at Hastings inaugurated a new dynastic order and redirected the course of English political development.
The coronation of William the Conqueror as King of England took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 25 December 1066, following the Norman Conquest of England. - summary
Greece31 BCEWars
The decisive naval confrontation between Octavian and Mark Antony that ended the Roman civil wars and established the Augustan Empire.
The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC in the Ionian Sea, near the former Roman colony of Actium, Greece, and was the climax of over a decade of rivalry between Octavian and Mark Antony. - summary
Nigeria1500 BCELaunches
West African savanna peoples developed terracotta sculpture, iron smelting, and settled agriculture, founding a civilization visible through surviving art.
Around 1500 BCE, the Nok culture emerged in what is now central Nigeria, establishing itself in the region between the Niger and Benue rivers in an area roughly corresponding to modern-day Kaduna and Plateau states. - summary
Fertile Crescent10000 BCETech launches
The domestication of crops and animals fundamentally reshaped human civilization, enabling permanent settlements and population growth across the Near East.
Geographic origin: Fertile Crescent (modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, and Turkey) - key fact