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Abbas I, Shah ref1
Abbasid caliphate ref1
abolition of slavery ref1
aboriginal population, Australia ref1, ref2
Achaemenes of Persia, King ref1
Acre, Israel ref1
Act of Supremacy (1534) ref1
African colonies, European ref1, ref2
African National Congress (ANC) ref1
Agincourt (1415), Battle of ref1
agricultural revolution, Britain ref1
Aksum Empire, Africa ref1
Alexander the Great ref1, ref2, ref3
American Civil War ref1, ref2, ref3
American Telephone & Telegraph ref1
Americas see Mexico; New Spain; New World; North America; Peru; Spanish America
Amorites ref1
Amritsar Massacre (1919) ref1
Anatolia ref1
animal domestication ref1
Anyang ref1
apartheid system ref1
Archaic Period, Greek ref1, ref2
Archimedes ref1
Argentina ref1
Artemis, temple of ref1
Artemisia II of Caria ref1
Arthur, King ref1
Aryabhata ref1
Ashanti Empire, Africa ref1, ref2
Ashoka, Emperor ref1
Ashurbanipal of Assyria, King ref1
Askia Dynasty (Songhai Empire) ref1
Assyrians ref1
Atahualpa ref1
atomic bombs ref1
Attila the Hun ref1
Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor ref1
Auschwitz death camp, Poland ref1
Austerlitz (1805), Battle of ref1
Australian aboriginal population ref1
Austria ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Austrian Succession, War of the ref1
Austro-Prussian War ref1
automobile industry ref1
Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacan ref1
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Babylonians ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Baghdad ref1
Barbarossa, Frederick ref1
Battle of Britain ref1
Battle of the Atlantic ref1
Battle of the Bulge ref1
Bede ref1
Bedford, Duke of ref1
Belgium ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Bell, Alexander Graham ref1
Bill of Rights (1689) ref1
Bismarck, Otto von ref1
the Blitz ref1
Boer War ref1
Bohemia ref1
Boleyn, Anne ref1
Bolívar, Simón ref1
Borodino (1812), Battle of ref1
Boston Tea Party ref1
Boudicca, Queen ref1
Boxer Rebellion ref1
Boyaca (1819), Battle of ref1
Britain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33
see also England; Ireland; Scotland
British War Office ref1
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) ref1, ref2
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Cairo, Egypt ref1
calendars ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Calvin, John ref1
Cannae (216 BCE), Battle of ref1
Canute, King ref1
Carabobo (1821), Battle of ref1
Caracol, Chichen Itza, Mexico ref1
Carolingian Empire ref1
Carolingian Renaissance ref1
Carrhae (53 BCE), Battle of ref1
cars ref1
Cartier, Jacques ref1
Catherine of Aragon ref1
Catherine ‘the Great’ of Russia ref1
Catholicism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Cavour, Count ref1
Charlemagne, Emperor ref1, ref2, ref3
Charles I of Britain, King ref1
Charles II of Britain, King ref1
Chesapeake colonies ref1
China ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18
Chinese Civil War ref1
Chinese Communist Party ref1
Christianity ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Cixi, Empress Dowager ref1
Claudius, Emperor ref1
clay tablets, ancient ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
clocks, first mechanical ref1
Cold War ref1
Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves ref1
colonial troops, First World War ref1
colonization of Africa, European ref1
Colossus of Rhodes ref1
Columbian Exchange ref1
Columbus, Christopher ref1, ref2, ref3
Common Sense (T. Paine) ref1
Communist Manifesto (K. Marx and F. Engels) ref1
Confederate States of America ref1
Conquistadors, Spanish ref1, ref2, ref3
Constantine, Emperor ref1
Constantinople ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
convict settlements, Australia ref1
Cook, Captain James ref1, ref2
Coral Sea (1942), Battle of the ref1
Cortes, Hernan ref1
cotton industry ref1, ref2, ref3
Crete ref1
Crimean War ref1
Crompton, Samuel ref1
Cromwell, Oliver ref1
Crusades, Christian ref1, ref2
cuneiform scripts ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
currencies ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cyrus II of Persia, King ref1
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da Gama, Vasco ref1, ref2, ref3
da Vinci, Leonardo ref1
Darius I ‘the Great’ of Persia, King ref1, ref2
Darius II of Persia, King ref1
Darwin, Charles ref1
dating terminology ref1
de San Martin, José ref1
death camps, Second World War ref1
Declaration of Independence (1776) ref1
Democratic Republic of China ref1
Denmark ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Diaz, Porfirio ref1
Dionysius Exiguus ref1
disease ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Domesday Book ref1
Dreadnought, HMS ref1
Dutch Revolt ref1
dyes, ancient ref1
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East India Company, British ref1, ref2
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Bede) ref1
Edessa, Mesopotamia ref1
d’ Edglantine, Fabre ref1
Edison, Thomas ref1
Edward III of England, King ref1
Edward of England, Prince ref1
Edward VI of England, King ref1
Egypt ref1, ref2 see also Egypt, Ancient
Egypt, Ancient ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Elizabeth I of England, Queen ref1, ref2
Engels, Friedrich ref1
England ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
see also Britain
Enigma Code ref1
Enola Gay ref1
Erasmus ref1
Ericsson, Leif ref1
Esfahan, Persia ref1
Ethiopia ref1
Etruscans ref1
Euclid ref1
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farming ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ferdinand, Archduke Franz ref1
Ferrier, Thomas ref1
Fertile Crescent ref1
Feudal system ref1
First World War ref1
Ford, Henry ref1
France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23
Franco, General Francisco ref1
Frederick II ‘the Great’ of Prussia, Emperor ref1
Frederick William I of Prussia, King ref1
French Revolution ref1, ref2, ref3
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Gallipoli campaign, First World War ref1
Gandhi, Mahatma ref1
Garibaldi, Giuseppe ref1
Gemmei of Japan, Empress ref1
Genghis Khan ref1
Geoffrey of Monmouth ref1
George III of Britain, King ref1
Germanic tribes and Roman Empire ref1, ref2
Germany ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22
Gettysburg (1863), Battle of ref1
Gobind Singh, Guru ref1
Gospels, Christian ref1
Grand Canal, China ref1
Grant, General Ulysses S. ref1
Great Depression ref1
Great Fire of London ref1
Great Meireki Fire ref1
Great Purge, Stalin’s ref1
Great Pyramid, Giza ref1, ref2
Great Pyramid, Tenochtitlan ref1
Great Wall of China ref1
the Great War ref1
Greece, Ancient ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Gugong (Forbidden City), China ref1
Gupta Dynasty, India ref1
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, King ref1
Gutenberg Bible ref1
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Hadrian, Emperor ref1
Hadrian’s Wall ref1
Hammurabi Code ref1
Hanging Gardens of Babylon ref1
Hannibal ref1
Hargreaves, James ref1
Hastings (1066), Battle of ref1
Heinz, John ref1
Hellenistric Greece ref1
Henry V of England, King ref1
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ref1
Henry VIII of England, King ref1, ref2, ref3
Heydrich, Reinhard ref1
Hindu-Arabic numerals ref1, ref2
Hindus/ Hinduism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Hiroshima and Nagasaki ref1
Historia Regum Britanniae (Geoffrey of Monmouth) ref1
Hitler, Adolf ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Hittites ref1
Holland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Holy Roman Empire ref1
Homer ref1
Hong Kong ref1
Hong Xiuquan ref1
Hope Diamond ref1
Huitzilopochtli ref1
Hulagu ref1
100 Years War ref1
Hundred Days, Napoleonic ref1
Hunnic Empire ref1
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Iceni tribe ref1
Ife, Nigeria ref1
Iliad (Homer) ref1
India ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Indian National Congress ref1
Indus Empire ref1
Industrial Revolution ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
International Brigade, Spanish Civil War ref1
Ireland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Islam/ Muslims ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Israel, lost tribes of ref1
Issus, Battle of ref1
Italy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Ivan IV ‘the Terrible’ of Russia, Tsar ref1
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Jacobins ref1
Jacquerie revolt, France ref1
Jahan, Shah ref1
James II of Britain, King ref1
Japan ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Jefferson, Thomas ref1
Jenner, Edward ref1
Jews ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
John I, Pope ref1
John III Sobieski of Poland ref1
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Kara Mustafa ref1
Khalsa warriors ref1
Khufu, Pharaoh ref1
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert ref1
Knights of the Round Table ref1
Knossos, Palace of ref1
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‘Land of the Seven Rivers’ ref1
Lee, Robert E. ref1
Leo III, Pope ref1
Leo X, Pope ref1
Leopold of Austria, Duke ref1
Liegnitz (1241), Battle of ref1
Lin Zexu ref1
Lincoln, Abraham ref1
Lind, James ref1
Lombards ref1
London, England ref1, ref2, ref3
Long March, Mao Zedong’s ref1
longships, Viking ref1
Louis IX of France, King ref1
Louis XVI of France, King ref1
Louis XVIII, King ref1
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus ref1
Luther, Martin ref1
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Madero, Francisco ref1
Magellan, Ferdinand ref1, ref2
Mahabharata ref1
Mali Empire ref1
Manchu (Qing) Dynasty, China ref1, ref2, ref3
Manchuria ref1
Mandela, Nelson ref1
Mansa Musa of Mali, Emperor ref1
Man’Yoshu ref1
Mao Zedong ref1
Maori people ref1
Marathon, Battle of ref1
Marne (1914), Battle of the ref1
Mary I of England, Queen ref1
Mary Rose ref1
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor ref1
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus ref1
Mayan civilization ref1, ref2, ref3
Mayflower ref1
measurement, units of ref1
Medes ref1
Mesopotamia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Mexican-American War ref1
Mexico ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Midway (1942), Battle of ref1
migration, surge of ref1, ref2
Ming Dynasty, China ref1, ref2
Minoans ref1
Model T, Ford ref1
monasteries/ monks ref1
Mongols ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Mughals ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
mummification ref1
Mumtaz Mahal ref1
Musa al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn ref1
Museum and library of Alexandria ref1
Muslims see Islam/Muslims
Mutsuhito, Meiji Emperor ref1
Muwatallis, King ref1
Mycenaeans ref1
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Nanak, Guru ref1
Nanjing, China ref1, ref2, ref3
Napoleon Bonaparte ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Napoleon III of France ref1
Napoleonic Wars ref1, ref2, ref3
Nara Period, Japan ref1
National Assembly, France ref1
National Revolutionary Party, Mexico ref1
nationalism, concept of ref1
Native Americans ref1
Nazi Party ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, King ref1
Nelson, Admiral Horatio ref1
New France ref1
New South Wales ref1
New Spain ref1
New Testament Bible ref1
New World settlers ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
New York, North America ref1, ref2, ref3
Nicolas II of Russia, Tsar ref1
Nineveh ref1
Normandy Landings ref1
North America ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18
see also New World settlers
numerals, written ref1, ref2, ref3
Nuremberg Laws (1935) ref1
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obelisks, Ethiopian ref1
Offa of Mercia, King ref1
Olmecs ref1
Olympia ref1
Olympiad ref1
Omayyad Dynasty, Arabian ref1
On the Origin of Species (C. Darwin) ref1
Operation Barbarossa ref1
Opium Wars ref1
Oregon Treaty (1846) ref1
Ottoman Turks ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
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Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui ref1
Paine, Thomas ref1
Pakistan ref1
Palace of Knossos ref1
Parthenon, Athens ref1
Parthians ref1
Pearl Harbor ref1
Peking, China ref1
Peninsular War ref1
Persian Empire, Ancient ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Peru ref1
Pétain, Marshal Philippe ref1
Peter ‘the Great’ of Russia ref1
Petrograd Workers Strike ref1
Pharos of Alexandria ref1, ref2
Philip II of France, King ref1
Philip II of Macedonia ref1, ref2
Philip II of Spain, King ref1
Philip IV of France, King ref1
philosophy, Chinese ref1
Phoenicians ref1
Picts ref1
‘pieces of eight’ ref1
Pilgrim Fathers ref1
Pillars of Islam ref1
Pizarro, Francisco ref1
plantations, New World ref1, ref2, ref3
Poland ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
poll tax riots ref1
Polo, Marco ref1
Pontius Pilate ref1
Portugal/Portuguese ref1, ref2, ref3
potato blight, Irish ref1
Prague, Defenestration of ref1
printing presses ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Protestant Reformation ref1, ref2, ref3
Protestantism ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Prussia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Ptolemaic Dynasty, Egypt ref1, ref2
Ptolemy II of Egypt ref1
Punic Wars ref1
purple textiles ref1
pyramids, Ancient Egyptian ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
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Qadesh, Battle of ref1
Qianlong, Emperor ref1
Qin Dynasty, China ref1
Qin Shi Huang, Emperor ref1
Qing (Manchu) Dynasty, China ref1, ref2, ref3
quipu ref1
Qur’an ref1
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Rameses II, Pharaoh ref1
Renaissance, European ref1, ref2, ref3
Rhodes Harbour ref1
Richard I ‘the Lionheart’ of England, King ref1, ref2
Richard II of England, King ref1
Richelieu, Cardinal ref1
Rigveda ref1
Robespierre, Maximilien ref1
Roman Catholic Church ref1, ref2, ref3
Roman Empire ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Roman Period (Greece) ref1
Roman Republic ref1, ref2, ref3
Romania ref1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. ref1
Rossbach (1757), Battle of ref1
Roundheads and Cavaliers ref1
Royal Air Force ref1
Royal Navy ref1
Royal Road, Persian ref1
Russia ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Russian Civil War ref1
Russian Communist Party ref1, ref2
Russo-Japanese War ref1
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Sabines ref1
sacrifices ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Safavid Dynasty, Persia ref1, ref2
St Benedict ref1
St Patrick ref1
St Paul ref1
Saladin ref1
Salt March, Gandhi’s ref1
Samsonov, Alexander ref1
Sanskrit ref1
Saracens ref1
Sargon II of Assyria, King ref1
Sassanid Empire ref1
scurvy ref1
Sebástian del Cano, Juan ref1
Second World War ref1
Seven Hills of Rome ref1
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ref1
Shah Jahan ref1
Shang Dynasty, China ref1
Shia Islam ref1
Shinto ref1
Sikhs/ Sikhism ref1, ref2, ref3
Sikuquanshu ref1
Silk Road ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Sino-Japanese Wars ref1, ref2, ref3
skyscrapers, construction of first ref1
The Slave Ship (J. M. W. Turner) ref1
slave trade ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Somme (1916), Battle of the ref1, ref2
Song Dynasty, China ref1, ref2
Songhai Empire, West Africa ref1, ref2
Soviet Union ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
see also Russia
Spain ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Spanish American independence ref1
Spanish-American War ref1
Spanish Armada ref1
Spanish Civil War ref1
Spanish dollars ref1
Spanish flu ref1
Spitfires ref1
Stalin, Joseph ref1
steam engines ref1
Stonehenge, Wiltshire ref1
suffrage ref1
Sui Dynasty, China ref1
Suleiman the Magnificent ref1
Sumerian civilization, Mesopotamia ref1, ref2
Sun Yat-sen ref1
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Taiping rebellion ref1
Taj Mahal, India ref1
Tang Dynasty, China ref1, ref2, ref3
Tannenberg (1914), Battle of ref1
telephones, invention of ref1
Ten Tragic Days, Mexico City ref1
Tenochtitlan, Mexico ref1, ref2, ref3
Teotihuacan, Mexico ref1
Terracotta Army, China ref1
Thirty Years War ref1
time, measurement of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan ref1
Tokyo, Japan ref1
Trafalgar (1805), Battle of ref1
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) ref1, ref2
Treaty of Paris (1783) ref1
Treaty of Versailles (1919) ref1
trench warfare, First World War ref1
tughras ref1
Tulip Mania (Tulpenwindhandel) ref1
Tull, Jethro ref1
Turkey ref1
see also Ottoman Turks
Turks, Zengid Dynasty ref1
Turner, J. M. W. ref1
Tyler, Wat ref1
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United Kingdom see Britain
United States of America see North America
units of measurement ref1, ref2
Uruk, Mesopotamia ref1
V
Vanderbilt, Cornelius ref1
Vedas ref1
Verdun (1916), Battle of ref1
Vichy government, France ref1
Vienna (1814-1815), Congress of ref1
Vienna (1683), Siege of ref1
Vikings ref1
Virtruvian Man (Leonardo da Vinci) ref1
votes for women ref1
W
Wall Street Crash ref1
Wars of Independence, North American ref1, ref2
Washington, George ref1
Waterloo (1815), Battle of ref1
Watt, James ref1
Western Front, First World War ref1, ref2
Wilhelm I of Germany, Emperor ref1
William I ‘the Conqueror,’ King ref1, ref2
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Xerxes of Persia, Emperor ref1
Xia Dynasty, China ref1
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Yangzhou, China ref1
Yongle, Emperor ref1
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Zhang Qian ref1
Zheng He, Admiral ref1
Zhou Dynasty, China ref1
Zhu De ref1
zodiac, signs of the ref1