Category: History
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Aristotle
Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath of antiquity. He is with Plato, whose disciple he was at the Academy, one of the most influential thinkers the Western world has known. He is also one of the few to have tackled almost all the fields of knowledge of his time: biology, physics, metaphysics,…
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project carried out during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons, led by the United States with support from the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the United States Army Corps…
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (born on February 12, 1809 – died on April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the sixteenth President of the United States, from March 4, 1861, until his death in April 1865. He led the Union to victory in the American Civil War, managing to keep the federal states…
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the last American strategic bombing of Japan, took place on August 6 and August 9, 1945, on the cities of Hiroshima (340,000 inhabitants) and Nagasaki (195,000 inhabitants). Hiroshima was the headquarters of the 5th division of the Second General Army and the command center of General Shunroku Hata,…
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October Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, Red October and as the Great October Socialist Revolution according to both the official historiography of the former Soviet Union and according to some communist groups (particularly the anti-revisionists), was the second phase of the Revolution of Russia in 1917, after the February Revolution. The date…
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The Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a case of political espionage that led, in 1974, to the resignation of Richard Nixon, then President of the United States. The multi-pronged affair began in 1972 with the arrest, inside the Watergate building, of burglars at the Democratic Party offices in Washington. Investigations by journalists and a lengthy investigation by…
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September 11 attacks
The attacks of September 11, 2001 (commonly known as September 11, 9/11 in English) are four Islamist suicide bombings perpetrated on the same day in the United States and causing the death of 2,977 people, in the center of Manhattan in New York, Arlington in Virginia and Shanksville in Pennsylvania, in less than two hours,…
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman دولت علیه İA Devlet-i ʿAlīye and official from 1876 دولت عثمانيه / Devlet-i ʿOs̲mānīye / ‘the Ottoman State‘, Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) was the empire of the Ottoman dynasty from c. 1299 to 1922. The term Ottoman Empire, which is obsolete in German-speaking countries, is still found in English and French-language literature,…
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American Civil War
The American Civil War, also known as the War of Secession or The United States Civil War, was a civil war waged in the United States from 1861 to 1865 between the Union and the Confederates. Its main cause was the long controversy over the enslavement of blacks. The conflict broke out in April 1861,…
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Pompeii
Pompeii (Pompeii in Latin and Pompei in Italian) is a city and ancient city located in the Italian region of Campania. It is famous for having been buried in the autumn of 79 during an eruption of Vesuvius, a volcano located 9 km to the northwest. Coordinates 40° 45′ 04″ North, 14° 29′ 24″ East…