History

Articles about historical periods, events and developments.

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Scramble for Africa

Scramble for Africa: European colonization and its legacy (1880s–1914)

Scribe

Scribe: roles, history, and legacy of writing specialists

Scythians

Scythians

Scythians: Nomadic Iranic peoples of the Eurasian steppe

The Scythians were Iranic-speaking nomads who dominated the Pontic steppe in the first millennium BCE. Known for mounted archery, distinctive art and kurgan burials, their legacy s

Sea Peoples

Sea Peoples: seaborne groups associated with the Late Bronze Age disruptions

Secession in the United States

Second Boer War

Second Boer War (1899–1902)

Second Dynasty of Egypt

Second Dynasty of Egypt: rulers, archaeology, and historical significance

Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic (1918–1939)

Second Sino-Japanese War

Second Sino-Japanese War

Second Sudanese Civil War

Second Triumvirate

Second Triumvirate (Roman Republic, 43–33 BC)

Seigneur

Seigneur: medieval French lord and the seigneurie (feudal lordship)

Seleucid Empire

Seljuk dynasty

Seljuk dynasty: origins, empire, culture and legacy

Seljuk Empire

Seljuk Empire — Medieval Turkic-Persian State (11th–12th centuries)

Semmyō calendar

Sena dynasty

Sena dynasty (medieval Bengal)

Sengoku period

Sengoku period — Japan’s Warring States era

Separatist movements of Pakistan

Separatist Movements in Pakistan: Causes, History, and Regional Dynamics

Servile Wars

Slave Revolts of the Late Roman Republic: The Three Servile Wars (135–71 BC)

Seven Years' War

Seven Years' War

Seventeen Provinces

Severan dynasty

Severan dynasty (Roman emperors, 193–235)

Sexagenary cycle

Sexagenary cycle (stems-and-branches)

Shang dynasty

Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC)

Shinjitai

Shinjitai: Postwar simplified kanji forms in modern Japanese

Shiribeshi Province

Shiribeshi Province (Shiribeshi-no-kuni)

Shitoku

Shitoku (Japanese era name, 1384–1387)

Shōan

Shōan (Japanese era, 1299–1302)

Shōchō

Shōchō (Japanese era, 1428–1429)

Shōchū (era)

Shōchū era (1324–1326) — Japanese nengō during Emperor Go‑Daigo's reign

Shōgen

Shōhei

Shōhō

Shōji (era)

Shōji (Japanese era)

Shōka

Shōka: Japanese era name (1257–1259)

Shoku Nihongi

Shoku Nihongi (Continuation of the Chronicles of Japan)

Shōkyō

Shōō (Kamakura period)

Shōryaku

Shōtai

Shōtai (Japanese era, 898–901)

Shōtoku (era)

Shōtoku (Japanese era, 1711–1716)

Shōwa (Kamakura period)

Shōwa period

Shōwa period (1926–1989)

Shuchō

Shunga Empire

Siberian Intervention

Siberian Intervention (1918–1922): Allied expedition in the Russian Civil War

Silla