History

Articles about historical periods, events and developments.

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Urban history

Urban history: the study of cities, their growth and impact

Vandals

Vandals: migrations, the North African kingdom, and historical legacy

Varangians

Varangians: Norse Warriors, Traders, and the Early Rus' Elites

Vedic period

Venice and Dalmatia

Venice and Dalmatia: maritime power and coastal region in historical perspective

Viceroyalty of New Spain

Viceroyalty of New Spain (1521–1821)

Victorian era

Victorian Heritage Register

Victorian Heritage Register (Victoria, Australia)

Vietnam War

Vietnam War

Vietnam War (1955–1975): North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and international involvement

Comprehensive overview of the Vietnam War (1955–1975), detailing North and South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, international backers, military campaigns, political and media dynamics, U.

Vietnamese Declaration of Independence

Vietnamese Declaration of Independence (1945)

Vijayanagara Empire

Viking Age

Viking Age

Viking Age (c. 8th–11th centuries)

The Viking Age was a period of Norse exploration, raiding, trade and settlement across Europe and the North Atlantic, shaping medieval politics, commerce, and cultural memory.

Vikings

Vikram Samvat

Vikram Samvat: Indian lunisolar calendar era beginning 57 BCE

Viscount

Viscount

Viscount: European noble rank and its history

A viscount is a rank of nobility in many European traditions, usually above a baron and below a count. Historically administrative, today the title varies by country and may be her

Visigoths

Visigoths: origins, kingdoms, culture, and legacy

Volga Germans

Volga Germans: history, community, and legacy

Vorontsov

Wadō (era)

Wadō (Japanese era, 708–715)

War of Devolution

War of the Austrian Succession

War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) — causes, theaters, and consequences

War of the Fourth Coalition

War of the Fourth Coalition (1806–1807)

War of the Pacific

War of the Pacific

War of the Pacific (Saltpeter War), 1879–1883

Conflict between Chile and the allied Bolivia and Peru over nitrate-rich territory on the Pacific coast (Atacama). Chile won, altering boundaries and regional trade for decades.

War of the Roses

Wars of the Roses (England, 1455–1487)

War of the Spanish Succession

War of the Spanish Succession

War tax due stamp

War tax due stamp (Romania, 1915–1921)

Wars of Scottish Independence

Wars of the Roses

Wars of the Roses

Watchman

Watchman: historical night watch, duties, and legacy

Waterboarding

Waterboarding (interrogation technique and torture)

Webster-Hayne debate

Webster–Hayne Debate (1830): Origins, Arguments, and Legacy

Wessex

Wessex: Anglo‑Saxon Kingdom and Cultural Region

West Division (NHL)

Western civilization

Western Ganga dynasty

Western Ganga dynasty of Karnataka (c. 350–1000 CE)

Western Roman Empire

Western saloon

Western Schism

Western world

Whiskey Rebellion

White Bahamian

White Bahamians

White Rose

White Rose

White Rose (German World War II student resistance group)

The White Rose was a nonviolent German resistance group of university students and a professor who distributed anti-Nazi leaflets in 1942–1943 and became a symbol of moral oppositi

William of Orange

William of Orange: historical figures and legacy

Witch hunt

Witch hunt

Wladyslaw I of Poland

Wladyslaw I Łokietek — King of Poland (1261–1333)

Women in the American Revolution

World War

World War I

World War I