History

Articles about historical periods, events and developments.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt (Kemet): Civilization of the Nile

Ancient Greek

Ancient history

Ancient history — recorded civilizations from the first writing to the early Middle Ages

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome: history, institutions, culture and legacy

A concise, structured account of Ancient Rome: its origins, political development from Kingdom to Republic to Empire, major achievements in law, engineering and language, and its l

Angen

Angevin

Angevin: People of Anjou and the dynasties they produced

Angevin Empire

Angevin Empire (12th–13th century Plantagenet domains)

Angles

Anglo-Dutch Wars

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899–1956): Condominium, administration and legacy

Anglo-Norman

Anglo-Norman: the medieval ruling culture of England after 1066

Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England: society, kingdoms, and legacy (5th–11th centuries)

Anglo-Saxon runes

Anglo-Saxon runes (Futhorc): history, characteristics and uses

Anglo-Saxons

Angolan War of Independence

Angolan War of Independence (1961–1975)

Anna (era)

Anna (安和) — Japanese era name (968–970)

Annals

Annals (year-by-year historical records)

Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves — Fourth Wife of Henry VIII

Anschluss

Anschluss

Anschluss (1938): Annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany

The Anschluss was the 1938 political and military union by which Nazi Germany absorbed Austria, ending its independence and reshaping Central Europe before World War II.

Ansei

Ansei era (1854–1860) — a turbulent phase of late Edo Japan

Antei

Antei (Japanese era, 1227–1229)

Anti-Comintern Pact

Antigonid dynasty

Antigonid dynasty (Macedonian Hellenistic ruling house)

Antipatrid dynasty

Antiquity

Antiquity: the ancient past and its cultural legacy

Antisemitism

Antisemitism

Antisemitism: definition, history, manifestations, and contemporary issues

Antisemitism is hostility, prejudice, or discrimination directed at Jews. This article explains its forms, historical development (including the Holocaust), modern expressions, and

Appanage

Arab Revolt

Arab Revolt

Arab Revolt (1916–1918): revolt, campaigns and aftermath

The Arab Revolt (1916–1918) was an uprising by Arab leaders and tribal forces against Ottoman rule in World War I, allied with Britain and influential in the creation of several mo

Arab Winter

Arab–Israeli conflict

Aramaic alphabet

Archaic Greece

Ardashir I

Ardashir I — Founder of the Sasanian Empire

Argead dynasty

Argead dynasty

Argentine National Museum of History

Armenian calendar

Armenian calendar (medieval 365‑day civil calendar)

Armenian genocide

Armenian hypothesis

Armenian hypothesis (Proto-Indo-European homeland)

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

Armistice of Villafranca

Armistice and Preliminaries of Villafranca (11 July 1859)

Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia

Artaxiad dynasty of Iberia

Arzashkun

Ash heap of history

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1914)

Assyrian genocide

Assyrian genocide (Sayfo) — mass violence against Assyrians in the early 20th century

Asuka period