History

Articles about historical periods, events and developments.

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Atahualpa

Atahualpa — last sovereign Sapa Inca

Atlantic slave trade

Atlantic slave trade: history, scale, and legacy

Atropatene

Auld Alliance

Auld Alliance: Scotland and France, 1295–1560

Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz: Nazi concentration, forced-labor and extermination complex

Auschwitz was a network of camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (1940–1945) where more than a million people were murdered; today it is a central Holocaust memorial an

Australian gold rushes

Austria-Hungary

Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire (1804–1867): Habsburg monarchy, political evolution and territorial legacy

Overview of the Austrian Empire (1804–1867): Habsburg rule, political evolution from the Holy Roman Empire to Austria-Hungary, and its territorial legacy across modern Central and

Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867

Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (Ausgleich / Kiegyezés)

Auxiliary sciences of history

Avignon Papacy

Avignon Papacy: the period when popes resided in Avignon (1309–1377)

Awal

Awal — the pre-Islamic name and deity associated with Bahrain

Axial Age

Ayyubid dynasty

Aztec Empire

Babylonia

Baden

Baden — historical territory in southwest Germany

Baekje

Baekje: ancient Korean kingdom (18 BCE–660 CE)

Balfour Declaration of 1917

Bantustan

Bantustan: homelands of apartheid-era South Africa and South West Africa

Banu Hilal

Banu Hilal

Battle of Manzikert

Belgian Revolution

Belgian Revolution (1830–1839): origins, course and international settlement

Belle Époque

Belle Époque

A period of Western history (c.1871–1914) marked by relative peace, industrial and cultural growth, imperial expansion, and artistic innovation before the upheavals of World War I.

Berlin Blockade

Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall: history, structure and legacy

Barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989; its construction, daily effects, fall on November 9, 1989, and its role as a Cold War symbol.

Bohuslän

Bohuslän: Swedish coastal province and island-studded archipelago

Border states (American Civil War)

Bosnian War

Bosnian War

Bosnian War (1992–1995): conflict, consequences and legacy

Multi-party armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, marked by ethnic violence, mass displacement, international intervention and legal aftermath culminating in

Bosporan Kingdom

Bosporan Kingdom (Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus)

Bourbon Restoration

Brazil during World War Two

Brazil in World War II: military contributions, diplomacy, and domestic impact

British Empire

British Hong Kong

British India

British India: administration, history and legacy

British Mandate of Palestine

British North America

British North America: territories, development, and legacy

British occupation zone in Germany

British Raj

British Raj

British Uganda Programme

British Uganda Programme (Uganda Scheme)

Bronze Age

Bronze Age

Buchenwald concentration camp

Buddhist crisis

Buddhist Crisis in South Vietnam (1963)

Bun'an

Bun'ei

Bun'ei (文永): Japanese era name, 1264–1275

Bun'ō

Bun'ō: a short Japanese era (April 1260–February 1261)

Bunchū

Bunchū (文中): Southern Court era name in Japan, 1372–1375

Bunji (era)

Bunji (1185–1190) — Japanese era of Emperor Go-Toba