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Named historical happenings: battles, treaties, revolutions, discoveries, foundings and collapses, the turning points historians narrate rather than the states or people who took part in them. Grouped by the same period-band scheme eras use, with the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries split further into Eric Hobsbawm's four-part periodization so no single band concentrates an outsized share of the roster. Wars and their campaigns stay in this category in every period per this atlas's own charter rather than fragmenting elsewhere; what this category excludes is the polity or organization that fought or signed, each its own entity linked to the event by relationship.

All Events

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South Sea Bubble (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Contains: The South Sea Bubble

Tulip Mania (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Contains: Tulip Mania

Magna Carta (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Contains: Magna Carta

Hong Kong and the Opium Wars (The National Archives, UK)

The National Archives (UK)Contains: Opium WarsView the Source

The Corn Laws (The National Archives, UK)

The National Archives (UK)Contains: Repeal of the Corn LawsView the Source

Ruhrbesetzung, 11 Januar 1923 (Bundesarchiv)

Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives)Contains: Weimar Republic HyperinflationView the Source

Asian Financial Crisis (Federal Reserve History)

Federal Reserve HistoryContains: Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 to 1998View the Source

Why Mexico Had No Choice but to Nationalize Banks (Christian Science Monitor, 1982)

1911 Revolution

1959 Tibetan uprising

1973 Chilean Coup d'Etat

1999 war in Dagestan

2008 Tibetan unrest

2011 Bahraini uprising

Abbasid Revolution

Aksumite Conquest of Kush

Algerian War of Independence

American Civil War

American Revolution

American Revolutionary War

Anglo-Zulu War

Apache Wars

Arab Revolt

Armenian Genocide

Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 to 1998

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Assassination of Julius Caesar

Atlantic Slave Trade

Austronesian Expansion

Balkan Wars

Bantu Expansion

Bar Kokhba Revolt

Battle of Actium

Battle of Adrianople

Battle of Adwa

Battle of Ayacucho

Battle of Marathon

Battle of Poitiers

Battle of the Somme

Battle of Verdun

Battle of Yarmouk

Bengal Famine of 1943

Berlin Conference

Black Monday (1987)

Boudican Revolt

Boxer Rebellion

Bretton Woods Conference

Byzantine-Sasanian War of 602-628

Cambodian Genocide

Chernobyl Disaster

Classic Maya Collapse

Collapse of Teotihuacan

Columbian Exchange

Congo Crisis

Congress of Vienna

Constitutions of Clarendon

Construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Crimean War

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Revolution

Cultural Revolution

Dersim massacre

Despenser War

Diet of Worms

Dot-com Bubble

Easter Rising

Eighty Years' War

English Civil War

Eruption of Thera

Expedition of the Thousand

Falklands War

Fall of Palmyra

Fall of the Gupta Empire

Fall of the Han Dynasty

February 28 incident

First Crusade

First Fleet

First Jewish-Roman War

First Serbian Uprising

First Sino-Japanese War

Founding of Carthage

Founding of Concord, Massachusetts (1635)

Founding of Rome

Founding of Tenochtitlan

Founding of the Delhi Sultanate

Founding of the Han Dynasty

Founding of the Maurya Empire

Founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty