Famous Historical Topics & Events Chapters

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

To get rid of all the evidence, Webster cuts up Parkman's body and burns the pieces in his Harvard lab.

Having plundered most of the towns and cities in the eastern empire, Attila goes west to Gaul.

Attila and his Huns cause death and destruction in town after town on their westward trek.

Through a meeting, Pope Leo the Great is able to keep Attila from attacking Rome.

The Huns cause death and destruction through town after town on their westward trek.

Scottish resistance begins full force in 1297, when Wallace and his men kill the sheriff of Lanark and 240 others.

Read a poem about the life of Austin Michelle Cloyd, an 18 year-old freshman in International Studies and French.

NASAs orbiter (Cassini) and ESAs probe (Huygens) provide the world with in-depth information about Saturn.

The U.S. creates an ad campaignurging people to stay in their cities and fight, in case an enemy drops a nuclear bomb.

During late November, 1820, the Essex was attacked by a whale. The real-life story inspired the tale of "Moby Dick."

In an unbelievable turn of events, a sperm whale attacks a whaleship called the Essex on November 20, 1820.

Archduke Ferdinand's assassination by Gavrilo Princip, a Serb, ignites a chain of events leading to World War I.

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