Famous Historical Topics & Events Story Briefs

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

This image illustrated an article, published in 1863, addressing the deplorable conditions in the Bethnal Green section of London, England.

William Barret Travis was a lawyer born in Conecuh County (Alabama) on the 9th of August, 1809. He became famous at the Alamo.

Wilhelm Conrad (Konrad) Roentgen (1845-1923) and his wife (Anna Bertha Roentgen) lived upstairs from the Physics Institute at the University of Wurzbu...

William J. O'Brien recounts the banzai attack at Saipan.

William Seward survived the attack by Lewis Powell (Payne), but it left him permanently disfigured.

William, the Duke of Normandy, believed he should be the successor to Edward the Confessor. If right, that meant England would have a Norman king. Cou...

William Barret Travis, leader of regular-army rebels defending the Alamo, sent a letter pleading for help.

Although he was executed, Tyndale's legacy remains. Approximately 85% of the King James Version of the Bible follows Tyndale's translation.

When William Wallace arrived in London, soon-after his capture near Glasgow, he was put on trial. It would not go well for him.

The young life of this past pope took place in Nazi occupied Poland.

Ordered to travel to London, to stand trial for treason, Cardinal Wolsey stops at Leicester Abbey in November of 1530. He dies there, soon after his a...

The first state to grant female suffrage did so in 1869 and the NAWSA worked every year thereafter to make this right a national one.

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