World History Story Briefs

Whether it's people, places or events which fuel "the news," the fabric of our lives is impacted by world events. This collection features stories from ancient to modern times.

A 31-year-old French General - Jean-Joseph-Amable Humbert - arrived in County Mayo, Ireland on the 22nd of August, 1798.

France celebrates "Bastille Day" every July 14th. Learn more about it with this humorous video clip from "Horrible Histories."

Passing through the frozen part of the Inferno, Dante and Virgil encounter heads which seem to be completely frozen in ice.  Gustave Dore illust...

Galileo Galilei was born at a time when people believed the sun revolved around the earth - a theory originally proposed by Aristotle.

When Galileo began to experiment with his new telescope, by pointing it to the sky, he made the world's first astronomical observations.

The 25th of April, 2015, marks the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign. A costly battle, which dragged-on for eight months, Allied forces (mos...

Gandhi urged a national strike after he returned to his country. The Amritsar Massacre soon followed.

Gandhi referred to South Africa as his second home, and it was there that the young lawyer decided to non-violently oppose a racially motivated law.

Protesting what he considered an unfair constitutional separation of India's castes, Gandhi begins a to-the-death hunger strike on September 16, 1932.

Gandhi once told an associate (V.

When people have a very contagious disease, how do doctors keep from getting sick, too?

Were crematoria, at Nazi camps, used to dispose of bodies of people who were gassed at these camps? The issue is still debated, particularly by indivi...

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