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.

Creating rebellious ideas, religious leaders insist that fighting a tyrant is a Christian duty.

View defenseless Crusader settlements in 1187.

SOS signals and lifeboats can't help people on the Titanic. The wireless operator on the closest ship, about an hour away, has shut-off his system fo...

PAVN soldiers suffer when American soldiers destroy supply lines and weapons; they retreat to Chu Pong Mountains to regroup.

Tone enlists the help of the French to revolt, but it is too little, too late.

Balien of Ibelin leads the Franks against the Muslims in the fight for Jerusalem.

Forty Marines capture Mt. Suribachi. They have an American flag to raise and a photographer to capture the moment.

As Booth shoots Lincoln, Lewis Payne tries and fails to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward.

View the 24-hour timeline of the Banda Aceh earthquake and resulting tsunami.

Marys son John is captured in Europe and tried in a civil trial, which ends in a mistrial.

The people of France begin to resent Marie Antoinette when she changes customs at Versailles to procedures she used in Vienna.

Mary's beheading does not go smoothly, taking 3 tries to behead her.

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