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Articles related to archaeology, history and war.

Archaeology

Archaeology — Egyptian pyramids — Oxyrhynchus — Sylvanus Morley

History

History For war-related history, see #War.

Historians, chroniclers and history books

Edward Gibbon — Herodotus — Hrafnkels saga — Athanasius Kircher — Peterborough Chronicle — Thucydides

Historical mythology

Atlantis Greek mythology — Maya mythology — Norse mythology — Roman mythology — Slavic mythology —

Historical figures (by area of importance, not birth)

Historical figures - lists

List of French monarchs — List of monarchs in the British Isles — List of popes — Monarchies in the European Union

African figures

Akhenaten — Amda Seyon I of Ethiopia — Cleopatra VII — Hannibal Barca — Hatshepsut — Nelson Mandela — Shaka

Asian figures

Akbar — Attalus I — Gautama Buddha — Confucius — Cyrus the Great — Mahatma Gandhi — Genghis Khan — Hirohito — Ho Chi Minh — Qin Shi Huang — Indira Gandhi — Jesus — Muhammad — Muhammad Ali Jinnah — Paul of Tarsus — Pope John Paul II — Pope Pius XII — Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel — Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — Saladin — Suleiman the Magnificent — Timur (Tamerlane) — Hasekura Tsunenaga — Mao Zedong

European figures (incl. Byzantium) - up to 1000

Alexander the Great — Archimedes — Aristotle — Attila the Hun — Augustus — Mark Antony — Julius Caesar — John Calvin — Columba — Charlemagne — Claudius — Constantine I — Demosthenes — Elagabalus — Epaminondas — Heraclius — Hippocrates — Penda of Mercia — Pericles — Plato — Pythagoras — Socrates — Thrasybulus —

European figures (incl. Byzantium) - 1000-1899

Elias Ashmole — Otto von Bismarck — Edmund Burke — Catherine II of Russia — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor — Christopher Columbus — Charles Darwin — Copernicus — Joan of Arc — John Dee — René Descartes — Frederick Douglass — Albert Einstein — Elizabeth I of England — George II of Great Britain — George Fox — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor — Frederick II of Prussia — Galileo Galilei — Johannes Gutenberg — Henry II of England — Henry VIII of England — Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava — Ivan IV of Russia — Manuel I Komnenos — Stanisław Koniecpolski — Antoine Lavoisier — Martin Luther — Louis XIV of France — Macbeth of Scotland — Ferdinand Magellan — Marco Polo Karl Marx — Dmitri Mendeleev — Napoleon I of France — Isaac Newton — Louis Pasteur — Peter I of Russia — Philip II of Spain — Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu — Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Leonardo da Vinci — James Watt — Jonathan Wild — William I of England — William the Silent

European figures - 1900 onwards

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell — Joel Brand — Winston Churchill — Bill Clinton — Mikhail Gorbachev — Adolf Hitler — Vladimir Lenin — Martin Luther King, Jr. — John Maynard Keynes — Thomas Malthus — Benito Mussolini — Witold Pilecki — Peter I of Russia — Philip II of Spain — Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu — Adam Smith — Joseph Stalin — Mother Teresa — Victoria of the United Kingdom — Rudolf Vrba —

North or South American figures - before 1900

Simón Bolívar — Isaac Brock — Hernán Cortés — Adriaen van der Donck — Thomas Edison — Franklin B. Gowen — Benjamin Franklin — Thomas Jefferson — Abraham Lincoln — William N. Page —

George Washington

North or South American figures - 1900 onwards

Ike Altgens — Neil Armstrong — W. Mark Felt — Carl G. Fisher — Henry Ford — Helen Gandy — Che Guevara — Gerald Ford — Ziad Jarrah — William N. Page — Rosa Parks — Eva Perón — Robert Oppenheimer — Franklin D. Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt — Margaret Sanger — Samantha Smith — Wright brothers

Oceania - historical figures

Yagan

General history articles by area of importance

World history

For disasters caused by hurricanes/cyclones, see Natural sciences listing.

Black Death — British Empire — Crusades — First Crusade — History of Buddhism — History of Earth — History of the world — Industrial Revolution — List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by date joined — Laika — Radhanite — Second Crusade — Space Race — RMS Titanic — Timeline of discovery of solar system planets and their natural satellites

Africa

Congo Free State — Egyptian pyramids — History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 — History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 — Makuria

Asia

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake — Byzantine Empire — Chola dynasty — Crusades - see World history History of Central Asia — Indo-Greek Kingdom — Lothal — Political integration of India — Qing Dynasty — Sassanid Empire — Sino-German cooperation (1911-1941) — Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

Europe

1755 Lisbon earthquake — Anschluss — Berlin Wall — Black Death — Byzantine Empire — Constitution of May 3, 1791 (Poland) — Crusades, see World history Dál Riata — Éire — England expects that every man will do his duty — Franks — Habsburg Spain — History of Jews in Poland — History of Limerick — History of Poland (1945–1989) — History of Portugal (1777–1834) — History of post-Soviet Russia — History of Russia — History of the Netherlands — The Holocaust — Industrial Revolution — Italian Renaissance — Katyn massacre — List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by date joined — List of European Union member states by accession — Magna Carta — Marshall Plan — Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp — Military history of France — Military history of the Soviet Union — Old Swiss Confederacy — Picts — Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth — Renaissance — Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 — S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 — Scotland in the High Middle Ages — Treaty of Devol

North and South America

1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens — Bath School disaster — Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — Columbine High School massacre — Equal Protection Clause — Gettysburg Address — Great Lakes Storm of 1913 — History of Arizona — History of Alaska — History of the Grand Canyon area — History of Greenland — History of New Jersey — History of Puerto Rico — History of Miami, Florida — History of the Yosemite area Ku Klux Klan — Lawrence v. Texas — List of U.S. states by date of statehood — Marbury v. Madison — Military history of Canada — Military history of Puerto Rico — Project MKULTRA — Roe v. Wade — September 11, 2001 attacks — Space Shuttle Challenger disaster — Space Shuttle Columbia disaster — United States Bill of Rights — United States Constitution

Oceania

Eureka Stockade — History of the Australian Capital Territory — History of Burnside Sydney Riot of 1879 —

Time periods

1st century BC — 1st century — 2nd century — 3rd century — 4th century — 5th century — 6th century — 7th century — 8th century — 9th century — 10th century — 11th century — 12th century — 13th century — 14th century — 15th century — 16th century — 17th century — 18th century — 19th century — 20th century — 21st century — Ancient history — Day — Dark Ages — Middle Ages — Modern history — Prehistoric man

War

War

Armies and military units

Lord's Resistance Army — Imperial Japanese Navy

Biographies of military people

Attila the Hun — Husein Gradaščević — Joan of Arc — Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson — Richard O'Connor — Arthur Ernest Percival — Pericles — William Tecumseh Sherman — Thrasybulus — Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Military camps, tribunals and facilities

Colditz Castle — Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp

Military conflicts, World War II

Includes battles and military exercises from World War II.

Attack on Pearl Harbor — Battle of the Bulge — Battle of the Eastern Solomons — Battle of Leyte Gulf — Battle of Midway — Battle of Moscow — Battle of Normandy — Battle of Rennell Island — Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands — Battle of Smolensk (1943) — Blitzkrieg — Naval Battle of Guadalcanal — Operation Downfall — Operation Ten-Go — Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima — World War II

Military conflicts, other 20th/21st century

Includes all modern wars, battles and military exercises excluding World War II.

Able Archer 83 — Algerian Civil War — Battle of Jutland — Battle of the Somme — Battle of Warsaw (1920) — Cristero War — Darfur conflict — Defense of Sihang Warehouse — Iraq War — Kargil War — Polish-Soviet War — Second Congo War — Western Front (World War I) — World War I — Yom Kippur War

Military conflicts, pre-20th century

Includes wars, battles and military exercises from before 1900.

American Civil War — American Revolutionary War — Battle of Alesia — Battle of Austerlitz — Battle of Badr — Battle of Bicocca — Battle of Cannae — Battle of Stalingrad — Corinthian War — Crusades — Italian War of 1521 — Napoleonic Wars — Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) — War of the League of Cambrai — Warsaw Uprising (1794) — War of the Spanish Succession

Military history

Invasion — Military history of Canada — Military history of France — Military history of Puerto Rico — Military history of the Soviet Union — Swedish allotment system

Weapons and military equipment

AK-47 — Chemical warfare — F-4 Phantom II — F-35 Lightning II — Iowa class battleship — Nuclear weapon — Poison gas in World War I — S-mine — T-34 — U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program — USS Wisconsin (BB-64) — Weapon — Tank

Tactics

Siege — Trench warfare