History A-Z: The Return

[Whiskeyjack]

Peasants' Revolt - England, 1381

 

[Wouldlovetoo]

Quinine introduced medicinally in the 17th century.

 

[TheWorldBuilder]

Riot Act 1715

"Our sovereign lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King."

 

[barefootgirl69]

Sexual Revolution of the 1960s.

 

[TheWorldBuilder]

Transits of Venus 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, 1882, 2004 & 2012

 

[Steadfast421]

Utrecht, Treaty of - 1713

 

[lifeisgood3976]

Treaty of Versailles - 1919

It was the treaty to end WWI. Many say it led to WWII.

 

[Steadfast421]

Westphalia, Peace Of - Ended The Thirty and Eighty Years’ War.

 

[lifeisgood3976]

X-craft. WWII British anti U-boat vessels.

 

[Steadfast421]

Yorktown, Battle Of - 1781

 

[Coyote100]

Zulu massacre. (1838)

 

[barefootgirl69]

Arizona battleship sinking 1941.

 

[lifeisgood3976]

Booth, John Wilkes

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Council of Chalcedon, 451

 

[Steadfast421]

David Slays Goliath - ca 950 B.C.E.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Edict of Nance, 1598

 

[SimonSex]

Fauvism in Paris, 1904 - 1910

 

[orangecurious]

Great Fire of London, 1666

 

[SimonSex]

Hubert Humphrey elected as U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 1948

 

[fsa52]

Iowa becomes a state, December 28, 1846

 

[TheWorldBuilder]

Jutland - 31 May and 1 June 1916

 

[orangecurious]

Kirkenes liberated by the Russians, 1944

 

[TheWorldBuilder]

Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

 

[lifeisgood3976]

Maginot Line

Post World War I French fixed fortifications to stop future invasions from the east.

Didn't work as well as they had planned.

 

[TheWorldBuilder]

Nile 1798