American Revolution
Five hundred years after the daring band of Vikings led by Leif Eriksson set foot in North America and established a settlement, landed the Italian…
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Renaissance
The Renaissance was used as a term to describe the changes in philosophy, literature, art, religion, politics and music in the period starting from the…
World War I
The first World War, the first modern war or the Great War, began with the assassination of Archduke Frez Fendinand – the heir to the…
American Civil War
The American Civil War from 1861-1865 is the central event in America’s history after decades of tensions between the northern and southern states over slavery,…
Emergency in India (25 Jun 1975 – 21 Mar 1977)
The darkest phase in Indira’s tenure as PM. The declaration of emergency in India, in 1975, under the Prime Ministership of Indira Gandhi, is often…
Ancient Egypt
The home to several world-famous monuments, pharaohs and thirty strong dynasties that lasted for about thirty centuries, the ancient Egypt has its own history of…
Ancient India – Kingdoms And Early Republic
HOW WERE RAJAS CHOSEN Today, we choose our leaders on our own through electing them But 3000 years ago, the rulers, or the rajas, got…
World War II
World War II or the Second World War involved virtually every part of the world during 1939-45. Opposite to each other in the war were…
Cold War
World War II ended with the rise of two Allied nations- The United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers. Between 1946 and 1991,…
Civil Rights Movement in USA
The efforts to improve the quality of life of the African Americans in the United States were as old as the country itself. Abolitionist movements…