WORLD HISTORY and EVENTS
DATE(S) TOPIC - a short history (CLICK THE TITLE BELOW)
MORE
1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall  
1951 The Death of Maréshal Pétain (24/4/1856 - 23/7/1951)
1948-1951 The Marshall Plan to refinance Europe after WWII  
1937 The Hindenberg airship disaster  
1935 Black Sunday: the greatest dust storm EVER during the "Dust Bowl" era in the USA  
1911 The Theft of the Mona Lisa  
1908 The Tunguska Asteroid Event
1839-1843 The Rebecca Riots in Wales: generalised protests against road tolls  
1836 The Huskar Colliery mining diaster in which 26 CHILDREN died  
1597 The Martyrdom of the 26 Christians in Nagasaki, Japan  
1570-1606 Guy Fawkes & the Gunpowder Plot of 1605  
1549 The Kett Rebellion in Wymondham, Norfolk, England  
1118-1312 The Knights Templar  
1095 - 1291 The Crusades: a series of military campaigns launched by the papacy between 1095 and 1291 against Muslim rulers for the recovery and defence of the Holy Land  
732 The Battle of Tours and the halt to the Muslim invasion of Europe
7th century The Great Wall of China
2nd century The Roman Theatre at Bosra in Syria