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Table of Contents: View Documents by Historical Event
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| Term | All | Text | Audio | Video |
| Protestant Reformation, 1500-1650 | 17 | 17 | ||
| English Protestant Reformation, 1529-1603 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots, 1567 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Battle of Jarnac, France, March 13, 1569 | 3 | 3 | ||
| St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, August 24, 1572 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Irish Rebellion and Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland, 1641-1650 | 1 | 1 | ||
| English Civil War, 1642-1651 | 123 | 123 | ||
| Restoration, 1660-1688 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Jacobite Risings, 1689-1746 | 3 | 3 | ||
| French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763 | 41 | 41 | ||
| Salem Witch Trials, 1692 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Yamasee War, 1715-1716 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Negro Plot of 1741 | 1 | 1 | ||
| King George's War, 1744-1748 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Seven Years War, 1756-1763 | 25 | 25 | ||
| English Capture Quebec, September 13, 1759 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Stamp Act, 1765-1766 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Boston Tea Party, MA, December 16, 1773 | 2 | 2 | ||
| First Continental Congress meets, September 1774 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Battle of Lexington and Concord, MA, April 19, 1775 | 2 | 2 | ||
| American Revolution, 1775-1783 | 281 | 271 | ||
| Siege of Boston, 1775-1776 | 13 | 13 | ||
| Battle of Bunker Hill, MA, June 17, 1775 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Battle Of Long Island, 1776 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Brandywine Creek, PA, September 11, 1777 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Freeman's Farm, NY, September 19, 1777 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Paoli Massacre, PA, September 21, 1777 | 1 | 1 | ||
| British invade Philadelphia, PA, September 26, 1777 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Germantown, PA, October 4, 1777 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Battle of Bemis Heights, NY, October 7, 1777 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Surrender at Saratoga, NY, October 17, 1777 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Fort Mercer, NJ, October 22, 1777 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, NJ, June 28, 1778 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Newport, RI, August 5, 1778 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Cape Frontier Wars, South Africa, 1779-1879 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Prevost's Raid on Charleston, SC, May 11, 1779 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Battle of Stono Ferry, SC, June 20, 1779 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fourteenth Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Battle of Savannah, GA, October 9, 1779 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Great Britain ends hostilities, February 4, 1783 | 1 | 1 | ||
| French Revolution, 1789-1799 | 161 | 161 | ||
| Haitian Independence Movement, 1791-1804 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815 | 67 | 67 | ||
| War of the First Coalition, 1792-1797 | 16 | 16 | ||
| Louis XVI executed, January 21, 1793 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Reign of Terror, 1793-1794 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Landing of the Emigrants at Quiberon, 1795 | 1 | 1 | ||
| XYZ Affair, 1798 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Nore Mutiny, May 12-June 13, 1797 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Camperdown, October 11, 1797 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1798 Rebellion, Ireland | 13 | 13 | ||
| Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power in coup d'etat, November 9-10, 1799 | 1 | 1 | ||
| George Washington dies, December 14, 1799 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Treaty of Amiens, March 27, 1802 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Louisiana Purchase, 1803 | 2 | 2 | ||
| War of the Third Coalition, 1805-1807 | 5 | 5 | ||
| International slave trade ended with U.S., March 2, 1807 | 1 | 1 | ||
| British Parliament passes Abolition of Slave Trade Bill, UK, March 25, 1807 | 1 | 1 | ||
| War of 1812 | 31 | 31 | ||
| Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, June 24-November 18, 1812 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Vitoria, 1813 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Hundred Days, 1815 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Seminole Wars, FL, 1817-1858 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Missouri Compromise, 1820-1821 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Russian-Turkish War, 1828-1829 | 1 | 1 | ||
| July Revolution, France, 1830 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Nat Turner's Insurrection, 1831 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Texas War for Independence, 1835-1836 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 | 29 | 28 | ||
| Irish Potato Famine, 1846-1850 | 13 | 13 | ||
| Donner party, 1846-1847 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Oregon Treaty, June 15, 1846 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Whitman Mission Massacre, WA, November 29, 1847 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Revolution of 1848 | 8 | 8 | ||
| Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 | 8 | 8 | ||
| California Gold Rush, 1849 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Fugitive Slave Act, U.S., September 18, 1850 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Crimean War, 1853-1856 | 23 | 23 | ||
| Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1859 | 33 | 33 | ||
| Kansas-Nebraska Act enacted, U.S., May 30, 1854 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Siege of Sevastopol, September 27, 1854-September 9, 1855 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Senator Charles Sumner beaten on Senate floor, May 22, 1856 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Siege of Lucknow, 1857 | 10 | 10 | ||
| Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858 | 17 | 17 | ||
| Raj, 1857-1947 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Italian Reunification, 1859-1870 | 11 | 11 | ||
| Harpers Ferry Raid, VA, October 16, 1859 | 9 | 9 | ||
| John Brown's execution, Charleston, WV, 1859 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Abraham Lincoln elected President of U.S., November 6, 1860 | 12 | 12 | ||
| South Carolina secedes, December 20,1860 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President of the U.S., March 4, 1861 | 16 | 16 | ||
| Battle of Fort Sumter, SC, April 12, 1861 | 15 | 15 | ||
| U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865 | 4479 | 4398 | ||
| First Battle of Bull Run, VA, July 21, 1861 | 34 | 34 | ||
| Peninsular Campaign, March-July, 1862 | 34 | 34 | ||
| Battle of Pea Ridge, AR, March 6-8, 1862 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Battle at Hampton Roads, VA, March 8-9, 1862 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Battle of Shiloh, TN, April 6, 1862 | 10 | 10 | ||
| Fall of New Orleans, LA, April 28, 1862 | 28 | 28 | ||
| Battle of Seven Pines, VA, May 31-June 1, 1862 | 17 | 17 | ||
| Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, June 26, 1862 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA, June 27, 1862 | 8 | 8 | ||
| Battle of Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Second Battle of Bull Run , VA, August 29, 1862 | 12 | 12 | ||
| Battle of Antietam, MD, September 17, 1862 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Emancipation Proclamation, U.S., September 22, 1862 | 33 | 33 | ||
| Battle of Perryville, KY, October 8, 1862 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Fredericksburg, VA, December 13, 1862 | 16 | 16 | ||
| Battle of Stones River, TN, December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Battle of Chancellorsville, VA, April 30-May 6, 1863 | 13 | 13 | ||
| Siege of Vicksburg, MS, May 5-July 4, 1863 | 17 | 17 | ||
| Battle of Gettysburg, PA, July 1-3, 1863 | 26 | 26 | ||
| Draft Riots, New York, NY, July 13-16, 1863 | 27 | 27 | ||
| Battle of Fort Wagner-Morris Island, SC, July 18-September 7, 1863 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Battle of Chickamauga, GA, September 18-20, 1863 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Battle of Chattanooga, TN, November 23-25, 1863 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Cheyenne-Arapaho War, 1864-1865 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Battle of Fort Donelson, TN, February 1862 | 14 | 14 | ||
| Battle of Fort Pillow, April 12, 1864 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Atlanta Campaign, May-Semptember 1864 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Battle of the Wilderness, VA, May 5-7, 1864 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Battle of Spotsylvania, VA, May 8-21, 1864 | 18 | 18 | ||
| Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, May 31-June 12, 1864 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Second Battle of Petersburg, VA, June 15-18, 1864 | 17 | 17 | ||
| Siege of Petersburg, VA, June 18, 1864-April 2, 1865 | 32 | 32 | ||
| Siege of Atlanta, GA, July 22, 1864-September 2, 1864 | 11 | 11 | ||
| Battle of the Crater, VA, July 30, 1864 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Fall of Atlanta, GA, September 1-2, 1864 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Sherman's March to the Sea, November 16-December 10, 1864 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Sand Creek Massacre, CO, November 29, 1864 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Sherman occupies Savannah, GA, Dec 21, 1864 | 8 | 8 | ||
| Fall of Richmond and Petersburg, VA, April 2-3, 1865 | 15 | 15 | ||
| Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, VA, April 9, 1865 | 37 | 37 | ||
| Abraham Lincoln Assassinated, Washington, DC, April 14, 1865 | 58 | 58 | ||
| Johnston surrenders to Sherman, April 26, 1865 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Jefferson Davis arrested, May 10, 1865 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | 236 | 236 | ||
| Austro-Prussian War, 1866 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Fenian Uprising, 1866-1870 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Unification of Canada, 1867 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Ten Years' War, Cuba, 1868-1878 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Andrew Johnson Impeachment, February 21 - May 16, 1868 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Fifteenth Amendment ratified, U.S., March 30, 1870 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 | 60 | 60 | ||
| Paris Commune, March-May, 1871 | 12 | 12 | ||
| Treaty of Washington, 1871 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Chicago Fire, October 8-10, 1871 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 | 11 | |||
| Battle of Little Bighorn, MT, June 25, 1876 | 1 | |||
| Crazy Horse is stabbed and dies of wounds, Fort Robinson, NE, September 5-6, 1877 | 10 | |||
| James Garfield Shot, July 2, 1881 | 10 | 10 | ||
| Charleston, SC Earthquake, August 31, 1886 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Armenian Massacre, 1894-1896 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Greco-Turkish War, 1897 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Spanish-American War, 1898 | 37 | 29 | ||
| Boer War, 1899-1902 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Boxer Rebellion, China, 1900 | 19 | 19 | ||
| Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 | 18 | 17 | ||
| San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18-21, 1906 | 3 | |||
| Cook's Arctic Expedition, 1908 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 | 29 | 21 | 8 | |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, 1911 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Chinese Revolution, 1911-1912 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Titanic sinks, April 15, 1912 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Balkan Wars, 1912-1913 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Ludlow Massacre, CO, April 20, 1914 | 1 | 1 | ||
| World War I, 1914-1918 | 864 | 730 | 34 | 2 |
| Armenian Massacre, 1915-1916 | 21 | 20 | ||
| Sinking of the Lusitania, May 7, 1915 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Easter Uprising, April 14, 1916 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 | 59 | 41 | 1 | |
| Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1918-1919 | 1 | |||
| Battle of the Marne, 1918 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Start of German Spring Offensive, March 21, 1918 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of the Hindenburg Line, September 18-29, 1918 | 1 | 1 | ||
| German Armistice, November 11, 1918 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Prohibition, 1919-1933 | 11 | 4 | ||
| Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1939 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Great Depression, 1929-1941 | 586 | 449 | 14 | |
| Stock Market Crash, October 29, 1929 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Mukden Incident, 1931 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Italian Invasion of Ethiopia, 1935-1941 | 1 | |||
| Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 | 11 | 5 | 1 | |
| Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 | 23 | 16 | ||
| Anschluss proclaimed, March 12, 1938 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Holocaust, 1938-1945 | 97 | 83 | 69 | 13 |
| Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938 | 1 | 1 | ||
| World War II, 1939-1945 | 4199 | 2082 | 990 | 729 |
| Britain and France Declare War on Germany, September 3, 1939 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Soviet Union Invades Poland, September 17, 1939 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Winter War, 1939-1940 | 10 | 8 | ||
| Soviet Union Attacks Finland, November 30, 1939 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Finland and Soviet Union Sign Peace Treaty, March 12, 1940 | 1 | 1 | ||
| German invasion of Norway, April 9-June 10, 1940 | 2 | 2 | ||
| German invasion of Netherlands, May 10-15, 1940 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| German invasion of France, May 10-June 22, 1940 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Italy declares war on Britain and France, June 10, 1940 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fall of Paris and French Surrender to Germany, June 14-22, 1940 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Britain, July-October 1940 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Blitz, September 1940-May 1941 | 8 | 8 | ||
| Tripartite Alliance formed with Germany, Italy, and Japan, September 27, 1940 | 1 | 1 | ||
| German occupation of Romania, October 7, 1940 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Siege of Tobruk, January-December 1941 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of the Atlantic, February-May 1941 | 3 | 3 | ||
| German invasion of Greece, April 6-27, 1941 | 1 | 1 | ||
| German invasion of Yugoslavia, April 6-17, 1941 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle for Crete, May 20-31, 1941 | 1 | 1 | ||
| German invasion of Russia, June 1941-1945 | 13 | 13 | ||
| Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 | 113 | 101 | 7 | 1 |
| Japanese Invasion of the Philippines, December 8, 1941-April 9, 1942 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
| U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan, December 8, 1941 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Japanese invasion of Singapore, February 8-15, 1942 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945 | 216 | 184 | 24 | 4 |
| Battle of the Coral Sea, April 7-8, 1942 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Bataan Death March, April 1942 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Midway, June 3-6, 1942 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Papua-New Guinea Campaign, 1942 | 16 | 15 | ||
| Raid on Dieppe, August 14, 1942 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Sleepy Lagoon Trial, 1942-1943 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Operation Torch, November 8, 1942 | 1 | |||
| Siege of Stalingrad, November 1942-February 1943 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Battle of Kasserine Pass, February 14-25, 1943 | 1 | |||
| Battle of the Bismark Sea, March 2-3, 1943 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Allies capture Tunisia, March 7, 1943 | 1 | 1 | ||
| D-Day Invasion, June 6, 1944 | 46 | 5 | 22 | 14 |
| Philippines Campaign, June 19-December 15, 1944 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Peleliu, September 15-November 25, 1944 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle for Leyte Gulf, October 23-26, 1944 | 4 | 4 | 2 | |
| Battle of the Bulge, December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945 | 78 | 57 | 11 | 5 |
| U.S. Invades Luzon, January 9, 1945 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Iwo Jima, February 19-March 16, 1945 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Battle for the Ryukyus, March 19-June 21, 1945 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Liberation of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, April 11, 1945 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt dies, April 12, 1945 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp, April 29, 1945 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Hitler commits suicide, April 30, 1945 | 1 | 1 | ||
| German Surrender, May 7, 1945 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Germany divided into occupation zones, June 5, 1945 | 3 | |||
| Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 | 4 | 3 | ||
| Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945 | 1 | |||
| Cold War, 1945-1989 | 779 | 725 | 1 | |
| Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |
| National Security Act, U.S., July 26, 1947 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994 | 6 | 4 | ||
| Coup d'etat, Czechoslovakia, 1948 | 3 | |||
| Arab-Israeli Conflicts, 1949- | 10 | 3 | ||
| Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 | 472 | 95 | 150 | 166 |
| U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 | 254 | 199 | 1 | |
| Brown vs. Board of Education, May 17, 1954 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Vietnam Conflict, 1955-1975 | 893 | 290 | 467 | 185 |
| Coup d'etat, Argentina, 1955 | 1 | |||
| Cuban Revolution, 1956-1959 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |
| Suez Crisis, 1956 | 6 | |||
| Desegregation of Schools, Little Rock, AR, September 2-September 25, 1957 | 30 | |||
| National Defense Education Act, U.S., 1958 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 17, 1961 | 9 | 9 | ||
| Algerian Independence from France, 1962 | 1 | |||
| Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | 10 | 9 | ||
| Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963 | 162 | 162 | ||
| Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963 | 14 | 11 | 2 | |
| Civil Rights Act Passed, U.S., July 2, 1964 | 13 | 13 | ||
| Voting Rights Act passed, U.S., 1965 | 6 | 6 | 1 | |
| Watts Race Riots, Los Angeles, CA, August 13, 1965 | 3 | 3 | ||
| U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966- | 241 | 223 | 24 | |
| Safe Street Act, 1968 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Tet Offensive, Vietnam, January 30-31, 1968 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1968 | 33 | 33 | 24 | |
| Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, June 4, 1968 | 32 | 32 | 24 | |
| First Moon Landing, July 20, 1969 | 1 | |||
| American Indian Movement occupies Alcatraz Island, November 20, 1969 - June 11, 1971 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cambodian Civil War, 1970-1975 | 20 | 18 | 1 | |
| Kent State University Riot, May 4, 1970 | 17 | 17 | ||
| Watergate Scandal, 1972-1975 | 9 | 8 | ||
| Cyprus Crisis, 1974 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Angolan Civil War, 1975-2002 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Falkland Islands War, 1982 | 8 | |||
| U.S. Invasion of Panama, December 12, 1989 | 64 | 63 | ||
| Persian Gulf War, 1991 | 165 | 96 | 34 | 29 |
| September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 | 15 | 15 | ||
| U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan, 2001 | 58 | 53 | 1 | 3 |
| Iraq War, 2003 | 39 | 33 | 1 | 3 |