Early Modern
Battle of Rossbach (1757): Frederick the Great's Swift Victory
Decisive Prussian victory; the Franco-Imperial army was routed and France never again sent a major army directly against Prussia in the war.
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Early Modern
Olaudah Equiano and The Interesting Narrative (1789)
A bestselling first-person account of enslavement that strengthened the British campaign against the slave trade.
Early Modern
Boston Tea Party (1773): The Protest That Led to Revolution
342 chests of East India Company tea were destroyed, and Parliament answered with the Coercive Acts of 1774.
Early Modern
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689): China and Russia Set a Border
Russia gave up the Amur valley and Albazin in return for regulated trade, and a border was fixed along the Argun River and the Stanovoy mountains.
Early Modern
Koprulu Era (1656-1703): Grand Viziers Revive the Ottomans
The Ottoman state recovered from a deep crisis and reached its greatest extent in Europe, before the defeat at Vienna in 1683 opened a long war of losses.
Early Modern
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755): Defining English
Johnson's two-volume Dictionary became the leading authority on English vocabulary until the Oxford English Dictionary appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Early Modern
Assassination of William the Silent (1584) in Delft
William of Orange was killed; the Dutch Revolt survived under new leaders, but Spain regained much of the southern Netherlands.
Early Modern
Battle of Las Salinas (1538): Pizarro against Almagro
Victory for the Pizarro faction; Diego de Almagro was captured and executed in Cusco in July 1538.
Contemporary
2005 Kashmir Earthquake: Catastrophe in Pakistan and India
More than 80,000 people were killed and about 3 million left homeless, prompting one of the largest relief operations in South Asian history.
Contemporary
Dayton Agreement (1995): The Deal That Ended the Bosnian War
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended, and the country was preserved as one state made up of two largely autonomous entities under international supervision.
Contemporary
Women's Suffrage in Switzerland (1971): A Late Federal Vote
About 66 per cent of male voters and a majority of cantons approved women's right to vote and stand in federal elections.
Contemporary
Sally Ride (1983): First American Woman in Space on STS-7
Ride became the first American woman and, at 32, the youngest American to fly in space; STS-7 deployed two satellites and first tested the shuttle arm on a free-flying satellite.