Contemporary
Idi Amin's Rule in Uganda 1971-1979: Coup, Terror and Expulsion
Eight years of military dictatorship and mass killing ended when Tanzanian troops and Ugandan exiles captured Kampala in April 1979.
All Articles
Every Chronicle article on world history, newest first: battles, empires, disasters, discoveries and revolutions.
Contemporary
Thich Quang Duc (1963): The Burning Monk Protest in Saigon
The self-immolation drew worldwide attention to the Buddhist crisis, weakened US support for President Diem and contributed to the coup that overthrew him in November 1963.
Ancient World
Cimbrian War (113-101 BC): Germanic Migrants Threaten Rome
After a decade of Roman defeats, Marius destroyed the Teutones at Aquae Sextiae (102 BC) and the Cimbri at Vercellae (101 BC), ending the threat to Italy.
Ancient World
Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan and Its Tunnel
A major state temple whose construction involved the sacrifice of well over a hundred people; its sealed tunnel has yielded tens of thousands of offerings.
Ancient World
Battle of Mobei (119 BC): Han Armies Strike the Xiongnu
Han victory; the Xiongnu chanyu fled north and the Xiongnu court withdrew from the lands south of the Gobi, but Han lost most of its war horses.
Ancient World
Hathigumpha Inscription: King Kharavela of Kalinga
The seventeen-line Prakrit text preserved a year-by-year record of Kharavela's reign and remains the main source for Kalinga after the Mauryas.
Ancient World
Sulla's Dictatorship (82-79 BC): Proscriptions and Reforms
Sulla ruled as dictator, killed or ruined hundreds to thousands of opponents and passed reforms strengthening the Senate, most of which were reversed within a decade.
Ancient World
Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC): Athens Against Sparta
Spartan victory; Athens surrendered in 404 BC, lost its empire, fleet and walls, and was briefly ruled by the Thirty Tyrants.
Ancient World
Nefertiti: Queen of Egypt and the Famous Berlin Bust
Nefertiti became the most prominent queen of the Amarna period; her fate after about 1337 BC remains uncertain, and her bust is one of the most famous artworks of antiquity.
Ancient World
Battle of Carchemish (605 BC): Babylon Defeats Egypt
Decisive Babylonian victory; Egypt lost Syria and the Levant, and Babylon replaced Assyria as the leading power of the Near East.
Prehistory
Newgrange: Ireland's Neolithic Passage Tomb and Winter Solstice
A great passage tomb aligned on the midwinter sunrise, now the centrepiece of the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Prehistory
Ness of Brodgar: Orkney's Neolithic Ceremonial Complex
One of the most important Neolithic sites in north-western Europe, revealing monumental stone architecture at the heart of Neolithic Orkney.