Every Chronicle article on world history, newest first: battles, empires, disasters, discoveries and revolutions.
The invasion toppled Saddam Hussein within weeks, but no weapons of mass destruction were found and Iraq descended into insurgency and sectarian war before US forces left in 2011.
The USSR ceased to exist on 26 December 1991 and was replaced by 15 independent states; Russia took over the Soviet seat on the UN Security Council.
Segovia received a water supply carried over a granite arcade that still stands and became the symbol of the city.
Rhodes resisted successfully and kept its independence; Demetrius made peace and withdrew after about a year.
Failure: Hitler survived with minor injuries, the coup collapsed within hours, and thousands of suspects were arrested and many executed.
The SA leadership and other opponents were murdered, the army backed Hitler, and after Hindenburg's death in August 1934 Hitler became Germany's undisputed Fuhrer.
Korea became a Japanese colony governed by a Government-General until Japan's defeat in 1945.
Pluto was discovered and counted as the ninth planet until the International Astronomical Union reclassified it as a dwarf planet in 2006.
Wilde lost his libel case and was convicted of gross indecency, receiving the maximum sentence of two years' hard labour.
The Kamakura shogunate fell in 1333, but Go-Daigo's direct imperial rule collapsed by 1336 and Japan split into two rival courts.
Rumi turned from a conventional scholar into a mystic poet whose Divan and Masnavi became classics of Persian literature and inspired the Mevlevi Sufi order.
The rising was suppressed and Richard II's promises to end serfdom were revoked, but no further poll tax of this kind was attempted for centuries and serfdom continued to decline.
