Every Chronicle article on world history, newest first: battles, empires, disasters, discoveries and revolutions.
The Batavia was lost and about 110 to 125 survivors were murdered by mutineers; Pelsaert's rescue ship captured the mutineers, and Cornelisz and six others were hanged on 2 October 1629.
Williams founded Providence as a refuge for liberty of conscience; it became the core of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Nobunaga and his heir Nobutada died; Akechi Mitsuhide was defeated by Hideyoshi at Yamazaki eleven days later, opening the way for Hideyoshi's rise.
Sinan designed hundreds of buildings and created the classical style of Ottoman architecture, culminating in the Selimiye Mosque.
Galileo was found vehemently suspect of heresy, forced to abjure, his Dialogue was banned and he spent his last years under house arrest.
Victory for the five Catholic cantons; Zwingli was killed and the Second Peace of Kappel halted the spread of Protestantism in the Confederation.
The earliest surviving Portuguese world chart to record the discoveries in both the Americas and the Indian Ocean.
The city of Tangshan was almost completely destroyed; the official death toll was 242,419, while some estimates are considerably higher.
Spain became a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy under the 1978 Constitution, confirmed by the peaceful transfer of power to the Socialists in 1982.
Hundreds of riders were attacked or jailed, but the campaign led the Interstate Commerce Commission to ban segregation in interstate bus travel from 1 November 1961.
Glenn completed three orbits in just under five hours and returned safely, the first American to orbit the Earth.
Communist victory; Nationalist losses of roughly half a million men left the Yangtze line and Nanjing exposed.
