Contemporary
February 28 Incident 1947: Uprising and Massacre in Taiwan
The uprising was suppressed by troops sent from mainland China; thousands were killed and decades of political repression followed.
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Every Chronicle article on world history, newest first: battles, empires, disasters, discoveries and revolutions.
Contemporary
Tito-Stalin Split (1948): Yugoslavia Breaks with Moscow
Yugoslavia was expelled from the Cominform and went on to build a communist state independent of Soviet control.
Ancient World
Ugarit: Bronze Age Port City and Its Cuneiform Alphabet
Ugarit was destroyed around 1185 BC and never reoccupied as a city, but its buried archives transformed the study of the ancient Levant.
Ancient World
Tlatilco Culture: Village Figurines of the Valley of Mexico
Tlatilco's burials and figurines became a key source for early village society in central Mexico and its early contacts with the Olmec world.
Ancient World
Fall of the Western Zhou (771 BC): King You and the Move East
King You was killed and the western capital lost; the Zhou court re-formed at Luoyi in the east, beginning the Eastern Zhou and a long decline of royal power.
Ancient World
Lothal: The Indus Valley Port and Its Ancient Dockyard
A small but busy Harappan craft and trading town whose brick basin remains one of the most debated structures of the Indus Valley Civilisation.
Ancient World
Licinian-Sextian Laws (367 BC): Plebeians Win the Consulship
The consular tribunate was abolished, the consulship restored and opened to plebeians, and Lucius Sextius became the first plebeian consul in 366 BC.
Ancient World
Dendra Panoply (c. 1400 BC): The Oldest Greek Suit of Armour
The earliest nearly complete suit of metal body armour known from Europe, now in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplio.
Ancient World
Bent Pyramid of Dahshur: Sneferu's Changing-Angle Pyramid
An experimental pyramid whose slope was reduced partway through construction; it kept more of its original casing than any other Egyptian pyramid.
Ancient World
Sargon of Akkad: Founder of the World's First Empire
Sargon united the city-states of Sumer and Akkad under one king, creating the Akkadian Empire that lasted about 180 years.
Prehistory
Jiahu: Bone Flutes, Early Signs and Rice Wine in Neolithic China
A major early Neolithic village whose flutes, incised signs and fermented-drink residues changed views of early Chinese music, symbols and diet.
Prehistory
Çayönü: Early Neolithic Village of Grill Houses and Copper
A long-lived early farming village whose architecture, ritual buildings and copper working illuminate the Neolithic of upper Mesopotamia.