Ancient World
Obelisks of Aksum: The Giant Stelae of Ancient Ethiopia
The tallest monolithic monuments of the ancient world; the Rome stela was returned to Ethiopia in 2005 and re-erected in 2008.
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Every Chronicle article on world history, newest first: battles, empires, disasters, discoveries and revolutions.
Ancient World
Debate on Salt and Iron (81 BC): Han China's Economic Policy
The wine monopoly and some iron offices were abolished, but the salt and iron monopolies survived; the debate was later recorded in Huan Kuan's Yantie Lun.
Ancient World
Samudragupta and the Allahabad Pillar Inscription
Samudragupta made the Gupta kingdom the dominant power of northern India, and Harisena's inscription preserved a detailed account of his conquests.
Ancient World
Caesar's Gallic Wars (58-50 BC): The Roman Conquest of Gaul
Roman victory; all of Gaul between the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Rhine came under Roman rule, at enormous human cost.
Ancient World
Peace of Nicias (421 BC): The Fragile Truce of Athens and Sparta
A fifty-year peace ended the Archidamian War, but key terms were never carried out and open war resumed by 414-413 BC.
Ancient World
Horemheb: General Who Became Pharaoh After Amarna
Horemheb completed the restoration of Egypt's traditional order after the Amarna period and handed the throne to his vizier, the future Ramesses I.
Ancient World
Nabonidus at Tayma: Babylon's Absent Antiquarian King
Nabonidus ruled from Tayma for about a decade while his son Belshazzar governed Babylon, a long absence later used to discredit him after Cyrus took Babylon.
Prehistory
Meganeura: Giant Insects of the Oxygen-Rich Carboniferous
One of the largest flying insects ever known, Meganeura became the classic example in the debate over oxygen levels and insect size.
Modern Era
Battle of Guadalcanal (1942–1943): The Allies Go on the Offensive
Allied victory; Japan evacuated its remaining troops in February 1943 and lost the strategic initiative in the South Pacific.
Modern Era
Battle of Amiens (1918): The Black Day of the German Army
Allied victory; German lines were broken on the first day and the Hundred Days Offensive began.
Modern Era
Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company (1889)
The chartered British South Africa Company occupied Mashonaland in 1890 and Matabeleland in 1893, ruling the territories named Rhodesia until 1923-1924.
Modern Era
Sherman's March to the Sea (1864): From Atlanta to Savannah
Union success; Sherman's army crossed Georgia almost unopposed, destroyed railways and supplies and captured Savannah on 21 December 1864.