Famous Historical Topics & Events Chapters

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

See pictures of Marie Antoinette from the time she is an infant through adulthood.

Threatening the Earps with a rifle, Ike Clanton breaks Tombstone's law against having guns in town.

Lizzie harms herself during her inquest by giving multiple answers to simple questions, which indicates a lack of truthfulness.

Thomas Cromwell, who becomes a key advisor to King Henry VIII, grows-up in Putney, outside London, with a very difficult father.

As a high-level advisor to Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell tries to help the King get a divorce from Catharine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn.

Who was "Stonewall" Jackson, how did he get his nickname and why did he become so famous?

Read a poem about people not involved in the massacre but who grieve with the rest of the world.

The design of the ship and the supplies carried by the Titanic.

Meet the senior officers of Titanic's fatal voyage. What are their responsibilities?

Marconi's invention provides wireless messages to and from the Titanic.

102 passengers, 41 of whom are Pilgrims, set out in the Mayflower on a late-fall journey across the sea to Virginia.

Even though Elizabeth avoids Mary in life, they are bound by death with adjoining graves.

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