10 events with tag "history"
440 BC
ID: 243
Herodotus completes Histories - first historical work, describes peoples from India to Africa
ID: 243
411 BC
ID: 255
Thucydides exiled, begins History - scientific history, examines causes, Melian Dialogue on power
ID: 255
79
ID: 5942
August 25, 79
Pliny the Younger survives at Misenum - age 17, writes detailed eyewitness account to Tacitus, only surviving scientific record of eruption
ID: 5942
576
ID: 2843
Gregory becomes Bishop of Tours - begins writing 'History of the Franks', primary source for Merovingian period
ID: 2843
731
ID: 2620
Bede completes Ecclesiastical History - first great history of English people, written at Jarrow monastery
ID: 2620
731
ID: 4923
St. Bede completes 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People' - preserves early Church history in Britain
ID: 4923
1975
ID: 5316
Le Roy Ladurie publishes 'Montaillou' - uses Fournier's inquisition records to reconstruct medieval village life and Cathar beliefs
ID: 5316
2002
ID: 3073
Virginia governor formally apologizes for eugenic sterilizations
ID: 3073
2004
ID: 3098
NATO expansion includes Baltic states with unresolved Nazi collaboration history
ID: 3098
2006
ID: 3128
OSI publishes comprehensive official record of Operation Paperclip
ID: 3128