Chinese history on one line: the Neolithic cultures, the Xia of tradition, the Shang and Zhou, the empire from Qin to Qing, and the Republic, to the founding of the People’s Republic on 1 October 1949, with two later milestones. Dynasties,…
The American Civil War with its causes and aftermath: the forty years of compromises and crises over slavery, secession and the founding of the Confederacy, the war in the East, the West and at sea, emancipation and the Black soldiers who …
The Great Depression in the United States and around the world: the boom of the 1920s and its cracks, the Crash of 1929 and the market's three-year fall, the banking panics, the European crisis and the end of the gold standard, the Hoover …
The COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, from the first reported cluster of pneumonia in Wuhan in December 2019 to the end of WHO’s public health emergency of international concern and of the US public health emergency in May 2023: WHO’s declarati…
The Second World War around the world, with the road to it from 1919 and its end in 1945–46: the war in China from 1937, the war in Europe from 1939, the Eastern Front, North Africa, the Pacific, the Holocaust, the conferences and the surr…
Ancient Rome from its legendary founding in 753 BCE through the kings, the Republic and the Empire, to the deposition of the last western emperor in 476 CE, with the Eastern Empire to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 as an epilogue: its …