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Leaders & Rulers(101)

Alexander the Great Julius Caesar Augustus Cleopatra Napoleon Genghis Khan Kublai Khan Attila the Hun Charlemagne William the Conqueror Saladin Hannibal Cyrus the Great Darius the Great Xerxes I Constantine the Great Justinian I Suleiman the Magnificent Akbar Catherine the Great Peter the Great Queen Victoria Elizabeth I Henry VIII Louis XIV Otto von Bismarck Tamerlane Ramesses II Hatshepsut Ashoka Qin Shi Huang Mansa Musa Joan of Arc Abraham Lincoln George Washington Winston Churchill Franklin D. Roosevelt Mahatma Gandhi Nelson Mandela Simón Bolívar Pericles Marcus Aurelius Trajan Hadrian Nero Caligula Spartacus Leonidas I Hammurabi Nebuchadnezzar II Mehmed II Babur Shah Jahan Shivaji Sun Yat-sen Ho Chi Minh Fidel Castro Che Guevara Shaka Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin Mao Zedong Theodora Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Philip II of Spain Frederick the Great Maria Theresa Ivan the Terrible Tokugawa Ieyasu Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Kangxi Emperor Qianlong Emperor Wu Zetian Emperor Meiji Haile Selassie Kwame Nkrumah Jomo Kenyatta Gamal Abdel Nasser Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Tipu Sultan Aurangzeb Chandragupta Maurya Krishnadevaraya Rani of Jhansi Montezuma II Atahualpa Pachacuti Tecumseh Sitting Bull Crazy Horse Oliver Cromwell Robespierre Giuseppe Garibaldi Toussaint Louverture Pancho Villa Emiliano Zapata Kemal Eleanor of Aquitaine Boudica Vercingetorix

Thinkers & Scientists(66)

Albert Einstein Isaac Newton Charles Darwin Nikola Tesla Marie Curie Galileo Galilei Leonardo da Vinci Aristotle Plato Socrates Confucius Archimedes Pythagoras Euclid Nicolaus Copernicus Johannes Kepler Michael Faraday Louis Pasteur Gregor Mendel Sigmund Freud Karl Marx Adam Smith Voltaire Immanuel Kant René Descartes Niccolò Machiavelli Thomas Aquinas Avicenna Aristarchus of Samos Hippocrates Ptolemy Al-Khwarizmi Ibn Khaldun Averroes Francis Bacon Blaise Pascal Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Antoine Lavoisier Alessandro Volta Charles Babbage Ada Lovelace James Clerk Maxwell Max Planck Niels Bohr Werner Heisenberg Erwin Schrödinger Alan Turing John von Neumann Dmitri Mendeleev Gregor Johann Mendel Alexander Fleming Jonas Salk Rosalind Franklin Stephen Hawking Carl Sagan Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell Wright brothers Johannes Gutenberg James Watt Adam Ferguson John Locke Jean-Jacques Rousseau David Hume Friedrich Nietzsche Karl Popper

Explorers & Discovery(18)

Christopher Columbus Marco Polo Ferdinand Magellan James Cook Vasco da Gama Zheng He Hernán Cortés Francisco Pizarro Amerigo Vespucci Henry Hudson Roald Amundsen Ernest Shackleton Ibn Battuta Lewis and Clark Expedition David Livingstone Leif Erikson Bartolomeu Dias Juan Ponce de León

Empires & Civilizations(90)

Roman Empire Byzantine Empire Ottoman Empire Mongol Empire British Empire Persian Empire Achaemenid Empire Holy Roman Empire Russian Empire Spanish Empire Mughal Empire Han dynasty Tang dynasty Ming dynasty Qing dynasty Maurya Empire Gupta Empire Aztec Empire Inca Empire Maya civilization Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Mesopotamia Carthage Mali Empire Khmer Empire Sumer Babylonia Assyria Phoenicia Etruscan civilization Minoan civilization Indus Valley civilisation Sasanian Empire Seleucid Empire Abbasid Caliphate Umayyad Caliphate Songhai Empire Kingdom of Kush Kingdom of Aksum Great Zimbabwe Delhi Sultanate Vijayanagara Empire Chola dynasty Maratha Empire Golden Horde Timurid Empire Mamluk Sultanate Joseon Tokugawa shogunate Macedonia Sparta Athens Thebes, Greece Hittites Akkadian Empire Neo-Babylonian Empire Parthian Empire Kushan Empire Satavahana dynasty Pala Empire Rashtrakuta dynasty Pallava dynasty Pandya dynasty Srivijaya Majapahit Khazars Kievan Rus Frankish Empire Visigothic Kingdom Kingdom of Hungary Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Republic of Venice Republic of Florence Dutch Republic Portuguese Empire French colonial empire Ghana Empire Benin Empire Ashanti Empire Zulu Kingdom Ethiopian Empire Sikh Empire Safavid dynasty Yuan dynasty Song dynasty Zhou dynasty Shang dynasty Joseon dynasty

Wars & Conflicts(58)

World War I World War II Cold War American Civil War Napoleonic Wars Vietnam War Korean War Crusades Hundred Years War Thirty Years War Seven Years War Wars of the Roses Punic Wars Peloponnesian War Spanish Civil War Crimean War Second Boer War Franco-Prussian War Russo-Japanese War Opium Wars Mexican–American War Spanish–American War War of 1812 English Civil War Russian Civil War Chinese Civil War Boxer Rebellion Taiping Rebellion Anglo-Zulu War War of the Spanish Succession Great Northern War Balkan Wars Greco-Persian Wars Gallic Wars Wars of Alexander the Great Jewish–Roman wars Mongol invasions and conquests Reconquista Italian Wars Eighty Years War War of the Austrian Succession American Revolutionary War War of the Pacific First Italian War of Independence Greek War of Independence Mexican Revolution First Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War Winter War Six-Day War Yom Kippur War Iran–Iraq War Gulf War Falklands War Indian Rebellion of 1857 Wars of Scottish Independence The Troubles Hussite Wars

Battles(55)

Battle of Hastings Battle of Waterloo Battle of Thermopylae Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Midway Battle of Cannae Battle of Marathon Battle of Agincourt Battle of Trafalgar Battle of Austerlitz Battle of the Somme Battle of Verdun Battle of Tours Battle of Gaugamela Battle of Zama Normandy landings Battle of Actium Fall of Constantinople Battle of Kursk Battle of the Bulge Attack on Pearl Harbor Battle of Britain Battles of Saratoga Battle of Vienna Battle of Lepanto Battle of Plassey Battle of Salamis Battle of Issus Battle of Hydaspes Battle of Pharsalus Battle of Teutoburg Forest Battle of Adrianople Battle of Manzikert Battle of Crécy Battle of Poitiers Battle of Bosworth Field Battle of Bannockburn Battle of Yorktown Battle of Bunker Hill Battle of Antietam Battle of Bull Run Battle of Borodino Battle of Leipzig Battle of Jutland Battle of Gallipoli Battle of El Alamein Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Okinawa Battle of Leyte Gulf Battle of Tsushima Battle of Tannenberg Battle of Vienna 1683 Siege of Leningrad Battle of Hattin

Events & Eras(70)

French Revolution American Revolution Russian Revolution Industrial Revolution Renaissance Reformation Black Death Spanish flu Great Depression Fall of the Western Roman Empire Apollo 11 Moon landing Silk Road Viking Age Middle Ages Age of Discovery Scientific Revolution Age of Enlightenment Meiji Restoration Haitian Revolution Cuban Revolution Iranian Revolution Scramble for Africa Atlantic slave trade Abolitionism Civil rights movement Manhattan Project Space Race Treaty of Versailles Congress of Vienna The Holocaust Partition of India Cuban Missile Crisis Berlin Wall Late Bronze Age collapse Neolithic Revolution Glorious Revolution Magna Carta Norman Conquest Protestant Reformation Counter-Reformation Council of Trent Columbian exchange Triangular trade Gold Rush California Gold Rush Klondike Gold Rush Dust Bowl Roaring Twenties Wall Street Crash of 1929 Prohibition in the United States Suffragette Women's suffrage Emancipation Proclamation Gunpowder Plot Storming of the Bastille Reign of Terror July Revolution Revolutions of 1848 Unification of Germany Italian unification Partition of Korea Marshall Plan Nuremberg trials Suez Crisis Cultural Revolution Great Leap Forward Long March Dissolution of the Soviet Union September 11 attacks