History of Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a small island group located off mainland China that was under British rule from 1841 to 1997. ...
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Nelson Mandela
On 11th February 1990, the anti-apartheid campaigner and member of the African National Congress (ANC) was released from prison after ...
Fall of Singapore in WW2
Singapore had become a British province following the signing of the Anglo-Dutch treaty of 1824. Singapore grew and became a ...
The Pilgrim Fathers
On 16th September 1620 The Mayflower left the port of Plymouth on the south western point of England carrying 102 ...
Germany Annexed the Sudetenland
At the end of World War One the treaties of Versailles, St Germain and Trianon broke the Austro-Hungarian Empire and ...
The German Democratic Republic
At the end of World War Two the allied divided Germany into four sectors that were controlled by Britain, France, ...
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
On 14th October 1962 a US spy plane flying over Cuba reported the installation of Russian nuclear missile bases. The ...
Alaska Transferred to the USA
The state of Alaska is located at the north-western extremity of the North American continent. It is separated from Russia ...
Hungarian Revolution
Following the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 many European communist countries developed liberal reformist factions. In Hungary the reformist ...
Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty 1994
The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and King Hussein of Jordan signed a peace treaty ending the 48 year ...