World History Index Of Events

The Pantheon - The first temple to sit on the site where the Pantheon now is was built between 27-25 B.C., and commissio...

Paper - The Chinese have contributed several inventions to humanity throughout history. One of the earliest and mos...

Paris - The site where the city of Paris now sits already had an established settlement when Julius Caesar arrived in th...

The Parthenon - Despite not being one of the Ancient Wonders, as is the Temple of Artemis and Statue of Zeus, the Parthe...

Pax Romana - After a half-century of civil and foreign wars, and the transition from republic to empire, Rome entered a ...

Peace of Westphalia - Though it is commonly called the "Treaty of Westphalia", the proper term for it is actua...

Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) - It's tantalizing to imagine what ancient Greece might have become had it managed ...

Pepi II - A rather unremarkable pharaoh, Pepi II is known for one thing - having the longest reign of any known human be...

Pericles (ca. 495-429 B.C.) - Perhaps the most influential Greek of all from the Classical Era, Pericles is probably the...

Persia conquers Egypt (525 B.C.) - Cyrus the Great was succeeded by his son, Cambyses II, who ascended the Persian thron...

The Persian Wars: Marathon (490 B.C.) - The Greco-Persian conflict at the beginning of the 5th century B.C. wa...

Peter the Great (1672-1725) - The Tsar who turned Russia into an empire, Peter the Great actively pursued a policy of ex...

Phidias (ca. 480-430 B.C.) - The greatest sculptor of ancient Greece, Phidias designed two of antiquity's most iconi...

Philip II (1165-1223) - Philip II Augustus (in honor of the month of his birth) was the son born to King Louis VII that ...

Philip II (1527-1598) - King Philip II of Spain inherited the most powerful empire on earth from his father, Charles V, ...

Philip II of Macedon (382-336 B.C.) - As king of Macedonia and conqueror of Greece, those feats alone would have been en...

Phoenicia - Famous for their maritime skill, the Phoenicians were a Semitic people who lived along the east coast of the...

Phoenician Alphabet - The alphabet is the greatest contribution of the Phoenicians to civilization. It was a radical shi...

Plato (ca. 427-347 B.C.) - Socrates' greatest student and a giant in his own right in the discipline of philosophy, ...

Plutarch (ca. 46-120 A.D.) - Greek historian who is considered one of the most significant writers of his era. He was bo...

Pompey the Great (106-48 B.C.) - It's quite remarkable that two such great military conquerors were alive at exactly...

Pope Innocent III (ca. 1160-1216) - Pope Innocent III is widely considered to be the most powerful Pope of the Middle Ag...

Pope Urban II (ca. 1042-1099) - Born Otho of Lagery (in Champagne, France), he is the figure most associated with initia...

Prithvi Raj III (1149-1192) - Prithvi Raj III was ruler of the Hindu Chauhan Empire (and as it happened the last Chauhan...