World History Index Of Events

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Rajendra Chola I (?-1044) - The Chola Dynasty was a long standing Tamil empire in southern India spanning all the way ba...

Ramses II (ca. 1279-1213 B.C.) - Also known as Ramses the Great. Of all the pharaoh's in Egypt's long history, R...

Richard I (1157-1199) - The monarch with perhaps the coolest epithet (anyone can be a "Great", but there is on...

Robert Craig (1919-1943) - 2nd Lieutenant Robert Craig was a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient during World Wa...

The Colosseum - By the first century A.D., Rome had become so wealthy and the gladiator games so popular, that the Roman...

Rome sacked (ca. 390 B.C.) - Before Rome could become a world empire, it took a few lumps. The most humiliating moment i...

Rome Sacked again (410) - After its defeat at Adrianople, things began to deteriorate rather quickly for the Roman ...

Rome subdues Italy - The near destruction of their city at the hands of the Gauls (see Rome Sacked above left) must have...

Rosetta Stone - The Rosetta Stone is a black basalt tablet inscribed with a decree by a council of royal priests on beha...

Rosetta Stone found (1799) - After Napoleon Bonaparte rose to power in France, he launched a campaign into Syria and Egy...

Jean-Jacques Rosseau (1712-1778) - Genevan philosopher whose writings played a major contribution to the French Revoluti...

Russian Revolution (1917) - Russia had routinely lagged behind the rest of Europe in terms of its societal evolution. &n...

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) - In the course of a mere 50 years, Japan transformed from a feudal society into an indus...

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