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34 events · 12 research items · April 3, 0033 to March 2, 2026 · Page 2 of 2
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Murder of the Romanovs
Wars & Conflicts July 17, 1918

Murder of the Romanovs

Murder of the Romanovs On July 17, 1918, the last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II, along with his wife Alexandra, their five children, and four loyal attendants, were ex...

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What Killed Tutankhamun?
Published Research Nations & Civilizations

What Killed Tutankhamun?

c. 1323 BCE — The young king's mummy has been subjected to extensive medical and genetic analysis. Proposed explanations have included injury, malaria, inherited disor...

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Assassination at Sarajevo
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Assassination at Sarajevo

28 June 1914 — Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie are assassinated during an official visit to Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princi...

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Auschwitz Is Liberated
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Auschwitz Is Liberated

27 January 1945 — Soviet troops reach the Auschwitz concentration and extermination complex in occupied Poland. They find thousands of surviving prisoners and extensiv...

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Auschwitz Is Liberated
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Auschwitz Is Liberated

27 January 1945 — Soviet troops enter the Auschwitz concentration and extermination complex. They find thousands of surviving prisoners whom the SS had been unable to ...

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Babi Yar Massacre Begins
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Babi Yar Massacre Begins

29 September 1941 — German SS, police and associated units murder tens of thousands of Jews in the Babi Yar ravine near Kyiv over two days. The massacre becomes one of...

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How Did Persecution Become Genocide?
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

How Did Persecution Become Genocide?

20 January 1942 — Wannsee provides a powerful investigative anchor, but the process begins earlier. Follow antisemitic legislation, ghettos, deportations, invasion of ...

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Kristallnacht
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Kristallnacht

9 November 1938 — Nazi-organized violence erupts against Jews throughout Germany and Austria. Synagogues are burned, businesses destroyed, people murdered and tens of ...

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Kyiv Is Retaken by the Red Army
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Kyiv Is Retaken by the Red Army

6 November 1943 — Soviet forces recapture Kyiv from German occupation. The victory is strategically and symbolically important and accelerates the German retreat acros...

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Night of the Long Knives
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Night of the Long Knives

30 June 1934 — Hitler orders the killing of SA leaders and other perceived political enemies. Ernst Röhm and numerous others are murdered without trial. The purge reas...

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Wannsee Conference
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Wannsee Conference

20 January 1942 — Senior Nazi officials meet near Berlin to coordinate bureaucratic implementation of the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question. Mass killing...

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