John Brown (1800-1859) was a militant abolitionist best known for the part he played in the violence of Bleeding Kansas (1854-1859) and his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia) in October 1859. #History #JohnBrown #BleedingKansas #Abolitionism #AmericanCivilWar #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24420-en/

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was an American statesman and military general who served as the ninth president of the United States. #History #WarOf1812 #Tecumseh #USHistory #USPresidents #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-23805-en/

Aethelstan was the first King of England, ruling from 927 to 939. #History #EdwardTheElder #Aethelstan #Anglo-Saxon #England #Wessex #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24653-en/

Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) was the last of the Romanov emperors, murdered along with his family during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917. #History #TsarNicholasII #Tsar #RomanovDynasty #RussianEmpire #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24512-en/

Italy occupied Ethiopia for five years, from 1935 to 1941, following a mass-scale invasion launched by the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945). #History #Abyssinia #BenitoMussolini #Ethiopia #EthiopianEmpire #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24584-en/

Cleopatra of Macedon (355/4-308 BCE), daughter of Philip II of Macedon (reign 359-336 BCE) and his Molossian queen, Olympias of Epirus (c. 375-316 BCE), was the only full sister of Alexander the Great (reign 336-323 BCE). #History #Olympias #HellenisticPeriod #AlexanderTheGreat #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-18913-en/

The Battle of New Orleans (8 January 1815) was the final major battle of the War of 1812, in which a ragtag American army under Major General Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) beat back a superior British force under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham (1778-1815). #History #WarOf1812 #AndrewJackson #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2744-en/

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed on 3 March 1918, outlined the harsh conditions under which the crumbling Russian Empire withdrew from the First World War (1914-18). #History #FirstWorldWar #GermanEmpire #SovietRussia #VladimirLenin #WWI #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24651-en/

'Bleeding Kansas' was a term coined by the New York Tribune in 1856, referring to the escalating hostilities in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery activists and anti-slavery 'free staters' following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. #History #BleedingKansas #AmericanCivilWar #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24398-en/

Wallis Simpson (1896-1986) is often remembered as the wife of King Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor. #History #Beiijing #HouseOfWindsor #KingEdwardVIII #WallisSimpson #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2739-en/

Henry Clay (1777-1852) was an American lawyer and statesman, one of the defining political figures of his age. #History #WarOf1812 #MissouriCompromise #HenryClay #CompromiseOf1850 #AmericanSystem #AndrewJackson #GreatCompromiser #GreatTriumvirate #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24589-en/

The brutal murder of the entire Romanov family was the culmination of deep discontent across the Russian Empire with the persistently autocratic rule of Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917). #History #Tsar #RomanovDynasty #Russia #TsarNicholasII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2743-en/

The Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How. #History #DredScottDecision #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24601-en/

In this collection, we look at 12 of the most famous ships that have ever sailed the high seas. #History #Liner #MaritimeHistory #Ship #Shipwreck #Warship #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-304-en/

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (1850-1864) was part of the Compromise of 1850, drafted to diffuse tensions between Southern 'slave states' and Northern 'free states. #History #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24598-en/

Sometime in 1153 or 1154, the German nun Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) wrote a letter to the elderly Pope Anastasius IV (1073-1154). #History #MedievalChurch #HildegardOfBingen #LinguaIgnota #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2738-en/

The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills passed by the US Congress in September 1850 to diffuse a sectional crisis brewing between the 'free states' of the North and the 'slave states' of the South. #History #MissouriCompromise #CompromiseOf1850 #AmericanCivilWar #DanielWebster #HenryClay #JohnC.Calhoun #StephenA.Douglas #USHistory #ZacharyTaylor #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24595-en/

When Sojourner Truth (circa 1797-1883) escaped from slavery, she later said, "I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right" (Delbanco, 142). #History #HarrietTubman #Abolitionism #Slavery #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2740-en/

Pyotr Stolypin (1862-1911) was a Russian politician who served as prime minister to Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917). #History #PyotrStolypin #Russia #TsarNicholasII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2742-en/

Harriet Tubman (circa 1822-1913) was a former slave, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. #History #HarrietTubman #Abolitionism #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-19635-en/