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17 hours ago · Russian Civil War. The Russian Civil War [a] was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. It resulted in the formation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet ...
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17 hours ago · Sources Herodotus, the main historical source for this conflict All the surviving primary sources for the Greco-Persian Wars are Greek; no contemporary accounts survive in other languages. By far the most important source is the fifth-century Greek historian Herodotus. Herodotus, who has been called the "Father of History", was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor (then part of the ...
- 499–449 BC
- Greek victory
17 hours ago · The First Opium War ( Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng ), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of their ban on the opium trade by ...
- 4 September 1839 – 29 August 1842, (2 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 4 days)
