History and Government Resources

Family Heritage Series from Robert Welch University
This Nation free textbook, this website also has links to important historical documents and a fantastic library of information.

Timelines

Here are some links to resources for timelines.
You can search for lots of timelines at TimeRime. TimeRime
Microsoft timeline template
USHistorysite.com
Awesome pictures from a blog. The blog is in another language, but still helpful.
Timeline with index cards
An article about timelines from Squidoo

More History Book Lists

Pima County Public Library: historical fiction grouped by time period.
Keene Public Library: historical fiction books grouped by location.
Madison Public Library: lists of books according to 20th century wars.
Library Book Lists: historical fiction grouped according to general history, ancient history, medieval, North American/U.S. History, and Pirates.

Medieval Activities

Here is a link to some great activities to support your study of the Middle Ages. This is at Sharon Anderson's website where she sells timelines. She also has a history rhyme that goes with each history section she sells to help children learn importants events in order.

Important Events and Ideas of the Modern Period 1850-Present

Modern, 1850—Present
Africa under European control
the Indian mutinies
the Crimean War
the Victorian era
the War between the States (Civil War)
exploration in the American West
Euro-American conflict with the Native American tribes
the Boxer Rebellion
World War I
the Russian Revolution
the Soviet Union
the Great Depression
the New Deal
civil war in Spain
the Axis and the Allies
World War II
Nazi Germany / Hitler
the Holocaust
Zionism / the Jew’s return to Palestine
apartheid / South African segregation
China under Mao
the Korean War
the civil-rights movement
the Vietnam War
landing on the moon

Important Ideas and Events of the Late Renaissance/Early Modern Period

Late Renaissance / EarlyModern, 1600—1850
the Mayflower
early American settlements
Russia under Peter the Great and his successors
Prussia in the eighteenth century
the Enlightenment
the agricultural revolution
Native American cultures
the British in India
the French Revolution
British—French conflict in Canada
the American Revolution
The Napoleonic Wars
the industrial revolution
Simón Bolívar’s fight for independence in South America
the siege of the Alamo
the California gold rush
the Lewis and Clark expedition
the U.S. acquisition of North American territories
Australia’s beginnings as a penal colony

Important People of the Medieval/Early Renaissance Period

Medieval / Early Renaissance, 400—1600
Saint Augustine (writing c. 411)
Attila the Hun (c. 433—453)
King Arthur (probably killed in 537 at the Battle of Camlan)
Gregory of Tours (540—594)
Mohammed (570—632)
The Venerable Bede (672—735)
Charles Martel (688—741)
Charlemagne (ruled 768—814)
Alfred the Great (849—899)
Leif Ericsson (discovered America c. 1000)
Omar Khayyam (1027—1123)
Edward the Confessor (1042—1066)
Chrétien de Troyes (1144—1190)
Genghis Khan (b. 1155)
Thomas Aquinas (1225—1274)
Dante Alighieri (1265—1321)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340—1400)
Thomas à Kempis (1380—1471)
Jan van Eyck (c. 1390—1441)
Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1396—1468)
Sandro Botticelli (1444—1510)
Christopher Columbus (1451—1506)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452—1519)
Amerigo Vespucci (1454—1512)
Erasmus (1465—1536)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473—1543)
Michelangelo (1475—1564)
Titian (1477—1576)
Thomas More (1478—1535)
Ferdinand Magellan (1480—1521)
Martin Luther (1483—1546)
Raphael (1483—1520)
Ignatius Loyola (1491—1556)
Correggio (1494—1534)
Giovanni Angelo de’ Medici (1499—1565)
Thomas Wyatt (1503—1542)
Nostradamus (1503—1566)
John Knox (1505—1572)
John Calvin (1509—1564)
Hernando Cortés (entered Mexican capital, 1519)
Pieter Brueghel (1520—1569)
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525—1594)
Tycho Brahe (1546—1601)
Philip Sidney (1551—1586)
Walter Raleigh (1554—1618)
William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
Galileo Galilei (1564—1642)
Jan Brueghel (1568—1625)
John Donne (1572—1631)
Inigo Jones (1573—1652)
René Descartes (1596—1650)

Important Ancient History People

Ancients, 5000 BC—AD 400
Cheops, pharaoh of Egypt (2700—2675 BC)
Abraham (c. 2100 BC)
Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC)
Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (c. 1480 BC)
Moses (c. 1450 BC)
Tutankhamen (c. 1355 BC)
Nebuchadnezzar (1146—1123 BC)
King David (c. 1000 BC)
Homer (c. 800 BC)
Romulus (753—716 BC)
Sennacherib (705—681 BC)
Lao-tse (Chinese philosopher, b. 604 BC)
Pythagoras (581—497 BC)
Confucius (K’ung Fu-tsu) (551—479 BC)
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) (550—480 BC)
Darius I of Persia (522—485 BC)
Socrates (470—399 BC)
Hippocrates (b. 460 BC)
Plato (427—347 BC)
Aristotle (384—322 BC)
Alexander the Great (356—323 BC)
Shi Huangdi (first emperor of unified China, 221—207 BC)
Hannibal (fought with Rome c. 218—207 BC)
Judas Maccabaeus (c. 168 BC)
Cicero (106—43 BC)
Julius Caesar (100—44 BC)
Virgil (70—19 BC)
Caesar Augustus (c. 45 BC—AD 14)
Jesus Christ (c. 4 BC—AD 33)
Caligula (died AD 42)
Saint Paul (c. AD 45)
Nero (died AD 68)
Marcus Aurelius (ruled AD 161—180)
Constantine the Great (ruled AD 306—337)