People

Abraham Woodhull was a Long Island farmer and magistrate who became a leading agent in the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolutionary War. Working under […]

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1010 BCE–979 BCE

Absalom was a son of King David who leads a rebellion against his father. After building support in Jerusalem, Absalom forces David to flee but is […]

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526 BCE–457 BCE

Aeschylus was an Athenian dramatist of the fifth century BC and the earliest Greek tragedian whose plays survive in substantial form. A veteran of the Persian […]

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1477–1545

Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, born Agnes Tilney, was a powerful Tudor noblewoman and the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. As head […]

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1590–1617

Ahmed I was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. His reign included war with the Habsburgs and Safavids, internal pressure within the empire, […]

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c. 15th century–1502

Ahuitzotl was the eighth ruler of Tenochtitlan and governed the Aztec Empire from 1486 to 1502. He expanded imperial power through major campaigns, oversaw the enlargement […]

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Akechi Mitsuhide is represented in the linked historical fiction through social change and the pressures of ordinary life and crime, espionage and covert power. These works […]

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c. 15th century BCE–1337 BCE

Akhenaten was an Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh who ruled in the fourteenth century BCE, first as Amenhotep IV. He promoted the cult of the Aten, founded the […]

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1212–1258

Al-Musta’sim was the last Abbasid caliph to rule from Baghdad, reigning from 1242 until the Mongol conquest in 1258. His government failed to withstand Hülegü Khan’s […]

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1912–1954

Alan Turing was a British mathematician and pioneer of computer science. During the Second World War he worked at Bletchley Park on the cryptanalysis of German […]

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