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Harald Bluetooth
History; World history

King of Denmark (r.c.950-c.985) who in 965 was baptized the first Christian king in Scandinavia, an event marked in the runic inscription on the Jellinge Stone in Jutland. He ...

Harappa
History; World history

Second largest city of the Indus civilization, with an estimated population of 30,000, situated beside the river Ravi in modern northeast Pakistan. Founded in the mid-3rd ...

Harold II
History; World history

England's last Anglo-Saxon king (r.1066). He was an able and active nobleman and monarch but his claim to the throne was challenged by Harald Hardrada of Norway and William the ...

Harper's Ferry Raid
History; World history

(16 October 1859) Raid by John Brown and 19 abolitionists on the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). Brown's plan was to seize weapons and set up a ...

Harsha
History; World history

The most powerful king of early medieval India (r.606- 47). King of Thaneswar, a minor kingdom in the Punjab, he controlled most of – northern India by 630 but his attempt to ...

Hassuna culture
History; World history

Neolithic cultural phase (c.6500-6000 BC) marking the first agricultural settlement of Mesopotamia's central plains, with small villages of clay-built houses, a mixed dry-farming ...

Henge
History; World history

Circular ceremonial enclosure of the late Neolithic period in Britain (c.3000-2000 BC). Stonehenge is not a classic henge: they are usually symmetrical and typically have a ditch ...

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