The word “History” is derived from the Greek word historia, which means inquiry or information gained from the investigation. It is the study of every single event that occurred in past. History is a wide term that includes memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, maintenance, and interpretation of information about past events. Reading the world’s history has become a common hobby nowadays. Most people have an interest in this aspect because knowing our history is essential. There are many popular figures in history. By learning about their lives, we can get much motivation and inspiration. There are two ways of getting information about history. Online reading and reading books. We know that today most of the task is performed on the internet. Therefore, reading about history has become a common practice on the internet. Most people prefer online learning. Buying books can be expensive for some people, so online learning is good in this aspect too. But some people have ease of reading books. Therefore, they get information about history from books. If you are one of the online readers then this website is quite helpful for you. Because you can get information about any historical event from this site.
As a matter of fact, history is a dry (tough) subject, but still, there are many history lovers in the world. And you are also one of them as you are visiting this site about the world’s historical events. The person who studies and writes about the past is known as a historian. Mostly, historians collect old written documents, oral accounts, ecological markers, and material objects such as art and statues of the past. Then, they analyze these things or monuments, they collect information about their history. At last, they write the details about them.
This site will provide you that knowledge, which others lack. You can amuse your fellows by telling these historical events. So, it is a good opportunity for you to spend your leisure time on such an informative website. As reading reduces our stress, so it will also help you in mental peace.
If you are not a history lover or if you find it boring, then you might be thinking that why some people in the world are crazy to know historical events. The study of history advances a better understanding of the world in which we live. It will increase your knowledge about your culture. Moreover, if you have an understanding of history, you can easily get job opportunities in various fields.
We all know that studying history involves people, events, dates, and places, etc. So, it starts with who, what, where, and when. But the historians not only investigate these ‘how why’ questions. They study the whole event very deeply and then they debate (argument) about that specific event with each other. Such debate advances their knowledge and makes their minds sharper.
Studying history is always popular. It is the tradition of humanity to learn about their past. So, historical study is much more popular than you think. Having great knowledge of history can land job opportunities with a handsome amount. A student of history major can get a job in any field. For example, you can be in the Department of Foreign Affairs, NGOs, media, politics, teaching, journalism, tourism, museum, libraries, archives, public history, project management, and further many more.
Some prominent examples of the successful history major students are Ken Chenault (the CEO of American Express), Carly Fiorina (the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard), Lloyd Blankfein (the CEO of Goldman Sachs), Brian Moynihan (the CEO of Bank of America), Susan Wojcicki (CEO of YouTube). Moreover, there are some politicians and celebrities who were history students such as Louis Theroux, Prince Charles, Edward Norton, George W Bush.
Historians have a vast influence on the world. Whenever someone asks about what we can learn from history, it usually leads to the sayings of a great philosopher. According to that Philosopher, those who cannot remember their past would repeat the mistakes of their ancestors or blunders that happened in previous events. So, we can say that history has a great field of importance in our lives.
By reading history, we can learn many good morals of our ancestors. We can also observe what type of actions can lead to the destruction of a whole nation. Reading history is important to learn the mistakes of previous nations. Reading the history of the world and then observing it can help you to enhance the progress of your country or nation in the world.
History Quad is a site that will try to share every single event that happened in the past. Our way of describing past events is quite easy and understandable. Any student can easily get the viewpoint in our posts. Moreover, we will also tell you about the fields that you can join, if you are studying as a history major.
If you want to get help in any aspect of life, you can read historical events related to that aspect. Then you can compare the rights and wrongs in that event. You can easily get that what you must do and what you should not do, to be successful in that aspect of life.
Teutonic Tribes Spread Out Through Europe The history of civilization is, in reality, an account of the dominance of one nation after another. A nation rises to great peaks of power and civilization, establishes an empire over all the second-rate nations within its...
Makes It the Dominant Religion in Europe On 25 July, A.D. 306, the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus died at York, and the same day the soldiers of York garrison declared his son Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus to be his successor on the Imperial throne....
The Foundation of Christianity as a World Religion The worldwide practice of Christianity in the twentieth century makes it difficult to appreciate that at the founding of the Church of Christ, its leading teachers and preachers interpreted the mission which had been...
Christianity is Born in the Middle East In the year 4 B.C., Rome was flourishing in the golden age of Caesar Augustus. Though not yet expanded to its fullest extent, the Empire included all the Mediterranean lands, including Palestine. Indeed, Palestine had been...
The Battle that Determined the Cultural Axis of Europe Caesar the dictator was dead, murdered on the “Ides of March”, the 15th of that month, in 44 B.C., and with his death had come the hope of many of the people of Rome that their moribund Republic might be revived,...
The Emergence of Rome as an Imperial Power Becomes Inevitable One of the great pre-Second World War catch-phrases was the German term Lebensraum, living-space. It was an invention of Hitler to excuse the expansionist policy by which he hoped to create German Nazi...
The Defeat of Carthage by Rome Puts an End to Possible Carthaginian Influence in Europe Some two thousand five hundred years ago, Romulus and Remus founded a village on the banks of the river Tiber in Italy. As the years passed, the village, which had been given the...
A New Standard in Rulership In the middle of the saffron, white, and green flag of the Indian Republic is something that looks like a wheel. And in fact, it is a wheel, the Wheel of Asoka, placed there to commemorate and to honor a man who, more than two thousand...
Two Greek Philosophers between them Lay the Foundations of Moral Philosophy and the Science of Reasoning For more than forty years one of the most familiar sights of Athens was the figure of Socrates, the Philosopher. Professing to know nothing himself, though styled...
A Greek Physician Proves, Centuries Before his Time, that it is the Patient who should be Treated, Not the Disease “The factors which enable us to distinguish between diseases are as follows: First we must consider the nature of man in general and of each individual,...
Firmly Plants Protestantism in Europe In the history of nations there come moments when a variety of causes conjoin and combine to set up a flow of dangerously inflammatory thoughts in men’s minds. One such moment was 1617, the centenary anniversary of Martin Luther’s...
The Calculus, the Theory of Gravitation, and the Spectrum of Light An apple fell: he watched, decided that the earth had pulled it. Hence the force of gravity. Were this story the truth, the whole truth, no one would have heard of Isaac Newton. Countless thinkers had...
William Harvey Lays the Basis of Modern Medicine Blood, said the Greek physician Galen in the second century A.D., is manufactured in the liver from the food we eat and is of two quite different and separate kinds. The two kinds are sucked up from the liver to the...
The Founding of the Modern American Nation The willingness of men to accept suffering in every degree and even the pain of death to establish their right to worship as they please has been a phenomenon at all periods in history wherever a monotheistic religion has...
The Beginning of British Rule in India At about the same time that the English had begun to settle in North America, in the latter half of the sixteenth century, they had also begun to turn their interest to the opposite side of the world. Released by the defeat of...
The Split of Western Christendom By the beginning of the sixteenth century, opposition to the Church was growing to the proportions of a widespread revolt. Only a spark was required to set the sensitive tinder aflame; and in the event, the spark was to be kindled by...
The Earth No Longer the Centre of the Universe Near the high altar in the University Church of St Ann in the Polish city of Krakow, there are two inscriptions. One of them, in Latin, says simply, “Nicholas Copernicus, the ornament, the honor and the glory of his...
The Wealth of the New World Enriches the Old Columbus’s feat, in 1492, of joining two worlds, though one was not Asia as he claimed, had rung down the curtain on the middle Ages. Behind it, the stage was being set for the new era of modern history. The year, a...
Vasco da Gama Transforms the Commerce of the World The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries were an Age of Discovery, the fifteenth marking its greatest development and the final decade of the century, its final stage, consequent upon the discovery...
Europeans Enter Another Hemisphere In the vocabulary of the maritime explorers of the fifteenth century, there was one word of particular significance: Antilha. Though there is some difference of opinion among scholars about the derivation of the word, it was probably...
A Victory Over Death It was in France that the idea came to him, came during the noise and stench and dying of the trenches. The young Alexander Fleming, a trained and unusually promising bacteriologist, and therefore “reserved”, had surprised his friends and...
European and World Politics Take on a New Pattern The great events in the past shine out of history clearly; we have small doubts about the forces which swayed them one way or the other and fewer still about their consequences. With our own period, it is different. We...
The Dilemma Posed by the Use of Toxic Chemicals on the Land In the year 1941 Switzerland, land-locked in its traditional neutrality between the warring nations of Europe was hit by a plague of Colorado beetle. The Swiss authorities, fearing a serious food loss as a...
Man Ceases to be Earthbound Sputnik I went into orbit in 1957, the first man-made satellite to join the moon in its journey around the earth. The Soviet Union had constructed it; had assembled the enormously powerful rocket which shot it into space, beyond the...
China Becomes a Modern World Power Nothing definite is known of the origins of the Chinese. In the oldest authentic records they already appear as a more or less civilized agricultural people settled in the valley of the Yellow River and surrounded by savage tribes....
The Day War Became Unthinkable The siren sounded at seven, and no one was unduly disturbed. There had been warnings during the night, but these were a commonplace: the American B29 bombers, contemptuous of the shattered air-defenses, had been using the same rendezvous...
The Tide of the Second World War Turns Decisively in Favour of the Allies On 22 June 1941, on the very day that, in 1812, Napoleon had started his invasion of Russia, the German armies crossed the Soviet frontier. Having over-run Poland in 1939, occupied Scandinavia,...
The United States Enters the Second World War, and Victory Becomes Inevitable The news of the Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbour first reached Britain in the shape of an insignificant news item to the effect that Japanese aircraft had attacked...
Hitler Never Again the Master of Events During the Thirties, Hitler’s Germany, by trickery and by force without war, had recovered the Rhineland, the eastern Baltic cities, had effected the union with Austria, expressly forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919,...
A Great Stride Towards the Second World War At noon on Monday, 30 January 1933, Goering, Goebbels, and other Nazi chiefs are leaning out of a window of a room in the Kaiserhof Hotel in Berlin watching the Chancellery building where Hitler had gone to see President...