The Black Death ravaged Europe in 1349 killing half of the population, but even still, historian Michael McCormick of Harvard University argues that 536 was the worst year in human history to be alive ...

Volcanic eruptions, global cooling, famine, and plague made 536 AD a year unlike any other. This documentary from Kings and ...

The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the end of the "Roaring Twenties" and the beginning of the Great Depression.

One of the turning points in history took place on April 26, 1986, when one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

This month marks 80 years since Singapore ... He described the defeat as the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”. For the defeated Commonwealth soldiers who had ...