Historical Figures

Bite-sized historical stories about Historical Figures — sorted chronologically on tildeer.

• Croesus of Lydia
• Battle of Thermopylae
• Arsinoë II, Ptolemaic Queen
• Leif Erikson and Vinland
• Genghis Khan
• Ivaylo of Bulgaria
• Joan of Arc
• Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press
• Thomas Wolsey
• Henry VIII
• Anne Boleyn
• Mary I of England
• Magellan's Circumnavigation
• Mary Queen of Scots
• The Galileo Affair
• The Affair of the Poisons
• Salem Witch Trials
• John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
• Samuel Whittemore
• Émilie du Châtelet
• Benjamin Franklin
• Blackbeard
• Chevalier d'Éon
• Olympe de Gouges
• James Forten
• Napoleon
• Pauline Fourès
• Robert Liston
• Mary Shelley
• Ching Shih