Collection of facts about the Sixteen Kingdoms period

This post is a collection of facts about the Sixteen Kingdoms period (304 - 439 AD). There are 8 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Preceded by Western Jin reunification of China and War of the Eight Princes
• Western Jin collapsed and then formed the Eastern Jin
• Power vacuum led to civil wars, rebellions and famine
• States formed by non-Han people in northern China
• Five Barbarians: Xiongnu, Jie, Di, Qiang, Xianbei
• Former Qin (376 - 838 AD) defeated by Eastern Jin
• Northern Wei reunited the north ending the Sixteen Kingdoms period
• Followed by Northern and Southern dynasties era

Collection of facts about the Spring and Autumn period

This post is a collection of facts about the Spring and Autumn period (c. 770 - 481 BC). There are 5 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• During the Eastern Zhou dynasty
• Increased political autonomy for local lords
• Spring and Autumn Annals is about the state of Lu
• Ended with the partition of Jin
• Followed by the Warring States period

Collection of facts about the Reconquista

This post is a collection of facts about the Reconquista (c. 718 - 1492). There are 8 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Christian states vs. al-Andalus
• Iberian Peninsula previously ruled by Visigothic Kingdom
• Muslim Conquest of 711 established al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula
• Kingdom of Asturias fought Umayyad Caliphate (8th century AD)
• Caliphate of Córdoba collapsed in the 11th century into taifa states
• Almoravids tried to unite the taifas
• Portugal, León, Castile and Aragon fought Almohad Caliphate (12th - 13th century)
• Granada captured in 1492 ending the Reconquista

Collection of facts about the An Lushan Rebellion

This post is a collection of facts about the An Lushan rebellion (755 - 763 AD). There 10 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Civil war in China during Tang dynasty
• Yan dynasty attempted to replace Tang dynasty
• Rebels captured capital Chang'an and emperor fled to Sichuan
• Rebellion led by An Lushan
• An Lushan killed by his son, An Qingxu in 757 AD
• An Qingxu killed by Shi Siming in 759 AD
• Shi Siming killed by his son, Shi Chaoyi in 761 AD
• Yan dynasty defeated by Tang dynasty in 763 AD
• Led to decline of Tang dynasty
• Census population fell from 52 million to 16 million

Collection of facts about the Civil rights movement

This post is a collection of facts about the Civil rights movement (1654-1968). There are 19 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Attempted to end racial segregation and discrimination in the U.S.
• African Americans were most affected
• American Civil War (1861-1865) led to abolishment of slavery
• Reconstruction Amendments implemented
• Jim Crow laws discriminated against African Americans
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld Jim Crow laws
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954) invalidated segregated-schooling laws
• Martin Luther King Jr. led protests and civil disobedience campaigns
• Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956)
• Browder v. Gayle (1956) ruled bus segregation unconstitutional
• Children's Crusade march in 1963
• March on Washington in 1963
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Selma to Montgomery march in 1965
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Loving v. Virginia (1967) ruled interracial marriages legal
• Fair Housing Act of 1968
• Black power movement emerged in the 1960's
• Martin Luther King assassinated in 1968

Collection of states involved in the revolutions of 1848

This post is a collection of states involved int he revolutions of 1848. There are 19 states listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Austrian Empire
• Grand Duchy of Baden
• Lands of the Bohemian Crown
• Kingdom of France
• German Confederation
• Galicia (region)
• Duchy of Holstein
• Kingdom of Hungary
• Ireland (region)
• Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
• Duchy of Modena and Reggio
• Moldavia
• Grand Duchy of Posen
• Kingdom of Prussia
• Kingdom of Sardinia
• Duchy of Schleswig
• Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
• Cantons of Switzerland
• Wallachia

Collection of facts about the unification of Italy

This post is a collection of facts about the unification of Italy (1848-1870). There are 11 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Kingdom of Sardinia annexed Italian states and established the Kingdom of Italy
• Led by Camillo Benso and Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Began during the Revolutions of 1848
• First Italian War of Independence (1848-1849)
• Second Italian War of Independence (1859)
• Expedition of the Thousand (1860)
• Victor Emmanuel became King of Italy (1861)
• Third Italian War of Independence (1866)
• Venetian plebiscite of 1866
• Capture of Rome (1870)
• Final states joined Italy in Treaty of Rapallo (1920)