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HISTORY OF TOGO

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Machine tools and gun barrels | HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

John Wilkinson, an ironmaster in Staffordshire and Shropshire, has been building up a lucrative arms trade. In 1774 he invents a machine, powered by a water wheel, which can drill with unprecedented accuracy through the...

Machine tools and gun barrels | HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

Machine tools and gun barrels

John Wilkinson, an ironmaster in Staffordshire and Shropshire, has been building up a lucrative arms trade. In 1774 he invents a machine, powered by a water wheel, which can drill with unprecedented accuracy through the...

Machine tools and gun barrels | INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

Machine tools and gun barrels

John Wilkinson, an ironmaster in Staffordshire and Shropshire, has been building up a lucrative arms trade. In 1774 he invents a machine, powered by a water wheel, which can drill with unprecedented accuracy through the...

Stone tools | STONE AGE MAN

Stone tools

The human discovery that round nodules of flint can be split and chipped to form a sharp edge is extremely ancient. Tools made in this way have been found in Africa from about 2.5 million years ago (the earliest known ex...

Stone tools | HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

Stone tools

The human discovery that round nodules of flint can be split and chipped to form a sharp edge is extremely ancient. Tools made in this way have been found in Africa from about 2.5 million years ago (the earliest known ex...

Rise of Togukawa Ieyasu | HISTORY OF JAPAN

Rise of Togukawa Ieyasu

Nearly two centuries of civil war and chaos in Japan is brought to an end by a succession of three warlords, working in conjunction in the late 16th century.

The first is Oda Nobunaga, who builds up his forces fro...

The use of tools | OUR FAMILY TREE

The use of tools

It is a commonplace that humans are distinguished from other creatures by a technological ability, and man has often been described as a tool-using animal. The distinction is not entirely valid. Some animals do use tools...

The use of tools | STONE AGE MAN

The use of tools

It is a commonplace that humans are distinguished from other creatures by a technological ability, and man has often been described as a tool-using animal. The distinction is not entirely valid. Some animals do use tools...

The use of tools | HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

The use of tools

It is a commonplace that humans are distinguished from other creatures by a technological ability, and man has often been described as a tool-using animal. The distinction is not entirely valid. Some animals do use tools...

Bogomils and Cathars | HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

Bogomils and Cathars

Both Bogomils and Cathars follow a long-established line of belief based on the concept of dualism, or a struggle between two irreconcilably opposed elements. Mani, preaching in the 3rd century AD, can be seen as one of...

Victory is almost certain to go | HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

Election and civil war

Victory is almost certain to go to the government, with active support coming from Britain, the Free State's partner in the treaty (Collins receives at least one shipment of 10,000 British rifles). But the Free State gov...

The following year, 115, he is | HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Trajan's eastern campaign

The following year, 115, he is tempted to go even further. He captures the Parthian capital at Ctesiphon and advances down the Tigris to the Persian Gulf. This is the furthest that the empire has ever extended, and it is...

In 1325 Ibn Batuta sets off | HISTORY OF EXPLORATION

Ibn Batuta

In 1325 Ibn Batuta sets off from home in Morocco to go on pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. He accompanies a caravan to Alexandria and Cairo on what is a standard journey for any serious Muslim. But Ibn Batuta's adventure...

No great feudal lord in Germany | HISTORY OF JUDAISM

German crusade and the Jews

No great feudal lord in Germany answers the pope's call to go on crusade. Instead three lesser figures gather large bands of simple German pilgrims and then inflame them with hatred of the Jews in their own communities -...

No great feudal lord in Germany | THE CRUSADES

German crusade and the Jews

No great feudal lord in Germany answers the pope's call to go on crusade. Instead three lesser figures gather large bands of simple German pilgrims and then inflame them with hatred of the Jews in their own communities -...

The League gives mandates in 1922 | HISTORY OF CAMEROON

French and British rule

The League gives mandates in 1922 to France and Britain for the areas of Togo which they are already administering under a bilateral agreement of 1919. Britain has authority over the territory lying west of the central p...

The League gives mandates in 1922 | HISTORY OF TOGO

French and British rule

The League gives mandates in 1922 to France and Britain for the areas of Togo which they are already administering under a bilateral agreement of 1919. Britain has authority over the territory lying west of the central p...

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, acknowledged prince of | HISTORY OF WALES

Edward I and Wales

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, acknowledged prince of Wales by Henry III in 1267, seems almost to go out of his way to affront Henry's successor, Edward I, after his accession in 1272. He fails to attend the coronation in 1274, d...

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, acknowledged prince of | HISTORY OF ENGLAND

Edward I and Wales

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, acknowledged prince of Wales by Henry III in 1267, seems almost to go out of his way to affront Henry's successor, Edward I, after his accession in 1272. He fails to attend the coronation in 1274, d...

In July 1999 Kabbah and Sankoh | HISTORY OF SIERRA LEONE

The Lome agreement

In July 1999 Kabbah and Sankoh reach a controversial peace agreement in Lomé, the capital of Togo, putting in place arrangements for a shared government. The proposal is that Sankoh will occupy the role of vice-pr...

As in many other areas, Rome | HISTORY OF LATIN LITERATURE

Cicero, orator and correspondent

As in many other areas, Rome follows the example of Greece in the importance accorded to oratory. Indeed ambitious young Romans tend to go to Greece to study this important skill. The school of rhetoric in Rhodes is part...

Pliny the Younger has left a | POMPEII

Pompeii: 1st century AD

Pliny the Younger has left a detailed description of this appalling event, in which his uncle (Pliny the Elder) suffocates in an attempt to go to the help of the afflicted. The eruption begins during the morning. By the...