History help! i need a random, forgotten historical event!?

Question

so, yeah, we have to write a historical narrative in school about an event in history. it's not supposed to be about something really well known like the signing of the declaration of independence, but maybe something a little obscure. does anyone have any ideas about any forgotten, interesting historical events? (i would prefer world history as opposed to american history, if you can)

Answer 1

i don`t know how well known are my mentioned events are or how obscure, but i try. Hopefully something interessiting is under it, you can write about :-)

Great defeats of the roman empire. Hannibal crossed the alpes mountains with warlelefants and thousands of thousands warriors.

The germanic tribes of the kimbern and teutonen brought rome two times close to a toal defeat.

The germanic Arminus crushed about 20.000 romans in today germany in 9 A.D. which stopped the roman invasion into germany forever. Arminus can be seen as the first guerillafighter after they year 0.

In my opinion The Goths is a interessting topic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmbSGhYFR...

The Templars knights are stil obscure. A lot of myths and legends.

The Viking Leif Eriksson discovered America nealry 500 years before Christoph Columbus, but couldn`t hold settling for longer.

Some n***s were esoteric, keyword thule society. Trip to Tibet and New-Swabia. a good novel is the black order by james rollins.

Very obscure untill unknown is the story of Unterseeboot 234 and Jonas Valley.

Well you often read about allied agents and sabotage, but the germans did this aswell too! hint KG200, Brandenburgers, Secret Uboat missions.

Or you could write a narrative about spys, secret mission from antiq greeks to the cia today?

The turkish siege of vienna in 1683. Polish and Austrians stoped the turkish-islamic invasion into central-europe.

What about this?

1953 Berlin-East, 1956 Budapest and 1968 Praqe

Boxer-Rebillion 1900

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebel...

Katyn - Russian massacer to polish officers.

Ah, ever heared of Holodomor?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Or this - Cultural Revolution in China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Re...

Talvisota . The finish war against the russians 1939 - 1940

You can write an essay about Catherine - the great.

Or do an essay about Gengiz Kahn

Erzsébet Báthory - Its said she killed young girls to bath in their blood.

Very obscure and no myth: Beast of Gévaudan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%...

Of course you can also write about the 30 years war, but thats a lot of stuff to read if you want to make your eassy very well. After the first and second world war, the worst war in my opnion. Yes of course for the civilists.

*edit* if don`t want to write about war or violence, but culture

write about democracy - origins in ancient greece!

write about origin of the weeknames and the rest of germanic things in today life, like traditons or something like that.

Antiq Technices, you may wonder how similiar some roman tools look compared today.

You man write about China-Rome-Relations? It wasn`t marco polo who first entered China!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_...

rember how big the roman empire was!

http://www.gymherm.de/web/08_fachbereich...

From GreatBritian down to Norht Africa, from North Africa right to the read sea to the arbian sea, up to the caucaus, left to the crimera, whole turkey, parts of hungary, austira, switzerland and parts of germany to GreatBritan!

*edit 2*

What about the failed revolution in 1848, which caused many germans to immgrate into USA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions...

Write about the History of the Swastika -  The swastika was worldwide used thousands years before the n***s used it.

Not important, but nice and a bit touchy, the "Christmas truce". In ww1 german and british soldiers stopped fighting and celebrated christmas together during christmas holidays, but continuted fighting after the holidays, killing eachother.

You could write about Stanisla Petrov Why? Because this maybe the clostest incident for the outbreak of the nuclear world war 3. Possibly more serious then Cuba Crisis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_P...

Or a scenario of ww3 in europe with the death of 2 million poles

"Seven Days to the River Rhine"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...

Answer 2

How about Indonesia fighting for Independence from the Dutch after WW2?Pretty obscure.

Answer 3

Either :

Rorke's Drift, Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors, and a

Great Movie.

or,

Battle of Chillianwallah, in India during the second Sikh war.

Answer 4

The Russian Revolution of 1905 (which failed.)

Answer 5

The life and times of Tamerlane.

The Battle of Tours (French stopped Islamic conquest of western Europe)

Life and times of Roman emperor Claudius (that should make for a fun presentation)

The 30 Years War

Answer 6

the war of 1812 was called the forgotten war but i suppose its not forgotten since i know it, hmm maybe something with the indians like the trail of tears or something different like John Browns raid on harpers ferry.  

Answer 7

Well, there is the Trent Affair which is both US and British history. During the Civil War a Union warship, the USS San Jacinto, stopped the British mail packet ship Trent in international waters, boarded her, and removed a pair of Confederate diplomats from the Trent. This nearly lead to war between the US and Britian at the time.

Answer 8

Since you're still in school, this would probably be obscure to the other students but familiar to the teacher. Consider Iran Contra. This event involved a national security advisor to Regan selling arms to Iran and using the proceeds to support the Contras battle in Nicauragua. The activity was illegal because of the Boland Amendment which prohibited using US funds to support the Contras. Oliver North thought he had a loop hole because of the round about way the funds were obtained. It caused a huge scandal and resulted in the firing and prosecution of several parties. There was also a Congressional investiagion to determine if Regan and Bush were involved and approved of the activity.