History Facts for Kids
Incredible facts from the past
The first FIFA World Cup, held in Uruguay in 1930, had only 13 teams because many European nations could not afford the long boat journey.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN in Switzerland.
The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic infected roughly one-third of the world's population and killed an estimated 50 million people.
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, the Roman city of Pompeii was buried under metres of volcanic ash, preserving it almost perfectly for nearly 2,000 years.
According to the ancient Greek poet Homer, the Greeks won the Trojan War by hiding soldiers inside a giant wooden horse and sneaking into the city of Troy.
The Black Death arrived in Europe in 1347 on merchant ships carrying rats infested with plague-carrying fleas, killing an estimated 25 million people over five years.
The Code of Hammurabi, carved on a stone pillar in ancient Babylon around 1754 BC, is one of the earliest known written sets of laws.
The suffragettes were a group of women in the early 1900s who campaigned fiercely for women's right to vote, often risking arrest and imprisonment.
Harriet Tubman made 13 trips on the Underground Railroad and never lost a single person she was guiding to freedom.
In ancient Egypt, cats were considered sacred. Killing a cat, even accidentally, could be punished by death.