History Facts for Kids
Incredible facts from the past
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
Pencils have been around since 1565, and an average pencil can draw a line about 35 miles long.
The Great Fire of London in 1666 started in a bakery on Pudding Lane and burned for three days, destroying over 13,000 houses.
The first public library was established in ancient Rome around 39 BC by a man named Gaius Asinius Pollio.
Archaeologists found evidence of a game similar to bowling in an ancient Egyptian tomb dating back to around 3200 BC.
The Rosetta Stone, carved in 196 BC, has the same text written in three scripts: Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphics, which helped scholars finally decode ancient Egyptian writing.
The London Underground, which opened in 1863, is the oldest underground railway system in the world.
Children in ancient Mesopotamia attended schools called edubbas, where they learnt to read, write, and do arithmetic on clay tablets.
According to popular legend, Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat flap so his cats could come and go without disturbing his experiments.
The world's first adhesive postage stamp was the Penny Black, issued in Britain in 1840 and featuring the profile of Queen Victoria.