The Pope's Lungs: Papal Health, Secrecy, and Succession from Pius to Leo
A timeline tracing how the Vatican has handled papal illness — from the deliberate silence surrounding Pius XII and the hidden decline of John Paul II, through...
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165 timelines published.
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The Burning Season: Southeast Asia's Toxic Haze
A historical timeline of Southeast Asia's recurring fire-and-haze crises, from the severe 1997-98 Indonesian peat and forest fires through the 2015 emergency an...
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The Throne, the Clerics, and the Women: Morocco's Fight Over Women's Rights
A timeline could trace Morocco's contested politics of gender from the post-independence family code and the monarchy's role as religious authority through the...
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Steel and Sanctions: How EU Tariffs Meant for China Hit Ukraine
A trade-policy timeline tracing how EU steel safeguards and anti-dumping measures aimed at Chinese overcapacity have repeatedly swept up Ukrainian producers, es...
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The Cost of Reporting: US Accountability and Violence Against Journalists in Israel-Palestine
A historical timeline could trace the long arc of attacks on journalists covering Israel and the Palestinian territories, from the Second Intifada through Gaza...
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Albania's Student Protest Wave: Corruption, Campuses and 'Foreign Hands'
A timeline tracing student-led unrest in Albania from the post-communist transition and earlier campus protests through recurring corruption scandals, poor univ...
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Syria's Energy Infrastructure Under Attack, 2011–Present
From the 2011 uprising through civil war, ISIS oil seizures, foreign intervention, sanctions, and the post-Assad transition, Syria's pipelines, refineries, and...
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The Greenland Question: Arctic Sovereignty, Resources and Great-Power Bids
Traces the long arc of outside powers seeking control of Greenland and its resources, from Denmark's colonial administration and the 1917 sale of the Danish Wes...
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Tupac Shakur: 30 Years From Vegas to Sentencing
The timeline follows the September 7, 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur on the Las Vegas strip through three decades of stalled investigations, rival theor...
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Murdoch's Ink: The Rise of a Fleet Street Empire
Rupert Murdoch's journey from an Adelaide newspaper inheritance to the heart of British media power spans the 1950s to the 2010s: buying the News of the World a...
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North Korea's Missile Program: Seven Decades of Launches and the New Hypersonic Race
A single launch is noise, but the arc it belongs to is one of the most documented military buildups of the modern era: from Soviet-supplied Scuds and the 1998 T...
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The Houthi Campaign Against Saudi Arabia: Drones, Missiles and the Red Sea
A timeline tracing the Houthi movement's long-range strike campaign against Saudi Arabia from the 2015 Saudi-led intervention in Yemen through the 2019 Abqaiq-K...