1670 Hudson Bay Company founded

• Across the Sea: Europeans Explore the New World
  Looking for information and activities about the intrepid adventurers who first voyaged to the New World? Check out these Internet sites and help your students explore the earliest explorers.
• Millenium Series: The Great Explorers!
  This week, Education World presents the second in our year-long Millennium Series. Last month we explored the Middle Ages; this month we turn our sites to the great explorers of the millennium. In the stories listed below you'll find resources and activities for exploring the great explorers -- from Leif Eriksson to Neil Armstrong!
• Explore the Explorers Online!
  Columbus and the other early explorers provide your students with the opportunity to explore new worlds -- as well as worlds of knowledge and discovery! This week, Education World delivers a shipload of sites and activities guaranteed to keep your lessons afloat -- and your curriculum current.

1519 Leonardo da Vinci dies

• Exploring Leonardo
  This interactive Web site explores Leonardo Da Vinci: his scientific projects and inventions, his artwork, and the historic time in which he lived.
• Artists: Da Vinci
  Resources from our database. Da Vinci: Images
  Resources from our database.

1863 South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville - Va

• Civil War Stories
  Teaching Fact through Historical Fiction

1881 Pres Garfield assassinated

• US Presidents: Garfield
  Resources from our database.

1885 Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium

1890 Okla Territory created

• The American West
  This site has an enormous amount of information to cover and does it very well. The site focuses on the "old West" and includes information on cowboys, Native Americans, pioneers and pioneer towns, explorers and more.
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: Frontier Girl
  Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books captivate children with stories of the author's life growing up in an American pioneer family in the 1870s and '80s.
• Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum
  Blast stereotypes with across-the-curriculum activities for students of all ages.
• My Little House on the Prairie Home Page
  The most valuable part of this site is the links to the Wilder family, which gives a fairly in-depth report on the history, life and travels of these pioneers.

Russia takes Berlin

• History: Russia
  Resources from our database.

Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz - 5 die

US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus

1945 - The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.

• History: World War II
  Resources from our database.
• History: Wars
  Resources from our database.