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Fletcher ChristianPersonFletcher Christian was an English sailor, master's mate of HMS Bounty, who led the mutiny against Captain William Bligh in the South Pacific in April 1789.
Flight to VarennesEventThe Flight to Varennes was the attempted escape of King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their children from Paris on the night of 20–21 June 1791.
Flinders IslandPlaceFlinders Island is the largest island of the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait, north-east of Tasmania.
Flint River (Georgia)PlaceThe Flint River is a river of western Georgia in the United States, flowing south to join the Chattahoochee at the Florida border and form the Apalachicola.
FlintshirePlaceFlintshire is a county in north-east Wales on the southern shore of the Dee estuary, bordering England, with its administrative centre at Mold.- Floods and natural disastersHistorical factorFloods and natural disasters, such as river floods, failed Nile inundations and earthquakes, could devastate harvests, cities and state revenues.
FlorencePlaceFlorence is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, and a leading centre of the Renaissance.
Florence CathedralWork / monumentFlorence Cathedral, the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, is the cathedral of Florence, begun in 1296 to designs by Arnolfo di Cambio and consecrated in 1436.
Florent of HainautPersonFlorent of Hainaut was a Flemish nobleman who became prince of Achaea in 1289 by marrying Isabella of Villehardouin.- Florentine CamerataPeople / groupThe Florentine Camerata was a circle of humanists, poets and musicians who met in Florence in the 1570s and 1580s, chiefly at the house of Count Giovanni de' Bardi.
- Florentine CatastoTermThe Florentine Catasto of 1427 was a tax survey introduced by the Republic of Florence, which required every household in the city and its territory to declare its…
Florentine CodexWork / monumentThe Florentine Codex is a sixteenth-century encyclopedic work on the Aztec world compiled by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún with Nahua informants.
Flores, GuatemalaPlaceFlores is a town on an island in Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala and the capital of Petén department.
Florestan I, Prince of MonacoPersonFlorestan I was Prince of Monaco from 1841 to 1856, a younger son of Honoré IV who had earlier worked as an actor in Paris.
Floriano PeixotoPersonFloriano Peixoto was a Brazilian army marshal who served as the second President of Brazil from 1891 to 1894, taking over when Deodoro da Fonseca resigned.
FloridaPlaceFlorida is a peninsula and state in the south-eastern United States, between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
Florida KeysPlaceThe Florida Keys are a chain of coral islands curving south-west from the southern tip of Florida for some 200 kilometres to Key West.
Florida ParishesPlaceThe Florida Parishes are eight parishes of south-eastern Louisiana lying east of the Mississippi River and north of Lake Pontchartrain.
Floris V, Count of HollandPersonFloris V (1254–1296) was Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1256.
Flower WarsWarThe Flower Wars were ritualised conflicts fought by the Aztec Empire with neighbouring states such as Tlaxcala.
Flushing, QueensPlaceFlushing is a neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Queens, founded under Dutch rule in 1645 as the English settlement of Vlissingen.
FluviàPlaceThe Fluvià is a river in the province of Girona in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain, about 97 kilometres long.
Flying GangPeople / groupThe Flying Gang was the name given to the pirates based at Nassau in the Bahamas between about 1716 and 1718, the period known as the Republic of Pirates.- Foedus CassianumTreaty · c. 493 BCEThe Foedus Cassianum was a treaty between Rome and the cities of the Latin League, traditionally dated to 493 BCE and named after the consul Spurius Cassius.
FoggaraWork / monumentA foggara is an underground irrigation tunnel that taps groundwater and carries it by gravity to the surface, similar to the Persian qanat.
FojnicaPlaceFojnica is a town in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, west of Sarajevo.
FolignoPlaceFoligno is a town in Umbria, central Italy, in the plain below Assisi on the old Via Flaminia.
FolketingInstitutionThe Folketing is the parliament of Denmark.
FolwarkInstitutionA folwark was a large manorial farm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, worked by serf labour and producing grain for export.
FomboniPlaceFomboni is the main town of Moheli (Mwali), the smallest of the main islands of the Comoros.
Fon (title)TermFon is the title of the sacred kings of the chiefdoms and kingdoms of the Cameroon Grassfields, such as Nso, Bafut and Bali-Nyonga.
Fon peoplePeople / groupThe Fon are a Gbe-speaking people of southern Benin, living mainly on the Abomey plateau and around Cotonou.
Fondaco dei TedeschiWork / monumentThe Fondaco dei Tedeschi is a large building beside the Rialto Bridge in Venice that served from the 13th century as the headquarters, warehouse and lodging of German…
Fontaine-lès-DijonPlaceFontaine-lès-Dijon is a small town just north of Dijon in the Côte-d'Or department of Burgundy.
FontainebleauPlaceFontainebleau is a town south-east of Paris, France, surrounded by a large forest and known for its royal palace, rebuilt by Francis I in the sixteenth century and a…
Fontana MaggioreWork / monumentThe Fontana Maggiore is a medieval fountain in the main square of Perugia, completed in 1278 to mark the arrival of an aqueduct bringing water to the hilltop city.
Football WarWar · 1969The Football War was a brief war between El Salvador and Honduras in July 1969, also called the Hundred Hours' War.- Foraker ActEventThe Foraker Act was a United States law of April 1900 that set up civil government in Puerto Rico after the Spanish–American War.
Foral Community of NavarrePlaceThe Foral Community of Navarre is an autonomous community of northern Spain with its capital at Pamplona.
Forbes BurnhamPersonForbes Burnham was a lawyer who co-founded the People's Progressive Party with Cheddi Jagan, then broke away to lead the People's National Congress, drawing support…
ForcalquierPlaceForcalquier is a hill town in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department of south-eastern France.
Force Intervention BrigadeInstitutionThe Force Intervention Brigade is a combat unit of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, authorised by the Security Council…
Force PubliqueInstitutionThe Force Publique was the army and police force of the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo, created in 1885–1886, with African soldiers under European officers.- Foreign OrientalsTermForeign Orientals (Vreemde Oosterlingen) was a legal category in the Dutch East Indies for residents of Asian origin who were neither Europeans nor natives, chiefly…
- Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004Work / monumentThe Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 was a New Zealand law that vested ownership of the public foreshore and seabed in the Crown, after a Court of Appeal ruling in 2003…
Forest BrothersPeople / groupThe Forest Brothers were partisans who waged guerrilla war against Soviet rule in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia after the Red Army's return in 1944.
Former YanStateFormer Yan was a state of the Xianbei Murong clan in north-eastern China, proclaimed by Murong Huang in 337 during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.- Formula of ConcordWork / monumentThe Formula of Concord is a Lutheran confession of faith completed in 1577 to settle the doctrinal disputes that followed Martin Luther's death.
Fors de BéarnWork / monumentThe Fors de Béarn were the customary laws and liberties of the viscounty of Béarn in south-western France, written down from the 12th century and gathered into a…- Fors de BigorreWork / monumentThe Fors de Bigorre is a charter of customary law granted around 1097 by the count of Bigorre, in the central Pyrenees, setting out the rights of the inhabitants and…
- Fort BarneveldWork / monumentFort Barneveld was a Dutch fort on the island of Bacan in the northern Moluccas, in present-day Indonesia, built by the Dutch East India Company in the early 17th…
Fort Canning HillPlaceFort Canning Hill is a hill in central Singapore overlooking the Singapore River.
Fort CasimirPlaceFort Casimir was a Dutch fort built in 1651 on the Delaware River by Peter Stuyvesant to challenge the colony of New Sweden.
Fort ChristinaPlaceFort Christina was the first Swedish settlement in North America, built in 1638 by an expedition under Peter Minuit on the Christina River, at what is now Wilmington…
Fort ColignyPlaceFort Coligny was the stronghold of France Antarctique, built in 1555 by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon on Serigipe island in Guanabara Bay, Brazil, and named after…
Fort DansborgPlaceFort Dansborg is a Danish fort at Tranquebar, now Tharangambadi, on the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu, built in 1620 by Ove Gjedde on land granted by the Nayak of…- Fort de la RocheWork / monumentFort de la Roche was a stronghold built around 1640 by the Huguenot engineer Jean Le Vasseur on a rock above the harbour of Tortuga, off northern Hispaniola.
Fort DorotheaWork / monumentFort Dorothea was a small fort built by the Brandenburgers in the 1680s at Akwidaa on the western coast of Ghana, named after Dorothea, wife of the Great Elector.
Fort DuquesnePlaceFort Duquesne was a French fort built in 1754 at the forks of the Ohio River, where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet, on the site of present-day Pittsburgh.
Fort Frederik HendrikPlaceFort Frederik Hendrik was the first Dutch settlement on Mauritius, founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1638 at Grand Port on the island's south-east coast.
Fort FrontenacPlaceFort Frontenac was a French fort founded in 1673 by Governor Frontenac where Lake Ontario flows into the St Lawrence, on the site of present-day Kingston, Ontario.
Fort GeldriaPlaceFort Geldria was the Dutch fort at Pulicat, on the Coromandel Coast of south-eastern India, built in 1613.- Fort GustavusPlaceFort Gustavus was the Dutch fort at Chinsurah on the Hooghly River in Bengal, headquarters of the Dutch East India Company's directorate of Bengal.
Fort JesusPlaceFort Jesus is a fortress built by the Portuguese at Mombasa between 1593 and 1596 to guard their trade on the Swahili coast.
Fort LovrijenacWork / monumentFort Lovrijenac (St Lawrence) is a fortress standing on a sea cliff 37 metres high just outside the western walls of Dubrovnik.
Fort ManuelWork / monumentFort Manuel was the first European fort in India, built by the Portuguese at Kochi on the Malabar Coast in 1503 with the permission of the ruler of Cochin.
Fort MaurepasPlaceFort Maurepas was a French fort built in 1699 by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville on the eastern shore of Biloxi Bay, at present-day Ocean Springs, Mississippi.- Fort MiamisPlaceFort Miamis was a British fort built in 1794 on the Maumee River, in present-day Maumee, Ohio, on territory claimed by the United States.
Fort MosePlaceFort Mose, or Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, was a fortified settlement north of St.- Fort Nassau (Berbice)PlaceFort Nassau was the Dutch fort and trading post on the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, about 90 km upstream, and the first seat of the Berbice colony founded by…
- Fort Nassau (Gold Coast)PlaceFort Nassau was the first Dutch fort on the Gold Coast, built in 1612 at Moree in present-day Ghana at the invitation of the kingdom of Asebu.
Fort NiagaraPlaceFort Niagara is a fortress at the mouth of the Niagara River on Lake Ontario, in present-day New York State.
Fort Nieuw-AmsterdamPlaceFort Nieuw-Amsterdam is a pentagonal fortress built between 1734 and 1747 at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers, opposite Paramaribo.
Fort OrangePlaceFort Orange was a Dutch fur-trading post built in 1624 by the Dutch West India Company on the upper Hudson River, at what is now Albany, New York.
Fort Oranje (Sint Eustatius)PlaceFort Oranje is a fort above the harbour of Oranjestad on Sint Eustatius, built by Zeeland settlers from 1636.
Fort OswegoPlaceFort Oswego was a British trading post and fort built in the 1720s at the mouth of the Oswego River on Lake Ontario, in present-day New York State, to compete with the…
Fort PortalPlaceFort Portal is a city in western Uganda at the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains.- Fort Príncipe da BeiraWork / monumentFort Príncipe da Beira is a large stone fortress on the right bank of the Guaporé river, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, built by the Portuguese between 1776 and…
Fort PrinzensteinWork / monumentFort Prinzenstein is a fort built by the Danes in 1784 at Keta, on the coast of south-eastern Ghana.- Fort RevelinWork / monumentFort Revelin is a fortress outside the eastern land gate of Dubrovnik's walls, built in 1462–1463 when the Ottoman threat grew and rebuilt and greatly strengthened in…
Fort RosaliePlaceFort Rosalie was a French fort built in 1716 on the bluffs of the lower Mississippi River at present-day Natchez, Mississippi, in the colony of Louisiana.
Fort RossPlaceFort Ross was a Russian settlement on the coast of northern California, north of San Francisco, founded by the Russian-American Company in 1812.
Fort San Marcos de ApalachePlaceFort San Marcos de Apalache was a Spanish fort at the junction of the Wakulla and St.
Fort SillPlaceFort Sill is a United States Army post in south-western Oklahoma, founded in 1869 during campaigns against the southern Plains peoples.
Fort St GeorgePlaceFort St George is the fortress begun by the English East India Company in 1640 at Madraspatnam on the Coromandel Coast, the first English fortress in India.
Fort Walton cultureReligion / ideaThe Fort Walton culture was a Mississippian archaeological culture of the Florida Panhandle and south-western Georgia, flourishing from about 1100 until the arrival of…
Fort William HenryPlaceFort William Henry was a British fort built in 1755 at the southern end of Lake George in New York.
Fort William, KolkataWork / monumentFort William is a fortress on the east bank of the Hooghly in Kolkata, India, named after King William III.
Fort Zeelandia (Guyana)PlaceFort Zeelandia is a Dutch brick fort on Fort Island in the mouth of the Essequibo River in Guyana.
Fort Zeelandia (Suriname)PlaceFort Zeelandia is a fortress on the Suriname River at Paramaribo.
Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)PlaceFort Zeelandia was the fortress built by the Dutch East India Company from 1624 at Tayouan, now Anping in Tainan, as the seat of government of Dutch Formosa.
Fort-de-FrancePlaceFort-de-France is the capital of Martinique, on a large bay on the island's west coast.
Forte di BelvedereWork / monumentThe Forte di Belvedere is a fortress on the Boboli hill above Florence, built in 1590–1595 for Grand Duke Ferdinando I de' Medici to designs attributed to Bernardo…
ForteviotPlaceForteviot is a village in Strathearn, Perthshire, Scotland, that was a royal centre of the Pictish and early Scottish kings.
Fortezza da BassoPlaceThe Fortezza da Basso is a fortress in Florence built from 1534 for Duke Alessandro de' Medici to designs by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.- Fortified campTermA fortified camp is a defended encampment built by an army on campaign.
FortorePlaceThe Fortore is a river of southern Italy, about 110 km long, rising in the Apennines of Campania and flowing north-east through Molise and Apulia to the Adriatic.
Fortress of HumaitáPlaceThe Fortress of Humaitá was a Paraguayan fortification on a bend of the Paraguay River near its junction with the Paraná, guarding the river route to Asunción.
Fortress of LuxembourgPlaceThe Fortress of Luxembourg was the fortified city of Luxembourg, strengthened over centuries by Burgundian, Spanish, French, Austrian and Prussian rulers until it was…
Forty Years' WarWar · 1385–1424The Forty Years' War was a series of campaigns between the Burmese-speaking Ava Kingdom of Upper Burma and the Mon-speaking Hanthawaddy Kingdom of Lower Burma.