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Hurricane IotaEventHurricane Iota was a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that struck the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua on 16 November 2020, less than two weeks after Hurricane Eta had hit the…
Hurricane IrmaEventHurricane Irma was a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that struck the northern Caribbean in September 2017, one of the strongest recorded in the open Atlantic.
Hurricane IvanEventHurricane Ivan was a powerful Atlantic hurricane that struck the Caribbean and the United States in September 2004.
Hurricane MariaEventHurricane Maria was a Category 5 hurricane that struck the eastern Caribbean in September 2017, two weeks after Hurricane Irma.
Hurricane MitchEventHurricane Mitch was one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record, striking Central America in late October and early November 1998.
HusabyPlaceHusaby is a village and early church site in Västergötland, south-western Sweden, near Lake Vänern.- Husain Shah LangahPersonHusain Shah Langah was the most important ruler of the Langah Sultanate of Multan in the second half of the 15th century.
- Husain Shah SharqiPersonHusain Shah Sharqi was the last sultan of Jaunpur, ruling from 1458 to 1479.
- Husain Shahi dynastyPeople / groupThe Husain Shahi dynasty ruled the Bengal Sultanate from 1494 to 1538.
Husainid dynastyPeople / groupThe Husainid dynasty ruled Tunisia as beys from 1705, when the cavalry officer Husayn ibn Ali seized power during an invasion from Algiers, until 1957.- Husam al-Din ChobanPersonHusam al-Din Choban was a commander of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum who received the frontier district of Kastamonu in the early 13th century.
Husam al-Din TimurtashPersonHusam al-Din Timurtash was the Artuqid ruler of Mardin from 1122 to 1154, a son of Ilghazi.- Husayn Ali Khan of QubaPersonHusayn Ali Khan was khan of Quba in the north-eastern Caucasus.
Husayn BayqaraPersonHusayn Bayqara was a Timurid ruler of Herat who reigned from 1469 to 1506.- Husayn ibn Ahmad al-HabiliPersonHusayn ibn Ahmad al-Habili was the sharif of Beihan, a small emirate on the frontier between the Aden Protectorate and Yemen.
- Husayn ibn AliPersonHusayn ibn Ali was a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and the son of Ali, the fourth caliph.
- Husayn ibn SalamahPersonHusayn ibn Salamah was a Nubian freedman who served as regent and chief minister of the Ziyadid dynasty of Zabid in Yemen in the late 10th century.
- Husayn SufiPersonHusayn Sufi was a leader of the Qungrat tribe who made himself independent ruler of Khwarazm around 1361, as the Golden Horde fell into civil war.
- Huseyngulu KhanPersonHuseyngulu Khan was the last khan of Baku, ruling from 1792.
Husni al-Za'imPersonHusni al-Za'im was a Syrian army officer who led the first military coup in Syria's history in March 1949, overthrowing President Shukri al-Quwatli after the defeat in…
Hussain HotakPersonHussain Hotak was the last ruler of the Hotak dynasty, a younger son of Mirwais Hotak, who governed Kandahar from 1725.
Hussain Muhammad ErshadPersonHussain Muhammad Ershad was a Bangladeshi army chief who seized power in a bloodless coup in March 1982 and ruled as chief martial law administrator and then president…- Hussain TekriWork / monumentHussain Tekri is a Muslim shrine at Jaora in the Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, India, built in the late 19th century by a Nawab of Jaora and dedicated to the…
Hussein Badreddin al-HouthiPersonHussein Badreddin al-Houthi was a Zaydi religious leader and former member of the Yemeni parliament who founded the movement that bears his family's name.
Hussein bin Ali, King of HejazPersonHussein bin Ali, a Hashemite, was appointed Sharif and Emir of Mecca by the Ottomans in 1908.
Hussein DeyPersonHussein Dey (c. 1765–1838) was the last dey of the Regency of Algiers, ruling from 1818 to 1830.
Hussein Kamel of EgyptPersonHussein Kamel was a son of Khedive Ismail and uncle of Abbas II.
Hussein of JordanPersonHussein of Jordan (Hussein bin Talal) was King of Jordan from 1952, when his father Talal was deposed, until his death in 1999, assuming his full powers in 1953.
Hussein Shah of JohorPersonHussein Shah was a Malay prince recognised by the British as Sultan of Johor in 1819, when Stamford Raffles needed a ruler to sanction a British post at Singapore.
Hussite WarsWar · 1419–1434The Hussite Wars were fought in Bohemia from 1419 to about 1434 between the followers of the reformer Jan Hus and Catholic rulers led by Emperor Sigismund.
HussitesPeople / groupThe Hussites were followers of the Czech reformer Jan Hus, burned for heresy at Constance in 1415.- Husuni KubwaWork / monumentHusuni Kubwa is the ruin of a large palace on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani in southern Tanzania, built in the early 14th century by Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman of the…
- Hutelutush-InshushinakPersonHutelutush-Inshushinak was a king of Elam in the late 12th century BCE, the last important ruler of the Shutrukid dynasty of the Middle Elamite period.
HutsulsPeople / groupThe Hutsuls are a Ukrainian-speaking highland people of the eastern Carpathians, in south-western Ukraine and northern Romania.
HutteritesPeople / groupThe Hutterites are an Anabaptist Christian community that holds property in common, named after Jakob Hutter, a leader burned for heresy at Innsbruck in 1536.- HutuPeople / groupThe Hutu are the largest population group of Rwanda and Burundi, sharing the Kinyarwanda and Kirundi languages and much of their culture with the Tutsi and Twa.
- Hutu ManifestoWork / monumentThe Hutu Manifesto was a document written in March 1957 by nine Hutu intellectuals, among them Grégoire Kayibanda, and addressed to the Belgian colonial authorities in…
Huvadhu AtollPlaceHuvadhu Atoll is one of the largest atolls in the world, in the south of the Maldives, divided for administration into Gaafu Alif and Gaafu Dhaalu.
HuvishkaPersonHuvishka was a Kushan emperor who succeeded Kanishka and reigned for about three decades in the middle of the 2nd century CE, when the empire stretched from the Amu…
HuyPlaceHuy is a town on the Meuse in the province of Liège, Belgium.- Huỳnh Tấn PhátPersonHuỳnh Tấn Phát was a Vietnamese architect and communist politician who helped found the National Liberation Front.
Hvalsey ChurchWork / monumentHvalsey Church is a ruined stone church of the Norse Eastern Settlement in southern Greenland, near modern Qaqortoq, and the best-preserved Norse building in Greenland.
HvarPlaceHvar is a Croatian island in the central Adriatic.
HwaeomReligion / ideaHwaeom is the Korean branch of the Huayan school of Buddhism, based on the Avatamsaka Sutra and its teaching of the interdependence of all things.
HwandoPlaceHwando was a mountain fortress capital of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, near modern Ji'an in Jilin province, China, paired with the walled city of Gungnae in the…- Hwangnam DaechongPlaceHwangnam Daechong is the largest Silla tomb at Gyeongju, South Korea, a double burial mound of the fifth century about 120 metres long, probably of a king and his queen.
Hwaseong FortressWork / monumentHwaseong Fortress is a walled fortress surrounding the centre of Suwon in South Korea, built from 1794 to 1796 by King Jeongjo near the relocated tomb of his father…- HyblonPersonHyblon was a king of the Sicels in eastern Sicily in the eighth century BCE.
- HydatiusPersonHydatius was a bishop of Aquae Flaviae, modern Chaves, in the Roman province of Gallaecia.
- Hyde ParkerPersonSir Hyde Parker was a British admiral who commanded the fleet sent in 1801 to break the League of Armed Neutrality.
Hyder AliPersonHyder Ali was a soldier who rose to command the army of the Kingdom of Mysore and from 1761 ruled it in place of the Wodeyar kings.
HyderabadPlaceHyderabad is a city on the Musi River in the Deccan, now the capital of the Indian state of Telangana.
Hyderabad ContingentInstitutionThe Hyderabad Contingent was a military force paid for by the Nizam of Hyderabad but commanded by British officers, raised in the early 19th century to support the…- Hyderabad State CongressPeople / groupThe Hyderabad State Congress was a political party founded in 1938 to campaign for responsible government in Hyderabad State.
Hyderabad, SindhPlaceHyderabad is a city on the Indus in Sindh, Pakistan.
Hydra (island)PlaceHydra is a Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, off the eastern coast of the Peloponnese.- HyechoPersonHyecho was a Buddhist monk from Silla who studied in Tang China and in the 720s travelled to India, visiting the holy places of Buddhism and returning through Central…
- Hyegong of SillaPersonHyegong was king of Silla from 765 to 780, coming to the throne as a child.
- HyejaPersonHyeja was a Buddhist monk from the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo who came to Japan in 595.
- Hyeonjong of GoryeoPersonHyeonjong of Goryeo was king of Goryeo from 1009 to 1031.
- Hyfaidd ap BleddriPersonHyfaidd ap Bleddri was king of Dyfed in south-west Wales in the later 9th century.
HygelacPersonHygelac is the king of the Geats in the Old English poem Beowulf, the hero's uncle and lord.- HyksosPeople / groupThe Hyksos were a people of West Asian origin who ruled northern Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period.
Hyōgo PrefecturePlaceHyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of the Kansai region of Japan, reaching from the Inland Sea to the Sea of Japan, with its capital at Kobe.
HypaspistsInstitutionThe hypaspists were an elite infantry corps in the Macedonian army of Philip II and Alexander the Great.- HypatiaPersonHypatia was a Neoplatonist philosopher, mathematician and astronomer in Alexandria, the daughter of the mathematician Theon.
- Hypogeum of the VolumniWork / monumentThe Hypogeum of the Volumni is an Etruscan chamber tomb near Perugia, discovered in 1840.
HyrcaniaPlaceHyrcania was a historical region south-east of the Caspian Sea, in the modern Iranian provinces of Golestan and Mazandaran and parts of Turkmenistan.
Hyrcanus IIPersonHyrcanus II was a Hasmonean high priest and ruler of Judaea, the elder son of Alexander Jannaeus and Salome Alexandra.
HyspaosinesPersonHyspaosines was the founder of the kingdom of Characene at the head of the Persian Gulf.
Hyūga ProvincePlaceHyūga Province was an old province on the east coast of Kyushu, Japan, corresponding roughly to modern Miyazaki Prefecture.
Hywel DdaPersonHywel Dda, Hywel the Good, was a Welsh king, grandson of Rhodri the Great.