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- Sennacherib's destruction of BabylonSiege · 689 BCESennacherib's destruction of Babylon took place in 689 BCE, when the Assyrian king captured the city after repeated rebellions and had it devastated.
- SennePlaceThe Senne (Dutch Zenne) is a small river of central Belgium, about 100 km long, flowing north through Brussels to join the Dijle near Mechelen.
SensPlaceSens is a town on the Yonne in Burgundy, France, known in Roman times as Agedincum, the chief town of the Senones.- Sentence of GuadalupePeace · 1486The Sentence of Guadalupe was an arbitral ruling issued by Ferdinand II of Aragon at the monastery of Guadalupe on 21 April 1486.
SenufoPeople / groupThe Senufo are a people of West Africa living in northern Côte d'Ivoire, southern Mali and western Burkina Faso, speaking Gur languages.
Senusret IPersonSenusret I was the second king of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt, son of Amenemhat I, reigning about 45 years in the twentieth century BCE.
Senusret IIPersonSenusret II was a king of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt in the nineteenth century BCE.
Senusret IIIPersonSenusret III was a pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Middle Kingdom Egypt, reigning in the 19th century BCE.- Senussi orderReligion / ideaThe Senussi order (Sanusiyya) was a Sufi religious and political brotherhood founded in the nineteenth century and centred in Cyrenaica in Libya.
- SenzangakhonaPersonSenzangakhona was chief of the small Zulu chiefdom in what is now KwaZulu-Natal in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- Seo HuiPersonSeo Hui was a Korean statesman and diplomat of the Goryeo period.
- SeokguramWork / monumentSeokguram is an artificial cave shrine on Mount Toham near Gyeongju, South Korea, built in the mid-8th century under the Unified Silla minister Kim Daeseong.
Seomjin RiverPlaceThe Seomjin River is a river in south-western South Korea, about 220 km long, rising in North Jeolla and flowing south into the sea near Gwangyang.
Seon BuddhismReligion / ideaSeon is the Korean form of Chan or Zen Buddhism, which stresses meditation and direct insight.- Seon of BalhaePersonSeon was the tenth king of Balhae, ruling from 818 to 830.
- Seondeok of SillaPersonSeondeok was queen of Silla from 632 to 647, the first woman to rule a Korean kingdom.
Seong of BaekjePersonSeong was king of Baekje from 523 to 554.- Seongjong of GoryeoPersonSeongjong of Goryeo was king of Goryeo from 981 to 997.
- Seongjong of JoseonPersonSeongjong of Joseon was king of Joseon from 1469 to 1494.
Seonjo of JoseonPersonSeonjo was the fourteenth king of Joseon, ruling from 1567 to 1608.
SeosanPlaceSeosan is a city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, on the Taean peninsula facing the Yellow Sea.
SeoulPlaceSeoul is the capital of South Korea, on the Han river in the north-west of the peninsula.
Sephardic JewsPeople / groupSephardic Jews are the Jewish communities descended from those of medieval Spain and Portugal, expelled in 1492 and 1497.
SepphorisPlaceSepphoris is an ancient town in Lower Galilee, north-west of Nazareth, with springs that made it an important stopping point.- Septennial Act 1716Work / monumentThe Septennial Act 1716 was a law of the Parliament of Great Britain that extended the maximum life of a parliament from three to seven years.
SeptimaniaPlaceSeptimania was the coastal region of south-western Gaul between the Rhône and the Pyrenees, around Narbonne, roughly modern Languedoc-Roussillon.
Septimius SeverusPersonSeptimius Severus was Roman emperor from 193 to 211 CE, born in Leptis Magna in North Africa.
SeptuagintWork / monumentThe Septuagint is the earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, begun with the Torah in Alexandria in the third century BCE and completed over the following…- SepúlvedaPlaceSepúlveda is a small historic town in the province of Segovia in Castile, Spain, set on a rock above the gorges of the Duratón.
Seqenenre TaoPersonSeqenenre Tao was a king of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt in the 16th century BCE, when the Hyksos ruled the north from Avaris.
SequoyahPersonSequoyah (c. 1770–1843) was a Cherokee silversmith who created the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system of 85 characters for the Cherokee language, completed around 1821.
Serabit el-KhadimPlaceSerabit el-Khadim is an ancient site in south-western Sinai where Egyptians mined turquoise from the Middle Kingdom onwards.
Seraikela Kharsawan districtPlaceSeraikela Kharsawan is a district of Jharkhand, India, created in 2001 from West Singhbhum district, with its headquarters at Seraikela.
SeraingPlaceSeraing is an industrial town on the Meuse just upstream of Liège, Belgium.
SeramporePlaceSerampore is a town on the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India, north of Kolkata.
Serampore CollegeInstitutionSerampore College is a college in Serampore, West Bengal, India, founded in 1818 by the Baptist missionaries William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward.
Serapeum of AlexandriaWork / monumentThe Serapeum of Alexandria was the great temple of the god Serapis, founded under Ptolemy III in the third century BCE and rebuilt in Roman times.- SerapioPersonSerapio was an Alemannic king of the fourth century, a nephew of Chnodomar.
SerapisReligion / ideaSerapis was a Graeco-Egyptian god whose cult was promoted by Ptolemy I Soter in the early third century BCE, combining the Egyptian Osiris and the Apis bull with the…
SerbiaPlaceSerbia is a country in the central Balkans, home to the Serbs, whose medieval kingdom was strongly influenced by the Byzantine Empire.
Serbian Patriarchate of PećInstitutionThe Serbian Patriarchate of Peć was the patriarchate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, seated at the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć in present-day Kosovo.
Serbian Progressive PartyPeople / groupThe Serbian Progressive Party is a Serbian political party founded in 2008 by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić, who broke away from the nationalist Serbian Radical…
Serbo-Bulgarian WarWar · 1885The Serbo-Bulgarian War was fought in November 1885 after Serbia attacked Bulgaria in protest against the union of Bulgaria with Eastern Rumelia.- SerbsPeople / groupThe Serbs are a South Slavic people of the Balkans, predominantly Orthodox Christian.
Serdar BerdimuhamedowPersonSerdar Berdimuhamedow is a Turkmen politician who became president of Turkmenistan in March 2022, succeeding his father Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow after an early election.- SerdicaPlaceSerdica was the ancient and medieval city on the site of modern Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
SerengetiPlaceThe Serengeti is a vast ecosystem of grassland and savanna in northern Tanzania, extending into Kenya as the Maasai Mara.- SererPeople / groupThe Serer are a people of the Senegambia region of West Africa, known for their distinct religious traditions and kingdoms such as Sine and Saloum.
Seretse KhamaPersonSeretse Khama was the hereditary chief of the Bangwato and the first President of Botswana, from 1966 until his death in 1980.- SerfdomTermSerfdom was a form of unfree labour in which peasants were bound to the land and owed labour or dues to a lord.
Serfoji IIPersonSerfoji II was the Maratha raja of Thanjavur in southern India from 1798 to 1832.
Sergei EisensteinPersonSergei Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and theorist whose use of montage made him one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema.
Sergei ProkofievPersonSergei Prokofiev was a Russian composer and pianist who left Russia after the revolution and returned to settle in the Soviet Union in 1936.
Sergei WittePersonSergei Witte was a Russian statesman who served as minister of finance in the 1890s and early 1900s and later as prime minister.- Sergio MattarellaPersonSergio Mattarella is an Italian politician and jurist from Sicily who has been president of the Italian Republic since 2015, re-elected in 2022.
Sergio OsmeñaPersonSergio Osmeña was a Filipino politician who, with Manuel Quezon, led the Nacionalista Party and campaigned for independence under American rule, helping to secure the…
SergipePlaceSergipe is the smallest state of Brazil, on the north-eastern Atlantic coast between Bahia and Alagoas, with its capital at Aracaju.- Sergius I of NaplesPersonSergius I (d. 864) was Duke of Naples from 840 and founder of a hereditary dynasty that ruled the duchy for three centuries.
Sergius IV of NaplesPersonSergius IV was duke of Naples from about 1002 to around 1036.
Sergius of RadonezhPersonSergius of Radonezh was a Russian monk who founded the Trinity Monastery north-east of Moscow around the 1340s and became the most venerated saint of medieval Russia.- Sergius VII of NaplesPersonSergius VII (d. 1137) was the last independent Duke of Naples, ruling from the early 1120s.
Sergo OrdzhonikidzePersonSergo Ordzhonikidze was a Georgian Bolshevik and close ally of Stalin who directed the Soviet conquest of the Caucasus, including the invasion of Georgia in 1921.
Seri MenantiPlaceSeri Menanti is a royal town near Kuala Pilah in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, the seat of the state's ruler, the Yang di-Pertuan Besar, since the installation of Raja…
SeriaPlaceSeria is a town in the Belait district of western Brunei, on the coast of the South China Sea.- SericultureTermSericulture is the raising of silkworms for the production of raw silk, typically by feeding them on mulberry leaves.
Sermon on Law and GraceWork / monumentThe Sermon on Law and Grace is a work by Hilarion, later metropolitan of Kiev, composed between about 1037 and 1050.
Serpent ColumnWork / monumentThe Serpent Column is a bronze column of three intertwined snakes that once supported a golden tripod dedicated at Delphi by the Greek states that defeated Persia at…- SerpukhovPlaceSerpukhov is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, where the Nara joins the Oka, about 100 kilometres south of Moscow.
- Serra di VaglioPlaceSerra di Vaglio is an archaeological site on a hilltop near Vaglio Basilicata, north-east of Potenza in southern Italy.
Serranía de RondaPlaceThe Serranía de Ronda is a range of limestone mountains in the west of Málaga province, Andalusia, Spain, around the town of Ronda.- Serrata del Maggior ConsiglioEventThe Serrata del Maggior Consiglio ('closing of the Great Council') was a reform of the Republic of Venice begun in 1297 under Doge Pietro Gradenigo.
SerresPlaceSerres is a city in the region of Macedonia in northern Greece, in the fertile valley of the Strymon.
Sertorian WarWar · 80–72 BCEThe Sertorian War was a Roman civil war fought in Hispania from 80 to 72 BCE between Quintus Sertorius, a supporter of the Marian party, and the government in Rome…
Seru Epenisa CakobauPersonSeru Epenisa Cakobau was the paramount chief of Bau, a small island state off Viti Levu that dominated much of Fiji in the mid-19th century.
ServatiusPersonServatius was a 4th-century bishop of the Tungri, with his see at Tongeren in present-day Belgium.- Servian WallWork / monumentThe Servian Wall was the defensive wall of ancient Rome, named after the king Servius Tullius but largely built in the early fourth century BCE after the Gallic sack of…
Servius TulliusPersonServius Tullius was, according to Roman tradition, the sixth king of Rome, reigning in the 6th century BCE.
Serzh SargsyanPersonSerzh Sargsyan is an Armenian politician from Nagorno-Karabakh who was president of Armenia from 2008 to 2018.
SES S.A.InstitutionSES is a satellite telecommunications company founded in Luxembourg in 1985 as the Société Européenne des Satellites, with the Luxembourg state as a major shareholder.- SesameTermSesame is a flowering plant cultivated for its oil-rich seeds, one of the oldest oilseed crops.
Sese IslandsPlaceThe Sese Islands are an archipelago of some eighty-four islands in the north-west of Lake Victoria, forming Kalangala District of Uganda.
SesebiPlaceSesebi is an archaeological site on the Nile in northern Sudan, between the Second and Third Cataracts.
SesiaPlaceThe Sesia is a river of Piedmont in north-western Italy, about 138 km long, rising on the glaciers of Monte Rosa and flowing south through the Valsesia past Vercelli to…
Sesshū TōyōPersonSesshū Tōyō was a Japanese Zen monk and painter, the foremost master of ink painting of the Muromachi period.
SethReligion / ideaSeth was an ancient Egyptian god of storms, the desert, foreign lands and disorder.- SethlansReligion / ideaSethlans was the Etruscan god of fire and metalworking, the counterpart of the Greek Hephaestus and the Roman Vulcan.
SétifPlaceSétif is a city on the high plains of north-eastern Algeria, capital of Sétif Province.
Sétif and Guelma massacreRevolt · 1945The Sétif and Guelma massacre followed demonstrations on 8 May 1945, VE Day, in the town of Sétif in French Algeria, where nationalist marchers clashed with police and…
Seto, AichiPlaceSeto is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, east of Nagoya, which has been a leading centre of pottery for about a thousand years.- Seton LloydPersonSeton Lloyd was a British archaeologist who worked in Iraq and Turkey for much of the 20th century.
SetthathirathPersonSetthathirath was king of Lan Xang from 1548 to 1571 and briefly also king of Lan Na from 1546.- Setthathirath IIPersonSetthathirath II, also known as Sai Ong Hue, was a prince of Lan Xang who grew up in exile in Vietnam.
SetúbalPlaceSetúbal is a port city on the estuary of the Sado in southern Portugal, south of Lisbon.- SetubandhaWork / monumentThe Setubandha ('Building of the Bridge'), also called Ravanavaho, is an epic poem in Maharashtri Prakrit attributed to the Vakataka king Pravarasena II.
Seuna Yadava dynastyStateThe Seuna Yadava dynasty ruled much of the western Deccan in India from its capital Devagiri, modern Daulatabad, from the late 12th century.- Seuthes IPersonSeuthes I was king of the Odrysian Thracians from 424 BCE, succeeding his uncle Sitalces.
- Seuthes IIPersonSeuthes II was an Odrysian Thracian ruler who held the lands near the Propontis in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BCE, while Medocus ruled the interior.
Seuthes IIIPersonSeuthes III was a king of the Odrysian Kingdom in Thrace in the late 4th century BCE.- SeuthopolisPlaceSeuthopolis was the capital founded around 320 BCE by the Odrysian king Seuthes III in the Kazanlak valley of central Bulgaria.
- Sevappa NayakPersonSevappa Nayak was the founder of the Nayak dynasty of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu.