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Hammurabi's Code
Hammurabi's Code
c. 1754 BCE
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
c. 2100 BCE
Sargon of Akkad
Sargon of Akkad
c. 2334 BCE
Ashurbanipal's Library
Ashurbanipal's Library
c. 668 BCE
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
c. 600 BCE
Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great
c. 539 BCE
Darius Builds Persepolis
Darius Builds Persepolis
c. 515 BCE
The Fall of Babylon
The Fall of Babylon
539 BCE
Narmer Unites Egypt
Narmer Unites Egypt
c. 3100 BCE
Building the Pyramids
Building the Pyramids
c. 2560 BCE
The Great Sphinx
The Great Sphinx
c. 2500 BCE
Hatshepsut, the Woman Pharaoh
Hatshepsut, the Woman Pharaoh
c. 1479 BCE
Akhenaten the Heretic
Akhenaten the Heretic
c. 1353 BCE
Tutankhamun's Tomb
Tutankhamun's Tomb
c. 1323 BCE
Ramses the Great
Ramses the Great
c. 1279 BCE
The Battle of Kadesh
The Battle of Kadesh
1274 BCE
Cleopatra and Caesar
Cleopatra and Caesar
48 BCE
Cleopatra and Antony
Cleopatra and Antony
41 BCE
The Battle of Actium
The Battle of Actium
31 BCE
The Death of Cleopatra
The Death of Cleopatra
30 BCE
The Library of Alexandria Burns
The Library of Alexandria Burns
48 BCE
The Trojan War
The Trojan War
c. 1200 BCE
The Trojan Horse
The Trojan Horse
c. 1184 BCE
Achilles and Hector
Achilles and Hector
c. 1184 BCE
Odysseus Goes Home
Odysseus Goes Home
c. 1180 BCE
Sparta Builds Its War Machine
Sparta Builds Its War Machine
c. 700 BCE
Draco Writes the Laws
Draco Writes the Laws
c. 621 BCE
The Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon
490 BCE
The 300 at Thermopylae
The 300 at Thermopylae
480 BCE
The Battle of Salamis
The Battle of Salamis
480 BCE
Pericles' Golden Age
Pericles' Golden Age
461 BCE
The Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War
431 BCE
Socrates Drinks the Hemlock
Socrates Drinks the Hemlock
399 BCE
Plato Founds the Academy
Plato Founds the Academy
387 BCE
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
336 BCE
Alexander Cuts the Gordian Knot
Alexander Cuts the Gordian Knot
333 BCE
The Death of Alexander
The Death of Alexander
323 BCE
Archimedes Yells Eureka
Archimedes Yells Eureka
c. 250 BCE
Romulus and Remus
Romulus and Remus
753 BCE
The Rape of Lucretia
The Rape of Lucretia
509 BCE
Cincinnatus Saves Rome
Cincinnatus Saves Rome
458 BCE
The Gauls Sack Rome
The Gauls Sack Rome
390 BCE
Hannibal Crosses the Alps
Hannibal Crosses the Alps
218 BCE
The Battle of Cannae
The Battle of Cannae
216 BCE
Carthage Must Be Destroyed
Carthage Must Be Destroyed
146 BCE
The Gracchi Brothers
The Gracchi Brothers
133 BCE
Sulla Marches on Rome
Sulla Marches on Rome
88 BCE
Spartacus Revolts
Spartacus Revolts
73 BCE
The First Triumvirate
The First Triumvirate
60 BCE
Caesar Conquers Gaul
Caesar Conquers Gaul
58 BCE
Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
49 BCE
Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
49 BCE
The Ides of March
The Ides of March
44 BCE
Cicero's Death
Cicero's Death
43 BCE
Augustus Becomes Emperor
Augustus Becomes Emperor
27 BCE
Varus Loses the Legions
Varus Loses the Legions
9 CE
Tiberius on Capri
Tiberius on Capri
26 CE
Caligula Goes Mad
Caligula Goes Mad
37 CE
Claudius the Unlikely Emperor
Claudius the Unlikely Emperor
41 CE
Boudicca's Revolt
Boudicca's Revolt
60 CE
Nero Burns Rome
Nero Burns Rome
64 CE
The Year of the Four Emperors
The Year of the Four Emperors
69 CE
The Destruction of Jerusalem
The Destruction of Jerusalem
70 CE
Pompeii Destroyed
Pompeii Destroyed
79 CE
Trajan Builds the Empire
Trajan Builds the Empire
98 CE
Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall
122 CE
Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher King
Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher King
161 CE
Commodus the Gladiator Emperor
Commodus the Gladiator Emperor
180 CE
The Crisis of the Third Century
The Crisis of the Third Century
235 CE
Constantine Converts
Constantine Converts
312 CE
The Council of Nicaea
The Council of Nicaea
325 CE
Julian the Apostate
Julian the Apostate
361 CE
The Sack of Rome
The Sack of Rome
410 CE
Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun
434 CE
The Fall of Rome
The Fall of Rome
476 CE
Justinian and Theodora
Justinian and Theodora
527 CE
The Nika Riots
The Nika Riots
532 CE
Hagia Sophia Rises
Hagia Sophia Rises
537 CE
The Plague of Justinian
The Plague of Justinian
541 CE
The Iconoclast Crisis
The Iconoclast Crisis
726 CE
The Battle of Manzikert
The Battle of Manzikert
1071 CE
The Fall of Constantinople
The Fall of Constantinople
1453 CE
Muhammad's First Revelation
Muhammad's First Revelation
610 CE
The Hijra
The Hijra
622 CE
The Battle of Badr
The Battle of Badr
624 CE
The Battle of Karbala
The Battle of Karbala
680 CE
The Umayyads Build an Empire
The Umayyads Build an Empire
661 CE
The House of Wisdom
The House of Wisdom
830 CE
Saladin Retakes Jerusalem
Saladin Retakes Jerusalem
1187 CE
The Mongols Sack Baghdad
The Mongols Sack Baghdad
1258 CE
Charlemagne is Crowned
Charlemagne is Crowned
800 CE
The Battle of Tours
The Battle of Tours
732 CE
The Vikings Raid Lindisfarne
The Vikings Raid Lindisfarne
793 CE
Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great
871 CE
The Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings
1066 CE
The First Crusade
The First Crusade
1096 CE
Thomas Becket Murdered
Thomas Becket Murdered
1170 CE
Richard the Lionheart
Richard the Lionheart
1189 CE
The Magna Carta
The Magna Carta
1215 CE
The Fourth Crusade Sacks Constantinople
The Fourth Crusade Sacks Constantinople
1204 CE
The Templars Destroyed
The Templars Destroyed
1307 CE
The Black Death
The Black Death
1347 CE
The Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War
1337 CE
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
1429 CE
The Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses
1455 CE
Genghis Khan Rises
Genghis Khan Rises
1206 CE
Kublai Khan Founds the Yuan
Kublai Khan Founds the Yuan
1271 CE
Marco Polo in China
Marco Polo in China
1271 CE
The Kamikaze Saves Japan
The Kamikaze Saves Japan
1281 CE
The Ming Dynasty Rises
The Ming Dynasty Rises
1368 CE
Zheng He's Treasure Fleet
Zheng He's Treasure Fleet
1405 CE
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji
1010 CE
The Samurai Code
The Samurai Code
1185 CE
Angkor Wat Built
Angkor Wat Built
1113 CE
The Delhi Sultanate
The Delhi Sultanate
1206 CE
The Medici Rise
The Medici Rise
1397 CE
Greek Scholars Flee West
Greek Scholars Flee West
1453 CE
Gutenberg Prints the Bible
Gutenberg Prints the Bible
1455 CE
Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities
Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities
1497 CE
The Borgia Popes
The Borgia Popes
1492 CE
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
1503 CE
Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel
1508 CE
Machiavelli Writes The Prince
Machiavelli Writes The Prince
1513 CE
Luther's 95 Theses
Luther's 95 Theses
1517 CE
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1533 CE
Anne Boleyn Beheaded
Anne Boleyn Beheaded
1536 CE
Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary
1553 CE
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
1558 CE
Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots
1587 CE
The Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada
1588 CE
The Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot
1605 CE
Columbus Sails the Ocean Blue
Columbus Sails the Ocean Blue
1492 CE
Vasco da Gama Reaches India
Vasco da Gama Reaches India
1498 CE
Magellan Circumnavigates the Globe
Magellan Circumnavigates the Globe
1519 CE
Cortés Conquers the Aztecs
Cortés Conquers the Aztecs
1519 CE
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
1521 CE
Pizarro and the Inca
Pizarro and the Inca
1532 CE
Atahualpa's Ransom
Atahualpa's Ransom
1533 CE
Drake Circumnavigates
Drake Circumnavigates
1577 CE
Jamestown Founded
Jamestown Founded
1607 CE
The Mayflower Lands
The Mayflower Lands
1620 CE
The Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War
1618 CE
Galileo's Trial
Galileo's Trial
1633 CE
The English Civil War
The English Civil War
1642 CE
The Execution of Charles I
The Execution of Charles I
1649 CE
Cromwell Rules
Cromwell Rules
1653 CE
Louis XIV Builds Versailles
Louis XIV Builds Versailles
1682 CE
The Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London
1666 CE
Newton's Apple
Newton's Apple
1666 CE
The Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials
1692 CE
Peter the Great
Peter the Great
1697 CE
Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great
1762 CE
Voltaire and the Philosophes
Voltaire and the Philosophes
1750 CE
The Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War
1756 CE
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party
1773 CE
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence
1776 CE
Washington Crosses the Delaware
Washington Crosses the Delaware
1776 CE
The Surrender at Yorktown
The Surrender at Yorktown
1781 CE
Storming the Bastille
Storming the Bastille
1789 CE
Marie Antoinette's Execution
Marie Antoinette's Execution
1793 CE
The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror
1793 CE
The Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution
1791 CE
Napoleon's Rise
Napoleon's Rise
1799 CE
Napoleon Crowns Himself
Napoleon Crowns Himself
1804 CE
The Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar
1805 CE
The Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz
1805 CE
Napoleon Invades Russia
Napoleon Invades Russia
1812 CE
The Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo
1815 CE
Napoleon at St. Helena
Napoleon at St. Helena
1815 CE
The War of 1812
The War of 1812
1812 CE
Simón Bolívar Liberates Latin America
Simón Bolívar Liberates Latin America
1819 CE
The Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine
1823 CE
The Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears
1838 CE
Remember the Alamo
Remember the Alamo
1836 CE
The Opium Wars
The Opium Wars
1839 CE
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
1845 CE
The 1848 Revolutions
The 1848 Revolutions
1848 CE
The California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush
1849 CE
The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion
1850 CE
The Crimean War
The Crimean War
1853 CE
Perry Opens Japan
Perry Opens Japan
1853 CE
The Sepoy Mutiny
The Sepoy Mutiny
1857 CE
Darwin Publishes the Origin
Darwin Publishes the Origin
1859 CE
Italian Unification
Italian Unification
1861 CE
German Unification
German Unification
1871 CE
Lincoln is Elected
Lincoln is Elected
1860 CE
Fort Sumter Falls
Fort Sumter Falls
1861 CE
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation
1863 CE
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg
1863 CE
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea
1864 CE
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox
1865 CE
Lincoln is Assassinated
Lincoln is Assassinated
1865 CE
The Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa
1884 CE
The Battle of Isandlwana
The Battle of Isandlwana
1879 CE
Rorke's Drift
Rorke's Drift
1879 CE
The Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration
1868 CE
The Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of Little Bighorn
1876 CE
Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee
1890 CE
The Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War
1898 CE
The Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion
1900 CE
The Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War
1904 CE
The Titanic Sinks
The Titanic Sinks
1912 CE
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is Shot
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is Shot
1914 CE
The Christmas Truce
The Christmas Truce
1914 CE
Gallipoli
Gallipoli
1915 CE
The Lusitania Sinks
The Lusitania Sinks
1915 CE
The Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun
1916 CE
The Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme
1916 CE
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution
1917 CE
The Tsar and His Family Are Shot
The Tsar and His Family Are Shot
1918 CE
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles
1919 CE
The Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu
1918 CE
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties
1920 CE
The Stock Market Crashes
The Stock Market Crashes
1929 CE
Hitler Rises to Power
Hitler Rises to Power
1933 CE
Stalin's Purges
Stalin's Purges
1936 CE
Mao's Long March
Mao's Long March
1934 CE
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War
1936 CE
The Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement
1938 CE
The Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland
1939 CE
The Fall of France
The Fall of France
1940 CE
The Dunkirk Evacuation
The Dunkirk Evacuation
1940 CE
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain
1940 CE
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
1941 CE
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor
1941 CE
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
1941 CE
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway
1942 CE
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad
1942 CE
D-Day
D-Day
1944 CE
The Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising
1944 CE
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge
1944 CE
The Fall of Berlin
The Fall of Berlin
1945 CE
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945 CE
The Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials
1945 CE
The Iron Curtain Falls
The Iron Curtain Falls
1946 CE
The Partition of India
The Partition of India
1947 CE
The Founding of Israel
The Founding of Israel
1948 CE
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift
1948 CE
Mao Founds the People's Republic
Mao Founds the People's Republic
1949 CE
The Korean War
The Korean War
1950 CE
The Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution
1956 CE
Sputnik Launches
Sputnik Launches
1957 CE
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 CE
JFK is Assassinated
JFK is Assassinated
1963 CE
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream'
Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream'
1963 CE
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War
1965 CE
The Moon Landing
The Moon Landing
1969 CE
Watergate
Watergate
1972 CE
The Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon
1975 CE
The Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran Hostage Crisis
1979 CE
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989 CE
Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square
1989 CE
The Soviet Union Collapses
The Soviet Union Collapses
1991 CE
Mandela Walks Free
Mandela Walks Free
1990 CE
The Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide
1994 CE
The Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars
1991 CE
September 11
September 11
2001 CE
The Iraq War
The Iraq War
2003 CE
The 2008 Financial Crisis
The 2008 Financial Crisis
2008 CE
The Arab Spring
The Arab Spring
2011 CE
The COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 CE

Frequently Asked Questions

What is History Tea?

History Tea is a free iOS app that retells world history as immersive audio. With 261+ stories from ancient Mesopotamia to the Space Race and cinematic narration, you can listen to history like a podcast — anywhere, anytime.

How many history stories does History Tea have?

History Tea currently has 261 stories spanning every major period of world history — ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, both World Wars, the Cold War, and more.

Is History Tea free?

Yes! History Tea is completely free to download and listen to. All stories and audio narrations are available at no cost on iOS.

Can I read the stories on the website?

You can preview each story's setup and key takeaways on our website. For the full story and immersive audio narration, download the free History Tea app on iOS.

Is the content historically accurate?

Yes. Every story is researched from reliable historical sources and written as a fresh, modern retelling — engaging and accessible without sacrificing accuracy. Where historians disagree, we say so.

What eras does History Tea cover?

History Tea covers everything from ancient civilizations (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome) through the medieval and early modern periods, and right up to the 20th and 21st centuries — 261 stories and growing.

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