Society and history

Bunge Global

Bunge Global SA is a Swiss-domiciled agribusiness company, founded in 1818 in Amsterdam and headquartered in St. Louis, that processes oilseeds and grains as one of the four ABCD merchants.

Bungei

Bungei (文藝) is a Japanese quarterly literary magazine published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha, one of Japan's five major literary magazines, and founded as a monthly by Kaizosha in 1933.

Buni Yadi school massacre

The Buni Yadi school massacre was the killing of 59 male students by Boko Haram gunmen at a boarding school in Yobe State, Nigeria, in February 2014.

Bunia massacre

The Bunia massacre refers to mass killings of civilians in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, during the Ituri conflict, especially in January 2001 and May 2003.

Bunji imperial sanction

The Bunji imperial sanction (文治の勅許) was the 1185 authorization letting Minamoto no Yoritomo place shugo and jitō nationwide, often seen as the start of warrior government.

Bunka fire

The Bunka fire (Bunka no Taika) was a great fire that destroyed much of Edo on 22 April 1806, one of the Three Great Fires of Edo.

Bunka-era surveys of Ezo and Karafuto

The Bunka-era surveys of Ezo and Karafuto (文化露探) were Tokugawa shogunate missions of 1808 and 1809, led by Matsuda Denjirō and Mamiya Rinzō, that established Karafuto (Sakhalin) as an island.

Bunkers in Albania (bunkerizimi): concrete fortifications built under Enver Hoxha from 1975 to the mid-1980s, about 173,371 by 1983 by defense records, in QZ, PZ, and tunnel types, now demolished or repurposed as museums.

Bunkyū Embassy to Europe

The Bunkyū Embassy to Europe (文久遣欧使節) was a Tokugawa shogunate diplomatic mission of 1862, the first sent to Europe, which won a five-year postponement of port openings.

Bunkyū political change

The Bunkyū political change (文久3年8月18日の政変) was an 1863 coup in Kyoto in which Satsuma and Aizu, acting with Emperor Kōmei, expelled Chōshū and its radical noble allies, seven of whom fled to Chōshū.

Bunny Man

Bunny Man, also Bunnyman, is a Northern Virginia urban legend of an axe- or hatchet-wielding man in a rabbit costume, arising from two real October 1970 Fairfax County incidents near Clifton's Colchester Overpass, or Bunny Man Bridge; no murders ever documented, assailant never identified.

Bunroku campaign

The Bunroku campaign (文禄の役), known in Korea as the Imjin waeran, was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 1592 invasion of Korea aimed at conquering Ming China, ending in a 1593 ceasefire.

Bunroku–Keichō invasion forces

The Bunroku–Keichō invasion forces (文禄・慶長の役の軍勢) were the expeditionary armies Toyotomi Hideyoshi raised to invade Korea between 1592 and 1598, about 158,700 men in the first invasion, withdrawn after Hideyoshi died in 1598.

Bunscoill Ghaelgagh

Bunscoill Ghaelgagh is the world's only Manx Gaelic immersion primary school, in St John's, Isle of Man. Founded 2001, government-maintained since 2020, ages 4-11, island-wide intake, maximum 60 pupils.

Bunsei fire

The Bunsei fire (文政の大火, Bunsei no taika), also called the Sakumachō fire, was a great 1829 fire that destroyed much of central Edo, now Tokyo, killing over 2,800 people.

Bunt (community)

Bunts (also Nadavas), a landholding community of Tulu Nadu in coastal Karnataka, traditionally matrilineal via aliya santana, with recorded history from a 9th-century inscription and bhuta spirit worship.

Bunyip

The bunyip is a monstrous water spirit of southeastern Australian Aboriginal tradition, from Wemba Wemba banib, later reshaped by colonial folklore into a shapeless cryptid, cultural icon, and Australian slang for imposter.

Bunyoro-Kitara

Bunyoro-Kitara is a kingdom in western Uganda founded by the Babiito dynasty around 1500, regarded as the earliest kingdom in East Africa's lake region and heir of the earlier Kitara empire.

Bunyoro–Buganda wars

The Bunyoro–Buganda wars were centuries of conflict between the two Ugandan kingdoms, ending when an Anglo-Buganda alliance defeated Kabalega at Mparo in 1894, after which Bunyoro's counties were annexed to Buganda as the Lost Counties.

Bunzl

Bunzl plc is a British multinational distribution group that supplies businesses with non-food consumables like packaging and cleaning supplies across 33 countries, with 2025 revenue of £11.8 billion.

Bupa

Bupa, short for the British United Provident Association, is an international healthcare company with no shareholders, reinvesting profits into health insurance, health provision, and aged care for 68 million customers.

Sep 23, 2026

Buquan coin

The Buquan coin (布泉) was a coin issued by Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou in 561, valued at one coin equal to five wuzhu and circulating alongside them.

Sep 19, 2026

Bur-Suen of Isin

Bur-Suen of Isin, also written Bur-Sin or Būr-Sîn, was a king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia who reigned about 1895–1874 BC, during the Isin-Larsa period.

Burakumin (部落民)

Burakumin (部落民), also called the Dowa issue, are Japan's largest minority, descendants of Tokugawa-era eta and hinin outcastes, legally emancipated in 1871 yet still facing employment, marriage, housing, and family-registry-based discrimination.

Sep 23, 2026

Buranjis

Buranjis are prose chronicles of the Ahom kingdom in Assam, written in Ahom and later Assamese on Sanchi tree bark, and regarded as reliable sources for medieval Assam's history.

Buraq

The Buraq (Arabic: البراق) is the celestial riding beast of Islamic tradition on which the Prophet Muhammad traveled from Mecca to Jerusalem during the night journey, the Isra.

Burari deaths

The Burari deaths, also known as the Burari mass suicide, killed eleven members of the Chundawat family in Burari, Delhi, on 1 July 2018 during a ritual.

Burayd ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Burda al-Ash'ari

Burayd ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Burda al-Ash'ari, or Abu Burda al-Ash'ari al-Saghir, was a Kufan hadith narrator whose narrations entered both Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.

Burayda al-Aslami

Burayda al-Aslami (بريدة الأسلمي) was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad from the Aslam tribe and a first-generation hadith narrator who died in Merv in 682 or 683.