On an early morning in April of 1906 in the Bay Area of California, a 7.9 earthquake rattled the city of San Francisco. Residents were shaken, but it was nothing they couldn't handle. Unfortunately, that was only the beginning of their problems. What happened in the biggest catastrophe in San Francisco history? Let's find out, in the second episode of the Quarantine Chapters.

The first episode of the Quarantine Chapters, we take a swim in the Mediterranean and examine the events that transpired causing the accidental Spanish discovery of the American continents. How does the Byzantine Empire, once the Eastern Roman Empire, fit into all that? Well, it plays a bigger part than you might think by way of the Butterfly Effect.

We're going to travel to China in 1989, where a democratic movement ended in a brutal crackdown, followed by one of the most successful government cover-ups in recent history. What happened? Let's dive in.

Why did the British colonize Australia? When did it happen? And why did they send convicts? A brief crash-course on the events that led to the European colonization of what we now know as Australia, then called New South Wales.

Did the actions of one 19-year-old Serbian Nationalist lead to the deaths of more than 16 million people? How did it happen? WHY did it happen? Today we take a quick crash course on one of the most pivotal events of the 20th century -- the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

What happened during the Stock Market Crash of 1929? How does the Stock Market work? How did one day set off a chain of events leading to the Great Depression? I'm gonna give you the down low. Let's ride.

A quick run-down of what went down at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York at the tail end of the Summer of Love.