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2013 Event - The U.S. military used B-52 bombers in joint military drills with South Korea; in response, North Korea threatens to attack America's military bases in Japan

2013 Event - Austria holds a national referendum on whether or not to retain its system of conscription for the army and social service for young men; they vote to keep military service compulsory

2012 Event - A truth commission created by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff convenes to investigate the country's military dictatorship

2012 Event - South Korea announces that it plans to sign a pact with Japan that encourages the sharing of sensitive military intelligence

2012 Event - Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Tahrir Square against continuing military rule in Egypt

2012 Event - The IAEA announces that Iran has denied access to the Parchin military complex where they believe suspicious nuclear activities are taking place

2012 Event - Iran initiates new military exercises as tensions rise over the country's nuclear program

2012 Event - According to Israel's military chief, the country is preparing for a increase of Syrian refugees into Golan Heights

2012 Event - While conducting military exercises in the Persian Gulf, Iran successfully test-fires two long-range missiles

2011 Event - In Cairo, thousands of Egyptian women demonstrate against military police for abuse against female demonstrators in Tahir Square

2011 Event - The English town Wooten Bassett is re-named with the prefix 'Royal', honoring its role in repatriating British military personnel killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan

2011 Event - The U.S. officially ends its Don't ask, don't tell military policy, allowing gay and lesbian personnel to publicly declare their sexual orientation

2011 Event - The South Korean military has police clear protesters from the building site of its new naval base in Jeju-do

2011 Event - Venezuelans celebrate 200 years of independence from Spain with a military parade and parties in the streets

2011 Event - U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist group Al-Quaeda was killed by American military operatives

2011 Event - In London, England, international leaders take part in a conference focused on military action and the future of Libya

2011 Event - Libya's military operations are now under the NATO control

2011 Event - Libya's military claims it will stop fighting Sunday to allow the rebels to turn themselves in

2011 Event - Leaders from the G8 pass the issue of military intervention in Libya onto the United Nations Security Council

2011 Event - President Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power to the head of the Higher Military Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

2011 Event - North and South Korean officials meet for working-level military talks, the first Korean dialogue in eight months

2011 Event - Russia began searching for a missing military satellite that was launched into the wrong orbit

2010 Event - NATO nations reach an agreement to begin handing over Afghanistan's security to the Afghanistan military by 2014

2010 Event - For the first time in two years, South Korea and North Korea reach an agreement to hold working-level military talks

2010 Event - FARC guerilla leader Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, known as 'Mono Jojoy' is killed in a Columbian Armed Forces military operation

2010 Event - U.S. military forces use an air strike to kill an al-Qaeda leader responsible for planning suicide bombings

2010 Event - Over 92,000 classified documents detailing incidents related to the war in Afghanistan are released by Wikileaks; this is the largest leak in U.S military history

2010 Event - Buildings across Bangkok are set on fire by red shirt protesters after the military stormed a protest camp in the center of the city

2010 Event - Muslim fundamentalists in northern Algeria kill an army colonel and a military commander of Bejaia

2009 Event - More than 2,000 people found in Poland's largest mass grave during World War II are reburied in a military cemetary

2009 Event - Marc Ravalomanana, President of Madagascar, is overthrown. New President, Andry Rajoelina, is appointed by the military

2009 Event - After two years of trying to maintain order, Ethiopian military forces start pulling out of Somalia

2005 Event - Syria withdraws troops from Lebanon, ending its 29 year military occupation

2004 Event - American military deaths in the Iraq War reach 1,000

2003 Event - Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275

1998 Event - U.S. military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20

1997 Event - Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80

1997 Death - Enrique Peralta Azurdia, military President of Guatemala in 1963 - 1966, dies

1996 Death - Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies

1996 Death - Ernesto Geisel, military president of Brazil 1974 - 1979, dies at 89

1996 Death - Jose Toribio Merino, admiral/military junta of Chile 1973 - 1980, dies at 80

1996 Death - Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies

1995 Event - Belgium ends military conscript

1994 Death - Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79

1994 Death - Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38

1994 Event - Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees

1994 Event - Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases

1993 Event - Military coup by Burundi President Ndadaye/525,000 Hutu's flee

1992 Event - Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163

1992 Death - Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies

1991 Death - Hanson Baldwin, U.S. military historian, dies at 88

1991 Event - Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies

1991 Event - Failed military coup in Mali

1991 Event - U.S. announces closing of 31 major U.S. military bases

1991 Event - Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested

1990 Event - Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds

1990 Event - U.N. Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq

1990 Event - U.N. security council authorizes military action against Iraq

1990 Event - President Bush calls up military reserves

1990 Event - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)

1989 Event - Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends

1989 Event - Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay

1988 Event - STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)

1988 Event - Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

1988 Event - Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees

1988 Death - Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos

1988 Event - 1st documented combat action by U.S. military advisors in El Salvador

1987 Event - 1st military use of trained dolphins by the U.S. Navy

1987 Event - Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic

1987 Event - Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka

1987 Event - U.S. offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf

1987 Event - Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)

1986 Event - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel

1986 Event - Military coup in Lesotho under general-major Lekhanya and premier Leabua Jonathan

1985 Death - Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered

1984 Event - Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya

1983 Event - Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup

1983 Event - Argentina military regime gives amnesty to military and political assassins

1983 Event - Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees

1983 Event - Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for U.S. military aid

1982 Event - New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget

1982 Event - Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees

1982 Event - Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname

1981 Event - Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees

1981 Event - Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy

1980 Event - Upper-Volta military coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees

1980 Event - Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey

1980 Death - Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63

1980 Event - Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president

1980 Event - U.S. military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die

1979 Event - Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees

1979 Event - Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees

1979 Death - Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/military governor of Teheran, executed

1978 Event - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule

1978 Event - Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees

1978 Event - Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees

1978 Event - South Africa military goes into Angola

1978 Event - Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup

1978 Event - Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements

1976 Death - J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered

1976 Event - Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties

1976 Event - Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military

1976 Event - 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy

1976 Event - Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves

1975 Death - Hendrik Kruls, Dutch general/chief military authority 1944 - 1946, dies at 73

1975 Event - Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies

1975 Event - Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed

1975 Death - Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53

1975 Event - Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman

1975 Event - Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired

1975 Event - Chad military coup by General Odingar

1975 Event - Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails

1974 Event - Greek military dictatorship collapses

1974 Event - Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees

1974 Event - Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt

1974 Event - Military coup in Niger, president Diori Hamani deposed

1973 Event - Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos

1973 Event - Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup

1973 Event - Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees

1973 Event - Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana

1973 Event - U.S. Supreme Court approves equal rights to females in military

1973 Event - U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft

1972 Birthday - Dennis Military man, soccer player, Sparta/Vitesse

1972 Event - Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out

1972 Event - Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana

1971 Event - Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, President Torres driven out

1971 Event - Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry

1971 Event - Sudan military coup under Major Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees

1971 Event - "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey

1971 Event - Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada

1970 Event - Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup

1970 Event - Jordan king Hussein forms military government

1970 Event - U.S. ends 2 month military offensive into Cambodia

1970 Event - Argentine military junta under Lieutenant-general Lanusse drives out President Ongania

1970 Event - Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt

1970 Event - Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees

1970 Death - Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74

1969 Event - Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia

1969 Death - Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies

1969 Event - Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup

1968 Event - Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees

1968 Event - Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted

1968 Event - Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru

1968 Event - Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing

1968 Event - Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)

1967 Event - Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier

1967 Event - Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed

1966 Event - USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129

1966 Event - Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out

1966 Event - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad

1966 Event - Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government

1966 Event - Military coup by Col Jean-Bedel Bokassa in Central African Republic

1965 Event - Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown

1965 Birthday - Yahya Jammeh, born in Kanilai, Gambia, politician, President of Gambia, controlled the country as a result of a bloodless military coup, elected September 1996

1965 Event - Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic

1965 Event - People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid

1965 Event - Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control

1965 Event - West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania

1965 Event - South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh

1964 Event - Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted

1964 Event - President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military

1964 Event - Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam

1963 Event - 2 secret U.S. military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral

1963 Event - Failed military coup in Syria

1963 Event - Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria

1962 Event - Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen

1962 Event - Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees

1961 Event - Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam

1961 Event - Military coup in El Salvador

1960 Event - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey

1959 Event - Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)

1959 Event - Iraq terminates military assistance pact with U.S. due to neutrality

1959 Event - Iran and U.S. sign economic / military treaty

1958 Event - Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA

1958 Event - General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq

1957 Event - Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat

1957 Event - U.S.S.R. offers Syria economic/military aid

1957 Event - 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va

1956 Event - Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra

1956 Death - Leon N H Jungschlaeger, head military intelligence Netherlands-Indies, dies at 52

1956 Event - Porkkala military base returned to Finland by U.S.S.R.

1955 Birthday - Caleb Carr, born in Manhattan, New York City, author, military historian, wrote, 'The Italian Secretary', 'Casing the Promised Land', 'The Alienist'

1955 Event - British government signs military treaty with Iraq

1955 Event - Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam

1954 Event - Taiwan and U.S. sign military pact

1954 Event - Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala

1954 Event - Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months

1954 Event - Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months

1954 Event - Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay

1953 Event - Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military

1953 Event - Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia

1952 Event - Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

1951 Event - Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria

1951 Event - 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated

1951 Event - General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career

1950 Event - President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai

1950 Event - U.S. sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam

1950 Event - Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane

1949 Event - Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria

1949 Event - National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense

1949 Event - International Military Tribunal at Neurenberg's last judgment

1948 Event - 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated

1947 Event - Military coup discovered in France

1946 Event - Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die

1946 Death - J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed

1946 Event - International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals

1946 Event - International military tribunal in Tokyo begins

1945 Event - British military police arrest Admiral Karl Doenitz

1944 Birthday - Anthony Farrar Hockley, military historian

1943 Event - Military coup in Bolivia

1942 Event - military all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders men between 45 and 64 to register for non military duty

1942 Event - 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

1942 Event - Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough

1941 Event - Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

1940 Event - Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in U.S. history

1939 Event - Estonia accepts Soviet military bases

1939 Event - Great Britain and Poland sign military pact

1938 Death - Bart de Ligt, anti military theologist, dies at 77

1937 Event - Hitler informs his military leader of his intentions of going to war

1936 Birthday - Edward Jones, U.K. military rep to NATO

1936 Event - Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war

1936 Event - Military coup in Japan

1935 Event - Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane

1935 Event - Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador

1934 Birthday - Yakubu Gowon, born in Kanke, Nigeria, politician, General, Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria 1966 - 1975

1934 Event - Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria

1933 Event - Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup

1932 Event - Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri

1932 Birthday - Richard Thomas, born in Britain, admiral, served as Black Rod, House of Lords 1992 - 1995, UK Military Representative to NATO 1989 - 1992

1927 Event - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war

1927 Event - International allies military command in Germany disbands

1926 Event - Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras

1926 Event - Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal

1926 Event - U.S. military intervenes in Nicaragua

1925 Event - Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece

1925 Birthday - Idi Amin, born in Uganda, military dictator, president of Uganda, assumed role of Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, attempted to annex Kagera, Tanzania

1925 Event - Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council

1924 Event - Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil

1924 Event - British Labour government cuts military budget

1923 Event - Sun Yat Sen founds military academy

1923 Birthday - Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families and prisoners of war

1920 Death - Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies

1920 Death - Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer

1920 Birthday - Antony Duff, born in England, served Royal Navy during World War II, Deputy Governor of Southern Rhodesia, diplomat, Director-General of Military Intelligence, section 5, 1985 - 1988, the United Kingdom's internal security service

1917 Event - Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military

1917 Event - Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee

1917 Event - Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military

1917 Event - 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service

1917 Birthday - Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician

1916 Event - Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years

1916 Death - Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies

1916 Event - Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)

1915 Event - 1st military flight in Netherlands East Indies (Tandjong Priok)

1915 Birthday - Miles Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard, born in England, 17th Duke of Norfolk, The Most Notable Order of the Garter, Royal Victorian Order, awarded Military Cross

1915 Event - U.S. military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934

1915 Event - Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces

1915 Birthday - Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer

1915 Event - 1st military use of chlorine poison gas by Germany in WW I

1915 Event - Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine

1914 Event - Turkey signs military pact with Germany

1914 Birthday - Earl Cadogan, British large landowner, Military Cross

1913 Death - Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39

1910 Birthday - Arthur Hazlerigg, born in England, Lord Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, awarded Military Cross, judge, Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire, soldier, served during World War II, life peer

1910 Event - British-Russian military intervention in Persia

1909 Event - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army

1909 Event - U.S. military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time

1908 Event - Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from military coup

1904 Birthday - Leon N H Jungschlager, head of military intelligence, Netherlands-Indies

1902 Birthday - Hendrik J Kruls, Netherlands, general/chief military authority, 1944-46

1902 Event - U.S. military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends

1893 Event - Russia signs military accord with France

1888 Event - Italy and Spain sign military covenant

1887 Event - Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great Britain signs military treaty of Balkan

1887 Birthday - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence

1883 Event - Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty

1883 Event - Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary and Germany

1881 Event - Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"

1881 Event - Austria-Hungary and Serbia sign military treaty

1877 Event - Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9

1868 Event - Conservatives and military, seize Convention Hall in Florida

1864 Event - President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service

1864 Event - Robert E. Lee's home area, Arlington, Virginia, becomes a military cemetery

1863 Event - 1st military draft by U.S., exemptions cost $100

1863 Birthday - Gabriele D'Annunzio, born in Italy, writer and military hero, Intruder

1863 Event - 1st U.S. wartime military conscription bill enacted

1862 Event - Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi

1861 Event - Lexington Kentucky - Union military camp forms in neutral state

1861 Event - 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor

1859 Birthday - John W Fortescue, military historian

1856 Birthday - R G Nivelle, French military man

1855 Death - Willem F earl van Bylandt, military, dies at 84

1855 Event - Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use

1853 Death - Joaquin Murietta, Chilian/U.S. military man, murdered

1851 Birthday - Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War

1850 Event - Yerba Buena and Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use

1849 Death - Andreas Michiels, Dutch military Governor of West Sumatra, dies in battle at 52

1849 Birthday - Joseph S. Gallieni, general, Battle of Marne, military governor, Paris

1843 Death - Cornelis PJ Elout, military/president of West Sumatra, dies at 47

1831 Event - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy

1829 Event - Royal Military Chapel forms

1826 Death - Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St. Petersburg, dies at 60

1819 Death - Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75

1810 Death - Andreas Hofer, military leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42

1802 Event - U.S. Military Academy officially opens at West Point, New York

1797 Event - Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews

1797 Birthday - Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra

1796 Birthday - Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician

1795 Birthday - Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra

1792 Event - U.S. establishes military draft

1789 Event - Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname

1785 Event - Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

1783 Event - Britain evacuates New York City, their last military position in US

1782 Death - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (Ecole Military), dies at 83

1778 Event - 1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass

1775 Event - 1st military hospital approved

1767 Birthday - Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, military leader, fought Napoleon's France

1755 Event - England and Russia sign military agreement

1753 Event - Austria, England and Modena sign secret military treaty

1752 Birthday - George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War

1752 Event - Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna

1747 Event - England and Netherlands sign military treaty

1745 Birthday - Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor, St. Petersburg

1743 Birthday - Alexander van Bylandt, Dutch military officer

1742 Event - Prussia and England sign anti-French military covenant

1741 Event - Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich

1726 Event - Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty

1716 Event - England and Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty

1707 Event - Sweden and Prussia sign military treaty

1703 Death - Archibald Campbell, Scottish military man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52

1673 Birthday - Jozef LD von Konigsegg, Austria, military minister of Austrian Netherlands

1670 Event - France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty

1667 Event - France/England signs anti-Dutch military accord

1662 Event - Netherlands and France sign military covenant

1655 Event - New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service

1655 Event - Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty

1648 Death - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65

1625 Event - Netherlands and England sign military treaty

1608 Birthday - Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of military

1583 Birthday - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military and philosopher

1582 Birthday - Johan Ernst earl of Nassau-Siegen, military/son of Johan VII

1581 Death - Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/military/politician, dies at 52

1575 Event - King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to hugenots

1572 Event - France and England sign anti-Spanish military covenant

1567 Death - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63

1557 Death - Sebastiaan Van Noyen, military master builder, dies

1547 Birthday - Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland

1527 Death - Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37

1489 Death - Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded

554 Event - Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines military governor in Italy













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