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2009 The parliament of Iceland votes to pursue joining the European Union
2009 Sweden takes over the presidency of the European Union 2007 Bulgaria joins the European Union 2007 Romania joins the European Union 2006 Union of Islamic Courts takes over Mogadishu, Somalia 2005 New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days 2003 Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport 2003 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents) 2002 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil' 1996 Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement 1996 George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76 1996 Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45 1996 Kurt Schmucker, member (Union of Christian Democrats), dies 1995 Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union 1994 Norway votes against joining European Union 1994 Sweden agrees to join European Union 1993 Danny Blanchflower, North Ireland soccer/union coach, dies at 67 1993 Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83 1992 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80 1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States 1991 Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union 1991 Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence 1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die 1991 Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union 1991 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union 1991 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty 1991 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68 1990 Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties 1990 Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies 1990 U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games 1990 South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested 1990 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty 1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines 1989 Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67 1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union 1989 Polish labor union granted legal status 1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court 1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms 1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons 1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union 1988 Union Station reopens in Washington D.C. 1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful) 1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member 1987 United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp 1986 Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered 1986 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75 1986 Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies 1985 South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms 1985 Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed 1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster 1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike 1984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India 1984 Morocco and Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty 1984 General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union 1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike 1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa 1983 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years 1983 Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67 1983 August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79 1982 Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered 1982 U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union 1982 Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide 1981 William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire, dies at 75 1980 Poland acknowledges Solidarity union 1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity 1980 George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86 1980 Solidarity labor union in Poland forms 1980 Poland's Solidarity labor union forms 1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established 1974 Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms 1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic 1973 Alison "Ali" Malyn Shumate, Union City Tennessee, Miss America-Tenn 1996 1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders 1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany 1972 Gabrielle Union, American Actress 1972 Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64 1972 Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union 1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory 1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace 1971 Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance 1970 Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies 1970 Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms 1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union 1968 Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" 1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States 1968 Howard Lindsay, U.S. playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 1967 Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) 1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus 1965 Steve Finley, Union City, Tennessee, outfielder for the San Diego Padres 1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years 1965 Steve Finley, born in Union City, Tennessee, outfielder for the San Diego Padres 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address 1963 Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union 1963 Ron Karkovice, born in Union, New Jersey, catcher, Chicago White Sox 1963 South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested 1963 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested 1963 Garry Kasparov, born in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist 1962 Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51 1962 LeRoy B Shield, U.S. pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68 1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb 1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth 1961 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union 1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus 1960 Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader 1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands 1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon 1959 Edward Liddie, born in Union, Georgia, Judo fighter 1984 Olympics bronze 1959 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US 1958 Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark 1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika 1956 Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83 1956 Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union 1956 Albert Woolson, last veteran U.S. Union army, dies at 109 1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp 1956 Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union 1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania 1955 West Europe Union established 1954 Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader 1954 Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up 1954 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record) 1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union 1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union 1953 John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union 1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb 1953 James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU 1952 William Green, union chairman AFL 1924 - 1952, dies at 79 1952 M Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of South African Mine Workers' Union 1952 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66 1951 Robert Wuhl, Union, New Jersey, actor, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam 1951 Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator 1951 John Dittrich, born in Union, New Jersey, country singer, Restless Heart-Wheels 1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union 1950 European Payment Union forms in Paris 1949 Tripura accedes to Indian union 1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union 1949 Dennis Locorriere, Union City, New Jersey, rock guitarist, Dr. Hook 1949 Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand 1948 Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader 1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade 1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel 1948 Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader 1947 United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL 1947 U.S.S.R. joins International Amateur Athletic Union 1947 Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherland form Benelux Union 1947 Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan 1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms 1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland 1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland 1946 Paul Wheatbread, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl 1946 United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor 1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union 1945 Dwight Bement, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl 1945 H Lindsay and R Crouse's "State of the Union," premieres in New York City 1945 Kerry Chater, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl 1945 Dimitar Penev, born in Bulgaria, soccer player/union coach, Lokomotiv/CSKA 1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms 1944 Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader 1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms 1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans 1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London 1943 Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74 1942 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61 1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union 1942 Gary Puckett, vocalist, & Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl 1942 Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union 1941 German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union 1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million 1941 Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union 1941 Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder, Simplistic Union 1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union 1941 Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states 1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II 1941 Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader 1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco 1941 Lord Vestey, British food magnate/billionaire, Union International 1940 John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales 1940 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union 1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union 1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union 1940 George Paul, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group 1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union 1939 Franklin A Sonn, union leader, South African workers 1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF 1939 Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided) 1939 Reinier Lucassen, Dutch painter, Kuifje contra James Union 1939 U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916) 1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union 1937 Franz Vranitzky, Austria union chancellor, 1986- 1937 David Behrman, born in Salzburg, Austria, composer, producer, Music of Our Time series, Columbia Records, founding member, Sonic Arts Union 1937 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader 1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die 1936 Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union 1936 Ron Carey, union President, Teamsters 1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms 1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union 1934 Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union 1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions 1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha 1934 International Telecommunication Union established 1933 Arif Melikov, born in Baku, Azerbaijan, name also Arif Malikov, Soviet composer, nationally acclaimed for composition Legend of Love whose ballet is among the finest works to emerge from the Soviet Union 1933 Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09") 1933 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader 1933 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands 1932 France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union 1932 British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union 1932 Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists 1932 Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer 1932 Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader 1932 Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71 1932 Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71 1932 William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan 1932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo 1931 Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47 1931 Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists) 1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass 1930 John Daly, British trade union leader 1930 Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre, COSATU 1929 Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison 1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros 1929 ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union) 1929 U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia 1928 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg 1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins 1928 MG Falcon, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky 1926 British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms 1926 Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union 1926 Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to New Zealand 1925 Roy Hughes, born in Pontllanfraith, Wales, born Royston John Hughes, Baron Islwyn, politician, Labor Party, union organizer, Member of Parliament for Newport, Member of Parliament for Newport East 1925 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms 1925 Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office 1925 Charles Henry Plumb, born in England, Charles Henry Plumb, Lord Plumb, Baron Plumb of Coleshill, County of Warwickshire, Conservative Party, politician, leading figure, National Farmers Union 1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium 1924 Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain 1924 Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union 1924 Henry M Fazzie, South Africa Union/UDF-leader 1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form 1923 Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman, Trades Union Congress 1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established 1922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR 1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.) 1922 Jack Boddy, British trade union leader 1922 Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader, NVV/VARA 1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels 1922 Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union, ACV 1968-87 1922 German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized 1922 Lane Kirkland, union president, AFL-CIO 1922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved 1921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union 1921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union 1920 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland 1920 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia 1920 George Ernest Leslie, trade union official 1920 William Simpson, British trade union leader 1920 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids) 1919 U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers 1919 Antoon J. Hubben, Dutch mayor and trade union leader 1917 Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members 1916 Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep 1916 Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73 1916 Lloyd McBride, union president, United Steelworkers 1915 Moe Biller, New York City, labor union officer, AFL-CIO, Postal Workers 1915 Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers 1915 Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa 1914 Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights) 1912 Pan American Union forms 1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state 1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union 1911 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman, CNV, trade union leader 1911 1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri 1910 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader 1910 Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms 1910 Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa 1910 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion 1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa 1910 Union of South Africa declares independence from U.K. 1910 Frans Dohmen, union leader, Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union 1909 Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers 1909 1st credit union forms in US 1908 1st credit union in U.S. forms, Manchester, New Hampshire 1908 Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author, 50th Anniv of Soviet Union 1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms 1908 CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms 1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act 1907 Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader 1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8) 1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball 1907 Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union 1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held 1906 Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins 1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht 1905 Union of Sweden and Norway ends 1905 Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands 1905 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms 1905 Lila Lee, Union City, New Jersey, actress, Midnight Girl, Blood and Sand 1905 Norway dissolves union with Sweden, in effect since 1814 1903 August Cool, Belgian union leader/minister of state 1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms 1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands 1900 Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt 1898 Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies 1898 Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter 1898 Randolph Scott, actor, Last of the Mohicans, Western Union 1897 Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston 1896 AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City 1895 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms 1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union 1894 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike 1894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co 1893 Adriaan F. Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder, Union National Arubano 1893 John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday 1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms 1891 Canadian Rugby Union forms 1891 Julius Raab, Austrian union chancellor, 1953-61 1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston) 1891 Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas 1891 William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies 1891 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71 1891 David Dixon Porter, U.S. rear Admiral (Union), dies at 77 1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury 1890 Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City 1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF 1889 North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states 1889 William Lawther, union leader 1889 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, Railroad Porter's Union 1889 Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union 1889 Dakotas, Montana and Washington admitted to union 1887 Sidney Hillman, union leader, Sidney Hillman Foundation 1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati 1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms 1886 Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57 1885 George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58 1885 John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, 1st baseball union 1885 Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union 1885 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader 1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms 1884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union 1883 Arthur James Cook, England, union leader, coal miners 1883 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions 1883 Quebec Rugby Football Union forms 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms 1882 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam 1881 Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms 1881 Ambrose Everett Burnside, U.S. Union general, dies at 57 1881 Emory Upton, U.S. Union General-Major (Selma), commits suicide at 42 1881 Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl 1880 John L. Lewis, union leader, United Mine Workers, 1920-60 1879 Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer, IWW, songwriter, Union Scab, martyr 1879 Africaner Union forms by Reverend SJ du Toit at Cape colony 1875 Universal Postal Union established 1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland 1874 World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland 1873 Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism 1871 Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum 1871 British Rugby Union forms 1870 Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union 1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union 1870 After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union 1869 James E Sullivan, founder, Amateur Athletic Union 1869 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention 1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves 1868 Henri Polak, union leader/politician, soc-dem 1866 Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-major, dies at 49 1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union 1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms 1865 William H Revere, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1865 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, U.S. attorney/Union Brigadier-General, dies at 35 1865 George Wright, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 61 1865 Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas 1865 Cleaveland J Campbell, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 29 1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia 1865 Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up 1865 Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/general major, dies of injuries 1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32 1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg 1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina 1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft. Anderson, North Carolina 1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC 1865 Ft. Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union troops 1865 Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC 1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death 1864 Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War 1864 Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta 1864 Union troops ambush and kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI 1864 Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers 1864 David Bell Birney, U.S. lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39 1864 Alexander Gardiner, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South 1864 David Allen Russell, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 43 1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta 1864 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama 1864 Daniel Chaplin, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1864 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, U.S. engineer/Union general-major, dies 1864 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama 1864 James Birdseye Mcpherson, U.S. Union General-major, dies in battle at 35 1864 Daniel McCook, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 29 1864 Samuel Allen Rice, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 36 1864 Friend Smith Rutherford, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43? 1864 George Lincoln Prescott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries 1864 Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia 1864 U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg 1864 James P McMahon, U.S. Union colonel (164th New York), dies in battle 1864 Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle 1864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat 1864 William N. Green, Jr., Union Brigadier-General, dies 1864 U.S. Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general 1864 James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 34 1864 Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27 1864 "Uncle" John Sedgwick, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 50 1864 Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident 1864 James Samuel Wadsworth, general-major (Union), dies in battle at 56 1864 Henry Livermore Abbott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke 1864 Joseph Gilbert Totten, U.S. Union general-major, dies at 76 1864 General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas 1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas 1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana 1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies 1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1864 Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21 1864 Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic" 1864 Stephen Gardner Champlin, Brigadier-General (Union), dies at about 36 1863 Michael Corcoran, Union Brigadier-General, dies at 36 1863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee 1863 Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies at 51 1863 Grant is given command of Union forces in West 1863 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides 1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga 1863 Battle of Chickamauga Georgia (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat 1863 Thomas Welsh, U.S. Union Brigadier-General (Antietam), dies at 39 1863 George Crockett Strong, U.S. Union general-major, dies of injuries at 29 1863 Edward Needle Kirk, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 35 1863 Union troops enter Port Hudson 1863 Strong Vincent, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces 1863 Paul Joseph Revere, U.S. grandson of Paul Revere/Union Brigadier-General, dies 1863 Alonzo Hersford Cushing, U.S. Union lt, dies in battle at about 22 1863 Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 40 1863 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28 1863 John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42 1863 George A. Custer (23) appointed Union Brigadier-General 1863 Andrew Hull Foote, U.S. Union lt admiral, dies 1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia 1863 Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30 1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves 1863 Edmund Kirby, Jr., Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 23 1863 Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31 1863 Amiel Weeks Whipple, U.S. Union General-major, dies of injuries at 46 1863 End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 1863 Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia 1863 Congress authorizes track width of 4'8" for Union Pacific Railroad 1863 Union General Burnside's "Mud March" 1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas 1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark 1862 President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union 1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC 1862 Joshua Woodrow Sill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31 1862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC 1862 Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis 1862 George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27 1862 Conrad Feger Jackson, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 49 1862 Sylvester Churchill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies 1862 Charles Davis Jameson, U.S. Union Brigadier General (Fair Oaks), dies at 35 1862 James Streshley Jackson, attorney and Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1862 William Rufus Terrill, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28 1862 Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1862 Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union Brigadier-General, dies of injury at about 40 1862 William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38 1862 R E V Miles, U.S. Union Colonel, killed at Harpers Ferry 1862 Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39 1862 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 44 1862 Philip "Phil" Kearny, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 48 1862 George William Taylor, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union 1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee 1862 Henry Bohlen, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies in battle at 51 1862 Joseph Bennett Plummer, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 42 or 46 1862 Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack 1862 Thomas Williams, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1862 Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces 1862 Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular) 1862 William H Keim, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 1862 Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens 1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans 1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War 1862 Charles Ferguson Smith, U.S. Union General-Major, dies of infection at 55 1862 Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia 1862 Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee 1862 "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads 1862 John Baillie McIntosh, U.S. general-major (Union Army), dies at 32 1862 Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina Florida 1862 Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces 1862 Frederick West Lander, U.S. Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40 1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order 1862 Felix Zollicoffer, General killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines 1861 General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies 1861 Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi 1861 Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union 1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 1861 President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy 1861 Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43 1861 Lexington Kentucky - Union military camp forms in neutral state 1861 Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army 1861 Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery 1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops 1861 Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53 1861 Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state 1861 Battle of Hoke's Run, West Virginia - small Union victory 1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union 1861 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers 1861 John Garland, U.S. Union colonel/Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army 1861 Union blockades New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile Alabama 1861 Union troops march on state militia in St. Louis, Missouri 1861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist and Union supporters in Knoxville TN 1861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union 1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army 1861 Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies 1861 Formal Union surrender of Ft. Sumter 1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army 1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union 1861 St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies 1860 Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement 1860 Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer 1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, born in England, found, Women's Social and Political Union 1852 Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College 1851 John Lincoln Clem, Drummer Union volunteers 1847 Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader 1845 Gustave Ador, union president of Austria, 1919 1844 Galusha Pennypacker, Major General Union Army 1843 Robert Todd Lincoln, Captain Union volunteers 1842 William Barker Cushing, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy 1842 Ulric Dahlgren, Col Union volunteers 1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Major General Union volunteers 1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada 1840 William Francis Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers 1840 Edmund Kirby, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1840 Sanuel Dana Greene, Lieutenant Commander Union Navy 1839 George Armstrong Custer, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1839 Emory Upton, Major General Union Army 1839 Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General Union volunteers 1839 William Henry Seward, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1839 Cyrus Hamblin, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Francis Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Seldon Connor, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1838 John Grant Mitchell, Major General Union volunteers 1838 John Milton Hay, politician, Union 1838 Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1838 Charles Carroll Walcott, Major General Union volunteers 1837 William Wells, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Eli Long, Major General Union Army 1837 James Sanks Brisbin, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Horace Porter, Brigadier General Union Army 1837 Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col Union Army 1837 Francis Jay Herron, Major General Union volunteers 1836 John Thomas Croxton, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Henry Eugene Davies, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Benjamin Franklin Potts, Major General Union volunteers 1836 James Meech Warner, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1836 [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Major General Union volunteers 1835 George Dashiell Bayard, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Elliott Warren Rice, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Godfrey Weitzel, Union volunteers Major general 1835 Adelbert Ames, Major General Union Army 1835 Joseph Hayes, Major General Union volunteers 1835 James William Forsyth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Charles Ewing, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army 1835 Oliver Edwards, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Wager Swayne, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Daniel McCook, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Wesley Merritt, Major General Union volunteers 1834 William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Robert Sanford Foster, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader 1833 Cyrus Bussey, Major General Union volunteers 1833 James Deering Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Henry Alanson Barnum, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Charles Jackson Paine, Major General Union volunteers 1833 William Price Sanders, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Powell Clayton, Brigadier General Union volunteers, Gov-R-Ark 1833 John Wesley Turner, Major General Union Army 1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Major General Union Army 1833 Edward Moody McCook, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Frank Wheaton, Major General Union Army 1833 David McMurtrie Gregg, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Thomas Howard Ruger, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Norman Willis, union leader, Britain's Trades Union Congress 1832 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Edward Hatch, Major General Union volunteers 1832 John Henry Ketcham, Major General Union volunteers 1832 George Henry Chapman, Major General Union volunteers 1832 William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army 1832 George Crockett Strong, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Theodore Shelton Bowers, Brigadier General Union Army 1832 Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Major General Union Army 1832 Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Thomas Ogden Osbord, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Edward Harland, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 James Hewett Ledlie, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Walter Quintin Gresham, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Major General Union volunteers 1832 William Henry Penrose, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General, Union volunteers 1831 Adam Badeau, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army 1831 Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 John Franklin Miller, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Daniel Butterfield, Major General Union volunteers 1831 John McAlister Schofield, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Stephen Gano Burbridge, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 William Dwight, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 William Thomas Clark, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Philip Henry Sheridan, born in Albany, New York, Major General, Union Army 1831 John Aaron Rawlins, Major General Union Army 1831 Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Edward Ferrero, Major General Union volunteers 1830 John Frederick Hartranft, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Oliver Otis Howard, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 John Parker Hawkins, Major General Union Army 1830 William Babcock Hazen, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General Union volunteers 1830 William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Richard Henry Jackson, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Edward Winslow Hinks, Major General Union volunteers 1830 George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General Union volunteers 1830 John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Davis Tillson, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Eugene Asa Carr, Major General Union Army 1830 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major General Union volunteers 1830 , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Major General Union volunteers 1829 James Clay Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Green Berry Raum, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 William Passmore Carlin, Major General Union Army 1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford, Major General Union Army 1829 Roscoe Conkling, MC, Union 1829 Christopher Columbus Andres, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Giles Alexander Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1829 James St. Clair Morton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 William Worth Belknap, Major General Union volunteers 1829 George Crook, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers 1829 Milo Smith Hascall, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Robert Brown Potter, Major General Union volunteers 1829 John Baillie McIntosh, Major General Union Army 1829 George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Carl Schurz, Major General Union volunteers and journalist 1829 William Anderson Pile, Major General Union volunteers 1829 John Potts Slough, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 John Beatty, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Clinton Bowen Fisk, Major General Union volunteers 1828 James Birdseye MacPherson, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Major General Union volunteers 1828 George Leonard Andrews, Major General Union volunteers 1828 William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General Union Army 1828 Joseph Bradford Carr, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Edward Saloman, Gov, Union 1828 Cuvier Grover, Major General Union Army 1828 John Rutter Brooke, Major General Union volunteers 1828 James William Reilly, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Adin Ballou Underwood, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Jefferson Columbus Davis, Major General Union Army 1828 Robert Alexander Cameron, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Lewis Addison Grant, Major General Union volunteers 1828 August Valentine Kautz, Major General Union Army 1827 Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General, Union 1827 Isaac Wistar, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Alfred Howe Terry, Major General Union volunteers 1827 James Sidney Robinson, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Kenner Garrard, Major General Union Army 1827 Henry Warner Slocum, Major General Union volunteers 1827 John Grubb Parke, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Michael Corcoran, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 John Morrison Oliver, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General Union volunteers 1827 James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Charles Edward Hovey, Major General Union volunteers 1827 William Hopkins Morris, Major General Union volunteers 1827 John Gibbon, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Lewis Wallace, Major General Union volunteers and author, Ben Hur 1827 Alexander Shaler, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Richard W. Johnson, Major General Union Army 1827 Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 James Barnet Fry, Major General Union Army 1827 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Charles Robert Woods, Major General Union Army 1826 James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General 1826 John Benjamin Sanborn, Major General Union volunteers 1826 George Brinton McClellan, Major General Union Army 1826 George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 John McArthur, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Hugh Boyle Ewing, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Thomas John Lucas, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 William Denison Whipple, Major General Union Army 1826 James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Robert Kingston Scott, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Green Clay Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Thomas Hewson Neill, Major General Union volunteers 1826 John Alexander Logan, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Halbert Eleazer Paine, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Charles Cruft, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Romeyn Beck Ayres, Major General Union Army 1825 Charles Griffin, Major General Union volunteers 1825 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York)) 1825 Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Henry Warner Birge, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 John Cook, Major General Union volunteers 1825 David Bell Birney, Major General Union volunteers 1825 George Lafayette Beal, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Joseph Bailey, Major General Union volunteers 1825 James Winning McMillan, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Augustus Louis Chetlain, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Manning Ferguson Force, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen, Union 1824 Franz Sigel, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Rufus Saxton, Major General Union volunteers 1824 William Nelson, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Truman Seymour, Major General Union Army 1824 Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Isaac Hardin Duval, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General Union volunteers 1824 John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Absalom Baird, Major General Union Army 1824 Simon Goodell Griffin, Major General Union volunteers 1824 William Burnham Woods, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Richard James Oglesby, Union Union volunteers 1824 Alexander Schimmelfennig, born in Prussia, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Alfred Pleasonton, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Charles Kinnaird Graham, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Innis Newton Palmer, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union 1823 Joseph Alexander Cooper, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Nathan Kimball, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Galusha Aaron Grow, MC, Union 1823 John Newton, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Orris Sanford Ferry, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 George Henry Gordon, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Leonard Fulton Ross, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 James Isham Gilbert, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Edward Elmer Potter, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Jesse Lee Reno, Major General Union volunteers 1823 John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 John Gray Foster, Major General Union volunteers 1823 John Sherman, MC, Union 1823 James Allen Hardie, Major General Union Army 1823 Alfred Gibbs, Major General Union Army 1823 Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Major General Union Army 1823 Robert Byington Mitchell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Ferdinand Van Derveer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 William Buel Franklin, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Thomas Casimer Devin, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Charles Adam Heckman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers 1822 William Harrow, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Gordon Granger, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 George Sykes, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brigadier General, Union 1822 Joseph Rodman West, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Fitz John Porter, Major General Union volunteers 1822 George Stoneman, U.S. Union general-major, Gov-Calif, 1883-87 1822 Schuyler Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Darius Nash Couch, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Samuel Davis Sturgis, Major General Union Army 1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Gershom Mott, Major General Union volunteers 1822 James Nagle, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Seth Williams, Major General Union Army 1822 John Pope, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 John Basil Turchin, Ivan Turchinoff, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Thomas Leiper Kane, Major General Union volunteers 1822 John Porter Hatch, volunteers Major General, Union 1822 Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Alvin Peterson Hovey, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Henry Baxter, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General Union volunteers 1821 William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary, Union 1821 Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 John Dunlap Stevenson, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Alfred Sully, Major General Union volunteers 1821 [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 [George] Hector Tyndale, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 John James Peck, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Gustavus Adolphus Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 David Allen Russell, Army Major General, Union 1820 George Jerrison Stannard, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1820 George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 John Fulton Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC, Union 1820 John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Louis Powell Harvey, Governor, Union 1820 Andrew Porter, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Charles Devens, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers 1820 Patrick Edward Connor, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General, Union volunteers 1820 Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General Union Army 1820 John Milton Thayer, Major General Union volunteers 1820 John Haskell King, Major General Union Army 1819 John White Geary, Major General Union volunteers 1819 James Clifford Veatch, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state 1819 Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General Union volunteers 1819 George Washington Getty, Major General Union Army 1819 Henry Jackson Hunt, Major General Union Army 1819 William Starke Rosecrans, Major General Union volunteers 1819 James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union 1819 Samuel Powhatan Carter, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Alexander Hays, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor, Union 1819 William Birney, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Daniel Ammen, Captain Union Navy 1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General Union volunteers 1819 David Henry Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Frederick Steele, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Zealous Bates Tower, Major General Union Army 1819 George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Irvin McDowell, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Rufus Ingalls, Major General Union Army 1818 William Farquhar Barry, Major General Union Army 1818 Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 John Albion Andrew, Gov, Union 1818 Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Don Carlos Buell, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Albion Parris Howe, Major General Union Army 1818 Austin Blair, Gov/MC, Union 1818 William Maxwell Evarts, Union 1818 George Sewall Boutwell, MC, Union 1818 John Reese Kenly, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General Union volunteers 1817 John McAuley Palmer, U.S. Union msj-gen, Gov-Ill, 1868 - 1872 1817 Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Henry Winter Davis, MC, Union 1817 James Blair Steedman, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Joseph K Barnes, Major General Union Army 1817 Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, U.S., army nurse, union 1817 James Brewerton Ricketts, Major General Union Army 1817 James William Denver, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 George Washington Julian, MC, Union 1817 John Wilson Sprague, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Herman Haupt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 James Craig, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Lewis Golding Arnold, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Egbert Benson Brown, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC, Union 1816 Julius White, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 John Eugene Smith, Major General Union Army 1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army 1816 Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, General Union volunteers 1816 Robert Huston Milroy, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Major General, Union 1816 Robert Seaman Granger, Union Army Major general 1816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General Union Army 1816 James Gallant Spears, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 David Stuart, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Fitz-Henry Warren, Major General Union volunteers 1816 John Palmer Usher, Secretary Int, Union 1816 Stephen Miller, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 George Gordon Meade, Major General Union Army 1815 Israel Bush Richardson, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Major General Union volunteers 1815 William Dennison, postmaster/general, Union 1815 Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Alexander Ramsey, Gov, Union 1815 Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treasury, Union 1815 Thomas Jackson Rodman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Stewart Van Vliet, Major General Union Army 1815 Philip Kearny, Major General Union volunteers 1815 John Gross Barnard, Major General Union Army 1815 Abram Duryee, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Richard Yates Gov, MC, Union 1815 Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck, Major-General Union Army 1815 Henry Morris Naglee, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 William Henry French, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Alexander Brydie Dyer, Major General Union Army 1815 Thomas Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 George Webb Morell, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Lawrence Pike Graham, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 James Henry Carleton, Major General Union Army 1814 Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Michael Kelly Lawler, Major General Union volunteers, dies in 1882 1814 Joseph Hooker, Major General Union volunteers 1814 Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Rufus King, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor, Union 1813 John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Lyman Trumbull, MC, Union 1813 John Sedgwick, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 William Scott Ketchum, Major General Union Army 1813 William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1813 Israel Washburn, Governor, Union 1813 Mason Brayman, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Henry Washington Benham, Major General Union Army 1813 Thomas West Sherman, Major General Union Army 1813 Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 John McNeil, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Jacon Gartner Lauman, Major General Union volunteers 1812 William Grose, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Elias Smith Dennis, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Percival Drayton, Captain Union Navy 1812 John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy 1812 Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 John Alexander McClernand, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Daniel Henry Rucker, Major General Union Army 1812 Randolph Barnes Marcy, Major General Union Army 1812 Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 James Speed, Attorney General Union 1812 Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy 1812 Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Alexander Sandor Asboth, Major General Union volunteers 1811 John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy 1811 Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 William Hamsley Emory, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Joseph Dana Webster, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Gilman Marston, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy 1811 Henry Prince, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Robert Allen, Major General Union Army 1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Robert Christie Buchanan, Major General Union Army 1811 Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General Union volunteers 1810 August Willich, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Benjamin Stone Roberts, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General Union volunteers 1810 James Shedden Palmer, Commander Union Navy 1810 Alpheus Starkey Williams, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Thomas Jefferson McKean, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Horatio Seymour, Gov, Union 1810 Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Solomon Meredith, Major General Union volunteers 1810 James Shields, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 James Cooper, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Daniel Ullmann, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Christopher "Kit" Carson, Kentucky, Union Brigadier-General/indian fighter 1809 Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1809 Thomas Alfred Davies, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Major General Union volunteers 1809 John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon 1809 Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General Union volunteers 1809 William Radford, Commander Union Navy 1809 Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General Union volunteers 1809 Sylvanus William Godon, Commander Union Navy 1809 George Philip St. Cooke, Major General Union Army 1809 William David Porter, Commander Union Navy 1809 George Washington Cullom, Major General Union Army 1809 Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy 1808 Thomas Turner, Commander Union Navy 1808 Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander Union Navy 1808 Henry Haywood Bell, Commander Union Navy 1808 Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 William Thomas Ward, Major General Union volunteers 1808 Charles Henry Poor, Commander Union Navy 1808 Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary Int, Union 1808 Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 James Bowen, Major General Union volunteers 1808 Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 James Samuel Wadsworth, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Charles Francis Adams, Union 1807 Silas Casey, Major General Union volunteers 1807 James Findlay Schenck, Commander Union Navy 1807 Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Lysander Cutler, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1807 Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University 1807 Joseph Holt, Major General Union Army 1806 William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary Treasury, Union 1806 Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1806 Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1806 John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War, Union 1806 Henry Knox Thatcher, Commander Union Navy 1806 George C Cadwalader, Major General Union volunteers 1806 Amos Beebe Eaton, Major General Union Army 1805 Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General Union volunteers 1805 Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1805 Robert Anderson, Major General Union Army 1805 William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1805 Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1804 Lorenzo Thomas, Major General Union Army 1804 John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy 1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Commander Union Navy 1804 Neal Dow, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1803 Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Major General Union volunteers 1803 George Wright, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1803 Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1803 Levin Minnesota Powell, Commander Union Navy 1802 Melancthon Smith Wade, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1802 James Lawrence Lardner, Commander Union Navy 1802 Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander Union Navy 1802 David Hunter, Major General Union volunteers 1802 Gideon Welles, Secretary Navy, Union 1802 George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1802 George Douglas Ramsey, Major general Union Army 1801 James Barnes, Major General Union volunteers 1801 John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy 1801 David Glasgow Farragut, Tennessee, Vice Admiral Union Navy 1801 George Sears Greene, Major General Union volunteers 1801 Henry Eagle, Commander Union Navy 1800 Benjamin Franklin Wade, MC, Union 1800 William Wister McKean, Commander Union Navy 1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Commander Union Navy 1799 Simon Cameron, Secretary War Union 1799 Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1798 Thomas Holliday Hicks, Union Gov 1798 Richard Delafield, Major General Union Army 1798 Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Commander Union Navy 1798 Charles H Bell, Commander Union Navy 1798 Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General Union volunteers 1798 Charles D. Wilkes, Commander Union Navy 1798 Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1797 Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1797 Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1797 Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General Union volunteers 1796 Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Commander Union Navy 1796 Reverdy Johnson, rep, Union 1796 Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General Union Army 1795 John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy 1795 Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy 1794 James Wolfe Ripley, Major General Union Army 1794 John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy 1793 Edward Bates, Attorney General, Union 1792 Robert Patterson, Major General Union volunteers 1791 Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist, Cooper Union 1790 Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1790 George Washington delivers 1st state of union address 1790 President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address 1789 Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1788 Joseph Gilbert Totten, Major General Union Army 1787 John Jordan Crittenden, MC, Union 1786 Winfield Scott, army general, Union, presidential candidate 1778 Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral Union Navy 1777 Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag 1776 General George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag 1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain 1701 Great Britain and Ireland union is in effect, creating United Kingdom 1678 John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/Field Marshal, Union of 1707 1633 Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn 1606 England adopts Union Jack as its flag 1591 German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau 1580 Drenthe joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Breda forms Union of Utrecht 1579 Antwerp request union with of Utrecht 1579 Venlo joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Friesland joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht 1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic 1579 Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras 1569 Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland 1538 Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union 1531 Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union 1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union 1525 Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau 1525 Battle at Boblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers 1397 Denmark, Norway and Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha 1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway |
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