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2012 Event - Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Chairman of Libya's legislative authority, the General National Congress, says al-Qaeda elements who fought with rebels in Libya's civil war number "up to 200" in Libya

2012 Event - Serbia says it is protecting a witness of organ harvesting on Serbian prisoners of the war in Kosovo

2012 Event - The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran, Iran, closes with a 60-page final document focusing on Iran's nuclear energy program and the Palestinian issue, with no mention of the civil war in Syria

2012 Event - The writer of 'Carrie's War,' Nina Bawden, who was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010, dies in London at age 87

2012 Event - Mexico's drug war continues in Monterey, when alleged members of the Gulf Cartel storm a bar in Monterey, killing 10 people

2012 Event - For the first time since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the United States plans to help clean up herbicide Agent Orange from areas in Vietnam

2012 Event - After two decades of being closed due to civil war, the Somali National Theater reopens in Mogadishu

2012 Event - Florence Green, the last known veteran from World War I, dies in the United Kingdom at the age of 110

2011 Event - The last convoy of U.S. Army soldiers leaves Iraq, formally marking the end of the Iraq War

2011 Event - Japan's Government apologizes to Canada for the treatment of its POWs during World War II

2011 Event - In Koblenz, Germany, 45,000 citizens wait to return home after bomb squads diffuse World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for nearly 65 years

2011 Event - A World War II-era bomb is discovered in the German city of Halle; 12,000 people are evacuated

2011 Event - The U.S. is granted permission by North Korea to search for remains of American soliders killed during the Korean War

2011 Event - Japan asks South Korea to refute a plan to build a Korean World War II 'comfort women' monument near Seoul's Japanese embassy

2011 Event - Prince Harry of Wales is cleared to return to service in the Afghan War

2011 Event - Burial services for Claude Choules, aged 110, the last living veteran of World War I, take place in West Australia's port of Fremantle

2011 Event - Queen Elizabeth II visits Ireland's Croke Park in Dublin, where the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1920 occurred during the Irish War of Independence

2011 Event - Thousands march in Mexico City to protest the 38,000 people who have died since the Mexican Drug War began in 2006

2011 Event - A German naval mine from World War II is discovered and dismantled by BP; removing the bomb avoided potential closure of 16 oil fields

2011 Event - After airstrikes destroy 30 - 40 per cent of Libya's ground forces, U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen states the war is moving toward a stalemate

2011 Event - Speaking in Cardiff, Wales, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the U.K., declares war on 'enemies of enterprise'

2011 Event - The last surviving veteran of World War I, Frank Buckles, dies in Charles Town, West Virginia at the age of 110

2010 Event - The Medal of Honor is awarded for the first time since the Vietnam War; U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta received the medal for his actions during the War in Afghanistan

2010 Event - Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp

2010 Event - Director of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, announces plans to release remaining Afghan War Diary documents from War in Afghanistan

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 - General Stanley McChrystal, leader of the U.S. war Afghanistan announces his retirement after making controversial statements in 'Rolling Stone' magazine

2010 Event - Residents of Mogadishu are instructed to leave the war zone after more than 50 are killed in three days of violence

2010 Event - Ejup Ganic, former President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is stopped while trying to escape war crime charges, at London Heathrow airport

2010 Death - Florence Green, the last known female First World War veteran who served with the Women's RAF in 1918, dies at 108

2009 Event - President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, urges his armed forces to prepare for a possible war with Columbia

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 - An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur

2009 Event - Former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crimes during the Kosovo War

2009 Event - Israel declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza War, effective January 18, as Hamas declares a ceasefire of its own

2008 Event - Radovan Karadzic arrested on war crimes after a 12 year manhunt

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

2000 Death - Leo Gordon, actor/writer, War and Remembrance, dies at 78

2000 Death - Robert Cormier, writer, The Chocolate War, dies at 75

1998 Death - Martha Gellhorn, war reporter (Reuthers), dies at 89

1998 Death - Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondents, dies at 89

1997 Death - Robert Mitchum, actor, Winds of War, dies at 79

1996 Event - 2 U.S. Marine helicopters collided during joint U.S. and British war games

1996 Event - Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war

1996 Death - Arleigh Burke, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War, dies at 94

1995 Death - Colin Gray, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, dies at 80

1994 Death - Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87

1994 Death - John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73

1994 Event - Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war

1994 Death - John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71

1994 Death - Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56

1994 Death - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72

1994 Event - Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia

1994 Event - El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war

1994 Death - Harold Schneider, U.S. producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55

1993 Death - Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79

1993 Event - Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war

1993 Death - Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90

1992 Death - John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51

1992 Death - John Hancock, actor (Ike-Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51

1992 Event - England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war

1992 Death - George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies

1991 Event - Victory parade held in Washington D.C., Persian Gulf War

1991 Event - Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war

1991 Event - Angola's civil war ends

1991 Event - U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution

1991 Event - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"

1991 Event - 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated

1991 Event - U.S. and allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops

1991 Event - Bush and U.S. Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal

1991 Event - U.S.S.R. announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War U.S. calls the plan unacceptable

1991 Event - U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq

1990 Event - Bush proposes U.S. - Iraq meeting to avoid war

1990 Event - Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"

1990 Event - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (for U.S. - Iraq war)

1990 Death - Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83

1990 Event - PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War

1990 Event - Truce in Nicaragua's civil war

1990 Death - Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85

1989 Event - French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice

1989 Death - Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73

1989 Event - German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland

1989 Event - German war criminals Fischer and Aus der Funten freed

1988 Event - Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war

1988 Event - Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war

1988 Event - Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)

1988 Event - Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war

1988 Death - Samuel L Mendel, oldest U.S. war veteran, dies at 104

1988 Event - Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war

1988 Event - New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs

1988 Death - Neil Ronald Jones, science fiction writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78

1987 Death - Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, dies at 88

1987 Event - Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot

1987 Event - U.S. deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to U.S.S.R.

1986 Death - Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62

1986 Event - Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary

1986 Event - Netherlands and Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)

1985 Event - International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize

1985 Event - War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"

1985 Event - Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter

1983 Event - Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured

1983 Event - Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli

1983 Event - 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war

1983 Event - 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act

1983 Death - [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65

1983 Event - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia

1982 Event - Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C.

1982 Death - King Vidor, director (War and Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment

1982 Event - President Reagan proclaims war against drugs

1982 Event - Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"

1982 Event - Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war

1982 Event - British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war

1982 Event - Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

1982 Event - Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war

1981 Event - Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)

1981 Event - Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial

1981 Death - FC Terborgh, Reijnier Flaes, lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at 79

1980 Event - Honduras and El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)

1980 Event - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran

1980 Event - Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins

1980 Event - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years

1980 Event - "Billy Bishop Goes to War" closes at Morosco New York City after 12 performances

1980 Event - "Billy Bishop Goes to War" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 12 performances

1979 Event - Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds

1979 Death - Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal (4 of Breda), dies at 71

1979 Death - Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90

1979 Event - War between North and South Yemen begins

1978 Event - Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed

1978 Event - War criminal Pieter Menten freed

1978 Event - CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past

1978 Death - Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78

1978 Event - High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten

1977 Event - War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years

1977 Event - President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)

1977 Event - President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

1976 Death - Victor Stanitsin, actor (War and Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79

1976 Event - War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich

1976 Event - War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing

1976 Event - Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals

1975 Death - Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77

1975 Event - Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war

1974 Death - Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54

1974 Event - President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters

1974 Event - WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested

1974 Event - Arganat Commission publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War

1974 Event - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended

1974 Event - "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina

1973 Event - Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war

1973 Event - Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus

1973 Event - Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War

1973 Event - Jordan enters Yom Kippur war

1973 Event - Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel

1973 Death - Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79

1973 Event - Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War

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

1973 Event - President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

1971 Event - John and Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US

1971 Event - John and Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in New York City

1971 Event - About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington

1971 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes

1970 Death - Stefan Andres, post-World War II writer, novelist, 'Wir sind Utopia', dies at 64

1970 Event - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War

1970 Event - Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria

1969 Event - "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John and Yoko" posters begin appearing

1969 Event - John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War

1969 Event - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War

1969 Event - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war

1969 Event - "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins

1969 Event - Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)

1969 Event - Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal

1969 Event - U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970

1968 Event - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die

1968 Event - 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West-Berlin

1967 Event - Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war

1967 Birthday - Michiyoshi Ohara, wrestler, WAR/NJPW

1967 Event - Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon

1967 Event - Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade

1967 Death - John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50

1967 Event - Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with United Nations help

1967 Event - 6 day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begin

1967 Event - 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1967 Event - U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War

1967 Event - In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time

1967 Event - U.S. troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War

1966 Death - Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68

1966 Death - Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89

1966 Event - U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1966 Event - In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time

1966 Event - 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York City

1966 Event - Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia

1966 Birthday - Stephen Mailer, born in New York City, actor, Red Meat, League of Their Own, War and Love

1966 Death - June Walker, actress (War Nurses), dies at 65

1966 Event - Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War

1965 Event - 15,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington D.C.

1965 Death - Bernard M Baruch, President advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94

1965 Event - West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution

1965 Event - "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 125 performances

1964 Event - "Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 125 performances

1964 Birthday - Sandra Bullock, born in Washington D.C., actress, Speed, Net, Love and War

1964 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty

1964 Event - President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"

1963 Event - British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler

1963 Event - British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler

1962 Birthday - Gilby Clarke, U.S. pop guitarist, Guns n' Roses-Civil War

1962 Death - Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56

1962 Event - Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres

1962 Event - Algerian War ends after 7 years (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees

1962 Event - France and Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war

1961 Event - Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel

1961 Event - SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel

1961 Event - Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II war crimes trial

1961 Event - Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel

1960 Event - Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties

1959 Death - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117

1959 Death - Dale Buisand and Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War

1959 Death - John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111

1959 Birthday - Tonga, Uliuli Fifita, wrestler, WCW/WAR/WWF, Ming, Haku, Islanders

1958 Birthday - Shiro Koshinaka, wrestler, WAR/NJPW

1958 Event - Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington

1957 Event - Indonesia proclaims end to state of war

1956 Event - France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria

1956 Birthday - Tatsutoshi Goto, wrestler, WAR/NJPW

1956 Event - German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed

1956 Event - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking

1956 Birthday - Kuniaki Kobayashi, wrestler, WAR/NJPW

1955 Event - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war

1955 Event - Russia ends state of war with Germany

1955 Event - U.S.S.R. ends state of war with German Federal Republic

1954 Event - Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War

1953 Birthday - Arthur Kent, newscaster [Scud Stud], NBC-Gulf War coverage

1953 Event - Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom

1953 Birthday - Ken Burns, epic documentary maker, Civil War, Baseball

1953 Birthday - John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War

1953 Death - Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish General/Minister of War, dies at 79

1952 Event - President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war

1952 Event - Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death

1952 Birthday - Chick Vennera, born in Herkimer, New York, actor, High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War

1951 Event - Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom

1951 Event - President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany

1951 Birthday - Orson Scott Card, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War

1951 Event - Netherlands ends state of war with Germany

1951 Event - President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany

1951 Death - Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair and Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged

1951 Event - During Korean War, U.S. / U.N. forces recapture Seoul

1951 Event - Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed

1950 Event - U.N. troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas

1950 Event - Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar

1950 Event - 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War

1950 Event - In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place

1950 Death - Henry Lewsis Stimson, U.S. minister of War/Governor-General, dies

1950 Birthday - Victoria Tennant, born in London, England, All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War

1950 Event - U.N. troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul

1950 Event - Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death

1950 Death - Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st U.S. fatality in Korean War

1950 Event - 1st time U.S. and North Korean forces clash in Korean War

1950 Death - Yvan Goll, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe', dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

1950 Birthday - Anthony Lloyd, born in England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, gay rights supporter, voted against the Iraq War and against renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System

1950 Event - U.S.S.R. demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes

1949 Event - Greeks civil war ends

1949 Birthday - Morris "B B" Dickerson, born in Torrence, California, bassist, War, Low Rider, Outlaw

1949 Event - Israel's 19 month war of independence ends

1949 Death - Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies

1949 Event - Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio

1948 Event - Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship

1948 Death - Hideki Tojo, Japan Prime Minister 1941 - 1944 and 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64

1948 Death - Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged

1948 Birthday - Lonnie Jordan, born in San Diego, California, rock keyboardist/vocalist, War

1948 Event - Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

1948 Event - Bernard M. Baruch introduces term "Cold War"

1948 Event - Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life

1948 Birthday - Great Kabuki, Akihisa Yone Yoshi Mera, wrestler, NWA/NJPW/WAR/SWS

1948 Event - Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens

1948 Event - 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army

1947 Death - Man O' War, racehorse, dies

1947 Event - U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense

1946 Event - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi

1946 Event - 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg

1946 Event - 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials

1946 Death - Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Death - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Death - Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Death - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Death - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Event - 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg

1946 Event - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg

1946 Birthday - Robert L Asprin, U.S., sci-fi writer, Thieves World, Cold Cash War

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

1946 Event - 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals

1946 Death - John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62

1946 Birthday - Howard Scott, born in San Pedro, California, rock guitarist and vocalist, War, Cisco Kid

1945 Event - Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg

1945 Event - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung

1945 Event - Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged

1945 Event - U.S.S.R. declares war against Japan in WW II

1945 Birthday - David Dukes, actor, Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War

1945 Event - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured

1945 Event - Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa

1945 Event - Finland declares war on nazi-Germany

1945 Event - Egypt and Syria declares war on nazi-Germany

1945 Event - Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties

1945 Event - Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany

1945 Death - Eddie Slovik, 1st U.S. executed for desertion since Civil War at 25

1944 Birthday - Johan van Doorn, Johnny the Selfkicker, Dutch poet, War and Porridge

1944 Event - Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany

1944 Event - In World War II, U.S. troops secure Saipan as Japan fell

1944 Event - Yankees, Dodgers and Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yankees-1 and Giants-0

1944 Event - Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war

1944 Event - "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (New York City only)

1944 Event - During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy

1943 Death - Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38

1943 Event - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany

1943 Event - U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry

1943 Event - Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry

1943 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

1943 Event - Hitler declares "Total War"

1943 Event - William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces

1942 Event - Allies in London sentence German war criminals

1942 Event - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began

1942 Death - Jack Singer, U.S. war reporter (Wasp), dies

1942 Event - Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy

1942 Event - Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head

1942 Event - USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania

1942 Event - Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany and Japan

1942 Event - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S.

1942 Event - Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort

1942 Event - U.S. auto factories switch from commercial to war production

1942 Birthday - Edwin Starr, U.S. singer, War

1942 Event - Allied Conference for war trials

1942 Event - Interallied war trial conference publishes St. James Declaration

1942 Event - National War Labor Board created

1942 Event - 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace

1941 Event - Dutch government in London declares war on Italy

1941 Event - Germany and Italy declare war on US

1941 Event - China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy

1941 Event - London: Dutch government declares Japan the war

1941 Event - U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan, U.S. enters WW II

1941 Event - Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war

1941 Event - Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet

1941 Event - USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war

1941 Event - Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan

1941 Event - 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)

1941 Event - Finland declares war on Soviet Union

1941 Event - Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II

1941 Birthday - Ben Murphy, born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, actor, Name of the Game, Winds of War

1941 Event - War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets

1940 Birthday - Phil Ochs, born in El Paso, Texas, anti-war folk singer, Joe Hill, War is Over

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

1940 Event - Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta

1940 Event - Italy declares war on France and Britain during WW II

1940 Birthday - Eric Burdon, rock singer, House of Rising Sun-Animals, War

1940 Birthday - Richard Monaco, U.S., sci-fi author, Grail War, Final Quest

1940 Event - Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable

1940 Birthday - Anne Campbell, born in England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Cambridge, portrayed by Harriet Walter in 10 Days to War, a BBC drama on events leading up to the Iraq War

1940 Event - Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain

1939 Event - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain

1939 Event - Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany

1939 Event - Canada declares war on Germany

1939 Event - In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany

1939 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe

1939 Event - South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany

1939 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Netherlands in a State of War

1939 Event - Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland

1939 Event - Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada

1939 Birthday - Charles Miller, rock flutist/saxophonist, War

1939 Event - U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain

1939 Event - Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco

1938 Event - Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico

1938 Event - Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"

1938 Event - Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"

1938 Event - Japan declares war on China

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

1937 Death - George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73

1937 Event - China declares war on Japan

1937 Event - 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6

1937 Event - 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4

1937 Event - 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 2:03.2

1937 Death - Elihu Root, U.S. Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91

1936 Event - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan

1936 Event - Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising

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

1935 Event - Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends

1935 Event - Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay

1935 Birthday - M. Emmet Walsh, Ogdensburg, New York, actor, Wildcats, War Party

1934 Birthday - Norman Schwarzkopf, born in Trenton, New Jersey, nicknamed, Stormin' Norman, The Bear, Commander, Coalition Forces in the Gulf War, 1991, retired U.S. Army General

1934 Death - Heihatjiro Tojo, Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War), dies

1934 Birthday - David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War

1934 Birthday - Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor, Winds of War

1933 Event - 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war

1933 Event - Paraguay declares war on Bolivia

1932 Event - Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die

1932 Birthday - Milly Vitale, born in Rome, actress, 7 Little Foys, War and Peace, Juggler

1931 Event - Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan)

1931 Event - Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable

1931 Birthday - Frederic Raphael, writer, After the War, California Time

1931 Birthday - James Tolkan Calumet, born in Michigan, actor, Weekend War, Leap of Faith

1930 Birthday - Barbara Ruick, born in Pasadena, California, actress, Apache War Smoke, Tu Para Mi

1930 Death - Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81

1930 Birthday - Polly Bergen, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, actress, Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk

1929 Event - President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war

1929 Event - General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government

1928 Birthday - Veijo Meri, born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia, writer, novelist, poet, focuses on absurdity of war, published biography of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

1928 Event - Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war

1928 Death - Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at 66

1928 Death - Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, Boer war, WW I, dies at 66

1927 Event - Augusto Sandino begins 5 -year war against U.S. occupation of Nicaragua

1927 Event - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war

1926 Birthday - Alison Lurie, U.S., novelist, War Between the Tates

1926 Birthday - John R[obert] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, White Regiment, Lizard War

1926 Event - Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton

1926 Birthday - Arthur Hockaday, director-Gen, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1926 Birthday - Richard DeVos, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, World War II veteran, businessman, author, billionaire, co-founder Amway - now Alticor, owner Orlando Magic, wrote 'Hope from My Heart: Ten Lessons For Life'

1926 Event - Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords

1925 Event - U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts

1925 Event - Belgian and U.S. sign treaty about war debts

1925 Event - Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France

1925 Birthday - John Keith Laumer, Anthony LeBaron, U.S., science fiction author, Retief's War

1925 Death - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76

1925 Event - Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government

1924 Event - Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai

1923 Birthday - Andrew Duggan, actor, Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War

1923 Event - Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war

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

1922 Event - IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague

1922 Birthday - Leo V Gordon, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War

1922 Birthday - Norodom Sihanouk, king/president/prem Cambodia, My War with the CIA

1922 Birthday - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot

1922 Birthday - John Weidner, war hero

1922 Birthday - John Farr, born in Nottingham, England, Sir John Arnold Farr, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Harborough 1959 - 1992, served with Royal Navy during World War II

1922 Birthday - Vittorio Gassman, born in Genoa, Italy, actor, War and Peace

1922 Birthday - Carl Amery, born in Munich, Germany, writer, used pen name Christian Anton Mayer, studied at University of Munich, participant in Gruppe 47, a post-World War II literary association

1921 Birthday - Ian Percival, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Southport, served in World War II in North Africa and Burma, earned rank of Major

1920 Death - Ma, the Benovelent, Chinese muslim rebel (holy war), dies

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 Event - Man O'War's last race and win

1920 Birthday - Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace

1920 Event - 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2

1920 Event - 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6

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

1919 Event - Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)

1919 Event - Finland declares war on bolsheviks

1919 Birthday - Richard Mason, born near Manchester, England, author, learned Japanese in World War II, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote 'The Wind Cannot Read', 'The Fever Tree', 'The World of Suzie Wong'

1919 Event - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain

1918 Event - Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000

1918 Event - Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt

1918 Birthday - Barry Morse, actor, Fugitive-Lt Philip Gerard, Winds of War

1918 Event - 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6

1917 Event - U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I

1917 Birthday - [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, U.S., sci-fi author, Earth War

1917 Event - Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey

1917 Event - China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I

1917 Birthday - Robert Mitchum, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, actor, Winds of War, North and South

1917 Birthday - Robert Cornthwaite, born in St. Helen, Oregon, actor, Thing, War of the Worlds

1917 Event - U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1917 Event - President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany

1917 Birthday - Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465

1917 Birthday - Paul Rogers, British actor, Looking Glass War, Billy Budd

1917 Event - Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war

1916 Event - David Lloyd George forms British war government

1916 Event - Greece declares war on Germany

1916 Event - 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France

1916 Event - Bulgaria declares war on Romania

1916 Event - Germany declares war on Romania

1916 Event - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I

1916 Event - Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary

1916 Event - Germany declares war against Portugal

1915 Event - Aristide Briand forms French war government

1915 Event - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria

1915 Event - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria

1915 Event - Italy declares war on Turkey

1915 Birthday - Herman Wouk, New York City, novelist, Caine Mutiny, Winds of War

1915 Event - Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

1915 Event - Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I

1915 Birthday - John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp

1915 Birthday - Orson Welles, Kenosha, Wisconsin, actor, Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds

1915 Event - Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war

1914 Birthday - Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero courtier writer

1914 Event - Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war

1914 Birthday - Colin Gray, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, fought Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Channel Front

1914 Event - Great Britain and France and Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 Event - Russia declares Turkey the war

1914 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 Event - Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey

1914 Event - German troops take Antwerp in World War I

1914 Birthday - Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War

1914 Event - U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven

1914 Event - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I

1914 Event - France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I

1914 Event - Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary

1914 Event - France declares war on Austria-Hungary

1914 Event - Montenegro declares war on Germany

1914 Event - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia

1914 Event - Serbia declares war against Germany

1914 Event - Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I

1914 Event - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany

1914 Event - Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War

1914 Event - Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I

1914 Event - Great Britain declares war on Germany

1914 Event - Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)

1914 Event - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I

1914 Event - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize

1914 Event - World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

1914 Event - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia

1914 Event - Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum

1913 Birthday - Hugo Pos, Suriname/Netherlands WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo

1913 Event - 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses

1913 Event - Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War

1913 Event - Romania declares war on Bulgaria

1913 Event - Serbia and Greece declare war on Bulgaria

1913 Event - 2nd Balkan War begins

1913 Event - 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops

1913 Event - 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London

1913 Birthday - Les Tremayne, London, actor, Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds

1913 Event - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War

1912 Event - Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war

1912 Event - Socialist International rejects that world war is coming

1912 Event - Beginning of 1st Balkan War

1912 Event - Italo-Turkish war ends

1912 Event - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declares war on Turkey

1912 Event - 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey

1912 Event - Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War

1912 Event - War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania

1911 Event - Italy declares war on Turkey

1911 Event - Italy declares war on Turkey

1911 Event - British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany

1911 Event - Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany

1911 Event - Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War

1911 Birthday - Patrick Maitland, born in England, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, journalist, World War II Special Correspondent, Member of Parliament for Lanark

1910 Death - Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War and Peace), dies at 82

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

1909 Birthday - Ferdinand H Aus der Funten, German war criminal, Breda 4

1909 Death - Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, French Minister of War (1899-1900), dies at 79

1909 Birthday - Neil R[onald] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, Space War, Twin Worlds

1908 Birthday - Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal, 4 of Breda

1908 Birthday - John Mills, England, actor, Big Sleep, King Rat, War and Peace

1907 Event - Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget

1906 Birthday - Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations

1906 Birthday - Stefan Andres, born in Germany, post-World War II writer, novelist

1905 Birthday - Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent

1905 Event - Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War

1905 Event - Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South

1904 Event - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)

1904 Death - Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War and Peace), dies

1904 Event - Japan and Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships

1904 Event - Japan declares war on Russia

1904 Event - Russo-Japanese War begins

1904 Event - Russian-Japanese war began

1903 Birthday - John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, official war painter

1903 Event - Cornerstone laid for U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C.

1902 Birthday - Henry Steele Commager, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, historian, Atlas of Civil War

1902 Birthday - F R Boschvogel, French LJ Ramon, Flemish writer, War of Worlds

1902 Event - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal

1901 Event - Army War College forms in Washington D.C.

1901 Birthday - Arleigh Burke, born in Boulder, Colorado, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War

1901 Birthday - Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier, KVP, 1959-63

1901 Death - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82

1900 Birthday - Heinrich Himmler, head of Gestapo, war criminal

1900 Birthday - June Walker, born in Illinois, actress, War Nurse, Unforgiven

1899 Event - South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England

1899 Event - South African Boers declare war on Great Britain

1899 Birthday - Bruce Catton, U.S., historian and writer, Civil War

1899 Birthday - Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal

1899 Event - Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US

1899 Event - Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate

1899 Death - Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75

1898 Event - Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam

1898 Event - U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war

1898 Event - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed

1898 Event - U.S. flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)

1898 Event - 1st U.S. Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War

1898 Event - U.S. Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War

1898 Event - U.S. declares war on Spain over Cuba

1898 Event - Spain declares war on U.S. rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba

1898 Event - 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship

1898 Event - Spanish-American War begins

1898 Event - President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration

1897 Birthday - Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer, Fascism is War!

1896 Event - Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's minister of War

1896 Birthday - Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic, Undertones of War

1896 Event - England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)

1896 Death - Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72

1895 Event - Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)

1895 Birthday - John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man

1895 Event - Cuban war for independence begins

1895 Birthday - King Vidor, director, War and Peace, Stella Dallas

1894 Birthday - Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist, War Against War!

1892 Birthday - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor, 1930s, war criminal

1891 Birthday - Yvan Goll, born in Saint-Die, France, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe'

1891 Death - William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies

1891 Death - William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71

1890 Death - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86

1889 Birthday - Buck Jones, Charles F Gebhart, U.S. actor, War Horse

1889 Birthday - Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany

1886 Event - Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war

1885 Event - Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War

1884 Event - Naval War College forms in Newport RI

1884 Death - Juan B Alberdi, Figarillo, Arg writer (Crime of War), dies at 74

1884 Death - Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72

1883 Event - Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt

1881 Event - Boers and Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war

1879 Birthday - Dwight Filley Davis, U.S. Sect of War/donated tennis' Davis Cup

1879 Event - British Zulu War begins: Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand

1879 Event - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

1878 Event - Greece declares war on Turkey

1877 Death - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56

1877 Event - Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War

1877 Death - Crazy Horse, Tashunka Witko, last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27

1877 Birthday - Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War, 1931-34

1877 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania

1876 Event - Montenegro declares war on Turkey

1876 Event - Serbia declares war on Turkey

1876 Event - U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap

1873 Birthday - Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War

1872 Event - Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War

1870 Birthday - Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser, Cold War

1870 Event - France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins

1870 Event - Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War

1870 Event - Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War

1869 Death - Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War 1861 - 1865, dies at 55

1868 Event - Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)

1868 Event - John D. Rockefeller begins anti oil war

1867 Birthday - Henry Lewis Stimson, U.S. minister of War, 1911-13

1867 Event - President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

1866 Event - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war

1866 Event - President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over

1866 Event - Italy declares war on Austria

1866 Event - President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia

1865 Event - S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed

1865 Event - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas

1865 Event - Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri

1865 Event - Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War

1864 Event - Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War

1864 Event - General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor

1864 Birthday - George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen, PTT, Dutch Minister of War, 1918-20

1864 Event - Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida

1864 Event - 2nd German-Danish war begins

1864 Event - Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va

1863 Event - Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends

1863 Death - John Buchanan Floyd, U.S. Minister of War (1857-60), Confederate general, dies

1863 Event - 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1863 Event - War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops

1863 Death - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies

1863 Event - 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army

1863 Event - War Department authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops

1863 Event - Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia

1862 Event - Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns

1862 Event - Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die

1862 Event - Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)

1862 Death - Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia

1862 Event - Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves

1862 Event - New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War

1862 Event - Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River

1862 Event - Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order

1861 Birthday - Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War, 1922-24

1861 Event - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla

1861 Event - 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 Event - 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins

1861 Event - Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought

1861 Event - War Department decrees the KA and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers

1861 Birthday - Samuel D. Riddle, horse owner, Man 'o War

1861 Event - 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV

1861 Event - 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia

1861 Event - British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War

1861 Event - Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"

1861 Event - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War

1861 Event - Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium

1861 Event - Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between U.S. and Confederacy

1861 Event - Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)

1861 Event - Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War

1861 Event - Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform

1861 Event - 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC

1859 Event - U.S. recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform

1859 Event - Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform

1858 Event - War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz

1857 Death - Felix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65

1856 Birthday - Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925 - 1929, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929

1856 Event - Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War

1856 Event - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War

1856 Event - Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease

1855 Event - Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Mac-Mahon

1854 Event - Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000

1854 Event - Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die

1854 Event - During the Crimean War, Britain and France declare war on Russia

1853 Birthday - August Belmont, Jr., breeder, Man 'O War, founder, New York Jockey Club

1852 Death - John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies

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

1849 Birthday - Friedrich von Bernhardi, Germany historian, Germany and the Next War

1848 Event - Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts

1848 Event - Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo

1848 Event - Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war

1848 Birthday - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War

1848 Event - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; U.S. acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million

1847 Birthday - Heihatjiro Tojo, Japan, Admiral, Russian-Japanese war

1847 Event - American-Mexican war: U.S. General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

1846 Event - General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War

1846 Event - U.S. declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins

1846 Event - 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas

1846 Event - Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India

1845 Event - Mexican - U.S. war starts

1843 Birthday - Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter, War and Peace

1842 Birthday - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959

1842 Birthday - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War

1842 Event - Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war

1842 Event - Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma

1841 Birthday - Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist

1839 Event - 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks

1839 Death - Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89

1839 Death - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies

1839 Event - Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick

1838 Event - Mexico declares war on France

1837 Birthday - Vincent Strong, civil war fighter

1836 Event - Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru

1835 Event - 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola

1834 Event - Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates

1833 Death - Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88

1832 Birthday - Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, British Governor of Natal, Ireland-Boer war

1832 Event - 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War

1832 Birthday - Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist

1831 Birthday - Julius Rodenberg, Levy, German writer, Kriegs-Songs of War and Peace

1831 Event - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain

1830 Birthday - Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/Minister of War, 1899-1900

1829 Event - Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war

1828 Birthday - Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,

1828 Birthday - Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,

1828 Event - Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence

1827 Event - Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independ

1825 Event - Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics

1824 Event - U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs

1823 Birthday - Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union

1823 Birthday - Robert J Fruin, historian, 80 year war

1822 Death - Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61

1821 Birthday - Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secretary War, Confederacy

1821 Birthday - Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South

1820 Birthday - Florence Nightingale, Florence, Italy, nurse, Crimean War

1819 Birthday - Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union

1818 Birthday - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier

1818 Death - Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian Field Marshal/War Minister, dies

1818 Birthday - George Wythe Randolph, Secretary War Confederacy

1818 Birthday - Jeremy F Gilmer, Major Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept

1817 Event - U.S. soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War

1817 Event - 1st Seminole War begins in Florida

1817 Birthday - Leroy Pope Walker, U.S. lawyer/Confederate minister of War, 1861

1815 Birthday - Anna Ella Carroll, U.S., civil war writer, Reconstruction

1815 Birthday - James Alexander Seddon, Secretary War, Confederacy

1815 Event - Austria declares war on realm of Naples

1815 Event - U.S. declares war on Algiers for taking U.S. prisoners and demanding tribute

1814 Event - Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed

1814 Birthday - Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, U.S. Secretary of War, 1861 - 1865

1814 Event - Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812

1813 Event - British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812

1813 Event - British take Ft. Niagara in War of 1812

1813 Event - British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus

1813 Death - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussian Minister of War (1807-10), dies in battle

1812 Event - U.S. forces led by General Hull invade Canada, War of 1812

1812 Event - War of 1812 begins as U.S. declares war against Britain

1812 Event - Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812

1811 Birthday - John Archibald Campbell, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy

1811 Birthday - Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War, Confederacy

1809 Birthday - John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon

1809 Birthday - Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy

1809 Event - Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war

1809 Event - Franz I of Austria declares war on France

1807 Event - British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812

1806 Birthday - John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War, Union

1805 Event - Tripoli forced to conclude peace with U.S. after war over tribute

1803 Event - Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy and Switzerland

1802 Event - Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends

1801 Death - Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London

1801 Event - Tripoli declares war on U.S. for refusing tribute

1799 Event - George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in hearts of his countrymen"

1799 Event - Austria declares war on France

1799 Birthday - Simon Cameron, Secretary War Union

1798 Birthday - Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General Confederate Army

1796 Event - Spain declares war on England

1795 Birthday - Henry Havelock, British soldier, War in Afghanistan 1838-39

1795 Event - Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France

1793 Event - France declares war on England and Netherlands

1792 Event - France declares war on Prussia

1792 Event - France declares war on Austria, Prussia and Sardinia

1792 Event - France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars

1791 Birthday - Felix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance

1789 Event - U.S. War Department established a regular army

1789 Event - Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service

1789 Event - Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses

1788 Event - Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90

1788 Event - Austria declares war on Russia

1787 Event - Turkey declares war on Russia

1784 Event - Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris

1783 Event - Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War)

1783 Event - Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War

1781 Event - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends

1781 Event - Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War

1781 Birthday - James Lawrence, naval hero, War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!"

1781 Event - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War

1780 Event - England declares war on Netherlands

1780 Event - Britain declares war on Holland

1780 Event - Charleston, South Carolina falls to British (Revolutionary War)

1779 Event - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain

1779 Event - In support of the U.S., Spain declares war on England

1779 Event - War of Bavarian Succession ends

1779 Birthday - Stephen Decatur, U.S., naval hero, War of 1812

1778 Event - Prussia declares war on Austria

1778 Event - England declares war on France

1776 Event - Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France

1776 Death - Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War

1776 Event - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War

1775 Event - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured

1774 Event - Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War)

1774 Death - Heinrich A Fouque, Prussian general (7 year war), dies at 76

1773 Event - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1772 Event - 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI

1764 Event - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac

1763 Event - Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England

1763 Birthday - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator

1762 Event - England declares war on Spain and Naples

1761 Birthday - Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Scot/Russian minister of War

1761 Birthday - Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War

1761 Birthday - Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War

1759 Event - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)

1757 Event - Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French and Indian War)

1757 Event - German Diet declares war on Prussia

1756 Event - England and France meet in war

1756 Event - Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War

1756 Event - England declares war on France

1756 Event - Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French and Indian War)

1755 Birthday - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War, 1807-10

1755 Event - British General E. Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War

1755 Death - E Braddock, British Gen, mortally wounded during French and Indian War

1754 Event - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft. Necessity (7 Years' War)

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

1750 Birthday - Stephen Girard, bailed out U.S. bonds during War of 1812

1750 Birthday - Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War, 1798-1800, 1803-06

1748 Event - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession

1748 Birthday - Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general

1747 Birthday - Kasamir Pulaski, U.S. general in the Revolutionary War

1745 Event - Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war

1744 Event - French King Louis XV declares war on England

1743 Event - Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War

1742 Birthday - Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General

1741 Birthday - Benedict Arnold, U.S. general turn traitor, Revolutionary War

1739 Event - England declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear

1739 Event - England declares war on Spain

1738 Event - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey

1738 Event - English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)

1738 Birthday - Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter, lead the Green Mtn Boys

1733 Event - France declares war on emperor Charles VI

1729 Birthday - Jean de Neufville, Dutch / U.S. merchant, started 4th English war

1724 Event - Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War

1721 Event - Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War

1718 Event - England declares war on Spain

1718 Event - France declares war on Spain

1715 Event - Prussia declares war on Sweden

1714 Event - Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine

1713 Event - King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia

1704 Event - War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar

1702 Event - Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne and Bavaria

1702 Event - War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England and France

1702 Event - England and Netherlands declares war on France and Spain

1700 Event - Turkey declares war on Russia

1697 Event - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War

1697 Event - Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)

1697 Event - King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick

1689 Event - France declares war on England

1689 Event - English King Willem III declares war on France

1689 Event - French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain

1689 Event - German Parliament declares war on France

1688 Event - French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands

1688 Event - France declares war on German

1687 Event - Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians

1676 Event - 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England

1675 Event - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians

1674 Event - German Parliament declares war on France

1672 Event - France declares war on Netherlands

1672 Event - England declares war on Netherlands

1668 Event - 1st peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands

1668 Event - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution

1667 Event - Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War

1667 Event - Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland and Russia

1666 Event - France declares war on England and Munster

1665 Event - English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands

1663 Event - Osman declares war on Austria

1658 Event - Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought

1652 Event - England declares war on Netherlands

1648 Event - Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire

1648 Event - Spain and Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending Tachtigjarige War

1642 Event - Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament

1639 Event - Treaty of Berwick: End 1st Bishop war

1635 Event - Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France

1635 Event - France declares war on Spain

1624 Event - England declares war on Spain

1622 Birthday - Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor, Lambs' War

1620 Event - French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII

1618 Event - 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War

1616 Event - Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War

1616 Event - Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war

1614 Event - Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends

1613 Event - Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark and Sweden

1608 Birthday - Thomas Fuller, England, literary, History of the Holy War

1600 Birthday - Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian, Matters of State and War

1595 Event - French king Henri IV declares war on Spain

1589 Death - Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, Lieutenant Colonel (80 year war), dies at about 49

1574 Event - France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots

1570 Event - Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out

1567 Event - War of Religion - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX

1557 Event - England declares war on France

1549 Event - France declares war on England

1538 Event - Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V and King French I

1529 Event - Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons

1528 Event - England and France declare war on Emperor Charles V

1525 Event - German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war

1524 Event - Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest

1521 Event - French king Francois I declares war on Spain

1509 Event - France declares war on Venice

1461 Event - Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)

1461 Event - Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses

1455 Event - Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St. Albans)

1453 Event - 2nd Battle at Castillon: France beats English, end of hundred year war

1450 Event - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War

1419 Event - French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War

1409 Event - Austrian civil war ends

1379 Event - End of Gelderse war victory

1340 Event - In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys

1303 Event - Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War

1264 Event - Baron's War fought in England

1190 Death - Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies

1146 Event - European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time

585 Event - War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse













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