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Industrial Revolution

Boston Tea Party

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Siege of Boston

American Revolutionary War

Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

Battle of Bunker Hill

Battle of Quebec (1775)

Battle of Sullivan's Island

Declaration of Independence

Battle of Long Island

Battle of Valcour Island

Battle of White Plains

Battle of Fort Washington

Battle of Trenton

Battle of Princeton

Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)

Battle of Bennington

Battle of Brandywine

Battle of Saratoga

Battle of Germantown

Treaty of Alliance

Battle of Monmouth

Battle of Rhode Island

Battle of Stony Point

Penobscot Expedition

Siege of Savannah

Battle of Flamborough Head

Siege of Charleston

Battle of Waxhaws

Battle of Springfield

Battle of Camden

Battle of Kings Mountain

Battle of Cowpens

Articles of Confederation

Siege of Pensacola

Battle of Guilford Courthouse

Battle of the Chesapeake

Battle of Eutaw Springs

Siege of Yorktown

Battle of the Saintes

Treaty of Paris

First inauguration of George Washington

French Revolution

Storming of the Bastille

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Haitian Revolution

United States Bill of Rights

French Revolutionary Wars

Battle of Valmy

Battle of Jemappes

Execution of Louis XVI

Battle of Neerwinden (1793)

Siege of Toulon (1793)

Reign of Terror

Battle of Hondschoote

Battle of Wattignies

Glorious First of June

Battle of Fleurus (1794)

Italian campaign of 1796–1797

Battle of Montenotte

Smallpox vaccine

Siege of Mantua (1796–1797)

Battle of Amberg

Battle of Würzburg

Battle of Biberach (1796)

Battle of Emmendingen

Battle of Arcole

Battle of Rivoli

Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)

Battle of Camperdown

French campaign in Egypt and Syria

Battle of the Pyramids

Battle of the Nile

Siege of Acre (1799)

Battle of Cassano (1799)

Battle of Trebbia (1799)

Battle of Abukir (1799)

Battle of Novi (1799)

Second Battle of Zurich

Coup of 18 Brumaire

Siege of Genoa (1800)

Battle of Marengo

Battle of Hohenlinden

Acts of Union 1800

Battle of Alexandria (1801)

Battle of Copenhagen (1801)

Louisiana Purchase

Napoleonic Wars

Haitian Declaration of Independence

Napoleonic Code

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Battle of Trafalgar

Battle of Austerlitz

Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire

Battle of Jena–Auerstedt

Battle of Eylau

Slave Trade Act 1807

Battle of Friedland

Battle of Bailén

Battle of Vimeiro

Spanish American wars of independence

Battle of Corunna

Battle of Eckmühl

Battle of Aspern–Essling

Battle of Wagram

Battle of Talavera

Mexican War of Independence

Battle of Bussaco

Battle of Monte de las Cruces

Battle of Calderón Bridge

Battle of Lissa (1811)

Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro

Siege of Cuautla

Siege of Badajoz (1812)

French invasion of Russia

Battle of Salamanca

Siege of Riga (1812)

Battle of Klyastitsy

Battle of Gorodechno

Siege of Detroit

Battle of Smolensk (1812)

First Battle of Polotsk

USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere

Battle of Borodino

Battle of Tucumán

Battle of Queenston Heights

Second Battle of Polotsk

Battle of Maloyaroslavets

Battle of Krasnoi

Battle of Berezina

USS Constitution vs HMS Java

Battle of Frenchtown

Battle of Salta

Siege of Fort Meigs

Battle of Lützen (1813)

Battle of Bautzen (1813)

Battle of Fort George

Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor

Capture of USS Chesapeake

Battle of Stoney Creek

Battle of Vitoria

Battle of Großbeeren

Battle of the Katzbach

Battle of Dresden

Battle of Dennewitz

Battle of Lake Erie

Battle of the Thames

Battle of Leipzig

Battle of Hanau

Battle of Crysler's Farm

Campaign in north-east France (1814)

Battle of Brienne

Battle of La Rothière

Battle of Champaubert

Battle of Montmirail

Battle of Vauchamps

Battle of Montereau

Battle of Orthez

Battle of Laon (1814)

Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube

Battle of Paris (1814)

Battle of Toulouse (1814)

Battle of Chippawa

Battle of Lundy's Lane

Siege of Fort Erie

Battle of Bladensburg

Burning of Washington

Battle of Plattsburgh

Battle of Baltimore

Battle of North Point

Congress of Vienna

Battle of Rancagua

Battle of Lake Borgne

Battle of New Orleans

1815 eruption of Mount Tambora

Battle of Ligny

Battle of Quatre Bras

Battle of Waterloo

Battle of Wavre

Siege of Cartagena (1815)

Battle of Chacabuco

Battle of Maipú

Battle of Boyacá

Peterloo Massacre

Capture of Valdivia

Missouri Compromise

Greek War of Independence

Battle of Carabobo

Battle of Pichincha

Independence of Brazil

Battle of Lake Maracaibo

Monroe Doctrine

Battle of Junín

Battle of Ayacucho

Stockton and Darlington Railway

Decembrist revolt

July Revolution

Belgian Revolution

Reform Act 1832

Slavery Abolition Act 1833

Second Seminole War

First Opium War

Treaty of Waitangi

Treaty of Nanking

First Morse telegraph line

Great Famine (Ireland)

Texas annexation

Mexican-American War

Siege of Fort Texas

Battle of Palo Alto

Battle of Resaca de la Palma

Repeal of the Corn Laws

Battle of Monterrey

Battle of San Pasqual

Battle of El Brazito

Battle of Río San Gabriel

Battle of Buena Vista

Battle of the Sacramento River

Siege of Veracruz

Battle of Cerro Gordo

Battle of Contreras

Battle of Churubusco

Battle of Molino del Rey

Battle of Chapultepec

Siege of Puebla (1847)

Revolutions of 1848

California Gold Rush

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Communist Manifesto published

Italian unification

Seneca Falls Convention

Taiping Rebellion

Jintian Uprising

Great Exhibition

Battle of Changsha (1852)

Battle of Nanjing (1853)

Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion)

Battle of Oltenița

Battle of Sinop

Battle of Başgedikler

Convention of Kanagawa

Siege of Silistra (1854)

Battle of Kurekdere

Battle of Bomarsund

Battle of the Alma

Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)

Battle of Balaclava

Battle of Inkerman

Siege of Kars (1855)

Bombardment of Sveaborg

Battle of the Chernaya

Battle of Malakoff

Battle of Kinburn (1855)

Second Opium War

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Indian Rebellion of 1857

Battle of Sanhe

Publication of On the Origin of Species

Battle of Anqing

Expedition of the Thousand

Battle of Palikao

Self-Strengthening Movement

Emancipation reform of 1861

Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy

American Civil War

Battle of Fort Sumter

Battle of Philippi

First Battle of Bull Run

Battle of Wilson's Creek

Battle of Port Royal

Second French intervention in Mexico

Battle of Fort Henry

Battle of Fort Donelson

Battle of Island Number Ten

Battle of Hampton Roads

First Battle of Kernstown

Battle of Shiloh

Capture of New Orleans

Siege of Corinth

Battle of Plum Point Bend

Battle of Drewry's Bluff

Battle of Front Royal

First Battle of Winchester

Battle of Seven Pines

Battle of Memphis

Battle of Port Republic

Seven Days Battles

Battle of Cedar Mountain

Second Battle of Bull Run

Battle of Antietam

Battle of Perryville

Battle of Fredericksburg

Battle of Chickasaw Bayou

Battle of Stones River

Emancipation Proclamation

First transcontinental railroad

Battle of Arkansas Post

First Battle of Charleston Harbor

Battle of Chancellorsville

Battle of Champion Hill

Siege of Vicksburg

Siege of Port Hudson

West Virginia admitted to Union

Battle of Gettysburg

First Battle of Fort Wagner

Second Battle of Fort Wagner

Battle of Chickamauga

Second Battle of Chattanooga

Battle of Fort Sanders

Sinking of USS Housatonic

Battle of Olustee

Red River Campaign

Third Battle of Nanjing

Battle of Mansfield

Battle of the Wilderness

Battle of Spotsylvania

Battle of Resaca

Battle of New Market

Battle of Cold Harbor

Siege of Petersburg

Battle of Cherbourg (1864)

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Battle of Monocacy

Battle of Fort Stevens

Battle of Peachtree Creek

Battle of Atlanta

Battle of the Crater

Battle of Mobile Bay

First Geneva Convention

Battle of Jonesborough

Third Battle of Winchester

Battle of Fisher's Hill

Battle of Cedar Creek

Sherman's March to the Sea

Battle of Franklin

Battle of Nashville

First Battle of Fort Fisher

Second Battle of Fort Fisher

Battle of Waynesboro (1865)

Battle of Averasborough

Battle of Bentonville

Battle of Five Forks

Battle of Sailor's Creek

Battle of Appomattox Court House

Reconstruction era

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Austro-Prussian War

Battle of Custoza (1866)

Battle of Langensalza (1866)

Battle of Trautenau

Battle of Náchod

Battle of Skalitz

Battle of Gitschin

Battle of Königgrätz

Battle of Dermbach

Battle of Kissingen

Battle of Aschaffenburg (1866)

Battle of Lissa (1866)

Transatlantic telegraph cable

Alaska Purchase

Canadian Confederation

Meiji Restoration

Opening of the Suez Canal

Gilded Age

Enforcement Act of 1870

Franco-Prussian War

Battle of Wissembourg (1870)

Battle of Wörth

Battle of Spicheren

Battle of Mars-la-Tour

Siege of Strasbourg

Battle of Gravelotte

Battle of Beaumont (1870)

Battle of Sedan

Siege of Paris (1870–1871)

Siege of Belfort

Battle of Coulmiers

Battle of Amiens (1870)

Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande

Battle of Loigny–Poupry

Battle of Beaugency (1870)

Battle of Hallue

Battle of Bapaume (1871)

Battle of Villersexel

Battle of Le Mans

Battle of the Lisaine

Proclamation of the German Empire

Battle of St. Quentin (1871)

Second Enforcement Act

Third Enforcement Act

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Invention of the telephone

Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

Battle of Svistov

Battle of Shipka Pass

Siege of Plevna

Battle of Eski Zagra

Battle of Lovcha

Battle of Aladzha

Battle of Gorni Dubnik

Battle of Kars (1877)

Battle of Philippopolis (1878)

War of the Pacific

Scramble for Africa

Assassination of Alexander II of Russia

Chinese Exclusion Act

1883 eruption of Krakatoa

Sino-French War

Berlin Conference

Atrocities in the Congo Free State

Founding of the Indian National Congress

Haymarket affair

Meiji Constitution

Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil)

Wounded Knee Massacre

Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom

Women's suffrage in New Zealand

First Sino-Japanese War

First Guangzhou Uprising

Progressive era

1896 Summer Olympics

Plessy v. Ferguson

Sinking of the USS Maine

Spanish-American War

Battle of Manila Bay

Bombardment of San Juan

Battle of Guantánamo Bay

Capture of Guam

Battle of Las Guasimas

Battle of San Juan Hill

Battle of El Caney

Battle of Santiago de Cuba

Siege of Santiago

Puerto Rico campaign

Battle of Manila (1898)

Philippine-American War

Battle of Manila (1899)

Battle of Quingua

Hague Convention of 1899

Second Boer War

Siege of Mafeking

Siege of Kimberley

Boxer Rebellion

Siege of Ladysmith

Battle of Tirad Pass

Battle of Magersfontein

Second Battle of Colenso

Battle of Spion Kop

Battle of Paardeberg

Seymour Expedition

Battle of Diamond Hill

Battle of the Taku Forts (1900)

Siege of the International Legations

Battle of Tientsin

Battle of Peking (1900)

Battle of Bergendal

Huizhou Uprising

Federation of Australia

Balangiga massacre

First flight of the Wright Flyer

Battle of Port Arthur

Russo-Japanese War

Battle of the Yalu River

Battle of Nanshan

Battle of Te-li-ssu

Battle of Tashihchiao

Siege of Port Arthur

Battle of the Yellow Sea

Battle off Ulsan

Battle of Liaoyang

Battle of Shaho

Einstein's annus mirabilis papers

Russian Revolution of 1905

Battle of Sandepu

Battle of Mukden

Battle of Tsushima

Treaty of Portsmouth

Partition of Bengal

1906 San Francisco earthquake

Zhennanguan Uprising

Young Turk Revolution

South Africa Act 1909

Mexican Revolution

Second Guangzhou Uprising

Xinhai Revolution

Wuchang Uprising

Republic of China proclaimed

Sinking of the Titanic

First Balkan War

Battle of Kirk Kilisse

Battle of Sarantaporo

Battle of Kumanovo

Battle of Lule Burgas

Siege of Scutari (1912–1913)

Siege of Adrianople (1912–1913)

Battle of Prilep

Battle of Monastir

First Battle of Çatalca

Battle of Bizani

Second Balkan War

Battle of Bregalnica

Battle of Kilkis–Lachanas

Battle of Kresna Gorge

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Serbian campaign of World War I

East African campaign (World War I)

Battle of Liège

Battle of Lorraine

Opening of the Panama Canal

Battle of Gumbinnen

Battle of the Ardennes

Battle of Charleroi

Battle of Galicia

Battle of Tannenberg

Battle of Le Cateau

Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)

Battle of Guise

First Battle of the Marne

First Battle of the Masurian Lakes

First Battle of the Aisne

Siege of Przemyśl

Siege of Antwerp (1914)

Battle of the Yser

First Battle of Ypres

Caucasus campaign

Battle of Tanga

Battle of Łódź (1914)

Battle of Sarikamish

Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)

Gallipoli campaign

Battle of Neuve Chapelle

Second Battle of Ypres

Armenian genocide

Landing at Cape Helles

Landing at Anzac Cove

Gorlice–Tarnów offensive

First Battle of the Isonzo

Battle of Sari Bair

Landing at Suvla Bay

Second Battle of Champagne

Third Battle of Artois

Macedonian front

Battle of Ctesiphon (1915)

General relativity

National Protection War

Erzurum offensive

Battle of Verdun

Lake Naroch offensive

Battle of Asiago

Sykes–Picot Agreement

Battle of Jutland

Brusilov Offensive

Battle of the Somme

Battle of Erzincan

Battle of Romani

Battle of Gorizia (1916)

Battle of Bucharest

Assassination of Grigori Rasputin

February Revolution

Russian Revolution

First Battle of Gaza

Battle of Arras (1917)

Battle of Vimy Ridge

Nivelle offensive

Battle of Messines (1917)

Kerensky offensive

Battle of Aqaba

Battle of Passchendaele

Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo

Riga offensive (1917)

Kornilov affair

Battle of Caporetto

Battle of Beersheba (1917)

Third Battle of Gaza

Balfour Declaration

October Revolution

Russian Civil War

Battle of Jerusalem (1917)

Battle of Cambrai (1917)

Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly

Representation of the People Act 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Operation Michael

Battle of the Lys (1918)

Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion

Third Battle of the Aisne

Battle of Cantigny

Battle of Belleau Wood

Second Battle of the Piave River

Battle of Tsaritsyn

Second Battle of the Marne

Execution of the Romanov family

Battle of Amiens (1918)

Battle of Saint-Mihiel

Vardar offensive

Battle of Megiddo (1918)

Meuse–Argonne offensive

Battle of the St Quentin Canal

Battle of Sharqat

Battle of Vittorio Veneto

German Revolution

Polish–Ukrainian War

Armistice of 11 November 1918

Irish War of Independence

Polish–Soviet War

March 1st Movement

Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Polish–Lithuanian War

May Fourth Movement

Occupation of Smyrna

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

Treaty of Versailles

Battle of Petrograd

Orel–Kursk operation

Roaring Twenties

Founding of the League of Nations

Prohibition in the United States

Kiev offensive (1920)

Battle of Warsaw (1920)

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Tambov Rebellion

Non-cooperation movement

Siege of Perekop (1920)

First Battle of İnönü

Kronstadt rebellion

Second Battle of İnönü

Battle of Kütahya–Eskişehir

Battle of the Sakarya

Washington Naval Conference

Anglo-Irish Treaty

Irish Civil War

Battle of Dumlupınar

Burning of Smyrna

Declaration of the Creation of the USSR

Treaty of Lausanne

1923 Great Kantō earthquake

Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey

Beer Hall Putsch

Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin

Abolition of the Ottoman caliphate

Mein Kampf published

Locarno Treaties

Northern Expedition

Shanghai massacre

Nanchang Uprising

Chinese Civil War

Autumn Harvest Uprising

Kellogg–Briand Pact

Discovery of penicillin

First five-year plan (Soviet Union)

Central Plains War

Great Depression

Wall Street Crash of 1929

1930 FIFA World Cup

Encirclement Campaigns

1931 China floods

Mukden Incident

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Statute of Westminster 1931

Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Nazi seizure of power

Reichstag Fire Decree

Enabling Act of 1933

Night of the Long Knives

Zunyi Conference

Government of India Act 1935

Nuremberg Laws enacted

Second Italo-Ethiopian War

Remilitarization of the Rhineland

1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine

Spanish Civil War

Siege of the Alcázar

Campaign of Gipuzkoa

1936 Summer Olympics

Battle of Badajoz (1936)

Siege of Madrid

Abdication of Edward VIII

Battle of Málaga (1937)

Battle of Jarama

Battle of Guadalajara

War in the North

Bombing of Guernica

Hindenburg disaster

Battle of Brunete

Second Sino-Japanese War

Marco Polo Bridge Incident

Battle of Shanghai

Battle of Belchite (1937)

Battle of Nanking

Battle of Xuzhou

Nanjing Massacre

Battle of Teruel

Battle of Cape Palos (1938)

Aragon Offensive

Levante Offensive

Battle of Wuhan

Battle of the Ebro

Munich Agreement

Catalonia Offensive

Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War

Battles of Khalkhin Gol

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

Invasion of Poland

Battle of the Atlantic

Battle of South Guangxi

Operation Weserübung

Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang

Battle of France

Battle of Dunkirk

Western Desert campaign

Battle of Britain

Operation Compass

Invasion of Yugoslavia

Siege of Tobruk

Battle of Crete

Operation Barbarossa

Second Soviet-Finnish War

Siege of Leningrad

Babi Yar massacre

Battle of Moscow

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Malayan campaign

Solomon Islands campaign

Battle of Bataan

Wannsee Conference

Battle of Singapore

Bataan Death March

Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle of Midway

Lidice massacre

Battle of Stalingrad

Kokoda Track campaign

Guadalcanal campaign

Quit India Movement

Manhattan Project

Battle of the Eastern Solomons

Second Battle of El Alamein

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands

Operation Torch

Tunisian campaign

Bengal famine of 1943

Battle of Kursk

Italian campaign

Allied invasion of Sicily

Allied invasion of Italy

Battle of Tarawa

Tehran Conference

Battle of Monte Cassino

Battle of Anzio

Operation Hailstone

Battle of Imphal

Battle of Kohima

Operation Ichi-Go

Operation Overlord

Battle of Saipan

Battle of the Philippine Sea

Operation Bagration

Bretton Woods Conference

Lvov–Sandomierz offensive

Warsaw Uprising

Operation Dragoon

Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive

Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine

Operation Olive

Battle of Peleliu

Operation Market Garden

Guatemalan Revolution

Battle of Aachen

Battle of Debrecen

Battle of Leyte

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Rescue of the Lost Battalion

Battle of the Bulge

Siege of Budapest

Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay

Battle of Luzon

Vistula–Oder offensive

East Prussian offensive

Manila massacre

Battle of Manila (1945)

Yalta Conference

Battle of Iwo Jima

East Pomeranian offensive

Western Allied invasion of Germany

Battle of Okinawa

Vienna offensive

Spring 1945 offensive in Italy

Operation Ten-Go

Battle of Berlin

Prague offensive

Charter of the United Nations

Trinity nuclear test

Potsdam Conference

Chinese Communist Revolution

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Soviet–Japanese War

Indonesian National Revolution

Surrender of Japan

Shangdang Campaign

Iran crisis of 1946

Nuremberg trials

Second Battle of Siping

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Direct Action Day

Linjiang Campaign

First Indochina War

Battle of Yan'an

Malagasy Uprising

Menglianggu Campaign

Indian Independence Act

Partition of India

Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948

Battle of Badgam

Battle of Shalateng

UN Partition Plan for Palestine

Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

Siege of Skardu

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Battle of Jerusalem (1948)

1948 Arab–Israeli War

Battles of the Kinarot Valley

Siege of Changchun

Battles of Latrun

Operation Pleshet

Berlin Blockade

Liaoshen Campaign

Taiyuan Campaign

Operation Hiram

Huaihai Campaign

Pingjin Campaign

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Operation Horev

1949 Syrian coup d'état

North Atlantic Treaty

Yangtze River Crossing campaign

Shanghai Campaign

Proclamation of the People's Republic of China

Battle of Guningtou

Battle of Dengbu Island

Chengdu Campaign

Landing Operation on Hainan Island

Battle of the Pusan Perimeter

Battle of Inchon

Battle of Route Coloniale 4

Second Battle of Seoul

Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River

Battle of Chosin Reservoir

Treaty of Paris (1951)

Battle of Hòa Bình

Decolonisation of Africa

Mau Mau uprising

Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin

Discovery of the structure of DNA

Cuban Revolution

Korean Armistice Agreement

1953 Iranian coup d'état

1954 Syrian coup d'état

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Brown v. Board of Education

Civil rights movement

1954 Guatemalan coup d'état

First Taiwan Strait Crisis

Algerian War of Independence

Toussaint Rouge

Salk polio vaccine

Bandung Conference

Austrian State Treaty

Philippeville massacre

Montgomery bus boycott

Sino-Soviet split

Khrushchev's Secret Speech

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Battle of Algiers (1956–1957)

Little Rock Nine

Great Leap Forward

Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

Great Chinese Famine

Laotian Civil War

Sit-in movement

Sharpeville massacre

Guatemalan Civil War

Assassination of Patrice Lumumba

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Construction of the Berlin Wall

1961 Syrian coup d'état

Albany Movement

Second Vatican Council

Cuban Missile Crisis

Sino-Indian War

Socialist Education Movement

Battle of Ap Bac

1963 Syrian coup d'état

Birmingham campaign

Stand in the Schoolhouse Door

Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Zanzibar Revolution

Colombian conflict

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Harlem riot of 1964

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Chicago Freedom Movement

Selma to Montgomery marches

Indo-Pakistani war of 1965

Operation Gibraltar

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Operation Grand Slam

Battle of Phillora

Battle of Asal Uttar

Battle of Burki

Battle of Chawinda

Battle of Ia Drang

1966 Syrian coup d'état

Cultural Revolution

Battle of Long Tan

South African Border War

Cambodian Civil War

Battle of Abu-Ageila

Operation Focus

Battle of Ammunition Hill

Battle of Tel Faher

Nigerian Civil War

1967 Plainfield riots

1967 Detroit riot

Battle of Dak To

Siege of Khe Sanh

Battle of Huế

Orangeburg massacre

Mỹ Lai massacre

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Fair Housing Act

May 68

Poor People's Campaign

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Tlatelolco massacre

Battle of Hamburger Hill

Stonewall riots

ARPANET first message

First Earth Day

Cambodian campaign

1970 Bhola cyclone

Corrective Movement (Syria)

Bangladesh genocide

1971 Dhaka University massacre

Bangladesh War of Independence

Battle of Garibpur

Battle of Hilli

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

Operation Trident (1971)

Battle of Basantar

Battle of Longewala

Pakistani Instrument of Surrender

Bloody Sunday (1972)

Nixon's visit to China

Easter Offensive

Battle of An Lộc

Watergate scandal

Second Battle of Quảng Trị

Munich massacre

1973 Chilean coup d'état

Operation Badr (1973)

Valley of Tears

First Battle of Mount Hermon

Battle of the Chinese Farm

Operation Abirey-Halev

1973 oil crisis

Third Battle of Mount Hermon

Carnation Revolution

Turkish invasion of Cyprus

1975 spring offensive

Battle of Xuân Lộc

Lebanese Civil War

Cambodian genocide

Helsinki Accords

Western Sahara War

Angolan Civil War

Spanish transition to democracy

Islamist uprising in Syria

Soweto uprising

Mozambican Civil War

Iranian Revolution

Birth of Louise Brown

Camp David Accords

Chinese economic reform

Cambodian–Vietnamese War

Sino-Vietnamese War

Egypt–Israel peace treaty

Three Mile Island accident

Taiwan Relations Act

Iran hostage crisis

Soviet–Afghan War

Operation Storm-333

Eradication of smallpox

Internal conflict in Peru

Gdańsk Agreement

Iran–Iraq War

Battle of Khorramshahr (1980)

Siege of Abadan

Operation Morvarid

HIV/AIDS epidemic

IBM Personal Computer

Assassination of Anwar Sadat

Operation Tariq al-Quds

Martial law in Poland

Operation Fath ol-Mobin

1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands

Invasion of South Georgia

Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas

Operation Paraquet

Sinking of ARA General Belgrano

Battle of San Carlos (1982)

Battle of Goose Green

Bluff Cove air attacks

Battle of Mount Harriet

Battle of Mount Longdon

Battle of Two Sisters

Battle of Mount Tumbledown

Battle of Wireless Ridge

Operation Ramadan

1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia

1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut

Sri Lankan Civil War

United States invasion of Grenada

Battle of Tripoli (1983)

Operation Kheibar

Kurdish–Turkish conflict

Assassination of Indira Gandhi

Bhopal disaster

Operation Badr (1985)

Live Aid

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

First Battle of al-Faw

Second Battle of Zhawar

Chernobyl disaster

Reykjavík Summit

Operation Karbala-5

1987 Lieyu massacre

Black Monday (1987)

Operation Magistral

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Battle for Hill 3234

First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Second Battle of al-Faw

1988 Chilean presidential referendum

Spitak earthquake

Lockerbie bombing

Invention of the World Wide Web

Exxon Valdez oil spill

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Velvet Revolution

Romanian Revolution

United States invasion of Panama

Release of Nelson Mandela

Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

Human Genome Project

German reunification

Air campaign of the Gulf War

Battle of Khafji

Liberation of Kuwait campaign

Battle of 73 Easting

Highway of Death

Battle of Medina Ridge

Croatian War of Independence

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Battle of Vukovar

Siege of Dubrovnik

Algerian Civil War

Maastricht Treaty

Transnistria War

Siege of Sarajevo

Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

1993 World Trade Center bombing

Battle of Mogadishu (1993)

North American Free Trade Agreement

Rwandan genocide

Marrakesh Agreement

1994 South African general election

First Chechen War

Oklahoma City bombing

Operation Flash

Srebrenica massacre

Third Taiwan Strait Crisis

Operation Storm

Operation Deliberate Force

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Dayton Agreement

Cloning of Dolly the sheep

First Congo War

1997 Albanian civil unrest

Handover of Hong Kong

1997 Asian financial crisis

Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

Good Friday Agreement

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Second Congo War

Launch of the International Space Station

Introduction of the euro

NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

Battle of Košare

Columbine High School massacre

Battle of Tololing

Battle of Tiger Hill

Second Chechen War

East Timorese independence referendum

Second Intifada

Launch of Wikipedia

September 11 attacks

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

First Ivorian Civil War

2002 Bali bombings

2002–2004 SARS outbreak

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

Battle of Umm Qasr

Battle of Basra (2003)

Battle of Nasiriyah

Battle of Karbala (2003)

Battle of Najaf (2003)

Operation Northern Delay

Battle of Baghdad (2003)

Launch of Facebook

2004 Madrid train bombings

First Battle of Fallujah

2004 enlargement of the European Union

Battle of Najaf (2004)

Beslan school siege

Second Battle of Fallujah

Orange Revolution

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

Tulip Revolution

Andijan massacre

7 July 2005 London bombings

Hurricane Katrina

Battle of Ramadi (2006)

Launch of the iPhone

2008 financial crisis

Treaty of Lisbon

2008 Sichuan earthquake

Russo-Georgian War

2008 Summer Olympics

2008 United States presidential election

2008 Mumbai attacks

2009 swine flu pandemic

Eurozone crisis

Launch of Bitcoin

2009 Iranian presidential election protests

Boko Haram insurgency

2010 Haiti earthquake

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Tunisian revolution

2011 South Sudanese independence referendum

Egyptian revolution of 2011

Libyan civil war (2011)

Fukushima nuclear disaster

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

Syrian civil war

Killing of Osama bin Laden

Occupy Wall Street

Discovery of the Higgs boson

Western African Ebola epidemic

Russo-Ukrainian War

Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Yemeni civil war

2014 Scottish independence referendum

2015 European migrant crisis

Charlie Hebdo shooting

April 2015 Nepal earthquake

Obergefell v. Hodges

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

November 2015 Paris attacks

Paris Agreement

Brexit

2016 United States presidential election

Colombian peace agreement

2017 Catalan independence referendum

Me Too movement

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal

2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit

Prespa agreement

Christchurch mosque shootings

2019–2020 Hong Kong protests

Notre-Dame de Paris fire

COVID-19 pandemic

George Floyd protests

2020 Beirut explosion

2020–2021 Belarusian protests

Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

2020 United States presidential election

First COVID-19 vaccines approved

January 6 United States Capitol attack

2021 Myanmar coup d'état

Fall of Kabul (2021)

Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

2022 Kazakh unrest

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II

Mahsa Amini protests

Release of ChatGPT

2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes

Sudanese civil war (2023–present)

Wagner Group rebellion

2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh

October 7 attacks

2024 United States presidential election

Fall of the Assad regime

2025 papal conclave