✦ History

Explore April 3, 1893 – December 14, 1945

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895
Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Women's suffrage in New Zealand 1893-09-19
First Sino-Japanese War 1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
First Guangzhou Uprising 1895-10-26
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Battle of Adwa 1896-03-01
1896 Summer Olympics 1896-04-06 - 1896-04-15
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896-05-18
Sinking of the USS Maine 1898-02-15
Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13
Battle of Manila Bay 1898-05-01 - 1898-05-01
Bombardment of San Juan 1898-05-12 - 1898-05-12
Battle of Guantánamo Bay 1898-06-06 - 1898-06-14
Capture of Guam 1898-06-20 - 1898-06-21
Battle of Las Guasimas 1898-06-24 - 1898-06-24
Battle of El Caney 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01
Battle of San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01
Siege of Santiago 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-17
Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-03
Puerto Rico campaign 1898-07-25 - 1898-08-13
Battle of Manila (1898) 1898-08-13 - 1898-08-13
Wuxu Coup 1898-09-22
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Battle of Manila (1899) 1899-02-04 - 1899-02-05
Battle of Quingua 1899-04-23 - 1899-04-23
Hague Convention of 1899 1899-07-29
Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Siege of Mafeking 1899-10-13 - 1900-05-17
Siege of Kimberley 1899-10-14 - 1900-02-15
Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Siege of Ladysmith 1899-11-02 - 1900-02-28
Battle of Tirad Pass 1899-12-02 - 1899-12-02
Battle of Magersfontein 1899-12-11 - 1899-12-11
Second Battle of Colenso 1899-12-15 - 1899-12-15
Battle of Spion Kop 1900-01-23 - 1900-01-24
Battle of Paardeberg 1900-02-18 - 1900-02-27
Seymour Expedition 1900-06-10 - 1900-06-26
Battle of Diamond Hill 1900-06-11 - 1900-06-12
Battle of the Taku Forts (1900) 1900-06-16 - 1900-06-17
Siege of the International Legations 1900-06-20 - 1900-08-14
Battle of Tientsin 1900-07-13 - 1900-07-14
Battle of Peking (1900) 1900-08-14 - 1900-08-15
Battle of Bergendal 1900-08-21 - 1900-08-27
Huizhou Uprising 1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08
Federation of Australia 1901-01-01
Balangiga massacre 1901-09-28 - 1901-09-28
First flight of the Wright Flyer 1903-12-17
Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09
Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Battle of the Yalu River 1904-04-30 - 1904-05-01
Battle of Nanshan 1904-05-24 - 1904-05-26
Battle of Te-li-ssu 1904-06-14 - 1904-06-15
Battle of Tashihchiao 1904-07-24 - 1904-07-25
Siege of Port Arthur 1904-08-01 - 1905-01-02
Battle of the Yellow Sea 1904-08-10 - 1904-08-10
Battle off Ulsan 1904-08-14 - 1904-08-14
Battle of Liaoyang 1904-08-25 - 1904-09-05
Battle of Shaho 1904-10-05 - 1904-10-17
Einstein's annus mirabilis papers 1905
Bloody Sunday 1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22
Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16
Battle of Sandepu 1905-01-25 - 1905-01-29
Battle of Mukden 1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Battle of Tsushima 1905-05-27 - 1905-05-28
Treaty of Portsmouth 1905-09-05
Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12
1906 San Francisco earthquake 1906-04-18
Zhennanguan Uprising 1907-12-01
Young Turk Revolution 1908-07-03 - 1908-07-24
Ford Model T 1908-10-01
South Africa Act 1909 1910-05-31
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Second Guangzhou Uprising 1911-04-27
Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Republic of China proclaimed 1912-01-01
Sinking of the Titanic 1912-04-14 - 1912-04-15
First Balkan War 1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30
Battle of Kirk Kilisse 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-24
Battle of Sarantaporo 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-23
Battle of Kumanovo 1912-10-23 - 1912-10-24
Siege of Scutari (1912–1913) 1912-10-28 - 1913-04-23
Battle of Lule Burgas 1912-10-28 - 1912-11-02
Battle of Prilep 1912-11-03 - 1912-11-05
Siege of Adrianople (1912–1913) 1912-11-03 - 1913-03-26
Battle of Monastir 1912-11-16 - 1912-11-19
First Battle of Çatalca 1912-11-17 - 1912-11-18
Battle of Elli 1912-12-16 - 1912-12-16
Battle of Bizani 1913-03-04 - 1913-03-06
Second Balkan War 1913-06-29 - 1913-08-10
Battle of Bregalnica 1913-06-30 - 1913-07-09
Battle of Kilkis–Lachanas 1913-07-02 - 1913-07-04
Battle of Kresna Gorge 1913-07-21 - 1913-07-31
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
East African campaign (World War I) 1914-08-03 - 1918-11-25
Battle of Liège 1914-08-05 - 1914-08-16
Battle of Lorraine 1914-08-14 - 1914-09-07
Opening of the Panama Canal 1914-08-15
Battle of Gumbinnen 1914-08-20 - 1914-08-20
Battle of the Ardennes 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23
Battle of Charleroi 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23
Battle of Mons 1914-08-23 - 1914-08-23
Battle of Galicia 1914-08-23 - 1914-09-11
Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30
Battle of Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26
Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) 1914-08-28 - 1914-08-28
Battle of Guise 1914-08-29 - 1914-08-30
First Battle of the Marne 1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes 1914-09-07 - 1914-09-14
First Battle of the Aisne 1914-09-13 - 1914-09-28
Siege of Przemyśl 1914-09-16 - 1915-03-22
Siege of Antwerp (1914) 1914-09-28 - 1914-10-10
Battle of the Yser 1914-10-16 - 1914-10-31
First Battle of Ypres 1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22
Battle of Tanga 1914-11-02 - 1914-11-05
Caucasus campaign 1914-11-02 - 1918-10-30
Battle of Łódź (1914) 1914-11-11 - 1914-12-06
Battle of Sarikamish 1914-12-22 - 1915-01-17
Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) 1915-01-24 - 1915-01-24
Gallipoli campaign 1915-02-19 - 1916-01-09
Battle of Neuve Chapelle 1915-03-10 - 1915-03-13
Second Battle of Ypres 1915-04-22 - 1915-05-25
Armenian genocide 1915-04-24 - 1917
Landing at Cape Helles 1915-04-25 - 1915-04-26
Landing at Anzac Cove 1915-04-25 - 1915-05-03
Gorlice–Tarnów offensive 1915-05-02 - 1915-06-22
First Battle of the Isonzo 1915-06-23 - 1915-07-07
Landing at Suvla Bay 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-15
Battle of Sari Bair 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-21
Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Macedonian front 1915-10-21 - 1918-09-30
Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) 1915-11-22 - 1915-11-25
General relativity 1915-11-25
Siege of Kut 1915-12-07 - 1916-04-29
National Protection War 1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Erzurum offensive 1916-01-10 - 1916-02-16
Battle of Verdun 1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
Lake Naroch offensive 1916-03-18 - 1916-04-14
Easter Rising 1916-04-24 - 1916-04-29
Battle of Asiago 1916-05-15 - 1916-06-10
Sykes–Picot Agreement 1916-05-16
Battle of Jutland 1916-05-31 - 1916-06-01
Brusilov Offensive 1916-06-04 - 1916-09-20
Arab Revolt 1916-06-10 - 1918-10-25
Battle of the Somme 1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Battle of Erzincan 1916-07-02 - 1916-07-25
Battle of Romani 1916-08-03 - 1916-08-05
Battle of Gorizia (1916) 1916-08-06 - 1916-08-17
Battle of Bucharest 1916-11-25 - 1916-12-03
Assassination of Grigori Rasputin 1916-12-30 - 1916-12-30
February Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
First Battle of Gaza 1917-03-26 - 1917-03-26
Battle of Vimy Ridge 1917-04-09 - 1917-04-12
Battle of Arras (1917) 1917-04-09 - 1917-05-16
Nivelle offensive 1917-04-16 - 1917-05-09
Battle of Messines (1917) 1917-06-07 - 1917-06-14
Kerensky offensive 1917-07-01 - 1917-07-19
Battle of Aqaba 1917-07-06 - 1917-07-06
Battle of Passchendaele 1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo 1917-08-18 - 1917-09-12
Riga offensive (1917) 1917-09-01 - 1917-09-03
Kornilov affair 1917-09-10 - 1917-09-13
Battle of Caporetto 1917-10-24 - 1917-11-19
Battle of Beersheba (1917) 1917-10-31 - 1917-10-31
Third Battle of Gaza 1917-11-01 - 1917-11-02
Balfour Declaration 1917-11-02 - 1917-11-02
October Revolution 1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Battle of Jerusalem (1917) 1917-11-17 - 1917-12-30
Battle of Cambrai (1917) 1917-11-20 - 1917-12-07
Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly 1918-01-19 - 1918-01-19
Representation of the People Act 1918 1918-02-06
Ice March 1918-02-22 - 1918-05-13
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918-03-03 - 1918-03-03
Spanish flu 1918-03-04 - 1920-04-30
Operation Michael 1918-03-21 - 1918-04-05
Battle of the Lys (1918) 1918-04-09 - 1918-04-29
Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion 1918-05-14 - 1918-09-10
Third Battle of the Aisne 1918-05-27 - 1918-06-06
Battle of Cantigny 1918-05-28 - 1918-05-28
Battle of Belleau Wood 1918-06-01 - 1918-06-26
Second Battle of the Piave River 1918-06-15 - 1918-06-23
Battle of Tsaritsyn 1918-07-01 - 1920-01-01
Second Battle of the Marne 1918-07-15 - 1918-08-06
Execution of the Romanov family 1918-07-17 - 1918-07-17
Battle of Amiens (1918) 1918-08-08 - 1918-08-12
Battle of Saint-Mihiel 1918-09-12 - 1918-09-15
Vardar offensive 1918-09-15 - 1918-09-29
Battle of Megiddo (1918) 1918-09-19 - 1918-09-25
Meuse–Argonne offensive 1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11
Battle of the St Quentin Canal 1918-09-29 - 1918-10-02
Battle of Sharqat 1918-10-23 - 1918-10-30
Battle of Vittorio Veneto 1918-10-24 - 1918-11-03
German Revolution 1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11
Polish–Ukrainian War 1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18
Armistice of 11 November 1918 1918-11-11
Biennio Rosso 1919 - 1920
Irish War of Independence 1919-01-21 - 1921-07-11
Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
March 1st Movement 1919-03-01
Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919-04-13 - 1919-04-13
Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
May Fourth Movement 1919-05-04
Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11
Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28
Battle of Petrograd 1919-09-28 - 1919-11-14
Orel–Kursk operation 1919-10-11 - 1919-11-18
Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Founding of the League of Nations 1920-01-10
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Kiev offensive (1920) 1920-04-24 - 1920-06-13
Battle of Warsaw (1920) 1920-08-12 - 1920-08-25
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 1920-08-18
Tambov Rebellion 1920-08-19
Non-cooperation movement 1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12
Siege of Perekop (1920) 1920-11-07 - 1920-11-17
First Battle of İnönü 1921-01-06 - 1921-01-11
Kronstadt rebellion 1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18
Second Battle of İnönü 1921-03-26 - 1921-03-31
Battle of Kütahya–Eskişehir 1921-07-10 - 1921-07-24
Battle of the Sakarya 1921-08-23 - 1921-09-13
Washington Naval Conference 1921-11-12 - 1922-02-06
Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921-12-06
Irish Civil War 1922-06-28 - 1923-05-24
Battle of Dumlupınar 1922-08-26 - 1922-08-30
Burning of Smyrna 1922-09-13 - 1922-09-22
March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30
Treaty of Lausanne 1923-07-24
1923 Great Kantō earthquake 1923-09-01
Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey 1923-10-29
Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin 1924-01-21 - 1924-01-27
Abolition of the Ottoman caliphate 1924-03-03
Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18
Locarno Treaties 1925-12-01
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Shanghai massacre 1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12
Nanchang Uprising 1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Autumn Harvest Uprising 1927-09-07
Kellogg–Briand Pact 1928-08-27
Discovery of penicillin 1928-09-28
First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Wall Street Crash of 1929 1929-10-24 - 1929-10-29
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Salt March 1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
1930 FIFA World Cup 1930-07-13 - 1930-07-30
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
1931 China floods 1931-06 - 1931-08
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident 1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Statute of Westminster 1931 1931-12-11
Holodomor 1932 - 1933
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power 1933-01-30
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives 1934-06-30 - 1934-07-02
Long March 1934-10-16 - 1935-10-19
Zunyi Conference 1935-01-15 - 1935-01-17
Government of India Act 1935 1935-08-02
Nuremberg Laws enacted 1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936-03-07
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Siege of the Alcázar 1936-07-21 - 1936-09-27
Campaign of Gipuzkoa 1936-07-25 - 1936-09-13
1936 Summer Olympics 1936-08-01 - 1936-08-16
Battle of Badajoz (1936) 1936-08-12 - 1936-08-14
Great Purge 1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Siege of Madrid 1936-11-08 - 1939-03-28
Abdication of Edward VIII 1936-11-16 - 1936-12-11
Xi'an Incident 1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Battle of Málaga (1937) 1937-02-03 - 1937-02-08
Battle of Jarama 1937-02-06 - 1937-02-27
Battle of Guadalajara 1937-03-08 - 1937-03-23
War in the North 1937-03-31 - 1937-10-21
Bombing of Guernica 1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Hindenburg disaster 1937-05-06
Battle of Brunete 1937-07-06 - 1937-07-25
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Battle of Shanghai 1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Belchite (1937) 1937-08-24 - 1937-09-07
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Battle of Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Battle of Teruel 1937-12-15 - 1938-02-22
Battle of Cape Palos (1938) 1938-03-05 - 1938-03-06
Aragon Offensive 1938-03-07 - 1938-04-19
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Levante Offensive 1938-04-23 - 1938-07-24
Battle of Wuhan 1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro 1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Catalonia Offensive 1938-12-23 - 1939-02-10
Final offensive of the Spanish Civil War 1939-03-26 - 1939-03-31
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 1939-08-23
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Battle of Singapore 1942-02-08 - 1942-02-15
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Allied invasion of Italy 1943-09-03 - 1943-09-16
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Hailstone 1944-02-17 - 1944-02-18
Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03
Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive 1944-08-20 - 1944-08-29
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Battle of Peleliu 1944-09-15 - 1944-11-27
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Battle of Debrecen 1944-10-06 - 1944-10-29
Battle of Leyte 1944-10-17 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-10-23 - 1944-10-26
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Vistula–Oder offensive 1945-01-12 - 1945-02-02
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Vienna offensive 1945-04-02 - 1945-04-13
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy 1945-04-06 - 1945-05-02
Operation Ten-Go 1945-04-07 - 1945-04-07
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Prague offensive 1945-05-06 - 1945-05-11
Charter of the United Nations 1945-06-26
Trinity nuclear test 1945-07-16
Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
Shangdang Campaign 1945-09-10 - 1945-10-12
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01

People

Demetrios Vikelas age 58
President - International Olympic Committee
Terauchi Masatake age 41
Prime Minister - Japan
Hara Takashi age 37
Prime Minister - Japan
Francesco Crispi age 74
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikola Pašić age 47
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Matsukata Masayoshi age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Inukai Tsuyoshi age 37
Prime Minister - Japan
Paul Reynaud age 14
Prime Minister - France
Kuroda Kiyotaka age 52
Acting Prime Minister - Japan
Kuniaki Koiso age 13
Prime Minister - Japan
Kijūrō Shidehara age 20
Prime Minister - Japan
François Darlan age 11
Vice-President of the Council - Vichy France
Saionji Kinmochi age 43
Prime Minister - Japan
Antonio Salandra age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Facta age 31
Prime Minister - Italy
Tanaka Giichi age 28
Prime Minister - Japan
Sidney Sonnino age 46
Prime Minister - Italy
Wellington Koo age 5
Premier - Republic of China
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 40
Prime Minister - Japan
Nobuyuki Abe age 17
Prime Minister - Japan
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 5
Prime Minister - Japan
Katō Takaaki age 33
Prime Minister - Japan
Saitō Makoto age 34
Prime Minister - Japan
Kantarō Suzuki age 25
Prime Minister - Japan
Paolo Boselli age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Francesco Saverio Nitti age 24
Prime Minister - Italy
Saad Zaghloul age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Takahashi Korekiyo age 38
Prime Minister - Japan
Giuseppe Zanardelli age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Kōki Hirota age 15
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 22
President - International Olympic Committee
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 25
Prime Minister - Japan
Katō Tomosaburō age 32
Prime Minister - Japan
Kiyoura Keigo age 43
Prime Minister - Japan
Okada Keisuke age 25
Prime Minister - Japan
Senjūrō Hayashi age 17
Prime Minister - Japan
Mitsumasa Yonai age 13
Prime Minister - Japan
Ferruccio Parri age 3
Prime Minister - Italy
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 17
President - International Olympic Committee
Wakatsuki Reijirō age 27
Prime Minister - Japan
Hamaguchi Osachi age 23
Prime Minister - Japan
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Luzzatti age 52
Prime Minister - Italy
René Viviani age 29
Prime Minister - France
Giuseppe Saracco age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Alessandro Fortis age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Louis Botha age 30
Prime Minister - South Africa
Tommaso Tittoni age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
T. V. Soong age 1
Premier - Republic of China
W. T. Cosgrave age 12
Taoiseach - Ireland
Luigi Pelloux age 54
Prime Minister - Italy
Ignacy Daszyński age 26
Prime Minister - Poland
Nubar Pasha age 68
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hashim al-Atassi age 17
Prime Minister - Syria
Władysław Grabski age 18
Prime Minister - Poland
J. B. M. Hertzog age 27
Prime Minister - South Africa
Dušan Simović age 10
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Anton Korošec age 20
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Boutros Ghali age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Dragiša Cvetković age 2 months
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
H. H. Kung age 11
Premier - Republic of China
Stanisław Mikołajczyk born 1901-07-18
Prime Minister - Poland
Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth age 16
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Carlos Prío Socarrás born 1903-07-14
Prime Minister - Cuba
Kazimierz Bartel age 11
Prime Minister - Poland
Joseph Avenol age 13
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 13
Prime Minister - Egypt
Aleksander Skrzyński age 11
Prime Minister - Poland
Subhi Bey Barakat age 4
Prime Minister - Syria
Jędrzej Moraczewski age 23
Prime Minister - Poland
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski age 7
Prime Minister - Poland
Petar Živković age 14
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Walery Sławek age 13
Prime Minister - Poland
Seán Lester age 4
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Jamil Mardam Bey age 3 months
Prime Minister - Syria
Sun Fo age 1
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 4
Prime Minister - Egypt
Khalid al-Azm born 1895-01-01
Prime Minister - Syria
Aleksander Prystor age 19
Prime Minister - Poland
Julian Nowak age 28
Prime Minister - Poland
Kazimierz Świtalski age 7
Prime Minister - Poland
Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski age 1
Prime Minister - Poland
Botho zu Eulenburg age 61
Minister-President - Kingdom of Prussia
Aly Maher Pasha age 11
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Adli Yakan age 29
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 15
Prime Minister - Syria
Ata al-Ayyubi age 16
Prime Minister - Syria
Rida al-Rikabi age 29
Prime Minister - Syria
Antoni Ponikowski age 14
Prime Minister - Poland
Janusz Jędrzejewicz age 7
Prime Minister - Poland
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 1
Prime Minister - Egypt
Taj al-Din al-Hasani age 8
Prime Minister - Syria
Xiong Xiling age 23
Premier - Republic of China
Tan Yankai age 13
Premier - Republic of China
Artur Śliwiński age 15
Prime Minister - Poland
Riyad Pasha age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 17
Prime Minister - Egypt
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 5 months
Prime Minister - Syria
ʿAbd al-Khaliq Tharwat age 20
Prime Minister - Egypt
Husayn Rushdi age 30
Prime Minister - Egypt
Yusef Wahba age 41
Prime Minister - Egypt
Jamil al-Elshi age 10
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez born 1900-11-20
Prime Minister - Cuba
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas born 1900-10-13
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ramón Zaydín born 1895-01-01
Prime Minister - Cuba
Hassan Sabry Pasha age 18
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha age 16
Prime Minister - Egypt
Haqqi al-Azm age 28
Prime Minister - Syria
Nasuhi al-Bukhari age 12
Prime Minister - Syria
Lutfi al-Haffar age 5
Prime Minister - Syria
Li Jingxi age 34
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha age 18
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ahmad Ziwar age 29
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhammad Said Pasha age 30
Prime Minister - Egypt
Husni al-Barazi born 1895-01-01
Prime Minister - Syria
Hassan al-Hakim age 7
Prime Minister - Syria
Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 17
Prime Minister - Egypt
Wang Zhengting age 11
Premier - Republic of China
Yahya Ibrahim Pasha age 32
Prime Minister - Egypt
Miloš Trifunović age 21
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Leopold Skulski age 15
Prime Minister - Poland
Wincenty Witos age 19
Prime Minister - Poland
Stojan Protić age 36
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Ljubomir Davidović age 29
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Milenko Vesnić age 30
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Nikola Uzunović age 19
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Velimir Vukićević age 21
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Vojislav Marinković age 16
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Milan Srškić age 13
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Milan Stojadinović age 4
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Slobodan Jovanović age 23
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Božidar Purić age 2
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Ivan Šubašić age 11 months
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Charles Evans Hughes age 31
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Edward Douglass White age 47
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone age 20
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Melville Fuller age 60
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Charles G. Dawes age 27
Vice President - United States
Henry A. Wallace age 4
Vice President - United States
John Nance Garner age 24
Vice President - United States
Charles Curtis age 33
Vice President - United States
Thomas R. Marshall age 39
Vice President - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 40
Vice President - United States
Garret Hobart age 48
Vice President - United States
James S. Sherman age 37
Vice President - United States
Adlai Stevenson I age 57
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping born 1904-08-22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai born 1898-10-24
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 7
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi born 1901-08-26
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 17
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long born 1896-03-22
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen born 1899-12-29
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 2
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Heinrich Himmler born 1900-10-07
Reichsminister - Germany
Douglas MacArthur age 13
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Hermann Göring age 2 months
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 12
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Harold Macmillan born 1894-02-10
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Rudolf Hess born 1894-04-26
Reichsminister - Germany
Cordell Hull age 21
Secretary of State - United States
George Curzon age 34
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
John J. Pershing age 32
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Elihu Root age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Frank B. Kellogg age 36
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 16
Reichsminister - Germany
Arthur Henderson age 29
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 42
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 33
Secretary of State - United States
Joseph Chamberlain age 56
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry L. Stimson age 25
Secretary of State - United States
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 11
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
James F. Byrnes age 10
Secretary of State - United States
Robert H. Jackson age 1
Attorney General - United States
Dwight F. Davis age 13
Secretary of War - United States
John Hay age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Lansing age 28
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 1
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Andrew Mellon age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Matthias Erzberger age 17
Reichsminister - Germany
John Sherman age 69
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Groener age 25
Reichsminister - Germany
Edward Stettinius Jr. born 1900-10-22
Secretary of State - United States
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield age 33
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 22
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 48
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 3
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Q. Gresham age 61
Secretary of State - United States
William R. Day age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Bainbridge Colby age 23
Secretary of State - United States
Leonard Wood age 32
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Richard Olney age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Robert Bacon age 32
Secretary of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 39
Secretary of State - United States
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 41
Attorney General - United States
Francis Biddle age 6
Attorney General - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 29
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Carson age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 20
Home Secretary - United Kingdom