Explore January 24, 1898 – May 22, 1946

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Events

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12

Progressive era 1896 - 1916

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 San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01

Battle of El Caney 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

Battle of Manila (1899) 1899-02-04 - 1899-02-05

Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02

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

Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05

Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09

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

Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16

Bloody Sunday 1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22

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 Sarantaporo 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-23

Battle of Kirk Kilisse 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-24

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

Siege of Adrianople (1912–1913) 1912-11-03 - 1913-03-26

Battle of Prilep 1912-11-03 - 1912-11-05

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

July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28

World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11

Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24

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 Charleroi 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23

Battle of the Ardennes 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23

Battle of Galicia 1914-08-23 - 1914-09-11

Battle of Mons 1914-08-23 - 1914-08-23

Battle of Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26

Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30

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 Anzac Cove 1915-04-25 - 1915-05-03

Landing at Cape Helles 1915-04-25 - 1915-04-26

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

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 Arras (1917) 1917-04-09 - 1917-05-16

Battle of Vimy Ridge 1917-04-09 - 1917-04-12

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

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11

Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09

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

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07

Nanchang Uprising 1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05

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

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 Xuzhou 1937-12-01 - 1938-05-19

Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13

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

Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06

World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02

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

Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07

Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02

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

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

Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17

Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02

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

Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03

Manila massacre 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

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

Second Battle of Siping 1946-04-17 - 1946-05-19

International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12

People

William Henry Moody age 44

Attorney General - United States

Tasker H. Bliss age 44

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Ogden L. Mills age 13

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

L. M. Shaw age 49

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Luke Edward Wright age 51

Secretary of War - United States

Patrick J. Hurley age 15

Secretary of War - United States

Eric Geddes age 22

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 12

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

Homer Stille Cummings age 27

Attorney General - United States

Lyman J. Gage age 61

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 15

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

Jacob M. Dickinson age 47

Secretary of War - United States

Franklin MacVeagh age 60

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

David F. Houston age 31

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Leslie Hore-Belisha age 4

Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom

Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn age 60

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

William H. Woodin age 29

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 43

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

James Clark McReynolds age 35

Attorney General - United States

A. Mitchell Palmer age 25

Attorney General - United States

J. R. Clynes age 28

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne age 38

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

Peyton C. March age 33

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 25

Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom

Brendan Bracken born 1901-02-15

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

John G. Sargent age 37

Attorney General - United States

Malin Craig age 22

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 33

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

William D. Mitchell age 23

Attorney General - United States

Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 26

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 29

Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom

Hugh L. Scott age 44

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Frank Polk age 26

Secretary of State - United States

Charles Pelot Summerall age 30

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 7

Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom

Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 21

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Thomas Watt Gregory age 36

Attorney General - United States

John W. Griggs age 48

Attorney General - United States

Samuel Baldwin Marks Young age 57

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee age 59

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley age 55

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

John C. Bates age 55

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Laming Worthington-Evans age 29

Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom

Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 48

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 41

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 29

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope age 17

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 20

Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom

William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 32

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

William Wallace Wotherspoon age 47

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

J. Franklin Bell age 42

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Edward Shortt age 35

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

John L. Hines age 29

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Francis Butler Loomis age 36

Secretary of State - United States

Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 46

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

James Chuter Ede age 15

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 8

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Austen Chamberlain age 34

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

Wilhelm Stuckart born 1902-11-16

Reichsminister - Germany

J. Edgar Hoover age 3

Director of the FBI - Department of Justice

Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 33

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Oswald Mosley age 1

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Stafford Cripps age 8

President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom

Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 18

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Edwin Montagu age 18

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede age 26

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

John Burns age 39

President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom

Hugh Dalton age 10

President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom

Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian age 15

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

William Harcourt age 70

Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom

Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey age 20

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 4

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood age 25

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

William Peel, 1st Earl Peel age 31

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury age 36

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Charles Masterman age 24

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes age 18

President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom

Ernest Brown age 16

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun age 36

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford age 69

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton age 67

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton age 14

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford age 26

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

William Graham age 10

President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom

William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 48

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice age 51

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford age 38

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter age 16

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

John Hynd born 1902-04-04

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon age 26

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Charles Hobhouse age 35

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Thomas McKinnon Wood age 43

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley age 47

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

J. C. C. Davidson age 8

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

William Sutherland age 17

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham age 45

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Keir Hardie age 41

Leader - Labour Party (UK)

George Barnes age 39

Leader - Labour Party (UK)

William Adamson age 34

Leader - Labour Party (UK)

George Lansbury age 38

Leader - Labour Party (UK)

Clement Davies age 13

Leader - Liberal Party (UK)

John Langalibalele Dube age 26

President - African National Congress

Sefako Makgatho age 37

President - African National Congress

Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 16

President - African National Congress

Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 30

President - African National Congress

Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 17

President - African National Congress

Alfred Bitini Xuma age 4

President - African National Congress

Edward Martyn age 39

President - Sinn Féin

John Sweetman age 53

President - Sinn Féin

Arthur Griffith age 26

President - Sinn Féin

John J. O'Kelly age 25

President - Sinn Féin

Brian O'Higgins age 15

President - Sinn Féin

Michael O'Flanagan age 21

President - Sinn Féin

Cathal Ó Murchadha age 17

President - Sinn Féin

Margaret Buckley age 18

President - Sinn Féin

J. Howard McGrath born 1903-11-28

Solicitor General - Department of Justice

Alben W. Barkley age 20

Senate - United States

Redfield Proctor age 66

Senate - United States

Stephen B. Elkins age 56

Senate - United States

Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908-08-27

House of Representatives - United States

Anthony Eden age 7 months

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Harold Wilson born 1916-03-11

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

James Callaghan born 1912-03-27

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Alec Douglas-Home born 1903-07-02

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

George Reid age 52

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Seán T. O'Kelly age 15

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Christian Herter age 2

House of Representatives - United States

Rab Butler born 1902-12-09

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Hugh Gaitskell born 1906-04-09

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 37

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 31

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone born 1907-10-09

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Lord George Hamilton age 52

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 36

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir born 1900-05-29

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster age 32

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Duncan Sandys born 1908-01-24

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar age 37

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

John Alexander McClernand age 85

House of Representatives - United States

Joseph W. Barr born 1918-01-17

House of Representatives - United States

Manny Shinwell age 13

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote age 51

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle born 1909-05-23

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory born 1899-12-26

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Gwilym Lloyd George age 3

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Peter Thorneycroft born 1909-07-26

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

James P. McGranery age 2

House of Representatives - United States

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 23

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 16

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe age 30

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Frank Soskice born 1902-07-23

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Jim Griffiths age 7

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor born 1903-04-09

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin born 1903-10-13

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

George Brown born 1914-09-02

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Michael Foot born 1913-07-23

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 25

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Charles Townshend age 36

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Joseph Wheeler age 61

House of Representatives - United States

Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 33

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Ernest Bevin age 16

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet age 33

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild age 29

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll age 52

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Earl Warren age 6

Governor of California - United States

Al Smith age 24

Governor of New York - United States

Thomas E. Dewey born 1902-03-24

Governor of New York - United States

Hiram Johnson age 31

Governor of California - United States

Miriam A. Ferguson age 22

Governor of Texas - United States

James M. Cox age 27

Governor of Ohio - United States

Richard Russell Jr. age 2 months

Governor of Georgia - United States

Herbert H. Lehman age 19

Governor of New York - United States

John W. Bricker age 4

Governor of Ohio - United States

Joseph T. Robinson age 25

Governor of Arkansas - United States

Harry F. Byrd age 10

Governor of Virginia - United States

Judson Harmon age 52

Governor of Ohio - United States

Jeff Davis age 35

Governor of Arkansas - United States

James Rolph age 28

Governor of California - United States

C. C. Young age 28

Governor of California - United States

Claude A. Swanson age 35

Governor of Virginia - United States

Charles Edison age 7

Governor of New Jersey - United States

James E. Ferguson age 26

Governor of Texas - United States

Charles A. Culberson age 42

Governor of Texas - United States

John Garland Pollard age 26

Governor of Virginia - United States

Friend Richardson age 32

Governor of California - United States

Charles Poletti born 1903-07-02

Governor of New York - United States

James Budd age 46

Governor of California - United States

W. Lee O'Daniel age 7

Governor of Texas - United States

Frank Merriam age 32

Governor of California - United States

James Gillett age 37

Governor of California - United States

Culbert Olson age 21

Governor of California - United States

William Stephens age 38

Governor of California - United States

Frank B. Willis age 26

Governor of Ohio - United States

Frank Lausche age 2

Governor of Ohio - United States

Charles Hillman Brough age 21

Governor of Arkansas - United States

Winthrop M. Crane age 44

Governor of Massachusetts - United States

Robert Love Taylor age 47

Governor of Tennessee - United States

James Michael Curley age 23

Governor of Massachusetts - United States

John Walter Smith age 53

Governor of Maryland - United States

Phillips Lee Goldsborough age 32

Governor of Maryland - United States

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