✦ History

Explore January 31, 1923 – October 31, 1947

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Events

Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Irish Civil War 1922-06-28 - 1923-05-24
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
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
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
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
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
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
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
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
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
Second Battle of Siping 1946-04-17 - 1946-05-19
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Direct Action Day 1946-08-16
Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Yan'an 1947-03-13 - 1947-03-19
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Menglianggu Campaign 1947-05-13 - 1947-05-16
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01

People

Culbert Olson age 46
Governor of California - United States
Frank Lausche age 27
Governor of Ohio - United States
James Michael Curley age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 30
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Walter E. Edge age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Albert Ritchie age 46
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas C. McRae age 71
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 28
Governor of Arkansas - United States
George White (Ohio politician) age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
James V. Allred age 23
Governor of Texas - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 34
Governor of Texas - United States
James Hubert Price age 44
Governor of Virginia - United States
Beauford H. Jester age 30
Governor of Texas - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 21
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Ross S. Sterling age 48
Governor of Texas - United States
Dan Moody age 29
Governor of Texas - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 26
Governor of Maryland - United States
John Ellis Martineau age 49
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Channing H. Cox age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Alvan T. Fuller age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas J. Herbert age 28
Governor of Ohio - United States
A. Harry Moore age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Vic Donahey age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
E. Lee Trinkle age 46
Governor of Virginia - United States
George C. Peery age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
Pat Morris Neff age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
Colgate Darden age 25
Governor of Virginia - United States
Frank G. Allen age 48
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 32
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 26
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Tom Terral age 40
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert F. Bradford age 20
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Junius Marion Futrell age 52
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles F. Hurley age 29
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Joseph B. Ely age 41
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William M. Tuck age 26
Governor of Virginia - United States
Harvey Parnell age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Martin L. Davey age 38
Governor of Ohio - United States
Emmett Forest Branch age 48
Governor of Indiana - United States
William Preston Lane Jr. age 30
Governor of Maryland - United States
Paul V. McNutt age 31
Governor of Indiana - United States
Edward L. Jackson age 49
Governor of Indiana - United States
Harold G. Hoffman age 26
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 20
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Harry Nice age 45
Governor of Maryland - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 39
Governor of Indiana - United States
Hill McAlister age 47
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Myers Y. Cooper age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 38
Governor of Indiana - United States
Harry G. Leslie age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 29
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Sebastian Silzer age 52
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Warren T. McCray age 58
Governor of Indiana - United States
Clifford Ross Powell age 29
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Morgan Foster Larson age 40
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Horace Griggs Prall age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Barber Conable age 3 months
New York State Senate - United States
Mahatma Gandhi age 53
President - Indian National Congress
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 42
President - Turkey
Bhumibol Adulyadej born 1927-12-05
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 30
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 21
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 46
Pope - Vatican City
Pius XI age 65
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 47
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 27
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 3 months
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 55
President - Finland
İsmet İnönü age 38
President - Turkey
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 47
President - Indian National Congress
Alfonso XIII age 36
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 42
Queen - Netherlands
Subhas Chandra Bose age 26
President - Indian National Congress
Haakon VII of Norway age 50
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 41
King - Jordan
Gustaf V of Sweden age 64
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 52
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 1
King - Kingdom of Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 52
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 23
King - Denmark
Zog I of Albania age 27
President - Albania
Karl Renner age 52
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 31
President - Dominican Republic
Ananda Mahidol born 1925-09-20
King - Thailand
Ferdinand I of Romania age 57
King - Kingdom of Romania
Konstantin Päts age 48
President - Estonia
Jozef Tiso age 35
President - Slovakia
Prajadhipok age 29
King - Thailand
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 58
President - Finland
Mohammed V of Morocco age 13
Sultan - Morocco
Vajiravudh age 42
King - Thailand
Manuel L. Quezon age 44
President - Philippines
Risto Ryti age 34
President - Finland
Antanas Smetona age 48
President - Lithuania
Bolesław Bierut age 30
President - Poland
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 61
President - Finland
Douglas Hyde age 63
President - Ireland
Sveinn Björnsson age 41
President - Iceland
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 72
President - Argentina
Kārlis Ulmanis age 45
President - Latvia
Kyösti Kallio age 49
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 29
King - Kingdom of Romania
Lauri Kristian Relander age 39
President - Finland
Manuel Roxas age 31
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 27
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 23
King - Eswatini
Rómulo Betancourt age 14
President - Venezuela
Ignacy Mościcki age 55
President - Poland
José Paciano Laurel age 31
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 44
President - Philippines
Jānis Čakste age 63
President - Latvia
Ugyen Wangchuck age 60
King - Bhutan
Anastasio Somoza García age 27
President - Nicaragua
Michael Hainisch age 64
President - Austria
William Tubman age 27
President - Liberia
Kazys Grinius age 56
President - Lithuania
Óscar Carmona age 53
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 54
President - Chile
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 37
President - Lithuania
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 52
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 12
Sultan - Oman
Juan Vicente Gómez age 65
President - Venezuela
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 38
President - Poland
William, Prince of Albania age 46
King - Albania
Jigme Wangchuck age 18
King - Bhutan
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 53
President - Poland
Alexandros Zaimis age 67
President - Greece
Seán T. O'Kelly age 40
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 24
President - Chile
Bernardino Machado age 71
President - Portugal
José Félix Uriburu age 54
President - Argentina
Agustín Pedro Justo age 46
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 40
President - El Salvador
Yusef of Morocco age 41
Sultan - Morocco
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 54
President - Argentina
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 45
President - Chile
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 44
President - Chile
Gustavs Zemgals age 51
President - Latvia
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 33
President - Peru
Alberts Kviesis age 41
President - Latvia
Bechara El Khoury age 32
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 22
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 35
President - Argentina
Sisowath Monivong age 47
King - Cambodia
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 60
President - Portugal
Augusto Leguía age 59
President - Peru
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 36
President - Argentina
Arnulfo Arias age 21
President - Panama
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 29
President - Peru
Ramón Castillo age 49
President - Argentina
Theodoros Pangalos age 45
President - Greece
Charles D. B. King age 47
President - Liberia
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 39
President - Portugal
Maciej Rataj age 38
President - Poland
Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro age 33
President - Peru
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 35
Viceroy - British Raj
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 39
President - Argentina
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 31
President - Colombia
Pavlos Kountouriotis age 69
President - Greece
Tiburcio Carías age 46
President - Honduras
Edwin Barclay age 41
President - Liberia
Antanas Merkys age 35
President - Lithuania
António José de Almeida age 56
President - Portugal
José Félix Estigarribia age 34
President - Paraguay
Óscar R. Benavides age 46
President - Peru
Omer Nishani age 36
President - Albania
Gualberto Villarroel age 14
President - Bolivia
Taimur bin Faisal Al Said age 37
Sultan - Oman
Giuseppe Motta age 51
President - Switzerland
Eleazar López Contreras age 39
President - Venezuela
Eusebio Ayala age 47
President - Paraguay
Sisowath of Cambodia age 82
King - Cambodia
Daniel Salamanca Urey age 53
President - Bolivia
Eduardo Santos age 34
President - Colombia
Juan Bautista Pérez age 53
President - Venezuela
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading age 62
Viceroy - British Raj
Enrique Peñaranda age 29
President - Bolivia
Enrique Hertzog age 25
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 34
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 37
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 38
Emir - Kuwait
Jonas Staugaitis age 54
President - Lithuania
Manuel Teixeira Gomes age 62
President - Portugal
Baltasar Brum age 39
President - Uruguay
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
Emiliano Figueroa age 56
President - Chile
Dumarsais Estimé age 22
President - Haiti
Justas Paleckis age 24
President - Lithuania
Juan Bautista Sacasa age 48
President - Nicaragua
José Patricio Guggiari age 38
President - Paraguay
Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias age 48
President - Peru
Arturo Rawson age 37
President - Argentina
Bautista Saavedra age 52
President - Bolivia
Hernando Siles Reyes age 40
President - Bolivia
Germán Busch age 19
President - Bolivia
Isidro Ayora age 43
President - Ecuador
Adolfo Díaz age 47
President - Nicaragua
Philipp Etter age 31
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 38
President - Uruguay
Juan José de Amézaga age 42
President - Uruguay