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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

Soviet–Japanese border conflicts 1932-03-01 - 1939-09-16

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 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

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

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

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

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

Alfredo Baldomir age 38

President - Uruguay

Juan José de Amézaga age 42

President - Uruguay

Isaías Medina Angarita age 25

President - Venezuela

Higinio Morínigo age 26

President - Paraguay

Eligio Ayala age 43

President - Paraguay

Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez age 64

President - Colombia

Carlos Arroyo age 29

President - Ecuador

Josip Vidmar age 27

President - Slovenia

Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 33

President - Switzerland

Edmund Schulthess age 54

President - Switzerland

Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 25

President - Uruguay

Harmodio Arias Madrid age 36

President - Panama

Rafael Franco age 26

President - Paraguay

Gustavo Jiménez age 36

President - Peru

Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 22

President - Costa Rica

José Luis Tejada Sorzano age 41

President - Bolivia

David Toro age 24

President - Bolivia

Miguel Abadía Méndez age 55

President - Colombia

Teodoro Picado Michalski age 23

President - Costa Rica

Émile Eddé age 39

President - Lebanon

Emiliano Chamorro Vargas age 51

President - Nicaragua

José María Moncada age 52

President - Nicaragua

Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 68

Emir - Qatar

Albert Meyer age 52

President - Switzerland

Johannes Baumann age 48

President - Switzerland

Tomás Berreta age 47

President - Uruguay

Luis Alberto Riart age 42

President - Paraguay

Emiliano González Navero age 61

President - Paraguay

Néstor Guillén age 33

President - Bolivia

Tomás Monje age 38

President - Bolivia

Carlos Quintanilla age 35

President - Bolivia

Julio Acosta García age 50

President - Costa Rica

Gonzalo Córdova age 59

President - Ecuador

Ernst Wetter age 45

President - Switzerland

Félix Paiva age 45

President - Paraguay

David Samanez Ocampo age 56

President - Peru

Juan Esteban Montero age 43

President - Chile

Enrique Olaya Herrera age 42

President - Colombia

Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno age 64

President - Costa Rica

León Cortés Castro age 40

President - Costa Rica

Horacio Vásquez age 62

President - Dominican Republic

Louis Eugene Roy age 62

President - Haiti

Élie Lescot age 39

President - Haiti

Karl Kobelt age 31

President - Switzerland

Rudolf Minger age 41

President - Switzerland

Karl Scheurer age 50

President - Switzerland

Robert Haab age 57

President - Switzerland

Ernest Chuard age 65

President - Switzerland

Eduard von Steiger age 41

President - Switzerland

Enrico Celio age 33

President - Switzerland

Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované age 40

President - Panama

Carlos Dávila age 35

President - Chile

Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 44

President - El Salvador

Stenio Vincent age 48

President - Haiti

Louis Borno age 57

President - Haiti

Pauls Kalniņš age 50

President - Latvia

Charles Debbas age 38

President - Lebanon

Alfred Naqqache age 34

President - Lebanon

Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 21

Regent - Lesotho

Carlos José Solórzano age 63

President - Nicaragua

Jean-Marie Musy age 46

President - Switzerland

Walther Stampfli age 38

President - Switzerland

Manuel María Ponce Brousset age 48

President - Peru

Carlos Blanco Galindo age 40

President - Bolivia

Felipe S. Guzmán age 44

President - Bolivia

Federico Páez age 46

President - Ecuador

Jorge Meléndez Ramírez age 51

President - El Salvador

Franck Lavaud age 19

President - Haiti

Rafael López Gutiérrez age 67

President - Honduras

Habib Pacha Es-Saad age 56

President - Lebanon

Luis Altamirano age 55

President - Chile

Bartolomé Blanche age 43

President - Chile

Cleto González Víquez age 64

President - Costa Rica

Arturo Araujo age 45

President - El Salvador

Alfonso Quiñónez Molina age 49

President - El Salvador

Vicente Mejía Colindres age 44

President - Honduras

Petro Trad age 47

President - Lebanon

Diego Manuel Chamorro age 61

President - Nicaragua

Giuliano Gozi age 28

Captain Regent - San Marino

Isa I of Bahrain age 75

Hakim - Bahrain

Pedro Opaso age 46

President - Chile

Andrés F. Córdova age 30

President - Ecuador

Antonio Pons age 25

President - Ecuador

Julio Enrique Moreno age 44

President - Ecuador

Pío Romero Bosque age 63

President - El Salvador

Miguel Paz Barahona age 59

President - Honduras

Ayoub Tabet age 49

President - Lebanon

Hamad I of Bahrain age 51

Hakim - Bahrain

Seeiso of Basutoland age 18

King - Lesotho

Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 50

President - Nicaragua

Rodolfo Chiari age 53

President - Panama

Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 35

President - Panama

Vicente Tosta age 41

President - Honduras

Navaandorjiin Jadambaa age 23

President - Mongolia

Bartolomé Martínez age 49

President - Nicaragua

Pedro Dartnell age 49

President - Chile

Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 41

President - Mongolia

Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 47

President - Nicaragua

Emilio Bello Codesido age 54

President - Chile

Gabasheane Masupha age 19

King - Lesotho

Dansranbilegiin Dogsom age 39

President - Mongolia

Carlos Alberto Brenes age 38

President - Nicaragua

Sebastián Uriza age 62

President - Nicaragua

Miha Marinko age 22

President - Slovenia

Abd-al Karim age 26

Emir - Afghanistan

Jamtsangiin Damdinsüren age 25

President - Mongolia

Losolyn Laagan age 36

President - Mongolia

Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 29

President - Nicaragua

Rosendo Chamorro age 61

President - Nicaragua

Mariano Holguín age 62

President - Peru

Francisco Bueso age 63

President - Honduras

Julián Irías Sandres age 43

President - Nicaragua

Giuseppe Forcellini age 22

Captain Regent - San Marino

Ezio Balducci age 19

Captain Regent - San Marino

Vincenzo Pedini age 2

Captain Regent - San Marino

Alvaro Casali age 27

Captain Regent - San Marino

Francesco Balsimelli age 29

Captain Regent - San Marino

Enver Hoxha age 14

Prime Minister - Albania

António de Oliveira Salazar age 33

Prime Minister - Portugal

Celâl Bayar age 39

Prime Minister - Turkey

Georgi Dimitrov age 40

Prime Minister - Bulgaria

Ion Antonescu age 40

Prime Minister - Romania

Pridi Banomyong age 22

Prime Minister - Thailand

Eleftherios Venizelos age 58

Prime Minister - Greece

Hjalmar Branting age 62

Prime Minister - Sweden

Manuel Azaña age 43

Prime Minister - Spain

Engelbert Dollfuss age 30

Chancellor - Austria

Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella age 53

Prime Minister - Spain

Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 30

Chancellor - Austria

Liaquat Ali Khan age 27

Prime Minister - Pakistan

Paul-Henri Spaak age 24

Prime Minister - Belgium

Kurt Schuschnigg age 25

Chancellor - Austria

Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 25

Prime Minister - Thailand

Ioannis Metaxas age 51

Prime Minister - Greece

Billy Hughes age 60

Prime Minister - Australia

William Lyon Mackenzie King age 48

Prime Minister - Canada

Milovan Đilas age 11

Prime Minister - Montenegro

Nicolae Iorga age 51

Prime Minister - Romania

Robert Menzies age 28

Prime Minister - Australia

Francisco Largo Caballero age 53

Prime Minister - Spain

John Curtin age 38

Prime Minister - Australia

Ferenc Szálasi age 26

Prime Minister - Hungary

Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 28

Prime Minister - Iceland

Einar Gerhardsen age 25

Prime Minister - Norway

Tage Erlander age 21

Prime Minister - Sweden

Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 27

Prime Minister - Mongolia

Arthur Meighen age 48

Prime Minister - Canada

Georgios Papandreou age 34

Prime Minister - Greece

Earle Page age 42

Prime Minister - Australia

Pál Teleki age 43

Prime Minister - Hungary

Per Albin Hansson age 37

Prime Minister - Sweden

Niceto Alcalá-Zamora age 45

Prime Minister - Spain

S. M. Bruce age 39

Prime Minister - Australia

Richard Bedford Bennett age 52

Prime Minister - Canada

Fan S. Noli age 41

Prime Minister - Albania

James Scullin age 46

Prime Minister - Australia

Arthur Fadden age 28

Prime Minister - Australia

Ben Chifley age 37

Prime Minister - Australia

Joseph Lyons age 43

Prime Minister - Australia

Juan Negrín age 31

Prime Minister - Spain

Väinö Tanner age 41

Prime Minister - Finland

Aimo Cajander age 43

Prime Minister - Finland

Petru Groza age 38

Prime Minister - Romania

Thorvald Stauning age 49

Prime Minister - Denmark

Ali Fethi Okyar age 42

Prime Minister - Turkey

Aleksandar Stamboliyski age 43

Prime Minister - Bulgaria

Alexandru Averescu age 63

Prime Minister - Romania

Frank Forde age 32

Prime Minister - Australia

Leopold Figl age 20

Chancellor - Austria

Lauri Ingman age 54

Prime Minister - Finland

Zoltán Tildy age 33

Prime Minister - Hungary

Gyula Gömbös age 36

Prime Minister - Hungary

Johan Nygaardsvold age 43

Prime Minister - Norway

Döme Sztójay age 40

Prime Minister - Hungary

Rashid Ali al-Gaylani age 31

Prime Minister - Iraq

Christian Rakovsky age 49

Prime Minister - Ukraine

Toivo Mikael Kivimäki age 36

Prime Minister - Finland

Rickard Sandler age 39

Prime Minister - Sweden

Carl Gustaf Ekman age 50

Prime Minister - Sweden

Felix Hamrin age 48

Prime Minister - Sweden

Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp age 39

Prime Minister - Sweden

Arvid Lindman age 60

Prime Minister - Sweden

Achille Van Acker age 24

Prime Minister - Belgium

Jüri Uluots age 33

Prime Minister - Estonia

Mauno Pekkala age 33

Prime Minister - Finland

István Bethlen age 48

Prime Minister - Hungary

Nuri as-Said age 35

Prime Minister - Iraq

Augustinas Voldemaras age 39

Prime Minister - Lithuania

Johan Ludwig Mowinckel age 52

Prime Minister - Norway

Ion I. C. Brătianu age 58

Prime Minister - Romania

Octavian Goga age 41

Prime Minister - Romania

Bogdan Filov age 39

Prime Minister - Bulgaria

Kaarel Eenpalu age 34

Prime Minister - Estonia

Juho Sunila age 47

Prime Minister - Finland

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy age 37

Prime Minister - Netherlands

Joseph Bech age 35

Prime Minister - Luxembourg

Kimon Georgiev age 40

Prime Minister - Bulgaria

László Bárdossy age 32

Prime Minister - Hungary

Géza Lakatos age 32

Prime Minister - Hungary

Ólafur Thors age 31

Prime Minister - Iceland

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