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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
1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Philippine-American War
1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War
1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
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
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
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
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 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 Łódź (1914)
1914-11-11 - 1914-12-06
Armenian genocide
1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01
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
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
Second Battle of Champagne
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Third Battle of Artois
1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
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
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 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
Russian Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
February Revolution
1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16
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
Russian Civil War
1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
October Revolution
1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08
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 - 1918-07-18
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
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
1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31
Polish–Soviet War
1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
1919-04-13 - 1919-04-13
Amritsar massacre
1919-04-13
Polish–Lithuanian War
1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
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
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Founding of the League of Nations
1920-01-10
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
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
Beer Hall Putsch
1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Abolition of the Ottoman caliphate
1924-03-03
Mein Kampf published
1925-07-18
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
Discovery of penicillin
1928-09-28
Central Plains War
1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday
1929-10-29
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
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident
1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
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
1942-01-01 - 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
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
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
Vienna offensive
1945-03-16 - 1945-04-15
Western Allied invasion of Germany
1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa
1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
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
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
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
Battle of Badgam
1947-11-03 - 1947-11-03
Battle of Shalateng
1947-11-07 - 1947-11-07
UN Partition Plan for Palestine
1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Siege of Skardu
1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan
1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
1948-05-14
Israeli Declaration of Independence
1948-05-14
Battle of Jerusalem (1948)
1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Battles of the Kinarot Valley
1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Siege of Changchun
1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun
1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid
1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Operation Pleshet
1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03
Berlin Blockade
1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign
1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Taiyuan Campaign
1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Operation Yoav
1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Operation Hiram
1948-10-29 - 1948-10-31
Huaihai Campaign
1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign
1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1948-12-10
Operation Horev
1948-12-22 - 1949-01-07
Operation Uvda
1949-03-05 - 1949-03-10
1949 Syrian coup d'état
1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty
1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Yangtze River Crossing campaign
1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02
Shanghai Campaign
1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China
1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01
Battle of Guningtou
1949-10-25 - 1949-10-27
Battle of Dengbu Island
1949-11-03 - 1949-11-05
Chengdu Campaign
1949-12-11 - 1949-12-27
Korean War
1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of the Pusan Perimeter
1950-08-04 - 1950-09-18
Battle of Inchon
1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19
Second Battle of Seoul
1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River
1950-11-25 - 1950-12-02
Battle of Chosin Reservoir
1950-11-27 - 1950-12-13
Treaty of Paris (1951)
1951-04-18
Decolonisation of Africa
1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising
1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Discovery of the structure of DNA
1953-04-25
Cuban Revolution
1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Korean Armistice Agreement
1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état
1954-02-01
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
Brown v. Board of Education
1954-05-17
Civil rights movement
1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis
1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Algerian War of Independence
1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Toussaint Rouge
1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
People
Adolf Hitler
age 12
Führer
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Germany
Joseph Stalin
age 22
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Elizabeth II
born 1926-04-21
Queen
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United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 19
President
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United States
Mao Zedong
age 7
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Harry S. Truman
age 17
President
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United States
Theodore Roosevelt
age 42
President
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 10
President
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United States
Woodrow Wilson
age 44
President
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United States
Nikita Khrushchev
age 7
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Herbert Hoover
age 27
President
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United States
Calvin Coolidge
age 29
President
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United States
Hirohito
age 5 months
Emperor
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Japan
Ho Chi Minh
age 11
President
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Vietnam
Sun Yat-sen
age 34
Provisional President
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Republic of China
William Howard Taft
age 44
President
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United States
Warren G. Harding
age 35
President
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United States
Chiang Kai-shek
age 13
President
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Republic of China
Wilhelm II
age 42
Emperor
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German Empire
Josip Broz Tito
age 9
President
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Yugoslavia
George VI
age 5
King
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United Kingdom
Haile Selassie
age 9
Emperor
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Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
born 1919-10-26
Shah
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Iran
George V
age 36
King
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United Kingdom
Edward VIII
age 7
King
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United Kingdom
Paul von Hindenburg
age 54
Reich President
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Germany
Edward VII
age 59
King
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United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II
age 59
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Philippe Pétain
age 45
Chief of the French State
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Vichy France
Leopold II of Belgium
age 66
Monarch
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Belgium
Emperor Meiji
age 48
Emperor
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Japan
Karl Dönitz
age 10
Reich President
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Germany
Fulgencio Batista
age 8 months
President
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Cuba
Puyi
born 1906-02-07
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Imperial China
Reza Shah
age 23
Shah
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Iran
Getúlio Vargas
age 19
President
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Brazil
Mehmed VI
age 40
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Porfirio Díaz
age 71
President
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Mexico
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age 41
President
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France
Friedrich Ebert
age 30
Reich President
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Germany
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
age 31
King
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Italy
Walter Ulbricht
age 8
First Secretary
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East Germany
Emperor Taishō
age 22
Emperor
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Japan
Mehmed V
age 56
Sultan
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Ottoman Empire
Charles I of Austria
age 14
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Umberto II of Italy
born 1904-09-15
King
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Italy
Albert I of Belgium
age 26
Monarch
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Belgium
Leopold III of Belgium
born 1901-11-03
Monarch
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Belgium
Theodor Heuss
age 17
President
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Germany
Baudouin of Belgium
born 1930-09-07
Monarch
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Belgium
Francisco I. Madero
age 27
President
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Mexico
Alexandre Millerand
age 42
President
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France
Vincent Auriol
age 17
President
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France
Farouk of Egypt
born 1920-02-11
King
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Kingdom of Egypt
Yuan Shikai
age 42
President
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Republic of China
Paul Doumer
age 44
President
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France
Armand Fallières
age 59
President
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France
Gaston Doumergue
age 38
President
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France
Mohamed Naguib
age 7 months
President
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Egypt
Guangxu Emperor
age 30
Emperor
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Imperial China
René Coty
age 19
President
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France
Lázaro Cárdenas
age 6
President
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Mexico
Alexander I of Yugoslavia
age 12
King
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Yugoslavia
Émile Loubet
age 62
President
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France
Menelik II
age 57
Emperor
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Ethiopia
Jacobo Árbenz
born 1913-09-14
President
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Guatemala
Peter II of Yugoslavia
born 1923-09-06
King
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Yugoslavia
Paul Deschanel
age 46
President
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France
Álvaro Obregón
age 21
President
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Mexico
Peter I of Serbia
age 57
King
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Yugoslavia
Abbas II of Egypt
age 27
Khedive
-
Khedivate of Egypt
Plutarco Elías Calles
age 24
President
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Mexico
Ahmad Shah Qajar
age 3
Shah
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Iran
Fuad I of Egypt
age 33
Sultan
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Sultanate of Egypt
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar
age 29
Shah
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Iran
Zewditu
age 25
Emperor
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Ethiopia
Gojong of the Korean Empire
age 49
Emperor
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Korean Empire
Manuel Ávila Camacho
age 4
President
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Mexico
Wang Jingwei
age 18
President
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Republic of China
Victoriano Huerta
age 50
President
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Mexico
Venceslau Brás
age 33
President
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Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
age 48
Shah
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Iran
Georges Bidault
age 1
President
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France
Miguel Alemán Valdés
age 1
President
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Mexico
Nilo Peçanha
age 34
President
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Brazil
Rodrigues Alves
age 53
President
-
Brazil
Afonso Pena
age 53
President
-
Brazil
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
age 18
President
-
Brazil
Fuad II of Egypt
born 1952-01-16
King
-
Kingdom of Egypt
Washington Luís
age 31
President
-
Brazil
Pedro Lascuráin
age 45
President
-
Mexico
Sunjong of the Korean Empire
age 27
Emperor
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Korean Empire
Campos Sales
age 60
President
-
Brazil
Artur Bernardes
age 26
President
-
Brazil
Epitácio Pessoa
age 36
President
-
Brazil
Hussein Kamel of Egypt
age 47
Sultan
-
Sultanate of Egypt
Adolfo de la Huerta
age 20
President
-
Mexico
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
age 10
President
-
Mexico
Café Filho
age 2
President
-
Brazil
Zhang Zuolin
age 26
President
-
Republic of China
Hermes da Fonseca
age 46
President
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Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma
age 66
President
-
Cuba
Emilio Portes Gil
age 10
President
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Mexico
Delfim Moreira
age 32
President
-
Brazil
Carlos Castillo Armas
born 1914-11-04
President
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Guatemala
Li Tsung-jen
age 12
President
-
Republic of China
Abelardo L. Rodríguez
age 12
President
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Mexico
Francisco León de la Barra
age 38
President
-
Mexico
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
age 24
President
-
Mexico
Shukri al-Quwatli
age 9
President
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Syria
José Linhares
age 15
President
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Brazil
Gerardo Machado
age 30
President
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Cuba
Francisco S. Carvajal
age 30
President
-
Mexico
Lij Iyasu
age 6
Emperor
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Ethiopia
Hsu Shih-chang
age 45
President
-
Republic of China
Cao Kun
age 38
President
-
Republic of China
Feng Guozhang
age 42
President
-
Republic of China
Juan José Arévalo
born 1904-09-10
President
-
Guatemala
Jorge Ubico
age 22
President
-
Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi
age 25
President
-
Syria
Adib Shishakli
born 1909-01-01
President
-
Syria
José Miguel Gómez
age 43
President
-
Cuba
Mario García Menocal
age 34
President
-
Cuba
Husni al-Za'im
age 4
President
-
Syria
Carlos Prío Socarrás
born 1903-07-14
President
-
Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera
age 41
President
-
Guatemala
Eulalio Gutiérrez
age 20
President
-
Mexico
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso
age 40
President
-
Cuba
Miguel Mariano Gómez
age 11
President
-
Cuba
Sami al-Henaaui
age 3
President
-
Syria
José María Orellana
age 29
President
-
Guatemala
Huang Fu
age 18
Acting
-
Republic of China
Carlos Herrera y Luna
age 44
President
-
Guatemala
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides
age 12
President
-
Guatemala
Lázaro Chacón González
age 28
President
-
Guatemala
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León
born 1915-04-15
President
-
Guatemala
Fawzi Selu
born 1905-01-01
President
-
Syria
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
age 30
President
-
Cuba
Bahij al-Khatib
age 6
President
-
Syria
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre
born 1912-05-05
President
-
Guatemala
Francisco Javier Arana
born 1905-12-05
President
-
Guatemala
José María Reyna Andrade
age 40
President
-
Guatemala
Du Xigui
age 25
Acting
-
Republic of China
Manuel María Orellana Contreras
age 30
President
-
Guatemala
Jorge Toriello Garrido
born 1908-04-23
President
-
Guatemala
Baudilio Palma
age 21
President
-
Guatemala
Nicholas II of Russia
age 33
Emperor
-
Russian Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria
age 71
Emperor
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Austria-Hungary
Albert Lebrun
age 30
President
-
France
Venustiano Carranza
age 41
President
-
Mexico
Maamun al-Kuzbari
born 1914-01-01
President
-
Syria
Dag Hammarskjöld
born 1905-07-29
Secretary-General
-
United Nations
Trygve Lie
age 5
Secretary-General
-
United Nations
Vladimir Lenin
age 31
Chairman
-
Soviet Union
Winston Churchill
age 26
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle
age 10
Chairman of the Provisional Government
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France
Benito Mussolini
age 18
Prime Minister
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Italy
Jawaharlal Nehru
age 11
Prime Minister
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India
Konrad Adenauer
age 25
Chancellor
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Germany
Joseph Goebbels
age 3
Chancellor
-
Germany
David Ben-Gurion
age 14
Prime Minister
-
Israel
Gamal Abdel Nasser
born 1918-01-15
Prime Minister
-
Egypt
Neville Chamberlain
age 32
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Pierre de Coubertin
age 38
President
-
International Olympic Committee
David Lloyd George
age 38
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Clement Attlee
age 18
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Georges Clemenceau
age 60
Prime Minister
-
France
Zhou Enlai
age 3
Premier
-
People's Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov
age 11
Chairman
-
Soviet Union
Józef Piłsudski
age 33
Prime Minister
-
Poland
Arthur Balfour
age 53
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Hideki Tojo
age 16
Prime Minister
-
Japan
Gustav Stresemann
age 23
Chancellor
-
Germany
Georgy Malenkov
born 1902-01-08
Chairman
-
Soviet Union
H. H. Asquith
age 49
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Stanley Baldwin
age 34
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Franz von Papen
age 21
Chancellor
-
Germany
Ramsay MacDonald
age 34
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera
age 18
Taoiseach
-
Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi
age 20
Prime Minister
-
Italy
Aristide Briand
age 39
Prime Minister
-
France
Léon Blum
age 29
Prime Minister
-
France
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
age 71
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Pietro Badoglio
age 30
Prime Minister
-
Italy
Andrew Bonar Law
age 43
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
age 44
Chancellor
-
German Empire
Édouard Daladier
age 17
Prime Minister
-
France
Kurt von Schleicher
age 19
Chancellor
-
Germany
Pierre Laval
age 18
Prime Minister
-
France
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
age 40
Prime Minister
-
Poland
Bernhard von Bülow
age 52
Chancellor
-
German Empire
Moshe Sharett
age 6
Prime Minister
-
Israel
Alexei Rykov
age 20
Chairman
-
Soviet Union
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
age 41
Prime Minister
-
Italy
Amintore Fanfani
born 1908-02-06
Prime Minister
-
Italy
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
age 65
Prime Minister
-
United Kingdom
Bolesław Bierut
age 9
Prime Minister
-
Poland
Ōkuma Shigenobu
age 63
Prime Minister
-
Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
age 23
Prime Minister
-
Japan
Joseph Wirth
age 22
Chancellor
-
Germany
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