Explore December 4, 1905 – October 9, 1985

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Events

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

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

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

Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12

Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01

Republic of China proclaimed 1912-01-01

Sinking of the Titanic 1912-04-14 - 1912-04-15

First Balkan War 1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30

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

Battle of Sarantaporo 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-23

Battle of Kumanovo 1912-10-23 - 1912-10-24

Siege of Scutari (1912–1913) 1912-10-28 - 1913-04-23

Battle of Lule Burgas 1912-10-28 - 1912-11-02

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

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

Battle of Monastir 1912-11-16 - 1912-11-19

First Battle of Çatalca 1912-11-17 - 1912-11-18

Battle of Elli 1912-12-16 - 1912-12-16

Battle of Bizani 1913-03-04 - 1913-03-06

Second Balkan War 1913-06-29 - 1913-08-10

Battle of Bregalnica 1913-06-30 - 1913-07-09

Battle of Kilkis–Lachanas 1913-07-02 - 1913-07-04

Battle of Kresna Gorge 1913-07-21 - 1913-07-31

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 Mons 1914-08-23 - 1914-08-23

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

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 Cape Helles 1915-04-25 - 1915-04-26

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

Gorlice–Tarnów offensive 1915-05-02 - 1915-06-22

First Battle of the Isonzo 1915-06-23 - 1915-07-07

Battle of Sari Bair 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-21

Landing at Suvla Bay 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-15

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

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

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

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

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

Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28

Battle of Petrograd 1919-09-28 - 1919-11-14

Orel–Kursk operation 1919-10-11 - 1919-11-18

Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 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

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

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

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

Mukden Incident 1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18

Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27

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

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

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

1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10

Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18

Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21

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

Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12

Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24

Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16

Philippeville massacre 1955-08-20 - 1955-08-25

Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30

Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20

Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07

Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08

Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25

Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04

Sputnik 1 1957-10-04

Great Leap Forward 1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01

Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02

Great Chinese Famine 1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31

Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01

Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02

Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01

Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21

Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25

Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29

Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01

Vostok 1 1961-04-12

Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20

Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10

Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961-08-13

1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28

Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19

Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29

Sino-Indian War 1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21

Socialist Education Movement 1963-01-01 - 1966-01-01

Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02

1963 Syrian coup d'état 1963-03-08

Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10

Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963-06-11

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963-08-28

Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-11-22

Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964-07-02

Harlem riot of 1964 1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22

Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964-08-02

Chicago Freedom Movement 1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01

Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25

Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23

Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31

Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06

Operation Grand Slam 1965-09-01 - 1965-09-06

Battle of Phillora 1965-09-07 - 1965-09-11

Battle of Asal Uttar 1965-09-08 - 1965-09-10

Battle of Burki 1965-09-10 - 1965-09-11

Battle of Chawinda 1965-09-14 - 1965-09-19

Battle of Ia Drang 1965-11-14 - 1965-11-18

1966 Syrian coup d'état 1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23

Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06

Battle of Long Tan 1966-08-18 - 1966-08-18

Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17

Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10

Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06

Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05

Battle of Ammunition Hill 1967-06-06 - 1967-06-06

Battle of Tel Faher 1967-06-09 - 1967-06-09

Nigerian Civil War 1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15

1967 Plainfield riots 1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16

1967 Detroit riot 1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28

Battle of Dak To 1967-11-03 - 1967-11-23

Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21

Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09

Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02

Orangeburg massacre 1968-02-08

Mỹ Lai massacre 1968-03-16

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968-04-04

Fair Housing Act 1968-04-11

Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06

The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10

Battle of Hamburger Hill 1969-05-10 - 1969-05-20

Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03

Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24

Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22

Corrective Movement (Syria) 1970-11-13

1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25

Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16

Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16

Battle of Garibpur 1971-11-20 - 1971-11-21

Battle of Hilli 1971-11-22 - 1971-12-18

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16

Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16

Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07

Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05

Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16

Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20

Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09

Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16

Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22

1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11

Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25

First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07

Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09

Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08

Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23

Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17

1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18

Third Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-21 - 1973-10-22

Battle of Xuân Lộc 1975-04-09 - 1975-04-21

Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13

Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07

Fall of Saigon 1975-04-30 - 1975-04-30

Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28

Soweto uprising 1976-06-16

Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17

Chinese economic reform 1978-12-18

Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16

Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10

Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27

Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08

Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31

Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10

Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20

Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29

HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05

Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07

Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28

Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14

Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24

Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03

1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18

United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-10-29

Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20

Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19

Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26

Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20

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President - South Korea

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Sultan - Oman

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Monarch - Spain

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King - Jordan

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President - Argentina

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President - Equatorial Guinea

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President - Malawi

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President - Iceland

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President - Indian National Congress

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President - Argentina

Urho Kekkonen age 5

President - Finland

Hassan II born 1929-07-09

King - Morocco

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President - Turkey

Kenneth Kaunda born 1924-04-28

President - Zambia

Alan García born 1949-05-23

President - Peru

Alexander Kolchak age 31

Supreme Ruler of Russia - Whites

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President - Turkey

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Monarch - Norway

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President - Pakistan

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King - Thailand

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President - Ethiopia

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President - Nigeria

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Monarch - Norway

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President - Paraguay

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President - Angola

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President - Guinea

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President - India

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President - Argentina

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Christian IX of Denmark age 87

Monarch - Denmark

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Monarch - Denmark

Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 23

Monarch - Sweden

Chun Doo-hwan born 1931-01-18

President - South Korea

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Monarch - Sweden

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President - Albania

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President - Austria

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President - Dominican Republic

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Yahya Khan born 1917-02-04

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Daniel arap Moi born 1924-09-02

President - Kenya

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Prince - Monaco

Houari Boumédiène born 1932-08-23

President - Algeria

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President - Haiti

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President - India

Luigi Einaudi age 31

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President - Italy

Jigme Singye Wangchuck born 1955-11-11

King - Bhutan

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King - Thailand

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President - Somalia

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President - Cyprus

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Monarch - Denmark

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President - Rwanda

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King - Kingdom of Romania

Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko born 1924-01-01

President - Equatorial Guinea

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President - Estonia

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President - Ghana

Zail Singh born 1916-05-05

President - India

Jozef Tiso age 18

President - Slovakia

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King - Thailand

Ferhat Abbas age 6

President - Algeria

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President - Finland

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President - Guinea-Bissau

Chaim Herzog born 1918-09-17

President - Israel

Giuseppe Saragat age 7

President - Italy

Mohammed V of Morocco born 1909-08-10

King - Morocco

Vajiravudh age 24

King - Thailand

Manuel L. Quezon age 27

President - Philippines

Leopoldo Galtieri born 1926-07-15

President - Argentina

Seretse Khama born 1921-07-01

President - Botswana

Ahmadou Ahidjo born 1924-08-24

President - Cameroon

Risto Ryti age 16

President - Finland

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy born 1913-05-19

President - India

Giovanni Gronchi age 18

President - Italy

Antanas Smetona age 31

President - Lithuania

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom born 1937-12-29

President - Maldives

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President - Malta

Nnamdi Azikiwe age 1

President - Nigeria

Iskandar Ali Mirza age 6

President - Pakistan

Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma born 1935-12-26

President - Togo

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 43

President - Finland

Jean-Claude Duvalier born 1951-07-03

President - Haiti

Douglas Hyde age 45

President - Ireland

Hafizullah Amin born 1929-08-01

President - Afghanistan

Konstantinos Karamanlis born 1907-03-21

President - Greece

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