4004 BC Oct 23 – James Ussher's proposed creation date of the world according to the Bible.
3761 BC Oct 07 – The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
2457 BC Oct 03 – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.
1479 BC Apr 24 – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
1450 BC Apr 16 – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
1312 BC Jun 24 – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
1183 BC Apr 24 – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others.
 763 BC Jun 15 – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
 753 BC Apr 21 – Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
 747 BC Feb 26 – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
 685 BC Aug 08 – Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the new Duke of Qi — but is defeated at Qianshi by Jiu’s brother and rival claimant, the newly inaugurated Duke Huan of Qi.
 660 BC Feb 11 – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
 587 BC Jul 29 – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.
 585 BC May 28 – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
 585 BC Sep 13 – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
 571 BC Nov 25 – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans.
 567 BC May 25 – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
 539 BC Oct 12 – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)
 534 BC Nov 23 – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage.
 509 BC Mar 01 – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
 509 BC Sep 13 – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
 503 BC Apr 04 – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
 490 BC Sep 12 – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
 484 BC Jul 15 – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome
 477 BC Jul 18 – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.
 474 BC Mar 15 – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
 453 BC May 08 – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
 411 BC Jun 09 – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
 404 BC Apr 25 – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
 387 BC Jul 18 – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
 371 BC Jul 06 – The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility.
 362 BC Jul 04 – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
 356 BC Jul 21 – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
 338 BC Aug 02 – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
 331 BC Oct 01 – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
 295 BC Aug 19 – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
 241 BC Mar 10 – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
 240 BC May 25 – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
 217 BC Jun 22 – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
 216 BC Aug 02 – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
 215 BC Apr 23 – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
 202 BC Feb 28 – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
 202 BC Oct 19 – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
 168 BC Jun 22 – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
 164 BC Nov 21 – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
 153 BC Jan 01 – For the first time, Roman consuls begin their year in office on January 1.
 141 BC Mar 09 – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
 105 BC Oct 06 – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army of the mid-Republic.
  74 BC Aug 14 – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating the 1,127 offences (sexual debauchery, fiscal negligence, cronyism, etc.) that the ministers found the new emperor to have committed over the course of his 27-day rule, result in the unprecedented impeachment — and summary deposition on the same day — of the emperor by the bureaucracy.
  69 BC Oct 06 – Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia.
  63 BC Dec 05 – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.
  61 BC Sep 29 – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
  52 BC Oct 03 – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
  49 BC Jan 07 –The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
  49 BC Jan 10 – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
  49 BC Aug 02 – Caesar, who marched to Spain earlier in the year leaving Marcus Antonius in charge of Italy, defeats Pompey's general Afranius and Petreius in Ilerda (Lerida) north of the Ebro river.
  48 BC Aug 09 – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
  48 BC Sep 28 – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.
  46 BC Jan 04 – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
  46 BC Apr 06 – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
  46 BC Sep 26 – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.
  45 BC Jan 01 – The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Empire, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year.
  45 BC Mar 17 – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
  44 BC Mar 15 – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
  44 BC Sep 02 – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
  43 BC Apr 14 – Battle of Forum Gallorum between the forces of Mark Antony, and legions loyal to the Roman Senate under the overall command of consul Gaius Pansa.
  43 BC Apr 21 – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
  43 BC Aug 19 – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
  43 BC Dec 07 – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius.
  42 BC Jan 01 – The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar.
  42 BC Oct 03 – Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
  42 BC Oct 23 – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
  38 BC Jan 17 – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
  36 BC Sep 03 – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
  36 BC Sep 04 – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
  32 BC Aug 11 – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
  31 BC Sep 02 – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
  30 BC Jul 31 – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
  30 BC Aug 01 – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
  30 BC Aug 23 – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, the eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.^{[citation needed]}
  29 BC Aug 13 – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
  29 BC Aug 14 – Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
  28 BC May 10 – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
  27 BC Jan 13 – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
  27 BC Jan 16 – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
  25 BC Aug 11 – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
  20 BC Aug 23 – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.^{[citation needed]}
  12 BC Mar 06 – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
   1 BC Aug 16 – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs.
   8 AD Aug 03 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.
   9 AD Jan 10 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.
   9 AD Sep 11 – The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hundred years.
  14 AD Aug 20 – Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is mysteriously executed by his guards while in exile.
  17 AD May 26 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
  19 AD Aug 25 – The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province.
  23 AD Oct 04 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.
  23 AD Oct 06 – Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.
  25 AD Aug 05 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty.
  25 AD Nov 27 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
  33 AD Apr 01 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.
  33 AD Oct 18 – Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and banished to the island of Pandateria by Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder dies of self-inflicted starvation.
  37 AD Mar 18 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor.
  38 AD Sep 23 – Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified.
  41 AD Jan 24 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
  41 AD Jan 25 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
  44 AD Sep 02 BC – Cicero launches the first of his Philippicae (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
  51 AD Mar 04 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
  53 AD Jun 09 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
  54 AD Oct 13 – Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adoptive son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina.
  55 AD Feb 11 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming of age clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
  62 AD Feb 05 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
  64 AD Jul 19 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
  65 AD Apr 19 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
  68 AD Jun 09 – Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
  69 AD Jan 02 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
  69 AD Jan 03 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
  69 AD Jan 10 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
  69 AD Jan 15 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
  69 AD Apr 14 – Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum to take power over Rome.
  69 AD Apr 16 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
  69 AD Jul 01 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
  69 AD Aug 01 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
  69 AD Oct 24 – In the Second Battle of Bedriacum, troops loyal to Vespasian defeat those of Emperor Vitellius.
  70 AD May 30 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
  70 AD Jul 12 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.
  70 AD Jul 15 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
  70 AD Jul 20 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
  70 AD Aug 05 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are extinguished.
  70 AD Aug 30 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.
  70 AD Sep 07 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
  73 AD Apr 16 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
  79 AD Aug 23 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
  81 AD Sep 14 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
  85 AD Sep 19 – Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed.
  96 AD Sep 18 – Domitian, who has been conducting a reign of terror for the past three years, is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects.
  96 AD Sep 18 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
  97 AD Oct 28 – Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
  98 AD Jan 27 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
  98 AD Jan 28 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
 106 AD Aug 11 – The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
 109 AD Jun 24 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of Rome.
 118 AD Jul 09 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
 135 AD Aug 05 – Roman armies enter Betar, slaughtering thousands and ending the Bar Kokhba revolt.
 138 AD Feb 25 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
 138 AD Jul 10 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
 161 AD Mar 07 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
 173 AD Jun 11 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".
 176 AD Nov 27 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
 180 AD Jul 17 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
 190 AD Apr 04 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
 192 AD May 22 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
 192 AD May 23 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
 193 AD Jan 01 – The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor.
 193 AD Apr 09 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
 197 AD Feb 19 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
 211 AD Feb 04 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling sons, Caracalla and Geta, whom he had instructed to make peace.
 217 AD Apr 08 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
 218 AD Jun 08 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
 221 AD May 15 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
 224 AD Apr 28 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
 226 AD Jun 29 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
 229 AD Jun 23 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
 230 AD Jul 21 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. After being exiled to Sardinia, he became the first pope to resign his office.
 235 AD Sep 28 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome.
 235 AD Nov 21 – Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope. During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred.
 236 AD Jan 10 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
 240 AD Apr 12 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
 247 AD Apr 27 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ludi saeculares.
 250 AD Jan 03 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to make sacrifices to the Roman gods.
 250 AD Jan 20 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
 254 AD May 12 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
 275 AD Sep 25 – For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus.
 284 AD Nov 20 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
 285 AD Jul 21 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
 285 AD Oct 25 – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
 293 AD Mar 01 – Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World").
 293 AD May 21 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
 296 AD Jun 30 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
 301 AD Sep 03 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
 301 AD Sep 04 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
 303 AD Feb 23 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
 305 AD May 01 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
 306 AD Mar 04 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
 306 AD Jul 25 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
 306 AD Oct 28 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
 307 AD Jan 08 – Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
 307 AD Mar 31 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
 308 AD Nov 11 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.
 309 AD Aug 17 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, possibly from a hunger strike.
 311 AD Apr 30 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
 312 AD Oct 27 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
 312 AD Oct 28 – Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
 312 AD Oct 29 – Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
 313 AD Jun 13 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
 314 AD Jan 31 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
 314 AD Oct 08 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories.
 315 AD Jul 25 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
 320 AD Oct 18 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
 324 AD Sep 18 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
 325 AD May 20 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
 325 AD Jun 19 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
 326 AD Nov 18 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I.
 328 AD May 09 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
 328 AD Jul 05 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius.
 332 AD May 18 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
 335 AD Nov 07 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
 337 AD Sep 09 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
 350 AD Mar 01 – Vetranio proclaims himself Caesar after being encouraged to do so by Constantina, sister of Constantius II.
 350 AD Jun 03 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
 351 AD May 07 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
 351 AD Sep 28 – Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
 355 AD Aug 11 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
 356 AD Feb 19 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan idols in the Roman Empire.
 357 AD Apr 28 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
 361 AD Nov 03 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia; on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
 362 AD Jul 18 – Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
 363 AD Mar 05 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
 363 AD May 29 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city.
 363 AD Jun 16 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians.
 364 AD Feb 26 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman emperor.
 365 AD Jul 21 – The 365 Crete earthquake affected the Greek island of Crete with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing a destructive tsunami that affects the coasts of Libya and Egypt, especially Alexandria. Many thousands were killed.
 365 AD Sep 28 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor.
 365 AD Nov 01 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
 366 AD Jan 02 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
 366 AD Oct 01 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated.
 367 AD Aug 24 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.
 372 AD Sep 12 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty.
 378 AD Jan 16 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
 378 AD Aug 09 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
 379 AD Jan 19 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
 379 AD Sep 13 – Yax Nuun Ahiin I is crowned as 15th Ajaw of Tikal
 380 AD Feb 27 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
 380 AD Nov 24 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
 381 AD Jul 09 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
 382 AD Oct 03 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans.
 392 AD May 15 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne.
 392 AD Aug 22 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
 393 AD Jan 23 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
 394 AD Aug 24 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.
 394 AD Sep 06 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
 395 AD Apr 27 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
 395 AD Nov 27 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
 395 AD Dec 08 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
 401 AD Nov 18 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
 402 AD Apr 06 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
 404 AD Jan 01 – Saint Telemachus tries to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and is stoned to death by the crowd. This act impresses the Christian Emperor Honorius, who issues a historic ban on gladiatorial fights.
 404 AD Oct 06 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.
 409 AD Oct 13 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
 410 AD Aug 24 – The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
 410 AD Aug 27 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
 413 AD May 08 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
 414 AD Jul 04 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
 417 AD Jan 01 – Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his famous general (magister militum) (probable).
 421 AD Feb 08 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
 421 AD Jun 07 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
 425 AD Feb 27 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
 425 AD Oct 23 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six.
 428 AD Apr 10 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
 435 AD Aug 03 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
 437 AD Jul 02 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
 437 AD Jul 03 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
 437 AD Oct 29 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
 438 AD Feb 15 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
 439 AD Oct 19 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
 447 AD Nov 06 – A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
 451 AD Apr 07 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
 451 AD May 26 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire takes place. The Sasanids defeat the Armenians militarily but guarantee them freedom to openly practice Christianity.
 451 AD Jun 20 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
 451 AD Oct 08 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins.
 451 AD Oct 22 – The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted by the Council of Chalcedon, an ecumenical council.
 452 AD Feb 21 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
 452 AD Jun 08 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.
 452 AD Jul 18 – Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.
 455 AD May 31 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
 455 AD Jun 02 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
 455 AD Sep 21 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
 456 AD Oct 16 – Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
 457 AD Feb 07 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
 461 AD Aug 02 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
 461 AD Aug 07 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
 461 AD Nov 19 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
 467 AD Apr 12 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
 472 AD Jul 11 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
 473 AD Mar 03 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
 473 AD Oct 25 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.
 474 AD Jan 18 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
 474 AD Feb 09 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 474 AD Jun 24 – Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
 475 AD Jan 12 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
 475 AD Apr 09 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
 475 AD Aug 28 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
 475 AD Oct 31 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.
 476 AD Aug 23 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
 484 AD Feb 24 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
 484 AD Jul 19 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
 489 AD Aug 28 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
 489 AD Sep 30 – The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.
 490 AD Aug 11 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
 491 AD Apr 11 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
 491 AD May 20 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
 491 AD Jul 09 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
 498 AD Nov 22 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
 502 AD Oct 23 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
 506 AD Feb 02 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
 506 AD Sep 10 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
 511 AD Nov 27 – King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.
 523 AD Aug 13 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
 524 AD Jun 25 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
 524 AD Jun 26 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
 527 AD Apr 01 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
 527 AD Aug 01 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
 529 AD Apr 07 – First Corpus Juris Civilis, a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
 531 AD Apr 19 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
 532 AD Jan 11 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
 532 AD Jan 13 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing season at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, as a result of discontent with the rule of the Emperor Justinian I.
 532 AD Jan 18 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
 532 AD Feb 23 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
 533 AD Jan 02 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
 533 AD Jun 21 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
 533 AD Sep 13 – Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
 536 AD Dec 09 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital.
 537 AD Mar 02 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.
 537 AD Apr 09 – Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. He starts, despite shortages, raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges is forced into a stalemate.
 550 AD Jan 16 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
 551 AD Jul 09 – A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affected the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.
 552 AD Jul 01 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.
 553 AD May 05 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
 554 AD Aug 13 – Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him extensive estates in Italy.
 558 AD May 07 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
 561 AD Nov 29 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom.
 574 AD Dec 07 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and proclaims him as Caesar.
 582 AD Aug 13 – Maurice becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 587 AD Nov 28 – Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.
 589 AD May 08 – Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.
 589 AD May 15 – King Authari marries Theodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian duke Garibald I. A Catholic, she has great influence among the Lombard nobility.
 590 AD Feb 15 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
 590 AD Mar 26 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 590 AD Sep 03 – Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great).
 590 AD Sep 04 – Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great).
 598 AD Mar 30 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
 598 AD Aug 04 – Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.
 599 AD Apr 23 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
 602 AD Nov 27 – Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper Phocas executes his five sons before Maurice is beheaded himself.
 607 AD Aug 01 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
 610 AD Oct 05 – Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.
 611 AD Apr 04 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
 613 AD Jan 22 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
 614 AD Oct 18 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defends the rights of the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.
 615 AD Jul 29 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
 617 AD Sep 08 – Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.
 618 AD Jun 18 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
 618 AD Oct 06 – Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi.
 618 AD Nov 29 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue Rengao at the Battle of Qianshuiyuan.
 619 AD Nov 02 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
 621 AD May 28 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gaozu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty.
 622 AD Jul 16 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
 626 AD Jul 02 – Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
 626 AD Jul 03 – Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
 626 AD Aug 07 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
 627 AD Apr 12 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York.
 628 AD Feb 23 – Khosrow II, last Sasanian shah of Iran, is overthrown.
 628 AD Feb 25 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
 629 AD Sep 14 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire.
 629 AD Oct 18 – Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
 630 AD Jan 11 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, Quraysh surrender.
 631 AD Jun 11 – Emperor Taizong of Tang sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang.
 632 AD Mar 06 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
 632 AD Jun 16 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).
 632 AD Aug 28 – Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.
 633 AD Oct 12 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
 633 AD Dec 05 – Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
 634 AD Sep 19 – Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
 636 AD Aug 15 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate begins.
 636 AD Aug 20 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the Levant away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
 636 AD Nov 19 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
 637 AD Jun 24 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dál Riata. It is claimed to be the largest battle in the history of Ireland.
 637 AD Oct 30 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
 639 AD May 19 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
 640 AD Jul 06 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt).
 642 AD Aug 05 – Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
 644 AD Nov 03 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
 645 AD Jul 10 – Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
 645 AD Jul 18 – Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.
 649 AD Jan 19 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
 649 AD Jan 20 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}
 653 AD Jun 17 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
 654 AD Aug 10 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I.
 655 AD Nov 15 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
 656 AD Jun 18 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
 657 AD Jul 26 – First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
 660 AD Jul 09 – Korean forces under general Kim Yu-sin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje in the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.
 661 AD Jan 26 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
 663 AD Aug 28 – Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
 671 AD Jun 10 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
 673 AD Sep 03 – King Wamba of the Visigoths puts down a revolt by Hilderic, governor of Nîmes (France) and rival for the throne.
 673 AD Sep 04 – King Wamba of the Visigoths puts down a revolt by Hilderic, governor of Nîmes (France) and rival for the throne.
 677 AD Jul 25 – Climax of the Siege of Thessalonica by the Slavs in a three-day assault on the city walls.
 680 AD Oct 10 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
 680 AD Nov 07 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
 681 AD Jan 09 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
 681 AD Sep 16 – Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
 682 AD Aug 17 – Pope Leo II begins his pontificate.
 683 AD Aug 26 – Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah.
 683 AD Oct 31 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.
 684 AD Aug 18 – Battle of Marj Rahit: Umayyad partisans defeat the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cement Umayyad control of Syria.
 685 AD May 20 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
 686 AD Apr 03 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
 690 AD Oct 16 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
 690 AD Oct 17 – Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.
 694 AD Nov 09 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
 705 AD Feb 23 – Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
 706 AD Feb 15 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
 706 AD Jul 02 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an.
 706 AD Jul 03 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an.
 707 AD Aug 18 – Princess Abe accedes to the imperial Japanese throne as Empress Genmei.
 708 AD Aug 29 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
 711 AD Apr 23 – Dagobert III succeeds his father King Childebert III as King of the Franks.
 711 AD Apr 27 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
 711 AD Jul 19 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
 713 AD Jun 03 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.
 715 AD May 19 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
 715 AD Sep 26 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
 717 AD Aug 15 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
 718 AD Aug 15 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.
 721 AD Jun 09 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
 724 AD Mar 03 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
 730 AD Dec 09 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami.
 732 AD Oct 10 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
 737 AD Sep 30 – The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.
 747 AD Jun 09 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
 747 AD Aug 15 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother, Pepin the Short, becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom.
 748 AD Feb 14 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
 750 AD Jan 25 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.
 752 AD May 03 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.
 756 AD Feb 05 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
 756 AD May 15 – Abd al-Rahman I, the founder of the Arab dynasty that ruled the greater part of Iberia for nearly three centuries, becomes emir of Cordova, Spain.
 756 AD Jul 15 – An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
 757 AD Dec 08 – Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
 758 AD Oct 30 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
 760 AD May 22 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
 760 AD May 23 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
 762 AD Jul 30 – Baghdad is founded.
 762 AD Sep 25 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
 762 AD Nov 20 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
 763 AD Jan 21 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.
 763 AD Jun 30 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
 766 AD Aug 25 – Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking officials, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios.
 768 AD Aug 07 – Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help.
 768 AD Oct 09 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
 769 AD Apr 15 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
 771 AD Dec 04 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
 775 AD Apr 25 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over the South Caucasus is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.
 778 AD Aug 15 – The Battle of Roncevaux Pass takes place between the army of Charlemagne and a Basque army.
 781 AD Jul 31 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: Sixth day of the seventh month of the first year of the Ten'o (天応) era).
 783 AD Nov 26 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her king from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
 786 AD Jun 11 – A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh.
 786 AD Sep 14 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.
 787 AD Sep 24 – Second Council of Nicaea: The council assembles at the church of Hagia Sophia.
 789 AD Feb 05 – Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, marking the secession of Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state.
 792 AD Jul 20 – Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae.
 793 AD Jun 08 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
 794 AD May 20 – While visiting the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken captive and beheaded.
 794 AD Oct 22 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heian-kyō (now Kyoto).
 796 AD Apr 18 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
 797 AD Apr 19 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself basileus.
 799 AD Apr 25 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, Pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.
 800 AD Dec 01 – A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.
 801 AD Apr 04 – King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.
 802 AD Oct 31 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Conspirators place Nikephoros, the minister of finance, on the Byzantine throne.
 805 AD Aug 15 – Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising
 811 AD Jul 23 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
 811 AD Jul 26 – Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
 813 AD Jun 22 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.
 813 AD Jul 11 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius).
 814 AD Jan 28 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession of his son Louis the Pious as ruler of the Frankish Empire.
 816 AD Oct 05 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.
 823 AD Apr 05 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
 829 AD Oct 02 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
 834 AD Mar 01 – Emperor Louis the Pious is restored as sole ruler of the Frankish Empire.
 836 AD Jul 04 – Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
 837 AD Apr 10 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
 838 AD Jul 22 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
 841 AD Jun 25 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
 841 AD Jun 26 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
 842 AD Feb 14 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
 843 AD Jun 24 – The Vikings sack the French city of Nantes.
 844 AD Jun 15 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II.
 845 AD Mar 06 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.
 845 AD Mar 29 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
 845 AD Nov 22 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
 851 AD Aug 22 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
 852 AD Mar 04 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
 853 AD May 22 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
 853 AD May 23 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
 860 AD Jun 18 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.
 863 AD Sep 03 – Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
 863 AD Sep 04 – Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
 864 AD Jul 25 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
 866 AD Jul 02 – Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army.
 866 AD Jul 03 – Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army.
 869 AD Jul 09 – The 8.4–9.0 M_w Sanriku earthquake strikes the area around Sendai in northern Honshu, Japan. Inundation from the tsunami extended several kilometers inland.
 869 AD Oct 05 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.
 870 AD Feb 28 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
 870 AD Aug 08 – Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald partition the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions.
 870 AD Aug 29 – The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzantine Malta.
 871 AD Jan 04 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
 871 AD Jan 08 – Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
 871 AD Jan 22 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
 872 AD May 18 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I.
 876 AD Apr 08 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
 876 AD Oct 08 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II ("the Bald").
 877 AD Dec 08 – Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne.
 878 AD May 21 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
 878 AD Sep 07 – Louis the Stammerer is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII.
 879 AD May 21 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
 879 AD Jun 07 – Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.
 880 AD Feb 02 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.
 880 AD May 01 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
 881 AD Aug 03 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
 900 AD Apr 21 – The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (the earliest known written document found in what is now the Philippines): the Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Tondo, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah, pardons from all debt the Honourable Namwaran and his relations.
 900 AD Aug 13 – Count Reginar I of Hainault rises against Zwentibold of Lotharingia and slays him near present-day Susteren.
 902 AD Aug 01 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
 903 AD Nov 29 – The Abbasid army under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib defeats the Qarmatians at the Battle of Hama.
 904 AD Jan 29 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
 904 AD Jul 29 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
 905 AD Jul 21 – King Berengar I of Italy and a hired Hungarian army defeats the Frankish forces at Verona. King Louis III is captured and blinded for breaking his oath (see 902).
 907 AD Feb 27 – Abaoji, chieftain of the Yila tribe, is named khagan of the Khitans.
 907 AD May 12 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.
 908 AD Aug 03 – Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.
 910 AD Jun 12 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.
 910 AD Jun 22 – The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
 910 AD Aug 05 – The last major Danish army to raid England for nearly a century is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians.
 911 AD Jul 11 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
 911 AD Jul 20 – Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
 913 AD Jun 06 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed by Constantine's uncle Alexander III on his deathbed.
 914 AD Jan 24 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
 915 AD Dec 03 – Pope John X crowns Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor (probable date).
 917 AD Aug 20 – Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army.
 917 AD Sep 05 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
 919 AD Apr 05 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his army.
 919 AD May 24 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
 919 AD Sep 14 – Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech.
 920 AD Jul 26 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at the Battle of Valdejunquera.
 921 AD Nov 07 – Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' (amicitia) to recognize their borders along the Rhine.
 923 AD Jun 15 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
 923 AD Jul 29 – Battle of Firenzuola: Lombard forces under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy at Firenzuola (Tuscany).
 923 AD Aug 11 – The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.
 927 AD Jul 12 – King Constantine II of Scotland, King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred of Bamburgh and King Owain of the Cumbrians accepted the overlordship of King Æthelstan of England, leading to seven years of peace in the north.
 927 AD Aug 15 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
 927 AD Dec 07 – The Sajid emir of Adharbayjan, Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj is defeated and captured by the Qarmatians near Kufa.
 929 AD Jan 16 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes the Caliphate of Córdoba.
 932 AD Aug 02 – After a two-year siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III, assuming an important victory in his campaign to subjugate the Central March.
 932 AD Oct 31 – Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir is killed while fighting against the forces of general Mu'nis al-Muzaffar. Al-Muqtadir's brother al-Qahir is chosen to succeed him.
 936 AD Jul 02 – King Henry the Fowler dies in his royal palace in Memleben. He is succeeded by his son Otto I, who becomes the ruler of East Francia.
 936 AD Jul 03 – King Henry the Fowler dies in his royal palace in Memleben. He is succeeded by his son Otto I, who becomes the ruler of East Francia.
 936 AD Aug 07 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
 936 AD Nov 28 – Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
 938 AD Mar 04 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
 939 AD Jul 19 – Battle of Simancas: King Ramiro II of León defeats the Moorish army under Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III near the city of Simancas.
 939 AD Aug 05 – The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of León and Abd-ar-Rahman III at Zamora in the context of the Spanish Reconquista. The battle resulted in a victory for the Emirate of Córdoba.
 942 AD Aug 16 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamdanids of Mosul and the Baridis of Basra over control of the Abbasid capital, Baghdad.
 945 AD Jan 27 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 946 AD Jan 29 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
 946 AD May 16 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
 946 AD May 26 – King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day.
 947 AD Jan 11 – Emperor Tai Zong of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty invades the Later Jin, resulting in the destruction of the Later Jin.
 947 AD Aug 19 – Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.
 951 AD Feb 11 – Guo Wei, a court official, leads a military coup and declares himself emperor of the new Later Zhou.
 954 AD Nov 12 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.
 955 AD Aug 10 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
 959 AD Aug 21 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
 960 AD Feb 04 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
 960 AD Nov 08 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.
 961 AD Mar 06 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete.
 961 AD May 26 – King Otto I elects his six-year-old son Otto II as heir apparent and co-ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom. He is crowned at Aachen, and placed under the tutelage of his grandmother Matilda.
 962 AD Feb 02 – Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
 962 AD Feb 13 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
 963 AD Jul 02 – The Byzantine army proclaims Nikephoros II Phokas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
 963 AD Jul 03 – The Byzantine army proclaims Nikephoros II Phokas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
 963 AD Aug 16 – Nikephoros II Phokas is crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 963 AD Nov 06 – Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of an armed rebellion against Otto.
 963 AD Dec 06 – Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of Protonotary and begins his papacy as antipope of Rome.
 966 AD Apr 14 – After his marriage to the Christian Doubravka of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
 969 AD Jul 09 – The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer in Fustat in the name of Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, thereby symbolically completing the Fatimid conquest of Egypt.
 971 AD Jan 23 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
 972 AD Apr 14 – Holy Roman Emperor Co-Emperor Otto II marries Byzantine princess Theophanu. She is crowned empress by Pope John XIII at Rome the same day.
 972 AD Jun 24 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
 977 AD Nov 30 – Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege at Paris and withdraws. His rearguard is defeated while crossing the Aisne River by West Frankish forces under King Lothair III.
 980 AD Jun 11 – Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'.
 982 AD Jul 14 – King Otto II and his Frankish army were defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy.
 982 AD Aug 15 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria.
 986 AD Mar 02 – Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king of West Francia after the death of his father, Lothaire.
 986 AD Aug 17 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan: The Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron defeat the Byzantine forces at the Gate of Trajan, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping.
 987 AD Feb 07 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
 988 AD Jul 10 – The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
 991 AD Aug 10 – Battle of Maldon: The English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.
 993 AD Jul 04 – Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint.
 996 AD May 21 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
 996 AD Nov 01 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
 997 AD Jul 16 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
 998 AD Jul 19 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Battle of Apamea: Fatimids defeat a Byzantine army near Apamea.
1000 AD Sep 09 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1001 AD Jan 01 – Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II (probable).
1002 AD Feb 15 – At an assembly at Pavia of Lombard nobles, Arduin of Ivrea is restored to his domains and crowned King of Italy.
1002 AD Jun 07 – Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany.
1002 AD Nov 13 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
1003 AD Feb 09 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
1009 AD Mar 09 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1009 AD May 09 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
1009 AD Jul 31 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
1009 AD Aug 29 – Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration.
1009 AD Nov 01 – Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the battle of Alcolea.
1009 AD Nov 21 – Lý Công Uẩn is enthroned as emperor of Đại Cồ Việt, founding the Lý dynasty.
1010 AD Mar 08 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.
1011 AD Jun 11 – Lombard Revolt: Greek citizens of Bari rise up against the Lombard rebels led by Melus and deliver the city to Basil Mesardonites, Byzantine governor (catepan) of the Catepanate of Italy.
1012 AD Apr 12 – Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and blinds his brother Jaromír, who flees to Poland.
1014 AD Feb 14 – Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1014 AD Apr 23 – Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1014 AD Jul 29 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
1016 AD Apr 23 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as King of England.
1018 AD Jan 30 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
1018 AD Jul 29 – Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
1018 AD Aug 15 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
1021 AD Mar 26 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is announced, along with the succession of his son, al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah. On the same day, al-Hakim's designated heir, Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas, is arrested in Damascus and brought to Egypt.
1027 AD Mar 26 – Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1027 AD May 14 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
1028 AD Nov 11 – Constantine VIII died, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.
1028 AD Nov 12 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
1030 AD Jul 29 – Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad: King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1030 AD Aug 10 – The Battle of Azaz ends with a humiliating retreat of the Byzantine emperor, Romanos III Argyros, against the Mirdasid rulers of Aleppo. The retreat degenerates into a rout, in which Romanos himself barely escapes capture.
1031 AD Aug 03 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
1032 AD Feb 02 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.
1033 AD Dec 05 – The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multiple cities across the Levant, triggers a tsunami and kills many.
1034 AD Nov 25 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad, son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1038 AD Aug 15 – King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him.
1040 AD Aug 14 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1042 AD Jun 08 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the country's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king.
1043 AD Apr 03 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1046 AD Mar 05 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1048 AD Jul 17 – Damasus II is elected pope, and dies 23 days later.
1051 AD May 19 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev.
1053 AD Jun 18 – Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
1054 AD Jul 04 – A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
1054 AD Jul 16 – Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing a Papal bull (of doubtful validity) of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the formal start of the East–West Schism.
1054 AD Jul 27 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
1055 AD Jan 11 – Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1056 AD Aug 31 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1057 AD Aug 03 – Frederik van Lotharingen elected as first Belgian Pope Stephen IX.
1057 AD Aug 15 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
1057 AD Aug 31 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one year.
1060 AD Dec 06 – Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
1066 AD Jan 06 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
1068 AD Jan 01 – Romanos IV Diogenes marries Eudokia Makrembolitissa and is crowned Byzantine Emperor.
1068 AD Aug 05 – Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
1069 AD Jan 28 – Robert de Comines, appointed Earl of Northumbria by William the Conqueror, rides into Durham, England, where he is defeated and killed by rebels. This incident leads to the Harrying of the North.
1070 AD Aug 15 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
1071 AD Apr 15 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
1071 AD Aug 26 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most of Anatolia.
1072 AD Jan 10 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo in Sicily for the Normans.
1076 AD Feb 22 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1077 AD Jan 28 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, is lifted after he humbles himself before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa in Italy.
1077 AD Apr 03 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
1080 AD Apr 17 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
1081 AD Apr 01 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4.
1082 AD Dec 05 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1083 AD Aug 20 – Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
1085 AD May 25 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
1086 AD Jul 10 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
1091 AD Apr 29 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
1092 AD Apr 21 – The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II
1093 AD Nov 13 – Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are killed.
1095 AD Nov 18 – The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1095 AD Nov 27 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1096 AD May 18 – First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany.
1096 AD May 27 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
1096 AD Aug 15 – Starting date of the First Crusade as set by Pope Urban II.
1097 AD May 14 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
1097 AD Jul 01 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1098 AD Jun 02 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later.
1098 AD Jun 03 – After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch (today's Turkey).
1098 AD Jun 28 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
1099 AD Jun 07 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1099 AD Jul 08 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
1099 AD Jul 15 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1099 AD Jul 22 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1099 AD Aug 12 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
1099 AD Aug 13 – Raniero is elected as Pope Paschal II, who would become deeply entangled in the Investiture Controversy.
1100 AD Aug 05 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1100 AD Sep 08 – Election of Antipope Theodoric.
1100 AD Nov 11 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned in the same day.
1105 AD Nov 18 – Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV.
1108 AD May 29 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
1110 AD Dec 04 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem captures Sidon.
1111 AD Apr 13 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1112 AD Feb 03 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1113 AD Feb 15 – Pope Paschal II issues Pie Postulatio Voluntatis, recognizing the Order of Hospitallers.
1118 AD Jun 11 – Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks.
1120 AD Jan 16 – Crusades: The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1120 AD May 27 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1120 AD Jul 04 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
1120 AD Nov 25 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.
1121 AD Aug 12 – Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
1124 AD Jul 07 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
1126 AD Jan 18 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
1126 AD Mar 08 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
1127 AD Jan 09 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong of Song and others, ending the Northern Song dynasty.
1128 AD Jun 24 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: Forces led by Afonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba.
1130 AD Feb 14 – The troubled 1130 papal election exposes a rift within the College of Cardinals.
1132 AD Jul 24 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1134 AD Apr 25 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
1135 AD May 26 – Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in León Cathedral as Imperator totius Hispaniae (Emperor of all of Spain).
1137 AD Jul 25 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux.
1137 AD Oct 30 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later.
1138 AD Mar 07 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.
1138 AD Aug 22 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
1138 AD Nov 05 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
1139 AD Apr 08 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy.
1139 AD Jul 25 – Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who is proclaimed King of Portugal.
1140 AD Jun 03 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1140 AD Aug 21 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
1141 AD Feb 02 – The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.
1141 AD Apr 07 – Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England, adopting the title "Lady of the English".
1141 AD Sep 09 – Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara Khitai, defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan.
1141 AD Nov 01 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of 'King of England'.
1145 AD Sep 01 – The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated.
1146 AD Mar 31 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1148 AD Jul 24 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1148 AD Jul 29 – The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
1149 AD Jun 29 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
1149 AD Jul 15 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1152 AD Mar 04 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.
1152 AD May 18 – The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England.
1153 AD May 27 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1153 AD Aug 19 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
1156 AD Jan 20 – Finnish peasant Lalli kills English clergyman Henry, the Bishop of Turku, on the ice of Lake Köyliö.
1157 AD Jun 11 – Albert I of Brandenburg, also called The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), becomes the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first margrave.
1158 AD Jan 11 – Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia.
1158 AD Jun 14 – The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
1159 AD Sep 07 – Pope Alexander III is chosen.
1160 AD Nov 13 – Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.
1161 AD Nov 26 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
1164 AD Aug 12 – Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
1167 AD May 29 – Battle of Monte Porzio: A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel.
1169 AD Feb 04 – A strong earthquake strikes the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
1169 AD Mar 26 – Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
1169 AD May 01 – Norman mercenaries land at Bannow Bay in Leinster, marking the beginning of the Norman invasion of Ireland.
1169 AD Aug 21 – Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin. The uprising is defeated after two days, consolidating Saladin's position as master of Egypt.
1172 AD Aug 27 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England.
1173 AD Aug 09 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
1173 AD Sep 01 – The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of Ancona by the forces of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
1174 AD Jul 11 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
1174 AD Jul 13 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1176 AD May 22 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo.
1176 AD May 23 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo.
1176 AD May 29 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1177 AD Nov 25 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1178 AD Jun 18 – Five Canterbury monks see an event believed to have been the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
1179 AD Jun 19 – The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1179 AD Nov 01 – Philip II is crowned as 'King of France'.
1180 AD Jun 20 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
1180 AD Sep 14 – Genpei War: Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1183 AD Aug 14 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.
1184 AD Jun 15 – The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner pretender Sverre Sigurdsson. Sigurdsson takes the Norwegian throne and King Magnus V of Norway is killed.
1185 AD Aug 15 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1185 AD Aug 24 – Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
1185 AD Sep 11 – Isaac II Angelos kills Stephen Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronikos I Komnenos and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
1186 AD Jan 27 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
1186 AD Aug 17 – Georgenberg Pact: Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria and Leopold V, Duke of Austria sign a heritage agreement in which Ottokar gives his duchy to Leopold and to his son Frederick under the stipulation that Austria and Styria would henceforth remain undivided.
1187 AD Jul 04 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1189 AD Jul 20 – Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy.
1189 AD Jul 27 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
1189 AD Aug 28 – Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
1189 AD Sep 03 – Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster.
1189 AD Sep 04 – Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster.
1190 AD Jun 10 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1190 AD Nov 24 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.
1191 AD May 12 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus; she is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
1191 AD Jun 08 – Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning the Third Crusade.
1191 AD Jul 12 – Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
1191 AD Aug 20 – Richard I of England initiates the Massacre at Ayyadieh, leaving 2,600–3,000 Muslim hostages dead.
1191 AD Sep 07 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf: Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1192 AD Apr 28 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1192 AD Aug 21 – Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i Taishōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: the 12th day of the seventh month in the third year of the Kenkyū (建久) era).
1192 AD Sep 02 – The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
1194 AD May 02 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
1194 AD Jun 29 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war.
1194 AD Nov 20 – Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1195 AD Jul 18 – Battle of Alarcos: Almohad forces defeat the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII and force its retreat to Toledo.
1198 AD Sep 08 – Philip of Swabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, is crowned King of Germany (King of the Romans)
1199 AD May 27 – John is crowned King of England.
1200 AD May 22 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
1200 AD May 23 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
1200 AD Aug 24 – King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.
1201 AD Jul 31 – Attempted usurpation by John Komnenos the Fat for the throne of Alexios III Angelos.
1202 AD Jul 27 – Georgian–Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Basian the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
1203 AD Jul 17 – The Fourth Crusade assaults Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
1203 AD Aug 01 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Byzantine Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
1204 AD Mar 06 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
1204 AD Apr 12 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
1204 AD Apr 13 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1204 AD May 16 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1205 AD Jan 06 – Philip of Swabia undergoes a second coronation as King of the Romans.
1207 AD Feb 02 – Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
1207 AD Jul 15 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
1208 AD Jan 31 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the throne as King Eric X of Sweden.
1209 AD Jul 22 – Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
1210 AD Nov 18 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV.
1212 AD Jul 10 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1212 AD Jul 16 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: After Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
1213 AD Sep 12 – Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
1214 AD Feb 15 – During the Anglo-French War (1213–1214), an English invasion force led by John, King of England, lands at La Rochelle in France.
1214 AD Jul 27 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire.
1214 AD Nov 01 – The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
1215 AD May 05 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1215 AD Jun 01 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1215 AD Jun 15 – King John of England puts his seal to Magna Carta.
1215 AD Aug 24 – Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.
1215 AD Nov 11 – The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
1216 AD Jun 14 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city of Winchester, abandoned by John, King of England, and soon conquers over half of the kingdom.
1217 AD May 20 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
1217 AD Nov 06 – The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.
1218 AD May 24 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1218 AD Aug 31 – Al-Kamil becomes sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty.
1219 AD Jun 15 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lindanise (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia.
1220 AD Aug 08 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1221 AD Nov 24 – Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.
1223 AD May 31 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
1223 AD Jul 14 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II.
1225 AD Jul 20 – Treaty of San Germano is signed at San Germano between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX. A Dominican named Guala is responsible for the negotiations.
1226 AD Sep 14 – The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.
1227 AD Nov 24 – Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.
1228 AD Jul 16 – The canonization of Saint Francis of Assisi
1228 AD Sep 07 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre, Israel, and starts the Sixth Crusade, which results in a peaceful restoration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1229 AD Feb 18 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1229 AD Sep 12 – Battle of Portopí: The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
1229 AD Sep 13 – Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
1230 AD May 02 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
1230 AD Jun 24 – The Siege of Jaén begins, in the context of the Spanish Reconquista.
1232 AD Apr 08 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty.
1232 AD Jul 16 – The Spanish town of Arjona declares independence and names its native Muhammad ibn Yusuf as ruler. This marks the Muhammad's first rise to prominence; he would later establish the Nasrid Emirate of Granada, the last independent Muslim state in Spain.
1232 AD Aug 27 – Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing the samurai class.
1233 AD May 29 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols entered Kaifeng after a successful siege and began looting in the fallen capital of the Jin dynasty.
1236 AD Jan 14 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
1237 AD Aug 15 – Spanish Reconquista: The Battle of the Puig between the Moorish forces of Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon culminates in an Aragonese victory.
1238 AD Feb 08 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1238 AD Mar 04 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'.
1240 AD Jun 12 – At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.
1240 AD Jul 15 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1240 AD Dec 06 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1241 AD Apr 09 – Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
1241 AD Apr 11 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
1242 AD Apr 05 – During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
1242 AD Jun 17 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt in Paris.
1242 AD Jul 21 – Battle of Taillebourg: Louis IX of France puts an end to the revolt of his vassals Henry III of England and Hugh X of Lusignan.
1244 AD Aug 23 – Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to the Khwarazmiyya.
1244 AD Dec 02 – Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
1245 AD Feb 21 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
1246 AD May 22 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV.
1246 AD May 23 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV.
1246 AD Jun 15 – With the death of Frederick II, Duke of Austria, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
1248 AD Aug 15 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
1248 AD Aug 25 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
1248 AD Nov 23 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
1248 AD Nov 24 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.
1249 AD Feb 16 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
1249 AD Jul 13 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
1250 AD Feb 08 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1250 AD Apr 08 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
1251 AD Jul 16 – Celebrated by the Carmelite Order–but doubted by modern historians–as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1252 AD May 15 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1252 AD Jun 01 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
1253 AD Apr 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1253 AD Jul 04 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
1253 AD Jul 06 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1253 AD Sep 08 – Pope Innocent IV canonises Stanislaus of Szczepanów, killed by King Bolesław II.
1254 AD May 22 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
1254 AD May 23 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
1256 AD May 04 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1257 AD May 27 – Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.
1257 AD Jun 05 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
1258 AD Jan 29 – First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.
1258 AD Feb 10 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
1258 AD Jun 25 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Acre, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet sailing to relieve Acre.
1258 AD Jun 26 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Acre, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet sailing to relieve Acre.
1258 AD Aug 25 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under Michael VIII Palaiologos, paving the way for its leader to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
1259 AD Jan 01 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.
1259 AD Dec 04 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
1260 AD May 05 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1260 AD Jul 13 – The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1260 AD Sep 03 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1260 AD Sep 04 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1261 AD Jul 25 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
1261 AD Aug 15 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned as the first Byzantine emperor in fifty-seven years.
1261 AD Aug 29 – Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV, becoming the 182nd pope.
1262 AD Mar 08 – Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg.
1264 AD Jan 23 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War.
1264 AD May 14 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the effective ruler of England.
1264 AD Jun 18 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1264 AD Aug 08 – Mudéjar revolt: Muslim rebel forces took the Alcázar of Jerez de la Frontera after defeating the Castilian garrison.
1264 AD Aug 14 – After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.
1264 AD Sep 08 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Bolesław the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
1265 AD Jan 20 – The first English parliament to include not only Lords but also representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament".
1265 AD Jun 18 – A draft Byzantine–Venetian treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, but is not ratified by Doge Reniero Zeno.
1265 AD Aug 04 – Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham: The army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
1266 AD Feb 26 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1266 AD Jun 23 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
1268 AD Feb 18 – The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov.
1268 AD Apr 04 – A five-year Byzantine–Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
1268 AD May 18 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch.
1268 AD Aug 23 – The Battle of Tagliacozzo marks the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
1270 AD Feb 16 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
1270 AD Aug 10 – Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum.
1270 AD Aug 25 – Philip III, although suffering from dysentery, becomes King of France following the death of his father Louis IX, during the Eighth Crusade. His uncle, Charles I of Naples, is forced to begin peace negotiations with Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Hafsid Sultan of Tunis.
1270 AD Oct 30 – The Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis, Tunisia.
1271 AD Apr 08 – In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers.
1274 AD May 07 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope.
1274 AD Aug 02 – Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
1276 AD May 24 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1276 AD Jun 14 – While taking exile in Fuzhou, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for Emperor Duanzong.
1276 AD Sep 08 – Pope John XXI is elected Pope.
1277 AD Mar 07 – The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses.
1277 AD Nov 09 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars.
1278 AD Jul 25 – The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
1278 AD Aug 05 – Spanish Reconquista: the forces of the Kingdom of Castile initiate the ultimately futile Siege of Algeciras against the Emirate of Granada.
1278 AD Aug 26 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolf I of Germany defeat Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle on the Marchfeld near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
1278 AD Nov 08 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor.
1279 AD Mar 05 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1280 AD Jun 23 – The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursuing force, killing most of them in a military disaster for the Kingdom of Castile.
1281 AD Aug 15 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
1282 AD Mar 30 – The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1282 AD Aug 30 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
1282 AD Nov 18 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1283 AD Jun 05 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.
1283 AD Jul 08 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta.
1284 AD Aug 06 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
1285 AD Jun 14 – Second Mongol invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of the Trần dynasty destroy most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.
1287 AD Jan 30 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1287 AD Jun 14 – Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
1288 AD Apr 09 – Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Yuan forces are defeated by Trần forces in the Battle of Bach Dang in present-day northern Vietnam.
1288 AD Jun 05 – The Battle of Worringen ends the War of the Limburg Succession, with John I, Duke of Brabant, being one of the more important victors.
1290 AD Jul 18 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
1291 AD May 10 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king.
1291 AD May 18 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land.
1291 AD Aug 01 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
1291 AD Nov 08 – The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano".
1293 AD May 20 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Estudio de Escuelas de Generales in Alcalá de Henares.
1293 AD May 26 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 23,000.
1293 AD May 31 – Mongol invasion of Java was a punitive expedition against King Kertanegara of Singhasari, who had refused to pay tribute to the Yuan and maimed one of its ministers. However, it ended with failure for the Mongols. Regarded as establish City of Surabaya
1294 AD Apr 28 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols with the reigning title Oljeitu.
1294 AD May 10 – Temür, Khagan of the Mongols, is enthroned as Emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1296 AD Mar 30 – Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1296 AD Apr 27 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
1297 AD Jan 08 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
1297 AD Sep 11 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.
1298 AD Jun 01 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1298 AD Jul 02 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
1298 AD Jul 03 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
1298 AD Jul 22 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
1299 AD Jul 27 – According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman state.
1300 AD Jun 15 – The city of Bilbao is founded.
1301 AD Jan 14 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1301 AD Feb 07 – Edward of Caernarvon (later king Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1302 AD Jan 27 – Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence.
1302 AD May 18 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
1302 AD Jul 11 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.
1302 AD Jul 27 – Battle of Bapheus: Decisive Ottoman victory over the Byzantines opening up Bithynia for Turkish conquest.
1302 AD Nov 18 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam, claiming spiritual supremacy for the papacy.
1303 AD Feb 24 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1303 AD Apr 20 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1303 AD Aug 26 – Chittorgarh falls to the Delhi Sultanate.
1303 AD Sep 07 – Guillaume de Nogaret takes Pope Boniface VIII prisoner on behalf of Philip IV of France.
1304 AD Jul 24 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
1304 AD Aug 18 – The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemish militias.
1305 AD Jun 23 – A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
1305 AD Aug 05 – First Scottish War of Independence: Sir John Stewart of Menteith, the pro-English Sheriff of Dumbarton, successfully manages to capture Sir William Wallace of Scotland, leading to Wallace's subsequent execution by hanging, evisceration, drawing and quartering, and beheading 18 days later.
1305 AD Aug 23 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.
1306 AD Feb 10 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1306 AD Jun 19 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1307 AD Jun 21 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
1307 AD Nov 22 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
1308 AD Aug 20 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy.
1309 AD Mar 27 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
1309 AD Jul 26 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1309 AD Sep 12 – The First Siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.
1310 AD Aug 15 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.
1311 AD Jun 09 – Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1312 AD Jun 15 – At the Battle of Rozgony, King Charles I of Hungary wins a decisive victory over the family of Palatine Amade Aba.
1313 AD Feb 07 – King Thihathu founds the Pinya Kingdom as the de jure successor state of the Pagan Kingdom.
1313 AD Nov 09 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.
1314 AD Jun 23 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
1314 AD Jun 24 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce.
1314 AD Aug 31 – King Haakon V of Norway moves the capital from Bergen to Oslo.
1315 AD Apr 30 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
1315 AD Aug 11 – The Great Famine of Europe becomes so dire that even the king of England has difficulties buying bread for himself and his entourage.
1315 AD Aug 29 – Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
1316 AD Feb 22 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut, ends in victory for Ferdinand.
1316 AD Jul 05 – The Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada.
1316 AD Aug 10 – The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.
1317 AD Dec 10 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.
1319 AD Jul 23 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
1320 AD Jan 20 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
1320 AD Apr 06 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1320 AD Sep 09 – In the Battle of Saint George, the Byzantines under Andronikos Asen ambush and defeat the forces of the Principality of Achaea, securing possession of Arcadia.
1322 AD Jan 06 – Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia, having defeated his half-brother Stefan Konstantin in battle. His son is crowned "young king" in the same ceremony.
1322 AD Feb 13 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
1323 AD Mar 06 – Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.
1323 AD Aug 12 – The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod Republic is signed, regulating the border between the two countries for the first time.
1325 AD Jan 07 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1325 AD Jun 13 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 years).
1326 AD Jun 03 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1327 AD Feb 01 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1327 AD Aug 04 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
1328 AD May 01 – Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton, England recognises Scotland as an independent state.
1328 AD May 12 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1328 AD May 26 – William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena, and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
1328 AD May 29 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1328 AD Aug 16 – The House of Gonzaga seizes power in the Duchy of Mantua, and will rule until 1708.
1328 AD Aug 23 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1329 AD Mar 27 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1329 AD Jun 10 – The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
1329 AD Aug 09 – Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.
1330 AD Nov 09 – At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
1330 AD Nov 12 – Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.
1331 AD Aug 21 – King Stefan Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stefan Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia.
1331 AD Sep 08 – Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia.
1332 AD Feb 18 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1332 AD Aug 11 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor: Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
1333 AD Jul 19 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill: The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
1333 AD Nov 03 – The River Arno floods causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
1334 AD Jul 18 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
1335 AD Sep 03 – At the congress of Visegrád Charles I of Hungary mediates a reconciliation between two neighboring monarchs, John of Bohemia and Casimir III of Poland.
1335 AD Sep 04 – At the congress of Visegrád Charles I of Hungary mediates a reconciliation between two neighboring monarchs, John of Bohemia and Casimir III of Poland.
1336 AD Feb 25 – Four thousand defenders of Pilenai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1336 AD Apr 26 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
1339 AD Feb 20 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
1340 AD Jun 24 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys: The French fleet is almost completely destroyed by the English fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
1340 AD Oct 30 – Reconquista: Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
1342 AD Jul 22 – St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
1342 AD Aug 03 – The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1343 AD Jan 27 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
1343 AD Apr 23 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
1343 AD Aug 02 – After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to attack French shipping and ports.
1343 AD Nov 25 – A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
1344 AD Mar 26 – The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
1345 AD Jun 11 – The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
1346 AD Apr 16 – Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.
1346 AD Jul 11 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.
1346 AD Aug 10 – Jaume Ferrer sets out from Majorca for the "River of Gold", the Senegal River.
1346 AD Aug 26 – At the Battle of Crécy, an English army easily defeats a French one twice its size.
1347 AD Feb 08 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
1348 AD Jan 25 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1348 AD Apr 07 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV charters Prague University.
1348 AD Apr 23 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
1348 AD Apr 26 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe.
1348 AD Jul 06 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
1348 AD Nov 01 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
1349 AD Jan 09 – The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
1349 AD Feb 14 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg.
1349 AD Apr 17 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan II.
1349 AD May 21 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
1349 AD Aug 24 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1350 AD Aug 29 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1351 AD Mar 04 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1351 AD Mar 26 – Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and defeat thirty English knights.
1352 AD Aug 14 – War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1355 AD Jan 06 – Charles IV of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
1355 AD Feb 10 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1355 AD Sep 01 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki.
1356 AD Jan 20 – Edward Balliol surrenders his claim to the Scottish throne to Edward III in exchange for an English pension.
1357 AD Jul 09 – Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
1358 AD Jun 27 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
1359 AD Jul 04 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1359 AD Nov 24 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
1360 AD May 08 – Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good).
1360 AD Jun 28 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
1362 AD Jan 16 – Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.
1362 AD Jan 17 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.
1362 AD Apr 17 – Kaunas Castle falls to the Teutonic Order after a month-long siege.
1363 AD Aug 30 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
1364 AD May 12 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków.
1364 AD May 16 – Hundred Years' War: Bertrand du Guesclin and a French army defeat the Anglo-Navarrese army of Charles the Bad at Cocherel.
1364 AD Jul 28 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
1365 AD Feb 07 – Albert III of Mecklenburg (King Albert of Sweden) grants city rights to Ulvila (Swedish: Ulvsby).
1365 AD Feb 26 – The Ava Kingdom and the royal city of Ava (Inwa) founded by King Thado Minbya.
1367 AD Sep 05 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
1368 AD Jan 23 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1370 AD Feb 17 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
1370 AD May 22 – Brussels massacre: Between six and twenty Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host.
1370 AD May 23 – Brussels massacre: Between six and twenty Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host.
1370 AD Aug 14 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.
1371 AD Feb 22 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1373 AD May 08 – Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her Revelations of Divine Love.
1373 AD May 13 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book Revelations of Divine Love.
1374 AD Jun 24 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1377 AD Jan 17 – Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1377 AD May 22 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1377 AD May 23 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1377 AD Jul 16 – King Richard II of England is crowned.
1377 AD Aug 02 – Russian troops are defeated by forces of the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha in the Battle on Pyana River.
1380 AD Sep 08 – Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
1381 AD May 30 – Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
1381 AD Jun 12 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels assemble at Blackheath, just outside London.
1381 AD Jun 13 – In England, the Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, comes to a head, as rebels set fire to the Savoy Palace.
1381 AD Jun 14 – Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt at Mile End. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1381 AD Jul 15 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
1382 AD Aug 23 – Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1385 AD Aug 14 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.
1386 AD Feb 24 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1386 AD Mar 04 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1386 AD Apr 29 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
1386 AD May 09 – England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
1386 AD Jul 09 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Duchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
1386 AD Aug 17 – Karl Topia, the ruler of Princedom of Albania forges an alliance with the Republic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the Ottomans in return.
1386 AD Nov 21 – Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V of Georgia captive.
1388 AD Apr 09 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.
1388 AD May 18 – During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu leads a Ming army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Tögüs Temür, the Khan of Northern Yuan.
1388 AD Aug 05 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
1389 AD Jun 15 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
1389 AD Jul 18 – France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War.
1390 AD Sep 11 – Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92): The Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
1391 AD Jul 18 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present-day southeast Russia.
1391 AD Aug 20 – Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.
1395 AD Apr 14 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Timur (also known as Tamerlane) defeats the army of the Golden Horde at the Battle of the Terek River, from which the Golden Horde never recovers as a military force.
1395 AD May 17 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army.
1397 AD Jun 17 – The Kalmar Union is formed under the rule of Margaret I of Denmark.
1398 AD Jul 20 – The Battle of Kellistown was fought on this day between the forces of the English led by Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March against the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles under the command of Art Óg mac Murchadha Caomhánach, the most powerful Chieftain in Leinster.
1400 AD Nov 25 – King Minkhaung I becomes king of Ava.
1401 AD Jul 09 – Timur attacks the Jalairid Sultanate and destroys Baghdad.
1402 AD Jul 17 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.
1402 AD Jul 20 – Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara: Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
1402 AD Sep 14 – Battle of Homildon Hill results in an English victory over Scotland.
1403 AD May 21 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire.
1403 AD Jul 21 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
1404 AD Feb 12 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
1404 AD Jun 14 – Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself Prince of Wales, allies himself with the French against King Henry IV of England.
1405 AD Jul 11 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1407 AD Apr 10 – Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama visits the Ming dynasty capital at Nanjing and is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".
1407 AD Jun 16 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán Thương of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies.
1407 AD Nov 20 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.
1408 AD Dec 05 – Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
1409 AD Dec 02 – The University of Leipzig opens.
1410 AD Jun 15 – In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor.
1410 AD Jun 15 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Byzantine capital, Constantinople.
1410 AD Jul 11 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Ottoman capital, Edirne.
1410 AD Jul 15 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1410 AD Nov 02 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
1411 AD Feb 01 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
1411 AD Feb 17 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
1411 AD Jun 04 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
1411 AD Jul 06 – Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
1411 AD Jul 24 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1411 AD Sep 03 – The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.
1411 AD Sep 04 – The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.
1412 AD Jul 24 – Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin.
1415 AD May 04 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
1415 AD Jul 06 – Jan Hus is condemned by the assembly of the council in the Konstanz Cathedral as a heretic and sentenced to be burned at the stake. (See Deaths section.)
1415 AD Aug 02 – Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot.
1415 AD Aug 21 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Conquest of Ceuta.
1416 AD May 29 – Battle of Gallipoli: The Venetians under Pietro Loredan defeat a much larger Ottoman fleet off Gallipoli.
1416 AD May 30 – The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1418 AD Jun 12 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter sympathizers of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.
1419 AD Jan 19 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
1419 AD Jul 30 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
1419 AD Sep 10 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1420 AD May 25 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1420 AD Jun 07 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
1420 AD Jul 14 – Battle of Vítkov Hill, decisive victory of Czech Hussite forces commanded by Jan Žižka against Crusade army led by Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor.
1420 AD Sep 01 – A 9.4 M_S-strong earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region causing tsunamis in Chile as well as Hawaii and Japan.
1420 AD Dec 01 – Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France.
1421 AD Nov 18 – A dike in the Grote Hollandse Waard in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as St Elizabeth's flood.
1422 AD Jun 30 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1422 AD Aug 31 – King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine months.
1423 AD Apr 04 – Death of the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo, under whose rule victories were achieved against the Kingdom of Hungary and against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Gallipoli (1416).
1423 AD Jul 31 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: A Franco-Scottish army is defeated by the Anglo-Burgundians at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1424 AD Aug 17 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil: An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under Jean II, Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas.
1426 AD May 16 – Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes king of Ava.
1426 AD May 20 – King Mohnyin Thado formally ascends to the throne of Ava.
1426 AD Nov 07 – Lam Sơn uprising: Lam Sơn rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động taking place in Đông Quan, in now Hanoi.
1428 AD Apr 18 – Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance.
1428 AD Aug 09 – Sources cite biggest caravan trade between Podvisoki and Republic of Ragusa. Vlachs committed to Ragusan lord Tomo Bunić, that they will with 600 horses deliver 1,500 modius of salt. Delivery was meant for Dobrašin Veseoković, and Vlachs price was half of delivered salt.
1429 AD Feb 12 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in the Battle of the Herrings.
1429 AD Apr 29 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
1429 AD May 08 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1429 AD Jun 11 – Hundred Years' War: Start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1429 AD Jun 12 – Hundred Years' War: On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
1429 AD Jun 18 – Charles VII's army defeats an English army under John Talbot at the Battle of Patay during the Hundred Years' War. The English lost 2,200 men, over half their army, crippling their efforts during this segment of the war.
1429 AD Jul 17 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc.
1429 AD Nov 04 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1429 AD Nov 24 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
1430 AD Jan 10 – Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, establishes the Order of the Golden Fleece, the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world.
1430 AD Mar 29 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
1430 AD Jul 14 – Joan of Arc, taken by the Burgundians in May, is handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.
1430 AD Aug 15 – Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1431 AD Jan 09 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen.
1431 AD May 30 – Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
1431 AD Jul 01 – The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.
1432 AD Dec 08 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
1434 AD May 30 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
1435 AD Jan 13 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
1436 AD May 04 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
1437 AD Sep 13 – Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.
1438 AD Jan 01 – Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.
1438 AD Jan 24 – The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
1438 AD Feb 02 – Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda.
1438 AD Jul 06 – A temporary compromise between the rebellious Transylvanian peasants and the noblemen is signed in Kolozsmonostor Abbey.
1439 AD Nov 12 – Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1440 AD Feb 21 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1441 AD Nov 20 – The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the Galeas per montes.
1443 AD Jul 22 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War.
1443 AD Nov 28 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in central Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
1444 AD Mar 02 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
1444 AD Jun 29 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
1444 AD Aug 26 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel.
1445 AD May 19 – John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
1449 AD Jan 06 – Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.
1449 AD Apr 07 – Felix V abdicates his claim to the papacy, ending the reign of the final Antipope.
1449 AD May 20 – The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.
1449 AD Sep 01 – Tumu Crisis: The Mongols capture the Emperor of China.
1450 AD Apr 15 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1450 AD May 08 – Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
1450 AD May 09 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1451 AD Feb 03 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1451 AD Jul 31 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1453 AD Apr 06 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople. The city falls on May 29, and is renamed Istanbul.
1453 AD May 29 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1453 AD Jul 17 – Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
1454 AD Jan 08 – The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards the Kingdom of Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador.
1454 AD Feb 04 – Thirteen Years' War: The Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, sparking the Thirteen Years' War.
1454 AD Mar 06 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1454 AD Apr 09 – The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.
1455 AD Feb 23 – Traditionally the date of publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
1455 AD May 22 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1455 AD May 23 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1456 AD Jul 04 – Ottoman–Hungarian wars: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins.
1456 AD Jul 07 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
1456 AD Jul 22 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
1456 AD Nov 09 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1456 AD Dec 05 – The first of the two 1456 Central Italy earthquakes measuring M_w  7.2 causes extreme destruction and kills as many as 70,000 people.
1457 AD Jun 29 – The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire
1458 AD Jan 24 – Matthias Corvinus is elected King of Hungary.
1458 AD Mar 02 – George of Poděbrady is chosen as the king of Bohemia.
1458 AD Aug 19 – Pope Pius II is elected the 211th Pope.
1460 AD Jul 10 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1461 AD Feb 02 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross results in the death of Owen Tudor.
1461 AD Mar 04 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1461 AD Mar 29 – Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England, bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses.
1461 AD Jun 28 – Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.
1461 AD Aug 07 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1461 AD Aug 15 – The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
1462 AD Feb 13 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
1462 AD Jun 17 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack at Târgovişte), forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
1464 AD Aug 30 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1467 AD Jul 25 – The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
1467 AD Aug 20 – The Second Battle of Olmedo takes places as part of a succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
1468 AD Nov 03 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
1469 AD Aug 01 – Louis XI of France founds the chivalric order called the Order of Saint Michael in Amboise.
1470 AD Jul 12 – The Ottomans capture Euboea.
1470 AD Nov 28 – Champa–Đại Việt War: Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt formally launches his attack against Champa.
1471 AD Apr 14 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1471 AD May 04 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
1472 AD Feb 20 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
1473 AD Aug 11 – The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
1475 AD Jan 10 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1475 AD Aug 29 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
1476 AD Mar 01 – Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro.
1476 AD Mar 02 – Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuchâtel.
1476 AD Jul 11 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1476 AD Nov 26 – Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1477 AD Jan 05 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1478 AD Feb 18 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
1478 AD Apr 26 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
1479 AD Aug 07 – Battle of Guinegate: French troops of King Louis XI were defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg.
1481 AD May 03 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
1482 AD Jul 15 – Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
1482 AD Aug 24 – The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.
1483 AD Apr 29 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands, is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
1483 AD Jul 06 – Richard III and Anne Neville are crowned King and Queen of England.
1483 AD Aug 15 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
1484 AD Mar 02 – The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
1484 AD Mar 26 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1484 AD Jul 06 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1484 AD Jul 22 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1484 AD Aug 29 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
1484 AD Dec 05 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
1485 AD Aug 22 – The Battle of Bosworth Field occurs; Richard III dies, marking the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1486 AD Jan 18 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
1486 AD May 01 – Christopher Columbus presents his plans discovering a western route to the Indies to the Spanish Queen Isabella I of Castile.
1487 AD May 07 – The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1487 AD May 24 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1487 AD Jun 16 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
1487 AD Jul 24 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer.
1487 AD Aug 18 – The Siege of Málaga ends with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.
1487 AD Nov 25 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
1488 AD Feb 03 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
1488 AD Jun 11 – Battle of Sauchieburn: Fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the king.
1488 AD Jul 12 – Joseon Dynasty official Choe Bu returned to Korea after months of shipwrecked travel in China.
1488 AD Sep 09 – Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France.
1491 AD May 03 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1491 AD Nov 25 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.
1492 AD Jan 02 – Reconquista: The Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
1492 AD Jan 06 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada at the conclusion of the Granada War.
1492 AD Mar 31 – Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1492 AD Apr 17 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
1492 AD Apr 30 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. He is named admiral of the ocean sea, viceroy and governor of any territory he discovers.
1492 AD Jul 31 – All remaining Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
1492 AD Aug 03 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1492 AD Aug 11 – Rodrigo de Borja is elected as Head of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Alexander VI.
1492 AD Aug 12 – Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
1492 AD Aug 18 – The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
1492 AD Sep 06 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1492 AD Nov 03 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France.
1492 AD Nov 07 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1492 AD Dec 06 – After exploring island of Cuba for gold, surmising it for Japan, Columbus lands on island similar to Castile, naming it Hispaniola.
1493 AD Feb 15 – While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
1493 AD Mar 04 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1493 AD May 04 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1493 AD Jul 12 – Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
1493 AD Sep 09 – Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
1493 AD Sep 09 – Christopher Columbus, with 17 ships and 1,200 men, sails on second voyage from Cadiz.
1493 AD Nov 03 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1493 AD Nov 04 – Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico.
1493 AD Nov 18 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1493 AD Nov 19 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
1494 AD Jan 25 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
1494 AD May 05 – On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.
1494 AD Jun 07 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1494 AD Jul 02 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
1494 AD Jul 03 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
1494 AD Nov 18 – French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy.
1495 AD Feb 22 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1495 AD Jun 01 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.^{[citation needed]}
1495 AD Jun 28 – A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.
1495 AD Jul 06 – First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo: Charles VIII defeats the Holy League.
1496 AD Mar 05 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1496 AD Dec 05 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jewish "heretics" from the country.
1497 AD Feb 07 – In Florence, Italy, supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books, in a "Bonfire of the vanities".
1497 AD May 10 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
1497 AD May 12 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
1497 AD May 20 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
1497 AD Jun 17 – Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1497 AD Jun 24 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
1497 AD Jun 27 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
1497 AD Jul 08 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
1498 AD Mar 02 – Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
1498 AD May 20 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
1498 AD Jul 31 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1498 AD Aug 01 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1498 AD Aug 17 – Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois.
1498 AD Aug 29 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
1499 AD Jan 08 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII.
1499 AD May 18 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
1499 AD May 19 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
1499 AD Jun 27 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coast south of Cape Cassipore.
1499 AD Jul 10 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
1499 AD Jul 22 – Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1499 AD Aug 12 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
1499 AD Sep 09 – The citizens of Lisbon celebrate the triumphal return of the explorer Vasco de Gama, completing his two-year journey around the Cape of Good Hope to India.
1499 AD Nov 05 – The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1499 AD Nov 23 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
1500 AD Jan 01 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral discovers the coast of Brazil.
1500 AD Feb 17 – Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1500 AD Mar 29 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
1500 AD Apr 10 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
1500 AD Apr 22 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
1500 AD Apr 23 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches new coastline (Brazil).
1500 AD Aug 09 – Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.
1500 AD Nov 11 – Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
1501 AD May 13 – Amerigo Vespucci, this time under Portuguese flag, set sail for western lands.
1501 AD Sep 13 – Italian Renaissance: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1501 AD Nov 04 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.
1502 AD Jan 01 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is first explored by the Portuguese.
1502 AD Feb 10 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1502 AD Feb 12 – Isabella I issues an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.
1502 AD Feb 12 – Vasco da Gama with 15 ships and 800 men sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.
1502 AD Jun 15 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
1502 AD Jul 30 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1503 AD Feb 13 – Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1503 AD Apr 28 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1503 AD May 10 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
1503 AD Aug 08 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1503 AD Nov 01 – Pope Julius II is elected.
1504 AD Jan 31 – The Treaty of Lyon ends the Italian War, confirming French domination of northern Italy, while Spain receives the Kingdom of Naples.
1504 AD Feb 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies.
1504 AD Jul 02 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.
1504 AD Jul 03 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.
1504 AD Aug 19 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
1504 AD Sep 08 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
1504 AD Sep 13 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1504 AD Nov 07 – Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage.
1504 AD Dec 08 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah writes his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law requirements for the forcibly converted Muslims in Spain.
1505 AD Jun 06 – The M8.2–8.8 Lo Mustang earthquake affects Tibet and Nepal, causing severe damage in Kathmandu and parts of the Indo-Gangetic plain.
1506 AD Jan 22 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1506 AD Apr 18 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1506 AD Apr 19 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
1506 AD Apr 21 – The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics.
1506 AD Aug 05 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
1507 AD Jul 18 – In Brussels, Prince Charles I is crowned Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders, a year after inheriting the title.
1508 AD Dec 10 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
1509 AD Feb 03 – The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
1509 AD Apr 21 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
1509 AD Apr 27 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1509 AD May 14 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Republic of Venice.
1509 AD Jun 11 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
1509 AD Jun 24 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
1509 AD Jul 26 – The Emperor Krishnadevaraya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1509 AD Aug 08 – Krishnadeva Raya is crowned Emperor of Vijayanagara at Chittoor.
1509 AD Sep 10 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
1510 AD May 12 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
1510 AD May 30 – During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
1510 AD Nov 25 – Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
1511 AD Jan 19 – The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope.
1511 AD Aug 15 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.
1512 AD Apr 11 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrarese forces led by Gaston de Foix and Alfonso I d'Este win the Battle of Ravenna against the Papal-Spanish forces.
1512 AD Jul 10 – The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
1512 AD Aug 10 – The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.
1512 AD Nov 01 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1513 AD Mar 27 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1513 AD Apr 02 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Johns River.
1513 AD Apr 30 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
1513 AD Jun 06 – Battle of Novara. In the Italian Wars, Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis II de la Trémoille, forcing them to abandon Milan; Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1513 AD Aug 16 – Battle of the Spurs (Battle of Guinegate): King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who are then forced to retreat.
1513 AD Sep 09 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
1514 AD Jun 13 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
1514 AD Aug 23 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1514 AD Sep 08 – Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
1515 AD Jan 01 – Twenty-year-old Francis, Duke of Brittany, succeeds to the French throne following the death of his father-in-law, Louis XII.
1515 AD Jan 25 – Coronation of Francis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral, where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne.
1515 AD Sep 10 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
1516 AD Apr 23 – The Munich Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria.
1516 AD May 08 – A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended.
1516 AD Aug 13 – The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
1516 AD Aug 24 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
1517 AD Jan 22 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
1517 AD Aug 15 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
1517 AD Oct 31 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
1518 AD Apr 18 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1519 AD Mar 04 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
1519 AD Apr 22 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
1519 AD Jun 28 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1519 AD Jul 10 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
1519 AD Aug 10 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
1519 AD Aug 15 – Panama City, Panama is founded.
1519 AD Aug 20 – Philosopher and general Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
1519 AD Nov 08 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
1520 AD Jan 19 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.
1520 AD Apr 16 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
1520 AD May 20 – Hernando Cortes defeats Panfilo de Narvaez, sent by Spain to punish him for insubordination.
1520 AD May 22 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
1520 AD May 23 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
1520 AD Jun 15 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.
1520 AD Jul 01 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.
1520 AD Jul 07 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
1520 AD Nov 01 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1520 AD Nov 08 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people mostly noblemen.
1520 AD Nov 09 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
1520 AD Nov 28 – An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan.
1520 AD Dec 10 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
1521 AD Jan 03 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
1521 AD Jan 28 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1521 AD Feb 20 – Juan Ponce de León sets out from Spain for Florida with about 200 prospective colonists.
1521 AD Mar 06 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1521 AD Mar 31 – Ferdinand Magellan and fifty of his men came ashore to present-day Limasawa to participate in the first Catholic mass in the Philippines.
1521 AD Apr 07 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
1521 AD Apr 17 – Trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.
1521 AD Apr 18 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
1521 AD Apr 23 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1521 AD Apr 27 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapulapu.
1521 AD Apr 29 – Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a Danish force in the Battle of Västerås.
1521 AD May 17 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
1521 AD May 20 – Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
1521 AD May 25 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1521 AD Jun 30 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
1521 AD Aug 13 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1521 AD Aug 23 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1521 AD Aug 28 – Ottoman wars in Europe: The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1521 AD Aug 29 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
1522 AD Sep 06 – The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
1522 AD Sep 08 – Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, technically completing the first circumnavigation.
1523 AD Jan 20 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
1523 AD Jun 06 – Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country's national day.
1523 AD Jun 09 – The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
1523 AD Jun 10 – Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city will not recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
1523 AD Jul 01 – Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1524 AD Jan 17 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
1524 AD Apr 17 – Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
1524 AD Aug 28 – The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1525 AD Jan 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1525 AD Feb 24 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.
1525 AD Feb 28 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
1525 AD May 15 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
1525 AD Jun 13 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1526 AD Apr 21 – The last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
1526 AD Aug 29 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
1527 AD Jan 01 – Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria as King of Croatia in the 1527 election in Cetin.
1527 AD Feb 24 – Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague.
1527 AD May 06 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
1527 AD May 16 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
1527 AD May 17 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men – by 1536 only four survive.
1527 AD Jun 22 – Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta.
1527 AD Jul 12 – Lê Cung Hoàng ceded the throne to Mạc Đăng Dung, ending the Lê dynasty and starting the Mạc dynasty.
1527 AD Aug 03 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1528 AD Jan 12 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523.
1529 AD Apr 19 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
1529 AD Apr 22 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas.
1529 AD Jun 21 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
1529 AD Jul 26 – Francisco Pizarro González, Spanish conquistador, is appointed governor of Peru.
1529 AD Sep 01 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
1530 AD Feb 14 – Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.
1530 AD Jun 25 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1530 AD Jun 26 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1531 AD Jan 26 – The 6.4–7.1 M_w Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
1531 AD Nov 23 – The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
1531 AD Dec 09 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1532 AD May 16 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1532 AD Jun 23 – Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France sign the "Treaty of Closer Amity With France" (also known as the Pommeraye treaty), pledging mutual aid against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
1532 AD Aug 13 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1532 AD Sep 01 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1533 AD Jan 25 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
1533 AD May 28 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1533 AD Jun 01 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1534 AD Feb 11 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
1534 AD May 10 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
1534 AD Jun 09 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
1534 AD Jun 29 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1534 AD Jul 04 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1534 AD Jul 07 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
1534 AD Jul 24 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
1534 AD Aug 15 – Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
1534 AD Nov 03 – English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
1534 AD Dec 06 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1535 AD Jan 21 – Following the Affair of the Placards, the French king leads an anti-Protestant procession through Paris.
1535 AD May 19 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
1535 AD Jun 01 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1535 AD Jun 24 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
1535 AD Aug 31 – Pope Paul III excommunicates English King Henry VIII from the church. He drew up a papal bull of excommunication which began Eius qui immobilis.
1536 AD Jan 06 – The first European school of higher learning in the Americas, Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, is founded by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and Bishop Juan de Zumárraga in Mexico City.
1536 AD Jan 24 – King Henry VIII of England suffers an accident while jousting, leading to a brain injury that historians say may have influenced his later erratic behaviour and possible impotence.
1536 AD Feb 02 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1536 AD Apr 05 – Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph.
1536 AD May 02 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1536 AD May 06 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
1536 AD May 15 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest; she is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
1536 AD May 17 – George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
1536 AD May 17 – Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage is annulled.
1536 AD May 19 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
1536 AD May 30 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1536 AD Jul 06 – The explorer Jacques Cartier lands at St. Malo at the end of his second expedition to North America. He returns with none of the gold he expected to find.
1536 AD Jul 16 – Jacques Cartier, navigator and explorer, returns home to St. Malo after claiming Stadacona (Quebec), Hochelaga (Montereal) and the River of Canada (St. Lawrence River) region for France.
1536 AD Jul 25 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
1536 AD Aug 13 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-seventh day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Tenbun (天文) era).
1537 AD Jan 16 – Bigod's Rebellion, an armed insurrection attempting to resist the English Reformation, begins.
1537 AD Aug 15 – Asunción, Paraguay is founded.
1537 AD Aug 25 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1538 AD Feb 24 – Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia.
1538 AD May 26 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
1538 AD Jul 25 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1538 AD Aug 06 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1539 AD Feb 09 – The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.
1539 AD Apr 19 – The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.
1539 AD Apr 27 – Official founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1539 AD May 30 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1539 AD Jun 03 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1539 AD Jun 10 – Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1540 AD Jan 06 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
1540 AD May 09 – Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.
1540 AD Jun 24 – English King Henry VIII commands his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court.
1540 AD Jul 09 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1540 AD Jul 28 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day his former Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, is executed on charges of treason.
1540 AD Aug 15 – Arequipa, Peru is founded.
1541 AD Jan 15 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
1541 AD Feb 12 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1541 AD Apr 07 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1541 AD May 06 – King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church. In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose.
1541 AD May 08 – Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).
1541 AD Aug 23 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1541 AD Aug 29 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1541 AD Sep 11 – Santiago, Chile, is attacked by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco, to free eight indigenous chiefs held captive by the Spaniards.
1541 AD Sep 13 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
1541 AD Dec 10 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
1542 AD Feb 13 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1542 AD May 06 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
1542 AD May 19 – The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Myanmar.
1542 AD Aug 26 – Francisco de Orellana crosses South America from Guayaquil on the Pacific coast to the mouth of the Amazon River on the Atlantic coast.
1542 AD Aug 28 – Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
1542 AD Nov 24 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
1543 AD Jul 12 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
1543 AD Aug 25 – António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.
1543 AD Sep 09 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1544 AD Apr 11 – Italian War of 1542–46: A French army defeats Habsburg forces at the Battle of Ceresole, but fails to exploit its victory.
1544 AD May 07 – The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.
1544 AD Jul 19 – Italian War of 1542–46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins.
1545 AD Apr 10 – The settlement of Villa Imperial de Carlos V (now the city of Potosí) in Bolivia is founded after the discovery of huge silver deposits in the area.
1545 AD Jul 19 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
1545 AD Jul 21 – The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
1546 AD Jan 23 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
1547 AD Jan 08 – The first Lithuanian-language book, the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, is published in Königsberg.
1547 AD Jan 13 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for treason, on the grounds of having quartered his arms to make them similar to those of the King, Henry VIII of England.
1547 AD Jan 16 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
1547 AD Jan 28 – Edward VI, the nine-year-old son of Henry VIII, becomes King of England on his father's death.
1547 AD Feb 20 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
1547 AD Apr 24 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
1547 AD Jul 25 – Henry II of France is crowned.
1547 AD Sep 10 – The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1549 AD Mar 29 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1549 AD Jul 27 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
1549 AD Aug 15 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549).
1549 AD Aug 17 – Battle of Sampford Courtenay: The Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in England.
1549 AD Nov 29 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.
1550 AD Jun 12 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1551 AD May 12 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1552 AD Mar 26 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru.
1553 AD Jul 10 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1553 AD Jul 19 – The attempt to install Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England collapses after only nine days.
1553 AD Aug 13 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
1554 AD Jan 12 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
1554 AD Jan 25 – São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests.
1554 AD May 21 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England.
1554 AD Jul 25 – The royal wedding of Mary I and Philip II of Spain celebrated at Winchester Cathedral.
1555 AD Jan 22 – The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Myanmar.
1555 AD Feb 04 – John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
1555 AD Feb 09 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1555 AD Jul 02 – Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
1555 AD Jul 03 – Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
1555 AD Jul 18 – The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
1555 AD Nov 01 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1556 AD Jan 16 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1556 AD Jan 23 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
1556 AD Feb 14 – Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral.
1556 AD Feb 14 – Coronation of Akbar as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1556 AD Jun 27 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
1556 AD Nov 05 – Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar.
1557 AD Apr 30 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
1557 AD Jul 06 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the city of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
1557 AD Aug 10 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Italian War of 1551–59.
1557 AD Aug 27 – The Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy.
1558 AD Jan 07 – French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1558 AD Mar 08 – The city of Pori (Swedish: Björneborg) was founded by Duke John on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia.
1558 AD Apr 24 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1558 AD Jul 13 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
1559 AD Jan 15 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
1559 AD Apr 03 – The second of two the treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
1559 AD May 02 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
1559 AD Jun 11 – Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sails for Florida with party of 1,500, intending to settle on gulf coast (Vera Cruz, Mexico).
1559 AD Jun 30 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery.
1559 AD Aug 22 – Spanish archbishop Bartolomé Carranza is arrested for heresy.
1560 AD Feb 27 – The Treaty of Berwick is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland, establishing the terms under which English armed forces were to be permitted in Scotland in order to expel occupying French troops.
1560 AD Jul 06 – The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
1560 AD Aug 17 – The Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in Scotland.
1560 AD Dec 05 – Charles IX becomes king of France.
1561 AD Apr 14 – A celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle.
1561 AD Jun 04 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt.
1561 AD Jul 02 – Menas, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1561 AD Jul 03 – Menas, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1561 AD Aug 19 – Mary, Queen of Scots, aged 18, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
1561 AD Aug 24 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
1561 AD Sep 02 – Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh, a spectacular civic celebration for the Queen of Scotland, marred by religious controversy.
1561 AD Sep 09 – The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy of Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
1561 AD Sep 10 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
1562 AD Jan 17 – France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain.
1562 AD Jan 18 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1562 AD Mar 01 – Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
1562 AD Jul 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred idols and books of the Maya.
1563 AD Dec 04 – The final session of the Council of Trent is held. (It had opened on December 13, 1545.)
1564 AD Jan 26 – The Council of Trent establishes an official distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1564 AD Jan 26 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
1564 AD Apr 26 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
1565 AD Apr 27 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1565 AD May 18 – The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
1565 AD Jun 17 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1565 AD Jun 23 – Dragut, commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Great Siege of Malta.
1565 AD Jul 29 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1565 AD Aug 28 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
1565 AD Sep 08 – St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
1565 AD Sep 08 – The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1565 AD Sep 11 – Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
1566 AD Apr 05 – Two hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces.
1567 AD Jan 20 – Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.
1567 AD Feb 10 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
1567 AD May 24 – Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
1567 AD Jul 24 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and be replaced by her one-year-old son James VI.
1567 AD Jul 25 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1567 AD Jul 29 – The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1568 AD Jan 28 – The Edict of Torda prohibits the persecution of individuals on religious grounds in John Sigismund Zápolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
1568 AD May 02 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1568 AD May 03 – Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort Caroline, a French force burns the San Mateo fort and massacres hundreds of Spaniards.
1568 AD May 13 – Mary Queen of Scots is defeated at the Battle of Langside, part of the civil war between Queen Mary and the supporters of her son, James VI.
1568 AD May 16 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
1568 AD Jul 21 – Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
1569 AD Jan 11 – First recorded lottery in England.
1569 AD Jul 01 – Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1570 AD Jan 23 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
1570 AD May 20 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
1570 AD Aug 16 – The Principality of Transylvania is established after John II Zápolya renounces his claim as King of Hungary in the Treaty of Speyer.
1570 AD Sep 10 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
1570 AD Nov 01 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
1571 AD Jan 23 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
1571 AD Jun 24 – Miguel López de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
1571 AD Jul 28 – La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines, is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.
1571 AD Aug 01 – The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender of Famagusta.
1571 AD Sep 07 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.
1572 AD Jan 16 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and found guilty of treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1572 AD Apr 01 – In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1572 AD Jul 09 – Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
1572 AD Aug 18 – The Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries the Catholic Margaret of Valois, ostensibly to reconcile the feuding Protestants and Catholics of France.
1572 AD Aug 23 – French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1572 AD Nov 11 – Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.
1573 AD Jan 25 – Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1573 AD Jan 28 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1573 AD Mar 07 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
1573 AD May 26 – The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.
1573 AD Jul 06 – Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1573 AD Jul 06 – French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle ends.
1573 AD Jul 13 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
1573 AD Sep 10 – German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew are beheaded in Hamburg.
1574 AD May 30 – Henry III becomes King of France.
1574 AD Aug 30 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1574 AD Nov 22 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1575 AD Jan 25 – Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
1575 AD Feb 08 – Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1575 AD Mar 03 – Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Sultan of Bengal Daud Khan Karrani's army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1575 AD Jun 28 – Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.
1575 AD Jul 07 – The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1576 AD Jan 20 – The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
1576 AD Feb 05 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1576 AD Jul 11 – While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland".
1576 AD Jul 12 – Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal.
1576 AD Aug 08 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.
1576 AD Nov 04 – Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (which is nearly destroyed after three days).
1576 AD Nov 08 – Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
1577 AD Dec 01 – Courtiers Christopher Hatton and Thomas Heneage are knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1578 AD Jan 31 – Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons.
1578 AD May 31 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
1578 AD Aug 04 – Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
1578 AD Dec 05 – Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan raids Valparaiso.
1579 AD Jan 06 – The Union of Arras unites the southern Netherlands under the Duke of Parma (Ottavio Farnese), governor in the name of King Philip II of Spain.
1579 AD Jan 23 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
1579 AD Feb 06 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1579 AD Jun 17 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1579 AD Jul 08 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1579 AD Jul 26 – Francis Drake, the English explorer, discovers a major bay on the coast of California (San Francisco).
1580 AD Apr 06 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
1580 AD Jul 12 – The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
1580 AD Aug 25 – War of the Portuguese Succession: Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union.
1581 AD Apr 04 – Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1581 AD Jul 26 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): The northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
1582 AD Jan 15 – Truce of Yam-Zapolsky: Russia cedes Livonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1582 AD Feb 24 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1582 AD Apr 16 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1582 AD Jun 21 – Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
1582 AD Jul 02 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1582 AD Jul 03 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1582 AD Nov 28 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 (equivalent to £12,261 in 2021) bond for their marriage licence.
1583 AD Feb 03 – Battle of São Vicente takes place off Portuguese Brazil where three English warships led by navigator Edward Fenton fight off three Spanish galleons sinking one in the process.
1583 AD Aug 05 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
1584 AD Feb 11 – A naval expedition led by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founds Nombre de Jesús, the first of two short-lived Spanish settlements in the Strait of Magellan.
1584 AD May 16 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
1584 AD Jul 04 – Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island
1584 AD Jul 10 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
1584 AD Sep 13 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1585 AD Jan 25 – Walter Raleigh is knighted, shortly after renaming North America region "Virginia", in honor of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
1585 AD Mar 03 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1585 AD Jul 07 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
1585 AD Aug 08 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
1585 AD Aug 10 – The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
1585 AD Aug 17 – Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.
1585 AD Aug 17 – A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
1586 AD Jan 18 – The magnitude 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami.
1586 AD Feb 11 – Sir Francis Drake with an English force captures and occupies the Spanish colonial port of Cartagena de Indias for two months, obtaining a ransom and booty.
1586 AD Jun 16 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
1586 AD Jun 19 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
1586 AD Jul 13 – Anglo–Spanish War: A convoy of English ships from the Levant Company manage to repel a fleet of eleven Spanish and Maltese galleys off the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria.
1587 AD Feb 08 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1587 AD Jul 22 – Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1587 AD Oct 31 – Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
1588 AD May 12 – French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise, enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
1588 AD May 28 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)
1588 AD May 30 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1588 AD Jul 19 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
1588 AD Jul 29 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1588 AD Aug 08 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1588 AD Aug 29 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi issues a nationwide sword hunting ordinance, disarming the peasantry so as to firmly separate the samurai and commoner classes, prevent peasant uprisings, and further centralise his own power.
1588 AD Sep 09 – Thomas Cavendish in his ship Desire enters Plymouth and completes the first deliberately planned voyage of circumnavigation.
1590 AD Feb 08 – Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice of Judaism of his sister and her children.
1590 AD May 17 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1590 AD Aug 18 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1590 AD Aug 30 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1590 AD Sep 05 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
1591 AD Jan 28 – Execution of Agnes Sampson, accused of witchcraft in Edinburgh.
1591 AD Jul 25 – The Duke of Parma is defeated near the Dutch city of Nijmegen by an Anglo-Dutch force led by Maurice of Orange.
1592 AD Jul 20 – During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it.
1592 AD Aug 14 – The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
1592 AD Aug 15 – Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin, Yi Eok-gi, and Won Gyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu.
1593 AD Feb 12 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
1593 AD May 06 – The Dutch city of Coevorden held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force.
1593 AD May 12 – London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel.
1593 AD May 18 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
1593 AD Jun 22 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
1593 AD Jun 24 – The Dutch city of Geertruidenberg held by the Spanish, capitulates to a besieging Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Nassau.
1593 AD Jul 25 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1593 AD Aug 27 – Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France.
1594 AD Feb 19 – Having already been elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1594 AD Feb 27 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1594 AD Jun 11 – Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1594 AD Jun 23 – The Action of Faial, Azores. The Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, loaded with slaves and treasure, is attacked and sunk by English ships with only 13 survivors out of over 700 on board.
1594 AD Jul 05 – Portuguese forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begin an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy during the Campaign of Danture in Sri Lanka.
1594 AD Jul 22 – The Dutch city of Groningen defended by the Spanish and besieged by a Dutch and English army under Maurice of Orange, capitulates.
1594 AD Aug 30 – King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.
1595 AD Jan 17 – During the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
1595 AD Apr 27 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world
1595 AD May 24 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1595 AD Aug 23 – Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory.^{[citation needed]}
1596 AD Jun 10 – Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
1596 AD Jun 17 – The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
1596 AD Jul 14 – Anglo-Spanish War: English and Dutch troops sack the Spanish city of Cádiz before leaving the next day.
1596 AD Nov 25 – The Cudgel War begins in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when peasants rebel against the imposition of taxes by the nobility.
1597 AD Feb 05 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1597 AD Feb 24 – The last battle of the Cudgel War was fought on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia.
1597 AD Aug 17 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.
1597 AD Aug 27 – Jeongyu War: Battle of Chilcheollyang: A Japanese fleet of 500 ships decimates Joseon commander Won Gyun’s fleet of 200 ships at Chilcheollyang.
1598 AD Apr 30 – Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.
1598 AD Apr 30 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
1598 AD Jun 30 – The Spanish held Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico having been besieged for fifteen days, surrenders to an English force under Sir George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland.
1598 AD Jul 22 – William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
1598 AD Aug 14 – Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1599 AD Aug 15 – Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1600 AD Jan 01 – Scotland recognises January 1 as the start of the year, instead of March 25.
1600 AD Feb 17 – On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.
1600 AD Feb 19 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1600 AD Aug 05 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
1600 AD Aug 23 – Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
1600 AD Aug 27 – Ishida Mitsunari’s Western Army commences the Siege of Fushimi Castle, which is lightly defended by a much smaller Tokugawa garrison led by Torii Mototada.
1601 AD Feb 08 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed.
1601 AD Aug 03 – Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
1601 AD Nov 18 – Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, an Ottoman provincial governor, routs the Habsburg forces commanded by Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.
1602 AD May 15 – Cape Cod is sighted by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold.
1602 AD Jun 03 – An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrack at the Battle of Sesimbra Bay
1602 AD Nov 08 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
1603 AD Jul 25 – James VI and I and Anne of Denmark are crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1604 AD Jan 01 – The Masque of Indian and China Knights is performed by courtiers of James VI and I at Hampton Court.
1604 AD Jun 24 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
1604 AD Aug 19 – Eighty Years War: a besieging Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Orange forces the Spanish garrison of Sluis to capitulate.
1604 AD Sep 01 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, is first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
1604 AD Nov 01 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1605 AD Jan 16 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
1605 AD Apr 08 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1605 AD Nov 05 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
1605 AD Nov 08 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
1606 AD Jan 27 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
1606 AD Jan 31 – Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, are executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, for plotting against Parliament and King James.
1606 AD Feb 26 – The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of New Guinea.
1606 AD Apr 10 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
1606 AD Apr 12 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
1607 AD Jan 19 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1607 AD Jan 30 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
1607 AD Feb 24 – L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
1607 AD Apr 25 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1607 AD Apr 26 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
1607 AD May 14 – English colonists establish "James Fort," which would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1607 AD May 24 – One hundred-five English settlers under the leadership of Captain Christopher Newport established the colony called Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the Virginia coast, the first permanent English colony in America.
1607 AD Jun 15 – Colonists finished building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Indian attacks.
1607 AD Sep 10 – Edward Maria Wingfield ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.
1607 AD Sep 14 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1608 AD Jan 07 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1608 AD Jan 17 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
1608 AD Apr 19 – In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.
1608 AD May 08 – A newly nationalized silver mine in Scotland at Hilderston, West Lothian is re-opened by Bevis Bulmer.
1608 AD May 14 – The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states.
1608 AD Jun 02 – London: Virginia gets new charter, extending borders from "sea to sea".
1608 AD Jun 03 – Samuel de Champlain lands at Tadoussac, Quebec, in the course of his third voyage to New France, and begins erecting fortifications.
1608 AD Aug 24 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
1608 AD Sep 10 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1609 AD Apr 04 – Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
1609 AD Apr 09 – Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
1609 AD Apr 09 – Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos".
1609 AD May 05 – Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1609 AD May 20 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1609 AD Jul 09 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
1609 AD Jul 25 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
1609 AD Jul 30 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
1609 AD Aug 25 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1609 AD Aug 28 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1609 AD Sep 11 – Henry Hudson arrives on Manhattan Island and meets the indigenous people living there.
1609 AD Sep 12 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
1609 AD Sep 13 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
1610 AD Jan 07 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
1610 AD May 14 – Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac, and Louis XIII ascends the throne.
1610 AD May 31 – The pageant London's Love to Prince Henry on the River Thames celebrates the creation of Prince Henry as Prince of Wales.
1610 AD Jun 05 – The masque Tethys' Festival is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.
1610 AD Jul 04 – The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Muscovite War.
1610 AD Jul 05 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
1610 AD Aug 02 – During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
1610 AD Aug 09 – The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
1611 AD Apr 28 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1611 AD May 02 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
1611 AD Jun 23 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
1611 AD Nov 01 – Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1612 AD Apr 13 – In one of the epic samurai duels in Japanese history, Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island.
1612 AD May 13 – Sword duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on the shores of Ganryū Island. Kojiro dies at the end.
1612 AD Aug 18 – The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most famous witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
1612 AD Aug 19 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
1612 AD Nov 01 – During the Time of Troubles, Polish troops are expelled from Moscow's Kitay-gorod by Russian troops under the command of Dmitry Pozharsky (22 October O.S.).
1612 AD Nov 29 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.
1613 AD Feb 14 – Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate at Whitehall Palace, London.
1613 AD Feb 21 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1613 AD Apr 13 – Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, sets off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father.
1613 AD Jun 29 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.
1613 AD Jul 02 – The first English expedition (from Virginia) against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
1613 AD Jul 03 – The first English expedition (from Virginia) against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
1614 AD Apr 05 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1614 AD Jul 06 – Raid on Żejtun: The south east of Malta, and the town of Żejtun, suffer a raid from Ottoman forces. This was the last unsuccessful attempt by the Ottomans to conquer the island of Malta.
1614 AD Aug 22 – Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
1614 AD Nov 08 – Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.
1615 AD Apr 21 – The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.
1615 AD Jun 02 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1615 AD Jun 04 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1616 AD Jan 12 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
1616 AD Feb 26 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1616 AD Mar 05 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1616 AD May 03 – Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war.
1616 AD Jul 11 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1617 AD Feb 27 – Sweden and the Tsardom of Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1617 AD Apr 19 – The town of Uusikaupunki (Swedish: Nystad, lit. "New Town") is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
1618 AD May 15 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1618 AD Jun 14 – Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date).
1618 AD Jul 31 – Maurice, Prince of Orange disbands the waardgelders militia in Utrecht, a pivotal event in the Remonstrant/Counter-Remonstrant tensions.
1619 AD May 13 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
1619 AD Jun 10 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1619 AD Jul 30 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
1619 AD Aug 28 – Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1619 AD Nov 07 – Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
1619 AD Dec 04 – Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."
1620 AD Jun 29 – English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.
1620 AD Aug 01 – Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
1620 AD Aug 05 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak.
1620 AD Sep 06 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1620 AD Sep 07 – The town of Kokkola (Swedish: Karleby) is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
1620 AD Nov 08 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
1620 AD Nov 09 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1620 AD Nov 11 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
1620 AD Nov 21 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.)
1621 AD Feb 09 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1621 AD Feb 17 – Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.
1621 AD Apr 05 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
1621 AD May 24 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1621 AD Jun 03 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
1621 AD Jun 21 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1622 AD Jun 20 – The Battle of Höchst takes place during the Thirty Years' War.
1622 AD Jun 24 – Battle of Macau: The Dutch make a failed attempt to capture Macau.
1622 AD Sep 05 – A hurricane overruns a Spanish fleet bound from Havana to Cadiz and sinks the galleon Atocha. Only five men are rescued, but 260 passengers and 200 million pesos are buried with the Atocha under 50 feet of water.
1624 AD Jan 28 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
1624 AD Apr 29 – French king Louis XIII names Cardinal Richelieu chief minister of France.
1624 AD Jun 10 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
1624 AD Aug 12 – Charles de La Vieuville is arrested and replaced by Cardinal Richelieu as the French king's chief advisor.
1624 AD Aug 13 – The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister.
1625 AD Mar 27 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1625 AD Apr 28 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
1625 AD May 02 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch of Ethiopia, arrives at Beilul from Goa.
1625 AD May 07 – State funeral of James VI and I (1566-1625) is held at Westminster Abbey.
1625 AD Jun 13 – King Charles I of England marries Catholic princess Henrietta Maria of France and Navarre, at Canterbury.
1626 AD Feb 27 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after leading the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1626 AD May 04 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1626 AD May 24 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1626 AD Nov 18 – The new St Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1627 AD Jul 30 – An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
1627 AD Nov 28 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
1628 AD Mar 01 – Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1628 AD Mar 04 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1628 AD Jun 07 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1628 AD Aug 10 – The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.
1628 AD Aug 23 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1628 AD Sep 06 – Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1629 AD May 22 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
1629 AD May 23 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
1630 AD Feb 16 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
1630 AD Jul 06 – Thirty Years' War: Four thousand Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.
1630 AD Aug 25 – Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka.
1630 AD Sep 07 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded in North America.
1631 AD May 18 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
1631 AD May 20 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1631 AD May 30 – Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
1631 AD Jun 17 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1631 AD Jun 20 – The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1632 AD Feb 22 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems .
1632 AD Mar 29 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1632 AD Apr 15 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1632 AD Jun 30 – The University of Tartu is founded.
1632 AD Jul 23 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1633 AD Feb 13 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1633 AD Mar 01 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1633 AD Jun 18 – Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
1633 AD Jun 22 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
1634 AD Jul 04 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
1634 AD Aug 18 – Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1634 AD Sep 06 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
1634 AD Sep 12 – A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.
1634 AD Nov 11 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
1635 AD Apr 23 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
1635 AD May 30 – Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
1635 AD Jun 28 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1635 AD Jul 28 – In the Eighty Years' War, the Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.
1635 AD Jul 30 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
1635 AD Nov 22 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
1636 AD Mar 26 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
1636 AD Apr 30 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
1637 AD Feb 15 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1637 AD Feb 18 – Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
1637 AD May 26 – Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.
1638 AD Feb 28 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
1638 AD Mar 27 – The first of four destructive Calabrian earthquakes strikes southern Italy. Measuring magnitude 6.8 and assigned a Mercalli intensity of XI, it kills 10,000–30,000 people.
1639 AD Jan 14 – The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
1639 AD Jan 19 – Hämeenlinna (Swedish: Tavastehus) was granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia.
1639 AD Apr 14 – Thirty Years' War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Electorate of Saxony are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz, ending the military effectiveness of the Saxon army for the rest of the war and allowing the Swedes to advance into Bohemia.
1639 AD May 08 – William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island.
1639 AD Aug 22 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1640 AD Mar 26 – The Royal Academy of Turku, the first university of Finland, is founded in the city of Turku by Queen Christina of Sweden at the proposal of Count Per Brahe.
1640 AD May 05 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
1640 AD Jul 15 – The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.
1640 AD Aug 28 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1640 AD Dec 01 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
1641 AD Jan 06 – Arauco War: The first Parliament of Quillín is celebrated, putting a temporary hold on hostilities between Mapuches and Spanish in Chile.
1641 AD Aug 10 – The Treaty of London between England and Scotland, ending the Bishops' Wars, is signed.
1642 AD Feb 13 – The Clergy Act becomes law, excluding bishops of the Church of England from serving in the House of Lords.
1642 AD Apr 15 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.
1642 AD May 17 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
1642 AD May 30 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are retroactively annulled by Parliament.
1642 AD Aug 22 – Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham, which marks the beginning of the English Civil War.
1642 AD Aug 26 – Dutch–Portuguese War: Second Battle of San Salvador: The Dutch force the Spanish garrison at San Salvador (modern day Keelung, Taiwan) to surrender, ending the short-lived Spanish colony on Formosa and replacing it with a new Dutch administration.
1642 AD Sep 06 – England's Long Parliament bans public stage-plays.
1642 AD Nov 13 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
1642 AD Nov 24 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1643 AD May 14 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1643 AD May 19 – Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
1643 AD Jun 12 – The Westminster Assembly is convened by the Parliament of England, without the assent of Charles I, in order to restructure the Church of England.
1643 AD Jul 01 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1643 AD Jul 13 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
1643 AD Aug 24 – A Dutch fleet establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile.
1644 AD Feb 29 – Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage begins as he leaves Batavia in command of three ships.
1644 AD Apr 25 – Transition from Ming to Qing: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
1644 AD May 25 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
1644 AD May 26 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.
1644 AD May 27 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
1644 AD May 28 – English Civil War: Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
1644 AD Jun 05 – The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor take Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty.
1644 AD Jun 29 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
1644 AD Jul 02 – English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
1644 AD Jul 03 – English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
1644 AD Sep 01 – Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1644 AD Nov 08 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
1644 AD Nov 23 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
1645 AD Jan 10 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower of London.
1645 AD Feb 02 – Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Inverlochy.
1645 AD May 20 – Yangzhou massacre: The ten day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition from Ming to Qing.
1645 AD Jun 14 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby: Twelve thousand Royalist forces are beaten by fifteen thousand Parliamentarian soldiers.
1645 AD Jul 02 – Battle of Alford: Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
1645 AD Jul 03 – Battle of Alford: Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
1645 AD Jul 10 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
1645 AD Jul 21 – Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
1645 AD Jul 30 – English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch the Siege of Hereford, a remaining Royalist stronghold.
1645 AD Aug 03 – Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
1645 AD Aug 13 – Sweden and Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro.
1645 AD Sep 01 – English Civil War. Scottish Covenanter forces abandon their month-long Siege of Hereford, a Cavalier stronghold, on news of Royalist victories in Scotland.
1645 AD Sep 13 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh.
1646 AD Feb 16 – Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the first English Civil War.
1647 AD Aug 08 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill: English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1648 AD Jan 17 – England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1648 AD Jan 30 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
1648 AD May 15 – The Peace of Münster is ratified, by which Spain acknowledges Dutch sovereignty.
1648 AD May 17 – Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria in the Battle of Zusmarshausen.
1648 AD Jun 01 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1648 AD Jun 15 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1648 AD Aug 08 – Mehmed IV (1648–1687) succeeds Ibrahim I (1640–1648) as Ottoman sultan.
1648 AD Aug 20 – Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Lens: An outnumbered and hastily assembled French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, decisively defeats a Spanish army led by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria at Lens in the last major military confrontation of the Thirty Years’ War, contributing to the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in October later that year.
1648 AD Aug 26 – The Fronde: First Fronde: In the wake of the successful Battle of Lens, Cardinal Mazarin, Chief Minister of France, suddenly orders the arrest of the leaders of the Parlement of Paris, provoking the rest of Paris to break into insurrection and barricade the streets the next day.
1648 AD Aug 28 – Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War.
1648 AD Dec 06 – Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
1649 AD Jan 04 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
1649 AD Jan 17 – The Second Ormonde Peace creates an alliance between the Irish Royalists and Confederates during the War of the Three Kingdoms. The coalition was then decisively defeated during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
1649 AD Jan 20 – The High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I begins its proceedings.
1649 AD Jan 30 – Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London.
1649 AD Feb 05 – Charles Stuart, the son of King Charles I, is declared King Charles II of England and Scotland by the Scottish Parliament.
1649 AD Feb 19 – The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
1649 AD May 19 – An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1649 AD Jun 01 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1649 AD Sep 02 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1649 AD Sep 11 – Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
1649 AD Dec 05 – The town of Raahe (Swedish: Brahestad) was founded by Count Per Brahe the Younger.
1650 AD Apr 27 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1650 AD Aug 13 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
1650 AD Sep 03 – Victory over the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar opens the way to Edinburgh for the New Model Army in the Third English Civil War.
1650 AD Sep 04 – Victory over the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar opens the way to Edinburgh for the New Model Army in the Third English Civil War.
1651 AD Jan 01 – Charles II is crowned King of Scotland at Scone Palace.
1651 AD Jan 24 – Arauco War: Spanish and Mapuche authorities meet in the Parliament of Boroa renewing the fragile peace established at the parliaments of Quillín in 1641 and 1647.
1651 AD Feb 22 – St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.^{[citation needed]}
1651 AD Mar 26 – Silver-loaded Spanish ship San José is pushed south by strong winds, subsequently it wrecks in the coast of southern Chile and its surviving crew is killed by indigenous Cuncos.
1651 AD Jun 28 – The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
1651 AD Jun 30 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory.
1651 AD Sep 03 – The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
1651 AD Sep 04 – The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
1652 AD Apr 06 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
1652 AD May 18 – Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced.
1652 AD Jun 20 – Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
1652 AD Aug 16 – Battle of Plymouth: Inconclusive naval action between the fleets of Michiel de Ruyter and George Ayscue in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
1652 AD Sep 07 – Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
1652 AD Dec 10 – Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.
1653 AD Jan 03 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
1653 AD Feb 02 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1653 AD Apr 20 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
1653 AD Jun 12 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.
1654 AD Jan 11 – Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile.
1654 AD Feb 09 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1654 AD May 05 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
1654 AD May 13 – A Venetian fleet under Admiral Cort Adeler breaks through a line of galleys and defeats the Turkish navy.
1654 AD Jun 06 – Swedish Queen Christina abdicated her throne in favour of her cousin Charles Gustav and converted to Catholicism.
1654 AD Jun 07 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1654 AD Aug 22 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
1655 AD Feb 14 – The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655.
1655 AD Apr 23 – The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
1655 AD May 19 – The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1655 AD Jul 31 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1655 AD Aug 23 – Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1655 AD Sep 08 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.
1656 AD Jan 23 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1656 AD Jul 21 – The Raid on Málaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1656 AD Jul 28 – Second Northern War: Battle of Warsaw begins.
1656 AD Jul 30 – The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.
1657 AD Mar 02 – The Great Fire of Meireki begins in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, causing more than 100,000 deaths before it exhausts itself three days later.
1657 AD Mar 31 title="1657">1657 – The Long Parliament presents the Humble Petition and Advice offering Oliver Cromwell the British throne, which he eventually declines.
1657 AD Apr 20 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1657 AD Apr 20 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1657 AD Oct 30 – Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios.
1658 AD Mar 08 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden.
1658 AD May 29 – Battle of Samugarh: decisive battle in the struggle for the throne during the Mughal war of succession (1658–1659).
1658 AD Jun 03 – Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1658 AD Jun 14 – Franco-Spanish War: Turenne and the French army win a decisive victory over the Spanish at the battle of the Dunes.
1658 AD Jun 25 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1658 AD Jun 26 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1658 AD Jul 31 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal emperor of India.
1658 AD Sep 03 – The death of Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England.
1658 AD Sep 04 – The death of Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England.
1659 AD Feb 11 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
1659 AD May 06 – English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
1659 AD May 21 – In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of France set out their views on how the Second Northern War should end.
1659 AD May 25 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1659 AD Jun 29 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
1660 AD Feb 13 – With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents begin negotiations to end the Second Northern War.
1660 AD Apr 04 – Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
1660 AD Apr 23 – Treaty of Oliva is established between Sweden and Poland.
1660 AD May 21 – The Battle of Long Sault concludes after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by the Iroquois Confederacy.
1660 AD May 25 – Charles II lands at Dover at the invitation of the Convention Parliament, which marks the end of the Cromwell-proclaimed Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and begins the Restoration of the British monarchy.
1660 AD May 29 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1660 AD Nov 28 – At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
1660 AD Dec 08 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
1661 AD Jan 06 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England. The revolt is suppressed after a few days.
1661 AD Jan 30 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
1661 AD Feb 03 – Maratha forces under Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Umberkhind.
1661 AD Apr 23 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1661 AD Jul 16 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
1661 AD Aug 06 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1661 AD Sep 05 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
1662 AD Feb 01 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
1662 AD May 09 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England.
1662 AD Aug 24 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1662 AD Dec 01 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.
1663 AD Jun 08 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial ensures Portugal's independence from Spain.
1663 AD Jun 24 – The Spanish garrison of Évora capitulates, following the Portuguese victory at the Battle of Ameixial.
1663 AD Jul 08 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.
1663 AD Jul 27 – The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. After the Acts of Union 1707, Scotland would be included in the Act.
1664 AD May 07 – Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV of France's new Palace of Versailles.
1664 AD Aug 01 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
1665 AD Mar 04 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1665 AD Mar 06 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.
1665 AD Jun 03 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
1665 AD Jun 12 – Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
1665 AD Jun 17 – Battle of Montes Claros: Portugal definitively secured independence from Spain in the last battle of the Portuguese Restoration War.
1665 AD Nov 07 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1665 AD Dec 10 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter.
1666 AD Aug 19 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1666 AD Sep 02 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral.
1666 AD Sep 03 – The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London.
1666 AD Sep 04 – The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London.
1666 AD Sep 05 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
1666 AD Nov 28 – At least 3,000 men of the Royal Scots Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter insurgents led by James Wallace of Auchens in the Battle of Rullion Green.
1667 AD Apr 27 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.
1667 AD May 24 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
1667 AD Jun 09 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1667 AD Jun 14 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1667 AD Jun 15 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1667 AD Jul 07 – An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1667 AD Nov 25 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1668 AD Jul 25 – A magnitude 8.5 earthquake strikes eastern China, killing over 42,000 people.
1668 AD Aug 17 – The magnitude 8.0 North Anatolia earthquake causes 8,000 deaths in northern Anatolia, Ottoman Empire.
1669 AD May 31 – Citing poor eyesight as a reason, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1670 AD Jan 18 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1670 AD May 02 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
1670 AD Jun 01 – In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1670 AD Jun 15 – The first stone of Fort Ricasoli is laid down in Malta.
1671 AD Jan 28 – Original city of Panama (founded in 1519) is destroyed by a fire when privateer Henry Morgan sacks and sets fire to it. The site of the previously devastated city is still in ruins (see Panama Viejo).
1671 AD May 09 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1672 AD Aug 20 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by a mob in The Hague.
1673 AD May 17 – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
1673 AD Jun 17 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
1673 AD Nov 11 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
1674 AD Feb 17 – An earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Ambon. It triggers a 100 m (330 ft) megatsunami which drowns over 2,300 people.
1674 AD Feb 19 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England.
1674 AD May 21 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1674 AD Jul 21 – A Dutch assault on the French island of Martinique is repulsed against all odds.
1675 AD Jan 05 – Battle of Colmar: The French army beats Brandenburg.
1675 AD Mar 04 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1675 AD Aug 10 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
1675 AD Aug 11 – Franco-Dutch War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.
1675 AD Nov 02 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
1675 AD Nov 11 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1676 AD Feb 17 – Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are lost at Evangelistas Islets at the western end of the Strait of Magellan.
1676 AD Jun 01 – Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
1676 AD Jun 02 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
1676 AD Jul 30 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
1676 AD Aug 12 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
1676 AD Nov 21 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1676 AD Dec 04 – The Royal Danish Army under the command of King Christian V engages the Swedish Army commanded by the Swedish king Charles XI at the Battle of Lund, to this day it is counted as the bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history and a turning point in the Scanian War.
1677 AD Apr 19 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1677 AD Jul 23 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
1677 AD Nov 04 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1678 AD Jun 25 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
1678 AD Jun 26 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
1678 AD Aug 03 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
1678 AD Nov 25 – Trunajaya rebellion: After a long and logistically challenging march, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri.
1679 AD Jan 24 – King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
1679 AD Jun 01 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1679 AD Aug 07 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1680 AD Jan 02 – Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkurat II of Mataram and his bodyguards execute the rebel leader Trunajaya
1680 AD Aug 10 – The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
1680 AD Aug 21 – Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1681 AD Mar 04 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1682 AD Apr 09 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
1682 AD May 06 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
1682 AD Aug 24 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1682 AD Sep 14 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
1683 AD May 24 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1683 AD Jun 23 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1683 AD Jul 16 – Manchu Qing dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1683 AD Sep 11 – Battle of Vienna: Coalition forces, including the famous winged Hussars, led by Polish King John III Sobieski lift the siege laid by Ottoman forces.
1683 AD Sep 12 – Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
1683 AD Nov 01 – The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1684 AD Jun 18 – The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
1684 AD Dec 10 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
1685 AD Feb 06 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1685 AD Feb 20 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1685 AD May 07 – Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.
1685 AD Jun 20 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1685 AD Jul 06 – Battle of Sedgemoor: Last battle of the Monmouth Rebellion. Troops of King James II defeat troops of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.
1686 AD May 04 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
1686 AD Jul 22 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1687 AD Jul 05 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1687 AD Aug 12 – Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1688 AD May 10 – King Narai nominates Phetracha as regent, leading to the revolution of 1688 in which Phetracha becomes king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.
1688 AD Jun 30 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
1688 AD Nov 01 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
1688 AD Nov 05 – William III of England lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham.
1688 AD Nov 09 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1688 AD Dec 09 – Glorious Revolution: Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of Reading, forcing James II to flee England. (Date is Old Style; the date in the New Style modern calendar is 19 December.)
1689 AD Jan 22 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
1689 AD Feb 12 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
1689 AD Feb 13 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1689 AD Apr 11 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain on the same day that the Scottish Parliament concurs with the English decision of 12 February.
1689 AD Apr 18 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
1689 AD May 24 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics.
1689 AD Jul 27 – Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie is a victory for the Jacobites.
1689 AD Aug 05 – Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France.
1689 AD Aug 21 – The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
1689 AD Aug 27 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
1690 AD Feb 03 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
1690 AD Feb 15 – Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
1690 AD Jun 14 – King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in Ireland to confront the former King James II.
1690 AD Jul 01 – War of the Grand Alliance: Marshal de Luxembourg triumphs over an Anglo-Dutch army at the battle of Fleurus.
1690 AD Jul 01 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1690 AD Aug 24 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown).
1691 AD Jul 12 – Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar): The decisive victory of William III of England's forces in Ireland.
1692 AD Feb 13 – Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1692 AD Mar 01 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1692 AD Jun 02 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts; she was found guilty and later hanged.
1692 AD Jun 07 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1692 AD Jun 10 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries".
1692 AD Aug 19 – Salem witch trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1693 AD Jan 11 – A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
1693 AD Feb 08 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, America, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1693 AD Jul 25 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1693 AD Jul 29 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen: France wins a victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1693 AD Aug 04 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of champagne; it is not clear whether he actually invented champagne, however he has been credited as an innovator who developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine.
1694 AD Feb 06 – The warrior queen Dandara, leader of the runaway slaves in Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil, is captured and commits suicide rather than be returned to a life of slavery.
1694 AD Jul 27 – A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1695 AD Jan 27 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
1695 AD May 18 – The 1695 Linfen earthquake in Shannxi, Ming dynasty causes extreme damage and kills at least 52,000 people.
1695 AD Aug 15 – French forces end the bombardment of Brussels.
1695 AD Sep 07 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.
1695 AD Nov 20 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
1697 AD Mar 26 – Safavid government troops take control of Basra.
1697 AD May 07 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace.
1697 AD Sep 05 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
1697 AD Sep 11 – Battle of Zenta: a major engagement in the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) and one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman history.
1697 AD Dec 02 – St Paul's Cathedral, rebuilt to the design of Sir Christopher Wren following the Great Fire of London, is consecrated.
1698 AD Jul 02 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1698 AD Jul 03 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1698 AD Sep 05 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
1699 AD Jan 26 – For the first time, the Ottoman Empire permanently cedes territory to the Christian powers.
1699 AD Feb 16 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
1699 AD Mar 30 – Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
1699 AD Apr 13 – The Sikh religion is formalised as the Khalsa – the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints – by Guru Gobind Singh in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1700 AD Jan 01 – Russia begins using the Anno Domini era instead of the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.
1700 AD Jan 26 – The 8.7–9.2 M_w Cascadia earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1700 AD Mar 26 – William Dampier is the first European to circumnavigate New Britain, discovering it is an island (which he names Nova Britannia) rather than part of New Guinea.
1701 AD Jan 18 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
1701 AD Jul 09 – A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller Habsburg force under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Battle of Carpi.
1701 AD Jul 19 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
1701 AD Jul 24 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1701 AD Aug 04 – Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
1702 AD Mar 08 – Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1702 AD Jul 19 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
1703 AD Jan 30 – The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
1703 AD Feb 04 – In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1703 AD May 21 – Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
1703 AD May 27 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1703 AD Jul 26 – During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
1703 AD Jul 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1703 AD Aug 23 – Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
1703 AD Dec 07 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
1704 AD Jan 25 – The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
1704 AD Feb 29 – In Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
1704 AD Apr 24 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
1704 AD Aug 04 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
1704 AD Aug 13 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim: English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
1704 AD Dec 06 – Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
1705 AD Feb 25 title="1705">1705 – George Frideric Handel's opera Nero premiered in Hamburg.
1705 AD Jul 20 – A fire in Oulu, Finland almost completely destroyed the fourth district, which covered the southern part of the city and was by far the largest of the city districts.
1706 AD Feb 03 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
1706 AD Jul 22 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each country's Parliament, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1706 AD Sep 07 – War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Turin ends, leading to the withdrawal of French forces from North Italy.
1707 AD Jan 01 – John V is proclaimed King of Portugal and the Algarves in Lisbon.
1707 AD Jan 16 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1707 AD Apr 25 – A coalition of Britain, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1707 AD May 01 – The Act of Union joining England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain takes effect.
1707 AD Aug 20 – The first Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
1707 AD Nov 30 – Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida.
1708 AD Sep 11 – Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish Empire ceases to be a major power.
1709 AD Feb 02 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
1709 AD Jul 08 – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe.
1709 AD Aug 08 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the king of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.
1709 AD Aug 28 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1709 AD Sep 11 – Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands, and Austria fight against France.
1710 AD Apr 10 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
1710 AD Aug 20 – War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
1711 AD Feb 24 – Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, is premièred.
1711 AD Aug 22 – Britain's Quebec Expedition loses eight ships and almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women to rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais.
1712 AD Feb 10 – Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.
1712 AD Feb 29 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.
1712 AD Apr 06 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
1712 AD Jul 24 – War of the Spanish Succession: The French under Marshal Villars win a decisive victory over Eugene of Savoy at Denain.
1712 AD Jul 31 – Action of 31 July 1712 (Great Northern War): Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea; the result is inconclusive.
1712 AD Aug 17 – Action of 17 August 1712 New Deep naval battle between Denmark and Sweden.
1713 AD Feb 01 – The Kalabalik or Skirmish at Bender results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1713 AD Apr 11 – France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Utrecht, bringing an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War). Britain accepts Philip V as King of Spain, while Philip renounces any claim to the French throne.
1713 AD Apr 19 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa was not born until 1717.
1713 AD Jun 23 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1714 AD Feb 19 – Great Northern War: The battle of Napue between Sweden and Russia is fought in Isokyrö, Ostrobothnia.
1714 AD Jul 27 – The Great Northern War: The first significant victory of the Russian Navy in the naval battle of Gangut against the Swedish Navy near the Hanko Peninsula.
1714 AD Aug 01 – George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history.
1714 AD Aug 07 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
1714 AD Sep 11 – Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1715 AD Apr 15 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1715 AD May 03 – A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy.
1715 AD Jul 20 – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Empire captures Nauplia, the capital of the Republic of Venice's "Kingdom of the Morea", thereby opening the way to the swift Ottoman reconquest of the Morea.
1715 AD Jul 31 – Seven days after a Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1715 AD Sep 01 – At the age of five, Louis XV becomes king of France in succession to his great-grandfather, King Louis XIV.
1715 AD Nov 13 – Jacobite rising in Scotland: Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive.
1716 AD Feb 03 – The 1716 Algiers earthquake sequence began with an M_w  7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria.
1716 AD Jul 08 – The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway.
1716 AD Aug 05 – Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718): One-fifth of a Turkish army and the Grand Vizier are killed in the Battle of Petrovaradin.
1716 AD Aug 21 – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the Battle of Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, thus preserving the Ionian Islands under Venetian rule.
1717 AD Jan 04 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
1717 AD Mar 31 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1717 AD Apr 10 – Robert Walpole resigns from the British government, commencing the Whig Split which lasts until 1720.
1717 AD Jun 24 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England).
1717 AD Jul 17 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
1717 AD Aug 17 – Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire.
1717 AD Aug 22 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1718 AD May 07 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
1718 AD Jun 19 – At least 73,000 people died in the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty.
1718 AD Jul 21 – The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
1718 AD Jul 25 – At the behest of Tsar Peter the Great, the construction of the Kadriorg Palace, dedicated to his wife Catherine, begins in Tallinn.
1718 AD Nov 22 – Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.
1718 AD Nov 30 – Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
1719 AD Jan 23 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
1719 AD Jun 10 – Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1720 AD Jan 21 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1720 AD Feb 29 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on March 24.
1720 AD Aug 14 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1720 AD Nov 09 – The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1721 AD Jan 06 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt politicians.
1721 AD Apr 03 – Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title.
1721 AD Apr 26 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
1721 AD Aug 18 – The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
1721 AD Aug 30 – The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.
1722 AD Mar 08 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad.
1722 AD Jul 25 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
1723 AD Aug 17 – Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI.
1723 AD Sep 14 – Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
1724 AD Jan 28 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg, Russia, by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1724 AD Apr 07 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245, at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
1724 AD Dec 07 – Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1725 AD May 21 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1725 AD Sep 05 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
1726 AD Feb 13 – Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26.
1726 AD Feb 19 – The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1726 AD May 09 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1727 AD Apr 11 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany).
1727 AD Aug 30 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
1727 AD Sep 08 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1727 AD Nov 27 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
1728 AD Aug 29 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.
1729 AD Jul 30 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
1729 AD Nov 09 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1729 AD Nov 29 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1730 AD Apr 08 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in continental North America, is dedicated.
1730 AD Jul 08 – An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline.
1730 AD Nov 18 – The future Frederick the Great of Prussia is granted a pardon by his father and is released from confinement.
1732 AD Jun 09 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
1732 AD Nov 29 – The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes 1,940 deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern Italy.
1732 AD Dec 07 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.
1733 AD Feb 12 – Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah.
1733 AD May 29 – The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City.
1733 AD Jul 30 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1733 AD Nov 23 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
1734 AD Jun 21 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
1735 AD Jan 08 – The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1735 AD Feb 18 – The ballad opera called Flora, or Hob in the Well went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C.)
1735 AD Jul 11 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
1735 AD Aug 05 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
1736 AD Mar 08 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
1736 AD Apr 15 – Foundation of the short-lived Kingdom of Corsica.
1736 AD May 26 – The Battle of Ackia is fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.
1737 AD Nov 04 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.
1738 AD Jan 07 – A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
1738 AD Apr 15 – Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, receives its premiere performance in London, England.
1738 AD Apr 18 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
1738 AD May 24 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
1738 AD May 25 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1738 AD Jul 15 – Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
1738 AD Jul 20 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
1739 AD Jan 01 – Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island, is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
1739 AD Feb 17 – The Battle of Vasai commences as the Marathas move to invade Portuguese-occupied territory.
1739 AD Feb 24 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1739 AD May 16 – The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army.
1739 AD Sep 09 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1739 AD Nov 20 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1740 AD Jun 13 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
1740 AD Aug 17 – Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
1741 AD Apr 10 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz.
1741 AD May 20 – The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
1741 AD Jun 25 – Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1741 AD Jun 26 – Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1741 AD Jul 15 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1741 AD Jul 31 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1741 AD Aug 10 – King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India.
1741 AD Aug 29 – The eruption of Oshima–Ōshima and the Kampo tsunami: At least 2,000 people along the Japanese coast drown in a tsunami caused by the eruption of Oshima.
1741 AD Sep 14 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.
1742 AD Jan 24 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1742 AD Feb 16 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
1742 AD Apr 13 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1743 AD May 12 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
1743 AD May 19 – Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
1743 AD Jun 27 – In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
1743 AD Aug 07 – The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War.
1743 AD Aug 24 – The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.
1743 AD Sep 13 – Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1744 AD Feb 22 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
1744 AD Jul 04 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1745 AD Jun 04 – Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1745 AD Jun 16 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date).
1745 AD Jun 28 – A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).
1745 AD Jul 09 – French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
1745 AD Jul 26 – The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
1745 AD Aug 19 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan: The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
1745 AD Aug 19 – Ottoman–Persian War: In the Battle of Kars, the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by Nader Shah.
1745 AD Nov 08 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of approximately 5,000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
1745 AD Dec 04 – Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite Rising.
1745 AD Dec 06 – Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
1746 AD Jan 08 – Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1746 AD Apr 16 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
1746 AD Jun 16 – War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
1747 AD Jan 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1747 AD May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1748 AD Jun 11 – Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
1748 AD Aug 26 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
1749 AD Jan 03 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1749 AD Jan 03 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
1749 AD Jan 21 – The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
1749 AD May 19 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
1749 AD Jun 21 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1750 AD Nov 24 – Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
1751 AD Jul 06 – Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia.
1752 AD Apr 20 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
1752 AD Jun 15 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
1752 AD Sep 02 – Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1752 AD Sep 14 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
1753 AD Feb 17 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
1753 AD May 01 – Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
1754 AD Jan 28 – Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
1754 AD May 28 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1755 AD Jan 25 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
1755 AD Feb 13 – Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into two: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
1755 AD Apr 02 – Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on the west coast of India.
1755 AD Apr 15 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
1755 AD Jun 16 – French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
1755 AD Jul 09 – The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
1755 AD Jul 25 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.
1755 AD Aug 10 – Under the direction of Charles Lawrence, the British begin to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies and France.
1755 AD Sep 08 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
1755 AD Nov 01 – In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.
1755 AD Nov 25 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
1756 AD Feb 07 – Guaraní War: The leader of the Guaraní rebels, Sepé Tiaraju, is killed in a skirmish with Spanish and Portuguese troops.
1756 AD May 17 – Seven Years' War formally begins when Great Britain declares war on France
1756 AD May 18 – The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
1756 AD Jun 20 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
1756 AD Jul 30 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1756 AD Aug 29 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.
1756 AD Sep 08 – French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
1757 AD Jan 05 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional form of capital punishment used for regicides.
1757 AD Jan 16 – Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
1757 AD May 06 – Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
1757 AD May 06 – The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
1757 AD May 06 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
1757 AD Jun 18 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
1757 AD Jun 23 – Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
1757 AD Aug 30 – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.
1757 AD Nov 05 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1757 AD Dec 05 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
1758 AD Jan 24 – During the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of Königsberg submit to Elizabeth of Russia, thus forming Russian Prussia (until 1763).
1758 AD Feb 04 – The city of Macapá in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga Cabral.
1758 AD Apr 28 – The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.
1758 AD May 08 – The Maratha Empire captures Peshawar from the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Peshawar. The Maratha Empire was extended to its farthest distance away from Pune that it ever reached, over 2,000 km (1,200 mi), almost to the borders of Afghanistan.
1758 AD May 21 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
1758 AD Jun 12 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences.
1758 AD Jun 23 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld: British, Hanoverian, and Prussian forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1758 AD Jun 30 – Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia.
1758 AD Jul 08 – French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
1758 AD Jul 26 – French and Indian War: The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
1758 AD Aug 25 – Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1758 AD Aug 29 – The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape.
1758 AD Sep 11 – Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War.
1758 AD Nov 25 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.
1759 AD Jan 11 – The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1759 AD Jan 15 – The British Museum opens to the public.
1759 AD Jan 27 – Spanish forces clash with indigenous Huilliches of southern Chile in the battle of Río Bueno.
1759 AD Jul 25 – French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
1759 AD Aug 01 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
1759 AD Aug 19 – Battle of Lagos: Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
1759 AD Sep 13 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1759 AD Nov 25 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000–40,000.
1760 AD Jan 09 – Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
1760 AD Apr 29 – French forces commence the siege of Quebec which is held by the British.
1760 AD May 17 – French forces besieging Quebec retreat after the Royal Navy arrives to relieve the British garrison.
1760 AD Jun 04 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
1760 AD Jun 16 – French and Indian War: Robert Rogers and his Rangers surprise French held Fort Sainte Thérèse on the Richelieu River near Lake Champlain. The fort is raided and burned.
1760 AD Jun 23 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut: Austria defeats Prussia.
1760 AD Jun 27 – Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
1760 AD Jul 08 – British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
1760 AD Aug 15 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
1760 AD Sep 08 – French and Indian War: French surrender Montreal to the British, completing the latter's conquest of New France.
1760 AD Nov 18 – The rebuilt debtors' prison, at the Castellania in Valletta, receives the first prisoners.
1761 AD Jan 14 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas.
1761 AD Mar 31 – The 1761 Lisbon earthquake strikes off the Iberian Peninsula with an estimated magnitude of 8.5, six years after another quake destroyed the city.
1761 AD Sep 08 – Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
1762 AD Jan 04 – Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War.
1762 AD May 05 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1762 AD May 22 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
1762 AD May 22 – Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
1762 AD May 23 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
1762 AD May 23 – Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
1762 AD Jun 06 – In the Seven Years' War, British forces begin the Siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city.
1762 AD Jun 24 – Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.
1762 AD Jul 09 – Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
1762 AD Jul 17 – Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.
1762 AD Sep 12 – The Sultanate of Sulu ceded Balambangan Island to the British East India Company
1763 AD Feb 10 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1763 AD Feb 23 – Berbice slave uprising in Guyana: The first major slave revolt in South America.
1763 AD May 07 – Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
1763 AD Jun 02 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1763 AD Jul 09 – The Mozart family grand tour of Europe began, lifting the profile of prodigal son Wolfgang Amadeus.
1763 AD Jul 31 – Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War.
1763 AD Aug 05 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
1763 AD Sep 01 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.
1763 AD Sep 14 – Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
1763 AD Dec 02 – Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States.
1764 AD Jan 19 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1764 AD Jan 19 – Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
1764 AD Feb 15 – The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
1764 AD Sep 07 – Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1765 AD Jan 25 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
1765 AD Aug 12 – Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
1765 AD Nov 01 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1766 AD Mar 05 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1766 AD May 22 – A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
1766 AD May 23 – A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
1766 AD Jul 01 – François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
1766 AD Dec 02 – Swedish parliament approves the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implements it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
1766 AD Dec 05 – In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
1767 AD Apr 07 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
1767 AD Jun 17 – Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1767 AD Aug 26 – Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus.
1768 AD Feb 29 – Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
1768 AD May 10 – Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
1768 AD Jun 21 – James Otis Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
1768 AD Aug 26 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
1768 AD Nov 05 – The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
1768 AD Dec 01 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
1768 AD Dec 10 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1769 AD Mar 04 – Mozart departed Italy after the last of his three tours there.
1769 AD Jul 14 – An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá leaves its base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
1769 AD Jul 16 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego, California.
1770 AD Mar 05 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
1770 AD Apr 19 – Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 AD Apr 19 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
1770 AD Apr 20 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
1770 AD Apr 29 – James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.
1770 AD May 16 – The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, who later becomes king of France.
1770 AD Jun 11 – British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1770 AD Jun 19 – New Church Day: Emanuel Swedenborg wrote: "The Lord sent forth His twelve disciples, who followed Him in the world into the whole spiritual world to preach the Gospel that the Lord God Jesus Christ reigns. This took place on the 19th day of June, in the year 1770."
1770 AD Jul 01 – Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).
1770 AD Jul 05 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
1770 AD Jul 07 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
1770 AD Aug 21 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1770 AD Aug 22 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales.
1771 AD Feb 12 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1771 AD May 16 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1771 AD Jul 14 – Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
1771 AD Jul 17 – Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
1772 AD Jan 01 – The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, are issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.
1772 AD Jun 08 – Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic.
1772 AD Jun 09 – The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
1772 AD Jun 12 – French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand.
1772 AD Aug 05 – First Partition of Poland: The representatives of Austria, Prussia, and Russia sign three bilateral conventions condemning the ‘anarchy’ of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and imputing to the three powers ‘ancient and legitimate rights’ to the territories of the Commonwealth. The conventions allow each of the three great powers to annex a part of the Commonwealth, which they proceed to do over the course of the following two months.
1772 AD Aug 19 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
1772 AD Aug 21 – King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
1772 AD Sep 01 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1773 AD Jan 01 – The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17", is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
1773 AD Jan 17 – Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
1773 AD May 10 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
1773 AD Jun 01 – Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. Both he and his horse, Vonk, drowned on his eighth attempt.
1773 AD Jun 17 – Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
1774 AD Jan 21 – Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1774 AD Mar 31 – American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1774 AD May 10 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
1774 AD Jun 02 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1774 AD Jun 13 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1774 AD Jun 22 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
1774 AD Jul 04 – Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
1774 AD Jul 21 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
1774 AD Aug 01 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1774 AD Sep 01 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
1774 AD Sep 05 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
1775 AD Feb 09 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1775 AD Feb 26 – The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
1775 AD Mar 08 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1775 AD Apr 14 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first abolition society in North America, is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1775 AD Apr 18 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
1775 AD Apr 19 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1775 AD Apr 20 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
1775 AD May 10 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1775 AD May 10 – American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
1775 AD May 20 – The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1775 AD May 31 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
1775 AD Jun 11 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
1775 AD Jun 12 – American War of Independence: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1775 AD Jun 14 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Armed Forces.
1775 AD Jun 17 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1775 AD Jul 05 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
1775 AD Jul 08 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
1775 AD Jul 26 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
1775 AD Jul 27 – Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
1775 AD Jul 29 – Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
1775 AD Aug 20 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
1775 AD Aug 23 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1775 AD Sep 08 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
1775 AD Sep 11 – Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1775 AD Nov 07 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
1775 AD Nov 13 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.
1775 AD Dec 03 – American Revolutionary War: USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
1775 AD Dec 05 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1775 AD Dec 09 – American Revolutionary War: British troops and Loyalists, misinformed about Patriot militia strength, lose the Battle of Great Bridge, ending British rule in Virginia.
1776 AD Jan 01 – American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
1776 AD Jan 01 – General George Washington hoists the first United States flag, the Grand Union Flag, at Prospect Hill.
1776 AD Jan 10 – American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1776 AD Jan 27 – American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 AD Feb 27 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
1776 AD Mar 02 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in and around the Savannah River by a small fleet of the Royal Navy in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
1776 AD Mar 03 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
1776 AD Mar 04 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1776 AD Apr 06 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
1776 AD Apr 12 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
1776 AD May 04 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1776 AD May 19 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
1776 AD Jun 07 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
1776 AD Jun 08 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
1776 AD Jun 11 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1776 AD Jun 12 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1776 AD Jun 15 – Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
1776 AD Jun 28 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
1776 AD Jun 28 – American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
1776 AD Jul 02 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not adopted until July 4.
1776 AD Jul 03 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not adopted until July 4.
1776 AD Jul 04 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
1776 AD Jul 08 – Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
1776 AD Jul 09 – George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
1776 AD Jul 12 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
1776 AD Aug 02 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1776 AD Aug 10 – American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1776 AD Aug 27 – American Revolutionary War: Members of the 1st Maryland Regiment repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the Battle of Long Island, allowing General Washington and the rest of the American troops to escape.
1776 AD Aug 31 – William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
1776 AD Sep 07 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
1776 AD Sep 09 – The Continental Congress officially names its union of states the United States.
1776 AD Sep 10 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1776 AD Sep 11 – British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
1776 AD Nov 20 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
1776 AD Nov 29 – During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
1776 AD Dec 05 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
1776 AD Dec 07 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
1777 AD Jan 02 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
1777 AD Jan 03 – American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
1777 AD Jan 15 – American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
1777 AD Apr 13 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
1777 AD Apr 26 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces
1777 AD Jun 13 – American Revolutionary War: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1777 AD Jun 14 – The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the Flag of the United States.
1777 AD Jul 06 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
1777 AD Jul 07 – American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
1777 AD Jul 31 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
1777 AD Aug 06 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
1777 AD Aug 16 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
1777 AD Aug 22 – British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
1777 AD Sep 03 – American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
1777 AD Sep 04 – American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
1777 AD Sep 11 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Brandywine: The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
1777 AD Nov 29 – San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
1778 AD Jan 18 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
1778 AD Feb 05 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1778 AD Feb 06 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1778 AD Feb 06 – New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1778 AD Feb 09 – Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1778 AD Feb 14 – The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1778 AD Feb 23 – American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to help to train the Continental Army.
1778 AD May 12 – Heinrich XI, count of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz, is elevated to Prince by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1778 AD Jun 18 – American Revolutionary War: The British Army abandons Philadelphia.
1778 AD Jun 28 – American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
1778 AD Jul 04 – American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
1778 AD Jul 10 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1778 AD Jul 27 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
1778 AD Jul 28 – Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.
1778 AD Aug 03 – The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
1778 AD Aug 21 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
1778 AD Aug 26 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1778 AD Aug 29 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
1778 AD Sep 07 – American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
1778 AD Nov 26 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1779 AD Jan 11 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
1779 AD Feb 14 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
1779 AD Feb 14 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1779 AD Mar 03 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
1779 AD May 13 – War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
1779 AD Jun 01 – The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
1779 AD Jun 16 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1779 AD Jun 24 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1779 AD Jul 06 – Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
1779 AD Jul 16 – American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
1779 AD Aug 13 – American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1779 AD Aug 29 – American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat the British and Iroquois forces at the Battle of Newtown.
1780 AD Jan 16 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1780 AD Apr 16 – Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
1780 AD May 12 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1780 AD May 13 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.
1780 AD May 19 – New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky, was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
1780 AD May 29 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
1780 AD Jun 02 – The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London leave an estimated 300 to 700 people dead.
1780 AD Jun 23 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
1780 AD Aug 16 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
1780 AD Aug 22 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1780 AD Sep 11 – American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
1780 AD Nov 04 – The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.
1780 AD Nov 05 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1780 AD Nov 09 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1781 AD Jan 01 – American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
1781 AD Jan 05 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1781 AD Jan 06 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
1781 AD Jan 17 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens: Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
1781 AD Feb 03 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
1781 AD Feb 18 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
1781 AD Mar 01 – The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.
1781 AD Apr 29 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
1781 AD Jun 03 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
1781 AD Aug 05 – The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
1781 AD Aug 24 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
1781 AD Sep 05 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
1781 AD Sep 06 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
1781 AD Sep 08 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.
1781 AD Nov 29 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 54 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance, beginning the Zong massacre.
1782 AD Jan 07 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1782 AD Jan 15 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1782 AD Feb 05 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
1782 AD Feb 27 – American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
1782 AD Mar 08 – Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity, are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
1782 AD Mar 27 – The Second Rockingham ministry assumes office in Great Britain and begins negotiations to end the American War of Independence.
1782 AD Apr 06 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.
1782 AD Apr 19 – John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
1782 AD Apr 21 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
1782 AD May 06 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
1782 AD Jun 10 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned.
1782 AD Jun 20 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1782 AD Jul 01 – Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1782 AD Aug 07 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1782 AD Aug 19 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
1782 AD Aug 23 – American Revolutionary War: British forces under Edward Despard complete the reconquest of the Black River settlements on the Mosquito Coast from the Spanish.
1782 AD Sep 13 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1782 AD Sep 14 – American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York.
1782 AD Nov 30 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1783 AD Jan 20 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs preliminary articles of peace with the Kingdom of France, setting the stage for the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
1783 AD Feb 03 – Spain–United States relations are first established.
1783 AD Feb 05 – In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1783 AD Feb 07 – American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1783 AD Apr 18 – Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
1783 AD May 18 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
1783 AD May 26 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrates the end of fighting in the American Revolution.
1783 AD Jun 04 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1783 AD Jun 08 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1783 AD Jun 22 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
1783 AD Jul 24 – The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
1783 AD Jul 25 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
1783 AD Aug 04 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (Tenmei eruption). The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
1783 AD Aug 18 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
1783 AD Sep 03 – American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1783 AD Sep 04 – American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1783 AD Nov 03 – The American Continental Army is disbanded.
1783 AD Nov 04 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1783 AD Nov 21 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1783 AD Nov 25 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1783 AD Nov 29 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
1783 AD Dec 04 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.
1784 AD Jan 14 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
1784 AD Apr 09 – The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784.
1784 AD Jun 04 – Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
1784 AD Aug 14 – Russian colonization of North America: Awa’uq Massacre: The Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov storms a Kodiak Island Alutiit refuge rock on Sitkalidak Island, killing 500+ Alutiit. The consequent subjugation of the Alutiiq on Kodiak Island allows Shelikhov to establish the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska at Three Saints Bay.
1784 AD Aug 17 – Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12,000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.
1784 AD Aug 23 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
1785 AD Jan 07 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1785 AD Jan 20 – Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
1785 AD Jan 27 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1785 AD Nov 28 – The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.
1786 AD Jan 16 – Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
1786 AD Jun 10 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1786 AD Jun 25 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
1786 AD Jun 26 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
1786 AD Jun 29 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1786 AD Aug 07 – The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
1786 AD Aug 08 – Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1786 AD Aug 11 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
1786 AD Aug 29 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1786 AD Sep 11 – The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
1786 AD Nov 07 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1786 AD Nov 30 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
1786 AD Dec 04 – Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).
1787 AD Jan 09 – The nationally known image of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines was transferred from what is now Rizal Park to its present shrine in the minor basilica of Quiapo Church. This is annually commemorated through its Traslación (solemn transfer) in the streets of Manila and is attended by millions of devotees.
1787 AD Jan 11 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1787 AD Jan 25 – Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
1787 AD Feb 03 – Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
1787 AD May 25 – After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
1787 AD Jun 20 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
1787 AD Jul 13 – The Congress of the Confederation enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
1787 AD Aug 06 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1787 AD Dec 07 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1788 AD Jan 01 – First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
1788 AD Jan 02 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1788 AD Jan 09 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1788 AD Jan 18 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
1788 AD Jan 19 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
1788 AD Jan 20 – The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay, beginning the British colonization of Australia. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location for a colony.
1788 AD Jan 26 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day.
1788 AD Feb 06 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1788 AD Feb 09 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1788 AD Mar 06 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1788 AD Apr 07 – Settlers establish Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory.
1788 AD Apr 28 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1788 AD May 08 – King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.
1788 AD Jun 07 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
1788 AD Jun 11 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1788 AD Jun 21 – New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1788 AD Jun 25 – Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1788 AD Jun 26 – Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1788 AD Jul 25 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
1788 AD Jul 26 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1788 AD Aug 12 – The Anjala conspiracy is signed.
1788 AD Sep 13 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
1789 AD Jan 21 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, is printed in Boston.
1789 AD Jan 23 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) when Bishop John Carroll, Rev. Robert Molyneux, and Rev. John Ashton purchase land for the proposed academy for the education of youth.
1789 AD Jan 30 – Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
1789 AD Feb 04 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1789 AD Mar 04 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
1789 AD Apr 01 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
1789 AD Apr 20 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
1789 AD Apr 21 – John Adams sworn in as 1st US Vice President (nine days before George Washington)
1789 AD Apr 21 – George Washington's reception at Trenton is hosted by the Ladies of Trenton as he journeys to New York City for his first inauguration.
1789 AD Apr 28 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1789 AD Apr 30 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first President of the United States.
1789 AD May 05 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
1789 AD Jun 08 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
1789 AD Jun 14 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
1789 AD Jun 17 – In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
1789 AD Jun 20 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
1789 AD Jul 09 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
1789 AD Jul 10 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
1789 AD Jul 11 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
1789 AD Jul 12 – In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
1789 AD Jul 14 – Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution. Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France.
1789 AD Jul 15 – French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
1789 AD Jul 27 – The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
1789 AD Aug 04 – France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent Assembly.
1789 AD Aug 07 – The United States Department of War is established.
1789 AD Aug 24 – The first naval battle of the Svensksund began in the Gulf of Finland.
1789 AD Aug 26 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
1789 AD Aug 28 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
1789 AD Sep 02 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
1789 AD Sep 11 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
1789 AD Nov 20 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1789 AD Nov 21 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
1789 AD Nov 26 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
1790 AD Jan 08 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
1790 AD Mar 04 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1790 AD Apr 07 – Greek War of Independence: Greek revolutionary Lambros Katsonis loses three of his ships in the Battle of Andros.
1790 AD May 29 – Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of the United States.
1790 AD May 31 – Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 AD May 31 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1790 AD Jul 09 – The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
1790 AD Jul 12 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
1790 AD Jul 14 – Inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation.
1790 AD Jul 16 – The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
1790 AD Jul 31 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1790 AD Aug 02 – The first United States Census is conducted.
1790 AD Aug 04 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
1790 AD Aug 14 – The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War.
1790 AD Nov 01 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1790 AD Dec 06 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
1791 AD Jan 02 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
1791 AD Jan 10 – The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
1791 AD Jan 25 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
1791 AD Feb 18 – Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
1791 AD Mar 02 – Claude Chappe demonstrates the first semaphore line near Paris.
1791 AD Mar 04 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 AD Mar 04 – Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
1791 AD May 03 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1791 AD May 15 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1791 AD Jun 20 – King Louis XVI, disguised as a valet, and the French royal family attempt to flee Paris during the French Revolution.
1791 AD Jun 21 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
1791 AD Jul 06 – At Padua, the Emperor Leopold II calls on the monarchs of Europe to join him in demanding the king of France Louis XVI's freedom.
1791 AD Jul 14 – Beginning of Priestley Riots (to 17 July) in Birmingham targeting Joseph Priestley as a supporter of the French Revolution.
1791 AD Jul 17 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
1791 AD Aug 04 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
1791 AD Aug 07 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1791 AD Aug 14 – Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
1791 AD Aug 21 – A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
1791 AD Aug 22 – The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
1791 AD Aug 26 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
1791 AD Aug 27 – French Revolution: Frederick William II of Prussia and Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, issue the Declaration of Pillnitz, declaring the joint support of the Holy Roman Empire and Prussia for the French monarchy, agitating the French revolutionaries and contributing to the outbreak of the War of the First Coalition.
1791 AD Aug 30 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
1791 AD Sep 05 – Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
1791 AD Sep 09 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1791 AD Sep 13 – King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1791 AD Sep 14 – The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
1791 AD Nov 04 – Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1791 AD Nov 09 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1791 AD Dec 04 – The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
1792 AD Jan 09 – Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92.
1792 AD Jan 12 – Federalist Thomas Pinckney appointed first U.S. minister to Britain.
1792 AD Jan 25 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1792 AD Feb 20 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
1792 AD Mar 29 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
1792 AD Apr 02 – The Coinage Act is passed by Congress, establishing the United States Mint.
1792 AD Apr 05 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1792 AD Apr 20 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1792 AD Apr 21 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
1792 AD Apr 25 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 AD Apr 25 – "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1792 AD Apr 28 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
1792 AD May 17 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
1792 AD May 21 – A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that killed nearly 15,000 people.
1792 AD Jun 01 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1792 AD Jun 04 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1792 AD Jul 25 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
1792 AD Aug 10 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1792 AD Aug 13 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
1792 AD Aug 16 – Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
1792 AD Sep 02 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1792 AD Sep 11 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
1792 AD Nov 06 – Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.
1793 AD Jan 09 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
1793 AD Jan 13 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, is lynched by a mob in Rome.
1793 AD Jan 21 – After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1793 AD Jan 23 – Second Partition of Poland.
1793 AD Feb 01 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1793 AD Apr 06 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1793 AD Apr 24 – French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.
1793 AD Jun 02 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
1793 AD Jun 10 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 AD Jun 10 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1793 AD Jun 24 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
1793 AD Jul 09 – The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
1793 AD Jul 13 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
1793 AD Jul 22 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
1793 AD Jul 23 – Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1793 AD Aug 10 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
1793 AD Aug 12 – The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.
1793 AD Aug 16 – French Revolution: A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
1793 AD Aug 27 – French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
1793 AD Sep 05 – French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1793 AD Sep 08 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
1793 AD Nov 03 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1794 AD Feb 04 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic. It would be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
1794 AD Feb 11 – First session of United States Senate opens to the public.
1794 AD Feb 26 – The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
1794 AD Mar 04 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1794 AD Mar 27 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 AD Apr 26 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1794 AD Apr 28 – Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.
1794 AD May 07 – French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
1794 AD May 08 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
1794 AD May 18 – Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1794 AD Jun 01 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1794 AD Jun 08 – Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1794 AD Jun 17 – Foundation of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom.
1794 AD Jun 23 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kyiv.
1794 AD Jun 30 – Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
1794 AD Jul 13 – The Battle of Trippstadt between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria begins.
1794 AD Jul 17 – The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
1794 AD Jul 27 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
1794 AD Jul 28 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
1794 AD Aug 07 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1794 AD Aug 08 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1794 AD Aug 20 – Northwest Indian War: United States troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
1794 AD Nov 19 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
1795 AD Jan 19 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the Dutch Republic.
1795 AD Jan 23 – After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry.
1795 AD Feb 07 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1795 AD Apr 05 – Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.
1795 AD Apr 07 – The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass.
1795 AD May 31 – French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
1795 AD Jun 16 – French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later.
1795 AD Jun 17 – The burghers of Swellendam expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic.
1795 AD Jul 09 – Financier James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt that had been accrued during the American Revolution.
1795 AD Aug 03 – Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
1795 AD Aug 31 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
1795 AD Nov 02 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1795 AD Nov 25 – Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1796 AD Feb 01 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1796 AD Feb 16 – Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their invasion of Ceylon.
1796 AD Feb 29 – The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
1796 AD Mar 01 – The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic.
1796 AD Apr 04 – Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.
1796 AD Apr 28 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1796 AD May 10 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon wins a victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
1796 AD May 14 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
1796 AD Jun 01 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1796 AD Jul 11 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
1796 AD Jul 22 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1796 AD Aug 04 – French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
1796 AD Aug 05 – The Battle of Castiglione in Napoleon's first Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1796 AD Sep 08 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano: French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
1797 AD Jan 13 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
1797 AD Feb 04 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
1797 AD Feb 14 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1797 AD Feb 18 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
1797 AD Feb 21 – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists.
1797 AD Feb 22 – The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1797 AD Mar 02 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
1797 AD Mar 04 – John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States of America, becoming the first President to begin his presidency on March 4.
1797 AD Apr 17 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in the Americas.
1797 AD Apr 17 – Citizens of Verona begin an unsuccessful eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces.
1797 AD May 12 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte conquers Venice.
1797 AD Jun 28 – French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.
1797 AD Jul 22 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
1797 AD Jul 25 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1798 AD Jan 04 – Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire.
1798 AD Feb 15 – The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier.
1798 AD Feb 20 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1798 AD Apr 07 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
1798 AD May 07 – French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses.
1798 AD May 24 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1798 AD May 25 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
1798 AD May 27 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
1798 AD May 29 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are executed as rebels by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
1798 AD Jun 05 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
1798 AD Jun 09 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
1798 AD Jun 12 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
1798 AD Jun 21 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1798 AD Jul 07 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
1798 AD Jul 11 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1798 AD Jul 14 – The Sedition Act of 1798 becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
1798 AD Jul 21 – French campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon's forces defeat an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids.
1798 AD Aug 01 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay): Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1798 AD Aug 02 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
1798 AD Aug 17 – The Vietnamese Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Our Lady of La Vang.
1798 AD Aug 22 – French troops land at Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the rebellion.
1798 AD Aug 27 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
1798 AD Aug 31 – Irish Rebellion: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
1798 AD Sep 03 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
1798 AD Sep 04 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
1798 AD Sep 05 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
1798 AD Sep 10 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1798 AD Nov 04 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu begins.
1798 AD Nov 28 – Trade between the United States and modern-day Uruguay begins when John Leamy's frigate John arrives in Montevideo.
1799 AD Jan 09 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
1799 AD Jan 17 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
1799 AD Mar 03 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
1799 AD Mar 07 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1799 AD Apr 16 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1799 AD May 04 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1799 AD May 27 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
1799 AD Jun 18 – Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith.
1799 AD Jul 12 – Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of the Punjab (Sikh Empire).
1799 AD Jul 15 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1799 AD Jul 20 – Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.
1799 AD Jul 25 – Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a numerically superior Ottoman army under Mustafa Pasha at the Battle of Abukir.
1799 AD Aug 23 – Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1799 AD Aug 30 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
1799 AD Nov 09 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
1799 AD Dec 03 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
1799 AD Dec 10 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
1800 AD Apr 02 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
1800 AD Apr 06 – The Treaty of Constantinople establishes the Septinsular Republic, the first autonomous Greek state since the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. (Under the Old Style calendar then still in use in the Ottoman Empire, the treaty was signed on 21 March.)
1800 AD Apr 20 – The Septinsular Republic is established.
1800 AD Apr 24 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
1800 AD May 14 – The 6th United States Congress recesses, and the process of moving the Federal government of the United States from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., begins the following day.
1800 AD Jun 07 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1800 AD Jun 14 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
1800 AD Jun 15 – The Provisional Army of the United States is dissolved.
1800 AD Jun 19 – War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.
1800 AD Aug 01 – The Acts of Union 1800 are passed which merge the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1800 AD Aug 30 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1800 AD Sep 11 – The Maltese National Congress Battalions are disbanded by British Civil Commissioner Alexander Ball.
1800 AD Nov 01 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1800 AD Dec 03 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden: French General Jean Victor Marie Moreau decisively defeats the Archduke John of Austria near Munich. Coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's earlier victory at Marengo, this will force the Austrians to sign an armistice and end the war.
1800 AD Dec 03 – United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for president and vice president that resulted in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
1801 AD Jan 01 – The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is proclaimed.
1801 AD Jan 01 – Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
1801 AD Feb 04 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1801 AD Feb 17 – 1800 United States presidential election: An tie in the Electoral College between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1801 AD Feb 27 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
1801 AD Mar 08 – War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
1801 AD Apr 02 – French Revolutionary Wars: In the Battle of Copenhagen a British Royal Navy squadron defeats a hastily assembled, smaller, mostly-volunteer Dano-Norwegian Navy at high cost, forcing Denmark out of the Second League of Armed Neutrality.
1801 AD May 06 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
1801 AD May 10 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
1801 AD Jul 06 – First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
1801 AD Jul 11 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1801 AD Jul 12 – British ships inflict heavy damage on Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
1801 AD Aug 01 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1801 AD Sep 09 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
1802 AD Apr 21 – Twelve thousand Wahhabis sack Karbala, killing over three thousand inhabitants.
1802 AD Apr 26 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
1802 AD May 03 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government.
1802 AD May 19 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
1802 AD May 20 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
1802 AD May 28 – In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, blow themselves up rather than submit to Napoleon's troops.
1802 AD Jun 04 – King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
1802 AD Jul 04 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
1802 AD Jul 22 – Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
1802 AD Sep 11 – France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
1802 AD Nov 19 – The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize).
1803 AD Feb 24 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
1803 AD Apr 26 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
1803 AD Apr 30 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1803 AD May 18 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
1803 AD Jun 18 – Haitian Revolution: The Royal Navy led by Rear-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth commence the blockade of Saint-Domingue against French forces.
1803 AD Jul 04 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1803 AD Jul 05 – The Convention of Artlenburg is signed, leading to the French occupation of the Electorate of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
1803 AD Jul 26 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom.
1803 AD Sep 06 – British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1803 AD Sep 11 – Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia's army under General Louis Bourquin.
1803 AD Nov 18 – The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
1803 AD Nov 30 – The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines.
1803 AD Nov 30 – In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to an official from the French First Republic. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
1803 AD Dec 06 – Five French warships attempting to escape the Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the Haitian Revolution.
1804 AD Jan 01 – French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in North America after the United States.
1804 AD Feb 14 – Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1804 AD Feb 16 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
1804 AD Feb 21 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1804 AD Mar 04 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1804 AD May 13 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
1804 AD May 14 – William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join Meriwether Lewis at St Charles, Missouri, marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's historic journey up the Missouri River.
1804 AD May 18 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
1804 AD May 22 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
1804 AD May 23 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
1804 AD Jun 15 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
1804 AD Jul 11 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
1804 AD Aug 11 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
1804 AD Sep 01 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1804 AD Nov 30 – The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.
1804 AD Dec 02 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
1805 AD Jan 11 – The Michigan Territory is created.
1805 AD Mar 01 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
1805 AD Apr 07 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
1805 AD Apr 07 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
1805 AD Apr 26 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1805 AD Apr 27 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn).
1805 AD May 17 – Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.
1805 AD May 26 – Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan Cathedral, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
1805 AD May 31 – French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock, Martinique.
1805 AD Jun 02 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
1805 AD Jun 10 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
1805 AD Jun 11 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
1805 AD Jun 13 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1805 AD Jun 30 – Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, adopted by the U.S. Congress on January 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory is organized.
1805 AD Jul 22 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape Finisterre: An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of France and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1805 AD Nov 01 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
1805 AD Nov 20 – Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
1805 AD Nov 26 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1805 AD Dec 02 – War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1806 AD Jan 01 – The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
1806 AD Jan 08 – The Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes the British Cape Colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.
1806 AD Jan 09 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
1806 AD Jan 18 – Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.
1806 AD Jan 30 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
1806 AD Feb 06 – Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
1806 AD Mar 29 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1806 AD Apr 21 – Action of 21 April 1806: A French frigate escapes British forces off the coast of South Africa.
1806 AD May 30 – Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
1806 AD Jun 27 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first of the British invasions of the River Plate.
1806 AD Jul 10 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1806 AD Jul 12 – At the insistence of Napoleon, Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg and thirteen minor principalities leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
1806 AD Jul 15 – Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
1806 AD Jul 18 – A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
1806 AD Aug 06 – Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire.
1806 AD Aug 12 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
1806 AD Aug 13 – Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle ends two days later with a Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
1806 AD Sep 02 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
1806 AD Oct 30 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.
1807 AD Feb 03 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
1807 AD Feb 05 – HMS Blenheim and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
1807 AD Feb 07 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon finds Bennigsen's Russian forces taking a stand at Eylau. After bitter fighting, the French take the town, but the Russians resume the battle the next day.
1807 AD Feb 08 – After two days of bitter fighting, the Russians under Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon.
1807 AD Feb 19 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
1807 AD Mar 02 – The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
1807 AD Apr 12 – The Froberg mutiny on Malta ends when the remaining mutineers blow up the magazine of Fort Ricasoli.
1807 AD May 01 – The Slave Trade Act 1807 takes effect, abolishing the slave trade within the British Empire.
1807 AD May 22 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1807 AD May 23 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1807 AD May 29 – Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1807 AD Jun 14 – Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1807 AD Jun 22 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
1807 AD Jun 28 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
1807 AD Jun 29 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1807 AD Jul 05 – In Buenos Aires the local militias repel the British soldiers within the Second English Invasion.
1807 AD Jul 07 – The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1807 AD Jul 09 – The second Treaty of Tilsit is signed between France and Prussia, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1807 AD Jul 20 – Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
1807 AD Aug 17 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1807 AD Aug 29 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
1807 AD Sep 02 – Napoleonic Wars: The British Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1807 AD Nov 29 – John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.
1808 AD Jan 01 – The United States bans the importation of slaves.
1808 AD Jan 12 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
1808 AD Jan 12 – The organizational meeting leading to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1808 AD Jan 22 – The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
1808 AD Jan 26 – The Rum Rebellion is the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in New South Wales.
1808 AD Feb 11 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
1808 AD Feb 21 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
1808 AD Apr 06 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
1808 AD May 02 – Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
1808 AD May 03 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 AD May 03 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
1808 AD May 12 – Finnish War: Swedish-Finnish troops, led by Captain Karl Wilhelm Malmi, conquers the city of Kuopio from Russians after the Battle of Kuopio.
1808 AD Jun 15 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1808 AD Jul 08 – Promulgation of the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter Joseph Bonaparte intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
1808 AD Jul 14 – The Finnish War: the Battle of Lapua was fought.
1808 AD Jul 28 – Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1808 AD Aug 17 – The Finnish War: The Battle of Alavus is fought.
1808 AD Aug 21 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1808 AD Sep 13 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1808 AD Sep 14 – Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.
1808 AD Nov 19 – Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends hostilities in Finland.
1808 AD Nov 23 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.
1809 AD Jan 06 – Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.
1809 AD Jan 16 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
1809 AD Feb 03 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
1809 AD Feb 24 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving its owner, Irish writer and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, destitute.
1809 AD Feb 27 – Action of 27 February 1809: Captain Bernard Dubourdieu captures HMS Proserpine.
1809 AD Mar 27 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
1809 AD Mar 29 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1809 AD Apr 10 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
1809 AD Apr 11 – Battle of the Basque Roads: Admiral Lord Gambier fails to support Captain Lord Cochrane, leading to an incomplete British victory over the French fleet.
1809 AD Apr 19 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1809 AD Apr 20 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1809 AD Apr 21 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
1809 AD Apr 22 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
1809 AD May 05 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1809 AD May 17 – Emperor Napoleon I orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
1809 AD May 21 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
1809 AD May 22 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
1809 AD May 23 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
1809 AD May 25 – Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern-day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin American wars of independence.
1809 AD Jul 05 – The Battle of Wagram between the French and Austrian Empires begins.
1809 AD Jul 06 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
1809 AD Jul 16 – The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
1809 AD Jul 28 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
1809 AD Aug 10 – Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
1809 AD Aug 18 – The Senate of Finland is established in the Grand Duchy of Finland after the official adoption of the Statute of the Government Council by Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
1809 AD Nov 18 – In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
1809 AD Nov 27 – The Berners Street hoax is perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.
1810 AD Jan 01 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.
1810 AD Feb 04 – Napoleonic Wars: Britain seizes Guadeloupe.
1810 AD Feb 05 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
1810 AD Apr 19 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1810 AD May 25 – May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the Argentine War of Independence.
1810 AD Jun 07 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
1810 AD Jun 23 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
1810 AD Jul 09 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1810 AD Jul 20 – Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
1810 AD Aug 09 – Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
1810 AD Aug 21 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1810 AD Aug 26 – The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
1810 AD Aug 27 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
1810 AD Aug 28 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
1810 AD Sep 08 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
1811 AD Jan 08 – Charles Deslondes leads an unsuccessful slave revolt in the North American settlements of St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
1811 AD Jan 17 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
1811 AD Mar 01 – Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
1811 AD Mar 02 – Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.
1811 AD Mar 05 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1811 AD May 14 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor.
1811 AD May 16 – Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom fight an inconclusive battle against the French at the Albuera. It is, in proportion to the numbers involved, the bloodiest battle of the war.
1811 AD May 18 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas.
1811 AD Jun 16 – Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers.
1811 AD Jul 05 – The Venezuelan Declaration of Independence is adopted by a congress of the provinces.
1811 AD Jul 09 – Explorer David Thompson posts a sign near what is now Sacajawea State Park in Washington state, claiming the Columbia District for the United Kingdom.
1811 AD Jul 30 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
1811 AD Aug 03 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
1811 AD Nov 05 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
1811 AD Nov 07 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
1811 AD Nov 28 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1812 AD Jan 10 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
1812 AD Feb 07 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
1812 AD Feb 11 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry is accused of "gerrymandering" for the first time.
1812 AD Feb 27 – Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
1812 AD Feb 27 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1812 AD Mar 26 – An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela.
1812 AD Mar 26 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
1812 AD Apr 06 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
1812 AD Apr 08 – Czar Alexander I, the Russian Emperor and the Grand Duke of Finland, officially announces the transfer of the status of the Finnish capital from Turku to Helsinki.
1812 AD Apr 30 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1812 AD May 02 – The Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ends with both sides claiming victory after Mexican rebels under José María Morelos y Pavón abandon the city after 72 days under siege by royalist Spanish troops under Félix María Calleja.
1812 AD May 11 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
1812 AD May 16 – Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia to Russia.
1812 AD May 18 – John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
1812 AD Jun 01 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1812 AD Jun 04 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1812 AD Jun 18 – The United States declaration of war upon the United Kingdom is signed by President James Madison, beginning the War of 1812.
1812 AD Jun 23 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1812 AD Jun 24 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman river beginning the invasion of Russia.
1812 AD Jul 12 – The American Army of the Northwest briefly occupies the Upper Canadian settlement at what is now at Windsor, Ontario.
1812 AD Jul 18 – The Treaties of Orebro end both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
1812 AD Jul 22 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1812 AD Aug 11 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
1812 AD Aug 16 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
1812 AD Aug 19 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".
1812 AD Aug 24 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
1812 AD Sep 03 – Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
1812 AD Sep 04 – Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
1812 AD Sep 05 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
1812 AD Sep 07 – French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, is fought near Moscow and results in a French victory.
1812 AD Sep 13 – War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1812 AD Sep 14 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
1812 AD Nov 03 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
1812 AD Nov 18 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Krasnoi ends in French defeat, but Marshal of France Michel Ney's leadership leads to him becoming known as "the bravest of the brave".
1812 AD Nov 26 – The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia.
1813 AD Jan 28 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1813 AD Feb 03 – José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
1813 AD Feb 07 – In the action of 7 February 1813 near the Îles de Los, the frigates Aréthuse and Amelia batter each other, but neither can gain the upper hand.
1813 AD Feb 20 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
1813 AD Mar 04 – Cyril VI of Constantinople is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1813 AD Apr 27 – War of 1812: American troops capture York, the capital of Upper Canada, in the Battle of York.
1813 AD May 11 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement.
1813 AD May 20 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
1813 AD May 24 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
1813 AD May 27 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1813 AD May 31 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1813 AD Jun 01 – Capture of USS Chesapeake.
1813 AD Jun 06 – The Battle of Stoney Creek, considered a critical turning point in the War of 1812. A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1813 AD Jun 21 – Peninsular War: Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria.
1813 AD Jun 22 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
1813 AD Jun 24 – Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
1813 AD Jul 05 – War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York commence.
1813 AD Jul 23 – Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
1813 AD Aug 10 – Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera. It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit, which means "Work conquers all things".
1813 AD Aug 11 – In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
1813 AD Aug 19 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate.
1813 AD Aug 23 – At the Battle of Großbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1813 AD Aug 26 – War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
1813 AD Aug 27 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1813 AD Aug 30 – First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 AD Aug 30 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1813 AD Aug 31 – Peninsular War: Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
1813 AD Sep 08 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.
1813 AD Sep 10 – The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1813 AD Sep 11 – War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington, D.C.
1814 AD Jan 14 – Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway to Charles XIII of Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1814 AD Jan 29 – War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1814 AD Jan 31 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
1814 AD Feb 01 – Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
1814 AD Feb 02 – The last of the River Thames frost fairs comes to an end.
1814 AD Feb 10 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
1814 AD Feb 17 – War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormant.
1814 AD Feb 18 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1814 AD Mar 04 – Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1814 AD Mar 07 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1814 AD Mar 27 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1814 AD Mar 31 title="1814">1814 – The Sixth Coalition occupies Paris after Napoleon's Grande Armée capitulates.
1814 AD Apr 04 – Napoleon abdicates (conditionally) for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French, followed by unconditional abdication two days later.
1814 AD Apr 06 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1814 AD Apr 11 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
1814 AD May 04 – Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1814 AD May 04 – King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism.
1814 AD May 17 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1814 AD May 17 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and Crown Prince Christian Frederick of Denmark is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
1814 AD May 30 – The First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1792 extent, and restoring the House of Bourbon to power.
1814 AD Jul 05 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa: American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
1814 AD Jul 13 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
1814 AD Jul 24 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
1814 AD Jul 25 – War of 1812: An American attack on Canada is repulsed.
1814 AD Jul 26 – The Swedish–Norwegian War begins.
1814 AD Aug 09 – American Indian Wars: The Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
1814 AD Aug 13 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Netherlands, is signed in London, England.
1814 AD Aug 14 – A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended the Swedish–Norwegian War.
1814 AD Aug 24 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.
1814 AD Aug 25 – War of 1812: On the second day of the Burning of Washington, British troops torch the Library of Congress, United States Treasury, Department of War, and other public buildings.
1814 AD Aug 26 – Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
1814 AD Sep 11 – War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
1814 AD Sep 12 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
1814 AD Sep 13 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
1814 AD Sep 14 – Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
1814 AD Nov 01 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
1814 AD Nov 28 – The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer.
1815 AD Jan 03 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
1815 AD Jan 08 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1815 AD Jan 13 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
1815 AD Jan 15 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1815 AD Feb 26 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the island of Elba.
1815 AD Mar 01 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
1815 AD Mar 02 – Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy.
1815 AD Mar 30 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
1815 AD Apr 10 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
1815 AD Apr 23 – The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1815 AD May 03 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1815 AD May 30 – The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
1815 AD Jun 01 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
1815 AD Jun 09 – End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
1815 AD Jun 16 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
1815 AD Jun 18 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
1815 AD Jul 09 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
1815 AD Jul 15 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1815 AD Aug 24 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
1815 AD Nov 20 – The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by Allied troops for several more years.
1815 AD Nov 27 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
1816 AD Jan 09 – Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
1816 AD Feb 20 – Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
1816 AD Apr 10 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
1816 AD Apr 14 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion, for which he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
1816 AD May 22 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day.
1816 AD May 23 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day.
1816 AD Jun 19 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1816 AD Jul 02 – The French frigate Méduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
1816 AD Jul 03 – The French frigate Méduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
1816 AD Jul 09 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1816 AD Jul 27 – Seminole Wars: The Battle of Negro Fort ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the fort's Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.
1816 AD Aug 05 – The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1816 AD Aug 14 – The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1816 AD Aug 24 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1816 AD Sep 05 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1816 AD Nov 19 – Warsaw University is established.
1817 AD Jan 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
1817 AD Jan 24 – Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the action of Picheuta.
1817 AD Feb 08 – Las Heras completes his crossing of the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
1817 AD Feb 12 – An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops at the Battle of Chacabuco.
1817 AD Apr 15 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
1817 AD May 15 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
1817 AD Jun 05 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1817 AD Jun 12 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.
1817 AD Jul 04 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
1817 AD Jul 19 – Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai.
1817 AD Oct 30 – Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
1817 AD Nov 03 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.
1817 AD Dec 10 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1818 AD Jan 02 – The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six engineers; Thomas Telford would later become its first president.
1818 AD Jan 15 – A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
1818 AD Feb 05 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1818 AD Feb 12 – Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
1818 AD Mar 30 – Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
1818 AD Apr 04 – The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that time).
1818 AD Apr 05 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
1818 AD Apr 16 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1818 AD Apr 19 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
1818 AD Jul 04 – US Flag Act of 1818 goes into effect creating a 13 stripe flag with a star for each state. New stars would be added on 4th of July after a new state had been admitted. [1]
1818 AD Jul 29 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
1818 AD Sep 07 – Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1818 AD Dec 03 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
1819 AD Jan 25 – University of Virginia chartered by Commonwealth of Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders.
1819 AD Jan 29 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
1819 AD Feb 06 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1819 AD Feb 07 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
1819 AD Feb 17 – The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
1819 AD Feb 19 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
1819 AD Feb 22 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1819 AD May 22 – SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1819 AD May 23 – SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1819 AD May 25 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
1819 AD Jun 16 – A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6-metre-high (20 ft), 6-kilometre-wide (3.7 mi), ridge, extending for at least 80 kilometres (50 mi), that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").
1819 AD Jun 20 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
1819 AD Jul 01 – Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1819 AD Aug 06 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1819 AD Aug 07 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1819 AD Aug 16 – Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
1820 AD Jan 27 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
1820 AD Jan 30 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
1820 AD Feb 04 – The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the two-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and two ships.
1820 AD Feb 06 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1820 AD Feb 23 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed and the conspirators arrested.
1820 AD Mar 03 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1820 AD Mar 06 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1820 AD Apr 08 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
1820 AD Apr 12 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
1820 AD May 01 – Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators, who plotted to kill the British Cabinet and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.
1820 AD Aug 24 – Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
1820 AD Nov 20 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this incident.)
1821 AD Feb 24 – Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala.
1821 AD Apr 10 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
1821 AD Apr 10 – Greek War of Independence: the island of Psara joins the Greek struggle for independence.
1821 AD Apr 21 – Benderli Ali Pasha arrives in Constantinople as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire; he remains in power for only nine days before being sent into exile.
1821 AD May 05 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1821 AD May 05 – The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.
1821 AD May 08 – Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
1821 AD May 12 – The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi.
1821 AD May 26 – Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.
1821 AD Jun 12 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1821 AD Jun 14 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, bringing the 300 year old Sudanese kingdom to an end.
1821 AD Jun 19 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
1821 AD Jun 24 – Battle of Carabobo: Decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
1821 AD Jul 09 – Four hundred and seventy prominent Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence.
1821 AD Jul 17 – The Kingdom of Spain cedes the territory of Florida to the United States.
1821 AD Jul 19 – Coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom.
1821 AD Jul 23 – While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Asia Minor's coasts.
1821 AD Jul 28 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
1821 AD Aug 04 – The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1821 AD Aug 10 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1821 AD Aug 21 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
1821 AD Aug 24 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1821 AD Nov 28 – Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
1821 AD Dec 01 – José Núñez de Cáceres wins the independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain and names the new territory the Republic of Spanish Haiti.
1822 AD Jan 01 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
1822 AD Jan 05 – The government of Central America votes for total annexation to the First Mexican Empire.
1822 AD Jan 09 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
1822 AD Jan 13 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
1822 AD Jan 15 – Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
1822 AD Feb 09 – Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola.
1822 AD Feb 24 – The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
1822 AD Mar 30 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1822 AD May 16 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1822 AD May 24 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1822 AD May 26 – At least 113 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
1822 AD Jun 06 – Alexis St Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
1822 AD Jun 14 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
1822 AD Jun 18 – Konstantinos Kanaris blows up the Ottoman navy's flagship at Chios, killing the Kapudan Pasha Nasuhzade Ali Pasha.
1822 AD Jul 02 – Thirty-five slaves, including Denmark Vesey, are hanged in South Carolina after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.
1822 AD Jul 03 – Thirty-five slaves, including Denmark Vesey, are hanged in South Carolina after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.
1822 AD Jul 08 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1822 AD Jul 26 – José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
1822 AD Jul 26 – First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
1822 AD Sep 07 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
1822 AD Oct 31 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of the Mexican Empire.
1822 AD Dec 01 – Pedro I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
1822 AD Dec 09 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and reports a direct refraction experiment verifying his theory that optical rotation is a form of birefringence.
1823 AD Feb 11 – Carnival tragedy of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a stampede at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta.
1823 AD Jul 01 – The five Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica declare independence from the First Mexican Empire after being annexed the year prior.
1823 AD Jul 02 – Bahia Independence Day: The end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1823 AD Jul 03 – Bahia Independence Day: The end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1823 AD Jul 15 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
1823 AD Jul 24 – Afro-Chileans are emancipated.
1823 AD Jul 24 – In Maracaibo, Venezuela, the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
1823 AD Aug 25 – American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota.
1823 AD Dec 02 – Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
1824 AD Jan 22 – The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1824 AD Mar 05 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1824 AD May 07 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
1824 AD May 10 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
1824 AD Jun 16 – A meeting at Old Slaughter's coffee house in London leads to the formation of what is now the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).
1824 AD Jun 21 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1824 AD Jul 25 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1824 AD Aug 05 – Greek War of Independence: Konstantinos Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian naval forces in the Battle of Samos.
1824 AD Aug 06 – Peruvian War of Independence: The Battle of Junín.
1824 AD Aug 15 – The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
1824 AD Dec 01 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1824 AD Dec 09 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
1825 AD Jan 27 – The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
1825 AD Feb 04 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1825 AD Feb 09 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election.
1825 AD Feb 12 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1825 AD Mar 05 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
1825 AD Jun 04 – General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
1825 AD Jun 11 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1825 AD Aug 06 – The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
1825 AD Aug 25 – The Thirty-Three Orientals declare the independence of Uruguay from Brazil.
1825 AD Aug 29 – Portuguese and Brazilian diplomats sign the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the Brazilian war of independence. The treaty will be ratified by the King of Portugal three months later.
1826 AD Jan 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
1826 AD Feb 11 – University College London is founded as University of London.
1826 AD Feb 24 – The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.
1826 AD Apr 10 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1826 AD Apr 29 – The galaxy Centaurus A or NGC 5128 is discovered by James Dunlop.
1826 AD May 22 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1826 AD May 23 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1826 AD Jun 21 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1826 AD Jul 04 – John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, respectively the second and third presidents of the United States, die on the same day, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. Adams' last words were, "Thomas Jefferson survives," not knowing that Jefferson had died hours earlier.
1826 AD Aug 18 – Major Gordon Laing becomes the first European to enter Timbuktu.
1826 AD Sep 11 – Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that led to his mysterious disappearance.
1826 AD Nov 25 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1827 AD Mar 07 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
1827 AD Mar 07 – Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1827 AD Jul 04 – Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.
1827 AD Aug 17 – Dutch King William I and Pope Leo XII sign concord.
1827 AD Aug 22 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
1828 AD Jan 08 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
1828 AD Feb 21 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
1828 AD Apr 20 – René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing. He would also be the first to return alive.
1828 AD May 19 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
1828 AD Aug 27 – Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo
1828 AD Nov 05 – Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
1828 AD Dec 01 – Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1829 AD Jan 19 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
1829 AD Apr 13 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
1829 AD Apr 25 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the British Empire.
1829 AD May 02 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
1829 AD Jun 05 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1829 AD Jun 10 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
1829 AD Jul 23 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1829 AD Aug 03 – The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.
1829 AD Sep 11 – An expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown to retake Mexico, surrenders at the Battle of Tampico, marking the effective end of Mexico's campaign for independence.
1829 AD Sep 14 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1829 AD Nov 30 – First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, five years to the day from the ground breaking.
1829 AD Dec 04 – In the face of fierce local opposition, British Governor-General Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that anyone who abets suttee in Bengal is guilty of culpable homicide.
1830 AD Feb 03 – The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.
1830 AD Mar 26 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1830 AD Apr 06 – Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York.
1830 AD May 03 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
1830 AD May 13 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
1830 AD May 28 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them.
1830 AD Jun 12 – Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thiry-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
1830 AD Jun 14 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
1830 AD Jul 13 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengali Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
1830 AD Aug 02 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
1830 AD Aug 09 – Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X.
1830 AD Aug 25 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
1830 AD Aug 28 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
1830 AD Sep 11 – Anti-Masonic Party convention; one of the first American political party conventions.
1830 AD Nov 27 – Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.
1830 AD Nov 29 – An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1831 AD Feb 14 – Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1831 AD Feb 24 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
1831 AD Mar 29 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
1831 AD Apr 07 – Pedro II becomes Emperor of Brazil.
1831 AD Apr 12 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse.
1831 AD Apr 18 – The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
1831 AD Jun 01 – James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole.
1831 AD Jul 04 – Samuel Francis Smith writes "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities.
1831 AD Jul 13 – Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania.
1831 AD Jul 20 – Seneca and Shawnee people agree to relinquish their land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River.
1831 AD Jul 21 – Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
1831 AD Aug 08 – Four hundred Shawnee people agree to relinquish their lands in Ohio in exchange for land west of the Mississippi River in the Treaty of Wapakoneta.
1831 AD Aug 12 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.
1831 AD Aug 21 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.
1831 AD Aug 23 – Nat Turner's rebellion of enslaved Virginians is suppressed.^{[citation needed]}
1831 AD Aug 29 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1831 AD Sep 01 – The Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
1831 AD Sep 08 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1831 AD Sep 08 – November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the Polish insurrection.
1831 AD Oct 30 – Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1831 AD Nov 05 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1831 AD Dec 05 – Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
1832 AD Feb 12 – Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
1832 AD Apr 08 – Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
1832 AD May 07 – Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London.
1832 AD May 16 – Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush.
1832 AD May 24 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1832 AD Jun 05 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe.
1832 AD Jun 06 – The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.
1832 AD Jun 07 – The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.
1832 AD Jun 07 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1832 AD Jul 04 – John Neal delivers the first public lecture in the US to advocate the rights of women.
1832 AD Jul 10 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1832 AD Jul 19 – The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
1832 AD Aug 27 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
1832 AD Nov 24 – South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.
1833 AD Jan 03 – Captain James Onslow, in the Clio, reasserts British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
1833 AD Jan 13 – United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
1833 AD Feb 06 – Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1833 AD Apr 01 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin.
1833 AD May 10 – A revolt broke out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who had desecrated the deceased mandarin Le Van Duyet.
1833 AD May 25 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
1833 AD Jul 05 – Lê Văn Khôi along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the Phiên An citadel, developing into the Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng.
1833 AD Jul 05 – Admiral Charles Napier vanquishes the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1833 AD Jul 11 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
1833 AD Jul 22 title="1833">1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act passes in the British House of Commons, initiating the gradual abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire.
1833 AD Aug 26 – The great 1833 Kathmandu–Bihar earthquake causes major damage in Nepal, northern India and Tibet, a total of 500 people perish.
1833 AD Aug 28 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the British Empire with exceptions.
1833 AD Nov 13 title="1833">1833 Great Meteor Storm of 1833 on November 13th
1833 AD Nov 25 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7 and 9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
1834 AD Jan 01 – Most of Germany forms the Zollverein customs union, the first such union between sovereign states.
1834 AD Mar 06 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
1834 AD May 16 – The Battle of Asseiceira is fought; it was the final and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
1834 AD May 30 – Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
1834 AD Jul 07 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
1834 AD Jul 15 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1834 AD Aug 01 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843.
1834 AD Aug 01 – Construction begins on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
1834 AD Dec 01 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1834 AD Dec 03 – The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
1835 AD Jan 07 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1835 AD Jan 08 – US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.
1835 AD Jan 24 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
1835 AD Jan 30 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
1835 AD Feb 01 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1835 AD Feb 14 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1835 AD Feb 15 – Serbia's Sretenje Constitution briefly comes into effect.
1835 AD Feb 20 – The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
1835 AD Feb 28 – Elias Lönnrot signed and dated the first version of the Kalevala, the so-called foreword to the Old Kalevala.
1835 AD May 05 – The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1835 AD May 06 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1835 AD Jun 02 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1835 AD Aug 25 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
1835 AD Aug 30 – Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
1835 AD Nov 24 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
1835 AD Nov 27 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
1835 AD Dec 09 – Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio following the Siege of Béxar.
1836 AD Feb 19 – King William IV signs Letters Patent establishing the Province of South Australia.
1836 AD Feb 23 – Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1836 AD Feb 25 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm.
1836 AD Mar 01 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
1836 AD Mar 02 – Texas Revolution: The Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico is adopted.
1836 AD Mar 05 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1836 AD Mar 06 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1836 AD Mar 27 – Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican Army massacres 342 Texian Army POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1836 AD Apr 20 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1836 AD Apr 21 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto: Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1836 AD Apr 22 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.
1836 AD May 04 – Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
1836 AD May 14 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
1836 AD May 15 – Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1836 AD Jun 15 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1836 AD Jun 16 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
1836 AD Jul 11 – The Fly-fisher's Entomology is published by Alfred Ronalds. The book transformed the sport and went to many editions.
1836 AD Jul 29 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
1836 AD Aug 17 – British parliament accepts registration of births, marriages and deaths.
1836 AD Aug 30 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
1836 AD Sep 01 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1836 AD Sep 05 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1836 AD Sep 11 – The Riograndense Republic is proclaimed by rebels after defeating Empire of Brazil's troops in the Battle of Seival, during the Ragamuffin War.
1837 AD Jan 26 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1837 AD Feb 08 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1837 AD Mar 04 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
1837 AD Apr 24 – The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9000 houses.
1837 AD May 03 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
1837 AD May 10 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
1837 AD Jun 05 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
1837 AD Jun 11 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
1837 AD Jun 20 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1837 AD Jul 01 – A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1837 AD Jul 04 – Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
1837 AD Jul 25 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1837 AD Nov 07 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
1837 AD Nov 08 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
1837 AD Nov 22 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
1837 AD Dec 07 – The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only battle of the Upper Canada Rebellion, takes place in Toronto, where the rebels are quickly defeated.
1838 AD Jan 06 – Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1838 AD Feb 17 – Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
1838 AD Apr 16 – The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
1838 AD Apr 30 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
1838 AD Jun 10 – Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1838 AD Jun 28 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1838 AD Jul 04 – The Iowa Territory is organized.
1838 AD Jul 15 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
1838 AD Aug 18 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads.
1838 AD Sep 01 – Saint Andrew's Scots School, the oldest school of British origin in South America, is established.
1838 AD Sep 03 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
1838 AD Sep 04 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
1838 AD Nov 03 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1839 AD Jan 06 – The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
1839 AD Jan 09 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1839 AD Jan 19 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
1839 AD Jan 20 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
1839 AD Mar 26 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1839 AD Apr 19 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
1839 AD Jun 03 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
1839 AD Jun 14 – Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
1839 AD Jun 17 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
1839 AD Jun 22 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
1839 AD Jul 02 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad.
1839 AD Jul 03 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad.
1839 AD Aug 19 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
1839 AD Aug 23 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
1839 AD Sep 05 – The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
1839 AD Sep 09 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1839 AD Nov 04 – Newport Rising: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1839 AD Nov 25 – A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 12-metre (40 ft) storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
1839 AD Nov 27 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
1840 AD Jan 13 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
1840 AD Feb 06 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1840 AD Feb 10 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1840 AD Feb 11 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
1840 AD May 01 – The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1840 AD May 06 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1840 AD May 07 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
1840 AD May 20 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
1840 AD May 22 – The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1840 AD May 23 – The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1840 AD Jun 20 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1840 AD Jul 23 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1841 AD Jan 20 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British during the First Opium War.
1841 AD Jan 26 – James Bremer takes formal possession of Hong Kong Island at what is now Possession Point, establishing British Hong Kong.
1841 AD Mar 30 – The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
1841 AD Apr 04 – William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office, and setting the record for the briefest administration. Vice President John Tyler succeeds Harrison as President.
1841 AD Apr 06 – U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become president upon William Henry Harrison's death.
1841 AD Jun 28 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
1841 AD Jul 05 – Thomas Cook organises the first package excursion, from Leicester to Loughborough.
1841 AD Jul 18 – Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.
1841 AD Aug 16 – U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
1841 AD Nov 13 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1842 AD Jan 13 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
1842 AD Feb 07 – Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1842 AD Feb 21 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1842 AD Mar 30 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
1842 AD May 08 – A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
1842 AD May 16 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers.
1842 AD May 30 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
1842 AD Aug 01 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1842 AD Aug 09 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
1842 AD Aug 14 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.
1842 AD Aug 29 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
1842 AD Dec 07 – First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.
1843 AD Feb 06 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1843 AD Feb 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy.
1843 AD Feb 25 – Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843).
1843 AD May 18 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
1843 AD Jun 17 – The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
1843 AD Jul 19 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1843 AD Aug 15 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1843 AD Aug 15 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1843 AD Sep 03 – King Otto of Greece is forced to grant a constitution following an uprising in Athens.
1843 AD Sep 04 – King Otto of Greece is forced to grant a constitution following an uprising in Athens.
1843 AD Sep 13 – The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
1843 AD Nov 28 – Ka Lā Hui (Hawaiian Independence Day): The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1844 AD Feb 27 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1844 AD Mar 08 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1844 AD Mar 08 – The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, was reopened after 45 years of closure.
1844 AD Mar 30 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1844 AD May 01 – Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
1844 AD May 24 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
1844 AD Jun 03 – The last pair of great auks is killed.
1844 AD Jun 06 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1844 AD Jun 15 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1844 AD Jun 27 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1844 AD Aug 08 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
1844 AD Aug 10 – German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel deduced from the motion of the brightest star Sirius that it had an unseen companion.
1845 AD Jan 29 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
1845 AD Mar 01 – United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1845 AD Mar 03 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1845 AD May 19 – Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
1845 AD May 30 – The Fatel Razack coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first Indians to the country.
1845 AD Jul 04 – Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
1845 AD Jul 19 – Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan begins early in the morning and is subdued that afternoon. The fire kills four firefighters and 26 civilians and destroys 345 buildings.
1845 AD Aug 28 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1845 AD Sep 09 – Possible start of the Great Famine of Ireland.
1845 AD Nov 20 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
1845 AD Dec 02 – Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1846 AD Jan 23 – Slavery in Tunisia is abolished.
1846 AD Jan 28 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1846 AD Jan 31 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, the United States towns of Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify to create the City of Milwaukee.
1846 AD Feb 04 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
1846 AD Feb 10 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
1846 AD Feb 19 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
1846 AD Feb 20 – Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.
1846 AD Apr 25 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
1846 AD May 01 – The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
1846 AD May 07 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1846 AD May 08 – Mexican–American War: American forces led by Zachary Taylor defeat a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
1846 AD May 12 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism.
1846 AD May 13 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on the Federal Republic of Mexico following a dispute over the American annexation of the Republic of Texas and a Mexican military incursion.
1846 AD May 22 – The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
1846 AD May 23 – The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
1846 AD Jun 14 – Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1846 AD Jun 15 – The Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean.
1846 AD Jun 16 – The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
1846 AD Jun 19 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
1846 AD Jul 07 – US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
1846 AD Aug 10 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
1846 AD Aug 22 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
1846 AD Sep 10 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1846 AD Sep 12 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
1846 AD Sep 14 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
1847 AD Jan 01 – The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, United States, by a group of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland; the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
1847 AD Jan 06 – Samuel Colt obtains his first contract for the sale of revolver pistols to the United States government.
1847 AD Jan 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
1847 AD Jan 16 – Westward expansion of the United States: John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1847 AD Jan 30 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
1847 AD Feb 19 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
1847 AD Feb 22 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexican troops.
1847 AD Feb 23 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista: In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1847 AD Mar 29 – Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
1847 AD Apr 16 – Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
1847 AD Apr 18 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1847 AD Jul 24 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
1847 AD Jul 24 – Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.
1847 AD Jul 26 – Liberia declares its independence.
1847 AD Sep 12 – Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1847 AD Sep 13 – Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.
1847 AD Nov 04 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1847 AD Nov 19 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
1847 AD Nov 29 – The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 AD Nov 29 – Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
1847 AD Dec 05 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. Senate.
1848 AD Jan 03 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
1848 AD Jan 12 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1848 AD Jan 24 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
1848 AD Jan 31 – John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1848 AD Feb 02 – Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
1848 AD Feb 21 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1848 AD Feb 22 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
1848 AD Feb 24 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1848 AD Mar 04 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
1848 AD May 03 – The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.
1848 AD May 18 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1848 AD May 19 – Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
1848 AD May 22 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
1848 AD May 23 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
1848 AD May 29 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1848 AD Jun 02 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1848 AD Jun 21 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
1848 AD Jun 25 – A photograph of the June Days uprising becomes the first known instance of photojournalism.
1848 AD Jun 26 – A photograph of the June Days uprising becomes the first known instance of photojournalism.
1848 AD Jul 11 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1848 AD Jul 19 – Women's rights: A two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York.
1848 AD Jul 20 – The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
1848 AD Jul 29 – Great Famine of Ireland: Tipperary Revolt: In County Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1848 AD Aug 14 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1848 AD Aug 18 – Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1848 AD Aug 19 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
1848 AD Sep 12 – A new constitution marks the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state.
1848 AD Sep 13 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1+1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functions.
1848 AD Nov 01 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1848 AD Nov 03 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, which transfers much authority from the king to his parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
1848 AD Dec 02 – Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1848 AD Dec 05 – California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1849 AD Jan 13 – Establishment of the Colony of Vancouver Island.
1849 AD Jan 13 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Chillianwala: British forces retreat from the Sikhs.
1849 AD Jan 22 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
1849 AD Jan 23 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
1849 AD Feb 05 – University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
1849 AD Feb 09 – The new Roman Republic is declared.
1849 AD Feb 13 – The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
1849 AD Feb 14 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1849 AD Mar 03 – The Territory of Minnesota is created.
1849 AD Mar 04 – President-elect of the United States Zachary Taylor and Vice President-elect Millard Fillmore did not take their respective oaths of office (they did so the following day), leading to the erroneous theory that outgoing President pro tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison had assumed the role of acting president for one day.
1849 AD Mar 29 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
1849 AD Apr 13 – Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly.
1849 AD Apr 14 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1849 AD Apr 25 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1849 AD May 03 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49.
1849 AD May 10 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.
1849 AD May 15 – The Sicilian revolution of 1848 is finally extinguished.
1849 AD May 22 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
1849 AD May 23 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
1849 AD Jun 01 – Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.
1849 AD Jun 05 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1849 AD Jul 16 – Antonio María Claret y Clará founds the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians in Vic, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
1849 AD Aug 01 – Joven Daniel wrecks at the coast of Araucanía, Chile, leading to allegations that local Mapuche tribes murdered survivors and kidnapped Elisa Bravo.
1849 AD Aug 22 – The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
1849 AD Aug 22 – Passaleão incident: João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, the governor of Portuguese Macau, is assassinated by a group of Chinese locals, triggering a military confrontation between China and Portugal at the Battle of Passaleão three days after.
1849 AD Aug 26 – President Faustin Soulouque of the First Republic of Haiti has the Senate and Chamber of Deputies proclaim him the Emperor of Haiti, abolishing the Republic and inaugurating the Second Empire of Haiti.
1849 AD Aug 28 – Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire: After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
1850 AD Jan 29 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1850 AD Feb 02 – Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
1850 AD Mar 05 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1850 AD Mar 07 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1850 AD May 15 – The Arana–Southern Treaty is ratified, ending "the existing differences" between Great Britain and Argentina.
1850 AD Jun 19 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
1850 AD Jun 29 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
1850 AD Jul 09 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
1850 AD Jul 09 – Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
1850 AD Jul 10 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
1850 AD Jul 17 – Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed.
1850 AD Aug 28 – Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
1850 AD Sep 09 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
1850 AD Sep 09 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1850 AD Nov 24 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
1850 AD Nov 29 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.
1851 AD Jan 28 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
1851 AD Feb 06 – The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
1851 AD Apr 03 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.
1851 AD May 01 – Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace in London.
1851 AD May 15 – The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
1851 AD May 21 – Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
1851 AD May 29 – Sojourner Truth delivers her famous Ain't I a Woman? speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
1851 AD Jun 05 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1851 AD Jul 29 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1851 AD Aug 12 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1851 AD Aug 22 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1851 AD Sep 11 – Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
1851 AD Nov 09 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1851 AD Nov 13 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
1851 AD Nov 21 – Mutineers take control of the Chilean penal colony of Punta Arenas in the Strait of Magellan.
1851 AD Dec 02 – French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1851 AD Dec 08 – Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.
1851 AD Dec 09 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1852 AD Jan 17 – The United Kingdom signs the Sand River Convention with the South African Republic.
1852 AD Feb 05 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1852 AD Feb 14 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
1852 AD Apr 29 – Roget's Thesaurus, created by Peter Roget, was released to the public.
1852 AD May 29 – Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
1852 AD Jul 05 – Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech in Rochester, New York.
1852 AD Aug 03 – Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.
1852 AD Aug 20 – Steamboat Atlantic sank on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
1852 AD Aug 21 – Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1852 AD Sep 11 – Outbreak of Revolution of September 11 resulting in the State of Buenos Aires declaring independence as a Republic.
1852 AD Nov 04 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1852 AD Nov 26 – An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 60 in the Dutch East Indies.
1852 AD Dec 02 – Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
1853 AD Jan 04 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
1853 AD Jan 19 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
1853 AD Apr 16 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
1853 AD Jul 02 – The Russian Army crosses the Prut river into the Danubian Principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia), providing the spark that will set off the Crimean War.
1853 AD Jul 03 – The Russian Army crosses the Prut river into the Danubian Principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia), providing the spark that will set off the Crimean War.
1853 AD Jul 08 – The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.
1853 AD Jul 14 – Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
1853 AD Jul 25 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1853 AD Nov 30 – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
1854 AD Jan 04 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1854 AD Jan 21 – The RMS Tayleur sinks off Lambay Island on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia with great loss of life.
1854 AD Feb 07 – A law is approved to found the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Lectures started October 16, 1855.
1854 AD Feb 17 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
1854 AD Feb 23 – The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
1854 AD Feb 24 – A Penny Red with perforations becomes the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
1854 AD Mar 31 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1854 AD May 30 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the U.S. territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
1854 AD Jun 01 – Åland War: The British navy destroys merchant ships and about 16,000 tar barrels of the wholesale stocks area in Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland.
1854 AD Jun 10 – The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students.
1854 AD Jul 06 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
1854 AD Jul 13 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General José María Yáñez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
1854 AD Jul 28 – USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy and now a museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, is commissioned.
1854 AD Aug 04 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1854 AD Aug 09 – American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau publishes his memoir Walden.
1854 AD Aug 19 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
1854 AD Dec 03 – Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
1854 AD Dec 08 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
1855 AD Jan 26 – Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
1855 AD Jan 28 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
1855 AD Feb 11 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia.
1855 AD Feb 12 – Michigan State University is established.
1855 AD Feb 14 – Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1855 AD Mar 02 – Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1855 AD Mar 30 – Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1855 AD May 03 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
1855 AD Jun 01 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1855 AD Jun 04 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
1855 AD Jun 13 – Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.
1855 AD Jun 28 – Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.
1855 AD Jul 01 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1855 AD Jul 04 – The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published in Brooklyn.
1855 AD Aug 01 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1855 AD Aug 09 – Åland War: The Battle of Suomenlinna begins.
1855 AD Sep 03 – American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
1855 AD Sep 04 – American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
1855 AD Sep 08 – Crimean War: The French assault the tower of Malakoff, leading to the capture of Sevastopol.
1855 AD Sep 09 – Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
1855 AD Nov 22 – In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
1856 AD Jan 26 – First Battle of Seattle: Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all-day battle with settlers.
1856 AD Jan 29 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
1856 AD Feb 11 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is deposed.
1856 AD Feb 22 – The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.^{[citation needed]}
1856 AD Mar 30 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1856 AD Apr 11 – Second Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1856 AD Apr 21 – Australian labour movement: Stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne march from the University of Melbourne to Parliament House to achieve an eight-hour day.
1856 AD May 21 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1856 AD May 22 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
1856 AD May 23 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
1856 AD May 24 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1856 AD Jun 08 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1856 AD Jun 09 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
1856 AD Jul 31 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1856 AD Aug 10 – The Last Island hurricane strikes Louisiana, resulting in over 200 deaths.
1856 AD Sep 02 – The Tianjing incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
1856 AD Sep 07 – The Saimaa Canal is inaugurated.
1856 AD Nov 27 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
1856 AD Dec 09 – The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1857 AD Jan 09 – The 7.9 M_w  Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).
1857 AD Jan 24 – The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.
1857 AD Mar 03 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1857 AD Mar 06 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
1857 AD Mar 29 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
1857 AD Apr 18 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
1857 AD May 06 – The East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British in the lead up to the War of Indian Independence.
1857 AD May 10 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
1857 AD May 11 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
1857 AD Jun 01 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1857 AD Jul 18 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
1857 AD Jul 27 – Indian Rebellion: Sixty-eight men hold out for eight days against a force of 2,500 to 3,000 mutinying sepoys and 8,000 irregular forces.
1857 AD Aug 24 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
1857 AD Sep 07 – Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.
1857 AD Sep 11 – The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1857 AD Sep 12 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.
1858 AD Jan 09 – British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong
1858 AD Jan 14 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris.
1858 AD Jan 25 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
1858 AD Jan 30 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1858 AD Feb 11 – Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary occurs in Lourdes, France.
1858 AD Apr 10 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
1858 AD Apr 16 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved.
1858 AD Jun 16 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
1858 AD Jun 18 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
1858 AD Jul 01 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
1858 AD Jul 16 – The last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France.
1858 AD Jul 29 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1858 AD Aug 02 – The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj.
1858 AD Aug 05 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
1858 AD Aug 07 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
1858 AD Aug 11 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
1858 AD Aug 16 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
1858 AD Aug 20 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1858 AD Aug 21 – The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois.
1858 AD Sep 10 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1859 AD Jan 24 – The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (later named Romania) is formed as a personal union under the rule of Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
1859 AD Feb 04 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1859 AD Feb 05 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1859 AD Feb 14 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1859 AD Feb 17 – Cochinchina Campaign: The French Navy captures the Citadel of Saigon, a fortress manned by 1,000 Nguyễn dynasty soldiers, en route to conquering Saigon and other regions of southern Viet Nam.
1859 AD Feb 19 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity.
1859 AD Mar 02 – The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, begins.
1859 AD Mar 03 – The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, concludes.
1859 AD Apr 25 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1859 AD May 04 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England.
1859 AD May 17 – Members of the Melbourne Football Club codified the first rules of Australian rules football.
1859 AD May 31 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
1859 AD Jun 04 – Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
1859 AD Jun 06 – Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales. The date is still celebrated as Queensland Day.
1859 AD Jun 15 – Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between American and British/Canadian settlers.
1859 AD Jun 18 – First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
1859 AD Jun 24 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
1859 AD Jun 28 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1859 AD Jun 30 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1859 AD Jul 05 – The United States discovers and claims Midway Atoll.
1859 AD Jul 08 – King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1859 AD Jul 30 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1859 AD Aug 03 – The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.
1859 AD Aug 16 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany formally deposes the exiled House of Lorraine.
1859 AD Aug 27 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1859 AD Aug 28 – The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
1859 AD Sep 02 – The Carrington Event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record.
1859 AD Nov 24 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1859 AD Dec 02 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1860 AD Jan 01 – The first Polish stamp is issued, replacing the Russian stamps previously in use.
1860 AD Feb 27 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1860 AD Mar 05 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1860 AD Apr 03 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
1860 AD Apr 06 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
1860 AD Apr 09 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
1860 AD May 18 – United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
1860 AD May 27 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
1860 AD Jun 23 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
1860 AD Jun 30 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1860 AD Aug 05 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
1860 AD Sep 07 – Unification of Italy: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
1860 AD Sep 08 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
1860 AD Nov 06 – Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race.
1861 AD Jan 01 – Liberal forces supporting Benito Juárez enter Mexico City.
1861 AD Jan 03 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
1861 AD Jan 09 – American Civil War: "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina.
1861 AD Jan 09 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
1861 AD Jan 10 – American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
1861 AD Jan 11 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States.
1861 AD Jan 19 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
1861 AD Jan 21 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1861 AD Jan 26 – American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1861 AD Jan 29 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1861 AD Feb 01 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States and joins the Confederacy a week later.
1861 AD Feb 04 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six breakaway U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
1861 AD Feb 09 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama
1861 AD Feb 10 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1861 AD Feb 11 – American Civil War: The United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1861 AD Feb 13 – Italian unification: The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1861 AD Feb 18 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1861 AD Feb 18 – With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
1861 AD Feb 23 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
1861 AD Mar 03 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
1861 AD Mar 04 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1861 AD Mar 30 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
1861 AD Apr 12 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1861 AD Apr 13 – American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
1861 AD Apr 15 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
1861 AD Apr 17 – The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, later becoming the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.
1861 AD Apr 19 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1861 AD Apr 20 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
1861 AD Apr 20 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina.
1861 AD Apr 27 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1861 AD Apr 29 – Maryland in the American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
1861 AD May 06 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1861 AD May 13 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights.
1861 AD May 13 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 AD May 13 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
1861 AD May 20 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
1861 AD May 24 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1861 AD May 29 – The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
1861 AD Jun 01 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fairfax Court House is fought.
1861 AD Jun 03 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.
1861 AD Jun 08 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1861 AD Jun 10 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
1861 AD Jun 17 – American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
1861 AD Jul 16 – American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
1861 AD Jul 21 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
1861 AD Jul 25 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery, in the wake of the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
1861 AD Jul 26 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
1861 AD Aug 05 – American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in 1872).
1861 AD Aug 05 – The United States Army abolishes flogging.
1861 AD Aug 06 – Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.
1861 AD Aug 10 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek: A mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State troops defeat outnumbered attacking Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
1861 AD Aug 19 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
1861 AD Aug 28 – American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
1861 AD Aug 29 – American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound.
1861 AD Sep 03 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
1861 AD Sep 04 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
1861 AD Sep 06 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
1861 AD Nov 01 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
1861 AD Nov 07 – American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
1861 AD Nov 07 – The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.
1861 AD Nov 08 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
1861 AD Nov 20 – American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1861 AD Nov 21 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.
1861 AD Nov 28 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Missouri to be the 12th state of the Confederacy.
1861 AD Dec 04 – The 109 Electors of the several states of the Confederate States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander H. Stephens as Vice President.
1861 AD Dec 09 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by Congress.
1861 AD Dec 10 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
1861 AD Dec 10 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
1862 AD Jan 16 – Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
1862 AD Jan 19 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
1862 AD Jan 30 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1862 AD Jan 31 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1862 AD Feb 05 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
1862 AD Feb 06 – American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
1862 AD Feb 10 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1862 AD Feb 15 – American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces besieging Fort Donelson in Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, the Confederates surrender the following day.
1862 AD Feb 16 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1862 AD Feb 21 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
1862 AD Feb 22 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1862 AD Mar 07 – American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1862 AD Apr 05 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
1862 AD Apr 06 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
1862 AD Apr 07 – American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
1862 AD Apr 12 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
1862 AD Apr 16 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 AD Apr 16 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1862 AD Apr 20 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
1862 AD Apr 25 – American Civil War: Forces under U.S. Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1862 AD Apr 29 – American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
1862 AD May 05 – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1862 AD May 12 – American Civil War: Union Army troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1862 AD May 13 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
1862 AD May 20 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.
1862 AD May 31 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1862 AD Jun 01 – American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: The Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1862 AD Jun 04 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
1862 AD Jun 05 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
1862 AD Jun 06 – The First Battle of Memphis, a naval engagement fought on the Mississippi results in the capture of Memphis, Tennessee by Union forces from the Confederates.
1862 AD Jun 07 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
1862 AD Jun 08 – American Civil War: A Confederate victory by forces under General Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of Cross Keys, along with the Battle of Port Republic the next day, prevents Union forces from reinforcing General George B. McClellan in his Peninsula campaign.
1862 AD Jun 09 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
1862 AD Jun 19 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
1862 AD Jun 20 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1862 AD Jul 01 – The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
1862 AD Jul 01 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862 AD Jul 01 – American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1862 AD Jul 04 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
1862 AD Jul 12 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
1862 AD Jul 15 – American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. The encounter changed the complexion of warfare on the Mississippi and helped reverse Rebel's fortunes on the river in the summer of 1862.
1862 AD Jul 16 – American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
1862 AD Jul 18 – First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1862 AD Jul 23 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck becomes general-in-chief of the Union Army.
1862 AD Jul 29 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
1862 AD Aug 05 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
1862 AD Aug 06 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1862 AD Aug 09 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
1862 AD Aug 17 – American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
1862 AD Aug 17 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
1862 AD Aug 19 – Dakota War: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
1862 AD Aug 21 – The Stadtpark, the first public park in Vienna, opens to the public.
1862 AD Aug 28 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.
1862 AD Aug 30 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
1862 AD Sep 01 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly: Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
1862 AD Sep 02 – American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1862 AD Sep 05 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1862 AD Sep 08 – Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
1862 AD Sep 13 – American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1862 AD Sep 14 – American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
1862 AD Nov 05 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1862 AD Nov 05 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved.
1862 AD Nov 09 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1862 AD Nov 28 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
1862 AD Dec 01 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1863 AD Jan 01 – American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
1863 AD Jan 04 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
1863 AD Jan 08 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
1863 AD Jan 10 – The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
1863 AD Jan 11 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
1863 AD Jan 11 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
1863 AD Jan 22 – The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
1863 AD Jan 26 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
1863 AD Jan 26 – American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from the Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
1863 AD Jan 29 – The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
1863 AD Feb 07 – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1863 AD Feb 17 – A group of citizens of Geneva found an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
1863 AD Feb 24 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1863 AD Mar 30 – Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1863 AD Apr 02 – American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
1863 AD Apr 16 – American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
1863 AD Apr 17 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
1863 AD Apr 30 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
1863 AD May 01 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1863 AD May 02 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later.
1863 AD May 06 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
1863 AD May 12 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
1863 AD May 14 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
1863 AD May 17 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
1863 AD May 18 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
1863 AD May 21 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
1863 AD May 22 – American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
1863 AD May 23 – American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
1863 AD May 27 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1863 AD Jun 09 – American Civil War: The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, the largest cavalry battle on American soil, ends Confederate cavalry dominance in the eastern theater.
1863 AD Jun 10 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1863 AD Jun 14 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
1863 AD Jun 14 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
1863 AD Jun 17 – American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
1863 AD Jun 20 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1863 AD Jul 01 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
1863 AD Jul 01 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1863 AD Jul 04 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege.
1863 AD Jul 04 – American Civil War: Union forces repulse a Confederate army at the Battle of Helena in Arkansas. The Confederate loss fails to relieve pressure on the besieged city of Vicksburg, and paves the way for the Union to capture Little Rock.
1863 AD Jul 04 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Confederate invasion of U.S. territory.
1863 AD Jul 07 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
1863 AD Jul 09 – American Civil War: The Siege of Port Hudson ends, giving the Union complete control of the Mississippi River.
1863 AD Jul 13 – New York City draft riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
1863 AD Jul 18 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
1863 AD Jul 19 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
1863 AD Jul 26 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1863 AD Jul 30 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
1863 AD Aug 01 – At the suggestion of Senator J. V. Snellman and the order of Emperor Alexander II, full rights were promised to the Finnish language by a language regulation in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
1863 AD Aug 04 – Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
1863 AD Aug 08 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1863 AD Aug 08 – Tennessee Military Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves in Greeneville, Tennessee despite them being exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation, now commemorated as Emancipation Day in the state.
1863 AD Aug 15 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1863 AD Aug 16 – The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
1863 AD Aug 17 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
1863 AD Aug 21 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
1863 AD Aug 26 – The Swedish-language liberal newspaper Helsingfors Dagblad proposed the current blue-and-white cross flag as the flag of Finland.
1863 AD Sep 06 – American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1863 AD Sep 07 – American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore capture Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a seven-week siege.
1863 AD Sep 08 – American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
1863 AD Sep 09 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1863 AD Oct 30 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1863 AD Oct 31 – The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.
1863 AD Nov 18 – King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.
1863 AD Nov 19 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1863 AD Nov 23 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
1863 AD Nov 24 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1863 AD Nov 25 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
1863 AD Nov 26 – United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.
1863 AD Nov 27 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
1863 AD Nov 27 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
1863 AD Nov 29 – Union forces under Ambrose Burnside successfully defend Knoxville, Tennessee from Confederate forces under James Longstreet in the Battle of Fort Sanders of the American Civil War.
1864 AD Feb 01 – Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
1864 AD Feb 17 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
1864 AD Feb 20 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
1864 AD Feb 27 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1864 AD Apr 10 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
1864 AD Apr 12 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
1864 AD Apr 17 – American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
1864 AD Apr 18 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
1864 AD Apr 22 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1864 AD Apr 25 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Marks' Mills, a force of 8,000 Confederate soldiers attacks 1,800 Union soldiers and a large number of wagon teamsters, killing or wounding 1,500 Union combatants.
1864 AD Apr 29 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
1864 AD May 05 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
1864 AD May 07 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
1864 AD May 07 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
1864 AD May 09 – Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1864 AD May 12 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with some of the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
1864 AD May 15 – American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1864 AD May 20 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
1864 AD May 21 – Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1864 AD May 21 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1864 AD May 21 – The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
1864 AD May 22 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
1864 AD May 23 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
1864 AD May 26 – Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1864 AD May 29 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1864 AD May 31 – American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
1864 AD Jun 03 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
1864 AD Jun 05 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1864 AD Jun 10 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1864 AD Jun 12 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1864 AD Jun 15 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
1864 AD Jun 15 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km²) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
1864 AD Jun 21 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
1864 AD Jun 27 – American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign.
1864 AD Jun 29 – At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1864 AD Jun 30 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
1864 AD Jul 02 – Dimitri Atanasescu founds the first Romanian school in the Balkans for the Aromanians in Trnovo, in the Ottoman Empire (now in North Macedonia).
1864 AD Jul 03 – Dimitri Atanasescu founds the first Romanian school in the Balkans for the Aromanians in Trnovo, in the Ottoman Empire (now in North Macedonia).
1864 AD Jul 08 – Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
1864 AD Jul 11 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
1864 AD Jul 19 – Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking: The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1864 AD Jul 20 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
1864 AD Jul 22 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1864 AD Jul 24 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1864 AD Jul 28 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
1864 AD Jul 30 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1864 AD Aug 05 – American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
1864 AD Aug 10 – After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
1864 AD Aug 17 – American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
1864 AD Aug 18 – American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
1864 AD Aug 20 – Bakumatsu: Kinmon incident: Three columns of jōi shishi from the Chōshū Domain led by Kijima Matabei and Kusaka Genzui assault and set fire to the Japanese imperial capital of Kyoto in an attempt to expel the Satsuma and Aizu Domains from the imperial court. Their defeat prompts the Tokugawa shogunate to rally all daimyos across the nation to launch a collective retaliatory expedition against the Chōshū four days later.
1864 AD Aug 22 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
1864 AD Aug 23 – American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1864 AD Aug 31 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta.
1864 AD Sep 01 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1864 AD Sep 02 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
1864 AD Sep 07 – American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1864 AD Oct 30 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
1864 AD Oct 31 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
1864 AD Nov 04 – American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.
1864 AD Nov 13 – American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ends in a Union rout as Confederates under Major General John C. Breckinridge pursue them to Strawberry Plains, Tennessee.
1864 AD Nov 25 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
1864 AD Nov 29 – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
1864 AD Nov 29 – The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Spring Hill.
1864 AD Nov 30 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Franklin.
1864 AD Dec 04 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta.
1864 AD Dec 08 – Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
1864 AD Dec 10 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
1865 AD Jan 02 – Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
1865 AD Jan 15 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
1865 AD Jan 31 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery, and submits it to the states for ratification.
1865 AD Jan 31 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief of all Confederate armies.
1865 AD Feb 01 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1865 AD Feb 08 – Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
1865 AD Feb 17 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
1865 AD Feb 20 – End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
1865 AD Mar 02 – East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
1865 AD Mar 04 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1865 AD Mar 29 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
1865 AD Apr 01 – American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
1865 AD Apr 02 – American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
1865 AD Apr 03 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1865 AD Apr 04 – American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
1865 AD Apr 06 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia, during the Appomattox Campaign.
1865 AD Apr 09 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
1865 AD Apr 10 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
1865 AD Apr 12 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
1865 AD Apr 13 – American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union forces.
1865 AD Apr 14 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln lives till the following day.
1865 AD Apr 14 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
1865 AD Apr 15 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Three hours later, Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as President.
1865 AD Apr 20 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
1865 AD Apr 26 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
1865 AD May 01 – The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
1865 AD May 05 – American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
1865 AD May 09 – American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
1865 AD May 09 – American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
1865 AD May 10 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
1865 AD May 12 – American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
1865 AD May 17 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
1865 AD May 25 – In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1865 AD May 26 – American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1865 AD Jun 11 – The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
1865 AD Jun 19 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States.
1865 AD Jun 23 – American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
1865 AD Jun 28 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
1865 AD Jul 05 – The United States Secret Service begins operation.
1865 AD Jul 07 – Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
1865 AD Jul 14 – The first ascent of the Matterhorn is completed by Edward Whymper and his party, four of whom die on the descent.
1865 AD Jul 21 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
1865 AD Jul 27 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1865 AD Jul 30 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
1865 AD Jul 31 – The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
1865 AD Aug 12 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
1865 AD Nov 26 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
1865 AD Dec 01 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1865 AD Dec 02 – Alabama ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina, then Georgia; U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
1865 AD Dec 04 – North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
1865 AD Dec 05 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1865 AD Dec 06 – Georgia ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1866 AD Jan 12 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1866 AD Jan 18 – Wesley College is established in Melbourne, Australia.
1866 AD Feb 16 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
1866 AD Feb 21 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first American woman to graduate from dental school.
1866 AD Mar 27 – President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
1866 AD Apr 04 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg.
1866 AD Apr 06 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
1866 AD Apr 08 – Austro-Prussian War: Italy and Prussia sign a secret alliance against the Austrian Empire.
1866 AD Apr 10 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
1866 AD May 01 – The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1866 AD May 02 – Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
1866 AD May 05 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
1866 AD May 16 – The United States Congress establishes the nickel.
1866 AD May 22 – Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms
1866 AD May 23 – Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms
1866 AD May 30 – Bedrich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague.
1866 AD Jun 02 – The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon after.
1866 AD Jun 03 – The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario back into the United States.
1866 AD Jun 07 – One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
1866 AD Jun 24 – Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
1866 AD Jul 20 – Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
1866 AD Jul 24 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War.
1866 AD Jul 25 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1866 AD Jul 27 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
1866 AD Jul 28 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).
1866 AD Jul 30 – Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
1866 AD Aug 17 – The Grand Duchy of Baden announces its withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia.
1866 AD Aug 20 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1866 AD Aug 23 – The Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1867 AD Jan 08 – The United States Congress passes the bill to allow African American men the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1867 AD Jan 15 – Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
1867 AD Feb 13 – Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
1867 AD Feb 17 – The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
1867 AD Mar 01 – Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.
1867 AD Mar 02 – The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
1867 AD Mar 29 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
1867 AD Mar 30 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
1867 AD Apr 01 – Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
1867 AD May 29 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1867 AD Jun 08 – Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
1867 AD Jun 19 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1867 AD Jul 01 – The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
1867 AD Jul 17 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
1867 AD Aug 28 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
1867 AD Sep 02 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
1867 AD Nov 03 – Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
1867 AD Nov 09 – Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1867 AD Nov 23 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
1867 AD Dec 02 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1867 AD Dec 04 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
1868 AD Jan 03 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
1868 AD Jan 27 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi begins, between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions; it will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
1868 AD Feb 02 – Pro-Imperial forces capture Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burn it to the ground.
1868 AD Feb 24 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
1868 AD Mar 05 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
1868 AD Mar 08 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
1868 AD Apr 07 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
1868 AD Apr 10 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.
1868 AD Apr 11 – Former shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1868 AD May 14 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward.
1868 AD May 16 – The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.
1868 AD May 26 – The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal by one vote.
1868 AD May 29 – Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
1868 AD May 30 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time after a proclamation by John A. Logan, head of the Grand Army of the Republic (a veterans group).
1868 AD Jun 01 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1868 AD Jun 10 – Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
1868 AD Jun 23 – Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
1868 AD Jul 09 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
1868 AD Jul 25 – The Wyoming Territory is established.
1868 AD Jul 28 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1868 AD Aug 13 – The 8.5–9.0 M_w  Arica earthquake struck southern Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin wide tsunami that affected Hawaii and New Zealand.
1868 AD Aug 18 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1868 AD Nov 02 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
1868 AD Nov 03 – John Willis Menard (R-Louisiana) was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.
1868 AD Nov 04 – Camagüey, Cuba, revolts against Spain during the Ten Years' War.
1868 AD Nov 27 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1868 AD Dec 09 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1869 AD Jan 27 – Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1869 AD Feb 05 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1869 AD Mar 06 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1869 AD Apr 17 – Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
1869 AD Apr 28 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1869 AD May 04 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
1869 AD May 10 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory with the golden spike.
1869 AD May 26 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1869 AD Jul 25 – The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
1869 AD Aug 02 – Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
1869 AD Aug 16 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion largely made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
1869 AD Aug 29 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
1869 AD Nov 06 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1869 AD Nov 22 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.
1870 AD Jan 03 – Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
1870 AD Jan 06 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
1870 AD Jan 10 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1870 AD Jan 15 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1870 AD Jan 23 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
1870 AD Jan 26 – Reconstruction Era: Virginia is readmitted to the Union.
1870 AD Feb 02 – The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.
1870 AD Feb 03 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.
1870 AD Feb 09 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1870 AD Feb 15 – Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, US, and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.
1870 AD Feb 23 – Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1870 AD Feb 25 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
1870 AD Feb 26 – The Beach Pneumatic Transit in New York City, intending as a demonstration for a subway line opens.
1870 AD Feb 27 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
1870 AD Mar 01 – Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
1870 AD Mar 30 – Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
1870 AD Apr 13 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
1870 AD May 12 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
1870 AD May 14 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1870 AD Jun 22 – The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
1870 AD Jun 28 – The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).
1870 AD Jul 01 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1870 AD Jul 15 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870 AD Jul 15 – Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
1870 AD Jul 18 – The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
1870 AD Jul 19 – Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
1870 AD Aug 02 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1870 AD Aug 06 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a German victory.
1870 AD Aug 06 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive German victory.
1870 AD Aug 08 – The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1870 AD Aug 16 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
1870 AD Aug 18 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1870 AD Aug 24 – The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1870 AD Sep 01 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1870 AD Sep 02 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
1870 AD Sep 03 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
1870 AD Sep 04 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
1870 AD Sep 06 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1870 AD Nov 01 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1871 AD Jan 03 – In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
1871 AD Jan 18 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
1871 AD Jan 19 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
1871 AD Jan 28 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1871 AD Mar 01 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1871 AD Mar 26 – The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
1871 AD Mar 27 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1871 AD Mar 29 – Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
1871 AD Apr 30 – The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
1871 AD May 04 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1871 AD May 21 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
1871 AD May 21 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
1871 AD May 28 – The Paris Commune falls after two months.
1871 AD Jun 10 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1871 AD Jun 16 – The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
1871 AD Jul 02 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
1871 AD Jul 03 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
1871 AD Jul 20 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1871 AD Jul 29 – The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
1871 AD Jul 30 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1871 AD Aug 11 – An explosion of guncotton occurs in Stowmarket, England, killing 28.
1871 AD Aug 29 – Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
1872 AD Jan 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
1872 AD Feb 20 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
1872 AD Feb 22 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1872 AD Mar 01 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
1872 AD Mar 05 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1872 AD Apr 10 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
1872 AD May 10 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
1872 AD May 22 – Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1872 AD May 23 – Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1872 AD Jun 14 – Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
1872 AD Jul 18 – The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
1872 AD Nov 05 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1872 AD Nov 09 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1872 AD Nov 18 – Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
1872 AD Nov 29 – The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
1872 AD Nov 30 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1872 AD Dec 04 – The crewless American brigantine Mary Celeste, drifting in the Atlantic, is discovered by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship has been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly damaged. Her master Benjamin Briggs and all nine others known to have been on board are never accounted for.
1872 AD Dec 09 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African American governor of a U.S. state following the impeachment of Henry C. Warmoth.
1873 AD Jan 17 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
1873 AD Feb 11 – King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates, forming the First Spanish Republic.
1873 AD Feb 18 – Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
1873 AD Mar 03 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
1873 AD Apr 01 – The White Star steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
1873 AD Apr 13 – The Colfax massacre: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in Colfax, Louisiana, while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1873 AD May 09 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1873 AD May 20 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1873 AD May 24 – Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
1873 AD Jun 05 – Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
1873 AD Jun 18 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1873 AD Jul 01 – Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
1873 AD Jul 21 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
1873 AD Aug 02 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
1873 AD Aug 04 – American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
1873 AD Aug 23 – The Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1873 AD Aug 30 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
1873 AD Sep 01 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1873 AD Nov 20 – Garnier Expedition: French forces under Lieutenant Francis Garnier captured Hanoi from the Vietnamese.
1873 AD Nov 22 – The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.
1874 AD Jan 20 – The Treaty of Pangkor is signed between the British and Sultan Abdullah of Perak, paving the way for further British colonization of Malaya.
1874 AD Jan 27 – Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov premieres in Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg
1874 AD Feb 21 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
1874 AD May 16 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
1874 AD May 27 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1874 AD Jun 29 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1874 AD Jul 01 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1874 AD Jul 08 – The Mounties begin their March West.
1874 AD Jul 14 – The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
1874 AD Jul 23 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
1874 AD Jul 31 – Dr. Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
1874 AD Aug 05 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
1874 AD Nov 07 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
1874 AD Nov 25 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1875 AD Jan 05 – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
1875 AD Feb 24 – The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1875 AD Feb 25 – Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1875 AD Mar 03 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
1875 AD Apr 10 – India: Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda Saraswati to propagate his goal of social reform.
1875 AD May 17 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75).
1875 AD May 20 – Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
1875 AD Jun 19 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1875 AD Jul 09 – The Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule begins, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans.
1875 AD Aug 22 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1875 AD Aug 25 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
1875 AD Sep 03 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.
1875 AD Sep 04 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.
1875 AD Dec 04 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain.
1876 AD Jan 15 – The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
1876 AD Feb 02 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1876 AD Feb 14 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1876 AD Feb 24 – The stage première of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania (Oslo), Norway.
1876 AD Feb 26 – Japan and Korea sign the Treaty of Kangwha, which grants Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights in Korea, opens three Korean ports to Japanese trade, and ends Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
1876 AD Mar 07 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1876 AD Apr 11 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1876 AD Apr 17 – Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
1876 AD Apr 20 – The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1876 AD Apr 22 – The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
1876 AD May 02 – The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
1876 AD May 10 – The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
1876 AD May 30 – Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
1876 AD Jun 04 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1876 AD Jun 17 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1876 AD Jun 25 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1876 AD Jun 26 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1876 AD Jul 08 – The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
1876 AD Aug 01 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1876 AD Aug 08 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1876 AD Aug 16 – Richard Wagner’s Siegfried, the penultimate opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
1876 AD Aug 17 – Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
1876 AD Aug 31 – Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
1876 AD Sep 07 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
1876 AD Nov 23 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
1876 AD Nov 25 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1877 AD Jan 01 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
1877 AD Jan 08 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
1877 AD Jan 20 – The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
1877 AD Feb 20 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1877 AD Mar 02 – Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
1877 AD Apr 12 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1877 AD Apr 24 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1877 AD May 05 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1877 AD May 06 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
1877 AD May 08 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
1877 AD May 09 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1877 AD May 16 – The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
1877 AD Jun 15 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
1877 AD Jun 17 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1877 AD Jun 20 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1877 AD Jul 09 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
1877 AD Jul 10 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1877 AD Jul 21 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
1877 AD Aug 09 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
1877 AD Aug 18 – American astronomer Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, one of Mars’s moons.
1877 AD Sep 05 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1877 AD Nov 21 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1877 AD Nov 24 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
1877 AD Nov 29 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1877 AD Dec 10 – Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.
1878 AD Jan 04 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule.
1878 AD Jan 09 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1878 AD Jan 16 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1878 AD Jan 28 – Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
1878 AD Feb 18 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
1878 AD Feb 19 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1878 AD Feb 21 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1878 AD Mar 03 – The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
1878 AD Mar 04 – Pope Leo XIII reestablishes the Catholic Church in Scotland, recreating sees and naming bishops for the first time since 1603.
1878 AD Apr 16 – The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issued a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish.
1878 AD May 14 – The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
1878 AD May 25 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1878 AD Jun 04 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1878 AD Jun 10 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
1878 AD Jun 15 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
1878 AD Jul 01 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1878 AD Jul 13 – Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
1878 AD Aug 21 – The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, New York.
1878 AD Sep 01 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1878 AD Sep 03 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
1878 AD Sep 04 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
1878 AD Dec 01 – President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone installed in the White House.
1879 AD Jan 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
1879 AD Jan 22 – The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.
1879 AD Jan 22 – The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 15 km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
1879 AD Jan 23 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
1879 AD Jan 25 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1879 AD Feb 08 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 AD Feb 08 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
1879 AD Feb 14 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1879 AD Feb 15 – Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
1879 AD Feb 22 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
1879 AD Mar 29 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
1879 AD Apr 05 – Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1879 AD Apr 23 – Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
1879 AD May 14 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
1879 AD May 21 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
1879 AD May 26 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
1879 AD May 31 – Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1879 AD Jun 01 – Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1879 AD Jul 01 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1879 AD Jul 04 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
1879 AD Jul 08 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
1879 AD Aug 21 – The locals of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland report their having seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The apparition is later named “Our Lady of Knock” and the spot transformed into a Catholic pilgrimage site.
1879 AD Aug 28 – Anglo-Zulu War: Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1879 AD Sep 03 – Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.
1879 AD Sep 04 – Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.
1880 AD Jan 27 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
1880 AD Feb 13 – Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
1880 AD May 11 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
1880 AD Jun 07 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1880 AD Jun 24 – First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
1880 AD Jun 28 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
1880 AD Jun 29 – France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
1880 AD Jul 27 – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
1880 AD Aug 14 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1880 AD Sep 01 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
1880 AD Sep 13 – The Basuto Gun War breaks out after the Basuto launch a rebellion against the Cape Colony.
1881 AD Jan 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1881 AD Feb 02 – The sentences of the trial of the warlocks of Chiloé are imparted.
1881 AD Feb 16 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1881 AD Feb 22 – Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York.
1881 AD Feb 24 – China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1881 AD Feb 27 – First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
1881 AD Apr 11 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1881 AD Apr 14 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1881 AD Apr 16 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1881 AD Apr 28 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1881 AD May 10 – Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
1881 AD May 12 – In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
1881 AD May 21 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
1881 AD Jun 13 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1881 AD Jun 28 – The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
1881 AD Jun 29 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1881 AD Jul 01 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 AD Jul 01 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1881 AD Jul 02 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
1881 AD Jul 03 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
1881 AD Jul 04 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
1881 AD Jul 14 – American outlaw Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the Maxwell House at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
1881 AD Jul 23 – The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
1881 AD Aug 27 – The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
1881 AD Sep 11 – In the Swiss state of Glarus, a rockslide buries parts of the village of Elm, destroying 83 buildings and killing 115 people.
1881 AD Nov 03 – The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
1881 AD Nov 07 – Mapuche uprising of 1881: Mapuche rebels destroy the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial after defenders fled to the hills.
1881 AD Nov 09 – Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
1881 AD Nov 19 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1881 AD Dec 03 – The first issue of Tamperean daily newspaper Aamulehti ("Morning Paper") is published.
1881 AD Dec 04 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1882 AD Mar 02 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean in Windsor.
1882 AD Mar 04 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1882 AD Mar 06 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
1882 AD Mar 29 – The Knights of Columbus is established.
1882 AD Apr 03 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
1882 AD Apr 25 – French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
1882 AD May 06 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
1882 AD May 06 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1882 AD May 20 – The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
1882 AD Jun 06 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
1882 AD Jun 28 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
1882 AD Jun 30 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
1882 AD Jul 10 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
1882 AD Jul 11 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
1882 AD Jul 26 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
1882 AD Jul 26 – The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1882 AD Aug 05 – Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, today known as ExxonMobil, is established officially. The company would later grow to become the holder of all Standard Oil companies and the entity at the center of the breakup of Standard Oil.
1882 AD Aug 20 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
1882 AD Sep 05 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1882 AD Sep 13 – Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
1882 AD Dec 06 – Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.
1883 AD Jan 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
1883 AD Jan 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1883 AD Feb 23 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
1883 AD May 19 – Buffalo Bill's 1st Buffalo Bill's Wild West opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
1883 AD May 20 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
1883 AD May 24 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1883 AD May 27 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1883 AD May 30 – In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
1883 AD Jun 05 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
1883 AD Jun 16 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
1883 AD Jul 10 – War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
1883 AD Jul 28 – A moderate earthquake measuring magnitude 4.3–5.2 strikes the Italian island of Ischia, killing over 2,300 people.
1883 AD Aug 12 – The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1883 AD Aug 17 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
1883 AD Aug 21 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
1883 AD Aug 25 – France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
1883 AD Aug 26 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
1883 AD Aug 27 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions almost completely destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
1883 AD Sep 08 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
1883 AD Nov 18 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1884 AD Jan 04 – The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
1884 AD Feb 01 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1884 AD Feb 19 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1884 AD Mar 27 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.^{[citation needed]}
1884 AD Apr 20 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.
1884 AD May 31 – The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
1884 AD Jun 16 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
1884 AD Jul 05 – Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
1884 AD Aug 05 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
1884 AD Dec 06 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
1885 AD Jan 01 – Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).
1885 AD Jan 03 – Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop.
1885 AD Jan 04 – Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
1885 AD Jan 17 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1885 AD Jan 26 – Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
1885 AD Feb 05 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1885 AD Feb 08 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
1885 AD Feb 18 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
1885 AD Feb 21 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1885 AD Feb 23 – Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
1885 AD Mar 26 – The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
1885 AD Mar 30 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires.
1885 AD Mar 31 – The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
1885 AD Apr 02 – Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
1885 AD Apr 03 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.
1885 AD Apr 24 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
1885 AD Apr 30 – Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
1885 AD May 01 – The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
1885 AD May 02 – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
1885 AD May 12 – North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1885 AD Jun 03 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
1885 AD Jun 09 – Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
1885 AD Jun 17 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1885 AD Jul 01 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1885 AD Jul 01 – The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
1885 AD Jul 06 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1885 AD Jul 20 – The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
1885 AD Aug 14 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1885 AD Aug 29 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
1885 AD Sep 02 – Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1885 AD Sep 06 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
1885 AD Sep 12 – Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
1885 AD Nov 07 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
1885 AD Nov 19 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
1885 AD Nov 28 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
1886 AD Jan 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1886 AD Jan 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1886 AD Feb 23 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
1886 AD Mar 27 – Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1886 AD Mar 29 – John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
1886 AD Apr 08 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1886 AD May 01 – Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
1886 AD May 04 – Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb is thrown at police officers trying to break up a labor rally, killing one officer. Ensuing gunfire leads to the deaths of a further seven officers and four civilians.
1886 AD May 05 – Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre.
1886 AD May 08 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
1886 AD May 29 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
1886 AD Jun 10 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17 km long fissure across the mountain peak.
1886 AD Jun 13 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
1886 AD Jun 30 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
1886 AD Jul 04 – The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
1886 AD Aug 31 – The 7.0 M_w  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
1887 AD Jan 20 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
1887 AD Feb 02 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1887 AD Feb 08 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1887 AD Feb 23 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
1887 AD Apr 04 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
1887 AD Apr 10 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
1887 AD Apr 28 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
1887 AD Jun 08 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
1887 AD Jun 18 – The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1887 AD Jun 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
1887 AD Jul 04 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1887 AD Jul 06 – David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1887 AD Jul 26 – Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
1887 AD Sep 05 – A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
1887 AD Nov 09 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1887 AD Nov 13 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1888 AD Jan 13 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
1888 AD Apr 03 – Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
1888 AD May 12 – In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
1888 AD May 13 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), the Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
1888 AD May 16 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1888 AD Jun 05 – The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
1888 AD Jun 14 – The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
1888 AD Jun 15 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
1888 AD Jun 29 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1888 AD Jul 15 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
1888 AD Aug 05 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
1888 AD Aug 21 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1888 AD Aug 31 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
1888 AD Sep 08 – Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
1888 AD Sep 08 – The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of Fortín Conesa to Santa Cruz near the Strait of Magellan.
1888 AD Sep 08 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
1888 AD Sep 08 – In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
1888 AD Oct 30 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
1889 AD Jan 08 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
1889 AD Jan 15 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
1889 AD Jan 30 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
1889 AD Feb 09 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1889 AD Feb 11 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
1889 AD Feb 12 – Antonín Dvořák's Jakobín is premiered at National Theater in Prague
1889 AD Feb 22 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1889 AD Mar 31 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1889 AD Apr 22 – At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
1889 AD May 02 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
1889 AD May 06 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1889 AD May 11 – An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
1889 AD May 31 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1889 AD Jun 03 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1889 AD Jun 06 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
1889 AD Jun 29 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
1889 AD Jul 08 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
1889 AD Jul 11 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
1889 AD Aug 04 – The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
1889 AD Aug 13 – William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
1889 AD Nov 02 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1889 AD Nov 08 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1890 AD Jan 01 – Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
1890 AD Jan 22 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1890 AD Jan 25 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1890 AD Mar 04 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 8,094 feet (2,467 m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
1890 AD Apr 14 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1890 AD Jun 01 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1890 AD Jul 01 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1890 AD Jul 02 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1890 AD Jul 03 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1890 AD Jul 10 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1890 AD Jul 26 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
1890 AD Jul 27 – Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
1890 AD Aug 06 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1890 AD Aug 07 – Anna Månsdotter, found guilty of the 1889 Yngsjö murder, became the last woman to be executed in Sweden.^{[better source needed]}
1890 AD Sep 12 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
1890 AD Nov 04 – City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1890 AD Nov 23 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
1890 AD Nov 29 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
1891 AD Jan 29 – Liliʻuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1891 AD Jan 31 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1891 AD Feb 15 – Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
1891 AD Mar 03 – Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
1891 AD Apr 23 – Chilean Civil War: The ironclad Blanco Encalada is sunk at Caldera Bay by torpedo boats.
1891 AD May 05 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1891 AD May 15 – Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
1891 AD May 16 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
1891 AD May 20 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1891 AD Jul 26 – France annexes Tahiti.
1891 AD Aug 16 – The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
1891 AD Aug 18 – A major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
1892 AD Jan 01 – Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
1892 AD Jan 15 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1892 AD Feb 29 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
1892 AD Apr 15 – The General Electric Company is formed.
1892 AD May 28 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1892 AD Jun 06 – The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
1892 AD Jun 07 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
1892 AD Jun 11 – The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1892 AD Jun 30 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1892 AD Jul 04 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
1892 AD Jul 06 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
1892 AD Jul 07 – The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
1892 AD Jul 08 – St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
1892 AD Jul 26 – Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1892 AD Aug 04 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She will be tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
1892 AD Aug 09 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1892 AD Sep 08 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1892 AD Sep 09 – Amalthea, third closest and fifth found moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
1892 AD Nov 08 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
1893 AD Jan 06 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1893 AD Jan 13 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
1893 AD Jan 13 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
1893 AD Jan 17 – Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
1893 AD Jan 21 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
1893 AD Feb 01 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1893 AD Feb 09 – Verdi's last opera, Falstaff premieres at La Scala, Milan.
1893 AD Mar 01 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1893 AD Jun 05 – The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
1893 AD Jun 13 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1893 AD Jun 20 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1893 AD Jun 22 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
1893 AD Jul 09 – Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
1893 AD Jul 11 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
1893 AD Jul 11 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
1893 AD Jul 22 – Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1893 AD Aug 01 – Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
1893 AD Aug 14 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1893 AD Aug 15 – Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
1893 AD Aug 27 – The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000 and 2,000 people.
1893 AD Nov 01 – The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
1893 AD Nov 07 – Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
1893 AD Nov 28 – Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
1893 AD Dec 04 – First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
1894 AD Jan 07 – Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
1894 AD Feb 07 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
1894 AD Feb 12 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
1894 AD Apr 14 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opens in New York City, United States, using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1894 AD Apr 21 – Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
1894 AD May 01 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
1894 AD May 11 – Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
1894 AD May 21 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1894 AD Jun 06 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1894 AD Jun 23 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1894 AD Jun 24 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of France, is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
1894 AD Jun 28 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1894 AD Jul 04 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
1894 AD Jul 22 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his three-horsepower petrol engined Peugeot.
1894 AD Jul 25 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1894 AD Aug 01 – The Empire of Japan and Qing China declare war on each other after a week of fighting over Korea, formally inaugurating the First Sino-Japanese War.
1894 AD Aug 22 – Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
1894 AD Aug 25 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1894 AD Sep 01 – Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
1894 AD Nov 01 – Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1894 AD Nov 01 – Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
1894 AD Nov 21 – Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.
1895 AD Jan 05 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1895 AD Jan 12 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
1895 AD Jan 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: The war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
1895 AD Feb 01 – Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
1895 AD Feb 09 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1895 AD Feb 24 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence; the war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
1895 AD Apr 03 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1895 AD Apr 08 – In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
1895 AD Apr 17 – The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
1895 AD Apr 24 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
1895 AD May 07 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1895 AD May 25 – Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 AD May 25 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
1895 AD Jun 11 – Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
1895 AD Jun 13 – Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about 15 miles per hour.
1895 AD Jun 20 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
1895 AD Jun 27 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1895 AD Jun 28 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
1895 AD Aug 27 – Japanese invasion of Taiwan: Battle of Baguashan: The Empire of Japan decisively defeats a smaller Formosan army at Changhua, crippling the short-lived Republic of Formosa and leading to its surrender two months later.
1895 AD Aug 31 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
1895 AD Sep 03 – John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12–0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
1895 AD Sep 04 – John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12–0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
1895 AD Oct 31 – The strongest earthquake in the Midwestern United States since 1812 strikes near Charleston, Missouri, causing damage and killing at least two.
1895 AD Nov 05 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1895 AD Nov 08 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1895 AD Nov 27 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1895 AD Nov 28 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
1895 AD Dec 05 – New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first concert.
1896 AD Jan 04 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1896 AD Jan 18 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
1896 AD Jan 28 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
1896 AD Feb 01 – La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
1896 AD Feb 21 – An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
1896 AD Mar 01 – Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
1896 AD Mar 01 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
1896 AD Mar 26 – An explosion at the Brunner Mine near Greymouth, New Zealand kills 65 coal miners in the country's worst industrial accident.
1896 AD Apr 06 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
1896 AD Apr 10 – 1896 Summer Olympics: The Olympic marathon is run ending with the victory of Greek athlete Spyridon Louis.
1896 AD Apr 15 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
1896 AD May 18 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
1896 AD May 18 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1896 AD May 26 – Nicholas II is crowned as the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
1896 AD May 26 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1896 AD May 27 – The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.
1896 AD Jun 02 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
1896 AD Jun 04 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
1896 AD Jun 15 – One of the deadliest tsunamis in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
1896 AD Jun 28 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
1896 AD Jul 09 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1896 AD Jul 28 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1896 AD Aug 16 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1896 AD Aug 17 – Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
1896 AD Aug 27 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1896 AD Aug 30 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
1896 AD Nov 01 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1896 AD Nov 27 – Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
1896 AD Dec 10 – Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
1897 AD Feb 01 – Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1897 AD Apr 18 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1897 AD Apr 30 – J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
1897 AD Jun 16 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1897 AD Jun 22 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
1897 AD Jul 02 – British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1897 AD Jul 03 – British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1897 AD Jul 11 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.
1897 AD Jul 25 – American author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take part in the Klondike's gold rush, from which he wrote his first successful stories.
1897 AD Jul 26 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
1897 AD Aug 02 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
1897 AD Aug 09 – The first International Congress of Mathematicians is held in Zürich, Switzerland.
1897 AD Aug 10 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
1897 AD Sep 01 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1897 AD Sep 10 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
1897 AD Sep 11 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of the Kaffa.
1897 AD Sep 12 – Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
1897 AD Nov 01 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
1897 AD Nov 01 – Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.
1897 AD Dec 06 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
1898 AD Jan 01 – New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
1898 AD Jan 13 – Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
1898 AD Feb 07 – Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!
1898 AD Feb 15 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing about 274 of the ship's roughly 354 crew. The disaster pushes the United States to declare war on Spain.
1898 AD Feb 23 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1898 AD Feb 27 – King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
1898 AD Apr 20 – U.S. President William McKinley sign a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
1898 AD Apr 21 – Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
1898 AD Apr 22 – Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000.
1898 AD Apr 25 – Spanish–American War: The United States Congress declares that a state of war between the U.S. and Spain has existed since April 21, when an American naval blockade of the Spanish colony of Cuba began.
1898 AD May 01 – Spanish–American War: Battle of Manila Bay: The Asiatic Squadron of the United States Navy destroys the Pacific Squadron of the Spanish Navy after a seven-hour battle. Spain loses all seven of its ships, and 381 Spanish sailors die. There are no American vessel losses or combat deaths.
1898 AD May 08 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
1898 AD Jun 10 – Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.
1898 AD Jun 11 – The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
1898 AD Jun 12 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
1898 AD Jun 13 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1898 AD Jun 17 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1898 AD Jun 21 – The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
1898 AD Jun 22 – Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26 km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
1898 AD Jun 27 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1898 AD Jul 01 – Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
1898 AD Jul 04 – En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
1898 AD Jul 07 – US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1898 AD Jul 08 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
1898 AD Jul 25 – Spanish–American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.
1898 AD Aug 11 – Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1898 AD Aug 12 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
1898 AD Aug 13 – Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
1898 AD Aug 13 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1898 AD Aug 23 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1898 AD Aug 24 – Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
1898 AD Aug 25 – Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
1898 AD Aug 28 – Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
1898 AD Aug 29 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1898 AD Sep 02 – Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
1898 AD Sep 10 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1898 AD Sep 13 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1898 AD Nov 03 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
1898 AD Nov 05 – Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.
1898 AD Dec 03 – The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeats an all-star collection of early football players 16–0, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.
1898 AD Dec 10 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. Spain cedes administration of Cuba to the United States, and the United States agrees to pay Spain $20 million for the Philippines.
1899 AD Jan 01 – Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
1899 AD Jan 17 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1899 AD Jan 19 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1899 AD Jan 23 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first president.
1899 AD Feb 02 – The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
1899 AD Feb 04 – The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
1899 AD Feb 06 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1899 AD Feb 14 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1899 AD Feb 15 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia issues a declaration known as the February Manifesto, which reduces the autonomy of the Grand Duchy of Finland, thus beginning the first period of oppression.
1899 AD Feb 16 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
1899 AD Feb 22 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
1899 AD Mar 04 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1899 AD Mar 06 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1899 AD Mar 27 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
1899 AD Mar 30 – German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
1899 AD Mar 31 – Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
1899 AD Apr 18 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
1899 AD May 08 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
1899 AD May 10 – Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.
1899 AD May 30 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
1899 AD Jun 07 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1899 AD Jun 12 – New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
1899 AD Jul 11 – Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
1899 AD Jul 17 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
1899 AD Jul 26 – Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
1899 AD Jul 29 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
1899 AD Aug 15 – Fratton Park football ground in Portsmouth, England is officially first opened.
1899 AD Sep 13 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1899 AD Sep 13 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1899 AD Nov 02 – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
1899 AD Nov 28 – The Second Boer War: A British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
1899 AD Nov 29 – FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
1899 AD Dec 02 – Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, known as the "Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
1900 AD Jan 01 – Nigeria becomes British protectorate with Frederick Lugard as high commissioner.
1900 AD Jan 02 – American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
1900 AD Jan 02 – Chicago Canal opens.
1900 AD Jan 05 – Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for revolt against British rule.
1900 AD Jan 06 – Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
1900 AD Jan 08 – President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1900 AD Jan 13 – To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph decrees German will be language of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces.
1900 AD Jan 14 – Giacomo Puccini's Tosca opens in Rome.
1900 AD Jan 16 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1900 AD Jan 23 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
1900 AD Jan 24 – Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
1900 AD Jan 31 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
1900 AD Feb 01 – Great Britain, defeated by Boers in key battles, has named Lord Roberts commander of British forces in South Africa.
1900 AD Feb 02 – Six cities, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis, agree to form baseball's American League.
1900 AD Feb 06 – The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1900 AD Feb 07 – Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1900 AD Feb 07 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
1900 AD Feb 09 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
1900 AD Feb 14 – The British Army begins the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1900 AD Feb 16 – The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieved a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier.
1900 AD Feb 18 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 AD Feb 23 – Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
1900 AD Feb 27 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 AD Feb 27 – The British Labour Party is founded.
1900 AD Feb 27 – Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
1900 AD Mar 07 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1900 AD Mar 30 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B.
1900 AD Apr 01 – Prince George becomes absolute monarch of the Cretan State.
1900 AD Apr 10 – British suffer a sharp defeat by the Boers south of Brandfort. 600 British troops are killed and wounded and 800 taken prisoner.
1900 AD Apr 12 – One day after its enactment by the Congress, President William McKinley signs the Foraker Act into law, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
1900 AD Apr 14 – The world's fair Exposition Universelle opens in Paris.
1900 AD Apr 15 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
1900 AD Apr 26 – Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home.
1900 AD Apr 30 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1900 AD May 01 – The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
1900 AD May 14 – Opening of World Amateur championship at the Paris Exposition Universelle, also known as Olympic Games.
1900 AD May 17 – The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
1900 AD May 18 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
1900 AD May 19 – Great Britain annexes Tonga Island.
1900 AD May 19 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
1900 AD May 24 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
1900 AD May 26 – Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
1900 AD May 29 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
1900 AD Jun 05 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
1900 AD Jun 09 – Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
1900 AD Jun 12 – The Reichstag approves new legislation continuing Germany's naval expansion program. It provides for construction of 38 battleships over a 20-year period. Germany's fleet will be the largest in the world.
1900 AD Jun 14 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1900 AD Jun 14 – The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
1900 AD Jun 17 – Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
1900 AD Jun 18 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
1900 AD Jun 20 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
1900 AD Jun 20 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
1900 AD Jun 21 – Boxer Rebellion: China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
1900 AD Jun 25 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
1900 AD Jun 26 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
1900 AD Jun 30 – A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over 200 crew members and passengers are killed, and hundreds injured.
1900 AD Jul 02 – An airship designed and constructed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany made its first flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen.
1900 AD Jul 02 – Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
1900 AD Jul 03 – An airship designed and constructed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of Germany made its first flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen.
1900 AD Jul 03 – Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
1900 AD Jul 09 – The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
1900 AD Jul 09 – The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
1900 AD Jul 14 – Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
1900 AD Jul 19 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
1900 AD Jul 23 – Pressed by expanding immigration, Canada closes its doors to paupers and criminals.
1900 AD Jul 27 – Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
1900 AD Jul 29 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci. His son, Victor Emmanuel III, 31 years old, succeed to the throne.
1900 AD Aug 03 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1900 AD Aug 13 – The steamer Deutschland of Hamburg America Lines set a new record for the eastward passage when it docked on Plymouth, England, five days, 11 hours and 45 minutes after sailing from New York, breaking by three hours, six minutes its previous mark in its maiden voyage in July.
1900 AD Aug 14 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1900 AD Aug 16 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
1900 AD Sep 08 – Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1900 AD Sep 13 – Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
1900 AD Nov 06 – President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Republicans also swept the congressional elections, winning increased majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
1900 AD Nov 07 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Leliefontein takes place, during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
1900 AD Nov 07 – The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
1900 AD Nov 09 – Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria with 100,000 troops.
1900 AD Nov 20 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.
1900 AD Nov 21 – Claude Monet's paintings shown at Gallery Durand-Ruel in Paris.
1900 AD Nov 30 – A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles.
1900 AD Dec 01 – Nicaragua sells canal rights to U.S. for $5 million. The canal agreement fails in March 1901. Great Britain rejects amended treaty
1901 AD Jan 01 – The Southern Nigeria Protectorate is established within the British Empire.
1901 AD Jan 01 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
1901 AD Jan 10 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1901 AD Jan 10 – New York: Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways.
1901 AD Jan 19 – Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, stricken with paralysis. She dies three days later at the age of 81.
1901 AD Jan 22 – Edward VII is proclaimed King of the United Kingdom after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1901 AD Jan 31 – Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters premieres at Moscow Art Theatre in Russia.
1901 AD Feb 02 – Funeral of Queen Victoria.
1901 AD Feb 05 – J. P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel, a $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller's iron mines and Andrew Carnegie's entire steel business.
1901 AD Feb 20 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1901 AD Feb 22 – San Francisco: Pacific mail steamer sinks in Golden Gate harbor; 128 passengers killed.
1901 AD Mar 01 – The Australian Army is formed.
1901 AD Mar 02 – United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
1901 AD Mar 02 – The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
1901 AD Mar 04 – McKinley inaugurated president for second time; Theodore Roosevelt is vice president.
1901 AD Mar 06 – Anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II.
1901 AD Mar 27 – Philippine–American War: Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by the Americans.
1901 AD Mar 31 – Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák premieres at the National Opera House in Prague.
1901 AD Apr 25 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1901 AD May 03 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
1901 AD May 06 – The first issue of Gorkhapatra, the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper was published.
1901 AD May 09 – Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
1901 AD Jun 11 – The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
1901 AD Jun 17 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1901 AD Jul 01 – French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation Law of Association prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval.
1901 AD Jul 04 – William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
1901 AD Jul 17 – Liner Deutschland sets east to west transatlantic record of five days, eleven hours and five minutes.
1901 AD Jul 24 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1901 AD Jul 29 – Land lottery begins in Oklahoma.
1901 AD Aug 05 – Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
1901 AD Aug 06 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1901 AD Aug 10 – The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
1901 AD Aug 14 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1901 AD Aug 21 – Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
1901 AD Aug 28 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
1901 AD Sep 02 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1901 AD Sep 06 – Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1901 AD Sep 07 – The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1901 AD Sep 14 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
1901 AD Nov 08 – Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
1901 AD Nov 13 – The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
1901 AD Nov 18 – Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
1901 AD Nov 27 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
1901 AD Dec 03 – In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
1901 AD Dec 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
1902 AD Jan 01 – The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
1902 AD Jan 28 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1902 AD Jan 30 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
1902 AD Feb 27 – Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
1902 AD Mar 07 – Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
1902 AD Apr 02 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Mariinsky Palace, Saint Petersburg.
1902 AD Apr 02 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
1902 AD Apr 05 – A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England.
1902 AD Apr 18 – The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000.
1902 AD Apr 20 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1902 AD May 08 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
1902 AD May 17 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1902 AD May 20 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
1902 AD May 31 – Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
1902 AD Jun 28 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1902 AD Jul 14 – The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
1902 AD Jul 17 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
1902 AD Aug 09 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1902 AD Aug 22 – The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 AD Aug 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
1902 AD Aug 22 – At least 6,000 people are killed by the magnitude 7.7 Kashgar earthquake in the Tien Shan mountains.
1902 AD Nov 21 – The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeat the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first-ever professional American football night game.
1902 AD Dec 10 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
1903 AD Jan 04 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
1903 AD Jan 09 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
1903 AD Jan 17 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1903 AD Feb 11 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
1903 AD Feb 14 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
1903 AD Feb 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
1903 AD Mar 02 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1903 AD Apr 19 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
1903 AD Apr 26 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
1903 AD Apr 29 – A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
1903 AD May 26 – Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, is founded.
1903 AD May 29 – In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1903 AD Jun 11 – A group of Serbian officers storms the royal palace and assassinates King Alexander I of Serbia and his wife, Queen Draga.
1903 AD Jun 16 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1903 AD Jun 16 – Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
1903 AD Jun 19 – Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
1903 AD Jul 01 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1903 AD Jul 04 – The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
1903 AD Jul 19 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
1903 AD Jul 20 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
1903 AD Jul 23 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1903 AD Aug 02 – The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1903 AD Aug 03 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
1903 AD Aug 08 – Black Saturday occurs, killing 12 in a stadium collapse in Philadelphia.
1903 AD Aug 18 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
1903 AD Aug 29 – The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
1903 AD Sep 11 – The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1903 AD Oct 31 – The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
1903 AD Nov 03 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
1903 AD Nov 18 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
1904 AD Jan 07 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1904 AD Jan 17 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
1904 AD Jan 23 – Ålesund Fire: The Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
1904 AD Feb 07 – A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1904 AD Feb 08 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, Japan starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1904 AD Feb 08 – Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
1904 AD Feb 09 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1904 AD Feb 22 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1904 AD Mar 06 title="1904">1904 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land was discovered from the Scotia.
1904 AD Apr 08 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
1904 AD May 04 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1904 AD May 05 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1904 AD May 10 – The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
1904 AD May 21 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1904 AD Jun 15 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
1904 AD Jun 16 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1904 AD Jun 16 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
1904 AD Jun 28 – The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
1904 AD Jul 21 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
1904 AD Jul 31 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
1904 AD Aug 10 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
1904 AD Aug 23 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1904 AD Aug 25 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Liaoyang begins.
1904 AD Dec 03 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
1904 AD Dec 06 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
1904 AD Dec 07 – Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
1905 AD Jan 22 – Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
1905 AD Jan 26 – The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan, which weighs 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
1905 AD Feb 05 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
1905 AD Feb 20 – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts.
1905 AD Feb 23 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
1905 AD Mar 31 title="1905">1905 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany declares his support for Moroccan independence in Tangier, beginning the First Moroccan Crisis.
1905 AD Apr 04 – In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
1905 AD Apr 17 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1905 AD Apr 30 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
1905 AD May 05 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
1905 AD May 15 – The city of Las Vegas founded in Nevada, United States.
1905 AD May 22 – The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II establishes the Ullah Millet for the Aromanians of the empire. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is sometimes celebrated on this day, although most do so on May 23 instead, which is when this event was publicly announced.
1905 AD May 23 – The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II establishes the Ullah Millet for the Aromanians of the empire. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is sometimes celebrated on this day, although most do so on May 23 instead, which is when this event was publicly announced.
1905 AD May 27 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1905 AD May 28 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1905 AD Jun 07 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1905 AD Jun 27 – During the Russo-Japanese War, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin.
1905 AD Jun 30 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
1905 AD Aug 10 – Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1905 AD Aug 13 – Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
1905 AD Aug 20 – Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, and others establish the Tongmenghui, a Republican, anti-Qing revolutionary organisation, in Tokyo, Japan.
1905 AD Sep 05 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
1905 AD Sep 08 – The 7.2 M_w  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
1905 AD Sep 11 – The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
1905 AD Oct 30 – Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
1905 AD Nov 01 – Lahti, the city of Finland, is granted city rights by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Grand Duke of Finland.
1905 AD Nov 18 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
1905 AD Nov 21 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1905 AD Nov 25 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1905 AD Nov 28 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
1905 AD Dec 09 – In France, a law separating church and state is passed.
1906 AD Jan 22 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
1906 AD Feb 10 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.
1906 AD Feb 11 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
1906 AD Feb 18 – Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
1906 AD Mar 05 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1906 AD Mar 31 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
1906 AD Apr 07 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906 AD Apr 07 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1906 AD Apr 08 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
1906 AD Apr 14 – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1906 AD Apr 18 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
1906 AD Apr 22 – The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
1906 AD Apr 27 – The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
1906 AD May 02 – Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
1906 AD May 06 – The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
1906 AD May 22 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
1906 AD May 23 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
1906 AD Jun 07 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1906 AD Jun 08 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1906 AD Jun 25 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
1906 AD Jun 26 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
1906 AD Jun 30 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1906 AD Jul 11 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1906 AD Jul 20 – In Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing the country the first and equal right to vote in the world. Finnish women are the first in Europe to receive the right to vote.
1906 AD Aug 05 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
1906 AD Aug 13 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged. (Their records were later restored to reflect honorable discharges but there were no financial settlements.)
1906 AD Aug 16 – The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
1906 AD Sep 07 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France successfully for the first time.
1906 AD Sep 12 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
1906 AD Sep 13 – The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
1906 AD Nov 09 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1906 AD Nov 24 – A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
1906 AD Dec 04 – Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1906 AD Dec 10 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field.
1907 AD Jan 06 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
1907 AD Jan 14 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
1907 AD Jan 29 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1907 AD Feb 05 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1907 AD Feb 09 – The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1907 AD Apr 17 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
1907 AD May 28 – The first Isle of Man TT race is held.
1907 AD Jun 14 – The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
1907 AD Jun 22 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
1907 AD Jul 07 – Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
1907 AD Jul 21 – The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
1907 AD Jul 29 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
1907 AD Aug 01 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
1907 AD Aug 03 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
1907 AD Aug 09 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
1907 AD Aug 15 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
1907 AD Aug 29 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1907 AD Aug 31 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet.
1907 AD Sep 07 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
1907 AD Oct 31 – The Parliament of Finland approved the Prohibition Act, but the law was not implemented because it was not ratified by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
1907 AD Nov 07 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometres (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
1907 AD Nov 09 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1907 AD Dec 06 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
1907 AD Dec 08 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
1907 AD Dec 10 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students, protesting against the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected, clash with 400 police officers.
1908 AD Jan 11 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1908 AD Jan 13 – The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
1908 AD Jan 15 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
1908 AD Jan 21 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1908 AD Jan 24 – The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
1908 AD Jan 28 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
1908 AD Jan 30 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
1908 AD Feb 01 – Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
1908 AD Mar 04 – The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1908 AD Apr 01 – The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
1908 AD Apr 08 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
1908 AD Apr 11 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
1908 AD Apr 14 – Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m) high downstream.
1908 AD Apr 16 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1908 AD May 10 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
1908 AD May 26 – The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
1908 AD Jun 18 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
1908 AD Jun 18 – The University of the Philippines is established.
1908 AD Jun 30 – The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
1908 AD Jul 01 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1908 AD Jul 23 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
1908 AD Jul 25 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1908 AD Jul 26 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1908 AD Aug 08 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
1908 AD Aug 27 – The Qing dynasty promulgates the Qinding Xianfa Dagang, the first constitutional document in the history of China, transforming the Qing empire into a constitutional monarchy.
1908 AD Nov 03 – William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
1908 AD Nov 22 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
1908 AD Nov 25 – A fire breaks out on SS Sardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.
1908 AD Nov 28 – A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
1908 AD Dec 02 – Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
1909 AD Jan 04 title="1909">1909 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
1909 AD Jan 09 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
1909 AD Jan 16 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1909 AD Jan 20 – Newly formed automaker General Motors (GM) buys into the Oakland Motor Car Company, which later becomes GM's long-running Pontiac division.
1909 AD Jan 23 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
1909 AD Jan 25 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1909 AD Jan 28 – United States troops leave Cuba, with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War.
1909 AD Feb 02 – The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
1909 AD Feb 12 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1909 AD Feb 12 – New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
1909 AD Feb 15 – The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
1909 AD Feb 20 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1909 AD Feb 22 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1909 AD Feb 23 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
1909 AD Feb 26 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
1909 AD Mar 04 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
1909 AD Mar 31 – Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
1909 AD Apr 06 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
1909 AD Apr 09 – The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
1909 AD Apr 11 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
1909 AD Apr 13 – The 31 March Incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
1909 AD Apr 14 – A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
1909 AD Apr 18 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1909 AD Apr 27 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1909 AD May 31 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
1909 AD Jun 02 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1909 AD Jul 16 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
1909 AD Jul 25 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
1909 AD Aug 07 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
1909 AD Aug 19 – The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for automobile racing. Wilfred Bourque and his mechanic are killed during the first day's events.
1909 AD Aug 24 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1909 AD Aug 28 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
1909 AD Aug 30 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1909 AD Sep 07 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
1909 AD Nov 18 – Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
1909 AD Dec 04 – In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
1909 AD Dec 04 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
1909 AD Dec 10 – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1910 AD Jan 01 – Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
1910 AD Jan 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
1910 AD Jan 15 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft).
1910 AD Feb 08 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1910 AD Mar 01 – The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
1910 AD Mar 03 – Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
1910 AD Mar 08 – French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1910 AD Apr 05 – The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.
1910 AD Apr 12 – SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
1910 AD Apr 16 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1910 AD Apr 28 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
1910 AD Apr 29 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
1910 AD May 04 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1910 AD May 06 – George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
1910 AD May 31 – The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
1910 AD Jun 02 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
1910 AD Jun 17 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
1910 AD Jun 19 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1910 AD Jun 25 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for "immoral purposes"; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
1910 AD Jun 25 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
1910 AD Jun 26 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for "immoral purposes"; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
1910 AD Jun 26 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
1910 AD Jul 04 – The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured.
1910 AD Jul 15 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1910 AD Jul 16 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
1910 AD Jul 24 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
1910 AD Aug 20 – Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km²) and killing 87 people.
1910 AD Aug 29 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
1910 AD Sep 12 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
1910 AD Nov 07 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1910 AD Nov 18 – In their campaign for women's voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes march to the British Parliament in London. Several are beaten by police, newspaper attention embarrasses the authorities, and the march is dubbed Black Friday.
1910 AD Nov 20 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
1910 AD Nov 21 – Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
1910 AD Nov 23 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
1910 AD Dec 03 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1911 AD Jan 03 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
1911 AD Jan 03 – A gun battle in the East End of London leaves two dead. It sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
1911 AD Jan 05 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
1911 AD Jan 12 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
1911 AD Jan 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
1911 AD Jan 15 – Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
1911 AD Jan 18 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1911 AD Jan 21 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
1911 AD Jan 29 – Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911.
1911 AD Jan 30 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
1911 AD Feb 18 – The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1911 AD Mar 29 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official side arm of the U.S. Army.
1911 AD Apr 02 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
1911 AD Apr 06 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
1911 AD Apr 08 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
1911 AD Apr 27 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1911 AD Apr 29 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
1911 AD May 09 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
1911 AD May 15 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
1911 AD May 15 – More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
1911 AD May 19 – Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
1911 AD May 21 – President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1911 AD May 30 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1911 AD May 31 – The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1911 AD May 31 – The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
1911 AD Jun 16 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1911 AD Jun 22 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1911 AD Jun 22 – Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
1911 AD Jun 28 – The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
1911 AD Jul 01 – Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1911 AD Jul 04 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
1911 AD Jul 07 – The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
1911 AD Jul 14 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, is greeted by President Taft after he lands his aeroplane on the South Lawn of the White House, having flown from Boston.
1911 AD Jul 24 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
1911 AD Jul 28 – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY Aurora departed London.
1911 AD Aug 01 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
1911 AD Aug 21 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
1911 AD Aug 24 – Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
1911 AD Aug 29 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1911 AD Aug 29 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
1911 AD Sep 07 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
1911 AD Sep 14 – Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II.
1911 AD Nov 01 – World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
1911 AD Nov 03 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1911 AD Nov 05 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
1911 AD Nov 19 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
1911 AD Dec 09 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
1912 AD Jan 01 – The Republic of China is established.
1912 AD Jan 04 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
1912 AD Jan 05 – The sixth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
1912 AD Jan 06 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
1912 AD Jan 06 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
1912 AD Jan 08 – The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
1912 AD Jan 11 – Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
1912 AD Jan 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1912 AD Jan 23 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1912 AD Feb 12 – The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1912 AD Feb 14 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
1912 AD Feb 14 – The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
1912 AD Feb 25 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1912 AD Feb 29 – The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
1912 AD Mar 05 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1912 AD Mar 06 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1912 AD Mar 30 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1912 AD Apr 02 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
1912 AD Apr 10 – RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
1912 AD Apr 14 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
1912 AD Apr 15 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
1912 AD Apr 16 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1912 AD Apr 17 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
1912 AD Apr 18 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1912 AD May 04 – Italy occupies the Ottoman island of Rhodes.
1912 AD May 08 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
1912 AD May 13 – The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
1912 AD May 18 – The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
1912 AD Jun 04 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1912 AD Jun 06 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1912 AD Jun 08 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1912 AD Jun 30 – The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
1912 AD Jul 08 – Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
1912 AD Jul 30 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
1912 AD Aug 25 – The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking.
1912 AD Aug 29 – A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people.
1912 AD Sep 02 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
1912 AD Nov 02 – Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
1912 AD Nov 05 – Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
1912 AD Nov 07 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1912 AD Nov 19 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
1912 AD Nov 25 – Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, ceases its publications.
1912 AD Nov 27 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1912 AD Nov 28 – Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1912 AD Dec 03 – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
1912 AD Dec 06 – The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
1912 AD Dec 08 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
1913 AD Jan 03 – An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
1913 AD Jan 05 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
1913 AD Jan 18 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1913 AD Feb 02 – Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City.
1913 AD Feb 03 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1913 AD Feb 05 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1913 AD Feb 05 – Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years.
1913 AD Feb 09 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1913 AD Feb 13 – The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
1913 AD Feb 17 – The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
1913 AD Feb 19 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
1913 AD Feb 20 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
1913 AD Feb 21 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
1913 AD Mar 03 – Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
1913 AD Mar 04 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1913 AD Mar 04 – The United States Department of Labor is formed.
1913 AD Mar 26 – First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
1913 AD Mar 31 – The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
1913 AD Apr 04 – First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
1913 AD Apr 08 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
1913 AD Apr 24 – The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
1913 AD May 03 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
1913 AD May 14 – Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1913 AD May 29 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
1913 AD May 30 – The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War; Albania becomes an independent nation.
1913 AD Jun 01 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
1913 AD Jun 04 – Emily Davison, a suffragist, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
1913 AD Jun 19 – Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
1913 AD Jun 23 – Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
1913 AD Jun 24 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
1913 AD Jun 25 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1913 AD Jun 26 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1913 AD Jul 04 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1913 AD Jul 12 – Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
1913 AD Jul 12 – The Second Revolution breaks out against the Beiyang government, as Li Liejun proclaims Jiangxi independent from the Republic of China.
1913 AD Jul 13 – The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War starts.
1913 AD Aug 10 – Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1913 AD Aug 13 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1913 AD Aug 16 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
1913 AD Aug 16 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary.
1913 AD Aug 28 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1913 AD Oct 31 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States.
1913 AD Oct 31 – The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike and subsequent riot begins.
1913 AD Nov 05 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
1913 AD Nov 07 – The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.
1913 AD Nov 09 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1913 AD Dec 01 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
1913 AD Dec 01 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
1914 AD Jan 01 – The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
1914 AD Jan 05 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
1914 AD Jan 09 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
1914 AD Jan 11 – The Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, sank after being crushed by ice.
1914 AD Feb 13 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1914 AD Feb 26 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
1914 AD Mar 01 – China joins the Universal Postal Union.
1914 AD Mar 07 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
1914 AD Apr 20 – Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
1914 AD Apr 21 – Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
1914 AD Apr 23 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
1914 AD Apr 24 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1914 AD May 17 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
1914 AD May 25 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
1914 AD May 29 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
1914 AD May 30 – The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
1914 AD Jun 12 – Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
1914 AD Jun 23 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
1914 AD Jun 27 – The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
1914 AD Jun 28 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
1914 AD Jul 04 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
1914 AD Jul 11 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
1914 AD Jul 11 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
1914 AD Jul 18 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1914 AD Jul 23 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
1914 AD Jul 28 – In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
1914 AD Jul 29 – The Cape Cod Canal opened.
1914 AD Aug 01 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1914 AD Aug 02 – The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
1914 AD Aug 03 – World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
1914 AD Aug 04 – World War I: In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
1914 AD Aug 05 – World War I: The German minelayer SS Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.
1914 AD Aug 05 – World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
1914 AD Aug 05 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1914 AD Aug 06 – World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 AD Aug 06 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1914 AD Aug 12 – World War I: The United Kingdom and the British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary.
1914 AD Aug 12 – World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver Helmets a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium.
1914 AD Aug 14 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
1914 AD Aug 15 – A servant of American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, and murders seven people there.
1914 AD Aug 15 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1914 AD Aug 15 – World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
1914 AD Aug 15 – World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
1914 AD Aug 17 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
1914 AD Aug 20 – World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
1914 AD Aug 21 – World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
1914 AD Aug 23 – World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
1914 AD Aug 23 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
1914 AD Aug 24 – World War I: German troops capture Namur.
1914 AD Aug 24 – World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
1914 AD Aug 25 – World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1914 AD Aug 25 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
1914 AD Aug 26 – World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
1914 AD Aug 26 – World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fights a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
1914 AD Aug 27 – World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
1914 AD Aug 27 – World War I: Siege of Tsingtao: A Japanese fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Sadakichi Kato imposes a blockade along the whole coastline of German Tsingtao, initiating the Siege of Tsingtao.
1914 AD Aug 28 – World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914 AD Aug 29 – World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
1914 AD Aug 30 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
1914 AD Sep 03 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
1914 AD Sep 03 – French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
1914 AD Sep 03 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
1914 AD Sep 04 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
1914 AD Sep 04 – French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
1914 AD Sep 04 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
1914 AD Sep 05 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1914 AD Sep 06 – World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
1914 AD Sep 08 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1914 AD Sep 09 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1914 AD Sep 11 – World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
1914 AD Sep 11 – The Second Period of Russification: The teaching of the Russian language and Russian history in Finnish schools is ordered to be considerably increased as part of the forced Russification program in Finland run by Tsar Nicholas II.
1914 AD Sep 13 – World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1914 AD Sep 14 – HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
1914 AD Nov 01 – World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
1914 AD Nov 01 – World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
1914 AD Nov 02 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
1914 AD Nov 05 – World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
1914 AD Nov 07 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1914 AD Nov 09 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1914 AD Nov 13 – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
1914 AD Nov 23 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
1914 AD Nov 26 – HMS Bulwark is destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
1914 AD Nov 28 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1914 AD Dec 05 title="1914">1914 – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.
1914 AD Dec 08 – World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
1915 AD Jan 12 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
1915 AD Jan 13 – The 6.7 M_w  Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978 and 32,610.
1915 AD Jan 17 – Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
1915 AD Jan 18 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1915 AD Jan 19 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915 AD Jan 19 – German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1915 AD Jan 21 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
1915 AD Jan 22 – Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
1915 AD Jan 24 – World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
1915 AD Jan 25 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1915 AD Jan 26 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1915 AD Jan 28 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1915 AD Jan 31 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1915 AD Feb 08 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1915 AD Feb 12 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1915 AD Feb 18 – U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.
1915 AD Feb 19 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
1915 AD Mar 26 – The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
1915 AD Mar 27 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1915 AD Apr 18 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1915 AD Apr 22 – World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1915 AD Apr 24 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
1915 AD Apr 25 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
1915 AD Apr 26 – World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.
1915 AD May 01 – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
1915 AD May 06 – Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
1915 AD May 06 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: The SY Aurora broke loose from its anchorage during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal.
1915 AD May 07 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
1915 AD May 07 – The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
1915 AD May 09 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1915 AD May 14 – The May 14 Revolt takes place in Lisbon, Portugal.
1915 AD May 17 – The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
1915 AD May 22 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
1915 AD May 22 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
1915 AD May 23 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
1915 AD May 23 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
1915 AD May 24 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
1915 AD May 27 – HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.
1915 AD Jun 05 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1915 AD Jun 09 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1915 AD Jun 21 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
1915 AD Jun 29 – The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
1915 AD Jul 01 – Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1915 AD Jul 05 – The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
1915 AD Jul 07 – The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
1915 AD Jul 07 – Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
1915 AD Jul 14 – Beginning of the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Henry McMahon concerning the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
1915 AD Jul 16 – Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
1915 AD Jul 16 – At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
1915 AD Jul 24 – The passenger ship SS Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1915 AD Jul 25 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
1915 AD Jul 28 – The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
1915 AD Aug 04 – World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
1915 AD Aug 06 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1915 AD Aug 15 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
1915 AD Aug 17 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
1915 AD Aug 17 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
1915 AD Aug 27 – Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona, by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
1915 AD Aug 29 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
1915 AD Sep 05 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
1915 AD Sep 12 – French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
1915 AD Nov 25 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1916 AD Jan 09 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
1916 AD Jan 10 – World War I: Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive, leading to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire's Third Army.
1916 AD Jan 12 – Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
1916 AD Jan 24 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
1916 AD Jan 27 – World War I: The British government passes the Military Service Act that introduces conscription in the United Kingdom.
1916 AD Jan 28 – The Canadian province of Manitoba grants women the right to vote and run for office in provincial elections (although still excluding women of Indigenous or Asian heritage), marking the first time women in Canada are granted voting rights.
1916 AD Feb 03 – The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of seven lives.
1916 AD Feb 21 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
1916 AD Feb 24 – The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
1916 AD Feb 25 – In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
1916 AD Feb 27 – Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
1916 AD Feb 29 – Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1916 AD Feb 29 – In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
1916 AD Mar 08 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1916 AD Apr 10 – The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
1916 AD Apr 18 – White war on the Italian front (World War I): during a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.
1916 AD Apr 24 – Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
1916 AD Apr 24 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
1916 AD Apr 25 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
1916 AD Apr 26 – Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge
1916 AD Apr 29 – World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
1916 AD Apr 29 – Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
1916 AD May 06 – Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
1916 AD May 06 – Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
1916 AD May 10 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
1916 AD May 16 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
1916 AD May 31 – World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet engages the High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1916 AD Jun 01 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1916 AD Jun 03 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
1916 AD Jun 04 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
1916 AD Jun 05 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
1916 AD Jun 05 – World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
1916 AD Jun 10 – The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
1916 AD Jun 15 – United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1916 AD Jun 24 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
1916 AD Jun 29 – British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1916 AD Jun 30 – World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
1916 AD Jul 01 – World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1916 AD Jul 07 – The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
1916 AD Jul 14 – Battle of Delville Wood begins as an action within the Battle of the Somme, lasting until 3 September 1916.
1916 AD Jul 15 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1916 AD Jul 19 – World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
1916 AD Jul 22 – Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
1916 AD Jul 30 – The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.
1916 AD Aug 02 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1916 AD Aug 05 – World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
1916 AD Aug 16 – The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
1916 AD Aug 17 – World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
1916 AD Aug 25 – The United States National Park Service is created.
1916 AD Aug 27 – World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
1916 AD Aug 28 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1916 AD Aug 28 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1916 AD Aug 29 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
1916 AD Aug 30 – Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
1916 AD Sep 03 – World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
1916 AD Sep 04 – World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
1916 AD Sep 07 – US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
1916 AD Sep 08 – In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
1916 AD Sep 11 – The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
1916 AD Nov 01 – In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
1916 AD Nov 05 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1916 AD Nov 05 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
1916 AD Nov 07 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
1916 AD Nov 07 – Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
1916 AD Nov 07 – Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
1916 AD Nov 13 – World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
1916 AD Nov 18 – World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
1916 AD Nov 19 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1916 AD Nov 21 – Mines from SM U-73 sink HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
1916 AD Nov 30 – Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
1916 AD Dec 06 – World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
1917 AD Jan 09 – World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1917 AD Jan 10 title="1917">1917 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months.
1917 AD Jan 11 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
1917 AD Jan 17 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1917 AD Jan 19 – Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
1917 AD Jan 22 – American entry into World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
1917 AD Jan 25 – Sinking of the SS Laurentic after hitting two German mines off the coast of Northern Ireland.
1917 AD Jan 31 – World War I: Kaiser Wilhelm II orders the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917 AD Feb 03 – World War I: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917 AD Feb 05 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917 AD Feb 05 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1917 AD Feb 23 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
1917 AD Feb 24 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
1917 AD Mar 01 – The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
1917 AD Mar 02 – The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
1917 AD Mar 04 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1917 AD Mar 08 – International Women's Day protests in Petrograd mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23 in the Julian calendar).
1917 AD Mar 08 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1917 AD Mar 26 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
1917 AD Mar 31 – According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions.
1917 AD Apr 02 – American entry into World War I: President Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1917 AD Apr 06 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany.
1917 AD Apr 09 – World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
1917 AD Apr 12 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
1917 AD Apr 16 – Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
1917 AD Apr 18 – The II Italian Corps in France leaves from Italy for the western front. It will distinguish itself during the Third Battle of the Aisne and the Second Battle of the Marne, in Bligny and on the sector Courmas – Bois du Petit Champ, where it will considerably contribute to stop the German offensive on Eparnay, aimed to outflank Reims.
1917 AD May 13 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
1917 AD May 18 – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
1917 AD May 19 – The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
1917 AD May 21 – The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
1917 AD May 21 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
1917 AD May 26 – Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
1917 AD May 27 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
1917 AD Jun 04 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1917 AD Jun 05 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
1917 AD Jun 07 – World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
1917 AD Jun 11 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, is deemed to have abdicated under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
1917 AD Jun 13 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1917 AD Jun 23 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1917 AD Jun 28 – World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
1917 AD Jul 01 – Chinese General Zhang Xun seizes control of Beijing and restores the monarchy, installing Puyi, last emperor of the Qing dynasty, to the throne. The restoration is reversed just shy of two weeks later, when Republican troops regain control of the capital.
1917 AD Jul 06 – World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
1917 AD Jul 12 – The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1917 AD Jul 17 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
1917 AD Jul 20 – World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
1917 AD Jul 25 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1917 AD Jul 27 – World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1917 AD Jul 28 – The Silent Parade takes place in New York City, in protest against murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
1917 AD Jul 31 – World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
1917 AD Aug 06 – World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1917 AD Aug 14 – World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatants for the remaining duration of the war.
1917 AD Aug 18 – A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece, destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1917 AD Aug 28 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
1917 AD Aug 30 – Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
1917 AD Sep 14 – The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
1917 AD Oct 31 – World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
1917 AD Nov 02 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
1917 AD Nov 02 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
1917 AD Nov 05 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1917 AD Nov 05 – Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
1917 AD Nov 07 – The October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October, occurs, according to the Gregorian calendar; on this date, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
1917 AD Nov 07 – World War I: The Third Battle of Gaza ends, with British forces capturing Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
1917 AD Nov 08 – The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
1917 AD Nov 09 – Balfour Declaration published in The Times newspaper.
1917 AD Nov 13 – World War I: beginning of the First Battle of Monte Grappa (in Italy known as the "First Battle of the Piave"). The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, despite help from the German Alpenkorps and numerical superiority, will fail their offensive against the Italian Army now led by its new chief of staff Armando Diaz.
1917 AD Nov 20 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1917 AD Nov 24 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
1917 AD Nov 25 – World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
1917 AD Nov 26 – The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
1917 AD Nov 26 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
1917 AD Nov 27 – P. E. Svinhufvud becomes the chairman of his first senate, technically the first Prime Minister of Finland.
1917 AD Nov 28 – The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
1917 AD Dec 02 – World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk begin.
1917 AD Dec 04 – After drafting the Declaration of Independence, the Finnish Senate headed by P. E. Svinhufvud submitted to the Parliament of Finland a proposal for the form of government of the Republic of Finland and issued a communication to Parliament declaring independence of Finland.
1917 AD Dec 06 – Finland declares independence from the Russian Empire.
1917 AD Dec 06 – Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
1917 AD Dec 06 – World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
1917 AD Dec 07 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1917 AD Dec 09 – World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire.
1918 AD Jan 04 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden, Germany and France.
1918 AD Jan 08 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1918 AD Jan 09 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
1918 AD Jan 12 – The Minnie Pit Disaster coal mining accident occurs in Halmer End, Staffordshire, in which 155 men and boys die.
1918 AD Jan 17 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1918 AD Jan 24 – The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14 (New Style).
1918 AD Jan 25 – The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.
1918 AD Jan 25 – The Finnish Defence Forces (The White Guards) are established as the official army of independent Finland, and Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed its Commander-in-Chief.
1918 AD Jan 26 – Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
1918 AD Jan 27 – Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.
1918 AD Jan 28 – Finnish Civil War: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1918 AD Jan 29 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
1918 AD Jan 29 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
1918 AD Jan 31 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1918 AD Jan 31 – Finnish Civil War: The Suinula massacre, which changes the nature of the war in a more hostile direction, takes place in Kangasala.
1918 AD Feb 03 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
1918 AD Feb 05 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918 AD Feb 05 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1918 AD Feb 06 – British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.
1918 AD Feb 14 – Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1918 AD Feb 16 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
1918 AD Feb 21 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1918 AD Feb 24 – Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1918 AD Feb 25 – German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.
1918 AD Mar 03 – Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, agreeing to withdraw from World War I, and conceding German control of the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. It also conceded Turkish control of Ardahan, Kars and Batumi.
1918 AD Mar 27 – The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1918 AD Mar 30 – Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
1918 AD Mar 31 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918 AD Mar 31 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1918 AD Apr 01 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
1918 AD Apr 06 – Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere ends.
1918 AD Apr 08 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
1918 AD Apr 09 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
1918 AD Apr 20 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1918 AD Apr 21 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
1918 AD Apr 23 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
1918 AD Apr 24 – World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
1918 AD May 09 – World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
1918 AD May 14 – Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
1918 AD May 15 – The Finnish Civil War ends when the Whites took over Fort Ino, a Russian coastal artillery base on the Karelian Isthmus, from the Russian troops.
1918 AD May 16 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
1918 AD May 26 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1918 AD May 28 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
1918 AD May 29 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
1918 AD Jun 01 – World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1918 AD Jun 06 – Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I: the U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry (the losses are exceeded at the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943).
1918 AD Jun 08 – A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
1918 AD Jun 10 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
1918 AD Jun 22 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
1918 AD Jun 24 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
1918 AD Jul 04 – Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
1918 AD Jul 04 – World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
1918 AD Jul 04 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
1918 AD Jul 06 – The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach by Cheka members.
1918 AD Jul 09 – In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
1918 AD Jul 12 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
1918 AD Jul 15 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1918 AD Jul 17 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
1918 AD Jul 17 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
1918 AD Jul 26 – Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.
1918 AD Aug 02 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
1918 AD Aug 08 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
1918 AD Aug 11 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
1918 AD Aug 13 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1918 AD Aug 13 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1918 AD Aug 16 – The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
1918 AD Aug 17 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1918 AD Aug 21 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1918 AD Aug 27 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
1918 AD Aug 29 – World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
1918 AD Aug 30 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1918 AD Aug 31 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
1918 AD Sep 10 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1918 AD Oct 30 – World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
1918 AD Oct 30 – World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments
1918 AD Oct 31 – World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty.
1918 AD Nov 01 – World War I: With a brave action carried out into the waters of the Austro-Hungarian port of Pula, two officers of the Italian Regia Marina sink with a manned torpedo the enemy battleship SMS Viribus Unitis.
1918 AD Nov 01 – Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
1918 AD Nov 01 – Western Ukraine separates from Austria-Hungary.
1918 AD Nov 03 – The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
1918 AD Nov 04 – World War I: The Armistice of Villa Giusti between Italy and Austria-Hungary is implemented.
1918 AD Nov 07 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1918 AD Nov 07 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
1918 AD Nov 09 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1918 AD Nov 13 – World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1918 AD Nov 18 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
1918 AD Nov 21 – The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
1918 AD Nov 21 – The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women to stand for Parliament in the UK.
1918 AD Nov 21 – A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.
1918 AD Nov 25 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria-Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
1918 AD Nov 26 – The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1918 AD Nov 27 – The Makhnovshchina is established.
1918 AD Nov 28 – The Soviet Forces moved against Estonia when the 6th Red Rifle Division struck the border town of Narva, which marked the beginning of the Estonian War of Independence.
1918 AD Dec 01 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28) and thus concluding the Great Union.
1918 AD Dec 01 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 AD Dec 01 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1918 AD Dec 04 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
1919 AD Jan 05 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
1919 AD Jan 07 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1919 AD Jan 15 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
1919 AD Jan 15 – Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
1919 AD Jan 16 – Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
1919 AD Jan 18 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
1919 AD Jan 18 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919 AD Jan 21 – A revolutionary Irish parliament is founded and declares the independence of the Irish Republic. One of the first engagements of the Irish War of Independence takes place.
1919 AD Jan 22 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
1919 AD Jan 28 – The Order of the White Rose of Finland is established by Baron Gustaf Mannerheim, the regent of the Kingdom of Finland.
1919 AD Jan 31 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.
1919 AD Feb 05 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1919 AD Feb 06 – The American Legion is founded.
1919 AD Feb 06 – The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
1919 AD Feb 11 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
1919 AD Feb 14 – The Polish–Soviet War begins.
1919 AD Feb 17 – The Ukrainian People's Republic asks the Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
1919 AD Feb 21 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1919 AD Feb 26 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
1919 AD Mar 01 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
1919 AD Mar 02 – The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
1919 AD Apr 10 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
1919 AD Apr 13 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
1919 AD Apr 16 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
1919 AD Apr 16 – Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1919 AD Apr 23 – The Estonian Constituent Assembly was held in Estonia, which marked the birth of the Estonian Parliament, the Riigikogu.
1919 AD May 01 – German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
1919 AD May 04 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
1919 AD May 08 – Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
1919 AD May 15 – The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
1919 AD May 15 – Greek occupation of Smyrna. During the occupation, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks; those responsible are punished by Greek commander Aristides Stergiades.
1919 AD May 16 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1919 AD May 19 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
1919 AD May 27 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1919 AD May 29 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1919 AD Jun 01 – Prohibition comes into force in Finland.
1919 AD Jun 02 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
1919 AD Jun 04 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1919 AD Jun 07 – Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
1919 AD Jun 11 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
1919 AD Jun 14 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1919 AD Jun 15 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
1919 AD Jun 21 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
1919 AD Jun 21 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
1919 AD Jun 23 – Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
1919 AD Jun 28 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
1919 AD Jul 06 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1919 AD Jul 11 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
1919 AD Jul 13 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1919 AD Jul 17 – The form of government in the Republic of Finland is officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the Day of Democracy (Kansanvallan päivä) in Finland.
1919 AD Jul 21 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
1919 AD Jul 23 – Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana
1919 AD Jul 27 – The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
1919 AD Aug 08 – The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 is signed. It establishes peaceful relations between Afghanistan and the UK, and confirms the Durand line as the mutual border. In return, the UK is no longer obligated to subsidize the Afghan government.
1919 AD Aug 11 – Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
1919 AD Sep 10 – The Republic of German-Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ceding significant territories to Italy, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.
1919 AD Sep 11 – United States Marine Corps invades Honduras.
1919 AD Nov 07 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.
1919 AD Nov 28 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
1919 AD Dec 01 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1919 AD Dec 03 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
1920 AD Jan 02 – The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
1920 AD Jan 03 – Over 640 are killed after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes the Mexican states Puebla and Veracruz.
1920 AD Jan 07 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1920 AD Jan 08 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
1920 AD Jan 10 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States.
1920 AD Jan 10 – League of Nations Covenant automatically enters into force after the Treaty of Versailles is ratified by Germany.
1920 AD Jan 13 – The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history.
1920 AD Jan 16 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1920 AD Jan 17 – Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.
1920 AD Jan 19 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1920 AD Jan 19 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
1920 AD Jan 23 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
1920 AD Jan 28 – Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
1920 AD Jan 30 – Japanese carmaker Mazda is founded, initially as a cork-producing company.
1920 AD Feb 02 – The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
1920 AD Feb 09 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1920 AD Feb 10 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1920 AD Feb 10 – About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
1920 AD Feb 13 – The Negro National League is formed.
1920 AD Feb 14 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
1920 AD Feb 20 – An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
1920 AD Feb 24 – Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
1920 AD Feb 24 – The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
1920 AD Feb 29 – The Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
1920 AD Apr 03 – Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland.
1920 AD Apr 15 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
1920 AD Apr 23 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
1920 AD Apr 25 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
1920 AD Apr 26 – Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.
1920 AD Apr 28 – The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.
1920 AD May 02 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
1920 AD May 03 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1920 AD May 05 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
1920 AD May 07 – Kyiv Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
1920 AD May 07 – Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
1920 AD May 09 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
1920 AD May 16 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
1920 AD May 29 – The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in the United Kingdom during the 20th century.
1920 AD Jun 04 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
1920 AD Jun 11 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
1920 AD Jun 15 – Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.
1920 AD Jul 10 – Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1920 AD Jul 11 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
1920 AD Jul 12 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
1920 AD Jul 15 – Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
1920 AD Jul 20 – The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
1920 AD Jul 21 – The Belfast Pogrom begins with the one day removal of thousands of Belfast shipyard, factory and mill workers from their jobs.
1920 AD Jul 29 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1920 AD Aug 10 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1920 AD Aug 11 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
1920 AD Aug 13 – Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
1920 AD Aug 14 – The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly-adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history.
1920 AD Aug 15 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
1920 AD Aug 16 – US baseball player Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Next day, Chapman will become the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
1920 AD Aug 16 – The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
1920 AD Aug 16 – Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Radzymin concludes; the Soviet Red Army is forced to turn away from Warsaw.
1920 AD Aug 18 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1920 AD Aug 19 – The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka.
1920 AD Aug 20 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
1920 AD Aug 20 – The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
1920 AD Aug 25 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
1920 AD Aug 26 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1920 AD Aug 31 – Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 AD Sep 07 – Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they were to serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.
1920 AD Oct 30 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1920 AD Nov 02 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
1920 AD Nov 07 – Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
1920 AD Nov 21 – Irish War of Independence: On "Bloody Sunday" in Dublin, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) assassinated a group of British Intelligence agents, and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park.
1920 AD Nov 28 – FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France.
1920 AD Nov 28 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
1920 AD Dec 03 – Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish-dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
1921 AD Jan 02 – World premiere of the science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek R.U.R. in theater in Hradec Králové.
1921 AD Jan 09 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
1921 AD Jan 16 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
1921 AD Jan 20 – The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
1921 AD Jan 20 – The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
1921 AD Feb 12 – Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
1921 AD Feb 21 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 AD Feb 21 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
1921 AD Feb 22 – After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.^{[citation needed]}
1921 AD Feb 25 – Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1921 AD Feb 27 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1921 AD Mar 01 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
1921 AD Mar 01 – Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion begins, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
1921 AD Mar 08 – Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while on his way home from the parliament building in Madrid.
1921 AD Mar 31 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1921 AD Apr 02 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
1921 AD Apr 11 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1921 AD May 03 – Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
1921 AD May 03 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
1921 AD May 08 – The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
1921 AD May 19 – The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
1921 AD May 31 – The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
1921 AD Jun 12 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
1921 AD Jun 15 – Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
1921 AD Jun 19 – The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, was burned by British forces.
1921 AD Jun 20 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
1921 AD Jun 21 – The Irish village of Knockcroghery was burned by British forces.
1921 AD Jun 28 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
1921 AD Jun 30 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
1921 AD Jul 01 – The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International.
1921 AD Jul 02 – World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
1921 AD Jul 03 – World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
1921 AD Jul 10 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1921 AD Jul 11 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
1921 AD Jul 11 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
1921 AD Jul 11 – Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
1921 AD Jul 22 – Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
1921 AD Jul 23 – The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is established at the founding National Congress.
1921 AD Jul 27 – Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
1921 AD Jul 29 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
1921 AD Aug 03 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
1921 AD Aug 14 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
1921 AD Aug 23 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary; of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1921 AD Aug 28 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolved the Makhnovshchina, after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine.
1921 AD Sep 07 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1921 AD Sep 07 – The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
1921 AD Sep 08 – Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
1921 AD Sep 11 – Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
1921 AD Nov 04 – The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.
1921 AD Nov 04 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1921 AD Dec 05 title="1921">1921 - The Football Association bans women's football in England from league grounds, a ban that stays in place for 50 years.
1921 AD Dec 06 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
1922 AD Jan 07 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
1922 AD Jan 11 – Leonard Thompson becomes the first person to be injected with insulin.
1922 AD Jan 28 – Knickerbocker Storm: Washington, D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes a disaster when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses, killing over 100 people.
1922 AD Feb 02 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1922 AD Feb 06 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1922 AD Feb 08 – United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House.
1922 AD Feb 09 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1922 AD Feb 27 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
1922 AD Feb 28 – The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1922 AD Mar 26 – The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
1922 AD Apr 03 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1922 AD Apr 05 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1922 AD Apr 07 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
1922 AD Apr 15 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1922 AD Apr 16 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1922 AD Apr 20 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
1922 AD Apr 24 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
1922 AD May 10 – The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
1922 AD May 19 – The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established.
1922 AD May 30 – The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1922 AD Jun 01 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1922 AD Jun 09 – Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.
1922 AD Jun 16 – General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority.
1922 AD Jun 17 – Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
1922 AD Jun 24 – The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
1922 AD Jun 28 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1922 AD Jun 29 – France grants "one square kilometer" at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1922 AD Jun 30 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
1922 AD Jul 01 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
1922 AD Jul 09 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1922 AD Jul 11 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1922 AD Jul 15 – The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
1922 AD Jul 20 – The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
1922 AD Jul 24 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
1922 AD Aug 02 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.
1922 AD Aug 22 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.
1922 AD Aug 26 – Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the Great Offensive (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun.
1922 AD Aug 27 – Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
1922 AD Aug 30 – Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1922 AD Sep 09 – The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
1922 AD Sep 11 – The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 AD Sep 13 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1922 AD Oct 31 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy
1922 AD Nov 01 – Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1922 AD Nov 04 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1922 AD Nov 13 – The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.
1922 AD Nov 21 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1922 AD Nov 24 – Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
1922 AD Nov 26 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1922 AD Nov 26 – The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)
1922 AD Dec 06 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
1922 AD Dec 07 – The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.
1922 AD Dec 09 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
1923 AD Jan 01 – Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
1923 AD Jan 09 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
1923 AD Jan 09 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
1923 AD Jan 11 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
1923 AD Feb 10 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1923 AD Feb 15 – Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
1923 AD Feb 16 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1923 AD Apr 15 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
1923 AD Apr 26 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1923 AD Apr 28 – Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
1923 AD May 26 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans is held and has since been run annually in June.
1923 AD Jun 09 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1923 AD Jul 01 – The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
1923 AD Jul 24 – The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1923 AD Aug 02 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
1923 AD Aug 16 – The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
1923 AD Aug 18 – The first British Track and Field championships for women are held in London, Great Britain.
1923 AD Aug 23 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1923 AD Sep 01 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1923 AD Sep 07 – The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
1923 AD Sep 08 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
1923 AD Sep 09 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
1923 AD Sep 12 – Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1923 AD Sep 13 – Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1923 AD Oct 31 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
1923 AD Nov 08 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1923 AD Nov 09 – In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch.
1924 AD Jan 22 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1924 AD Jan 25 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1924 AD Jan 27 – Six days after his death Lenin's body is carried into a specially erected mausoleum.
1924 AD Feb 01 – Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
1924 AD Feb 05 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
1924 AD Feb 08 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1924 AD Feb 12 – George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
1924 AD Feb 14 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1924 AD Mar 03 – The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
1924 AD Mar 03 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
1924 AD Mar 08 – A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1924 AD Apr 01 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
1924 AD Apr 01 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1924 AD Apr 08 – Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
1924 AD Apr 24 – Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term).
1924 AD May 08 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
1924 AD May 10 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
1924 AD May 21 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1924 AD Jun 02 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1924 AD Jun 10 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1924 AD Jul 10 – Paavo Nurmi won the 1,500 and 5,000 m races with just an hour between them at the Paris Olympics.
1924 AD Jul 11 – Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on a Sunday.
1924 AD Jul 24 – Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1924 AD Aug 04 – Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
1924 AD Aug 28 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1924 AD Sep 09 – Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1924 AD Oct 31 – World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
1924 AD Nov 04 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
1924 AD Nov 23 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
1924 AD Nov 26 – The Mongolian People's Republic is officially established after a new constitution, passed by the first State Great Khural, abolishes the monarchy.
1924 AD Nov 27 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1924 AD Dec 01 – The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, plays their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
1925 AD Jan 05 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1925 AD Jan 21 – Albania declares itself a republic.
1925 AD Jan 30 – The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
1925 AD Feb 02 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1925 AD Feb 15 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
1925 AD Feb 21 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1925 AD Feb 28 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
1925 AD Apr 04 – The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in Germany.
1925 AD Apr 10 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
1925 AD Apr 16 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1925 AD Apr 26 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1925 AD Apr 30 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.
1925 AD May 01 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
1925 AD May 16 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
1925 AD May 25 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
1925 AD May 30 – May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
1925 AD Jun 06 – The original Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Chrysler from the remains of the Maxwell Motor Company.
1925 AD Jun 16 – Artek, the most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, is established.
1925 AD Jul 10 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1925 AD Jul 18 – Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
1925 AD Jul 21 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100.
1925 AD Jul 21 – Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
1925 AD Jul 25 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1925 AD Aug 05 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
1925 AD Aug 09 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India, by the Indian independence revolutionaries, against British government.
1925 AD Sep 03 – USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
1925 AD Sep 04 – USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
1925 AD Sep 08 – Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco.
1925 AD Nov 05 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1925 AD Nov 28 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
1926 AD Jan 08 – Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ is crowned emperor of Vietnam, the country's last monarch.
1926 AD Jan 08 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
1926 AD Jan 26 – The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
1926 AD Apr 06 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
1926 AD Apr 07 – Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
1926 AD Apr 21 – Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
1926 AD Apr 24 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
1926 AD May 04 – The United Kingdom general strike begins.
1926 AD May 09 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
1926 AD May 12 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1926 AD May 12 – The 1926 United Kingdom general strike ends.
1926 AD May 18 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
1926 AD May 22 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
1926 AD May 23 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
1926 AD May 25 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
1926 AD May 28 – The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1926 AD Jun 14 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
1926 AD Jun 20 – The 28th International Eucharistic Congress begins in Chicago, with over 250,000 spectators attending the opening procession.
1926 AD Jun 23 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1926 AD Jun 28 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
1926 AD Jul 09 – Chiang Kai-shek accepts the post of commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, marking the beginning of the Northern Expedition to unite China under the rule of the Nationalist government.
1926 AD Jul 23 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1926 AD Aug 05 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1926 AD Aug 06 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 AD Aug 06 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1926 AD Aug 20 – Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1926 AD Sep 08 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1926 AD Nov 25 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
1927 AD Jan 01 – New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
1927 AD Jan 07 – The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.
1927 AD Jan 09 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
1927 AD Jan 10 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1927 AD Jan 11 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1927 AD Jan 22 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
1927 AD Jan 27 – Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
1927 AD Feb 03 – A revolt against the military dictatorship of Portugal breaks out at Oporto.
1927 AD Feb 23 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
1927 AD Feb 23 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1927 AD Mar 29 – Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
1927 AD Apr 07 – AT&T transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1927 AD Apr 12 – Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
1927 AD Apr 12 – Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
1927 AD Apr 19 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1927 AD Apr 23 – Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
1927 AD Apr 27 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
1927 AD Apr 30 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
1927 AD May 04 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
1927 AD May 08 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
1927 AD May 09 – Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
1927 AD May 18 – The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township, Michigan.
1927 AD May 18 – After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
1927 AD May 20 – Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1927 AD May 20 – Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, landing 33+1⁄2 hours later.
1927 AD May 21 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1927 AD May 22 – Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
1927 AD May 23 – Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
1927 AD May 26 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1927 AD May 27 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1927 AD Jun 13 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.
1927 AD Jun 27 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
1927 AD Jun 29 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1927 AD Jul 04 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
1927 AD Jul 10 – Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
1927 AD Jul 15 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.
1927 AD Jul 16 – Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
1927 AD Jul 23 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
1927 AD Jul 24 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1927 AD Aug 01 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1927 AD Aug 07 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1927 AD Aug 16 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
1927 AD Aug 19 – Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1927 AD Aug 23 – Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1927 AD Aug 27 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking: "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
1927 AD Sep 07 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
1927 AD Nov 13 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1927 AD Nov 21 – Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
1927 AD Dec 02 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1928 AD Jan 01 – Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
1928 AD Jan 07 – A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
1928 AD Jan 31 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
1928 AD Apr 12 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1928 AD Apr 14 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1928 AD May 03 – The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
1928 AD Jun 04 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1928 AD Jun 08 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
1928 AD Jun 09 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1928 AD Jun 18 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1928 AD Jun 27 – The Rovaniemi township decree was promulgated, as a result of which Rovaniemi seceded from the old rural municipality as its own market town on January 1, 1929.
1928 AD Jul 07 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
1928 AD Aug 27 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
1928 AD Nov 01 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
1928 AD Nov 18 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
1928 AD Dec 04 – Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.
1928 AD Dec 06 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
1929 AD Jan 01 – The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
1929 AD Jan 06 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
1929 AD Jan 06 – Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
1929 AD Jan 20 – The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
1929 AD Feb 09 – Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
1929 AD Feb 11 – Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
1929 AD Feb 14 – Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
1929 AD Feb 21 – In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
1929 AD Feb 26 – President Calvin Coolidge signs legislation establishing the 96,000 acres (390 km²) Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
1929 AD Apr 06 – Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
1929 AD Apr 08 – Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1929 AD Apr 14 – The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix takes place in the Principality of Monaco. The race was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti Type 35.
1929 AD May 01 – The 7.2 M_w  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
1929 AD May 15 – A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
1929 AD May 16 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
1929 AD Jun 01 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1929 AD Jun 07 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
1929 AD Jun 08 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
1929 AD Jun 17 – The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
1929 AD Jun 21 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
1929 AD Jul 24 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
1929 AD Jul 27 – The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
1929 AD Aug 08 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1929 AD Aug 11 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1929 AD Aug 16 – The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
1929 AD Aug 23 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine occur, continuing until the next day, resulting in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1929 AD Aug 24 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
1929 AD Sep 07 – Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
1929 AD Nov 03 – The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
1929 AD Nov 07 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1929 AD Nov 18 – Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
1929 AD Nov 24 – The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland.
1929 AD Nov 29 – U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
1929 AD Dec 03 – President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It is presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.
1930 AD Jan 06 – Clessie Cummins arrives at the National Automobile Show in New York City, having driven a car powered by one of his diesel engines from Indianapolis.
1930 AD Jan 26 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
1930 AD Jan 30 – The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders that a million peasant families be driven off their farms.
1930 AD Feb 03 – Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
1930 AD Feb 10 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.
1930 AD Feb 16 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
1930 AD Feb 18 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930 AD Feb 18 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1930 AD Mar 06 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
1930 AD Mar 29 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed Reichskanzler of Germany.
1930 AD Mar 31 – The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
1930 AD Apr 02 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
1930 AD Apr 06 – At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
1930 AD Apr 18 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
1930 AD Apr 22 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
1930 AD Apr 28 – The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
1930 AD May 01 – "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.
1930 AD May 05 – The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.
1930 AD May 07 – The 7.1 M_w  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
1930 AD May 24 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1930 AD May 27 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1930 AD Jun 01 – The Deccan Queen is introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune) to run on electric locomotives.
1930 AD Jun 09 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1930 AD Jun 16 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1930 AD Jun 17 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
1930 AD Jun 21 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
1930 AD Jul 07 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1930 AD Jul 13 – The inaugural FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay.
1930 AD Jul 30 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
1930 AD Aug 07 – The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1930 AD Aug 16 – The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.
1930 AD Aug 16 – The first British Empire Games are opened in Hamilton, Ontario, by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
1930 AD Aug 29 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1930 AD Sep 06 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1930 AD Nov 03 – Getúlio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1930 AD Dec 02 – Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1930 AD Dec 07 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show.
1931 AD Jan 07 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1931 AD Jan 21 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1931 AD Feb 03 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
1931 AD Feb 13 – The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
1931 AD Feb 20 – The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
1931 AD Feb 20 – An anarchist uprising in Encarnación briefly transforms the city into a revolutionary commune.
1931 AD Mar 03 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1931 AD Mar 05 – The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
1931 AD Mar 07 – The Parliament House of Finland was officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
1931 AD Mar 26 – Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1931 AD Mar 26 – Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1931 AD Mar 31 – An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
1931 AD Mar 31 – A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
1931 AD Apr 14 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
1931 AD May 01 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1931 AD May 07 – The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
1931 AD May 14 – Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
1931 AD May 29 – Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by a Royal Italian Army firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
1931 AD Jun 23 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
1931 AD Jul 01 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1931 AD Jul 01 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
1931 AD Jul 16 – Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1931 AD Aug 24 – Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
1931 AD Nov 07 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
1931 AD Dec 09 – The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
1932 AD Jan 01 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
1932 AD Jan 12 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1932 AD Jan 21 – Finland and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty.
1932 AD Jan 25 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
1932 AD Jan 28 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1932 AD Feb 04 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
1932 AD Feb 09 – Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.
1932 AD Feb 18 – The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
1932 AD Feb 25 – Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.
1932 AD Mar 01 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12.
1932 AD Mar 02 – Finnish president P. E. Svinhufvud gave a radio speech, which four days later finally ended the Mäntsälä Rebellion and the far-right Lapua Movement that started it.
1932 AD Apr 05 – Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
1932 AD Apr 24 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
1932 AD May 04 – In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1932 AD May 12 – Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, is found dead near Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
1932 AD May 15 – In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
1932 AD May 20 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1932 AD May 21 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 AD May 28 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
1932 AD May 29 – World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1932 AD Jun 04 – Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
1932 AD Jun 17 – Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1932 AD Jun 24 – A bloodless revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
1932 AD Jul 01 – Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
1932 AD Jul 08 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
1932 AD Jul 09 – The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
1932 AD Jul 17 – Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
1932 AD Jul 20 – In the Preußenschlag, German President Hindenburg places Prussia directly under the rule of the national government.
1932 AD Jul 28 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
1932 AD Jul 29 – Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1932 AD Jul 30 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1932 AD Jul 31 – The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1932 AD Aug 02 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1932 AD Aug 10 – A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1932 AD Aug 24 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1932 AD Sep 05 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
1932 AD Sep 07 – The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
1932 AD Sep 10 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1932 AD Nov 03 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1932 AD Nov 08 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover.
1932 AD Nov 24 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1932 AD Dec 07 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1932 AD Dec 10 – Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1933 AD Jan 03 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1933 AD Jan 05 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1933 AD Jan 24 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
1933 AD Jan 28 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1933 AD Jan 30 – Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.
1933 AD Feb 03 – Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Nazi foreign policy.
1933 AD Feb 05 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
1933 AD Feb 10 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
1933 AD Feb 15 – In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6.
1933 AD Feb 20 – The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
1933 AD Feb 20 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
1933 AD Feb 25 – Launch of the USS Ranger at Newport News, Virginia. It is the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned by the US Navy.
1933 AD Feb 27 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility.
1933 AD Mar 04 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of the United States. He was the last president to be inaugurated on March 4.
1933 AD Mar 04 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 AD Mar 04 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1933 AD Mar 05 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1933 AD Mar 06 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 AD Mar 31 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1933 AD Apr 01 – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
1933 AD Apr 03 – First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
1933 AD Apr 04 – U.S. Navy airship USS Akron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
1933 AD Apr 05 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
1933 AD Apr 05 – Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage.
1933 AD Apr 07 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
1933 AD Apr 07 – Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.
1933 AD Apr 24 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
1933 AD Apr 26 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
1933 AD Apr 26 – Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.
1933 AD May 02 – Germany's independent labor unions are replaced by the German Labour Front.
1933 AD May 06 – The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
1933 AD May 08 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
1933 AD May 10 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1933 AD May 12 – The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1933 AD May 12 – President Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the predecessor of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
1933 AD May 15 – All military aviation organizations within or under the control of the RLM of Germany were officially merged in a covert manner to form its Wehrmacht military's air arm, the Luftwaffe.
1933 AD May 17 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1933 AD May 18 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1933 AD May 19 – Finnish cavalry general C. G. E. Mannerheim was appointed the field marshal.
1933 AD May 25 – The Walt Disney Company cartoon Three Little Pigs premieres at Radio City Music Hall, featuring the hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1933 AD May 27 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 AD Jun 06 – The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
1933 AD Jun 16 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed in the United States, allowing businesses to avoid antitrust prosecution if they establish voluntary wage, price, and working condition regulations on an industry-wide basis.
1933 AD Jun 17 – Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1933 AD Jul 06 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
1933 AD Jul 08 – The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
1933 AD Jul 14 – In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.
1933 AD Jul 14 – Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring requiring the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.
1933 AD Jul 22 – Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
1933 AD Aug 01 – Anti-Fascist activists Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens are executed by the Nazi regime in Altona.
1933 AD Aug 07 – The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.
1933 AD Aug 14 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km²) of land.
1933 AD Aug 16 – Christie Pits riot takes place in Toronto, Ontario.
1933 AD Aug 18 – The Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the ‘eighth great power’.
1933 AD Aug 24 – The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
1933 AD Aug 25 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
1933 AD Aug 27 – The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
1933 AD Aug 31 – The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with universal male suffrage.
1933 AD Sep 03 – Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
1933 AD Sep 04 – Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
1933 AD Sep 08 – Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
1933 AD Sep 12 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1933 AD Sep 13 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1933 AD Nov 07 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1933 AD Nov 08 – Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than four million unemployed.
1933 AD Dec 05 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1933 AD Dec 06 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
1934 AD Jan 01 – Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
1934 AD Jan 01 – A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
1934 AD Jan 15 – The 8.0 M_w  Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
1934 AD Jan 26 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1934 AD Jan 26 – German–Polish declaration of non-aggression is signed.
1934 AD Feb 02 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1934 AD Feb 06 – Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1934 AD Feb 09 – The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
1934 AD Feb 16 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
1934 AD Feb 21 – Augusto Sandino is executed.
1934 AD Feb 23 – Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
1934 AD Mar 26 – The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
1934 AD Apr 12 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
1934 AD Apr 12 – The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1934 AD Apr 21 – The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1994, it is revealed to be a hoax).
1934 AD May 19 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
1934 AD May 21 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1934 AD May 28 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1934 AD Jun 06 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1934 AD Jun 15 – The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
1934 AD Jun 19 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1934 AD Jun 30 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
1934 AD Jul 02 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
1934 AD Jul 03 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
1934 AD Jul 05 – "Bloody Thursday": The police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
1934 AD Jul 11 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
1934 AD Jul 20 – Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
1934 AD Jul 20 – West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
1934 AD Jul 25 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1934 AD Aug 02 – Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
1934 AD Aug 11 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
1934 AD Aug 19 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1934 AD Aug 19 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Adolf Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer.
1934 AD Aug 22 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only test cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
1934 AD Sep 08 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.
1934 AD Nov 23 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
1934 AD Nov 30 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph.
1934 AD Dec 05 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
1935 AD Jan 07 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1935 AD Jan 11 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1935 AD Jan 13 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
1935 AD Jan 24 – Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company starts selling the first canned beer.
1935 AD Jan 28 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1935 AD Feb 02 – Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
1935 AD Feb 12 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1935 AD Feb 13 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1935 AD Feb 20 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1935 AD Feb 26 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935 AD Feb 26 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1935 AD Apr 01 – India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
1935 AD Apr 08 – The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
1935 AD Apr 11 – Stresa Front: opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935 AD Apr 14 – The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
1935 AD Apr 23 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1935 AD May 06 – New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
1935 AD May 14 – The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
1935 AD May 24 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
1935 AD May 25 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1935 AD May 27 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1935 AD May 29 – First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
1935 AD May 31 – A 7.7 M_w  earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
1935 AD Jun 03 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
1935 AD Jun 10 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1935 AD Jun 10 – Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
1935 AD Jun 11 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
1935 AD Jun 12 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.
1935 AD Jun 18 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
1935 AD Jun 25 – Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
1935 AD Jun 26 – Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
1935 AD Jul 01 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
1935 AD Jul 05 – The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1935 AD Jul 16 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1935 AD Jul 20 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1935 AD Jul 24 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.
1935 AD Jul 28 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1935 AD Aug 14 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1935 AD Aug 15 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
1935 AD Aug 31 – In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
1935 AD Sep 02 – The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
1935 AD Sep 03 – Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.
1935 AD Sep 04 – Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.
1935 AD Sep 08 – US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
1935 AD Nov 03 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
1935 AD Nov 09 – The Committee for Industrial Organization, the precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1935 AD Nov 22 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
1935 AD Nov 24 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1935 AD Dec 05 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
1935 AD Dec 09 – Student protests occur in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and are subsequently dispersed by government authorities.
1935 AD Dec 09 – Walter Liggett, an American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
1936 AD Jan 08 – Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.
1936 AD Jan 15 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
1936 AD Jan 20 – King George V of the United Kingdom dies. His eldest son succeeds to the throne, becoming Edward VIII. The title Prince of Wales is not used for another 22 years.
1936 AD Jan 29 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1936 AD Feb 10 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1936 AD Feb 16 – The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
1936 AD Feb 26 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1936 AD Feb 29 – The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
1936 AD Mar 05 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1936 AD Mar 08 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1936 AD Mar 29 – The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for the recent remilitarization of the Rhineland.
1936 AD Apr 03 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1936 AD Apr 05 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1936 AD Apr 06 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
1936 AD Apr 15 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
1936 AD Apr 27 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1936 AD May 05 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1936 AD May 09 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1936 AD May 21 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1936 AD May 26 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
1936 AD May 28 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1936 AD Jun 11 – The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
1936 AD Jun 15 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1936 AD Jun 28 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1936 AD Jun 30 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
1936 AD Jul 06 – A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell.
1936 AD Jul 11 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1936 AD Jul 17 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
1936 AD Jul 18 – On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
1936 AD Jul 19 – Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain – mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
1936 AD Jul 20 – The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
1936 AD Jul 21 – Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economy in Catalonia.
1936 AD Jul 22 – Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
1936 AD Jul 23 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
1936 AD Jul 26 – Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
1936 AD Jul 26 – King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
1936 AD Aug 01 – The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
1936 AD Aug 03 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
1936 AD Aug 03 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
1936 AD Aug 04 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
1936 AD Aug 09 – Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
1936 AD Aug 14 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
1936 AD Aug 19 – The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
1936 AD Aug 24 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1936 AD Aug 26 – Spanish Civil War: Santander falls to the nationalists and the republican interprovincial council is dissolved.
1936 AD Aug 28 – Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
1936 AD Aug 30 – The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
1936 AD Aug 31 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1936 AD Sep 06 – Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
1936 AD Sep 07 – The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1936 AD Sep 09 – The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
1936 AD Sep 10 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1936 AD Sep 14 – Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.
1936 AD Nov 02 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1936 AD Nov 03 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States.
1936 AD Nov 04 – Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero reshuffles his war cabinet, persuading the anarcho-syndicalist CNT to join the government.
1936 AD Nov 06 – Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.
1936 AD Nov 07 – Spanish Civil War: The Madrid Defense Council is formed to coordinate the Defense of Madrid against nationalist forces.
1936 AD Nov 08 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the three-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
1936 AD Nov 20 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
1936 AD Nov 25 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
1936 AD Nov 30 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
1936 AD Dec 05 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
1936 AD Dec 07 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
1936 AD Dec 10 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
1937 AD Jan 15 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
1937 AD Jan 19 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1937 AD Jan 20 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
1937 AD Jan 23 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
1937 AD Jan 25 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
1937 AD Feb 08 – Spanish Civil War: Republicans establish the Interprovincial Council of Santander, Palencia and Burgos in Cantabria.
1937 AD Feb 11 – The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
1937 AD Feb 16 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
1937 AD Feb 19 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
1937 AD Feb 21 – The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1937 AD Mar 02 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
1937 AD Mar 08 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1937 AD Apr 01 – Aden becomes a British crown colony.
1937 AD Apr 01 – The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
1937 AD Apr 09 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
1937 AD Apr 12 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
1937 AD Apr 26 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1937 AD Apr 30 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
1937 AD May 06 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1937 AD May 07 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
1937 AD May 12 – The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
1937 AD May 17 – Spanish Civil War: The Largo Caballero government resigns in the wake of the Barcelona May Days, leading Juan Negrín to form a government, without the anarcho-syndicalist CNT, in its stead.
1937 AD May 21 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1937 AD May 26 – Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clash with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
1937 AD May 27 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1937 AD May 28 – Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer, is founded.
1937 AD May 30 – Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
1937 AD Jun 03 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
1937 AD Jun 11 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
1937 AD Jun 14 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1937 AD Jun 14 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
1937 AD Jun 15 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
1937 AD Jun 30 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
1937 AD Jul 02 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1937 AD Jul 03 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1937 AD Jul 05 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
1937 AD Jul 06 – Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
1937 AD Jul 07 – The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War).
1937 AD Jul 07 – The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
1937 AD Jul 08 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
1937 AD Jul 09 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
1937 AD Jul 22 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1937 AD Jul 24 – Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
1937 AD Jul 26 – Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
1937 AD Jul 29 – Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
1937 AD Aug 01 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1937 AD Aug 02 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1937 AD Aug 10 – Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Second Spanish Republic.
1937 AD Aug 13 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
1937 AD Aug 18 – A lightning strike starts the Blackwater Fire of 1937 in Shoshone National Forest, killing 15 firefighters within 3 days and prompting the United States Forest Service to develop their smokejumper program.
1937 AD Aug 24 – Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
1937 AD Aug 24 – Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
1937 AD Aug 28 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1937 AD Sep 05 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
1937 AD Sep 10 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
1937 AD Nov 01 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
1937 AD Nov 08 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
1937 AD Nov 09 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
1937 AD Dec 09 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Yasuhiko Asaka launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanking.
1938 AD Jan 28 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1938 AD Feb 04 – Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
1938 AD Feb 11 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
1938 AD Feb 18 – Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
1938 AD Mar 03 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1938 AD Mar 27 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
1938 AD Apr 10 – The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
1938 AD Apr 25 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
1938 AD May 25 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
1938 AD May 26 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1938 AD Jun 07 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1938 AD Jun 07 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
1938 AD Jun 11 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
1938 AD Jun 23 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
1938 AD Jun 24 – Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
1938 AD Jun 25 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
1938 AD Jun 26 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
1938 AD Jul 10 – Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
1938 AD Jul 17 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
1938 AD Jul 20 – The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
1938 AD Jul 28 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
1938 AD Jul 31 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
1938 AD Jul 31 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1938 AD Aug 18 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1938 AD Aug 20 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
1938 AD Aug 24 – Kweilin incident: A Japanese warplane shoots down the Kweilin, a Chinese civilian airliner, killing 14. It is the first recorded instance of a civilian airliner being shot down.
1938 AD Sep 05 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
1938 AD Sep 12 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 AD Oct 30 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
1938 AD Oct 31 – Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
1938 AD Nov 01 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
1938 AD Nov 09 – Kristallnacht: the 1938 national pogrom instigated by the Nazis, using the excuse of the death from gunshot wounds of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath, fired by Herschel Grynszpan.
1938 AD Dec 03 – Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as part of Aryanization.
1939 AD Jan 13 – The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
1939 AD Jan 14 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1939 AD Jan 24 – The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people.
1939 AD Jan 26 – Spanish Civil War: Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1939 AD Jan 27 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1939 AD Feb 05 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
1939 AD Feb 10 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
1939 AD Feb 25 – As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 21⁄2 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London.
1939 AD Feb 27 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. that the National Labor Relations Board has no authority to force an employer to rehire workers who engage in sit-down strikes.
1939 AD Mar 01 – An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
1939 AD Mar 02 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
1939 AD Mar 03 – In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
1939 AD Mar 05 – Spanish Civil War: The National Defence Council seizes control of the republican government in a coup d'etat, with the intention of negotiating an end to the war.
1939 AD Mar 26 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
1939 AD Mar 30 – The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).
1939 AD Mar 31 title="1939">1939 – Events preceding World War II in Europe: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pledges British military support to the Second Polish Republic in the event of an invasion by Nazi Germany.
1939 AD Apr 01 – Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
1939 AD Apr 07 – Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile.
1939 AD Apr 09 – African-American singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
1939 AD Apr 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.'s "Big Book", is first published.
1939 AD Apr 18 – Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons.
1939 AD Apr 30 – The 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens.
1939 AD Apr 30 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
1939 AD May 03 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
1939 AD May 14 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1939 AD May 17 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
1939 AD May 21 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1939 AD May 22 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1939 AD May 23 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1939 AD Jun 01 – First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.
1939 AD Jun 04 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 German Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
1939 AD Jun 12 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1939 AD Jun 12 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1939 AD Jun 17 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
1939 AD Jun 24 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country's third prime minister.
1939 AD Jul 04 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
1939 AD Jul 06 – Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last remaining Jewish enterprises.
1939 AD Jul 28 – The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.
1939 AD Aug 02 – Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1939 AD Aug 15 – Twenty-six Junkers Ju 87 bombers commanded by Walter Sigel meet unexpected ground fog during a dive-bombing demonstration for Luftwaffe generals at Neuhammer. Thirteen of them crash and burn.
1939 AD Aug 15 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1939 AD Aug 23 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret protocol to the pact, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania are divided into German and Soviet "spheres of influence".
1939 AD Aug 25 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
1939 AD Aug 27 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
1939 AD Aug 31 – Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.
1939 AD Sep 01 – World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939 AD Sep 02 – World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
1939 AD Sep 03 – World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allied nations. The Viceroy of India also declares war, but without consulting the provincial legislatures.
1939 AD Sep 03 – World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war. This also marks the beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic.
1939 AD Sep 04 – World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allied nations. The Viceroy of India also declares war, but without consulting the provincial legislatures.
1939 AD Sep 04 – World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war. This also marks the beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic.
1939 AD Sep 06 – World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.
1939 AD Sep 06 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1939 AD Sep 09 – World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
1939 AD Sep 09 – Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
1939 AD Sep 10 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
1939 AD Sep 10 – World War II: The Canadian declaration of war on Germany receives royal assent.
1939 AD Sep 14 – World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
1939 AD Nov 04 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
1939 AD Nov 08 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
1939 AD Nov 08 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1939 AD Nov 23 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
1939 AD Nov 26 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates an incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
1939 AD Nov 30 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
1939 AD Dec 01 – World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.
1939 AD Dec 02 – New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
1939 AD Dec 04 – World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
1940 AD Jan 07 – Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1940 AD Jan 08 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1940 AD Jan 29 – Three trains on the Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred and eighty-one people are killed.
1940 AD Feb 07 – The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1940 AD Feb 10 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1940 AD Feb 16 – World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. A total of 299 British prisoners are freed.
1940 AD Feb 27 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
1940 AD Feb 29 – For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
1940 AD Feb 29 – Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
1940 AD Feb 29 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco.
1940 AD Mar 03 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleå, Sweden.
1940 AD Mar 05 – Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
1940 AD Mar 30 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
1940 AD Apr 07 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1940 AD Apr 08 – The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary, marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of Mongolia.
1940 AD Apr 09 – World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
1940 AD Apr 09 – Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
1940 AD Apr 14 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
1940 AD Apr 23 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1940 AD May 05 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
1940 AD May 06 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1940 AD May 07 – World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
1940 AD May 10 – World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
1940 AD May 10 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. On the same day, Germany invades France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom occupies Iceland.
1940 AD May 13 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins, as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 AD May 14 – World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire, killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center.
1940 AD May 15 – USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
1940 AD May 15 – World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
1940 AD May 15 – Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant.
1940 AD May 17 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
1940 AD May 20 – The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1940 AD May 24 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1940 AD May 24 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
1940 AD May 25 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
1940 AD May 26 – World War II: Operation Dynamo: In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
1940 AD May 26 – World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
1940 AD May 27 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
1940 AD May 28 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
1940 AD May 28 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first Allied infantry victory of the War.
1940 AD Jun 03 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940 AD Jun 03 – Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1940 AD Jun 04 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: the British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
1940 AD Jun 05 – World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
1940 AD Jun 07 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
1940 AD Jun 08 – World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
1940 AD Jun 10 – World War II: Fascist Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom, beginning an invasion of southern France.
1940 AD Jun 10 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 AD Jun 10 – World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.
1940 AD Jun 11 – World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
1940 AD Jun 12 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1940 AD Jun 14 – World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.
1940 AD Jun 14 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
1940 AD Jun 14 – Seven hundred and twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1940 AD Jun 15 – World War II: Operation Aerial begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1940 AD Jun 16 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
1940 AD Jun 16 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1940 AD Jun 17 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster.
1940 AD Jun 17 – World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
1940 AD Jun 17 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1940 AD Jun 18 – Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.
1940 AD Jun 18 – The "Finest Hour" speech is delivered by Winston Churchill.
1940 AD Jun 21 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
1940 AD Jun 22 – World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.
1940 AD Jun 23 – Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour of the architecture of Paris with architect Albert Speer and sculptor Arno Breker in his only visit to the city.
1940 AD Jun 23 – Henry Larsen begins the first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1940 AD Jun 24 – World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.
1940 AD Jun 25 – World War II: The French armistice with Nazi Germany comes into effect.
1940 AD Jun 26 – World War II: The French armistice with Nazi Germany comes into effect.
1940 AD Jun 28 – Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
1940 AD Jul 02 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1940 AD Jul 02 – The SS Arandora Star is sunk by U-47 in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.
1940 AD Jul 03 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1940 AD Jul 03 – The SS Arandora Star is sunk by U-47 in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians.
1940 AD Jul 05 – World War II: Foreign relations of Vichy France are severed with the United Kingdom.
1940 AD Jul 06 – Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane, as well as Australia's longest cantilever bridge is formally opened.
1940 AD Jul 10 – World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
1940 AD Jul 10 – World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
1940 AD Jul 11 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State.
1940 AD Jul 19 – World War II: Battle of Cape Spada: The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
1940 AD Jul 19 – Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II that Adolf Hitler appoints field marshals due to military achievements.
1940 AD Jul 19 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
1940 AD Jul 20 – Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
1940 AD Jul 20 – California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
1940 AD Jul 23 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1940 AD Jul 25 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
1940 AD Jul 27 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
1940 AD Aug 03 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
1940 AD Aug 05 – World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
1940 AD Aug 06 – Estonia becomes part of the Soviet Union.
1940 AD Aug 08 – The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
1940 AD Aug 15 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
1940 AD Aug 18 – World War II: The Hardest Day air battle, part of the Battle of Britain, takes place. At that point, it is the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
1940 AD Aug 19 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
1940 AD Aug 20 – In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
1940 AD Aug 20 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
1940 AD Aug 20 – World War II: Hundred Regiments Offensive: Chinese general Peng Dehuai of the Communist Eighth Route Army launches the Hundred Regiments Offensive, a successful campaign to disrupt Japanese war infrastructure and logistics in occupied northern China.
1940 AD Aug 25 – World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
1940 AD Aug 26 – World War II: Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1940 AD Aug 30 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1940 AD Aug 31 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
1940 AD Sep 06 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania.
1940 AD Sep 07 – Romania returns Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova.
1940 AD Sep 07 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
1940 AD Sep 09 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1940 AD Sep 09 – Treznea Massacre in Transylvania.
1940 AD Sep 12 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
1940 AD Sep 12 – The Hercules Powder Plant Disaster in the United States kills 51 people and injures over 200.
1940 AD Sep 14 – Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
1940 AD Oct 31 – World War II: The Battle of Britain ends: The United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion.
1940 AD Nov 02 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
1940 AD Nov 05 – World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
1940 AD Nov 05 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
1940 AD Nov 07 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1940 AD Nov 08 – Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
1940 AD Nov 09 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari by the Polish government-in-exile.
1940 AD Nov 13 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
1940 AD Nov 18 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of Greece.
1940 AD Nov 20 – World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1940 AD Nov 22 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
1940 AD Nov 23 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1940 AD Nov 24 – World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1940 AD Nov 27 – In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.
1940 AD Nov 27 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
1940 AD Nov 30 – World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the Empire of Japan and the newly formed Wang Jingwei-led Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the Twenty-One Demands.
1940 AD Dec 09 – World War II: Operation Compass: British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
1941 AD Jan 02 – World War II: The Cardiff Blitz severely damages the cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
1941 AD Jan 05 – Amy Johnson, a 37-year-old pilot and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
1941 AD Jan 06 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
1941 AD Jan 09 – World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
1941 AD Jan 10 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1941 AD Jan 17 – Franco-Thai War: Vichy French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
1941 AD Jan 18 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
1941 AD Jan 19 – World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 64 kilometres (40 mi) northeast of Falkonera.
1941 AD Jan 20 – A German officer is killed in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
1941 AD Jan 21 – Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
1941 AD Jan 22 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
1941 AD Jan 23 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1941 AD Jan 25 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1941 AD Jan 28 – Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1941 AD Jan 29 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
1941 AD Feb 04 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1941 AD Feb 05 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1941 AD Feb 09 – World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
1941 AD Feb 23 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1941 AD Feb 25 – The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.
1941 AD Mar 01 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
1941 AD Mar 02 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
1941 AD Mar 04 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
1941 AD Mar 07 – Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.
1941 AD Mar 27 – World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
1941 AD Mar 29 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
1941 AD Mar 29 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
1941 AD Apr 01 – Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
1941 AD Apr 01 – A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
1941 AD Apr 06 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
1941 AD Apr 10 – World War II: The Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia.
1941 AD Apr 13 – A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1941 AD Apr 14 – World War II: German and Italian forces attack Tobruk in Libya.
1941 AD Apr 15 – In the Belfast Blitz, two hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
1941 AD Apr 16 – World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941 AD Apr 16 – World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
1941 AD Apr 17 – World War II: The invasion of Yugoslavia is completed when it signs an armistice with Germany and Italy.
1941 AD Apr 23 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1941 AD Apr 27 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1941 AD Apr 28 – The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
1941 AD May 02 – Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power.
1941 AD May 05 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
1941 AD May 06 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1941 AD May 06 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
1941 AD May 08 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
1941 AD May 09 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1941 AD May 10 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
1941 AD May 10 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
1941 AD May 12 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1941 AD May 13 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting against German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
1941 AD May 15 – First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
1941 AD May 20 – World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
1941 AD May 22 – During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
1941 AD May 23 – During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
1941 AD May 24 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
1941 AD May 27 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 AD May 27 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men.
1941 AD May 30 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.
1941 AD May 31 – Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
1941 AD Jun 01 – World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1941 AD Jun 01 – The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.
1941 AD Jun 02 – World War II: German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the villages of Kondomari and Alikianos.
1941 AD Jun 03 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.
1941 AD Jun 05 – World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
1941 AD Jun 08 – World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
1941 AD Jun 14 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
1941 AD Jun 22 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
1941 AD Jun 23 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
1941 AD Jun 25 – World War II: The Continuation War between the Soviet Union and Finland, supported by Nazi Germany, began.
1941 AD Jun 26 – World War II: The Continuation War between the Soviet Union and Finland, supported by Nazi Germany, began.
1941 AD Jun 27 – Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1941 AD Jun 27 – World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
1941 AD Jul 04 – Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
1941 AD Jul 04 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German-occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
1941 AD Jul 05 – World War II: Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach the Dnieper river.
1941 AD Jul 06 – The German army launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
1941 AD Jul 07 – The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.
1941 AD Jul 10 – Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
1941 AD Jul 11 – The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
1941 AD Jul 13 – World War II: Montenegrins begin the Trinaestojulski ustanak (Thirteenth Uprising), a popular revolt against the Axis powers.
1941 AD Jul 15 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.
1941 AD Jul 16 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as an MLB record.
1941 AD Jul 20 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief.
1941 AD Jul 26 – World War II: Battle of Grand Harbour, British forces on Malta destroy an attack by the Italian Decima Flottiglia MAS. Fort St Elmo Bridge covering the harbour is demolished in the process.
1941 AD Jul 26 – World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
1941 AD Jul 31 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
1941 AD Jul 31 – World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
1941 AD Aug 14 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1941 AD Aug 15 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
1941 AD Aug 19 – Germany and Romania sign the Tiraspol Agreement, rendering the region of Transnistria under control of the latter.
1941 AD Aug 22 – World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1941 AD Aug 24 – The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
1941 AD Aug 25 – World War II: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union jointly stage an invasion of the Imperial State of Iran.
1941 AD Aug 29 – World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
1941 AD Aug 30 – The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.
1941 AD Aug 31 – World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1941 AD Sep 03 – The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
1941 AD Sep 04 – The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
1941 AD Sep 05 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1941 AD Sep 08 – World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1941 AD Sep 11 – Construction begins on The Pentagon.
1941 AD Sep 11 – Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and FDR's administration of pressing for war with Germany.
1941 AD Oct 30 – President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 AD Oct 30 – Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
1941 AD Oct 31 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
1941 AD Oct 31 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
1941 AD Nov 01 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1941 AD Nov 07 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
1941 AD Nov 13 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
1941 AD Nov 19 – World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
1941 AD Nov 24 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
1941 AD Nov 25 – HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo during World War II.
1941 AD Nov 26 – World War II: The Hull note is given to the Japanese ambassador, demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina, in return for which the United States would lift economic sanctions. On the same day, Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs Hitokappu Bay for Hawaii.
1941 AD Nov 30 title="1941">1941 – The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up 11,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre.
1941 AD Dec 01 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives his tacit approval to the decision of the imperial council to initiate war against the United States.
1941 AD Dec 01 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1941 AD Dec 05 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
1941 AD Dec 05 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1941 AD Dec 06 – World War II: Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied secret agents for the war.
1941 AD Dec 07 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
1941 AD Dec 08 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
1941 AD Dec 08 – World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
1941 AD Dec 09 – World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan.
1941 AD Dec 09 – World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
1941 AD Dec 10 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.
1941 AD Dec 10 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
1942 AD Jan 01 – The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
1942 AD Jan 02 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
1942 AD Jan 02 – World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines.
1942 AD Jan 11 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
1942 AD Jan 11 – World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
1942 AD Jan 12 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1942 AD Jan 13 – Henry Ford patents a soybean car, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
1942 AD Jan 13 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1942 AD Jan 16 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins deporting Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to Chełmno extermination camp.
1942 AD Jan 16 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
1942 AD Jan 19 – World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
1942 AD Jan 20 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
1942 AD Jan 23 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
1942 AD Jan 24 – World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
1942 AD Jan 25 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1942 AD Jan 26 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe, landing in Northern Ireland.
1942 AD Jan 30 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are killed after the surrender. One-quarter of the remaining POWs remain alive at the end of the war.
1942 AD Jan 31 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
1942 AD Feb 01 – World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
1942 AD Feb 01 – World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls–Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
1942 AD Feb 01 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1942 AD Feb 01 – Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", which puts into motion the Yan'an Rectification Movement.
1942 AD Feb 02 – The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
1942 AD Feb 08 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1942 AD Feb 08 – World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.
1942 AD Feb 09 – Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1942 AD Feb 11 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
1942 AD Feb 14 – Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1942 AD Feb 15 – World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
1942 AD Feb 16 – World War II: In Athens, the Greek People's Liberation Army is established
1942 AD Feb 16 – World War II: Attack on Aruba, first World War II German shots fired on a land based object in the Americas.
1942 AD Feb 18 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
1942 AD Feb 19 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
1942 AD Feb 19 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1942 AD Feb 20 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1942 AD Feb 22 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1942 AD Feb 23 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
1942 AD Feb 24 – 791 Romanian Jewish refugees and crew members are killed after the MV Struma is torpedoed by the Soviet Navy.
1942 AD Feb 24 – The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25.
1942 AD Feb 24 – An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
1942 AD Feb 27 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
1942 AD Mar 01 – World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).
1942 AD Mar 03 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
1942 AD Mar 05 – World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
1942 AD Mar 08 – World War II: The Dutch East Indies surrender Java to the Imperial Japanese Army
1942 AD Mar 08 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
1942 AD Mar 26 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1942 AD Mar 27 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany and Vichy France begin the deportation of 65,000 Jews from Drancy internment camp to German extermination camps.
1942 AD Mar 29 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
1942 AD Mar 31 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1942 AD Apr 03 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
1942 AD Apr 05 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad.
1942 AD Apr 05 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
1942 AD Apr 08 – World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
1942 AD Apr 09 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and the Australian destroyer HMAS Vampire.
1942 AD Apr 15 – The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.
1942 AD Apr 16 – King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta in appreciation of their heroism.
1942 AD Apr 17 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
1942 AD Apr 18 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
1942 AD Apr 18 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1942 AD Apr 19 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1942 AD Apr 23 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz: German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
1942 AD Apr 26 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
1942 AD May 03 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1942 AD May 04 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
1942 AD May 06 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
1942 AD May 07 – World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
1942 AD May 08 – World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.
1942 AD May 08 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington.
1942 AD May 08 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
1942 AD May 09 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast. The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
1942 AD May 10 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
1942 AD May 12 – World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
1942 AD May 12 – World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
1942 AD May 15 – World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
1942 AD May 19 – World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
1942 AD May 22 – Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
1942 AD May 23 – Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
1942 AD May 26 – World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
1942 AD May 27 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
1942 AD May 30 – World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1942 AD May 31 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
1942 AD Jun 03 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
1942 AD Jun 04 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1942 AD Jun 04 – World War II: Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, is granted the title of Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day, Adolf Hitler arrive in Finland for a surprise visit to meet Mannerheim.
1942 AD Jun 05 – World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
1942 AD Jun 06 – The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū—are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann are also sunk.
1942 AD Jun 07 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
1942 AD Jun 07 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1942 AD Jun 08 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1942 AD Jun 10 – World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
1942 AD Jun 11 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1942 AD Jun 11 – Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
1942 AD Jun 12 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1942 AD Jun 20 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1942 AD Jun 21 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces; 33,000 Allied troops are taken prisoner.
1942 AD Jun 21 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
1942 AD Jun 22 – World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.
1942 AD Jun 22 – The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
1942 AD Jun 23 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1942 AD Jun 28 – World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
1942 AD Jul 01 – World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
1942 AD Jul 01 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
1942 AD Jul 04 – World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
1942 AD Jul 06 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1942 AD Jul 10 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
1942 AD Jul 16 – Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
1942 AD Jul 18 – World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
1942 AD Jul 18 – The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
1942 AD Jul 19 – World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
1942 AD Jul 22 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942 AD Jul 22 – Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
1942 AD Jul 23 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
1942 AD Jul 23 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
1942 AD Jul 25 – The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
1942 AD Jul 27 – World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
1942 AD Jul 28 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
1942 AD Aug 06 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1942 AD Aug 07 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1942 AD Aug 08 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
1942 AD Aug 09 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island: Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
1942 AD Aug 11 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi.
1942 AD Aug 13 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
1942 AD Aug 15 – World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
1942 AD Aug 16 – World War II: US Navy L-class blimp L-8 drifts in from the Pacific and eventually crashes in Daly City, California. The two-man crew cannot be found.
1942 AD Aug 17 – World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
1942 AD Aug 19 – World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
1942 AD Aug 21 – World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1942 AD Aug 22 – Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.
1942 AD Aug 23 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1942 AD Aug 24 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.
1942 AD Aug 25 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
1942 AD Aug 25 – World War II: Battle of Milne Bay: Japanese marines assault Allied airfields at Milne Bay, New Guinea, initiating the Battle of Milne Bay.
1942 AD Aug 26 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.
1942 AD Aug 27 – First day of the Sarny Massacre, perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians.
1942 AD Aug 30 – World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
1942 AD Sep 03 – World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).
1942 AD Sep 04 – World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).
1942 AD Sep 05 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
1942 AD Sep 07 – World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.
1942 AD Sep 09 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
1942 AD Sep 10 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1942 AD Sep 12 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
1942 AD Sep 12 – World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops.
1942 AD Sep 13 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1942 AD Oct 30 – World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.
1942 AD Nov 01 – World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
1942 AD Nov 03 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
1942 AD Nov 04 – World War II: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel begins a retreat of his forces after a costly defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein. The retreat would ultimately last five months.
1942 AD Nov 08 – World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
1942 AD Nov 13 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1942 AD Nov 19 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
1942 AD Nov 19 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
1942 AD Nov 21 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).
1942 AD Nov 22 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
1942 AD Nov 26 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
1942 AD Nov 26 – Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City.
1942 AD Nov 27 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
1942 AD Nov 28 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
1942 AD Nov 30 – World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. Navy cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
1942 AD Dec 02 – World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1942 AD Dec 04 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
1942 AD Dec 07 – World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.
1942 AD Dec 10 – World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.
1943 AD Jan 11 – The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
1943 AD Jan 11 – Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
1943 AD Jan 14 – World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1943 AD Jan 14 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
1943 AD Jan 15 – World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
1943 AD Jan 15 – The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington County, Virginia.
1943 AD Jan 17 – World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
1943 AD Jan 18 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1943 AD Jan 22 – World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly fought Battle of Buna–Gona.
1943 AD Jan 23 – World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
1943 AD Jan 24 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
1943 AD Jan 27 – World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.
1943 AD Jan 29 – World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USS Chicago (CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1943 AD Jan 31 – World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed two days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
1943 AD Feb 02 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
1943 AD Feb 03 – The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
1943 AD Feb 07 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1943 AD Feb 09 – World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1943 AD Feb 10 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1943 AD Feb 14 – World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1943 AD Feb 14 – World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1943 AD Feb 16 – World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
1943 AD Feb 18 – World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943 AD Feb 18 – World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
1943 AD Feb 19 – World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1943 AD Feb 20 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943 AD Feb 20 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
1943 AD Feb 22 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
1943 AD Feb 23 – The Cavan Orphanage fire kills thirty-five girls and an elderly cook.
1943 AD Feb 23 – Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in Greece.
1943 AD Feb 27 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 AD Feb 27 – The Holocaust: In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
1943 AD Mar 02 – World War II: Allied aircraft defeat a Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea.
1943 AD Mar 03 – World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
1943 AD Mar 04 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
1943 AD Mar 04 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.
1943 AD Mar 05 – First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
1943 AD Mar 06 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
1943 AD Mar 06 – World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eight Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later.
1943 AD Mar 06 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.
1943 AD Mar 27 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1943 AD Apr 05 – World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
1943 AD Apr 07 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
1943 AD Apr 07 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
1943 AD Apr 07 – The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.
1943 AD Apr 08 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
1943 AD Apr 08 – Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.
1943 AD Apr 13 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
1943 AD Apr 13 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
1943 AD Apr 16 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
1943 AD Apr 18 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1943 AD Apr 19 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1943 AD Apr 19 – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
1943 AD Apr 26 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
1943 AD Apr 30 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
1943 AD May 13 – World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia.
1943 AD May 14 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
1943 AD May 15 – Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
1943 AD May 16 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1943 AD May 16 – Operation Chastise is undertaken by RAF Bomber Command with specially equipped Avro Lancasters to destroy the Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley.
1943 AD May 17 – World War II: Dambuster Raids commence by No. 617 Squadron RAF.
1943 AD May 22 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
1943 AD May 23 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
1943 AD May 30 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
1943 AD Jun 01 – BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1943 AD Jun 03 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines attack Latino youths in the five-day Zoot Suit Riots.
1943 AD Jun 04 – A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
1943 AD Jun 12 – The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
1943 AD Jun 19 – The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
1943 AD Jun 20 – The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
1943 AD Jun 20 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works while en route to an air base in Algeria.
1943 AD Jun 24 – US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber Bridge, England, sparking the Battle of Bamber Bridge mutiny that leaves one dead and seven wounded.
1943 AD Jun 25 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1943 AD Jun 25 – The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
1943 AD Jun 26 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1943 AD Jun 26 – The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
1943 AD Jul 01 – The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
1943 AD Jul 04 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka.
1943 AD Jul 04 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.
1943 AD Jul 05 – World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
1943 AD Jul 05 – World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
1943 AD Jul 09 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily begins, leading to the downfall of Mussolini and forcing Hitler to break off the Battle of Kursk.
1943 AD Jul 10 – World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
1943 AD Jul 11 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
1943 AD Jul 11 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
1943 AD Jul 12 – German and Soviet forces engage in the Battle of Prokhorovka, one of the largest armored engagements of all time.
1943 AD Jul 14 – In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
1943 AD Jul 19 – World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
1943 AD Jul 22 – World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
1943 AD Jul 22 – World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.
1943 AD Jul 23 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
1943 AD Jul 23 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
1943 AD Jul 24 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1943 AD Jul 25 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1943 AD Jul 28 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1943 AD Aug 01 – World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian oil fields.
1943 AD Aug 02 – The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
1943 AD Aug 02 – World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
1943 AD Aug 15 – World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
1943 AD Aug 17 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
1943 AD Aug 17 – World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
1943 AD Aug 17 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1943 AD Aug 17 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
1943 AD Aug 23 – World War II: Kharkiv is liberated by the Soviet Red Army for the second time after the Battle of Kursk.
1943 AD Aug 27 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1943 AD Aug 27 – World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
1943 AD Aug 28 – Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
1943 AD Aug 29 – World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1943 AD Aug 31 – USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1943 AD Sep 03 – World War II: British and Canadian troops land on the Italian mainland. On the same day, Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano sign the Armistice of Cassibile, although it is not announced for another five days.
1943 AD Sep 04 – World War II: British and Canadian troops land on the Italian mainland. On the same day, Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano sign the Armistice of Cassibile, although it is not announced for another five days.
1943 AD Sep 05 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
1943 AD Sep 06 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
1943 AD Sep 06 – Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
1943 AD Sep 07 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.
1943 AD Sep 07 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
1943 AD Sep 08 – World War II: The Armistice of Cassibile is proclaimed by radio. OB Süd immediately implements plans to disarm the Italian forces.
1943 AD Sep 09 – World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1943 AD Sep 10 – World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
1943 AD Sep 11 – World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija ending the Italian occupation of Corsica.
1943 AD Sep 12 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
1943 AD Sep 14 – World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.
1943 AD Oct 31 – World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.
1943 AD Nov 01 – World War II: The 3rd Marine Division, United States Marines, landing on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, secures a beachhead, leading that night to a naval clash at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
1943 AD Nov 03 – World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
1943 AD Nov 05 – World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
1943 AD Nov 06 – World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation.
1943 AD Nov 18 – World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
1943 AD Nov 19 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1943 AD Nov 20 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
1943 AD Nov 22 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
1943 AD Nov 22 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
1943 AD Nov 23 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
1943 AD Nov 23 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
1943 AD Nov 24 – World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
1943 AD Nov 25 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1943 AD Nov 26 – World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
1943 AD Nov 28 – World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
1943 AD Nov 29 – The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).
1943 AD Dec 02 – World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
1943 AD Dec 04 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
1943 AD Dec 04 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
1943 AD Dec 05 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
1943 AD Dec 08 – World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.
1944 AD Jan 03 – World War II: US flying ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
1944 AD Jan 04 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
1944 AD Jan 05 – The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
1944 AD Jan 17 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
1944 AD Jan 22 – World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
1944 AD Jan 27 – World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1944 AD Jan 29 – World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
1944 AD Jan 29 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.
1944 AD Jan 30 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
1944 AD Jan 31 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 AD Jan 31 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1944 AD Feb 03 – World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
1944 AD Feb 07 – World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
1944 AD Feb 14 – World War II: In the action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian Regia Marina submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
1944 AD Feb 15 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
1944 AD Feb 15 – World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
1944 AD Feb 17 – World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
1944 AD Feb 17 – World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
1944 AD Feb 20 – World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944 AD Feb 20 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll.
1944 AD Feb 22 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1944 AD Feb 22 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.^{[citation needed]}
1944 AD Feb 23 – The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
1944 AD Feb 24 – Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese-occupied Burma.
1944 AD Feb 29 – The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II.
1944 AD Mar 03 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
1944 AD Mar 03 – A freight train carrying stowaway passengers stalls in a tunnel shortly after departing from Balvano, Basilicata, Italy just after midnight, with 517 dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.
1944 AD Mar 04 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1944 AD Mar 05 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
1944 AD Mar 06 – World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
1944 AD Mar 30 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
1944 AD Mar 30 – Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
1944 AD Apr 01 – World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
1944 AD Apr 04 – World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
1944 AD Apr 10 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
1944 AD Apr 13 – Relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
1944 AD Apr 14 – Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1944 AD Apr 16 – World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1944 AD Apr 17 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
1944 AD Apr 22 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
1944 AD Apr 22 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
1944 AD Apr 22 – World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
1944 AD Apr 24 – World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
1944 AD Apr 25 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1944 AD Apr 26 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1944 AD Apr 26 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
1944 AD Apr 28 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1944 AD Apr 29 – World War II: New Zealand-born SOE agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
1944 AD May 18 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
1944 AD May 18 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union.
1944 AD May 24 – Börse Berlin building burns down after being hit in an air raid during World War II.
1944 AD Jun 04 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944 AD Jun 04 – World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.
1944 AD Jun 05 – World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1944 AD Jun 06 – Commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and are pushing inland.
1944 AD Jun 07 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
1944 AD Jun 07 – World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
1944 AD Jun 09 – World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
1944 AD Jun 09 – World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1944 AD Jun 10 – World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
1944 AD Jun 10 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1944 AD Jun 10 – In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1944 AD Jun 11 – USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
1944 AD Jun 12 – World War II: Operation Overlord: American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.
1944 AD Jun 13 – World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
1944 AD Jun 13 – World War II: German combat elements, reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
1944 AD Jun 13 – World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
1944 AD Jun 14 – World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
1944 AD Jun 15 – World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
1944 AD Jun 15 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
1944 AD Jun 16 – In a gross miscarriage of justice, George Junius Stinney Jr., age 14, becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century after being convicted in a two-hour trial for the rape and murder of two teenage white girls.
1944 AD Jun 17 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
1944 AD Jun 20 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
1944 AD Jun 20 – Continuation War: The Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
1944 AD Jun 20 – The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
1944 AD Jun 22 – World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
1944 AD Jun 22 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
1944 AD Jun 25 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
1944 AD Jun 25 – World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
1944 AD Jun 25 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
1944 AD Jun 26 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
1944 AD Jun 26 – World War II: United States Navy and British Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
1944 AD Jun 26 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
1944 AD Jun 27 – World War II: Mogaung is the first place in Burma to be liberated from the Japanese by British Chindits, supported by the Chinese.
1944 AD Jun 30 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
1944 AD Jul 06 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.
1944 AD Jul 06 – The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
1944 AD Jul 07 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
1944 AD Jul 09 – World War II: American forces take Saipan, bringing the Japanese archipelago within range of B-29 raids, and causing the downfall of the Tojo government.
1944 AD Jul 09 – World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins the Battle of Tali–Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
1944 AD Jul 17 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
1944 AD Jul 17 – World War II: At Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery in Normandy Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is seriously injured by allied aircraft while returning to his headquarters.
1944 AD Jul 18 – World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1944 AD Jul 20 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1944 AD Jul 21 – World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
1944 AD Jul 21 – World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and four fellow conspirators are executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
1944 AD Jul 22 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland.
1944 AD Jul 25 – World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
1944 AD Jul 26 – World War II: The Red Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
1944 AD Aug 01 – World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1944 AD Aug 02 – ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
1944 AD Aug 02 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
1944 AD Aug 04 – The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
1944 AD Aug 04 – The Finnish Parliament, by derogation, elected Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as President of Finland to replace Risto Ryti, who had resigned.
1944 AD Aug 05 – World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured.
1944 AD Aug 05 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
1944 AD Aug 05 – World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
1944 AD Aug 06 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
1944 AD Aug 07 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1944 AD Aug 09 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
1944 AD Aug 09 – Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
1944 AD Aug 10 – World War II: The Battle of Guam comes to an effective end.
1944 AD Aug 10 – World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a defensive German victory.
1944 AD Aug 12 – Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1944 AD Aug 12 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
1944 AD Aug 12 – Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
1944 AD Aug 13 – World War II: German troops begin the pillage and razing of Anogeia in Crete that would continue until September 5.
1944 AD Aug 15 – World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
1944 AD Aug 16 – First flight of a jet with forward-swept wings, the Junkers Ju 287.
1944 AD Aug 19 – World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
1944 AD Aug 20 – World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
1944 AD Aug 20 – World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
1944 AD Aug 21 – Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1944 AD Aug 21 – World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
1944 AD Aug 22 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
1944 AD Aug 23 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allied forces.
1944 AD Aug 23 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is later arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 AD Aug 23 – Freckleton air disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
1944 AD Aug 24 – World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
1944 AD Aug 25 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1944 AD Aug 26 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1944 AD Aug 28 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1944 AD Aug 29 – World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
1944 AD Sep 02 – The last execution of a Finn in Finland takes place when soldier Olavi Laiho is executed by shooting in Oulu.
1944 AD Sep 03 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
1944 AD Sep 04 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
1944 AD Sep 05 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
1944 AD Sep 06 – World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
1944 AD Sep 06 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
1944 AD Sep 08 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
1944 AD Sep 09 – World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
1944 AD Sep 11 – World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
1944 AD Sep 11 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1944 AD Sep 12 – World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.
1944 AD Sep 13 – World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.
1944 AD Sep 14 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
1944 AD Oct 30 – Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
1944 AD Nov 01 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren.
1944 AD Nov 03 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest, are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
1944 AD Nov 04 – World War II: The 7th Macedonian Liberation Brigade liberates Bitola for the Allies.
1944 AD Nov 04 – World War II: Operation Pheasant, an Allied offensive to liberate North Brabant in the Netherlands, ends successfully.
1944 AD Nov 07 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
1944 AD Nov 07 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.
1944 AD Nov 18 – The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.
1944 AD Nov 19 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1944 AD Nov 19 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
1944 AD Nov 21 – World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.
1944 AD Nov 23 – World War II: The Lotta Svärd Movement is disbanded under the terms of the armistice treaty in Finland after the Continuation War.
1944 AD Nov 24 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
1944 AD Nov 26 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, United Kingdom, killing 168 people.
1944 AD Nov 26 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
1944 AD Nov 27 – World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
1944 AD Nov 29 – Albania is liberated by the Partisans.
1944 AD Dec 03 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
1944 AD Dec 07 – An earthquake along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan causes a tsunami which kills 1223 people.
1945 AD Jan 01 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed, attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
1945 AD Jan 05 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland.
1945 AD Jan 08 – World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack invading Japanese Imperial forces.
1945 AD Jan 09 – World War II: The Sixth United States Army begins the invasion of Lingayen Gulf.
1945 AD Jan 12 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive.
1945 AD Jan 16 – World War II: Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1945 AD Jan 17 – World War II: The Vistula–Oder Offensive forces German troops out of Warsaw.
1945 AD Jan 17 – The SS-Totenkopfverbände begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as the Red Army closes in.
1945 AD Jan 17 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
1945 AD Jan 18 – World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
1945 AD Jan 19 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
1945 AD Jan 20 – World War II: The provisional government of Béla Miklós in Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
1945 AD Jan 20 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
1945 AD Jan 23 – World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
1945 AD Jan 25 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1945 AD Jan 26 – World War II: Audie Murphy displays valor and bravery in action for which he will later be awarded the Medal of Honor.
1945 AD Jan 27 – World War II: The Soviet 322nd Rifle Division liberates the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1945 AD Jan 28 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1945 AD Jan 30 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people.
1945 AD Jan 30 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred and twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.
1945 AD Jan 31 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1945 AD Jan 31 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1945 AD Jan 31 – World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
1945 AD Feb 03 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
1945 AD Feb 03 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
1945 AD Feb 04 – World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
1945 AD Feb 04 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
1945 AD Feb 04 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
1945 AD Feb 05 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1945 AD Feb 08 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1945 AD Feb 08 – World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
1945 AD Feb 09 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945 AD Feb 09 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attack a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
1945 AD Feb 13 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 AD Feb 13 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1945 AD Feb 14 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.
1945 AD Feb 14 – World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by a United States Army Air Forces squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
1945 AD Feb 14 – World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans
1945 AD Feb 14 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1945 AD Feb 15 – World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.
1945 AD Feb 16 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
1945 AD Feb 16 – The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law.
1945 AD Feb 19 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1945 AD Feb 21 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
1945 AD Feb 21 – World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front.
1945 AD Feb 23 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
1945 AD Feb 23 – World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free all 2,147 captives of the Los Baños internment camp, in what General Colin Powell later would refer to as "the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies."
1945 AD Feb 23 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
1945 AD Feb 23 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
1945 AD Feb 23 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
1945 AD Feb 24 – Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1945 AD Feb 26 – World War II: US troops reclaim the Philippine island of Corregidor from the Japanese.
1945 AD Mar 03 – World War II: In poor visibility, the RAF mistakenly bombs the Bezuidenhout area of The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
1945 AD Mar 06 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.
1945 AD Mar 07 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
1945 AD Mar 26 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
1945 AD Mar 27 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
1945 AD Mar 29 – World War II: The last launch site of the V-1 flying bomb in the Low Countries is captured by Allied forces, ending German strikes against targets in Belgium.
1945 AD Mar 29 – World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
1945 AD Mar 30 – World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
1945 AD Mar 31 – World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1945 AD Apr 01 – World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
1945 AD Apr 04 – World War II: United States Army troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
1945 AD Apr 04 – World War II: United States Army troops capture Kassel.
1945 AD Apr 04 – World War II: Soviet Red Army troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country themselves.
1945 AD Apr 05 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
1945 AD Apr 06 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
1945 AD Apr 06 – World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
1945 AD Apr 07 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
1945 AD Apr 08 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
1945 AD Apr 09 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, is executed by the Nazi regime.
1945 AD Apr 09 – World War II: The German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer is sunk by the Royal Air Force.
1945 AD Apr 09 – World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
1945 AD Apr 09 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
1945 AD Apr 11 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1945 AD Apr 12 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes President upon Roosevelt's death.
1945 AD Apr 12 – World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 50 miles from Berlin.
1945 AD Apr 13 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
1945 AD Apr 13 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
1945 AD Apr 14 – Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroyed the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.
1945 AD Apr 15 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1945 AD Apr 16 – World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
1945 AD Apr 16 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945 AD Apr 16 – More than 7,000 die when the German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
1945 AD Apr 17 – World War II: Montese, Italy, is liberated from Nazi forces.
1945 AD Apr 17 – Historian Tran Trong Kim is appointed the Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam.
1945 AD Apr 18 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1945 AD Apr 18 – Italian resistance movement: In Turin, despite the harsh repressive measures adopted by Nazi-fascists, a great pre-insurrectional strike begins.
1945 AD Apr 20 – World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1945 AD Apr 20 – World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1945 AD Apr 20 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
1945 AD Apr 21 – World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
1945 AD Apr 22 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
1945 AD Apr 22 – World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
1945 AD Apr 23 – World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor, Hermann Göring, sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of Nazi Germany. Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Hitler that the telegram is treasonous.
1945 AD Apr 25 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet reconnaissance troops meet in Torgau and Strehla along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two.
1945 AD Apr 25 – Liberation Day (Italy): The National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy calls for a general uprising against the German occupation and the Italian Social Republic.
1945 AD Apr 25 – United Nations Conference on International Organization: Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in San Francisco.
1945 AD Apr 25 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
1945 AD Apr 26 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1945 AD Apr 26 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
1945 AD Apr 27 – World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photograph is taken.
1945 AD Apr 27 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1945 AD Apr 28 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
1945 AD Apr 28 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.
1945 AD Apr 29 – World War II: The Surrender of Caserta is signed by the commander of German forces in Italy.
1945 AD Apr 29 – World War II: Airdrops of food begin over German-occupied regions of the Netherlands.
1945 AD Apr 29 – World War II: HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet, becoming the last Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
1945 AD Apr 29 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor; Hitler and Braun both commit suicide the following day.
1945 AD Apr 29 – Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1945 AD Apr 29 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
1945 AD Apr 30 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
1945 AD Apr 30 – World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.
1945 AD May 01 – World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
1945 AD May 01 – World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
1945 AD May 02 – World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.
1945 AD May 02 – World War II: The surrender of Caserta comes into effect, by which German troops in Italy cease fighting.
1945 AD May 02 – World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
1945 AD May 02 – World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army in southern Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners.
1945 AD May 03 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
1945 AD May 04 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
1945 AD May 04 – World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompasses all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.
1945 AD May 05 – World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
1945 AD May 05 – World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
1945 AD May 05 – World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
1945 AD May 06 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
1945 AD May 06 – World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
1945 AD May 07 – World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
1945 AD May 07 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
1945 AD May 08 – World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Reims comes into effect.
1945 AD May 08 – End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
1945 AD May 08 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
1945 AD May 08 – The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1945 AD May 09 – World War II: The final German Instrument of Surrender is signed at the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst.
1945 AD May 13 – World War II: Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is published in Ogonyok magazine.
1945 AD May 15 – World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
1945 AD May 19 – Syrian demonstrators in Damascus are fired upon by French troops injuring twelve, leading to the Levant Crisis.
1945 AD May 29 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1945 AD Jun 05 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1945 AD Jun 07 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
1945 AD Jun 10 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1945 AD Jun 14 – World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
1945 AD Jun 18 – William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
1945 AD Jun 20 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.
1945 AD Jun 21 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
1945 AD Jun 22 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
1945 AD Jun 28 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
1945 AD Jun 29 – The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.
1945 AD Jul 05 – The United Kingdom holds its first general election in 10 years, which would be won by Clement Attlee's Labour Party.
1945 AD Jul 16 – Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1945 AD Jul 16 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.
1945 AD Jul 17 – World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
1945 AD Jul 23 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
1945 AD Jul 26 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 AD Jul 26 – World War II: The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
1945 AD Jul 26 – World War II: HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war.
1945 AD Jul 26 – World War II: The USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with components and enriched uranium for the Little Boy nuclear bomb.
1945 AD Jul 28 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1945 AD Jul 29 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1945 AD Jul 30 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
1945 AD Jul 31 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1945 AD Aug 02 – World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.
1945 AD Aug 06 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1945 AD Aug 08 – The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials.
1945 AD Aug 09 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
1945 AD Aug 09 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
1945 AD Aug 11 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
1945 AD Aug 15 – Emperor Hirohito broadcasts his declaration of surrender following the effective surrender of Japan in World War II; Korea gains independence from the Empire of Japan.
1945 AD Aug 16 – The National Representatives' Congress, the precursor of the current National Assembly of Vietnam, convenes in Sơn Dương.
1945 AD Aug 17 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
1945 AD Aug 17 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.
1945 AD Aug 17 – Evacuation of Manchukuo: At Talitzou by the Sino-Korean border, Puyi, then the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, formally renounces the imperial throne, dissolves the state, and cedes its territory to the Republic of China.
1945 AD Aug 18 – Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
1945 AD Aug 18 – Soviet-Japanese War: Battle of Shumshu: Soviet forces land at Takeda Beach on Shumshu Island and launch the Battle of Shumshu; the Soviet Union’s Invasion of the Kuril Islands commences.
1945 AD Aug 19 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1945 AD Aug 21 – Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945 AD Aug 23 – World War II: Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".
1945 AD Aug 25 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
1945 AD Aug 25 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
1945 AD Aug 30 – The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
1945 AD Aug 30 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 AD Aug 30 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1945 AD Sep 02 – World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1945 AD Sep 02 – Communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the end of the Nguyễn dynasty.
1945 AD Sep 03 – A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
1945 AD Sep 04 – A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
1945 AD Sep 05 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
1945 AD Sep 05 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1945 AD Sep 07 – World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
1945 AD Sep 07 – The Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 is held.
1945 AD Sep 08 – The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
1945 AD Sep 09 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.
1945 AD Sep 11 – World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
1945 AD Sep 12 – The People's Republic of Korea is proclaimed, bringing an end to Japanese rule over Korea.
1945 AD Oct 30 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line.
1945 AD Nov 01 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
1945 AD Nov 20 – Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
1945 AD Nov 21 – The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise.
1945 AD Nov 27 – CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is founded to send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.
1945 AD Nov 29 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
1945 AD Dec 04 – By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
1945 AD Dec 05 – Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.
1946 AD Jan 03 – Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
1946 AD Jan 06 – The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
1946 AD Jan 08 – Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Finnish Allied Commission, submitted to the Finnish War Criminal Court an interrogation report by General Erich Buschenhagen, a German prisoner of war, on the contacts between Finnish and German military personnel before the Continuation War and a copy of Hitler's Barbarossa plan.
1946 AD Jan 10 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946 AD Jan 10 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1946 AD Jan 11 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
1946 AD Jan 17 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1946 AD Jan 19 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
1946 AD Jan 22 – In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad; he becomes the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh becomes the prime minister.
1946 AD Jan 22 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1946 AD Jan 24 – The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
1946 AD Jan 25 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
1946 AD Jan 25 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
1946 AD Jan 31 – Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1946 AD Jan 31 – The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
1946 AD Feb 01 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.^{[citation needed]}
1946 AD Feb 01 – The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
1946 AD Feb 08 – The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1946 AD Feb 08 – The People's Republic of Korea is dissolved in the North, establishing the communist-controlled Provisional People's Committee of North Korea.
1946 AD Feb 12 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1946 AD Feb 12 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1946 AD Feb 14 – The Bank of England is nationalized.
1946 AD Feb 15 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1946 AD Feb 18 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
1946 AD Feb 22 – The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.
1946 AD Feb 24 – Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
1946 AD Mar 01 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
1946 AD Mar 05 – Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 AD Mar 06 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1946 AD Mar 29 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
1946 AD Apr 01 – The 8.6 M_w  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
1946 AD Apr 01 – The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
1946 AD Apr 03 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1946 AD Apr 04 – Greek judge and archeologist Panagiotis Poulitsas is appointed Prime Minister of Greece in the midst of the Greek Civil War.
1946 AD Apr 05 – Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
1946 AD Apr 05 – A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
1946 AD Apr 07 – The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1946 AD Apr 08 – Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
1946 AD Apr 17 – The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
1946 AD Apr 18 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
1946 AD Apr 20 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1946 AD Apr 23 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1946 AD Apr 29 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
1946 AD May 01 – Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
1946 AD May 04 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.
1946 AD May 05 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1946 AD May 07 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.
1946 AD May 08 – Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
1946 AD May 09 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
1946 AD May 10 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
1946 AD May 21 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1946 AD May 25 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
1946 AD Jun 01 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed.
1946 AD Jun 02 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
1946 AD Jun 05 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
1946 AD Jun 07 – The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.
1946 AD Jun 18 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.
1946 AD Jun 23 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
1946 AD Jun 27 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
1946 AD Jul 01 – Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
1946 AD Jul 04 – The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
1946 AD Jul 04 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
1946 AD Jul 05 – Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
1946 AD Jul 07 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1946 AD Jul 07 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1946 AD Jul 15 – The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1946 AD Jul 22 – King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
1946 AD Jul 25 – The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
1946 AD Jul 26 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.
1946 AD Aug 01 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
1946 AD Aug 03 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
1946 AD Aug 04 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1946 AD Aug 07 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
1946 AD Aug 08 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range.
1946 AD Aug 16 – Mass riots in Kolkata begin; more than 4,000 people would be killed in 72 hours.
1946 AD Aug 16 – The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad.
1946 AD Aug 23 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1946 AD Aug 28 – The Workers’ Party of North Korea, predecessor of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, is founded at a congress held in Pyongyang, North Korea.
1946 AD Sep 02 – The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as vice president with the powers of a Prime Minister.
1946 AD Sep 06 – United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
1946 AD Sep 08 – The referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria.
1946 AD Nov 03 – The Constitution of Japan is adopted through Emperor's assent.
1946 AD Nov 19 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1946 AD Nov 23 – French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians.
1946 AD Dec 07 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
1946 AD Dec 09 – The subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the Doctors' Trial, prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
1946 AD Dec 09 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
1947 AD Jan 01 – Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
1947 AD Jan 01 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
1947 AD Jan 03 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
1947 AD Jan 06 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
1947 AD Jan 15 – The Black Dahlia murder: The dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
1947 AD Jan 22 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
1947 AD Jan 25 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1947 AD Feb 10 – The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.
1947 AD Feb 12 – The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
1947 AD Feb 12 – Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
1947 AD Feb 18 – First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
1947 AD Feb 21 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1947 AD Feb 23 – International Organization for Standardization is founded.
1947 AD Feb 25 – The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
1947 AD Feb 25 – Soviet NKVD forces in Hungary abduct Béla Kovács—secretary-general of the majority Independent Smallholders' Party—and deport him to the USSR in defiance of Parliament. His arrest is an important turning point in the Communist takeover of Hungary.
1947 AD Feb 28 – February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
1947 AD Mar 01 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
1947 AD Mar 29 – Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
1947 AD Apr 01 – The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
1947 AD Apr 06 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
1947 AD Apr 09 – The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
1947 AD Apr 09 – The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
1947 AD Apr 09 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
1947 AD Apr 15 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1947 AD Apr 16 – An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1947 AD Apr 16 – Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1947 AD Apr 18 – The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany.
1947 AD Apr 28 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1947 AD Apr 30 – In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
1947 AD May 01 – Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
1947 AD May 03 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1947 AD May 22 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
1947 AD May 23 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
1947 AD May 29 – United Airlines Flight 521 crashes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 43.
1947 AD May 31 – Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
1947 AD Jun 05 – Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1947 AD Jun 10 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1947 AD Jun 19 – Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21.
1947 AD Jun 23 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
1947 AD Jun 24 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1947 AD Jun 25 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
1947 AD Jun 26 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
1947 AD Jul 01 – The Philippine Air Force is established.
1947 AD Jul 04 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
1947 AD Jul 06 – Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
1947 AD Jul 06 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1947 AD Jul 08 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
1947 AD Jul 10 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
1947 AD Jul 11 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1947 AD Jul 19 – Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
1947 AD Jul 19 – Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
1947 AD Jul 26 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
1947 AD Jul 27 – In Vatican City, Rome, canonization of Catherine Labouré, the saint whose apparitions of the Virgin Mary originated the worldwide diffusion of the Miraculous Medal.
1947 AD Aug 02 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
1947 AD Aug 04 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1947 AD Aug 07 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1947 AD Aug 07 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
1947 AD Aug 14 – Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire.
1947 AD Aug 15 – India gains independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1947 AD Aug 15 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
1947 AD Aug 17 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
1947 AD Sep 09 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1947 AD Oct 30 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
1947 AD Nov 02 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1947 AD Nov 06 – Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television.
1947 AD Nov 13 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
1947 AD Nov 18 – The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
1947 AD Nov 20 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1947 AD Nov 25 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
1947 AD Nov 25 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
1947 AD Nov 29 – The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
1947 AD Nov 29 – French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam during the First Indochina War.
1947 AD Nov 30 – Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1947 AD Dec 02 – Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Arabs riot in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
1948 AD Jan 01 – The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
1948 AD Jan 04 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic.
1948 AD Jan 07 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1948 AD Jan 17 – The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia is ratified.
1948 AD Jan 21 – The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Québec Flag Day.
1948 AD Jan 30 – British South American Airways' Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle.
1948 AD Jan 30 – Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home compound, India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcasts to the nation, saying "The light has gone out of our lives". The date of the assassination becomes observed as "Martyrs' Day" in India.
1948 AD Feb 04 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1948 AD Feb 19 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
1948 AD Feb 21 – NASCAR is incorporated.
1948 AD Feb 25 – In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.
1948 AD Feb 28 – Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots and looting in Accra.
1948 AD Apr 01 – Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
1948 AD Apr 01 – Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
1948 AD Apr 03 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1948 AD Apr 03 – In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins known as the Jeju uprising.
1948 AD Apr 07 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1948 AD Apr 09 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
1948 AD Apr 09 – Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
1948 AD Apr 13 – In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
1948 AD Apr 16 – The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.
1948 AD Apr 21 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 47 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.
1948 AD Apr 22 – Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces.
1948 AD Apr 28 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
1948 AD Apr 30 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
1948 AD May 03 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1948 AD May 07 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1948 AD May 09 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
1948 AD May 12 – Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cedes the throne to her daughter Juliana.
1948 AD May 13 – Arab–Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre occurs, a day prior to the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
1948 AD May 14 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1948 AD May 15 – Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1948 AD May 18 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
1948 AD May 20 – Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
1948 AD May 22 – Finnish President J. K. Paasikivi releases Yrjö Leino from his duties as interior minister in 1948 after the Finnish parliament adopted a motion of censure of Leino with connection to his illegal handing over of nineteen people to the Soviet Union in 1945.
1948 AD May 23 – Finnish President J. K. Paasikivi releases Yrjö Leino from his duties as interior minister in 1948 after the Finnish parliament adopted a motion of censure of Leino with connection to his illegal handing over of nineteen people to the Soviet Union in 1945.
1948 AD May 24 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
1948 AD May 26 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1948 AD May 28 – Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
1948 AD May 29 – United Nations Truce Supervision Organization is founded.
1948 AD May 30 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1948 AD Jun 07 – Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
1948 AD Jun 07 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
1948 AD Jun 09 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
1948 AD Jun 16 – Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
1948 AD Jun 17 – United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1948 AD Jun 18 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
1948 AD Jun 18 – Britain, France and the United States announce that on June 21, the Deutsche Mark will be introduced in western Germany and West Berlin. Over the next six days, Communists increasingly restrict access to Berlin.
1948 AD Jun 20 – The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Soviet Military Administration in Germany responded by imposing the Berlin Blockade four days later.
1948 AD Jun 22 – The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.
1948 AD Jun 22 – King George VI formally gives up the title "Emperor of India", half a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India.
1948 AD Jun 24 – Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
1948 AD Jun 25 – The United States Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act to allow World War II refugees to immigrate to the United States above quota restrictions.
1948 AD Jun 26 – The United States Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act to allow World War II refugees to immigrate to the United States above quota restrictions.
1948 AD Jun 28 – Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.
1948 AD Jun 28 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1948 AD Jul 01 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1948 AD Jul 05 – National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
1948 AD Jul 08 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
1948 AD Jul 12 – Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
1948 AD Jul 14 – Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
1948 AD Jul 16 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1948 AD Jul 16 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
1948 AD Jul 26 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States.
1948 AD Jul 29 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
1948 AD Jul 31 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1948 AD Jul 31 – USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
1948 AD Aug 03 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1948 AD Aug 10 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1948 AD Aug 12 – Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.
1948 AD Aug 15 – The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula.
1948 AD Aug 20 – Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob M. Lomakin is expelled by the United States, due to the Kasenkina Case.
1948 AD Aug 23 – The World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries.
1948 AD Aug 25 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1948 AD Aug 29 – Northwest Airlines Flight 421 crashes in Fountain City, Wisconsin, killing all 37 aboard.
1948 AD Sep 05 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister; as such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1948 AD Sep 09 – Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
1948 AD Sep 12 – Chinese Civil War: Marshal Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Chinese communist Northeast Field Army, launched a massive offensive toward Jinzhou, Liaoshen Campaign has begun.
1948 AD Sep 13 – Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
1948 AD Sep 13 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1948 AD Sep 14 – The Indian Army captures the city of Aurangabad as part of Operation Polo.
1948 AD Oct 30 – A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
1948 AD Nov 01 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is enthroned.
1948 AD Nov 22 – Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign.
1948 AD Dec 04 – Chinese Civil War: The SS Kiangya, carrying Nationalist refugees from Shanghai, explodes in the Huangpu River.
1948 AD Dec 09 – The Genocide Convention is adopted.
1948 AD Dec 10 – The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
1949 AD Jan 01 – United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
1949 AD Jan 02 – Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
1949 AD Jan 03 – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
1949 AD Jan 05 – In his "State of the Union" address, United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
1949 AD Jan 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
1949 AD Jan 15 – Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist government.
1949 AD Jan 20 – Point Four Program, a program for economic aid to poor countries, is announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as president.
1949 AD Jan 25 – The first Emmy Awards are presented in the United States; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1949 AD Jan 26 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
1949 AD Jan 31 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
1949 AD Feb 14 – The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
1949 AD Feb 14 – The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1949 AD Feb 15 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1949 AD Feb 17 – Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
1949 AD Feb 19 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1949 AD Feb 24 – The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1949 AD Mar 02 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
1949 AD Mar 30 – Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
1949 AD Mar 31 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1949 AD Apr 01 – Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
1949 AD Apr 01 – The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
1949 AD Apr 04 – Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1949 AD Apr 05 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
1949 AD Apr 18 – The Republic of Ireland Act comes into effect.
1949 AD Apr 23 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
1949 AD Apr 28 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
1949 AD May 04 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
1949 AD May 06 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
1949 AD May 12 – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
1949 AD May 20 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
1949 AD Jun 05 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
1949 AD Jun 08 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 AD Jun 08 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1949 AD Jun 14 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space.
1949 AD Jun 24 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
1949 AD Jul 01 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
1949 AD Jul 20 – The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1949 AD Jul 21 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
1949 AD Jul 27 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1949 AD Aug 03 – The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
1949 AD Aug 05 – In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
1949 AD Aug 10 – An amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 enhances the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense over the Army, Navy and Air Force, and replaces the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense.
1949 AD Aug 17 – The 6.7 M_s  Karlıova earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 320–450 dead.
1949 AD Aug 17 – Matsukawa derailment: Unknown saboteurs cause a passenger train to derail and overturn in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, killing three crew members and igniting a political firestorm between the Japanese Communist Party and the government of Occupied Japan that will eventually lead to the Japanese Red Purge.
1949 AD Aug 20 – Hungary adopts the Hungarian Constitution of 1949 and becomes a People’s Republic.
1949 AD Aug 22 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
1949 AD Aug 24 – The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
1949 AD Aug 29 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1949 AD Aug 31 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece into Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
1949 AD Nov 01 – All 55 people on board Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 are killed when the Douglas DC-4 operating the flight collides in mid-air with a Bolivian Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft over Alexandria, Virginia.
1949 AD Nov 02 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1949 AD Nov 03 – Chinese Civil War: The Battle of Dengbu Island occurs.
1949 AD Nov 07 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), the world's oldest offshore oil platform.
1949 AD Nov 18 – The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
1949 AD Nov 26 – The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
1949 AD Dec 02 – Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
1949 AD Dec 04 – Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state.
1949 AD Dec 07 – Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.
1949 AD Dec 10 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
1950 AD Jan 05 – In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
1950 AD Jan 06 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
1950 AD Jan 13 – British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
1950 AD Jan 13 – Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
1950 AD Jan 17 – The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
1950 AD Jan 17 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 79 relating to arms control is adopted.
1950 AD Jan 21 – American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1950 AD Jan 23 – The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
1950 AD Jan 26 – The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as the first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
1950 AD Jan 31 – President Truman orders the development of thermonuclear weapons.
1950 AD Feb 01 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
1950 AD Feb 08 – Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
1950 AD Feb 09 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1950 AD Mar 01 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
1950 AD Mar 07 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1950 AD Mar 08 – The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production.
1950 AD Apr 08 – India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.
1950 AD May 08 – The Tollund Man was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark.
1950 AD May 09 – Robert Schuman presents the "Schuman Declaration", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1950 AD May 13 – The inaugural Formula One World Championship race takes place at Silverstone Circuit. The race was won by Giuseppe Farina, who would go on to become the inaugural champion that year.
1950 AD May 19 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
1950 AD May 19 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
1950 AD May 27 – The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.
1950 AD May 29 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1950 AD Jun 01 – The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith: "The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny - Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear." A response to Joseph R. McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia.
1950 AD Jun 01 – The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
1950 AD Jun 03 – Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.
1950 AD Jun 24 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
1950 AD Jun 25 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
1950 AD Jun 26 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
1950 AD Jun 27 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1950 AD Jun 28 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
1950 AD Jun 28 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.
1950 AD Jun 28 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
1950 AD Jun 29 – Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.
1950 AD Jul 04 – Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
1950 AD Jul 05 – Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
1950 AD Jul 05 – Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
1950 AD Jul 11 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
1950 AD Jul 14 – Korean War: beginning of the Battle of Taejon.
1950 AD Jul 16 – Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
1950 AD Jul 20 – Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
1950 AD Jul 20 – After a month-long campaign, the majority of North Korea's Air Force was destroyed by anti-communist forces.
1950 AD Jul 24 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1950 AD Jul 29 – Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.
1950 AD Aug 01 – Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
1950 AD Aug 12 – Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: 75 American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.
1950 AD Aug 15 – Measuring M_w 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.
1950 AD Aug 18 – Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium, is assassinated. The Party newspaper blames royalists and Rexists.
1950 AD Aug 24 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
1950 AD Aug 25 – To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army Frank Pace to seize control of the nation's railroads.
1950 AD Aug 29 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
1950 AD Aug 31 – TWA Flight 903 crashes near Itay El Barud, Egypt, killing all 55 aboard.
1950 AD Sep 03 – "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
1950 AD Sep 04 – "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
1950 AD Nov 01 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
1950 AD Nov 03 – Air India Flight 245 crashes into Mont Blanc, while on approach to Geneva Airport, killing all 48 people on board.
1950 AD Nov 05 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
1950 AD Nov 08 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
1950 AD Nov 13 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
1950 AD Nov 19 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1950 AD Nov 21 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
1950 AD Nov 25 – The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 impacts 22 American states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in damages (1950 dollars).
1950 AD Nov 26 – Korean War: People's Volunteer Army troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
1950 AD Dec 02 – Korean War: The Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ends with a decisive Chinese victory and UN forces are completely expelled from North Korea.
1950 AD Dec 09 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1951 AD Jan 04 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time.
1951 AD Jan 06 – Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.
1951 AD Jan 13 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
1951 AD Jan 21 – The catastrophic eruption of Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea claims 2,942 lives.
1951 AD Jan 27 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
1951 AD Jan 31 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to the Korean War is adopted.
1951 AD Feb 06 – The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
1951 AD Feb 06 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1951 AD Feb 07 – Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are massacred by South Korean forces.
1951 AD Feb 09 – Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.
1951 AD Feb 13 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
1951 AD Feb 25 – The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.
1951 AD Feb 27 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1951 AD Mar 06 – Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1951 AD Mar 07 – Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1951 AD Mar 07 – Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, inside a mosque in Tehran.
1951 AD Mar 29 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
1951 AD Mar 29 – Hypnosis murders in Copenhagen
1951 AD Mar 31 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1951 AD Apr 05 – Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1951 AD Apr 11 – Korean War: President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.
1951 AD Apr 11 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
1951 AD Apr 17 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
1951 AD Apr 22 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
1951 AD Apr 23 – Cold War: American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1951 AD Apr 25 – Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
1951 AD Apr 29 – Tibetan delegates arrive in Beijing and sign a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
1951 AD May 03 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
1951 AD May 03 – The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
1951 AD May 13 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
1951 AD May 14 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
1951 AD May 16 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1951 AD May 21 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
1951 AD May 31 – The Uniform Code of Military Justice takes effect as the legal system of the United States Armed Forces.
1951 AD Jun 14 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1951 AD Jun 23 – The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched.
1951 AD Jul 04 – Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
1951 AD Jul 04 – William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1951 AD Jul 10 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1951 AD Jul 14 – Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
1951 AD Jul 16 – King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
1951 AD Jul 16 – J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
1951 AD Jul 20 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
1951 AD Jul 26 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
1951 AD Aug 24 – United Air Lines Flight 615 crashes near Decoto, California, killing 50 people.
1951 AD Nov 01 – Operation Buster–Jangle: 6,500 United States Army soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
1951 AD Nov 02 – Six thousand British troops arrive in Suez after the Egyptian government abrogates the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936.
1951 AD Nov 02 – Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.
1952 AD Jan 14 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
1952 AD Jan 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1952 AD Feb 06 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1952 AD Feb 15 – King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
1952 AD Feb 20 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1952 AD Feb 21 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
1952 AD Feb 21 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1952 AD Feb 26 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
1952 AD Apr 08 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
1952 AD Apr 09 – Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
1952 AD Apr 11 – Bolivian National Revolution: Rebels take over Palacio Quemado.
1952 AD Apr 15 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
1952 AD Apr 21 – Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
1952 AD Apr 28 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.
1952 AD Apr 28 – The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
1952 AD Apr 28 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1952 AD May 02 – A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
1952 AD May 03 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
1952 AD May 03 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
1952 AD May 07 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
1952 AD May 13 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1952 AD Jun 13 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1952 AD Jun 17 – Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
1952 AD Jun 21 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1952 AD Jun 29 – The first Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from Finland wins the title of Miss Universe 1952.
1952 AD Jul 07 – The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
1952 AD Jul 19 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
1952 AD Jul 21 – The 7.3 M_w  Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
1952 AD Jul 23 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
1952 AD Jul 26 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
1952 AD Aug 11 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
1952 AD Aug 12 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
1952 AD Aug 15 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
1952 AD Aug 29 – American experimental composer John Cage’s 4’33” premieres at Maverick Concert Hall, played by American pianist David Tudor.
1952 AD Sep 06 – A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
1952 AD Sep 08 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
1952 AD Nov 01 – Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
1952 AD Nov 04 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1952 AD Nov 19 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1952 AD Nov 25 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End after a premiere in Nottingham, UK. It will become the longest continuously running play in history.
1952 AD Nov 25 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends in a Chinese victory. American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
1952 AD Nov 29 – U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1952 AD Dec 01 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
1952 AD Dec 05 – Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
1953 AD Jan 03 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1953 AD Jan 05 – The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
1953 AD Jan 13 – An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
1953 AD Jan 14 – Josip Broz Tito is elected the first President of Yugoslavia.
1953 AD Jan 19 – Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1953 AD Jan 31 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
1953 AD Feb 03 – The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
1953 AD Feb 11 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 AD Feb 11 – Israeli-Soviet relations are severed.
1953 AD Feb 19 – Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
1953 AD Feb 28 – James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
1953 AD Mar 01 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
1953 AD Mar 03 – A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1953 AD Mar 05 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
1953 AD Mar 06 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1953 AD Apr 08 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
1953 AD Apr 13 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
1953 AD Apr 24 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1953 AD Apr 25 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1953 AD Apr 27 – Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
1953 AD Apr 29 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1953 AD May 04 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1953 AD May 14 – Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a walkout, marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike.
1953 AD May 18 – Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1953 AD May 25 – Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 AD May 25 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1953 AD May 29 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1953 AD Jun 02 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised.
1953 AD Jun 08 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
1953 AD Jun 08 – The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1953 AD Jun 09 – The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
1953 AD Jun 17 – Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1953 AD Jun 18 – The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
1953 AD Jun 18 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
1953 AD Jun 19 – Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1953 AD Jun 30 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1953 AD Jul 07 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1953 AD Jul 17 – The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
1953 AD Jul 26 – Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
1953 AD Jul 26 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
1953 AD Jul 26 – Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
1953 AD Jul 27 – Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
1953 AD Aug 10 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
1953 AD Aug 12 – First thermonuclear bomb test: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4) using a "layered" scheme.
1953 AD Aug 12 – The 7.2 M_s  Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
1953 AD Aug 17 – First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
1953 AD Aug 19 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1953 AD Aug 22 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1953 AD Sep 07 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1953 AD Sep 12 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
1953 AD Sep 13 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1953 AD Oct 30 – President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
1953 AD Nov 09 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
1953 AD Nov 21 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
1953 AD Nov 30 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1953 AD Dec 08 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
1953 AD Dec 09 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
1953 AD Dec 10 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1954 AD Jan 02 – India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
1954 AD Jan 07 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1954 AD Jan 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people.
1954 AD Jan 14 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1954 AD Jan 20 – In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
1954 AD Jan 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
1954 AD Feb 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1954 AD Feb 13 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
1954 AD Feb 15 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
1954 AD Feb 18 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
1954 AD Feb 19 – Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
1954 AD Feb 23 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
1954 AD Mar 01 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954 AD Mar 01 – Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1954 AD Mar 26 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
1954 AD Apr 01 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1954 AD Apr 02 – A 19-month-old infant is swept up in the ocean tides at Hermosa Beach, California. Local photographer John L. Gaunt photographs the incident; 1955 Pulitzer winner "Tragedy by the Sea".
1954 AD Apr 07 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1954 AD Apr 08 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
1954 AD Apr 08 – South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
1954 AD Apr 18 – Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1954 AD Apr 22 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
1954 AD Apr 25 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1954 AD Apr 26 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1954 AD Apr 26 – The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
1954 AD May 06 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
1954 AD May 07 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
1954 AD May 13 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
1954 AD May 17 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
1954 AD Jun 09 – Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1954 AD Jun 12 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
1954 AD Jun 14 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
1954 AD Jun 18 – Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
1954 AD Jun 24 – First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M. 100 of France in An Khê.
1954 AD Jun 27 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1954 AD Jun 27 – The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
1954 AD Jul 04 – Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
1954 AD Jul 05 – The BBC broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin.
1954 AD Jul 05 – Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
1954 AD Jul 15 – The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight.
1954 AD Jul 20 – Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
1954 AD Jul 21 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1954 AD Aug 10 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
1954 AD Aug 13 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
1954 AD Aug 15 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
1954 AD Aug 16 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
1954 AD Aug 23 – The first flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft takes place.
1954 AD Aug 24 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
1954 AD Aug 24 – Vice president João Café Filho takes office as president of Brazil, following the suicide of Getúlio Vargas.
1954 AD Sep 03 – The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
1954 AD Sep 04 – The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
1954 AD Sep 05 – KLM Flight 633 crashes into the River Shannon in Shannon, County Clare, Ireland, killing 28.
1954 AD Sep 08 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
1954 AD Sep 09 – The 6.7 M_w  Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.
1954 AD Sep 11 – Hurricane Edna hits New England (United States) as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
1954 AD Sep 14 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
1954 AD Nov 01 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1954 AD Nov 07 – In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
1954 AD Nov 13 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1954 AD Nov 19 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1954 AD Nov 27 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1954 AD Nov 30 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
1954 AD Dec 02 – Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
1954 AD Dec 02 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
1955 AD Jan 02 – Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
1955 AD Jan 07 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
1955 AD Feb 08 – The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1955 AD Feb 13 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1955 AD Feb 13 – Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy.
1955 AD Feb 18 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
1955 AD Mar 02 – Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
1955 AD Mar 04 – An order to protect the endangered Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) was legalized.
1955 AD Apr 01 – The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
1955 AD Apr 03 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1955 AD Apr 07 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1955 AD Apr 11 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1955 AD Apr 12 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
1955 AD Apr 15 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1955 AD Apr 18 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1955 AD Apr 24 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1955 AD May 05 – The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
1955 AD May 09 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1955 AD May 14 – Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1955 AD May 18 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
1955 AD May 25 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1955 AD May 25 – First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: On the British Kangchenjunga expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reach the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
1955 AD May 31 – The U.S. Supreme Court expands on its Brown v. Board of Education decision by ordering district courts and school districts to enforce educational desegregation "at all deliberate speed."
1955 AD Jun 02 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since 1948.
1955 AD Jun 07 – Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
1955 AD Jun 11 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
1955 AD Jun 14 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1955 AD Jun 16 – In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.
1955 AD Jul 09 – The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
1955 AD Jul 15 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1955 AD Jul 17 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
1955 AD Jul 27 – The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
1955 AD Jul 27 – El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
1955 AD Aug 17 – Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
1955 AD Aug 19 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
1955 AD Aug 20 – Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1955 AD Aug 27 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.
1955 AD Aug 28 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
1955 AD Sep 06 – Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
1955 AD Nov 01 – The establishment of a Military Assistance Advisory Group in South Vietnam marks the beginning of American involvement in the conflict.
1955 AD Nov 01 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
1955 AD Nov 05 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1955 AD Nov 19 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1955 AD Nov 22 – The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.
1955 AD Nov 23 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
1955 AD Dec 01 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
1955 AD Dec 05 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
1955 AD Dec 05 – E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery bus boycott.
1955 AD Dec 08 – The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
1956 AD Jan 01 – Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
1956 AD Jan 03 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1956 AD Jan 04 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
1956 AD Jan 08 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making first contact.
1956 AD Jan 26 – Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland.
1956 AD Jan 28 – Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
1956 AD Jan 30 – In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.
1956 AD Feb 20 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
1956 AD Feb 25 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.
1956 AD Mar 01 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
1956 AD Mar 01 – Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
1956 AD Apr 02 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
1956 AD Apr 03 – Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
1956 AD Apr 05 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
1956 AD Apr 07 – Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.
1956 AD Apr 19 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1956 AD Apr 26 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
1956 AD Apr 30 – Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
1956 AD May 01 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1956 AD May 20 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1956 AD May 24 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
1956 AD Jun 05 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1956 AD Jun 11 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
1956 AD Jun 20 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
1956 AD Jun 23 – The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.
1956 AD Jun 28 – In Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
1956 AD Jun 29 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1956 AD Jun 30 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
1956 AD Jul 09 – The 7.7 M_w  Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
1956 AD Jul 13 – The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
1956 AD Jul 16 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
1956 AD Jul 25 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
1956 AD Jul 26 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.
1956 AD Jul 30 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
1956 AD Aug 06 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
1956 AD Aug 27 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
1956 AD Sep 09 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1956 AD Sep 13 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1956 AD Sep 13 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 AD Oct 30 – Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
1956 AD Oct 31 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
1956 AD Oct 31 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956: A Revolutionary Headquarters is established in Hungary. Following Imre Nagy's announcement of October 30, banned non-Communist political parties are reformed, and the MDP is replaced by the MSZMP. József Mindszenty is released from prison. The Soviet Politburo makes the decision to crush the Revolution.
1956 AD Nov 01 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
1956 AD Nov 01 – Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy announces Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.
1956 AD Nov 01 – The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
1956 AD Nov 02 – Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy requests UN aid for Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.
1956 AD Nov 02 – Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
1956 AD Nov 03 – Suez Crisis: The Khan Yunis killings by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza result in the deaths of 275 Palestinians.
1956 AD Nov 03 – Hungarian Revolution: A new Hungarian government is formed, in which many members of banned non-Communist parties participate. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich form a counter-government in Moscow as Soviet troops prepare for the final assault.
1956 AD Nov 04 – Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1956 AD Nov 05 – Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.
1956 AD Nov 07 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
1956 AD Nov 07 – Hungarian Revolution: János Kádár returns to Budapest in a Soviet armored convoy, officially taking office as the next Hungarian leader. By this point, most armed resistance has been defeated.
1956 AD Nov 13 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott.
1956 AD Nov 22 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.
1956 AD Dec 02 – The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1956 AD Dec 04 – The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.
1956 AD Dec 06 – A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
1956 AD Dec 09 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
1957 AD Jan 01 – George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1957 AD Jan 01 – Lèse majesté in Thailand is strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after the Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.^: 6, 18
1957 AD Jan 03 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
1957 AD Jan 05 – In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
1957 AD Jan 09 – British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
1957 AD Jan 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
1957 AD Jan 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
1957 AD Jan 22 – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
1957 AD Jan 22 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1957 AD Jan 23 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
1957 AD Jan 31 – Eight people (five total crew from two aircraft and three on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1957 AD Feb 18 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
1957 AD Feb 18 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
1957 AD Feb 22 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
1957 AD Mar 04 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1957 AD Mar 06 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
1957 AD Mar 29 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
1957 AD Mar 31 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1957 AD Apr 06 – The flag carrier airline of Greece for decades, Olympic Airways, is founded by Aristotle Onassis following the acquisition of "TAE - Greek National Airlines".
1957 AD Apr 09 – The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
1957 AD Apr 11 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1957 AD Apr 24 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
1957 AD Apr 30 – Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
1957 AD May 01 – A Vickers VC.1 Viking crashes while attempting to return to Blackbushe Airport in Yateley, killing 34.
1957 AD May 03 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
1957 AD May 08 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.
1957 AD May 15 – At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
1957 AD May 22 – South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
1957 AD May 23 – South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
1957 AD Jun 09 – First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
1957 AD Jun 10 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
1957 AD Jun 21 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
1957 AD Jun 24 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
1957 AD Jun 27 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
1957 AD Jul 01 – The International Geophysical Year begins.
1957 AD Jul 06 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
1957 AD Jul 06 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
1957 AD Jul 11 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
1957 AD Jul 14 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
1957 AD Jul 16 – KLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people.
1957 AD Jul 19 – The largely autobiographical novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh was published.
1957 AD Jul 25 – The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
1957 AD Jul 26 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
1957 AD Jul 28 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
1957 AD Jul 29 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1957 AD Jul 29 – Tonight Starring Jack Paar premieres on NBC with Jack Paar beginning the modern day talk show.
1957 AD Aug 01 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1957 AD Aug 05 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
1957 AD Aug 21 – The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
1957 AD Aug 28 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
1957 AD Aug 31 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1957 AD Sep 02 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
1957 AD Sep 05 – Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
1957 AD Nov 01 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
1957 AD Nov 03 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1957 AD Nov 07 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1957 AD Nov 08 – Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
1957 AD Nov 08 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
1957 AD Dec 02 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to the Kashmir conflict is adopted.
1957 AD Dec 06 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
1958 AD Jan 01 – The European Economic Community is established.
1958 AD Jan 03 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
1958 AD Jan 04 – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
1958 AD Jan 13 – The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
1958 AD Jan 18 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
1958 AD Jan 23 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
1958 AD Jan 28 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1958 AD Jan 31 – Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
1958 AD Feb 03 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1958 AD Feb 05 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958 AD Feb 05 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1958 AD Feb 06 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1958 AD Feb 21 – The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
1958 AD Feb 22 – Following a plebiscite in both countries the previous day, Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1958 AD Feb 23 – Five-time Argentine Formula One champion Juan Manuel Fangio is kidnapped by rebels involved in the Cuban Revolution, on the eve of the Cuban Grand Prix. He was released the following day after the race.
1958 AD Feb 28 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
1958 AD Mar 01 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
1958 AD Mar 03 – Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1958 AD Mar 26 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1958 AD Mar 26 – The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1958 AD Mar 27 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
1958 AD Mar 31 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1958 AD Apr 04 – The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
1958 AD Apr 05 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1958 AD Apr 06 – Capital Airlines Flight 67 crashes into Saginaw Bay near Freeland, Michigan, killing 47.
1958 AD Apr 13 – American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
1958 AD Apr 14 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
1958 AD Apr 21 – United Airlines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
1958 AD Apr 26 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1958 AD May 13 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, then US Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 AD May 13 – May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
1958 AD May 13 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
1958 AD May 22 – The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths are estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
1958 AD May 23 – The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths are estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
1958 AD May 24 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1958 AD May 27 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
1958 AD May 28 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
1958 AD May 30 – Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1958 AD Jun 01 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1958 AD Jun 16 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1958 AD Jun 17 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
1958 AD Jun 18 title="1958">1958 – Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.
1958 AD Jul 01 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 AD Jul 01 – Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
1958 AD Jul 07 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
1958 AD Jul 09 – A 7.8 M_w  strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
1958 AD Jul 14 – In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.
1958 AD Jul 25 – The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1958 AD Jul 26 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
1958 AD Jul 29 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1958 AD Aug 03 – The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
1958 AD Aug 06 – Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile.
1958 AD Aug 17 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
1958 AD Aug 18 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1958 AD Aug 18 – Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so, placing first among the 39 competitors.
1958 AD Aug 23 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1958 AD Aug 25 – The world’s first publicly marketed instant noodles, Chikin Ramen, are introduced by Taiwanese-Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando.
1958 AD Aug 29 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1958 AD Sep 02 – A USAF RC-130 is shot down by fighters over Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
1958 AD Sep 12 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
1958 AD Sep 14 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
1958 AD Nov 25 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
1958 AD Nov 28 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
1958 AD Nov 28 – First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
1958 AD Dec 01 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
1958 AD Dec 01 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
1958 AD Dec 05 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958 AD Dec 05 – The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
1959 AD Jan 01 – Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces.
1959 AD Jan 02 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
1959 AD Jan 03 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
1959 AD Jan 04 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1959 AD Jan 07 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1959 AD Jan 08 – Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
1959 AD Jan 09 – The Vega de Tera dam fails, triggering a disastrous flood that nearly destroys the town of Ribadelago and kills 144 residents.
1959 AD Jan 16 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Astor Piazzolla International Airport in Mar del Plata, Argentina, killing 51.
1959 AD Jan 29 – The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
1959 AD Jan 30 – The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
1959 AD Jan 30 – MS Hans Hedtoft, specifically designed to operate in icebound seas, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
1959 AD Feb 02 – Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
1959 AD Feb 03 – Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa, an event later known as The Day the Music Died.
1959 AD Feb 06 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 AD Feb 06 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1959 AD Feb 09 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
1959 AD Feb 11 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
1959 AD Feb 16 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1959 AD Feb 17 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1959 AD Feb 17 – A Turkish Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes near Gatwick Airport, killing 14; Turkish prime minister Adnan Menderes survives the crash.
1959 AD Feb 19 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1959 AD Feb 20 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1959 AD Feb 22 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1959 AD Feb 28 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
1959 AD Mar 30 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1959 AD Mar 31 – The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1959 AD Apr 08 – A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
1959 AD Apr 08 – The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
1959 AD Apr 09 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
1959 AD Apr 25 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1959 AD May 04 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
1959 AD May 16 – The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time.
1959 AD May 19 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
1959 AD May 30 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
1959 AD Jun 05 – The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
1959 AD Jun 08 – USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1959 AD Jun 09 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
1959 AD Jun 14 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1959 AD Jun 14 – Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
1959 AD Jun 20 – A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1959 AD Jun 23 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
1959 AD Jun 30 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
1959 AD Jul 01 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1959 AD Jul 07 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1959 AD Jul 15 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
1959 AD Jul 21 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
1959 AD Jul 21 – Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
1959 AD Jul 24 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
1959 AD Jul 27 – The Continental League is announced as baseball's "third major league" in the United States.
1959 AD Jul 29 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1959 AD Aug 03 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
1959 AD Aug 07 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1959 AD Aug 11 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
1959 AD Aug 14 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1959 AD Aug 15 – American Airlines Flight 514, a Boeing 707, crashes near the Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, New York, killing all five people on board.
1959 AD Aug 17 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.2 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
1959 AD Aug 21 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day.
1959 AD Aug 30 – South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.
1959 AD Aug 31 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1959 AD Sep 12 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon.
1959 AD Sep 12 – Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
1959 AD Oct 30 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
1959 AD Nov 02 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 AD Nov 02 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
1959 AD Nov 20 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
1959 AD Nov 21 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
1959 AD Nov 23 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".
1959 AD Dec 01 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1959 AD Dec 03 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
1960 AD Jan 01 – Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
1960 AD Jan 06 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
1960 AD Jan 06 – The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
1960 AD Jan 09 – President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
1960 AD Jan 14 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority authorized by the 1959 Reserve Bank Act, is established.
1960 AD Jan 18 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
1960 AD Jan 19 – Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
1960 AD Jan 19 – Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 crashes near Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Turkey, killing all 42 aboard.
1960 AD Jan 21 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
1960 AD Jan 21 – Avianca Flight 671 crashes at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, killing 37 people.
1960 AD Jan 21 – A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners.
1960 AD Jan 23 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
1960 AD Jan 24 – Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
1960 AD Jan 25 – The National Association of Broadcasters in the United States reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
1960 AD Jan 28 – The National Football League announces expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 NFL season.
1960 AD Jan 30 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
1960 AD Feb 01 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1960 AD Feb 03 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
1960 AD Feb 08 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
1960 AD Feb 08 – The Hollywood Walk of Fame is established.
1960 AD Feb 13 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1960 AD Feb 13 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1960 AD Feb 16 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1960 AD Feb 19 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1960 AD Feb 26 – A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
1960 AD Feb 29 – The 5.7 M_w  Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
1960 AD Mar 04 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
1960 AD Mar 05 – Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
1960 AD Apr 01 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
1960 AD Apr 04 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
1960 AD Apr 08 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
1960 AD Apr 09 – Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.
1960 AD Apr 13 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
1960 AD Apr 15 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
1960 AD Apr 19 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1960 AD Apr 21 – Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
1960 AD Apr 25 – The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1960 AD Apr 26 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
1960 AD May 01 – Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1960 AD May 06 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
1960 AD May 07 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1960 AD May 09 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1960 AD May 13 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1960 AD May 16 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1960 AD May 22 – The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1960 AD May 23 – The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1960 AD May 24 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
1960 AD May 27 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1960 AD Jun 05 – The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland.
1960 AD Jun 10 – Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 crashes near Mackay Airport in Mackay, Queensland, Australia, killing 29.
1960 AD Jun 17 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km²) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
1960 AD Jun 19 – The first NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
1960 AD Jun 20 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
1960 AD Jun 23 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
1960 AD Jun 24 – Assassination attempt of Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt.
1960 AD Jun 25 – Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
1960 AD Jun 26 – Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
1960 AD Jun 30 – Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
1960 AD Jul 01 – The Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) gains its independence from Italy. Concurrently, it unites as scheduled with the five-day-old State of Somaliland (the former British Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.
1960 AD Jul 01 – Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
1960 AD Jul 04 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
1960 AD Jul 08 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
1960 AD Jul 11 – France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) and Niger.
1960 AD Jul 11 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1960 AD Jul 11 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
1960 AD Jul 12 – Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1960 AD Jul 14 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
1960 AD Jul 20 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
1960 AD Jul 20 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
1960 AD Jul 21 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female head of government
1960 AD Jul 28 – The German Volkswagen Act comes into force.
1960 AD Aug 01 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 AD Aug 01 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1960 AD Aug 03 – Niger gains independence from France.
1960 AD Aug 05 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
1960 AD Aug 06 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1960 AD Aug 07 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
1960 AD Aug 09 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
1960 AD Aug 11 – Chad declares independence from France.
1960 AD Aug 12 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
1960 AD Aug 13 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1960 AD Aug 15 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
1960 AD Aug 16 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1960 AD Aug 16 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico, United States, at 102,800 feet (31,300 m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
1960 AD Aug 19 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
1960 AD Aug 19 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
1960 AD Aug 20 – Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
1960 AD Aug 25 – The Games of the XVII Olympiad commence in Rome, Italy.
1960 AD Sep 02 – The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
1960 AD Sep 05 – Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
1960 AD Sep 05 – Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
1960 AD Sep 08 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
1960 AD Sep 10 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1960 AD Sep 14 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1960 AD Sep 14 – Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
1960 AD Nov 02 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
1960 AD Nov 03 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
1960 AD Nov 04 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
1960 AD Nov 08 – John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, who would later be elected president in 1968 and 1972.
1960 AD Nov 09 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
1960 AD Nov 25 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
1960 AD Nov 28 – Mauritania becomes independent of France.
1960 AD Dec 03 – The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.
1960 AD Dec 09 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1961 AD Jan 03 – Cold War: After a series of economic retaliations against one another, the United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1961 AD Jan 03 – The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
1961 AD Jan 03 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1961 AD Jan 08 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
1961 AD Jan 09 – British authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland Spy Ring in London.
1961 AD Jan 11 – Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
1961 AD Jan 17 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
1961 AD Jan 17 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
1961 AD Jan 20 – John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into that office, and the first Catholic.
1961 AD Jan 23 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
1961 AD Jan 24 – Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1961 AD Jan 25 – In Washington, D.C., US President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1961 AD Jan 27 – The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
1961 AD Jan 31 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: The chimpanzee Ham travels into outer space.
1961 AD Feb 03 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1961 AD Feb 04 – The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
1961 AD Feb 12 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1961 AD Feb 13 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1961 AD Feb 14 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1961 AD Feb 15 – Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
1961 AD Feb 16 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
1961 AD Feb 27 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1961 AD Mar 01 – Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
1961 AD Mar 29 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
1961 AD Mar 30 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
1961 AD Apr 11 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1961 AD Apr 12 – Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
1961 AD Apr 16 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1961 AD Apr 17 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1961 AD Apr 20 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1961 AD Apr 23 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
1961 AD Apr 25 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1961 AD Apr 30 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
1961 AD May 01 – The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1961 AD May 04 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1961 AD May 04 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
1961 AD May 05 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1961 AD May 10 – Air France Flight 406 is destroyed by a bomb over the Sahara, killing 78.
1961 AD May 14 – Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
1961 AD May 16 – Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
1961 AD May 19 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1961 AD May 19 – At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
1961 AD May 21 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
1961 AD May 24 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1961 AD May 25 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 AD May 28 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1961 AD May 30 – The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1961 AD May 30 – Viasa Flight 897 crashes after takeoff from Lisbon Airport, killing 61.
1961 AD May 31 – The South African Constitution of 1961 becomes effective, thus creating the Republic of South Africa, which remains outside the Commonwealth of Nations until 1 June 1994, when South Africa is returned to Commonwealth membership.
1961 AD May 31 – In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
1961 AD Jun 01 – The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
1961 AD Jun 04 – Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
1961 AD Jun 16 – While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1961 AD Jun 19 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 AD Jun 23 – The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
1961 AD Jul 04 – On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.
1961 AD Jul 09 – Greece becomes the first member state to join the European Economic Community by signing the Athens Agreement, which was suspended in 1967 during the Greek junta.
1961 AD Jul 12 – Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
1961 AD Jul 12 – ČSA Flight 511 crashes at Casablanca–Anfa Airport in Morocco, killing 72.
1961 AD Jul 19 – Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
1961 AD Jul 20 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
1961 AD Jul 21 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
1961 AD Jul 21 – Alaska Airlines Flight 779 crashes near Shemya Air Force Base in Shemya, Alaska killing six.
1961 AD Jul 23 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
1961 AD Jul 25 – Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1961 AD Aug 01 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1961 AD Aug 10 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
1961 AD Aug 11 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
1961 AD Aug 13 – Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started. The day is known as Barbed Wire Sunday.
1961 AD Aug 15 – Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1961 AD Aug 25 – President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
1961 AD Sep 01 – TWA Flight 529 crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 78 people on board. At the time, it was the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history.
1961 AD Sep 10 – In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
1961 AD Sep 11 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1961 AD Sep 12 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
1961 AD Sep 12 – Air France Flight 2005 crashes near Rabat–Salé Airport, in Rabat, Morocco, killing 77 people.
1961 AD Oct 30 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
1961 AD Oct 30 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
1961 AD Oct 31 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin's Mausoleum, also known as the Lenin Tomb.
1961 AD Nov 18 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
1961 AD Nov 21 – The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.
1961 AD Nov 29 – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
1961 AD Dec 02 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba will adopt Communism.
1961 AD Dec 09 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
1962 AD Jan 01 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
1962 AD Jan 03 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1962 AD Jan 09 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, then known as the "Advanced Saturn", to carry human beings to the Moon.
1962 AD Jan 11 – Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
1962 AD Jan 11 – An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
1962 AD Jan 12 – Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
1962 AD Jan 15 – The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
1962 AD Jan 15 – Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
1962 AD Jan 26 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1962 AD Feb 05 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1962 AD Feb 07 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1962 AD Feb 08 – Charonne massacre: Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1962 AD Feb 10 – Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1962 AD Feb 16 – The Great Sheffield Gale impacts the United Kingdom, killing nine people; the city of Sheffield is devastated, with 150,000 homes damaged.
1962 AD Feb 16 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1962 AD Feb 20 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
1962 AD Feb 27 – Vietnam War: Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
1962 AD Mar 01 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95.
1962 AD Mar 02 – In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
1962 AD Mar 02 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
1962 AD Mar 04 – A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
1962 AD Mar 29 – Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 111⁄2 day constitutional crisis.
1962 AD Apr 21 – The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
1962 AD Apr 26 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1962 AD Apr 26 – The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
1962 AD May 10 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1962 AD May 19 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
1962 AD May 22 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes in Unionville, Missouri after bombs explode on board, killing 45.
1962 AD May 23 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes in Unionville, Missouri after bombs explode on board, killing 45.
1962 AD May 24 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1962 AD May 27 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1962 AD May 31 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1962 AD Jun 01 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1962 AD Jun 02 – During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
1962 AD Jun 03 – At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
1962 AD Jun 07 – The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
1962 AD Jun 11 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1962 AD Jun 14 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
1962 AD Jun 22 – Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe, killing 112 people.
1962 AD Jul 01 – Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
1962 AD Jul 02 – The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1962 AD Jul 03 – The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1962 AD Jul 05 – The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an eight-year-long war with France.
1962 AD Jul 06 – As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
1962 AD Jul 06 – The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
1962 AD Jul 07 – Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people.
1962 AD Jul 08 – Ne Win besieges and blows up the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
1962 AD Jul 09 – Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes.
1962 AD Jul 10 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1962 AD Jul 11 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1962 AD Jul 11 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
1962 AD Jul 12 – The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club.
1962 AD Jul 13 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
1962 AD Jul 17 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
1962 AD Jul 22 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1962 AD Jul 23 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1962 AD Jul 23 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1962 AD Jul 23 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1962 AD Jul 28 – Beginning of the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students
1962 AD Jul 30 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the then longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
1962 AD Aug 05 – Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
1962 AD Aug 05 – American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
1962 AD Aug 06 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1962 AD Aug 07 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
1962 AD Aug 11 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
1962 AD Aug 15 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
1962 AD Aug 17 – Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
1962 AD Aug 20 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
1962 AD Aug 22 – The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
1962 AD Aug 27 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1962 AD Aug 30 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1962 AD Aug 31 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
1962 AD Sep 06 – The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
1962 AD Sep 06 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
1962 AD Sep 08 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
1962 AD Sep 12 – President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
1962 AD Sep 13 – An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
1962 AD Nov 04 – The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1962 AD Nov 20 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1962 AD Nov 21 – The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Sino-Indian War.
1962 AD Nov 24 – Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
1962 AD Nov 24 – The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
1962 AD Dec 02 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
1962 AD Dec 07 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
1962 AD Dec 08 – Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
1963 AD Jan 02 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac.
1963 AD Jan 13 – Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
1963 AD Jan 21 – The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad ends operation.
1963 AD Jan 22 – The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and West Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1963 AD Jan 23 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese Army stationed in Tite.
1963 AD Jan 29 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1963 AD Feb 05 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
1963 AD Feb 08 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1963 AD Feb 12 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
1963 AD Feb 19 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1963 AD Feb 27 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1963 AD Mar 05 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
1963 AD Mar 08 – The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état
1963 AD Apr 04 – Bye Bye Birdie, a musical romantic comedy film directed by George Sidney, was released.
1963 AD Apr 10 – One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
1963 AD Apr 11 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
1963 AD Apr 12 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
1963 AD Apr 16 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1963 AD Apr 21 – The first election of the Universal House of Justice is held, marking its establishment as the supreme governing institution of the Baháʼí Faith.
1963 AD Apr 24 – Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1963 AD Apr 26 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1963 AD Apr 30 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
1963 AD May 02 – Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
1963 AD May 03 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement.
1963 AD May 08 – South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
1963 AD May 15 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space, and the last American to go into space alone.
1963 AD May 19 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
1963 AD May 22 – Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt and dies five days later.
1963 AD May 23 – Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt and dies five days later.
1963 AD May 25 – The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1963 AD May 30 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1963 AD Jun 03 – Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army attack protesting Buddhists in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalized for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
1963 AD Jun 05 – The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".
1963 AD Jun 05 – Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1963 AD Jun 10 – The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.
1963 AD Jun 11 – American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
1963 AD Jun 11 – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1963 AD Jun 11 – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.
1963 AD Jun 12 – NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
1963 AD Jun 12 – The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released in US theaters. It was the most expensive film made at the time.
1963 AD Jun 16 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1963 AD Jun 16 – In an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam, a Joint Communique was signed between President Ngo Dinh Diem and Buddhist leaders.
1963 AD Jun 17 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1963 AD Jun 17 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
1963 AD Jun 20 – Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington, D.C. and Moscow.
1963 AD Jun 21 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
1963 AD Jun 24 – The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
1963 AD Jun 30 – Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
1963 AD Jul 01 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 AD Jul 01 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1963 AD Jul 07 – Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
1963 AD Jul 12 – Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
1963 AD Jul 19 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1963 AD Jul 22 – Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance.
1963 AD Jul 24 – The ship Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
1963 AD Jul 26 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 AD Jul 26 – An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
1963 AD Jul 26 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1963 AD Jul 27 – The Puijo observation tower is opened to the general public at Puijo Hill in Kuopio, Finland.
1963 AD Aug 05 – Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1963 AD Aug 08 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.
1963 AD Aug 08 – The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
1963 AD Aug 15 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
1963 AD Aug 15 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
1963 AD Aug 18 – Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1963 AD Aug 21 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1963 AD Aug 22 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)).
1963 AD Aug 24 – Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
1963 AD Aug 27 – An explosion at the Cane Creek potash mine near Moab, Utah kills 18 miners.
1963 AD Aug 28 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
1963 AD Aug 30 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1963 AD Aug 31 – Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self governance.
1963 AD Sep 02 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1963 AD Sep 07 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
1963 AD Oct 31 – 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion: A gas explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis kills 81 people and injures another 400 during an ice show.
1963 AD Nov 01 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1963 AD Nov 01 – The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins.
1963 AD Nov 02 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
1963 AD Nov 06 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ is appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
1963 AD Nov 08 – Finnair's Aero Flight 217 crashes near Mariehamn Airport in Jomala, Åland, killing 22 people.
1963 AD Nov 09 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1963 AD Nov 18 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.
1963 AD Nov 22 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.
1963 AD Nov 22 – Five Indian generals are killed in a fatal helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.
1963 AD Nov 23 – The BBC broadcasts An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
1963 AD Nov 24 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
1963 AD Nov 25 – State funeral of John F. Kennedy; after lying in state at the United States Capitol, a Requiem Mass takes place at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle and the President is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1963 AD Nov 29 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1963 AD Nov 29 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
1963 AD Nov 29 – "I Want to Hold Your Hand", recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom.
1963 AD Dec 07 – Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1963 AD Dec 08 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
1963 AD Dec 10 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
1963 AD Dec 10 – An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.
1964 AD Jan 01 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
1964 AD Jan 08 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1964 AD Jan 09 – Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
1964 AD Jan 11 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1964 AD Jan 12 – Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
1964 AD Jan 13 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, in response to anti-Hindu riots in East Pakistan. About one hundred people are killed.
1964 AD Jan 13 – In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).
1964 AD Jan 23 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1964 AD Jan 25 – Blue Ribbon Sports, which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes.
1964 AD Jan 28 – An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
1964 AD Jan 30 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
1964 AD Feb 01 – The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
1964 AD Feb 09 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.
1964 AD Feb 10 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
1964 AD Feb 17 – In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
1964 AD Feb 17 – Gabonese president Léon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
1964 AD Feb 27 – The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1964 AD Mar 01 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
1964 AD Mar 06 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 AD Mar 06 – Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece.
1964 AD Mar 27 – The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1964 AD Mar 31 – Brazilian General Olímpio Mourão Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d'état and 21 years of military dictatorship.
1964 AD Apr 01 – The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
1964 AD Apr 02 – The Soviet Union launches Zond 1.
1964 AD Apr 04 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
1964 AD Apr 07 – IBM announces the System/360.
1964 AD Apr 11 – Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
1964 AD Apr 13 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
1964 AD Apr 21 – A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
1964 AD Apr 26 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
1964 AD May 02 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USNS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Two Viet Cong combat swimmers had placed explosives on the ship's hull. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
1964 AD May 02 – First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
1964 AD May 05 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
1964 AD May 20 – Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
1964 AD May 22 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson launches his Great Society program.
1964 AD May 23 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson launches his Great Society program.
1964 AD May 28 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded, with Yasser Arafat elected as its first leader.
1964 AD May 29 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1964 AD May 29 – Having deposed them in a January coup South Vietnamese leader Nguyễn Khánh had rival Generals Tran Van Don and Le Van Kim convicted of "lax morality".
1964 AD Jun 01 – Kenya becomes a republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its first President.
1964 AD Jun 02 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.
1964 AD Jun 05 – DSV Alvin is commissioned.
1964 AD Jun 10 – United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
1964 AD Jun 11 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
1964 AD Jun 12 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1964 AD Jun 19 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1964 AD Jun 20 – A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people.
1964 AD Jun 21 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1964 AD Jun 28 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1964 AD Jul 02 – Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
1964 AD Jul 03 – Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
1964 AD Jul 06 – Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1964 AD Jul 19 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
1964 AD Jul 20 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Định Tường Province, Cái Bè, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of whom are children).
1964 AD Jul 21 – A series of racial riots break out in Singapore. In the next six weeks, 23 die with 454 others injured.
1964 AD Jul 27 – Vietnam War: Five thousand more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
1964 AD Jul 31 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1964 AD Aug 01 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1964 AD Aug 04 – Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 AD Aug 04 – Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy mistakenly report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1964 AD Aug 05 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1964 AD Aug 07 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1964 AD Aug 12 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
1964 AD Aug 13 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
1964 AD Aug 16 – Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Dương Văn Minh with General Nguyễn Khánh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
1964 AD Aug 19 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics.
1964 AD Aug 27 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
1964 AD Aug 28 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1964 AD Sep 13 – South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
1964 AD Sep 13 – Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
1964 AD Nov 02 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
1964 AD Nov 03 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to a full term as U.S. president, winning 61% of the vote and 44 states, while Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time, casting the majority of their votes for Lyndon Johnson.
1964 AD Nov 21 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it is the world's longest bridge span.
1964 AD Nov 21 – Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
1964 AD Nov 28 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1964 AD Nov 28 – Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
1964 AD Dec 01 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
1964 AD Dec 04 – Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.
1964 AD Dec 05 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1964 AD Dec 05 – Lloyd J. Old discovers the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
1965 AD Jan 01 – The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1965 AD Jan 27 – South Vietnamese Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương is removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
1965 AD Jan 28 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
1965 AD Feb 08 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1965 AD Feb 09 – Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
1965 AD Feb 12 – Malcolm X visits Smethwick near Birmingham following the racially-charged 1964 United Kingdom general election.
1965 AD Feb 15 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1965 AD Feb 17 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1965 AD Feb 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1965 AD Feb 19 – Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.
1965 AD Feb 20 – Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
1965 AD Feb 21 – Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
1965 AD Mar 02 – The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
1965 AD Mar 05 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1965 AD Mar 06 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
1965 AD Mar 07 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
1965 AD Mar 08 – Vietnam War: US Marines arrive at Da Nang.
1965 AD Mar 30 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1965 AD Apr 06 – Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
1965 AD Apr 07 – Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C. against the termination of the Colville tribe.
1965 AD Apr 11 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1965 AD Apr 21 – The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
1965 AD Apr 24 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
1965 AD Apr 28 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1965 AD Apr 29 – Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
1965 AD May 12 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1965 AD May 18 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
1965 AD May 20 – One hundred twenty-one people are killed when Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crashes at Cairo International Airport.
1965 AD May 27 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1965 AD Jun 03 – The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
1965 AD Jun 07 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1965 AD Jun 09 – The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
1965 AD Jun 09 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
1965 AD Jun 18 – Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
1965 AD Jun 19 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
1965 AD Jun 22 – The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is signed.
1965 AD Jul 14 – Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
1965 AD Jul 16 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
1965 AD Jul 16 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
1965 AD Jul 25 – Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1965 AD Jul 28 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1965 AD Jul 29 – Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1965 AD Jul 30 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1965 AD Aug 01 – Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
1965 AD Aug 04 – The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
1965 AD Aug 05 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
1965 AD Aug 06 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1965 AD Aug 09 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
1965 AD Aug 11 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1965 AD Aug 15 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
1965 AD Aug 18 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1965 AD Aug 19 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
1965 AD Aug 21 – The Socialist Republic of Romania is proclaimed, following the adoption of a new constitution.
1965 AD Aug 29 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
1965 AD Sep 06 – India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
1965 AD Sep 07 – During an Indo-Pakistani War, China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
1965 AD Sep 07 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
1965 AD Sep 09 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965 AD Sep 09 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
1965 AD Sep 11 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
1965 AD Nov 02 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1965 AD Nov 08 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
1965 AD Nov 08 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom for almost all crimes.
1965 AD Nov 08 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
1965 AD Nov 08 – American Airlines Flight 383 crashes in Constance, Kentucky, killing 58.
1965 AD Nov 09 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.
1965 AD Nov 09 – A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1965 AD Nov 24 – Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
1965 AD Nov 26 – France launches Astérix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.
1965 AD Nov 27 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
1965 AD Nov 28 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
1965 AD Dec 04 – Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.
1965 AD Dec 07 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
1965 AD Dec 09 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
1966 AD Jan 10 – Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1966 AD Jan 12 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1966 AD Jan 13 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
1966 AD Jan 15 – The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
1966 AD Jan 17 – Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
1966 AD Jan 24 – Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc.
1966 AD Jan 26 – The three Beaumont children disappear from a beach in Glenelg, South Australia, resulting in one of the country's largest-ever police investigations.
1966 AD Jan 31 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1966 AD Feb 02 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1966 AD Feb 03 – The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
1966 AD Feb 04 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
1966 AD Feb 14 – Australian currency is decimalized.
1966 AD Feb 23 – In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
1966 AD Feb 26 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket.
1966 AD Feb 28 – A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett.
1966 AD Mar 01 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
1966 AD Mar 01 – The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
1966 AD Mar 04 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1966 AD Mar 04 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
1966 AD Mar 05 – BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
1966 AD Mar 08 – Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
1966 AD Mar 31 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1966 AD Mar 31 – The Labour Party under Harold Wilson wins the 1966 United Kingdom general election.
1966 AD Apr 05 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempted to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
1966 AD Apr 21 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
1966 AD Apr 26 – The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
1966 AD Apr 26 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
1966 AD May 06 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
1966 AD May 16 – The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1966 AD May 21 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1966 AD May 25 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1966 AD May 26 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1966 AD May 30 – Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1966 AD Jun 02 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
1966 AD Jun 08 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
1966 AD Jun 08 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1966 AD Jun 08 – The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
1966 AD Jun 13 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing").
1966 AD Jun 14 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
1966 AD Jun 22 – Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Buddhist Uprising.
1966 AD Jun 30 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
1966 AD Jul 01 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1966 AD Jul 02 – France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
1966 AD Jul 03 – France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
1966 AD Jul 04 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
1966 AD Jul 06 – Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
1966 AD Jul 08 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
1966 AD Jul 10 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
1966 AD Jul 15 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
1966 AD Jul 18 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1966 AD Jul 18 – A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
1966 AD Jul 24 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
1966 AD Jul 30 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
1966 AD Jul 31 – The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the Cornwall coast with the loss of all 31 aboard.
1966 AD Aug 01 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 AD Aug 01 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1966 AD Aug 05 – A group of red guards at Experimental High in Beijing, including Deng Rong and Liu Pingping, daughters of Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi respectively, beat the deputy vice principal, Bian Zhongyun, to death with sticks after accusing her of counter-revolutionary revisionism, producing one of the first fatalities of the Cultural Revolution.
1966 AD Aug 10 – The Heron Road Bridge collapses while being built, killing nine workers in the deadliest construction accident in both Ottawa and Ontario.
1966 AD Aug 16 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
1966 AD Aug 18 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
1966 AD Aug 22 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1966 AD Aug 23 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1966 AD Aug 26 – The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
1966 AD Aug 29 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1966 AD Aug 29 – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1966 AD Sep 06 – Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
1966 AD Sep 08 – The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
1966 AD Sep 09 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1966 AD Sep 12 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions).
1966 AD Nov 02 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1966 AD Nov 04 – The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Venice is also submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194 cm (76 in).
1966 AD Nov 08 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
1966 AD Nov 08 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
1966 AD Nov 13 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
1966 AD Nov 24 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
1966 AD Nov 28 – Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
1966 AD Nov 30 – Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1966 AD Dec 08 – The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
1967 AD Jan 02 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California.
1967 AD Jan 05 – Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is established following the seizure of power from local city officials by revolutionaries.
1967 AD Jan 06 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
1967 AD Jan 12 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1967 AD Jan 14 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
1967 AD Jan 15 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1967 AD Jan 18 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1967 AD Jan 22 – Between dozens and hundreds of anti-Somocista demonstrators are killed by the Nicaraguan National Guard in Managua.
1967 AD Jan 23 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
1967 AD Jan 23 – Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty-one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
1967 AD Jan 25 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky fires rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, while the latter is overseas on a diplomatic visit.
1967 AD Jan 27 – Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1967 AD Jan 27 – Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
1967 AD Feb 04 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1967 AD Feb 05 – Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.
1967 AD Feb 10 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1967 AD Feb 13 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
1967 AD Feb 24 – Cultural Revolution: Zhang Chunqiao announces the dissolution of the Shanghai People's Commune, replacing its local government with a revolutionary committee.
1967 AD Mar 06 – Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1967 AD Mar 07 – The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.
1967 AD Mar 26 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
1967 AD Mar 30 – Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing 19.
1967 AD Apr 04 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
1967 AD Apr 09 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
1967 AD Apr 14 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
1967 AD Apr 21 – A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
1967 AD Apr 23 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
1967 AD Apr 24 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1967 AD Apr 24 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".
1967 AD Apr 27 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1967 AD Apr 28 – Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
1967 AD Apr 29 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1967 AD May 08 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
1967 AD May 10 – The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
1967 AD May 13 – Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
1967 AD May 17 – Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
1967 AD May 20 – The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1967 AD May 22 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
1967 AD May 22 – L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
1967 AD May 23 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
1967 AD May 23 – L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
1967 AD May 24 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
1967 AD May 24 – Belle de Jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, is released.
1967 AD May 26 – The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
1967 AD May 27 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 AD May 27 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1967 AD May 30 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1967 AD Jun 02 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
1967 AD Jun 02 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran are brutally suppressed, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
1967 AD Jun 04 – Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
1967 AD Jun 05 – The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
1967 AD Jun 07 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
1967 AD Jun 08 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1967 AD Jun 09 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
1967 AD Jun 10 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 AD Jun 12 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1967 AD Jun 13 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1967 AD Jun 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
1967 AD Jun 17 – Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
1967 AD Jun 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
1967 AD Jul 01 – Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger between the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1967 AD Jul 06 – Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
1967 AD Jul 12 – Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
1967 AD Jul 19 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 and a twin-engine Cessna 310 collided over Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. Both aircraft were destroyed and all passengers and crew were killed, including John T. McNaughton, an advisor to Robert McNamara.
1967 AD Jul 23 – Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
1967 AD Jul 24 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
1967 AD Jul 29 – Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1967 AD Jul 29 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1967 AD Aug 08 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
1967 AD Aug 13 – Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.
1967 AD Aug 14 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1967 AD Aug 24 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
1967 AD Aug 25 – George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is assassinated by a former member of his group.
1967 AD Aug 30 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1967 AD Sep 01 – Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel".
1967 AD Sep 03 – Dagen H in Sweden: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
1967 AD Sep 04 – Dagen H in Sweden: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
1967 AD Sep 10 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1967 AD Sep 11 – China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched an attack on Indian posts at Nathu La, Sikkim, India, which resulted in military clashes.
1967 AD Nov 02 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1967 AD Nov 03 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
1967 AD Nov 04 – Iberia Flight 062 crashes in Blackdown, West Sussex, killing all 37 people on board including British actress June Thorburn.
1967 AD Nov 07 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1967 AD Nov 07 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1967 AD Nov 09 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.
1967 AD Nov 19 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1967 AD Nov 21 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
1967 AD Nov 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
1967 AD Nov 28 – The first pulsar (PSR B1919+21, in the constellation of Vulpecula) is discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
1967 AD Nov 29 – U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
1967 AD Nov 30 – Decolonization: South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 AD Nov 30 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
1967 AD Nov 30 – Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
1967 AD Dec 03 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
1967 AD Dec 04 – Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.
1967 AD Dec 06 – Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
1968 AD Jan 05 – Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
1968 AD Jan 07 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1968 AD Jan 13 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.
1968 AD Jan 21 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1968 AD Jan 21 – A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
1968 AD Jan 22 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
1968 AD Jan 22 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
1968 AD Jan 23 – USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by the Korean People's Navy.
1968 AD Jan 24 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa.
1968 AD Jan 30 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
1968 AD Jan 31 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1968 AD Jan 31 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1968 AD Feb 01 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
1968 AD Feb 01 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
1968 AD Feb 01 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
1968 AD Feb 08 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
1968 AD Feb 12 – Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
1968 AD Feb 16 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1968 AD Feb 16 – Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground.
1968 AD Feb 20 – The China Academy of Space Technology, China's main arm for the research, development, and creation of space satellites, is established in Beijing.
1968 AD Feb 24 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnamese forces led by Ngo Quang Truong recapture the citadel of Hué.
1968 AD Mar 02 – Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.
1968 AD Mar 06 – Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
1968 AD Mar 07 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
1968 AD Mar 31 – American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
1968 AD Apr 03 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day.
1968 AD Apr 04 – Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
1968 AD Apr 04 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1968 AD Apr 06 – In the downtown district of Richmond, Indiana, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
1968 AD Apr 06 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Party leadership election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon afterward.
1968 AD Apr 07 – Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim.
1968 AD Apr 08 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
1968 AD Apr 10 – The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.
1968 AD Apr 11 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1968 AD Apr 11 – Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
1968 AD Apr 20 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
1968 AD Apr 20 – South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near the Hosea Kutako International Airport in South West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 people.
1968 AD Apr 23 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1968 AD Apr 29 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
1968 AD May 03 – Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas.
1968 AD May 12 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
1968 AD May 22 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1968 AD May 23 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1968 AD May 25 – The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
1968 AD May 26 – H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
1968 AD May 28 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 892 crashes near Nala Sopara in India, killing 30.
1968 AD May 30 – Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
1968 AD Jun 05 – Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
1968 AD Jun 08 – James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at London Heathrow Airport.
1968 AD Jun 09 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1968 AD Jun 11 – Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types.
1968 AD Jun 30 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
1968 AD Jul 01 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 AD Jul 01 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 AD Jul 01 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
1968 AD Jul 08 – The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1968 AD Jul 17 – Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
1968 AD Jul 18 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1968 AD Jul 20 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
1968 AD Jul 23 – Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
1968 AD Jul 23 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
1968 AD Jul 26 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1968 AD Aug 01 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1968 AD Aug 02 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1968 AD Aug 13 – Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
1968 AD Aug 20 – Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
1968 AD Aug 21 – Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1968 AD Aug 21 – James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
1968 AD Aug 22 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1968 AD Aug 28 – Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests.
1968 AD Sep 02 – Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
1968 AD Sep 06 – Swaziland becomes independent.
1968 AD Sep 11 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.
1968 AD Sep 13 – Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1968 AD Oct 31 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
1968 AD Nov 01 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1968 AD Nov 05 – Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
1968 AD Nov 08 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
1968 AD Nov 20 – A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
1968 AD Nov 25 – The Old Student House in Helsinki, Finland is occupied by a large group of University of Helsinki students.
1968 AD Nov 26 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
1968 AD Nov 27 – Penny Ann Early becomes the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
1968 AD Dec 09 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
1968 AD Dec 10 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
1969 AD Jan 05 – The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from Baikonur.
1969 AD Jan 05 – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes in Fernhill, West Sussex, while on approach to Gatwick Airport, killing 50 people.
1969 AD Jan 12 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1969 AD Jan 14 – USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 people.
1969 AD Jan 15 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1969 AD Jan 16 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
1969 AD Jan 16 – Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
1969 AD Jan 17 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1969 AD Jan 18 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
1969 AD Jan 19 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
1969 AD Jan 25 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
1969 AD Jan 30 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1969 AD Feb 17 – American aquanaut Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair a leak in the SEALAB III underwater habitat. The SEALAB project was subsequently abandoned.
1969 AD Mar 02 – In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
1969 AD Mar 03 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1969 AD Apr 01 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
1969 AD Apr 03 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1969 AD Apr 04 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
1969 AD Apr 05 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1969 AD Apr 07 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
1969 AD Apr 09 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
1969 AD Apr 15 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
1969 AD Apr 17 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 AD Apr 17 – Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
1969 AD Apr 22 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
1969 AD Apr 22 – The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
1969 AD Apr 28 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1969 AD May 02 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
1969 AD May 09 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1969 AD May 10 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
1969 AD May 13 – May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1969 AD May 16 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
1969 AD May 17 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
1969 AD May 18 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
1969 AD May 20 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
1969 AD May 21 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1969 AD May 22 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
1969 AD May 23 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
1969 AD May 26 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first crewed moon landing.
1969 AD Jun 03 – Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half; resulting in 74 deaths.
1969 AD Jun 22 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
1969 AD Jun 23 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
1969 AD Jun 23 – IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
1969 AD Jun 28 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
1969 AD Jul 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1969 AD Jul 19 – Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
1969 AD Jul 20 – Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
1969 AD Jul 20 – A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
1969 AD Jul 21 – Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon, followed 19 minutes later by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.
1969 AD Jul 24 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1969 AD Jul 25 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
1969 AD Jul 30 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
1969 AD Aug 04 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1969 AD Aug 05 – The Lonesome Cowboys police raid occurs in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.
1969 AD Aug 07 – Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1969 AD Aug 08 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
1969 AD Aug 09 – Tate–LaBianca murders: Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
1969 AD Aug 10 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1969 AD Aug 11 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
1969 AD Aug 12 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
1969 AD Aug 13 – The Apollo 11 astronauts enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1969 AD Aug 14 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
1969 AD Aug 15 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in Bethel, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
1969 AD Aug 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage.
1969 AD Sep 01 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1969 AD Sep 05 – Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1969 AD Sep 09 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
1969 AD Sep 09 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 863 collides in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana, killing all 83 people on board both aircraft.
1969 AD Sep 12 – Philippine Airlines Flight 158 crashes in Antipolo, near Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing 45 people.
1969 AD Nov 03 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
1969 AD Nov 13 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
1969 AD Nov 19 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1969 AD Nov 19 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
1969 AD Nov 20 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
1969 AD Nov 20 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
1969 AD Nov 21 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
1969 AD Nov 21 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1969 AD Nov 24 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
1969 AD Dec 01 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1969 AD Dec 04 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
1969 AD Dec 06 – Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.
1969 AD Dec 08 – Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
1969 AD Dec 09 – U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
1970 AD Jan 01 – The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.
1970 AD Jan 05 – The 7.1 M_w  Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are known to have been killed and about another 26,000 are injured.
1970 AD Jan 12 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
1970 AD Jan 15 – Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
1970 AD Jan 15 – Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1970 AD Jan 22 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
1970 AD Feb 11 – Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
1970 AD Feb 17 – Jeffrey R. MacDonald, United States Army captain, is charged with murder of his pregnant wife and two daughters.
1970 AD Feb 18 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
1970 AD Mar 02 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
1970 AD Mar 04 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1970 AD Mar 05 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970 AD Mar 06 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1970 AD Mar 26 – South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
1970 AD Mar 31 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1970 AD Apr 01 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.
1970 AD Apr 06 – Newhall massacre: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
1970 AD Apr 08 – Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
1970 AD Apr 10 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
1970 AD Apr 11 – Apollo Program: Apollo 13 is launched.
1970 AD Apr 12 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
1970 AD Apr 13 – An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.
1970 AD Apr 15 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
1970 AD Apr 17 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
1970 AD Apr 22 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
1970 AD Apr 24 – China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
1970 AD Apr 24 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
1970 AD Apr 26 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
1970 AD Apr 28 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
1970 AD Apr 29 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1970 AD May 01 – Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
1970 AD May 02 – ALM Flight 980 ditches in the Caribbean Sea near Saint Croix, killing 23.
1970 AD May 04 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
1970 AD May 08 – The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It Be.
1970 AD May 11 – The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.
1970 AD May 14 – Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction.
1970 AD May 15 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army generals.
1970 AD May 26 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1970 AD May 31 – The 7.9 M_w  Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794 and 70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
1970 AD Jun 04 – Tonga gains independence from the British Empire.
1970 AD Jun 11 – After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first women to do so.
1970 AD Jun 15 – Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
1970 AD Jun 21 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
1970 AD Jul 05 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, killing all 109 people on board.
1970 AD Jul 08 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
1970 AD Jul 21 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
1970 AD Jul 23 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
1970 AD Jul 31 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1970 AD Aug 07 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1970 AD Aug 09 – LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.
1970 AD Aug 15 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
1970 AD Aug 17 – Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1970 AD Aug 23 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1970 AD Aug 24 – Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
1970 AD Aug 26 – The fiftieth anniversary of American women being able to vote is marked by a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
1970 AD Aug 29 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
1970 AD Sep 02 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1970 AD Sep 05 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
1970 AD Sep 05 – Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
1970 AD Sep 06 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
1970 AD Sep 07 – Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Jordan.
1970 AD Sep 07 – Vietnam Television was established.
1970 AD Sep 08 – Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
1970 AD Sep 09 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1970 AD Sep 11 – The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1970 AD Sep 12 – Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Zarqa, Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
1970 AD Nov 01 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
1970 AD Nov 04 – Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
1970 AD Nov 04 – Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
1970 AD Nov 05 – The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
1970 AD Nov 09 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1970 AD Nov 13 – Bhola cyclone: A 240 km/h (150 mph) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
1970 AD Nov 18 – U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
1970 AD Nov 21 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
1970 AD Nov 25 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1970 AD Nov 26 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 38 millimetres (1.5 in) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
1970 AD Dec 02 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
1971 AD Jan 01 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
1971 AD Jan 02 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match.
1971 AD Jan 12 – The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1971 AD Jan 21 – The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
1971 AD Jan 22 – The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
1971 AD Jan 25 – Charles Manson and four "Family" members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
1971 AD Jan 25 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
1971 AD Jan 31 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 AD Jan 31 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
1971 AD Feb 02 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
1971 AD Feb 02 – The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
1971 AD Feb 03 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
1971 AD Feb 05 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1971 AD Feb 08 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 AD Feb 08 – South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1971 AD Feb 09 – The 6.5–6.7 M_w  Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
1971 AD Feb 09 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro league player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 AD Feb 09 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
1971 AD Feb 11 – Cold War: the Seabed Arms Control Treaty opened for signature outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
1971 AD Feb 15 – The decimalisation of the currencies of the United Kingdom and Ireland is completed on Decimal Day.
1971 AD Feb 20 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
1971 AD Feb 21 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1971 AD Feb 23 – Operation Lam Son 719: South Vietnamese General Do Cao Tri was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering campaign.
1971 AD Feb 24 – The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
1971 AD Feb 26 – U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1971 AD Feb 27 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
1971 AD Mar 01 – President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
1971 AD Mar 07 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
1971 AD Mar 26 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1971 AD Mar 29 – My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1971 AD Apr 01 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
1971 AD Apr 05 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1971 AD Apr 07 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
1971 AD Apr 10 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
1971 AD Apr 17 – The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed.
1971 AD Apr 19 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 AD Apr 19 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 AD Apr 19 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
1971 AD Apr 23 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1971 AD May 01 – Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
1971 AD May 03 – Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989.
1971 AD May 13 – Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre.
1971 AD May 19 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
1971 AD May 20 – In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.
1971 AD May 26 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
1971 AD May 27 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1971 AD May 27 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
1971 AD May 30 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1971 AD May 31 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1971 AD Jun 06 – Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June.
1971 AD Jun 06 – Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides with a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps over the San Gabriel Mountains, killing 50.
1971 AD Jun 07 – The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1971 AD Jun 07 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
1971 AD Jun 11 – The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
1971 AD Jun 13 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1971 AD Jun 17 – U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised press conference called drug abuse "America's public enemy number one", starting the War on drugs.
1971 AD Jun 29 – Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space.
1971 AD Jun 30 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
1971 AD Jul 05 – The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.
1971 AD Jul 11 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
1971 AD Jul 12 – The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
1971 AD Jul 15 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
1971 AD Jul 25 – The Sohagpur massacre is perpetrated by the Pakistan Army.
1971 AD Jul 26 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
1971 AD Jul 30 – Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
1971 AD Jul 30 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
1971 AD Jul 31 – Apollo program: the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1971 AD Aug 01 – The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1971 AD Aug 05 – The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
1971 AD Aug 09 – The Troubles: In Northern Ireland, the British authorities launch Operation Demetrius. The operation involves the mass arrest and internment without trial of individuals suspected of being affiliated with the Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Mass riots follow, and thousands of people flee or are forced out of their homes.
1971 AD Aug 10 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
1971 AD Aug 14 – Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
1971 AD Aug 15 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
1971 AD Aug 15 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1971 AD Aug 18 – Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1971 AD Aug 21 – A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
1971 AD Aug 22 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1971 AD Aug 27 – An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1971 AD Sep 03 – Qatar becomes an independent state.
1971 AD Sep 04 – Qatar becomes an independent state.
1971 AD Sep 06 – Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing 22.
1971 AD Sep 08 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
1971 AD Sep 09 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1971 AD Sep 11 – The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1971 AD Sep 13 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
1971 AD Sep 13 – Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
1971 AD Nov 06 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1971 AD Nov 18 – Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
1971 AD Nov 21 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
1971 AD Nov 22 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
1971 AD Nov 23 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
1971 AD Nov 24 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
1971 AD Nov 27 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
1971 AD Nov 28 – Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
1971 AD Nov 28 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1971 AD Nov 30 – Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
1971 AD Dec 01 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1971 AD Dec 01 – Purge of Croatian Spring leaders starts in Yugoslavia at the meeting of the League of Communists at the Karađorđevo estate
1971 AD Dec 02 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
1971 AD Dec 03 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full-scale war begins.
1971 AD Dec 04 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
1971 AD Dec 04 – The PNS Ghazi, a Pakistan Navy submarine, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.
1971 AD Dec 04 – During a concert of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Montreux Casino, an audience member fires a flare gun into the venue's ceiling, causing a fire that destroys the venue. Rock band Deep Purple, who were to use the Casino as the site for the recording of their next album, witnesses the fire from their hotel; the incident would be immortalized in their best known song, "Smoke on the Water".
1971 AD Dec 05 – Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.
1971 AD Dec 06 – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1971 AD Dec 07 – The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.
1971 AD Dec 07 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
1971 AD Dec 08 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
1971 AD Dec 09 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
1972 AD Jan 04 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK.
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1972 AD Jan 07 – Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
1972 AD Jan 08 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
1972 AD Jan 10 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1972 AD Jan 11 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1972 AD Jan 13 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
1972 AD Jan 14 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
1972 AD Jan 18 – Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.
1972 AD Jan 20 – Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1972 AD Jan 24 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1972 AD Jan 26 – JAT Flight 367 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb, killing 27 of the 28 people on board the DC-9. Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survives with critical injuries.
1972 AD Jan 30 – The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
1972 AD Jan 30 – Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
1972 AD Feb 01 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
1972 AD Feb 03 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
1972 AD Feb 10 – Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
1972 AD Feb 15 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
1972 AD Feb 15 – José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
1972 AD Feb 17 – Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
1972 AD Feb 18 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
1972 AD Feb 21 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1972 AD Feb 21 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1972 AD Feb 22 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1972 AD Feb 28 – China–United States relations: The United States and China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
1972 AD Feb 29 – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam as part of Nixon's Vietnamization policy in the Vietnam War.
1972 AD Mar 02 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1972 AD Mar 03 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
1972 AD Mar 30 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1972 AD Apr 02 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
1972 AD Apr 06 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
1972 AD Apr 07 – Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.
1972 AD Apr 10 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
1972 AD Apr 10 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
1972 AD Apr 13 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
1972 AD Apr 13 – Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
1972 AD Apr 16 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1972 AD Apr 18 – East African Airways Flight 720 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 43.
1972 AD Apr 20 – Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.
1972 AD Apr 21 – Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke fly Apollo 16's Apollo Lunar Module to the Moon's surface, the fifth NASA Apollo Program crewed lunar landing.
1972 AD Apr 25 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1972 AD May 02 – In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers.
1972 AD May 04 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1972 AD May 05 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
1972 AD May 06 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
1972 AD May 08 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
1972 AD May 13 – A fire occurs in the Sennichi Department Store in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators result in 118 fatalities (many victims leaping to their deaths).
1972 AD May 13 – The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
1972 AD May 15 – The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1972 AD May 21 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1972 AD May 22 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka.
1972 AD May 22 – Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.
1972 AD May 23 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka.
1972 AD May 23 – Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.
1972 AD May 26 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1972 AD May 30 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
1972 AD May 30 – In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1972 AD Jun 08 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
1972 AD Jun 09 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
1972 AD Jun 14 – Japan Airlines Flight 471 crashes on approach to Palam International Airport (now Indira Gandhi International Airport) in New Delhi, India, killing 82 of the 87 people on board and four more people on the ground.
1972 AD Jun 15 – Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1972 AD Jun 15 – Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) kills 81 people.
1972 AD Jun 16 – The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
1972 AD Jun 17 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process.
1972 AD Jun 18 – Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes minutes after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport.
1972 AD Jun 20 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1972 AD Jun 23 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1972 AD Jun 23 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
1972 AD Jun 29 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1972 AD Jun 29 – A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter collide above Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, killing 13.
1972 AD Jun 30 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
1972 AD Jul 01 – The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
1972 AD Jul 08 – Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.
1972 AD Jul 11 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
1972 AD Jul 19 – Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
1972 AD Jul 21 – The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
1972 AD Jul 23 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1972 AD Jul 31 – The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
1972 AD Aug 03 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1972 AD Aug 04 – Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Uganda is no longer responsible for the care of British subjects of Asian origin, beginning the expulsions of Ugandan Asians.
1972 AD Aug 11 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
1972 AD Aug 14 – An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.
1972 AD Aug 16 – In an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat
1972 AD Aug 22 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1972 AD Aug 26 – The Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, West Germany.
1972 AD Aug 31 – Aeroflot Flight 558 crashes in the Abzelilovsky District in Bashkortostan, Russia (then the Soviet Union), killing all 102 people aboard.
1972 AD Sep 05 – Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
1972 AD Sep 06 – Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1972 AD Sep 09 – In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
1972 AD Sep 11 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.
1972 AD Nov 07 – United States presidential election: U.S. President Richard Nixon is re-elected in the largest landslide victory at the time.
1972 AD Nov 08 – American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches.
1972 AD Nov 21 – Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth Republic.
1972 AD Nov 23 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at launching the N1 rocket.
1972 AD Nov 28 – Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.
1972 AD Nov 29 – Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
1972 AD Nov 30 – Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.
1972 AD Dec 03 – Spantax Flight 275 crashes during takeoff from Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, killing all 155 people on board.
1972 AD Dec 07 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
1972 AD Dec 08 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.
1973 AD Jan 01 – Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.
1973 AD Jan 07 – In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
1973 AD Jan 08 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1973 AD Jan 08 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1973 AD Jan 11 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
1973 AD Jan 14 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
1973 AD Jan 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1973 AD Jan 20 – Amílcar Cabral, leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, is assassinated in Conakry, Guinea.
1973 AD Jan 22 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
1973 AD Jan 22 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
1973 AD Jan 22 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
1973 AD Jan 22 – In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.
1973 AD Jan 27 – The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1973 AD Jan 29 – EgyptAir Flight 741 crashes into the Kyrenia Mountains in Cyprus, killing 37 people.
1973 AD Feb 06 – The M_s  7.6 Luhuo earthquake strikes Sichuan Province, causing widespread destruction and killing at least 2,199 people.
1973 AD Feb 21 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
1973 AD Feb 22 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1973 AD Feb 27 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government.
1973 AD Mar 01 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
1973 AD Mar 29 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
1973 AD Mar 29 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
1973 AD Apr 01 – Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
1973 AD Apr 02 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
1973 AD Apr 03 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1973 AD Apr 04 – The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.
1973 AD Apr 04 – A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
1973 AD Apr 06 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
1973 AD Apr 06 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
1973 AD Apr 10 – Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.
1973 AD Apr 19 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
1973 AD Apr 28 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
1973 AD Apr 30 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
1973 AD May 04 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
1973 AD May 05 – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:592⁄5, an as-yet unbeaten record.
1973 AD May 08 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
1973 AD May 14 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
1973 AD May 17 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
1973 AD May 18 – Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.
1973 AD May 25 – In protest against the dictatorship in Greece, the captain and crew on Greek naval destroyer Velos mutiny and refuse to return to Greece, instead anchoring at Fiumicino, Italy.
1973 AD May 29 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1973 AD May 31 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1973 AD May 31 – Indian Airlines Flight 440 crashes near Indira Gandhi International Airport, killing 48.
1973 AD Jun 03 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
1973 AD Jun 09 – In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
1973 AD Jun 13 – In a game versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium, Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell play together as an infield for the first time, going on to set the record of staying together for 8+1⁄2 years.
1973 AD Jun 20 – Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
1973 AD Jun 20 – Aeroméxico Flight 229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, killing all 27 people on board.
1973 AD Jun 21 – In its decision in Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for determining whether something is obscene and not protected speech under the U.S. constitution.
1973 AD Jun 23 – A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1973 AD Jun 24 – The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.
1973 AD Jun 27 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
1973 AD Jun 28 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1973 AD Jul 05 – A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
1973 AD Jul 05 – Juvénal Habyarimana seizes power over Rwanda in a coup d'état.
1973 AD Jul 10 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973 AD Jul 11 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories.
1973 AD Jul 12 – A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1973 AD Jul 13 – Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee.
1973 AD Jul 17 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan, while having surgery in Italy, is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan.
1973 AD Jul 21 – In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
1973 AD Jul 22 – Pan Am Flight 816 crashes after takeoff from Faa'a International Airport in Papeete, French Polynesia, killing 78.
1973 AD Jul 25 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
1973 AD Jul 28 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1973 AD Jul 29 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
1973 AD Jul 29 – Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
1973 AD Jul 31 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
1973 AD Aug 02 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1973 AD Aug 05 – Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.
1973 AD Aug 08 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
1973 AD Aug 09 – Mars 7 is launched from the USSR.
1973 AD Aug 13 – Aviaco Flight 118 crashes on approach to A Coruña Airport in A Coruña, Spain, killing 85.
1973 AD Aug 15 – Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends.
1973 AD Aug 22 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
1973 AD Aug 23 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1973 AD Aug 28 – Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome.
1973 AD Sep 01 – A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Celtic Sea resulted in the Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman.
1973 AD Sep 08 – World Airways Flight 802 crashes into Mount Dutton in King Cove, Alaska, killing six people.
1973 AD Sep 11 – A coup in Chile, headed by General Augusto Pinochet, topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
1973 AD Sep 11 – JAT Airways Flight 769 crashes into the Maganik mountain range while on approach to Titograd Airport, killing 35 passengers and six crew.
1973 AD Oct 30 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
1973 AD Oct 31 – Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.
1973 AD Nov 01 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1973 AD Nov 01 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
1973 AD Nov 03 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
1973 AD Nov 04 – The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1973 AD Nov 07 – The United States Congress overrides President Richard Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1973 AD Nov 08 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
1973 AD Nov 24 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
1973 AD Nov 25 – Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
1973 AD Nov 27 – Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387–35).
1973 AD Dec 01 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
1973 AD Dec 03 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
1973 AD Dec 06 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)
1973 AD Dec 09 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
1974 AD Jan 02 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
1974 AD Jan 06 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1974 AD Jan 18 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1974 AD Jan 20 – China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam.
1974 AD Jan 26 – Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crashes during takeoff from Izmir Cumaovası Airport (now İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport), killing 66 of the 73 people on board the Fokker F28 Fellowship.
1974 AD Jan 30 – Pan Am Flight 806 crashes near Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa, killing 97.
1974 AD Feb 01 – A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
1974 AD Feb 04 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1974 AD Feb 04 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
1974 AD Feb 07 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1974 AD Feb 08 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1974 AD Feb 12 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1974 AD Feb 17 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
1974 AD Feb 21 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
1974 AD Feb 22 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 AD Feb 22 – Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but is killed by police.
1974 AD Feb 23 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
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1974 AD Mar 01 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1974 AD Mar 03 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
1974 AD Mar 05 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1974 AD Mar 29 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
1974 AD Mar 29 – Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
1974 AD Apr 01 – The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
1974 AD Apr 03 – The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
1974 AD Apr 22 – Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
1974 AD Apr 25 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
1974 AD Apr 29 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1974 AD May 09 – Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1974 AD May 15 – Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school; a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
1974 AD May 16 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
1974 AD May 17 – The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.
1974 AD May 17 – Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
1974 AD May 18 – Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
1974 AD May 28 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
1974 AD May 30 – The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
1974 AD Jun 01 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1974 AD Jun 27 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
1974 AD Jun 29 – Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Perón is terminally ill.
1974 AD Jun 29 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1974 AD Jun 30 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.
1974 AD Jul 15 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1974 AD Jul 20 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
1974 AD Jul 23 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
1974 AD Jul 24 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974 AD Jul 26 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
1974 AD Jul 27 – Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1974 AD Jul 28 – Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.
1974 AD Jul 30 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1974 AD Aug 01 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
1974 AD Aug 04 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
1974 AD Aug 05 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
1974 AD Aug 05 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon, under orders of the US Supreme Court, releases the "Smoking Gun" tape, recorded on June 23, 1972, clearly revealing his actions in covering up and interfering investigations into the break-in. His political support vanishes completely.
1974 AD Aug 07 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
1974 AD Aug 08 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1974 AD Aug 09 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. Vice President Gerald Ford becomes president.
1974 AD Aug 15 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung-hee.
1974 AD Aug 30 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 AD Aug 30 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.
1974 AD Aug 30 – The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.
1974 AD Sep 01 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of one hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
1974 AD Sep 08 – Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1974 AD Sep 10 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1974 AD Sep 11 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
1974 AD Sep 12 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1974 AD Nov 20 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
1974 AD Nov 20 – The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
1974 AD Nov 21 – The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
1974 AD Nov 22 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1974 AD Nov 23 – Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
1974 AD Nov 24 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
1974 AD Dec 01 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 AD Dec 01 – Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1974 AD Dec 08 – A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
1975 AD Jan 02 – At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
1975 AD Jan 02 – The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
1975 AD Jan 04 – This date overflowed the 12-bit field that had been used in the Decsystem 10 operating systems. There were numerous problems and crashes related to this bug while an alternative format was developed.
1975 AD Jan 05 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1975 AD Jan 08 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
1975 AD Jan 15 – The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
1975 AD Jan 30 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
1975 AD Feb 04 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1975 AD Feb 05 – Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1975 AD Feb 09 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1975 AD Feb 13 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
1975 AD Feb 21 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1975 AD Feb 28 – In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
1975 AD Mar 06 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1975 AD Mar 06 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1975 AD Mar 26 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
1975 AD Mar 27 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1975 AD Apr 02 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
1975 AD Apr 03 – Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.
1975 AD Apr 03 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1975 AD Apr 04 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1975 AD Apr 04 – Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.
1975 AD Apr 08 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
1975 AD Apr 13 – An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
1975 AD Apr 17 – The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
1975 AD Apr 19 – India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
1975 AD Apr 19 – South Vietnamese forces withdrew from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.
1975 AD Apr 21 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
1975 AD Apr 28 – General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory.
1975 AD Apr 29 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1975 AD Apr 29 – Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.
1975 AD Apr 30 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
1975 AD May 01 – The Särkänniemi Amusement Park opens in Tampere, Finland.
1975 AD May 06 – During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut for the 60th anniversary commemorations of the Armenian genocide.
1975 AD May 10 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.
1975 AD May 12 – Indochina Wars: Democratic Kampuchea naval forces capture the SS Mayaguez.
1975 AD May 16 – Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1975 AD May 27 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1975 AD May 28 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1975 AD May 30 – European Space Agency is established.
1975 AD Jun 01 – The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.
1975 AD Jun 04 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
1975 AD Jun 05 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
1975 AD Jun 05 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).
1975 AD Jun 06 – British referendum results in continued membership of the European Economic Community, with 67% of votes in favour.
1975 AD Jun 07 – Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
1975 AD Jun 12 – India, Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha of the city of Allahabad ruled that India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had used corrupt practices to win her seat in the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any public office. Mrs. Gandhi sent word that she refused to resign.
1975 AD Jun 20 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
1975 AD Jun 24 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.
1975 AD Jun 25 – Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal.
1975 AD Jun 25 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India.
1975 AD Jun 26 – Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal.
1975 AD Jun 26 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India.
1975 AD Jul 05 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
1975 AD Jul 05 – Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
1975 AD Jul 06 – The Comoros declares independence from France.
1975 AD Jul 12 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
1975 AD Jul 15 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
1975 AD Jul 17 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1975 AD Jul 27 – Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead.
1975 AD Jul 30 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1975 AD Jul 31 – The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
1975 AD Aug 03 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1975 AD Aug 04 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
1975 AD Aug 11 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
1975 AD Aug 15 – Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
1975 AD Aug 15 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1975 AD Aug 16 – Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically hands over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave Hill walk-off, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 song by Paul Kelly and an annual celebration.
1975 AD Aug 20 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1975 AD Aug 20 – ČSA Flight 540 crashes on approach to Damascus International Airport in Damascus, Syria, killing 126 people.
1975 AD Aug 23 – The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration.
1975 AD Aug 23 – The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan
1975 AD Aug 27 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1975 AD Aug 29 – El Tacnazo: Peruvian Prime Minister Francisco Morales Bermúdez carries out a coup d’état in the city of Tacna, forcing the sitting President of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, to resign and assuming his place as the new President.
1975 AD Sep 05 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1975 AD Sep 08 – Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable.
1975 AD Sep 14 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
1975 AD Oct 30 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1975 AD Oct 30 – Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic).
1975 AD Nov 03 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, are murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
1975 AD Nov 07 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.
1975 AD Nov 22 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1975 AD Nov 25 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
1975 AD Nov 27 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
1975 AD Nov 28 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
1975 AD Dec 02 – Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
1975 AD Dec 06 – The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
1976 AD Jan 01 – A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.
1976 AD Jan 02 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
1976 AD Jan 03 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.
1976 AD Jan 04 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
1976 AD Jan 05 – The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
1976 AD Jan 05 – The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before.
1976 AD Jan 12 – The United Nations Security Council votes 11–1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1976 AD Jan 15 – Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1976 AD Jan 18 – Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
1976 AD Jan 21 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1976 AD Feb 04 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1976 AD Feb 06 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1976 AD Feb 09 – Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
1976 AD Feb 19 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
1976 AD Feb 24 – The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
1976 AD Feb 27 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1976 AD Mar 04 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1976 AD Mar 27 – The first section of the Washington Metro opens to the public.
1976 AD Mar 30 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.
1976 AD Apr 01 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
1976 AD Apr 02 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
1976 AD Apr 05 – In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
1976 AD Apr 07 – Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party after being arrested for faking his own death.
1976 AD Apr 11 – The Apple I is created.
1976 AD Apr 13 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
1976 AD Apr 13 – Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
1976 AD Apr 27 – Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
1976 AD May 06 – The 6.5 M_w  Friuli earthquake affected Northern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 900–978 dead and 1,700–2,400 injured.
1976 AD May 08 – The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
1976 AD May 21 – Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
1976 AD May 24 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
1976 AD Jun 05 – The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses. Eleven people are killed as a result of flooding.
1976 AD Jun 16 – Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
1976 AD Jun 25 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1976 AD Jun 26 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1976 AD Jun 27 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PFLP and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1976 AD Jun 28 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
1976 AD Jun 29 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1976 AD Jun 29 – The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
1976 AD Jul 01 – Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1976 AD Jul 02 – End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1976 AD Jul 03 – End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1976 AD Jul 04 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
1976 AD Jul 04 – The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial.
1976 AD Jul 10 – Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1976 AD Jul 17 – East Timor is annexed and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
1976 AD Jul 17 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.
1976 AD Jul 18 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1976 AD Jul 19 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1976 AD Jul 20 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
1976 AD Jul 21 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
1976 AD Jul 22 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
1976 AD Jul 25 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
1976 AD Jul 28 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1976 AD Jul 29 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1976 AD Aug 01 – Niki Lauda has a severe accident that almost claims his life at the German Grand Prix at Nurburgring.
1976 AD Aug 07 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1976 AD Aug 12 – Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.
1976 AD Aug 15 – SAETA Flight 232 crashes into the Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador, killing all 59 people on board; the wreckage is not discovered until 2002.
1976 AD Aug 17 – A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000-8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.
1976 AD Aug 18 – The Korean axe murder incident in Panmunjom results in the deaths of two US Army officers.
1976 AD Aug 18 – The Soviet Union’s robotic probe Luna 24 successfully lands on the Moon.
1976 AD Sep 03 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
1976 AD Sep 04 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
1976 AD Sep 06 – Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
1976 AD Sep 10 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1976 AD Sep 11 – A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
1976 AD Nov 23 – Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
1976 AD Nov 24 – The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
1976 AD Dec 02 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1977 AD Jan 03 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
1977 AD Jan 08 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
1977 AD Jan 13 – Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045, a Douglas DC-8 jet, crashes onto the runway during takeoff from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, killing five.
1977 AD Jan 15 – Linjeflyg Flight 618 crashes in Kälvesta near Stockholm Bromma Airport in Stockholm, Sweden, killing 22 people.
1977 AD Jan 17 – Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah.
1977 AD Jan 18 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1977 AD Jan 18 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney, killing 83.
1977 AD Jan 18 – SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1977 AD Jan 19 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
1977 AD Jan 24 – The Atocha massacre occurs in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1977 AD Jan 28 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which dumps 3 metres (10 ft) of snow in one day in Upstate New York. Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
1977 AD Feb 04 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
1977 AD Feb 18 – A thousand armed soldiers raid Kalakuta Republic, the commune of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, leading to the death of Funmilayo Anikulapo Kuti.
1977 AD Feb 18 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
1977 AD Mar 02 – Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
1977 AD Mar 04 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania.
1977 AD Mar 27 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history.
1977 AD Apr 04 – Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, killing 72.
1977 AD Apr 05 – The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.
1977 AD Apr 07 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1977 AD Apr 11 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
1977 AD Apr 21 – Annie opens on Broadway.
1977 AD Apr 22 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
1977 AD Apr 28 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 AD May 14 – A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.
1977 AD May 17 – Nolan Bushnell opened the first ShowBiz Pizza Place (later renamed Chuck E. Cheese) in San Jose, California.
1977 AD May 18 – Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election, with Menachem Begin, its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.
1977 AD May 25 – Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in theaters.
1977 AD May 25 – The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
1977 AD May 27 – A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67.
1977 AD May 28 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1977 AD May 31 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
1977 AD Jun 04 – JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium.
1977 AD Jun 07 – Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
1977 AD Jun 10 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
1977 AD Jun 13 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
1977 AD Jun 13 – The Uphaar Cinema Fire took place at Green Park, Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 59 people and seriously injured 103 others.
1977 AD Jun 15 – After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections took place in Spain.
1977 AD Jun 16 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1977 AD Jun 27 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
1977 AD Jun 30 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1977 AD Jul 04 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
1977 AD Jul 05 – The Pakistan Armed Forces under Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq seize power in Operation Fair Play and begin 11 years of martial law. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
1977 AD Jul 09 – The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.
1977 AD Jul 11 – Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1977 AD Jul 13 – Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
1977 AD Jul 13 – New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
1977 AD Jul 19 – The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET).
1977 AD Jul 20 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
1977 AD Jul 20 – The Johnstown flood of 1977 kills 84 people and causes millions of dollars in damages.
1977 AD Jul 21 – The start of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
1977 AD Jul 22 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1977 AD Jul 24 – End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War.
1977 AD Jul 26 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1977 AD Aug 03 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1977 AD Aug 04 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1977 AD Aug 10 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
1977 AD Aug 12 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
1977 AD Aug 12 – The Sri Lanka Riots: Targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
1977 AD Aug 13 – Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
1977 AD Aug 15 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
1977 AD Aug 17 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
1977 AD Aug 18 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest, bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
1977 AD Aug 20 – Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1977 AD Aug 26 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.
1977 AD Sep 05 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
1977 AD Sep 07 – The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1977 AD Sep 07 – The 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
1977 AD Sep 10 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1977 AD Sep 12 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
1977 AD Sep 13 – General Motors introduces Diesel engine, with Oldsmobile Diesel engine, in the Delta 88, Oldsmobile 98, and Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser models amongst others.
1977 AD Nov 06 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1977 AD Nov 08 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
1977 AD Nov 19 – TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
1977 AD Nov 20 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1977 AD Nov 21 – Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem "God Save the Queen" and "God Defend New Zealand".
1977 AD Nov 22 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1977 AD Nov 25 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. He is later assassinated in 1983.
1977 AD Nov 26 – An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm.
1977 AD Dec 04 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
1977 AD Dec 04 – Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
1977 AD Dec 05 – Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
1977 AD Dec 06 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
1978 AD Jan 01 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea off the coast of Bombay, India, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, killing all 213 people on board.
1978 AD Jan 02 – On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.
1978 AD Jan 13 – United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
1978 AD Jan 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1978 AD Jan 19 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
1978 AD Jan 24 – Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1978 AD Jan 31 – The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
1978 AD Feb 06 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
1978 AD Feb 08 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1978 AD Feb 09 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1978 AD Feb 11 – Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314 crashes at the Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada with 42 deaths and seven survivors.
1978 AD Feb 13 – Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1978 AD Feb 16 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
1978 AD Feb 17 – The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
1978 AD Feb 19 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1978 AD Feb 24 – The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
1978 AD Mar 02 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
1978 AD Mar 02 – The late iconic actor Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from his grave in Switzerland.
1978 AD Mar 05 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1978 AD Apr 07 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1978 AD Apr 14 – Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1978 AD Apr 17 – Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan.
1978 AD Apr 27 – John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1978 AD Apr 27 – The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1978 AD Apr 27 – Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.
1978 AD Apr 28 – The President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1978 AD May 01 – Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1978 AD May 03 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1978 AD May 04 – The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
1978 AD May 08 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
1978 AD May 12 – In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
1978 AD May 25 – The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
1978 AD Jun 01 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1978 AD Jun 09 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
1978 AD Jun 11 – Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
1978 AD Jun 15 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
1978 AD Jun 19 – Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
1978 AD Jun 21 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
1978 AD Jun 22 – Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
1978 AD Jun 25 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
1978 AD Jun 26 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
1978 AD Jun 28 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
1978 AD Jul 01 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
1978 AD Jul 07 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1978 AD Jul 10 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
1978 AD Jul 11 – Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
1978 AD Jul 25 – Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
1978 AD Jul 25 – Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
1978 AD Jul 30 – The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1978 AD Aug 07 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
1978 AD Aug 10 – Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
1978 AD Aug 13 – One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
1978 AD Aug 17 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
1978 AD Aug 19 – In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 400 deaths.
1978 AD Aug 22 – Nicaraguan Revolution: The FLSN seizes the National Congress of Nicaragua, along with over a thousand hostages.
1978 AD Aug 22 – The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states.
1978 AD Aug 26 – Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
1978 AD Sep 03 – During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia Flight 825) with a Soviet-made SAM Strela-2; of 56 passengers and crew 38 people died in crash, 10 were massacred by the guerrillas at the site.
1978 AD Sep 04 – During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia Flight 825) with a Soviet-made SAM Strela-2; of 56 passengers and crew 38 people died in crash, 10 were massacred by the guerrillas at the site.
1978 AD Sep 05 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
1978 AD Sep 07 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
1978 AD Sep 08 – Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.
1978 AD Nov 03 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 AD Nov 18 – The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet makes its first flight, at the Naval Air Test Center in Maryland, United States.
1978 AD Nov 18 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
1978 AD Nov 23 – Cyclone kills about 1,000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.
1978 AD Nov 23 – The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.
1978 AD Nov 27 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
1978 AD Nov 27 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the Turkish village of Fis.
1978 AD Dec 04 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.
1978 AD Dec 06 – Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.
1978 AD Dec 10 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 AD Jan 01 – Normal diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and the United States.
1979 AD Jan 07 – Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1979 AD Jan 16 – Iranian Revolution: The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
1979 AD Jan 25 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
1979 AD Jan 30 – A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1979 AD Feb 01 – Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1979 AD Feb 07 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
1979 AD Feb 11 – The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1979 AD Feb 13 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1979 AD Feb 14 – In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1979 AD Feb 17 – The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1979 AD Feb 18 – Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
1979 AD Feb 20 – An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H₂S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
1979 AD Feb 22 – Saint Lucia gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 AD Feb 26 – The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
1979 AD Mar 05 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 AD Mar 08 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
1979 AD Mar 08 – Images taken by Voyager I proved the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter.
1979 AD Mar 26 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in Washington, D.C.
1979 AD Mar 30 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1979 AD Apr 01 – Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
1979 AD Apr 02 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
1979 AD Apr 04 – Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1979 AD Apr 10 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
1979 AD Apr 11 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
1979 AD Apr 14 – The Progressive Alliance of Liberia stages a protest, without a permit, against an increase in rice prices proposed by the government, with clashes between protestors and the police resulting over 70 deaths and over 500 injured.
1979 AD May 03 – Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election. The following day, she becomes the first female British Prime Minister.
1979 AD May 04 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1979 AD May 09 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
1979 AD May 21 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1979 AD May 25 – John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
1979 AD May 25 – American Airlines Flight 191: A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1979 AD May 28 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1979 AD May 30 – Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
1979 AD Jun 01 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1979 AD Jun 02 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1979 AD Jun 03 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m³) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
1979 AD Jun 04 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
1979 AD Jun 09 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.
1979 AD Jun 12 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man-powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
1979 AD Jun 18 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1979 AD Jun 20 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
1979 AD Jun 22 title="1979">1979 – Former Liberal Party leader Jim Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.
1979 AD Jul 01 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1979 AD Jul 09 – A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
1979 AD Jul 11 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
1979 AD Jul 12 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1979 AD Jul 15 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
1979 AD Jul 16 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
1979 AD Jul 17 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.
1979 AD Jul 19 – The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
1979 AD Jul 19 – The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
1979 AD Jul 21 – Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1979 AD Jul 25 – In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
1979 AD Aug 05 – In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
1979 AD Aug 11 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
1979 AD Aug 27 – The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
1979 AD Sep 07 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
1979 AD Sep 13 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
1979 AD Sep 14 – Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party.
1979 AD Oct 31 – Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
1979 AD Nov 01 – In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.
1979 AD Nov 01 – Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.
1979 AD Nov 03 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
1979 AD Nov 04 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
1979 AD Nov 09 – Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1979 AD Nov 19 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
1979 AD Nov 20 – Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
1979 AD Nov 21 – The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four.
1979 AD Nov 26 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 740 crashes near King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 156 people on board.
1979 AD Nov 28 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
1979 AD Dec 03 – In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
1979 AD Dec 03 – Iranian Revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
1979 AD Dec 04 – The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
1979 AD Dec 09 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
1979 AD Dec 10 – Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
1980 AD Jan 07 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1980 AD Jan 21 – Iran Air Flight 291 crashes in the Alborz Mountains while on approach to Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran, killing 128 people.
1980 AD Jan 25 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
1980 AD Jan 27 – Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
1980 AD Jan 28 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1980 AD Jan 29 – The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. in Earl's Court, London.
1980 AD Feb 02 – Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
1980 AD Feb 17 – First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
1980 AD Feb 22 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
1980 AD Feb 23 – Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1980 AD Feb 25 – The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
1980 AD Feb 26 – Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
1980 AD Feb 28 – Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
1980 AD Feb 29 – Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
1980 AD Mar 03 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
1980 AD Mar 04 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1980 AD Mar 27 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 AD Mar 31 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1980 AD Apr 02 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
1980 AD Apr 03 – US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
1980 AD Apr 07 – During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
1980 AD Apr 09 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
1980 AD Apr 12 – The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
1980 AD Apr 12 – Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
1980 AD Apr 12 – Canadian runner and athlete, Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF
1980 AD Apr 18 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
1980 AD Apr 24 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1980 AD Apr 25 – One hundred forty-six people are killed when Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashes near Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands.
1980 AD Apr 30 – Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
1980 AD Apr 30 – The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
1980 AD May 05 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1980 AD May 08 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
1980 AD May 09 – In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980 AD May 09 – In Norco, California, United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1980 AD May 13 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1980 AD May 14 – Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
1980 AD May 17 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
1980 AD May 17 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in Chuschi (a town in Ayacucho), starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
1980 AD May 18 – Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
1980 AD May 18 – Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
1980 AD May 20 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
1980 AD May 27 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1980 AD Jun 01 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1980 AD Jun 03 – An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty. The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists.
1980 AD Jun 03 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $987 million in 2021) worth of damage.
1980 AD Jun 10 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1980 AD Jun 27 – The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
1980 AD Jul 01 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1980 AD Jul 05 – Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
1980 AD Jul 07 – Institution of sharia law in Iran.
1980 AD Jul 07 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
1980 AD Jul 08 – The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20–10 at Lang Park.
1980 AD Jul 08 – Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the then Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan) killing all 166 people on board.
1980 AD Jul 19 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
1980 AD Jul 23 – Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
1980 AD Jul 24 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
1980 AD Jul 29 – Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
1980 AD Jul 30 – Vanuatu gains independence.
1980 AD Jul 30 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
1980 AD Aug 01 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
1980 AD Aug 01 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland.
1980 AD Aug 02 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1980 AD Aug 14 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1980 AD Aug 19 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1980 AD Aug 19 – Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured.
1980 AD Aug 25 – Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
1980 AD Aug 26 – After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.
1980 AD Aug 27 – 1980 South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun Doo-hwan, running unopposed, has the National Conference for Unification elect him President of the Fourth Republic of Korea.
1980 AD Aug 27 – A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured.
1980 AD Sep 05 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
1980 AD Sep 11 – A new constitution of Chile is established under the influence of then Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which is subject to controversy in Chile today.
1980 AD Sep 12 – Military coup in Turkey.
1980 AD Oct 30 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1980 AD Nov 04 – Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
1980 AD Nov 20 – Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
1980 AD Nov 21 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-five people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
1980 AD Nov 23 – The 6.9 M_w  Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.
1980 AD Nov 28 – Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
1980 AD Dec 02 – Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.
1980 AD Dec 08 – John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
1981 AD Jan 01 – Greece is admitted into the European Community.
1981 AD Jan 02 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
1981 AD Jan 08 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
1981 AD Jan 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
1981 AD Jan 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish trade union Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
1981 AD Jan 17 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1981 AD Jan 18 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
1981 AD Jan 19 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1981 AD Jan 20 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
1981 AD Jan 21 – Production of the iconic DeLorean sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
1981 AD Jan 28 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States, helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1981 AD Feb 06 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
1981 AD Feb 08 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
1981 AD Feb 13 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1981 AD Feb 23 – In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1981 AD Feb 24 – The 6.7 M_s Gulf of Corinth earthquake affected Central Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Twenty-two people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage totaled $812 million.
1981 AD Mar 01 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
1981 AD Mar 05 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world.
1981 AD Mar 26 – Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
1981 AD Mar 27 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1981 AD Mar 30 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
1981 AD Apr 03 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1981 AD Apr 04 – Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
1981 AD Apr 09 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it and killing two Japanese sailors.
1981 AD Apr 11 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
1981 AD Apr 12 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
1981 AD Apr 14 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
1981 AD Apr 25 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.
1981 AD Apr 26 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
1981 AD Apr 27 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1981 AD May 05 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1981 AD May 13 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
1981 AD May 21 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
1981 AD May 21 – Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.
1981 AD May 24 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
1981 AD May 25 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1981 AD May 26 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
1981 AD May 26 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
1981 AD Jun 05 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1981 AD Jun 07 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
1981 AD Jun 11 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
1981 AD Jun 12 – The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is released in theaters.
1981 AD Jun 13 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1981 AD Jun 16 – US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
1981 AD Jun 18 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
1981 AD Jun 24 – The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world's longest bridge span for 17 years.
1981 AD Jun 25 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1981 AD Jun 26 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1981 AD Jun 27 – The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
1981 AD Jun 28 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
1981 AD Jul 07 – US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1981 AD Jul 17 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
1981 AD Jul 18 – A Canadair CL-44 and Sukhoi Su-15 collide in mid-air near Yerevan, Armenia, killing four.
1981 AD Jul 19 – In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
1981 AD Jul 20 – Somali Airlines Flight 40 crashes in the Balad District of Somalia, killing 40 people.
1981 AD Jul 27 – While landing at Chihuahua International Airport, Aeromexico Flight 230 overshoots the runway. Thirty-two of the 66 passengers and crew on board the DC-9 are killed.
1981 AD Jul 29 – A worldwide television audience of around 750 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
1981 AD Jul 29 – After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
1981 AD Jul 30 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
1981 AD Aug 01 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
1981 AD Aug 03 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
1981 AD Aug 05 – President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1981 AD Aug 07 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1981 AD Aug 10 – Murder of Adam Walsh: The head of John Walsh's son is found. This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
1981 AD Aug 12 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.
1981 AD Aug 19 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1981 AD Aug 22 – Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed.
1981 AD Aug 24 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1981 AD Aug 25 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
1981 AD Aug 30 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1981 AD Sep 03 – The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women, is instituted by the United Nations.
1981 AD Sep 04 – The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women, is instituted by the United Nations.
1981 AD Sep 05 – The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK.
1981 AD Nov 01 – Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 AD Nov 08 – Aeroméxico Flight 110 crashes near Zihuatanejo, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
1981 AD Nov 23 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1981 AD Nov 25 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
1981 AD Nov 30 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)
1981 AD Dec 01 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1981 AD Dec 04 – South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).
1982 AD Jan 01 – Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1982 AD Jan 08 – Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1982 AD Jan 13 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
1982 AD Jan 28 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
1982 AD Jan 30 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1982 AD Feb 02 – Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
1982 AD Feb 09 – Japan Air Lines Flight 350 crashes near Haneda Airport in an attempted pilot mass murder-suicide, killing 24 of the 174 people on board.
1982 AD Feb 15 – The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
1982 AD Mar 05 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
1982 AD Mar 26 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
1982 AD Mar 29 – The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
1982 AD Mar 30 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
1982 AD Apr 02 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
1982 AD Apr 07 – Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.
1982 AD Apr 17 – Constitution Act, 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
1982 AD Apr 21 – Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
1982 AD Apr 25 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1982 AD Apr 26 – Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
1982 AD Apr 30 – The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.
1982 AD May 01 – Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
1982 AD May 02 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
1982 AD May 04 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
1982 AD May 12 – During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
1982 AD May 21 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
1982 AD May 24 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
1982 AD May 25 – Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks.
1982 AD May 29 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1982 AD May 29 – Falklands War: the British Army defeats the Argentine Army at the Battle of Goose Green.
1982 AD May 30 – Cold War: Spain joins NATO.
1982 AD Jun 03 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
1982 AD Jun 06 – The Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
1982 AD Jun 07 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1982 AD Jun 08 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1982 AD Jun 08 – VASP Flight 168 crashes in Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil, killing 128 people.
1982 AD Jun 10 – Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.
1982 AD Jun 12 – Nuclear disarmament rally and concert, New York City.
1982 AD Jun 13 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
1982 AD Jun 13 – Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
1982 AD Jun 14 – Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
1982 AD Jun 18 – Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
1982 AD Jun 20 – The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide opens in Tel Aviv, despite attempts by the Turkish government to cancel it, as it included presentations on the Armenian genocide.
1982 AD Jun 20 – The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
1982 AD Jun 21 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1982 AD Jun 24 – "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
1982 AD Jun 27 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1982 AD Jun 28 – Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.
1982 AD Jul 04 – Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown.
1982 AD Jul 06 – While attempting to return to Sheremetyevo International Airport, an Ilyushin Il-62 operating as Aeroflot Flight 411 crashes near Mendeleyevo, Moscow Oblast, killing all 90 people on board.
1982 AD Jul 08 – A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.
1982 AD Jul 09 – Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
1982 AD Jul 11 – The Italy National Football Team defeats West Germany at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to capture the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
1982 AD Jul 18 – Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
1982 AD Jul 19 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
1982 AD Jul 20 – Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
1982 AD Jul 23 – Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
1982 AD Jul 24 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1982 AD Aug 02 – The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.
1982 AD Aug 11 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
1982 AD Aug 21 – Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
1982 AD Aug 27 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 11⁄2 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian genocide.
1982 AD Aug 29 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1982 AD Sep 01 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1982 AD Sep 11 – The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Phalange forces.
1982 AD Sep 13 – Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.
1982 AD Sep 14 – President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.
1982 AD Nov 01 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1982 AD Nov 03 – The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan by kills 150–2000 people.
1982 AD Nov 13 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
1982 AD Nov 13 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
1982 AD Nov 30 – Michael Jackson's sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately becoming the best-selling record album in history.
1982 AD Dec 02 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
1982 AD Dec 03 – A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
1982 AD Dec 04 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
1982 AD Dec 06 – The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bombs a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven soldiers and six civilians.
1982 AD Dec 07 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
1982 AD Dec 07 – The Senior Road Tower collapses in less than 17 seconds. Five workers on the tower are killed and three workers on a building nearby are injured.
1983 AD Jan 01 – The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
1983 AD Jan 16 – Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashes at Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara, Turkey, killing 47 and injuring 20.
1983 AD Jan 18 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
1983 AD Jan 19 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1983 AD Jan 19 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Computer to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
1983 AD Jan 27 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
1983 AD Jan 29 – Singapore cable car crash: Panamanian-registered oil rig, Eniwetok, strikes the cables of the Singapore Cable Car system linking the mainland and Sentosa Island, causing two cabins to fall into the water and killing seven people and leaving thirteen others trapped for hours.
1983 AD Feb 08 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1983 AD Feb 08 – Irish race horse Shergar is stolen by gunmen.
1983 AD Feb 12 – One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
1983 AD Feb 13 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
1983 AD Feb 14 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
1983 AD Feb 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
1983 AD Feb 18 – Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
1983 AD Feb 22 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1983 AD Feb 23 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1983 AD Feb 24 – A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.
1983 AD Feb 28 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
1983 AD Mar 02 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
1983 AD Mar 08 – Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1983 AD Apr 04 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space on STS-6.
1983 AD Apr 07 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
1983 AD Apr 12 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
1983 AD Apr 25 – Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 AD Apr 25 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1983 AD May 06 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.
1983 AD May 17 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds [1.9 kt]), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
1983 AD May 17 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
1983 AD May 20 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.
1983 AD May 20 – Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
1983 AD May 26 – The 7.8 M_w  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
1983 AD Jun 02 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
1983 AD Jun 04 – Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
1983 AD Jun 05 – More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel, yet the ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.
1983 AD Jun 13 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
1983 AD Jun 18 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
1983 AD Jun 18 – Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
1983 AD Jul 01 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1983 AD Jul 01 – The Ministry of State Security is established as China's principal intelligence agency
1983 AD Jul 07 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1983 AD Jul 11 – A TAME airline Boeing 737–200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.
1983 AD Jul 14 – Mario Bros. is released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.
1983 AD Jul 15 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
1983 AD Jul 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
1983 AD Jul 19 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1983 AD Jul 21 – The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
1983 AD Jul 22 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1983 AD Jul 23 – Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
1983 AD Jul 23 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
1983 AD Jul 24 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
1983 AD Jul 24 – George Brett playing for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
1983 AD Jul 25 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
1983 AD Jul 27 – Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
1983 AD Aug 18 – Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1983 AD Aug 21 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. is assassinated at Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).
1983 AD Aug 30 – Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.
1983 AD Sep 01 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1983 AD Sep 06 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
1983 AD Sep 12 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
1983 AD Sep 12 – The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
1983 AD Oct 30 – The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
1983 AD Nov 02 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1983 AD Nov 05 – The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
1983 AD Nov 07 – United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
1983 AD Nov 07 – Cold War: The command post exercise Able Archer 83 begins, eventually leading to the Soviet Union to place air units in East Germany and Poland on alert, for fear that NATO was preparing for war
1983 AD Nov 08 – TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.
1983 AD Nov 26 – Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
1983 AD Nov 27 – Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
1983 AD Dec 04 – US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. One American pilot is killed, one is rescued, and one is captured.
1983 AD Dec 05 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1983 AD Dec 07 – An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
1983 AD Dec 10 – Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
1984 AD Jan 01 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
1984 AD Jan 01 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
1984 AD Jan 07 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1984 AD Jan 10 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
1984 AD Jan 22 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
1984 AD Jan 24 – Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
1984 AD Jan 28 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
1984 AD Feb 03 – Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1984 AD Feb 03 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1984 AD Feb 07 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1984 AD Feb 10 – Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
1984 AD Feb 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1984 AD Feb 24 – Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
1984 AD Feb 29 – Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
1984 AD Mar 06 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.
1984 AD Mar 29 – The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
1984 AD Apr 01 – Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California.
1984 AD Apr 04 – President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1984 AD Apr 06 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
1984 AD Apr 19 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1984 AD May 06 – One hundred and three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
1984 AD May 08 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
1984 AD May 08 – The USSR announces a boycott upon the Summer Olympics at Los Angeles, later joined by 14 other countries.
1984 AD May 08 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.
1984 AD May 17 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
1984 AD May 27 – The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
1984 AD Jun 03 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1984 AD Jun 05 – Operation Blue Star: Under orders from India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an invasion of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
1984 AD Jun 08 – Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1984 AD Jun 18 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
1984 AD Jun 22 – Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
1984 AD Jul 01 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1984 AD Jul 05 – The United States Supreme Court gives its United States v. Leon decision providing a good-faith exception from the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule against use of evidence obtained through defective warrants in criminal trials.
1984 AD Jul 17 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
1984 AD Jul 18 – McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
1984 AD Jul 25 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1984 AD Jul 28 – Olympic Games: Games of the XXIII Olympiad: The summer Olympics were opened in Los Angeles.
1984 AD Aug 01 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.
1984 AD Aug 04 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1984 AD Aug 05 – A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing all 49 people on board.
1984 AD Aug 11 – "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
1984 AD Aug 15 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish Armed Forces with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh.
1984 AD Aug 30 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1984 AD Sep 02 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
1984 AD Sep 05 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
1984 AD Sep 05 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
1984 AD Sep 07 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.
1984 AD Sep 12 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
1984 AD Sep 14 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
1984 AD Oct 31 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and around 3,000 Sikhs are killed.
1984 AD Nov 01 – After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupt.
1984 AD Nov 02 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1984 AD Nov 19 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
1984 AD Nov 25 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1984 AD Nov 27 – Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agrees to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
1984 AD Dec 01 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
1984 AD Dec 03 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later died from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1984 AD Dec 04 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.
1984 AD Dec 10 – United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.
1985 AD Jan 01 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
1985 AD Jan 07 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1985 AD Jan 10 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1985 AD Jan 13 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
1985 AD Jan 21 – Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashes near Reno–Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 people.
1985 AD Jan 23 – World Airways Flight 30H overshoots the runway at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, and crashes into Boston Harbor. Two people are presumed dead.
1985 AD Jan 28 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1985 AD Feb 05 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage, meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1985 AD Feb 16 – Hezbollah is founded.
1985 AD Feb 19 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
1985 AD Feb 19 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
1985 AD Feb 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
1985 AD Mar 03 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
1985 AD Mar 03 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1985 AD Mar 04 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1985 AD Mar 08 – A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 56 and injures 180 others.
1985 AD Apr 19 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
1985 AD Apr 21 – The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
1985 AD Apr 23 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
1985 AD May 05 – Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
1985 AD May 11 – Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
1985 AD May 13 – Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1985 AD May 20 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
1985 AD May 25 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1985 AD May 29 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
1985 AD May 29 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1985 AD May 31 – United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1985 AD Jun 06 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death"; Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
1985 AD Jun 14 – Five members of the European Economic Community sign the Schengen Agreement establishing a free travel zone with no border controls.
1985 AD Jun 15 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
1985 AD Jun 17 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
1985 AD Jun 19 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
1985 AD Jun 23 – A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
1985 AD Jun 30 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1985 AD Jul 07 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
1985 AD Jul 10 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
1985 AD Jul 10 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
1985 AD Jul 13 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
1985 AD Jul 13 – Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
1985 AD Jul 17 – Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
1985 AD Jul 19 – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1985 AD Jul 20 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
1985 AD Aug 02 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1985 AD Aug 07 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1985 AD Aug 12 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
1985 AD Aug 15 – Signing of the Assam Accord, an agreement between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement to end the movement.
1985 AD Aug 17 – The 1985–86 Hormel strike begins in Austin, Minnesota.
1985 AD Aug 22 – British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
1985 AD Aug 23 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1985 AD Aug 25 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes near Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith.
1985 AD Aug 27 – Nigeria's military government is overthrown by another clique of army officers.
1985 AD Sep 02 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
1985 AD Sep 06 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.
1985 AD Sep 13 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
1985 AD Sep 14 – Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
1985 AD Oct 30 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1985 AD Nov 06 – Colombian conflict, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
1985 AD Nov 09 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
1985 AD Nov 13 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 AD Nov 13 – Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
1985 AD Nov 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
1985 AD Nov 19 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1985 AD Nov 19 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
1985 AD Nov 20 – Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.
1985 AD Nov 21 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
1985 AD Nov 23 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
1985 AD Dec 08 – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia, is established.
1986 AD Jan 11 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
1986 AD Jan 12 – Space Shuttle program: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist.
1986 AD Jan 13 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
1986 AD Jan 19 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
1986 AD Jan 20 – In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
1986 AD Jan 23 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
1986 AD Jan 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its closest approach to Uranus.
1986 AD Jan 25 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
1986 AD Jan 26 – The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni.
1986 AD Jan 28 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
1986 AD Feb 07 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
1986 AD Feb 08 – Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
1986 AD Feb 09 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
1986 AD Feb 16 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1986 AD Feb 16 – China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard.
1986 AD Feb 19 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
1986 AD Feb 20 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
1986 AD Feb 22 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1986 AD Feb 25 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1986 AD Feb 28 – Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
1986 AD Mar 03 – The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom.
1986 AD Mar 04 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1986 AD Mar 07 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1986 AD Mar 27 – A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
1986 AD Apr 01 – Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
1986 AD Apr 02 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
1986 AD Apr 11 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
1986 AD Apr 14 – The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2 lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
1986 AD Apr 15 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
1986 AD Apr 26 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1986 AD Apr 27 – The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
1986 AD Apr 28 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1986 AD Apr 29 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
1986 AD Apr 29 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
1986 AD Apr 29 – Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
1986 AD May 02 – Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
1986 AD May 03 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1986 AD May 07 – Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
1986 AD May 19 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1986 AD May 25 – The Hands Across America event takes place.
1986 AD May 26 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
1986 AD Jun 04 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1986 AD Jun 14 – The Mindbender derails and kills three riders at the Fantasyland (known today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park at West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta.
1986 AD Jun 22 – The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup.
1986 AD Jun 30 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1986 AD Jul 02 – Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
1986 AD Jul 02 – Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Syktyvkar Airport in Syktyvkar, in present-day Komi Republic, Russia, killing 54 people.
1986 AD Jul 03 – Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
1986 AD Jul 03 – Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Syktyvkar Airport in Syktyvkar, in present-day Komi Republic, Russia, killing 54 people.
1986 AD Jul 09 – The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
1986 AD Aug 06 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
1986 AD Aug 20 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1986 AD Aug 21 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1986 AD Aug 31 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 AD Aug 31 – The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1986 AD Sep 05 – Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1986 AD Sep 06 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
1986 AD Sep 07 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.
1986 AD Sep 07 – Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; 5 of Pinochet's bodyguards are killed.
1986 AD Sep 08 – Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, is indicted on charges of espionage by the Soviet Union.
1986 AD Sep 13 – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city.
1986 AD Nov 02 – Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
1986 AD Nov 03 – Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1986 AD Nov 03 – The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
1986 AD Nov 05 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949.
1986 AD Nov 06 – Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
1986 AD Nov 21 – National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
1986 AD Nov 25 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1986 AD Nov 25 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
1986 AD Nov 26 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
1986 AD Nov 26 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
1986 AD Nov 29 – The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.
1986 AD Dec 04 – The MV Amazon Venture oil tanker begins leaking oil while at the port of Savannah in the United States, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 l).
1987 AD Jan 01 – The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.
1987 AD Jan 04 – The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
1987 AD Jan 22 – Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
1987 AD Jan 23 – Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan sends a "letter of death" to Somali President Siad Barre, proposing the genocide of the Isaaq people.
1987 AD Feb 02 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
1987 AD Feb 06 – Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
1987 AD Feb 23 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1987 AD Feb 26 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1987 AD Mar 06 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
1987 AD Mar 07 – Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
1987 AD Apr 08 – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racist remarks he had made while on Nightline.
1987 AD Apr 11 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
1987 AD Apr 19 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".
1987 AD Apr 21 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
1987 AD Apr 27 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1987 AD May 03 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1987 AD May 05 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
1987 AD May 08 – The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
1987 AD May 09 – LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
1987 AD May 17 – Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
1987 AD May 22 – Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India.
1987 AD May 22 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
1987 AD May 23 – Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India.
1987 AD May 23 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
1987 AD May 28 – An 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
1987 AD Jun 08 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
1987 AD Jun 11 – Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
1987 AD Jun 12 – The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
1987 AD Jun 12 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1987 AD Jun 17 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
1987 AD Jun 19 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
1987 AD Jun 28 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
1987 AD Jun 29 – Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
1987 AD Jul 01 – The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1987 AD Jul 04 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
1987 AD Jul 05 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
1987 AD Jul 24 – US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
1987 AD Jul 24 – Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
1987 AD Jul 29 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
1987 AD Jul 29 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
1987 AD Jul 31 – A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people.
1987 AD Aug 04 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
1987 AD Aug 07 – Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
1987 AD Aug 16 – Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
1987 AD Aug 19 – Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
1987 AD Aug 29 – Odaeyang mass suicide: 33 individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin, South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder-suicide pact.
1987 AD Aug 31 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
1987 AD Sep 02 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
1987 AD Sep 03 – In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
1987 AD Sep 04 – In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
1987 AD Sep 13 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
1987 AD Nov 01 – British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors.
1987 AD Nov 07 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
1987 AD Nov 07 – The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service.
1987 AD Nov 08 – Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
1987 AD Nov 18 – King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
1987 AD Nov 25 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 265 km/h (165 mph) and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
1987 AD Nov 28 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
1987 AD Nov 29 – North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
1987 AD Dec 07 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.
1987 AD Dec 08 – Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
1987 AD Dec 08 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.
1987 AD Dec 09 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
1988 AD Jan 01 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
1988 AD Jan 13 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
1988 AD Jan 18 – China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members.
1988 AD Jan 28 – In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.
1988 AD Jan 31 – Doug Williams becomes the first African-American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl and leads the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII.
1988 AD Feb 05 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1988 AD Feb 06 – Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
1988 AD Feb 12 – Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage.
1988 AD Feb 20 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1988 AD Feb 23 – Saddam Hussein begins the Anfal genocide against Kurds and Assyrians in northern Iraq.
1988 AD Feb 27 – Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
1988 AD Feb 29 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
1988 AD Feb 29 – Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
1988 AD Mar 06 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
1988 AD Apr 04 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
1988 AD Apr 07 – Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1988 AD Apr 10 – The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
1988 AD Apr 14 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 AD Apr 14 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1988 AD Apr 18 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1988 AD Apr 18 – In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned.
1988 AD Apr 28 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1988 AD May 04 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1988 AD May 06 – All thirty-six passengers and crew were killed when Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into Mt. Torghatten in Brønnøy.
1988 AD May 08 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
1988 AD May 09 – New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
1988 AD May 14 – Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
1988 AD May 15 – Soviet–Afghan War: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins to withdraw 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
1988 AD May 16 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1988 AD May 21 – Margaret Thatcher holds her controversial Sermon on the Mound before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
1988 AD May 24 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
1988 AD May 27 – Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.
1988 AD May 29 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1988 AD Jun 01 – European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
1988 AD Jun 01 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
1988 AD Jun 04 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
1988 AD Jun 12 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
1988 AD Jun 19 – Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
1988 AD Jun 27 – The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
1988 AD Jun 27 – Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.
1988 AD Jul 02 – Marcel Lefebvre and the four bishops he consecrated were excommunicated by the Holy See.
1988 AD Jul 03 – Marcel Lefebvre and the four bishops he consecrated were excommunicated by the Holy See.
1988 AD Jul 06 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
1988 AD Jul 08 – The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
1988 AD Jul 23 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
1988 AD Jul 31 – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
1988 AD Aug 01 – A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
1988 AD Aug 08 – The 8888 Uprising begins in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). Led by students, hundreds of thousands join in nationwide protests against the one-party regime. On September 18, the demonstrations end in a military crackdown, killing thousands.
1988 AD Aug 08 – The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
1988 AD Aug 10 – Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
1988 AD Aug 11 – A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda.
1988 AD Aug 17 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1988 AD Aug 20 – "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
1988 AD Aug 20 – Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
1988 AD Aug 20 – The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
1988 AD Aug 21 – The 6.9 M_w  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
1988 AD Aug 28 – Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1988 AD Aug 31 – Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
1988 AD Aug 31 – CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people.
1988 AD Sep 08 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
1988 AD Sep 12 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
1988 AD Sep 13 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
1988 AD Nov 02 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1988 AD Nov 03 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the rebellion within 24 hours.
1988 AD Nov 06 – 1988 Lancang–Gengma earthquakes: At least 938 are killed after two powerful earthquakes rock the China–Myanmar border in Yunnan Province.
1988 AD Nov 08 – U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
1988 AD Nov 18 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
1988 AD Nov 19 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1988 AD Nov 22 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
1988 AD Dec 01 – World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
1988 AD Dec 02 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.
1988 AD Dec 07 – The 6.8 M_s  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.
1988 AD Dec 08 – A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
1989 AD Jan 01 – The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.
1989 AD Jan 04 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
1989 AD Jan 06 – Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death for conspiracy in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; the two men are executed the same day.
1989 AD Jan 08 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
1989 AD Jan 24 – Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, with over 30 known victims, is executed by the electric chair at the Florida State Prison.
1989 AD Jan 29 – Cold War: Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
1989 AD Jan 30 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
1989 AD Feb 02 – Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
1989 AD Feb 03 – After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
1989 AD Feb 03 – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
1989 AD Feb 06 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1989 AD Feb 08 – Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport (Azores) killing all 144 passengers on board.
1989 AD Feb 10 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1989 AD Feb 14 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
1989 AD Feb 14 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
1989 AD Feb 15 – Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
1989 AD Feb 19 – Flying Tiger Line flight 66 crashes into a hill near Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Malaysia, killing four.
1989 AD Feb 24 – United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.
1989 AD Mar 02 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
1989 AD Mar 07 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
1989 AD Apr 01 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
1989 AD Apr 02 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
1989 AD Apr 03 – The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.
1989 AD Apr 07 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.
1989 AD Apr 09 – Tbilisi massacre: An anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
1989 AD Apr 15 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans.
1989 AD Apr 15 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
1989 AD Apr 19 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1989 AD Apr 21 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
1989 AD Apr 26 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1989 AD Apr 26 – People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
1989 AD Apr 27 – The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1989 AD May 02 – Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
1989 AD May 04 – Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
1989 AD May 12 – The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people, only to be followed a week later by an underground gasoline pipeline explosion, which kills two more people.
1989 AD May 13 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
1989 AD May 20 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1989 AD May 29 – Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
1989 AD May 30 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1989 AD Jun 03 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1989 AD Jun 04 – In the 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 AD Jun 04 – The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
1989 AD Jun 04 – Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe.
1989 AD Jun 04 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
1989 AD Jun 05 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1989 AD Jun 07 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
1989 AD Jun 16 – Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
1989 AD Jun 17 – Interflug Flight 102 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Berlin Schönefeld Airport, killing 21 people.
1989 AD Jun 21 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
1989 AD Jun 24 – Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
1989 AD Jun 28 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
1989 AD Jun 30 – A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani.
1989 AD Jul 05 – Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.
1989 AD Jul 06 – The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.
1989 AD Jul 17 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
1989 AD Jul 17 – Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
1989 AD Jul 19 – United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111.
1989 AD Jul 20 – Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
1989 AD Jul 26 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
1989 AD Jul 27 – While attempting to land at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, Korean Air Flight 803 crashes just short of the runway. Seventy-five of the 199 passengers and crew and four people on the ground are killed, in the second accident involving a DC-10 in less than two weeks, the first being United Airlines Flight 232.
1989 AD Aug 02 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
1989 AD Aug 02 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1989 AD Aug 07 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1989 AD Aug 08 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
1989 AD Aug 16 – A solar particle event affects computers at the Toronto Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading.
1989 AD Aug 18 – Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1989 AD Aug 19 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
1989 AD Aug 19 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1989 AD Aug 20 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
1989 AD Aug 22 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1989 AD Aug 23 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
1989 AD Aug 24 – Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
1989 AD Aug 24 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1989 AD Aug 25 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the last planet in the Solar System at the time, due to Pluto being within Neptune's orbit from 1979 to 1999.
1989 AD Aug 25 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404, carrying 54 people, disappears over the Himalayas after take off from Gilgit Airport in Pakistan. The aircraft was never found.
1989 AD Sep 03 – Varig Flight 254 crashes in the Amazon rainforest near São José do Xingu in Brazil, killing 12.
1989 AD Sep 04 – Varig Flight 254 crashes in the Amazon rainforest near São José do Xingu in Brazil, killing 12.
1989 AD Sep 08 – Partnair Flight 394 dives into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade.
1989 AD Sep 11 – Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
1989 AD Sep 13 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1989 AD Sep 14 – The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.
1989 AD Nov 07 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
1989 AD Nov 07 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.
1989 AD Nov 07 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
1989 AD Nov 09 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
1989 AD Nov 13 – Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
1989 AD Nov 20 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
1989 AD Nov 22 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
1989 AD Nov 24 – After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
1989 AD Nov 27 – Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel will claim responsibility for the attack.
1989 AD Nov 28 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1989 AD Dec 01 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
1989 AD Dec 01 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1989 AD Dec 02 – The Peace Agreement of Hat Yai is signed and ratified by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and the governments of Malaysia and Thailand, ending the over two-decade-long communist insurgency in Malaysia.
1989 AD Dec 03 – In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact may be coming to an end.
1989 AD Dec 06 – The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
1989 AD Dec 10 – Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
1990 AD Jan 01 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
1990 AD Jan 03 – United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
1990 AD Jan 04 – In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
1990 AD Jan 10 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
1990 AD Jan 12 – A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.
1990 AD Jan 13 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
1990 AD Jan 18 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1990 AD Jan 20 – Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1990 AD Jan 24 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
1990 AD Jan 25 – Avianca Flight 52 crashes in Cove Neck, New York, killing 73.
1990 AD Feb 02 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
1990 AD Feb 07 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
1990 AD Feb 11 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
1990 AD Feb 11 – Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.
1990 AD Feb 12 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
1990 AD Feb 13 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1990 AD Feb 14 – Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
1990 AD Feb 14 – The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
1990 AD Mar 01 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1990 AD Mar 02 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
1990 AD Mar 04 – American basketball player Hank Gathers dies after collapsing during the semifinals of a West Coast Conference tournament game.
1990 AD Mar 27 – The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.
1990 AD Mar 29 – The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
1990 AD Mar 31 – Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1990 AD Apr 04 – The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
1990 AD Apr 07 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
1990 AD Apr 07 – John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair. In 1991 the convictions are reversed on appeal.
1990 AD Apr 09 – An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
1990 AD Apr 09 – The Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement is signed for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 sq mi) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.
1990 AD Apr 11 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1990 AD Apr 12 – Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
1990 AD Apr 16 – "Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
1990 AD Apr 23 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1990 AD Apr 24 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
1990 AD Apr 24 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1990 AD Apr 25 – Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
1990 AD May 04 – Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 AD May 13 – The Dinamo–Red Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).
1990 AD May 17 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
1990 AD May 18 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
1990 AD May 20 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
1990 AD May 22 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
1990 AD May 23 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
1990 AD May 29 – The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1990 AD May 30 – Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
1990 AD Jun 01 – Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1990 AD Jun 02 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12.
1990 AD Jun 10 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities.
1990 AD Jun 12 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1990 AD Jun 13 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
1990 AD Jun 19 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
1990 AD Jun 19 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
1990 AD Jun 20 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
1990 AD Jun 20 – The 7.4 M_w  Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
1990 AD Jun 22 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
1990 AD Jun 30 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1990 AD Jul 01 – German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1990 AD Jul 02 – In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
1990 AD Jul 03 – In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca.
1990 AD Jul 11 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1990 AD Jul 13 – Lenin Peak disaster: a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan triggers an avalanche on Lenin Peak, killing 43 climbers in the deadliest mountaineering disaster in history.
1990 AD Jul 16 – The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.
1990 AD Jul 16 – The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
1990 AD Jul 21 – Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
1990 AD Jul 22 – Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory.
1990 AD Jul 26 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
1990 AD Jul 27 – The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is moved to June 3.
1990 AD Jul 27 – The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago.
1990 AD Jul 30 – Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
1990 AD Aug 02 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1990 AD Aug 06 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1990 AD Aug 07 – First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
1990 AD Aug 08 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
1990 AD Aug 10 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1990 AD Aug 12 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
1990 AD Aug 13 – A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwanese naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.
1990 AD Aug 23 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 AD Aug 23 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 AD Aug 23 – West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1990 AD Aug 28 – Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 AD Aug 28 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
1990 AD Sep 02 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
1990 AD Sep 05 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
1990 AD Sep 09 – Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.
1990 AD Sep 11 – A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.
1990 AD Sep 12 – The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
1990 AD Sep 12 – The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.
1990 AD Nov 02 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
1990 AD Nov 05 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
1990 AD Nov 07 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
1990 AD Nov 13 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.
1990 AD Nov 20 – Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.
1990 AD Nov 21 – Bangkok Airways Flight 125 crashes on approach to Samui Airport, killing 38.
1990 AD Nov 22 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.
1990 AD Nov 28 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major.
1990 AD Dec 01 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.
1990 AD Dec 06 – A military jet of the Italian Air Force, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.
1990 AD Dec 08 – The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the first time.
1991 AD Jan 02 – Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia.
1991 AD Jan 05 – Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–92 South Ossetia War.
1991 AD Jan 05 – Somali Civil War: The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after the outbreak of violence in Mogadishu.
1991 AD Jan 07 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1991 AD Jan 09 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
1991 AD Jan 12 – Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1991 AD Jan 13 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1,000 others.
1991 AD Jan 15 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
1991 AD Jan 15 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.
1991 AD Jan 16 – Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
1991 AD Jan 17 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1991 AD Jan 17 – Crown prince Harald V of Norway becomes King Harald V, following the death of his father, King Olav V.
1991 AD Jan 19 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
1991 AD Jan 20 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
1991 AD Jan 26 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
1991 AD Jan 29 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
1991 AD Feb 01 – A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others.
1991 AD Feb 07 – Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
1991 AD Feb 07 – The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government.
1991 AD Feb 09 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Voters in Lithuania vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Feb 13 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
1991 AD Feb 15 – The Visegrád Group, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
1991 AD Feb 16 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
1991 AD Feb 17 – Ryan International Airlines Flight 590 crashes during takeoff from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, killing both pilots, the aircraft's only occupants.
1991 AD Feb 18 – The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
1991 AD Feb 20 – In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters.
1991 AD Feb 23 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
1991 AD Feb 24 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
1991 AD Feb 25 – Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest.
1991 AD Feb 27 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
1991 AD Feb 28 – The first Gulf War ends.
1991 AD Mar 01 – Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people mostly civilian.
1991 AD Mar 02 – Establishment of Kuwait Democratic Forum, center-left political organization in Kuwait.
1991 AD Mar 02 – Battle at Rumaila oil field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1991 AD Mar 03 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1991 AD Mar 03 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on its final approach to Colorado Springs killing everyone on board.
1991 AD Mar 26 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
1991 AD Mar 31 – Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Mar 31 – The Warsaw Pact formally disbands.
1991 AD Apr 02 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
1991 AD Apr 04 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1991 AD Apr 04 – Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. 3 of the hostage takers and 3 hostages are killed
1991 AD Apr 05 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.
1991 AD Apr 09 – Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Apr 10 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.
1991 AD Apr 10 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
1991 AD Apr 14 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Apr 26 – Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
1991 AD Apr 29 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
1991 AD Apr 29 – The 7.0 M_w  Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
1991 AD May 05 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1991 AD May 07 – A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.
1991 AD May 15 – Édith Cresson becomes France's first female Prime Minister.
1991 AD May 16 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
1991 AD May 18 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland.
1991 AD May 19 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
1991 AD May 21 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1991 AD May 21 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
1991 AD May 24 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1991 AD May 26 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1991 AD May 26 – Lauda Air Flight 004 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes in the Phu Toei National Park in the Suphan Buri Province of Thailand, killing all 223 people on board.
1991 AD May 28 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
1991 AD May 31 – Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II peacekeeping mission.
1991 AD Jun 03 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
1991 AD Jun 07 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
1991 AD Jun 10 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
1991 AD Jun 12 – Russians first democratically elected Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia.
1991 AD Jun 12 – Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
1991 AD Jun 15 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.
1991 AD Jun 17 – Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1991 AD Jun 19 – The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.
1991 AD Jun 20 – The German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital of Berlin.
1991 AD Jun 23 – Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise.
1991 AD Jun 25 – The breakup of Yugoslavia begins when Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1991 AD Jun 26 – The breakup of Yugoslavia begins when Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1991 AD Jun 27 – Two days after it had declared independence, Slovenia is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
1991 AD Jul 01 – Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1991 AD Jul 07 – Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1991 AD Jul 10 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
1991 AD Jul 10 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
1991 AD Jul 10 – A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.
1991 AD Jul 11 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing all 261 passengers and crew on board.
1991 AD Jul 31 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
1991 AD Aug 06 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1991 AD Aug 06 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1991 AD Aug 08 – The Warsaw radio mast, then the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
1991 AD Aug 09 – The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government's case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial.
1991 AD Aug 16 – Indian Airlines Flight 257, a Boeing 737-200, crashes during approach to Imphal Airport, killing all 69 people on board.
1991 AD Aug 17 – Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself.
1991 AD Aug 19 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
1991 AD Aug 19 – Crown Heights riot begins.
1991 AD Aug 20 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 AD Aug 20 – Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
1991 AD Aug 21 – Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
1991 AD Aug 21 – Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1991 AD Aug 22 – Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
1991 AD Aug 23 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
1991 AD Aug 24 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Aug 24 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Aug 25 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Aug 25 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serb paramilitary forces, between August and November 1991 (during the Croatian War of Independence).
1991 AD Aug 25 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
1991 AD Aug 27 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 AD Aug 27 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
1991 AD Aug 29 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 AD Aug 29 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
1991 AD Aug 30 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1991 AD Aug 31 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Sep 05 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
1991 AD Sep 06 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1991 AD Sep 06 – The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1.
1991 AD Sep 09 – Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Sep 11 – Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.
1991 AD Oct 30 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
1991 AD Nov 07 – Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA.
1991 AD Nov 13 – The Republic of Karelia, an autonomous republic of Russia, is formed from the former Karelian ASSR.
1991 AD Nov 18 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
1991 AD Nov 18 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
1991 AD Nov 20 – An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.
1991 AD Nov 23 – Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announces in a statement that he is HIV-positive. He dies the following day.
1991 AD Nov 26 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
1991 AD Nov 28 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
1991 AD Dec 01 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Dec 02 – Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Dec 04 – Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut; he is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
1991 AD Dec 04 – Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
1991 AD Dec 05 – Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.
1991 AD Dec 06 – Yugoslav Wars: In Croatia, forces of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) heaviest bombardment of Dubrovnik during a siege of seven months.
1991 AD Dec 08 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1992 AD Jan 03 – CommutAir Flight 4821 crashes on approach to Adirondack Regional Airport, in Saranac Lake, New York, killing two people.
1992 AD Jan 06 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
1992 AD Jan 09 – The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
1992 AD Jan 09 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.
1992 AD Jan 16 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
1992 AD Jan 17 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1992 AD Jan 20 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
1992 AD Jan 22 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1992 AD Jan 22 – Space Shuttle program: The space shuttle Discovery launches on STS-42 carrying Dr. Roberta Bondar, who becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
1992 AD Feb 01 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case.
1992 AD Feb 04 – A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
1992 AD Feb 07 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
1992 AD Feb 12 – The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1992 AD Feb 15 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced in Milwaukee to 15 terms of life in prison.
1992 AD Feb 15 – Air Transport International Flight 805 crashes in Swanton, Ohio, near Toledo Express Airport, killing all four people on board.
1992 AD Feb 17 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops massacre more than 20 Azerbaijani civilians during the Capture of Garadaghly.
1992 AD Feb 26 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
1992 AD Feb 29 – First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
1992 AD Mar 01 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1992 AD Mar 02 – Start of the war in Transnistria.
1992 AD Mar 02 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, all of which (except San Marino) were former Soviet republics, join the United Nations.
1992 AD Mar 06 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
1992 AD Mar 31 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1992 AD Mar 31 – The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow.
1992 AD Apr 02 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
1992 AD Apr 02 – Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1992 AD Apr 05 – Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
1992 AD Apr 05 – Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
1992 AD Apr 06 – The Bosnian War begins.
1992 AD Apr 08 – Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
1992 AD Apr 09 – A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
1992 AD Apr 12 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
1992 AD Apr 17 – The Katina P is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
1992 AD Apr 22 – A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.
1992 AD Apr 27 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992 AD Apr 27 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 AD Apr 27 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1992 AD Apr 29 – Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1992 AD May 07 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
1992 AD May 07 – Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
1992 AD May 07 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
1992 AD May 09 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1992 AD May 09 – Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
1992 AD May 13 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
1992 AD May 17 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, hundreds of injuries, many disappearances, and more than 3,500 arrests.
1992 AD May 21 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
1992 AD May 22 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
1992 AD May 23 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
1992 AD May 24 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1992 AD May 24 – The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town.
1992 AD Jun 03 – Aboriginal land rights are recognised in Australia, overturning the long-held colonial assumption of terra nullius, in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo and leading to the Native Title Act 1993.
1992 AD Jun 08 – The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1992 AD Jun 15 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.
1992 AD Jun 17 – A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
1992 AD Jul 07 – The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
1992 AD Jul 10 – In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1992 AD Jul 18 – A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
1992 AD Jul 19 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.
1992 AD Jul 20 – Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
1992 AD Jul 22 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1992 AD Jul 23 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
1992 AD Jul 23 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
1992 AD Jul 31 – The nation of Georgia joins the United Nations.
1992 AD Jul 31 – Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
1992 AD Jul 31 – China General Aviation Flight 7552 crashes during takeoff from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport, killing 108.
1992 AD Aug 11 – The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States.
1992 AD Aug 12 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1992 AD Aug 20 – In India, Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) was included in the scheduled languages' list and made one of the official languages of the Indian Government.
1992 AD Aug 22 – FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1992 AD Aug 24 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing up to $25 billion (1992 USD) in damages.
1992 AD Aug 30 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
1992 AD Sep 02 – The 7.7 M_w  Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a M_s–M_w disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Typical runup heights were 3–8 meters (9.8–26.2 ft).
1992 AD Sep 11 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai and Oahu.
1992 AD Sep 12 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
1992 AD Sep 12 – Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
1992 AD Sep 14 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
1992 AD Nov 03 – Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican President George H. W. Bush and Independent candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 United States presidential election.
1992 AD Nov 13 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
1992 AD Nov 20 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
1992 AD Nov 21 – A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes.
1992 AD Nov 23 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1992 AD Nov 24 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.
1992 AD Nov 25 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
1992 AD Nov 27 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.
1992 AD Dec 03 – The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching A Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
1992 AD Dec 03 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
1992 AD Dec 04 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
1992 AD Dec 06 – The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
1992 AD Dec 08 – The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the second time.
1992 AD Dec 09 – American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope.
1993 AD Jan 01 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
1993 AD Jan 02 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
1993 AD Jan 03 – In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1993 AD Jan 05 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
1993 AD Jan 06 – Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
1993 AD Jan 06 – Four people are killed when Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634 crashes on approach to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, France.
1993 AD Jan 07 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.
1993 AD Jan 07 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1993 AD Jan 13 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
1993 AD Jan 13 – The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
1993 AD Jan 13 – Operation Southern Watch: U.S.A.F., U.S.N., R.A.F. and French Air Force jets attack AAA and SAM sites in Southern Iraq.
1993 AD Jan 14 – In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
1993 AD Jan 18 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
1993 AD Jan 19 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
1993 AD Jan 25 – Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
1993 AD Feb 08 – General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1993 AD Feb 08 – An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 and an Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 collide in mid-air near Qods, Iran, killing all 133 people on board both aircraft.
1993 AD Feb 12 – Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
1993 AD Feb 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.
1993 AD Feb 28 – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
1993 AD Mar 07 – The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA.
1993 AD Mar 27 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 AD Mar 27 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1993 AD Mar 29 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
1993 AD Mar 31 – The Macao Basic Law is adopted by the Eighth National People's Congress of China to take effect December 20, 1999. Resumption by China of the Exercise of Sovereignty over Macao
1993 AD Apr 03 – The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time
1993 AD Apr 08 – The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.
1993 AD Apr 08 – The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56.
1993 AD Apr 11 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
1993 AD Apr 19 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
1993 AD Apr 21 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
1993 AD Apr 22 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.
1993 AD Apr 23 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 AD Apr 23 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
1993 AD Apr 24 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1993 AD Apr 26 – The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
1993 AD Apr 27 – Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1993 AD Apr 30 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
1993 AD May 10 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.
1993 AD May 18 – Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.
1993 AD May 19 – SAM Colombia Flight 501 crashes on approach to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia, killing 132.
1993 AD May 24 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1993 AD May 24 – Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico.
1993 AD May 29 – The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
1993 AD Jun 01 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1993 AD Jun 05 – Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide.
1993 AD Jun 06 – Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia.
1993 AD Jun 12 – An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military Government of Ibrahim Babangida.
1993 AD Jun 25 – Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1993 AD Jun 26 – Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1993 AD Jul 09 – The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
1993 AD Jul 22 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
1993 AD Jul 23 – China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, killing 55 people.
1993 AD Jul 25 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
1993 AD Jul 25 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1993 AD Jul 26 – Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into a ridge on Mt. Ungeo on its third attempt to land at Mokpo Airport, South Korea. Sixty-eight of the 116 people onboard are killed.
1993 AD Jul 29 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
1993 AD Aug 01 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
1993 AD Aug 07 – Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, is sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1993 AD Aug 08 – The 7.8 M_w  Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people.
1993 AD Aug 09 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
1993 AD Aug 10 – Two earthquakes affect New Zealand. A 7.0 M_w  shock (intensity VI (Strong)) in the South Island was followed nine hours later by a 6.4 M_w  event (intensity VII (Very strong)) in the North Island.
1993 AD Aug 18 – American International Airways Flight 808 crashes at Leeward Point Field at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, injuring the three crew members.
1993 AD Aug 20 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1993 AD Aug 21 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1993 AD Aug 28 – NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
1993 AD Aug 28 – Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
1993 AD Aug 31 – Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
1993 AD Sep 09 – Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
1993 AD Sep 13 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1993 AD Sep 14 – Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people.
1993 AD Nov 01 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
1993 AD Nov 04 – China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400, overruns the runway at Kai Tak Airport.
1993 AD Nov 09 – Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.
1993 AD Nov 18 – In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives.
1993 AD Nov 18 – In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
1993 AD Nov 20 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
1993 AD Nov 20 – Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid, killing all 116 people on board.
1993 AD Dec 02 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
1993 AD Dec 02 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
1993 AD Dec 07 – Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1993 AD Dec 10 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
1994 AD Jan 01 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
1994 AD Jan 01 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.
1994 AD Jan 03 – Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes near Mamoney, Irkutsk, Russia, resulting in 125 deaths.
1994 AD Jan 06 – American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
1994 AD Jan 07 – A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
1994 AD Jan 08 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
1994 AD Jan 11 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
1994 AD Jan 17 – The 6.7 M_w  Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
1994 AD Jan 25 – The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
1994 AD Feb 03 – Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.
1994 AD Feb 05 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994 AD Feb 05 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
1994 AD Feb 12 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1994 AD Feb 21 – Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.
1994 AD Feb 22 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.^{[citation needed]}
1994 AD Mar 04 – Space Shuttle program: the Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-62.
1994 AD Apr 04 – Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
1994 AD Apr 06 – The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
1994 AD Apr 07 – Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
1994 AD Apr 07 – Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
1994 AD Apr 14 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1994 AD Apr 15 – Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
1994 AD Apr 26 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
1994 AD Apr 26 – South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
1994 AD Apr 27 – South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
1994 AD Apr 28 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1994 AD Apr 30 – Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.
1994 AD May 01 – Three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix.
1994 AD May 04 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1994 AD May 05 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1994 AD May 05 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
1994 AD May 06 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
1994 AD May 07 – Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
1994 AD May 10 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
1994 AD May 17 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
1994 AD May 18 – Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.
1994 AD May 21 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
1994 AD May 22 – A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1994 AD May 23 – A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1994 AD May 24 – Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1994 AD Jun 01 – Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations.
1994 AD Jun 06 – China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board.
1994 AD Jun 10 – China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.
1994 AD Jun 13 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1994 AD Jun 14 – The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
1994 AD Jun 17 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1994 AD Jun 18 – The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
1994 AD Jun 20 – The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured.
1994 AD Jun 23 – NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
1994 AD Jun 27 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
1994 AD Jun 30 – During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board.
1994 AD Jul 02 – USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board.
1994 AD Jul 03 – USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board.
1994 AD Jul 04 – Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
1994 AD Jul 05 – Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
1994 AD Jul 08 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
1994 AD Jul 16 – The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter.
1994 AD Jul 18 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
1994 AD Jul 18 – Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
1994 AD Jul 25 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
1994 AD Aug 12 – Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
1994 AD Aug 14 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
1994 AD Aug 21 – Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.
1994 AD Aug 23 – Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1994 AD Aug 31 – Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia.
1994 AD Sep 08 – USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard, resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
1994 AD Sep 09 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-64.
1994 AD Sep 12 – Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
1994 AD Sep 14 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
1994 AD Oct 31 – American Eagle Flight 4184 crashes near Roselawn, Indiana killing all 68 people on board.
1994 AD Nov 07 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.
1994 AD Nov 08 – Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of Congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally), thus bringing to a close four decades of Democratic domination.
1994 AD Nov 09 – The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
1994 AD Nov 13 – In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
1994 AD Nov 19 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1994 AD Nov 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
1994 AD Nov 30 – MS Achille Lauro catches fire off the coast of Somalia.
1994 AD Dec 03 – Taiwan holds its first full local elections; James Soong elected as the first and only directly elected Governor of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became the first directly elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first directly elected Mayor of Kaohsiung.
1994 AD Dec 10 – Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
1995 AD Jan 01 – The World Trade Organization comes into being.
1995 AD Jan 01 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
1995 AD Jan 01 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.
1995 AD Jan 06 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
1995 AD Jan 16 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Súðavík, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.
1995 AD Jan 17 – The 6.9 M_w  Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
1995 AD Jan 19 – After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
1995 AD Jan 22 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid suicide bombing: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israeli soldiers.
1995 AD Jan 25 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1995 AD Jan 30 – Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.
1995 AD Feb 03 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1995 AD Feb 07 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1995 AD Feb 17 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a ceasefire brokered by the UN.
1995 AD Feb 21 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
1995 AD Feb 22 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1995 AD Feb 26 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
1995 AD Feb 28 – Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the 1993 Australian federal election.
1995 AD Mar 02 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
1995 AD Mar 31 – Selena is murdered by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas.
1995 AD Mar 31 – TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
1995 AD Apr 07 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1995 AD Apr 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
1995 AD May 02 – During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
1995 AD May 13 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
1995 AD May 17 – Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.
1995 AD May 24 – While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.
1995 AD May 28 – The 7.0 M_w  Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.
1995 AD Jun 05 – The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
1995 AD Jun 08 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1995 AD Jun 09 – Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.
1995 AD Jun 24 – Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb Ellis Cup in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
1995 AD Jun 29 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
1995 AD Jun 29 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
1995 AD Jul 05 – Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union.
1995 AD Jul 06 – In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
1995 AD Jul 09 – The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
1995 AD Jul 11 – Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July.
1995 AD Jul 12 – Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11.
1995 AD Jul 18 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee.
1995 AD Jul 21 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
1995 AD Jul 23 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
1995 AD Jul 25 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1995 AD Jul 27 – The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1995 AD Aug 04 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1995 AD Aug 05 – Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is liberated by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
1995 AD Aug 07 – The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake.
1995 AD Aug 10 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
1995 AD Aug 15 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
1995 AD Aug 15 – Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan, releases the Murayama Statement, which formally expresses remorse for Japanese war crimes committed during World War II.
1995 AD Aug 20 – The Firozabad rail disaster kills 358 people in Firozabad, India.
1995 AD Aug 21 – Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.
1995 AD Aug 24 – Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
1995 AD Aug 30 – Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1995 AD Sep 06 – Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
1995 AD Oct 30 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
1995 AD Nov 04 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
1995 AD Nov 05 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
1995 AD Nov 06 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
1995 AD Nov 13 – Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
1995 AD Nov 13 – A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
1995 AD Nov 13 – Nigeria Airways Flight 357 crashes at Kaduna International Airport in Kaduna, Nigeria, killing 11 people and injuring 66.
1995 AD Nov 21 – The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1995 AD Nov 22 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
1995 AD Nov 22 – The 7.3 M_w  Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
1995 AD Nov 30 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
1995 AD Nov 30 – U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men".
1995 AD Dec 03 – Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashes on approach to Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing 71 of the 76 people on board.
1995 AD Dec 05 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
1995 AD Dec 05 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashes near Nakhchivan International Airport in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic located in Azerbaijan, killing 52 people.
1995 AD Dec 07 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
1995 AD Dec 07 – Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.
1995 AD Dec 07 – An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20.
1995 AD Dec 10 – The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord.
1996 AD Jan 08 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 people on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
1996 AD Jan 09 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
1996 AD Jan 17 – The Czech Republic applies for membership in the European Union.
1996 AD Jan 19 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
1996 AD Jan 25 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States.
1996 AD Jan 27 – In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
1996 AD Jan 27 – Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
1996 AD Jan 29 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
1996 AD Jan 31 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
1996 AD Feb 01 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1996 AD Feb 06 – Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1996 AD Feb 06 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
1996 AD Feb 08 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 AD Feb 09 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
1996 AD Feb 09 – Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
1996 AD Feb 10 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
1996 AD Feb 13 – The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
1996 AD Feb 15 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
1996 AD Feb 15 – Embassy of the United States, Athens is attacked by an antitank rocket, by Revolutionary Organization 17 November, whose first victim was Richard Welch in 1975, leading to the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
1996 AD Feb 16 – A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
1996 AD Feb 17 – In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
1996 AD Feb 17 – NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
1996 AD Feb 17 – The 8.2 M_w  Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
1996 AD Feb 24 – Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue are shot down in international waters by the Cuban Air Force.
1996 AD Feb 29 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew are killed.
1996 AD Feb 29 – The Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
1996 AD Mar 04 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1996 AD Apr 03 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
1996 AD Apr 03 – A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
1996 AD Apr 04 – Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
1996 AD Apr 13 – Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
1996 AD Apr 16 – Israel strikes a civilian house in Nabatieh Fawka, Lebanon, killing nine people, including seven children.
1996 AD Apr 24 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
1996 AD Apr 28 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 AD Apr 28 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
1996 AD May 06 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
1996 AD May 10 – A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
1996 AD May 11 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
1996 AD May 13 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1996 AD May 19 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on mission STS-77.
1996 AD May 20 – Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
1996 AD May 21 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
1996 AD May 22 – The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.
1996 AD May 23 – The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.
1996 AD May 27 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1996 AD May 28 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1996 AD Jun 04 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
1996 AD Jun 10 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
1996 AD Jun 13 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1996 AD Jun 13 – Garuda Indonesia flight 865 crashes during takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, killing three people and injuring 170.
1996 AD Jun 15 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
1996 AD Jun 25 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
1996 AD Jun 26 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
1996 AD Jul 05 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
1996 AD Jul 06 – A McDonnell Douglas MD-88 operating as Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 experiences a turbine engine failure during takeoff from Pensacola International Airport, killing two and injuring five of the 147 people on board.
1996 AD Jul 15 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1996 AD Jul 17 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1996 AD Jul 18 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
1996 AD Jul 18 – Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1,200 soldiers.
1996 AD Jul 25 – In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
1996 AD Jul 27 – In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
1996 AD Jul 28 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
1996 AD Jul 29 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
1996 AD Aug 06 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.
1996 AD Aug 06 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1996 AD Aug 14 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
1996 AD Aug 29 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1996 AD Aug 31 – Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
1996 AD Sep 05 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
1996 AD Oct 31 – TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 99 people.
1996 AD Nov 03 – Abdullah Çatlı, the leader of the Turkish ultranationalist organization Grey Wolves, dies in the Susurluk car crash, leading to the resignation of Interior Minister Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party).
1996 AD Nov 05 – Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.
1996 AD Nov 05 – Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
1996 AD Nov 07 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
1996 AD Nov 07 – ADC Airlines Flight 086 crashes on approach to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 144 people on board.
1996 AD Nov 18 – A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) of tunnel.
1996 AD Nov 19 – A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14.
1996 AD Nov 20 – A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
1996 AD Nov 21 – Humberto Vidal explosion: Thirty-three people die when a Humberto Vidal shoe shop in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico explodes.
1996 AD Nov 23 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
1996 AD Dec 09 – Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada.
1996 AD Dec 10 – The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.
1997 AD Jan 09 – Comair Flight 3272 crashes in Raisinville Township in Monroe County, Michigan, killing 29 people.
1997 AD Jan 12 – Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-81 to the Russian space station Mir, carrying astronaut Jerry M. Linenger for a four-month stay on board the station, replacing astronaut John E. Blaha.
1997 AD Jan 17 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
1997 AD Jan 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
1997 AD Jan 21 – The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
1997 AD Jan 23 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
1997 AD Feb 04 – En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73.
1997 AD Feb 04 – The Bojnurd earthquake measuring M_w  6.5 strikes Iran. With a Mercalli intensity of VIII, it kills at least 88 and damages 173 villages.
1997 AD Feb 05 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
1997 AD Feb 11 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
1997 AD Feb 22 – In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
1997 AD Feb 28 – An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
1997 AD Feb 28 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
1997 AD Feb 28 – A Turkish military memorandum resulted with collapse of the government in Turkey.
1997 AD Mar 26 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
1997 AD Apr 01 – Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
1997 AD Apr 03 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
1997 AD Apr 06 – In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occur.
1997 AD Apr 13 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
1997 AD Apr 14 – Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of Taiwanese artiste Pai Bing-bing is kidnapped on her way to school. After numerous unsuccessful ransom negotiations and wide media coverage, she was murdered, with her body found on April 28.
1997 AD Apr 29 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
1997 AD May 06 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
1997 AD May 08 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
1997 AD May 10 – The 7.3 M_w Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.
1997 AD May 11 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
1997 AD May 15 – The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
1997 AD May 15 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
1997 AD May 16 – Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
1997 AD May 17 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1997 AD May 19 – The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
1997 AD May 25 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
1997 AD May 27 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
1997 AD Jun 02 – In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
1997 AD Jun 05 – The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins.
1997 AD Jun 10 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
1997 AD Jun 12 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1997 AD Jun 13 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
1997 AD Jun 16 – Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
1997 AD Jun 25 – An uncrewed Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
1997 AD Jun 25 – The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville (1998), Atlanta (1999), Columbus (2000), and Minneapolis-Saint Paul (2000).
1997 AD Jun 26 – An uncrewed Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
1997 AD Jun 26 – The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville (1998), Atlanta (1999), Columbus (2000), and Minneapolis-Saint Paul (2000).
1997 AD Jun 28 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
1997 AD Jun 30 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.
1997 AD Jul 01 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
1997 AD Jul 02 – The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
1997 AD Jul 03 – The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
1997 AD Jul 04 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
1997 AD Jul 05 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP A. Thangathurai is shot dead at Sri Shanmuga Hindu Ladies College in Trincomalee.
1997 AD Jul 06 – The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
1997 AD Jul 07 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
1997 AD Jul 09 – A Fokker 100 from the Brazilian airline TAM launches engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos into 2,400 meters of free fall after an explosion that depressurized the aircraft.
1997 AD Jul 10 – In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 AD Jul 10 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1997 AD Jul 19 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
1997 AD Jul 20 – The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
1997 AD Jul 22 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
1997 AD Jul 23 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
1997 AD Jul 27 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
1997 AD Jul 31 – FedEx Express Flight 14 crashes at Newark International Airport, injuring five.
1997 AD Aug 03 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
1997 AD Aug 03 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
1997 AD Aug 06 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.
1997 AD Aug 07 – Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1997 AD Aug 07 – Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.
1997 AD Aug 10 – Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
1997 AD Aug 20 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1997 AD Aug 25 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
1997 AD Aug 26 – Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
1997 AD Aug 29 – Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
1997 AD Aug 29 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
1997 AD Aug 31 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her partner Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1997 AD Sep 03 – Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
1997 AD Sep 04 – Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
1997 AD Sep 06 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 21⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.
1997 AD Sep 07 – Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
1997 AD Sep 11 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
1997 AD Sep 11 – Kurkse tragedy: Fourteen Estonian soldiers of the Baltic Battalion are drowned or die of hypothermia during a training exercise in the Kurkse Strait.
1997 AD Sep 11 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
1997 AD Sep 13 – A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.
1997 AD Sep 14 – Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
1997 AD Nov 03 – The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and East Africa.
1997 AD Nov 27 – Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1997 AD Dec 01 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
1997 AD Dec 01 – Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky.
1997 AD Dec 03 – In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
1997 AD Dec 06 – A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
1998 AD Jan 01 – Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
1998 AD Jan 01 – Argentinian physicist Juan Maldacena published a landmark paper initiating the study of AdS/CFT correspondence, which links string theory and quantum gravity.
1998 AD Jan 04 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1998 AD Jan 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
1998 AD Jan 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
1998 AD Jan 13 – Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
1998 AD Jan 17 – Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.
1998 AD Jan 22 – Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
1998 AD Jan 23 – Netscape announces Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
1998 AD Jan 25 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 AD Jan 25 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
1998 AD Jan 26 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1998 AD Feb 01 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
1998 AD Feb 02 – Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into Mount Sumagaya in the Philippines, killing all 104 people on board.
1998 AD Feb 03 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
1998 AD Feb 04 – The 5.9 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
1998 AD Feb 06 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
1998 AD Feb 14 – An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
1998 AD Feb 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
1998 AD Feb 20 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
1998 AD Feb 23 – In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.
1998 AD Mar 01 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
1998 AD Mar 02 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
1998 AD Mar 04 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
1998 AD Mar 26 – During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.
1998 AD Mar 27 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
1998 AD Mar 31 – Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
1998 AD Apr 05 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
1998 AD Apr 06 – Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
1998 AD Apr 10 – The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
1998 AD Apr 20 – Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.
1998 AD May 02 – The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
1998 AD May 04 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
1998 AD May 06 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
1998 AD May 06 – Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
1998 AD May 07 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1998 AD May 11 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
1998 AD May 12 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto.
1998 AD May 13 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
1998 AD May 13 – India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
1998 AD May 21 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 AD May 21 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
1998 AD May 22 – A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
1998 AD May 23 – A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
1998 AD May 26 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in New Jersey v. New York that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
1998 AD May 26 – The first "National Sorry Day" is held in Australia. Reconciliation events are held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
1998 AD May 26 – A MIAT Mongolian Airlines Harbin Y-12 crashes near Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia, resulting in 28 deaths.
1998 AD May 27 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1998 AD May 28 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
1998 AD May 30 – The 6.5 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
1998 AD May 30 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
1998 AD Jun 03 – After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
1998 AD Jun 04 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
1998 AD Jun 05 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
1998 AD Jun 11 – Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
1998 AD Jun 18 – Propair Flight 420 crashes near Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada, killing 11.
1998 AD Jun 25 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1998 AD Jun 26 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
1998 AD Jul 04 – Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
1998 AD Jul 06 – Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.
1998 AD Jul 10 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
1998 AD Jul 12 – The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
1998 AD Jul 15 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
1998 AD Jul 17 – The 7.0 M_w  Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
1998 AD Jul 17 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
1998 AD Jul 24 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
1998 AD Aug 07 – Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
1998 AD Aug 08 – Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist.
1998 AD Aug 10 – HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
1998 AD Aug 15 – Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
1998 AD Aug 15 – Apple introduces the iMac computer.
1998 AD Aug 17 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
1998 AD Aug 20 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 AD Aug 20 – U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 AD Aug 24 – First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
1998 AD Aug 26 – The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X communications satellite.
1998 AD Aug 28 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
1998 AD Aug 28 – Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
1998 AD Aug 29 – Eighty people are killed when Cubana de Aviación Flight 389 crashes during a rejected takeoff from the Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador.
1998 AD Aug 30 – Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
1998 AD Sep 02 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people onboard are killed.
1998 AD Sep 02 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
1998 AD Sep 14 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1998 AD Oct 31 – Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
1998 AD Nov 09 – A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
1998 AD Nov 09 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
1998 AD Nov 19 – Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 AD Nov 20 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 AD Nov 20 – The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
1998 AD Nov 21 – Finnish satanist Jarno Elg kills a 23-year-old man and performs a ritual-like cutting and eating of body parts in Hyvinkää, Finland.
1998 AD Nov 26 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
1998 AD Nov 26 – The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India.
1998 AD Dec 04 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
1998 AD Dec 06 – in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.
1998 AD Dec 08 – Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
1999 AD Jan 01 – Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece adopts the euro two years later).
1999 AD Jan 03 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
1999 AD Jan 04 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.
1999 AD Jan 07 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
1999 AD Jan 19 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
1999 AD Jan 21 – War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
1999 AD Jan 22 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
1999 AD Jan 25 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
1999 AD Feb 04 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
1999 AD Feb 07 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
1999 AD Feb 11 – Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
1999 AD Feb 12 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
1999 AD Feb 23 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 AD Feb 23 – An avalanche buries the town of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.
1999 AD Feb 24 – China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
1999 AD Mar 27 – Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
1999 AD Mar 29 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
1999 AD Mar 29 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
1999 AD Apr 01 – Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
1999 AD Apr 05 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
1999 AD Apr 12 – United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
1999 AD Apr 14 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
1999 AD Apr 14 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
1999 AD Apr 19 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
1999 AD Apr 20 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
1999 AD Apr 23 – NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1999 AD Apr 30 – Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub, killing three people and injuring 79 others.
1999 AD May 01 – The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
1999 AD May 02 – Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
1999 AD May 03 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
1999 AD May 03 – Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War.
1999 AD May 06 – The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
1999 AD May 07 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 AD May 07 – Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
1999 AD May 07 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
1999 AD May 24 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
1999 AD May 25 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
1999 AD May 28 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
1999 AD May 29 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999 AD May 29 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
1999 AD Jun 01 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
1999 AD Jun 09 – Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
1999 AD Jun 10 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
1999 AD Jun 12 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1999 AD Jun 13 – BMW win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Toyota being a contention for the win until a puncture in the last hour relegated it to second, Toyota not participating in Le Mans again until 2012. The race was also remembered for the flipping incidents involving the Mercedes cars, the team withdrawing mid-race and Mercedes never entering Le Mans again.
1999 AD Jul 01 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly.
1999 AD Jul 05 – U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
1999 AD Jul 09 – Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
1999 AD Jul 10 – In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
1999 AD Jul 16 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
1999 AD Jul 20 – The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
1999 AD Jul 23 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
1999 AD Jul 23 – Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
1999 AD Jul 24 – Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board.
1999 AD Jul 26 – Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
1999 AD Jul 31 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
1999 AD Aug 02 – The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
1999 AD Aug 07 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
1999 AD Aug 09 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
1999 AD Aug 10 – Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
1999 AD Aug 15 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
1999 AD Aug 17 – The 7.6 M_w  İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.
1999 AD Aug 19 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
1999 AD Aug 22 – China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more.
1999 AD Aug 26 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
1999 AD Aug 28 – The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.
1999 AD Aug 31 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1999 AD Aug 31 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
1999 AD Sep 07 – The 6.0 M_w  Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
1999 AD Sep 14 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
1999 AD Oct 31 – Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
1999 AD Oct 31 – EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.
1999 AD Nov 02 – 1999 Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
1999 AD Nov 08 – Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
1999 AD Nov 09 – TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
1999 AD Nov 18 – At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.
1999 AD Nov 19 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
1999 AD Nov 19 – John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
1999 AD Nov 25 – A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
1999 AD Nov 26 – The 7.5 M_w  Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
1999 AD Nov 27 – The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
1999 AD Nov 30 – Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
1999 AD Nov 30 – In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
1999 AD Nov 30 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
1999 AD Dec 02 – The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
1999 AD Dec 03 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
1999 AD Dec 06 – A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
1999 AD Dec 10 – Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election.
2000 AD Jan 04 – A Norwegian passenger train departing from Trondheim, collides with a local train coming from Hamar in Åsta, Åmot; 19 people are killed and 68 injured in the accident.
2000 AD Jan 06 title="2000">2000 – The last natural Pyrenean ibex, Celia, is killed by a falling tree, thus making the species extinct.
2000 AD Jan 10 – Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.
2000 AD Jan 21 – Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
2000 AD Jan 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
2000 AD Jan 31 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
2000 AD Feb 02 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
2000 AD Feb 04 – The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
2000 AD Feb 05 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
2000 AD Feb 06 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
2000 AD Feb 14 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2000 AD Feb 16 – Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard.
2000 AD Feb 29 – Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.
2000 AD Mar 27 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
2000 AD Apr 03 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2000 AD Apr 19 – Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
2000 AD Apr 30 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
2000 AD May 02 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2000 AD May 03 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2000 AD May 04 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
2000 AD May 07 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
2000 AD May 17 – Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
2000 AD May 19 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station.
2000 AD May 21 – Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
2000 AD May 22 – In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
2000 AD May 23 – In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
2000 AD May 24 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2000 AD May 25 – Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
2000 AD Jun 05 – The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
2000 AD Jun 07 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
2000 AD Jun 13 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2000 AD Jun 13 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.[1]
2000 AD Jun 16 – The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22 years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon.
2000 AD Jun 21 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2000 AD Jun 22 – Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
2000 AD Jul 02 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
2000 AD Jul 03 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
2000 AD Jul 10 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2000 AD Jul 10 – Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
2000 AD Jul 17 – During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.
2000 AD Jul 25 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people.
2000 AD Aug 08 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
2000 AD Aug 11 – An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
2000 AD Aug 12 – The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
2000 AD Aug 21 – American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
2000 AD Aug 23 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2000 AD Sep 10 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2000 AD Sep 14 – Microsoft releases Windows Me.
2000 AD Oct 31 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
2000 AD Oct 31 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83.
2000 AD Nov 01 – Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
2000 AD Nov 01 – The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
2000 AD Nov 02 – Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.
2000 AD Nov 07 – The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States.
2000 AD Nov 07 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2000 AD Nov 09 – Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
2000 AD Nov 13 – Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
2000 AD Nov 25 – The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
2000 AD Nov 26 – George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
2000 AD Nov 30 – NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.
2000 AD Dec 01 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
2001 AD Jan 12 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2001 AD Jan 13 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
2001 AD Jan 15 – Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2001 AD Jan 16 – Second Congo War: Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.
2001 AD Jan 16 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
2001 AD Jan 20 – President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
2001 AD Jan 23 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Chinese Communist Party to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
2001 AD Jan 26 – The 7.7 M_w Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India, leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
2001 AD Jan 26 – Diane Whipple, a lacrosse coach, is killed in a dog attack in San Francisco, which clarified the meaning of implied malice murder.
2001 AD Jan 29 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2001 AD Jan 31 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2001 AD Jan 31 – Two Japan Airlines planes nearly collide over Suruga Bay in Japan.
2001 AD Feb 07 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-98, carrying the Destiny laboratory module to the International Space Station.
2001 AD Feb 09 – The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor.
2001 AD Feb 11 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
2001 AD Feb 12 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2001 AD Feb 13 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
2001 AD Feb 15 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
2001 AD Feb 18 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2001 AD Feb 18 – Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, ultimately resulting in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
2001 AD Feb 27 – Loganair Flight 670A crashes while attempting to make a water landing in the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
2001 AD Feb 28 – The 2001 Nisqually earthquake, having a moment magnitude of 6.8, with epicenter in the southern Puget Sound, damages Seattle metropolitan area.
2001 AD Mar 04 – BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 AD Apr 01 – An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Chinese pilot ejected but is subsequently lost. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
2001 AD Apr 01 – Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
2001 AD Apr 01 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
2001 AD Apr 07 – NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.
2001 AD Apr 11 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
2001 AD Apr 16 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
2001 AD Apr 25 – President George W. Bush pledges U.S. military support in the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan.
2001 AD May 03 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2001 AD May 06 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
2001 AD May 09 – In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2001 AD May 15 – A CSX EMD SD40-2 rolls out of a train yard in Walbridge, Ohio, with 47 freight cars, including some tank cars with flammable chemical, after its engineer fails to reboard it after setting a yard switch. It travels south driverless for 66 miles (106 km) until it was brought to a halt near Kenton. The incident became the inspiration for the 2010 film Unstoppable.
2001 AD May 21 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2001 AD May 25 – Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
2001 AD May 27 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2001 AD May 29 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2001 AD Jun 01 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
2001 AD Jun 01 – Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2001 AD Jun 05 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2001 AD Jun 08 – Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
2001 AD Jun 10 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2001 AD Jun 11 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2001 AD Jun 15 – Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
2001 AD Jun 21 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2001 AD Jun 23 – The 8.4 M_w  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
2001 AD Jun 28 – Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
2001 AD Jul 02 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
2001 AD Jul 03 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
2001 AD Jul 04 – Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
2001 AD Jul 12 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station.
2001 AD Jul 17 – Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
2001 AD Jul 21 – At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
2001 AD Jul 24 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2001 AD Jul 24 – The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy.
2001 AD Jul 28 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.
2001 AD Aug 06 – Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
2001 AD Aug 08 – Albanian rebels ambush a convoy of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia near Tetovo, killing 10 soldiers.
2001 AD Aug 10 – The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.
2001 AD Aug 10 – Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-105 to the International Space Station, carrying the astronauts of Expedition 3 to replace the crew of Expedition 2.
2001 AD Aug 24 – Air Transat Flight 236 loses all engine power over the Atlantic Ocean, forcing the pilots to conduct an emergency landing in the Azores.
2001 AD Aug 25 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
2001 AD Aug 29 – Four people are killed when Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 crashes into the N-340 highway near Málaga Airport.
2001 AD Sep 03 – In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls.
2001 AD Sep 04 – In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls.
2001 AD Sep 09 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
2001 AD Sep 10 – Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
2001 AD Sep 10 – During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reaches the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant.
2001 AD Sep 11 – The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killing 2,996 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
2001 AD Sep 12 – Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
2001 AD Sep 13 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
2001 AD Sep 14 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
2001 AD Nov 01 title="2001">2001 – Turkey, Australia, and Canada agree to commit troops to the invasion of Afghanistan.
2001 AD Nov 13 – War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
2001 AD Nov 23 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
2001 AD Nov 27 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2001 AD Nov 30 – Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders. He was eventually convicted of a total of 49 murders.
2001 AD Dec 02 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2001 AD Dec 08 – A raid conducted by the Internal Security Department (ISD) of Singapore foils a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) plot to bomb foreign embassies in Singapore.
2002 AD Jan 03 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
2002 AD Jan 08 – President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2002 AD Jan 16 – War in Afghanistan: The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2002 AD Jan 17 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2002 AD Jan 18 – The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
2002 AD Jan 22 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2002 AD Jan 23 – U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
2002 AD Jan 27 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
2002 AD Jan 28 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94.
2002 AD Jan 29 – In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2002 AD Feb 01 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
2002 AD Feb 12 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
2002 AD Feb 12 – An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
2002 AD Feb 19 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2002 AD Feb 22 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2002 AD Feb 27 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2002 AD Feb 27 – Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
2002 AD Feb 28 – During the religious violence in Gujarat, 97 people are killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in the Gulbarg Society massacre.
2002 AD Mar 01 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2002 AD Mar 01 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.
2002 AD Mar 02 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
2002 AD Mar 04 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2002 AD Mar 27 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.
2002 AD Mar 27 – Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured.
2002 AD Mar 29 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
2002 AD Mar 30 – The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.
2002 AD Apr 02 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
2002 AD Apr 04 – The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
2002 AD Apr 11 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 AD Apr 11 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.
2002 AD Apr 12 – A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.
2002 AD Apr 14 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2002 AD Apr 15 – Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.
2002 AD Apr 26 – Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2002 AD May 04 – One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria.
2002 AD May 06 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
2002 AD May 06 – Founding of SpaceX.
2002 AD May 07 – An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.
2002 AD May 07 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2002 AD May 09 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2002 AD May 10 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
2002 AD May 12 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since the Cuban Revolution.
2002 AD May 20 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
2002 AD May 22 – Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
2002 AD May 23 – Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
2002 AD May 24 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
2002 AD May 25 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait, with the loss of all 225 people on board.
2002 AD May 26 – The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.
2002 AD May 28 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
2002 AD Jun 06 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2002 AD Jun 10 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2002 AD Jun 11 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2002 AD Jun 13 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2002 AD Jun 14 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
2002 AD Jun 16 – Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
2002 AD Jun 22 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 M_w strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
2002 AD Jun 24 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
2002 AD Jun 29 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2002 AD Jul 01 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
2002 AD Jul 01 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
2002 AD Jul 02 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2002 AD Jul 03 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2002 AD Jul 04 – A Boeing 707 crashes near Bangui M'Poko International Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, killing 28.
2002 AD Jul 09 – The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
2002 AD Jul 10 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
2002 AD Jul 14 – French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-Élysées.
2002 AD Jul 15 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002 AD Jul 15 – The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.
2002 AD Jul 18 – A Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer crashes near Estes Park, Colorado, killing both crew members.
2002 AD Jul 27 – Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 77 and injuring more than 500 others, making it the deadliest air show disaster in history.
2002 AD Jul 28 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2002 AD Jul 28 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.
2002 AD Aug 19 – Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2002 AD Aug 20 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2002 AD Aug 30 – Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
2002 AD Aug 31 – Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, made landfall, killing at least 236 people.
2002 AD Sep 10 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
2002 AD Sep 14 – Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board.
2002 AD Oct 31 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
2002 AD Nov 04 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2002 AD Nov 06 – Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
2002 AD Nov 06 – A Fokker 50 crashes near Luxembourg Airport, killing 20 and injuring three.
2002 AD Nov 08 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
2002 AD Nov 13 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
2002 AD Nov 13 – During the Prestige oil spill, a storm bursts a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige, which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002, off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
2002 AD Nov 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2002 AD Nov 19 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m³ (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
2002 AD Nov 21 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2002 AD Nov 21 – Arturo Guzmán Decena, founder of Los Zetas and high-member of the Gulf Cartel, is killed in a shoot-out with the Mexican Army and the police.
2002 AD Nov 22 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2002 AD Nov 28 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
2003 AD Jan 08 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.
2003 AD Jan 08 – Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
2003 AD Jan 11 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
2003 AD Jan 16 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
2003 AD Jan 18 – A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2003 AD Jan 21 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
2003 AD Jan 23 – A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
2003 AD Jan 24 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2003 AD Jan 25 – Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
2003 AD Jan 27 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
2003 AD Feb 01 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
2003 AD Feb 04 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.
2003 AD Feb 10 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2003 AD Feb 14 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNMOVIC Executive Chairman Hans Blix reports to the United Nations Security Council that disarmament inspectors have found no weapons of mass destruction in Ba'athist Iraq.
2003 AD Feb 15 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million and 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
2003 AD Feb 18 – 192 people die when an arsonist sets fire to a subway train in Daegu, South Korea.
2003 AD Feb 19 – An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
2003 AD Feb 20 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
2003 AD Mar 01 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2003 AD Mar 01 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2003 AD Mar 05 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
2003 AD Mar 06 – Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.
2003 AD Apr 07 – Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
2003 AD Apr 09 – Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
2003 AD Apr 14 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 AD Apr 14 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2003 AD Apr 16 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
2003 AD Apr 16 – Michael Jordan plays his final game with the National Basketball Association.
2003 AD May 01 – Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
2003 AD May 12 – The Riyadh compound bombings in Saudi Arabia, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 39 people.
2003 AD May 16 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2003 AD May 21 – The 6.8 M_w  Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands.
2003 AD May 28 – Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
2003 AD May 30 – Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi flees the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
2003 AD May 31 – Air France retires its fleet of Concorde aircraft.
2003 AD Jun 02 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
2003 AD Jun 05 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50 °C (122 °F) in the region.
2003 AD Jun 10 – The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
2003 AD Jun 20 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
2003 AD Jul 01 – Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2003 AD Jul 05 – The World Health Organization announces that the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak has been contained.
2003 AD Jul 06 – The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
2003 AD Jul 07 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
2003 AD Jul 08 – Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.
2003 AD Jul 13 – French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press.
2003 AD Jul 15 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2003 AD Jul 22 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
2003 AD Jul 30 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2003 AD Aug 05 – A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
2003 AD Aug 10 – The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
2003 AD Aug 11 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2003 AD Aug 11 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2003 AD Aug 14 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2003 AD Aug 18 – One-year-old Zachary Turner is murdered in Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case was documented in the film Dear Zachary and led to reform of Canada's bail laws.
2003 AD Aug 19 – A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2003 AD Aug 19 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.
2003 AD Aug 22 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2003 AD Aug 25 – NASA successfully launches the Spitzer Space Telescope into space.
2003 AD Aug 26 – A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, killing both pilots on board.
2003 AD Aug 27 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2003 AD Aug 27 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
2003 AD Aug 28 – In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.
2003 AD Aug 29 – Sayed Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2003 AD Sep 06 – Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
2003 AD Sep 12 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
2003 AD Sep 12 – Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2003 AD Sep 12 – Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
2003 AD Sep 14 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
2003 AD Oct 31 – Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.
2003 AD Nov 18 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.
2003 AD Nov 20 – After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
2003 AD Nov 22 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
2003 AD Nov 22 – England defeats Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament.
2003 AD Nov 23 – Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
2003 AD Nov 26 – The Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2003 AD Dec 07 – The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
2003 AD Dec 09 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2004 AD Jan 01 – In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.
2004 AD Jan 02 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
2004 AD Jan 03 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
2004 AD Jan 04 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2004 AD Jan 04 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
2004 AD Jan 08 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2004 AD Jan 09 – An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second deadliest marine disaster in Albanian history.
2004 AD Jan 12 – The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2004 AD Jan 14 – The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2004 AD Jan 21 – NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2004 AD Feb 01 – Hajj pilgrimage stampede: In a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured.
2004 AD Feb 02 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
2004 AD Feb 04 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
2004 AD Feb 05 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2004 AD Feb 10 – Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport.
2004 AD Feb 12 – The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2004 AD Feb 13 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2004 AD Feb 14 – In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others.
2004 AD Feb 18 – Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran, when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
2004 AD Feb 24 – The 6.3 M_w Al Hoceima earthquake strikes northern Morocco with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 628 people are killed, 926 are injured, and up to 15,000 are displaced.
2004 AD Feb 27 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 AD Feb 27 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.
2004 AD Feb 28 – Over one million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the February 28 Incident in 1947.
2004 AD Feb 29 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup.
2004 AD Mar 02 – War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
2004 AD Mar 08 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2004 AD Mar 27 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2004 AD Mar 29 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2004 AD Mar 31 – Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
2004 AD Apr 01 – Google launches its Email service Gmail.
2004 AD Apr 02 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted.
2004 AD Apr 03 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2004 AD Apr 06 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
2004 AD Apr 08 – War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government, the Justice and Equality Movement, and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army.
2004 AD Apr 21 – Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.
2004 AD Apr 24 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2004 AD Apr 25 – The March for Women's Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
2004 AD Apr 28 – CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
2004 AD Apr 29 – The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production.
2004 AD Apr 30 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers committing war crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2004 AD May 01 – Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2004 AD May 02 – The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd.
2004 AD May 07 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
2004 AD May 14 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
2004 AD May 14 – Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people.
2004 AD May 15 – Arsenal F.C. go an entire league campaign unbeaten in the English Premier League, joining Preston North End F.C. with the right to claim the title "The Invincibles".
2004 AD May 17 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
2004 AD May 26 – United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 AD May 28 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2004 AD May 29 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2004 AD Jun 01 – Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole, breaking a Guinness World Record.
2004 AD Jun 05 – Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France.
2004 AD Jun 08 – The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2004 AD Jun 11 – Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
2004 AD Jun 21 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2004 AD Jun 24 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2004 AD Jun 28 – Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2004 AD Jul 01 – Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2004 AD Jul 04 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
2004 AD Jul 04 – Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history.
2004 AD Jul 05 – The first direct Indonesian presidential election is held.
2004 AD Jul 16 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
2004 AD Aug 01 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
2004 AD Aug 03 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
2004 AD Aug 08 – A tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumps approximately 800 pounds of human waste onto a boat full of passengers.
2004 AD Aug 13 – One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
2004 AD Aug 17 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2004 AD Aug 19 – Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq.
2004 AD Aug 22 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2004 AD Aug 24 – Ninety passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.
2004 AD Sep 01 – The Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia, Russia; by the end of the siege, three days later, more than 385 people are dead (including hostages, other civilians, security personnel and terrorists).
2004 AD Sep 03 – Beslan school siege results in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children.
2004 AD Sep 04 – Beslan school siege results in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children.
2004 AD Sep 08 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2004 AD Nov 06 – An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
2004 AD Nov 07 – Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day state of emergency as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2004 AD Nov 08 – Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2004 AD Nov 09 – Firefox 1.0 is released.
2004 AD Nov 19 – The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.
2004 AD Nov 21 – The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
2004 AD Nov 21 – Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island sustains the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. In neighboring Guadeloupe, one person is killed.
2004 AD Nov 21 – The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.
2004 AD Nov 22 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2004 AD Nov 23 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
2004 AD Nov 26 – Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
2004 AD Nov 26 – The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2004 AD Nov 27 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2004 AD Nov 30 – Lion Air Flight 583 overshoots the runway while landing at Adisumarmo International Airport and crashes, killing 25 people.
2004 AD Dec 08 – The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
2004 AD Dec 08 – Columbus nightclub shooting: Nathan Gale opens fire at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, killing former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell and three others before being shot dead by a police officer.
2005 AD Jan 05 – The dwarf planet Eris is discovered by Palomar Observatory-based astronomers, later motivating the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term planet for the first time.
2005 AD Jan 06 – American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
2005 AD Jan 06 – A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
2005 AD Jan 08 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
2005 AD Jan 09 – Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
2005 AD Jan 09 – The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
2005 AD Jan 12 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
2005 AD Jan 15 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
2005 AD Jan 18 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
2005 AD Jan 21 – In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
2005 AD Jan 25 – A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
2005 AD Jan 29 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
2005 AD Feb 01 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
2005 AD Feb 02 – The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
2005 AD Feb 08 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.
2005 AD Feb 14 – In Beirut, 23 people, including former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, are killed when the equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT is detonated while Hariri's motorcade drives through the city.
2005 AD Feb 14 – Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit Makati, Davao City, and General Santos City, all in the Philippines.
2005 AD Feb 14 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
2005 AD Feb 16 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2005 AD Feb 16 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.
2005 AD Feb 20 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
2005 AD Feb 22 – The 6.4 M_w  Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.
2005 AD Feb 28 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
2005 AD Mar 01 – In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional.
2005 AD Mar 03 – James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 AD Mar 03 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
2005 AD Mar 03 – Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006, where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
2005 AD Mar 26 – Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China.
2005 AD Apr 06 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
2005 AD Apr 08 – A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
2005 AD Apr 14 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2005 AD Apr 19 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
2005 AD Apr 22 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
2005 AD Apr 23 – The first YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", was published by co-founder Jawed Karim.
2005 AD Apr 24 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2005 AD Apr 25 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 AD Apr 25 – A seven-car commuter train derails and crashes into an apartment building near Amagasaki Station in Japan, killing 107, including the driver.
2005 AD Apr 25 – Bulgaria and Romania sign the Treaty of Accession 2005 to join the European Union.
2005 AD Apr 26 – Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
2005 AD Apr 27 – Airbus A380 aircraft had its maiden test flight.
2005 AD May 10 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 20 m from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
2005 AD May 13 – Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates.
2005 AD May 16 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
2005 AD May 18 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
2005 AD May 21 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
2005 AD May 29 – France rejects the Constitution of the European Union in a national referendum.
2005 AD May 31 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat".
2005 AD Jun 13 – The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993.
2005 AD Jun 19 – Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdrew after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race.
2005 AD Jun 21 – Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
2005 AD Jun 30 – MTV Canada is rebranded as Razer
2005 AD Jul 02 – The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
2005 AD Jul 03 – The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
2005 AD Jul 04 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2005 AD Jul 07 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
2005 AD Jul 16 – An Antonov An-24 crashes near Baney in Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people.
2005 AD Jul 20 – The Civil Marriage Act legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada.
2005 AD Jul 21 – Four attempted bomb attacks by Islamist extremists disrupt part of London's public transport system.
2005 AD Jul 22 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
2005 AD Jul 23 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2005 AD Jul 26 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 AD Jul 26 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
2005 AD Jul 27 – After an incident during STS-114, NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank.
2005 AD Jul 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
2005 AD Jul 29 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
2005 AD Aug 02 – Air France Flight 358 lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
2005 AD Aug 03 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
2005 AD Aug 14 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
2005 AD Aug 15 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
2005 AD Aug 15 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.
2005 AD Aug 16 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
2005 AD Aug 17 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, starts.
2005 AD Aug 17 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh.
2005 AD Aug 18 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java; affecting almost 100 million people, it is one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
2005 AD Aug 19 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2005 AD Aug 25 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida.
2005 AD Aug 29 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
2005 AD Aug 31 – The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.
2005 AD Sep 07 – Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election.
2005 AD Sep 08 – Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2005 AD Sep 12 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.
2005 AD Oct 30 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
2005 AD Nov 09 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 AD Nov 09 – Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2005 AD Nov 22 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2005 AD Nov 23 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
2005 AD Nov 30 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
2005 AD Dec 03 – XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.
2005 AD Dec 04 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
2005 AD Dec 05 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2005 AD Dec 05 – The 6.8 M_w  Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
2005 AD Dec 06 – An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.
2005 AD Dec 07 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
2005 AD Dec 10 – Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes at Port Harcourt International Airport in Nigeria, killing 108 people.
2006 AD Jan 04 – Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke.
2006 AD Jan 12 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2006 AD Jan 16 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
2006 AD Jan 22 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2006 AD Jan 25 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
2006 AD Jan 28 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
2006 AD Feb 06 – Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
2006 AD Feb 16 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2006 AD Feb 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
2006 AD Feb 19 – A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2006 AD Feb 22 – At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samara, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war.
2006 AD Feb 22 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2006 AD Feb 24 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2006 AD Mar 01 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
2006 AD Mar 07 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
2006 AD Apr 01 – Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Government of the United Kingdom is enforced, but later merged into National Crime Agency on 7 October 2013.
2006 AD Apr 02 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.
2006 AD Apr 08 – Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
2006 AD Apr 11 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.
2006 AD Apr 14 – Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during Asr prayer in Jama Masjid, Delhi injure 13 people.
2006 AD Apr 17 – A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
2006 AD Apr 27 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City.
2006 AD May 03 – Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.
2006 AD May 05 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
2006 AD May 12 – Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
2006 AD May 12 – Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
2006 AD May 13 – São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil.
2006 AD May 17 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
2006 AD May 18 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
2006 AD May 21 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
2006 AD May 27 – The 6.4 M_w  Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
2006 AD May 29 – The roof of Porvoo Cathedral in the town of Porvoo was destroyed by arson.
2006 AD Jun 03 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
2006 AD Jun 05 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2006 AD Jun 18 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
2006 AD Jun 21 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
2006 AD Jun 29 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2006 AD Jul 01 – The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway is conducted in China.
2006 AD Jul 04 – Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day.
2006 AD Jul 05 – North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
2006 AD Jul 06 – The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
2006 AD Jul 09 – One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
2006 AD Jul 10 – A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.
2006 AD Jul 11 – Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2006 AD Jul 12 – The 2006 Lebanon War begins.
2006 AD Jul 15 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
2006 AD Jul 17 – The 7.7 M_w  Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
2006 AD Jul 30 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2006 AD Jul 31 – Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
2006 AD Aug 04 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
2006 AD Aug 09 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
2006 AD Aug 11 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
2006 AD Aug 14 – Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
2006 AD Aug 14 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
2006 AD Aug 20 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
2006 AD Aug 22 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
2006 AD Aug 22 – Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
2006 AD Aug 23 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2006 AD Aug 24 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
2006 AD Aug 25 – Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko is sentenced to nine years imprisonment for money laundering, wire fraud, and extortion.
2006 AD Aug 27 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2006 AD Aug 31 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
2006 AD Nov 05 – Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
2006 AD Nov 08 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Israeli Defense Force kill 19 Palestinian civilians in their homes during the shelling of Beit Hanoun.
2006 AD Nov 21 – Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
2006 AD Nov 23 – A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
2006 AD Nov 27 – The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
2006 AD Dec 04 – Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana.
2006 AD Dec 05 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2006 AD Dec 06 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2007 AD Jan 01 – Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.
2007 AD Jan 01 – Adam Air Flight 574 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes near the Makassar Strait, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board.
2007 AD Jan 04 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2007 AD Jan 09 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
2007 AD Jan 10 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
2007 AD Jan 12 – Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), one of the brightest comets ever observed is at its zenith visible during the day.
2007 AD Jan 17 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.
2007 AD Jan 18 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
2007 AD Jan 19 – Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
2007 AD Jan 19 – Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
2007 AD Jan 22 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
2007 AD Feb 02 – Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks out in the Sicily derby between Catania and Palermo, in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. This event led to major changes in stadium regulations in Italy.
2007 AD Feb 03 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
2007 AD Feb 13 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2007 AD Feb 18 – Samjhauta Express bombings occurred around midnight in Diwana near the Indian city of Panipat, 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of New Delhi, India.
2007 AD Feb 23 – A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2007 AD Feb 24 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2007 AD Feb 27 – Chinese stock bubble of 2007: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest daily fall in ten years, following speculation about a crackdown on illegal share offerings and trading, and fears about accelerating inflation.
2007 AD Mar 01 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
2007 AD Mar 07 – Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2007 AD Mar 07 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.
2007 AD Apr 03 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
2007 AD Apr 05 – The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.
2007 AD Apr 11 – Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
2007 AD Apr 12 – A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
2007 AD Apr 16 – Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
2007 AD Apr 20 – Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2007 AD Apr 25 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
2007 AD Apr 27 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2007 AD Apr 27 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
2007 AD May 03 – The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
2007 AD May 04 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
2007 AD May 05 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
2007 AD May 17 – Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
2007 AD May 19 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
2007 AD Jun 08 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
2007 AD Jun 11 – Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
2007 AD Jun 13 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
2007 AD Jun 15 – The Nokkakivi Amusement Park is opened in Lievestuore, Laukaa, Finland.
2007 AD Jun 18 – The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
2007 AD Jun 19 – The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
2007 AD Jun 27 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown succeeds him.
2007 AD Jun 27 – The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2007 AD Jun 29 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2007 AD Jun 30 – A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before.
2007 AD Jul 01 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2007 AD Jul 07 – The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
2007 AD Jul 10 – Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2007 AD Jul 12 – U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
2007 AD Jul 16 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
2007 AD Jul 17 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
2007 AD Jul 25 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
2007 AD Jul 31 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2007 AD Aug 01 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
2007 AD Aug 03 – Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
2007 AD Aug 04 – NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched.
2007 AD Aug 07 – At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.
2007 AD Aug 08 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2007 AD Aug 09 – Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes after takeoff from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 20 people on board.
2007 AD Aug 14 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people.
2007 AD Aug 15 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
2007 AD Aug 20 – China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire and explodes after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
2007 AD Aug 22 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
2007 AD Aug 23 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2007 AD Sep 06 – Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
2007 AD Sep 10 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2007 AD Sep 11 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
2007 AD Sep 12 – Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.
2007 AD Sep 12 – Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.
2007 AD Sep 13 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
2007 AD Sep 13 – The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.
2007 AD Sep 14 – Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
2007 AD Nov 05 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
2007 AD Nov 05 – The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
2007 AD Nov 07 – The Jokela school shooting in Jokela, Tuusula, Finland, takes place, resulting in the death of nine people.
2007 AD Nov 23 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
2007 AD Nov 29 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
2007 AD Dec 03 – Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 32-kilometre (20 mi) portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
2007 AD Dec 05 – Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.
2008 AD Jan 04 – A Let L-410 Turbolet crashes in the Los Roques Archipelago in Venezuela, killing 14 people.
2008 AD Jan 18 – The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2008 AD Feb 05 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
2008 AD Feb 11 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
2008 AD Feb 13 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2008 AD Feb 14 – Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, resulting in six fatalities (including the gunman) and 21 injuries.
2008 AD Feb 17 – Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.
2008 AD Feb 23 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
2008 AD Feb 24 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
2008 AD Feb 26 – The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
2008 AD Feb 27 – Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from a detention center in Singapore, hiding in Johor, Malaysia until he was recaptured over a year later.
2008 AD Feb 29 – The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media.
2008 AD Feb 29 – Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
2008 AD Mar 01 – The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed.
2008 AD Mar 06 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
2008 AD Mar 30 – Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.
2008 AD Apr 03 – ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
2008 AD Apr 03 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
2008 AD Apr 06 – The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
2008 AD Apr 08 – The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
2008 AD Apr 16 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Baze v. Rees decision that execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment.
2008 AD Apr 20 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2008 AD Apr 30 – Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
2008 AD May 02 – Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
2008 AD May 02 – Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
2008 AD May 12 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
2008 AD May 12 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
2008 AD May 14 – Battle of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre between Zenit supporters and Rangers supporters and the Greater Manchester Police, 39 policemen injured, one police-dog injured and 39 arrested.
2008 AD May 15 – California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
2008 AD May 25 – NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
2008 AD May 26 – Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million.
2008 AD May 28 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2008 AD May 29 – A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
2008 AD May 30 – Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
2008 AD May 30 – TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people.
2008 AD May 31 – Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7 m/s) 9.72 seconds
2008 AD Jun 01 – A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
2008 AD Jun 08 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
2008 AD Jun 08 – At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
2008 AD Jun 09 – Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
2008 AD Jun 10 – Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.
2008 AD Jun 11 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
2008 AD Jun 11 – The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
2008 AD Jun 27 – In a highly scrutinized election, President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
2008 AD Jul 01 – Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2008 AD Jul 02 – Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
2008 AD Jul 03 – Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
2008 AD Jul 10 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
2008 AD Jul 13 – Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
2008 AD Jul 21 – Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first President of Nepal.
2008 AD Jul 26 – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
2008 AD Jul 31 – East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
2008 AD Aug 01 – The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
2008 AD Aug 01 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
2008 AD Aug 06 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
2008 AD Aug 07 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
2008 AD Aug 08 – A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
2008 AD Aug 08 – The 29th modern summer Olympic Games took place in Beijing, China until August 24.
2008 AD Aug 13 – Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
2008 AD Aug 16 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
2008 AD Aug 17 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
2008 AD Aug 18 – The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharra, resigns under threat of impeachment.
2008 AD Aug 18 – War of Afghanistan: The Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
2008 AD Aug 20 – Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
2008 AD Aug 24 – Sixty-five passengers are killed when Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 crashes during an emergency landing at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
2008 AD Aug 24 – A Cessna 208 Caravan crashes in Cabañas, Zacapa, Guatemala, killing 11 people.
2008 AD Aug 30 – A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
2008 AD Sep 01 – Iraq War: The United States Armed Forces transfers control of Anbar Province to the Iraqi Armed Forces.
2008 AD Sep 02 – Google launches its Google Chrome web browser.
2008 AD Sep 07 – The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2008 AD Sep 10 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
2008 AD Sep 11 – A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.
2008 AD Sep 12 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
2008 AD Sep 13 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
2008 AD Sep 13 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
2008 AD Sep 14 – Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.
2008 AD Nov 02 – Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.
2008 AD Nov 04 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected as President of the United States.
2008 AD Nov 25 – Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
2008 AD Nov 26 – Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation.
2008 AD Nov 26 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, now out of service, docks in Dubai.
2008 AD Nov 27 – XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
2008 AD Dec 09 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
2009 AD Jan 01 – Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
2009 AD Jan 03 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, is established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2009 AD Jan 08 – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
2009 AD Jan 15 – US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off. This becomes known as "The Miracle on the Hudson" as all 155 people on board were rescued.
2009 AD Jan 20 – Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President of the United States.
2009 AD Jan 20 – A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
2009 AD Jan 21 – Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, officially ending a three-week war it had with Hamas. However, intermittent fire by both sides continues in the weeks to follow.
2009 AD Jan 22 – President Barack Obama signs an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; congressional opposition will prevent it being implemented.
2009 AD Jan 24 – Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
2009 AD Jan 26 – Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
2009 AD Jan 26 – Nadya Suleman gives birth to the world's first surviving octuplets.
2009 AD Jan 29 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
2009 AD Jan 29 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
2009 AD Jan 31 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
2009 AD Feb 01 – The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government.
2009 AD Feb 07 – Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
2009 AD Feb 10 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
2009 AD Feb 12 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
2009 AD Feb 20 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
2009 AD Mar 04 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
2009 AD Mar 07 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
2009 AD Mar 27 – The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 AD Mar 30 – Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
2009 AD Apr 03 – Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
2009 AD Apr 04 – France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.
2009 AD Apr 05 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
2009 AD Apr 06 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
2009 AD Apr 07 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2009 AD Apr 07 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
2009 AD Apr 09 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
2009 AD Apr 10 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
2009 AD Apr 12 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
2009 AD Apr 30 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2009 AD Apr 30 – Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
2009 AD May 01 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2009 AD May 18 – The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
2009 AD May 25 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community.
2009 AD Jun 01 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
2009 AD Jun 01 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2009 AD Jun 05 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
2009 AD Jun 08 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
2009 AD Jun 09 – An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2009 AD Jun 10 – Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.
2009 AD Jun 12 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
2009 AD Jun 18 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
2009 AD Jun 19 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
2009 AD Jun 19 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
2009 AD Jun 21 – Greenland assumes self-rule.
2009 AD Jun 22 – A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.
2009 AD Jun 28 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
2009 AD Jun 30 – Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.
2009 AD Jul 04 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
2009 AD Jul 04 – The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
2009 AD Jul 05 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
2009 AD Jul 05 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
2009 AD Jul 15 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
2009 AD Jul 16 – Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention.
2009 AD Jul 24 – Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes at Mashhad International Airport, killing 16.
2009 AD Jul 26 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
2009 AD Aug 10 – Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
2009 AD Aug 17 – An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
2009 AD Aug 19 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2009 AD Aug 26 – Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years. Her captors, Phillip and Nancy Garrido are apprehended.
2009 AD Aug 27 – Internal conflict in Myanmar: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
2009 AD Sep 02 – The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
2009 AD Sep 06 – The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
2009 AD Sep 09 – The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
2009 AD Nov 05 – U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
2009 AD Nov 21 – A mine explosion in Heilongjiang, China kills 108.
2009 AD Nov 23 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines; 58 opponents of Andal Ampatuan Jr. are kidnapped and killed.
2009 AD Nov 24 – The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania.
2009 AD Nov 25 – Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
2009 AD Nov 27 – Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
2009 AD Nov 29 – Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.
2009 AD Dec 03 – A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
2009 AD Dec 08 – Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.
2010 AD Jan 01 – A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.
2010 AD Jan 04 – The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai.
2010 AD Jan 08 – Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.
2010 AD Jan 12 – An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing between 220,000 and 300,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
2010 AD Jan 14 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
2010 AD Jan 17 – Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, results in at least 200 deaths.
2010 AD Jan 25 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Na'ameh, Lebanon, killing 90.
2010 AD Jan 27 – The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
2010 AD Jan 27 – Apple announces the iPad.
2010 AD Feb 08 – A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
2010 AD Feb 13 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
2010 AD Feb 15 – Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people.
2010 AD Feb 18 – WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
2010 AD Feb 20 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
2010 AD Feb 23 – Unknown criminals pour more than 2+1⁄2 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
2010 AD Feb 27 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggers a tsunami which strikes Hawaii shortly after.
2010 AD Mar 26 – The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea.
2010 AD Mar 29 – Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
2010 AD Apr 03 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
2010 AD Apr 04 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing two and damaging buildings across the two countries.
2010 AD Apr 05 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
2010 AD Apr 06 – Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
2010 AD Apr 08 – U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty.
2010 AD Apr 10 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.
2010 AD Apr 12 – Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.
2010 AD Apr 14 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
2010 AD Apr 20 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
2010 AD Apr 21 – The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.
2010 AD May 05 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
2010 AD May 06 – In just 36 minutes, the Dow-Jones average plunged nearly 1,000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.
2010 AD May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to Tripoli International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 out of the 104 people on board.
2010 AD May 14 – Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first shuttle-launched Russian ISS component — Rassvet. This was originally slated to be the final launch of Atlantis, before Congress approved STS-135.
2010 AD May 15 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
2010 AD May 19 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
2010 AD May 21 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
2010 AD May 22 – Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.
2010 AD May 22 – Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).
2010 AD May 23 – Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.
2010 AD May 23 – Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).
2010 AD May 28 – In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.
2010 AD May 31 – Israeli Shayetet 13 commandos boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla while still in international waters trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip; nine Turkish citizens on the flotilla were killed in the ensuing violent affray.
2010 AD Jun 04 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
2010 AD Jun 09 – At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.
2010 AD Jun 11 – The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.
2010 AD Jun 13 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback.
2010 AD Jun 16 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
2010 AD Jun 24 – At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
2010 AD Jun 24 – Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
2010 AD Jul 02 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
2010 AD Jul 03 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
2010 AD Jul 11 – The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carried out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others.
2010 AD Jul 11 – Spain defeat the Netherlands to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg.
2010 AD Jul 21 – President Barack Obama signs the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
2010 AD Jul 23 – English-Irish boy band One Direction is formed by judge Simon Cowell on The X Factor (British series 7), later going on to finish at third place. It would go on to become one of the biggest boy bands in the world, and would be very influential on pop music of the 2010s.
2010 AD Jul 25 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
2010 AD Jul 28 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.
2010 AD Jul 29 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.
2010 AD Aug 03 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
2010 AD Aug 05 – The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground for 69 days.
2010 AD Aug 05 – Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
2010 AD Aug 06 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
2010 AD Aug 08 – China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
2010 AD Aug 16 – AIRES Flight 8250 crashes at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport in San Andrés, San Andrés y Providencia, Colombia, killing two people.
2010 AD Aug 19 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
2010 AD Aug 23 – The Manila hostage crisis occurred near the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, Philippines killing 9 people including the perpetrator while injuring 9 others.
2010 AD Aug 24 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.
2010 AD Aug 24 – Henan Airlines Flight 8387 crashes at Yichun Lindu Airport in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, killing 44 out of the 96 people on board.
2010 AD Aug 24 – Agni Air Flight 101 crashes near Shikharpur, Makwanpur, Nepal, killing all 14 people on board.
2010 AD Sep 02 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States.
2010 AD Sep 03 – After taking off from Dubai International Airport, UPS Airlines Flight 6 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold and crashes near Nad Al Sheba, killing both crew members on board.
2010 AD Sep 04 – After taking off from Dubai International Airport, UPS Airlines Flight 6 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold and crashes near Nad Al Sheba, killing both crew members on board.
2010 AD Sep 07 – A Chinese fishing trawler collides with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands.
2010 AD Nov 04 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes into Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus; all 68 passengers and crew are killed.
2010 AD Nov 04 – Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380, suffers an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia shortly after taking off from Singapore, crippling the jet. The crew manage to safely return to Singapore, saving all 469 passengers and crew.
2010 AD Nov 19 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
2010 AD Nov 23 – Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.
2010 AD Nov 28 – Sun Way Flight 4112 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12 people.
2010 AD Dec 08 – With the second launch of the Falcon 9 and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2010 AD Dec 08 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
2011 AD Jan 01 – A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
2011 AD Jan 01 – Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the 17th Eurozone country.
2011 AD Jan 08 – Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge.
2011 AD Jan 09 – Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, in icy conditions, killing 77 people.
2011 AD Jan 14 – President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia seeks refuge in Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime, considered to be the birth of the Arab Spring.
2011 AD Jan 16 – Syrian civil war: The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism.
2011 AD Jan 21 – Anti-government demonstrations take place in Tirana, Albania. Four people lose their lives from gunshots, allegedly fired from armed police protecting the Prime Minister's office.
2011 AD Jan 24 – At least 35 are killed and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.
2011 AD Jan 25 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
2011 AD Jan 27 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
2011 AD Jan 27 title="2011">2011 – Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe at 200,000 K, was documented.
2011 AD Feb 11 – Arab Spring: The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 17 days of protests.
2011 AD Feb 13 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
2011 AD Feb 14 – As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
2011 AD Feb 17 – Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi's regime begin.
2011 AD Feb 17 – Arab Spring: In Bahrain, security forces launch a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama; the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.
2011 AD Feb 19 – The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
2011 AD Feb 22 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
2011 AD Feb 22 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
2011 AD Apr 01 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
2011 AD Apr 06 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 victims of Los Zetas were exhumed from several mass graves.
2011 AD Apr 07 – The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.
2011 AD Apr 11 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
2011 AD Apr 19 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
2011 AD Apr 24 – WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
2011 AD Apr 27 – The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
2011 AD Apr 29 – The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
2011 AD May 01 – Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
2011 AD May 02 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2011 AD May 02 – An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others are taken ill.
2011 AD May 11 – An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.
2011 AD May 13 – Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
2011 AD May 16 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
2011 AD May 20 – Mamata Banerjee is sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, the first woman to hold this post.
2011 AD May 21 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
2011 AD May 22 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
2011 AD May 23 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
2011 AD May 25 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2011 AD May 28 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.
2011 AD Jun 01 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2011 AD Jun 01 – Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights.
2011 AD Jul 08 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
2011 AD Jul 09 – South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
2011 AD Jul 09 – A rally takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to call for fairer elections in the country.
2011 AD Jul 10 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
2011 AD Jul 11 – Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.
2011 AD Jul 13 – Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130.
2011 AD Jul 13 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations.
2011 AD Jul 19 – Guinean President Alpha Condé survives an attempted assassination and coup d'état at his residence in Conakry.
2011 AD Jul 21 – NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
2011 AD Jul 22 – Norway attacks: First a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
2011 AD Jul 23 – A high-speed train rear-ends another on a viaduct on the Yongtaiwen railway line in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China, resulting in 40 deaths.
2011 AD Jul 26 – A Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes near Guelmim Airport in Guelmim, Morocco. All 80 people on board are killed.
2011 AD Jul 28 – While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to Jeju International Airport, but crashes into the sea South-West of Jeju island, killing both crew members on board.
2011 AD Jul 30 – Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
2011 AD Aug 06 – War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
2011 AD Aug 23 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington, D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at 200 million–300 million USD.
2011 AD Aug 23 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
2011 AD Aug 25 – Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas.
2011 AD Aug 26 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA.
2011 AD Aug 27 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.
2011 AD Sep 07 – The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
2011 AD Sep 11 – A dedication ceremony is held at the United States National September 11 Memorial on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York City, and the memorial opens to family members.
2011 AD Sep 12 – The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public.
2011 AD Oct 31 – The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.
2011 AD Nov 01 – Mario Draghi succeeds Jean-Claude Trichet and becomes the third president of the European Central Bank.
2011 AD Nov 08 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
2011 AD Nov 23 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
2011 AD Nov 26 – NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
2011 AD Nov 26 – The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
2012 AD Jan 06 – Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
2012 AD Jan 07 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
2012 AD Jan 10 – A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.
2012 AD Jan 12 – Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
2012 AD Jan 13 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.
2012 AD Jan 16 title="2012">2012 - The Mali War begins when Tuareg militias start fighting the Malian government for independence.
2012 AD Jan 19 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
2012 AD Feb 01 – Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al Masry and Al Ahly in the city of Port Said.
2012 AD Feb 02 – The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146–165 dead.
2012 AD Feb 06 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Negros, leaving 112 people dead.
2012 AD Feb 07 – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of the Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
2012 AD Feb 13 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
2012 AD Feb 15 – Three hundred and sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
2012 AD Feb 19 – Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.
2012 AD Feb 22 – A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
2012 AD Feb 23 – A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
2012 AD Feb 26 – A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
2012 AD Feb 26 – Seventeen-year-old African-American student Trayvon Martin is shot to death by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman in an altercation in Sanford, Florida.
2012 AD Feb 29 – North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.
2012 AD Mar 02 – A tornado outbreak occurs over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.
2012 AD Mar 04 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
2012 AD Mar 05 – Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.
2012 AD Apr 02 – A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
2012 AD Apr 06 – Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
2012 AD Apr 11 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake is VII (Very strong). Ten are killed, twelve are injured, and a non-destructive tsunami is observed on the island of Nias.
2012 AD Apr 16 – The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
2012 AD Apr 16 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2012 AD Apr 20 – One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
2012 AD Apr 21 – Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.
2012 AD Apr 27 – At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
2012 AD Apr 30 – An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
2012 AD May 02 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
2012 AD May 10 – The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.
2012 AD May 13 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
2012 AD May 14 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
2012 AD May 19 – Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.
2012 AD May 19 – A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
2012 AD May 20 – At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
2012 AD May 21 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
2012 AD May 21 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
2012 AD May 22 – Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
2012 AD May 22 – SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
2012 AD May 23 – Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
2012 AD May 23 – SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
2012 AD May 25 – The SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
2012 AD May 29 – A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
2012 AD May 30 – Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2012 AD Jun 02 – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
2012 AD Jun 03 – A plane carrying 153 people on board crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and six people on the ground.
2012 AD Jun 03 – The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
2012 AD Jun 11 – More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.
2012 AD Jun 13 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
2012 AD Jun 15 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.
2012 AD Jun 16 – China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
2012 AD Jun 16 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
2012 AD Jun 19 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
2012 AD Jun 21 – A boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsizes in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 others missing.
2012 AD Jun 22 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
2012 AD Jun 22 – A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
2012 AD Jun 23 – Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
2012 AD Jun 24 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
2012 AD Jun 29 – A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
2012 AD Jul 04 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
2012 AD Jul 05 – The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).
2012 AD Jul 07 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
2012 AD Jul 10 – The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
2012 AD Jul 12 – Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.
2012 AD Jul 12 – A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.
2012 AD Jul 15 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
2012 AD Jul 18 – At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
2012 AD Jul 19 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Kobanî without resistance, starting the Rojava conflict in Northeast Syria.
2012 AD Jul 20 – James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.
2012 AD Jul 20 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the cities of Amuda and Efrîn without resistance.
2012 AD Jul 21 – Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2012 AD Jul 22 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) captured the cities of Serê Kaniyê and Dirbêsiyê, during clashes with pro-government forces in Al-Hasakah.
2012 AD Jul 23 – The Solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
2012 AD Jul 24 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê.
2012 AD Jul 30 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
2012 AD Jul 30 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
2012 AD Jul 31 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
2012 AD Aug 05 – The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police.
2012 AD Aug 06 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
2012 AD Aug 09 – Shannon Eastin becomes the first woman to officiate a NFL game.
2012 AD Aug 10 – The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
2012 AD Aug 11 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
2012 AD Aug 16 – South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg.
2012 AD Aug 20 – A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
2012 AD Aug 22 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
2012 AD Aug 23 – A hot-air balloon crashes near the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, killing six people and injuring 28 others.
2012 AD Aug 24 – Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, is sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention.
2012 AD Aug 25 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
2012 AD Aug 29 – At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.
2012 AD Aug 29 – The XIV Paralympic Games open in London, England, United Kingdom.
2012 AD Sep 05 – An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.
2012 AD Sep 06 – Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
2012 AD Sep 07 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
2012 AD Sep 09 – The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches.
2012 AD Sep 09 – A wave of attacks kills more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
2012 AD Sep 11 – A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
2012 AD Sep 11 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
2012 AD Nov 01 – A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26 people and injuring 135.
2012 AD Nov 06 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
2012 AD Nov 07 – An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
2012 AD Nov 09 – A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
2012 AD Nov 09 – At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
2012 AD Nov 13 – A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.
2012 AD Nov 18 – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
2012 AD Nov 21 – At least 28 are wounded after a bomb is thrown onto a bus in Tel Aviv.
2012 AD Nov 22 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
2012 AD Nov 24 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
2012 AD Nov 30 – An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.
2012 AD Dec 03 – At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines.
2012 AD Dec 09 – A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people.
2013 AD Jan 01 – At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.[106]
2013 AD Jan 04 – A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.
2013 AD Jan 10 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.
2013 AD Jan 11 – One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
2013 AD Jan 15 – A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
2013 AD Jan 17 – Former cyclist Lance Armstrong confesses to his doping in an airing of Oprah's Next Chapter.
2013 AD Jan 25 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
2013 AD Jan 27 – Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
2013 AD Jan 29 – SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
2013 AD Jan 30 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
2013 AD Feb 01 – The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its viewing gallery to the public.
2013 AD Feb 07 – The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
2013 AD Feb 08 – A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
2013 AD Feb 10 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
2013 AD Feb 11 – The Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.
2013 AD Feb 11 – Militants claiming to be from the Sultanate of Sulu invade Lahad Datu District, Sabah, Malaysia, beginning the Lahad Datu standoff.
2013 AD Feb 15 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
2013 AD Feb 16 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
2013 AD Feb 18 – Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
2013 AD Feb 21 – At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
2013 AD Feb 26 – A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
2013 AD Feb 27 – A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
2013 AD Feb 28 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII, in 1415.
2013 AD Mar 03 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim area.
2013 AD Mar 29 – At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
2013 AD Apr 03 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2013 AD Apr 04 – More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
2013 AD Apr 08 – The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham.
2013 AD Apr 09 – A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
2013 AD Apr 09 – At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
2013 AD Apr 12 – Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.
2013 AD Apr 15 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
2013 AD Apr 15 – A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.
2013 AD Apr 16 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
2013 AD Apr 16 – The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
2013 AD Apr 17 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
2013 AD Apr 19 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
2013 AD Apr 20 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
2013 AD Apr 23 – At least 28 people are killed and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
2013 AD Apr 24 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
2013 AD Apr 24 – Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
2013 AD Apr 29 – A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013 AD Apr 29 – National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing seven people.
2013 AD Apr 30 – Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
2013 AD May 06 – Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
2013 AD May 10 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
2013 AD May 11 – Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
2013 AD May 13 – American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.
2013 AD May 15 – An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.
2013 AD May 20 – An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
2013 AD May 25 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
2013 AD May 25 – A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.
2013 AD May 30 – Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
2013 AD May 31 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
2013 AD May 31 – A record breaking 2.6 mile wide tornado strikes near El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, causing eight fatalities (including three storm chasers) and over 150 injuries.
2013 AD Jun 03 – The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
2013 AD Jun 03 – At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
2013 AD Jun 11 – Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would open exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
2013 AD Jun 15 – A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.
2013 AD Jun 16 – A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
2013 AD Jun 23 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
2013 AD Jun 23 – Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide.
2013 AD Jun 24 – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and engaging in sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.
2013 AD Jun 27 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
2013 AD Jun 30 – Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.
2013 AD Jun 30 – Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.
2013 AD Jul 01 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
2013 AD Jul 02 – The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.
2013 AD Jul 02 – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
2013 AD Jul 03 – The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.
2013 AD Jul 03 – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
2013 AD Jul 06 – At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.
2013 AD Jul 06 – A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
2013 AD Jul 06 – A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area.
2013 AD Jul 07 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
2013 AD Jul 12 – Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
2013 AD Jul 13 – Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.
2013 AD Jul 14 – Dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
2013 AD Jul 16 – As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
2013 AD Jul 16 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict.
2013 AD Jul 18 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
2013 AD Jul 20 – Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
2013 AD Jul 20 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn ends with the expulsion of Islamist forces from the city by the People's Protection Units (YPG).
2013 AD Jul 22 – Dingxi earthquakes: A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.
2013 AD Jul 24 – A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.
2013 AD Jul 29 – Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.
2013 AD Aug 08 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
2013 AD Aug 09 – Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.
2013 AD Aug 14 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
2013 AD Aug 14 – UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.
2013 AD Aug 15 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
2013 AD Aug 15 – The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.
2013 AD Aug 16 – The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people with 59 others missing.
2013 AD Aug 19 – The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
2013 AD Aug 21 – Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
2013 AD Aug 23 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.
2013 AD Sep 02 – The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM at a cost of $6.4 billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span.
2013 AD Sep 06 – Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
2013 AD Sep 12 – NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
2013 AD Sep 13 – Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.
2013 AD Nov 05 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
2013 AD Nov 08 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.
2013 AD Nov 13 – Hawaii legalizes same-sex marriage.
2013 AD Nov 13 – 4 World Trade Center officially opens.
2013 AD Nov 18 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2013 AD Nov 19 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
2013 AD Nov 21 – Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia.
2013 AD Nov 21 – Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.
2013 AD Nov 24 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
2013 AD Dec 05 – Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
2013 AD Dec 08 – Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India.
2013 AD Dec 08 – Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first band to perform on all seven continents.
2013 AD Dec 09 – At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
2014 AD Jan 05 – A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.
2014 AD Jan 09 – An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
2014 AD Jan 19 – A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.
2014 AD Jan 21 – Rojava conflict: The Jazira Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
2014 AD Jan 27 – Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
2014 AD Jan 29 – Rojava conflict: The Afrin Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
2014 AD Feb 03 – Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia.
2014 AD Feb 07 – Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
2014 AD Feb 08 – A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
2014 AD Feb 11 – A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
2014 AD Feb 18 – At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine.
2014 AD Feb 20 – Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, many reportedly killed by snipers.
2014 AD Feb 22 – President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
2014 AD Mar 01 – Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
2014 AD Mar 08 – In one of aviation's greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The fate of the flight remains unknown.
2014 AD Mar 27 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
2014 AD Mar 29 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
2014 AD Apr 02 – A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
2014 AD Apr 09 – A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
2014 AD Apr 12 – The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.
2014 AD Apr 14 – Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.
2014 AD Apr 14 – Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
2014 AD Apr 15 – In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.
2014 AD Apr 16 – The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.
2014 AD Apr 17 – NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
2014 AD Apr 21 – The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
2014 AD Apr 25 – The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to lead and bacteria contamination upon the citizens.
2014 AD Apr 30 – A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.
2014 AD May 02 – Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.
2014 AD May 04 – Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
2014 AD May 11 – Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
2014 AD May 13 – An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners.
2014 AD May 16 – Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya.
2014 AD May 17 – A military plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.
2014 AD May 21 – Random killings occurred on the Bannan Line of the Taipei MRT, killing four and injuring 24.
2014 AD May 22 – General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
2014 AD May 22 – An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
2014 AD May 23 – General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
2014 AD May 23 – An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
2014 AD May 24 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
2014 AD May 24 – At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.
2014 AD Jun 02 – Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India, formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh.
2014 AD Jun 08 – At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.
2014 AD Jun 12 – Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. It's the second deadliest act of terrorism in history, only behind 9/11.
2014 AD Jun 14 – A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
2014 AD Jun 23 – The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
2014 AD Jun 27 – At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.
2014 AD Jun 29 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
2014 AD Jul 08 – Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.
2014 AD Jul 15 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
2014 AD Jul 17 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
2014 AD Jul 17 – A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
2014 AD Jul 18 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands, or be killed.
2014 AD Jul 19 – Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.
2014 AD Jul 23 – TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. Forty-eight of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
2014 AD Jul 24 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people onboard are killed.
2014 AD Jul 30 – Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
2014 AD Jul 31 – Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
2014 AD Aug 02 – At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
2014 AD Aug 03 – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
2014 AD Aug 03 – The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
2014 AD Aug 09 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
2014 AD Aug 10 – Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.
2014 AD Aug 20 – Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
2014 AD Aug 24 – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the largest in that area since 1989.
2014 AD Aug 26 – The Jay Report into the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal is published.
2014 AD Aug 30 – Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
2014 AD Oct 30 – Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
2014 AD Oct 30 – Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas.
2014 AD Oct 31 – During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California,
2014 AD Nov 03 – One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, replacing the Twin Towers after they were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.
2014 AD Nov 21 – A stampede in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least eleven people and injures 40 others.
2014 AD Nov 28 – Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
2014 AD Dec 03 – The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.
2014 AD Dec 04 – Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.
2014 AD Dec 05 – Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion, is launched.
2014 AD Dec 10 – Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein is killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.
2015 AD Jan 01 – The Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
2015 AD Jan 03 – Boko Haram militants destroy the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
2015 AD Jan 07 – Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
2015 AD Jan 07 – A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
2015 AD Jan 09 – The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
2015 AD Jan 09 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.
2015 AD Jan 10 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.
2015 AD Jan 12 – Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.
2015 AD Jan 15 – The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the Swiss franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets.
2015 AD Jan 25 – A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
2015 AD Jan 26 – An aircraft crashes at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others.
2015 AD Jan 26 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) recaptures the city of Kobanî from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), marking a turning point in the Siege of Kobanî.
2015 AD Feb 04 – TransAsia Airways Flight 235, with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after takeoff, killing 43 people.
2015 AD Feb 11 – A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.
2015 AD Feb 17 – Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
2015 AD Feb 20 – Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
2015 AD Feb 22 – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
2015 AD Feb 24 – A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
2015 AD Feb 27 – Russian politician Boris Nemtsov is assassinated in Moscow while out walking with his girlfriend.
2015 AD Mar 04 – At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
2015 AD Mar 27 – Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
2015 AD Mar 29 – Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto shortly past midnight. All 133 passengers and five crews on board survive, with 23 treated for minor injuries.
2015 AD Apr 02 – Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
2015 AD Apr 02 – Four men steal items worth up to £200 million from an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area in what has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history."
2015 AD Apr 20 – Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
2015 AD Apr 25 – Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.
2015 AD Apr 26 – Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote.
2015 AD Apr 29 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2015 AD May 03 – Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
2015 AD May 12 – A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.
2015 AD May 12 – Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500.
2015 AD May 18 – At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar.
2015 AD May 19 – The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.
2015 AD May 22 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
2015 AD May 23 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
2015 AD May 29 – One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens.
2015 AD Jun 01 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes in the Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.
2015 AD Jun 03 – An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, kills more than 200 people.
2015 AD Jun 05 – An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 strikes Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia, killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975.
2015 AD Jun 13 – A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.
2015 AD Jun 16 – American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election.
2015 AD Jun 17 – Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
2015 AD Jun 22 – The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured.
2015 AD Jun 27 – Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
2015 AD Jun 30 – A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
2015 AD Jul 04 – Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.
2015 AD Jul 11 – Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape.
2015 AD Jul 14 – NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
2015 AD Jul 16 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
2015 AD Jul 17 – At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
2015 AD Jul 20 – A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.
2015 AD Jul 20 – The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
2015 AD Jul 23 – NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
2015 AD Jul 27 – At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.
2015 AD Jul 29 – The first piece of suspected debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is discovered on Réunion Island.
2015 AD Aug 05 – The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
2015 AD Aug 06 – A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
2015 AD Aug 08 – Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
2015 AD Aug 12 – At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.
2015 AD Aug 13 – At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.
2015 AD Aug 14 – The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.
2015 AD Aug 15 – North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.
2015 AD Aug 16 – More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma.
2015 AD Aug 16 – Trigana Air Flight 267, an ATR 42, crashes in Oksibl, Pegunungan Bintang, killing all 54 people on board.
2015 AD Aug 17 – A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others.
2015 AD Aug 26 – Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
2015 AD Sep 09 – Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
2015 AD Sep 11 – A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
2015 AD Sep 12 – A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining detonators in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh kills at least 105 people with over 150 injured.
2015 AD Sep 14 – The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
2015 AD Oct 30 – Sixty-four people are killed and more than 147 injuries after a fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital Bucharest.
2015 AD Oct 31 – Metrojet Flight 9268 is bombed over the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
2015 AD Nov 04 – A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing at least 37 people.
2015 AD Nov 04 – A building collapses in the Pakistani city of Lahore resulting in at least 45 deaths and at least 100 injuries.
2015 AD Nov 05 – An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
2015 AD Nov 05 – Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2015 AD Nov 13 – Islamic State operatives carry out a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris, including suicide bombings, mass shootings and a hostage crisis. The terrorists kill 130 people, making it the deadliest attack in France since the Second World War.
2015 AD Nov 20 – Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali.
2015 AD Nov 21 – The government of Belgium imposes a security lockdown on Brussels, including the closure of shops, schools, and public transportation, due to potential terrorist attacks.
2015 AD Nov 22 – A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar kills at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing.
2015 AD Nov 23 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.
2015 AD Nov 24 – A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
2015 AD Nov 24 – A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.
2015 AD Nov 24 – An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
2015 AD Nov 27 – An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians are also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.
2015 AD Dec 02 – San Bernardino attack: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik kill 14 people and wound 22 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.
2015 AD Dec 04 – A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.
2015 AD Dec 06 – Venezuelan parliamentary election: For the first time in 17 years, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela loses its majority in parliament.
2015 AD Dec 07 – The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
2015 AD Dec 10 – Rojava conflict: The Syrian Democratic Council is established in Dêrik, forming the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria.
2016 AD Jan 03 – In response to the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
2016 AD Jan 08 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
2016 AD Jan 08 – West Air Sweden Flight 294 crashes near the Swedish reservoir of Akkajaure; both pilots, the only people on board, are killed.
2016 AD Jan 12 – Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
2016 AD Jan 15 – The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
2016 AD Jan 16 – Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
2016 AD Jan 17 – President Barack Obama announces the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
2016 AD Feb 06 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes southern Taiwan, killing 117 people.
2016 AD Feb 07 – North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.
2016 AD Feb 09 – Two passenger trains collide in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people die and 85 others are injured.
2016 AD Feb 10 – South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
2016 AD Feb 11 – A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
2016 AD Feb 12 – Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
2016 AD Feb 17 – Military vehicles explode outside a Turkish Armed Forces barracks in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 29 people and injuring 61 others.
2016 AD Feb 20 – Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
2016 AD Feb 24 – Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, crashed, with 23 fatalities, in Solighopte, Myagdi District, Dhaulagiri Zone, while en route from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport.
2016 AD Feb 29 – At least 40 people are killed and 58 others wounded following a suicide bombing by ISIL at a Shi'ite funeral in the city of Miqdadiyah, Diyala.
2016 AD Mar 27 – A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
2016 AD Mar 29 – A United States Air Force F-16 crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The pilot ejected safely and was recovered by coalition forces, according to a U.S. military statement.
2016 AD Mar 31 title="2016">2016 – NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a yearlong mission at the International Space Station.
2016 AD Apr 01 – The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact.
2016 AD Apr 03 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
2016 AD Apr 10 – The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship.
2016 AD Apr 10 – An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, shakes up India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.
2016 AD Apr 14 – In Japan, the foreshock of Kumamoto earthquakes occurs.
2016 AD Apr 16 – Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures 6,274.
2016 AD Apr 22 – The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
2016 AD May 03 – Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.
2016 AD May 11 – One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.
2016 AD May 19 – EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo, killing all on board.
2016 AD May 20 – The government of Singapore authorised the controversial execution of convicted murderer Kho Jabing for the murder of a Chinese construction worker despite the international pleas for clemency, notably from Amnesty International and the United Nations.
2016 AD May 27 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
2016 AD May 28 – Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes.
2016 AD May 31 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launch the Manbij offensive, in order to capture the city of Manbij from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
2016 AD Jun 12 – Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
2016 AD Jun 16 – Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public.
2016 AD Jun 23 – The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
2016 AD Jun 28 – A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
2016 AD Jul 05 – The Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
2016 AD Jul 07 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
2016 AD Jul 13 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.
2016 AD Jul 14 – A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.
2016 AD Jul 15 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
2016 AD Jul 23 – Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
2016 AD Jul 26 – The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
2016 AD Jul 26 – Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
2016 AD Jul 26 – Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.
2016 AD Aug 08 – Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.
2016 AD Aug 12 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the city of Manbij from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
2016 AD Aug 20 – Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
2016 AD Aug 24 – An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence. Around 300 people are killed.
2016 AD Aug 28 – The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System was successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
2016 AD Aug 31 – Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.
2016 AD Sep 03 – The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement.
2016 AD Sep 04 – The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement.
2016 AD Sep 08 – NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe will visit 101955 Bennu and is expected to return with samples in 2023.
2016 AD Sep 09 – The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".
2016 AD Nov 02 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
2016 AD Nov 06 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launch an offensive to capture the city of Raqqa from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
2016 AD Nov 08 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly announces the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes.
2016 AD Nov 24 – The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.
2016 AD Nov 28 – A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying at least 77 people, including the Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medellín, Colombia.
2016 AD Dec 02 – Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, California, warehouse serving as an artist collective.
2016 AD Dec 07 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.
2016 AD Dec 09 – President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal.
2016 AD Dec 09 – At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Adamawa, Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.
2016 AD Dec 10 – Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.
2017 AD Jan 01 – An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills at least 39 people and injures more than 60 others.
2017 AD Jan 06 – Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.
2017 AD Jan 17 – The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is announced to be suspended.
2017 AD Jan 21 – Over 400 cities across America and 160+ countries worldwide participate in a large-scale women's march, on Donald Trump's first full day as President of the United States.
2017 AD Jan 27 – A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.
2017 AD Jan 29 – Quebec City mosque shooting: Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at mosque in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.
2017 AD Feb 11 – North Korea test fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.
2017 AD Feb 13 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
2017 AD Feb 23 – The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL.
2017 AD Mar 02 – The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson are officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia.
2017 AD Mar 03 – The Nintendo Switch releases worldwide.
2017 AD Mar 08 – The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapses in stormy weather.
2017 AD Apr 03 – A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
2017 AD Apr 04 – Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians.
2017 AD Apr 06 – U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties.
2017 AD Apr 07 – A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.
2017 AD Apr 07 – U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
2017 AD Apr 09 – The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
2017 AD Apr 09 – After refusing to give up his seat on an overbooked United Express flight, Dr. David Dao Duy Anh is forcibly dragged off the flight by aviation security officers, leading to major criticism of United Airlines.
2017 AD Apr 13 – The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
2017 AD May 10 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last footholds of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Al-Tabqah, bringing the Battle of Tabqa to an end.
2017 AD May 12 – The WannaCry ransomware attack impacts over 400,000 computers worldwide, targeting computers of the United Kingdom's National Health Services and Telefónica computers.
2017 AD May 21 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
2017 AD May 22 – Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
2017 AD May 22 – United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall.
2017 AD May 23 – Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
2017 AD May 23 – United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall.
2017 AD May 27 – Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2017 AD May 28 – Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first entry of the event.
2017 AD May 31 – A car bomb explodes in a crowded intersection in Kabul near the German embassy during rush hour, killing over 90 and injuring 463.
2017 AD Jun 03 – London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police.
2017 AD Jun 05 – Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO.
2017 AD Jun 05 – Six Arab countries—Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.
2017 AD Jun 06 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
2017 AD Jun 07 – A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.
2017 AD Jun 12 – American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.
2017 AD Jun 14 – A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.
2017 AD Jun 14 – US Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, and three others, are shot and wounded by a terrorist while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game.
2017 AD Jun 17 – A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others.
2017 AD Jun 23 – A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.
2017 AD Jun 27 – A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe.
2017 AD Jul 10 – Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.
2017 AD Jul 20 – O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.
2017 AD Jul 28 – Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office for life by Supreme Court of Pakistan after finding him guilty of corruption charges.
2017 AD Aug 01 – A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people.
2017 AD Aug 11 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
2017 AD Aug 17 – Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100.
2017 AD Aug 18 – The first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two and injures eight.
2017 AD Aug 19 – Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.
2017 AD Aug 21 – A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States.
2017 AD Aug 24 – The National Space Agency of Taiwan successfully launches the observation satellite Formosat-5 into space.
2017 AD Aug 25 – Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125 billion in damage.
2017 AD Aug 25 – Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present): One hundred seventy people are killed in at least 26 separate attacks carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, leading to the governments of Myanmar and Malaysia designating the group as a terrorist organisation.
2017 AD Aug 28 – China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two month-long stalemate over China’s construction of a road in disputed territory.
2017 AD Sep 03 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
2017 AD Sep 04 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
2017 AD Sep 07 – The 8.2 M_w  2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.
2017 AD Sep 08 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce the beginning of the Deir ez-Zor campaign, with the stated aim of eliminating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from all areas north and east of the Euphrates.
2017 AD Sep 10 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
2017 AD Oct 31 – A truck drives into a crowd in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people.
2017 AD Nov 05 – Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
2017 AD Nov 07 – Shamshad TV is attacked by armed gunmen and suicide bombers, with a security guard killed and 20 people wounded; ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.
2017 AD Nov 21 – Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after thirty-seven years in office.
2017 AD Dec 04 – The Thomas Fire starts near Santa Paula in California. It eventually became the largest wildfire in modern California history to date after burning 440 square miles (1,140 km²) in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
2017 AD Dec 05 – The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
2017 AD Dec 06 – Donald Trump's administration officially announces the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
2017 AD Dec 09 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
2017 AD Dec 10 – ISIL is defeated in Iraq.
2018 AD Jan 03 – For the first time in history, all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
2018 AD Jan 04 – Hennenman–Kroonstad train crash: A passenger train operated by Shosholoza Meyl collides with a truck on a level crossing at Geneva Station between Hennenman and Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa. Twenty people are killed and 260 injured.
2018 AD Jan 13 – A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii causes widespread panic in the state.
2018 AD Jan 15 – British multinational construction and facilities management services company Carillion went into liquidation – officially, "the largest ever trading liquidation in the UK"
2018 AD Jan 16 – Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
2018 AD Jan 18 – A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.
2018 AD Jan 20 – A group of four or five gunmen attack The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others.
2018 AD Jan 20 – Syrian civil war: The Government of Turkey announces the initiation of the Afrin offensive and begins shelling Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in Afrin Region.
2018 AD Jan 21 – Rocket Lab's Electron becomes the first rocket to reach orbit using an electric pump-fed engine and deploys three CubeSats.
2018 AD Jan 23 – A 7.9 M_w  earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
2018 AD Jan 23 – A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.
2018 AD Jan 23 – The China–United States trade war begins when President Donald Trump places tariffs on Chinese solar panels and washing machines.
2018 AD Jan 24 – Former doctor Larry Nassar is sentenced up to 175 years in prison after being found guilty of using his position to sexually abuse female gymnasts.
2018 AD Jan 31 – Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
2018 AD Feb 06 – SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight.
2018 AD Feb 09 – Winter Olympics: Opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.
2018 AD Feb 10 – Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.
2018 AD Feb 11 – Saratov Airlines Flight 703 crashes near Moscow, Russia with 71 deaths and no survivors.
2018 AD Feb 14 – Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
2018 AD Feb 14 – A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries.
2018 AD Feb 22 – A man throws a grenade at the U.S embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.
2018 AD Mar 04 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
2018 AD Mar 05 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin.
2018 AD Mar 06 – Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth.
2018 AD Mar 08 – The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) was held being International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then annually held across Pakistan and feminist slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi (My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence came into vogue in Pakistan.
2018 AD Apr 03 – YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring 3 people before committing suicide.
2018 AD Apr 06 – A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team collides with a semi-truck in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others.
2018 AD Apr 07 – Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the “Car-Wash Operation”. Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, after being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
2018 AD Apr 07 – Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.
2018 AD Apr 11 – An Ilyushin Il-76 which was owned and operated by the Algerian Air Force crashes near Boufarik, Algeria, killing 257.
2018 AD Apr 16 – The New York Times and the New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.
2018 AD Apr 18 – King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
2018 AD Apr 23 – A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
2018 AD Apr 26 – American comedian Bill Cosby is convicted of sexual assault.
2018 AD Apr 27 – The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.
2018 AD May 01 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) resumes the Deir ez-Zor campaign in order to clear the remnants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border.
2018 AD May 09 – The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
2018 AD May 12 – Paris knife attack: A man is fatally shot by police in Paris after killing one and injuring several others.
2018 AD May 18 – A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people.
2018 AD May 19 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.
2018 AD May 25 – The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
2018 AD May 25 – Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
2018 AD May 27 – Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
2018 AD Jun 10 – Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.
2018 AD Jun 12 – United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.
2018 AD Jun 13 – Volkswagen is fined one billion euros over the emissions scandal.
2018 AD Jun 18 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes northern Osaka.
2018 AD Jun 19 – The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
2018 AD Jun 19 – Antwon Rose II was fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.
2018 AD Jun 23 – Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.
2018 AD Jul 17 – Scott S. Sheppard announces that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter.
2018 AD Jul 19 – The Knesset passes the controversial Nationality Bill, which defines the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
2018 AD Jul 23 – A wildfire in East Attica, Greece caused the death of 102 people. It was the deadliest wildfire in history of Greece and the second-deadliest in the world, in the 21st century, after the 2009 bushfires in Australia that killed 180.
2018 AD Jul 25 – As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
2018 AD Jul 28 – Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
2018 AD Aug 03 – Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
2018 AD Aug 04 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border, concluding the second phase of the Deir ez-Zor campaign.
2018 AD Aug 10 – Horizon Air employee Richard Russell hijacks and performs an unauthorized takeoff on a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 plane at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in Washington, flying it for more than an hour before crashing the plane and killing himself on Ketron Island in Puget Sound.
2018 AD Aug 10 – An anti-government rally turns into a riot when members of the Romanian Gendarmerie attack the 100,000 people protesting in front of the Victoria Palace, leading to 452 recorded injuries. The autorithies alleged that the crowd was infiltrated by hooligans who began attacking law enforcement agents.
2018 AD Aug 12 – Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada, Syria.
2018 AD Aug 26 – Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.
2018 AD Sep 06 – Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
2018 AD Sep 13 – The Merrimack Valley gas explosions: One person is killed, 25 are injured, and 40 homes are destroyed when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions.
2018 AD Nov 06 title="2018">2018 – The Democratic Party wins the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections.
2018 AD Nov 23 – Founders of Italian fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana issue an apology following a series of offensive advertisements on social media promoting a fashion show in Shanghai, China, which was canceled.
2018 AD Nov 26 – The robotic probe Insight lands on Elysium Planitia, Mars.
2018 AD Nov 30 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 15 miles from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.
2018 AD Dec 01 – The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.
2019 AD Jan 03 – Chang'e 4 makes the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover.
2019 AD Jan 06 – Forty people are killed in a gold mine collapse in Badakhshan province, in northern Afghanistan.
2019 AD Jan 06 – Muhammad V of Kelantan resigns as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, becoming the first monarch to do so.
2019 AD Jan 10 – A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.
2019 AD Jan 14 – A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people.
2019 AD Jan 15 – Somali militants attack the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 21 people and injuring 19.
2019 AD Jan 15 – Theresa May's UK government suffers the biggest government defeat in modern times, when 432 MPs voting against the proposed European Union withdrawal agreement, giving her opponents a majority of 230.
2019 AD Jan 18 – An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.
2019 AD Jan 25 – A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing at least seven people and leaving 200 missing.
2019 AD Jan 31 – Abdullah of Pahang is sworn in as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
2019 AD Feb 05 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
2019 AD Feb 12 – The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa agreement, settling a long-standing naming dispute with Greece.
2019 AD Feb 14 – Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured.
2019 AD Feb 23 – Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.
2019 AD Feb 26 – Indian Air Force fighter-jets targeted Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camps in Balakot.
2019 AD Feb 27 – Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and capture him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir.
2019 AD Apr 10 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, which was located in the centre of the M87 galaxy.
2019 AD Apr 15 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.
2019 AD Apr 18 – A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public.
2019 AD Apr 21 – Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday; more than 250 people are killed.
2019 AD Apr 23 – The April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse in Myanmar kills four miners and two rescuers.
2019 AD Apr 26 – Marvel Studios' blockbuster film, Avengers: Endgame, is released, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the previous box office record of Avatar.
2019 AD May 01 – Naxalite attack in Gadchiroli district of India: Sixteen army soldiers, including a driver, killed in an IED blast. Naxals targeted an anti-Naxal operations team.
2019 AD May 01 – Naruhito ascends to the throne of Japan succeeding his father Akihito, beginning the Reiwa period.
2019 AD May 04 – The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion.
2019 AD May 08 – British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.
2019 AD May 18 – United States presidential election: Joe Biden announces his presidential campaign.
2019 AD May 20 – The International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the international prototype of the kilogram obsolete.
2019 AD May 24 – Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India).
2019 AD May 24 – Under pressure over her handling of Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party, effective as of June 7.
2019 AD May 31 – A shooting occurs inside a municipal building at Virginia Beach, Virginia, leaving 13 people dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.
2019 AD Jun 03 – Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.
2019 AD Jun 10 – An Agusta A109E Power crashes onto the AXA Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, sparking a fire on the top of the building. The pilot of the helicopter is killed.
2019 AD Jun 16 – Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.
2019 AD Jun 30 – Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
2019 AD Jul 07 – The United States women's national soccer team defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final in Lyon, France.
2019 AD Jul 10 – The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
2019 AD Jul 16 – A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.
2019 AD Jul 18 – A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens of others.
2019 AD Jul 21 – Yuen Long attack or "721 incident" in Hong Kong. Triad members indiscriminately beat civilians returning from protests while police failed to take action.
2019 AD Jul 22 – Chandrayaan 2, the second lunar exploration mission developed by Indian Space Research Organisation after Chandrayaan 1 is launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in a GSLV Mark III M1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, and also included the Vikram lander, and the Pragyan lunar rover.
2019 AD Jul 24 – Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May.
2019 AD Jul 25 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
2019 AD Jul 29 – The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.
2019 AD Aug 03 – Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
2019 AD Aug 03 – Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas.
2019 AD Aug 04 – Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 12 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.
2019 AD Aug 05 – The revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (state) occurred and the state was bifurcated into two union territories (Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh).
2019 AD Aug 10 – Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.
2019 AD Aug 17 – A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.
2019 AD Aug 18 – One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km²).
2019 AD Aug 30 – A huge accident during the 2019 F2 Spa Feature Race caused young driver Anthoine Hubert to die after sustaining major injuries.
2019 AD Sep 02 – Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
2019 AD Sep 07 – Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.
2019 AD Sep 14 – Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
2019 AD Nov 09 – Kartarpur Corridor was started by India and Pakistan.
2019 AD Nov 21 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.
2019 AD Nov 21 – Tesla launches the SUV Cybertruck. A gaffe occurs during the launch event when its "unbreakable" windows shatter during demonstration.
2019 AD Nov 23 – The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country.
2019 AD Nov 26 – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1000 injured. This was the world's deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years.
2019 AD Dec 01 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.
2019 AD Dec 08 – First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.
2019 AD Dec 09 – A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.
2019 AD Dec 10 – The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.
2020 AD Jan 03 – Iranian General Qasem Soleimani is killed by an American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport, igniting global concerns of a potential armed conflict.
2020 AD Jan 07 – The 6.4M_w  2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
2020 AD Jan 08 – Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.
2020 AD Jan 11 – COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei: Municipal health officials in Wuhan announce the first recorded death from COVID-19.
2020 AD Jan 12 – Taal Volcano in the Philippines erupts, and kills 39 people.
2020 AD Jan 13 – The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirms the first case of COVID-19 outside China.
2020 AD Jan 15 – The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare confirms the first case of COVID-19 in Japan.
2020 AD Jan 16 – The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.
2020 AD Jan 16 – The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA.
2020 AD Jan 23 – The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
2020 AD Jan 26 – A Sikorsky S-76B flying from John Wayne Airport to Camarillo Airport crashes in Calabasas, 30 miles west of Los Angeles, killing all nine people on board, including former five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant.
2020 AD Jan 29 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Trump administration establishes the White House Coronavirus Task Force under Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.
2020 AD Jan 31 – The United Kingdom's membership within the European Union ceases in accordance with Article 50, after 47 years of being a member state.
2020 AD Feb 04 – The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days.
2020 AD Feb 05 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
2020 AD Feb 09 – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has the army soldiers enter the Legislative Assembly to assist in pushing for the approval for a better government security plan, causing a brief political crisis.
2020 AD Feb 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization officially names the coronavirus outbreak as COVID-19, with the virus being designated SARS-CoV-2.
2020 AD Feb 23 – Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia.
2020 AD Feb 24 – Mahathir Mohamad resigned as Prime Minister of Malaysia following an attempt to replace Pakatan Harapan government which triggered 2020 Malaysian political crisis.
2020 AD Feb 29 – Joe Biden wins the South Carolina primary election.
2020 AD Feb 29 – South Korea reports a record total of 3,150 confirmed cases of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
2020 AD Feb 29 – During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured.
2020 AD Feb 29 – The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
2020 AD Mar 04 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk on the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
2020 AD Mar 27 – North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.
2020 AD Apr 07 – COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
2020 AD Apr 07 – COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
2020 AD Apr 08 – Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee.
2020 AD Apr 19 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.
2020 AD Apr 20 – For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero.
2020 AD Apr 22 – Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.
2020 AD May 09 – The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.
2020 AD May 22 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people.
2020 AD May 23 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people.
2020 AD May 26 – Protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd erupt in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, before becoming widespread across the United States and around the world.
2020 AD May 30 – The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
2020 AD Jul 01 – The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA.
2021 AD Jan 06 – Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the US Congress.
2021 AD Jan 08 – Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.
2021 AD Jan 09 – Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.
2021 AD Jan 13 – Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the storming of the Capitol one week prior.
2021 AD Jan 15 – A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi island killing at least 105 and injuring 3,369 people.
2021 AD Jan 20 – Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America. At 78, he becomes the oldest person ever inaugurated. Kamala Harris becomes the first female Vice President of the United States.
2021 AD Jan 26 – Protesters and farmers storm the Red Fort near Delhi, clashing with police. One protester is killed and more than 80 police officers are injured.
2021 AD Jan 28 – A nitrogen leak at a poultry food processing facility in Gainesville, Georgia kills six and injures at least ten.
2021 AD Feb 01 – A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule.
2021 AD Feb 05 – Police riot in Mexico City as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist. Eleven police officers are arrested.
2021 AD Feb 06 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspends agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.
2021 AD Feb 09 – Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began.
2021 AD Feb 10 – The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 AD Feb 13 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.
2021 AD Feb 13 – A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.
2021 AD Feb 15 – Sixty people drown and hundreds are missing after a boat sinks on the Congo River near the village of Longola Ekoti, Mai-Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2021 AD Feb 16 – Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.
2021 AD Feb 18 – Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.
2021 AD Feb 23 – Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.
2021 AD Feb 26 – A total of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped by bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria.
2021 AD Mar 05 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 AD Mar 05 – Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2021 AD Mar 07 – At least 105 die and 600 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
2021 AD Mar 08 – International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone.
2022 AD Jan 15 – The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupts, cutting off communications with Tonga and causing a tsunami across the Pacific.
2022 AD Feb 21 – In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.
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  37 AD Mar 28 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
 106 AD Mar 22 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
 180 AD Mar 17 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius.
 193 AD Mar 28 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didius Julianus.
 222 AD Mar 11 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
 235 AD Mar 22 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
 298 AD Mar 10 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
 364 AD Mar 28 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
 421 AD Mar 25 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
 455 AD Mar 17 – Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire; he forces Licinia Eudoxia, the widow of his predecessor, Valentinian III, to marry him.
 493 AD Mar 15 – Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.
 537 AD Mar 21 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
 538 AD Mar 12 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
 624 AD Mar 13 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
 630 AD Mar 21 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
 673 AD Mar 20 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
 708 AD Mar 25 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.
 717 AD Mar 21 – Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
 717 AD Mar 25 – Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
 843 AD Mar 11 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire.
 856 AD Mar 15 – Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility.
 871 AD Mar 22 – Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
 897 AD Mar 15 – Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya enters Sa'dah and founds the Zaydi Imamate of Yemen.
 919 AD Mar 25 – Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
 933 AD Mar 15 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
 934 AD Mar 16 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
 947 AD Mar 10 – The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares himself emperor.
1000 AD Mar 25 – Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
1068 AD Mar 18 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead.
1074 AD Mar 14 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
1088 AD Mar 12 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.
1152 AD Mar 21 – Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1158 AD Mar 12 – German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.
1180 AD Mar 21 – Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1185 AD Mar 22 – Battle of Yashima: the Japanese forces of the Taira clan are defeated by the Minamoto clan.
1190 AD Mar 16 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
1199 AD Mar 24 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
1206 AD Mar 20 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1226 AD Mar 09 – Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
1229 AD Mar 18 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
1230 AD Mar 09 – Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
1241 AD Mar 18 – First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1244 AD Mar 16 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur.
1277 AD Mar 19 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.
1279 AD Mar 19 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.
1284 AD Mar 19 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1306 AD Mar 25 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
1311 AD Mar 15 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1312 AD Mar 22 – Vox in excelso: Pope Clement V dissolves the Order of the Knights Templar.
1314 AD Mar 18 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1337 AD Mar 17 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
1343 AD Mar 11 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 1343 O.S.), and, a year later, the first Archbishop of Prague.
1387 AD Mar 11 – Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.
1387 AD Mar 24 – English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.
1400 AD Mar 17 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1400 AD Mar 23 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
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1409 AD Mar 25 – The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism.
1438 AD Mar 18 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of the Romans.
1452 AD Mar 19 – Frederick III of Habsburg is the last Holy Roman Emperor crowned by medieval tradition in Rome by Pope Nicholas V
1496 AD Mar 10 – After establishing the city of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus departs for Spain, leaving his brother in command.
1500 AD Mar 09 – The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
1508 AD Mar 22 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
1519 AD Mar 25 – Hernando Cortes, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians.
1535 AD Mar 10 – Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, discovers the Galápagos Islands by chance on his way to Peru.
1540 AD Mar 23 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
1556 AD Mar 21 – On the day of his execution in Oxford, former archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer deviates from the scripted sermon by renouncing the recantations he has made and adds, "And as for the pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy, and Antichrist with all his false doctrine."
1563 AD Mar 19 – The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
1564 AD Mar 15 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects.
1566 AD Mar 28 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
1567 AD Mar 13 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
1568 AD Mar 23 – The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
1571 AD Mar 18 – Valletta is made the capital city of Malta.
1576 AD Mar 25 – Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
1579 AD Mar 12 – Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War.
1584 AD Mar 25 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1590 AD Mar 14 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
1591 AD Mar 13 – At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
1600 AD Mar 20 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598–1599).
1602 AD Mar 20 – The Dutch East India Company is established.
1603 AD Mar 24 – James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
1603 AD Mar 24 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
1607 AD Mar 10 – Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
1608 AD Mar 18 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1616 AD Mar 20 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
1621 AD Mar 16 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1621 AD Mar 22 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
1622 AD Mar 12 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
1622 AD Mar 22 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
1629 AD Mar 10 – Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
1631 AD Mar 22 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 AD Mar 22 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1639 AD Mar 13 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
1641 AD Mar 11 – Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.
1644 AD Mar 18 – The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
1647 AD Mar 14 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1649 AD Mar 11 – The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
1649 AD Mar 19 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
1655 AD Mar 25 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1660 AD Mar 16 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
1661 AD Mar 10 – French "Sun King" Louis XIV begins his personal rule of France after the death of his premier, the Cardinal Mazarin.
1663 AD Mar 14 – According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion.
1663 AD Mar 24 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.
1672 AD Mar 15 – King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, granting limited religious freedom to all Christians.
1673 AD Mar 18 – English lord John Berkeley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1674 AD Mar 14 – The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.
1687 AD Mar 19 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1689 AD Mar 12 – James II of England landed at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.
1697 AD Mar 13 – Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1701 AD Mar 09 – Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year occupation.
1702 AD Mar 11 – The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time.
1708 AD Mar 11 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1708 AD Mar 25 – A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.
1720 AD Mar 24 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February.
1721 AD Mar 24 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
1735 AD Mar 10 – An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.
1739 AD Mar 22 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1741 AD Mar 13 – The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
1741 AD Mar 18 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
1757 AD Mar 14 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
1760 AD Mar 20 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
1762 AD Mar 10 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
1765 AD Mar 09 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually died by suicide.
1765 AD Mar 22 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1765 AD Mar 24 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1766 AD Mar 18 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1770 AD Mar 25 – Daskalogiannis, leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule
1775 AD Mar 23 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
1776 AD Mar 09 – The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
1776 AD Mar 17 – American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
1776 AD Mar 28 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1780 AD Mar 14 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
1781 AD Mar 13 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1783 AD Mar 15 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
1784 AD Mar 11 – The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
1784 AD Mar 22 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1788 AD Mar 21 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1792 AD Mar 16 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
1793 AD Mar 18 – The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1793 AD Mar 18 – Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
1794 AD Mar 14 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1794 AD Mar 22 – The Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves.
1794 AD Mar 24 – In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
1795 AD Mar 11 – The Battle of Kharda is fought between the Maratha Confederacy and the Nizam of Hyderabad, resulting in Maratha victory.
1795 AD Mar 28 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
1796 AD Mar 09 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1800 AD Mar 21 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
1801 AD Mar 21 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis near Alexandria in Egypt.
1801 AD Mar 23 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
1801 AD Mar 28 – Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.
1802 AD Mar 16 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1802 AD Mar 25 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
1802 AD Mar 28 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
1804 AD Mar 21 – Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
1805 AD Mar 17 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy.
1806 AD Mar 23 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
1807 AD Mar 25 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
1808 AD Mar 19 – Charles IV, king of Spain, abdicates after riots and a popular revolt at the winter palace Aranjuez. His son, Ferdinand VII, takes the throne.
1809 AD Mar 13 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809.
1809 AD Mar 28 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín.
1811 AD Mar 09 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
1811 AD Mar 12 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
1811 AD Mar 13 – A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars.
1811 AD Mar 25 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1812 AD Mar 19 – The Cortes of Cádiz promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
1814 AD Mar 10 – Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
1814 AD Mar 21 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
1814 AD Mar 28 – War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels.
1815 AD Mar 09 – Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
1815 AD Mar 16 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1815 AD Mar 20 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1820 AD Mar 15 – Maine is admitted as the twenty-third U.S. state.
1821 AD Mar 21 – Greek War of Independence: Greek revolutionaries seize Kalavryta.
1821 AD Mar 23 – Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
1821 AD Mar 25 – Greek War of Independence - Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).
1823 AD Mar 15 – Sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reported the existence of the island of New South Greenland near Antarctica.
1824 AD Mar 17 – The Anglo-Dutch Treaty is signed in London, dividing the Malay archipelago. As a result, the Malay Peninsula is dominated by the British, while Sumatra and Java and surrounding areas are dominated by the Dutch.
1824 AD Mar 19 – American explorer Benjamin Morrell departed Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.
1826 AD Mar 13 – Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
1829 AD Mar 22 – In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1829 AD Mar 24 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
1830 AD Mar 10 – The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1831 AD Mar 10 – The French Foreign Legion is created by Louis Philippe, the King of France, from the foreign regiments of the Kingdom of France.
1831 AD Mar 19 – First documented bank heist in U.S. history, when burglars stole $245,000 (1831 values) from the City Bank (now Citibank) on Wall Street. Most of the money was recovered.
1832 AD Mar 24 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
1834 AD Mar 18 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1839 AD Mar 23 – A massive earthquake destroys the former capital Inwa of the Konbaung dynasty, present-day Myanmar.
1841 AD Mar 09 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 AD Mar 09 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
1842 AD Mar 09 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1842 AD Mar 28 – First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
1844 AD Mar 21 – The Baháʼí calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baháʼí calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baháʼí Faith as the Baháʼí New Year or Náw-Rúz.
1845 AD Mar 11 – Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
1845 AD Mar 13 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1845 AD Mar 25 – New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.
1847 AD Mar 09 – Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
1848 AD Mar 10 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.
1848 AD Mar 11 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1848 AD Mar 13 – The German revolutions of 1848–1849 begin in Vienna.
1848 AD Mar 15 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the reform party.
1848 AD Mar 18 – The premiere of Fry's Leonora in Philadelphia is the first known performance of an grand opera by an American composer.
1848 AD Mar 18 – March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
1848 AD Mar 20 – German revolutions of 1848–49: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1848 AD Mar 23 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1849 AD Mar 22 – The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
1851 AD Mar 11 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1852 AD Mar 20 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1853 AD Mar 19 – The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
1854 AD Mar 20 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US.
1854 AD Mar 24 – President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.
1854 AD Mar 28 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1857 AD Mar 23 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1860 AD Mar 17 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand Wars.
1860 AD Mar 24 – Sakuradamon Incident: Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke is assassinated by rōnin samurai outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.
1860 AD Mar 28 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
1861 AD Mar 10 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.
1861 AD Mar 11 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1861 AD Mar 17 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1861 AD Mar 19 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1861 AD Mar 20 – An earthquake destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
1861 AD Mar 21 – Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech.
1862 AD Mar 09 – American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1862 AD Mar 13 – The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves is passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1862 AD Mar 17 – The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened.
1862 AD Mar 23 – American Civil War: The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
1862 AD Mar 28 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.
1863 AD Mar 19 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1864 AD Mar 11 – The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
1865 AD Mar 18 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1865 AD Mar 19 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
1865 AD Mar 25 – American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
1868 AD Mar 23 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1869 AD Mar 24 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
1871 AD Mar 18 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
1871 AD Mar 21 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
1871 AD Mar 21 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1871 AD Mar 22 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1872 AD Mar 11 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; it is located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1872 AD Mar 16 – The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1873 AD Mar 10 – The first Azerbaijani play, The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran, prepared by Akhundov, is performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.
1873 AD Mar 22 – The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
1874 AD Mar 15 – France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
1874 AD Mar 18 – The Hawaiian Kingdom signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
1875 AD Mar 15 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
1876 AD Mar 10 – The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
1877 AD Mar 15 – First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
1878 AD Mar 24 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1879 AD Mar 11 – Shō Tai formally abdicates his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
1879 AD Mar 23 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
1882 AD Mar 24 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1883 AD Mar 20 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
1884 AD Mar 13 – The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
1885 AD Mar 14 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
1885 AD Mar 19 – Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1885 AD Mar 23 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
1888 AD Mar 11 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people.
1888 AD Mar 15 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
1888 AD Mar 20 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
1888 AD Mar 23 – In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
1889 AD Mar 23 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
1890 AD Mar 20 – Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
1891 AD Mar 10 – Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1891 AD Mar 17 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
1894 AD Mar 22 – The Stanley Cup ice hockey competition is held for the first time, in Montreal, Canada.
1894 AD Mar 25 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
1895 AD Mar 19 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
1895 AD Mar 22 – Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
1896 AD Mar 20 – With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
1896 AD Mar 22 – Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first modern Olympic marathon race with a time of three hours and 18 minutes.
1898 AD Mar 16 – In Melbourne, the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.^{[page needed]}
1899 AD Mar 18 – Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, becomes first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering.
1900 AD Mar 13 – British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
1900 AD Mar 14 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
1900 AD Mar 19 – The British archeologist Sir Arthur John Evans begins excavating Knossos Palace, the center of Cretan civilization.
1900 AD Mar 24 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1900 AD Mar 24 – Carnegie Steel Company is formed in New Jersey; its capitalization of $160 mil. is the largest to date.
1901 AD Mar 14 – Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restriction on polygamy.
1901 AD Mar 23 – Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, is captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
1902 AD Mar 18 – Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
1903 AD Mar 14 – Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
1905 AD Mar 23 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
1905 AD Mar 25 – The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes.
1906 AD Mar 10 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
1906 AD Mar 22 – The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
1907 AD Mar 15 – The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held.
1908 AD Mar 09 – Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
1909 AD Mar 10 – By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
1909 AD Mar 23 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1910 AD Mar 28 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near in France.
1911 AD Mar 25 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1911 AD Mar 25 – Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair.
1912 AD Mar 12 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1913 AD Mar 12 – The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
1913 AD Mar 18 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1913 AD Mar 20 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
1913 AD Mar 22 – Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, is arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
1913 AD Mar 23 – A tornado outbreak kills more than 240 people in the central United States, while an ongoing flood in the Ohio River watershed was killing 650 people.
1914 AD Mar 25 – The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded in Thessaloniki.
1915 AD Mar 18 – World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
1916 AD Mar 09 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
1916 AD Mar 16 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1916 AD Mar 20 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.^{[citation needed]}
1916 AD Mar 22 – Yuan Shikai abdicates as Emperor of China, restoring the Republic and returning to the Presidency.
1917 AD Mar 11 – World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Frederick Stanley Maude.
1917 AD Mar 15 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
1917 AD Mar 25 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918 AD Mar 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
1918 AD Mar 15 – Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere begins.
1918 AD Mar 16 – Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites execute 70–100 capitulated Reds.
1918 AD Mar 19 – The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1918 AD Mar 21 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1918 AD Mar 23 – First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war
1918 AD Mar 25 – The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1918 AD Mar 28 – General John J. Pershing, during World War I, cancels 42nd 'Rainbow' Division's orders to Rolampont for further training and diverted it to the occupy the Baccarat sector. Rainbow Division becomes "the first American division to take over an entire sector on its own, which it held longer than any other American division-occupied sector alone for a period of three months".
1918 AD Mar 28 – Finnish Civil War: On the so-called "Bloody Maundy Thursday of Tampere", the Whites force the Reds to attack the city center, where the city's fiercest battles being fought in Kalevankangas with large casualties on both sides. During the same day, an explosion at the Red headquarters of Tampere kills several commanders.
1919 AD Mar 21 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1919 AD Mar 23 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1919 AD Mar 25 – The Tetiev pogrom occurs in Ukraine, becoming the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust.
1920 AD Mar 12 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
1920 AD Mar 13 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1920 AD Mar 14 – In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
1920 AD Mar 19 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1920 AD Mar 22 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attack the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
1920 AD Mar 28 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1921 AD Mar 15 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
1921 AD Mar 17 – The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
1921 AD Mar 18 – The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
1921 AD Mar 18 – The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
1921 AD Mar 19 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1921 AD Mar 20 – The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
1921 AD Mar 21 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
1921 AD Mar 24 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad began in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women's sports event.
1922 AD Mar 10 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1922 AD Mar 15 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1922 AD Mar 18 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
1922 AD Mar 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1923 AD Mar 20 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
1924 AD Mar 16 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
1924 AD Mar 25 – On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
1925 AD Mar 18 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
1925 AD Mar 21 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
1925 AD Mar 21 – Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1926 AD Mar 14 – The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
1926 AD Mar 16 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1926 AD Mar 20 – Chiang Kai-shek initiates a purge of communist elements within the National Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou.
1927 AD Mar 11 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1927 AD Mar 15 – The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
1927 AD Mar 24 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
1928 AD Mar 12 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
1928 AD Mar 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1930 AD Mar 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
1930 AD Mar 13 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.
1931 AD Mar 14 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
1931 AD Mar 19 – Governor Fred B. Balzar signs a bill legalizing gambling in Nevada.
1931 AD Mar 23 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
1931 AD Mar 25 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1932 AD Mar 19 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1932 AD Mar 25 – The famous Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens.
1933 AD Mar 09 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1933 AD Mar 10 – The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area, leaving around 108 people dead.
1933 AD Mar 12 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
1933 AD Mar 20 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
1933 AD Mar 22 – Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
1933 AD Mar 22 – Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.
1933 AD Mar 23 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1933 AD Mar 28 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
1934 AD Mar 22 – The first Masters Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.
1934 AD Mar 24 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1935 AD Mar 16 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1935 AD Mar 21 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
1935 AD Mar 23 – Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1936 AD Mar 16 – Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
1937 AD Mar 18 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
1937 AD Mar 18 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1937 AD Mar 21 – Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
1938 AD Mar 12 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
1938 AD Mar 18 – Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
1939 AD Mar 14 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1939 AD Mar 15 – Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.
1939 AD Mar 15 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
1939 AD Mar 16 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1939 AD Mar 22 – Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1939 AD Mar 23 – The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of the Slovak air force in Spišská Nová Ves, killing 13 people and beginning the Slovak–Hungarian War.
1939 AD Mar 28 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
1940 AD Mar 12 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
1940 AD Mar 13 – The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union officially ends after the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty.
1940 AD Mar 18 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1940 AD Mar 23 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League.
1941 AD Mar 11 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1941 AD Mar 16 – Operation Appearance takes place to re-establish British Somaliland
1941 AD Mar 25 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1941 AD Mar 28 – World War II: First day of the Battle of Cape Matapan in Greece between the navies of the United Kingdom and Australia, and the Royal Italian navy.
1942 AD Mar 09 – World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
1942 AD Mar 12 – The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
1942 AD Mar 14 – Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
1942 AD Mar 17 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1942 AD Mar 18 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1942 AD Mar 20 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
1942 AD Mar 22 – World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
1942 AD Mar 28 – World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.
1943 AD Mar 13 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
1943 AD Mar 14 – The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
1943 AD Mar 15 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the Soviet armies.
1943 AD Mar 19 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1943 AD Mar 21 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
1943 AD Mar 22 – World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
1944 AD Mar 09 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
1944 AD Mar 10 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
1944 AD Mar 18 – Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.
1944 AD Mar 19 – World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
1944 AD Mar 24 – German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944 AD Mar 24 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
1945 AD Mar 09 – World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
1945 AD Mar 09 – World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.
1945 AD Mar 10 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1945 AD Mar 11 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
1945 AD Mar 11 – World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established.
1945 AD Mar 14 – The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.
1945 AD Mar 16 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
1945 AD Mar 16 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in at least 4,000 deaths.
1945 AD Mar 17 – The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
1945 AD Mar 19 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.
1945 AD Mar 19 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
1945 AD Mar 21 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1945 AD Mar 21 – World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians.
1945 AD Mar 21 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
1945 AD Mar 22 – World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany is heavily damaged in a British air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.
1945 AD Mar 22 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1946 AD Mar 09 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
1946 AD Mar 11 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
1946 AD Mar 19 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
1946 AD Mar 21 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933.
1946 AD Mar 22 – The United Kingdom grants full independence to Transjordan.
1946 AD Mar 24 – A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
1946 AD Mar 28 – Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1947 AD Mar 12 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1947 AD Mar 25 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1948 AD Mar 17 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1948 AD Mar 18 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split.
1948 AD Mar 20 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
1948 AD Mar 25 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
1949 AD Mar 10 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.
1949 AD Mar 24 – Hanns Albin Rauter, a chief SS and Police Leader, in the Netherlands, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.
1949 AD Mar 25 – More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
1950 AD Mar 12 – The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.
1950 AD Mar 17 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".
1951 AD Mar 14 – Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
1951 AD Mar 15 – Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
1951 AD Mar 20 – Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
1952 AD Mar 10 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
1952 AD Mar 20 – The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
1952 AD Mar 21 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1953 AD Mar 18 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people.
1954 AD Mar 09 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1954 AD Mar 13 – The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
1956 AD Mar 09 – Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1956 AD Mar 20 – Tunisia gains independence from France.
1956 AD Mar 23 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. This date is now celebrated as Republic Day in Pakistan.
1957 AD Mar 09 – The 8.6 M_w  Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
1957 AD Mar 13 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1957 AD Mar 17 – A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
1957 AD Mar 25 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
1957 AD Mar 25 – The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
1958 AD Mar 17 – The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.
1958 AD Mar 19 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
1959 AD Mar 09 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1959 AD Mar 10 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
1959 AD Mar 18 – The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
1959 AD Mar 25 – Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat", for $5,258.20 ($48,877 in 2021).
1959 AD Mar 28 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
1960 AD Mar 09 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
1960 AD Mar 17 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1960 AD Mar 21 – Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1960 AD Mar 22 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
1961 AD Mar 09 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1961 AD Mar 14 – A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
1961 AD Mar 15 – At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
1961 AD Mar 24 – The Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
1962 AD Mar 16 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappears in the western Pacific Ocean with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
1962 AD Mar 18 – The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
1962 AD Mar 19 – The Algerian War of Independence ends.
1963 AD Mar 17 – Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
1963 AD Mar 21 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
1963 AD Mar 22 – The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me.
1964 AD Mar 14 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1964 AD Mar 19 – Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of João Goulart and against communism.
1964 AD Mar 20 – The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
1965 AD Mar 15 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1965 AD Mar 18 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1965 AD Mar 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1965 AD Mar 21 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 AD Mar 21 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1965 AD Mar 23 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1965 AD Mar 25 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1965 AD Mar 28 – An M_w  7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town of El Cobre and killing at least 500 people.
1966 AD Mar 10 – Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacks rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
1966 AD Mar 16 – Launch of Gemini 8 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.
1966 AD Mar 17 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1966 AD Mar 18 – United Arab Airlines Flight 749 crashes on approach to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, killing 30 people.
1967 AD Mar 09 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people.
1967 AD Mar 12 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
1967 AD Mar 14 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1967 AD Mar 18 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 AD Mar 12 – Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
1968 AD Mar 16 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops.
1968 AD Mar 17 – As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
1968 AD Mar 18 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1968 AD Mar 21 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
1968 AD Mar 28 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a student protest.
1969 AD Mar 10 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
1969 AD Mar 13 – Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1969 AD Mar 16 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
1969 AD Mar 17 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1969 AD Mar 18 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
1969 AD Mar 19 – The 385-metre-tall (1,263 ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
1969 AD Mar 20 – A United Arab airlines (now Egyptair) Ilyushin Il-18 crashes at Aswan international Airport, killing 100 people.
1969 AD Mar 28 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
1970 AD Mar 10 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
1970 AD Mar 18 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1970 AD Mar 21 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
1970 AD Mar 21 – San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event.
1970 AD Mar 28 – An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring at least 1,200.
1971 AD Mar 12 – The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
1971 AD Mar 18 – Peru: A landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
1971 AD Mar 25 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1972 AD Mar 14 – Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people.
1972 AD Mar 20 – The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
1972 AD Mar 22 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1972 AD Mar 22 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
1972 AD Mar 24 – Direct rule is imposed on Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom under Edward Heath.
1973 AD Mar 17 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
1974 AD Mar 09 – The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
1974 AD Mar 15 – Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, catches fire following a landing gear collapse at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran.
1975 AD Mar 10 – Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
1975 AD Mar 22 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
1975 AD Mar 25 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew.
1976 AD Mar 09 – Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1976 AD Mar 24 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
1977 AD Mar 09 – The Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.
1977 AD Mar 10 – Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
1977 AD Mar 11 – The 1977 Hanafi Siege: Around 150 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
1977 AD Mar 16 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1977 AD Mar 23 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
1977 AD Mar 24 – Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
1978 AD Mar 09 – President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
1978 AD Mar 11 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
1978 AD Mar 14 – The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
1978 AD Mar 15 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
1978 AD Mar 16 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors.
1978 AD Mar 16 – A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.
1978 AD Mar 16 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
1978 AD Mar 22 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1978 AD Mar 23 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
1978 AD Mar 28 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
1979 AD Mar 13 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
1979 AD Mar 14 – Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.
1979 AD Mar 16 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ending the war.
1979 AD Mar 17 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1979 AD Mar 19 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
1979 AD Mar 25 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1979 AD Mar 28 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
1979 AD Mar 28 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
1980 AD Mar 14 – LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1980 AD Mar 18 – A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
1980 AD Mar 21 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
1980 AD Mar 23 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
1980 AD Mar 24 – El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1981 AD Mar 11 – Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.
1982 AD Mar 11 – Fifteen people are killed when Widerøe Flight 933 crashes into the Barents Sea near Gamvik, Norway.
1982 AD Mar 14 – The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.
1982 AD Mar 19 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
1982 AD Mar 22 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
1982 AD Mar 23 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
1983 AD Mar 11 – Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia.
1983 AD Mar 21 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
1983 AD Mar 23 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1984 AD Mar 16 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity.
1985 AD Mar 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
1985 AD Mar 16 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he not released until December 1991.
1985 AD Mar 17 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
1985 AD Mar 20 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
1985 AD Mar 20 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1986 AD Mar 15 – Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
1986 AD Mar 21 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
1986 AD Mar 24 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1987 AD Mar 09 – Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors Corporation
1987 AD Mar 20 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1988 AD Mar 13 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
1988 AD Mar 14 – In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
1988 AD Mar 16 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988 AD Mar 16 – Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
1988 AD Mar 16 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
1988 AD Mar 17 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988 AD Mar 17 – Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
1988 AD Mar 20 – Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1988 AD Mar 22 – The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.
1988 AD Mar 23 – Angolan and Cuban forces defeat South Africa in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.
1988 AD Mar 25 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1989 AD Mar 12 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.
1989 AD Mar 19 – The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979.
1989 AD Mar 21 – Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people.
1989 AD Mar 24 – In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m³) of crude oil after running aground.
1990 AD Mar 10 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
1990 AD Mar 11 – Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 AD Mar 11 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
1990 AD Mar 15 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
1990 AD Mar 18 – Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
1990 AD Mar 18 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
1990 AD Mar 19 – The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
1990 AD Mar 20 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
1990 AD Mar 21 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1990 AD Mar 24 – Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.
1990 AD Mar 28 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
1991 AD Mar 15 – Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
1991 AD Mar 23 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
1992 AD Mar 12 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1992 AD Mar 13 – The M_w  6.6 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).
1992 AD Mar 17 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
1992 AD Mar 17 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
1992 AD Mar 22 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
1992 AD Mar 22 – Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
1993 AD Mar 12 – Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
1993 AD Mar 12 – North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1993 AD Mar 13 – The 1993 Storm of the Century affects the eastern United States, dropping feet of snow in many areas.
1993 AD Mar 20 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
1993 AD Mar 22 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
1993 AD Mar 24 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 is discovered by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker, and David Levy at the Palomar Observatory in California.
1994 AD Mar 18 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1994 AD Mar 21 – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
1994 AD Mar 23 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
1994 AD Mar 23 – A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
1994 AD Mar 23 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75.
1994 AD Mar 28 – In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.
1995 AD Mar 14 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
1995 AD Mar 16 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
1995 AD Mar 20 – The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.
1995 AD Mar 22 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
1995 AD Mar 25 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
1996 AD Mar 13 – The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.
1996 AD Mar 18 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
1996 AD Mar 23 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1996 AD Mar 25 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
1997 AD Mar 09 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day. As the comet made its closest approach to Earth on March 26, all 39 active members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed ritual mass suicide over a period of three days, in the belief that their spirits would be teleported into an alien spacecraft flying inside the comet's tail.
1997 AD Mar 09 – The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles after attending the Soul Train Music Awards. He is gunned down leaving an after party at the Petersen Automotive Museum. His murder remains unsolved.
1997 AD Mar 13 – The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader.
1997 AD Mar 18 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
1997 AD Mar 22 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
1997 AD Mar 22 – Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.
1998 AD Mar 19 – An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.
1998 AD Mar 24 – Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1998 AD Mar 24 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
1998 AD Mar 24 – Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
1999 AD Mar 12 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
1999 AD Mar 20 – Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
1999 AD Mar 21 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
1999 AD Mar 23 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
1999 AD Mar 24 – Kosovo War: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1999 AD Mar 24 – A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 38 people.
1999 AD Mar 28 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill at least 130 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.
2000 AD Mar 10 – The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.
2000 AD Mar 17 – Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
2000 AD Mar 20 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
2000 AD Mar 21 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
2001 AD Mar 16 – A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
2001 AD Mar 19 – German trade union ver.di is formed.
2001 AD Mar 23 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2001 AD Mar 28 – Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos begins operation.
2002 AD Mar 19 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2003 AD Mar 12 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 AD Mar 12 – The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
2003 AD Mar 13 – An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
2003 AD Mar 16 – American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home.
2003 AD Mar 17 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2003 AD Mar 20 – Iraq War: The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland begin an invasion of Iraq.
2003 AD Mar 23 – Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
2003 AD Mar 24 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2003 AD Mar 28 – In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.
2004 AD Mar 11 – Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain kill 191 people.
2004 AD Mar 12 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
2004 AD Mar 17 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
2004 AD Mar 19 – Catalina affair: A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work.
2004 AD Mar 19 – March 19 Shooting Incident: The Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
2004 AD Mar 22 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
2005 AD Mar 16 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2005 AD Mar 28 – An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a magnitude of 8.6 and killing over 1000 people.
2006 AD Mar 10 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2006 AD Mar 11 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.
2006 AD Mar 14 – The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.
2006 AD Mar 20 – Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
2006 AD Mar 21 – The social media site Twitter is founded.
2006 AD Mar 22 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
2006 AD Mar 25 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2006 AD Mar 25 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
2006 AD Mar 28 – At least one million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.
2007 AD Mar 14 – The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people.
2008 AD Mar 14 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
2008 AD Mar 15 – Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
2008 AD Mar 19 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
2008 AD Mar 23 – Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India
2008 AD Mar 24 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
2009 AD Mar 11 – Winnenden school shooting: Sixteen are killed and 11 are injured before recent graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
2009 AD Mar 12 – Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
2009 AD Mar 23 – FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
2010 AD Mar 11 – Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile. Aftershocks of the 2010 Pichilemu earthquake hit central Chile during the ceremony.
2010 AD Mar 20 – Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland begins eruptions that would last for three months, heavily disrupting air travel in Europe.
2010 AD Mar 23 – The Affordable Care Act becomes law in the United States.
2011 AD Mar 09 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
2011 AD Mar 11 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
2011 AD Mar 12 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011 AD Mar 15 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
2011 AD Mar 19 – Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
2012 AD Mar 11 – A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
2012 AD Mar 13 – The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children.
2012 AD Mar 20 – At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
2013 AD Mar 13 – The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
2013 AD Mar 19 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
2013 AD Mar 22 – At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
2014 AD Mar 12 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
2014 AD Mar 16 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
2014 AD Mar 18 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
2014 AD Mar 20 – Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
2015 AD Mar 18 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-three people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
2015 AD Mar 20 – A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a supermoon all occur on the same day.
2015 AD Mar 20 – Syrian civil war: The Siege of Kobanî is broken by the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Free Syrian Army (FSA), marking a turning point in the Rojava–Islamist conflict.
2015 AD Mar 24 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
2016 AD Mar 13 – The Ankara bombing kills at least 37 people.
2016 AD Mar 13 – Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people.
2016 AD Mar 16 – A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30.
2016 AD Mar 16 – Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18.
2016 AD Mar 17 – Rojava conflict: At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.
2016 AD Mar 19 – Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
2016 AD Mar 19 – An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
2016 AD Mar 22 – Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
2017 AD Mar 10 – The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.
2017 AD Mar 14 – A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance.
2017 AD Mar 22 – A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
2017 AD Mar 22 – Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.
2017 AD Mar 26 – Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption.
2017 AD Mar 29 – Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
2017 AD Mar 30 – SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
2018 AD Mar 19 – The last male northern white rhinoceros, Sudan, dies, ensuring a chance of extinction for the species.
2018 AD Mar 23 – President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
2018 AD Mar 24 – Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.
2018 AD Mar 24 – Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
2018 AD Mar 25 – Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District.
2018 AD Mar 30 – Israeli Army killed 17 Palestinians and wounded 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.
2018 AD Mar 31 – Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution.
2019 AD Mar 10 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes, leading to all 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.
2019 AD Mar 12 – In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.
2019 AD Mar 14 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
2019 AD Mar 15 – Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings.
2019 AD Mar 15 – Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
2019 AD Mar 15 – Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.
2019 AD Mar 21 – The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others.
2019 AD Mar 22 – The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.
2019 AD Mar 22 – Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.
2019 AD Mar 23 – The Kazakh capital of Astana was renamed to Nur-Sultan.
2019 AD Mar 23 – The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces capture the town of Baghuz in Eastern Syria, declaring military victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after four years of fighting, although the group maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells across Syria and Iraq.
2019 AD Mar 24 – Jakarta MRT, a rapid transit system in Jakarta, began operation.
2019 AD Mar 30 – Pope Francis visits Morocco.
2020 AD Mar 11 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic.
2020 AD Mar 12 – The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 AD Mar 13 – President Donald Trump declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States.
2020 AD Mar 13 – Breonna Taylor is killed by police officers who were forcibly entering her home in Louisville, Kentucky; her death sparked extensive protests against police brutality.
2020 AD Mar 16 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.
2020 AD Mar 22 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
2020 AD Mar 22 – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
2020 AD Mar 23 – Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the United Kingdom into its first national lockdown in response to COVID-19.
2020 AD Apr 02 – COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million.
2020 AD Apr 04 – China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.
2020 AD Oct 30 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings.
2020 AD Oct 31 – Berlin Brandenburg Airport opens its doors after nearly 10 years of delays due to construction issues and project corruption.
2020 AD Nov 09 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: an armistice agreement was signed between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia that ended the war.
2021 AD Mar 11 – US President Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.
2021 AD Mar 16 – Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.
2021 AD Mar 22 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.
2021 AD Mar 23 – A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days.
2021 AD Apr 02 – At least 49 people are killed in a train derailment in Taiwan after a truck accidentally rolls onto the track.
2021 AD Apr 02 – A Capitol Police officer is killed and another injured when an attacker rams his car into a barricade outside the United States Capitol.
2021 AD Apr 05 – Nguyễn Xuân Phúc took office as President of Vietnam after dismissing the title of Prime Minister.
2021 AD Apr 07 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
2021 AD Apr 11 – Twenty year old Daunte Wright is shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota by officer Kimberly Potter, sparking protests in the city, when the officer allegedly mistakes her own gun for her taser.
2021 AD Apr 17 – The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
2021 AD Apr 19 – The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.
2021 AD Apr 20 – State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.
2021 AD Apr 21 – Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggala (402) sinks in the Bali Sea during a military drill, killing all 53 on board.
2021 AD Apr 30 – Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
2021 AD May 08 – A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150.
2021 AD May 22 – Severe weather kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Yellow River Stone Forest, Gansu province of China.
2021 AD May 23 – Severe weather kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) ultramarathon in the Yellow River Stone Forest, Gansu province of China.
2021 AD May 26 – Ten people are killed in a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose, California, United States.
2021 AD Jun 13 – A gas explosion in Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province of China kills at least 12 people and wounds over 138 others.
2021 AD Jun 17 – Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
2021 AD Jun 24 – The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida suffers a sudden partial collapse, killing 98 people inside.
2022 AD Jan 31 – Sue Gray, a senior civil servant in the United Kingdom, publishes an initial version of her report on the Downing Street Partygate controversy.
2022 AD Feb 24 – Days after recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders a full scale invasion of Ukraine.
2022 AD Mar 15 – The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse.
2022 AD Mar 16 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.
2022 AD Mar 21 – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people.
2022 AD Apr 07 – Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.
2022 AD Apr 14 – In Ukraine, Ukrainian R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles hit and sank the Flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet The Moskva
2022 AD May 09 – Russo-Ukrainian War: United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.
2022 AD May 10 – Queen Elizabeth II misses the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years. It was the first time that a new session of Parliament was opened jointly by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge acting as Counsellors of State.
2022 AD May 14 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
2022 AD May 20 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Russia claims full control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege.
2022 AD May 24 – A mass shooting occurs at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children.
2022 AD Jun 02 – Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changed the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye."
2022 AD Jun 15 – Microsoft retires its ubiquitous Internet Explorer after 26 years in favor of its new browser, Microsoft Edge.
2022 AD Jun 22 – An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over 1,000 deaths.
2022 AD Jun 24 – In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion is not protected by the U.S. Constitution, overturning the court's prior decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).
2022 AD Jun 25 – The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the longest bridge of Bangladesh, Padma Bridge.
2022 AD Jun 25 – Russo-Ukrainian War: The Battle of Sievierodonetsk ends after weeks of heavy fighting with the Russian capture of the city, leading to the Battle of Lysychansk.
2022 AD Jun 25 – Two people are killed and 21 more injured after a gunman opens fire at three sites in Oslo in a suspected Islamist anti-LGBTQ+ attack.
2022 AD Jun 26 – The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the longest bridge of Bangladesh, Padma Bridge.
2022 AD Jun 26 – Russo-Ukrainian War: The Battle of Sievierodonetsk ends after weeks of heavy fighting with the Russian capture of the city, leading to the Battle of Lysychansk.
2022 AD Jun 26 – Two people are killed and 21 more injured after a gunman opens fire at three sites in Oslo in a suspected Islamist anti-LGBTQ+ attack.
2022 AD Jul 05 – British government ministers Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak resign from the second Johnson ministry, beginning the 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
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 474 AD Nov 10 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
 937 AD Nov 10 – Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang.
1202 AD Nov 10 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
1293 AD Nov 10 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
1444 AD Nov 10 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed.
1599 AD Nov 10 – Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen gentries who opposed Duke Charles were decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the power struggle between King Sigismund and Duke Charles and the related peasant revolt known as the Cudgel War.
1659 AD Nov 10 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
1674 AD Nov 10 – Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.
1702 AD Nov 10 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
1766 AD Nov 10 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 AD Nov 10 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1793 AD Nov 10 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
1821 AD Nov 10 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.
1847 AD Nov 10 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1865 AD Nov 10 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
1871 AD Nov 10 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1898 AD Nov 10 – Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
1910 AD Nov 10 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1918 AD Nov 10 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1939 AD Nov 10 – Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1940 AD Nov 10 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
1942 AD Nov 10 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1944 AD Nov 10 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
1945 AD Nov 10 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1951 AD Nov 10 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
1954 AD Nov 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
1958 AD Nov 10 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1969 AD Nov 10 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
1970 AD Nov 10 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1970 AD Nov 10 – Luna 17: unmanned space mission launched by the Soviet Union.
1971 AD Nov 10 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
1971 AD Nov 10 – A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board.
1972 AD Nov 10 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1975 AD Nov 10 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 AD Nov 10 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.
1979 AD Nov 10 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
1983 AD Nov 10 – Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
1989 AD Nov 10 – Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
1989 AD Nov 10 – Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1995 AD Nov 10 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
1997 AD Nov 10 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
2002 AD Nov 10 – Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November. The strongest tornado, an F4, hits Van Wert, Ohio, during the early to mid afternoon and destroys a movie theater, which had been evacuated.
2006 AD Nov 10 – Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
2006 AD Nov 10 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.
2008 AD Nov 10 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
2009 AD Nov 10 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
2016 AD Nov 08 – Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever to receive a major party's nomination.
2019 AD Nov 10 – President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.
2020 AD Jul 13 – After a five-day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera is recovered from Lake Piru, where she drowned in California.
2020 AD Jul 30 – NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
2020 AD Aug 04 – At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.
2020 AD Aug 05 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the 'Bhoomi Pujan' or land worship ceremony and lays the foundation stone of Rama Mandir in Ayodhya after a Supreme Court verdict ruling in favour of building the temple on disputed land.
2020 AD Aug 07 – Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.
2020 AD Aug 10 – Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.
2020 AD Aug 13 – Israel–United Arab Emirates relations are formally established.
2020 AD Aug 15 – Russia begins production on the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.
2020 AD Aug 16 – The August Complex fire in California burns more than one million acres of land.
2020 AD Aug 20 – Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
2020 AD Aug 24 – Erin O’Toole is elected leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2020 AD Nov 10 – Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and prompting protests in Armenia.
2021 AD Jul 08 – President Joe Biden announces that the official conclusion of U.S. involvement in the War in Afghanistan will be on August 31, 2021.
2021 AD Jul 11 – Richard Branson becomes the first civilian to be launched into space via his Virgin Galactic spacecraft.
2021 AD Jul 11 – Italy defeats England in the UEFA Euro 2020 Final to win their second European title.
2021 AD Jul 15 – Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash.
2021 AD Jul 20 – American businessman Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.
2021 AD Jul 29 title="2021">2021 - The International Space Station temporarily spins out of control, moving the ISS 45 degrees out of attitude, following an engine malfunction of Russian module Nauka.
2021 AD Aug 05 – Australia's second most populous state Victoria enters its sixth COVID-19 lockdown, enacting stage four restrictions statewide in reaction to six new COVID-19 cases recorded that morning.
2021 AD Aug 09 – The Tampere light rail officially started operating.
2021 AD Aug 12 – Six people,five victims and the perpetrator are killed in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010 in Keyham, Plymouth.
2021 AD Aug 14 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
2021 AD Aug 15 – Kabul falls into the hands of the Taliban as Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan along with local residents and foreign nationals, effectively reestablishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
2021 AD Aug 26 – During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians.
2021 AD Aug 30 – The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.
2021 AD Sep 05 – The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.
2021 AD Sep 07 – Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador.
2022 AD Jul 07 – Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
2022 AD Jul 08 – Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a speech in Nara.
2022 AD Aug 08 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a raid on former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.
2022 AD Aug 14 – An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.
2022 AD Sep 05 – Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party leadership election, beating Rishi Sunak
2022 AD Sep 06 – Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss.
2022 AD Sep 06 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.
2022 AD Sep 08 – Charles, Prince of Wales becomes King of the United Kingdom, ascending the throne upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen died at her Balmoral estate in Scotland after a reign lasting over 70 years. Charles assumed the regnal name Charles III.
2022 AD Sep 10 – Death of Queen Elizabeth II: King Charles III is formally proclaimed as monarch at a meeting of the Accession Council in St James's Palace.
2022 AD Sep 14 – Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with queues of up to 30 hours stretching for miles along the River Thames.
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 497 BC Dec 17 – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
  36 AD Dec 25 – Forces of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han, under the command of Wu Han, conquer the separatist Chengjia empire, reuniting China.
  69 AD Dec 20 – Antonius Primus enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor for Nero's former general Vespasian.
  69 AD Dec 21 – The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors.
  69 AD Dec 22 – Vespasian is proclaimed Emperor of Rome; his predecessor, Vitellius, attempts to abdicate but is captured and killed at the Gemonian stairs.
 220 AD Dec 11 – Emperor Xian of Han is forced to abdicate the throne by Cao Cao's son Cao Pi, ending the Han dynasty.
 274 AD Dec 25 – A temple to Sol Invictus is dedicated in Rome by Emperor Aurelian.
 333 AD Dec 25 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
 336 AD Dec 25 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in Rome.
 350 AD Dec 25 – Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his imperial title. Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.
 361 AD Dec 11 – Julian enters Constantinople as sole Roman Emperor.
 401 AD Dec 22 – Pope Innocent I is elected, the only pope to succeed his father in the office.
 406 AD Dec 31 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
 418 AD Dec 28 – A papal conclave begins, resulting in the election of Pope Boniface I.
 457 AD Dec 28 – Majorian is acclaimed as Western Roman emperor.
 484 AD Dec 23 – The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene Christianity.
 484 AD Dec 28 – Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).
 502 AD Dec 24 – Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate.
 508 AD Dec 25 – Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius.
 533 AD Dec 15 – Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.
 534 AD Dec 30 – The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire.
 535 AD Dec 31 – Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
 537 AD Dec 27 – The second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is consecrated.
 546 AD Dec 17 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
 557 AD Dec 14 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.
 558 AD Dec 23 – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
 583 AD Dec 23 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque.
 597 AD Dec 25 – Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptise in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons.
 627 AD Dec 12 – Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
 640 AD Dec 24 – Pope John IV is elected, several months after his predecessor's death.
 687 AD Dec 15 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes Paschal and Theodore.
 714 AD Dec 16 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom.
 755 AD Dec 16 – An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China.
 759 AD Dec 24 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he is hosted by fellow poet Pei Di.
 800 AD Dec 25 – The coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
 820 AD Dec 25 – Eastern Emperor Leo V is murdered in a church of the Great Palace of Constantinople by followers of Michael II.
 835 AD Dec 14 – Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
 856 AD Dec 22 – Damghan earthquake: An earthquake near the Persian city of Damghan kills an estimated 200,000 people, the sixth deadliest earthquake in recorded history.
 861 AD Dec 11 – Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who raise al-Muntasir to the throne. Start of the "Anarchy at Samarra".
 870 AD Dec 31 – Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia); many Danes are killed.
 875 AD Dec 29 – Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles II.
 880 AD Dec 22 – Luoyang, eastern capital of the Tang dynasty, is captured by rebel leader Huang Chao during the reign of Emperor Xizong.
 887 AD Nov 17 – Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November.
 887 AD Dec 26 – Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia.
 893 AD Dec 28 – An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
 904 AD Sep 22 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
 906 AD Oct 22 – Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking 4,000–5,000 captives.
 912 AD Oct 16 – Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba.
 920 AD Dec 17 – Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
 935 AD Sep 28 – Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him.
 939 AD Oct 02 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
 939 AD Oct 27 – Æthelstan, the first king of all England, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
 942 AD Dec 17 – Assassination of William I of Normandy.
 951 AD Nov 16 – Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force of 10,000 men under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Kingdom.
 955 AD Oct 16 – King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
 959 AD Oct 01 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to Eadwig.
 962 AD Dec 23 – The Sack of Aleppo as part of the Arab–Byzantine wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo.
 965 AD Oct 01 – Pope John XIII is consecrated.
 969 AD Oct 28 – The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.
 969 AD Dec 11 – Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.
 994 AD Sep 15 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
 995 AD Sep 28 – Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, kills most members of the rival Slavník dynasty.
 999 AD Dec 30 – Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin near Lyons Hill in Ireland.
1000 AD Dec 25 – The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1009 AD Oct 18 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1011 AD Sep 29 – Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.
1013 AD Dec 25 – Sweyn Forkbeard takes control of the Danelaw and is proclaimed king of England.
1016 AD Oct 18 – The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun.
1025 AD Dec 15 – Constantine VIII becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor.
1025 AD Dec 25 – Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as king of Poland.
1041 AD Dec 11 – Michael V, adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium, is proclaimed emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1046 AD Dec 25 – Henry III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement II.
1048 AD Sep 18 – Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army and a Seljuq army.
1058 AD Sep 20 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland.
1065 AD Dec 28 – Edward the Confessor's Romanesque monastic church at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1066 AD Sep 18 – Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England.
1066 AD Sep 20 – At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin.
1066 AD Sep 25 – In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England.
1066 AD Sep 27 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1066 AD Sep 28 – William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
1066 AD Oct 14 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.
1066 AD Oct 15 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.
1066 AD Dec 25 – William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
1066 AD Dec 30 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
1075 AD Oct 08 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
1076 AD Dec 25 – Coronation of Bolesław II the Generous as king of Poland.
1081 AD Oct 18 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
1086 AD Oct 23 – Spanish Reconquista: At the Battle of Sagrajas, the Almoravids defeats the Castilians, but are unable to take advantage of their victory.
1087 AD Sep 26 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
1091 AD Oct 17 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1096 AD Oct 21 – A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade.
1097 AD Oct 21 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
1100 AD Dec 25 – Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
1105 AD Dec 31 – Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV is forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Henry V, in Ingelheim.
1106 AD Sep 28 – King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose at the Battle of Tinchebray.
1111 AD Sep 17 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
1122 AD Sep 23 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
1124 AD Dec 21 – Pope Honorius II is consecrated, having been elected after the controversial dethroning of Pope Celestine II.
1130 AD Dec 25 – Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first king of Sicily.
1135 AD Dec 22 – Three weeks after the death of King Henry I of England, Stephen of Blois claims the throne and is privately crowned King of England, beginning the English Anarchy.
1138 AD Oct 11 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever.
1139 AD Sep 30 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing mass destruction and killing up to 300,000 people.
1140 AD Dec 21 – After a siege of several weeks, the city of Weinsberg and its castle surrender to Conrad III of Germany.
1142 AD Oct 11 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars.
1143 AD Oct 05 – With the signing of the Treaty of Zamora, King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1144 AD Dec 24 – The capital of the crusader County of Edessa falls to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo.
1147 AD Oct 25 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1147 AD Oct 25 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer Lisbon.
1154 AD Dec 19 – Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1157 AD Oct 23 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the Danish Civil War.
1161 AD Dec 15 – Jin–Song wars: Military officers conspire against the emperor Wanyan Liang of the Jin dynasty after a military defeat at the Battle of Caishi, and assassinate the emperor at his camp.
1167 AD Dec 15 – Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
1170 AD Sep 21 – The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders.
1170 AD Dec 29 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church.
1176 AD Sep 17 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empire to recover central Anatolia from the Seljuk Turks.
1180 AD Sep 18 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France at the age of fifteen.
1183 AD Nov 17 – Genpei War: The Battle of Mizushima takes place off the Japanese coast, where Minamoto no Yoshinaka's invasion force is intercepted and defeated by the Taira clan.
1185 AD Oct 26 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
1187 AD Sep 20 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1187 AD Dec 19 – Pope Clement III is elected.
1192 AD Dec 20 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade.
1200 AD Oct 08 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.
1209 AD Oct 04 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
1211 AD Oct 15 – Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
1212 AD Sep 26 – The Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
1216 AD Oct 19 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
1216 AD Dec 22 – Pope Honorius III approves the Dominican Order through the papal bull of confirmation Religiosam vitam.
1217 AD Sep 21 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
1225 AD Dec 31 – The Lý dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoàng, starting the Trần dynasty.^{[citation needed]}
1227 AD Sep 29 – Investiture Controversy: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1229 AD Dec 31 – James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon, enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain), thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca.
1236 AD Sep 22 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1237 AD Sep 25 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
1237 AD Dec 21 – The city of Ryazan is sacked by the Mongol army of Batu Khan.
1238 AD Sep 28 – King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia.
1238 AD Oct 09 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1256 AD Dec 15 – Mongol forces under Hulagu enter and dismantle the Nizari Ismaili (Assassin) stronghold at Alamut Castle (in present-day Iran) as part of their offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
1260 AD Sep 20 – The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
1260 AD Oct 24 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France.
1261 AD Dec 25 – Eleven-year-old John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos.
1263 AD Oct 02 – The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1267 AD Sep 29 – The Treaty of Montgomery recognises Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales, but only as a vassal of King Henry III.
1268 AD Oct 29 – Conradin is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily.
1269 AD Oct 13 – The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1270 AD Dec 15 – The Nizari Ismaili garrison of Gerdkuh, Persia surrender after 17 years to the Mongols.
1271 AD Dec 18 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
1272 AD Nov 16 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.
1275 AD Oct 27 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1279 AD Oct 12 – The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
1282 AD Dec 11 – Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, in mid-Wales.
1287 AD Dec 14 – St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
1292 AD Nov 17 – John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1294 AD Dec 13 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1294 AD Dec 24 – Pope Boniface VIII is elected, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
1295 AD Oct 23 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
1302 AD Oct 04 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes to an end.
1307 AD Oct 13 – Hundreds of the Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Philip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy.
1308 AD Dec 28 – The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.
1311 AD Oct 11 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of English kings with the Ordinances of 1311.
1311 AD Oct 16 – The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
1315 AD Nov 15 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten.
1322 AD Sep 28 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
1322 AD Oct 08 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban after the Battle of Bliska.
1322 AD Oct 14 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1331 AD Sep 27 – The Battle of Płowce is fought, between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order. The Poles are defeated but their leaders escape capture.
1332 AD Oct 13 – Rinchinbal Khan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
1334 AD Dec 20 – Cardinal Jacques Fournier, a Cistercian monk, is elected Pope Benedict XII.
1338 AD Sep 23 – The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used.
1341 AD Oct 26 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally begins with the proclamation of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor.
1344 AD Oct 28 – The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders in response to Aydınid piracy.
1345 AD Sep 26 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
1346 AD Oct 17 – The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
1356 AD Sep 19 – Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II.
1356 AD Oct 18 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1360 AD Oct 24 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1361 AD Dec 21 – The Battle of Linuesa is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the forces of the Emirate of Granada and the combined army of the Kingdom of Castile and of Jaén resulting in a Castilian victory.
1363 AD Oct 04 – Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
1364 AD Sep 29 – Hundred Years' War: Anglo-Breton forces defeat the Franco-Breton army in Brittany, ending the War of the Breton Succession.
1371 AD Sep 26 – Serbian–Turkish wars: Ottoman Turks fought against a Serbian army at the Battle of Maritsa.
1377 AD Oct 26 – Tvrtko I is crowned the first king of Bosnia.
1378 AD Sep 20 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1382 AD Sep 17 – Louis the Great's daughter, Mary, is crowned "king" of Hungary.
1383 AD Oct 22 – The male line of the Portuguese House of Burgundy becomes extinct with the death of King Fernando, leaving only his daughter Beatrice. Rival claimants begin a period of civil war and disorder.
1384 AD Oct 16 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1386 AD Oct 19 – The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1388 AD Dec 12 – Maria of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice.
1390 AD Oct 29 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
1392 AD Oct 03 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
1392 AD Oct 21 – Japanese Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
1396 AD Sep 25 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1398 AD Oct 12 – In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
1398 AD Dec 17 – Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
1399 AD Sep 30 – Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.
1399 AD Oct 13 – Coronation of Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey.
1400 AD Sep 16 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
1403 AD Oct 07 – Venetian–Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon.
1405 AD Nov 17 – Sharif ul-Hāshim establishes the Sultanate of Sulu.
1406 AD Oct 12 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before.
1409 AD Sep 23 – The Battle of Kherlen is the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.
1410 AD Sep 19 – End of the Siege of Marienburg: The State of the Teutonic Order repulses the joint Polish—Lithuanian forces.
1410 AD Oct 09 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
1415 AD Oct 25 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.
1419 AD Dec 30 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of La Rochelle.
1420 AD Oct 28 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
1422 AD Sep 27 – After the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with Poland and Lithuania.
1423 AD Sep 26 – Hundred Years' War: A French army defeats the English at the Battle of La Brossinière.
1431 AD Dec 16 – Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.
1435 AD Sep 21 – The Congress of Arras causes Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.
1440 AD Sep 15 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.
1446 AD Oct 09 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1448 AD Oct 17 – An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
1449 AD Oct 28 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
1450 AD Oct 05 – Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria expels Jews from his jurisdiction.
1453 AD Oct 19 – Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France.
1453 AD Oct 28 – Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
1454 AD Sep 18 – Thirteen Years' War: In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic knights.
1456 AD Oct 17 – The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
1459 AD Sep 23 – The Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is won by the Yorkists.
1460 AD Dec 30 – Wars of the Roses: Lancastrians kill the 3rd Duke of York and win the Battle of Wakefield.
1462 AD Sep 17 – Thirteen Years' War: A Polish army under Piotr Dunin decisively defeats the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Świecino.
1466 AD Oct 19 – The Thirteen Years' War between Poland and the Teutonic Order ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
1467 AD Oct 29 – Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
1467 AD Dec 15 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
1469 AD Oct 19 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
1470 AD Oct 02 – The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1471 AD Oct 10 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
1477 AD Oct 07 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
1480 AD Oct 08 – The Great Stand on the Ugra River puts an end to Tartar rule over Moscow
1481 AD Dec 26 – Battle of Westbroek: An army of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers raised by David of Burgundy, Bishop of Utrecht, attacks an armed mob of people from nearby Utrecht who were trying to avenge the massacre of the inhabitants of Westbroek.
1489 AD Dec 22 – The forces of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, take control of Almería from the Nasrid ruler of Granada, Muhammad XIII.
1490 AD Dec 19 – Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1491 AD Nov 16 – An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1492 AD Oct 10 – The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny.
1492 AD Oct 12 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. (Julian calendar)
1492 AD Oct 28 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
1492 AD Dec 25 – The carrack Santa María, commanded by Christopher Columbus, runs onto a reef off Haiti due to an improper watch.
1493 AD Sep 26 – Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Spanish, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera.
1497 AD Dec 16 – Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River at the southern tip of Africa, where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
1498 AD Sep 20 – The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in; it has been located outside ever since.
1499 AD Sep 22 – The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
1499 AD Dec 18 – A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
1500 AD Dec 24 – A joint Venetian–Spanish fleet captures the Castle of St. George on the island of Cephalonia.
1501 AD Dec 31 – The First Battle of Cannanore commences, seeing the first use of the naval line of battle.^{[citation needed]}
1503 AD Dec 29 – The Battle of Garigliano (1503) was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.
1508 AD Dec 29 – Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.
1511 AD Oct 04 – Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
1511 AD Nov 17 – Henry VIII of England concludes the Treaty of Westminster, a pledge of mutual aid against the French, with Ferdinand II of Aragon.
1512 AD Oct 19 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.
1512 AD Oct 21 – Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1512 AD Dec 27 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World.
1513 AD Sep 25 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1513 AD Oct 07 – War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice.
1516 AD Oct 28 – Second Ottoman–Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis Khan.
1519 AD Sep 20 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition which ultimately culminates in the first circumnavigation of the globe.
1520 AD Sep 30 – Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1520 AD Oct 21 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as the Strait of Magellan.
1520 AD Oct 21 – João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
1520 AD Oct 26 – Charles V is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor.
1520 AD Oct 28 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.
1521 AD Dec 27 – The Zwickau prophets arrive in Wittenberg, disturbing the peace and preaching the Apocalypse.
1524 AD Oct 27 – French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1529 AD Sep 27 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
1529 AD Oct 15 – The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
1530 AD Sep 15 – Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church 1644–1912.
1531 AD Oct 28 – Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.
1532 AD Nov 15 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
1532 AD Nov 16 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca.
1533 AD Nov 15 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1534 AD Oct 17 – Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
1535 AD Oct 04 – The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
1538 AD Sep 28 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
1538 AD Oct 28 – The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.
1538 AD Dec 17 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
1539 AD Oct 06 – Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.
1540 AD Sep 27 – The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1540 AD Oct 18 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
1541 AD Sep 30 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1542 AD Sep 28 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California. He is the first European in California.
1542 AD Dec 14 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots at the age of one week on the death of her father, James V of Scotland.
1544 AD Sep 18 – The expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene makes landfall in San Pedro Bay, southern Chile, claiming the territory for Spain.
1545 AD Dec 13 – The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
1551 AD Sep 30 – A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.
1552 AD Oct 02 – Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan.
1553 AD Oct 01 – The coronation of Queen Mary I of England occurs.
1553 AD Oct 27 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1553 AD Dec 25 – Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
1555 AD Sep 25 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1556 AD Sep 15 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1558 AD Oct 17 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
1558 AD Nov 17 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1559 AD Dec 25 – Pope Pius IV is elected, four months after his predecessor's death.
1561 AD Sep 23 – King Philip II of Spain issues cedula, ordering a halt to colonizing efforts in Florida.
1561 AD Oct 18 – In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, resulting in a draw.
1562 AD Dec 19 – The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
1565 AD Oct 18 – Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.
1567 AD Sep 29 – French War of Religion: Protestant coup officials in Nîmes massacre Catholic priests in an event now known as the Michelade.
1568 AD Sep 24 – Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
1568 AD Oct 20 – The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.
1571 AD Oct 07 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat.
1572 AD Oct 20 – Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the relief of Goes.
1573 AD Oct 08 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.
1574 AD Oct 03 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
1575 AD Oct 10 – Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1575 AD Dec 16 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5M_w  strikes Valdivia, Chile.
1577 AD Sep 17 – The Treaty of Bergerac is signed between King Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
1577 AD Dec 13 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
1578 AD Sep 29 – Spanish colonization of the Americas: Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards.
1579 AD Oct 19 – James VI of Scotland is celebrated as an adult ruler by a festival in Edinburgh.
1580 AD Sep 26 – Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth in Plymouth, England.
1580 AD Oct 10 – Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.
1582 AD Oct 04 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
1582 AD Oct 15 – Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
1583 AD Dec 17 – Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
1586 AD Sep 20 – A number of conspirators in the Babington Plot are hanged, drawn and quartered.
1586 AD Sep 22 – The Battle of Zutphen is a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
1586 AD Oct 14 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1586 AD Dec 17 – Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.
1588 AD Oct 01 – The coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia occurs.
1590 AD Sep 27 – The death of Pope Urban VII, 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, ends the shortest papal reign in history.
1590 AD Oct 16 – Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
1590 AD Oct 24 – John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
1591 AD Oct 29 – Pope Innocent IX is elected.
1594 AD Oct 09 – Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
1596 AD Oct 19 – The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities
1596 AD Oct 24 – The second Spanish armada sets sail to strike against England, but is smashed by storms off Cape Finisterre forcing a retreat to port.
1597 AD Oct 04 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the state of Georgia.
1597 AD Oct 18 – King Philip II of Spain send his third and final armada against England, but ends in failure due to storms. The remaining ships are captured or sunk by the English.
1597 AD Oct 26 – Imjin War: Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
1598 AD Dec 16 – Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang: The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory.
1598 AD Dec 21 – Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.
1598 AD Dec 23 – Arauco War: Governor of Chile Martín García Óñez de Loyola is killed in the Battle of Curalaba by Mapuches led by Pelantaru.
1599 AD Oct 18 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
1600 AD Oct 06 – Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
1600 AD Oct 21 – Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan.
1600 AD Dec 31 – The British East India Company is chartered.
1602 AD Sep 20 – The Spanish-held Dutch town of Grave capitulates to a besieging Dutch and English army under the command of Maurice of Orange.
1602 AD Oct 04 – Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
1602 AD Dec 11 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade.)
1603 AD Nov 17 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1604 AD Oct 09 – Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.
1604 AD Oct 17 – Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
1605 AD Sep 27 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
1606 AD Dec 19 – The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1607 AD Oct 05 – Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
1607 AD Dec 29 – According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to execute him.
1610 AD Oct 17 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
1611 AD Oct 29 – Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
1614 AD Oct 11 – The New Netherland Company applies to the States General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in what is now the northeastern United States.
1616 AD Oct 25 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
1618 AD Sep 18 – The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.
1618 AD Oct 29 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1620 AD Sep 16 – A determined band of 35 religious dissenters – Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower, jubilant at the prospect of practicing their unorthodox brand of worship in the New World.
1620 AD Sep 17 – Polish–Ottoman War: The Ottoman Empire defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Battle of Cecora.
1620 AD Dec 21 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1621 AD Oct 29 – The London Pageant of 1621 celebrates the inauguration of Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor).
1622 AD Dec 18 – Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
1623 AD Dec 13 – The Plymouth Colony establishes the system of trial by 12-men jury in the American colonies.
1628 AD Oct 28 – French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months.
1630 AD Oct 18 – Frendraught Castle in Scotland, the home of James Crichton of Frendraught, burns down.
1631 AD Sep 17 – Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1631 AD Oct 10 – Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.
1633 AD Oct 22 – The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
1634 AD Oct 11 – The Burchardi flood kills around 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1635 AD Oct 09 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
1636 AD Oct 04 – Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1636 AD Oct 28 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
1636 AD Dec 13 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians, a date now considered the founding of the National Guard of the United States.
1640 AD Oct 26 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Covenanter Scotland and King Charles.
1640 AD Dec 11 – The Root and Branch petition, signed by 15,000 Londoners calling for the abolition of the episcopacy, is presented to the Long Parliament.
1641 AD Oct 23 – Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, so as to force concessions.
1641 AD Oct 24 – Felim O'Neill of Kinard, the leader of the Irish Rebellion, issues his Proclamation of Dungannon, justifying the uprising and declaring continued loyalty to King Charles I of England.
1642 AD Oct 23 – The Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the English Civil War.
1642 AD Dec 13 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.
1643 AD Dec 13 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
1644 AD Oct 13 – A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
1644 AD Oct 27 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
1645 AD Sep 24 – The Battle of Rowton Heath in England is a Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.
1645 AD Oct 08 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.
1648 AD Oct 18 – Boston shoemakers form first American labor organization.
1648 AD Oct 24 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War.
1649 AD Oct 11 – Cromwell's New Model Army sacks Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
1649 AD Oct 19 – New Ross town in Ireland surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
1651 AD Dec 15 – Castle Cornet in Guernsey, the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War, surrenders.
1653 AD Dec 16 – English Interregnum: The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1654 AD Oct 12 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1655 AD Dec 18 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
1655 AD Dec 27 – Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege.
1656 AD Oct 14 – The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.
1657 AD Dec 27 – The Flushing Remonstrance articulates for the first time in North American history that freedom of religion is a fundamental right.
1658 AD Sep 17 – The Battle of Vilanova is fought between Portugal and Spain during the Portuguese Restoration War.
1658 AD Oct 29 – Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
1659 AD Dec 28 – The Marathas defeat the Adilshahi forces in the Battle of Kolhapur.
1660 AD Oct 17 – The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
1660 AD Dec 31 – James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
1662 AD Oct 17 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
1664 AD Oct 28 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
1665 AD Oct 29 – Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
1669 AD Sep 27 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year-long Siege of Candia.
1670 AD Dec 31 – The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay, having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.
1674 AD Sep 24 – Second Tantrik Coronation of Shivaji.
1675 AD Oct 29 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1675 AD Dec 11 – Antonio de Vea expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western Patagonia.
1675 AD Dec 19 – The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
1676 AD Sep 19 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
1680 AD Nov 14 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
1682 AD Oct 27 – Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1683 AD Sep 17 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules", later known as protozoa.
1683 AD Oct 03 – Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.
1683 AD Oct 06 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
1687 AD Sep 26 – Morean War: The Parthenon in Athens, used as a gunpowder depot by the Ottoman garrison, is partially destroyed after being bombarded during the Siege of the Acropolis by Venetian forces.
1687 AD Dec 31 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
1688 AD Sep 26 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1688 AD Dec 11 – Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, throws the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames.
1688 AD Dec 23 – As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees from England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his son-in-law and nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.
1689 AD Oct 26 – General Enea Silvio Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he dies of the disease soon afterwards.
1689 AD Dec 16 – Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
1690 AD Sep 25 – Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
1691 AD Oct 07 – The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1692 AD Sep 22 – The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials; others are all eventually released.
1692 AD Oct 12 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
1693 AD Oct 04 – Nine Years' War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1697 AD Sep 20 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.
1701 AD Sep 16 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1701 AD Oct 09 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.
1702 AD Dec 30 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
1703 AD Dec 27 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which allows Portugal to export wines to England on favorable trade terms.
1704 AD Dec 26 – Second Battle of Anandpur: In the Second Battle of Anandpur, Aurangzeb's two generals, Wazir Khan and Zaberdast Khan executed two children of Guru Gobind Singh, Zorawar Singh aged eight and Fateh Singh aged five, by burying them alive into a wall.
1705 AD Nov 15 – Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Hapsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó.
1707 AD Oct 22 – Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.
1707 AD Oct 23 – The First Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain convenes.
1707 AD Oct 28 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.
1708 AD Oct 09 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1710 AD Oct 13 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
1711 AD Sep 22 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
1712 AD Oct 03 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1713 AD Oct 17 – Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in Pälkäne.
1714 AD Sep 18 – George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1.
1714 AD Sep 29 – The Great Hatred: The Cossacks of the Russian Empire kill about 800 people overnight in Hailuoto.
1717 AD Sep 29 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture.
1718 AD Dec 17 – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
1721 AD Oct 22 – The Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.
1724 AD Nov 11 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
1726 AD Oct 28 – The novel Gulliver's Travels is published.
1730 AD Oct 01 – Ahmed III is forced to abdicate as the Ottoman sultan.
1730 AD Oct 22 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
1732 AD Sep 16 – In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants.
1736 AD Oct 16 – Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
1737 AD Sep 20 – The Walking Purchase concludes, which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1737 AD Dec 24 – The Marathas defeat the combined forces of the Mughal Empire, Rajputs of Jaipur, Nizam of Hyderabad, Nawab of Awadh and Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Bhopal.
1739 AD Sep 18 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands south of the Sava and Danube rivers to the Ottoman Empire.
1739 AD Oct 03 – The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War.
1739 AD Oct 22 – The War of Jenkins' Ear begins with the first attack on La Guaira.
1740 AD Oct 09 – Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000.
1740 AD Oct 20 – France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
1744 AD Sep 30 – War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway.
1745 AD Sep 21 – A Hanoverian army is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1745 AD Sep 24 – Jacobite rising of 1745: Bonnie Prince Charles defeats a British government army in the Battle of Prestonpans.
1746 AD Oct 22 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter
1747 AD Oct 25 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1748 AD Oct 12 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
1748 AD Oct 18 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1750 AD Nov 11 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
1750 AD Nov 11 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
1751 AD Dec 14 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
1757 AD Dec 31 – Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.
1758 AD Oct 14 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.
1758 AD Dec 13 – The English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
1758 AD Dec 25 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
1759 AD Sep 18 – French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed.
1759 AD Dec 31 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
1760 AD Oct 09 – Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
1760 AD Oct 10 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.
1760 AD Oct 25 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
1760 AD Nov 15 – The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
1761 AD Sep 22 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1761 AD Dec 16 – Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kołobrzeg.
1762 AD Sep 15 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1762 AD Oct 06 – Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.
1763 AD Oct 07 – King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
1766 AD Dec 25 – Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.
1767 AD Oct 11 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
1768 AD Sep 25 – Unification of Nepal
1768 AD Dec 28 – King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
1769 AD Dec 13 – Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth.
1769 AD Dec 22 – Sino-Burmese War: The war ends with the Qing dynasty withdrawing from Burma forever.
1770 AD Nov 14 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1771 AD Oct 17 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
1773 AD Oct 12 – America's first insane asylum opens.
1773 AD Oct 14 – The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1773 AD Dec 16 – American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
1774 AD Oct 14 – American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.
1774 AD Oct 20 – American Revolution: The Continental Association, a nonconsumption and nonimportation agreement against the British Isles and the British West Indies, is adopted by the First Continental Congress.
1774 AD Oct 21 – The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
1774 AD Oct 26 – American Revolution: The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
1775 AD Sep 17 – American Revolutionary War: The invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
1775 AD Sep 25 – American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
1775 AD Sep 25 – American Revolution: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off.
1775 AD Oct 13 – The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
1775 AD Oct 18 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
1775 AD Oct 18 – American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
1775 AD Oct 27 – King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
1775 AD Dec 31 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
1776 AD Sep 15 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1776 AD Sep 16 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
1776 AD Sep 17 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1776 AD Sep 21 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1776 AD Sep 22 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
1776 AD Oct 11 – American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
1776 AD Oct 28 – American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
1776 AD Nov 16 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1776 AD Dec 19 – Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
1776 AD Dec 25 – George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
1776 AD Dec 26 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.
1777 AD Sep 19 – American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
1777 AD Sep 26 – American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia.
1777 AD Sep 27 – American Revolution: Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes the capital of the United States for one day after Congress evacuates Philadelphia.
1777 AD Oct 04 – American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
1777 AD Oct 06 – American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
1777 AD Oct 07 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat British forces under general John Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, compelling Burgoyne's eventual surrender.
1777 AD Oct 17 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
1777 AD Oct 22 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
1777 AD Nov 15 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1777 AD Nov 17 – Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.
1777 AD Dec 16 – Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. [1]
1777 AD Dec 17 – American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.
1777 AD Dec 18 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
1777 AD Dec 19 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1777 AD Dec 24 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.
1778 AD Sep 17 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe.
1778 AD Sep 19 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
1778 AD Nov 11 – Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
1778 AD Dec 15 – American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
1778 AD Dec 29 – American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
1779 AD Sep 16 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
1779 AD Sep 23 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USS Bonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
1779 AD Sep 28 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
1779 AD Oct 01 – The city of Tampere, Finland (belonging to Sweden at this time) is founded by King Gustav III of Sweden.
1779 AD Oct 18 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
1780 AD Sep 21 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1780 AD Oct 02 – American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
1780 AD Oct 07 – American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina, often regarded as the turning point in the war's Southern theater.
1780 AD Oct 10 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
1780 AD Oct 16 – American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
1780 AD Oct 16 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
1780 AD Dec 14 – Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.
1781 AD Sep 28 – American Revolution: French and American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
1781 AD Oct 17 – American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
1781 AD Oct 19 – American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
1781 AD Oct 20 – The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Austria.
1782 AD Dec 14 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2.5 km (1.6 mi).
1782 AD Dec 16 – British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.
1783 AD Oct 15 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
1783 AD Dec 23 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
1784 AD Oct 22 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1787 AD Sep 17 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
1787 AD Sep 28 – The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
1787 AD Oct 01 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1787 AD Oct 29 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1787 AD Dec 12 – Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state to ratify the US Constitution.
1787 AD Dec 18 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1788 AD Dec 22 – Nguyễn Huệ proclaims himself Emperor Quang Trung, in effect abolishing on his own the Lê dynasty.
1789 AD Sep 15 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
1789 AD Sep 22 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1789 AD Sep 22 – Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1789 AD Sep 24 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.
1789 AD Sep 25 – The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.
1789 AD Sep 26 – George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
1789 AD Sep 29 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1789 AD Sep 29 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
1789 AD Oct 02 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
1789 AD Oct 03 – George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 a Thanksgiving Day.
1789 AD Oct 05 – French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
1789 AD Oct 06 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
1789 AD Oct 19 – John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1790 AD Sep 25 – Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
1790 AD Oct 09 – A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.
1790 AD Oct 22 – Northwest Indian War: Native American forces defeat the United States, ending the Harmar Campaign.
1790 AD Dec 17 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City.
1790 AD Dec 22 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1790 AD Dec 26 – Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
1790 AD Dec 31 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
1791 AD Sep 27 – The National Assembly of France votes to award full citizenship to Jews.
1791 AD Sep 30 – The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.
1791 AD Sep 30 – France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly.
1791 AD Oct 01 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1791 AD Dec 15 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1792 AD Sep 20 – French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
1792 AD Sep 21 – French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
1792 AD Sep 22 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1792 AD Oct 03 – A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
1792 AD Oct 12 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
1792 AD Oct 13 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1792 AD Oct 29 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1792 AD Dec 11 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
1793 AD Sep 17 – War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
1793 AD Sep 18 – The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
1793 AD Oct 12 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1793 AD Oct 13 – French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
1793 AD Oct 15 – Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.
1793 AD Oct 16 – French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
1793 AD Oct 16 – War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
1793 AD Nov 16 – French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
1793 AD Dec 18 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1793 AD Dec 23 – The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
1793 AD Dec 25 – General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
1793 AD Dec 26 – Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeats Austria.
1794 AD Sep 15 – French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.
1794 AD Sep 17 – Flanders Campaign: France completes its conquest of the Austrian Netherlands at the Battle of Sprimont.
1795 AD Sep 15 – Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
1795 AD Oct 01 – More than a year after the Battle of Sprimont, the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) are officially annexed by Revolutionary France.
1795 AD Oct 04 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
1795 AD Oct 24 – Poland is completely consumed by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
1795 AD Oct 27 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
1795 AD Dec 28 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).
1796 AD Sep 19 – George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1796 AD Nov 17 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole: French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
1796 AD Dec 19 – French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
1796 AD Dec 31 – The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.
1797 AD Oct 11 – The Royal Navy decisively defeats the Batavian Navy at Camperdown during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1797 AD Oct 18 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
1797 AD Oct 21 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
1797 AD Oct 22 – André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, from 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above Paris.
1797 AD Nov 16 – The Prussian heir apparent, Frederick William, becomes King of Prussia as Frederick William III.
1798 AD Oct 12 – Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
1799 AD Sep 19 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
1799 AD Sep 26 – War of the 2nd Coalition: French troops defeat Austro-Russian forces, leading to the collapse of Suvorov's campaign.
1799 AD Oct 09 – HMS Lutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1799 AD Oct 12 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
1799 AD Dec 26 – Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington in congress declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
1800 AD Oct 01 – Via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain cedes Louisiana to France, which would sell the land to the United States thirty months later.
1800 AD Oct 07 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent.
1800 AD Oct 17 – War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
1800 AD Nov 17 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
1800 AD Dec 24 – The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise fails to kill Napoleon Bonaparte.
1803 AD Sep 23 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle of Assaye is fought between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
1803 AD Oct 20 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1803 AD Dec 20 – The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
1804 AD Sep 25 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.
1804 AD Oct 09 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1805 AD Oct 14 – War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm.
1805 AD Oct 16 – War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.
1805 AD Oct 19 – War of the Third Coalition: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm.
1805 AD Oct 21 – Napoleonic Wars: A British fleet led by Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve in the Battle of Trafalgar.
1805 AD Nov 11 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1805 AD Nov 16 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern: Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat.
1805 AD Dec 26 – Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
1806 AD Oct 09 – Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.
1806 AD Oct 14 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
1806 AD Oct 17 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1806 AD Oct 27 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
1806 AD Nov 15 – Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor.
1806 AD Dec 26 – Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
1807 AD Dec 17 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
1807 AD Dec 22 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
1808 AD Oct 14 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1808 AD Dec 20 – Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
1808 AD Dec 22 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy.
1809 AD Sep 17 – Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War; the territory that will become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1809 AD Sep 18 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1809 AD Sep 21 – British Secretary of War Lord Castlereagh and Foreign Secretary George Canning meet in a duel on Putney Heath, with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.
1809 AD Oct 15 – The Viceroy of the Río de la Plata, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, opens the port of Buenos Aires to trade with nations other than Spain.
1809 AD Dec 25 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor.
1810 AD Sep 16 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
1810 AD Sep 18 – First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only during the Peninsular War in Spain, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1810 AD Sep 26 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates, and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1810 AD Oct 06 – A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
1810 AD Oct 12 – The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1810 AD Oct 27 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1810 AD Nov 17 – Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
1811 AD Oct 11 – The Juliana begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry in New York harbor.
1811 AD Oct 17 – The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence.
1811 AD Nov 17 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
1811 AD Dec 16 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri.
1811 AD Dec 26 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
1812 AD Sep 15 – The Grande Armée under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812 AD Sep 15 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1812 AD Sep 18 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1812 AD Oct 09 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1812 AD Oct 13 – War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock's British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer's United States forces.
1812 AD Oct 19 – The French invasion of Russia fails when Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
1812 AD Oct 23 –General Claude François de Malet begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon, claiming that the Emperor died in the Russian campaign.
1812 AD Oct 24 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
1812 AD Oct 25 – War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
1812 AD Nov 14 – Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.
1812 AD Dec 14 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
1812 AD Dec 17 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
1812 AD Dec 29 – USS Constitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.
1813 AD Oct 05 – War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit.
1813 AD Oct 08 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.
1813 AD Oct 16 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig.
1813 AD Oct 19 – War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon is forced to retreat from Germany after the Battle of Leipzig.
1813 AD Oct 26 – War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia and Mohawks defeat the United States Army in the Battle of the Chateauguay.
1813 AD Nov 11 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
1813 AD Dec 30 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
1814 AD Oct 01 – The Congress of Vienna opens with the intention of redrawing Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon in the previous spring.
1814 AD Oct 10 – War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.
1814 AD Oct 17 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
1814 AD Dec 14 – War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
1814 AD Dec 24 – Representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States sign the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.
1814 AD Dec 25 – Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.
1814 AD Dec 27 – War of 1812: The destruction of the schooner USS Carolina brings to an end Commodore Daniel Patterson's makeshift fleet, which fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
1815 AD Oct 15 – Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1815 AD Dec 11 – The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
1815 AD Dec 23 – The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.
1815 AD Dec 25 – The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
1816 AD Sep 15 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
1816 AD Dec 11 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1816 AD Dec 30 – The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
1817 AD Oct 16 – Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
1818 AD Oct 20 – The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
1818 AD Dec 13 – Cyril VI of Constantinople resigns from his position as Ecumenical Patriarch under pressure from the Ottoman Empire.
1818 AD Dec 24 – The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
1819 AD Dec 14 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
1819 AD Dec 17 – Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
1820 AD Sep 15 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1820 AD Oct 09 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1820 AD Nov 17 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
1821 AD Sep 15 – The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain.
1821 AD Sep 23 – Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
1821 AD Sep 27 – The Army of the Three Guarantees triumphantly enters Mexico City, led by Agustín de Iturbide. The following day Mexico is declared independent.
1821 AD Sep 28 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.
1821 AD Oct 08 – The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence.
1821 AD Oct 13 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is publicly proclaimed.
1822 AD Sep 16 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence.
1822 AD Sep 27 – Jean-François Champollion officially informs the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in France that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
1822 AD Oct 12 – Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.
1822 AD Oct 25 – Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
1822 AD Nov 16 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1823 AD Sep 22 – Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1824 AD Oct 04 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1824 AD Oct 21 – Portland cement is patented.
1825 AD Sep 27 – The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.
1825 AD Oct 09 – Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
1825 AD Oct 26 – The Erie Canal opens, allowing direct passage from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
1825 AD Dec 26 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I in the Decembrist revolt, but are later suppressed.
1825 AD Dec 30 – The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
1826 AD Oct 07 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1826 AD Dec 16 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
1826 AD Dec 21 – American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
1826 AD Dec 24 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
1826 AD Dec 25 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
1827 AD Oct 01 – Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.
1827 AD Oct 20 – Greek War of Independence: In the Battle of Navarino, a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet is defeated by British, French and Russian naval forces in the last significant battle fought with wooden sailing ships.
1828 AD Oct 07 – Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force.
1828 AD Nov 16 – Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.
1828 AD Dec 19 – Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun sparks the Nullification Crisis when he anonymously publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
1829 AD Sep 29 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1829 AD Oct 01 – The South African College is founded in Cape Town, later separating into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1829 AD Oct 08 – Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
1830 AD Sep 15 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
1830 AD Sep 24 – A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
1830 AD Oct 04 – The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
1831 AD Oct 09 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of the Kingdom of Greece, is assassinated.
1831 AD Nov 11 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1831 AD Nov 17 – Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia.
1831 AD Dec 25 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of Jamaica's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.
1831 AD Dec 27 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.
1831 AD Dec 31 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1832 AD Oct 01 – Texian political delegates convene at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
1832 AD Dec 20 – HMS Clio under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of the Falkland Islands.
1832 AD Dec 21 – Egyptian–Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
1832 AD Dec 28 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign. He resigned after being elected Senator from South Carolina.
1833 AD Dec 18 – The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
1834 AD Oct 09 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
1834 AD Oct 16 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1834 AD Oct 28 – The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
1835 AD Sep 15 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1835 AD Sep 20 – The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.
1835 AD Oct 02 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1835 AD Oct 28 – The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
1835 AD Nov 12 – Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.
1835 AD Dec 17 – The second Great Fire of New York destroys 53,000 square metres (13 acres) of New York City's Financial District.
1835 AD Dec 28 – Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
1835 AD Dec 29 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
1836 AD Oct 16 – Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.
1836 AD Oct 22 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1836 AD Dec 14 – The Toledo War unofficially ends as the "Frostbitten Convention" votes to accept Congress' terms for admitting Michigan as a U.S. state.
1836 AD Dec 15 – The U.S. Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., nearly burns to the ground, destroying all 9,957 patents issued by the federal government to that date, as well as 7,000 related patent models.
1836 AD Dec 27 – The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing eight people.
1836 AD Dec 28 – South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
1836 AD Dec 28 – Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico with the signing of the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty.
1837 AD Sep 18 – Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1837 AD Nov 17 – An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to significant destruction along Japan's coast.
1837 AD Dec 17 – A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.
1837 AD Dec 25 – Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1,100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
1838 AD Sep 18 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1838 AD Oct 05 – The Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped.
1838 AD Oct 27 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
1838 AD Dec 16 – Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
1839 AD Nov 11 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1840 AD Oct 07 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1840 AD Oct 11 – The Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottoman Empire and later is sent to Malta in exile.
1841 AD Sep 24 – The Sultanate of Brunei cedes Sarawak to James Brooke.
1841 AD Oct 16 – Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.
1843 AD Sep 21 – The crew of schooner Ancud, including John Williams Wilson, takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the Chilean government.
1843 AD Oct 13 – In New York City, B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.
1843 AD Oct 14 – Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy.
1843 AD Oct 16 – William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.
1843 AD Dec 16 – The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O, was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton, discoverer of quaternions, in a letter on this date.
1844 AD Sep 28 – Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1844 AD Oct 22 – The Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day becomes known as the Great Disappointment.
1844 AD Dec 21 – The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
1845 AD Oct 10 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
1845 AD Dec 27 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
1845 AD Dec 27 – Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country.
1845 AD Dec 29 – The United States annexes the Republic of Texas.
1846 AD Sep 19 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
1846 AD Sep 23 – Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1846 AD Sep 24 – Mexican–American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
1846 AD Oct 10 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
1846 AD Oct 16 – William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.
1846 AD Dec 24 – British acquired Labuan from the Sultanate of Brunei for Great Britain.
1846 AD Dec 28 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1847 AD Oct 09 – Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
1847 AD Oct 16 – The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.
1848 AD Sep 29 – The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces, and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution.
1849 AD Sep 17 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
1849 AD Oct 06 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1849 AD Oct 12 – The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'.
1849 AD Nov 16 – A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1850 AD Sep 18 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
1850 AD Sep 29 – The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.
1850 AD Oct 23 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1850 AD Dec 16 – The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
1851 AD Sep 18 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1851 AD Oct 18 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1851 AD Oct 24 – William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
1851 AD Nov 14 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
1851 AD Dec 22 – India's first freight train is operated in Roorkee, to transport material for the construction of the Ganges Canal.
1851 AD Dec 22 – The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.
1852 AD Sep 19 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte.
1852 AD Sep 24 – The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1852 AD Oct 11 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1853 AD Sep 24 – Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
1853 AD Oct 04 – The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
1853 AD Dec 30 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
1853 AD Dec 31 – A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.
1854 AD Sep 20 – Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma.
1854 AD Sep 27 – The paddle steamer SS Arctic, owned by the Collins Line of New York, sinks off the coast of Newfoundland, following a collision with a smaller vessel, the SS Vesta. Only 88 of over 300 people on board survive. About a dozen of the occupants of the Vesta are killed when their lifeboat is hit by the Arctic.
1854 AD Oct 06 – In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1854 AD Oct 09 – Crimean War: The siege of Sevastopol begins.
1854 AD Oct 21 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
1854 AD Oct 25 – The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.
1854 AD Dec 18 – The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system.
1855 AD Sep 29 – The Philippine port of Iloilo is opened to world trade by the Spanish administration.
1855 AD Nov 16 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1856 AD Oct 08 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident.
1856 AD Oct 12 – An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause major damage as far as Egypt and Malta.
1856 AD Nov 17 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
1857 AD Sep 20 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
1857 AD Sep 22 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1857 AD Oct 24 – Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in England.
1857 AD Nov 16 – Second relief of Lucknow: Twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
1857 AD Dec 31 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada.
1858 AD Nov 17 – Modified Julian Day zero.
1858 AD Nov 17 – The city of Denver, Colorado is founded.
1859 AD Sep 17 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."
1859 AD Oct 16 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1859 AD Oct 22 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
1859 AD Oct 26 – The Royal Charter Storm kills at least eight hundred people in the British Isles.
1860 AD Sep 18 – Second Opium War: Battle of Zhangjiawan: Now heading towards Beijing after having recently occupied Tianjin, the allied Anglo-French force engages and defeats a larger Qing Chinese army at Zhangjiawan.
1860 AD Sep 20 – The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
1860 AD Sep 21 – Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
1860 AD Oct 17 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
1860 AD Oct 18 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1860 AD Oct 26 – Unification of Italy: The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.
1860 AD Dec 20 – South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
1860 AD Dec 26 – First Rules derby is held between Sheffield F.C. and Hallam F.C., the oldest football fixture in the world.
1860 AD Dec 29 – The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.
1861 AD Sep 17 – Argentine Civil Wars: The State of Buenos Aires defeats the Argentine Confederation at the Battle of Pavón.
1861 AD Oct 01 – Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day.
1861 AD Oct 09 – American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens at the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.
1861 AD Oct 17 – Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
1861 AD Oct 21 – American Civil War: Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war.
1861 AD Oct 24 – The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
1861 AD Oct 25 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
1861 AD Dec 21 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1861 AD Dec 26 – American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
1862 AD Sep 15 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia).
1862 AD Sep 17 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.
1862 AD Sep 17 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
1862 AD Sep 18 – The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
1862 AD Sep 19 – American Civil War: Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by Sterling Price.
1862 AD Sep 22 – A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
1862 AD Oct 08 – American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
1862 AD Oct 11 – American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
1862 AD Dec 12 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River.
1862 AD Dec 13 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.
1862 AD Dec 17 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
1862 AD Dec 26 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins as General William Tecumseh Sherman begins landing his troops.
1862 AD Dec 26 – The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, where 38 Native Americans died.
1862 AD Dec 31 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
1862 AD Dec 31 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
1863 AD Sep 16 – Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1863 AD Sep 18 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between Confederate and Union forces. It involves the second highest amount of casualties for any American Civil War battle apart from Gettysburg.
1863 AD Sep 19 – American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
1863 AD Sep 20 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
1863 AD Sep 30 – Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premiered in Paris.
1863 AD Oct 03 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
1863 AD Oct 14 – American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
1863 AD Oct 15 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
1863 AD Oct 26 – The Football Association is founded.
1863 AD Oct 29 – Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 AD Oct 29 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1863 AD Nov 16 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Campbell's Station, Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces which allows General Ambrose Burnside to secure Knoxville, Tennessee.
1863 AD Nov 17 – American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins: Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee, under siege.
1863 AD Dec 14 – American Civil War: The Confederate victory under General James Longstreet at the Battle of Bean's Station in East Tennessee ends the Knoxville Campaign, but achieves very little as Longstreet returns to Virginia next spring.
1863 AD Dec 16 – American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
1864 AD Sep 18 – American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
1864 AD Sep 19 – American Civil War: Union troops under Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged, it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley.
1864 AD Sep 29 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
1864 AD Sep 29 – The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
1864 AD Oct 02 – American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.
1864 AD Oct 07 – American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
1864 AD Oct 09 – American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.
1864 AD Oct 15 – American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
1864 AD Oct 19 – American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
1864 AD Oct 19 – American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.
1864 AD Oct 23 – American Civil War: The Battle of Westport is the last significant engagement west of the Mississippi River.
1864 AD Oct 28 – American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital of Richmond is repulsed.
1864 AD Nov 15 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea.
1864 AD Dec 15 – American Civil War: The Battle of Nashville begins at Nashville, Tennessee, and ends the following day with the destruction of the Confederate Army of Tennessee as a fighting force by the Union Army of the Cumberland.
1864 AD Dec 16 – American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: The Union's Army of the Cumberland routs and destroys the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee, ending its effectiveness as a combat unit.
1864 AD Dec 22 – American Civil War: Savannah, Georgia, falls to the Union's Army of the Tennessee, and General Sherman tells President Abraham Lincoln: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah".
1865 AD Oct 11 – Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
1865 AD Nov 11 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1865 AD Dec 17 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
1865 AD Dec 18 – US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.
1865 AD Dec 24 – Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.
1866 AD Sep 22 – The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
1866 AD Oct 19 – In accordance with the Treaty of Vienna, Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.
1866 AD Oct 22 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexation of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred three days before on October 19.
1866 AD Dec 12 – Oaks explosion: The worst mining disaster in England kills 361 miners and rescuers.
1867 AD Sep 28 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
1867 AD Oct 18 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1867 AD Oct 21 – The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in the western Indian Territory.
1867 AD Dec 13 – A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing 12 people and injuring 50.
1867 AD Dec 18 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people.
1868 AD Sep 19 – La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
1868 AD Sep 23 – The Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1868 AD Sep 25 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
1868 AD Sep 28 – The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
1868 AD Oct 07 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1868 AD Oct 10 – The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
1868 AD Oct 25 – The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
1868 AD Dec 11 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay.
1868 AD Dec 24 – The Greek Presidential Guard is established as the royal escort by King George I.
1868 AD Dec 25 – Pardons for ex-Confederates: United States President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans.
1869 AD Sep 24 – Black Friday (1869): Gold prices plummet after United States President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
1869 AD Oct 05 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
1869 AD Oct 05 – The Eastman tunnel, in Minnesota, United States, collapses during construction, causing a landslide that nearly destroys St. Anthony Falls.
1869 AD Oct 16 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1869 AD Oct 16 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1869 AD Nov 11 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
1869 AD Nov 17 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
1869 AD Dec 15 – The short-lived Republic of Ezo is proclaimed in the Ezo area of Japan. It is the first attempt to establish a democracy in Japan.
1870 AD Sep 18 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
1870 AD Sep 19 – Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city held out for over four months before surrendering.
1870 AD Sep 20 – The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.
1870 AD Oct 02 – By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
1870 AD Oct 07 – Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
1870 AD Oct 27 – Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
1870 AD Dec 12 – Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.
1871 AD Sep 20 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
1871 AD Sep 28 – The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
1871 AD Oct 08 – Slash-and-burn land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front cause the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out.
1871 AD Oct 12 – The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
1871 AD Oct 24 – An estimated 17 to 22 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
1871 AD Oct 26 – Liberian President Edward James Roye is deposed in a coup d'état.
1871 AD Nov 16 – The National Rifle Association of America receives its charter from New York State.
1871 AD Dec 24 – The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.
1871 AD Dec 26 – Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts.
1872 AD Sep 18 – King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1872 AD Dec 21 – Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England.
1873 AD Sep 15 – Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1873 AD Sep 18 – The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
1873 AD Oct 03 – Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
1873 AD Oct 09 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1874 AD Oct 09 – The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
1874 AD Dec 29 – The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.
1875 AD Sep 27 – The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.
1875 AD Oct 16 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1875 AD Oct 22 – The first telegraphic connection in Argentina becomes operational.
1876 AD Oct 04 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
1876 AD Dec 23 – First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
1876 AD Dec 29 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
1877 AD Sep 24 – The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
1877 AD Oct 05 – The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
1877 AD Oct 22 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
1878 AD Oct 15 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1878 AD Oct 22 – The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
1878 AD Nov 17 – First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
1878 AD Dec 18 – The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
1878 AD Dec 31 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, files for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879.
1879 AD Sep 18 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1879 AD Oct 07 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1879 AD Oct 08 – War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.
1879 AD Oct 15 – The Segura river in southeastern Spain floods, killing 1077 people.
1879 AD Oct 21 – Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
1879 AD Oct 22 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (lasting 131⁄2 hours before burning out).
1879 AD Dec 21 – World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1879 AD Dec 28 – Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
1879 AD Dec 31 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1880 AD Sep 16 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York.
1880 AD Nov 11 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
1880 AD Dec 16 – Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.
1881 AD Sep 20 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of James A. Garfield the previous day.
1881 AD Oct 13 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
1881 AD Oct 26 – Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday participate in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
1882 AD Sep 18 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1882 AD Sep 30 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
1882 AD Oct 16 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1882 AD Dec 16 – Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match.
1883 AD Oct 04 – First run of the Orient Express.
1883 AD Oct 04 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1883 AD Oct 20 – Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
1883 AD Oct 22 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
1883 AD Dec 16 – Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.
1883 AD Dec 21 – The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.
1884 AD Sep 23 – On the night of 23-24 September, the steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold, beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.
1884 AD Oct 06 – The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
1884 AD Oct 14 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1884 AD Oct 22 – The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
1885 AD Sep 22 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
1885 AD Sep 29 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1885 AD Oct 13 – The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1885 AD Nov 16 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.
1885 AD Nov 17 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.
1885 AD Dec 22 – Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1885 AD Dec 28 – Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.
1886 AD Oct 28 – US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1887 AD Oct 01 – Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
1887 AD Nov 11 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
1888 AD Sep 30 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1888 AD Oct 14 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
1888 AD Oct 15 – The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
1888 AD Oct 21 – The Swiss Social Democratic Party is founded.
1888 AD Oct 29 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
1888 AD Dec 22 – The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.
1889 AD Sep 28 – The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre.
1889 AD Oct 24 – Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration, effectively starting the federation process in Australia.
1889 AD Nov 11 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States..
1889 AD Nov 14 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
1889 AD Nov 15 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1890 AD Sep 24 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1890 AD Sep 25 – The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1890 AD Oct 01 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1890 AD Oct 11 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1890 AD Oct 12 – Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
1890 AD Oct 26 – Malleco Viaduct in Chile, at the time "the highest railroad bridge in the world", is inaugurated by President José Manuel Balmaceda.
1890 AD Dec 15 – Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
1890 AD Dec 22 – Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
1890 AD Dec 29 – Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
1890 AD Dec 30 – Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
1891 AD Sep 22 – The first hydropower plant of Finland was commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
1891 AD Oct 01 – Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
1891 AD Oct 28 – The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.
1891 AD Dec 22 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
1892 AD Sep 22 – Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
1892 AD Sep 28 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
1892 AD Oct 12 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
1892 AD Oct 13 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.
1892 AD Oct 21 – Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
1892 AD Oct 26 – Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
1892 AD Nov 12 – Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1892 AD Dec 17 – First issue of Vogue is published.
1892 AD Dec 18 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1893 AD Sep 16 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1893 AD Sep 19 – In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1893 AD Sep 20 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1893 AD Sep 28 – Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
1893 AD Oct 28 – Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
1893 AD Nov 12 – Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj.
1893 AD Dec 15 – Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World" a.k.a. the "New World Symphony") by Antonín Dvořák premieres in a public afternoon rehearsal at Carnegie Hall in New York City, followed by a concert premiere on the evening of December 16.
1893 AD Dec 23 – The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
1894 AD Sep 15 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1894 AD Sep 17 – Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1894 AD Nov 17 – H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1894 AD Dec 22 – The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1895 AD Sep 18 – The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
1895 AD Oct 04 – Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
1895 AD Oct 08 – Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
1895 AD Oct 21 – The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
1895 AD Oct 22 – In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
1895 AD Dec 28 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
1895 AD Dec 28 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
1896 AD Sep 21 – Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
1896 AD Sep 22 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1896 AD Nov 17 – The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
1896 AD Dec 14 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
1896 AD Dec 17 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
1896 AD Dec 30 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
1896 AD Dec 30 – Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
1897 AD Dec 30 – The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
1898 AD Sep 18 – The Fashoda Incident, a territorial dispute between Britain and France, triggers a war scare.
1898 AD Sep 21 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1898 AD Oct 01 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1898 AD Oct 06 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
1898 AD Oct 14 – The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
1898 AD Oct 18 – The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
1898 AD Dec 18 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 63.159 km/h (39.245 mph) in a Jeantaud electric car.
1898 AD Dec 26 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1899 AD Sep 23 – The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
1899 AD Oct 11 – The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
1899 AD Dec 11 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
1899 AD Dec 15 – British Army forces are defeated at the Battle of Colenso in Natal, South Africa, the third and final battle fought during the Black Week of the Second Boer War.
1900 AD Sep 17 – Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.
1900 AD Oct 05 – Peace congress in Paris condemns British policy in South Africa and asserts Boer Republic's right to self-determination.
1900 AD Oct 09 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
1900 AD Oct 18 – Count Bernhard von Bülow becomes chancellor of Germany.
1900 AD Oct 19 – Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
1900 AD Oct 24 – U.S. Government announces plans to buy Danish West Indies for $7 million.
1900 AD Oct 25 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1900 AD Dec 14 – Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law (quantum theory) at the Physic Society in Berlin.
1900 AD Dec 19 – Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
1900 AD Dec 19 – French parliament votes amnesty for all involved in scandalous army treason trial known as Dreyfus affair.
1901 AD Sep 17 – Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
1901 AD Sep 17 – Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
1901 AD Sep 28 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
1901 AD Oct 12 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1901 AD Oct 24 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1901 AD Oct 29 – In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 AD Oct 29 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1901 AD Dec 11 – Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio signal from Poldhu, Cornwall, England to Saint John's, Newfoundland.
1901 AD Dec 12 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
1902 AD Oct 24 – Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
1902 AD Dec 14 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
1902 AD Dec 28 – The Syracuse Athletic Club defeat the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
1902 AD Dec 30 title="1902">1902 – The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attained a Farthest South at 82°17′S in Antarctica.
1903 AD Sep 27 – "Wreck of the Old 97": an American rail disaster, in which 11 people are killed; it later becomes the subject of a popular ballad.
1903 AD Oct 01 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1903 AD Oct 06 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1903 AD Oct 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
1903 AD Oct 13 – The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
1903 AD Nov 17 – The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
1903 AD Dec 14 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1903 AD Dec 15 – Italian American food cart vendor Italo Marchiony receives a U.S. patent for inventing a machine that makes ice cream cones.
1903 AD Dec 16 – Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
1903 AD Dec 17 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1903 AD Dec 30 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
1904 AD Oct 20 – Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
1904 AD Oct 27 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
1904 AD Nov 16 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1905 AD Sep 23 – Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1905 AD Sep 26 – Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
1905 AD Oct 05 – The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
1905 AD Oct 16 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1905 AD Oct 26 – King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
1905 AD Nov 12 – Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
1905 AD Dec 11 – A workers' uprising occurs in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
1905 AD Dec 15 – The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
1905 AD Dec 16 – In Rugby Union, The "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park.
1905 AD Dec 30 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
1906 AD Sep 18 – The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
1906 AD Sep 24 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
1906 AD Sep 24 – Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.
1906 AD Sep 25 – Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
1906 AD Sep 30 – The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
1906 AD Oct 11 – San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
1906 AD Oct 23 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe.
1906 AD Dec 15 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
1906 AD Dec 22 – An M_w  7.9 earthquake strikes Xinjiang, China, killing at least 280.
1906 AD Dec 24 – Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
1906 AD Dec 30 – The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
1906 AD Dec 31 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
1907 AD Sep 26 – Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
1907 AD Sep 29 – The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
1907 AD Sep 30 – The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1907 AD Oct 17 – Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
1907 AD Oct 21 – The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
1907 AD Oct 22 – A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
1907 AD Oct 27 – Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
1907 AD Nov 16 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1907 AD Dec 11 – The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
1907 AD Dec 14 – The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
1907 AD Dec 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
1907 AD Dec 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.
1907 AD Dec 19 – Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
1907 AD Dec 21 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.
1907 AD Dec 31 – The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.
1908 AD Sep 16 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
1908 AD Sep 17 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
1908 AD Sep 27 – Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
1908 AD Oct 01 – Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
1908 AD Oct 06 – The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1908 AD Oct 13 – Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.
1908 AD Oct 14 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.
1908 AD Dec 28 – The 7.1 M_w  Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.
1909 AD Sep 30 – The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
1909 AD Oct 16 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
1909 AD Oct 26 – Japanese occupation of Korea: An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
1909 AD Dec 14 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
1910 AD Sep 22 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1910 AD Sep 26 – Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
1910 AD Oct 01 – A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
1910 AD Oct 05 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
1910 AD Oct 06 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
1910 AD Oct 11 – Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
1910 AD Oct 14 – English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
1910 AD Oct 15 – Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1910 AD Oct 21 – HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
1910 AD Oct 22 – Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
1910 AD Nov 14 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1910 AD Dec 21 – An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
1911 AD Sep 20 – The White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with the British warship HMS Hawke.
1911 AD Sep 24 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
1911 AD Sep 25 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
1911 AD Sep 29 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1911 AD Oct 05 – The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
1911 AD Oct 09 – An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
1911 AD Oct 10 – The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
1911 AD Oct 13 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
1911 AD Oct 23 – The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight.
1911 AD Oct 24 – Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1911 AD Oct 25 – The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Feng-shan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.
1911 AD Nov 11 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
1911 AD Dec 14 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
1911 AD Dec 27 – "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
1911 AD Dec 29 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
1911 AD Dec 29 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
1912 AD Sep 25 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
1912 AD Sep 28 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
1912 AD Sep 28 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
1912 AD Oct 03 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
1912 AD Oct 07 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1912 AD Oct 08 – The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
1912 AD Oct 11 – First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
1912 AD Oct 14 – Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
1912 AD Oct 17 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
1912 AD Oct 18 – First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
1912 AD Oct 19 – Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1912 AD Oct 23 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1912 AD Oct 24 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
1912 AD Oct 24 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
1912 AD Oct 26 – First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
1912 AD Nov 12 – First Balkan War: King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
1912 AD Nov 12 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1912 AD Dec 16 – First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
1912 AD Dec 19 – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3+1⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
1912 AD Dec 28 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
1913 AD Oct 07 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line.
1913 AD Oct 09 – The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1913 AD Oct 10 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
1913 AD Oct 14 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.
1913 AD Dec 11 – More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre, Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence, Italy. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, is immediately arrested.
1913 AD Dec 14 – Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
1913 AD Dec 21 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1913 AD Dec 23 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
1913 AD Dec 24 – The Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan results in the deaths of 73 Christmas party participants (including 59 children) when someone falsely yells "fire".
1913 AD Dec 29 – Cecil B. DeMille starts filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man.
1914 AD Sep 16 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
1914 AD Sep 17 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1914 AD Sep 17 – World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
1914 AD Sep 18 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1914 AD Sep 22 – A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
1914 AD Sep 26 – The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1914 AD Oct 05 – World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.
1914 AD Oct 09 – World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
1914 AD Oct 18 – The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.
1914 AD Oct 19 – First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1914 AD Oct 27 – World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
1914 AD Oct 29 – Ottoman entry into World War I.
1914 AD Nov 14 – The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland.
1914 AD Nov 16 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1914 AD Dec 14 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1914 AD Dec 15 – World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
1914 AD Dec 15 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
1914 AD Dec 16 – World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
1914 AD Dec 23 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1914 AD Dec 23 – World War I: During the Battle of Sarikamish, Ottoman forces mistook one another for Russian troops. The following friendly fire incident leave 2,000 Ottomans dead and many more wounded.
1914 AD Dec 24 – World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
1914 AD Dec 25 – A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
1915 AD Sep 15 – New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai.
1915 AD Sep 25 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1915 AD Sep 30 – World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1915 AD Oct 06 – Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen .
1915 AD Oct 06 – Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.
1915 AD Oct 12 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.
1915 AD Oct 13 – First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
1915 AD Oct 14 – World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
1915 AD Dec 12 – Yuan Shikai declares the establishment of the Empire of China and proclaims himself Emperor.
1915 AD Dec 20 – World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
1915 AD Dec 25 – The National Protection War breaks out against the Empire of China, as military leaders Cai E and Tang Jiyao proclaim the independence of Yunnan and begin a campaign to restore the Republic.
1916 AD Sep 15 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1916 AD Sep 17 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1916 AD Sep 19 – World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
1916 AD Sep 27 – Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
1916 AD Oct 07 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1916 AD Oct 16 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1916 AD Oct 27 – Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
1916 AD Dec 18 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks.
1916 AD Dec 23 – World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
1916 AD Dec 29 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is first published as a book by American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after its serialization in The Egoist (1914–15).
1916 AD Dec 30 – Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later.
1916 AD Dec 30 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
1917 AD Sep 26 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
1917 AD Oct 04 – World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
1917 AD Oct 12 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1917 AD Oct 13 – The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
1917 AD Oct 15 – World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
1917 AD Oct 24 – World War I: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Caporetto on the Austro-Italian front.
1917 AD Oct 25 – Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
1917 AD Oct 26 – World War I: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
1917 AD Nov 15 – Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia.
1917 AD Dec 11 – World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
1917 AD Dec 12 – Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
1917 AD Dec 15 – World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.
1917 AD Dec 18 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
1917 AD Dec 20 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
1918 AD Sep 15 – World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
1918 AD Sep 25 – World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.
1918 AD Sep 26 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began which would last until the total surrender of German forces.
1918 AD Sep 28 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
1918 AD Sep 29 – World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica.
1918 AD Sep 29 – World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.
1918 AD Sep 29 – World War I: Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice.
1918 AD Sep 30 – Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeat the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka.
1918 AD Oct 01 – World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
1918 AD Oct 01 – Sayid Abdullah becomes the last Khan of Khiva.
1918 AD Oct 03 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
1918 AD Oct 04 – World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
1918 AD Oct 08 – World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
1918 AD Oct 09 – The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland.
1918 AD Oct 10 – RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.
1918 AD Oct 11 – The 7.1 M_w San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico. The quake and resulting tsunami kill up to 116 people.
1918 AD Oct 12 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
1918 AD Oct 24 – World War I: Italian victory in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.
1918 AD Oct 26 – World War I: Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
1918 AD Oct 28 – World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
1918 AD Oct 28 – World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
1918 AD Oct 29 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
1918 AD Nov 11 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
1918 AD Nov 11 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland – symbolic first day of Polish independence.
1918 AD Nov 11 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
1918 AD Nov 12 – Dissolution of Austria-Hungary: Austria becomes a republic. After the proclamation, a coup attempt by the communist Red Guard is defeated by the social-democratic Volkswehr.
1918 AD Nov 14 – The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution.
1918 AD Dec 14 – Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
1918 AD Dec 14 – Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
1918 AD Dec 14 – The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote.
1918 AD Dec 14 – Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
1918 AD Dec 16 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919.
1918 AD Dec 17 – Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
1918 AD Dec 24 – Region of Međimurje is captured by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from Hungary.
1918 AD Dec 27 – The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
1918 AD Dec 27 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine occupies Yekaterinoslav and seizes seven airplanes from the UPRAF, establishing an Insurgent Air Fleet.
1918 AD Dec 28 – Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons.
1919 AD Sep 18 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1919 AD Sep 22 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1919 AD Sep 28 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska.
1919 AD Oct 03 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.
1919 AD Oct 07 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1919 AD Oct 09 – The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
1919 AD Oct 16 – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
1919 AD Oct 17 – Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I
1919 AD Oct 28 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
1919 AD Nov 11 – The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.
1919 AD Nov 11 – Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
1919 AD Dec 17 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1919 AD Dec 21 – American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
1919 AD Dec 23 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
1919 AD Dec 26 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
1920 AD Sep 16 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
1920 AD Sep 17 – The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.
1920 AD Sep 20 – Irish War of Independence: British police known as "Black and Tans" burn the town of Balbriggan and kill two local men in revenge for an IRA assassination.
1920 AD Oct 04 – The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, is founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim.
1920 AD Oct 10 – The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
1920 AD Oct 14 – Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.
1920 AD Oct 25 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
1920 AD Nov 12 – Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
1920 AD Nov 14 – Pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball developed by Lauri Pihkala, is played for the first time at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki.
1920 AD Nov 15 – The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1920 AD Nov 15 – The Free City of Danzig is established.
1920 AD Nov 16 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
1920 AD Dec 11 – Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians report being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
1920 AD Dec 16 – The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5M_w , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
1920 AD Dec 19 – King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
1920 AD Dec 22 – The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
1920 AD Dec 24 – Gabriele D'Annunzio surrendered the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume to Italian Armed Forces.
1921 AD Sep 21 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
1921 AD Oct 05 – The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
1921 AD Oct 08 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
1921 AD Oct 13 – Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
1921 AD Oct 18 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1921 AD Oct 19 – The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
1921 AD Oct 21 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president against lynching in the Deep South.
1921 AD Oct 29 – United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
1921 AD Oct 29 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1921 AD Nov 11 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1921 AD Nov 14 – The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.
1921 AD Dec 22 – Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.
1922 AD Sep 18 – The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
1922 AD Sep 27 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.
1922 AD Oct 18 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1922 AD Oct 19 – British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.
1922 AD Oct 27 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
1922 AD Oct 28 – Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
1922 AD Nov 14 – The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1922 AD Nov 15 – At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1922 AD Dec 16 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
1922 AD Dec 27 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
1922 AD Dec 30 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.
1923 AD Sep 26 – The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr.
1923 AD Sep 29 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
1923 AD Sep 29 – The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
1923 AD Sep 29 – The First American Track and Field championships for women are held.
1923 AD Oct 06 – The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
1923 AD Oct 13 – Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
1923 AD Oct 14 – After the Irish Civil War the 1923 Irish hunger strikes were undertaken by thousands of Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial.
1923 AD Oct 15 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
1923 AD Oct 16 – The Walt Disney Company is founded.
1923 AD Oct 22 – The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
1923 AD Oct 29 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1923 AD Nov 11 – Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
1923 AD Dec 21 – United Kingdom and Nepal formally sign an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.
1924 AD Sep 17 – The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
1924 AD Sep 28 – The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
1924 AD Oct 07 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
1924 AD Oct 25 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
1924 AD Oct 27 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1924 AD Dec 19 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1924 AD Dec 19 – German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
1924 AD Dec 20 – Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
1924 AD Dec 24 – Albania becomes a republic.
1925 AD Oct 04 – Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
1925 AD Oct 04 – S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with it the whole crew of 53.
1925 AD Dec 11 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
1926 AD Sep 25 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
1926 AD Oct 24 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
1926 AD Nov 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
1926 AD Nov 15 – The NBC Radio Network opens with 24 stations.
1926 AD Dec 17 – Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
1927 AD Sep 18 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1927 AD Oct 04 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1927 AD Oct 06 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
1927 AD Oct 23 – The Imatra Cinema was destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people died in the fire and almost 30 were injured.
1927 AD Oct 25 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
1927 AD Nov 12 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1927 AD Dec 11 – Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
1927 AD Dec 17 – Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
1927 AD Dec 19 – Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
1927 AD Dec 25 – B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burn copies of the Manusmriti in Mahad, Maharashtra, to protest its treatment of Dalit people.
1927 AD Dec 27 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
1927 AD Dec 30 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
1928 AD Sep 17 – The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
1928 AD Sep 18 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1928 AD Sep 27 – The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
1928 AD Sep 28 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1928 AD Oct 01 – The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
1928 AD Oct 01 – Newark Liberty International Airport opens, becoming the first airport in the New York City metro area.
1928 AD Oct 02 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
1928 AD Oct 10 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1928 AD Oct 12 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
1928 AD Oct 15 – The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1928 AD Oct 28 – Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
1928 AD Nov 12 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
1928 AD Nov 15 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
1928 AD Dec 17 – Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
1929 AD Sep 24 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1929 AD Oct 03 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
1929 AD Oct 07 – Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1929 AD Oct 18 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1929 AD Oct 24 – "Black Thursday" on the New York Stock Exchange.
1929 AD Oct 29 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1929 AD Dec 19 – The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
1929 AD Dec 24 – Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
1929 AD Dec 24 – A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.
1929 AD Dec 27 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".
1930 AD Sep 17 – The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.
1930 AD Sep 27 – Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
1930 AD Oct 05 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.
1930 AD Oct 14 – The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.
1930 AD Oct 24 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ends the First Republic, replacing it with the Vargas Era.
1930 AD Oct 27 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
1930 AD Nov 11 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1930 AD Dec 16 – Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana.
1930 AD Dec 29 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
1931 AD Sep 18 – Imperial Japan instigates the Mukden Incident as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
1931 AD Oct 01 – The George Washington Bridge in the United States is opened, linking New Jersey and New York.
1931 AD Oct 01 – Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
1931 AD Oct 17 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1931 AD Oct 21 – A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
1931 AD Oct 24 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic over the Hudson River.
1931 AD Dec 11 – Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.
1932 AD Sep 17 – A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
1932 AD Sep 24 – Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
1932 AD Sep 29 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1932 AD Oct 03 – The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1932 AD Oct 15 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1932 AD Oct 25 title="1932">1932 – George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.
1932 AD Dec 18 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship.
1932 AD Dec 19 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
1932 AD Dec 25 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
1932 AD Dec 27 – Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", opens in New York City.
1933 AD Sep 21 – Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.
1933 AD Sep 26 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
1933 AD Oct 07 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.
1933 AD Oct 10 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
1933 AD Oct 12 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1933 AD Oct 14 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
1933 AD Oct 17 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1933 AD Nov 12 – Nazi Germany uses a referendum to ratify its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
1933 AD Nov 15 – Thailand held its first election.
1933 AD Nov 16 – The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
1933 AD Dec 17 – The first NFL Championship Game is played at Wrigley Field in Chicago between the New York Giants and Chicago Bears. The Bears won 23–21.
1934 AD Sep 18 – The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
1934 AD Sep 21 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than 3,000 people.
1934 AD Sep 22 – The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
1934 AD Sep 26 – The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1934 AD Oct 09 – An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
1934 AD Oct 16 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
1934 AD Oct 22 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
1934 AD Nov 11 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
1934 AD Dec 11 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
1934 AD Dec 21 title="1934">1934 – Lieutenant Kijé, one of Sergei Prokofiev's best-known works, premiered.
1934 AD Dec 29 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1935 AD Sep 15 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1935 AD Sep 17 – The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
1935 AD Sep 24 – Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
1935 AD Sep 30 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1935 AD Oct 03 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
1935 AD Oct 10 – In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
1935 AD Oct 19 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1935 AD Oct 20 – The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
1935 AD Dec 12 – Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
1935 AD Dec 17 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
1935 AD Dec 18 – The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1935 AD Dec 27 – Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.
1935 AD Dec 30 – The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
1936 AD Sep 26 – Spanish Civil War: Lluis Companys reshuffles the Generalitat de Catalunya, with the marxist POUM and anarcho-syndicalist CNT joining the government.
1936 AD Oct 01 – Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1936 AD Oct 01 – Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.
1936 AD Oct 04 – The Metropolitan Police and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
1936 AD Oct 05 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1936 AD Oct 09 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
1936 AD Oct 22 – Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat was convicted and imprisoned of its theft, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.
1936 AD Oct 26 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
1936 AD Oct 27 – Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
1936 AD Nov 12 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1936 AD Dec 11 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India, becomes effective.
1936 AD Dec 21 – First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.
1936 AD Dec 23 – Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1936 AD Dec 23 – Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.
1936 AD Dec 30 – The Flint sit-down strike hits General Motors.
1937 AD Sep 25 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
1937 AD Oct 02 – Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic.
1937 AD Oct 09 – Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
1937 AD Oct 11 – The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.
1937 AD Oct 26 title="1937">1937 – Nazi Germany begins expulsions of 18,000 Polish Jews.
1937 AD Dec 11 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
1937 AD Dec 12 – Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze river in China.
1937 AD Dec 13 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
1937 AD Dec 16 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
1937 AD Dec 21 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
1937 AD Dec 22 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
1937 AD Dec 29 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
1938 AD Sep 21 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
1938 AD Sep 27 – The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
1938 AD Sep 30 – Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 AD Sep 30 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1938 AD Oct 01 – Pursuant to the Munich Agreement signed the day before, Nazi Germany begins the military occupation and annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1938 AD Oct 05 – In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
1938 AD Oct 10 – Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
1938 AD Nov 12 title="1938">1938 – Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life prohibiting Jews from selling goods and services or working in a trade, totally segregating Jews from the German economy.
1938 AD Nov 14 – The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
1938 AD Nov 15 title="1938">1938 – Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.
1938 AD Nov 16 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
1938 AD Dec 13 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
1938 AD Dec 16 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
1938 AD Dec 17 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1939 AD Sep 17 – World War II: The Soviet invasion of Poland begins.
1939 AD Sep 17 – World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
1939 AD Sep 18 – World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939 AD Sep 18 – World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda.
1939 AD Sep 19 – World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
1939 AD Sep 21 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by the Iron Guard.
1939 AD Sep 22 – World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
1939 AD Sep 28 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
1939 AD Sep 28 – World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.
1939 AD Sep 30 – World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
1939 AD Sep 30 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
1939 AD Oct 01 – World War II: After a one-month siege, German troops occupy Warsaw.
1939 AD Oct 06 – World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
1939 AD Oct 08 – World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.
1939 AD Oct 14 – World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1939 AD Oct 15 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
1939 AD Oct 16 – World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
1939 AD Nov 15 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1939 AD Nov 17 – Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. All Czech universities are shut down and more than 1,200 students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
1939 AD Dec 12 – HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men.
1939 AD Dec 12 – Winter War: The Battle of Tolvajärvi, also known as the first major Finnish victory in the Winter War, begins.
1939 AD Dec 13 – The Battle of the River Plate is fought off the coast of Uruguay; the first naval battle of World War II. The Kriegsmarine's Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with three Royal Navy cruisers: HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles and HMS Exeter.
1939 AD Dec 14 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
1939 AD Dec 15 – Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
1939 AD Dec 17 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
1939 AD Dec 18 – World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
1939 AD Dec 22 – Indian Muslims observe a "Day of Deliverance" to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter World War II with the United Kingdom.
1939 AD Dec 24 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
1939 AD Dec 27 – The 7.8 M_w  Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 32,700 people were killed.
1939 AD Dec 27 – Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.
1940 AD Sep 15 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.
1940 AD Sep 16 – World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
1940 AD Sep 17 – World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion.
1940 AD Sep 18 – World War II: The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1940 AD Sep 19 – World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement.
1940 AD Sep 27 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1940 AD Sep 29 – Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.
1940 AD Oct 01 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1940 AD Oct 07 – World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1940 AD Oct 14 – World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
1940 AD Oct 15 – President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
1940 AD Oct 16 – Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1940 AD Oct 17 – The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
1940 AD Oct 21 – The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
1940 AD Oct 23 – Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War.
1940 AD Oct 25 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1940 AD Oct 28 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
1940 AD Nov 11 – World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
1940 AD Nov 11 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.
1940 AD Nov 12 – World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.
1940 AD Nov 12 – World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.
1940 AD Nov 14 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
1940 AD Nov 16 – World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1940 AD Nov 16 – The Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1940 AD Nov 16 – New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1940 AD Nov 17 – The Tartu Art Museum was established in Tartu, Estonia.
1940 AD Dec 14 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
1940 AD Dec 19 – Risto Ryti, the Prime Minister of Finland, is elected President of the Republic of Finland in a presidential election, which is exceptionally held by the 1937 electoral college.
1940 AD Dec 22 – World War II: Himara is captured by the Greek army.
1940 AD Dec 29 – World War II: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians.
1941 AD Sep 17 – World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense restores compulsory military training.
1941 AD Sep 17 – World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
1941 AD Sep 20 – The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police begin a mass execution of 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.
1941 AD Sep 22 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1941 AD Sep 27 – The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.
1941 AD Sep 27 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
1941 AD Sep 28 – World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
1941 AD Sep 28 – Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.
1941 AD Sep 29 – During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
1941 AD Sep 30 – World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
1941 AD Oct 04 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1941 AD Oct 08 – World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
1941 AD Oct 09 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1941 AD Oct 11 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
1941 AD Oct 17 – World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
1941 AD Oct 20 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
1941 AD Oct 22 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
1941 AD Oct 23 title="1941">1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories.
1941 AD Oct 29 – The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
1941 AD Nov 12 – World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to −12 °C (10 °F) as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
1941 AD Nov 12 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
1941 AD Nov 14 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
1941 AD Nov 14 – World War II: German troops, aided by local auxiliaries, murder nine thousand residents of the Słonim Ghetto in a single day.
1941 AD Dec 11 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
1941 AD Dec 11 – World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
1941 AD Dec 11 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island.
1941 AD Dec 12 – World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
1941 AD Dec 12 – The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.
1941 AD Dec 15 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv.
1941 AD Dec 19 – World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
1941 AD Dec 19 – World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
1941 AD Dec 20 – World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers", in Kunming, China.
1941 AD Dec 21 – World War II: A Thai-Japanese Pact of Alliance is signed.
1941 AD Dec 23 – World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
1941 AD Dec 24 – World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
1941 AD Dec 24 – World War II: Benghazi is conquered by the British Eighth Army.
1941 AD Dec 25 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, appointed commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on December 17, arrives at Pearl Harbor.
1941 AD Dec 25 – World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
1941 AD Dec 25 – Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.^{[citation needed]}
1941 AD Dec 26 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1941 AD Dec 28 – World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
1942 AD Sep 15 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
1942 AD Sep 20 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
1942 AD Sep 21 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
1942 AD Sep 21 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
1942 AD Sep 21 – The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
1942 AD Sep 21 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1942 AD Sep 23 – World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
1942 AD Sep 26 – Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".
1942 AD Sep 27 – Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.
1942 AD Oct 01 – World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru, not knowing that she is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.
1942 AD Oct 02 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
1942 AD Oct 03 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
1942 AD Oct 06 – World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1942 AD Oct 09 – Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
1942 AD Oct 11 – World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
1942 AD Oct 23 – World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign.
1942 AD Oct 23 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a U.S. Army Air Force bomber near Palm Springs, California.
1942 AD Oct 23 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal.
1942 AD Oct 26 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
1942 AD Oct 28 – The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
1942 AD Oct 29 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
1942 AD Nov 11 – World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.
1942 AD Nov 12 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.
1942 AD Nov 15 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1942 AD Dec 15 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1942 AD Dec 16 – The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
1942 AD Dec 20 – World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.
1942 AD Dec 22 – World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
1942 AD Dec 24 – World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.
1942 AD Dec 31 – USS Essex, first aircraft carrier of a 24-ship class, is commissioned.
1942 AD Dec 31 – World War II: The Royal Navy defeats the Kriegsmarine at the Battle of the Barents Sea. This leads to the resignation of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder a month later
1943 AD Sep 16 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
1943 AD Sep 18 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1943 AD Sep 30 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.
1943 AD Oct 01 – World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops enter the city.
1943 AD Oct 03 – World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
1943 AD Oct 05 – Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
1943 AD Oct 06 – World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
1943 AD Oct 08 – World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
1943 AD Oct 13 – World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
1943 AD Oct 14 – World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.
1943 AD Oct 14 – World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
1943 AD Oct 14 – World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
1943 AD Oct 16 – Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
1943 AD Oct 17 – The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
1943 AD Oct 17 – Nazi Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed.
1943 AD Oct 19 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
1943 AD Oct 19 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1943 AD Oct 21 – World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.
1943 AD Oct 22 – World War II: In the second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
1943 AD Nov 15 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1943 AD Dec 13 – World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
1943 AD Dec 15 – World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain campaign.
1943 AD Dec 17 – All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
1943 AD Dec 24 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Operation Overlord.
1943 AD Dec 26 – World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
1943 AD Dec 28 – Soviet authorities launch Operation Ulussy, beginning the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia.
1943 AD Dec 28 – World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.
1943 AD Dec 30 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
1944 AD Sep 15 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 AD Sep 15 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1944 AD Sep 17 – World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
1944 AD Sep 17 – World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.
1944 AD Sep 17 – World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.
1944 AD Sep 18 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
1944 AD Sep 18 – World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins.
1944 AD Sep 19 – World War II: The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought.
1944 AD Sep 19 – World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, which officially ended the Continuation War.
1944 AD Sep 25 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
1944 AD Sep 27 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
1944 AD Sep 28 – World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.
1944 AD Sep 30 – The Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.
1944 AD Oct 02 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1944 AD Oct 05 – The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.
1944 AD Oct 06 – World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
1944 AD Oct 07 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.
1944 AD Oct 08 – World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
1944 AD Oct 11 – The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet Union.
1944 AD Oct 12 – World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
1944 AD Oct 13 – World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
1944 AD Oct 15 – World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after it announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
1944 AD Oct 18 – World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
1944 AD Oct 18 – World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
1944 AD Oct 19 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
1944 AD Oct 19 – A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
1944 AD Oct 20 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade.
1944 AD Oct 20 – Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland and then explodes, leveling 30 blocks and killing 130 people.
1944 AD Oct 20 – American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he comes ashore during the Battle of Leyte.
1944 AD Oct 21 – World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMAS Australia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
1944 AD Oct 21 – World War II: The Nemmersdorf massacre against German civilians takes place.
1944 AD Oct 21 – World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1944 AD Oct 23 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
1944 AD Oct 24 – World War II: Japan's center force is temporarily repulsed in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1944 AD Oct 25 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
1944 AD Oct 25 – World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
1944 AD Oct 25 – World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1944 AD Oct 26 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
1944 AD Oct 27 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
1944 AD Oct 29 – The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
1944 AD Oct 29 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
1944 AD Nov 12 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
1944 AD Nov 16 – World War II: In support of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the town of Düren is destroyed by Allied aircraft.
1944 AD Dec 15 – World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane carrying United States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over the English Channel.
1944 AD Dec 16 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
1944 AD Dec 17 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.
1944 AD Dec 18 – World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.
1944 AD Dec 22 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
1944 AD Dec 22 – World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam.
1944 AD Dec 24 – World War II: The Belgian Troopship Leopoldville was torpedoed and sank with the loss of 763 soldiers and 56 crew.
1944 AD Dec 26 – World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
1944 AD Dec 28 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
1944 AD Dec 30 – King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
1944 AD Dec 31 – World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front, begins.
1945 AD Sep 15 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1945 AD Sep 16 – World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
1945 AD Sep 18 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from Manila to Tokyo.
1945 AD Sep 30 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.
1945 AD Oct 05 – A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.
1945 AD Oct 10 – The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.
1945 AD Oct 12 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1945 AD Oct 12 – The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
1945 AD Oct 17 – A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release.
1945 AD Oct 18 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945 AD Oct 18 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1945 AD Oct 18 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte.
1945 AD Oct 21 – In the 1945 French legislative election French women vote for the first time.
1945 AD Oct 24 – The United Nations Charter comes into effect.
1945 AD Oct 25 – Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
1945 AD Nov 16 – UNESCO is founded.
1945 AD Dec 12 – The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.
1945 AD Dec 15 – Occupation of Japan/Shinto Directive: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
1945 AD Dec 19 – John Amery, British Fascist, is executed at the age of 33 by the British Government for treason.
1945 AD Dec 22 title="1945">1945 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order giving World War II refugees precedence in visa applications under U.S. immigration quotas.
1945 AD Dec 24 – Five of nine children become missing after their home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, is burned down.
1945 AD Dec 27 – The International Monetary Fund is created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.
1946 AD Sep 19 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1946 AD Sep 20 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.
1946 AD Sep 20 – Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands.
1946 AD Sep 24 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
1946 AD Sep 24 – The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.
1946 AD Oct 01 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
1946 AD Oct 01 – The Daegu October incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea.
1946 AD Oct 03 – An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39.
1946 AD Oct 13 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1946 AD Oct 16 – Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
1946 AD Oct 22 – Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to relocate to the Soviet Union, along with their families and equipment.
1946 AD Oct 24 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1946 AD Dec 11 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
1946 AD Dec 12 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 13 relating to acceptance of Siam (now Thailand) to the United Nations is adopted.
1946 AD Dec 17 – Kurdistan flag day, the flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad in eastern Kurdistan (Iran).
1946 AD Dec 19 – Start of the First Indochina War.
1946 AD Dec 20 – An earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan causes a tsunami which kills at least one thousand people and destroys 36,000 homes.
1946 AD Dec 21 – An 8.1 M_w earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.
1946 AD Dec 25 – The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.
1946 AD Dec 31 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
1947 AD Sep 15 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
1947 AD Sep 18 – The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.
1947 AD Sep 30 – The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
1947 AD Sep 30 – Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1947 AD Oct 01 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1947 AD Oct 05 – President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
1947 AD Oct 14 – Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
1947 AD Oct 16 – The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
1947 AD Oct 20 – Cold War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1947 AD Oct 22 – The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
1947 AD Oct 24 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1947 AD Oct 24 – United Airlines Flight 608 crashes over the Bryce Canyon National Park killing all 52 passengers and crew onboard.
1947 AD Oct 26 – Partition of India: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India, beginning the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 and the Kashmir conflict.
1947 AD Nov 17 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1947 AD Nov 17 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
1947 AD Dec 16 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
1947 AD Dec 17 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
1947 AD Dec 23 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1947 AD Dec 30 – Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
1948 AD Sep 15 – The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad, Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo.
1948 AD Sep 15 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1948 AD Sep 17 – The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
1948 AD Sep 17 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
1948 AD Sep 18 – Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.
1948 AD Sep 18 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
1948 AD Sep 22 – Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
1948 AD Sep 22 – Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.
1948 AD Sep 24 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1948 AD Oct 28 – Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
1948 AD Oct 29 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
1948 AD Nov 12 – Aftermath of World War II: In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
1948 AD Dec 11 – Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.
1948 AD Dec 14 – Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann are granted a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game.
1948 AD Dec 17 – The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
1948 AD Dec 20 – Indonesian National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia.
1948 AD Dec 22 – Sjafruddin Prawiranegara established the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia, PDRI) in West Sumatra.
1948 AD Dec 23 – Seven Japanese military and political leaders convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed by Allied occupation authorities at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
1948 AD Dec 26 – Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
1948 AD Dec 26 – The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea.
1948 AD Dec 28 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Miami.
1949 AD Sep 17 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
1949 AD Sep 27 – Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
1949 AD Sep 29 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
1949 AD Sep 30 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1949 AD Oct 01 – The People's Republic of China is established.
1949 AD Oct 03 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
1949 AD Oct 07 – The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
1949 AD Oct 14 – The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
1949 AD Oct 16 – The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
1949 AD Oct 24 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
1949 AD Oct 25 – The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
1949 AD Oct 28 – An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.
1949 AD Dec 13 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
1949 AD Dec 27 – Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.
1949 AD Dec 29 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
1950 AD Sep 15 – Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.
1950 AD Sep 19 – Korean War: An attack by North Korean forces was repelled at the Battle of Nam River.
1950 AD Sep 23 – Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.
1950 AD Sep 24 – The eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the Chinchaga fire in western Canada.
1950 AD Sep 26 – Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
1950 AD Oct 07 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
1950 AD Oct 09 – The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.
1950 AD Oct 11 – CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1950 AD Oct 19 – China defeats the Tibetan Army at Chambo.
1950 AD Oct 19 – Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea.
1950 AD Oct 19 – Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
1950 AD Oct 21 – Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces and North Koreans during the Battle of Yongju.
1950 AD Nov 17 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
1950 AD Nov 17 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted.
1950 AD Dec 16 – Korean War: In response to China's Second Phase Offensive, U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a limited state of emergency.
1950 AD Dec 17 – The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
1950 AD Dec 23 – General Walton Walker dies in a jeep accident and is replaced by General Matthew Ridgway in the Eighth United States Army.
1950 AD Dec 25 – The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
1951 AD Sep 28 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
1951 AD Oct 03 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.
1951 AD Oct 15 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
1951 AD Oct 16 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1951 AD Oct 20 – The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs during a football game between the Drake Bulldogs and Oklahoma A&M Aggies.
1951 AD Nov 15 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 other resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1951 AD Dec 17 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
1951 AD Dec 20 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1951 AD Dec 24 – Libya becomes independent. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
1951 AD Dec 25 – A bomb explodes at the home of Harry T. Moore and Harriette V. S. Moore, early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, killing Harry instantly and fatally wounding Harriette.
1951 AD Dec 31 – Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.
1952 AD Sep 15 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1952 AD Oct 03 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power.
1952 AD Oct 08 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
1952 AD Oct 14 – Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1952 AD Oct 17 – Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.
1952 AD Oct 20 – The Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.
1952 AD Nov 14 – The New Musical Express publishes the first regular UK Singles Chart.
1952 AD Dec 20 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington, killing 87 of the 115 people on board.
1952 AD Dec 24 – First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
1952 AD Dec 30 – An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.
1953 AD Sep 16 – American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people.
1953 AD Sep 21 – Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
1953 AD Sep 26 – Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
1953 AD Oct 01 – Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
1953 AD Oct 01 – A United States-South Korea mutual defense treaty is concluded in Washington, D.C.
1953 AD Oct 16 – Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks.
1953 AD Oct 29 – BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
1953 AD Nov 17 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
1953 AD Dec 24 – Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
1954 AD Sep 15 – Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch.
1954 AD Sep 18 – Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin.
1954 AD Sep 26 – The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
1954 AD Sep 29 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1954 AD Sep 30 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
1954 AD Oct 10 – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.
1954 AD Oct 11 – In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
1954 AD Oct 15 – Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
1954 AD Oct 18 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
1954 AD Oct 24 – President Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
1954 AD Oct 27 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1954 AD Nov 12 – Ellis Island ceases operations.
1954 AD Dec 23 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
1955 AD Sep 16 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
1955 AD Sep 16 – A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
1955 AD Sep 20 – The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
1955 AD Sep 25 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1955 AD Oct 01 – The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
1955 AD Oct 19 – The General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union approves the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.
1955 AD Oct 23 – Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.
1955 AD Oct 23 – The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite with West Germany instead of France.
1955 AD Oct 26 – After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.
1955 AD Oct 26 – Ngô Đình Diệm proclaims himself as President of the newly created Republic of Vietnam.
1955 AD Oct 29 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1955 AD Nov 15 – The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
1955 AD Dec 14 – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.
1955 AD Dec 20 – Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
1955 AD Dec 23 – The first film adaptation of Väinö Linna's novel The Unknown Soldier, directed by Edvin Laine, premieres.
1955 AD Dec 31 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
1956 AD Sep 16 – TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
1956 AD Sep 25 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1956 AD Sep 27 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
1956 AD Oct 08 – The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
1956 AD Oct 14 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1956 AD Oct 15 – FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
1956 AD Oct 17 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
1956 AD Oct 19 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
1956 AD Oct 21 – The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated.
1956 AD Oct 23 – Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the Hungarian Revolution.
1956 AD Oct 24 – At the request of the Stalinist regime of Ernő Gerő, a massive Soviet force invades Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution. Imre Nagy is reinstalled as Prime Minister.
1956 AD Oct 26 – Hungarian Revolution: In the towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Esztergom, Hungarian secret police forces massacre civilians. As rebel strongholds in Budapest hold, fighting spreads throughout the country.
1956 AD Oct 28 – Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.
1956 AD Oct 29 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 AD Nov 12 – Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
1956 AD Nov 12 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in Rafah by Israel Defense Force soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
1956 AD Dec 12 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 121 relating to acceptance of Japan to the United Nations is adopted.
1956 AD Dec 19 – Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
1956 AD Dec 28 – Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
1956 AD Dec 31 – The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.
1957 AD Sep 19 – Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
1957 AD Sep 21 – Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.
1957 AD Sep 22 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
1957 AD Sep 24 – President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1957 AD Sep 25 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1957 AD Sep 29 – The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
1957 AD Oct 01 – The motto In God We Trust first appears on U.S. paper currency.
1957 AD Oct 03 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
1957 AD Oct 04 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1957 AD Oct 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
1957 AD Oct 10 – The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
1957 AD Oct 14 – The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.
1957 AD Oct 14 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
1957 AD Oct 24 – The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar manned space program.
1957 AD Oct 29 – Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into the Knesset.
1957 AD Nov 14 – The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high-level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
1957 AD Nov 17 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
1957 AD Dec 17 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1957 AD Dec 20 – The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
1958 AD Sep 15 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
1958 AD Oct 01 – The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
1958 AD Oct 02 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
1958 AD Oct 04 – The current constitution of France is adopted.
1958 AD Oct 07 – The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
1958 AD Oct 07 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed to Project Mercury.
1958 AD Oct 11 – NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
1958 AD Oct 23 – Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued.
1958 AD Oct 26 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
1958 AD Oct 27 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
1958 AD Oct 28 – John XXIII is elected Pope.
1958 AD Nov 12 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
1958 AD Dec 11 – French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
1958 AD Dec 14 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
1958 AD Dec 18 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1958 AD Dec 28 – "Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.
1958 AD Dec 30 – The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
1959 AD Sep 15 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1959 AD Sep 16 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
1959 AD Sep 24 – TAI Flight 307 crashes during takeoff from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, killing 55 people.
1959 AD Sep 25 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1959 AD Sep 26 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
1959 AD Sep 27 – Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
1959 AD Sep 29 – A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Buffalo, Texas, killing 34 people.
1959 AD Oct 07 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
1959 AD Oct 12 – At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
1959 AD Oct 21 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
1959 AD Oct 21 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.
1959 AD Dec 13 – Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
1960 AD Sep 18 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1960 AD Sep 22 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1960 AD Sep 24 – USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
1960 AD Sep 26 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 AD Oct 01 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1960 AD Oct 04 – An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
1960 AD Oct 12 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
1960 AD Oct 12 – Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live television broadcast.
1960 AD Oct 19 – The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
1960 AD Oct 24 – A ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad in the Soviet Union, killing over 100 people.
1960 AD Oct 29 – An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
1960 AD Nov 11 – A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
1960 AD Nov 14 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in Louisiana.
1960 AD Dec 11 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle.
1960 AD Dec 13 – While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
1960 AD Dec 14 – Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
1960 AD Dec 15 – Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
1960 AD Dec 15 – King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
1960 AD Dec 16 – A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.
1960 AD Dec 17 – Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
1960 AD Dec 17 – Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
1960 AD Dec 23 – Hilkka Saarinen née Pylkkänen is murdered in the so-called the "oven homicide" case in Krootila, Kokemäki, Finland.
1961 AD Sep 16 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
1961 AD Sep 16 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
1961 AD Sep 16 – Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
1961 AD Sep 17 – The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1961 AD Sep 17 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 crashes during takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, killing all 37 people on board.
1961 AD Sep 18 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1961 AD Sep 20 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1961 AD Sep 28 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
1961 AD Oct 01 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
1961 AD Oct 01 – East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1961 AD Oct 01 – The CTV Television Network, Canada's first private television network, is launched.
1961 AD Oct 07 – A Douglas Dakota IV operated by Derby Aviation (later renamed to British Midland International) crashes in Canigou, France, killing 34 people.
1961 AD Oct 11 – The 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, resulting in the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement.
1961 AD Oct 17 – Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
1961 AD Oct 17 – The first attempt of the apartheid analogy, by Ahmad Shukeiri, it was on Oct 17, 1961.
1961 AD Oct 20 – The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
1961 AD Oct 27 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1961 AD Nov 11 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
1961 AD Nov 12 – Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the ketch Bluebelle.
1961 AD Dec 15 – Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
1961 AD Dec 17 – Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
1961 AD Dec 19 – India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
1961 AD Dec 31 – RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
1962 AD Sep 15 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1962 AD Sep 18 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1962 AD Sep 20 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1962 AD Sep 25 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1962 AD Sep 25 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
1962 AD Sep 27 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
1962 AD Sep 27 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
1962 AD Oct 01 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
1962 AD Oct 03 – Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
1962 AD Oct 05 – The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.
1962 AD Oct 05 – The first Beatles single, Love Me Do is released in Britain.
1962 AD Oct 08 – Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
1962 AD Oct 09 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1962 AD Oct 11 – The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1962 AD Oct 12 – The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died.
1962 AD Oct 13 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds above 150 mph. Forty-six people die.
1962 AD Oct 14 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
1962 AD Oct 16 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
1962 AD Oct 20 – China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
1962 AD Oct 22 – Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
1962 AD Oct 25 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
1962 AD Oct 27 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
1962 AD Oct 27 – By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
1962 AD Oct 27 – An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1962 AD Oct 28 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
1962 AD Nov 11 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1962 AD Nov 17 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
1962 AD Dec 11 – Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
1962 AD Dec 13 – NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
1962 AD Dec 14 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1962 AD Dec 25 – The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1963 AD Sep 15 – Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1963 AD Sep 16 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore is soon expelled from this new country.
1963 AD Sep 25 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.
1963 AD Oct 03 – A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.
1963 AD Oct 04 – Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1963 AD Oct 05 – The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1963 AD Oct 07 – President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1963 AD Oct 07 – Buddhist crisis: Amid worsening relations, outspoken South Vietnamese First Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu arrives in the US for a speaking tour, continuing a flurry of attacks on the Kennedy administration.
1963 AD Oct 09 – In Italy, a large landslide causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
1963 AD Oct 10 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1963 AD Oct 10 – The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
1963 AD Oct 12 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
1963 AD Oct 18 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
1963 AD Oct 22 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
1963 AD Oct 24 – An oxygen leak from an R-9 Desna missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people.
1963 AD Dec 12 – Kenya declares independence from Great Britain.
1963 AD Dec 14 – The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.
1963 AD Dec 21 – "Bloody Christmas" begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000–30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages.
1963 AD Dec 22 – The cruise ship Lakonia burns 290 kilometres (180 mi) north of Madeira, Portugal with the loss of 128 lives.
1963 AD Dec 25 – Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
1963 AD Dec 26 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
1963 AD Dec 31 – The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
1964 AD Sep 21 – Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
1964 AD Sep 21 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1964 AD Sep 25 – The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
1964 AD Sep 27 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight.
1964 AD Oct 01 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
1964 AD Oct 01 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1964 AD Oct 10 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
1964 AD Oct 12 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.
1964 AD Oct 14 – Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
1964 AD Oct 14 – The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.
1964 AD Oct 16 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1964 AD Oct 16 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
1964 AD Oct 22 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.
1964 AD Oct 22 – An all-party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which will become the new official flag of Canada.
1964 AD Oct 24 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes Zambia.
1964 AD Oct 27 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
1964 AD Oct 29 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania.
1964 AD Oct 29 – Biggest jewel heist; involving the Star of India (gem) in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City by Murph the Surf and gang.
1964 AD Dec 11 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
1964 AD Dec 14 – American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
1964 AD Dec 22 – The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) takes place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, United States.
1964 AD Dec 24 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.
1964 AD Dec 24 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 282 crashes after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport, killing three.
1965 AD Sep 17 – The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
1965 AD Sep 20 – Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1965 AD Sep 21 – The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
1965 AD Sep 22 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
1965 AD Sep 30 – Six Indonesian Army generals were assassinated by the September 30 Movement. The PKI was blamed for the latter, resulting in mass killings of suspected leftists.
1965 AD Oct 04 – Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
1965 AD Oct 15 – Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
1965 AD Oct 17 – The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
1965 AD Oct 21 – Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
1965 AD Oct 23 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me.
1965 AD Oct 28 – Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
1965 AD Nov 11 – Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
1965 AD Nov 11 – United Airlines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.
1965 AD Nov 14 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
1965 AD Nov 15 – Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
1965 AD Nov 16 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1965 AD Dec 15 – Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
1965 AD Dec 16 – Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.
1965 AD Dec 21 – International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.
1965 AD Dec 22 – In the United Kingdom, a 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.
1965 AD Dec 31 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begin a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
1966 AD Sep 16 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
1966 AD Sep 22 – Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.
1966 AD Sep 30 – Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
1966 AD Oct 01 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1966 AD Oct 04 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1966 AD Oct 05 – A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
1966 AD Oct 09 – Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.
1966 AD Oct 14 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
1966 AD Oct 15 – The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1966 AD Oct 17 – The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
1966 AD Oct 21 – A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren.
1966 AD Nov 11 – NASA launches Gemini 12.
1966 AD Nov 15 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966 AD Nov 15 – Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Dallgow-Döberitz, East Germany, killing all three people on board.
1966 AD Dec 18 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
1966 AD Dec 24 – A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 111.
1966 AD Dec 26 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1966 AD Dec 27 – The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
1967 AD Sep 15 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1967 AD Sep 20 – The Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched in Clydebank, Scotland.
1967 AD Oct 02 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1967 AD Oct 04 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
1967 AD Oct 08 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1967 AD Oct 09 – A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1967 AD Oct 10 – The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
1967 AD Oct 12 – A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66.
1967 AD Oct 18 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1967 AD Oct 21 – The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.
1967 AD Oct 26 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran.
1967 AD Oct 27 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
1967 AD Oct 29 – Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
1967 AD Nov 11 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
1967 AD Nov 14 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
1967 AD Nov 14 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
1967 AD Nov 15 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1967 AD Nov 17 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1967 AD Dec 13 – Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels.
1967 AD Dec 17 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
1967 AD Dec 19 – Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
1967 AD Dec 20 – A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 249 kilometres per hour (155 mph) on their New York Division, also present-day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
1967 AD Dec 21 – Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.
1967 AD Dec 28 – American businesswoman Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
1968 AD Sep 15 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1968 AD Sep 30 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
1968 AD Oct 01 – Guyana nationalizes the British Guiana Broadcasting Service, which would eventually become part of the National Communications Network, Guyana.
1968 AD Oct 02 – Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
1968 AD Oct 05 – A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
1968 AD Oct 11 – NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
1968 AD Oct 12 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
1968 AD Oct 14 – Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
1968 AD Oct 14 – The 6.5 M_w  Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of Western Australia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
1968 AD Oct 14 – Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1968 AD Oct 16 – Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
1968 AD Oct 16 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
1968 AD Oct 16 – Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1968 AD Oct 25 – A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.
1968 AD Oct 26 – Space Race: The Soyuz 3 mission achieves the first Soviet space rendezvous.
1968 AD Nov 11 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
1968 AD Nov 15 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
1968 AD Nov 17 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
1968 AD Nov 17 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
1968 AD Dec 13 – Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
1968 AD Dec 16 – Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
1968 AD Dec 21 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1968 AD Dec 22 – Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."
1968 AD Dec 23 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
1968 AD Dec 24 – Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.
1968 AD Dec 25 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
1968 AD Dec 25 – Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.
1968 AD Dec 26 – The Communist Party of the Philippines is established by Jose Maria Sison, breaking away from the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930.
1968 AD Dec 27 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital crewed mission to the Moon.
1968 AD Dec 31 – The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
1968 AD Dec 31 – MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 crashes near Port Hedland, Western Australia, killing all 26 people on board.
1969 AD Sep 25 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
1969 AD Sep 26 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by the Beatles, is released.
1969 AD Oct 01 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1969 AD Oct 08 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
1969 AD Oct 09 – In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
1969 AD Oct 17 – The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
1969 AD Oct 21 – The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
1969 AD Oct 29 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1969 AD Nov 12 – Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
1969 AD Nov 14 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
1969 AD Nov 15 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 AD Nov 15 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1969 AD Nov 17 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
1969 AD Dec 12 – The Piazza Fontana bombing; a bomb explodes at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, three more bombs are detonated in Rome and Milan, and another is found unexploded.
1969 AD Dec 17 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
1969 AD Dec 24 – Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.
1970 AD Sep 16 – King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as Black September.
1970 AD Sep 19 – Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
1970 AD Sep 19 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
1970 AD Sep 28 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
1970 AD Sep 30 – Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1970 AD Oct 02 – An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
1970 AD Oct 05 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970 AD Oct 05 – The British Trade Commissioner, James Cross, is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
1970 AD Oct 08 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
1970 AD Oct 09 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1970 AD Oct 10 – Fiji becomes independent.
1970 AD Oct 10 – Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec.
1970 AD Oct 12 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
1970 AD Oct 15 – During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.
1970 AD Oct 16 – Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
1970 AD Oct 17 – FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
1970 AD Oct 23 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
1970 AD Nov 12 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
1970 AD Nov 12 – The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan, becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
1970 AD Nov 14 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
1970 AD Nov 14 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team.
1970 AD Nov 17 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
1970 AD Nov 17 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1970 AD Dec 15 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
1970 AD Dec 17 – Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
1970 AD Dec 21 – First flight of F-14 multi-role combat aircraft.
1970 AD Dec 23 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 417 metres (1,368 ft), making it the tallest building in the world.
1970 AD Dec 23 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.
1971 AD Sep 15 – The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
1971 AD Sep 20 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
1971 AD Sep 21 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
1971 AD Sep 29 – Oman joins the Arab League.
1971 AD Oct 01 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida.
1971 AD Oct 01 – The first practical CT scanner is used to diagnose a patient.
1971 AD Oct 02 – South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
1971 AD Oct 02 – British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63.
1971 AD Oct 12 – The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.
1971 AD Oct 21 – A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
1971 AD Oct 25 – The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
1971 AD Oct 27 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1971 AD Oct 28 – Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
1971 AD Nov 12 – Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, U.S. President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
1971 AD Nov 14 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
1971 AD Nov 15 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1971 AD Dec 14 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)
1971 AD Dec 16 – Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India.
1971 AD Dec 16 – The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day.
1971 AD Dec 22 – The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
1971 AD Dec 24 – LANSA Flight 508 is struck by lighting and crashes in the Puerto Inca District in the Department of Huánuco in Peru, killing 91.
1972 AD Sep 15 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
1972 AD Sep 21 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos begins authoritarian rule by declaring martial law.
1972 AD Sep 24 – Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
1972 AD Sep 29 – Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
1972 AD Oct 13 – Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
1972 AD Oct 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. Twenty-eight survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on December 23.
1972 AD Oct 23 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
1972 AD Oct 29 – The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
1972 AD Nov 11 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
1972 AD Dec 11 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
1972 AD Dec 13 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
1972 AD Dec 14 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
1972 AD Dec 18 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
1972 AD Dec 19 – Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, carrying Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1972 AD Dec 23 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
1972 AD Dec 23 – The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, surviving by cannibalism.
1972 AD Dec 26 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
1972 AD Dec 28 – The last scheduled day for induction into the military by the Selective Service System. Due to the fact that President Richard Nixon declared this day a national day of mourning due to former President Harry S Truman's death, approximately 300 men were not able to report due to most Federal offices being closed. Since the draft was not resumed in 1973, they were never drafted.
1972 AD Dec 29 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.
1972 AD Dec 30 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II ends.
1973 AD Sep 18 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1973 AD Sep 20 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
1973 AD Sep 20 – Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
1973 AD Sep 23 – Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
1973 AD Sep 24 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
1973 AD Sep 26 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1973 AD Sep 28 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
1973 AD Oct 06 – Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
1973 AD Oct 08 – Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions.
1973 AD Oct 08 – Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
1973 AD Oct 10 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
1973 AD Oct 12 – President Nixon nominates House Majority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
1973 AD Oct 14 – In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1973 AD Oct 16 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1973 AD Oct 17 – OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
1973 AD Oct 19 – President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
1973 AD Oct 20 – Watergate scandal: "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork.
1973 AD Oct 20 – The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.
1973 AD Oct 21 – Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
1973 AD Oct 25 – Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
1973 AD Nov 14 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
1973 AD Nov 14 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
1973 AD Nov 16 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 AD Nov 16 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1973 AD Nov 17 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973 AD Nov 17 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
1973 AD Dec 15 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.
1973 AD Dec 15 – The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
1973 AD Dec 17 – Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.
1973 AD Dec 18 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1973 AD Dec 20 – Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco: A car bomb planted by ETA in Madrid kills three people, including the Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco.
1973 AD Dec 21 – The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens.
1973 AD Dec 22 – A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes near Tanger-Boukhalef Airport (now Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport) in Tangier, Morocco, killing 106.
1973 AD Dec 24 – District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
1973 AD Dec 28 – The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
1974 AD Sep 15 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1974 AD Sep 17 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
1974 AD Sep 18 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1974 AD Sep 25 – Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
1974 AD Oct 05 – Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
1974 AD Oct 08 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1974 AD Oct 19 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
1974 AD Nov 16 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from Puerto Rico.
1974 AD Dec 13 – Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1974 AD Dec 13 – In the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese forces launch their 1975 Spring Offensive (to 30 April 1975), which results in the final capitulation of South Vietnam.
1974 AD Dec 19 – Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1974 AD Dec 22 – Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
1974 AD Dec 22 – The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
1974 AD Dec 24 – Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
1975 AD Sep 15 – The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).
1975 AD Sep 16 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
1975 AD Sep 16 – Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
1975 AD Sep 16 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1975 AD Sep 22 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
1975 AD Sep 24 – Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
1975 AD Sep 27 – The last use of capital punishment in Spain sparks worldwide protests.
1975 AD Sep 28 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
1975 AD Sep 29 – WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
1975 AD Sep 30 – Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.
1975 AD Oct 01 – Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1975 AD Oct 10 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1975 AD Oct 14 – An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.
1975 AD Oct 16 – Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor.
1975 AD Oct 16 – Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
1975 AD Oct 16 – The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.
1975 AD Oct 22 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
1975 AD Oct 24 – In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gender inequality.
1975 AD Nov 11 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
1975 AD Nov 11 – Independence of Angola.
1975 AD Nov 12 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
1975 AD Nov 14 – With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara.
1975 AD Dec 22 – U.S. President Gerald Ford creates the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to the 1970s energy crisis.
1975 AD Dec 26 – Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach 2, goes into service.
1975 AD Dec 29 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
1976 AD Sep 16 – Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
1976 AD Sep 17 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
1976 AD Sep 19 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
1976 AD Sep 19 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
1976 AD Sep 21 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C because had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
1976 AD Sep 21 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.
1976 AD Oct 06 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
1976 AD Oct 06 – Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
1976 AD Oct 06 – Dozens are killed by the Thai army in the Thammasat University massacre.
1976 AD Oct 11 – George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
1976 AD Oct 13 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.
1976 AD Oct 20 – The Luling–Destrehan Ferry MV George Prince is struck by the Norwegian freighter SS Frosta while crossing the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
1976 AD Oct 22 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
1976 AD Nov 15 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
1976 AD Dec 25 – EgyptAir Flight 664, a Boeing 707-366C, crashes on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, killing 71 people.
1977 AD Sep 18 – Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1977 AD Sep 20 – Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1977 AD Sep 25 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
1977 AD Sep 27 – Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.
1977 AD Oct 06 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1977 AD Oct 07 – The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.
1977 AD Oct 12 – Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as paramount leader of China.
1977 AD Oct 13 – Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
1977 AD Oct 17 – The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
1977 AD Oct 18 – German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
1977 AD Oct 20 – A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in woodland in Mississippi, United States. Six people, including three band members, are killed.
1977 AD Oct 26 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
1977 AD Nov 11 – A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.
1977 AD Nov 12 – France conducts the Oreste nuclear test as 14th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests series.
1977 AD Nov 14 – During a British House of Commons debate, Labour MP Tam Dalyell poses what would become known as the West Lothian question, referring to issues related to devolution in the United Kingdom.
1977 AD Dec 13 – Air Indiana Flight 216 crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff, and boosters of the team.
1977 AD Dec 13 – The M_w  5.9 Bob–Tangol earthquake rocks Iran, killing at least 584 people and injuring 1,000.
1977 AD Dec 18 – United Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all three crew members on board.
1977 AD Dec 18 – SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730 crashes near Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, killing 36.
1977 AD Dec 25 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.
1978 AD Sep 15 – Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
1978 AD Sep 16 – The 7.4 M_w  Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people are killed.
1978 AD Sep 17 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
1978 AD Sep 19 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
1978 AD Sep 25 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
1978 AD Sep 30 – Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.
1978 AD Oct 01 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 AD Oct 08 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 275.97 knots at Blowering Dam, Australia.
1978 AD Oct 16 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1978 AD Oct 21 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1978 AD Nov 14 – France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29 1975–78 French nuclear tests.
1978 AD Nov 15 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1978 AD Dec 11 – The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
1978 AD Dec 15 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan).
1978 AD Dec 16 – Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
1978 AD Dec 22 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
1978 AD Dec 23 – Alitalia Flight 4128 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea while on approach to Falcone Borsellino Airport in Palermo, Italy, killing 108.
1978 AD Dec 26 – The inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally begins.
1978 AD Dec 27 – Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.
1979 AD Sep 16 – Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
1979 AD Sep 20 – A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
1979 AD Sep 22 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
1979 AD Sep 29 – The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is executed by soldiers from Western Sahara.
1979 AD Oct 01 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 AD Oct 01 – The MTR, Hong Kong's rapid transit railway system, opens.
1979 AD Oct 06 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1979 AD Oct 10 – The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland.
1979 AD Oct 12 – Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.
1979 AD Oct 14 – The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
1979 AD Oct 15 – Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
1979 AD Oct 15 – A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.
1979 AD Oct 16 – Bu-Ma Democratic Protests against the Yushin regime (유신정권), took place between 16 and 20 October 1979 in Busan and Masan (now Changwon), South Korea.
1979 AD Oct 17 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 AD Oct 17 – The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education.
1979 AD Oct 18 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
1979 AD Oct 21 – Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
1979 AD Oct 26 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
1979 AD Oct 27 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 AD Nov 12 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
1979 AD Nov 14 – US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
1979 AD Nov 15 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1979 AD Nov 16 – The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
1979 AD Dec 12 – The 8.2 M_w  Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami.
1979 AD Dec 16 – Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.
1979 AD Dec 21 – Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
1979 AD Dec 23 – Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
1980 AD Sep 17 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
1980 AD Sep 17 – Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
1980 AD Sep 18 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.
1980 AD Sep 22 – Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.
1980 AD Sep 26 – At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people die and 211 are injured.
1980 AD Sep 30 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1980 AD Oct 02 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
1980 AD Oct 09 – Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
1980 AD Oct 10 – The 7.1 M_w  El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
1980 AD Oct 10 – The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
1980 AD Oct 14 – The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il-sung's son Kim Jong-il as his successor.
1980 AD Oct 17 – As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
1980 AD Oct 24 – The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
1980 AD Oct 25 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
1980 AD Oct 29 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in a crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida, leading to the cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1980 AD Nov 12 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
1980 AD Dec 11 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1980 AD Dec 26 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".
1981 AD Sep 15 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1981 AD Sep 15 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1981 AD Sep 18 – The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1981 AD Sep 21 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 AD Sep 21 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
1981 AD Sep 25 – Belize joins the United Nations.
1981 AD Sep 26 – Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1981 AD Sep 29 – An Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft crashes into a firing range near Kahrizak, Iran, killing 80 people.
1981 AD Oct 03 – The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
1981 AD Oct 06 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
1981 AD Oct 06 – NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off from Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, killing all 17 people on board.
1981 AD Oct 09 – President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
1981 AD Oct 14 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
1981 AD Oct 20 – Two police officers and a Brink's armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground in Nanuet, New York.
1981 AD Oct 21 – Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
1981 AD Oct 22 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.
1981 AD Oct 27 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1981 AD Nov 11 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
1981 AD Nov 12 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a crewed spacecraft is launched into space twice.
1981 AD Dec 11 – El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
1981 AD Dec 13 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to the actions by Solidarity.
1981 AD Dec 14 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the Golan Heights.
1981 AD Dec 15 – A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.
1981 AD Dec 17 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
1981 AD Dec 18 – First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
1981 AD Dec 19 – Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1981 AD Dec 31 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
1982 AD Sep 16 – Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
1982 AD Sep 18 – The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end.
1982 AD Sep 19 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
1982 AD Sep 20 – NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.
1982 AD Oct 01 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
1982 AD Oct 01 – EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.
1982 AD Oct 01 – Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan; on the same day, Sony releases the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.
1982 AD Oct 05 – Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
1982 AD Oct 08 – Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions.
1982 AD Oct 08 – After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1982 AD Oct 14 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1982 AD Oct 20 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
1982 AD Oct 23 – A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured.
1982 AD Oct 28 – The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
1982 AD Nov 12 – USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1982 AD Nov 14 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
1982 AD Dec 13 – The 6.0 M_s  North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500.
1983 AD Sep 15 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1983 AD Sep 17 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
1983 AD Sep 19 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
1983 AD Sep 23 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
1983 AD Sep 25 – Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
1983 AD Sep 26 – Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
1983 AD Sep 26 – Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of the race.
1983 AD Oct 04 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
1983 AD Oct 09 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
1983 AD Oct 12 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
1983 AD Oct 13 – Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
1983 AD Oct 21 – The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
1983 AD Oct 22 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
1983 AD Oct 23 – Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French Army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1983 AD Oct 25 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
1983 AD Nov 15 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it is only recognized by Turkey.
1983 AD Nov 17 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
1983 AD Dec 17 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
1983 AD Dec 19 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1983 AD Dec 27 – Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.
1983 AD Dec 31 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
1983 AD Dec 31 – Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.
1983 AD Dec 31 – In Nigeria, a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
1984 AD Sep 18 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1984 AD Sep 20 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1984 AD Sep 21 – Brunei joins the United Nations.
1984 AD Sep 26 – The United Kingdom and China agree to a transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, to take place in 1997.
1984 AD Oct 05 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
1984 AD Oct 09 – The popular children's television show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, premieres on ITV.
1984 AD Oct 11 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
1984 AD Oct 11 – Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
1984 AD Oct 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1984 AD Oct 16 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984 AD Oct 19 – A Roman Catholic priest, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is killed by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
1984 AD Oct 21 – Niki Lauda claims his third and final Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by half a point ahead of McLaren team-mate Alain Prost at the Portuguese Grand Prix.
1984 AD Nov 14 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
1984 AD Dec 19 – The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997, is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
1984 AD Dec 20 – The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.
1984 AD Dec 20 – Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews from Greeley, Colorado. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about 24 km (15 mi) southeast of Jonelle's home. The cause of death "was a gunshot wound to the head."
1984 AD Dec 22 – "Subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on a 2 express train in Manhattan section of New York, United States.
1984 AD Dec 23 – After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board.
1985 AD Sep 19 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
1985 AD Sep 19 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa, John Denver, and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1985 AD Oct 01 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israel attacks the Palestine Liberation Organization's Tunisia headquarters during Operation Wooden Leg.
1985 AD Oct 03 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.
1985 AD Oct 04 – The Free Software Foundation is founded.
1985 AD Oct 06 – Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1985 AD Oct 07 – The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
1985 AD Oct 07 – Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
1985 AD Oct 10 – US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
1985 AD Oct 16 – The Finnish dry cargo ship MS Hanna-Marjut, on its way from Mariehamn to Naantali, sank in hard sea on the open water of Kihti between the Kökar and Sottunga islands of Åland, leading to the drowning of four people.
1985 AD Oct 26 – The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.
1985 AD Oct 29 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
1985 AD Nov 15 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 AD Nov 15 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1985 AD Dec 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
1985 AD Dec 14 – Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
1985 AD Dec 16 – Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.
1985 AD Dec 20 – Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
1985 AD Dec 27 – Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.
1986 AD Sep 28 – The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
1986 AD Oct 03 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
1986 AD Oct 05 – Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons.
1986 AD Oct 09 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
1986 AD Oct 09 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the "fourth" US television network.
1986 AD Oct 10 – A 5.7 M_w  San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
1986 AD Oct 11 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
1986 AD Oct 19 – The president of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, along with 33 others, die when their aircraft crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
1986 AD Oct 20 – Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes while landing at Kuibyshev Airport (now Kuromoch International Airport) in Kuibyshev (now present-day Samara, Russia), killing 70 people.
1986 AD Oct 21 – In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
1986 AD Oct 24 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing of an El Al flight at Heathrow Airport.
1986 AD Oct 27 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
1986 AD Oct 29 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
1986 AD Nov 17 – The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska.
1986 AD Dec 19 – Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
1986 AD Dec 23 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
1986 AD Dec 25 – Iraqi Airways Flight 163, a Boeing 737-270C, is hijacked and crashes in Arar, Saudi Arabia, killing 63 people.
1987 AD Sep 16 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
1987 AD Oct 01 – The 5.9 M_w  Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
1987 AD Oct 06 – Fiji becomes a republic.
1987 AD Oct 07 – Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
1987 AD Oct 11 – The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
1987 AD Oct 11 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
1987 AD Oct 15 – Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
1987 AD Oct 19 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
1987 AD Oct 19 – Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
1987 AD Oct 21 – The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian peacekeeping forces in Sri Lanka, killing 70 Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
1987 AD Oct 22 – John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered.
1987 AD Nov 15 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1987 AD Dec 20 – In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
1987 AD Dec 22 – In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
1988 AD Sep 18 – The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
1988 AD Sep 27 – The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
1988 AD Sep 29 – NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
1988 AD Oct 05 – A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
1988 AD Oct 07 – A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
1988 AD Oct 12 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1988 AD Oct 17 – Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
1988 AD Oct 19 – The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
1988 AD Oct 27 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
1988 AD Nov 15 – In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988 AD Nov 15 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1988 AD Nov 15 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1988 AD Nov 16 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
1988 AD Nov 16 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1988 AD Dec 12 – The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
1988 AD Dec 13 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.
1988 AD Dec 21 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur on British soil.
1988 AD Dec 21 – The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.
1989 AD Sep 19 – A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew.
1989 AD Sep 20 – USAir Flight 5050 crashes into Bowery Bay during a rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing two people.
1989 AD Oct 01 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal same-sex registered partnerships.
1989 AD Oct 03 – A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
1989 AD Oct 15 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
1989 AD Oct 15 – Eight of those convicted in South Africa's Rivonia Trial are released from prison.
1989 AD Oct 17 – The 6.9 M_w Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.
1989 AD Oct 17 – The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
1989 AD Oct 19 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
1989 AD Oct 21 – In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital Tegucigalpa.
1989 AD Oct 23 – The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
1989 AD Oct 23 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.
1989 AD Oct 23 – An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314.
1989 AD Oct 26 – China Airlines Flight 204 crashes after takeoff from Hualien Airport in Taiwan, killing all 54 people on board.
1989 AD Nov 16 – El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1989 AD Nov 17 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
1989 AD Dec 13 – The Troubles: Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and two others are wounded.
1989 AD Dec 15 – Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights relating the abolition of capital punishment is adopted.
1989 AD Dec 16 – Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
1989 AD Dec 16 – U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
1989 AD Dec 17 – Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
1989 AD Dec 17 – Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
1989 AD Dec 17 – The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".
1989 AD Dec 20 – The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.
1989 AD Dec 22 – Romanian Revolution: Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown by Ion Iliescu after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife Elena flee Bucharest in a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.
1989 AD Dec 22 – German reunification: Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
1989 AD Dec 25 – Romanian Revolution: Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.
1989 AD Dec 26 – United Express Flight 2415 crashes on approach to the Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco, Washington, killing all six people on board.
1989 AD Dec 27 – The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest.
1989 AD Dec 28 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
1989 AD Dec 29 – Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.
1989 AD Dec 29 – The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.
1990 AD Sep 16 – The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
1990 AD Sep 18 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1990 AD Sep 20 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
1990 AD Sep 29 – Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.
1990 AD Sep 29 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1990 AD Sep 29 – The Tampere Hall, the largest concert and congress center in the Nordic countries, is inaugurated in Tampere, Finland.
1990 AD Oct 02 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.
1990 AD Oct 03 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
1990 AD Oct 05 – After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1990 AD Oct 08 – First Intifada: Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock.
1990 AD Oct 13 – Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1990 AD Oct 15 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1990 AD Oct 24 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion.
1990 AD Oct 28 – Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.
1990 AD Nov 12 – Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1990 AD Nov 12 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1990 AD Nov 14 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
1990 AD Nov 15 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
1990 AD Nov 16 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1990 AD Nov 17 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
1990 AD Dec 11 – Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.
1990 AD Dec 11 – Several fatal collisions in the 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster result in a total of 12 deaths and 42 being injured
1990 AD Dec 22 – Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland.
1990 AD Dec 22 – Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.
1990 AD Dec 23 – History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.
1991 AD Sep 17 – Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
1991 AD Sep 17 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
1991 AD Sep 19 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.
1991 AD Sep 21 – Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Sep 22 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
1991 AD Sep 29 – A Haitian coup d'état occurs.
1991 AD Oct 01 – Croatian War of Independence: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1991 AD Oct 03 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1991 AD Oct 04 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1991 AD Oct 05 – An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
1991 AD Oct 07 – Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.
1991 AD Oct 08 – Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.
1991 AD Oct 11 – Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
1991 AD Oct 14 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1991 AD Oct 15 – The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
1991 AD Oct 15 – The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
1991 AD Oct 16 – George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
1991 AD Oct 17 – 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.
1991 AD Oct 18 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Oct 20 – A 6.8 M_w earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
1991 AD Oct 20 – A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and Berkeley, California killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, apartments and condominiums.
1991 AD Oct 23 – Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
1991 AD Oct 26 – Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
1991 AD Oct 27 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Oct 29 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1991 AD Nov 12 – Santa Cruz massacre: The Indonesian Army open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1991 AD Nov 14 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
1991 AD Nov 14 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years in exile.
1991 AD Dec 16 – Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Dec 19 – Joe Cole, American roadie and author, is killed in an armed robbery
1991 AD Dec 20 – A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
1991 AD Dec 25 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
1991 AD Dec 26 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.
1991 AD Dec 27 – Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 crashes in Gottröra in the Norrtälje Municipality in Sweden, injuring 25.
1991 AD Dec 31 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
1992 AD Sep 16 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
1992 AD Sep 16 – Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
1992 AD Sep 17 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin.
1992 AD Sep 18 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing nine replacement workers in Yellowknife, Canada.
1992 AD Sep 25 – NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
1992 AD Sep 28 – A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
1992 AD Sep 29 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
1992 AD Oct 02 – Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
1992 AD Oct 04 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
1992 AD Oct 04 – El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
1992 AD Oct 09 – The Peekskill meteorite, a 27.7 pounds (12.6 kg) meteorite crashed into a parked car in Peekskill, New York
1992 AD Oct 12 – A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
1992 AD Oct 17 – Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1992 AD Oct 18 – Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount Papandayan near the town of Garut in West Java, Indonesia, killing 31.
1992 AD Oct 24 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
1992 AD Oct 27 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1992 AD Nov 11 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1992 AD Nov 14 – In poor conditions caused by Cyclone Forrest, Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crashes near Nha Trang, killing 30.
1992 AD Nov 16 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
1992 AD Dec 14 – War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
1992 AD Dec 21 – A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56.
1992 AD Dec 22 – During approach to Tripoli International Airport, a Boeing 727 operating as Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 collides in mid-air with a Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, killing 157 people.
1992 AD Dec 29 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
1992 AD Dec 31 – Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
1993 AD Sep 21 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.
1993 AD Sep 22 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
1993 AD Sep 22 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1993 AD Sep 24 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
1993 AD Sep 27 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
1993 AD Sep 30 – The 6.2 M_w  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.
1993 AD Oct 03 – An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
1993 AD Oct 04 – Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
1993 AD Oct 04 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
1993 AD Oct 07 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1993 AD Oct 13 – At least 60 people die in eastern Papua New Guinea when a series of earthquakes rock the Finisterre Range, triggering massive landslides.
1993 AD Oct 23 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians.
1993 AD Nov 11 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1993 AD Nov 17 – United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1993 AD Nov 17 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
1993 AD Dec 11 – A block of the Highland Towers condominium complex collapses following a landslide caused by heavy rain and water flowing from a construction site at Ampang district in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 48 of its residents die, including one who died in hospital after being rescued alive, leaving only two survivors.
1993 AD Dec 15 – The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
1993 AD Dec 30 – Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.
1994 AD Sep 16 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
1994 AD Sep 28 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1994 AD Oct 01 – Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
1994 AD Oct 12 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1994 AD Oct 14 – Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
1994 AD Oct 15 – The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
1994 AD Oct 17 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
1994 AD Oct 21 – North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
1994 AD Oct 21 – In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
1994 AD Oct 26 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
1994 AD Oct 27 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
1994 AD Oct 29 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1994 AD Nov 15 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m (28 ft) high.
1994 AD Dec 11 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
1994 AD Dec 11 – A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to land the plane safely.
1994 AD Dec 13 – Flagship Airlines Flight 3379 crashes in Morrisville, North Carolina, near Raleigh–Durham International Airport, killing 15.
1994 AD Dec 14 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
1994 AD Dec 24 – Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists.
1994 AD Dec 26 – Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
1994 AD Dec 29 – Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.
1994 AD Dec 31 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
1994 AD Dec 31 – The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny.
1995 AD Sep 15 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.
1995 AD Sep 19 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber manifesto.
1995 AD Sep 22 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 AD Sep 22 – The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
1995 AD Sep 28 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
1995 AD Sep 28 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
1995 AD Oct 03 – O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1995 AD Oct 06 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
1995 AD Oct 09 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1995 AD Oct 15 – Saddam Hussein is reelected president of Iraq through a referendum.
1995 AD Oct 16 – The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.
1995 AD Oct 16 – The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.
1995 AD Oct 23 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena.
1995 AD Oct 25 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1995 AD Oct 26 – Mossad agents assassinate Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.
1995 AD Oct 26 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village of Flateyri, destroying 29 homes and burying 45 people, and killing 20.
1995 AD Oct 27 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
1995 AD Oct 28 – The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
1995 AD Nov 12 – Erdut Agreement regarding the peaceful resolution to the Croatian War of Independence is reached.
1995 AD Nov 14 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
1995 AD Dec 13 – Banat Air Flight 166 crashes in Sommacampagna near Verona Villafranca Airport in Verona, Italy, killing 49.
1995 AD Dec 14 – Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1995 AD Dec 18 – A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Jamba, Cuando Cubango, Angola, killing 141 people.
1995 AD Dec 19 – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
1995 AD Dec 20 – NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
1995 AD Dec 20 – American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia, killing 159 of the 163 people on board.
1995 AD Dec 21 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1996 AD Sep 21 – The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.
1996 AD Sep 24 – Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
1996 AD Sep 27 – The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory; an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is established.
1996 AD Sep 27 – Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
1996 AD Oct 02 – Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
1996 AD Oct 02 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 AD Oct 07 – Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
1996 AD Oct 12 – New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
1996 AD Oct 16 – Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
1996 AD Nov 12 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349 in the deadliest mid-air collision to date.
1996 AD Dec 22 – Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes near Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board.
1996 AD Dec 24 – A Learjet 35 crashes into Smarts Mountain near Dorchester, New Hampshire, killing both pilots on board.
1996 AD Dec 27 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.
1996 AD Dec 29 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
1996 AD Dec 30 – Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
1997 AD Sep 18 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
1997 AD Sep 18 – The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
1997 AD Sep 19 – The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
1997 AD Sep 21 – St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, was burnt down by a burglar.
1997 AD Sep 26 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
1997 AD Sep 26 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
1997 AD Oct 04 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
1997 AD Oct 10 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
1997 AD Oct 12 – The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
1997 AD Oct 15 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
1997 AD Oct 22 – Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero Palo, in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland during his prison escape.
1997 AD Oct 25 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
1997 AD Oct 27 – The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1997 AD Nov 12 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1997 AD Nov 16 – After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
1997 AD Nov 17 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.
1997 AD Dec 11 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
1997 AD Dec 15 – Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.
1997 AD Dec 17 – Aerosvit Flight 241: A Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes into the Pierian Mountains near Thessaloniki Airport in Thessaloniki, Greece, killing all 70 people on board.
1997 AD Dec 19 – SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
1997 AD Dec 22 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
1997 AD Dec 22 – Somali Civil War: Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.
1997 AD Dec 24 – The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.
1997 AD Dec 27 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
1997 AD Dec 29 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the city's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
1997 AD Dec 30 – In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
1998 AD Sep 25 – PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.
1998 AD Sep 27 – The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
1998 AD Oct 07 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He dies five days later.
1998 AD Oct 10 – A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
1998 AD Oct 12 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
1998 AD Oct 14 – Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
1998 AD Oct 16 – Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
1998 AD Oct 23 – Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum.
1998 AD Oct 24 – Deep Space 1 is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies.
1998 AD Oct 29 – In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 AD Oct 29 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time.
1998 AD Oct 29 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
1998 AD Oct 29 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 AD Oct 29 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
1998 AD Oct 29 – The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
1998 AD Dec 11 – Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
1998 AD Dec 14 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
1998 AD Dec 19 – President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
1998 AD Dec 26 – Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
1998 AD Dec 29 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.
1998 AD Dec 31 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
1999 AD Sep 21 – The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
1999 AD Sep 30 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
1999 AD Oct 05 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
1999 AD Oct 11 – Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself.
1999 AD Oct 12 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 AD Oct 12 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
1999 AD Oct 22 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
1999 AD Oct 25 title="1999">1999 – A Learjet 35 crashes in Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart.
1999 AD Oct 26 – The United Kingdom's House of Lords votes to end the right of most hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
1999 AD Oct 27 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
1999 AD Oct 29 – A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
1999 AD Nov 11 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
1999 AD Nov 12 – The 7.2 M_w  Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people are killed and almost 5,000 are injured.
1999 AD Dec 11 – SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on São Jorge Island in the Azores, killing 35.
1999 AD Dec 12 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the Philippines's main island of Luzon, killing six people, injuring 40, and causing power outages that affected the capital Manila.
1999 AD Dec 14 – Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
1999 AD Dec 18 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
1999 AD Dec 20 – Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.
1999 AD Dec 21 – The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
1999 AD Dec 21 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
1999 AD Dec 22 – Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.
1999 AD Dec 24 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).
1999 AD Dec 25 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 310, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Bejuma, Carabobo State, Venezuela, killing 22 people.
1999 AD Dec 26 – The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
1999 AD Dec 31 – The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
1999 AD Dec 31 – The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
1999 AD Dec 31 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.
2000 AD Sep 20 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
2000 AD Sep 26 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 AD Sep 26 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
2000 AD Sep 28 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2000 AD Sep 30 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
2000 AD Oct 01 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the murder of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by Israeli police in northern Israel, beginning the "October 2000 events".
2000 AD Oct 05 – Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
2000 AD Oct 07 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
2000 AD Oct 11 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
2000 AD Oct 12 – The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
2000 AD Oct 17 – The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
2000 AD Oct 26 – A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
2000 AD Nov 11 – Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
2000 AD Nov 15 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
2000 AD Nov 15 – Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
2000 AD Nov 17 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000 AD Nov 17 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
2000 AD Dec 12 – The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
2000 AD Dec 15 – The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
2000 AD Dec 19 – The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.
2000 AD Dec 30 – Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
2000 AD Dec 31 – The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.
2001 AD Sep 15 – During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.
2001 AD Sep 17 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
2001 AD Sep 18 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2001 AD Sep 20 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
2001 AD Sep 21 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
2001 AD Sep 21 – Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
2001 AD Sep 27 – In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
2001 AD Oct 01 – Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
2001 AD Oct 04 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
2001 AD Oct 07 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history.
2001 AD Oct 08 – A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
2001 AD Oct 08 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2001 AD Oct 11 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2001 AD Oct 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 180 km of Jupiter's moon Io.
2001 AD Oct 17 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
2001 AD Oct 19 – SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2001 AD Oct 23 title="2001">2001 – Apple Computer releases the iPod.
2001 AD Oct 25 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, becoming one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
2001 AD Oct 26 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2001 AD Nov 11 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
2001 AD Nov 12 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2001 AD Nov 12 – War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2001 AD Nov 14 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
2001 AD Nov 14 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It has the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400 km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
2001 AD Nov 15 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console.
2001 AD Dec 11 – China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2001 AD Dec 12 – Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng nature reserve to a national park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps.
2001 AD Dec 13 – Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
2001 AD Dec 15 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
2001 AD Dec 19 – A record high barometric pressure of 1,085.6 hectopascals (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
2001 AD Dec 19 – Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001 AD Dec 22 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Islamic State of Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
2001 AD Dec 22 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
2002 AD Sep 26 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MV Le Joola, capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2002 AD Oct 02 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.
2002 AD Oct 07 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.
2002 AD Oct 10 – Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
2002 AD Oct 11 – A bomb attack in a Myyrmanni shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.
2002 AD Oct 12 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
2002 AD Oct 16 – The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.
2002 AD Oct 23 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2002 AD Oct 24 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
2002 AD Oct 26 – Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
2002 AD Oct 29 – A fire destroys a luxurious department store in Ho Chi Minh City, where 1,500 people are shopping. More than 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for in the deadliest peacetime disaster in Vietnam.
2002 AD Nov 11 – A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.
2002 AD Nov 15 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2002 AD Nov 16 – The first cases of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak are traced to Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.
2002 AD Dec 13 – European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.
2002 AD Dec 17 – Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
2002 AD Dec 18 – California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
2002 AD Dec 23 – A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.
2002 AD Dec 27 – Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.
2003 AD Sep 20 – Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.
2003 AD Sep 21 – The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
2003 AD Sep 25 – The 8.3 M_w  Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
2003 AD Sep 27 – The SMART-1 satellite is launched.
2003 AD Oct 04 – The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
2003 AD Oct 14 – The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
2003 AD Oct 15 – China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
2003 AD Oct 17 – Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest high-rise.
2003 AD Oct 18 – Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2003 AD Oct 19 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2003 AD Oct 20 – The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structure known to humanity, is discovered by students at Princeton University.
2003 AD Oct 24 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
2003 AD Oct 26 – The Cedar Fire, the third-largest wildfire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
2003 AD Nov 12 – Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2003 AD Nov 12 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record of 501 kilometres per hour (311 mph) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
2003 AD Nov 14 – Astronomers discover 90377 Sedna, the most distant trans-Neptunian object.
2003 AD Nov 15 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.
2003 AD Nov 17 – Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began.
2003 AD Dec 13 – Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
2003 AD Dec 14 – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
2003 AD Dec 17 – The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
2003 AD Dec 17 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
2003 AD Dec 17 – Sex work rights activists establish December 17 (or "D17") as International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers to memorialize victims of a serial killer who targeted prostitutes, and highlight State violence against sex workers by police and others.
2003 AD Dec 23 – An explosion at the PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field in Kai County, Chongqing, China, kills at least 234.
2003 AD Dec 24 – The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
2003 AD Dec 25 – UTA Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 141 people.
2003 AD Dec 25 – The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.
2003 AD Dec 26 – The 6.6 M_w  Bam earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 26,000 dead and 30,000 injured.
2003 AD Dec 29 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
2004 AD Sep 15 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2004 AD Sep 16 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
2004 AD Sep 23 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
2004 AD Sep 29 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 AD Sep 29 – Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
2004 AD Oct 02 – The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
2004 AD Oct 04 – SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
2004 AD Oct 14 – MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board.
2004 AD Oct 14 – Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.
2004 AD Oct 19 – Thirteen people are killed when Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Adair County, Missouri, whilst on approach to Kirksville Regional Airport.
2004 AD Oct 23 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2004 AD Oct 24 – Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
2004 AD Oct 29 – The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2004 AD Nov 11 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
2004 AD Nov 11 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2004 AD Dec 14 – The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.
2004 AD Dec 20 – A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.
2004 AD Dec 21 – Iraq War: A suicide bomber kills 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
2004 AD Dec 25 – The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
2004 AD Dec 26 – The 9.1–9.3 M_w  Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis, it affected coastal and partially mainland areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; death toll is estimated at 227,898.
2004 AD Dec 26 – Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
2004 AD Dec 27 – Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
2004 AD Dec 30 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 194.
2004 AD Dec 31 – The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).
2005 AD Sep 16 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
2005 AD Sep 24 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
2005 AD Sep 26 – The PBS Kids Channel is shut down and replaced by a joint network with Comcast called Sprout.
2005 AD Sep 29 – John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.
2005 AD Sep 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.
2005 AD Oct 08 – The 7.6 M_w  Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.
2005 AD Oct 12 – The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
2005 AD Oct 15 – A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in Toledo, Ohio. Twenty-nine people are arrested.
2005 AD Oct 19 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2005 AD Oct 19 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
2005 AD Oct 21 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery.
2005 AD Oct 22 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season until surpassed by the 2020 season.
2005 AD Oct 22 – Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashes in Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.
2005 AD Oct 24 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida, resulting in 35 direct and 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
2005 AD Oct 29 – Bombings in Delhi, India kill more than 60.
2005 AD Nov 16 – Following a 31-year wait, Australia defeats Uruguay in a penalty shootout to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
2005 AD Dec 11 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
2005 AD Dec 11 – Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
2005 AD Dec 15 – Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
2005 AD Dec 17 – Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
2005 AD Dec 17 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan.
2005 AD Dec 18 – The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
2005 AD Dec 23 – An Antonov An-140, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan, heading across the Caspian Sea, crashed, killing 23 people.
2005 AD Dec 24 – Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of belligerence against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.
2005 AD Dec 30 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
2006 AD Sep 17 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
2006 AD Sep 17 – An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
2006 AD Sep 19 – The Thai army stages a coup. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2006 AD Sep 22 – Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.
2006 AD Sep 29 – A Boeing 737 and an Embraer 600 collide in mid-air, killing 154 people and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
2006 AD Oct 02 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
2006 AD Oct 04 – WikiLeaks is launched.
2006 AD Oct 09 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
2006 AD Oct 15 – The 6.7 M_w Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
2006 AD Oct 22 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a national referendum.
2006 AD Oct 28 – A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
2006 AD Nov 11 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
2006 AD Nov 15 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2006 AD Dec 11 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
2006 AD Dec 11 – Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
2006 AD Dec 18 – The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
2006 AD Dec 18 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
2006 AD Dec 26 – Two earthquakes in Hengchun, Taiwan measuring 7.0 and 6.9 on the Richter scale kill two and disrupt telecommunications across Asia.
2006 AD Dec 28 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
2006 AD Dec 29 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
2006 AD Dec 30 – Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.
2006 AD Dec 30 – The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
2006 AD Dec 30 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
2007 AD Sep 16 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
2007 AD Sep 16 – Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
2007 AD Sep 18 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2007 AD Sep 20 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters march on Jena, Louisiana, United States, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
2007 AD Sep 24 – Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
2007 AD Sep 27 – NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
2007 AD Sep 29 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
2007 AD Oct 02 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
2007 AD Oct 06 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
2007 AD Oct 09 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2007-2008 financial crises.
2007 AD Oct 10 – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.
2007 AD Oct 15 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
2007 AD Oct 18 – Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
2007 AD Oct 22 – A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos, with all except one dying in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and ten damaged.
2007 AD Oct 23 – A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform.
2007 AD Oct 24 – Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
2007 AD Oct 28 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
2007 AD Nov 15 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
2007 AD Dec 11 – Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.
2007 AD Dec 13 – The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by the EU member states to amend both the Treaty of Rome and the Maastricht Treaty which together form the constitutional basis of the EU. The Treaty of Lisbon is effective from 1 December 2009.
2007 AD Dec 20 – Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch in the history of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years and 243 days.
2007 AD Dec 20 – The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil. Both will be recovered a few weeks later.
2007 AD Dec 23 – An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
2007 AD Dec 27 – Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
2007 AD Dec 27 – Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
2008 AD Sep 15 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
2008 AD Sep 20 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
2008 AD Sep 23 – Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.
2008 AD Sep 24 – Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa.
2008 AD Sep 26 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
2008 AD Sep 27 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
2008 AD Sep 28 – Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission.
2008 AD Sep 28 – The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win.
2008 AD Sep 29 – Great Recession: The stock market crashes after the first United States House of Representatives vote on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act fails.
2008 AD Oct 03 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
2008 AD Oct 07 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.
2008 AD Oct 07 – Qantas Flight 72 experiences an in-flight upset near Learmonth, Victoria, Australia, injuring 112.
2008 AD Oct 15 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
2008 AD Oct 22 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
2008 AD Oct 24 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
2008 AD Oct 29 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
2008 AD Oct 29 – A pair of deadly earthquakes hits Baluchistan, Pakistan, killing 215.
2008 AD Nov 14 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
2008 AD Dec 11 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2008 AD Dec 22 – An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 4.2 million m³ (1.1 billion US gal) of coal fly ash slurry.
2008 AD Dec 23 – A coup d'état occurs in Guinea hours after the death of President Lansana Conté.
2008 AD Dec 24 – The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.
2008 AD Dec 27 – Operation Cast Lead: Israel launches three-week operation on Gaza.
2009 AD Sep 24 – The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance.
2009 AD Sep 24 – SA Airlink Flight 8911 crashes near Durban International Airport in Durban, South Africa, killing the captain and injuring the rest of the crew.
2009 AD Sep 26 – Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
2009 AD Sep 28 – The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people.
2009 AD Sep 29 – The 8.1 M_w  Samoa earthquake results in a tsunami that kills 189 and injures hundreds.
2009 AD Sep 30 – The 7.6 M_w  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
2009 AD Oct 01 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2009 AD Oct 03 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
2009 AD Oct 09 – First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
2009 AD Oct 10 – Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.
2009 AD Oct 25 – The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.
2009 AD Oct 28 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
2009 AD Oct 28 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
2009 AD Oct 28 – US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
2009 AD Dec 11 – Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment releases the hit mobile game Angry Birds internationally on iOS.
2009 AD Dec 17 – MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
2009 AD Dec 27 – Iranian election protests: On the Day of Ashura in Tehran, Iran, government security forces fire upon demonstrators.
2009 AD Dec 28 – Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
2009 AD Dec 30 – A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
2009 AD Dec 30 – A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
2009 AD Dec 31 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.
2010 AD Sep 19 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
2010 AD Sep 26 – The Philippine Bar exam bombing occurred near the De La Salle University in Taft Avenue, Manila injuring 47 people.
2010 AD Oct 04 – The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
2010 AD Oct 06 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
2010 AD Oct 10 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
2010 AD Oct 12 – The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
2010 AD Oct 13 – The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days underground.
2010 AD Oct 25 – Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people.
2010 AD Dec 15 – A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people.
2010 AD Dec 17 – Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
2010 AD Dec 22 – The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
2010 AD Dec 31 – Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.
2011 AD Sep 15 – Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales, UK.
2011 AD Sep 17 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
2011 AD Sep 18 – The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
2011 AD Sep 19 – Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all-time career saves leader with 602.
2011 AD Sep 20 – The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
2011 AD Sep 29 – The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.
2011 AD Oct 05 – In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
2011 AD Oct 20 – Libyan Crisis: Rebel forces capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter, ending the first Libyan civil war.
2011 AD Oct 21 title="2011">2011 – Iraq War: President Barack Obama announces that the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year.
2011 AD Oct 23 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2011 AD Oct 23 – The Libyan National Transitional Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
2011 AD Nov 11 – A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills seven, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.
2011 AD Nov 12 – Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.
2011 AD Nov 12 – A blast in Iran's Shahid Modarres missile base leads to the death of 17 of the Revolutionary Guards members, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.
2011 AD Dec 31 – Samoa and Tokelau skip the day of December 30, 2011 as they jump to the other side of the International Date Line, changing their time zones.
2011 AD Dec 31 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
2012 AD Sep 18 – Greater Manchester Police officers PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone are murdered in a gun and grenade ambush attack in Greater Manchester, England.
2012 AD Sep 21 – Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
2012 AD Sep 27 – In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then himself.
2012 AD Sep 28 – Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
2012 AD Oct 01 – A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
2012 AD Oct 09 – Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
2012 AD Oct 12 – The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
2012 AD Oct 14 – Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.
2012 AD Oct 19 – A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.
2012 AD Oct 22 – Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping.
2012 AD Oct 29 – Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
2012 AD Nov 11 – A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
2012 AD Nov 14 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.
2012 AD Nov 15 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2012 AD Nov 17 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.
2012 AD Dec 11 – At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
2012 AD Dec 12 – North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2.
2012 AD Dec 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
2012 AD Dec 19 – Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
2012 AD Dec 22 – Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party and eight others are killed in a Pakistan Taliban bomber suicide attack in Dhaki Nalbandi area near Qissa Khwani Bazaar.
2012 AD Dec 25 – An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.
2012 AD Dec 25 – Air Bagan Flight 011, a Fokker 100, crashes on approach to Heho Airport in Heho, Myanmar, killing two people.
2012 AD Dec 26 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.
2012 AD Dec 29 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
2013 AD Sep 16 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.
2013 AD Sep 17 – Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
2013 AD Sep 21 – Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
2013 AD Sep 22 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2013 AD Sep 24 – A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing at least 327 people.
2013 AD Sep 29 – Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.
2013 AD Oct 03 – At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
2013 AD Oct 11 – A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 34 people drowning.
2013 AD Oct 12 – Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
2013 AD Oct 13 – A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.
2013 AD Oct 15 – The 7.2 M_w Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
2013 AD Oct 16 – Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
2013 AD Oct 19 – 105 people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.
2013 AD Oct 22 – The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.
2013 AD Oct 28 – Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.
2013 AD Nov 15 – Sony releases the PlayStation 4 (PS4) game console.
2013 AD Nov 17 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
2013 AD Nov 17 – A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.
2013 AD Dec 14 – A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.
2013 AD Dec 15 – The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.
2013 AD Dec 16 – A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
2013 AD Dec 19 – Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.
2013 AD Dec 29 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.
2013 AD Dec 29 – Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps.
2013 AD Dec 30 – More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2014 AD Sep 16 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
2014 AD Sep 18 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, by 55% to 45%.
2014 AD Sep 24 – The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
2014 AD Sep 26 – A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico.
2014 AD Sep 27 – The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs.
2014 AD Sep 28 – The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
2014 AD Oct 01 – A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
2014 AD Oct 01 – A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.
2014 AD Oct 08 – Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
2014 AD Oct 14 – A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
2014 AD Oct 14 – The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.
2014 AD Oct 22 – Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
2014 AD Oct 24 – The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
2014 AD Oct 27 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
2014 AD Oct 28 – A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.
2014 AD Oct 29 – A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.
2014 AD Nov 11 – Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.
2014 AD Nov 12 – The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
2014 AD Dec 15 – Gunman Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.
2014 AD Dec 16 – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.
2014 AD Dec 17 – The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961.
2014 AD Dec 28 – Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
2014 AD Dec 28 – Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea, in Italian waters.
2014 AD Dec 31 – A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
2015 AD Sep 16 – A 8.3 M_w  earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causing extensive damage. One person also dies in Argentina.
2015 AD Sep 18 – Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan Air Force base on the outskirts of Peshawar.
2015 AD Sep 24 – At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
2015 AD Oct 01 – A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
2015 AD Oct 01 – Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in Guatemala, killing 280 people.
2015 AD Oct 01 – The American cargo vessel SS El Faro sinks with all of its 33 crew after steaming into the eyewall of Hurricane Joaquin.
2015 AD Oct 03 – Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
2015 AD Oct 10 – Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.
2015 AD Oct 14 – A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
2015 AD Oct 23 – The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.
2015 AD Oct 24 – A driver crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring 34.
2015 AD Oct 26 – A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
2015 AD Oct 29 – China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.
2015 AD Nov 12 – Two suicide bombers detonate explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.
2015 AD Dec 12 – The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted.
2015 AD Dec 18 – Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.
2015 AD Dec 23 – A bomb explodes at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport, killing one airport cleaner. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks claim responsibility for the attack four days later.
2015 AD Dec 26 – During the December 2015 North American storm complex, a Tornado Outbreak occurs in the DFW Metroplex, with the most notable tornadoes being an EF2, EF3, and an EF4. About a dozen people died due to various reasons, 10 of which due to the EF4, which did substantial damage to the suburb of Rowlett.
2015 AD Dec 31 – A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates, located near the Burj Khalifa, two hours before the fireworks display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.
2016 AD Sep 17 – Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.
2016 AD Sep 18 – The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.
2016 AD Sep 19 – In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.
2016 AD Sep 28 – The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.
2016 AD Sep 29 – Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
2016 AD Sep 30 – Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
2016 AD Sep 30 – Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.
2016 AD Oct 02 – Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
2016 AD Oct 07 – In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to over 800.
2016 AD Oct 08 – In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900.
2016 AD Oct 09 – The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
2016 AD Oct 13 – The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
2016 AD Oct 15 – One hundred ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
2016 AD Oct 24 – A French surveillance aircraft flying to Libya crashes on takeoff in Malta, killing all five people on board.
2016 AD Nov 14 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Kaikoura, New Zealand, at a depth of 15 km (9 miles), resulting in the deaths of two people.
2016 AD Nov 15 – Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.
2016 AD Dec 19 – Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.
2016 AD Dec 19 – A vehicular attack in Berlin, Germany, kills and injures multiple people at a Christmas market.
2016 AD Dec 22 – A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70 and 100% effective, thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.
2016 AD Dec 25 – A Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble crashes into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board.
2017 AD Sep 15 – The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.
2017 AD Sep 19 – The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage.
2017 AD Sep 20 – Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.
2017 AD Oct 01 – An independence referendum, later declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.
2017 AD Oct 01 – Fifty-eight people are killed and 869 others injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip in the United States; the gunman, Stephen Paddock, later commits suicide.
2017 AD Oct 04 – Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
2017 AD Oct 12 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.
2017 AD Oct 14 – A massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others.
2017 AD Oct 16 – Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.
2017 AD Oct 17 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.
2017 AD Oct 20 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare victory in the Raqqa campaign.
2017 AD Oct 26 – At a level crossing of the Hanko–Hyvinkää railway line, a passenger train collides with an off-road truck of the Nyland Brigade in Raseborg, Finland; four people die and 11 are injured.
2017 AD Oct 27 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
2017 AD Nov 12 – The 7.3 M_w  Kermanshah earthquake shakes the northern Iran–Iraq border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 410 people are killed and over 7,000 are injured.
2017 AD Nov 14 – A gunman kills four people and injures 12 others during a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama, California. He had earlier murdered his wife in their home.
2017 AD Dec 11 – New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator.
2017 AD Dec 14 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.
2017 AD Dec 15 – A 6.5M_w earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Java in the city of Tasikmalaya, resulting in four deaths.
2017 AD Dec 18 – Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing six people, and injuring 70 others.
2017 AD Dec 22 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved.
2017 AD Dec 22 – President Donald Trump signs the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
2018 AD Sep 17 – A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.
2018 AD Sep 20 – At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
2018 AD Sep 21 – Killing of Zak Kostopoulos, LGBT rights activist beaten to death on a busy street in Athens
2018 AD Sep 25 – Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
2018 AD Sep 28 – The 7.5 M_w 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
2018 AD Oct 01 – The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia.
2018 AD Oct 02 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
2018 AD Oct 06 – The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as an Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process.
2018 AD Oct 10 – Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.
2018 AD Oct 11 – Soyuz MS-10, launching an intended crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.
2018 AD Oct 12 – Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
2018 AD Oct 15 – 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.
2018 AD Oct 17 – The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
2018 AD Oct 17 – Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.
2018 AD Oct 27 – A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring six, including four police officers.
2018 AD Oct 27 – Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England.
2018 AD Oct 28 – Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.
2018 AD Oct 29 – A Boeing 737 MAX plane crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board.
2018 AD Dec 18 – List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
2018 AD Dec 22 – A tsunami caused by an eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia kills at least 430 people and injures almost a thousand more.
2018 AD Dec 22 – The 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown, the longest shutdown of the U.S. federal government in history, begins.
2018 AD Dec 24 – A helicopter crash kills Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor.
2018 AD Dec 31 – Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.
2019 AD Sep 16 – Five months before the COVID-19 stock market crash, an overnight spike in lending rates in the United States prompts the Federal Reserve to conduct operations in the repo market.
2019 AD Sep 19 – A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan.
2019 AD Sep 20 – Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.
2019 AD Sep 21 – A 5.6 M_w earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
2019 AD Sep 27 – Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.
2019 AD Sep 29 – Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.
2019 AD Oct 01 – Kuopio school stabbing: one dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at Savo Vocational College in Kuopio, Finland.
2019 AD Oct 02 – A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.
2019 AD Oct 08 – About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland.
2019 AD Oct 09 – Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.
2019 AD Oct 12 – Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
2019 AD Oct 12 – Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
2019 AD Oct 12 – The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20.
2019 AD Oct 13 – Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.
2019 AD Oct 17 – Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.
2019 AD Oct 17 – The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.
2019 AD Oct 18 – NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.
2019 AD Oct 18 – Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.
2019 AD Oct 21 – Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2019 AD Oct 21 – In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government.
2019 AD Oct 22 – Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.
2019 AD Oct 27 – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.
2019 AD Nov 14 – A mass shooting occurs at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, resulting in three deaths, including that of the perpetrator, and three injuries.
2019 AD Nov 17 – The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
2019 AD Dec 11 – The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for Bougainville's independence.
2019 AD Dec 18 – The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.
2019 AD Dec 20 – The United States Space Force becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947.
2019 AD Dec 25 – Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines.
2019 AD Dec 27 – Bek Air Flight 2100 crashes during takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing 13.
2019 AD Dec 31 – The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 AD Sep 15 – Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
2020 AD Sep 27 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh war: Azerbaijan launched an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.
2020 AD Oct 08 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan twice deliberately targeted the Church of the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots of Shusha.
2020 AD Oct 29 – Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is suspended from the Labour Party following his response to findings from the EHRC on the issue of antisemitism within the party.
2020 AD Nov 03 – The 2020 United States presidential election takes place between Democratic Joe Biden and Republican incumbent President Donald Trump. On November 7, Biden was declared the winner.
2020 AD Nov 11 – Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands. The storm caused the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009 and killed 67 people.
2020 AD Nov 15 – Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.
2020 AD Nov 18 – The Utah monolith, built sometime in 2016 is discovered by state biologists of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
2020 AD Nov 27 – Iran's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, is assassinated near Tehran.
2020 AD Nov 27 – Days after the announcement of its discovery, the Utah monolith is removed by recreationists.
2020 AD Nov 28 – Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Eritrean Army in Aksum, Ethiopia.
2020 AD Dec 01 – The Arecibo Telescope collapsed.
2020 AD Dec 02 – Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
2020 AD Dec 11 title="2020">2020 – The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency.
2020 AD Dec 14 – A total solar eclipse is visible from parts of the South Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and the South Atlantic Ocean.
2020 AD Dec 21 – A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623.
2020 AD Dec 25 – An explosion in Nashville, Tennessee occurs, leaving three civilians in the hospital.
2020 AD Dec 29 – A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.
2020 AD Dec 29 – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia, killing 7 people.
2020 AD Dec 31 – The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.
2021 AD Sep 16 – A 6.0 M_w  earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.
2021 AD Sep 18 – A ferry capsizes in Guizhou province, China due to bad weather, killing ten people and five missing.
2021 AD Sep 19 – The Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, erupts. The eruption lasts for almost three months, ending on December 13.
2021 AD Oct 03 – Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
2021 AD Oct 04 – Bubba Wallace becomes the first African-American Driver in the modern era of NASCAR to win a major race
2021 AD Oct 14 – About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike.
2021 AD Oct 21 – A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.
2021 AD Nov 21 – An SUV plows through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six and injuring 62.
2021 AD Nov 26 title="2021">2021 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization identifies the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
2021 AD Nov 30 – Barbados becomes a republic.
2021 AD Dec 03 – COVID-19 pandemic: New Zealand moves into COVID-19 Protection Framework (Traffic Light System), moving Auckland out of lockdown for fully vaccinated people.
2021 AD Dec 04 – Semeru on the Indonesian island of Java erupts, killing at least 43 people.
2021 AD Dec 09 – 55 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.
2021 AD Dec 10 – A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. 89 people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others.
2021 AD Dec 25 – The James Webb Space Telescope is launched.
2022 AD Sep 19 – The funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London.
2022 AD Oct 07 – 10 people die and 8 are injured in an explosion at petrol station in Creeslough.