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x 228 Incident The 228 Monument located near the Presidential Office in Taipei   Feb 28, 1947  
The 228 Incident (traditional Chinese: 二二八事件; pinyin: èr èr bā shìjiàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Jī-jī-pat sū-kiāⁿ) also known as the 228 Massacre (traditional Chinese: 二二八大屠殺; simplified Chinese: 二二八大屠杀; pinyin: èr èr bā dàtúshā) was an anti-government, anti...
x Apollo 12 AP12goodship Space Mission Nov 14, 1969 Nov 24, 1969
Apollo 12 was the sixth manned mission in the Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission. (The backup crew would later fly on...
x Apollo 1 Apollo 1 patch Space Mission Jan 27, 1967  
Apollo 1 is the official name that was retroactively given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module (CM-012) was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on January 27, 1967 at Pad 34 (Launch Complex 34,...
x Defenestrations of Prague Matthäus Merian's impression of the 1618 Defenestration of Prague   1618  
The Defenestrations of Prague were two incidents in the history of Bohemia. The first occurred in 1419 and the second in 1618, although the term "Defenestration of Prague" is more commonly used to refer to the second incident. Both helped to trigger...
x Battle of Naseby The Battle Field at Naseby 20,04,2007   Jun 14, 1645  
The Battle of Naseby was the key battle of the first English Civil War. On June 14, 1645, the main army of King Charles I was destroyed by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. At the beginning of 1645,...
x Trafalgar 200 The re-enactment of the announcement of the death of Nelson from the Union Hotel, Penzance. Commemorative event 2005  
Trafalgar 200 was a series of events in 2005 held mostly in the United Kingdom to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, where a British fleet led by Admiral Nelson (who died in the battle) defeated a joint Franco-Spanish fleet...
x Battle of Trafalgar Art Subject Oct 21, 1805  
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a historic sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August-December 1805) of the Napoleonic...
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x Great Fire of London Exhibition subject Sep 2, 1666 Sep 5, 1666
The Great Fire of London, a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666, was one of the major events in the history of England. The fire gutted the medieval City of...
x Great Plague of London A bill of mortality for the plague year of 1665.   1665 1666
The Great Plague (1665-1666) was a massive outbreak of disease in England that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. The disease was historically identified as bubonic plague, an infection by the bacterium Yersinia...
x Gunpowder Plot   Nov 5, 1605  
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Powder Treason, as it was known at the time, was a failed attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics to kill King James I of England and VI of Scotland, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in...
x First English Civil War   Military Conflict 1642 1646
The First English Civil War (1642–1646) was the first of three wars known as the English Civil War (or "Wars"). "The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and...
x Second English Civil War   Military Conflict 1648 1649
The Second English Civil War (1648–1649) was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War (or Wars) which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642...
x Third English Civil War   Military Conflict 1649 1651
The Third English Civil War (1649–1651) was the last of the English Civil War (1642–1652), a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The Preston campaign of the Second Civil War was undertaken...
x Scottish Civil War The start — riots set off by Jenny Geddes.   1644 1645
Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms covers Scotland's involvement in the wider conflict known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms between 1644 and 1650. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms were a series of civil wars that were fought in Scotland,...
x Greek Civil War Map of Greece Military Conflict 1946 1949
The Greek Civil War (Greek: ο Eμφύλιος [Πόλεμος], "the Civil War"), fought from 1946 to 1949 by the Governmental forces, receiving logistical support by the United Kingdom at first and later by the United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece,...
x Wars of the Three Kingdoms The start — riots set off by Jenny Geddes. Military Conflict 1939 1951
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (sometimes known as the Wars of the Three Nations) formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 after these three countries had come under the ...
x English Civil War 清教徒革命の勢力図。クリックで拡大 Military Conflict 1642 1651
The English Civil War (1641-1653) (though there is some argument and disagreement about this) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The first (1642–1646) and second (1648–1649) civil wars...
x Seminole Wars Osceola Military Conflict 1817 1858
The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between various groups of Native Americans collectively known as Seminoles and the United States. The First Seminole War was from 1817 to 1818; the Second Seminole...
x First Carlist War Stephens iii Military Conflict 1833 1839
The First Carlist War was a civil war in Spain from 1833 to 1839. At the beginning of the 18th century, King Philip V of Spain promulgated the Salic Law, which declared illegal the inheritance of the Spanish crown by women. His purpose was to thwart...
x Irish Confederate Wars Kilkenny castle Military Conflict 1641 1653
This article is concerned with the military history of Ireland from 1641-53. For the political context of this conflict, see Confederate Ireland. The Irish Confederate Wars, also sometimes called the Eleven Years War (derived from the Irish language...
x The Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1851   May 1, 1851 Oct 15, 1851
The Great Exhibition, also known as Crystal Palace, was an international exhibition that was held in Hyde Park, London, England, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to...
x Haymarket Riot Exaggerated 19th century engraving showing flames and smoke following the Haymarket riot. Location 1886  
The Haymarket Riot on May 4, 1886 in Chicago is generally considered to have been an important influence on the origin of international May Day observances for workers. In popular literature this event inspired the caricature of "a bomb-throwing...
x Newark riots     Jul 12, 1967 Jul 17, 1967
The 1967 Newark Riots were a major civil disturbance that occurred in the city of Newark, New Jersey between July 12 and July 17, 1967. The six days of rioting, looting, and destruction left 26 dead and hundreds injured. In the period leading up to...
x Battle of Hjörungavágr Jomsvikings fighting in a hail storm at the Battle of Hjörungavágr Military Conflict 986 C.E. 986 C.E.
The Battle of Hjörungavágr (Modern Norwegian Hjørungavåg) is a semi-legendary naval battle that took place in the late 10th century between the Jarls of Lade and a Danish invasion fleet led by the fabled Jomsvikings. The battle is described in the...
x Crusades SiegeofAntioch   1095 1291
The Crusades were a series of religion driven military campaigns waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents. Crusades were fought mainly against Muslims, though campaigns were also directed against pagan Slavs, Jews,...
x Black Death Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411)   1340  
The Black Death, or the Black Plague, was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis (Bubonic plague), but recently attributed by some to other diseases. The pandemic is...
x Sieges of Constantinople   626 C.E. 1453
There were at least 11 sieges of Constantinople during the history of the Byzantine Empire. Two sieges resulted in the capture of Constantinople from Byzantine rule: in 1204 by crusaders, and in 1453 by the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II.
x Fall of Constantinople Military Conflict May 29, 1453  
The Fall of Constantinople refers to the capture of the Byzantine Empire's capital by the Ottoman Empire on Tuesday, May 29, 1453 (Julian Calendar). The event marked the end of the political independence of the millennium-old Byzantine Empire, which...
x Washington's crossing of the Delaware Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutze, 1851, Metropolitan Museum Art Subject Dec 25, 1776 Dec 25, 1776
Washington's crossing of the Delaware, occurring on December 25, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey at the Battle of Trenton. After securing the army...
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x American Revolutionary War Rev collage Military Conflict Apr 19, 1775  
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies on the North American continent and ended in a global war...
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x Battle of Trenton Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutze, 1851, Metropolitan Museum Art Subject Dec 26, 1776  
The Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. The hazardous crossing in adverse weather allowed Washington...
Military Conflict
x The Volpini Exhibition, 1889 Paul Gauguin 087 Exhibition 1889  
The Exhibition at the Café Volpini in summer 1889 was arranged by Paul Gauguin and his circle, on the walls of a café just outside the gates of the Exposition universelle, and run by a certain Monsieur Volpini. Though Gauguin and his companions had...
x First Crusade Capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, 1099 (from a medieval manuscript)   1095  
The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the dual goals of conquering the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and freeing the Eastern Christians from Islamic rule. What started as an appeal by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I...
x Crimean War Malakhov1 Military Conflict Mar 1854 Feb 1856
The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Eastern War (Russian: Восточная война, Vostochnaya Vojna) (March 1854–February 1856) was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of...
x Protestant Reformation The 95 Theses   1517 1648
The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517, though its roots lie further back in time. It began with Martin Luther and may be considered to have ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The movement began as an...
x Thirty Years' War Location of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Military Conflict 1618 1648
The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) was a religious war principally fought in Germany, where it involved most of the European powers. The conflict began between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, but gradually developed into a...
x Battle of Adrianople Military Conflict Aug 9, 378 C.E.  
The second Battle of Adrianople (August 9, 378), sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperor Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various...
x Pacers-Pistons brawl Artestpunchoffaninbrawl   Nov 19, 2004  
The Pacers-Pistons brawl was an altercation that occurred in a National Basketball Association game between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers on November 19, 2004 at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan. With less than a minute...
x Battle of Hastings Hastings battleplan Location Oct 14, 1066 Oct 14, 1066
The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England. The battle took place at Senlac Hill, approximately 6 miles (10 km) north-west of Hastings, on which an abbey was subsequently built. The battle took place on...
Military Conflict
x American Revolution John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence   1775 1783
The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire an