| 'Act of Satisfaction' for distribution of forfeited lands in Ireland |
2011-04-01 |
11827 |
| 'Animal electricity' discovered |
2009-05-01 |
11750 |
| 'Big Brother' movement |
2010-03-01 |
11382 |
| 'Big Sword' society broken by Chinese authorities |
2010-02-01 |
12970 |
| 'Black List' of firms in neutral countries issued |
2010-03-01 |
11275 |
| 'Bloody Sunday' at Socialist meeting in Trafalgar Square |
2011-12-30 |
9125 |
| 'Bloody Week' in Paris ends with defeat of the Commune |
2011-12-30 |
9187 |
| 'British' Bechuanaland is annexed to Cape Colony |
2011-12-30 |
10082 |
| 'Chambers of Reunion' meet at Metz, Breisach, Besançon and Tournai |
2011-04-01 |
10686 |
| 'Darnel's case' sees five imprisoned Englishmen plead for release |
2011-02-01 |
11009 |
| 'Defenestration of Prague' starts the Thirty Years War |
2011-02-01 |
11107 |
| 'Dirty Wars' commence in Argentina |
2010-02-01 |
9100 |
| 'English Armada:' Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norris undertake an expedition to Portugal |
2011-02-01 |
10829 |
| 'Four Bills' are presented to King by Parliament but rejected |
2011-04-01 |
9302 |
| 'Gang of Four' denounced and arrested |
2010-02-01 |
10708 |
| 'Jenkins' Ear' debate in Parliament urging war on Spain |
2011-04-01 |
8616 |
| 'June Days' in France, where thousands of Paris workmen are killed |
2011-12-30 |
7438 |
| 'Lichfield House Compact' allies Daniel O'Connell with Whig opposition |
2011-12-30 |
2220 |
| 'Little Entente' formed |
2010-03-01 |
2519 |
| 'Mad Mullah' raids on British and Italian Somaliland |
2011-12-30 |
1380 |
| 'March of the Blanketeers' |
2010-03-01 |
2263 |
| 'Ministry of all the Talents' falls |
2010-03-01 |
2216 |
| 'Perpetual' Alliance between Prussia and Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
1670 |
| 'Reform Banquets' in France |
2010-02-01 |
2610 |
| 'Reign of Terror' in Russia under Ivan IV |
2010-03-01 |
1487 |
| 'Root and Branch' petition to abolish Episcopacy |
2011-02-01 |
4231 |
| 'September Laws' in France impose press censorship |
2011-12-30 |
3211 |
| 'Tariff of Abominations' attempts to make USA economically self-sufficient |
2011-12-30 |
1861 |
| 'The Directors' of the Bernardine Army swear fidelity to France |
2011-02-01 |
1820 |
| 'The Main Plot' to replace James I with Arabella Stuart is discovered |
2011-02-01 |
2158 |
| 'Time of the Troubles' begins in Russia |
2011-02-01 |
2124 |
| 'Velvet Divorce' |
2010-02-01 |
2423 |
| 'War of a Thousand Days' |
2010-02-01 |
2127 |
| 'White boys' revolt in Ireland |
2010-03-01 |
1986 |
| ’Dirty snowball’ model of the cometary nucleus outlined |
2009-05-01 |
1896 |
| "Morley-Minto" Reforms |
2010-02-01 |
5429 |
| “Chronicle of 754” (or Continuatio Hispana) composed |
2009-05-01 |
6382 |
| “Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms” period in China |
2009-05-01 |
4680 |
| “The Directory” -- New French Constitution |
2007-12-02 |
3657 |
| “The Mohocks” terrorise streets of London |
2006-12-02 |
2251 |
| A History of Bornu written by Sheikh Masfarma ben Uthman |
2010-03-01 |
1395 |
| Australian Magazine |
2010-03-01 |
1664 |
| Canton Register |
2010-02-01 |
3085 |
| Daily Mail |
2011-03-01 |
1568 |
| Daily Telegraph first published |
2013-08-30 |
3590 |
| El Diario de Mexico |
|
1924 |
| Freedom's Journal published |
2010-03-01 |
2366 |
| Malleus Maleficarum is published in Rome |
2010-03-01 |
2220 |
| Mappa Mundi at Hereford |
2010-03-01 |
1548 |
| Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun completed |
2010-03-01 |
2018 |
| Pi computed to 100 decimal places |
2009-05-01 |
1633 |
| Sati (or Suttee) abolished in India |
2010-02-01 |
2901 |
| South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register |
2010-03-01 |
1480 |
| The Classic of Tea is written by Chinese writer Lu Yu |
2009-05-01 |
2953 |
| The Fundamentals published |
2010-03-01 |
1879 |
| The Story of the Bamboo Gatherer, earliest Japanese prose narrative |
2009-05-01 |
2125 |
| 120 colonists set off to Virginia under Captain Christopher Newport |
2011-02-01 |
2559 |
| 139 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled by order of the King |
2011-04-01 |
2251 |
| 1552 Prayer Book rejected |
2010-11-01 |
3525 |
| 17th Amendment to U.S. constitution |
2011-03-01 |
1741 |
| 2.2 micron sky survey with a 1.6-metre telescope on Mount Wilson |
2009-05-01 |
1556 |
| 20 000 Salzburg Protestants settle in East Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1547 |
| 31-foot radio telescope built |
2011-03-01 |
1532 |
| 4,000 English troops arrive in France to aid Henry of Navarre |
2011-02-01 |
2984 |
| 8500 British troops join Ferdinand of Brunswick |
2011-12-30 |
2982 |
| 90 000 miners in the Ruhr strike |
2010-02-01 |
2153 |
| A 'Communist state' is established by the Anabaptists at Munster |
2010-11-01 |
2402 |
| A Boston crowd mobs William Lloyd Garrison |
2010-03-01 |
1850 |
| A bride is sought for Charles, Prince of Wales |
2011-02-01 |
1064 |
| A Catholic League of German princes is formed at Munich |
2011-02-01 |
2036 |
| A Charter is granted to Rhode Island |
2011-04-01 |
1525 |
| A Charter unites Providence, Rhode Island, with Newport and Portsmouth |
2011-02-01 |
1333 |
| A chartered imperial company for East Indies trade is proposed |
2011-04-01 |
1827 |
| A combined Spanish and French force storms Barcelona |
2011-04-01 |
2688 |
| A Constitution is granted in Hesse-Cassel |
2011-12-30 |
1360 |
| A coup d'état in Spain overthrows the Queen Mother |
2011-04-01 |
1196 |
| A crisis in the wool trade leads to riots in Kent |
2010-11-01 |
2760 |
| A Danish settlement is made on the Gold Coast |
2011-04-01 |
1328 |
| A Danish-Swedish army defeats the troops of Lubeck at Battle of Assens |
2010-11-01 |
2122 |
| A Dauphin of France is born |
2010-11-01 |
1428 |
| A defensive alliance is signed between Brandenburg and France |
2011-04-01 |
1389 |
| A defensive league of Italian powers is formed |
2010-11-01 |
1591 |
| A demarcation line between East and West New Jersey is settled |
2011-04-01 |
1177 |
| A drastic Irish Crimes Act is passed |
2011-12-30 |
1990 |
| A force of Italians and Spaniards lands in Ireland to aid the rebels |
2011-02-01 |
1725 |
| A Foreign Ministry is established in Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1116 |
| A fort and settlement is founded at Detroit |
2011-04-01 |
1249 |
| A Franco-Russian commercial treaty is signed |
2011-02-01 |
1647 |
| A French army begins the conquest of Artois from the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
2038 |
| A French army enters the Palatinate |
2011-02-01 |
2320 |
| A French army forces the imperialists to raise the siege of Heidelberg |
2011-02-01 |
2891 |
| A French army is sent to aid Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange |
2011-02-01 |
1766 |
| A French army tries to rescue the Pope |
2010-11-01 |
2055 |
| A French army under the Duke of Anjou enters Cambrai |
2011-02-01 |
2631 |
| A French army with Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar defeats the Bavarians |
2011-02-01 |
2207 |
| A French Embassy is sent to Siam |
2011-04-01 |
1273 |
| A French factory is founded in Siam |
2011-04-01 |
1609 |
| A French fleet sinks the Mary Rose |
2010-11-01 |
2453 |
| A French force lands on the Isle of Wight |
2010-11-01 |
2490 |
| A French loan is floated to finance Trans-Siberian railway |
2011-12-30 |
2098 |
| A fresh war between Persia and Turkey breaks out |
2011-02-01 |
1525 |
| A General Assembly of Presbyterian ministers meets in defiance of James VI |
2011-02-01 |
2300 |
| A general council meets of dissident ecclesiastics hostile to Julius II |
2010-11-01 |
1841 |
| A German Parliament is summoned by Frederick William IV of Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
1296 |
| A great Danish Viking army invades East Anglia |
2009-05-01 |
2207 |
| A joint expedition from German states is made against Munster |
2010-11-01 |
2530 |
| A joint Spanish-Italian expedition against Algiers fails |
2011-02-01 |
1560 |
| A list of heretical books including Tyndale's Bible is drawn up in London |
2010-11-01 |
3619 |
| A marriage treaty is signed between Anjou and Elizabeth I but peters out |
2011-02-01 |
1813 |
| A marriage treaty is signed between Mary I and Philip of Spain |
2010-11-01 |
3033 |
| A new charter is granted to the old East India Company |
2011-04-01 |
1767 |
| A new Senate and Chamber are elected in France |
2011-12-30 |
1281 |
| A new Turkish fleet sets off to complete the capture of Cyprus |
2011-02-01 |
1563 |
| A peace conference opens at Cologne |
2011-04-01 |
1320 |
| A peasants' revolt in Austria is suppressed with great cruelty |
2010-11-01 |
1782 |
| A plot to assassinate Maurice Prince of Orange is discovered |
2011-02-01 |
1527 |
| A poor rate is levied in the city of London |
2010-11-01 |
2142 |
| A protest against the Diet's decisions creates the word 'Protestant' |
2010-11-01 |
2043 |
| A Protestant Union of German princes is formed at Anhausen |
2011-02-01 |
1978 |
| A Prussian bill for religious education is withdrawn after angry debate |
2011-12-30 |
1415 |
| A ravaging Franco-Turkish fleet provokes a rebellion in Corsica |
2010-11-01 |
2294 |
| A rebellion breaks out in Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1670 |
| A religious disputation held at Worms is the final effort at conciliation |
2011-02-01 |
2315 |
| A revolt of peasants is suppressed in Barcelona |
2010-11-01 |
1368 |
| A rival to the Swabian League is formed |
2010-11-01 |
1760 |
| A Royalist conspiracy is discovered in England |
2011-04-01 |
2165 |
| A Russian army reaches the Rhine |
2011-04-01 |
1963 |
| A Scottish colony is established in the Darien Isthmus |
2011-04-01 |
1359 |
| A second revolution in Naples |
2011-04-01 |
1612 |
| A Secretary of State for Scotland is appointed |
2011-12-30 |
1200 |
| A Spanish army from Catalonia invades Languedoc |
2011-02-01 |
2173 |
| A Spanish fleet is defeated by the Dutch off Enckhuysen |
2011-02-01 |
1813 |
| A Spanish force crosses the Pyrenees to threaten Bayonne |
2010-11-01 |
1865 |
| A Spanish force lands in Brittany to join forces with the League |
2011-02-01 |
2642 |
| A Spanish force recaptures Bonn from John Casimir |
2011-02-01 |
1572 |
| A statue of the Virgin Mary is defaced in Paris |
2010-11-01 |
2354 |
| A Swedish army defeats Archduke Leopold William near Chemnitz |
2011-02-01 |
2045 |
| A Swedish army takes Regensburg from Maximilian of Bavaria |
2011-02-01 |
1914 |
| A truce in the French War is signed at Marigny |
2011-02-01 |
3065 |
| A truce is signed at Vaucelles between Henry II and Philip II |
2011-02-01 |
5803 |
| A truce is signed between England and the Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
1662 |
| A Turkish fleet fails to take Corfu |
2010-11-01 |
1501 |
| A Union of England and Scotland is suggested |
2010-11-01 |
1516 |
| Abbas I accedes as Shah of Persia |
2011-02-01 |
988 |
| Abbas I, Viceroy of Egypt, is murdered |
2011-12-30 |
1247 |
| Abbas II deposed |
2010-03-01 |
1283 |
| Abbas Khedive of Egypt dismisses pro-British ministers |
2011-12-30 |
1069 |
| Abbas the Great of Persia takes Tabriz from the Turks |
2011-02-01 |
1373 |
| Abd-al-Rahman becomes emir of Cordoba |
2009-05-01 |
1987 |
| Abdication of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor |
2007-12-02 |
2348 |
| Abdication of Charles X |
2011-12-30 |
1537 |
| Abdication of Milosh in Serbia |
2011-12-30 |
1261 |
| Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand |
2010-01-01 |
3737 |
| Abjection |
2011-04-01 |
3448 |
| Abolition of British secretaryship in colonies |
2010-03-01 |
1885 |
| Abolition of British window-tax |
2011-12-30 |
1875 |
| Abolition of serfdom in Austria |
2011-12-30 |
1214 |
| Abolition of slave trade in the British Empire; prohibition of slave imports to USA |
2010-02-01 |
5362 |
| Abolition of stamp duty on newspapers in Britain |
2011-12-30 |
2055 |
| Abolition of the Office of Statholder in Norway |
2011-12-30 |
1816 |
| Abortive Fenian risings in Ireland |
2011-12-30 |
2156 |
| Abortive French attempt to invade Ireland |
2007-12-02 |
3603 |
| Abortive London naval conference of the powers |
2011-03-01 |
1771 |
| Abraham Darby uses coke to make cast iron |
2005-10-28 |
4951 |
| Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican nomination for US Senate |
2010-03-01 |
2040 |
| Abraham Lincoln is elected president |
2010-03-01 |
1695 |
| Absolute zero point of temperature discovered by Lord Kelvin |
2013-08-30 |
4413 |
| Abu Muslim unites the Abbasids against the Umayyads |
2009-05-01 |
2089 |
| Accession of Abdul Hamid I |
2011-03-01 |
1398 |
| Accession of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony |
2011-04-01 |
1032 |
| Accession of Christian II of Saxony |
2011-02-01 |
1167 |
| Accession of Ferdinand II of Naples |
2011-12-30 |
1408 |
| Accession of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway |
2011-02-01 |
1201 |
| Accession of Hussain, Shah of Persia |
2011-04-01 |
1145 |
| Accession of Ivan IV (The Terrible) of Russia |
2010-11-01 |
1375 |
| Accession of Oscar I in Sweden |
2011-12-30 |
1229 |
| Accession of Queen Christina of Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1377 |
| Accession of Shah Abbas II |
2011-02-01 |
1175 |
| Accession of Shih Tsung begins the Yung Cheng dynasty |
2011-04-01 |
1197 |
| Accession of the Emperor Rudolf II |
2011-02-01 |
1546 |
| Accession of William V, Duke of Bavaria |
2011-02-01 |
1257 |
| Act against Administering Unlawful Oaths |
2007-12-02 |
6897 |
| Act for relief of poor |
2005-05-18 |
5313 |
| Act for the attainder of the Pretender against 'James III' |
2011-04-01 |
2028 |
| Act in Restraint of Appeals |
2005-06-17 |
4817 |
| Act limiting working hours for children |
2011-12-30 |
1664 |
| Act of Abjuration of the Pretender |
2011-04-01 |
1905 |
| Act of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford |
2011-03-01 |
2280 |
| Act of Grace is passed in England |
2011-04-01 |
2142 |
| Act of Parliament regulates children's and women's working conditions |
2011-12-30 |
1529 |
| Act of Parliament removes disabilities of Jews |
2011-12-30 |
1939 |
| Act of Security to protect the Presbyterian Church of Scotland |
2011-04-01 |
2168 |
| Act of Settlement designates Hanoverian heirs to British throne |
2011-04-01 |
2438 |
| Act of Settlement of the Poor |
2005-05-18 |
4182 |
| Act of Supremacy |
2005-06-17 |
8088 |
| Act of Toleration |
2007-09-10 |
11748 |
| Act of Uniformity |
2005-02-16 |
9338 |
| Act of Uniformity 2 |
2010-03-01 |
3485 |
| Act of Union between Norway and Denmark |
2011-03-01 |
1748 |
| Act of Unity and Security |
2010-03-01 |
1126 |
| Act passed to expand the German navy |
2010-01-01 |
1391 |
| Act suspending Habeas Corpus repealed |
2010-03-01 |
1821 |
| Act to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia |
2010-03-01 |
1062 |
| Acts against unlawful assemblies and destruction of enclosures |
2010-11-01 |
1999 |
| Acts of Succession |
2005-06-17 |
2872 |
| Acute financial and commercial crisis in Britain |
2013-08-30 |
1920 |
| Adam Duncan defeats Dutch off Camperdown |
2010-03-01 |
2146 |
| Adams defeats Jefferson in presidential elections |
2011-03-01 |
2290 |
| Adamson Eight-Hour Act |
2010-03-01 |
1967 |
| Additional Force Act |
2010-02-01 |
2144 |
| Additional galaxies discovered |
2010-02-01 |
1634 |
| Additional Petition and Advice enhances power of Parliament |
2011-04-01 |
1427 |
| Administrative reorganisation of Bengal |
2011-04-01 |
1800 |
| Administrative Senate formed to rule while Peter the Great is absent |
2011-04-01 |
1227 |
| Admiral Alexander Koltchak defeated at Krasnoyarsk |
2010-03-01 |
1576 |
| Admiral Byng defeats Spain off Cape Passaro |
2011-04-01 |
2229 |
| Admiral Byng is shot for neglect of duty |
2011-12-30 |
1536 |
| Admiral Hosier blockades Porto Bello |
2011-04-01 |
2314 |
| Admiral Rodney defeats Spanish |
2010-03-01 |
1753 |
| Admiral Vernon captures Porto Bello |
2011-04-01 |
2294 |
| Adolphe Thiers demands a wider franchise |
2011-12-30 |
1316 |
| Adolphe Thiers forced to resign |
2011-12-30 |
1729 |
| Adolphe Thiers forms second ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
1675 |
| Adolphe Thiers is forced to resign in France |
2011-12-30 |
1855 |
| Adolphus Frederick, Swedish heir, marries Frederick the Great's daughter |
2011-04-01 |
1382 |
| Adrian of Utrecht, Regent of Spain, is elected Pope Adrian VI |
2010-11-01 |
2684 |
| Advances in the study of trade winds, monsoons and solar heating |
2009-05-01 |
2159 |
| Aestheticism |
2001-11-01 |
15136 |
| Afghan troops massacre the British legation at Kabul |
2011-12-30 |
1618 |
| Afghan War ends with British proclamation of victory |
2011-12-30 |
1933 |
| Afghani independence granted |
2010-02-01 |
1656 |
| Afghanistan becomes independent of Persia |
2011-04-01 |
1071 |
| Afghans defeat Mahrattas at Paniput |
2011-12-30 |
2134 |
| African kingdom of Ghana established |
2009-05-01 |
1720 |
| African National Congress formed |
2010-02-01 |
1607 |
| Aga Khan founds All India Muslim League |
2010-03-01 |
1668 |
| Age of Earth estimated |
2009-05-01 |
2557 |
| Agenor Goluchowski becomes Austrian foreign secretary |
2011-12-30 |
1150 |
| Agitation grows in England against harsh ecclesiastical sentences |
2011-02-01 |
1844 |
| Agostino Depretis forms ministry of the Left in Italy |
2011-12-30 |
1477 |
| Agrarian rising in Romania |
2011-12-30 |
1220 |
| Agreement of Plombieres |
2010-02-01 |
3280 |
| Agricultural and industrial depression in France |
2011-12-30 |
1021 |
| Agricultural crisis |
2004-08-19 |
6179 |
| Agricultural Enclosures: 1200-1660 |
2004-09-01 |
4714 |
| Agricultural Enclosures: 1660-1760 |
2004-09-01 |
5112 |
| Agriculture before the Enclosures |
2004-09-01 |
4420 |
| Ahmad Koprulu becomes Grand Vizier of Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1214 |
| Ahmad XII is deposed and succeeded by Mahmoud I in Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1141 |
| Ahmed I succeeds as Sultan of Turkey |
2011-02-01 |
904 |
| Ahmed II succeeds as Sultan of Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1369 |
| AIberoni becomes a Cardinal |
2011-04-01 |
1242 |
| Ak Koyunlu is founded |
2010-03-01 |
1258 |
| Akbar becomes Mughal Emperor |
2010-03-01 |
1485 |
| Akkerman Convention between Russia and Ottoman Empire |
2011-12-30 |
2006 |
| Al-Azhar University founded in Cairo |
2009-05-01 |
1715 |
| Al-Zahiri, the Mamluk Sultan, dies |
2010-03-01 |
1002 |
| Albania declares its independence |
2010-03-01 |
1152 |
| Albania departs Warsaw Pact |
2010-02-01 |
1462 |
| Albania truncates relations with Yugoslavia |
2010-02-01 |
1738 |
| Albanian independence proclaimed |
2011-03-01 |
1276 |
| Albanian Marxist leader, Enver Hoxha dies |
2010-02-01 |
2134 |
| Albany Congress accepts Benjamin Franklin's scheme for an American Union |
2011-04-01 |
1781 |
| Albany leaves Scotland for France |
2010-11-01 |
2091 |
| Albert of Bavaria-Munich defeats Rupert of the Palatinate |
2010-11-01 |
2044 |
| Albert of Brandenburg is elected Archbishop of Mainz through bribery |
2010-11-01 |
1756 |
| Albert von Roon is appointed Minister of War in Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
2016 |
| Alessandro de' Medici is appointed Governor of Florence |
2010-11-01 |
1404 |
| Alessandro de' Medici is assassinated |
2010-11-01 |
1485 |
| Alessandro de' Medici is elected Pope Leo XI |
2011-02-01 |
1689 |
| Alessandro Farnese is elected Pope Paul III and appoints reforming cardinals |
2010-11-01 |
1806 |
| Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, is appointed Governor of Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1307 |
| Alexander I announces annexation of Georgia |
2010-03-01 |
1602 |
| Alexander I issues Polish Constitution |
2010-03-01 |
1333 |
| Alexander I of Serbia dissolves Regency Council |
2011-12-30 |
1258 |
| Alexander Izvolski visits London |
2010-03-01 |
1419 |
| Alexander Leslie becomes Scottish commander in First Bishops' War |
2011-02-01 |
1515 |
| Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV |
2011-02-01 |
1574 |
| Alexander Menshikov claims Russian protection for Christian Ottomans |
2011-12-30 |
1758 |
| Alexander of Battenberg is elected Prince Alexander I of Bulgaria |
2011-12-30 |
814 |
| Alexander of Bulgaria abdicates |
2011-12-30 |
1246 |
| Alexander of Bulgaria becomes governor of Eastern Rumelia |
2011-12-30 |
923 |
| Alexander of Bulgaria restores the constitution of 1879 |
2011-12-30 |
898 |
| Alexander VI makes peace with Naples |
2010-11-01 |
2036 |
| Alexander VI makes peace with the Orsini |
2010-11-01 |
2118 |
| Alexandre Millerand elected President of France |
2010-03-01 |
1548 |
| Alexis is faced with revolt in Moscow |
2011-04-01 |
1330 |
| Alexis succeeds as Tsar of Russia |
2011-02-01 |
1259 |
| Alfonso declares for a constitutional monarchy in Spain |
2011-12-30 |
993 |
| Alfonso Fernandez de Lugo lands at Santa Cruz to conquer Tenerife |
2010-11-01 |
2211 |
| Alfonso II of Naples flees to Sicily |
2010-11-01 |
1612 |
| Alfonso II succeeds to the throne of Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1525 |
| Alfonso of Naples, Lucretia Borgia's husband, is murdered |
2010-11-01 |
1501 |
| Alfonso VI assumes the government of Portugal |
2011-04-01 |
1186 |
| Alfonso XII lands at Barcelona, but Carlist War continues |
2011-12-30 |
1141 |
| Alfred becomes king of Wessex |
2009-05-01 |
2802 |
| Alfred Milner becomes high commissioner for South Africa |
2011-12-30 |
1309 |
| Alfred von Tirpitz appointed German naval secretary |
2011-12-30 |
1217 |
| Algeciras Act signed |
2010-03-01 |
1652 |
| Algeciras conference on Morocco opens (-Apr.) |
2010-03-01 |
2334 |
| Algerian resistance leader takes refuge in Morocco |
2010-02-01 |
2769 |
| Algernon Sydney is executed for plotting against Charles II |
2011-04-01 |
1888 |
| Algiers submits to French bombardment |
2011-04-01 |
1577 |
| Algol paradox resolved |
2009-05-01 |
1543 |
| Ali Pasha of Janina is assassinated |
2011-12-30 |
1564 |
| Aliens Immigration Act in Transvaal restricts liberty of press |
2011-12-30 |
999 |
| All Baltic trade with France prohibited |
2010-03-01 |
2547 |
| All magistrates are to swear loyalty to the King and Church of England |
2011-04-01 |
2204 |
| All-India Campaign for Self-Rule launched |
2010-02-01 |
2369 |
| Alleged paramours of Anne Boleyn are tried for treason |
2010-11-01 |
2056 |
| Alleged paramours of Queen Katherine Howard are executed |
2010-11-01 |
1867 |
| Allegory |
2001-11-01 |
15448 |
| Alleyn, Edward |
2004-10-22 |
5353 |
| Alliance between Brandenburg and the Emperor Leopold I |
2011-04-01 |
1147 |
| Alliance between Emperor Leopold I and the Great Elector |
2011-04-01 |
1136 |
| Alliance between France and Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1211 |
| Alliance between French and Swedes against the Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
1337 |
| Alliance between Henry IV of France and Venice |
2011-02-01 |
1560 |
| Alliance between Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Vladislav II of Bohemia |
2010-03-01 |
2654 |
| Alliance between Saxony and France |
2011-04-01 |
1580 |
| Alliance between the Protestant Union of Germany and the United Provinces |
2011-02-01 |
1811 |
| Alliance between Venice and Savoy against Austria |
2011-02-01 |
1645 |
| Alliance of Brandenburg and France |
2011-04-01 |
1480 |
| Alliance of France and Brandenburg |
2011-04-01 |
1494 |
| Alliance of France, Britain, Russia and the Ottoman Empire against Egypt |
2010-01-01 |
1880 |
| Alliance of Orebro |
2011-03-01 |
1568 |
| Alliance of San Ildefonso |
2010-03-01 |
2537 |
| Alliance of St. Petersburg |
2010-03-01 |
1499 |
| Alliance of the Emperor Leopold I with Holland |
2011-04-01 |
1372 |
| Alliance of the emperors of Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary |
2011-12-30 |
947 |
| Alliance of Versailles between France and Austria |
2011-12-30 |
1562 |
| Alliance of Vienna between Britain, Hanover, Saxony, Poland and Empire |
2011-04-01 |
1842 |
| Alliance treaty between North German Confederation and Bavaria |
2011-12-30 |
1121 |
| Allied air attack on Zeebrugge |
2010-03-01 |
1900 |
| Allied ambassadors leave Constantinople |
2011-12-30 |
1033 |
| Allied break-through in Bulgaria |
2010-03-01 |
1557 |
| Allied conference agree peace terms for Germany |
2010-03-01 |
1718 |
| Allied conference at Rapallo |
2010-03-01 |
1834 |
| Allied economic conference in Paris |
2010-03-01 |
3667 |
| Allied forces land in Sicily |
2010-03-01 |
1599 |
| Allied forces lift German siege of Leningrad |
2010-02-01 |
1962 |
| Allied forces withdraw from the Rhineland |
2010-02-01 |
1879 |
| Allied peace treaty with Austria at St. Germain |
2010-03-01 |
1782 |
| Allied powers land unopposed in Crimea |
2011-12-30 |
1821 |
| Allied ultimatum to Greece |
2010-03-01 |
1151 |
| Allied victory at Zaragoza |
2011-04-01 |
2650 |
| Allies agree to evacuate troops |
2010-03-01 |
2116 |
| Allies blockade Greece |
2010-03-01 |
1560 |
| Allies declare they will assist Serbia |
2010-03-01 |
1660 |
| Allies enter Paris |
2010-03-01 |
2392 |
| Allies evacuate Dobrudja |
2010-03-01 |
1611 |
| Allies evacuate Odessa |
2010-03-01 |
1869 |
| Allies fail to take Toulon by siege |
2011-04-01 |
2407 |
| Allies land troops at Salonika |
2010-03-01 |
1541 |
| Allies offer peace proposals to Napoleon |
2010-03-01 |
2104 |
| Allies recapture Mayence |
2010-03-01 |
1912 |
| Allies relieve siege of Imphal |
2010-02-01 |
2174 |
| Allies sign armistice with Austria-Hungary |
2010-03-01 |
1806 |
| Allies take Lille |
2011-04-01 |
2358 |
| Allies withdraw from Shenkursk |
2011-03-01 |
1557 |
| Alliteration |
2001-11-01 |
7391 |
| Alphonso VI becomes King of Portugal |
2011-03-01 |
1840 |
| Alsace-Lorraine is declared part of the German Reich |
2011-12-30 |
1456 |
| Alteration to Britain's drink licensing laws |
2010-03-01 |
1497 |
| Alvan Clark finishes the Yerkes 40-inch optical refracting telescope |
2009-05-01 |
1746 |
| Amadeus, Duke of Aosta, elected King of Spain |
2011-12-30 |
1164 |
| Amau Doctrine |
2010-02-01 |
2614 |
| Amazon explored by Francisco de Orellana |
2010-01-01 |
2130 |
| Ameer of Afghanistan murdered |
2010-03-01 |
1358 |
| Amended Second Reform Bill passed by the House of Commons |
2013-08-30 |
3760 |
| America declares its 'manifest destiny' |
2010-03-01 |
1904 |
| American Anti-Slavery Society founded |
2011-12-20 |
3345 |
| American colonies enforce non-importation of British goods |
2010-03-01 |
1742 |
| American soldiers occupy Vera Cruz |
2010-03-01 |
1632 |
| American space probe arrives at Mars |
2010-02-01 |
1586 |
| Amerigo Vespucci explores parts of South America |
2010-01-01 |
2106 |
| Amiens falls to Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2526 |
| Amino acid simulation posited |
2009-05-01 |
1362 |
| Amir Khusrau, mystic Muslim poet, dies |
2010-03-01 |
1726 |
| Amistad mutiny |
2010-03-01 |
1961 |
| Amundsen reaches South Pole |
2010-01-01 |
1307 |
| Amur-Ussuri border dispute |
2010-02-01 |
1944 |
| An Act is passed to prevent bribery in Parliamentary elections |
2011-04-01 |
1797 |
| An Act of Attainder is passed against Bolingbroke |
2011-04-01 |
1436 |
| An American Dictionary of the English Language published |
2007-12-02 |
4321 |
| An Arian is burnt for heresy at Smithfield |
2011-02-01 |
1978 |
| An English army lands in France for a joint attack with Imperial forces |
2010-11-01 |
1891 |
| An English army sets off to aid the Elector Palatine |
2011-02-01 |
3870 |
| An English expedition to Scotland captures Leith and burns Edinburgh |
2010-11-01 |
2162 |
| An English fleet is sent against the Barbary pirates of Algiers |
2011-02-01 |
1662 |
| An English force is defeated at St. Etienne |
2010-11-01 |
2581 |
| An English party of colonists settles at Salem, Massachusetts |
2011-02-01 |
1991 |
| An English trading post is founded in Bengal |
2011-02-01 |
2012 |
| An imperial army enters Bohemia to defeat the rebels |
2011-02-01 |
2701 |
| An Imperial force take Grosswardein from Turks |
2011-04-01 |
1502 |
| Anabaptist leader John of Leiden crushes an attempted coup |
2010-11-01 |
2941 |
| Anacrusis |
2001-11-01 |
13358 |
| Analogy |
2001-11-01 |
7368 |
| Anapest |
2001-11-01 |
7413 |
| Anarchist Auguste Vaillant explodes a bomb in Paris Chamber of Deputies |
2011-12-30 |
3931 |
| Anarchist outrages in Paris |
2011-12-30 |
1387 |
| Ancient Rome - The Republic |
|
5744 |
| Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber |
2009-05-01 |
2350 |
| Andras III, King of Hungary, dies |
2010-03-01 |
1814 |
| Andrea and Fillipino Doria defect to the Emperor |
2010-11-01 |
1844 |
| Andrei Rublev completes the Trinity icons in the Zagorsk monastery |
2010-03-01 |
1458 |
| Andrew Jackson asks Congress to enforce tariff in South Carolina |
2011-12-30 |
1628 |
| Andrew Jackson elected President of the USA |
2011-12-30 |
1926 |
| Andrew Jackson is re-elected for second term as President of USA |
2011-12-30 |
2271 |
| Anglican Church becomes the established religion of New South Wales |
2010-03-01 |
1395 |
| Anglo-American treaty on Bering Sea seal fishery |
2011-12-30 |
1306 |
| Anglo-Austrian agreement on Bulgaria |
2011-12-30 |
1126 |
| Anglo-Belgian agreement |
2010-03-01 |
1473 |
| Anglo-Belgian agreement over Nile territory |
2011-12-30 |
1274 |
| Anglo-Belgian loan to China cancelled |
2011-03-01 |
1802 |
| Anglo-Chinese agreement recognises British position in Burma |
2011-12-30 |
1146 |
| Anglo-Chinese commercial treaty |
2013-08-30 |
1779 |
| Anglo-Danish treaty of commerce |
2011-04-01 |
1559 |
| Anglo-Dutch army defeats French at Aughrim |
2011-04-01 |
2455 |
| Anglo-Dutch army lands in Ireland |
2011-03-01 |
2328 |
| Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Dieppe |
2011-03-01 |
2801 |
| Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Le Havre |
2011-03-01 |
2856 |
| Anglo-Dutch treaty for mutual defence |
2011-02-01 |
1718 |
| Anglo-Ethiopian treaty |
2010-03-01 |
1396 |
| Anglo-French 'Cobden' treaty |
2010-01-01 |
2047 |
| Anglo-French agreement on boundaries of Sierra Leone and French Guinea |
2011-12-30 |
1374 |
| Anglo-French agreement on Siam |
2011-12-30 |
1360 |
| Anglo-French alliance designed by Wolsey is signed |
2010-11-01 |
1505 |
| Anglo-French commercial treaty |
2011-12-30 |
1020 |
| Anglo-French condominium over New Hebrides |
2011-12-30 |
1307 |
| Anglo-French convention defines boundaries in Nigeria and Gold Coast |
2011-12-30 |
1296 |
| Anglo-French convention defines spheres of influence in Africa |
2011-12-30 |
1201 |
| Anglo-French convention on hinterland of Tripoli |
2011-12-30 |
1124 |
| Anglo-French defensive treaty signed at Blois |
2011-02-01 |
1920 |
| Anglo-French discussions about the boundary between Canada and Nova Scotia |
2011-04-01 |
1544 |
| Anglo-French discussions on colonial boundaries in North America |
2011-04-01 |
1401 |
| Anglo-French dual control of Egypt re-established |
2011-12-30 |
1357 |
| Anglo-French expedition to dislodge the Spanish from Brittany |
2011-02-01 |
3318 |
| Anglo-French force recaptures Brest from the Spaniards |
2011-02-01 |
1946 |
| Anglo-French marriage treaty |
2011-02-01 |
1550 |
| Anglo-French marriage treaty for Mary Tudor to marry the Dauphin |
2010-11-01 |
1554 |
| Anglo-French military conversations |
2010-03-01 |
1689 |
| Anglo-French naval attack on Dardanelles fails |
2010-03-01 |
1878 |
| Anglo-French peace treaty is signed |
2010-11-01 |
1996 |
| Anglo-French treaty against Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1366 |
| Anglo-French Treaty of Dover |
2004-10-06 |
2552 |
| Anglo-French Treaty of Hampton Court |
2011-02-01 |
1472 |
| Anglo-French troops defeat Chinese at Palikau |
2011-12-30 |
1861 |
| Anglo-French troops take Tianjin in war with China |
2011-12-30 |
1222 |
| Anglo-French truce |
2010-11-01 |
1920 |
| Anglo-French truce |
2011-04-01 |
2859 |
| Anglo-French War |
2012-07-31 |
3210 |
| Anglo-French war breaks out in North America |
2011-04-01 |
2023 |
| Anglo-German agreement |
2010-03-01 |
1152 |
| Anglo-German agreement |
2011-03-01 |
1345 |
| Anglo-German agreement defines Nigeria-Cameroons boundary |
2011-12-30 |
1148 |
| Anglo-German agreement on Baghdad Railway |
2011-03-01 |
1784 |
| Anglo-German convention over Cameroons |
2011-12-30 |
1031 |
| Anglo-German secret agreement on Portugal's African territories |
2011-12-30 |
1860 |
| Anglo-Gurkha war |
2010-02-01 |
2350 |
| Anglo-Indian force massacred in retreat from Kabul |
2010-01-01 |
2221 |
| Anglo-Italian agreement over East Africa |
2011-12-30 |
925 |
| Anglo-Italian agreement over Ethiopia defines frontiers |
2011-12-30 |
1419 |
| Anglo-Italian agreement to maintain status quo in Mediterranean |
2011-12-30 |
1097 |
| Anglo-Japanese alliance renewed for ten years |
2013-08-30 |
859 |
| Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty |
2011-12-30 |
1069 |
| Anglo-Persian agreement |
2010-03-01 |
1117 |
| Anglo-Persian agreement at Teheran |
2011-03-01 |
1024 |
| Anglo-Persian Oil Company Founded |
2010-02-01 |
1574 |
| Anglo-Portuguese agreement on territory around Lake Nyasa |
2011-03-01 |
1362 |
| Anglo-Portuguese agreement on Zambesi and the Congo |
2011-12-30 |
1383 |
| Anglo-Portuguese treaty places Portugal under English control |
2011-04-01 |
1446 |
| Anglo-Prussian defensive alliance, aimed at France |
2011-04-01 |
1503 |
| Anglo-Russian agreement on Afghanistan |
2011-12-30 |
935 |
| Anglo-Russian alliance |
2010-03-01 |
1352 |
| Anglo-Russian alliance is signed |
2011-04-01 |
1627 |
| Anglo-Russian commercial treaty |
2011-02-01 |
1656 |
| Anglo-Russian Convention of St. Petersburg |
2011-12-30 |
1330 |
| Anglo-Russian Convention on Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet |
2010-03-01 |
1846 |
| Anglo-Russian conversations break down |
2010-03-01 |
1234 |
| Anglo-Russian crisis over loan to China |
2011-12-30 |
1722 |
| Anglo-Russian treaty of commerce |
2011-04-01 |
1440 |
| Anglo-Russian Treaty over rights on north-west American coast and Pacific |
2011-12-30 |
1498 |
| Anglo-Scottish Peace is signed |
2010-11-01 |
1698 |
| Anglo-Scottish peace treaty is signed |
2010-11-01 |
1655 |
| Anglo-Scottish truce is extended to the lives of Henry VII and James IV |
2010-11-01 |
2081 |
| Anglo-Scottish truce is signed at Ayton to last for 7 years |
2010-11-01 |
2141 |
| Anglo-Spanish commercial treaty |
2010-11-01 |
1515 |
| Anglo-Spanish commercial treaty |
2011-04-01 |
1576 |
| Anglo-Tibetan Treaty |
2010-03-01 |
1550 |
| Anglo-White Russian forces defeat Soviet forces |
2011-03-01 |
1053 |
| Angola becomes independent; Civil War soon breaks out |
2010-02-01 |
1554 |
| Angular size of the Crab Nebula measured |
2009-05-01 |
1250 |
| Annam is occupied by Ming China |
2010-03-01 |
1439 |
| Annapolis convention |
2010-03-01 |
1819 |
| Anne Askew is burnt at Smithfield for denying transubstantiation |
2010-11-01 |
3775 |
| Anne Boleyn is beheaded |
2010-03-01 |
2219 |
| Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke |
2010-11-01 |
1057 |
| Anne of Austria, the Queen Mother, gains supreme power in France |
2011-02-01 |
1643 |
| Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, dies |
2010-11-01 |
2392 |
| Anne, Duke of Montmorency, Constable of France, is disgraced |
2010-11-01 |
1717 |
| Anne's fourth Parliament meets with Tory majority |
2011-04-01 |
1406 |
| Anonymous. Newgate Calendar 1773 |
2004-01-23 |
5213 |
| Anonymous. The Female Tatler 1709 |
2006-01-22 |
5285 |
| Another Armada against England gathers in Spain but fails |
2011-02-01 |
1601 |
| Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
2012-07-31 |
2295 |
| Anstey, Christopher. New Bath Guide 1766 |
2007-05-14 |
2826 |
| Anthony Babington and his fellow conspirators are executed |
2011-02-01 |
1605 |
| Anthony Trollope's 'Australian' novels published in London |
2010-03-01 |
1554 |
| Anti-black rioting in Springfield, Illinois |
2010-03-01 |
2314 |
| Anti-British Abbas becomes Khedive of Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
815 |
| Anti-British Chauvelin becomes French Foreign Secretary |
2011-04-01 |
1914 |
| Anti-colonial riots in Egypt |
2010-02-01 |
1968 |
| Anti-Corn Law League founded |
2010-02-01 |
4902 |
| Anti-foreign riots in Alexandria |
2011-12-30 |
1451 |
| Anti-French riots |
2010-02-01 |
1775 |
| Anti-Liberal Holy Alliance formed |
2010-03-01 |
2410 |
| Anti-papal iconoclasm in southern England |
2010-11-01 |
3351 |
| Anti-Russian insurrection in Warsaw |
2010-01-01 |
2021 |
| Anti-Spanish revolution in Mexico led by Father Miguel Hidalgo |
2010-02-01 |
2212 |
| Anti-State Church Association founded |
2013-08-30 |
1980 |
| Antineutrinos detected |
2009-05-01 |
1243 |
| Antiproton discovered |
2009-05-01 |
1266 |
| Antonio Blanco loses Presidency of Venezuela through rebellion |
2011-12-30 |
1123 |
| Antonio Facchinetti is elected Pope Innocent IX |
2011-02-01 |
1651 |
| Antonio Perez escapes from prison |
2011-02-01 |
1333 |
| Antonio Perez, former private secretary to Philip II, defects to France |
2011-02-01 |
1774 |
| Antwerp Declaration |
2011-12-30 |
1155 |
| Antwerp falls to Marshal Saxe |
2011-04-01 |
1482 |
| Anzacs arrive in France |
2010-03-01 |
1299 |
| ANZUS Crisis |
2010-03-01 |
1065 |
| ANZUS Pact signed |
2010-02-01 |
1330 |
| Apogee of Umayyad caliphate at Cordoba |
2009-05-01 |
1608 |
| Apollonius names the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola |
2011-03-01 |
1603 |
| Appellate Jurisdictions Act in Britain |
2011-12-30 |
1537 |
| Appointment of a Commission of Ejectors |
2010-02-01 |
1489 |
| Appointment of first school inspectors in the UK |
2013-08-30 |
1528 |
| Arab merchants settle on the East African coast |
2009-05-01 |
2059 |
| Arab navigators perfect the astrolabe and travel to China |
2009-05-01 |
2896 |
| Arab Revolt in Hedjaz begins |
2010-02-01 |
1745 |
| Arab revolt in Palestine |
2009-05-01 |
1927 |
| Arab rising in German East Africa |
2011-12-30 |
1297 |
| Arabella Stuart escapes from the Tower of London to Ostend |
2011-02-01 |
1930 |
| Arabella Stuart is imprisoned for marrying another claimant to the throne |
2011-02-01 |
1729 |
| Arabs cross the straits of Gibraltar |
2005-11-16 |
3934 |
| Arabs take Muscat from Portugal |
2011-04-01 |
1657 |
| Aragon and Castile unite to form the Kingdom of Spain |
2011-03-01 |
1862 |
| Arcadia |
2001-11-01 |
9735 |
| Archbishop Abbot of Canterbury withdraws from public affairs |
2011-02-01 |
1874 |
| Archbishop Beaton, leader of the pro-French party, is imprisoned |
2010-11-01 |
1863 |
| Archbishop Edward Grindal suspended for refusing to suppress Puritanism |
2011-02-01 |
3521 |
| Archbishop Laud becomes First Lord of the Treasury |
2011-02-01 |
1902 |
| Archbishop of Cologne is deposed for favouring Protestantism |
2010-11-01 |
1505 |
| Archbishop of Dublin prorogues the Irish Parliament over the Money Bill |
2011-04-01 |
1958 |
| Archbishop of St. Andrews becomes a Cardinal |
2010-11-01 |
2054 |
| Archbishop Sharp of St. Andrews is killed by Covenanters |
2011-04-01 |
1342 |
| Archduke Albert of Austria becomes Governor of the Spanish Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
901 |
| Archduke Albert of Austria captures Amiens |
2011-02-01 |
1638 |
| Archduke Albert plans to take Metz |
2011-02-01 |
1379 |
| Archduke Albert tries to relieve Amiens |
2011-02-01 |
1263 |
| Archduke Charles arrives in Spain from the Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
1836 |
| Archduke Charles defeats Jourdan at Würzburg |
2011-03-01 |
2979 |
| Archduke Charles is proclaimed King of Spain in Madrid |
2011-04-01 |
1475 |
| Archduke Ernest becomes Governor of the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1052 |
| Archduke Ferdinand is empowered to settle the religious question |
2011-02-01 |
1698 |
| Archduke Ferdinand marries Anne of Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
1646 |
| Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is crowned King of Bohemia |
2010-11-01 |
3743 |
| Archduke Ferdinand refuses to make any concessions to the Lutherans |
2010-11-01 |
1960 |
| Archduke Ferdinand, son of the Emperor, is elected King of the Romans |
2011-02-01 |
1130 |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated |
2010-02-01 |
1705 |
| Archduke John of Austria is elected Regent of the Reich |
2011-12-30 |
765 |
| Archduke Joseph becomes Hungary's 'state governor' |
2010-03-01 |
969 |
| Archduke Leopold becomes ruler of Tuscany |
2010-03-01 |
909 |
| Archduke Leopold of Austria is expelled from Jülich |
2011-02-01 |
1686 |
| Archduke Matthias is welcomed as he enters Prague |
2011-02-01 |
939 |
| Archduke Matthias sent to govern Hungary |
2011-02-01 |
985 |
| Archduke Maximilian is defeated and imprisoned in Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1344 |
| Archduke Maximilian of Austria accepts title of Emperor of Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
1021 |
| Archduke Maximilian renounces his claim to the Polish throne |
2011-02-01 |
1812 |
| Archdukes back Ferdinand of Styria's claim to the Empire |
2011-02-01 |
1519 |
| Archetype |
2008-01-01 |
7995 |
| Argentina, Brazil and Chile arbitrate between U.S. and Mexico |
2010-03-01 |
1741 |
| Argentinean leader deposed |
2010-02-01 |
1696 |
| Argon discovered |
2009-05-01 |
2208 |
| Arian Heresy |
2010-02-01 |
3485 |
| Aristide Briand calls out troops in French railway strike |
2010-03-01 |
1675 |
| Aristide Briand forms ministry in France |
2011-03-01 |
1002 |
| Aristide Briand forms ministry in France |
2010-03-01 |
1183 |
| Arizona organised as US territory |
2011-12-30 |
1188 |
| Armed insurrection by Chartists |
2010-01-01 |
4161 |
| Armenian Massacre |
2010-02-01 |
1216 |
| Armenian massacres continue |
2011-12-30 |
998 |
| Armies of Roberts and Buller join forces |
2011-03-01 |
2058 |
| Armistice between Austria and Sardinia agreed at Vigevano |
2011-12-30 |
1303 |
| Armistice Day |
2010-02-01 |
1378 |
| Armistice in Graeco-Turkish war |
2011-12-30 |
1038 |
| Armistice of Villafranca between France and Austria |
2011-12-30 |
3563 |
| Army bill passed in Hungary |
2010-03-01 |
1077 |
| Army counter-revolution in Constantinople |
2011-03-01 |
1317 |
| Army drafts demands for national government |
2010-02-01 |
1198 |
| Army expels the Rump Parliament |
2011-03-01 |
1247 |
| Army officers petition for reform |
2010-02-01 |
1366 |
| Army to support the French Huguenots crosses the River Loire |
2011-02-01 |
2464 |
| Arrival at Versailles of Embassy from Siam |
2011-04-01 |
1125 |
| Arthur Balfour becomes Prime Minister |
2013-08-30 |
2067 |
| Arthur Balfour resigns |
2010-03-01 |
1371 |
| Arthur Cayley shows that quaternions can be used to represent rotations in four-dimensional space |
2013-08-30 |
2084 |
| Arthur Eddington begins his statistical study of stellar motions |
2013-08-30 |
1375 |
| Arthur Henderson wins Barnard Castle by-election |
2010-03-01 |
2009 |
| Arthur Zimmermann becomes German foreign minister |
2010-03-01 |
1388 |
| Arthur, Prince of Wales dies |
2010-11-01 |
1698 |
| Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries Catherine of Aragon |
2010-11-01 |
1634 |
| Artificial radioactivity induced |
2009-05-01 |
1296 |
| Ashraf Shah, an Afghan, succeeds Mahmud in Persia |
2011-04-01 |
1342 |
| Asian immigration to United States restricted |
2010-02-01 |
1673 |
| Assassination attempt on Louis PhiIippe |
2011-12-30 |
1264 |
| Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
2010-02-01 |
2899 |
| Assassination of Count Capo d'Istria in Greece |
2011-12-30 |
1293 |
| Assassination of Empress of Korea |
2011-12-30 |
1244 |
| Assassination of Fick, the 'Eire Ring' speculator, in New York |
2011-12-30 |
1924 |
| Assassination of Francisco Pizarro |
2010-03-01 |
1805 |
| Assassination of Henry IV of France |
2010-01-01 |
2903 |
| Assassination of Oliver Cromwell advocated |
2010-02-01 |
1351 |
| Assassination of Peter Stolypin |
2010-03-01 |
1350 |
| Assassination of Tsar Paul I |
2011-03-01 |
1474 |
| Assassination of Viacheslav Plehve |
2010-03-01 |
1191 |
| Assassination plot on the President of the Council of the North is discovered |
2010-11-01 |
2056 |
| Assize of Clarendon |
2012-07-31 |
1942 |
| Astronomical unit measured to be about 138,370,000 km |
2009-05-01 |
942 |
| Aswan dam opened |
2010-03-01 |
1438 |
| Asymptotic freedom of quarks proposed |
2011-03-01 |
1165 |
| At Madras British sign treaty with Mysore |
2010-03-01 |
1264 |
| Athenaeum Club |
2013-08-30 |
3335 |
| Atlantic and Pacific linked by the Panama Railroad |
2008-05-24 |
1705 |
| Atomic clock built |
2009-05-01 |
1039 |
| Atomic ideas introduced into chemistry |
2009-05-01 |
1593 |
| Atomic theory formulated by John Dalton |
2010-02-01 |
2308 |
| Attack on French Jesuits by Vicomte de Martignac |
2011-12-30 |
1494 |
| Attempt at German unification under a parliamentary system fails |
2011-12-30 |
1043 |
| Attempt by 'Young Italy' followers of Giuseppe Mazzini on Savoy fails |
2011-12-30 |
1611 |
| Attempt to introduce licensing for Dissenting ministers |
2010-02-01 |
2992 |
| Attempt to reduce the U.S. Speaker's powers |
2010-03-01 |
1463 |
| Attempt to renew Russo-German alliance fails |
2011-12-30 |
843 |
| Attempted assassination of Aristide Briand |
2011-03-01 |
1597 |
| Attempted assassination of Tsar Alexander II |
2010-02-01 |
1782 |
| Attempted assassination of William of Orange |
2011-02-01 |
1556 |
| Atterbury Plot: Jacobites |
2010-01-01 |
1827 |
| Audiencia of New Grenada is created |
2010-11-01 |
1080 |
| Augsburg and Strasbourg submit to Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
2450 |
| Augustan Literature |
2001-11-01 |
13029 |
| Augustus de Iturbide forced to abdicate in Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
1189 |
| Augustus de Iturbide is elected Emperor of Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
1142 |
| Augustus II of Poland (and Saxony) dies |
2011-04-01 |
1290 |
| Augustus II of Poland is deposed |
2011-04-01 |
1382 |
| Augustus, the Elector of Saxony, converts to Catholicism |
2011-04-01 |
1522 |
| Augustus, the Elector of Saxony, is elected King of Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1428 |
| Aurangzeb annexes the Kingdom of Bijapur |
2011-04-01 |
1504 |
| Aurangzeb conquers Golkonda |
2011-04-01 |
1551 |
| Aurangzeb dies and the Mughal Empire falls apart |
2011-04-01 |
1205 |
| Aurangzeb formally becomes Mughal Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
1061 |
| Aurangzeb imprisons his father the Shah |
2011-04-01 |
1341 |
| Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
1224 |
| Australia Government Act for South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria |
2011-12-30 |
957 |
| Australia League established |
2010-03-01 |
1169 |
| Australia's first children's book published |
2010-03-01 |
1537 |
| Australia's first subscription library |
2010-03-01 |
1081 |
| Australia's highest mountain climbed |
2010-03-01 |
1128 |
| Australian Commonwealth Electoral Act |
2010-03-01 |
1203 |
| Australian continent circumnavigated and mapped |
2010-03-01 |
1425 |
| Australian federal convention meets to discuss draft federal constitution |
2011-12-30 |
1050 |
| Australian Imperial Force lands at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli |
2010-03-01 |
2228 |
| Australian independence |
2010-02-01 |
1666 |
| Austria agrees to send an army into Naples to suppress revolt |
2011-12-30 |
1078 |
| Austria and France conclude the Peace of Luneville |
2008-01-01 |
3431 |
| Austria and Prussia conclude defensive alliance against Russia |
2011-12-30 |
1430 |
| Austria and Prussia plan to halt Russia's expansion |
2010-03-01 |
1511 |
| Austria and Prussia send ultimatum to Denmark to repeal constitution |
2011-12-30 |
1168 |
| Austria and Russia promise Ottoman Empire protection |
2010-03-01 |
1438 |
| Austria and Saxony sign an alliance |
2011-04-01 |
1394 |
| Austria annexes Bukovina |
2009-05-01 |
1392 |
| Austria becomes signatory to Anglo-Italian agreement on Mediterranean |
2011-12-30 |
1001 |
| Austria concludes alliance with Britain and France |
2011-12-30 |
1430 |
| Austria declares war against Naples |
2010-03-01 |
1188 |
| Austria defeats Italian uprising |
2010-03-01 |
1241 |
| Austria evades Salisbury's suggestions for common action against Russia |
2011-12-30 |
879 |
| Austria gains Dresden when Frederick II is defeated at Kunersdorf |
2011-12-30 |
1361 |
| Austria grants amnesty for Hungarian insurgents |
2011-12-30 |
1190 |
| Austria invades Serbia |
2010-02-01 |
1335 |
| Austria promises to remain neutral in a Russo-Turkish War |
2011-12-30 |
890 |
| Austria protests terms of Peace Conference |
2010-03-01 |
970 |
| Austria revives the old Bundestag |
2011-12-30 |
1130 |
| Austria revokes 1855 Concordat with Papacy |
2011-12-30 |
965 |
| Austria supports France |
2010-03-01 |
2218 |
| Austria-Hungary is born |
2010-11-01 |
1504 |
| Austria, Bavaria, Saxony and Wurttemberg agree to uphold German union |
2011-12-30 |
1168 |
| Austrian ambassador in Paris negotiations for a treaty with France |
2011-12-30 |
1167 |
| Austrian and Bavarian troops occupy Hanau in Hesse-Cassel |
2011-12-30 |
1243 |
| Austrian and Russian troops defeat Turks |
2010-03-01 |
1119 |
| Austrian and Russian troops defeat Turks (2) |
2010-03-01 |
1228 |
| Austrian army is defeated at Guastalla |
2011-04-01 |
1655 |
| Austrian army under Joseph Radetzky is victorious at Custoza |
2011-12-30 |
1393 |
| Austrian authoritarian rule established |
2010-02-01 |
1116 |
| Austrian Chancellor assassinated by Nazi sympathizers |
2010-02-01 |
1208 |
| Austrian Concordat with Pope |
2011-12-30 |
1189 |
| Austrian constitution centralised by 'February Patent' |
2011-12-30 |
1096 |
| Austrian Constitution is abolished |
2011-12-30 |
1115 |
| Austrian constitution temporarily annulled |
2011-12-30 |
1046 |
| Austrian Emperor agrees to triennial meetings of the Hungarian Diet |
2011-12-30 |
851 |
| Austrian forces cross Sardinian frontier |
2011-12-30 |
1142 |
| Austrian forces enter France |
2010-03-01 |
2576 |
| Austrian forces occupy Warsaw |
2010-03-01 |
1192 |
| Austrian government plans to build railway towards Salonika |
2010-03-01 |
913 |
| Austrian Imperial Council is enlarged by March Patent |
2011-12-30 |
866 |
| Austrian Netherlands constituted province of Austrian monarchy |
2010-03-01 |
1435 |
| Austrian Reichstag meets |
2011-12-30 |
703 |
| Austrian State Treaty |
2010-02-01 |
1048 |
| Austrian troops abandon Burgundy |
2011-02-01 |
1381 |
| Austrian troops enter Italian Peninsula to put down revolts |
2011-12-30 |
1436 |
| Austrian troops evacuate Papal States except for Ferrara |
2011-12-30 |
1082 |
| Austrian troops invade Alsace |
2011-04-01 |
1419 |
| Austrian troops occupy Ancona after risings in the Papal States |
2011-12-30 |
1151 |
| Austrian troops occupy Ferrara after unrest |
2011-12-30 |
1166 |
| Austrian troops suppress Czech revolt in Prague |
2011-12-30 |
1252 |
| Austrian troops take Schweidnitz and blockade Frederick II at Bunzelwitz |
2011-12-30 |
1284 |
| Austrian ultimatum to Russia against carrying the war across the Balkans |
2011-12-30 |
1030 |
| Austrian ultimatum to Russia threatens war |
2011-12-30 |
1565 |
| Austrian ultimatum to Sardinia to disarm |
2011-12-30 |
906 |
| Austrian victory at Curtatone against Tuscany |
2011-12-30 |
1229 |
| Austrian victory at Hochkirch against Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
1450 |
| Austrians are defeated at Pastrengo |
2011-12-30 |
1165 |
| Austrians are defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Basignano in Italy |
2011-04-01 |
1652 |
| Austrians begin siege of Neisse |
2011-12-30 |
1248 |
| Austrians defeat Jourdan's army at Stockach |
2011-03-01 |
2345 |
| Austrians defeated at first battle of Goito |
2011-12-30 |
1576 |
| Austrians defeated at Magenta |
2011-12-30 |
1354 |
| Austrians suppress revolt in Cracow |
2011-12-30 |
1168 |
| Austrians victorious at Vicenza |
2011-12-30 |
1071 |
| Austro-Bavarian army defeat French at Tuttlingen |
2011-02-01 |
2082 |
| Austro-German counter-offensive in Romania |
2010-03-01 |
1334 |
| Austro-German forces take Lemberg (Lviv) |
2010-03-01 |
1632 |
| Austro-German troops occupy Belgrade |
2010-03-01 |
1353 |
| Austro-Hungarian peace offer |
2010-03-01 |
1002 |
| Austro-Hungarian Socialist party splits into six nationalist groups |
2011-12-30 |
1209 |
| Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia |
2010-03-01 |
1742 |
| Austro-Italian armistice |
2011-12-30 |
1258 |
| Austro-Prussian troops enter Schleswig |
2011-12-30 |
1324 |
| Austro-Russian agreement to maintain status quo in the Balkans |
2011-12-30 |
1462 |
| Austro-Russian Mürzstag agreement |
2010-03-01 |
1290 |
| Austro-Serbian alliance |
2011-12-30 |
1281 |
| Avogadro’s principle formulated |
2009-05-01 |
1206 |
| Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran and within ten days controls Tehran |
2010-02-01 |
1368 |
| Ayutthaya, capital of Siam, is established |
2010-03-01 |
1323 |
| Aztec capital captured by the Spanish and their allies |
2010-03-01 |
1754 |
| Aztecs expand their empire |
2010-03-01 |
1684 |
| Æthelbald succeeds to the throne of Mercia |
2009-05-01 |
2175 |
| Æthelred orders massacre of Danes |
2012-07-31 |
1731 |
| Babbage's Calculating Machine |
2013-08-30 |
3802 |
| Babi Yar massacre of Jews |
2010-02-01 |
2355 |
| Babington and his fellow conspirators stand trial |
2011-02-01 |
1515 |
| Bacon, Francis. Novum Organum 1620 |
2012-11-16 |
5323 |
| Bacon is impeached, fined and imprisoned; later pardoned |
2011-02-01 |
1522 |
| Bacon's Rebellion |
2010-03-01 |
2046 |
| Bacteria observed |
2011-03-01 |
1109 |
| Bacterial resistance to virus infection explained |
2009-05-01 |
1196 |
| Baden decides to seek entry to North German Confederation |
2011-12-30 |
915 |
| Baden insurgents capitulate to Prussian troops |
2011-12-30 |
1615 |
| Baden joins Zollverein |
2011-12-30 |
1177 |
| Baghdad Pact |
2010-02-01 |
1675 |
| Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama and sees the Pacific |
2008-05-07 |
2708 |
| Baldomero Espartero is appointed Regent of Spain |
2011-12-30 |
888 |
| Baldomero Espartero is recalled to Spain |
2011-12-30 |
1248 |
| Balfour Declaration |
2004-01-23 |
4967 |
| Balkan allies accept mediation of great powers |
2011-03-01 |
1627 |
| Balkan Pact |
2010-03-01 |
1256 |
| Balkan states sign armistice in Bucharest |
2010-03-01 |
1181 |
| Ballad Stanza |
2001-11-01 |
9061 |
| Baltic Convention |
2010-03-01 |
1317 |
| Bangladeshi cyclone |
2010-02-01 |
1473 |
| Bangladeshi famine |
2010-02-01 |
1265 |
| Bank Charter Act |
2010-02-01 |
2124 |
| Bank Charter Act |
2011-12-30 |
1329 |
| Bank of England loan subscribed in 4 hours |
2010-01-01 |
1442 |
| Banking Crisis and the Restriction Act |
2005-04-01 |
5695 |
| Banks in Newfoundland fail |
2011-12-30 |
880 |
| Bantry Bay expedition fails through gales |
2010-01-01 |
2437 |
| Barack Obama elected president of the US |
2010-03-01 |
1300 |
| Barbados is claimed as an English colony |
2011-02-01 |
1949 |
| Barbarossa sails from Toulon for Constantinople |
2010-11-01 |
1649 |
| Barbarossa takes the Morea from Venice |
2010-11-01 |
1543 |
| Barebone's Parliament (or Nominated Assembly) gathers |
2011-03-01 |
1616 |
| Barebone's Parliament dissolved and the Protectorate set up |
2011-03-01 |
1432 |
| Barent Erikszen leads a voyage to the coast of Guinea |
2011-02-01 |
1598 |
| Barium discovered |
2009-05-01 |
1452 |
| Barometric pressure correlated with height above sea level |
2009-05-01 |
1203 |
| Baron Hayashi reopens Anglo-Japanese negotiations |
2013-08-30 |
915 |
| Baron Montigny is assassinated in Spain on Philip II's orders |
2011-02-01 |
2131 |
| Baron Stein dismissed |
2010-03-01 |
1425 |
| Baron Theodore of Neuhofis elected King of Corsica |
2011-04-01 |
1499 |
| Barrier Treaty is signed between Holland and the Empire |
2011-04-01 |
1689 |
| Basil III becomes ruler of Russia |
2010-11-01 |
796 |
| Basil III of Moscow takes Smolensk |
2010-11-01 |
1312 |
| Basil Shuisky, Tsar of Russia, is deposed |
2011-02-01 |
1743 |
| Basing House falls to Parliamentarians after a siege |
2011-02-01 |
2837 |
| Basle and Schaftenhausen become members of the Swiss Confederation |
2010-11-01 |
1236 |
| Basutoland becomes a native state under British protection |
2011-12-30 |
1799 |
| Basutoland comes under the control of the Cape Colony |
2011-03-01 |
1888 |
| Bataan Death March begins |
2010-03-01 |
1322 |
| Bathos |
2001-11-01 |
19903 |
| Battle at Schweidnitz |
2011-02-01 |
1610 |
| Battle for Warsaw |
2010-03-01 |
1369 |
| Battle of Adwalton Moor |
2010-02-01 |
2465 |
| Battle of Akroinion |
2009-05-01 |
1630 |
| Battle of Alexinatz: Serbs defeated by the Ottomans |
2011-12-30 |
1399 |
| Battle of Alford |
2011-03-01 |
2752 |
| Battle of Aljubarrota |
2011-03-01 |
1809 |
| Battle of Alma: British and French troops are victorious |
2011-12-30 |
1804 |
| Battle of Amblève |
2009-05-01 |
4396 |
| Battle of Ameixial |
2011-04-01 |
1983 |
| Battle of Anchilaus |
2009-05-01 |
1575 |
| Battle of Antietam |
2010-03-01 |
2729 |
| Battle of Arques |
2011-02-01 |
2631 |
| Battle of Atlanta: Sherman defeats Confederate army of John Hood |
2011-12-30 |
2358 |
| Battle of Auldern |
2011-03-01 |
2772 |
| Battle of Austerlitz, Moravia |
2010-02-01 |
3155 |
| Battle of Avignon |
2009-05-01 |
2916 |
| Battle of Ayacucho |
2010-02-01 |
1922 |
| Battle of Bad Axe River |
2010-02-01 |
3556 |
| Battle of Baia |
2009-05-01 |
2566 |
| Battle of Balaklava (Crimean War) |
2011-03-01 |
1813 |
| Battle of Bannockburn |
2012-07-31 |
1878 |
| Battle of Bautzen |
2010-03-01 |
2360 |
| Battle of Beachy Head |
2011-03-01 |
2596 |
| Battle of Bir Hakeim |
2010-03-01 |
1189 |
| Battle of Blenheim |
2011-04-01 |
2635 |
| Battle of Blood River |
|
1471 |
| Battle of Borodino |
2010-02-01 |
2858 |
| Battle of Bosworth |
2006-01-01 |
1800 |
| Battle of Bouvines |
2012-07-31 |
1175 |
| Battle of Breitenfeld |
2011-02-01 |
2552 |
| Battle of Brunanburgh |
2009-05-01 |
1504 |
| Battle of Bull Run: Indecisive victory of Confederates |
2011-12-30 |
2310 |
| Battle of Bunker Hill |
2010-02-01 |
3383 |
| Battle of Cable Street |
2004-01-23 |
3897 |
| Battle of Carpi |
2011-04-01 |
2790 |
| Battle of Carrizal |
2010-03-01 |
1695 |
| Battle of Caseros: Juan de Rosas is overthrown in Argentina |
2011-12-30 |
1268 |
| Battle of Cassano |
2010-03-01 |
2435 |
| Battle of Castelfidardo: Cavour defeats Papal troops |
2011-12-30 |
1576 |
| Battle of Ceresole |
2010-03-01 |
2481 |
| Battle of Cerignola |
2010-03-01 |
2083 |
| Battle of Chalgrove Field |
2011-03-01 |
2243 |
| Battle of Chancellorsville: Confederate victory |
2011-12-30 |
2349 |
| Battle of Chemin des Dames |
2010-03-01 |
1115 |
| Battle of Cheriton |
2010-02-01 |
2133 |
| Battle of Chiari |
2011-04-01 |
2713 |
| Battle of Chillianwala |
2011-07-01 |
1448 |
| Battle of Chupas |
2010-03-01 |
2067 |
| Battle of Cologne |
2009-05-01 |
3899 |
| Battle of Compiègne |
2009-05-01 |
5552 |
| Battle of Coultras |
2011-02-01 |
2700 |
| Battle of Courtrai |
2010-03-01 |
2325 |
| Battle of Covadonga |
2009-05-01 |
2189 |
| Battle of Crecy |
2011-03-01 |
1750 |
| Battle of Cropredy Bridge |
2011-03-01 |
2271 |
| Battle of Culloden |
2010-03-01 |
4324 |
| Battle of Custozza: Austrian force defeats Italians |
2011-12-30 |
991 |
| Battle of Dalnaspidal |
2010-02-01 |
1639 |
| Battle of Dormans: Catholics defeat the Protestants |
2010-03-01 |
2935 |
| Battle of Doroloston |
2009-05-01 |
1437 |
| Battle of Dresden |
2010-03-01 |
2415 |
| Battle of Dreux |
2011-02-01 |
2871 |
| Battle of Dunbar |
2010-02-01 |
2605 |
| Battle of Dungeness |
2011-03-01 |
1087 |
| Battle of Edgehill |
2006-02-02 |
2188 |
| Battle of El Alamein |
2010-02-01 |
2887 |
| Battle of Ellandun; Wessex becomes the dominant Anglo-Saxon kingdom |
2009-05-01 |
2767 |
| Battle of Evesham; Simon de Montfort dies |
2012-07-31 |
1660 |
| Battle of Eylau |
2010-02-01 |
2886 |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers |
2010-03-01 |
1751 |
| Battle of Fleurus |
2010-02-01 |
2678 |
| Battle of Flodden: English defeat the Scots |
2010-01-01 |
2167 |
| Battle of Fontaney |
2009-05-01 |
1330 |
| Battle of Fraustadt |
2011-04-01 |
1942 |
| Battle of Fredericksburg: victory of Confederate army under Robert E. Lee |
2011-12-30 |
2594 |
| Battle of Freiburg |
2011-12-30 |
1452 |
| Battle of Freidland |
2010-02-01 |
2660 |
| Battle of Fuentes de Onoro: Duke of Wellington defeats French |
2010-02-01 |
2306 |
| Battle of Ganja |
|
2365 |
| Battle of Gembloux |
2011-02-01 |
1773 |
| Battle of Glencoe/ Talana Hill: Boers defeated |
2011-12-30 |
1955 |
| Battle of Great Meadows |
2010-02-01 |
4342 |
| Battle of Guadalcanal |
2010-03-01 |
1294 |
| Battle of Guilford Courthouse |
2010-03-01 |
2505 |
| Battle of Halidon Hill |
2012-07-31 |
1462 |
| Battle of Hingston Down |
2009-05-01 |
1845 |
| Battle of Höchst completes the conquest of the Palatinate |
2011-02-01 |
1847 |
| Battle of Horse Shoe Bend |
2010-03-01 |
3084 |
| Battle of Inchon, Korea |
2010-02-01 |
1084 |
| Battle of Inkerman (Crimean War) |
2011-03-01 |
2105 |
| Battle of Isandhlwana: Zulus defeat British troops |
2011-12-30 |
1649 |
| Battle of Ituzaingo: Brazilian forces defeated by Uruguay and Argentina |
2011-12-30 |
1080 |
| Battle of Jarnac: Huguenots defeated by French royalists |
2010-03-01 |
2990 |
| Battle of Jassy (Iasi) |
2011-02-01 |
2836 |
| Battle of Jemappes |
2010-02-01 |
3120 |
| Battle of Jena and Auerstadt |
2010-02-01 |
2810 |
| Battle of Jumonville |
2010-02-01 |
3592 |
| Battle of Junin: Simon Bolivar defeats Spanish forces |
2011-12-30 |
1867 |
| Battle of Jutland |
2010-02-01 |
1278 |
| Battle of Kempten |
2011-02-01 |
1437 |
| Battle of Khanua |
2010-03-01 |
1829 |
| Battle of Klausen |
2011-04-01 |
1690 |
| Battle of Klissow |
2011-04-01 |
1669 |
| Battle of Knotsenburg |
2011-02-01 |
1305 |
| Battle of Konieh: Egyptian forces rout Turkish army |
2011-12-30 |
2509 |
| Battle of Konya |
2010-03-01 |
2090 |
| Battle of Kosovo |
2010-03-01 |
1710 |
| Battle of Krefeld |
2011-12-30 |
1296 |
| Battle of Kursk |
2010-02-01 |
1268 |
| Battle of La Hougue |
2011-03-01 |
2054 |
| Battle of Ladysmith: Boers win |
2011-12-30 |
2107 |
| Battle of Lagos |
2011-04-01 |
2241 |
| Battle of Laing's Nek: Boers repulse the British |
2011-12-30 |
2641 |
| Battle of Lake George |
2008-01-25 |
3735 |
| Battle of Langensalza: Prussians defeat Hanoverian army |
2011-12-30 |
1184 |
| Battle of Laon |
2010-03-01 |
2463 |
| Battle of Lechfeld (Augsburg) |
2009-05-01 |
2153 |
| Battle of Leipzig |
2010-02-01 |
2656 |
| Battle of Lepanto |
2010-02-01 |
3225 |
| Battle of Lesnaya |
2011-04-01 |
1399 |
| Battle of Lewes; Simon de Montfort governs England |
2012-07-31 |
1539 |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf |
2010-02-01 |
1855 |
| Battle of Lipany |
2010-03-01 |
3116 |
| Battle of Little Bighorn |
2010-02-01 |
3167 |
| Battle of Lobositz |
2011-12-30 |
1468 |
| Battle of Loos |
2010-03-01 |
1189 |
| Battle of Lowestoft |
2011-03-01 |
1363 |
| Battle of Lützen |
2011-02-01 |
1466 |
| Battle of Magersfontein: British are repulsed by Piet Cronje |
2011-12-30 |
2079 |
| Battle of Mahiwa |
2010-03-01 |
1578 |
| Battle of Majuba Hill: British defeated by the Boers |
2010-01-01 |
2459 |
| Battle of Malplaquet |
2011-04-01 |
2270 |
| Battle of Marciano |
2010-03-01 |
2576 |
| Battle of Marengo |
2010-02-01 |
2691 |
| Battle of Marsaglia |
2011-04-01 |
2451 |
| Battle of Marston Moor |
2010-02-01 |
2099 |
| Battle of Megiddo |
2010-02-01 |
1410 |
| Battle of Messines |
2010-03-01 |
1505 |
| Battle of Midway |
2010-02-01 |
1475 |
| Battle of Minden |
2011-12-30 |
861 |
| Battle of Mohacs |
2011-04-01 |
1398 |
| Battle of Mohacs |
2010-03-01 |
1781 |
| Battle of Mollwitz; Silesia conquered by Frederick II of Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1881 |
| Battle of Montmorency |
2010-02-01 |
2904 |
| Battle of Muhlberg |
2010-03-01 |
4658 |
| Battle of Nancy |
2010-03-01 |
2682 |
| Battle of Nantwich |
2011-03-01 |
2661 |
| Battle of Narva |
2011-04-01 |
1578 |
| Battle of Naseby |
2006-02-02 |
897 |
| Battle of Navarino |
2010-02-01 |
2215 |
| Battle of New Orleans |
2010-02-01 |
2162 |
| Battle of Newburn |
2010-01-01 |
2740 |
| Battle of Nezib: Ibrahim routs Turkish forces |
2011-12-30 |
1574 |
| Battle of Nicopolis |
2010-03-01 |
1870 |
| Battle of Nieuport |
2011-02-01 |
2356 |
| Battle of Nördlingen |
2011-02-01 |
2751 |
| Battle of Novara |
2010-01-01 |
1872 |
| Battle of Omdurman: Horatio Kitchener defeats Dervishes |
2011-12-30 |
1151 |
| Battle of Oudenarde |
2011-04-01 |
2432 |
| Battle of Philiphaugh |
2010-02-01 |
2531 |
| Battle of Piacenza won by Maria Theresa and Sardinia |
2011-04-01 |
1669 |
| Battle of Pinkie: English defeat the Scots |
2010-03-01 |
2466 |
| Battle of Plassey ends Mogul threat to British in north-east India |
2007-12-12 |
4702 |
| Battle of Poitiers |
2005-11-17 |
2927 |
| Battle of Poltava |
2010-02-01 |
1978 |
| Battle of Ponts de Cé |
2011-02-01 |
1855 |
| Battle of Portland |
2010-02-01 |
1371 |
| Battle of Powick Bridge |
2011-03-01 |
2945 |
| Battle of Prague: Frederick II invades Bohemia |
2011-12-30 |
1523 |
| Battle of Preston |
2010-02-01 |
2581 |
| Battle of Preston: Jacobites are defeated |
2011-04-01 |
1631 |
| Battle of Ravenna |
2009-05-01 |
1350 |
| Battle of Ravenna: France defeats the Holy League |
2010-03-01 |
2237 |
| Battle of Rethel |
2011-04-01 |
1384 |
| Battle of Riade |
2009-05-01 |
2393 |
| Battle of Rieti |
2011-12-30 |
1514 |
| Battle of Roncevaux |
2009-05-01 |
5240 |
| Battle of Roundaway Down |
2010-02-01 |
2171 |
| Battle of Rovine |
2009-05-01 |
2088 |
| Battle of Saint Foy |
2010-02-01 |
2668 |
| Battle of Salins |
2010-11-01 |
2282 |
| Battle of Sedan: French defeated |
2011-12-30 |
1226 |
| Battle of Sennheim |
2011-02-01 |
2115 |
| Battle of Sluys |
2010-03-01 |
2196 |
| Battle of Sobrahan: British army defeats Sikhs |
2011-12-30 |
1465 |
| Battle of Soissons |
2009-05-01 |
3838 |
| Battle of Solferino: Austrians defeated by French and Sardinian forces |
2011-12-30 |
1252 |
| Battle of Solway Moss: English defeat the Scots |
2010-01-01 |
2460 |
| Battle of Southwold Bay |
2010-02-01 |
1152 |
| Battle of St Fagans |
2010-02-01 |
3036 |
| Battle of St. Julien |
2010-03-01 |
1139 |
| Battle of Stadtlohn |
2011-02-01 |
2725 |
| Battle of Staffarda |
2011-04-01 |
2282 |
| Battle of Stalingrad |
2010-02-01 |
1530 |
| Battle of Stangebro |
2011-02-01 |
1737 |
| Battle of Steinau |
2011-02-01 |
2127 |
| Battle of Storkyro leads to Russian domination of Finland |
2011-04-01 |
1790 |
| Battle of Stormberg: British are defeated |
2011-12-30 |
2073 |
| Battle of Stow on the Wold |
2010-02-01 |
2031 |
| Battle of Talavera |
2010-02-01 |
2825 |
| Battle of Talikota |
2010-03-01 |
1750 |
| Battle of Tannenberg |
2010-02-01 |
1252 |
| Battle of Tannenberg II |
2010-03-01 |
2149 |
| Battle of Tel-el-Kebir: British re-occupy Egypt |
2011-03-01 |
1597 |
| Battle of the Boyne |
2007-12-12 |
4876 |
| Battle of the Bridge of Dessau |
2011-02-01 |
2565 |
| Battle of the Bulge |
2010-02-01 |
1272 |
| Battle of the Downs |
2010-02-01 |
1974 |
| Battle of the Downs |
2011-04-01 |
1326 |
| Battle of the Dunes (Battle of Dunkirk) |
2010-02-01 |
1923 |
| Battle of the Frontiers |
2010-02-01 |
1309 |
| Battle of the Gabbard |
2011-03-01 |
1549 |
| Battle of the Kentish Knock |
2011-03-01 |
795 |
| Battle of the Lys |
2010-03-01 |
1390 |
| Battle of the Monongahela |
2010-02-01 |
3205 |
| Battle of the Nations |
|
2388 |
| Battle of the Nile (Aboukir) |
2010-02-01 |
2689 |
| Battle of the Philippine Sea |
2010-02-01 |
1494 |
| Battle of the Plains of Abraham |
2010-02-01 |
2616 |
| Battle of the Pyramids |
2010-03-01 |
2264 |
| Battle of the Rishki Pass |
2009-05-01 |
2353 |
| Battle of the Ristigouche |
2010-02-01 |
2794 |
| Battle of the River Niemen |
2010-03-01 |
1499 |
| Battle of The Saints |
2010-03-01 |
1625 |
| Battle of the Somme |
2004-02-24 |
3780 |
| Battle of the Texel |
2010-01-01 |
1389 |
| Battle of the Texel (or Scheveningen) |
2011-03-01 |
1510 |
| Battle of the Thames, Canada |
2010-03-01 |
3564 |
| Battle of The Trebbia |
2010-03-01 |
2311 |
| Battle of the White Mountain |
2010-02-01 |
2518 |
| Battle of Tinchebray |
2012-07-31 |
1975 |
| Battle of Tornavento |
2011-02-01 |
1992 |
| Battle of Torrington |
2010-02-01 |
2025 |
| Battle of Toulouse |
2009-05-01 |
2047 |
| Battle of Tours (Poitiers) |
2009-05-01 |
2041 |
| Battle of Trafalgar |
2004-10-24 |
4366 |
| Battle of Trocadero |
2010-02-01 |
1913 |
| Battle of Ulm |
2010-02-01 |
2684 |
| Battle of Valmy |
2010-02-01 |
2838 |
| Battle of Vaslui |
2009-05-01 |
1970 |
| Battle of Verdun |
2010-02-01 |
1223 |
| Battle of Villmergen |
2011-04-01 |
1602 |
| Battle of Villmergen |
2011-04-01 |
1653 |
| Battle of Vincy |
2009-05-01 |
4701 |
| Battle of Vitoria |
2010-03-01 |
2234 |
| Battle of Wadi Bekka |
2009-05-01 |
2392 |
| Battle of Wagram |
2010-02-01 |
2470 |
| Battle of Wandiwash |
2011-12-30 |
2157 |
| Battle of Warsaw in the Great Northern War |
2011-04-01 |
1678 |
| Battle of Weissenberg: French are defeated by Crown Prince Frederick |
2011-12-30 |
1140 |
| Battle of Wenden |
2011-02-01 |
1870 |
| Battle of Wiesloch |
2011-02-01 |
1850 |
| Battle of Wimpfen |
2011-02-01 |
1766 |
| Battle of Winceby |
2010-02-01 |
2279 |
| Battle of Wittstock |
2011-02-01 |
2467 |
| Battle of Wolfenbüttel |
2011-02-01 |
1864 |
| Battle of Worcester |
2010-02-01 |
1988 |
| Battle of Xaquixaguana ends the separatist movement in Peru |
2010-11-01 |
2075 |
| Battle of Yellow Ford: Hugh O'Neill defeats the English |
2010-03-01 |
2213 |
| Battle of Yorktown |
2010-02-01 |
3088 |
| Battle of Yungay |
2010-02-01 |
1925 |
| Battle of Zab |
2009-05-01 |
2614 |
| Battle of Zborov |
2010-03-01 |
1959 |
| Battles at Werben |
2011-02-01 |
1207 |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord lead to the siege of Boston |
2010-02-01 |
3203 |
| Bavaria and Cologne intervene in the war on behalf of the Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
2370 |
| Bavaria and Wurttemburg support Prussia's commercial policy |
2011-12-30 |
1115 |
| Bavaria joins the Schmalkaldic League despite being a Catholic state |
2010-11-01 |
2766 |
| Bavaria passes to Charles Theodore, Elector Palatine |
2010-03-01 |
1294 |
| Bavarian Constitution proclaimed |
2010-03-01 |
1336 |
| Bavarian government troops capture Munich |
2011-03-01 |
764 |
| Bayt al-Hikmah (House of Wisdom) founded in Baghdad |
2009-05-01 |
1808 |
| BCS theory of superconductivity proposed |
2009-05-01 |
1087 |
| Beast Epic |
2001-11-01 |
5945 |
| Beaune, Dijon and Autun revolt against Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2566 |
| Beccaria, Cesare |
2002-09-15 |
6190 |
| Bechuanaland is placed under a British governor |
2011-12-30 |
990 |
| Bede’s On the Reckoning of Time published |
2009-05-01 |
1723 |
| Bedford Whigs join Government |
2010-03-01 |
1458 |
| Bedlam |
2012-07-31 |
1863 |
| Beginning of Icelandic Commonwealth; Althing founded |
2009-05-01 |
1805 |
| Beginning of Russian advance into Persia |
2011-12-30 |
1259 |
| Beginning of trade between Russia and China |
2011-04-01 |
1322 |
| Beginnings of Armenian nationalist revolutionary movement |
2011-12-30 |
950 |
| Beginnings of native segregation in Natal |
2011-12-30 |
1284 |
| Beginnings of the English reconquest of the Danelaw |
2009-05-01 |
2672 |
| Bela Kun's Hungarian Socialist régime overthrown |
2011-03-01 |
1720 |
| Belgian common policy agreed |
2010-03-01 |
1448 |
| Belgian Congress proclaims Leopold of Saxe-Coburg King |
2011-12-30 |
827 |
| Belgian Congress votes for monarchy |
2011-12-30 |
734 |
| Belgian Constitution proclaimed |
2011-12-30 |
711 |
| Belgian Labour Party is founded |
2011-12-30 |
1015 |
| Belgian War of Independence |
2010-02-01 |
1965 |
| Belgians capture Dixmude |
2010-03-01 |
1087 |
| Belgians elect French Duc de Nemours as their king |
2011-12-30 |
1115 |
| Belgians suppress rising of Arab slave-holders in Upper Congo |
2011-12-30 |
1343 |
| Belgium attacks the Garenganze kingdom |
2010-02-01 |
1631 |
| Belgium to gain part of German South-West Africa |
2011-03-01 |
1163 |
| Belgo-Dutch agreement on River Scheldt |
2010-03-01 |
1034 |
| Belgrade captured by the Ottomans |
2010-03-01 |
1575 |
| Belgrade liberated |
2010-03-01 |
1032 |
| Benazir Bhutto becomes Pakistani leader |
2010-02-01 |
1128 |
| Benedict XIII is elected Pope |
2011-04-01 |
1157 |
| Bengal becomes independent under Alivardi Khan |
2011-04-01 |
1568 |
| Bengal captured by the Mughal Empire |
2010-11-01 |
1822 |
| Bengal partitioned |
2010-02-01 |
1614 |
| Benito Mussolini founds Fasci del Combattimento |
2010-03-01 |
1752 |
| Benito Mussolini seizes power in Italy |
2010-02-01 |
1218 |
| Benjamin Disraeli becomes leader of Conservative Party |
2011-12-30 |
1406 |
| Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister for the second time |
2013-08-30 |
2087 |
| Benjamin Franklin publishes his Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind |
2010-03-01 |
1668 |
| Benjamin Franklin shows that lightning is electricity |
2009-05-01 |
1023 |
| Benjamin Harrison is elected President of USA |
2011-12-30 |
1464 |
| Benjamin Harrison, Republican, inaugurated as US President |
2011-12-30 |
1302 |
| Bennelong and Yermmerawannie go to England |
2010-03-01 |
1777 |
| Berlin conference demands nationalisation of industries |
2010-03-01 |
961 |
| Berlin Memorandum of Germany, Russia and Austria to Turkey |
2011-12-30 |
1173 |
| Berlin Post 'Is War in Sight?' article starts war scare |
2011-12-30 |
2156 |
| Bernadino de Mendoza arrives in England as Spanish ambassador |
2011-02-01 |
1579 |
| Bernadotte succeeds Swedish throne |
2010-03-01 |
1051 |
| Bernard Rothmann invites Dutch Anabaptists to Munster |
2010-11-01 |
2239 |
| Berne restores Gex and Chablais to Savoy |
2011-02-01 |
916 |
| Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar takes Breisach |
2011-02-01 |
1039 |
| Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar takes Rheinfelden from the imperialists |
2011-02-01 |
1012 |
| Bernhard von Bülow made German chancellor |
2011-03-01 |
1277 |
| Bernstorff recalled to office |
2010-03-01 |
961 |
| Berwick and Carlisle seized |
2010-02-01 |
2354 |
| Beverley Grammar School founded |
2009-05-01 |
1288 |
| Biafra capitulates to Nigerian forces |
2010-02-01 |
1016 |
| Big Bang theory first proposed by Georges Lemaître |
2009-05-01 |
948 |
| Bill against Queen Caroline dropped |
2010-03-01 |
1696 |
| Bill of Pains and Penalties against Princess Caroline |
2010-03-01 |
1407 |
| Bill of Rights (England) |
2005-01-01 |
7006 |
| Bill of Rights (USA) |
|
2605 |
| Bill of Rights is amended |
2011-04-01 |
2034 |
| Bill on Church of England's right to run private schools |
2011-04-01 |
2000 |
| Bill proposes increasing German army |
2010-01-01 |
1029 |
| Bill suspends Home Rule and Welsh Church bills |
2010-03-01 |
1607 |
| Bill to Amend the Law on Married Women’s Property |
2010-01-01 |
2879 |
| Bill to repeal Septennial Act defeated |
2010-03-01 |
1574 |
| Birmingham Political Union |
2010-02-01 |
1635 |
| Birmingham Reform demonstrations |
2010-03-01 |
1779 |
| Birr Castle 72-inch optical reflecting telescope built |
2009-05-01 |
1266 |
| Birth control pill comes in use |
2010-03-01 |
1175 |
| Birth of Comte de Chambord |
2011-03-01 |
1723 |
| Birth of François-Charles-Joseph |
2010-03-01 |
1698 |
| Birth of genetics: genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity |
2009-05-01 |
1608 |
| Birth of James II's son |
2011-03-01 |
2118 |
| Birth of Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender |
2011-04-01 |
1171 |
| Birth of Prince Imperial in France |
2011-12-30 |
890 |
| Birth of Prince of Wales, heir to British throne |
2011-12-30 |
857 |
| Birth of the Dauphin |
2011-04-01 |
930 |
| Bishop Hooper of Gloucester is burnt at Smithfield for heresy |
2011-02-01 |
3348 |
| Bishop John Juxon is appointed Lord Treasurer of England |
2011-02-01 |
1976 |
| Bishop Latimer is sent to the Tower of London |
2010-11-01 |
3267 |
| Bishops Shaxton and Latimer resign on doctrinal grounds |
2010-11-01 |
3613 |
| Bismarck begins struggle with Catholic Church |
2011-12-30 |
1230 |
| Bismarck introduces health insurance schemes in Germany |
2011-12-30 |
843 |
| Bismarck obtains indemnity from Prussian Diet |
2011-12-30 |
1329 |
| Bismarck passes County Organisation bill to remodel Prussian government |
2011-12-30 |
1035 |
| Bismarck reminds Russia of the Germano-Austrian alliance |
2011-12-30 |
913 |
| Bismarck reveals the secret 1887 Russo-German Reinsurance Treaty |
2011-12-30 |
1032 |
| Bismarck's 'Blood and Iron' speech |
2011-12-30 |
3800 |
| Bitter Parliamentary conflict in Italy |
2010-03-01 |
1205 |
| Bitterness between Catholics and Protestants at the Ratisbon Imperial Diet |
2011-02-01 |
1637 |
| Black Death appears in Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Britain and North Africa |
2012-07-31 |
1847 |
| Black hole entropy |
2009-05-01 |
1084 |
| Black holes within galaxies theory |
2009-05-01 |
1296 |
| Black slaves carried to Virginia on a Dutch ship |
2010-03-01 |
2005 |
| Blackbody radiation hypothesis formulated |
2009-05-01 |
1637 |
| Blake destroys pirate fleet from Bey of Tunis |
2011-03-01 |
1535 |
| Bland-Allison bill reintroduces silver standard in USA |
2011-12-30 |
1471 |
| Blandford-Znajek Process developed - model for the extraction of energy from a black hole |
2009-05-01 |
1337 |
| Blank Verse |
2001-11-01 |
6703 |
| Blasphemy Act |
2010-02-01 |
1091 |
| Blasphemy Act is passed at Westminster |
2011-04-01 |
2212 |
| Bleeding Kansas |
2010-03-01 |
2256 |
| Blockade of Crete by the powers begins |
2011-12-30 |
1015 |
| Bloemfontein Conference fails to produce agreement on Transvaal |
2011-12-30 |
1919 |
| Bloody Sunday |
2004-12-04 |
3249 |
| Board of Agriculture founded |
2007-01-01 |
1983 |
| Body of Liberties set up by General Court of Massachusetts Bay Company |
2011-02-01 |
1022 |
| Boer guerrillas raid British outposts |
2010-03-01 |
1937 |
| Boer rebellion against British in South Africa |
2010-03-01 |
1740 |
| Boer republic of Stellaland founded in Bechuanaland |
2011-12-30 |
1459 |
| Boers defeated at Boomplatz by British forces |
2011-12-30 |
1849 |
| Boers surrender |
2010-02-01 |
2564 |
| Bohemia becomes independent from Moravia |
2009-05-01 |
1863 |
| Bohemia declares its independence |
2009-05-01 |
1823 |
| Bohemia is divided into Czech, German and mixed districts |
2011-12-30 |
737 |
| Bohemian army attacks the imperial garrison of Budweis |
2011-02-01 |
2670 |
| Bohemian Estates recognise Archduke Ferdinand of Styria as heir |
2011-02-01 |
2406 |
| Bohemian language ordinances of 1897 are repealed |
2011-12-30 |
1914 |
| Bohemian Peasants revolt |
2010-03-01 |
2272 |
| Bohr, Niels |
2000-10-28 |
5202 |
| Bohr's atomic model generalised and refined |
2010-03-01 |
2492 |
| Bolingbroke and Pulteney create the Craftsman journal to attack Walpole |
2011-04-01 |
891 |
| Bolingbroke becomes advisor to the exiled James III |
2011-04-01 |
1720 |
| Bolingbroke is impeached |
2011-04-01 |
1588 |
| Bolivar invades Venezuela from Haiti |
2010-03-01 |
1223 |
| Bolivar is President of Republic of Colombia |
2010-03-01 |
1200 |
| Bolivar organises independent government |
2010-03-01 |
1121 |
| Bolivia-Chile boundary is fixed |
2011-12-30 |
646 |
| Bolshevik (October) Revolution |
2010-02-01 |
1791 |
| Bolshevik-German Armistice |
2010-02-01 |
1425 |
| Bolsheviks take Novorossiisk on Black Sea |
2010-03-01 |
959 |
| Boltzmann equation stated |
2009-05-01 |
1003 |
| Bolzano’s theorem |
2009-05-01 |
1344 |
| Bombardment of Beirut by British to force Mehemet Ali to submit |
2011-12-30 |
1232 |
| Bombay passes to the control of the English East India Company |
2011-04-01 |
1273 |
| Bonaparte advises the Directory against an invasion of England |
2010-02-01 |
2971 |
| Bonaparte and Orleans families are banished from France |
2011-12-30 |
1000 |
| Bonaparte becomes President of Italian Republic |
2011-03-01 |
1454 |
| Bonaparte consul for life |
2010-02-01 |
3177 |
| Bonaparte declares French Empire |
2007-12-02 |
1826 |
| Bonaparte defeats Austrians at Rivoli |
2011-03-01 |
2831 |
| Bonaparte promises Tuscany to Duke of Parma |
2010-03-01 |
2331 |
| Bonaparte reaappoints Talleyrand |
2011-03-01 |
3084 |
| Bonaparte takes Toulon |
2011-03-01 |
2353 |
| Bonn is captured by Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg |
2011-04-01 |
1796 |
| Book of Common Prayer prescribed for Church of Scotland |
2010-02-01 |
3073 |
| Booth's Uprising |
2010-02-01 |
5275 |
| Border warfare between England and Scotland intensifies |
2010-11-01 |
1926 |
| Boris Godunov formally elected Tsar of Russia |
2011-02-01 |
1206 |
| Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia |
2011-02-01 |
1033 |
| Boris Stürmer becomes Russian premier |
2010-03-01 |
1388 |
| Borno is made capital of the Kanuri Empire |
2010-03-01 |
1352 |
| Borromean League of Seven Swiss Catholic Cantons is formed |
2011-02-01 |
1479 |
| Boscawen defeats French off Cape St. Vincent |
2011-12-30 |
1498 |
| Boshin War |
2010-02-01 |
1878 |
| Boston Massacre |
2007-12-12 |
3634 |
| Boston protests against new taxes |
2010-03-01 |
1166 |
| Boston Tea Party |
2007-12-02 |
2252 |
| Both Houses pass Third Reform Bill |
2013-08-30 |
3772 |
| Botha meets Kitchener at Middelburg |
2010-03-01 |
1463 |
| Bothwell carries off Mary Queen of Scots to Dunbar |
2011-02-01 |
2243 |
| Bottle Riots in Dublin |
2011-12-30 |
1370 |
| Boulanger begins campaign for revision of constitution |
2011-12-30 |
1294 |
| Boulanger flees France fearing trial for treason |
2011-12-30 |
1275 |
| Boulanger is retired from the French army |
2011-12-30 |
1543 |
| Boulanger's popularity increases |
2011-12-30 |
1402 |
| Boundaries of Montenegro are fixed |
2011-12-30 |
1093 |
| Boundary between Sierra Leone and Liberia is defined |
2011-12-30 |
819 |
| Boundary between the US and Canada established |
2010-03-01 |
1162 |
| Bourbon Family Compact between France and Spain |
2011-12-30 |
2267 |
| Bourbon retires from Provence |
2010-11-01 |
959 |
| Bourbons of Naples accept armistice with Sicily |
2011-12-30 |
1250 |
| Boustrophedon |
2002-03-01 |
6618 |
| Boxers rising in China against Europeans |
2010-03-01 |
2223 |
| Boxers society founded in China to combat westernisation |
2011-12-30 |
1371 |
| Boxing champion Muhammad Ali stripped of his title |
2010-03-01 |
1429 |
| Boycott, land agent in Mayo, is 'boycotted' |
2011-12-30 |
823 |
| Boyle's Law |
2010-02-01 |
2203 |
| Boyne treaty between France and England |
2011-04-01 |
2330 |
| Bradford, William. Mourt's Relation 1622 |
2008-03-24 |
2414 |
| Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation 1650 |
2008-03-24 |
2529 |
| Brandenburg and Neuburg agree to partition Jülich-Cleves |
2011-04-01 |
1088 |
| Brandenburg East African Company builds fortresses on Guinea coast |
2011-04-01 |
1391 |
| Brandenburg establishes standing army |
2011-04-01 |
947 |
| Brandenburg forms a defensive alliance with Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
990 |
| Brandenburg makes an offensive alliance with Denmark |
2011-04-01 |
1157 |
| Brandenburg signs two-year treaty of neutrality with Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1284 |
| Brass Crosby detained for printing paliamentary debates |
2010-03-01 |
1526 |
| Brazil ceded to the Portuguese and Ceylon to the Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
1462 |
| Brazil declares independence from Portugal |
2010-01-01 |
1155 |
| Brazil declares war against Argentina |
2011-12-30 |
1114 |
| Brazil leaves League of Nations |
2010-02-01 |
1300 |
| Brazil ruled directly by Portugal from a new capital at Bahia |
2010-03-01 |
1521 |
| Brazilian Constitution establishes hereditary monarchy and two chambers |
2011-12-30 |
1034 |
| Brazilian dictator deposed |
2010-02-01 |
1244 |
| Brazilian Emperor appoints Dom Miguel lieutenant of Portugal |
2011-12-30 |
850 |
| Brazilian Fascist State launched |
2010-02-01 |
1166 |
| Brazilian military coup |
2010-02-01 |
1061 |
| Brazilian military revolution |
2010-02-01 |
1202 |
| Bread riots in Milan are put down with heavy loss of life |
2011-12-30 |
1287 |
| Breisach Parlement adjudges French sovereignty in Alsace |
2011-04-01 |
1386 |
| Breslau and Goeben escape through Dardanelles |
2010-03-01 |
1025 |
| Breslau sunk in Dardanelles |
2010-03-01 |
1373 |
| Bribery Act |
2010-02-01 |
1872 |
| Bridgewater Canal opens |
2005-06-21 |
1691 |
| Brienne is dismissed |
2010-03-01 |
1132 |
| Bristol retaken by Parliamentary army |
2010-01-01 |
2295 |
| Bristol Riots after rejection of Reform Bill |
2011-12-30 |
3021 |
| Bristol taken by Royalists |
2011-03-01 |
2058 |
| Britain accedes to Russian-Empire alliance |
2011-04-01 |
1072 |
| Britain accepts Count Berchtold's project |
2010-03-01 |
1306 |
| Britain adopts a standard railway gauge |
2013-08-30 |
1467 |
| Britain agrees to evacuate Egypt in three years |
2011-12-30 |
1121 |
| Britain agrees to stop convict transportation to Van Diemen's Land |
2013-08-30 |
1880 |
| Britain agrees to the annexation of Swaziland by the Transvaal |
2011-12-30 |
673 |
| Britain aids Canada by denouncing its treaties with Belgium and Germany |
2011-12-30 |
1115 |
| Britain and America call for cessation of arms |
2010-03-01 |
2637 |
| Britain and France conclude alliance with Turkey against Russia |
2011-12-30 |
1266 |
| Britain and France recognise independence of Hawaii |
2011-12-30 |
1354 |
| Britain and France recognise independence of Zanzibar |
2011-12-30 |
1307 |
| Britain and France refuse to support Baghdad Railway |
2010-03-01 |
1923 |
| Britain and Holland define their boundaries in Borneo |
2011-12-30 |
1081 |
| Britain and Holland join the League of Augsburg |
2011-04-01 |
1709 |
| Britain and the USA sign the Jay Treaty |
2010-02-01 |
2210 |
| Britain and U.S. guarantee France |
2010-03-01 |
1032 |
| Britain and USA agree to share a proposed Panama canal |
2011-12-30 |
1370 |
| Britain annexes Cyprus |
2010-03-01 |
1054 |
| Britain annexes East African Protectorate |
2011-03-01 |
943 |
| Britain annexes Oudh |
2010-01-01 |
1434 |
| Britain annexes Pondoland |
2011-12-30 |
1912 |
| Britain annexes St. Lucia Bay to Natal |
2011-12-30 |
2094 |
| Britain annexes the Transvaal |
2010-01-01 |
1938 |
| Britain annexes Togoland to block Transvaal's access to sea |
2011-12-30 |
1083 |
| Britain annexes Walvis Bay on south-west African coast |
2011-12-30 |
1111 |
| Britain annexes Zululand |
2011-12-30 |
1920 |
| Britain attempts to mediate between Austria and Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1293 |
| Britain blockaded by Napoleon |
2010-02-01 |
2835 |
| Britain buys the possessions of the Niger Company |
2011-12-30 |
753 |
| Britain captures colonies but abandons Corsica |
2010-03-01 |
2549 |
| Britain captures new colonies in the Caribbean |
2011-12-30 |
1201 |
| Britain ceases to subsidise Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
1114 |
| Britain claims reparation from Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1304 |
| Britain controls oil properties in Persian Gulf |
2010-03-01 |
1297 |
| Britain decides on re-conquest of Sudan |
2011-12-30 |
1123 |
| Britain decides to declare war on Russia if she occupied Constantinople |
2011-12-30 |
940 |
| Britain decides to send fleet to Constantinople |
2011-12-30 |
1272 |
| Britain declares blockade of French coast and allies |
2010-03-01 |
1413 |
| Britain declares Monroe Doctrine not binding on European countries |
2011-12-30 |
1306 |
| Britain declares war against Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1279 |
| Britain declares war against Spain and Naples |
2011-12-30 |
1178 |
| Britain declares war on France |
2007-12-12 |
2034 |
| Britain declares war on Holland |
2010-03-01 |
1573 |
| Britain declares war on Persia |
2010-02-01 |
1950 |
| Britain declares war on Prussia |
2011-03-01 |
1025 |
| Britain declares war on Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1205 |
| Britain demands a contingent of 6000 troops from Holland |
2011-12-30 |
1300 |
| Britain ends alliance with Austria |
2011-12-30 |
1013 |
| Britain ends isolation by signing treaty with Japan |
2010-03-01 |
1005 |
| Britain ends restrictions on Irish trade |
2010-03-01 |
1400 |
| Britain engages Hessian mercenaries for the defence of Hanover |
2011-04-01 |
1624 |
| Britain enlarges navy |
2010-03-01 |
1429 |
| Britain establishes protectorate over Ionian Islands |
2010-03-01 |
1555 |
| Britain establishes protectorate over section of Somali coast |
2011-12-30 |
780 |
| Britain experiences serious economic and commercial crisis |
2010-02-01 |
1960 |
| Britain forced to pay millions of dollars of damages to USA |
2011-12-30 |
1504 |
| Britain formally annexes Transvaal |
2010-03-01 |
1731 |
| Britain gains Pemba and Zanzibar; Germany gains Heligoland |
2010-01-01 |
1279 |
| Britain grants self-government to Tasmania and New Zealand |
2011-12-30 |
1522 |
| Britain helps Austria with money and troops |
2010-03-01 |
1208 |
| Britain invades Afghanistan |
2011-12-30 |
1211 |
| Britain joins Austro-Russian alliance against Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1249 |
| Britain joins the Treaty of Madrid |
2011-04-01 |
1170 |
| Britain makes compromise settlement with Russia over Afghanistan frontier |
2011-12-30 |
773 |
| Britain occupies Cyprus |
2010-01-01 |
2250 |
| Britain occupies Port Hamilton, Korea |
2011-12-30 |
781 |
| Britain occupies Uganda and Buganda |
2010-01-01 |
927 |
| Britain places embargo on French and Dutch ships |
2010-03-01 |
1416 |
| Britain proclaims protectorate over North Bechuanaland |
2011-12-30 |
844 |
| Britain proclaims protectorate over Southern New Guinea |
2011-12-30 |
1055 |
| Britain proposes full discussions on Morocco |
2013-08-30 |
818 |
| Britain recognises International Association of the Congo |
2011-12-30 |
1196 |
| Britain refuses Queensland's request to annex New Guinea |
2011-12-30 |
1283 |
| Britain rejects Austro-Russian proposal for blockade of Piraeus |
2011-12-30 |
1106 |
| Britain removes the Khedive of Egypt and replace him with Taufiq |
2010-01-01 |
1204 |
| Britain renounces the Asiento by treaty with Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1009 |
| Britain repeals Schism Act and Act of Occasional Conformity |
2011-04-01 |
1338 |
| Britain restricts limits of blockade |
2010-03-01 |
1391 |
| Britain secures the neutrality of Russia |
2011-04-01 |
1116 |
| Britain seizes Danish and Swedish islands |
2010-03-01 |
1424 |
| Britain separates Colonial and War Secretaryships |
2011-12-30 |
1368 |
| Britain sets up Coal Commission |
2010-03-01 |
790 |
| Britain shifts its calendar, making 1st January the start of the New Year |
2011-04-01 |
1064 |
| Britain signs peace with Zulu chiefs |
2011-12-30 |
1065 |
| Britain signs treaty of commerce with Madagascar |
2011-12-30 |
748 |
| Britain signs treaty with Uganda |
2010-03-01 |
783 |
| Britain steps in to stop massacre of Armenians |
2010-01-01 |
1328 |
| Britain supports Portugal against Spain by sending troops to Tagus |
2010-01-01 |
1651 |
| Britain takes Baji Rao and Peshwa of Poona's dominions |
2010-03-01 |
1470 |
| Britain takes control of the Boer Republic of Natal |
2010-01-01 |
2855 |
| Britain takes Seychelles, Martinique, St. Lucia and Guadaloupe |
2010-03-01 |
1936 |
| Britain takes St. Lucia from French |
2010-03-01 |
1743 |
| Britain threatens war with Russia but cannot find back-up |
2011-12-30 |
1394 |
| Britain undertakes to pay subsidies to Maria Theresa |
2011-04-01 |
1376 |
| Britain warn Russia against blockading Suez or occupying Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
905 |
| Britain warns against French occupation of Upper Nile |
2011-12-30 |
1010 |
| Britain will resist establishment of Persian Gulf base |
2010-03-01 |
1549 |
| Britain-Germany Yangtze Agreement |
2010-03-01 |
3274 |
| Britain, Austria and France state conditions of peace with Russia |
2011-12-30 |
1450 |
| Britain, Austria and Italy sign treaty to maintain status quo in Near East |
2011-12-30 |
1025 |
| Britain, France and Austria guarantee Turkish independence |
2011-12-30 |
996 |
| Britain, France and Italy sign secret convention |
2010-03-01 |
988 |
| Britain, France, Spain and Portugal ally in support of liberal constitutions |
2011-12-30 |
1475 |
| Britain, USA and Germany recognise the King of Samoa |
2011-12-30 |
1164 |
| Britain's 'Khaki' election: Conservatives retain power |
2010-03-01 |
1432 |
| British 'undertakers' for the plantation of Ulster |
2011-02-01 |
1321 |
| British abandon Tangiers to the Moors |
2011-04-01 |
1079 |
| British acquire fiscal rights in Isle of Man |
2010-03-01 |
1099 |
| British Act of Parliament for legalising trade unions |
2011-12-30 |
1193 |
| British Act of Parliament separates Gambia from Sierra Leone |
2011-12-30 |
1167 |
| British agreement with Maria Theresa is extended to provide troops |
2011-04-01 |
1292 |
| British Air Force sinks German pocket-battleship Bismarck |
2010-02-01 |
929 |
| British and Arab forces occupy Damascus |
2010-03-01 |
1718 |
| British and French forces try to besiege Sebastopol |
2011-12-30 |
1415 |
| British and French public radio broadcasts |
2010-02-01 |
912 |
| British and Irish parties disagree |
2010-03-01 |
987 |
| British and Portuguese enter Madrid |
2011-04-01 |
2539 |
| British annexe New Netherlands from Connecticut to Delaware |
2011-04-01 |
1558 |
| British Anti-Slavery Society founded |
2007-12-12 |
2544 |
| British are defeated at Almanza |
2011-04-01 |
2544 |
| British attack on Cartagena and Cuba fails |
2011-04-01 |
1335 |
| British attack on Ostend |
2010-03-01 |
1068 |
| British besiege Fort Beausejour |
2010-02-01 |
3596 |
| British Board of Agriculture founded |
2011-12-30 |
1248 |
| British bombardment of Copenhagen |
2010-03-01 |
951 |
| British budget removes export duties and reduces import tariffs |
2010-01-01 |
1543 |
| British cabinet changes |
2010-03-01 |
1347 |
| British cabinet fears further Russian aggression |
2011-12-30 |
802 |
| British Cabinet is reconstructed, headed by John Carteret, Earl Granville |
2011-04-01 |
1418 |
| British capitulate to French at Klosterzeven |
2011-12-30 |
1391 |
| British capture Bapaume and Péronne on Western Front |
2010-03-01 |
724 |
| British capture Minorca |
2011-04-01 |
2380 |
| British capture of Acre forces Ibrahim to evacuate all Syria |
2011-12-30 |
1232 |
| British check French at Albuhera |
2011-03-01 |
912 |
| British Civil Service becomes open to competitive examination |
2011-12-30 |
1195 |
| British colonial governments for Quebec, Florida and Grenada |
2010-03-01 |
1922 |
| British Columbia joins Dominion of Canada |
2011-12-30 |
1208 |
| British Columbia organised as a colony |
2011-12-30 |
1150 |
| British Commonwealth established |
2010-02-01 |
1182 |
| British conquer French Senegal |
2011-12-30 |
1285 |
| British conquest of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa |
2010-02-01 |
3903 |
| British defeat Sikhs at Gujrat |
2011-12-30 |
1237 |
| British defeat U.S. at Queenston Heights |
2010-03-01 |
1691 |
| British defeated at King's Mountain |
2010-03-01 |
2403 |
| British East Africa Company is chartered |
2011-12-30 |
820 |
| British East Africa Company occupies Uganda |
2011-12-30 |
706 |
| British East India and New East India Companies are merged |
2011-04-01 |
1521 |
| British establish protectorate over Niger River region |
2011-12-30 |
931 |
| British expedition against Acadia lands |
2011-04-01 |
1423 |
| British expedition to Cadiz fails |
2011-04-01 |
1776 |
| British expedition to Ethiopia |
2011-12-30 |
1003 |
| British Factory Act extends terms of previous acts |
2011-12-30 |
1246 |
| British first use tanks on Western Front |
2010-03-01 |
1564 |
| British fleet blockades Piraeus |
2011-12-30 |
1619 |
| British fleet bombards Canton |
2011-12-30 |
1211 |
| British fleet forces way through Dardanelles |
2010-03-01 |
1250 |
| British fleet is sent into Black Sea |
2011-12-30 |
1299 |
| British fleet ordered to assemble off Dardanelles |
2011-12-30 |
1206 |
| British force lands at Vladivostok |
2010-03-01 |
979 |
| British forces annex Lower Burma |
2011-12-30 |
1092 |
| British forces burn Buffalo |
2010-03-01 |
1505 |
| British forces recapture Cawnpore |
2011-12-30 |
975 |
| British forces support Portuguese Queen Maria |
2011-12-30 |
1272 |
| British free trade legislation begins |
2011-12-30 |
1181 |
| British frigate Leopard fires on American warship Chesapeake |
2010-03-01 |
1973 |
| British general election |
2010-03-01 |
1092 |
| British general election confirms Lord Salisbury's majority |
2011-12-30 |
1307 |
| British general election gives Irish Home-Rulers the balance of power |
2011-12-30 |
1484 |
| British general election produces a hung parliament |
2011-12-30 |
1239 |
| British government abandons Home Rule |
2011-03-01 |
1015 |
| British government takes over Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast |
2011-12-30 |
1274 |
| British government takes over South Wales coalfield |
2010-03-01 |
1414 |
| British High Commissioner in South Africa delivers ultimatum to Zulus |
2011-12-30 |
1718 |
| British House of Commons reduces powers of Lords |
2010-03-01 |
756 |
| British Indian Army subdues Sikhs in the Punjab |
2010-02-01 |
2028 |
| British Labour organisations appoint Council of Action |
2010-03-01 |
1450 |
| British land at Quiberon |
2011-03-01 |
2292 |
| British launch battle of Neuve Chapelle |
2010-03-01 |
1203 |
| British launch West Desert Offensive |
2010-02-01 |
1464 |
| British Liberal party adopts the radical 'Newcastle Programme' |
2011-12-30 |
1538 |
| British military expedition takes St Eustatius from the Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
1474 |
| British Military Service Act in force |
2010-03-01 |
934 |
| British National Registration Act |
2010-03-01 |
803 |
| British naval bill passes |
2010-03-01 |
843 |
| British naval forces attack Canton |
2010-02-01 |
2162 |
| British Navigation Acts are finally repealed |
2011-12-30 |
1108 |
| British navy prevents Neapolitans and Spaniards from taking Lombardy |
2011-04-01 |
1840 |
| British navy takes Barcelona |
2011-04-01 |
2505 |
| British Niger Company proclaims protectorate over Busa and Nikki |
2011-12-30 |
744 |
| British occupation of Cyprus is confirmed |
2011-12-30 |
869 |
| British occupy Cape of Good Hope |
2010-03-01 |
2576 |
| British offensive near Ypres |
2010-03-01 |
1371 |
| British Orders-in-Council restricting U.S. trade revoked |
2010-03-01 |
1758 |
| British oust French from Pondicherry, south-east India |
2007-12-02 |
2378 |
| British ousted from Calcutta by Mogul forces |
2010-02-01 |
2246 |
| British Parliament dissolved |
2010-03-01 |
1162 |
| British Parliament establishes a council to make laws for Lower Canada |
2011-12-30 |
1330 |
| British Parliament is adjourned |
2011-04-01 |
971 |
| British Parliament orders reinforcement of the Mediterranean fleet |
2011-04-01 |
1544 |
| British plunder St Augustine in Florida in the war with Spain |
2011-04-01 |
2835 |
| British Possessions Act gives Canada the right to fix tariffs |
2011-12-30 |
1400 |
| British Prince Alfred marries Russian Princess Marie Alexandrovna |
2011-12-30 |
700 |
| British protectorate in Ashanti (Ghana) proclaimed |
2011-12-30 |
1361 |
| British railwaymen, under John Burns, strike |
2010-03-01 |
1183 |
| British raise siege of Barcelona by French |
2011-04-01 |
2518 |
| British rebate question: EEC Summit collapses |
2010-02-01 |
888 |
| British recapture Calcutta from Mogul forces |
2010-02-01 |
2432 |
| British Redistribution of Seats Bill is enacted |
2011-12-30 |
1354 |
| British relief force arrives at Khartoum and the Sudan is evacuated |
2011-12-30 |
1121 |
| British replace French; reforming navy in Naples |
2011-03-01 |
1631 |
| British Representation of the People Act gives the vote to women over the age of 30 |
2010-02-01 |
1872 |
| British restrains China regarding Tibet |
2010-03-01 |
1566 |
| British royal family renounces German titles |
2010-03-01 |
1084 |
| British Royal Navy bombards Alexandria |
2011-12-30 |
1291 |
| British Royal Niger Company is chartered |
2011-12-30 |
765 |
| British sign an ineffectual treaty with the Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
1033 |
| British South Africa Company established |
2007-12-12 |
1563 |
| British South Africa Company founds Salisbury in Mashonaland |
2011-12-30 |
1134 |
| British South Africa Company organises territory into Rhodesia |
2011-12-30 |
1209 |
| British Stamp Duties are reduced from 4d. to 1d. |
2011-12-30 |
1286 |
| British suppress Canadian revolts in Ontario and Quebec |
2011-03-01 |
1709 |
| British suppress rising of Ashanti |
2010-03-01 |
1598 |
| British Supreme Court of Judicature and Court of Appeal are established |
2011-12-30 |
1318 |
| British take Amarah on River Tigris |
2011-03-01 |
1564 |
| British take Fort Duquesne |
2010-01-01 |
3141 |
| British take Gaza |
2010-03-01 |
1683 |
| British take Gibraltar |
2011-04-01 |
2240 |
| British take Masulipatam |
2011-12-30 |
1712 |
| British take Maubeuge |
2010-03-01 |
870 |
| British take Port Royal (Annapolis) in Acadia |
2011-04-01 |
4641 |
| British take Rangoon |
2011-12-30 |
1497 |
| British take Sardinia |
2011-04-01 |
2126 |
| British troops are defeated at Brihuega |
2011-04-01 |
2669 |
| British troops land in France |
2010-03-01 |
798 |
| British troops occupy Benin in protest at human sacrifices |
2011-12-30 |
1216 |
| British troops occupy Mandalay |
2011-12-30 |
1188 |
| British troops recalled by Duke of Wellington from Portugal |
2011-12-30 |
1189 |
| British troops sent to Northern Ireland to keep peace |
2010-02-01 |
1098 |
| British troops take Dar-es-Salaam |
2010-03-01 |
2591 |
| British vessels prohibited from carrying corn to Germany |
2010-03-01 |
1246 |
| British victory at Alminara |
2011-04-01 |
2511 |
| British War Office Act subordinates Commander-in-Chief to Secretary of State |
2011-12-30 |
904 |
| British, French and Dutch fleets attack Japan in Shimonoseki Straits |
2011-12-30 |
1400 |
| Britsh forces occupy the Faroe Islands |
2009-05-01 |
904 |
| Bruges becomes the cultural and commercial capital of northern Europe |
2010-03-01 |
1046 |
| Brussels Conference for abolition of slave trade |
2011-12-30 |
932 |
| Brussels conference on Germany's reparations |
2010-03-01 |
1008 |
| Brussels falls to Marshal Saxe after a siege |
2011-04-01 |
1217 |
| Bryant & May Match Girls’s Strike |
2013-08-30 |
1341 |
| Bubonic plague breaks our in Constantinople |
2009-05-01 |
1647 |
| Bubonic plague decimates a quarter of London's inhabitants |
2011-03-01 |
1207 |
| Buchlau conference |
2010-03-01 |
3204 |
| Buda and Pest are united to form the capital of Hungary |
2011-12-30 |
811 |
| Buenos Aires adopts a separate constitution from Argentina |
2011-12-30 |
624 |
| Buenos Aires attacked by British |
2010-03-01 |
772 |
| Buenos Aires is defeated by federal Argentine troops |
2011-12-30 |
729 |
| Buenos Aires surrenders to British |
2010-03-01 |
869 |
| Bulgaria annexes east Rumelia and defeats Serbia |
2010-01-01 |
1632 |
| Bulgaria converts to Christianity |
2009-05-01 |
1385 |
| Bulgaria elects Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg as King |
2011-12-30 |
1051 |
| Bulgaria rebels against the Ottoman Empire |
2010-02-01 |
1902 |
| Bulgaria signs armistice with Allies |
2010-03-01 |
1354 |
| Bulgaria signs military alliances with Germany and Turkey |
2010-03-01 |
1110 |
| Bulgaria under Simeon I defeats the Byzantine army |
2009-05-01 |
1443 |
| Bulgarian independence |
2010-02-01 |
1009 |
| Bulgarians are forced to withdraw from Serbia |
2011-12-30 |
1082 |
| Bullion Report |
2010-02-01 |
1987 |
| Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform defeated |
2010-03-01 |
1610 |
| Burgers is elected President of Transvaal Republic |
2011-12-30 |
905 |
| Burgoyne capitulates to Americans |
2010-03-01 |
2286 |
| Burke proposes economic reform |
2010-03-01 |
1563 |
| Burke secures Fox's defeat |
2010-03-01 |
2272 |
| Burlesque |
2001-11-01 |
7235 |
| Burma and Ceylon gain independence |
2010-02-01 |
1255 |
| Burma Road opens |
2010-02-01 |
1743 |
| Burnett Immigration bill passed |
2010-03-01 |
1717 |
| Burnings of Protestants provokes disillusionment with Mary's reign |
2011-02-01 |
1884 |
| Burr Plot |
2010-03-01 |
1474 |
| Butros Ghali, premier of Egypt, assassinated |
2010-03-01 |
1159 |
| By the Treaty of Gyalu, John Zápolya's widow cedes Hungary to Ferdinand |
2010-11-01 |
2849 |
| By the Treaty of Pilsen, Bavaria renews alliance with Empire |
2011-04-01 |
1373 |
| By Treaty of Bologna Pope Leo X surrenders Parma and Piacenza to France |
2010-11-01 |
1346 |
| By Treaty of Geneva the Swiss sign a peace with France |
2010-11-01 |
1957 |
| By treaty with Ethiopia, Britain abandons certain claims in Somaliland |
2011-12-30 |
714 |
| Byzantine emperor Leo V assassinated in Hagia Sophia |
2009-05-01 |
1384 |
| Byzantine emperor Michael I recognizes Charlemagne as emperor of the west |
2009-05-01 |
2939 |
| Byzantine expansions in the Middle East |
2009-05-01 |
1370 |
| Cadiz sacked by the English |
2010-11-01 |
1559 |
| Caesar defeats Pompey |
2010-02-01 |
1475 |
| Caesar’s expeditions to Britain |
2010-02-01 |
3019 |
| Cahir O'Dogherty of Tyrone raises rebellion in Ulster |
2011-02-01 |
2141 |
| Calais captured by the French |
2010-03-01 |
2415 |
| California claimed for the USA |
|
1266 |
| Calonne appointed controller-general |
2010-03-01 |
1116 |
| Calonne banished to Lorraine |
2010-03-01 |
1092 |
| Calvinist Joachim Frederick succeeds as Elector of Brandenburg |
2011-02-01 |
1694 |
| Calvinist sectaries are annihilated at Austruweel |
2011-02-01 |
1491 |
| Calvinist-Catholic coalition in Holland |
2011-12-30 |
901 |
| Calvinistic First Book of Discipline becomes basis of Church of Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
2160 |
| Calvinists force the Elector of Trier to leave his Archbishopric |
2011-02-01 |
1553 |
| Calvinists in Holland and Zeeland seek concessions from Philip II |
2011-02-01 |
1457 |
| Calvinists, Lutherans and Moravians in Poland ally against the Jesuits |
2011-02-01 |
1930 |
| Cambrai falls to the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
2418 |
| Camillo Borghese is elected Pope Paul V |
2011-02-01 |
1374 |
| Camillo Cavour is appointed minister in Piedmont |
2011-12-30 |
1482 |
| Camp David Peace Treaty |
2010-02-01 |
1186 |
| Campbell, Colen |
2005-05-18 |
3142 |
| Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet embark on social reforms |
2010-03-01 |
1274 |
| Campus Novel |
2010-02-01 |
6261 |
| Canada Act |
2010-02-01 |
2013 |
| Canada adopts voting by ballot on a single day |
2011-12-30 |
853 |
| Canada becomes a British Dominion |
2010-01-01 |
1115 |
| Canada Constitution Act |
2010-03-01 |
1034 |
| Canada purchases territories in north-west from Hudson Bay Company |
2011-12-30 |
1035 |
| Canadian and Australian Volunteers land in South Africa |
2011-12-30 |
1836 |
| Canadian Corn Act |
2010-02-01 |
1682 |
| Canadian government forces burn US steamer Caroline |
2011-12-30 |
1111 |
| Canadian Liberals urge reciprocity with USA after McKinley tariff |
2011-12-30 |
1233 |
| Canadian Pacific Railway Company founded |
2011-12-30 |
1060 |
| Canadian Parliament preserves union within British Empire |
2010-03-01 |
1519 |
| Canadians and British capture Passchendaele Ridge |
2010-03-01 |
1493 |
| Canal mania in the Midlands |
2010-02-01 |
2096 |
| Canberra founded |
2010-03-01 |
2001 |
| Cane toad introduced |
2010-03-01 |
894 |
| Canning recognises independence of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Colombia |
2011-12-30 |
1099 |
| Canning resigns from Liverpool's Cabinet |
2010-03-01 |
1704 |
| Canning returns to Cabinet |
2010-03-01 |
1614 |
| Cape Colony forbids landing of convicts |
2011-12-30 |
1733 |
| Cape Colony granted self-government |
2010-01-01 |
2047 |
| Cape Parliament rejects scheme for South African federation |
2011-12-30 |
700 |
| Cape railway reaches Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia |
2011-12-30 |
1235 |
| Cape railway reaches to Kimberley |
2011-12-30 |
881 |
| Cape Verde reached by Portuguese navigators |
2010-01-01 |
2111 |
| Capital of Uzbekistan captured by Russia |
2010-01-01 |
1419 |
| Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested |
2010-02-01 |
1797 |
| Captain Cook takes British possession of Australia |
2010-01-01 |
3699 |
| Captain Kidd battles pirates |
2010-03-01 |
2076 |
| Capucin monks ascend River Congo |
2011-02-01 |
877 |
| Carbon-12 resonance predicted |
2009-05-01 |
1267 |
| Cardinal Alberoni falls in Spain and is banished by Philip V |
2011-04-01 |
1108 |
| Cardinal Beaton is assassinated by pro-English party |
2010-11-01 |
1999 |
| Cardinal Beaton marches on Linlithgow with 600 men |
2010-11-01 |
2055 |
| Cardinal Beaton takes over the regency of Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
973 |
| Cardinal Charles Lavigerie urges Frenchmen to rally to the constitution |
2011-12-30 |
695 |
| Cardinal David Beaton becomes chief adviser to James V of Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1950 |
| Cardinal de Rohan Arrested in Diamond Necklace Affair |
2011-03-01 |
1222 |
| Cardinal Ferdinand de' Medici succeeds as Grand Duke of Tuscany |
2011-02-01 |
922 |
| Cardinal Fleury becomes Chief Minister in France |
2011-04-01 |
2167 |
| Cardinal Henry of Portugal becomes Regent for Sebastian I |
2011-02-01 |
1067 |
| Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal, dies |
2011-02-01 |
1401 |
| Cardinal Klesl, Bishop of Vienna, is arrested |
2011-02-01 |
1225 |
| Cardinal Mazarin and the Duke of Orleans are reconciled |
2011-04-01 |
1272 |
| Cardinal Mazarin is forced to flee from Paris |
2011-04-01 |
2562 |
| Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris; end of the Fronde |
|
3699 |
| Cardinal Mazarin signs treaty with the Duke of Modena |
2011-04-01 |
1294 |
| Cardinal Mercier protests Belgian deportation |
2010-03-01 |
1792 |
| Cardinal of Lorraine and Theodore Beza discuss the Hugenot problem |
2011-02-01 |
2368 |
| Cardinal Pole becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
2011-02-01 |
1802 |
| Cardinal Pole fails to win Charles V's support for attacking England |
2010-11-01 |
2484 |
| Cardinal Pole is sent to return Henry VIII to the Church of Rome |
2010-11-01 |
3181 |
| Cardinal Richelieu begins the siege of La Rochelle |
2011-02-01 |
2474 |
| Cardinal Richelieu centralises French administration |
2011-02-01 |
1211 |
| Cardinal Richelieu concentrates power in his own hands |
2011-02-01 |
1733 |
| Cardinal Richelieu leads an expedition to Italy |
2011-02-01 |
1224 |
| Cardinal Richelieu signs a treaty of alliance with Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1180 |
| Cardinal Richelieu suppresses a conspiracy against him |
2011-02-01 |
1545 |
| Cardinal William Allen's manifesto justifying a Spanish invasion |
2011-02-01 |
1519 |
| Cardinal Wolsey devises the Peace of London |
2010-11-01 |
1983 |
| Cardinal Wolsey dissolves 22 religious houses |
2010-11-01 |
2973 |
| Cardinal Wolsey falls from power |
2010-11-01 |
1676 |
| Cardinal Wolsey gives Henry VIII Hampton Court |
2010-11-01 |
1469 |
| Cardinal Wolsey is arrested as a traitor and dies |
2010-11-01 |
2298 |
| Cardinal Wolsey is forced to abandon his proposed unparliamentary tax |
2010-11-01 |
2699 |
| Cardinal Wolsey is indicted in the Court of King's Bench |
2010-11-01 |
2673 |
| Cardinal Wolsey is restored to the archbishopric of York |
2010-11-01 |
1873 |
| Cardinal Wolsey mediates between Francis I and Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
1753 |
| Cardinal Wolsey meets Francis I to ratify the peace treaty |
2010-11-01 |
1747 |
| Cardinal Wolsey persuades French ambassador to detain Duke of Albany |
2010-11-01 |
1566 |
| Cardinal Ximenes increases repression of the Moors in Granada |
2010-11-01 |
1232 |
| Cardinals Campeggio and Wolsey open their legatine court |
2010-11-01 |
2355 |
| Carey Act: encourages irrigation in semi-arid western US states |
2011-12-30 |
1093 |
| Carl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen becomes Prince of Romania |
2010-01-01 |
1311 |
| Carlist Wars in Spain end |
2011-12-30 |
1002 |
| Carlsbad Decrees |
2010-02-01 |
2122 |
| Carnation Revolution: Portuguese military coup |
2010-02-01 |
1446 |
| Carolina is divided into North and South Carolina |
2011-04-01 |
855 |
| Carpe Diem |
2001-11-01 |
5185 |
| Carranza becomes provisional Mexican president |
2010-03-01 |
1101 |
| Carthusian monks are executed at Tyburn |
2010-11-01 |
2786 |
| Carthusian monks are found guilty of treason |
2010-11-01 |
3059 |
| Cartwright's power loom |
2004-01-23 |
12224 |
| Carvalho becomes First Minister in Portugal |
2011-12-30 |
897 |
| Casa Contratacion founded in Spain to deal with American affairs |
2010-11-01 |
1436 |
| Casablanca incident |
2010-03-01 |
1066 |
| Casimir effect predicted |
2009-05-01 |
1004 |
| Casimir IV of Poland dies |
2010-11-01 |
1703 |
| Casimir the Great becomes King of Poland |
2010-03-01 |
1497 |
| Castile and Aragon unite |
2010-03-01 |
1216 |
| CAT scanner developed in UK |
2010-02-01 |
1153 |
| Catachresis |
2001-11-01 |
7173 |
| Catalans defend Roussillon against the French |
2011-02-01 |
1021 |
| Catharsis |
2001-11-01 |
12639 |
| Catherine de Medici becomes Regent of France |
2010-03-01 |
1248 |
| Catherine de' Medici and Henry of Navarre meet near Cognac |
2011-02-01 |
2148 |
| Catherine de' Medici and the Duke of Alva plan eradication of Protestantism |
2011-02-01 |
2577 |
| Catherine de' Medici extends the power of the French Crown |
2011-02-01 |
1465 |
| Catherine de' Medici pays Duke of Savoy to keep French garrisons |
2011-02-01 |
1136 |
| Catherine de' Medici tours France to present her son Charles IX |
2011-02-01 |
1427 |
| Catherine II visits Crimea |
2010-03-01 |
1114 |
| Catherine of Aragon dies at Kimbolton |
2010-11-01 |
1043 |
| Catherine the Great confiscates ecclesiastical lands |
2010-03-01 |
1043 |
| Catherine the Great of Russia is born |
2011-04-01 |
1083 |
| Catholic and Protestant antagonism in Swiss Cantons |
2010-11-01 |
1537 |
| Catholic cantons of Switzerland ally with Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1220 |
| Catholic church establishes the Inquisition |
2010-02-01 |
1654 |
| Catholic Emancipation Act |
2005-02-16 |
5260 |
| Catholic Enterprise to depose Elizabeth I is revealed |
2011-02-01 |
3002 |
| Catholic League army lays siege to Meulan |
2011-02-01 |
2095 |
| Catholic League declares Navarre incapable of inheriting the throne |
2011-02-01 |
2468 |
| Catholic League orders Henry III to purge Huguenot sympathisers |
2011-02-01 |
2876 |
| Catholic oppression in Bohemia rouses national antipathy to the Emperor |
2011-02-01 |
2565 |
| Catholic princes meet to consider a Catholic League |
2010-11-01 |
1810 |
| Catholic Provinces secretly invite Archduke Matthias to Brussels |
2011-02-01 |
1081 |
| Catholic Relief Bill abandoned in Parliament |
2010-03-01 |
1460 |
| Catholic Relief Bill rejected by House of Lords |
2010-02-01 |
2017 |
| Catholic rising in Languedoc |
2011-02-01 |
1223 |
| Catholic troops capture Le Havre from the English |
2010-03-01 |
2674 |
| Catholicism is re-established in Cologne |
2010-11-01 |
1698 |
| Catholics obtain a majority in the Empire's Electoral College |
2011-02-01 |
1173 |
| Catinat takes Nice |
2011-04-01 |
1591 |
| Cauchy integral theorem postulated |
2009-05-01 |
1352 |
| Cause of Brownian motion suggested |
2009-05-01 |
1222 |
| Causes of aurorae occurences suggested |
2009-05-01 |
1542 |
| Cavalier newsheet Mercurius Aulicus published in Oxford |
2011-02-01 |
3065 |
| Cavalier Poets |
2001-11-01 |
9933 |
| Cavaliers lose Bradford |
2011-02-01 |
2250 |
| Cavaliers take Marlborough |
2011-02-01 |
2575 |
| Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape Colony |
2011-12-30 |
982 |
| Cecil Rhodes begins colonising Rhodesia |
2010-01-01 |
3868 |
| Cecil Rhodes censured by a Parliamentary report into the Jameson Raid |
2011-12-30 |
1208 |
| Cecil Rhodes resigns premiership of Cape Colony |
2011-12-30 |
1195 |
| Cellular automata dynamical systems presented |
2009-05-01 |
1088 |
| Censorship of French press re-established |
2011-03-01 |
1693 |
| Censorship of Prussian press is revived |
2011-12-30 |
969 |
| Central African Federation established |
2010-02-01 |
1143 |
| Central American states sign treaty of amity |
2011-12-30 |
775 |
| Central European Banks collapse |
2010-02-01 |
1345 |
| Central Powers breakthrough at Gorlice-Tarnow |
2010-02-01 |
1324 |
| Central powers invade Serbia |
2010-02-01 |
1580 |
| Central Powers proclaim Kingdom of Poland |
2010-03-01 |
957 |
| Cepheid I and Cepheid II variable stars distinguished |
2011-03-01 |
1166 |
| Cerebrum and cerebellum distinguished in the brain |
2009-05-01 |
1278 |
| Cerenkov effect observed |
2009-05-01 |
850 |
| Cesare Borgia begins conquest of the Romagna |
2010-11-01 |
1614 |
| Cesare Borgia dies |
2010-11-01 |
1015 |
| Cesare Borgia is imprisoned for refusing to submit to the new Pope |
2010-11-01 |
2242 |
| Cesare Borgia leaves Rome as papal legate to Louis XII |
2010-11-01 |
1743 |
| Cesare Borgia puts down a revolt of the Orsini with French help |
2010-11-01 |
1671 |
| Cesare Borgia returns to Rome in triumph |
2010-11-01 |
1283 |
| Cesare Borgia seizes Rimini and Pesaro |
2010-11-01 |
2150 |
| Cesare Borgia takes Urbino |
2010-11-01 |
1526 |
| Ceuta, Morocco, captured by Portugal |
2010-03-01 |
1820 |
| Ceylon is settled by the Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
1386 |
| Chaco War commences |
2010-02-01 |
1420 |
| Chaco War ends |
2010-02-01 |
1227 |
| Chain mail replaced with plate armour |
2010-03-01 |
1170 |
| Chamber of Reunion claims Alsace for France |
2011-04-01 |
1649 |
| Chamberlain presides over Second Colonial Conference in London |
2011-12-30 |
682 |
| Chamberlain proposes a joint British-Boer enquiry into Transvaal franchise bills |
2011-12-30 |
1201 |
| Chancellor and Bishop Stephen Gardiner dies |
2011-02-01 |
2548 |
| Chancellor of Brandenburg, von Danckelman, falls from power |
2011-04-01 |
1235 |
| Chancery Rolls established |
2012-07-31 |
1111 |
| Chapbook |
2007-11-28 |
3925 |
| Charlemagne becomes the sole ruler of the Frankish empire |
2009-05-01 |
3413 |
| Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor |
2005-10-10 |
9312 |
| Charlemagne’s 13-year campaign against the Saxons begins |
2009-05-01 |
3521 |
| Charles AIbert of Sardinia abdicates in favour of Victor Emmanuel II |
2011-12-30 |
1055 |
| Charles Albert is crowned Emperor Charles VII |
2011-04-01 |
955 |
| Charles Albert of Piedmont dismisses reactionary ministers |
2011-12-30 |
1168 |
| Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria, is elected Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
1223 |
| Charles Bradlaugh MP claims the right to take a secular oath in Parliament |
2011-12-30 |
725 |
| Charles d' Albret takes charge of the government of France |
2011-02-01 |
1907 |
| Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle |
2013-08-30 |
3637 |
| Charles De Gaulle defeated in referendum, resigns |
2010-02-01 |
944 |
| Charles de Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise, dies |
2011-02-01 |
1095 |
| Charles Edward advances as far south as Derby |
2011-04-01 |
1556 |
| Charles Edward Stuart defeats English army at Prestonpans |
2011-04-01 |
1583 |
| Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, escapes to France |
2011-04-01 |
1753 |
| Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, lands in Scotland |
2011-04-01 |
1770 |
| Charles Emanuel of Sardinia moves to support Austria |
2011-04-01 |
1243 |
| Charles Emanuel of Sardinia recovers Milan |
2011-04-01 |
1450 |
| Charles Emanuel of Sardinia rejects alliance with France and Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1447 |
| Charles Emmanuel I accedes as Duke of Savoy |
2011-02-01 |
1367 |
| Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy enters Aix |
2011-02-01 |
1052 |
| Charles Emmanuel of Sardinia forced to abdicate |
2011-03-01 |
1546 |
| Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy, fails to seize Geneva |
2011-02-01 |
1608 |
| Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy, sends an army to ravage Provence |
2011-02-01 |
1457 |
| Charles Felix forces Charles Albert to renounce his claim to Piedmont |
2011-12-30 |
988 |
| Charles Fleetwood appointed Commander-in-Chief |
2010-02-01 |
959 |
| Charles Fleetwood is made Lieutenant-General of the Army |
2010-02-01 |
1213 |
| Charles Fleetwood leaves Ireland |
2010-02-01 |
1007 |
| Charles Hermite solves the general quintic equation |
2009-05-01 |
1398 |
| Charles I accuses several MPs of treason |
2010-02-01 |
2315 |
| Charles I accuses the Scots of seeking to overthrow royal power |
2011-02-01 |
1948 |
| Charles I agrees to subsidise Christian IV of Denmark |
2011-02-01 |
1254 |
| Charles I and Francis I campaign to become Holy Roman Emperor |
2010-11-01 |
1344 |
| Charles I becomes a prisoner of the army |
2010-02-01 |
2465 |
| Charles I bestows Order of the Garter on Strafford |
2011-02-01 |
1700 |
| Charles I decides to call a Parliament |
2010-02-01 |
1662 |
| Charles I demands all wealthy Englishmen to buy knighthoods |
2011-02-01 |
2127 |
| Charles I demands the collection of Ship Money |
2011-02-01 |
2404 |
| Charles I escapes but is captured |
2010-02-01 |
2587 |
| Charles I fails to take control of the arsenal at Kingston upon Hull |
2010-02-01 |
2911 |
| Charles I fines the City of London and seizes its plantation in Ulster |
2011-02-01 |
1731 |
| Charles I fines the City of London for failing to put down a riot |
2011-02-01 |
1502 |
| Charles I formally declares war |
2010-02-01 |
2913 |
| Charles I grants Lord Carlisle the settlement of the Caribbean Islands |
2011-02-01 |
1553 |
| Charles I is crowned King of Scotland; insists on Anglicising the Church |
2011-02-01 |
2260 |
| Charles I issues more writs for the collection of Ship Money |
2011-02-01 |
1954 |
| Charles I joins his army at York |
2011-02-01 |
1725 |
| Charles I leaves London |
2011-03-01 |
2447 |
| Charles I leaves London to face a threatened Scottish invasion |
2011-02-01 |
2947 |
| Charles I of Spain is elected Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V |
2010-03-01 |
1611 |
| Charles I offers some concessions |
2011-04-01 |
2135 |
| Charles I opens a Great Council at York |
2011-02-01 |
1450 |
| Charles I promises to call a General Assembly and Parliament |
2011-02-01 |
1504 |
| Charles I recaptured |
2010-02-01 |
2235 |
| Charles I revives the forest eyre to raise money by fines |
2011-02-01 |
2446 |
| Charles I sends Buckingham's impeachers to the Tower of London |
2011-02-01 |
1428 |
| Charles I sends John Selden to the Tower of London |
2011-02-01 |
1181 |
| Charles I surrenders to the Scots at Newark |
2011-03-01 |
2107 |
| Charles I tries unsuccessfully to escape |
2011-02-01 |
2702 |
| Charles I's Parliament meets at Oxford |
2011-02-01 |
1377 |
| Charles II again dissolves Parliament to halt the Exclusion Bill |
2011-04-01 |
3347 |
| Charles II allies with the Bishop of Münster |
2011-04-01 |
1324 |
| Charles II announces an alliance with the Dutch against France |
2011-04-01 |
1142 |
| Charles II arrives in Scotland and agrees to the Covenant |
2011-03-01 |
2688 |
| Charles II calls parliament but soon prorogues it over the Exclusion Bill |
2011-04-01 |
1018 |
| Charles II dies |
2011-04-01 |
1207 |
| Charles II dissolves parliament to halt the Exclusion Bill |
2011-04-01 |
2223 |
| Charles II enters London |
2011-03-01 |
734 |
| Charles II grants a charter to the Royal African Company |
2011-04-01 |
1171 |
| Charles II issues Declaration of Breda |
2011-04-01 |
1075 |
| Charles II marries Catherine de Braganza |
2011-04-01 |
1122 |
| Charles II of England prorogues English Parliament |
2011-04-01 |
1404 |
| Charles II of Spain appoints Philip of Anjou his heir |
2011-04-01 |
1556 |
| Charles II of Spain attains his majority |
2011-04-01 |
1073 |
| Charles II of Spain marries Marie Louise of Orleans |
2011-04-01 |
1078 |
| Charles II proclaimed King in Edinburgh |
2011-03-01 |
2753 |
| Charles II signs a secret treaty with Louis XIV, but refuses to ratify it |
2011-04-01 |
1145 |
| Charles II signs the Treaty of Breda |
2010-02-01 |
2555 |
| Charles II withdraws Declaration of Indulgence |
2011-04-01 |
1668 |
| Charles II's Declaration for Settling Affairs of Ireland |
2011-04-01 |
1096 |
| Charles II's fourth Parliament finally meets |
2011-04-01 |
1016 |
| Charles III enters Madrid but soon retires to Catalonia |
2011-04-01 |
2913 |
| Charles III expels Jesuits from Spain |
2010-03-01 |
1124 |
| Charles III of Austria is recognised in Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon |
2011-04-01 |
1301 |
| Charles Ill, Duke of Parma, is murdered |
2011-12-30 |
870 |
| Charles IV issues his Golden Bull |
2010-03-01 |
1368 |
| Charles IX and Catherine de' Medici retire to Metz |
2011-02-01 |
1407 |
| Charles IX assumes the title of King of Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1208 |
| Charles IX marries Elizabeth, daughter of Maximilian II |
2011-02-01 |
648 |
| Charles IX of France is declared to be of age at 13 |
2011-02-01 |
1341 |
| Charles IX of Sweden executes leaders of the pro-Polish party |
2011-02-01 |
1389 |
| Charles IX, King of Sweden, is formally crowned |
2011-02-01 |
1055 |
| Charles Louis becomes Elector of the Palatinate |
2011-04-01 |
881 |
| Charles Martel dies |
2009-05-01 |
1749 |
| Charles of Habsburg becomes King of Spain |
2010-03-01 |
1040 |
| Charles of Spain and the Emperor both reject the Partition Treaty |
2011-04-01 |
1159 |
| Charles offers the Scots an unacceptable deal |
2011-02-01 |
2368 |
| Charles Parnell forced to resign due to involvement in a divorce case |
2013-08-30 |
1281 |
| Charles R. Darwin and Alfred Wallace independently propose natural selection theories of evolution |
2013-08-30 |
4196 |
| Charles Townshend becomes Secretary of State for Northern Department |
2011-04-01 |
1279 |
| Charles Townshend resigns as Lord President of Council |
2011-04-01 |
1088 |
| Charles Townshend returns to office as Lord President of the Council |
2011-04-01 |
930 |
| Charles V abandons the siege of Marseilles |
2010-11-01 |
1455 |
| Charles V agrees to a six-month truce with the Protestant princes |
2010-11-01 |
1604 |
| Charles V and Clement VII renew a defensive league |
2010-11-01 |
1202 |
| Charles V and Francis I meet at Aigues Mortes to discuss Protestant heresies |
2010-11-01 |
2701 |
| Charles V and Pope Leo X sign a secret treaty |
2010-11-01 |
1655 |
| Charles V annexes the Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
1829 |
| Charles V appoints his sister Regent of the Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
1287 |
| Charles V arrives at Genoa |
2010-11-01 |
1268 |
| Charles V arrives in Genoa to campaign against Francis I |
2010-11-01 |
1593 |
| Charles V arrives in Spain |
2010-11-01 |
860 |
| Charles V attacks Soissons |
2010-11-01 |
1258 |
| Charles V attempts to lay siege to Metz |
2010-11-01 |
1761 |
| Charles V begins the siege of Duren in Gelderland |
2010-11-01 |
1511 |
| Charles V captures Terouanne from the French |
2010-11-01 |
1522 |
| Charles V captures Tunis |
2010-03-01 |
1293 |
| Charles V crosses the Alps for Germany |
2010-11-01 |
1447 |
| Charles V defeats Barbarossa and the Turks at Carthage |
2010-11-01 |
1615 |
| Charles V enters Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1761 |
| Charles V escapes from Maurice across the Brenner Pass |
2010-11-01 |
1740 |
| Charles V executes the leaders of the Ghent revolt |
2010-11-01 |
2028 |
| Charles V fends off the Duke of Mantua by granting him Montferrat |
2010-11-01 |
706 |
| Charles V forbids religious innovations in the empire |
2010-11-01 |
1596 |
| Charles V forces the Castillian Cortes to vote supplies for the war |
2010-11-01 |
1477 |
| Charles V gains Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1817 |
| Charles V gives the Saxon electorate to Maurice of Saxony |
2010-11-01 |
1187 |
| Charles V grants his brother Ferdinand Hapsburg possessions |
2010-11-01 |
1682 |
| Charles V grants his brother Ferdinand various Hapsburg possessions |
2010-11-01 |
1266 |
| Charles V grants Reggio and Modena to the Duke of Ferrara |
2010-11-01 |
992 |
| Charles V invades Champagne |
2010-11-01 |
1324 |
| Charles V invests his son Philip with the duchy of Milan |
2010-11-01 |
718 |
| Charles V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor |
2010-11-01 |
1411 |
| Charles V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope |
2010-11-01 |
1366 |
| Charles V lands in Sicily |
2010-11-01 |
1262 |
| Charles V leaves Spain for northern Europe |
2010-11-01 |
1089 |
| Charles V manipulates the Duke of Cleves |
2010-11-01 |
1652 |
| Charles V marches his army through southern Germany |
2010-11-01 |
1027 |
| Charles V meets Francis I at Loches |
2010-11-01 |
2028 |
| Charles V meets Mary of Hungary, Regent of the Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
1065 |
| Charles V meets the German Diet at Regensburg |
2010-11-01 |
1495 |
| Charles V occupies the duchy of Sforza |
2010-11-01 |
1364 |
| Charles V proposes strengthening imperial executive |
2010-11-01 |
1293 |
| Charles V reforms the Imperial Chamber |
2010-11-01 |
1497 |
| Charles V resigns the Holy Roman Empire to his brother |
2011-02-01 |
1444 |
| Charles V retires from Metz and returns to Brussels |
2010-11-01 |
1745 |
| Charles V retires to a Spanish monastery |
2011-02-01 |
1262 |
| Charles V signs a truce with Suleiman I |
2010-11-01 |
1831 |
| Charles V summons a diet to meet at Worms in January 1521 |
2010-11-01 |
2439 |
| Charles V suppresses a rebellion in Ghent |
2010-03-01 |
1508 |
| Charles V takes control of Italy |
2010-11-01 |
876 |
| Charles V visits Henry VIII at Dover and Canterbury |
2010-11-01 |
1580 |
| Charles V's army bolstered from troops from Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
1809 |
| Charles VIII enters Florence and Piero de' Medici is expelled |
2010-11-01 |
1814 |
| Charles VIII enters Lucca |
2010-11-01 |
2581 |
| Charles VIII enters Naples |
2010-11-01 |
2299 |
| Charles VIII enters Rome |
2010-11-01 |
1749 |
| Charles VIII enters Turin |
2010-11-01 |
2220 |
| Charles VIII faces the Holy League at Battle of Fornovo |
2010-11-01 |
2398 |
| Charles VIII is crowned King of Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1264 |
| Charles VIII leaves Rome having apparently forced the Pope into submission |
2010-11-01 |
2320 |
| Charles VIII of France invades Italy to claim throne of Naples |
2010-11-01 |
2606 |
| Charles VIII recognises Ludovico Sforza as Duke of Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1203 |
| Charles VIII returns from Italy |
2010-11-01 |
1523 |
| Charles X allows Jesuits to return to France and teach in State seminaries |
2011-12-30 |
1408 |
| Charles X begins second war with Denmark |
2011-04-01 |
1325 |
| Charles X defeats John Casimir of Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1234 |
| Charles X issues ordinances to control the press and change the electoral system |
2011-12-30 |
1314 |
| Charles X of France dissolves Chambers and calls for elections |
2011-12-30 |
1198 |
| Charles X takes Cracow |
2011-04-01 |
1146 |
| Charles XI becomes King of Sweden |
2011-03-01 |
1138 |
| Charles XI of Sweden declares himself absolute |
2011-04-01 |
959 |
| Charles XI of Sweden defeats the Danes at Lunden |
2011-04-01 |
1210 |
| Charles XII becomes King of Sweden |
2011-03-01 |
1317 |
| Charles XII defeats Russians at Holowczyn |
2011-04-01 |
1237 |
| Charles XII enforces the peace of Travendal on Denmark |
2011-04-01 |
1499 |
| Charles XII of Sweden arrives at Stralsund |
2011-04-01 |
1311 |
| Charles XII of Sweden declares himself absolute |
2011-04-01 |
889 |
| Charles XII of Sweden defeats Peter the Great at Pultusk |
2011-04-01 |
1436 |
| Charles XII of Sweden is killed at Frederikshall |
2011-04-01 |
1878 |
| Charles XII of Sweden is taken prisoner by the Turkish Sultan |
2011-04-01 |
1146 |
| Charles XII of Sweden relieves Riga from Russian occupation |
2011-04-01 |
1273 |
| Charles XII of Sweden takes Warsaw |
2011-04-01 |
1226 |
| Charles XII takes Mohilev and invades Ukraine |
2011-04-01 |
1186 |
| Charles, Duke of Lorraine, takes Buda from the Turks |
2011-04-01 |
1138 |
| Charles's triumphal entry into Valladolid |
2010-11-01 |
967 |
| Charleston is successfully defended against French and Spaniards |
2011-04-01 |
2253 |
| Charleston, Carolina, is founded |
2011-04-01 |
1324 |
| Charm quark proposed |
2009-05-01 |
824 |
| Charter of franchises and liberties is drawn up in New York |
2011-04-01 |
1227 |
| Chartist risings in manufacturing areas of England |
2011-12-30 |
3716 |
| Chartres surrenders to Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2132 |
| Chatham's bill to conciliate American colonists |
2010-03-01 |
2126 |
| Chauvelin, the French Foreign Secretary, is suddenly dismissed |
2011-04-01 |
1447 |
| Chay Blyth returns to UK after sailing single-handed round-the-world |
2010-01-01 |
1294 |
| Cheap Repository Tracts |
2005-04-14 |
5443 |
| Checkers Speech |
2010-03-01 |
838 |
| Chemical thermodynamics developed |
2009-05-01 |
1713 |
| Chemotheraputic cure for streptococcus developed |
2011-03-01 |
875 |
| Chiasmus |
2001-11-01 |
5467 |
| Chief Joseph's War |
2010-02-01 |
3091 |
| Chief Justice Pratt discharges Wilkes |
2010-03-01 |
2431 |
| Chien Lung becomes Emperor of China |
2011-04-01 |
744 |
| Chile declares war on Peru-Bolivian Federation |
2011-12-30 |
957 |
| China accepts Japanese ultimatum |
2010-03-01 |
1003 |
| China and Japan declare war on each other |
2010-02-01 |
1546 |
| China conquers Taiwan |
2010-03-01 |
980 |
| China conquers West Mongolia |
2011-04-01 |
1336 |
| China invades Tibet |
2011-04-01 |
1066 |
| China occupies East Turkestan |
2011-12-30 |
1235 |
| China opposes Italy's demands for concessions at Chekiang |
2011-12-30 |
725 |
| China seeks to limit trade with the West |
2010-03-01 |
1068 |
| China suppresses a revolution in Formosa |
2011-04-01 |
776 |
| Chinese Four Great Books of Song begun |
2009-05-01 |
7092 |
| Chinese banned from emigrating to the USA |
2011-12-20 |
2287 |
| Chinese edict ordering reform of calendar |
2011-03-01 |
801 |
| Chinese encyclopedia entitled Yongluo Dadian is completed |
2010-03-01 |
1256 |
| Chinese famine |
2010-02-01 |
1040 |
| Chinese government declines 6-powers loan |
2010-03-01 |
1398 |
| Chinese princes vote for establishment of monarchy |
2010-03-01 |
791 |
| Chinese troops annihilated by the western Mongols |
2011-04-01 |
853 |
| Chloroform first used as an anaesthetic in childbirth |
2008-02-29 |
1474 |
| Chlorophyll synthesized |
2011-03-01 |
886 |
| Choiseul falls from power |
2010-03-01 |
1607 |
| Choiseul opens peace negotiations |
2011-12-30 |
1400 |
| Cholera Epidemic |
2013-08-30 |
2108 |
| Cholesterol and cortisone synthesized |
2011-03-01 |
1072 |
| Christanisation of the Roman empire |
2005-11-16 |
1806 |
| Christian de Wet surrenders at Bloemfontein |
2010-03-01 |
864 |
| Christian I succeeds as Elector of Saxony |
2011-02-01 |
880 |
| Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunden |
2010-11-01 |
1817 |
| Christian II of Denmark attempts to invade Norway |
2010-11-01 |
1734 |
| Christian II of Denmark is crowned King of Sweden |
2010-11-01 |
1415 |
| Christian II succeeds as King of Denmark and Norway |
2010-11-01 |
1461 |
| Christian III issues Ordinance for the Danish Church |
2010-11-01 |
1375 |
| Christian III's navy end the era of Hanseatic sea-power |
2010-11-01 |
1658 |
| Christian IV accedes to the throne of Denmark |
2011-02-01 |
1044 |
| Christian IV withdraws to Denmark |
2011-02-01 |
1002 |
| Christian IX of Denmark attacks Sweden by sea |
2011-02-01 |
1335 |
| Christian IX of Denmark signs new constitution |
2011-12-30 |
629 |
| Christian of Anhalt becomes the leading German Calvinist prince |
2011-02-01 |
1280 |
| Christian of Halberstadt dies |
2011-02-01 |
1353 |
| Christian V of Denmark is defeated by a Swedish force at Cassel |
2011-04-01 |
1257 |
| Christian VI becomes King of Denmark |
2011-04-01 |
743 |
| Christian VI of Denmark dies |
2011-04-01 |
709 |
| Christian VIII of Denmark dies |
2011-12-30 |
613 |
| Christianized slaves denied freedom in Maryland |
2010-03-01 |
1777 |
| Christians rebel against Ottoman Empire in Crete |
2010-01-01 |
939 |
| Christina of Sweden abdicates |
2010-02-01 |
1266 |
| Church Building Act |
2013-08-30 |
1224 |
| Church Missionary Society founded |
2010-02-01 |
1877 |
| Church of Scotland founded |
2005-06-17 |
4607 |
| Church of Scotland splits |
2013-08-30 |
1422 |
| Churchill resigns as Prime Minister |
2010-02-01 |
2093 |
| CIA-engineered coup in Guatemala |
2010-03-01 |
867 |
| CIA-engineered coup in Iran |
2010-03-01 |
1302 |
| Cipriano Castro assumes power in Venezuela |
2011-12-30 |
644 |
| Circular birefringence postulated |
2009-05-01 |
1075 |
| Circulation of blood and metabolism theorized by Ibn an-Nafis |
2009-05-01 |
1419 |
| Cisalpine Republic proclaimed |
2010-03-01 |
2090 |
| Cispadane Republic established |
2010-03-01 |
2237 |
| Cispadane Republic merged with Ligurian Republic |
2010-03-01 |
2067 |
| City charters are remodelled in favour of the King |
2011-04-01 |
1694 |
| City of London forced to forfeit its charter |
2011-04-01 |
1544 |
| Civil Constitution of the Clergy in France |
2008-01-01 |
3319 |
| Civil government in Panama Canal Zone |
2010-03-01 |
875 |
| Civil List Act |
2010-02-01 |
949 |
| Civil List Act |
2010-02-01 |
2034 |
| Civil List reform |
2010-02-01 |
2097 |
| Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths |
2013-08-30 |
1138 |
| Civil Rights Act |
2010-03-01 |
1704 |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
2009-01-20 |
1852 |
| Civil Service Commission founded |
2010-02-01 |
1926 |
| Civil war between Marians and Lords of the Congregation breaks out |
2011-02-01 |
1754 |
| Civil War breaks out in Yemen |
2010-02-01 |
849 |
| Civil War in Afghanistan after death of Dost Mohammed |
2011-12-30 |
1226 |
| Civil war in Laos |
2010-02-01 |
983 |
| Civil war in Muscovy |
2010-03-01 |
1139 |
| Civil war in Samoa |
2011-12-30 |
818 |
| Civil war in the Ottoman Empire |
2010-03-01 |
1823 |
| Clapham Sect |
2007-12-12 |
5064 |
| Clarendon Code |
2005-02-16 |
5599 |
| Clark completes American conquest of Old Northwest |
2010-03-01 |
2325 |
| Clarkson, Thomas |
2007-12-12 |
3551 |
| Clayton bill passes House of Representatives |
2010-03-01 |
1140 |
| Clément Fallières elected President of France |
2011-03-01 |
1236 |
| Clement Fallieres forms brief ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
1562 |
| Clement VII forbids lawyers from taking sides on Henry VIII's marriage |
2010-11-01 |
2614 |
| Clement VII is allowed to escape to Orvieto |
2010-11-01 |
1892 |
| Clement X is elected Pope |
2011-04-01 |
1105 |
| Clement XI is elected Pope |
2011-04-01 |
1086 |
| Clement XII is elected Pope |
2011-04-01 |
964 |
| Clerical Livings |
2006-01-03 |
1936 |
| Clericals defeat Liberals in Belgian elections |
2011-12-30 |
594 |
| Cleveland repeals McKinley tariff |
2011-12-30 |
925 |
| Clinton evacuates troops from Philadelphia |
2010-03-01 |
2182 |
| Clive arrives in Madras |
2011-04-01 |
1282 |
| Clive defeats Dupleix at Arni |
2011-04-01 |
2105 |
| Closed Couplet |
2001-11-01 |
12440 |
| CN Tower completed |
2010-02-01 |
1454 |
| Coalition election manifesto |
2010-03-01 |
636 |
| Coalminers in Newcastle strike |
2010-03-01 |
892 |
| Coblenz made headquarters of French émigrés |
2011-03-01 |
1792 |
| Cocceji becomes Prussian Minister of Justice |
2011-04-01 |
1308 |
| Code Napoleon revises French law |
2008-03-01 |
1474 |
| Codification of Byzantine laws by Justinian |
2005-11-16 |
1407 |
| Coinage Act |
2010-02-01 |
3074 |
| Coinage Act |
2010-02-01 |
2398 |
| Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel |
2005-08-15 |
5067 |
| Colin Campbell relieves Lucknow |
2011-12-30 |
851 |
| Collapse of Anton Denikin's White Russian army |
2010-03-01 |
1032 |
| Collapse of Naples revolt |
2011-12-30 |
963 |
| Collapse of the Mongol Persian (Il-Khanate) Empire |
2010-03-01 |
1601 |
| Collapse of the Soviet Union |
2010-03-01 |
644 |
| Collective Unconscious |
2006-05-25 |
7017 |
| Colombia grants French company a nine-year concession to build Panama Canal |
2011-12-30 |
763 |
| Colonel Henry admits forging a document in the Dreyfus case |
2011-12-30 |
810 |
| Colonel John Lambert escapes |
2010-02-01 |
743 |
| Colonel Poyner refuses to disband his troops |
2010-02-01 |
2410 |
| Colonial charter governing Massachusetts withdrawn |
2010-01-01 |
1484 |
| Colonial Conference in Ottawa |
2011-12-30 |
1000 |
| Colonial Conference resolves for Imperial Preference |
2013-08-30 |
1337 |
| Colonization of Connecticut |
2010-01-01 |
3724 |
| Colony of Georgia founded |
2011-12-20 |
5022 |
| Columbus reaches the Bahamas |
2010-11-01 |
2153 |
| Columbus returns to Spain |
2010-11-01 |
1507 |
| Columbus' voyage of discovery financed by Ferdinand of Spain |
2010-11-01 |
2194 |
| Columbus's expedition departs Palos, Spain |
2010-01-01 |
2696 |
| Columbus's third voyage |
2010-03-01 |
1543 |
| Combination Acts |
2007-12-12 |
4177 |
| Combination Acts repealed - Trades Unions permitted |
2010-02-01 |
2688 |
| Combination laws partially reinstated |
2010-01-01 |
1946 |
| Combinations of Workmen Act |
2013-08-30 |
3571 |
| Comets shown to be celestial entities |
2009-05-01 |
718 |
| Comics, Comic Books |
2010-02-01 |
4904 |
| Comité d'études du Haut-Congo formed |
2011-12-30 |
1470 |
| Commercial radio broadcasting commences |
2010-02-01 |
787 |
| Commercial treaty between Bavaria and Wurttemberg |
2011-12-30 |
789 |
| Commercial treaty between Britain and Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
1228 |
| Commercial treaty between Britain and Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1224 |
| Commercial treaty between Britain and Zollverin |
2011-12-30 |
743 |
| Commercial treaty between France and Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
847 |
| Commercial treaty between France and Russia |
2011-12-30 |
1151 |
| Commercial treaty between Prussia and Austria |
2011-12-30 |
707 |
| Commercial treaty between Prussia and Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
2011-12-30 |
910 |
| Commission of Fees begins operations |
2010-02-01 |
1665 |
| Committee of Correspondence appointed |
2010-03-01 |
1534 |
| Committee of Estates appointed |
2010-02-01 |
1925 |
| Committee of Imperial Defence holds first meeting |
2013-08-30 |
687 |
| Committee of Public Safety established |
2011-03-01 |
923 |
| Committee of Public Safety takes control of the Terror in France |
2007-12-22 |
2257 |
| Committee of Safety appointed |
2010-02-01 |
857 |
| Committee on Child Labour |
2013-08-30 |
1493 |
| Commodore Benbow bombards Calais |
2011-04-01 |
1942 |
| Commons committee appointed to consider Scottish issues |
2011-12-30 |
1080 |
| Commons debate Marconi Report |
2010-03-01 |
770 |
| Commons pass Henry Campbell-Bannerman's resolution |
2010-03-01 |
1014 |
| Commons pass Irish Home Rule bill |
2010-03-01 |
1400 |
| Commons pass Welsh Church bill |
2010-03-01 |
1742 |
| Commons proclaim Ship Money to be an illegal tax |
2011-02-01 |
2380 |
| Commons vote to disband most of the army |
2011-04-01 |
2304 |
| Commonwealth and United Provinces discuss alliance |
2010-02-01 |
1082 |
| Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed federal union |
2010-03-01 |
1235 |
| Communist (Spartacist) revolt in Berlin |
2010-03-01 |
1183 |
| Communist regime imposed in Bulgaria |
2010-03-01 |
2129 |
| Communist regime imposed in Czechoslovakia |
2010-03-01 |
2202 |
| Communist regime imposed in Hungary |
2009-05-01 |
2337 |
| Communist regime imposed in Poland |
2009-05-01 |
2222 |
| Communist regime imposed in Romania |
2009-05-01 |
2281 |
| Communist riots in Paris are defeated |
2011-12-30 |
1522 |
| Communist rising in Paris |
2011-12-30 |
1673 |
| Compilation of the Kojiki, Japan’s oldest chronicle |
2009-05-01 |
3130 |
| Complete Suffrage Union founded |
2013-08-30 |
4084 |
| Completion of the Palomar sky survey |
2009-05-01 |
825 |
| Composition of air discovered |
2009-05-01 |
1383 |
| Composition of benzene established |
2009-05-01 |
1021 |
| Compton scattering Fokker-Planck equation formulated |
2011-03-01 |
843 |
| Compulsory military service in Japan |
2011-12-30 |
799 |
| Compulsory Roman Catholic instruction in Belgian state schools |
2011-12-30 |
597 |
| Computation of pi |
2009-05-01 |
1544 |
| Comte de Chambord ends hope of restoration of French monarchy |
2011-12-30 |
777 |
| Comte de Chambord's Frohsdorf letter of uncompromising Legitimism |
2011-12-30 |
776 |
| Comte de Paris accepts compensation for confiscation of his estates |
2011-12-30 |
618 |
| Concordat between Netherlands and Pope Leo XII |
2011-12-30 |
876 |
| Concordat of Bologna: between France and the Papacy |
2010-03-01 |
3614 |
| Concorde, fastest-ever passenger plane, enters service |
2010-02-01 |
1051 |
| Condé defeats Royalist army at Bléneau |
2011-04-01 |
2853 |
| Condé forces Turenne to raise the siege of Cambrai |
2011-04-01 |
1356 |
| Condé is attainted of treason in the Paris Parlement |
2011-04-01 |
2218 |
| Condé raises the siege of Arras |
2011-04-01 |
906 |
| Condé signs alliances with Philip of Spain and the Duke of Lorraine |
2011-04-01 |
2186 |
| Condé's victory at Lens hastens the peace negotiations |
2011-04-01 |
2313 |
| Conditioned responses demonstrated by Pavlov |
2009-05-01 |
942 |
| Conditions of replicationm, mutation and evolution of RNA molecules posited |
2009-05-01 |
843 |
| Confederate Army surrenders |
2010-03-01 |
2631 |
| Confederate force surrenders at Durham, North Carolina |
2011-12-30 |
2245 |
| Confederate frigate Merrimack sinks Unionist ship Cumberland |
2011-12-30 |
2556 |
| Confederates abandon Atlanta, Georgia |
2011-12-30 |
2117 |
| Confederates buy ships from British boat yard, leading to Alabama case |
2011-12-30 |
2257 |
| Confederates defeated at Chattanooga |
2011-12-30 |
1989 |
| Confederates forced to withdraw from Shilton, Tennessee |
2011-12-30 |
2294 |
| Confederates surrender Fort Hudson to Unionists |
2011-12-30 |
2203 |
| Confederation of Bar |
2010-03-01 |
1221 |
| Confederation of British and Boer States in South Africa |
2010-01-01 |
2176 |
| Confederation of New England is created |
2011-02-01 |
1229 |
| Confederation of United Provinces of Central America is formed |
2011-12-30 |
964 |
| Conference at Munchengrätz between Russia, Prussia and Austria |
2011-12-30 |
1105 |
| Conference at Troppau |
2010-03-01 |
1971 |
| Conference of Australian officials on Aborigines |
2010-03-01 |
890 |
| Conference of Passau |
2010-11-01 |
1045 |
| Conference of Rastadt dissolved |
2010-03-01 |
1523 |
| Conference to discuss French indemnity |
2010-03-01 |
1877 |
| Conference to modify Federal Act of German States |
2010-03-01 |
1880 |
| Conferences at Breda |
2010-03-01 |
1170 |
| Confirmation that German King automatically becomes Holy Roman Emperor |
2010-11-01 |
1332 |
| Conflict in Reichstag over army bill |
2011-12-30 |
1067 |
| Congo State is established under Leopold II of Belgium |
2011-12-30 |
1012 |
| Congress despatch force to Wyoming Valley |
2010-03-01 |
2863 |
| Congress enacts taxes on real estate and personal income |
2010-03-01 |
1577 |
| Congress of Arras |
2010-03-01 |
1687 |
| Congress of Berlin |
2010-02-01 |
1729 |
| Congress of Cambrai: France and England agree to support Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1850 |
| Congress of Laibach |
2011-12-30 |
2543 |
| Congress of Oppressed Peoples |
2010-02-01 |
975 |
| Congress of Prague begins |
2010-03-01 |
1120 |
| Congress of Verona ends |
2011-12-30 |
1049 |
| Congress of Verona opens to discuss European problems |
2011-12-30 |
1245 |
| Congress of Vienna |
2010-02-01 |
2254 |
| Congress of Vienna closes |
2010-03-01 |
3426 |
| Congress passes the Espionage Act |
2010-03-01 |
984 |
| Connecticut is granted a liberal charter |
2011-04-01 |
1068 |
| Connotation |
2001-11-01 |
6568 |
| Conquest of Lombards by Charmelagne |
2009-05-01 |
1365 |
| Conquest of Naples continues |
2010-11-01 |
1675 |
| Conscription abolished in Britain |
2010-03-01 |
860 |
| Conscription is introduced in Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1043 |
| Conscription is introduced in Russia |
2011-12-30 |
943 |
| Conservative Edmund Bonner is elected Bishop of London |
2010-11-01 |
1947 |
| Conservatives defeated in New Zealand elections |
2011-12-30 |
800 |
| Conservatives win British general election |
2011-12-30 |
1230 |
| Conservatives win by 76 seats in the General election |
2013-08-30 |
983 |
| Consolidation Act of British Navy for the improvement of the service |
2011-04-01 |
1390 |
| Consonance |
2001-11-01 |
6052 |
| Conspiracy against Venice is discovered |
2011-02-01 |
1141 |
| Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act |
2010-02-01 |
1758 |
| Conspiracy in France is discovered by Richelieu |
2011-02-01 |
1251 |
| Conspiracy of La Magione against Cesare Borgia |
2010-11-01 |
2521 |
| Conspiracy to release Perkin Warbeck from the Tower is discovered |
2010-11-01 |
2133 |
| Constable of France promises liberty of worship to Huguenots |
2011-02-01 |
2814 |
| Constancy Principle [Konstanzprinzip] |
2005-10-22 |
12696 |
| Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire |
2005-09-26 |
6337 |
| Constantinople Conference fails to reconcile Russia and Turkey |
2011-12-30 |
744 |
| Constantinople Conference to consider Turkish problem |
2011-12-30 |
1322 |
| Constantinople government signs Treaty of Sèvres |
2010-03-01 |
867 |
| Constitution granted in Bulgaria, with a national assembly |
2011-12-30 |
551 |
| Constitution granted in Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
1022 |
| Constitution granted to Prussia retaining strong monarchical authority |
2011-12-30 |
864 |
| Constitution in Austria |
2011-12-30 |
770 |
| Constitution in Chile establishes Roman Catholicism as State religion |
2011-12-30 |
560 |
| Constitution in Naples proclaimed by Ferdinand II |
2011-12-30 |
589 |
| Constitution in Piedmont and Sardinia |
2011-12-30 |
451 |
| Constitution in Rome promulgated by Pope Pius IX |
2011-12-30 |
485 |
| Constitution proclaimed in Hanover after unrest |
2011-12-30 |
933 |
| Constitution revised in Bulgaria |
2011-12-30 |
460 |
| Constitutional Charter in France establishes an elective monarchy |
2011-12-30 |
1145 |
| Constitutional Revolution in Persia |
2010-03-01 |
1559 |
| Construction begins on Houses of Parliament |
2013-08-30 |
636 |
| Construction of funerary mosque for Qait Bey in Cairo |
2010-03-01 |
1077 |
| Construction of Milan Cathedral begins |
2010-03-01 |
690 |
| Construction of the Buddhist temple of Borobudur begins |
2009-05-01 |
1075 |
| Construction of the Great Mosque of Cordoba begins |
2009-05-01 |
946 |
| Construction of the Leshan Giant Buddha in China |
2009-05-01 |
1893 |
| Construction of York Minster completed |
2012-07-31 |
912 |
| Contagious Diseases Acts |
2007-12-12 |
993 |
| Control of the imperial army moves from Wallenstein to Count Tilly |
2011-02-01 |
2304 |
| Conventicles Act |
2005-02-16 |
5497 |
| Convention of Alvensleben |
2010-02-01 |
1891 |
| Convention of Amsterdam between France, Russia and Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1490 |
| Convention of Balta-Liman |
2010-02-01 |
1885 |
| Convention of Bartenstein |
2010-03-01 |
1456 |
| Convention of Bloemfontein |
2010-02-01 |
1482 |
| Convention of El Zanjón ends Ten Years War between Spain and Cuba |
2011-12-30 |
847 |
| Convention of Gastein divides Schleswig-Holstein |
2011-12-30 |
1470 |
| Convention of Gramido ends war in Portugal |
2011-12-30 |
710 |
| Convention of Ilbersheim |
2011-04-01 |
945 |
| Convention of Marsa: France gains effective control of Tunisia |
2011-12-30 |
787 |
| Convention of Moss |
2010-03-01 |
1580 |
| Convention of Olmutz: Prussia recognises Austrian supremacy |
2010-01-01 |
2587 |
| Convention of St. Petersburg between Britain, Holland and Russia |
2011-04-01 |
1262 |
| Convention of Tauroggen |
2010-03-01 |
2472 |
| Convention of the Pardo ends the Anglo-Spanish war |
2011-04-01 |
1850 |
| Convention of the Pardo to settle Anglo-Spanish disputes |
2011-04-01 |
1533 |
| Convention of Ulster Nationalists |
2010-03-01 |
834 |
| Convention Parliament in Scotland proclaims William and Mary monarchs |
2011-04-01 |
1305 |
| Convention Parliament invites Charles to return |
2011-03-01 |
635 |
| Convention Parliament is dissolved in England |
2011-04-01 |
1406 |
| Convention Parliament is summoned to meet |
2011-04-01 |
968 |
| Convention Parliament meets |
2011-04-01 |
1787 |
| Convex lens eyeglasses proposed by Roger Bacon to treat farsightedness |
2012-07-31 |
1340 |
| Copenhagen surrenders to Christian III |
2010-11-01 |
1115 |
| Copernican system modified by Thomas Digges |
2009-05-01 |
1123 |
| Cordoba becomes the largest city of the world |
2009-05-01 |
1041 |
| Corfu pact for union of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
2010-03-01 |
1135 |
| Coriolis effect formulated |
2009-05-01 |
1033 |
| Corn Law |
2005-04-01 |
6475 |
| Corn Law is amended but never comes into effect |
2011-12-30 |
1193 |
| Cornish Rising breaks out |
2010-11-01 |
1746 |
| Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India |
2010-03-01 |
888 |
| Cornwallis defeats Americans at Camden |
2010-03-01 |
2303 |
| Cornwallis promulgates justice code in India |
2010-03-01 |
979 |
| Coronado explores the south-west of North America |
2011-12-20 |
1639 |
| Coronal gas around the Milky Way predicted |
2011-03-01 |
687 |
| Coronation of Charles II |
2011-04-01 |
1106 |
| Coronation of Elizabeth I |
2011-02-01 |
2408 |
| Coronation of George IV |
2010-01-01 |
1604 |
| Coronation of Louis XIV at Rheims |
2011-04-01 |
836 |
| Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn |
2010-11-01 |
1509 |
| Coronation of William and Mary |
2011-04-01 |
1339 |
| Corporation Act |
2005-02-16 |
4006 |
| Correct explanation of the rainbow |
2009-05-01 |
1016 |
| Correlation interferometer completed |
2009-05-01 |
1023 |
| Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act |
2011-12-30 |
1373 |
| Corruption trial over Panama Canal opens |
2011-12-30 |
765 |
| Corsica becomes independent of Genoa after a series of revolutions |
2011-04-01 |
1863 |
| Corsica is taken by Genoa |
2010-03-01 |
1707 |
| Cort’s puddling process for iron making |
2005-10-28 |
3787 |
| Cortes attempts to found a colony in Lower California |
2010-11-01 |
1354 |
| Cosimo de' Medici advocates sweeping Church reform |
2010-11-01 |
1404 |
| Cosimo de' Medici resigns the government of Tuscany to his son |
2011-02-01 |
924 |
| Cosmic microwave background radiation discovered |
2009-05-01 |
1137 |
| Cosmic radiation discovered |
2009-05-01 |
779 |
| Cosmological redshift explained |
2009-05-01 |
998 |
| Cossacks defeat the Poles |
2011-04-01 |
1365 |
| Cossacks pledge loyalty to Tsar Alexis |
2011-04-01 |
879 |
| Council and Constitutions of Clarendon |
2012-07-31 |
2170 |
| Council for Foreign Plantations first meets |
2011-04-01 |
1337 |
| Council for Scientific and Industrial Research founded |
2010-03-01 |
624 |
| Council of Nicea |
2005-11-16 |
1777 |
| Council of Officers looks to army for reform |
2010-02-01 |
937 |
| Council of State decides to invade Scotland |
2010-02-01 |
2501 |
| Council of Trent |
2010-02-01 |
2490 |
| Count Andrassy proposes calling a European conference |
2011-12-30 |
493 |
| Count Arnim is arrested for his attacks on the French Republic |
2011-12-30 |
963 |
| Count Badeni is forced to resign in Austria |
2011-12-30 |
931 |
| Count Capo d'Istria elected President of Greece |
2011-12-30 |
606 |
| Count Carl Stürgkh, Austrian premier, assassinated |
2010-03-01 |
766 |
| Count Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Piedmont |
2011-12-30 |
1537 |
| Count Cavour dies in Italy |
2011-12-30 |
1056 |
| Count Cavour is recalled as Prime Minister in Sardinia |
2011-12-30 |
1259 |
| Count de Broglie is sent as French ambassador to Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1058 |
| Count Mansfeld occupies Pilsen for the Protestant Union |
2011-02-01 |
2426 |
| Count Munnich falls from power in Russia |
2011-04-01 |
625 |
| Count Muraviev's advice about South African War rejected |
2010-03-01 |
2012 |
| Count of Auvergne and Duke of Bouillon rebel against Henry IV of France |
2011-02-01 |
1664 |
| Count of Gondomar becomes the new Spanish ambassador to England |
2011-02-01 |
1067 |
| Count Olivares becomes Chief Minister in Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1006 |
| Count Oropesa becomes First Minister of Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1047 |
| Count Rossi, Papal Premier, is assassinated by fanatical democrat |
2011-12-30 |
624 |
| Count Taaffe forms Austrian ministry |
2011-12-30 |
749 |
| Count Taaffe of Austria-Hungary resigns over universal suffrage |
2011-12-30 |
1089 |
| Count Thurn calls anti-Hapsburg Bohemian Protestants to Prague |
2011-02-01 |
2033 |
| Count Thurn leads an army of Bohemian patriots towards Vienna |
2011-02-01 |
3143 |
| Count Thurn leads the Bohemians to revolt |
2011-02-01 |
2190 |
| Count Tilly burns Halle |
2011-02-01 |
1854 |
| Count Tilly destroys a Swedish garrison at New Brandenburg |
2011-02-01 |
2327 |
| Count Tilly enters Lauenberg |
2011-02-01 |
2111 |
| Count Tilly fails in his attack on Gluckstadt |
2011-02-01 |
1909 |
| Count Tilly invades Lower Saxony |
2011-02-01 |
2293 |
| Count Tilly invades Saxony with 20 000 Imperialist troops |
2011-02-01 |
2243 |
| Count Tilly takes Gottingen |
2011-02-01 |
2121 |
| Count Tilly's imperialist army sacks Magdeburg |
2011-02-01 |
1822 |
| Count Tisza, Hungarian premier, resigns |
2010-03-01 |
864 |
| Count van Götz, with an imperialist army, fails to take Laufenburg |
2011-02-01 |
869 |
| Counter-revolutionary Nicolai Yudenich defeated |
2010-03-01 |
744 |
| Counts Egmont and Hoorn are beheaded in Brussels |
2011-02-01 |
1431 |
| Counts Egmont and Hoorn are found guilty of high treason |
2011-02-01 |
1710 |
| County Councils Act |
2013-08-30 |
701 |
| County Police Act |
2010-02-01 |
2319 |
| Coup d'etat against Andrea Doria in Genoa fails |
2010-11-01 |
1137 |
| Coup d'etat by the Marian Party in Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
1414 |
| Coup d'etat in Bolivia leads to Hilarión Daza's presidency |
2011-12-30 |
464 |
| Coup d’etat of 30 Prairal in Paris |
2007-12-02 |
3779 |
| Coup of 18 Fructidor, year V, in Paris |
2007-12-02 |
3454 |
| Couplet |
2001-11-01 |
4924 |
| Cour de cassation annuls Alfred Dreyfus's first trial |
2011-12-30 |
724 |
| Courland in Poland passes to pro-Russian Ernst Biron |
2011-04-01 |
952 |
| Court of King's Bench prosecutes the entire clergy of England |
2010-11-01 |
2594 |
| Courtrai falls to French army |
2011-02-01 |
1217 |
| Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission are abolished |
2011-02-01 |
1733 |
| Covenanters defeat Scottish Jacobites at Dunkeld |
2011-04-01 |
1089 |
| Covent Garden |
2008-01-01 |
2995 |
| Crab Nebula pulsar discovered |
2009-05-01 |
498 |
| Cranmer declares Catherine of Aragon's marriage with Henry VIII void |
2010-11-01 |
2298 |
| Cranmer opens court of enquiry into Catherine of Aragon |
2010-11-01 |
2061 |
| Cranmer pronounces Anne Boleyn's marriage to Henry VIII lawful |
2010-11-01 |
3110 |
| Creation of British African squadron |
2010-02-01 |
1747 |
| Creation of Cyrillic alphabet |
2009-05-01 |
1765 |
| Creation of Jordan (Transjordan) |
2010-02-01 |
2077 |
| Creation of the Catalan Atlas |
2010-03-01 |
1400 |
| Cremona surrenders to the Duke of Urbino |
2010-11-01 |
818 |
| Creole Affair |
2010-03-01 |
2087 |
| Créquy capitulates to the Duke of Lorraine |
2011-04-01 |
607 |
| Cretan insurrection resumes |
2011-12-30 |
817 |
| Crete proclaims union with Greece |
2010-03-01 |
708 |
| Crete rebels against Ottoman rule |
2010-01-01 |
1109 |
| Crisis in French wine industry |
2011-03-01 |
735 |
| Crisis of Seize Mai in France |
2011-12-30 |
850 |
| Crispi's ministry falls in Italy after failure of Ethiopian War |
2011-12-30 |
1190 |
| Croats are granted internal self-government |
2011-12-30 |
629 |
| Cromford Mill - the first modern factory |
2010-02-01 |
2624 |
| Crompton’s spinning mule |
2004-01-23 |
9130 |
| Cromwell appoints major-generals to rule districts of England |
2010-02-01 |
765 |
| Cromwell becomes Lieutenant-General of the New Model Army |
2011-02-01 |
2485 |
| Cromwell dissolves Parliament |
2010-03-01 |
718 |
| Cromwell forms a permanent economic council |
2011-04-01 |
886 |
| Cromwell prohibits Anglican services |
2011-04-01 |
1131 |
| Cromwell readmits republicans to Parliament |
2011-04-01 |
1069 |
| Cromwell sets up a small council of ten members |
2011-04-01 |
812 |
| Crown Lands ordinance |
2010-03-01 |
1830 |
| Crown of Brittany unites with the Crown of France |
2010-11-01 |
981 |
| Crown Prince Archduke Rudolf of Austria commits suicide |
2011-12-30 |
459 |
| Crown treaty recognises the Elector of Brandenburg as King of Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1188 |
| Crozat obtains a monopoly of the Illinois trade |
2011-04-01 |
1422 |
| Crusade of Varna defeated by the Ottomans |
2010-03-01 |
1989 |
| Cuba essentially made U.S. protectorate |
2010-03-01 |
786 |
| Cuba occupation ended |
2010-02-01 |
879 |
| Cuban exiles invade Bay of Pigs |
2010-02-01 |
1028 |
| Cuban rebellion |
2010-02-01 |
1275 |
| Cuban Revolution |
2010-02-01 |
942 |
| Cultural Revolution begins in China |
2010-02-01 |
1123 |
| Curvature of spacetime posited by Einstein |
2009-05-01 |
1340 |
| Custody of Infants Act |
2010-02-01 |
1707 |
| Custody of Infants Act |
2010-02-01 |
2649 |
| Cycloid proven to be the isochrone |
2009-05-01 |
753 |
| Cyclotron invented |
2009-05-01 |
954 |
| Czar assassinated and Civil War commences |
2010-02-01 |
1063 |
| Czechoslovakian Charter 77 |
2010-02-01 |
851 |
| D. Lloyd George becomes War Secretary |
2010-03-01 |
765 |
| D'Argenson becomes French Foreign Minister |
2011-04-01 |
1277 |
| D'Epernon submits to Henry IV and south-east of France is pacified |
2011-02-01 |
2124 |
| Dahomey becomes a French protectorate |
2011-12-30 |
570 |
| Daily Telegraph publishes interview with Kaiser William II |
2010-03-01 |
1473 |
| Dampier's A Voyage to New Holland in the Year 1699 |
2010-03-01 |
1804 |
| Damville, Marshal of France, calls for religious toleration |
2011-02-01 |
1246 |
| Danes take control of St Crois (Santa Cruz) in the West Indies |
2011-04-01 |
765 |
| Daniel Boone reaches Kentucky for the first time |
2011-12-20 |
1104 |
| Daniel O'Connell found guilty of conspiring against British rule |
2013-08-30 |
1659 |
| Daniel O'Connell is elected to the House of Commons |
2010-02-01 |
2150 |
| Daniel Webster and Robert Y. Hayne debate the Union in US Congress |
2011-12-30 |
1054 |
| Danish constitution altered in favour of King and Upper House |
2011-12-30 |
474 |
| Danish forces defeated at Dybbol; German troops invade Denmark |
2011-12-30 |
1004 |
| Danish treaty with Britain |
2010-03-01 |
1110 |
| Danzig declared a free city |
2010-03-01 |
831 |
| Danzig surrenders to Stephen Bathory, King of Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1442 |
| Darnley is murdered on the orders of Earl of Bothwell |
2011-02-01 |
1610 |
| Darwin's theory of evolution creates controversy |
2013-08-30 |
3854 |
| Dasein |
2005-02-04 |
6420 |
| Dauphin marries Marie Antoinette |
2010-03-01 |
948 |
| David Beatty appointed British fleet Commander-in-Chief |
2010-03-01 |
919 |
| David Livingstone crosses the African continent |
2010-01-01 |
1128 |
| David Walker's Appeal demanding the abolition of slavery |
2010-03-01 |
2854 |
| David Wilmot proposes slavery ban in territory acquired from Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
1759 |
| Davys, Mary. The Merry Wanderer 1725 |
2006-10-21 |
2852 |
| Dawes Plan |
2010-02-01 |
893 |
| Day of Dupes: Cardinal Richelieu overthrows a conspiracy against him |
2011-02-01 |
2106 |
| Day of the Barricades |
2010-03-01 |
2766 |
| Days of May |
2010-02-01 |
1657 |
| Dayton Accord signed in Paris |
2010-02-01 |
1321 |
| De Bougainville establishes French colony in Falklands |
2010-03-01 |
1153 |
| De Brazza is appointed commissioner-general of French Congo |
2011-12-30 |
1135 |
| De Croissy becomes chief Finance Minister in France |
2011-04-01 |
1481 |
| De-segregation of American Schools |
2010-02-01 |
3745 |
| Death of Anne of Austria, Queen-Mother of France |
2011-04-01 |
635 |
| Death of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield |
2011-12-30 |
715 |
| Death of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar |
2011-02-01 |
1250 |
| Death of Cardinal Mazarin - beginning of the personal reign of Louis XIV |
2011-03-01 |
1376 |
| Death of Cardinal Richelieu; Mazarin becomes Chief Minister |
2011-03-01 |
1300 |
| Death of Catherine de' Medici, Queen Mother of France |
2011-02-01 |
1596 |
| Death of Charles, Archduke of Inner Austria |
2011-02-01 |
584 |
| Death of Charles, Duke of Berry, next heir to the French throne |
2011-04-01 |
734 |
| Death of Charles, Duke of Lorraine |
2011-04-01 |
492 |
| Death of Cosimo de' Medici |
2011-02-01 |
960 |
| Death of Dmitri, son of Ivan the Terrible |
2010-03-01 |
920 |
| Death of Don Louis Requesens, Governor of the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1093 |
| Death of Duke Charles of Gelders |
2010-11-01 |
948 |
| Death of Duke George William, last Piast of Lower Silesia |
2011-04-01 |
706 |
| Death of Duke of Brittany, next heir to the French throne |
2011-04-01 |
644 |
| Death of Edward Bruce |
2012-07-31 |
573 |
| Death of Edward VI |
2010-11-01 |
1212 |
| Death of Elector George William of Brandenburg |
2011-02-01 |
650 |
| Death of Elizabeth I |
2010-11-01 |
2784 |
| Death of Emperor Matthias |
2011-02-01 |
1015 |
| Death of Ernest Augustus of Hanover |
2011-12-30 |
864 |
| Death of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies |
2011-12-30 |
642 |
| Death of Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans |
2011-04-01 |
1167 |
| Death of Ferdinand VII of Spain |
2011-12-30 |
742 |
| Death of Frederick I of Denmark leads to a civil war |
2010-11-01 |
1209 |
| Death of Frederick VI of Denmark |
2011-12-30 |
485 |
| Death of Frederick William III of Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
1017 |
| Death of Gabor Bethlen of Transylvania |
2011-02-01 |
551 |
| Death of General O'Donnell in Spain |
2011-12-30 |
761 |
| Death of George Canning |
2011-12-30 |
649 |
| Death of Henry Prince of Condé |
2011-02-01 |
609 |
| Death of James I and VI |
2011-02-01 |
1661 |
| Death of John III (John Sobieski), King of Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1039 |
| Death of John Pym |
2011-03-01 |
3089 |
| Death of Louis Philippe |
2011-12-30 |
731 |
| Death of Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir to the French throne |
2011-04-01 |
786 |
| Death of Mahdi |
2011-12-30 |
498 |
| Death of Malcolm of Scotland |
2010-02-01 |
2695 |
| Death of Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy |
2010-11-01 |
1005 |
| Death of Maria II of Portugal who is succeeded by Pedro V |
2011-12-30 |
538 |
| Death of Mehemet Ali |
2011-12-30 |
505 |
| Death of Michael, King of Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1280 |
| Death of Milan |
2010-03-01 |
743 |
| Death of Napoleon III |
2011-12-30 |
1322 |
| Death of Oliver Cromwell |
2011-04-01 |
727 |
| Death of Oscar I in Sweden |
2011-12-30 |
573 |
| Death of Pepin II of Herstal, prince of the Franks |
2009-05-01 |
1979 |
| Death of Père Joseph, Richelieu's secret agent |
2011-02-01 |
1221 |
| Death of Philip IV of Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1005 |
| Death of Pipin III and ascent to the throne of Charles the Great (Charlemagne) |
2009-05-01 |
2688 |
| Death of Pope Gregory XIII |
2011-02-01 |
1083 |
| Death of Pope Gregory XV |
2011-02-01 |
1233 |
| Death of Pope Paul V |
2011-02-01 |
1080 |
| Death of Pope Urban VIII |
2011-02-01 |
1030 |
| Death of Prince Albert |
2013-08-30 |
1459 |
| Death of Prince Henry |
2010-02-01 |
1462 |
| Death of Sultan Mahmud II |
2011-12-30 |
733 |
| Death of the Grand Vizier of Turkey, Ahmad Koprulu |
2011-04-01 |
764 |
| Death of the Great Elector Frederick William |
2011-04-01 |
1047 |
| Death of the last Duke of Pomerania, Bogislav XIV |
2011-02-01 |
759 |
| Death of the last of the Medici line |
2011-04-01 |
737 |
| Death of the sole heir of Charles II of Spain |
2011-04-01 |
815 |
| Death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams |
2010-03-01 |
1377 |
| Death of Timur restores Persia, Afghanistan and North India to independence |
2010-03-01 |
1283 |
| Death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
2010-03-01 |
1074 |
| Death of Victor Emmanuel |
2011-12-30 |
820 |
| Death of Vincent II of Mantua provokes disputes |
2011-02-01 |
651 |
| Death of William IV of Holland |
2011-04-01 |
688 |
| Deaths of Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel and Dukes of Savoy and Mantua |
2011-02-01 |
625 |
| Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas |
2011-12-30 |
936 |
| Decimation Tax |
2010-02-01 |
1536 |
| Declaration of Arbroath |
2011-03-01 |
704 |
| Declaration of Independence of the United States. War of Independence 1776-1783 begins |
2011-03-01 |
4809 |
| Declaration of Indulgence |
2010-02-01 |
3096 |
| Declaration of Indulgence ( 2 and 3) |
2010-02-01 |
2721 |
| Declaration of Indulgence is reissued |
2011-04-01 |
1517 |
| Declaration of Paris abolishes privateering |
2011-12-30 |
666 |
| Declaration of Pillnitz |
2010-03-01 |
3475 |
| Decree for constitution in Tuscany published |
2011-12-30 |
479 |
| Decree in Brazil for election of deputies to legislative assembly |
2011-12-30 |
716 |
| Decree in England that enclosures made since 1488 are to be destroyed |
2010-11-01 |
2457 |
| Decree in Russia for reform of municipal government |
2011-12-30 |
522 |
| Decree of Star-Chamber Concerning Printing |
2004-04-02 |
5825 |
| Decrees of Fontainebleau |
2010-03-01 |
1027 |
| Defamiliarisation / Ostranenie |
2001-11-01 |
23962 |
| Defeat of Suleyman the Magnificent in Hungary |
2010-03-01 |
1610 |
| Defensive Alliance between Britain, Spain and France |
2011-04-01 |
1457 |
| Defensive anti-Catholic alliance of Weimar formed |
2010-11-01 |
1663 |
| Defensive Treaty of Luzen between Savoy and six Catholic Swiss Cantons |
2011-02-01 |
836 |
| Delaware becomes a separate colony from Pennsylvania |
2011-04-01 |
1592 |
| Delbrück scattering posited |
2009-05-01 |
1279 |
| Delhi is captured by British after siege since June |
2011-12-30 |
726 |
| Demetrios Gournaris forms ministry in Greece |
2011-03-01 |
642 |
| Democratic convention nominates James M. Cox |
2010-03-01 |
449 |
| Democrats make sweeping gains in US state elections |
2011-12-30 |
1636 |
| Demotte's Shah Nama is composed |
2010-03-01 |
1416 |
| Denmark abolishes Slave Trade |
2010-03-01 |
900 |
| Denmark and Russia sign a convention for mutual defence |
2011-04-01 |
1115 |
| Denmark and Sweden sign Convention of Uddevalla |
2010-03-01 |
1038 |
| Denmark attacks Charles X of Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
1308 |
| Denmark cedes land to Prussia |
2010-03-01 |
1009 |
| Denmark forms an alliance with Germany and Poland against Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
1174 |
| Denmark grants Iceland self-government |
2011-12-30 |
1111 |
| Denmark joins the Coalition against France |
2011-04-01 |
682 |
| Denmark recognises Sweden's independence |
2011-02-01 |
1196 |
| Denmark repudiates its alliance with France |
2010-11-01 |
970 |
| Denotation |
2001-11-01 |
5758 |
| Dependence of solitary water wave velocities on wave amplitude and water depth studied |
2009-05-01 |
1406 |
| Deportation of Acadians who refuse allegiance |
2010-02-01 |
3278 |
| Deposition of Sultan Abdul Aziz |
2011-12-30 |
755 |
| Derby Petition for a permanent settlement of the constitutional crisis |
2011-04-01 |
1729 |
| Derby resigns and is succeeded as foreign minister by Lord Salisbury |
2011-12-30 |
606 |
| Derby retires, Disraeli becomes Prime Minister, then loses election |
2013-08-30 |
2164 |
| Dervishes take Kassala, extending their control over Sudan |
2011-12-30 |
806 |
| Descartes’ work on rainbows |
2009-05-01 |
844 |
| Despotic regime in Romania collapses |
2010-02-01 |
1499 |
| Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police formed |
2007-12-12 |
3010 |
| Determination of Earth radius |
2009-05-01 |
889 |
| Determination of Earth’s age |
2009-05-01 |
999 |
| Determination of Moon’s radius |
2009-05-01 |
903 |
| Detroit Governor surrenders state to British |
2010-03-01 |
1433 |
| Deus ex machina |
2004-06-28 |
11498 |
| Deuterium and lithium abundances predicted by hot Big Bang |
2009-05-01 |
1068 |
| Deuterium discovered |
2009-05-01 |
1369 |
| Deutsche Bank secures preliminary concessions for Baghdad Railway |
2011-12-30 |
1240 |
| Development of astronomical photography |
2009-05-01 |
1097 |
| Development of Ising model |
2009-05-01 |
896 |
| Development of non-Euclidean geometry (1) |
2009-05-01 |
943 |
| Development of non-Euclidean geometry (2) |
2009-05-01 |
644 |
| Deventer surrenders to the Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
695 |
| Devon Commission on Irish Land |
2010-02-01 |
1845 |
| Diachronic, Diachrony |
2009-07-24 |
9520 |
| Dialogism, Dialogical |
2001-11-01 |
7614 |
| Diamonds discovered in Orange Free State |
2011-12-30 |
1762 |
| Dickens’ Household Words begins publication |
2013-08-30 |
3370 |
| Diction |
2001-11-01 |
5689 |
| Diegesis |
2001-11-01 |
5732 |
| Diet at Ratisbon in deadlock over religions issues |
2011-02-01 |
984 |
| Diet declares Polish independence |
2010-03-01 |
1084 |
| Diet of Augsburg decrees endorses the Edict of Worms |
2010-11-01 |
2798 |
| Diet of Augsburg divides Germany into six administrative provinces |
2010-11-01 |
932 |
| Diet of Augsburg fails to solve religious crisis |
2010-11-01 |
2349 |
| Diet of Constance restores the imperial chamber court |
2010-11-01 |
1854 |
| Diet of German Confederation opened |
2011-03-01 |
976 |
| Diet of Nuremberg is split between obedience and demand for reform |
2010-11-01 |
1207 |
| Diet of Nuremberg promises reform from Adrian VI |
2010-11-01 |
2704 |
| Diet of Ratisbon |
2010-03-01 |
1315 |
| Diet of Ratisbon confirms the Peace of Westphalia |
2011-04-01 |
1334 |
| Diet of Ratisbon recognises Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanction |
2011-04-01 |
1001 |
| Diet of Speyer meets |
2010-11-01 |
2464 |
| Difference / différance |
2001-11-01 |
6930 |
| Differential Analyser built |
2009-05-01 |
954 |
| Differential nature of solar rotation discovered by Richard Carrington |
2013-08-30 |
2445 |
| Dillingham Immigration bill |
2010-03-01 |
1197 |
| Dionysius / Dionysiac |
2001-11-01 |
5164 |
| Diorama opens in London |
2013-08-30 |
699 |
| Diplomatic treaty between Britain and China |
2010-02-01 |
1655 |
| Dirac’s cosmological theory |
2009-05-01 |
1080 |
| Dirge |
2001-11-01 |
5447 |
| Disappearance of Edward IV and Richard of York |
2010-03-01 |
1744 |
| Disastrous earthquake in South Calabria and Sicily |
2010-03-01 |
802 |
| Discovery of ’virus’ |
2009-05-01 |
1023 |
| Discovery of cellular composition of living animal tissue |
2009-05-01 |
1257 |
| Discovery of cellular composition of living plant tissue |
2009-05-01 |
1148 |
| Discovery of female hominid ’Lucy’ |
2009-05-01 |
719 |
| Discovery of the characteristic X-rays of elements |
2009-05-01 |
1358 |
| Discovery of the sunspot cycle |
2009-05-01 |
719 |
| Discovery of William Tweed's fraud Ring in New York |
2011-12-30 |
1083 |
| Discovery that DNA carries genetic information |
2010-02-01 |
1198 |
| Discovery that light propagation is influenced by external magnetic fields |
2009-05-01 |
2438 |
| Discussions begin in Antwerp for the expulsion of English rebels from Empire |
2010-11-01 |
1514 |
| Disestablishment of Irish Church |
2011-03-01 |
1346 |
| Dismissal of Count Witte, Russian finance minister |
2010-03-01 |
1042 |
| Dismissal of Midhat Pasha, leader of the Turkish Liberals |
2011-12-30 |
785 |
| Dismissal of Vicomte de Martignac in France |
2011-12-30 |
1129 |
| Dismissal of Yuan Shih-kai |
2010-03-01 |
1350 |
| Dispute between Ecuador and Peru |
2010-03-01 |
717 |
| Dispute between Louis XIV and Pope |
2011-04-01 |
1249 |
| Disputed US Presidential election between Tilden and Hayes |
2011-12-30 |
1245 |
| Disraeli appeals to electorate over Irish Home Rule |
2011-12-30 |
871 |
| Disraeli leaves the Commons on being created Earl of Beaconsfield |
2011-12-30 |
2472 |
| Disraeli overrules a ruling requiring fugitive slaves to be restored |
2011-12-30 |
1517 |
| Disraeli's first budget is defeated |
2011-12-30 |
785 |
| Dissenters' Chapels Act |
2010-02-01 |
2973 |
| Dissolution of French National Guard by Charles X |
2011-12-30 |
1177 |
| Dissolution of monasteries in Italy |
2011-12-30 |
691 |
| Dissolution of the Monasteries |
2005-06-17 |
5432 |
| Dissolution of the monasteries in Berne |
2010-11-01 |
1376 |
| Dissolution of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railways merger |
2010-03-01 |
1171 |
| Dissonance |
2001-11-01 |
7318 |
| Distance to the Moon determined |
2009-05-01 |
847 |
| Distich |
2011-03-01 |
4209 |
| Distribution law of molecular velocities stated by Maxwell |
2013-08-30 |
9732 |
| Dithyramb |
2001-11-01 |
5039 |
| Diving suit invented by Augustus Siebe |
2009-05-01 |
679 |
| Division of the Roman Empire |
2005-11-16 |
1113 |
| Division of the Roman empire; Diocletian and the Tetrarchy |
2005-11-16 |
1827 |
| Divorce is re-established in France |
2011-12-30 |
839 |
| Dixie composed |
2010-03-01 |
968 |
| Dmitri is crowned and begins a programme of reforms |
2011-02-01 |
1007 |
| Dmitri Mendeleev establishes the periodic table of chemical elements |
2009-05-01 |
642 |
| DNA identified as genetic material in bacteriophage viruses |
2009-05-01 |
1193 |
| DNA polymerase enzymes discovered |
2011-03-01 |
718 |
| DNA restriction enzymes discovered |
2009-05-01 |
697 |
| DNA structure detailed |
2009-05-01 |
946 |
| Doctrine of transubstantiation formulated |
2009-05-01 |
1134 |
| Dom Miguel becomes King of Portugal in a peaceful coup d'état |
2011-12-30 |
797 |
| Dom Miguel of Portugal surrenders and abdicates |
2011-12-30 |
559 |
| Dom Miguel takes oath as Regent of Portugal |
2011-12-30 |
710 |
| Dom Miguel, heir to Spain and Portugal, dies |
2010-11-01 |
1171 |
| Dom Miguel's supporters in Portugal force Costa Cabral into exile |
2011-12-30 |
1083 |
| Dom Pedro dissolves Brazilian Assembly |
2011-12-30 |
507 |
| Dom Pedro takes Oporto with French and British aid |
2011-12-30 |
969 |
| Domesday Book |
2012-07-31 |
2224 |
| Domestic refrigerator |
2010-02-01 |
710 |
| Dominion Status for Australia and New Zealand |
2010-02-01 |
2604 |
| Don Antonio of Portugal escapes to England |
2011-02-01 |
677 |
| Don Carlos arrives in Florence |
2011-04-01 |
519 |
| Don Carlos, son of Philip II of Spain, dies |
2011-02-01 |
1339 |
| Don John of Austria becomes Governor of the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
773 |
| Don John of Austria clears the Moriscos from Andalusia |
2011-02-01 |
905 |
| Don John of Austria enters Brussels |
2011-02-01 |
1343 |
| Don John of Austria enters Naples Bay with Spanish forces |
2011-04-01 |
1214 |
| Don John of Austria seizes Namur |
2011-02-01 |
1553 |
| Don John of Austria subdues the Morisco rebellion in Granada |
2011-02-01 |
1713 |
| Don John of Austria suppresses revolt in Catalonia |
2011-04-01 |
878 |
| Don John of Austria tries to end civil war in Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1653 |
| Don Louis Requesens captures Schoonhoven |
2011-02-01 |
1012 |
| Donaldson v. Beckett: Changes in Copyright |
2005-04-14 |
6279 |
| Donation of Pepin |
2009-05-01 |
1494 |
| Donation of Sutri |
2009-05-01 |
1660 |
| Double Helix structure of DNA discovered |
2010-02-01 |
987 |
| Double-acting high-pressure steam engine invented by Richard Trevithick |
2007-12-12 |
2024 |
| Douglas Haig made British Commander-in-Chief |
2010-03-01 |
946 |
| Doullens agreement |
2010-03-01 |
810 |
| Downfall of Federalist Party |
2010-03-01 |
1660 |
| Dr William Parry MP executed for alleged high treason |
2011-02-01 |
1955 |
| Drake, Hawkins and Frobisher return from an indecisive Spanish expedition |
2011-02-01 |
1823 |
| Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe |
2005-06-17 |
6455 |
| Dramatic Irony |
2002-11-01 |
21950 |
| Dramatic Monologue |
2010-02-01 |
4475 |
| Dresden conference on Germany's constitional problems |
2011-12-30 |
736 |
| Dreyfus is condemned at retrial but then pardoned by presidential decree |
2011-12-30 |
739 |
| Drogheda is stormed and massacred |
2011-03-01 |
2366 |
| Duala in Cameroon surrenders |
2010-03-01 |
440 |
| Dubois becomes a Cardinal by bribery |
2011-04-01 |
1309 |
| Dubois becomes French Foreign Secretary |
2011-04-01 |
1688 |
| Dubois, Louis XV's First Minister, dies |
2011-04-01 |
1393 |
| Duc d'Enghien executed |
2010-03-01 |
1087 |
| Duc de Berry is assassinated |
2010-03-01 |
1143 |
| Duc de Broglie's ministry forced to resign |
2011-12-30 |
789 |
| Duc de Choiseul prevents Spanish and British war |
2011-03-01 |
972 |
| Duc de Decazes dismissed |
2010-03-01 |
1746 |
| Duc de Sully dismissed by Maria de Medici |
2010-11-01 |
1446 |
| Duchesse de Berry is arrested |
2011-12-30 |
872 |
| Duchy of Lorraine incorporated into France |
2010-03-01 |
800 |
| Duchy of Urbino is bequeathed to the Pope |
2011-02-01 |
788 |
| Duke Albert of Bavaria joins the Swabian League |
2010-11-01 |
1877 |
| Duke Ernest Augustus of Hanover becomes the ninth Imperial Elector |
2011-04-01 |
700 |
| Duke Henry of Brunswick defeats Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach |
2011-02-01 |
1085 |
| Duke Henry of Brunswick is restored to his duchy |
2010-11-01 |
884 |
| Duke Henry of Brunswick takes Minden |
2010-11-01 |
986 |
| Duke of Albany agrees to a truce |
2010-11-01 |
1845 |
| Duke of Alva avoids a battle with William of Orange |
2011-02-01 |
1057 |
| Duke of Alva demands heavy taxes from the States-General at Brussels |
2011-02-01 |
1391 |
| Duke of Anjou prevents the Huguenot army from moving south to Poitou |
2011-02-01 |
2272 |
| Duke of Anjou retires from the Netherlands to France |
2011-02-01 |
1369 |
| Duke of Biron agrees to stand trial for treason before Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
1692 |
| Duke of Bourbon gains influence over Louis XIV |
2011-04-01 |
1802 |
| Duke of Brunswick Manifesto |
2010-03-01 |
1643 |
| Duke of Buckingham is executed for treason |
2010-11-01 |
2107 |
| Duke of Buckingham is impeached |
2011-02-01 |
1359 |
| Duke of Buckingham murdered |
2010-02-01 |
892 |
| Duke of Devonshire becomes Prime Minister |
2010-02-01 |
2427 |
| Duke of Gandia is murdered by Cesare Borgia |
2010-11-01 |
1132 |
| Duke of Leeds resigns as Lord President of the Council for bribery |
2011-04-01 |
970 |
| Duke of Leicester accepts Netherlands titles |
2011-02-01 |
922 |
| Duke of Lorraine tries to connect Franche-Comté and Spanish Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1407 |
| Duke of Lucca decides to sell his duchy to LeopoId of Tuscany |
2011-12-30 |
804 |
| Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene take Tournai |
2011-04-01 |
2123 |
| Duke of Marlborough begins his march to the Danube |
2011-04-01 |
2390 |
| Duke of Marlborough is dismissed as Commander-in-Chief |
2011-04-01 |
824 |
| Duke of Mayenne, new head of the Catholic League, enters Paris |
2011-02-01 |
2400 |
| Duke of Nemours defeats the Holy League and takes Brescia |
2010-11-01 |
1030 |
| Duke of Newcastle becomes Prime Minister for the second time |
2010-02-01 |
2456 |
| Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason |
2011-02-01 |
1007 |
| Duke of Orleans joins French rebels |
2011-04-01 |
2186 |
| Duke of Parma takes Bruges |
2011-02-01 |
1016 |
| Duke of Portland dissolves Parliament |
2010-03-01 |
826 |
| Duke of Portland resigns |
2011-03-01 |
979 |
| Duke of Savoy begins to besiege Casale |
2011-04-01 |
1539 |
| Duke of Savoy signs Treaty of Susa |
2011-02-01 |
1436 |
| Duke of Suffolk is appointed Lord President of the Council |
2010-11-01 |
2584 |
| Duke of Villars threatens Vienna |
2011-04-01 |
2196 |
| Duke of Villeroi becomes commander in the Netherlands campaign |
2011-04-01 |
1187 |
| Duke of Wellington blocks Canning's Corn Law in the House of Lords |
2013-08-30 |
1442 |
| Duke of Wellington challenges Earl of Winchilsea to a duel |
2011-12-30 |
1235 |
| Duke of York capitulates at Alkmaar |
2011-03-01 |
2157 |
| Duke of York contracts to marry Maria d'Este of Modena |
2011-04-01 |
966 |
| Duke of York scandal |
2010-02-01 |
1596 |
| Duke of York unsuccessfully invades the Netherlands |
2010-02-01 |
1550 |
| Duke William V of Bavaria forced to share government with his son Maximilian |
2011-02-01 |
825 |
| Duke William V of Bavaria signs a concordat with Pope Gregory XIII |
2011-02-01 |
1431 |
| Dukes of Mecklenburg placed under the ban of the Empire |
2011-02-01 |
869 |
| Dumouriez defeated at Neerwinden |
2010-03-01 |
1125 |
| Dundas carries motion to recall Hastings from India |
2010-03-01 |
803 |
| Dunkirk sold to France by Charles II |
2011-03-01 |
1330 |
| Dupleix becomes Governor-General of French possessions in India |
2011-04-01 |
1002 |
| Dupleix negotiates with the British but insists on being ruler of the Carnatic |
2011-04-01 |
1176 |
| Dupleix secures French control of the Carnatic region |
2011-04-01 |
1415 |
| Duquesne defeats De Ruyter at Catania, off Messina |
2011-04-01 |
1226 |
| Duquesne, French Governor of Canada, seizes the Ohio Valley |
2011-04-01 |
1452 |
| Durham Report on North America is debated in House of Lords |
2011-12-30 |
1093 |
| During Carlist risings Emilio Castelar is made ruler of Spain |
2011-12-30 |
1019 |
| Dutch and English define their North American colony frontiers |
2011-04-01 |
1083 |
| Dutch annex New Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
1032 |
| Dutch are finally driven out of Brazil by Portuguese |
2011-04-01 |
1185 |
| Dutch army under Prince Maurice of Nassau takes Breda |
2011-02-01 |
933 |
| Dutch attack Sumatra |
2011-03-01 |
1050 |
| Dutch capture New York |
2011-12-20 |
2055 |
| Dutch conclude armistice of indefinite length with Belgium |
2011-12-30 |
783 |
| Dutch conclude treaty of alliance with the Emperor Leopold I |
2011-04-01 |
820 |
| Dutch destroy Malacca |
2011-02-01 |
1035 |
| Dutch enter Chinese trade |
2011-04-01 |
898 |
| Dutch establish settlement in Mauritius |
2011-02-01 |
736 |
| Dutch first use Manhattan Island as a centre for the fur trade |
2011-02-01 |
1646 |
| Dutch forts taken by British on the Gold Coast |
2011-03-01 |
1024 |
| Dutch found New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island |
2007-12-12 |
1650 |
| Dutch government ends railway and dock strikes |
2011-03-01 |
646 |
| Dutch massacre English colonists at Amboyna |
2011-02-01 |
1736 |
| Dutch obtain a monopoly of foreign trade in Japan |
2011-02-01 |
933 |
| Dutch Republic gains independence from Spain |
2007-11-28 |
2141 |
| Dutch revolt precipitated by Calvinist iconoclasm |
2010-03-01 |
1326 |
| Dutch seize the Spanish treasure fleet and occupy Java and Malucca |
2011-02-01 |
1560 |
| Dutch settlers found Capetown |
2011-04-01 |
1180 |
| Dutch take Jaffnapatam from the Portuguese |
2011-04-01 |
1340 |
| Dutch take Pondicherry after siege |
2011-04-01 |
1346 |
| Dutch traders are admitted at Canton |
2011-04-01 |
835 |
| Dutch troops invade Belgium |
2011-12-30 |
936 |
| Dutch war against Portuguese in Brazil |
2011-04-01 |
1860 |
| Dutch West Indies Company starts operating in South America and Africa |
2011-02-01 |
1019 |
| Dutch-Spanish War |
2010-02-01 |
2032 |
| Dynamic theory of the electromagnetic field formulated by Maxwell |
2013-08-30 |
3467 |
| Dynastic marriages within the Habsburg family |
2011-02-01 |
741 |
| E. D. Morel and Roger Casement begin agitation |
2010-03-01 |
2631 |
| Earl and Countess of Somerset found guilty of poisoning Overbury |
2011-02-01 |
1074 |
| Earl and Countess of Somerset interrogated about Sir Thomas Overbury's murder |
2011-02-01 |
1109 |
| Earl Grey becomes Prime Minister |
2010-01-01 |
2452 |
| Earl of Argyle is sentenced to death for treason |
2011-04-01 |
1319 |
| Earl of Arran becomes Regent of Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
910 |
| Earl of Clarendon forced to resign as Lord Chancellor |
2011-04-01 |
1625 |
| Earl of Dalhousie becomes Governor-General of India |
2011-12-30 |
430 |
| Earl of Danby is discharged from bail |
2011-04-01 |
805 |
| Earl of Essex lays siege to Reading |
2011-02-01 |
2317 |
| Earl of Essex marches Parliamentary armies towards the Midlands |
2011-02-01 |
2508 |
| Earl of Essex signs a truce with the Irish rebel Tyrone |
2011-02-01 |
2473 |
| Earl of Essex surrenders at Fowey |
2011-03-01 |
2440 |
| Earl of Hertford becomes Duke of Somerset |
2010-11-01 |
896 |
| Earl of Hopetoun, first Governor-General of Australia |
2011-03-01 |
779 |
| Earl of Leicester and Duke of Norfolk fail to overthrow William Cecil |
2011-02-01 |
1635 |
| Earl of Marlborough becomes Captain-General of the English armed forces |
2011-04-01 |
1051 |
| Earl of Marlborough is accused of communicating with James II |
2011-04-01 |
984 |
| Earl of Middleton is appointed a Secretary of State |
2011-04-01 |
1065 |
| Earl of Montrose leads Royalist rebellion in Scotland |
2010-01-01 |
3948 |
| Earl of Mountjoy starts an attack to end the rebellion in Munster |
2011-02-01 |
1195 |
| Earl of Nottingham is dismissed from Secretaryship of State |
2011-04-01 |
942 |
| Earl of Salisbury veers towards an anti-Spanish policy |
2011-02-01 |
1693 |
| Earl of Shrewsbury appointed Secretary of State |
2011-04-01 |
1030 |
| Earl of Sunderland is appointed a Secretary of State |
2011-04-01 |
881 |
| Earl of Sunderland reconstructs cabinet including Stanhope |
2011-04-01 |
1136 |
| Earl of Surrey burns Jedburgh |
2010-11-01 |
1705 |
| Earl of Surrey is executed for treason |
2010-11-01 |
1604 |
| Earl of Tyrone resumes his rebellion against Queen Elizabeth |
2011-02-01 |
1708 |
| Earliest colonisation of the Bermudas from Virginia |
2011-02-01 |
789 |
| Earliest dating of Historia Brittonum, attributed to Nennius |
2009-05-01 |
2395 |
| Earliest geographical globe |
2009-05-01 |
1109 |
| Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel flee from Ireland to Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1795 |
| Earthquake destroys Constantinople |
2010-11-01 |
1140 |
| Earthquake in China |
2010-02-01 |
1093 |
| East Africa divided between Britain and Germany |
2010-01-01 |
1160 |
| East African Protectorate is organised |
2011-12-30 |
861 |
| East India Company acquires Penang off Malay coast |
2010-02-01 |
2034 |
| East India Company annexes Cathar |
2011-12-30 |
889 |
| East India Company annexes Mysore |
2011-12-30 |
957 |
| East India Company voyages reach Java and Agra |
2011-02-01 |
1058 |
| East India Company, Singapore |
2010-02-01 |
2012 |
| East India Company's forces defeat Sikhs at Aliwal |
2011-12-30 |
1074 |
| East Pakistan separates from West Pakistan, becoming Bangladesh |
2010-02-01 |
1158 |
| ECC becomes European Union (EU) |
2010-02-01 |
656 |
| Ecclesiastical Commission |
2010-02-01 |
1862 |
| Ecclesiastical Titles Act |
2011-12-30 |
1306 |
| Ecgberht (Wessex) defeats Mercia |
2010-02-01 |
1608 |
| Eclogue |
2001-11-01 |
5242 |
| Economic crisis |
2010-02-01 |
1862 |
| Ecuador becomes a theocracy |
2011-12-30 |
363 |
| Ecuador established |
2010-02-01 |
520 |
| Eden negotiates Anglo-French commercial treaty |
2011-03-01 |
1052 |
| Edgar the Peaceful becomes King of England |
2009-05-01 |
1496 |
| Edict d'Alès (France) suppressing places of refuge of Protestants |
2010-01-01 |
2611 |
| Edict of Amboise |
2010-03-01 |
3262 |
| Edict of Boulogne |
2010-03-01 |
3063 |
| Edict of Nantes |
2004-04-02 |
6011 |
| Edict of Orleans suspends persecution of the Huguenots |
2011-02-01 |
3181 |
| Edict of Pistres |
2009-05-01 |
2490 |
| Edict of Restitution against German Protestants |
2010-01-01 |
2695 |
| Edict of St. Germain recognises the Huguenots in France |
2011-02-01 |
3426 |
| Edict of St. Germain-en-Laye |
2011-02-01 |
1656 |
| Edict of Turda |
2009-05-01 |
850 |
| Edict of Worms |
2010-01-01 |
6676 |
| Edinburgh Castle surrenders to Cromwell |
2011-04-01 |
689 |
| Edinburgh Castle surrenders to the English |
2011-02-01 |
1477 |
| Edinburgh surrenders to Oliver Cromwell |
2011-03-01 |
2442 |
| Edmund Burke impeaches Warren Hastings |
2006-03-06 |
799 |
| Edmund Campion is executed |
2011-02-01 |
2343 |
| Edmund Campion is seized |
2011-02-01 |
2871 |
| Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, flees to the Continent |
2010-11-01 |
1439 |
| Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, is executed |
2010-11-01 |
2000 |
| Edmund Dudley is found guilty of treason |
2010-11-01 |
2130 |
| Edmund Grindal is elected Archbishop of Canterbury |
2011-02-01 |
1690 |
| Edmund Hilary expedition reaches South Pole |
2010-01-01 |
930 |
| Edmund, Earl of Suffolk, is returned to the Tower of London |
2010-11-01 |
1530 |
| Education Act |
2010-02-01 |
2181 |
| Education Act (UK) |
2013-08-30 |
2559 |
| Education Act for England and Wales |
2010-03-01 |
682 |
| Edward Bruce becomes King of Ireland |
2010-03-01 |
1604 |
| Edward Cardwell's Army reforms reorganise British army |
2011-12-30 |
1303 |
| Edward Carson demands repeal of Home Rule |
2010-03-01 |
657 |
| Edward Courtenay is sent to the Tower for complicity in Wyatt's rebellion |
2010-11-01 |
1959 |
| Edward Grey proposes mediation of Balkan crisis |
2010-03-01 |
1086 |
| Edward Hyde, Lord Chancellor, is created Earl of Clarendon |
2011-04-01 |
1056 |
| Edward I invades Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
1676 |
| Edward I invades Wales |
2013-03-28 |
1199 |
| Edward III, King of England, renews war with France |
2012-07-31 |
1172 |
| Edward Maunder plots the first sunspot ’butterfly diagram’ |
2013-08-30 |
1048 |
| Edward Seymour becomes commander of the English army in France |
2010-11-01 |
1500 |
| Edward Seymour becomes Lord Protector against Henry VIII's will |
2010-11-01 |
912 |
| Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, is beheaded for treason |
2010-11-01 |
1964 |
| Edward the Martyr is assassinated |
2009-05-01 |
1218 |
| Edward VI makes Lady Jane Grey his successor |
2010-11-01 |
2144 |
| Edward VII meets Alexander Izvolski |
2010-03-01 |
807 |
| Edward VII meets Nicholas II at Reval |
2010-03-01 |
960 |
| Edward VII visits Paris |
2010-03-01 |
1136 |
| Edward, Earl of Warwick, is executed for treason |
2010-11-01 |
2032 |
| Edwin Chadwick's report on The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population |
2013-08-30 |
1664 |
| Effective temperature of space measured |
2009-05-01 |
1000 |
| Egotistical Sublime |
2006-05-25 |
51085 |
| Egyptian finances are reorganised |
2011-12-30 |
523 |
| Egyptian force takes Abu Hamed in Sudan |
2011-12-30 |
936 |
| Egyptian forces begin to subdue the Morea region |
2011-12-30 |
1207 |
| Egyptian independence |
2010-02-01 |
1042 |
| Egyptian King deposed for Prime Minister |
2010-02-01 |
789 |
| Egyptian leader, Nasser, dies |
2010-02-01 |
686 |
| Eiffel Tower inaugurated |
2010-02-01 |
1286 |
| Eighth and last session of the 'Reformation Parliament' |
2010-11-01 |
2684 |
| Einstein, Albert |
2000-10-28 |
11737 |
| Einstein, Albert. Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seimen Eneergienhalt abhängig? 1905 |
2000-10-28 |
4662 |
| Einstein, Albert. Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme gefordete Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen 1905 |
2000-10-28 |
9565 |
| Einstein, Albert. Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtpunkt 1905 |
2000-10-28 |
6297 |
| Einstein, Albert. Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper 1905 |
2000-10-28 |
5997 |
| Einstein-Maxwell field equations for charged rotating systems solved |
2009-05-01 |
840 |
| Einstein-Maxwell field equations solved |
2009-05-01 |
742 |
| Einstein-Smoluchowski formula found |
2009-05-01 |
2068 |
| Eisenhower Doctrine |
2010-02-01 |
760 |
| Ekphrasis |
2006-05-20 |
2129 |
| Election of Cardinal Joachim Pecci as Pope Leo XIII |
2011-12-30 |
886 |
| Election of Cardinal Mastai-Ferretti as Pope Pius IX |
2011-12-30 |
858 |
| Elections for French Chamber |
2011-03-01 |
708 |
| Elector Frederick III of the Palatinate prioritises the religious crisis |
2011-02-01 |
1090 |
| Elector of Bavaria becomes Governor of the Spanish Netherlands |
2011-04-01 |
503 |
| Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Liegnitz agree to mutual succession |
2010-11-01 |
992 |
| Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Neuburg both claim Jülich-Cleves |
2011-02-01 |
1646 |
| Elector of Brandenburg colonises Arguin, Guinea |
2011-04-01 |
945 |
| Elector of Brandenburg marries Frederick Henry of Orange's daughter |
2011-02-01 |
396 |
| Elector of Saxony promises support to Archduke Ferdinand |
2011-02-01 |
878 |
| Elector Palatine chosen as King of Bohemia by rebelling Protestants |
2010-03-10 |
2462 |
| Elector Palatine refuses imperial troops passage through his territory |
2011-02-01 |
2335 |
| Electors of Bavaria and Cologne are outlawed by the Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
457 |
| Electors of Bavaria and Cologne sign treaties of alliance with France |
2011-04-01 |
1463 |
| Electrical activity of the brain monitored |
2010-02-01 |
1321 |
| Electricity-powered motor built by Michael Faraday |
2013-08-30 |
4305 |
| Electrolysis used to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen |
2009-05-01 |
1671 |
| Electromagnet invented by William Sturgeon |
2013-08-30 |
3929 |
| Electron discovered by Joseph Thomson |
2013-08-30 |
2469 |
| Elegy |
2001-11-01 |
7381 |
| Element synthesis in a rapidly expanding and cooling universe explained |
2009-05-01 |
805 |
| Eleutherios Venizelos becomes premier of Greece |
2011-03-01 |
573 |
| Elgin Treaty between Britain and USA |
2011-12-30 |
1086 |
| Eli Whitney demonstrates the merits of the mass production of interchangeable parts |
2005-06-28 |
5820 |
| Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin |
2005-06-28 |
5800 |
| Elizabeth allies with Resquesens against William of Orange |
2011-02-01 |
1306 |
| Elizabeth Barton is executed for treason |
2010-11-01 |
2081 |
| Elizabeth becomes Empress of Russia after a bloodless revolution |
2011-04-01 |
1181 |
| Elizabeth I aids the Scottish Lords of the Congregation against France |
2011-02-01 |
1448 |
| Elizabeth I gives John Casimir of the Palatinate £20,000 to aid the Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
2285 |
| Elizabeth I is pressed by the Spanish ambassador to marry Philip II |
2011-02-01 |
572 |
| Elizabeth I offers to mediate between Don John of Austria and the Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
1162 |
| Elizabeth I sends 3000 men to aid Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2426 |
| Elizabeth I signs the death warrant against Mary Queen of Scots |
2011-02-01 |
2951 |
| Elizabeth I takes the Netherlands under her protection |
2011-02-01 |
1798 |
| Elizabeth I's seizure of Spanish treasure ships severs commerce |
2011-02-01 |
1430 |
| Elizabeth of Russia's heir marries Catherine of Anhalt-Zerbst |
2011-04-01 |
542 |
| Elizabeth refuses Parliament's request to name her successor |
2011-02-01 |
1535 |
| Elizabeth refuses to accept sovereignty of the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
2071 |
| Elizabeth resists Parliament's demands to execute Mary Queen of Scots |
2011-02-01 |
2772 |
| Elizabeth’s ‘Golden Speech’ |
2005-06-17 |
18378 |
| Emancipation of serfs in Russia |
2010-02-01 |
1133 |
| Embargo on British vessels in Danish ports |
2010-03-01 |
1315 |
| Embargo on vessels of Armed Neutrality of the North |
2011-03-01 |
1213 |
| Embargo placed on British vessels in Russian ports |
2010-03-01 |
1465 |
| Emden cruises in Bay of Bengal |
2010-03-01 |
982 |
| Emden sunk off Sumatra |
2010-03-01 |
1082 |
| Emergence of the Muslim Kingdom of Ifat |
2010-03-01 |
1264 |
| Emeric Tokoly becomes leader of the Hungarian rebels |
2011-04-01 |
918 |
| Emerson delivers his American Scholar address |
2010-03-01 |
1118 |
| Émile Combes introduces bill for Church and State's separation |
2010-03-01 |
1151 |
| Émile Loubet and Théophile Delcassé visit Emmanuel III |
2010-03-01 |
653 |
| Émile Loubet and Théophile Delcassé visit London |
2010-03-01 |
1339 |
| Emile Loubet is elected President of France |
2011-12-30 |
980 |
| Emilio Castelar retires in Spain |
2011-12-30 |
642 |
| Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III creates the Caliphate of Cordoba |
2009-05-01 |
1279 |
| Emmeline Pankhurst sentenced |
2010-03-01 |
1078 |
| Emperor agrees to the Convention of Milan |
2011-04-01 |
2514 |
| Emperor Charles V prohibits the proposed German synod at Speyer |
2010-11-01 |
2422 |
| Emperor Charles VI agrees to suspend the Austrian East India Company |
2011-04-01 |
1295 |
| Emperor Charles VI expels Spaniards from Sicily |
2011-04-01 |
1326 |
| Emperor Charles VI founds Oriental Company in Vienna |
2011-04-01 |
1084 |
| Emperor Charles VI grants a charter to an Austrian East India Company |
2011-04-01 |
1464 |
| Emperor Charles VII dies |
2011-04-01 |
746 |
| Emperor claims reversion of Duchy of Mantua on death of the Duke |
2011-04-01 |
872 |
| Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicates |
2011-12-30 |
473 |
| Emperor Ferdinand I's death divides his inheritance |
2011-02-01 |
979 |
| Emperor Ferdinand II allows Wallenstein to gather an army |
2011-02-01 |
1761 |
| Emperor Ferdinand III dies |
2011-04-01 |
873 |
| Emperor Francis II abdicates: End of Holy Roman Empire |
|
1014 |
| Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria dies |
2010-03-01 |
490 |
| Emperor Leopold I declares war against France |
2011-04-01 |
974 |
| Emperor Leopold I declares war on France |
2011-04-01 |
1013 |
| Emperor Leopold I dies |
2011-04-01 |
916 |
| Emperor Maximilian executed in Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
452 |
| Emperor Maximilian I dies |
2010-11-01 |
1260 |
| Emperor Maximilian I marries Bianca Sforza |
2010-11-01 |
1188 |
| Emperor Maximilian II gives Lower Austrian nobility religious control |
2011-02-01 |
820 |
| Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy |
2010-11-01 |
1604 |
| Emperor of Korea abdicates |
2010-03-01 |
953 |
| Emperor Rudolf II is forced to cede Austria and Hungary to his brother |
2011-02-01 |
1206 |
| Emperor Rudolf II makes peace with Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1239 |
| Emperor Sigismund becomes King of Bohemia |
2010-03-01 |
1818 |
| Emperor Te Tsung of China's 100 days of Reform |
2011-12-30 |
1093 |
| Emperor's forces defeat Frederick II at Kollin |
2011-12-30 |
1167 |
| Empire agrees to help Poland by Treaty of Alliance |
2011-04-01 |
874 |
| Empire and Palatinate agree on the succession of Jülich and Berg |
2011-04-01 |
1048 |
| Empire and Spain join Dutch-Swedish alliance of against France |
2011-04-01 |
1153 |
| Empire declares war on Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
1051 |
| Empire of Benin: from the Niger to Lagos |
2010-03-01 |
545 |
| Empire Settlement Act |
2010-03-01 |
485 |
| Empire State building opens |
2010-02-01 |
828 |
| Empress cotton mill opens |
2010-02-01 |
1227 |
| Encomium |
2001-11-01 |
5305 |
| End of Afghan War: Afghan forces surrender |
2011-12-30 |
1016 |
| End of Carlist War with flight of Don Carlos |
2011-12-30 |
671 |
| End of civil disturbances in Arkansas |
2011-12-30 |
1528 |
| End of Maori War in New Zealand |
2011-12-30 |
2130 |
| End of Russian counter-revolution |
2010-03-01 |
1078 |
| End of siege of Gaeta: Francis II of Naples surrenders to Garibaldi |
2011-12-30 |
595 |
| End of Taiping Rebellion in China |
2011-12-30 |
1200 |
| End of the Quaker supremacy in Pennsylvania |
2011-12-30 |
1552 |
| End of the Terror; Fall of Robespierre |
2007-12-12 |
2059 |
| End of the War of Devolution: the Peace of Aix-Ia-Chapelle |
2011-04-01 |
1757 |
| End of Viking dynasty in Dublin |
2009-05-01 |
1133 |
| End-stopped-line |
2001-11-01 |
33066 |
| Engagement Act passed by the English Parliament |
2010-02-01 |
2203 |
| England accedes to the Treaty of Cambrai |
2010-11-01 |
1596 |
| England and France at war |
2010-03-01 |
1440 |
| England and France declare war on Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
1964 |
| England and France sign a commercial treaty |
2011-02-01 |
776 |
| England and Scotland agree to a truce |
2010-03-01 |
1713 |
| England and Scotland at peace |
2012-07-31 |
1387 |
| England and Scotland sign a peace treaty at Greenwich |
2010-11-01 |
3532 |
| England and the United Provinces agree to subsidise Christian IV of Denmark |
2011-02-01 |
1569 |
| England bans American trade with West Indies |
2010-03-01 |
1584 |
| England breaks the Truce of Tours |
2010-03-01 |
1805 |
| England breaks with Rome - the Henrician Reformation |
2005-06-17 |
6239 |
| England declares war against France and Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1691 |
| England fears French invasion |
2007-12-12 |
1828 |
| England gives Sweden naval support |
2010-02-01 |
833 |
| England joins Pope Julius II's Holy League against France |
2010-03-01 |
1451 |
| England lays claim to Spitsbergen |
2011-02-01 |
1508 |
| England nominally joins the Holy League against France |
2010-11-01 |
1484 |
| England proclaimed as a Commonwealth |
2010-02-01 |
2594 |
| England refuses to pay taxes to the Pope in Rome |
2012-07-31 |
2066 |
| England renounces her claim to Calais by the Peace of Troyes |
2011-02-01 |
1356 |
| England returns Flushing and Brielle to the United Provinces |
2011-02-01 |
914 |
| England signs a commercial treaty with Turkey |
2011-02-01 |
1379 |
| England signs a further commercial treaty with the Empire |
2010-11-01 |
1428 |
| England signs an alliance with the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1444 |
| England surrenders Boulogne to France and removes troops from Scotland |
2010-03-01 |
1804 |
| England, France and the United Provinces sign a league against Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1074 |
| England, Sweden and the United Provinces form the Triple Alliance against France |
2010-02-01 |
1748 |
| English adventurers acquire the Isle of Nevis |
2011-02-01 |
1332 |
| English and imperial armies attempt to besiege Landrecies |
2010-11-01 |
1892 |
| English army marches into Scotland to capture Edinburgh Castle |
2011-02-01 |
1378 |
| English army presents proposals to the King which are rejected |
2011-04-01 |
2188 |
| English begin mounting canon on their ships |
2012-07-31 |
730 |
| English burn villages on Breton coast |
2010-11-01 |
1494 |
| English colonists destroy the French settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia |
2011-02-01 |
2082 |
| English Currency Restored |
2010-02-01 |
3067 |
| English declare war on Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
469 |
| English defeat Dutch fleet off Texel |
2011-04-01 |
1056 |
| English defeated at Loudon Hill by Robert Bruce |
2012-07-31 |
1337 |
| English defeated by the Scots at Otterburn |
2010-03-01 |
1962 |
| English defeated by the Spanish near the Azores |
2010-03-01 |
1562 |
| English expedition in the Palatinate fails |
2011-02-01 |
1218 |
| English expedition to France fails |
2010-11-01 |
1418 |
| English expedition to Guienne lacks Spanish support |
2010-11-01 |
1339 |
| English fleet aids the Huguenot defence of La Rochelle |
2011-02-01 |
2319 |
| English fleet bombards St Malo |
2011-04-01 |
1742 |
| English fleet burns Treport, Normandy |
2010-11-01 |
1408 |
| English fleet destroys 25 French vessels in Brest harbour |
2010-11-01 |
1328 |
| English force under the Duke of Suffolk ravages Normandy and Picardy |
2010-11-01 |
1269 |
| English found Calcutta |
2011-03-01 |
1489 |
| English found colony of Carolina |
2011-12-20 |
1022 |
| English found colony of Maine |
2008-01-01 |
2579 |
| English King Henry VI crowned King of France |
2010-03-01 |
1488 |
| English King, Edward I, conquers Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
1773 |
| English King, Edward II, marries Isabella of Spain |
2012-07-31 |
1191 |
| English land in Jamaica |
2010-02-01 |
1309 |
| English Lollard rebellion crushed |
2010-03-01 |
1976 |
| English longbow reaches the height of its development |
2012-07-31 |
810 |
| English Merchants Adventurers' Company confirmed by Rudolf II |
2011-02-01 |
1229 |
| English merchants are expelled from the Empire |
2011-02-01 |
1357 |
| English merchants return to Antwerp |
2010-11-01 |
1458 |
| English navy defeats Spanish fleet off Santa Cruz |
2011-03-01 |
1259 |
| English occupy Bahamas |
2011-02-01 |
1248 |
| English Parliament adopts Presbyterianism |
2010-02-01 |
3802 |
| English Parliament attacks monopolies |
2011-02-01 |
727 |
| English Parliament attaints Queen Katherine Howard |
2010-11-01 |
1462 |
| English Parliament attaints the Yorkist Edmund, Earl of Suffolk |
2010-11-01 |
1768 |
| English Parliament calls for war on Spain in support of the Palatinate |
2011-02-01 |
978 |
| English Parliament dismissed |
2010-02-01 |
2606 |
| English Parliament dissolved |
2011-02-01 |
940 |
| English Parliament draws up severe anti-Catholic legislation |
2011-02-01 |
2928 |
| English Parliament grants taxation for war against Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1988 |
| English Parliament imposes severe penalties against Roman Catholics |
2011-02-01 |
3037 |
| English Parliament is critical of James I's use of his royal prerogative |
2011-02-01 |
1339 |
| English Parliament is dissolved |
2011-02-01 |
1033 |
| English Parliament is dissolved |
2010-11-01 |
1755 |
| English Parliament is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
625 |
| English Parliament is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
617 |
| English Parliament is prorogued |
2011-02-01 |
566 |
| English Parliament is prorogued by Charles II |
2011-04-01 |
1737 |
| English Parliament meets |
2011-04-01 |
831 |
| English Parliament meets |
2011-04-01 |
565 |
| English Parliament meets |
2011-02-01 |
1518 |
| English Parliament meets |
2011-02-01 |
907 |
| English Parliament meets |
2011-04-01 |
1261 |
| English Parliament meets |
2011-02-01 |
1326 |
| English Parliament meets |
2010-11-01 |
1769 |
| English Parliament meets |
2011-02-01 |
1256 |
| English Parliament meets |
2011-02-01 |
2014 |
| English Parliament meets at Westminster |
2010-11-01 |
1692 |
| English Parliament meets for a second session |
2010-11-01 |
1266 |
| English Parliament meets to deal with the problem of Mary Queen of Scots |
2011-02-01 |
2604 |
| English Parliament meets to vote money for an expedition to La Rochelle |
2011-02-01 |
2008 |
| English Parliament passes an Act to enforce royal proclamations |
2010-11-01 |
952 |
| English Parliament passes the Chantries Act |
2010-11-01 |
3282 |
| English Parliament passes the Navigation Act |
2010-02-01 |
842 |
| English Parliament passes Three Resolutions |
2010-01-01 |
2215 |
| English Parliament re-assembles |
2011-02-01 |
1160 |
| English Parliament reassembles |
2011-02-01 |
1038 |
| English Parliament reassembles |
2011-02-01 |
2230 |
| English Parliament recalled |
2010-02-01 |
1539 |
| English Parliament rejects Charles I's offer of further concessions |
2011-04-01 |
2281 |
| English Parliament rejects concessions to Nonconformists |
2011-04-01 |
1412 |
| English Parliament states that laws require the consent of both monarch and parliament |
2012-07-31 |
715 |
| English Parliament votes a heavy subsidy |
2010-11-01 |
2194 |
| English Parliament votes supplies for the French war |
2010-11-01 |
1563 |
| English Parliament's Nineteen Propositions |
2010-02-01 |
1686 |
| English privateers take Tobago |
2011-04-01 |
1186 |
| English Protestant exiles return from Zurich and Geneva |
2011-02-01 |
2898 |
| English replaces French as educational language |
2012-07-31 |
1262 |
| English resume command of the English Channel |
2010-11-01 |
1853 |
| English Royal Africa Company obtains a monopoly of slave trade |
2011-04-01 |
790 |
| English settlement of the Leeward Islands is begun from St. Kitts |
2011-02-01 |
1424 |
| English settlements are made in Antigua and Montserrat |
2011-02-01 |
1129 |
| English settlers found a colony at Charlestown, forerunner of Boston |
2008-01-01 |
1265 |
| English shipping in Spanish ports is confiscated |
2011-02-01 |
1243 |
| English statutes of witchcraft are repealed |
2011-04-01 |
1263 |
| English succession will pass to children of Jane Seymour |
2010-11-01 |
2318 |
| English traders establish a factory at Canton |
2011-02-01 |
763 |
| English Treaty of Pacification with Scotland |
2010-01-01 |
1837 |
| English troops are forced to raise the siege of Venlo |
2010-11-01 |
1977 |
| English troops land on the Ile de Ré |
2011-03-01 |
1825 |
| English troops occupy Le Havre |
2011-02-01 |
2219 |
| English troops seize Haddington, Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1521 |
| English volunteers join the Elector Palatine's army in Bohemia |
2011-02-01 |
2612 |
| English volunteers land in the Netherlands to fight against the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
1404 |
| Englishmen imprisoned for refusing to pay the forced loan are released |
2011-02-01 |
2128 |
| ENIAC, the first entirely electronic computer, announced |
2009-05-01 |
1575 |
| Enquiry into conduct of Mary Queen of Scots reopens at Westminster |
2011-02-01 |
3184 |
| Entail is introduced in Scotland |
2011-04-01 |
2591 |
| Entropy |
2001-11-01 |
14639 |
| Envoy / Envoi |
2001-11-01 |
3581 |
| Envoys sent by Ethiopia to Spain in an attempt to resist Islam |
2010-03-01 |
1303 |
| Epigram |
2001-11-01 |
4568 |
| Epigraph |
2001-11-01 |
8503 |
| Epilogue |
2001-11-01 |
4406 |
| Epiphany |
2001-11-01 |
7193 |
| Episcopacy is abolished in Scotland |
2011-04-01 |
1832 |
| Episcopacy is abolished in Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
1312 |
| Episcopacy is ended in Denmark |
2010-11-01 |
772 |
| Episcopacy restored in Scotland; Presbyterian ministers are banned |
2011-02-01 |
3257 |
| Episteme |
2001-11-01 |
7776 |
| Epistemology |
2001-11-01 |
5811 |
| Epitaph |
2001-11-01 |
4654 |
| Epithalamion |
2001-11-01 |
5284 |
| Epithet |
2001-11-01 |
8708 |
| EPR paradox formulated |
2009-05-01 |
1041 |
| Erfurt Congress |
2010-03-01 |
977 |
| Erfurt Parliament is prorogued |
2011-12-30 |
916 |
| Eric XIV of Sweden annexes Reval |
2011-02-01 |
1530 |
| Eric XIV succeeds as King of Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1043 |
| Erich von Falkenhayn made German Commander-in-chief |
2011-03-01 |
984 |
| Eritrea declares Independence |
2010-02-01 |
722 |
| Ernest Augustus of Hanover imposes new Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
906 |
| Ernest Augustus suppresses the Constitution in Hanover |
2011-12-30 |
746 |
| Ernst von Mansfeld dies |
2011-02-01 |
1093 |
| Escobedo, secretary to Don John of Austria, is assassinated |
2011-02-01 |
1224 |
| Esme Stuart becomes a royal favourite in Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
844 |
| Espartero becomes premier of Spain |
2011-12-30 |
827 |
| Espartero bombards Barcelona and revolts are soon crushed |
2011-12-30 |
554 |
| Essex returns to London |
2011-02-01 |
3213 |
| Establishment of a High Court of Justice |
2010-02-01 |
2905 |
| Establishment of House of Commons |
2012-07-31 |
1559 |
| Establishment of mechanics institutes in Glasgow and London |
2013-08-30 |
1388 |
| Establishment of Medici Bank in Florence |
2010-03-01 |
1069 |
| Establishment of the Committee of Triers |
2010-02-01 |
839 |
| Estates General meet in France for the first time |
2010-03-01 |
1000 |
| Estonia signs peace with U.S.S.R. |
2011-03-01 |
735 |
| Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia invaded by the Soviet Union |
2009-05-01 |
933 |
| Estrone discovered |
2009-05-01 |
797 |
| Ethiopia annexed by Italy |
2009-05-01 |
888 |
| Ethiopian Emperor deposed by Marxist military coup |
2010-02-01 |
1285 |
| Ethiopians defeat Italians at Amba Alagi |
2011-12-30 |
894 |
| Eton College established in England |
2010-03-01 |
1138 |
| Eulogy |
2001-11-01 |
4623 |
| European Congress meets at Frankfurt-on-Main |
2011-04-01 |
607 |
| European economic slump commences |
2010-02-01 |
1198 |
| European Free Trade Association (EFTA) established |
2010-02-01 |
1244 |
| European powers demand abolition of 1812 Spanish Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
805 |
| Europeans settle in the Hawkesbury and Parramatta |
2010-03-01 |
1044 |
| Evelyn Baring lands in Egypt as British agent and consul-general |
2011-12-30 |
875 |
| Evolution and genetic mutation found to be linked |
2009-05-01 |
1050 |
| Exact solution to the two-dimensional Ising model found |
2011-03-01 |
526 |
| Exchange of Bourbon and Habsburg brides at Burgos |
2011-02-01 |
1093 |
| Excise crisis: reorganisation of excise and customs abandoned |
2011-03-01 |
1444 |
| Exclusion of Catholics from London |
2004-01-11 |
3424 |
| Execution of Archbishop Laud |
2011-03-01 |
2087 |
| Execution of Charles I |
2010-02-01 |
4218 |
| Execution of Edith Cavell in Brussels |
2010-03-01 |
1384 |
| Execution of Hébertistes |
2010-03-01 |
3026 |
| Execution of Louis XVI |
2007-12-22 |
3634 |
| Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti |
2010-03-01 |
1267 |
| Existence of five lepton families suggested |
2009-05-01 |
1234 |
| Existence of protons in atomic nucleus posited |
2009-05-01 |
891 |
| Expedition into North America by Hernando de Soto |
2010-01-01 |
940 |
| Expedition sent by Henry of Castile to take control of the Canary Islands |
2010-03-01 |
1881 |
| Experimental radar developed |
2010-02-01 |
983 |
| Exploration of the Darling and Castlereagh Rivers |
2010-03-01 |
2396 |
| Explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reportedly reach the North Pole |
2011-12-20 |
1590 |
| Exposición Universal de Barcelona |
2011-03-01 |
625 |
| Expulsion of Jesuits begins in Portugal |
2011-12-30 |
804 |
| Expulsion of Jews from England |
2012-07-31 |
2924 |
| Expulsion of Jews from Portugal |
2010-03-01 |
3065 |
| Extension of 1638 treaty of alliance between France and Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1099 |
| Extension of the Poor Law to Ireland |
2013-08-30 |
609 |
| Eyre Coote becomes British Commander in Madras |
2011-12-30 |
1183 |
| Eyre Coote defeats Hyder Ali at Porto Novo |
2011-03-01 |
1400 |
| Fabian society founded |
2013-08-30 |
486 |
| Factions develop in France |
2011-02-01 |
1955 |
| Factory Act (1) |
2010-01-01 |
2259 |
| Factory Act (2) |
2010-02-01 |
1710 |
| Factory Act (3) |
2010-01-01 |
1381 |
| Factory Act (4) |
2010-02-01 |
1570 |
| Faenza surrenders to Cesare Borgia |
2010-11-01 |
1353 |
| Failed attempt to rescue Alençon and Navarre from the French court |
2011-02-01 |
2130 |
| Failed Indonesian Marxist coup and military countercoup |
2010-02-01 |
1135 |
| Failure of German offensive at Focşani |
2010-03-01 |
1048 |
| Failure of Walcheren expedition |
2010-02-01 |
2138 |
| Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip |
2009-05-01 |
1401 |
| Fairfax takes Wakefield from Royalists |
2011-02-01 |
2076 |
| Fall of Baron Stein |
2011-03-01 |
822 |
| Fall of Constantinople |
2010-01-01 |
3053 |
| Fall of Count Witte in Russia |
2010-03-01 |
916 |
| Fall of Devonshire-Pitt ministry in Britain |
2011-12-30 |
1053 |
| Fall of John Carteret (Earl Granville) produces a Whig Cabinet |
2011-04-01 |
1235 |
| Fall of John de Ripperda in Spain, who is succeeded by Patiño |
2011-04-01 |
771 |
| Fall of Jules Ferry's ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
999 |
| Fall of Newcastle ministry |
2011-12-30 |
698 |
| Fall of Nubar ministry in Egypt after army demonstration |
2011-12-30 |
539 |
| Fall of Olivares in Spain |
2011-02-01 |
934 |
| Fall of Protector Somerset |
2010-11-01 |
1690 |
| Fall of Rome |
2005-11-16 |
883 |
| Fall of the Girondins in France |
2007-12-02 |
3906 |
| Fall of the Inca Empire |
2010-03-01 |
1642 |
| Falling Meter |
2001-11-01 |
11621 |
| Family Law Act |
2010-03-01 |
945 |
| Famine in Bengal |
2011-12-30 |
1058 |
| Famine in England |
2012-07-31 |
1027 |
| Famine in India |
2011-12-30 |
640 |
| Famine in India |
2011-04-01 |
569 |
| Famine in the USSR |
2010-02-01 |
1183 |
| Fancy |
2001-11-01 |
3803 |
| Fast Fourier transform algorithm developed |
2009-05-01 |
635 |
| Fatimid Caliphate in North Africa |
2009-05-01 |
1417 |
| February Revolution in Russia |
2010-03-01 |
1517 |
| Federal constitution in Brazil |
2010-02-01 |
665 |
| Federal forces reinstate Kellogg as governor of Louisiana |
2011-12-30 |
537 |
| Federal troops withdraw from the Virginia Peninsula after Seven Days battle |
2011-12-30 |
2091 |
| Federal water power act in U.S. |
2010-03-01 |
521 |
| Federation of Malaysia established |
2010-02-01 |
649 |
| Federation of New England |
2010-01-01 |
2905 |
| Federation of Peru and Bolivia proclaimed |
2011-12-30 |
391 |
| Felice Peretti is elected Pope Sixtus V |
2011-02-01 |
1357 |
| Felix Faure becomes French president |
2011-12-30 |
786 |
| Felix Meline forms progressive ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
893 |
| Felix Meline introduces rigid Protection in France |
2011-12-30 |
1184 |
| Female Immigrants' Home |
2010-03-01 |
535 |
| Feminism |
2010-02-01 |
8434 |
| Fenian attack on Quebec fails |
2011-12-30 |
1374 |
| Fenian brotherhood Clerkenwell bombing |
2010-02-01 |
1659 |
| Fenian brotherhood Manchester bombing |
2010-01-10 |
2931 |
| Fenians arrested for planning uprising |
2010-02-01 |
2223 |
| Fenians murder Irish chief secretary and under-secretary |
2011-12-30 |
1016 |
| Feodor II succeeds as Tsar of Russia |
2011-02-01 |
1132 |
| Feodore becomes Tsar of Russia |
2010-03-01 |
849 |
| Ferdinand Bebel beomes the first Socialist elected to the Reichstag |
2011-12-30 |
873 |
| Ferdinand becomes King of Aragon and takes control of Antequera |
2010-03-01 |
1184 |
| Ferdinand I (IV) of Naples dies |
2011-12-30 |
1015 |
| Ferdinand I and Louis XII agree to sell Pisa to Florence |
2010-11-01 |
1550 |
| Ferdinand I forms a council of military affairs |
2011-02-01 |
1190 |
| Ferdinand I intensifies a repression of the Moors |
2010-11-01 |
1301 |
| Ferdinand I of Aragon marries Germaine de Foix |
2010-11-01 |
1127 |
| Ferdinand I of Austria flees from Vienna to Innsbruck |
2011-12-30 |
655 |
| Ferdinand I of Bulgaria is recognised by Russia |
2011-12-30 |
401 |
| Ferdinand I of Bulgaria visits Russia |
2010-03-01 |
488 |
| Ferdinand I returns to Vienna |
2011-12-30 |
384 |
| Ferdinand I signs a treaty giving power to his son-in-law Philip of Burgundy |
2010-11-01 |
1072 |
| Ferdinand I suppresses the pro-Hapsburg party in Spain |
2010-11-01 |
1336 |
| Ferdinand I takes the title of Holy Roman Emperor |
2011-02-01 |
1227 |
| Ferdinand II of Naples dies |
2010-11-01 |
749 |
| Ferdinand II reconquers Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1607 |
| Ferdinand II reinstates Wallenstein as Supreme Imperial Commander |
2011-02-01 |
2261 |
| Ferdinand II signs a treaty with Duke Maximilian of Bavaria |
2011-02-01 |
1216 |
| Ferdinand is recognised King of Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
1467 |
| Ferdinand IV declares war against France |
2010-03-01 |
1967 |
| Ferdinand of Aragon suppresses a Moorish revolt in Granada |
2010-11-01 |
1190 |
| Ferdinand of Austria and John Zápolya of Hungary sign Peace of Grosswardein |
2010-11-01 |
2136 |
| Ferdinand of Bohemia and John Zápolya sign a truce |
2010-11-01 |
3915 |
| Ferdinand of Bohemia defeats John Zápolya at Tokay |
2010-11-01 |
3418 |
| Ferdinand of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans |
2010-11-01 |
2354 |
| Ferdinand of Styria is crowned King of Hungary |
2011-02-01 |
1108 |
| Ferdinand VI becomes King of Spain |
2011-04-01 |
953 |
| Ferdinand VI of Spain breaks off the Family Compact with France |
2011-04-01 |
902 |
| Ferdinand VI of Spain dies |
2011-12-30 |
1120 |
| Ferdinand VI of Spain makes a Concordat with the Pope |
2011-04-01 |
867 |
| Ferdinand VII of Spain abrogates Salic Law |
2011-12-30 |
598 |
| Ferdinand VII of Spain begins a reign of tyranny |
2011-12-30 |
1050 |
| Ferdinand VII of Spain refuses to leave Madrid despite French invasion |
2011-12-30 |
859 |
| Ferdinand VII of Spain taken prisoner |
2010-02-01 |
1674 |
| Fermat’s Last Theorem |
2009-05-01 |
643 |
| Fertilized eggs are shown to possess both male and female nuclei |
2009-05-01 |
1012 |
| Festival of Champ de Mars |
2011-03-01 |
2423 |
| Feud between the Colonna and Orsini families in the papal states revives |
2010-11-01 |
2289 |
| Feudalism abolished in Japan |
2010-02-01 |
1500 |
| Fifth civil war in French Wars of Religion |
2010-03-01 |
2545 |
| Fifth Parliament of Charles II is dissolved when the Exclusion Bill is raised |
2011-04-01 |
665 |
| Fifth Parliament of George II meets |
2011-04-01 |
677 |
| Fifth Parliament of Queen Anne |
2011-04-01 |
632 |
| Fifth Parliament of William III has a Tory majority |
2011-04-01 |
1218 |
| Fifth War of Religion in France is ended by the Peace of Monsieur |
2011-02-01 |
1569 |
| Figaro editor makes charges against Caillaux |
2010-03-01 |
804 |
| Fighting at Manchester claims the civil war's first life |
2011-02-01 |
1570 |
| Final Act of the Conference at Vienna |
2010-03-01 |
2079 |
| Final Mongol Emperor in China |
2011-03-01 |
476 |
| Financial collapse of Turkey through heavy borrowing abroad |
2011-12-30 |
542 |
| Financial crisis begins in Vienna and spreads across Europe |
2011-12-30 |
530 |
| Financial crisis in France |
2010-02-01 |
3323 |
| Financial crisis in Spain worsens |
2011-02-01 |
1002 |
| Financial powers of French legislature extended |
2011-12-30 |
739 |
| Finland obtains constitution from Russia |
2011-12-30 |
947 |
| Finnish autonomy abolished |
2010-02-01 |
1290 |
| Finnish autonomy abolished |
2010-02-01 |
1149 |
| Fire ships destroy many of the Spanish galleons off Calais |
2011-02-01 |
1588 |
| First 'Civil Rights March' in Northern Ireland |
2010-02-01 |
1351 |
| First (horse-drawn) public bus proposed |
2009-05-01 |
857 |
| First account of Australian literature |
2010-03-01 |
676 |
| First African-American wins Nobel Prize for literature, Toni Morrison |
2010-03-01 |
4373 |
| First aircraft carrier |
2010-02-01 |
1266 |
| First American novel published |
2010-03-01 |
1574 |
| First American Parliament meets |
2010-02-01 |
2494 |
| First Anglo-Afghan War |
2010-02-01 |
1719 |
| First Anglo-Burmese War |
2010-02-01 |
2295 |
| First Anglo-Chinese Opium War |
2010-02-01 |
1955 |
| First application of Boulton-Watt rotary steam engine to spinning mule |
2007-12-02 |
2384 |
| First Atomic Bomb Tested |
2005-03-27 |
6412 |
| First attempt on the life of a US president |
2010-03-01 |
1600 |
| First Australian federal confederation assembly meets at Sydney |
2011-12-30 |
516 |
| First Australian novel written and published as a book in Hobart |
2011-03-01 |
780 |
| First Australian woman to publish a book of verse |
2010-03-01 |
782 |
| First authorised Catholic mass in Australia |
2010-03-01 |
653 |
| First Balkan War |
2010-02-01 |
1229 |
| First Bank of the United States established |
2007-12-02 |
5128 |
| First battle of Copenhagen |
2010-02-01 |
1454 |
| First battle of El Alamein |
2010-02-01 |
954 |
| First Battle of Isonzo |
2008-01-01 |
1303 |
| First Battle of Newbury |
2010-02-01 |
2155 |
| First battle of Schooneveld |
2010-02-01 |
1023 |
| First Bishops' War between England and Scotland |
2010-02-01 |
3306 |
| First Boer War |
2013-08-30 |
3150 |
| First Book of Common Prayer |
2005-06-17 |
4364 |
| First book published in Australia |
2010-03-01 |
767 |
| First Brandenburg expedition to West Africa |
2011-04-01 |
1000 |
| First budget in Russia |
2011-04-01 |
374 |
| First Canadian troops land in England |
2010-03-01 |
765 |
| First Chartist Petition rejected |
2013-08-30 |
4334 |
| First Christian mission of West Saxon Monk Winfrid (later Saint Boniface) in Frisia |
2009-05-01 |
1669 |
| First circumnavigation of the world by the fleet of Ferdinand Magellan |
2010-01-01 |
3503 |
| First civil war in the French Wars of Religion |
2010-03-01 |
2601 |
| First cloning of a vertebrate |
2009-05-01 |
1089 |
| First Coalition against France |
2010-03-01 |
2293 |
| First Colonial Conference in London opens |
2011-12-30 |
1377 |
| First commercially produced computer |
2010-02-01 |
955 |
| First Commonwealth of Australia Parliament |
2010-03-01 |
719 |
| First Congress meets |
2010-03-01 |
824 |
| First Continental Congress |
2007-12-02 |
2066 |
| First Crusade |
2010-02-01 |
1727 |
| First Diet of Speyer endorses Edict of Worms |
2010-11-01 |
3201 |
| First Duma meets in Russia, resulting in deadlock |
2010-03-01 |
703 |
| First Dutch Barrier Treaty is negotiated with Britain |
2011-04-01 |
1364 |
| First easily portable electronic calculator |
2011-03-01 |
1048 |
| First electrical telegraph in Australia |
2011-03-01 |
522 |
| First electron microscope built |
2011-03-01 |
769 |
| First electronic television system |
2010-02-01 |
1281 |
| First English colony attempt in Newfoundland fails |
2010-01-01 |
2637 |
| First English Settlement in the West Indies |
2011-03-01 |
2524 |
| First English Urban Sanitary Act |
2010-03-01 |
1795 |
| First European contact with Japan |
2005-09-13 |
9733 |
| First European settlement in the present-day US |
2010-03-01 |
1267 |
| First fiber-optic telephone lines |
2010-02-01 |
1293 |
| First Fleet led by Arthur Phillip arrives in Port Jackson |
2010-03-01 |
1247 |
| First flight across English Channel |
2010-02-01 |
1058 |
| First flight of a successful jet airplane |
2010-02-01 |
1165 |
| First French and Indian war begins |
2010-03-01 |
5316 |
| First functional electric telegraph system produced |
2010-02-01 |
2147 |
| First German Zeppelin attack on London |
2010-02-01 |
1262 |
| First hovercraft developed |
2010-02-01 |
1028 |
| First illustrated book published in Australia |
2010-03-01 |
853 |
| First Indian National Congress meets, but lacks Moslem support |
2011-12-30 |
501 |
| First Indo-Pakistan War |
2010-02-01 |
1182 |
| First indoor tennis court |
2010-03-01 |
914 |
| First installation of James Watt's stationary rotary steam engine in a cotton mill |
2007-12-02 |
4370 |
| First Irish Home Rule bill |
2010-02-01 |
1909 |
| First Iron Railroad Bridge |
2013-08-30 |
2298 |
| First iron steamship launched |
2013-08-30 |
1450 |
| First Italian Parliament meets in Turin |
2011-12-30 |
524 |
| First Japanese Diet opened |
2011-12-30 |
358 |
| First jet powered aircraft built |
2009-05-01 |
1199 |
| First Jewish MP admitted to the House of Commons - Lionel de Rothschild |
2010-02-01 |
2369 |
| First jumbo jets in service |
2010-02-01 |
1038 |
| First Kodak camera by George Eastman |
2011-12-20 |
1348 |
| First large cholera epidemic |
2013-08-30 |
1043 |
| First laser built |
2011-03-01 |
1059 |
| First Maori War |
2010-01-01 |
2641 |
| First Maratha War |
2010-02-01 |
2136 |
| First mass killing by gas at Auschwitz |
2010-02-01 |
1116 |
| First meeting of independent Labour Party |
2010-01-01 |
1408 |
| First meeting of Ottoman Parliament |
2011-03-01 |
759 |
| First meeting of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) |
2010-03-01 |
1456 |
| First ministry of Adolphe Thiers in France |
2011-12-30 |
1371 |
| First monasteries built on Mount Athos |
2009-05-01 |
800 |
| First multiwire proportional mode particle detection chamber built |
2009-05-01 |
616 |
| First national strike in the USA |
2010-02-01 |
2039 |
| First Nationalist Congress in Egypt |
2011-03-01 |
597 |
| First Navigation Act adopted |
2010-03-01 |
1551 |
| First neutron star models calculated |
2009-05-01 |
996 |
| First newspaper written by Aborigines |
2011-03-01 |
770 |
| First non-Abelian gauge theory formulated |
2009-05-01 |
591 |
| First Northern War |
2010-02-01 |
1329 |
| First nuclear fission bomb exploded |
2009-05-01 |
1634 |
| First observation of Brownian motion |
2009-05-01 |
1235 |
| First oil exported from Saudi Arabia |
2010-02-01 |
1481 |
| First opera written, composed and performed in Australia |
2010-03-01 |
726 |
| First Ordinance for Sequestration |
2010-02-01 |
3034 |
| First Pan-American conference at Washington |
2011-12-30 |
839 |
| First Parliament of George I has a Whig majority |
2011-04-01 |
587 |
| First Parliament of George II |
2011-04-01 |
880 |
| First Parliament of George III meets |
2011-12-30 |
678 |
| First Parliament of Queen Anne |
2011-04-01 |
579 |
| First Partition Treaty for the division of Spanish possessions |
2011-04-01 |
1353 |
| First Passenger Air-Service |
2010-02-01 |
1115 |
| First Peace of Paris |
2010-03-01 |
2461 |
| First period of the Commonwealth of England |
2010-02-01 |
2760 |
| First permanent European colony in the US established by the Spanish |
2010-01-01 |
1523 |
| First poem published in Australia |
2010-03-01 |
822 |
| First polio vaccine developed |
2011-03-01 |
1010 |
| First portable radio |
2010-02-01 |
1151 |
| First post-Communist elections held in Romania |
2010-03-01 |
586 |
| First Printed Books (Incunabula) |
2005-05-10 |
4781 |
| First private parliamentary enclosure act |
2010-01-10 |
1457 |
| First production-line supersonic airplane |
2010-02-01 |
973 |
| First Protestant missionaries in New Zealand |
2010-02-01 |
2565 |
| First public exhibition of moden British art |
2010-02-01 |
833 |
| First quartz crystal oscillator clock built |
2009-05-01 |
797 |
| First Railway - Stockton and Darlington |
2010-02-01 |
2354 |
| First Reconstruction Act |
2010-03-01 |
1169 |
| First regular radio program launched |
2010-02-01 |
784 |
| First Russian prisoners are sent to Siberia |
2011-04-01 |
694 |
| First Russian reverses |
2011-12-30 |
405 |
| First satellite navigation system |
2010-02-01 |
940 |
| First Seminole War |
2010-02-01 |
3282 |
| First sequencing of an entire genome |
2009-05-01 |
910 |
| First signs of nationalist movement in Egypt with rising of officers |
2011-12-30 |
898 |
| First Sikh War |
2010-02-01 |
1373 |
| First single-rotor helicopter |
2010-02-01 |
1209 |
| First skirmishes between English and Dutch settlers in India |
2011-02-01 |
1238 |
| First solar-powered electricity plant |
2010-02-01 |
492 |
| First South Pacific Forum |
2010-02-01 |
1287 |
| First St Paul's Cathedral, London, is completed |
2012-07-31 |
889 |
| First stages of a Protestant Reformation in England |
2010-11-01 |
4817 |
| First step towards Zollverein |
2010-03-01 |
1148 |
| First successful ascent to summit of Everest |
2010-01-01 |
1020 |
| First synthetic dye invented by William Perkin |
2013-08-30 |
1207 |
| First systematic southern sky survey by Halley |
2009-05-01 |
1106 |
| First television picture |
2010-02-01 |
631 |
| First theatre opens in Sydney |
2010-03-01 |
747 |
| First Traffic Lights |
2010-02-01 |
1218 |
| First Train to London |
2013-08-30 |
2256 |
| First transatlantic crossing by steamship |
2005-06-21 |
3833 |
| First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable |
2005-06-21 |
1556 |
| First Turkish Parliament meets |
2011-12-30 |
356 |
| First U.S. division arrives in France |
2010-03-01 |
686 |
| First U.S. factory to convert raw cotton into cloth using power machinery |
2011-03-01 |
1678 |
| First United States troops in action |
2010-02-01 |
768 |
| First use of Hypnosis for Health Purposes |
2010-02-01 |
1661 |
| First use of telescope to observe the heavens |
2009-07-28 |
5498 |
| First V2 rocket launched |
2009-05-01 |
862 |
| First vertical takeoff airplane introduced |
2010-02-01 |
1007 |
| First Vienna Award |
2009-05-01 |
1241 |
| First volume of poetry published in Australia |
2010-03-01 |
1070 |
| First voyage by French navigator, Samuel de Champlain to Canada |
2010-01-01 |
2039 |
| First Winter Olympics |
2010-02-01 |
808 |
| First World Cup |
2010-02-01 |
1025 |
| First X-ray transient (Cen X-2) discovered |
2009-05-01 |
700 |
| First Zionist Congress |
2010-02-01 |
1162 |
| Fiume declares her independence |
2010-03-01 |
469 |
| Five Articles of Religion |
2011-02-01 |
2859 |
| Five Mile Act |
2010-02-01 |
2669 |
| Five-day revolution in Milan against Austrian rule |
2011-12-30 |
964 |
| Five-Year Plan |
2010-02-01 |
747 |
| Flag of united American colonies created |
2010-03-01 |
2467 |
| Fleet under Admiral Russell spends the winter in Cadiz |
2011-03-01 |
893 |
| Flemish grievances towards England are alleviated |
2010-11-01 |
1020 |
| Fleury offers French mediation to the Emperor in his war with Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1042 |
| Fleury's death initiates an aggressive French foreign policy |
2011-04-01 |
1514 |
| Flooding East Pakistan |
2010-02-01 |
797 |
| Flooding in East Pakistan |
2010-02-01 |
1086 |
| Florence and Naples form secret alliance against Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1724 |
| Florence gains access to the sea by conquering Pisa |
2010-03-01 |
1523 |
| Florence is left at the mercy of the Holy League |
2010-11-01 |
821 |
| Florence is restored to the Medicis by imperial troops |
2010-11-01 |
1086 |
| Florence is ruled by Cosimo de Medici |
2010-03-01 |
571 |
| Florence joins the French alliance for the partition of Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1498 |
| Florence reverts to a republic as the Medici are expelled |
2010-11-01 |
1157 |
| Florence takes Pisa |
2010-11-01 |
780 |
| Florida claimed for Spain by Juan Ponce de Leon |
2010-03-01 |
1832 |
| Florida Purchase |
2010-02-01 |
4738 |
| Flyting |
2001-11-01 |
5868 |
| Force Bill for federal control of elections is rejected by US Senate |
2011-12-30 |
1506 |
| Ford mass-produces all-purpose tractor |
2010-02-01 |
1190 |
| Forli, held by Caterina Sforza, surrenders to Cesare Borgia |
2010-11-01 |
844 |
| Formal dissolution of George II's fifth Parliament |
2011-12-30 |
729 |
| Formal dissolution of the second Parliament of George I |
2011-04-01 |
795 |
| Formal election of Matthias of Bohemia as Holy Roman Emperor |
2011-02-01 |
1983 |
| Formal emergence of the Liberal Party in the government of Britain |
|
1071 |
| Formal proof that black holes cannot be torn apart by their pulsations |
2011-03-01 |
735 |
| Formal reunion of Argentina and Buenos Aires |
2011-12-30 |
401 |
| Formal union of Venice, Sardinia and Lombardy |
2011-12-30 |
857 |
| Formation of German National Association for German unity |
2011-12-30 |
572 |
| Formation of Trades Union Congress |
2010-02-01 |
1561 |
| Formosa becomes independent |
2011-04-01 |
641 |
| Fort Frontenac is founded in Canada |
2011-04-01 |
1235 |
| Fort Gaspereau surrenders to the British |
2010-02-01 |
3104 |
| Fort Orange surrenders to British and is renamed Albany |
2011-04-01 |
1021 |
| Fort St George is founded in Bengal |
2011-02-01 |
1134 |
| Fort William recaptured by the British |
2010-02-01 |
2852 |
| Fort William, Calcutta, is built |
2011-04-01 |
1264 |
| Fortnightly Review, The |
2013-08-30 |
4958 |
| Foundation laid for Antwerp Cathedral |
2010-03-01 |
773 |
| Foundation of “The First International” |
2006-02-15 |
2581 |
| Foundation of Armenian state |
2009-05-01 |
497 |
| Foundation of Benedictine abbey at Cluny |
2009-05-01 |
1272 |
| Foundation of Dublin |
2009-05-01 |
1121 |
| Foundation of political parties in Japan |
2011-12-30 |
732 |
| Foundation of the Barbary States of Algiers and Tunis |
2010-11-01 |
534 |
| Foundation of the Communist League |
2011-03-01 |
2815 |
| Foundation of the Dutch West African Company |
2011-02-01 |
940 |
| Foundation of the London Missionary Society |
|
1049 |
| Foundation of the United Nations |
2010-02-01 |
1988 |
| Founding of Guiana Company |
2011-02-01 |
1454 |
| Fouquet is appointed Superintendent of Finances |
2011-04-01 |
1461 |
| Four Days' Battle |
2011-03-01 |
1054 |
| Fourth Ashanti War: Ghana becomes a British protectorate |
2011-12-30 |
726 |
| Fourth battle of Isonzo |
2010-03-01 |
905 |
| Fourth cholera epidemic - Sanitary Act passed |
2013-08-30 |
1316 |
| Fourth civil war in the French Wars of Religion |
2010-03-01 |
2499 |
| Fourth Crusade |
2010-02-01 |
1611 |
| Fourth German navy bill |
2010-03-01 |
984 |
| Fourth Parliament of Charles II is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
760 |
| Fourth Parliament of George II |
2011-04-01 |
834 |
| Fourth session of the 'Reformation Parliament' |
2010-11-01 |
3104 |
| Fox repeals Ireland Act |
2010-03-01 |
2258 |
| Foxites leave the House of Commons |
2010-02-01 |
2072 |
| Fragmentation of Frankish Empire |
2009-05-01 |
1348 |
| Francais Jacques Marquette explores the Mississippi |
2011-12-20 |
1283 |
| France adopts conscription |
2011-12-30 |
675 |
| France agrees to conference on Morocco |
2010-03-01 |
855 |
| France allies with Prussia against Maria Theresa |
2011-04-01 |
977 |
| France allies with the Turks to attack Charles V |
2010-03-01 |
1107 |
| France and Belgium vie for domination in Congo |
2011-12-30 |
1063 |
| France and Britain occupy Piraeus |
2011-12-30 |
1034 |
| France and Germany agree boundaries of French Congo and Cameroon |
2011-12-30 |
867 |
| France and Holland declare war on England |
2010-01-01 |
856 |
| France and Spain break the Anglo-Austrian blockade of Genoa |
2011-04-01 |
1709 |
| France and the Emperor agree to a future partition of the Spanish Empire |
2011-04-01 |
1118 |
| France and Turkey sign an alliance and a commercial treaty |
2010-11-01 |
979 |
| France annexes Genoa |
2010-11-01 |
1509 |
| France annexes Tahiti |
2011-12-30 |
902 |
| France annexes the Valtelline and Chiavenna |
2010-03-01 |
2353 |
| France breaks off negotiations for an alliance with Maria Theresa |
2011-04-01 |
874 |
| France concedes Syrian independence |
2010-02-01 |
927 |
| France concludes a secret treaty with Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1001 |
| France concludes commercial treaty with Madagascar |
2011-12-30 |
438 |
| France creates 'Union Indo-Chinoise' |
2011-12-30 |
828 |
| France declares the Fifth Republic |
2010-02-01 |
1293 |
| France declares war on Austria (the War of the First Coalition) |
2008-01-01 |
3295 |
| France declares war on England |
2011-04-01 |
1078 |
| France declares war on Maria Theresa |
2011-04-01 |
907 |
| France declares war on Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1396 |
| France declares war on Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1718 |
| France declares war on the Emperor Charles VI |
2011-04-01 |
1661 |
| France declares war on the League of Augsburg and invades the Palatinate |
2011-03-01 |
2708 |
| France declares war on Venice |
2010-11-01 |
1340 |
| France declares war with Spain |
2010-03-01 |
2236 |
| France defeats Venice at Agnadello |
2010-03-01 |
1528 |
| France establishes protectorate over Ivory Coast |
2011-12-30 |
549 |
| France expels Pasquale Paoli from Corsica |
2010-03-01 |
654 |
| France faces bankruptcy |
2011-04-01 |
858 |
| France floats Russian loan, beginning a Franco-Russian entente |
2011-12-30 |
724 |
| France forms a three-year alliance with Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
1030 |
| France grants amnesty to Communards of 1871 |
2011-12-30 |
1353 |
| France grants independence to several African nations |
2010-02-01 |
1160 |
| France institutes the Corvée, a system of forced labour for road-building |
2011-04-01 |
1529 |
| France invaded by Imperial forces |
2010-03-01 |
1684 |
| France invades Italy |
2010-03-01 |
1276 |
| France invades Portugal |
2010-03-01 |
1026 |
| France joins Quadruple Alliance of July 1840 |
2011-12-30 |
1563 |
| France learns that Leopold of Hohenzollern has accepted Spanish throne |
2011-12-30 |
1196 |
| France obtains a treaty with Ethiopia defining Somali frontier |
2011-12-30 |
704 |
| France obtains concessions in China |
2011-12-30 |
648 |
| France occupies Bern |
2010-03-01 |
2122 |
| France occupies Damascus |
2010-03-01 |
952 |
| France occupies Ionian Islands |
2011-03-01 |
2339 |
| France occupies Lorraine |
2011-04-01 |
746 |
| France occupies the Valtelline |
2011-02-01 |
1174 |
| France occupies Tunis |
2011-12-30 |
614 |
| France purchases Mentone and Roquebrune from Monaco |
2011-12-30 |
522 |
| France recognises the Pragmatic Sanction at the Peace Treaty of Vienna |
2011-04-01 |
1346 |
| France rejects Treaty of London that protects English lands in France |
2010-03-01 |
1186 |
| France sends troops to halt Belgian advance in the Congo |
2011-12-30 |
1177 |
| France signs a defensive alliance with Bavaria |
2011-04-01 |
791 |
| France signs a further treaty of alliance with Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1088 |
| France signs a secret treaty with the Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
741 |
| France signs the Peace of Baden with Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
1509 |
| France signs the Treaty of Lyons with Portugal, for an attack on Spain |
2010-11-01 |
1907 |
| France, Spain and England refuse the Pope's offer of peace negotiations |
2010-11-01 |
1738 |
| Francesco Crispi forms ministry in Italy |
2011-12-30 |
1059 |
| Francesco Nitti becomes premier of Italy |
2010-03-01 |
746 |
| Francesco Todeschini is elected Pope Pius III |
2010-11-01 |
2361 |
| Franchise reform in Holland is insufficiently radical for the working class |
2011-12-30 |
432 |
| Francis Bacon becomes Attorney General |
2011-02-01 |
1851 |
| Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Keeper |
2011-02-01 |
1571 |
| Francis Bacon, the Lord Chancellor, is charged with corruption |
2011-02-01 |
2046 |
| Francis Drake and John Hawkins make last voyage to the Spanish Main |
2011-02-01 |
1445 |
| Francis Drake discovers San Francisco Bay |
2010-03-01 |
2864 |
| Francis Drake sees the Pacific |
2011-02-01 |
1253 |
| Francis I and Charles V enter Paris |
2010-11-01 |
894 |
| Francis I and Charles V sign the Peace of Madrid |
2010-11-01 |
2044 |
| Francis I and Charles V sign the Truce of Nice |
2010-11-01 |
4234 |
| Francis I and Pope Clement VII meet at Marseilles |
2010-11-01 |
1071 |
| Francis I calls an assembly of Notables |
2010-11-01 |
2507 |
| Francis I crosses the Mount Cenis Pass to attack the retreating imperialists |
2010-11-01 |
450 |
| Francis I fights against Charles V in alliance with Henry VIII |
2010-03-01 |
1712 |
| Francis I invades Artois |
2010-11-01 |
1879 |
| Francis I invades Luxembourg |
2010-11-01 |
1293 |
| Francis I issues the Edict of Fontainebleau |
2010-11-01 |
1477 |
| Francis I negotiates with Suleiman I, Sultan of Turkey |
2010-11-01 |
882 |
| Francis I of Austria dies |
2011-12-30 |
740 |
| Francis I of France betroths his niece to Duke William of Cleves |
2010-11-01 |
665 |
| Francis I of France conquers Savoy |
2010-11-01 |
1534 |
| Francis I of France is released from Spanish captivity |
2010-11-01 |
1644 |
| Francis I of France marries Eleanor of Portugal |
2010-11-01 |
1051 |
| Francis I of France signs a treaty of alliance with Denmark |
2010-11-01 |
1005 |
| Francis I orders the persecution of French Protestants |
2010-11-01 |
1705 |
| Francis I proposes a meeting with Henry VIII and James V |
2010-11-01 |
1156 |
| Francis I signs a fresh alliance with Sultan Suleiman I |
2010-11-01 |
1080 |
| Francis I signs a treaty of alliance with Sweden |
2010-11-01 |
1054 |
| Francis I signs an alliance with John Zápolya of Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
2118 |
| Francis I succeeds to throne of France |
2010-11-01 |
1372 |
| Francis I, Bavaria, Saxony and Hesse unite against King Ferdinand |
2010-03-01 |
2358 |
| Francis II assumes title 'Emperor of Austrian possessions' |
2010-03-01 |
1006 |
| Francis II succeeds to throne of France |
2011-02-01 |
1307 |
| Francis Joseph appoints bureaucratic ministry |
2010-03-01 |
619 |
| Francis Throgmorton is executed for treason |
2011-02-01 |
1167 |
| Francis Xavier travels to China seeking to introduce Christianity |
2011-03-01 |
989 |
| Francis, Duke of Guise, is assassinated |
2011-02-01 |
2488 |
| Francisco Ferrer Guardia executed |
2010-03-01 |
1189 |
| Francisco Pizarro leads expedition for the conquest of Peru |
2010-11-01 |
1732 |
| Franco- Dutch alliance |
2010-03-01 |
984 |
| Franco-Austrian armistice |
2011-12-30 |
844 |
| Franco-Bavarian army takes Linz |
2011-04-01 |
1185 |
| Franco-British conference at Boulogne |
2010-03-01 |
596 |
| Franco-British convention |
2010-03-01 |
538 |
| Franco-British dual control in Egypt is suspended |
2011-12-30 |
604 |
| Franco-British dual control of Egypt established |
2011-12-30 |
788 |
| Franco-British Entente Cordiale |
2010-02-01 |
1368 |
| Franco-German Peace of Frankfurt with humiliating terms for France |
2011-12-30 |
733 |
| Franco-Italian commercial treaty ends tariff war |
2011-12-30 |
1471 |
| Franco-Italian convention over Tunis |
2011-12-30 |
751 |
| Franco-Italian Entente |
2010-03-01 |
1236 |
| Franco-Italian Treaty |
2011-12-30 |
614 |
| Franco-Japanese agreement |
2010-03-01 |
1116 |
| Franco-Prussian Treaty |
2010-03-01 |
1198 |
| Franco-Prussian War |
2010-02-01 |
2405 |
| Franco-Russian alliance extended |
2011-12-30 |
824 |
| Franco-Russian alliance is extended |
2011-12-30 |
844 |
| Franco-Russian alliance is signed |
2011-12-30 |
824 |
| Franco-Russian commercial treaty |
2011-12-30 |
747 |
| Franco-Russian declaration approves Anglo-Japanese alliance |
2010-03-01 |
1803 |
| Franco-Russian entente |
2011-12-30 |
416 |
| Franco-Russian military convention |
2011-12-30 |
946 |
| Franco-Scottish alliance |
2012-07-31 |
1744 |
| Franco-Spanish blockade of Cochin-China begins |
2011-12-30 |
893 |
| Franco-Spanish peace Treaty of Nijmegen |
2011-04-01 |
1727 |
| Franco-Spanish treaty |
2010-03-01 |
1196 |
| Franco-Spanish troops defeat the Austrians at Parma |
2011-04-01 |
1469 |
| Franco-Spanish troops take Milan |
2011-04-01 |
1086 |
| Franco-U.S. agreement |
2010-03-01 |
981 |
| François Duke of Anjou (formerly Alençon) joins the Huguenots |
2011-02-01 |
2490 |
| François Duke of Anjou is proclaimed Defender of Liberties in Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1311 |
| François Guizot becomes French premier at a time of unrest |
2011-12-30 |
930 |
| François, Duke of Anjou sacks Antwerp, but fails to seize the city |
2011-02-01 |
1099 |
| Frankfurt meeting of German princes to reform Confederation |
2011-12-30 |
855 |
| Frankish emperor Louis I recognizes the independence of Celtic Brittany from the empire |
2009-05-01 |
1446 |
| Franklin Pierce is elected US President |
2011-12-30 |
1326 |
| Franks recapture Narbonne, Southern France, from the Arabs |
2009-05-01 |
1621 |
| Franz von Sickingen and Ulrich von Hutton lose War of the German Knights |
2010-11-01 |
1367 |
| Fraser's Magazine |
2013-08-30 |
4595 |
| Frederick Henry succeeds as Stadtholder of Holland |
2011-02-01 |
683 |
| Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, becomes deranged |
2011-02-01 |
650 |
| Frederick I of Prussia acquires countships of Lingen and Mors |
2011-04-01 |
1305 |
| Frederick I of Prussia dies |
2011-04-01 |
1001 |
| Frederick I of Sweden dies |
2011-04-01 |
773 |
| Frederick II and Maria Theresa sign the secret Treaty of Klein Schnellendorf |
2011-04-01 |
957 |
| Frederick II breaks agreement of Klein Schnellendorf |
2011-04-01 |
1006 |
| Frederick II captures Brieg |
2011-04-01 |
1014 |
| Frederick II defeats Austrian forces at Burkersdorf |
2011-12-30 |
829 |
| Frederick II defeats Austrian troops at Torgau |
2011-12-30 |
866 |
| Frederick II defeats French and Imperial troops at Rossbach |
2011-12-30 |
984 |
| Frederick II defeats Imperial troops at Leuthen |
2011-12-30 |
933 |
| Frederick II defeats the Austrians at Chotusitz |
2011-04-01 |
1504 |
| Frederick II defeats the Austrians at Hennersdorf |
2011-04-01 |
1220 |
| Frederick II defeats the Austrians at Sohr |
2011-04-01 |
792 |
| Frederick II forms Die Fürstenbund |
2010-03-01 |
1170 |
| Frederick II introduces liberty of the press and freedom of worship in Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
750 |
| Frederick II invades Saxony - start of Seven Years' War |
2011-12-30 |
1538 |
| Frederick II makes Wallenstein Duke of Friedland |
2011-02-01 |
1802 |
| Frederick II of Prussia begins the first Silesian War |
2011-04-01 |
1315 |
| Frederick II takes Breslau |
2011-04-01 |
844 |
| Frederick II takes Prague but is driven back into Saxony |
2011-04-01 |
1112 |
| Frederick II unexpectedly defeats Austrian forces at Leignitz |
2011-12-30 |
815 |
| Frederick III of Brandenburg is crowned King of Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1547 |
| Frederick III succeeds as King of Naples |
2010-11-01 |
958 |
| Frederick III's coup d'état in Denmark strengthens the monarchy |
2011-04-01 |
690 |
| Frederick IV accedes to the throne of Denmark |
2011-04-01 |
699 |
| Frederick IV succeeds as the Elector Palatine |
2011-02-01 |
746 |
| Frederick IV, a Calvinist, succeeds as Elector Palatine |
2011-02-01 |
1339 |
| Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, dies |
2011-04-01 |
597 |
| Frederick of Brandenburg restores Schweibus to Empire |
2011-04-01 |
1167 |
| Frederick of Prussia defeats Maria Theresa at Hohenfriedberg |
2011-04-01 |
1270 |
| Frederick of Prussia discovers secret articles of the Russo-Austrian treaty |
2011-04-01 |
971 |
| Frederick Roberts occupies Johannesburg |
2010-03-01 |
2489 |
| Frederick the Great besieges Olmütz but fails |
2011-12-30 |
970 |
| Frederick the Great dies |
2010-03-01 |
964 |
| Frederick the Wise of Saxony creates a rival union to the Swabian League |
2010-11-01 |
1575 |
| Frederick V becomes Elector Palatine |
2011-02-01 |
683 |
| Frederick V, Elector Palatine, is placed under the ban of the Empire |
2011-02-01 |
2525 |
| Frederick VII of Denmark announces decision to incorporate Schleswig |
2011-12-30 |
799 |
| Frederick VII of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Christian IX |
2011-12-30 |
439 |
| Frederick William I of Prussia is succeeded by Frederick II 'the Great' |
2011-04-01 |
1138 |
| Frederick William III succeeds as King of Prussia |
2011-03-01 |
847 |
| Frederick William IV of Prussia dies |
2011-12-30 |
1124 |
| Frederick William IV of Prussia suffers a stroke |
2011-12-30 |
827 |
| Frederick, Crown Prince of Prussia, is imprisoned by his father |
2011-04-01 |
969 |
| Frederick, Prince of Wales, quarrels with his father, George II |
2011-04-01 |
815 |
| Free Soil party formed |
2010-03-01 |
1940 |
| Free Trade in Corn within France |
2010-03-01 |
887 |
| Freedom of press granted in France |
2011-12-30 |
979 |
| Freedom of the press first invoked to acquit Peter Zenger |
2010-03-01 |
1673 |
| French 'Corvée' abolished |
2010-03-01 |
1303 |
| French abandon siege of Madras when a British fleet arrives |
2011-12-30 |
1438 |
| French abandon siege of Quebec |
2010-02-01 |
2116 |
| French accept Perkin Warbeck as rightful claimant to the English throne |
2010-11-01 |
1790 |
| French agree to finance Jibouti-Addis Ababa railway |
2010-03-01 |
1216 |
| French amnesty for political offenders |
2011-12-30 |
1031 |
| French and British attack Madagascar |
2010-02-01 |
1690 |
| French and British troops invade Suez Canal Zone |
2010-02-01 |
919 |
| French and Indian forces attack Deerfield |
2009-02-01 |
3534 |
| French and Indian forces oust British from Adyar |
2010-02-01 |
2888 |
| French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry |
2009-04-28 |
5783 |
| French and Swedish army invades Bavaria |
2011-02-01 |
1246 |
| French and Venetian troops invade Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1358 |
| French are defeated by Imperial troops at Battle of the Sesia |
2010-11-01 |
1941 |
| French are driven out of Lombardy |
2010-11-01 |
1256 |
| French army defeats the allies at Fleurus |
2011-04-01 |
1835 |
| French army enters Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1123 |
| French army masses in Lombardy |
2010-11-01 |
1388 |
| French army occupies the Rhineland |
2011-02-01 |
1284 |
| French army reconquer Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1856 |
| French Assembly of Notables convened |
2007-12-12 |
2510 |
| French Association Law promulgated |
2010-03-01 |
1095 |
| French at war with Spain |
2011-12-30 |
755 |
| French attack British forts at Oswego |
2010-02-01 |
3068 |
| French begin hostilities against Morocco |
2011-03-01 |
984 |
| French begin siege of Luxembourg |
2011-04-01 |
635 |
| French bishops accept Henry IV as King of France |
2011-02-01 |
2557 |
| French bomb Algiers and subsequently make treaty with the Bey |
2011-04-01 |
839 |
| French brigade surrenders |
2010-11-01 |
1241 |
| French Capetian dynasty founded |
2009-05-01 |
788 |
| French capture Antigua |
2011-03-01 |
1066 |
| French capture Bologna and expel the papal troops |
2010-11-01 |
1319 |
| French capture Dunkirk |
2010-02-01 |
1413 |
| French capture Fort St. David, India |
2010-02-01 |
2092 |
| French capture Mons |
2011-04-01 |
1629 |
| French capture Philippsburg |
2011-02-01 |
982 |
| French Chamber is moved from Versailles to Paris |
2011-12-30 |
619 |
| French Chambers oppose Polignac's appointment as Prime Minister |
2011-12-30 |
1292 |
| French Civil War ends with the Peace of St. Menehould |
2011-02-01 |
1793 |
| French clergy endorse Louis XIV's limitations on papal power |
2011-04-01 |
1110 |
| French clergy required to take oath |
2011-03-01 |
2298 |
| French colonies of French Guinea and Ivory Coast formally established |
2011-12-30 |
491 |
| French colony of Gabon united with French Congo |
2011-12-30 |
1163 |
| French commander St Pol is captured |
2010-11-01 |
1276 |
| French Company for the Islands of America is incorporated |
2011-02-01 |
1045 |
| French complete the occupation of Alsace |
2011-02-01 |
703 |
| French Concordat with Catholic church |
2007-12-22 |
3209 |
| French Conference adheres to Moscow International |
2010-03-01 |
529 |
| French Constitution gives President monarchical power |
2011-12-30 |
1167 |
| French Constitution of 1875 is completed |
2011-12-30 |
977 |
| French constitutional acts share power between Deputies and Senate |
2011-12-30 |
903 |
| French Convention assists revolutionaries |
2010-03-01 |
1845 |
| French court returns to Paris |
2011-03-01 |
3386 |
| French Declaration of the Rights of Man |
2007-12-22 |
2095 |
| French defeat British at Fontenoy and conquer the Austrian Netherlands |
2011-04-01 |
1479 |
| French defeat British at Hastenbeck |
2011-12-30 |
1181 |
| French defeat Dutch and Spanish fleets in Bay of Palermo and take Sicily |
2011-04-01 |
1430 |
| French defeat the British at Lauffeld near Maastricht |
2011-04-01 |
1264 |
| French defeated at Gravelotte and St. Privat |
2011-12-30 |
708 |
| French defeated at Grossbeeren |
2010-03-01 |
1921 |
| French defeated at Katzbach |
2010-03-01 |
2023 |
| French defeated at Magnano |
2010-03-01 |
2224 |
| French defeated at Novi |
2010-03-01 |
2188 |
| French defeated at St. Quentin |
2011-12-30 |
715 |
| French devastate the Palatinate |
2011-04-01 |
1654 |
| French East India Company abandons plans for further conquests |
2011-04-01 |
1391 |
| French Eastern Army crosses Swiss frontier and is disarmed |
2011-12-30 |
1727 |
| French ecclesiastics call for a general council of the church |
2010-11-01 |
1891 |
| French enter Rome and restore Pope Pius IX |
2011-12-30 |
698 |
| French envoys arrive at the Congress of Münster |
2011-02-01 |
1991 |
| French Estates-General meet |
2007-12-22 |
3052 |
| French evacuate Fashoda after Britain protests |
2011-12-30 |
638 |
| French expedition lands in Papal States |
2011-12-30 |
604 |
| French expedition maps Australia's north-west coast |
2010-03-01 |
3168 |
| French expedition sets off to claim Sudan |
2011-12-30 |
676 |
| French expedition to Sudan reaches River Bahr-el-Ghazal |
2011-12-30 |
728 |
| French expelled from Holland |
2010-03-01 |
2077 |
| French fail to take Orbetello |
2011-02-01 |
1082 |
| French fleet arrives off Delaware |
2010-03-01 |
2663 |
| French fleet bombards Casablanca |
2011-03-01 |
721 |
| French fleet under Labourdonnais arrives at Pondicherry |
2011-04-01 |
1378 |
| French force invading Piedmont is defeated at the battle of Exilles |
2011-04-01 |
1253 |
| French force lands at Civita Vecchia |
2011-12-30 |
620 |
| French force occupies Fashoda |
2011-12-30 |
716 |
| French forces withdraw from Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
1117 |
| French foreign minister Theophile Delcasse resigns |
2010-03-01 |
755 |
| French gain Capua with the help of Cesare Borgia |
2010-11-01 |
2763 |
| French government aid wine-growers |
2011-03-01 |
1102 |
| French Government retreats to Bordeaux |
2010-02-01 |
967 |
| French Guinea is organised |
2011-04-01 |
986 |
| French Huguenots settle at the Cape of Good Hope |
2011-04-01 |
1694 |
| French Indochina War |
2010-02-01 |
1303 |
| French invade Rome |
2010-11-01 |
1658 |
| French law compensates nobles for losses in French Revolution |
2011-12-30 |
842 |
| French law forbidding multiple candidates in elections |
2011-12-30 |
1118 |
| French law makes sacrilege a capital offence |
2011-12-30 |
999 |
| French law refuses entry to France to family of Charles X and Napoleon |
2011-12-30 |
912 |
| French law to censor press rejected by Peers |
2011-12-30 |
866 |
| French Lutherans are brought to trial and French Bible translation burnt |
2010-11-01 |
2584 |
| French miners vote for general strike |
2010-03-01 |
1424 |
| French national assembly abolishes exemptions from taxes |
2007-12-22 |
2870 |
| French National Assembly announces its own dissolution |
2011-12-30 |
673 |
| French National Assembly meets at Bordeaux |
2011-12-30 |
727 |
| French National Assembly voted in by universal male suffrage |
2011-12-30 |
1011 |
| French negotiate trading rights in Pondicherry, India |
2007-12-02 |
1826 |
| French negotiations with Spain are broken off |
2011-04-01 |
928 |
| French note to Siam provokes crisis in Franco-British relations |
2011-12-30 |
346 |
| French occupy Rousillon |
2011-02-01 |
776 |
| French occupy the Antilles and Cayenne |
2011-02-01 |
1623 |
| French offensive between Meuse and Woëvre Plain |
2010-03-01 |
651 |
| French organises colonial empire from Quebec to the Mississippi |
2011-04-01 |
1005 |
| French Panama Canal Company is established |
2011-12-30 |
570 |
| French Parlement imposes peace on Bordeaux |
2011-04-01 |
2132 |
| French Parlement loses its right to object to Royal Edicts |
2011-04-01 |
963 |
| French peasants revolt against taxation |
2011-03-01 |
908 |
| French plan for intervention in Spain is tentatively accepted at Verona |
2011-12-30 |
1037 |
| French plebiscite supports new constitution of Louis Napoleon |
2011-12-30 |
1055 |
| French possessions reorganised as French West Africa |
2011-03-01 |
655 |
| French President Sadi-Carnot is assassinated by an Italian anarchist |
2011-12-30 |
1727 |
| French pretender Comte de Chambord dies without heir |
2011-12-30 |
622 |
| French protectorate established over Cambodia |
2011-12-30 |
801 |
| French Protestants hold an Assembly at Chatelherault |
2011-02-01 |
1751 |
| French pull out of Indochina |
2010-02-01 |
746 |
| French raise British siege of Pondicherry |
2011-04-01 |
1573 |
| French re-occupy Swedish Pomerania and Rügen |
2010-03-01 |
2148 |
| French Republic proclaimed |
2010-03-01 |
1914 |
| French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille |
2007-12-22 |
4297 |
| French royal family leave Paris; the provinces revolt against Mazarin |
2011-03-01 |
2521 |
| French Senate names provisional government |
2011-03-01 |
775 |
| French spy Duke of Albany lands in Scotland to exploit divisions |
2010-11-01 |
1999 |
| French take Annapolis, Nova Scotia, but withdraw |
2011-04-01 |
1077 |
| French take Heidelberg, Philipsburg and Avignon |
2011-04-01 |
1141 |
| French take Madras (south-east India) from the British |
2008-02-15 |
2179 |
| French take Mainz |
2011-02-01 |
816 |
| French take Stenay |
2011-04-01 |
638 |
| French take Trier, Courtrai, Oudenarde and Luxembourg |
2011-04-01 |
1127 |
| French take Venaissin and Avignon |
2011-04-01 |
977 |
| French traders found a settlement at the mouth of the Senegal River |
2011-02-01 |
937 |
| French Trades Union Congress adopts principle of general strike |
2011-12-30 |
823 |
| French troops begin conquest of Madagascar |
2011-12-30 |
517 |
| French troops begin conquest of the Upper Niger |
2011-12-30 |
504 |
| French troops cross Rhine to invade south Germany, Austria and Bohemia |
2011-04-01 |
1803 |
| French troops defeat Algerian rebels but sustain heavy losses |
2011-12-30 |
1598 |
| French troops devastate the Palatinate |
2011-04-01 |
1287 |
| French troops invade Holland |
2011-03-01 |
2206 |
| French troops invade Tunis from Algeria |
2011-12-30 |
761 |
| French troops occupy Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Hanau |
2011-03-01 |
543 |
| French troops overrun Holland |
2010-03-01 |
2276 |
| French troops restore Pius IX and garrison Rome |
2011-12-30 |
665 |
| French troops surrender Metz |
2011-12-30 |
570 |
| French troops take Gravelines |
2011-02-01 |
593 |
| French troops take Philipsburg |
2011-04-01 |
1145 |
| French troops take Strasbourg and Casale in peacetime |
2011-04-01 |
764 |
| French troops withdraw from Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1169 |
| French ultimatum to Prussia not to renew Spanish candidature |
2011-12-30 |
745 |
| French victories in Franche-Comté, Flanders and western Germany |
2011-04-01 |
1448 |
| French victory at Bergen near Frankfurt |
2011-12-30 |
625 |
| French victory at Hochstadt |
2011-04-01 |
2330 |
| French victory at Weissenburg |
2010-03-01 |
2134 |
| French victory on Aisne |
2010-03-01 |
439 |
| French Victory over the Spanish at Rocroi |
2011-03-01 |
2762 |
| French War against King Dahomey in West Africa |
2011-12-30 |
733 |
| French War Office accused of anti-Semitism by Emile Zola |
2010-01-01 |
1770 |
| French win victories in Spanish Netherlands |
2011-04-01 |
1190 |
| French-Indian rebellion in western Canada |
2010-01-01 |
3291 |
| French, Bavarian and Saxon troops take Prague |
2011-04-01 |
1413 |
| French/Belgium troops occupy Ruhr |
2010-02-01 |
963 |
| Frequency of stretched vibrating string established |
2009-05-01 |
844 |
| Fresh Allied landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli |
2010-03-01 |
1928 |
| Freud, Sigmund. Der Untergang des Oedipuskomplexes 1924 |
2009-11-11 |
3994 |
| Friedrich Ebert elected President of German republic |
2010-03-01 |
961 |
| Friedrich III becomes Emperor of Germany |
2011-12-30 |
447 |
| Fritz Zwicky first suggests the existence of dark matter |
2009-05-01 |
588 |
| Fronde leaders, including Condé, are imprisoned |
2011-03-01 |
2525 |
| Fronde surrenders in Bordeaux |
2011-04-01 |
2147 |
| Frontier between France and Spain is defined |
2011-12-30 |
577 |
| Frontier treaty between Russia and USA |
2011-12-30 |
1032 |
| Frst installment of the Pentagon Papers published by The New York Times |
2010-03-01 |
1241 |
| Fugitive Slave Act |
2001-11-01 |
1976 |
| Funeral of Nelson |
2005-09-13 |
1217 |
| Further Anglo-Dutch treaty to present an ultimatum to France |
2011-04-01 |
1085 |
| Further Anglo-Kaffir war breaks out |
2011-12-30 |
1775 |
| Further British duties are repealed to modify Navigation Acts |
2011-12-30 |
1137 |
| Further French defeats at Worth and Spicheren |
2011-12-30 |
856 |
| Further Maori risings in New Zealand |
2010-02-01 |
2063 |
| Further Matabele rising in Rhodesia |
2011-12-30 |
550 |
| Further May Laws in Germany against Ultramontane clergy |
2011-12-30 |
808 |
| Further secret treaty between the Empire and Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1031 |
| Further treaty of commerce between England and Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
729 |
| Future Emperor Charles V is born |
2010-11-01 |
1129 |
| Futurist Exhibition in London |
2004-01-23 |
5863 |
| Gabor Bethlen again invades the Austrian dominions |
2011-02-01 |
2454 |
| Gabor Bethlen becomes Prince of Transylvania |
2011-02-01 |
612 |
| Gabor Bethlen captures Bratislava and advances on Vienna |
2011-02-01 |
2276 |
| Gabor Bethlen retreats from Vienna |
2011-02-01 |
2309 |
| Gabriel Bathory becomes ruler of Transylvania under Turkish suzerainty |
2011-02-01 |
1270 |
| Gabriele d'Annunzio leads army to seize Fiume |
2010-03-01 |
926 |
| Gadsden Purchase |
2010-02-01 |
1450 |
| Gaeta, the last French garrison in Naples, surrenders to Spanish troops |
2010-11-01 |
1624 |
| Gag Law adopted |
2010-03-01 |
2091 |
| Gain for Conservatives in the General Election |
2010-02-01 |
2024 |
| Galaxy classifications by Hubble |
2009-05-01 |
704 |
| Galileo sentenced by the Inquisition |
2010-02-01 |
3174 |
| Galileo's laws of motion |
2008-01-01 |
28847 |
| Gallactic redshifts discovered |
2009-05-01 |
953 |
| Gallipoli captured by the Ottomans |
2010-03-01 |
2116 |
| Galway, last Royalist port in the British Isles, surrenders to Parliament |
2010-02-01 |
2536 |
| Gambia becomes a colony of James, Duke of Courland |
2011-04-01 |
1160 |
| Game Act 1711 |
2009-06-24 |
1384 |
| Game Act 1770 |
2009-06-24 |
2776 |
| Game Act 1775 |
2009-08-24 |
1813 |
| Game Act 1831 |
2009-06-24 |
1541 |
| Game Association founded |
2009-08-24 |
1009 |
| Game theory principles; minimax theorem proved |
2009-05-01 |
853 |
| Gamma-ray emission from the plane of the Milky Way discovered |
2011-03-01 |
949 |
| Gandhi arrested |
2010-03-01 |
998 |
| Gandhi returns to India |
2011-03-01 |
551 |
| Gaols Act |
2008-02-29 |
2533 |
| Garibaldi begins march on Rome |
2011-12-30 |
449 |
| Garibaldi crosses the Straits, with British connivance |
2011-12-30 |
650 |
| Garibaldi enters Naples |
2011-12-30 |
562 |
| Garibaldi proclaims Victor Emmanuel King of Italy |
2011-12-30 |
863 |
| Garrison in Athens revolts and forces King Otto I to resign |
2011-12-30 |
900 |
| Garrison of Lisbon revolts against John VI |
2011-12-30 |
875 |
| Gauss’s work on integrals |
2009-05-01 |
1154 |
| Gebhard, Archbishop of Cologne, retires to Strasbourg |
2011-02-01 |
1187 |
| General election results in gains for Irish Catholics |
2013-08-30 |
1378 |
| General election; William Pitt's political ascendancy confirmed |
2007-12-12 |
7450 |
| General Election: government endorsed by large majority |
2013-08-30 |
1128 |
| General Franco's dictatorship ends; Prince Carlos takes over in Spain |
2010-02-01 |
1145 |
| General Georges Boulanger becomes war minister |
2011-12-30 |
1069 |
| General Monck and his army arrive in London |
2011-03-01 |
692 |
| General Monck begins to march towards London |
2011-03-01 |
807 |
| General Monck crosses River Tweed into England |
2011-04-01 |
1346 |
| General Monck in Scotland calls for a free Parliament |
2011-04-01 |
1358 |
| General Monck is appointed Commander of all army personnel in England and Scotland |
2010-02-01 |
749 |
| General Monck's officers arrive in London |
2010-02-01 |
627 |
| General Motors introduces the annual model change |
2010-02-01 |
2814 |
| General Pelloux resigns |
2010-03-01 |
893 |
| General relativistic theory of stellar pulsations developed |
2009-05-01 |
797 |
| General Rommel and Afrika Korps deployed |
2010-02-01 |
1015 |
| General Strike |
2004-04-12 |
4688 |
| General strike in Barcelona |
2011-03-01 |
524 |
| General strike in Belgium |
2011-12-30 |
527 |
| General strike in Italy |
2010-03-01 |
536 |
| General V. Huerta re-elected President of Mexico |
2010-03-01 |
703 |
| General Wolfe appointed Commander-in-Chief in British North America |
2010-02-01 |
2718 |
| Geneva becomes independent from Berne Canton |
2011-02-01 |
1011 |
| Genital Phase |
2010-02-01 |
6129 |
| Genoa defeated by Venice |
2010-03-01 |
671 |
| Genoa falls |
2010-11-01 |
874 |
| Genoa regains Corsica |
2011-04-01 |
1295 |
| Genoa regains its independence as a republic |
2010-11-01 |
1002 |
| Genoa surrenders to Austrian and Sardinian forces |
2011-04-01 |
1105 |
| Genoese revolt against Maria Theresa's forces |
2011-04-01 |
960 |
| Geodesic equations of general relativity shown to be deduced from its field equations |
2009-05-01 |
1134 |
| George Abbot is elected Archbishop of Canterbury |
2011-02-01 |
1773 |
| George Anson sets out on a voyage around the world |
2011-04-01 |
714 |
| George Bass explores the south-east coast of Australia |
2010-03-01 |
2492 |
| George Berkeley, governor of Cape Colony, annexes Griqualand West |
2011-12-30 |
2091 |
| George Boole formalizes symbolic logic in The Mathematical Analysis of Logic |
2013-08-30 |
905 |
| George Canning becomes Prime Minister |
2013-08-30 |
2224 |
| George Canning succeeds Castlereagh as Foreign Secretary |
2011-12-30 |
1135 |
| George Curzon made British foreign secretary |
2011-03-01 |
753 |
| George Elector of Saxony succeeds his brother |
2011-02-01 |
717 |
| George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer is performed |
2010-03-01 |
1718 |
| George I's first Parliament is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
662 |
| George II assents to a land tax |
2011-04-01 |
1273 |
| George II defeats French at Dettingen |
2011-04-01 |
1381 |
| George II secures the neutrality of Hanover by a treaty with France |
2011-04-01 |
976 |
| George II signs the Convention of Hanover with Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1153 |
| George II's fourth Parliament is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
669 |
| George II's second Parliament is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
661 |
| George II's third Parliament is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
812 |
| George Lansbury defeated in Bow by-election |
2010-03-01 |
379 |
| George Lansbury protests Suffragette force feeding |
2010-03-01 |
1809 |
| George Lewis succeeds as Elector of Hanover |
2011-04-01 |
585 |
| George Michaelis appointed German chancellor |
2010-03-01 |
873 |
| George Rusden's three volume History of Australia is published |
2013-08-30 |
1056 |
| George Stokes defines the Stokes parameters of polarization |
2013-08-30 |
2504 |
| George Stokes proves Stokes’ Law |
2009-05-01 |
2292 |
| George V holds Delhi Durbar |
2010-03-01 |
929 |
| George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham in power |
2010-01-01 |
2089 |
| George Washington's Farewell Address |
2008-01-01 |
4144 |
| George Weymouth visits the New England court |
2011-02-01 |
2016 |
| George Wishart is burnt for heresy in Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1638 |
| Georges Boulanger commits suicide in exile in Brussels |
2011-12-30 |
689 |
| Georges Clemenceau forms cabinet in France |
2010-03-01 |
628 |
| Georgia becomes Crown province upon surrender of Charter by Trustees |
2011-04-01 |
1195 |
| Georgia proclaims its independence |
2010-03-01 |
524 |
| Georgian Period |
2005-09-01 |
8506 |
| Georgic |
2001-11-01 |
6471 |
| Gera agreement ratified by the House of Hohenzollern |
2011-02-01 |
1219 |
| Gerald Portal hoists British flag in Uganda |
2011-12-30 |
455 |
| Gerd Faltings proves the Mordell Conjecture |
2009-05-01 |
817 |
| German advance halted at the Marne |
2010-02-01 |
1025 |
| German ambassador's assassination begins siege of legations |
2010-03-01 |
1452 |
| German Ante-Parliament meets at Frankfurt |
2011-12-30 |
704 |
| German anti-Jesuit law of 1872 revised |
2010-03-01 |
1248 |
| German anti-socialist law of 1878 expires |
2011-12-30 |
1183 |
| German attack before Verdun |
2010-03-01 |
432 |
| German capitulation in New Guinea |
2010-03-01 |
566 |
| German Catholic and Protestant Leagues form to carry out Peace of Westphalia |
2011-04-01 |
914 |
| German Catholic princes sign the defensive League of Nuremberg |
2010-11-01 |
1636 |
| German Centre Party (Catholic) is established |
2011-12-30 |
987 |
| German Confederation dissolved by Prussia |
2010-02-01 |
1522 |
| German Confederation reserves its right in Schleswig-Holstein |
2011-12-30 |
790 |
| German Diet appoints Reaction Committee to control small states |
2011-12-30 |
746 |
| German diet in Cologne undertakes further imperial reorganisation |
2010-11-01 |
1463 |
| German Diet votes for federal action against Denmark |
2011-12-30 |
630 |
| German East Africa Company cedes its territorial rights to Germany |
2011-12-30 |
718 |
| German East Africa Company is chartered |
2011-12-30 |
680 |
| German elements in Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein form government |
2011-12-30 |
753 |
| German Empire receives remodelled Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
751 |
| German fleet deliberately sunk at Scapa Flow |
2010-02-01 |
1102 |
| German forces surrender to Louis Botha |
2010-03-01 |
435 |
| German grand fleet mutinies at Kiel |
2010-03-01 |
948 |
| German gunboat Panther arrives in Agadir |
2010-03-01 |
1290 |
| German Lutherans refuse the Pope's invitation to a general council |
2010-11-01 |
1419 |
| German Marxians and Lassalleans form Socialist Working-Men's Party |
2011-12-30 |
1041 |
| German mercenaries join forces with Admiral Coligny's at Saint Yrieix |
2011-02-01 |
859 |
| German national assembly authorises Peace Treaty's signature |
2010-03-01 |
506 |
| German National Assembly passes Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
754 |
| German National Assembly proclaims fundamental rights |
2011-12-30 |
962 |
| German National Assembly suspends German Confederation |
2011-12-30 |
696 |
| German National Assembly thinks Frederick William IV refuses the crown |
2011-12-30 |
1043 |
| German Navy of 1848 is sold by auction |
2011-12-30 |
933 |
| German offensives on the Somme |
2010-02-01 |
571 |
| German Professors meet at Frankfurt to discuss German reunification |
2011-12-30 |
764 |
| German Protestant Princes decide to ally with Gustavus II |
2011-02-01 |
1108 |
| German Protestant princes present their grievances to Emperor Rudolf II |
2011-02-01 |
903 |
| German settlement of South-West Africa, modern Namibia |
2010-01-01 |
1110 |
| German Social Democrats' manifesto |
2010-03-01 |
516 |
| German submarine blockade |
2010-02-01 |
1144 |
| German submarine Deutschland reaches U.S. |
2010-03-01 |
1276 |
| German territories divided |
2010-02-01 |
1193 |
| German withdrawal |
2010-02-01 |
561 |
| German-Austrian note to U.S. for armistice |
2010-03-01 |
771 |
| German-Portuguese agreement on boundaries of Angola and South-West Africa |
2011-12-30 |
1095 |
| German-Russian negotiations for alliance break down |
2010-03-01 |
759 |
| Germano-Russo Reinsurance treaty |
2011-12-30 |
443 |
| Germans cross River Marne |
2010-03-01 |
575 |
| Germans enter Warsaw |
2010-03-01 |
679 |
| Germans evacuate France |
2011-12-30 |
473 |
| Germans first use poison gas on Western Front |
2010-03-01 |
1122 |
| Germans introduce gas to the Polish Front |
2010-02-01 |
973 |
| Germans occupy Brussels |
2010-03-01 |
958 |
| Germans occupy Helsingfors |
2010-03-01 |
1072 |
| Germans shell Paris |
2010-03-01 |
387 |
| Germans surrender at Stalingrad |
2010-02-01 |
610 |
| Germans take Novo-Georgievsk |
2010-03-01 |
1085 |
| Germans victorious at Lodz |
2010-02-01 |
795 |
| Germany allows France free hand in Morocco |
2010-03-01 |
622 |
| Germany allows Reinsurance treaty with Russia to lapse |
2011-12-30 |
861 |
| Germany and Austria agree to Woodrow Wilson's terms |
2010-03-01 |
600 |
| Germany and Austria annul promise of plebiscite in North Schleswig |
2011-12-30 |
603 |
| Germany and Austria struck from Knights of Garter |
2010-03-01 |
697 |
| Germany and Italy declare War against the United States |
2010-02-01 |
554 |
| Germany annexes Western Czechoslovakia |
2010-02-01 |
868 |
| Germany British advances for an alliance |
2011-12-30 |
518 |
| Germany buys the islands of Marianas, Caroline and Pelew |
2011-12-30 |
775 |
| Germany declares war on France, invades Belgium |
2010-03-01 |
992 |
| Germany departs the League of Nations |
2010-01-01 |
630 |
| Germany enters League of Nations |
2010-02-01 |
545 |
| Germany invades Soviet Russia |
2010-02-01 |
655 |
| Germany occupies Jiaozhou Bay |
2010-02-01 |
1449 |
| Germany occupies Luxembourg |
2010-03-01 |
1006 |
| Germany partitioned |
2010-02-01 |
653 |
| Germany recognises France's special interests in Morocco |
2011-03-01 |
678 |
| Germany requires Russia to cease mobilisation |
2010-03-01 |
509 |
| Germany secures Baghdad Railway contract |
2011-12-30 |
630 |
| Germany signs commercial treaties |
2010-03-01 |
891 |
| Germany signs commercial treaties with Balkan states |
2011-12-30 |
713 |
| Germany signs commercial treaty with Russia |
2011-12-30 |
358 |
| Germany signs commercial treaty with Samoa |
2011-12-30 |
363 |
| Germany signs international commercial treaties |
2011-12-30 |
1026 |
| Germany suspends submarine warfare |
2010-03-01 |
367 |
| Germany takes control of south-west Africa, Togo and Cameroon |
2011-03-01 |
801 |
| Germany thwarts British attempts to move closer to the Triple Alliance |
2011-12-30 |
356 |
| Germany, Austria and Russia renew Three Emperors' Alliance |
2011-12-30 |
732 |
| Germany, Britain and Italy blockade Venezuela |
2010-03-01 |
754 |
| Germany's counter-proposals to Peace Conference |
2010-03-01 |
957 |
| Germany's declaration to neutrals |
2010-03-01 |
709 |
| Germany's peace note to Allies |
2010-03-01 |
683 |
| Ghana Empire conquers the Berber town of Awdaghost |
2009-05-01 |
1762 |
| Ghandi assassinated |
2010-02-01 |
1183 |
| Ghent refuses to pay a subsidy for Charles V's war with France |
2010-11-01 |
1917 |
| Ghent submits to the Duke of Parma |
2011-02-01 |
784 |
| GI Bill of Rights |
2010-03-01 |
361 |
| Gian Trivulzio recaptures Mirandola; Julius II fails to take Ferrara |
2010-11-01 |
1029 |
| Giant comet or asteroid Earth impact theory elaborated |
2009-05-01 |
608 |
| Gideon Mantell discovers the fossilized skeleton of an iguanodon dinosaur |
2013-08-30 |
1117 |
| Gilchrist-Thomas method for producing steel invented |
2013-08-30 |
795 |
| Gin Act |
2007-02-02 |
1413 |
| Giolitti's Italian ministry falls through bank scandals |
2011-12-30 |
890 |
| Giovanni Battista Castagna elected Pope Urban VII |
2011-02-01 |
1278 |
| Giovanni Battista Pamfili is elected Pope Innocent X |
2011-02-01 |
855 |
| Giovanni de' Medici is elected Pope Leo X |
2010-11-01 |
1708 |
| Giovanni Giolitti overthrown in Italy |
2011-03-01 |
579 |
| Giovanni Giolitti replaces Marquis di Rudin as premier of Italy |
2011-12-30 |
989 |
| Giovanni Medici elected Pope Pius IV |
2011-02-01 |
1518 |
| Giovanni Pietro Caraffa is elected Pope PauI IV |
2011-02-01 |
1219 |
| Girolamo Morone, Chancellor of Milan, reveals a plot against Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
1258 |
| Girondins form ministry in France |
2010-03-01 |
2227 |
| Girton College, Cambridge, founded |
2013-08-30 |
939 |
| Giuliana della Rovere is elected Pope Julius II |
2010-11-01 |
2579 |
| Giuseppe Saracco overthrown |
2010-03-01 |
788 |
| Glaciation studies demonstrate Ice Age on Earth |
2009-05-01 |
624 |
| Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the second time |
2010-01-01 |
2114 |
| Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the third time |
2013-08-30 |
1879 |
| Gladstone denounces Conservative government in Midlothian Campaign |
2011-12-30 |
1021 |
| Gladstone introduces his first Budget |
2011-12-30 |
792 |
| Gladstone publishes 'The Bulgarian Horrors' and 'The Question of the East' |
2011-12-30 |
2601 |
| Gladstone reforms his ministry and becomes Chancellor of Exchequer |
2011-12-30 |
750 |
| Gladstone resigns as British Prime Minister |
2011-12-30 |
1784 |
| Gladstone resigns following defeat of Irish University bill, but soon returns |
2011-12-30 |
1390 |
| Gladstone resigns Liberal leadership |
2011-12-30 |
1043 |
| Gladstone withdraws Employers' Liability bill on Lords' amendments |
2011-12-30 |
1042 |
| Gladstone's last speech urges British action on Armenian massacres |
2011-12-30 |
1296 |
| Gladstone's Liberal government is defeated over the Irish Home Rule bill |
2011-12-30 |
1123 |
| Glasgow Assembly abolishes Bishops |
2010-02-01 |
2050 |
| Glasgow Assembly dissolved |
2010-02-01 |
1988 |
| Glatz falls to the Prussians |
2011-04-01 |
841 |
| Glen Grey Act in Cape Colony establishes a new policy towards natives |
2011-12-30 |
983 |
| Glorious Revolution: Liberal uprising in Spain |
2011-03-01 |
2371 |
| GM recognizes the United Automobile Workers |
2010-03-01 |
1025 |
| Godoy forced to resign in Spain |
2011-03-01 |
821 |
| Gold Coast colony granted a Legislative Council by Britain |
2010-01-01 |
880 |
| Gold found in Dakota |
2010-02-01 |
2601 |
| Gold rushes begin at Ballarat and Bendigo |
2010-03-01 |
516 |
| Goliad executions |
2010-03-01 |
1521 |
| Gonzalo de Cordoba defeats French army and enters Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1916 |
| Gonzalo de Cordoba is besieged in Barletta |
2010-11-01 |
1484 |
| Gorbachev introduces Perestroika (Re-structuring) and Glasnost (Openness) |
2010-02-01 |
964 |
| Goschen and Joubert visit Egypt to establish dual control |
2011-12-30 |
796 |
| Goschen is appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer |
2011-12-30 |
772 |
| Goschen reduces interest on Britain's national debt |
2011-12-30 |
1056 |
| Gothic Architecture |
2005-11-07 |
6062 |
| Government censorship of the press is ended in England |
2011-04-01 |
1416 |
| Government defeat in Commons |
2010-03-01 |
412 |
| Government of India Act |
2013-08-30 |
701 |
| Government of Ireland Act passed |
2010-03-01 |
409 |
| Government of Maine passes to the control of Massachusetts |
2011-04-01 |
993 |
| Government of the Spanish Netherlands moves to Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1570 |
| Governor Macquarie's School for Education of Children of the Poor |
2010-03-01 |
778 |
| Governor of Maryland suspends government and assumes control |
2011-04-01 |
1540 |
| Governor of New York tries to protect British colonies against French |
2011-04-01 |
1274 |
| Governor of Rouen surrenders to Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2204 |
| Governor of Straits Settlements places British residents in Malay states |
2011-12-30 |
779 |
| Governor Spotswood of Virginia endorses settling at Lake Erie |
2011-04-01 |
1039 |
| Governors of North American colonies told to gain Iroquois allegiance |
2011-04-01 |
1024 |
| Governorship of the Netherlands is given to Don Louis Requesens |
2011-02-01 |
1059 |
| Grafton resigns from North's ministry |
2010-03-01 |
2108 |
| Grain bounties introduced |
2010-02-01 |
1404 |
| Granadine Confederation formed |
2011-12-30 |
564 |
| Grand Alliance between Britain, Holland and the Emperor against France |
2011-04-01 |
2193 |
| Grand Duchy of Luxembourg separates from the Netherlands |
2011-12-30 |
508 |
| Grand Duke of Tuscany flees to Gaeta |
2011-12-30 |
497 |
| Grand General Union of Cotton Spinners |
2013-08-30 |
1370 |
| Grand National Consolidated Trades Union founded |
2007-12-12 |
2445 |
| Grand Remonstrance by Parliament |
2010-01-01 |
750 |
| Grand Vizier of Turkey Kiamil Pasha resigns |
2010-03-01 |
675 |
| Gratton makes Irish Declaration of Rights |
2011-03-01 |
1705 |
| Graveyard Poets |
2001-11-01 |
8423 |
| Gravitation, solar system, tides, equinoxes and other astro-physical processes studied by Laplace |
2009-05-01 |
728 |
| Gravitational collapse of a pressure-free homogenous fluid sphere calculated |
2009-05-01 |
1107 |
| Gravitational time delay effect posited |
2009-05-01 |
1081 |
| Great Allied counter-attack opens |
2010-03-01 |
467 |
| Great Britain garrisons Suez Canal |
2010-02-01 |
626 |
| Great Chinese Famine |
2010-02-01 |
1121 |
| Great Elector begins siege of Stettin |
2011-04-01 |
513 |
| Great Elector concludes alliance with Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
866 |
| Great Elector defeats Swedes at Fehrbellin |
2011-04-01 |
1025 |
| Great Elector defeats Swedes at Rathenow |
2011-04-01 |
1093 |
| Great Elector drives out the Swedes from Pomerania and Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1277 |
| Great Elector of Brandenburg concludes treaty of defence with Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
1228 |
| Great Elector of Brandenburg marries the Duchess of Brunswick |
2011-04-01 |
577 |
| Great Elector takes Stettin |
2011-04-01 |
1008 |
| Great Fire of London |
2011-03-01 |
886 |
| Great Fire of London virtually destroys the city |
2011-04-01 |
757 |
| Great fire of Mereiki |
2010-02-01 |
1121 |
| Great Global Rift discovered |
2009-05-01 |
2346 |
| Great Plague |
2007-12-02 |
2159 |
| Great Schism in the Catholic Church |
2010-03-01 |
1053 |
| Great Schism in the Catholic Church ends |
2010-03-01 |
1332 |
| Great strike in Winnipeg |
2010-03-01 |
957 |
| Great Western Railway is begun |
2013-08-30 |
1216 |
| Greater Moravia established |
2009-05-01 |
1120 |
| Greece accepts Allies' demands for demobilisation |
2010-03-01 |
697 |
| Greece accepts Allies' ultimatum |
2010-03-01 |
615 |
| Greece agrees to leave Crete |
2011-12-30 |
642 |
| Greece calls for intervention from the international powers |
2011-12-30 |
652 |
| Greece capitulates |
2010-03-01 |
519 |
| Greece declares war on Turkey |
2011-12-30 |
764 |
| Greece is warned to end support for revolution in Eastern Rumelia |
2011-12-30 |
583 |
| Greece refuses Serbian appeal for aid |
2010-03-01 |
701 |
| Greek army mobilised |
2010-03-01 |
820 |
| Greek Assembly elects Queen Victoria's son as their king |
2011-12-30 |
979 |
| Greek Civil War |
2010-02-01 |
868 |
| Greek Constitution establishes two Chambers |
2011-12-30 |
332 |
| Greek independence guaranteed by Britain, Russia and France |
2010-01-01 |
1151 |
| Greek King assassinated |
2010-02-01 |
781 |
| Greek offensive in Asia Minor |
2011-03-01 |
681 |
| Greeks nearly annihilate Turks at Mitylene |
2011-12-30 |
1118 |
| Greeks propose to place themselves under British protection |
2011-12-30 |
740 |
| Greeks set fire to Turkish admiral's vessel |
2011-12-30 |
1053 |
| Greeks take Tripolitza in the Morea; Turkish population massacred |
2011-12-30 |
1490 |
| Green’s theorem proven |
2013-08-30 |
1281 |
| Greenland discovered |
2009-05-01 |
2697 |
| Gregorian calendar with an improved leap year system introduced |
2010-01-01 |
815 |
| Gregory XIV excommunicates Henry IV of France |
2011-02-01 |
2428 |
| Grenville sent to Paris for peace negotiations |
2010-03-01 |
1343 |
| Grosswardern, Transylvania, surrenders to the Turks |
2011-04-01 |
1052 |
| Grover Cleveland repeals Sherman bill on compulsory silver purchase |
2011-12-30 |
1505 |
| Grover Cleveland, Democrat, wins US presidential election |
2011-12-30 |
1100 |
| Guadaloupe is taken by British |
2010-03-01 |
1446 |
| Guangzu becomes Emperor of China |
2011-12-30 |
481 |
| Guardianship of Infants Act |
2010-02-01 |
2897 |
| Guatemala is declared independent of Spain and aligns itself with Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
806 |
| Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino returns to his duchy with the help of Venice |
2010-11-01 |
808 |
| Guilio de' Medici is elected Pope Clement VII |
2010-11-01 |
1832 |
| Guilio Raspigliosi is elected Pope Clement IX |
2011-04-01 |
890 |
| Guillotine first used |
2010-02-01 |
2804 |
| Guise enters Paris |
2011-02-01 |
2013 |
| Gulf of Mexico explored by Cabeza de Vaca |
2010-01-01 |
1994 |
| Guru Gobind Singh organises political power of Sikhs |
2011-04-01 |
534 |
| Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) established |
2010-02-01 |
1122 |
| Gustav Eriksson rises against Danish rule in Sweden |
2010-11-01 |
1509 |
| Gustave Bauer forms cabinet in Germany |
2010-03-01 |
959 |
| Gustave II becomes King of the Swedes |
2011-03-01 |
951 |
| Gustavus II attacks Wallenstein at the Alte Veste, Nuremberg |
2011-02-01 |
2022 |
| Gustavus II begins to reform the central administration of Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
743 |
| Gustavus II captures Gdov and returns in triumph to Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1125 |
| Gustavus II defeats Count Tilly's army at the Lech |
2011-02-01 |
1104 |
| Gustavus II enters Munich and occupies land south of the Danube |
2011-02-01 |
889 |
| Gustavus II lands in Pomerania and marches his army into Germany |
2011-02-01 |
1158 |
| Gustavus II of Sweden campaigns at Gullberg |
2011-02-01 |
1260 |
| Gustavus II of Sweden encourages James I to join the Thirty Years War |
2011-02-01 |
2387 |
| Gustavus II of Sweden holds a Diet at Orebro |
2011-02-01 |
491 |
| Gustavus II of Sweden loses Elfsborg and Gulberg |
2011-02-01 |
1200 |
| Gustavus II of Sweden marries the Elector of Brandenburg's daughter |
2011-02-01 |
416 |
| Gustavus II of Sweden raises the siege of Danzig |
2011-02-01 |
1209 |
| Gustavus II of Sweden resumes his Palatinate campaign |
2011-02-01 |
1093 |
| Gustavus II signs a military convention with the Elector of Brandenburg |
2011-02-01 |
1199 |
| Gustavus II takes Frankfort-on-Oder |
2011-02-01 |
845 |
| Gustavus II takes Oppenheim and occupies Mainz |
2011-02-01 |
716 |
| Gustavus IV of Sweden forced to abdicate |
2010-03-01 |
772 |
| Gustavus of Sweden makes an alliance with France |
2010-11-01 |
876 |
| Gustavus Vasa becomes Administrator of Sweden |
2010-11-01 |
759 |
| Gustavus Vasa implements a Swedish Reformation |
2010-11-01 |
1412 |
| Gustavus Vasa is appointed Lieutenant-General of Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
399 |
| Guyenne claimed by Philip VI of France |
2010-03-01 |
989 |
| H. A. L. Fisher introduces Education bill |
2011-03-01 |
628 |
| H. H. Asquith again appeals to electorate |
2010-03-01 |
818 |
| H. H. Asquith denounces Lords for breach of constitution |
2010-03-01 |
456 |
| H. H. Asquith forms Coalition |
2010-03-01 |
944 |
| H. H. Asquith introduces minimum wage bill |
2010-03-01 |
1150 |
| H.M.S. Formidable sunk in English Channel |
2010-03-01 |
964 |
| H.M.S. Hampshire sunk, with Lord Kitchener aboard |
2010-03-01 |
861 |
| H.M.S. King George V launched |
2010-03-01 |
1035 |
| Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Ireland |
2011-12-30 |
1983 |
| Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Ireland after unrest |
2011-12-30 |
1460 |
| Habeas Corpus Amendment Act |
2010-02-01 |
1450 |
| Habeas Corpus suspended |
2010-02-01 |
984 |
| Habeas Corpus suspended (2) |
2010-03-01 |
758 |
| Habsburg female rights of succession in 'the Pragmatic Sanction' |
2011-04-01 |
983 |
| Habsburgs take power again in Madrid at the death of Don John |
2011-04-01 |
909 |
| Hadrian's Wall built |
2012-07-31 |
3721 |
| Hague convention fixes three-mile limit for territorial waters |
2011-12-30 |
715 |
| Hague Treaty of Guarantee is signed between Holland and Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
590 |
| Haiku |
2001-11-01 |
6811 |
| Haiti established as an independent state |
|
1680 |
| Halifax becomes Treasurer and then Lord President of the Council |
2011-04-01 |
1316 |
| Halifax, Nova Scotia, is established as a fortress |
2011-04-01 |
821 |
| Halley, Edmond |
2004-08-27 |
3975 |
| Hama Massacre |
2010-02-01 |
1407 |
| Hambach Festival of South German Democrats advocates armed revolt |
2011-12-30 |
1114 |
| Hamburg and Bremen join German customs union |
2011-12-30 |
641 |
| Hampden Clubs founded |
2010-02-01 |
2241 |
| Hampton Court Conference |
2010-01-01 |
1251 |
| Handel, George Frideric. The Triumph of Time and Truth 1757 |
|
462 |
| Hanover given Constitution |
2010-03-01 |
1002 |
| Hanover is separated from Britain |
2011-12-30 |
861 |
| Hanover leaves the Three Kings' alliance with Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
1061 |
| Hanover proclaimed a kingdom |
2010-03-01 |
862 |
| Hanseatic League concludes a trade agreement with England |
2010-03-01 |
1009 |
| Hanseatic League is established |
2010-03-01 |
1270 |
| Hanseatic League loses its privileges in England |
2010-11-01 |
1306 |
| Hapsburgs agree that Archduke Ferdinand will succeed Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
1100 |
| Hapsburgs assert hereditary right to the Bohemian Crown |
2010-11-01 |
2340 |
| Harcourt introduces death duties in budget |
2011-12-30 |
781 |
| Harcourt leads French victory over Spaniards |
2011-02-01 |
1140 |
| Hargreaves’ “Spinning Jenny” |
2004-01-23 |
12338 |
| Harley is created Earl of Oxford |
2011-04-01 |
825 |
| Harold becomes King |
2012-07-31 |
2307 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin |
2010-03-01 |
1723 |
| Harry Smith annexes country between Orange and Vaal rivers |
2011-12-30 |
1972 |
| Harrying of the North |
2012-07-31 |
1689 |
| Harte, Walter |
2004-07-27 |
6178 |
| Hartford Convention |
2010-03-01 |
1152 |
| Harun al-Rashid becomes caliph |
2009-05-01 |
1397 |
| Harvard College founded |
2011-12-20 |
3588 |
| Hastings deposes Rajah of Benares |
2010-03-01 |
868 |
| Hastings makes alliance with state of Oudh |
2010-03-01 |
1000 |
| Hawking suggests black holes might have been created in the Big Bang |
2009-05-01 |
942 |
| Hay-Herran pact |
2010-03-01 |
1651 |
| Health and Morals of Apprentices Act |
2005-05-19 |
1787 |
| Hearth Tax bill raised in Parliament |
2011-04-01 |
1213 |
| Heian period in Japan |
2009-05-01 |
1168 |
| Heidelberg surrenders to the imperialists |
2011-02-01 |
2076 |
| Heinrich Barth explores sub-Saharan Africa |
2010-01-01 |
1347 |
| Heisenberg presents the proton-neutron model of the nucleus |
2009-05-01 |
1334 |
| Heisenberg, Werner |
2000-10-28 |
5160 |
| Hejaz railway to Arabian Holy Places begun |
2010-03-01 |
1224 |
| Helmuth von Moltke chief of German general staff |
2010-03-01 |
1319 |
| Helsinki Accords signed; Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe founded |
2010-02-01 |
1832 |
| Hemistich |
2001-11-01 |
5325 |
| Henri d' Albret invades Navarre, then under Spanish control |
2010-11-01 |
849 |
| Henri Pétain becomes chief of French staff |
2010-03-01 |
781 |
| Henri Pétain becomes French Commander-in-Chief |
2010-03-01 |
792 |
| Henrietta Maria goes to the Netherlands |
2010-02-01 |
1005 |
| Henrik Hop leads a further expedition beyond Orange River |
2011-12-30 |
1542 |
| Henry Addington revises income tax |
2010-02-01 |
1535 |
| Henry Barrow convicted of slandering Queen Elizabeth |
2011-02-01 |
1688 |
| Henry Barrow is executed |
2011-02-01 |
1504 |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman becomes Commons leader of Liberals |
2011-12-30 |
605 |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman forms Liberal ministry |
2010-03-01 |
1030 |
| Henry challenges Britain's right to tax colonies |
2010-03-01 |
1287 |
| Henry Clay proposes compromise resolutions on slavery and territory |
2011-12-30 |
620 |
| Henry Duke of Brunswick defeats Albrecht Alcibiades at Steterburg |
2010-11-01 |
1816 |
| Henry Duke of Guise and Louis Cardinal of Guise are assassinated |
2011-02-01 |
2910 |
| Henry Duke of Orleans marries Catherine de' Medici |
2010-11-01 |
653 |
| Henry Havelock and James Outram temporarily relieve Lucknow |
2011-12-30 |
817 |
| Henry Howard, Earl of Nottingham, becomes first lord of the Treasury |
2011-02-01 |
1502 |
| Henry Hudson enters Hudson’s Bay |
2006-08-21 |
2924 |
| Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon, becomes Keeper of Privy Seal |
2011-04-01 |
1164 |
| Henry I of Germany defeats the Wends |
2011-03-01 |
1308 |
| Henry I settles south Wales |
2013-03-28 |
827 |
| Henry II and Pope Julius III sign a two-year truce |
2010-11-01 |
1380 |
| Henry II of France begins campaigning in Italy against Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
1097 |
| Henry II of France invades the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1655 |
| Henry II of France renews war against the Hapsburgs in Italy |
2011-02-01 |
1274 |
| Henry II returns to Verdun at threats from Mary of Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
1675 |
| Henry II succeeds as King of France |
2010-11-01 |
1227 |
| Henry III agrees to all the Duke of Guise's demands |
2011-02-01 |
2154 |
| Henry III and Henry of Navarre sign a truce to oppose the Catholic League |
2011-02-01 |
2138 |
| Henry III arranges the assassination of Henry, Duke of Guise |
2011-02-01 |
2587 |
| Henry III denounces the 1576 Edict of Beaulieu |
2011-02-01 |
2786 |
| Henry III escapes to Chartres |
2011-02-01 |
1995 |
| Henry III forbids the Duke of Guise to enter Paris |
2011-02-01 |
1875 |
| Henry III gains Swiss mercenaries for defence against Catholic League |
2011-02-01 |
2112 |
| Henry III is assassinated by Jacques Clement, a fanatical monk |
2011-02-01 |
2935 |
| Henry III is met by Henry of Navarre and the Duke of Alençon |
2011-02-01 |
1925 |
| Henry III of France makes a marriage alliance with the House of Guise |
2011-02-01 |
685 |
| Henry III of France refuses the sovereignty of the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1368 |
| Henry III secretly leaves Poland for France |
2011-02-01 |
1371 |
| Henry III succeeds as King of France |
2011-02-01 |
1120 |
| Henry III's army begin to threaten Paris |
2011-02-01 |
2016 |
| Henry IV (of Navarre) establishes his headquarters at Tours |
2011-02-01 |
2314 |
| Henry IV abjures Protestantism in order to gain power in France |
2010-03-01 |
2276 |
| Henry IV attacks Paris from the north, causing famine in the capital |
2011-02-01 |
2120 |
| Henry IV begins the siege of La Fère |
2011-02-01 |
2306 |
| Henry IV captures the Paris faubourgs of St Jacques and St Germain |
2011-02-01 |
1994 |
| Henry IV enters Paris |
2011-02-01 |
2574 |
| Henry IV expels the Jesuits from certain areas of France |
2011-02-01 |
2691 |
| Henry IV holds a lit de justice in Paris |
2011-02-01 |
1202 |
| Henry IV is crowned King of France at Chartres |
2011-02-01 |
2392 |
| Henry IV lays siege to Dreux |
2011-02-01 |
1992 |
| Henry IV makes peace with the Governor of Flanders |
2011-02-01 |
1017 |
| Henry IV occupies Sedan |
2011-02-01 |
1410 |
| Henry IV of France declares war on Savoy |
2010-01-01 |
1863 |
| Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Paulette |
2010-02-01 |
1630 |
| Henry IV of France marries Maria de Medici |
2010-02-01 |
1705 |
| Henry IV of France mediates between Pope Paul V and the Venetians |
2011-02-01 |
1386 |
| Henry IV of France obtains a divorce from Queen Margaret of Valois |
2011-02-01 |
666 |
| Henry IV of France signs an alliance with the German Protestant Union |
2011-02-01 |
1147 |
| Henry IV recalls the Jesuits to France despite opposition |
2011-02-01 |
1388 |
| Henry IV routs Mayenne's Leaguer army at Ivry and marches to Paris |
2011-02-01 |
2340 |
| Henry IV summons an Assembly of Notables to discuss public revenue |
2011-02-01 |
1699 |
| Henry IV takes Bourg |
2011-02-01 |
1362 |
| Henry IV takes Noyon in Picardy |
2011-02-01 |
2081 |
| Henry IV urges German Protestant princes to join an attack on the Spanish Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1003 |
| Henry IV's authority challenged by the Parlement of Rouen |
2011-02-01 |
1052 |
| Henry IV's mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées dies |
2011-02-01 |
577 |
| Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingstone |
2011-12-20 |
3032 |
| Henry of Anjou marries Eleanor of Acquitaine |
2012-07-31 |
1201 |
| Henry of Navarre captures Talmont and Fontenay in Poitou |
2011-02-01 |
1931 |
| Henry of Navarre escapes from Paris and rejoins the Huguenots |
2011-02-01 |
2783 |
| Henry of Navarre is recognised as head of the Huguenot Party |
2011-02-01 |
2900 |
| Henry of Navarre marries Margaret of Valois |
2011-02-01 |
2007 |
| Henry Pelham dies |
2011-04-01 |
693 |
| Henry St John is created Viscount Bolingbroke |
2011-04-01 |
753 |
| Henry St John joins the English Ministry as Secretary at War |
2011-04-01 |
794 |
| Henry Tudor is created Prince of Wales |
2010-11-01 |
775 |
| Henry V invades France and gains victory at Agincourt |
2010-03-01 |
2147 |
| Henry VII banishes Flemings from England |
2010-11-01 |
2037 |
| Henry VII begins to woo Juana 'the mad' of Castile |
2010-11-01 |
694 |
| Henry VII besieges Boulogne |
2010-11-01 |
2621 |
| Henry VII commissions the Cabots to discover new lands |
2010-11-01 |
1514 |
| Henry VII defeats the Cornish rebels under Lord Audley at Blackheath |
2010-11-01 |
2030 |
| Henry VII denounces Edmund, Earl of Suffolk as a traitor |
2010-11-01 |
1972 |
| Henry VII denounces Perkin Warbeck to Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy |
2010-11-01 |
2978 |
| Henry VII ends the commercial dispute with Flanders |
2010-11-01 |
2103 |
| Henry VII makes Edward Poynings deputy for Ireland |
2010-11-01 |
1668 |
| Henry VII of England discusses possible alliances with Philip of Burgundy |
2010-11-01 |
1484 |
| Henry VII of England invades France |
2010-11-01 |
2471 |
| Henry VII ratifies the marriage treaty with Spain |
2010-11-01 |
1409 |
| Henry VII refuses to lead a crusade against the Turks |
2010-11-01 |
2257 |
| Henry VII signs a commercial treaty with France |
2010-11-01 |
1407 |
| Henry VII's wife Queen Elizabeth dies in childbirth |
2010-11-01 |
1365 |
| Henry VIII allies with Charles V against France |
2010-11-01 |
1453 |
| Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon testify to legatine court |
2010-11-01 |
3135 |
| Henry VIII and Charles V form a league for a fresh attack on France |
2010-11-01 |
1784 |
| Henry VIII and Francis I agree to meet to arrange the sale of Tournai to France |
2010-11-01 |
1153 |
| Henry VIII and Maximilian I sign an alliance against France |
2010-11-01 |
1676 |
| Henry VIII appeals against the Pope to a general council |
2010-11-01 |
3327 |
| Henry VIII asks Catherine of Aragon to withdraw her appeal |
2010-11-01 |
1951 |
| Henry VIII asks the universities' opinion of his proposed divorce |
2010-11-01 |
2006 |
| Henry VIII assumes the title 'Supreme Head of the Church' |
2010-11-01 |
3231 |
| Henry VIII attempts to forge a defensive league |
2010-11-01 |
964 |
| Henry VIII becomes Head of the Church in England |
2010-11-01 |
3633 |
| Henry VIII captures Boulogne and orders the siege of Montreuil |
2010-11-01 |
2021 |
| Henry VIII commands his army in France |
2010-11-01 |
1849 |
| Henry VIII confirms his alliance with Francis I |
2010-11-01 |
1138 |
| Henry VIII confiscates annates to pressure Pope Clement VII for his divorce |
2010-11-01 |
1844 |
| Henry VIII creates his natural son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond |
2010-11-01 |
1065 |
| Henry VIII creates the Council of the North |
2010-11-01 |
1375 |
| Henry VIII decides to stand as a candidate for the imperial election |
2010-11-01 |
1481 |
| Henry VIII declares war on France |
2010-11-01 |
1842 |
| Henry VIII explains his divorce to nobles and London citizens |
2010-11-01 |
478 |
| Henry VIII fails to renew the Anglo-Scottish 'perpetual peace' |
2010-11-01 |
1354 |
| Henry VIII fears an invasion and orders defence preparations |
2010-11-01 |
1532 |
| Henry VIII is excommunicated |
2010-03-01 |
3597 |
| Henry VIII is released from his debts by statute |
2010-11-01 |
1849 |
| Henry VIII joins the campaign against Francis I |
2010-11-01 |
1684 |
| Henry VIII makes peace with his nephew, James V of Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1140 |
| Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves |
2010-11-01 |
755 |
| Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon |
2010-11-01 |
1375 |
| Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr, widow of Lord Latimer |
2010-11-01 |
858 |
| Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour |
2010-11-01 |
451 |
| Henry VIII marries Katherine Howard |
2010-11-01 |
667 |
| Henry VIII meets Francis I and forms an alliance |
2010-03-01 |
1116 |
| Henry VIII refuses peace with Scotland while the Duke of Albany remains there |
2010-11-01 |
1702 |
| Henry VIII returns to England |
2010-11-01 |
1486 |
| Henry VIII schemes to remove the Duke of Albany as Protector of Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1580 |
| Henry VIII seeks an alliance with the German Protestant princes |
2010-11-01 |
3399 |
| Henry VIII sends bishops to press his case with Clement VII |
2010-11-01 |
2971 |
| Henry VIII signs a secret alliance with Francis I of France |
2010-11-01 |
1089 |
| Henry VIII signs a treaty to marry Anne of Cleves |
2010-11-01 |
1136 |
| Henry VIII summons rebel Robert Aske to court |
2010-11-01 |
1364 |
| Henry VIII takes the title King of Ireland |
2010-11-01 |
1719 |
| Henry VIII tries and fails to send an expedition to aid Bourbon in France |
2010-11-01 |
1291 |
| Henry VIII tries to persuade the Pope to hasten his divorce proceedings |
2010-11-01 |
3234 |
| Henry VIII visits Francis I to sign the Treaty of Boulogne |
2010-11-01 |
999 |
| Henry VIII's divorce suit is removed to Rome |
2010-11-01 |
2217 |
| Henry VIII's illegitimate son, the Duke of Richmond, dies |
2010-11-01 |
1252 |
| Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled |
2010-11-01 |
587 |
| Henry VIII's worsening health creates factional in-fighting |
2010-11-01 |
1284 |
| Henry, Prince of Wales, denounces his marriage contract with Catherine of Aragon |
2010-11-01 |
964 |
| Henry, Prince of Wales, is betrothed to Catherine of Aragon |
2010-11-01 |
1040 |
| Heptameter |
2001-11-01 |
5546 |
| Heretics persecuted in Paris |
2010-11-01 |
2013 |
| Hereward the Wake |
2012-07-31 |
3351 |
| Hernan Cortez is forced from the Aztec capital by Cuauhtemoc |
2010-03-01 |
1398 |
| Heroic Couplet |
2001-11-01 |
29791 |
| Heroic Quatrain |
2001-11-01 |
8128 |
| Herophilus studies nervous system |
2009-05-01 |
948 |
| Herschel's General Catalogue of stars and nebulae |
2013-08-30 |
1277 |
| Hesdin surrenders to the French |
2011-02-01 |
463 |
| Hessian mercenaries recruited for American war |
2010-03-01 |
2593 |
| Hexameter |
2001-11-01 |
5492 |
| Hidetada succeeds as Shogun of Japan |
2011-02-01 |
410 |
| Hideyoshi is appointed Dictator in Japan |
2011-02-01 |
678 |
| High critical temperature ceramic superconductors discovered |
2009-05-01 |
764 |
| Higher revenue anticipated from Britain's direct taxes |
2010-03-01 |
974 |
| Hill, Errol |
2004-08-26 |
9160 |
| Hippocrates begins the scientific study of medicine |
2009-05-01 |
992 |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
2005-03-27 |
4529 |
| Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany |
2010-02-01 |
1297 |
| HIV Virus discovered |
2010-02-01 |
1059 |
| HMS Dreadnought |
2010-02-01 |
1019 |
| Hobart, Tasmania, founded |
2011-03-01 |
1071 |
| Holland cedes Negapatnam to Britain |
2010-03-01 |
955 |
| Holland declines to surrender ex-Kaiser William II |
2010-03-01 |
478 |
| Holland House |
2007-12-22 |
1923 |
| Holland is forced to recognise Belgian independence |
2011-12-30 |
808 |
| Holland joins Treaty of Seville |
2011-04-01 |
700 |
| Holland signs a treaty of alliance with the Great Elector of Brandenburg |
2011-04-01 |
1070 |
| Holland states sign treaty with American Colonies |
2011-03-01 |
703 |
| Holland takes Gross-Fredericksburg in West Africa |
2011-04-01 |
1170 |
| Holmes's Bonfire |
2010-02-01 |
1233 |
| Holy League against France |
2010-03-01 |
1558 |
| Holy League holds Congress of Mantua |
2010-11-01 |
1301 |
| Holy League of Linz against the Turks |
2011-04-01 |
2103 |
| Hong Kong taken by British in war with China |
2011-12-30 |
1108 |
| Honoré Mirabeau secret agent of the Crown |
2010-03-01 |
2680 |
| Hoover directs international organisation |
2010-03-01 |
1121 |
| Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in Sudan |
2011-12-30 |
734 |
| Horatio Kitchener's victory at Atbara River |
2011-12-30 |
842 |
| Horne Tooke Act |
2010-03-01 |
928 |
| Hostility between France and Italy |
2011-12-30 |
466 |
| Hottentot Code of 1809 abolished |
2010-02-01 |
2377 |
| House of Commons adopts Nicholas Vansittart's resolutions on value |
2010-02-01 |
1427 |
| House of Commons passes First Reform Bill by one vote |
2006-04-22 |
2142 |
| House of Commons published Commissioner Bigge's reports |
2010-03-01 |
1396 |
| House of Commons votes on the abolition of the slave trade |
2010-02-01 |
2142 |
| House of Commons votes to exclude 'strangers' when necessary |
2011-12-30 |
986 |
| House of Lords throws out Second Reform Bill |
2010-02-01 |
3398 |
| House of Representatives defeats women's suffrage proposal |
2010-03-01 |
2835 |
| Hovering Act |
2010-03-01 |
1060 |
| Hovering Stress |
2001-11-01 |
4837 |
| Hoyle-Narlikar theory formulated |
2009-05-01 |
1014 |
| Hubert Walter becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
2012-07-31 |
1135 |
| Hudgins, Andrew |
2007-12-11 |
3419 |
| Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads a rising in Ulster |
2011-02-01 |
2391 |
| Huguenot army fights an indecisive battle in Burgundy |
2011-02-01 |
2319 |
| Huguenot Assembly decides to rebel against Louis XIII |
2011-02-01 |
1338 |
| Huguenot conspiracy at Amboise fails |
2011-02-01 |
3152 |
| Huguenot forces attempt the siege of Poitiers |
2011-02-01 |
2116 |
| Huguenot revolt led by the Comte de Soubise |
2010-02-01 |
2598 |
| Huguenot rising |
2011-02-01 |
1382 |
| Huguenots decide on war |
2011-02-01 |
2474 |
| Huguenots from Picardy settle in England |
2011-04-01 |
2041 |
| Huguenots in France |
|
2400 |
| Huguenots massacred at Vassy |
2010-03-01 |
2486 |
| Hulks Act |
2010-03-01 |
1216 |
| Hundred Years' War ends when Bordeaux falls to France |
2010-03-01 |
1926 |
| Hundred Years' War renewed |
2010-03-01 |
1417 |
| Hungarian army capitulates |
2011-12-30 |
1180 |
| Hungarian Diet dissolved; Imperial Commission takes over |
2011-12-30 |
711 |
| Hungarian Diet of Pressburg makes the Crown a Habsburg inheritance |
2011-04-01 |
1377 |
| Hungarian Diet proclaims independence |
2011-12-30 |
491 |
| Hungarian Diet restores 1848 Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
377 |
| Hungarian King decreed to be independent of Pope and Emperor |
2010-11-01 |
1210 |
| Hungarian magnates conspire against Habsburgs |
2011-04-01 |
1017 |
| Hungarian premier, Count Tisza, assassinated |
2010-03-01 |
690 |
| Hungarian Revolution of 1848 breaks out |
2008-01-01 |
2056 |
| Hungarian Soviet Republic set up |
2009-05-01 |
685 |
| Hungarian state founded |
2009-05-01 |
559 |
| Hungarian-dominated Kolozsvar Diet incorporates Transylvania in Hungary |
2011-12-30 |
491 |
| Hungarians defeated by the Turks |
2010-03-01 |
1185 |
| Hungarians revolt against Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
1489 |
| Hungary and Turkey sign a five-year truce |
2010-11-01 |
1183 |
| Hungary leaves the Warsaw Pact |
2010-02-01 |
608 |
| Hurricane Katrina |
2005-09-03 |
2068 |
| Hussein proclaimed King of the Arabs |
2010-03-01 |
1067 |
| Hussites victorious over German troops |
2010-03-01 |
3130 |
| Hyde Park demonstration of 1866 |
2010-03-01 |
1537 |
| Hyde Park demonstration of 1867 |
2010-03-01 |
2731 |
| Hyde Park Riots |
2005-04-01 |
8553 |
| Hyde Park Riots against restrictions on Sunday trading |
2010-03-01 |
1928 |
| Hyder Ali of Mysore conquers Carnatic |
2010-03-01 |
1135 |
| Hydrogen Bomb tested |
2005-03-27 |
16658 |
| Hydrogen fusion proposed as the energy source for stars |
2011-03-01 |
681 |
| Hyperbole |
2001-11-01 |
5849 |
| Hysteron Proteron |
2001-11-01 |
4642 |
| Hywel Dda (Howell the Good), ruler of Wales, reforms Welsh laws |
2009-05-01 |
1516 |
| I K Brunel's steamship is launched |
2010-02-01 |
2618 |
| Iambic |
2001-11-01 |
4798 |
| Ibn Battuta undertakes a pilgrimage to Mecca |
2010-03-01 |
1126 |
| Ibrahim, son of Mohammed Ali, takes Acre |
2011-12-30 |
973 |
| Ibrahim, Viceroy of Egypt, dies |
2011-12-30 |
399 |
| Iceland becomes sovereign state |
2010-03-01 |
1332 |
| Iconoclastic Controversy |
2009-05-01 |
870 |
| Idaho organised as US territory |
2011-12-30 |
828 |
| Idyll |
2001-11-01 |
5446 |
| Ieharu becomes Shogun in Japan |
2011-12-30 |
503 |
| Ienobu becomes Shogun in Japan |
2011-04-01 |
487 |
| Ietsuna becomes Shogun of Japan |
2011-04-01 |
435 |
| Illegitimate daughter of Charles V marries a Medici |
2010-11-01 |
424 |
| Illustrated London News |
2013-08-30 |
3805 |
| Immigration Act |
2010-02-01 |
1803 |
| Immigration Act in New Zealand: restricts Japanese immigration |
2011-12-30 |
718 |
| Immigration office opened on Ellis Island |
2010-02-01 |
1895 |
| Immigration Restriction Act and women franchise in Australia |
2010-03-01 |
2150 |
| Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
2010-03-01 |
1237 |
| Imperial 'Waste Lands (Australia) Act' |
2010-03-01 |
802 |
| Imperial army defeated at Jankowitz |
2011-02-01 |
1429 |
| Imperial Conference, London |
2010-03-01 |
647 |
| Imperial Diet at Augsburg: Martin Luther presents his arguments against Catholicism |
2010-03-01 |
3518 |
| Imperial diet meets at Speyer |
2011-02-01 |
2213 |
| Imperial Electors meet at Nuremberg |
2011-02-01 |
696 |
| Imperial fleet captures Dragut's naval headquarters |
2010-11-01 |
831 |
| Imperial force attempts to restore control to Siena |
2010-11-01 |
885 |
| Imperial force besieges the fortress of Jülich |
2011-02-01 |
1340 |
| Imperial force captures Philipsburg |
2011-04-01 |
929 |
| Imperial forces defeat France at Bicocca |
2010-03-01 |
1868 |
| Imperial forces defeat France; Francis I is captured |
2010-03-01 |
1498 |
| Imperial Preference Provisions Act passed |
2010-03-01 |
417 |
| Imperial troops recover Fuenterrabia |
2010-11-01 |
1156 |
| Impressionism |
2003-10-12 |
18813 |
| Improvement in Anglo-Spanish relations |
2011-12-30 |
521 |
| In 'Evil May Day' riots London apprentices attack foreign residents |
2010-11-01 |
2324 |
| In battle of Arras British third army advances 4 miles |
2010-03-01 |
1126 |
| In Berlin, Frederick William IV is forced to grant a constitution |
2011-12-30 |
660 |
| In British general election Gladstone proposes to abolish income tax |
2011-12-30 |
1256 |
| In France life senatorships are abolished |
2011-12-30 |
944 |
| In Geneva an anti-Calvinist rising is ruthlessly put down |
2011-02-01 |
1491 |
| In Germany Rudolf von Bennigsen forms a new National Liberal Party |
2011-12-30 |
1431 |
| In Japan Nobunaga gains dictatorial powers to bring an era of peace |
2011-02-01 |
625 |
| In Reichstag elections Conservatives gain seats from National Liberals |
2011-12-30 |
904 |
| In Reichstag elections the Ultramontane Catholic Centre increases its seats |
2011-12-30 |
1006 |
| In the Ruthven Raid, the English Party in Scotland capture James VI |
2011-02-01 |
1892 |
| In Transylvania Zapolya suppresses the peasants' revolt led by George Dozsa |
2010-11-01 |
1752 |
| In war with the Greeks, Turkey captures island of Ipsara |
2011-12-30 |
1473 |
| In Zulu War British troops capture Cetywayo |
2011-12-30 |
1432 |
| Inca Empire expands under the leadership of Viracocha Inca |
2010-03-01 |
1348 |
| Inca Empire sets up a second capital at Tomebamba |
2010-03-01 |
1144 |
| Increase in US military spending |
2010-02-01 |
654 |
| Increasing disturbance in Macedonia |
2010-03-01 |
1146 |
| Indecency and Vagrancy Acts |
2013-08-30 |
863 |
| Indecisive battle of Edgehill |
2011-02-01 |
2506 |
| Indecisive battle of Perryville in American Civil War |
2011-12-30 |
1836 |
| Indecisive Civil War battle of Sportsylvania Courthouse |
2011-12-30 |
932 |
| Indecisive Civil War battle of the Wilderness |
2011-12-30 |
2000 |
| Indecisive naval battle between Dutch and French at Catania |
2011-04-01 |
1564 |
| Indecisive naval Battle of Toulon |
2011-04-01 |
1454 |
| Independence and neutrality of Luxembourg guaranteed |
2010-01-01 |
1033 |
| Independence of Chile |
2010-03-01 |
810 |
| Independence of Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein is proposed |
2011-12-30 |
733 |
| Independence of United Provinces of La Plata |
2011-03-01 |
686 |
| Independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam proclaimed |
2010-02-01 |
906 |
| Indeterminacy Principle / Uncertainty Principle |
2000-10-28 |
6564 |
| India achieves partial self-government |
2010-02-01 |
927 |
| India Bill |
2006-02-02 |
1013 |
| India protests Salt Tax |
2010-02-01 |
1007 |
| India refuses aid for the Allied war effort |
2010-02-01 |
973 |
| India transferred to British Crown |
2010-01-01 |
2020 |
| Indian Councils Act 2 |
2010-03-01 |
794 |
| Indian Empire proclaimed |
2010-03-01 |
2603 |
| Indian government and Afghanistan peace conference |
2010-03-01 |
1075 |
| Indian Mutiny or Great Revolt |
|
1217 |
| Indian Removal Act |
2010-02-01 |
3269 |
| Indian troops invade Pakistan |
2010-02-01 |
830 |
| Industrial courts established in Germany to adjust wage disputes |
2011-12-30 |
667 |
| Industrial occupation in Spain not prejudicial to rank |
2010-03-01 |
891 |
| Infant Ietsugu becomes Shogun of Japan |
2011-04-01 |
411 |
| Infinite series established for the logarithm |
2009-05-01 |
1079 |
| Inflationary Big Bang universe theory proposed |
2009-05-01 |
856 |
| Influx of American silver causes bankruptcy in France and Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1840 |
| Innocent XII elected Pope |
2011-04-01 |
744 |
| Inquisition begins in the Spanish Netherlands |
2010-02-01 |
2004 |
| Inquisitors-General in France are appointed |
2011-02-01 |
1467 |
| Insulin isolated |
2010-02-01 |
924 |
| Insulin’s composition determined |
2009-05-01 |
687 |
| Insurgents reject the Turkish Sultan's proposals for reform |
2011-12-30 |
615 |
| Insurrection in Paris by Republicans |
2011-12-30 |
882 |
| Insurrection of Hereros and Hottentots |
2011-03-01 |
881 |
| Insurrectionary Scottish Covenanters are defeated at Bothwell Bridge |
2011-04-01 |
847 |
| Internal Macedonia Revolutionary Organisation for independence is founded |
2011-12-30 |
729 |
| International ambassadors plan rule by a Christian governor in Crete |
2011-12-30 |
544 |
| International Atomic Energy Agency established |
2010-02-01 |
831 |
| International Bank for Reconstruction and Development established |
2010-02-01 |
1514 |
| International Brussels Act passed to eradicate African slave trade |
2011-12-30 |
492 |
| International commission is appointed to control Greek finances |
2011-12-30 |
280 |
| International conference on Egyptian finance in London |
2011-12-30 |
1129 |
| International congress for Protection of Workers held in Berlin |
2011-12-30 |
668 |
| International Court of arbitration at The Hague |
2010-03-01 |
591 |
| International Exhibition opened in Philadelphia |
2010-03-01 |
841 |
| International expedition takes Tientsin |
2010-03-01 |
1679 |
| International Labour Conference at Washington |
2010-03-01 |
598 |
| International London Conference agree to Belgian separation from Holland |
2011-12-30 |
1182 |
| International peace conference at Paris |
2011-12-30 |
1144 |
| International Protocols for separation of Belgium and Holland |
2011-12-30 |
601 |
| International Socialist conference in Berne |
2010-03-01 |
388 |
| International treaty to restore order in Syria |
2011-12-30 |
682 |
| Interstellar absorbtion of dust postulated |
2009-05-01 |
1135 |
| Interstellar carbon monoxide found |
2009-05-01 |
801 |
| Interstellar formaldehyde found |
2009-05-01 |
408 |
| Intolerable Acts |
2007-12-12 |
3196 |
| Introduction of Fifth Constitution in France |
2010-03-01 |
2295 |
| Introduction of first income tax in peace-time; tariffs are reduced |
2010-01-01 |
982 |
| Introduction of scientific weather forecasts |
2012-07-31 |
921 |
| Invention of basketball |
2010-03-01 |
1267 |
| Invention of paper |
2009-05-01 |
1475 |
| Invention of the machine gun |
2013-08-30 |
542 |
| Inverse-square gravitational force law formulated |
2009-05-01 |
863 |
| Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII |
2011-02-01 |
1288 |
| Iraqi independence |
2010-02-01 |
915 |
| Ireland granted free trade with Britain |
2010-03-01 |
1104 |
| Ireland is declared inseparable from England |
2011-04-01 |
1297 |
| Ireland raided by the Vikings |
2009-05-01 |
1734 |
| Irene becomes sole rule of the Byzantine Empire |
2009-05-01 |
1038 |
| Ireton lays siege to Limerick |
2011-04-01 |
2148 |
| Irish associations suppressed |
2013-08-30 |
1063 |
| Irish Catholics defeat Scots at Benburb |
2011-02-01 |
2704 |
| Irish Constabulary Act |
2010-02-01 |
1772 |
| Irish defeated by Parliamentary forces at Dangan Hill |
2011-04-01 |
2205 |
| Irish Home Government Association founded |
2010-02-01 |
1172 |
| Irish Home Rule bill passes Commons |
2010-03-01 |
1138 |
| Irish Land Act |
2010-01-01 |
814 |
| Irish Land and Coercion Acts |
2010-01-01 |
1006 |
| Irish Land League is prosecuted |
2011-12-30 |
739 |
| Irish Land Purchase Act |
2013-08-30 |
1167 |
| Irish National Land League founded with Parnell as president |
2011-12-30 |
937 |
| Irish Protestant Volunteer movement |
2011-03-01 |
1306 |
| Irish rebel Shane O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, is assassinated |
2011-02-01 |
2156 |
| Irish Rebellion; Rising of the United Irishmen |
2007-12-22 |
2633 |
| Irish Rebellion: Confederation of Kilkenny |
2010-01-01 |
4305 |
| Irish rebels who had taken refuge in Tory Island are massacred |
2011-02-01 |
1374 |
| Irish Reform Act passed |
2011-12-30 |
1620 |
| Irish Republican Brotherhood (Fenians) founded |
2010-02-01 |
3150 |
| Irish-American terrorists try to blow up The Times office |
2011-12-30 |
1583 |
| Iron Curtain declaration |
2010-02-01 |
1402 |
| Ironbridge |
2004-02-19 |
3657 |
| Ironworks founded by Friedrich Krupp in Germany |
2010-02-01 |
1594 |
| Irreconcilable republicans are excluded from Parliament |
2011-04-01 |
540 |
| Irredentist agitation in Italy begins |
2011-12-30 |
668 |
| Isabella of Spain abdicates in Paris in favour of Alfonso XII |
2011-12-30 |
993 |
| Isabella, wife of Manuel the Fortunate of Portugal, dies in childbirth |
2010-11-01 |
969 |
| Isfahan rebels against Timur |
2010-03-01 |
1310 |
| Ishege becomes Shogun of Japan |
2011-04-01 |
604 |
| Islamic Caliphate abolished |
2010-02-01 |
1165 |
| Islamic spherical astrolabe is invented |
2010-03-01 |
1299 |
| Islamic terrorist seizes Iranian Embassy, London |
2010-02-01 |
986 |
| Islington Agricultural Hall meeting of 1867 |
2010-03-01 |
1482 |
| Ismail becomes Khedive of Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
513 |
| Israel invades Sinai Peninsula |
2010-03-01 |
853 |
| Italian coalition formed under Paolo Boselli |
2010-03-01 |
911 |
| Italian electoral reform |
2011-12-30 |
381 |
| Italian fleet destroyed by Austrians off Lissa |
2011-12-30 |
756 |
| Italian government prevents general strike |
2010-03-01 |
542 |
| Italian National Association formed by Garibaldi for unification |
2011-12-30 |
520 |
| Italian Socialists extend political influence |
2011-03-01 |
636 |
| Italian states come to terms with France |
2010-11-01 |
1546 |
| Italian troops advance into Ethiopia |
2011-12-30 |
540 |
| Italian-Front Armistice |
2010-02-01 |
853 |
| Italians defeat Mahdists in attack on Eritrea |
2011-12-30 |
788 |
| Italians repulse Austrian offensive |
2010-02-01 |
827 |
| Italians take Kassala, Sudan, from the Dervishes |
2011-12-30 |
537 |
| Italy and Turkey sign peace treaty at Lausanne |
2010-03-01 |
963 |
| Italy becomes a one-party state |
2010-02-01 |
822 |
| Italy becomes a republic |
2010-02-01 |
982 |
| Italy cedes Kassala to Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
571 |
| Italy concludes alliance with Prussia against Austria |
2011-12-30 |
658 |
| Italy declares war on Austria |
2011-12-30 |
449 |
| Italy declares war on Turkey |
2011-03-01 |
476 |
| Italy denounces Triple Alliance |
2010-03-01 |
934 |
| Italy departs League of Nations |
2010-02-01 |
779 |
| Italy establishes colony of Eritrea |
2011-12-30 |
716 |
| Italy introduces patents |
2010-03-01 |
715 |
| Italy invades Albania and Greece |
2010-02-01 |
1295 |
| Italy invades Ethiopia |
2010-02-01 |
991 |
| Italy occupies Massawa in Eritrea |
2011-12-30 |
790 |
| Italy reorganises its Red Sea territories as Eritrea |
2011-12-30 |
1485 |
| Italy signs anti-Comintern pact |
2010-02-01 |
802 |
| Italy supports Menelek of Shoa in his revolt against Johannes IV of Ethiopia |
2011-12-30 |
801 |
| Ivan III becomes ruler of Muscovy |
2010-03-01 |
389 |
| Ivan III frees Muscovy from the control of the Mongols |
2010-03-01 |
1110 |
| Ivan IV is crowned Tsar of Russia |
2010-11-01 |
617 |
| Ivan IV of Russia begins the conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan |
2010-11-01 |
1383 |
| Ivan IV of Russia gains Polotski from Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1305 |
| Ivan IV of Russia is forced to withdraw from Moscow |
2011-02-01 |
859 |
| Ivan the Great of Russia invades Polish Lithuania |
2010-11-01 |
1277 |
| Ivan the Terrible kills his son in a fit of rage |
2011-02-01 |
1098 |
| J. C. Calhoun's treaty for annexation of Texas by US |
2011-12-30 |
1548 |
| Jacksonville, Florida, is taken by Unionists |
2011-12-30 |
1544 |
| Jacobins and Anti-Jacobins |
2006-01-20 |
9221 |
| Jacobins and Cordeliers gain prominence in Paris |
2010-03-01 |
1906 |
| Jacobite Rebellion |
2010-01-01 |
5240 |
| Jacobite Rebellion (2) |
2011-03-01 |
2401 |
| Jacobite victory at Penrith |
2011-04-01 |
1195 |
| Jacobites enter Edinburgh |
2011-04-01 |
1302 |
| Jacobus Coetsee leads a party of Hottentots beyond the Orange River |
2011-12-30 |
1482 |
| Jacquerie peasant revolt is crushed |
2010-03-01 |
1463 |
| Jaga War |
2010-03-01 |
1787 |
| Jamaica conquered by Juan de Esquival |
2010-03-01 |
1042 |
| Jamaican Constitution is suspended after riots |
2011-12-30 |
2045 |
| James B. Weaver becomes Populist Party presidential candidate |
2011-12-30 |
1852 |
| James Buchanan elected US President |
2011-12-30 |
1126 |
| James Cook lands in Botany Bay |
2010-03-01 |
2645 |
| James Elliot discovers the rings of Uranus |
2009-05-01 |
381 |
| James Hertzog invades Cape Colony |
2010-03-01 |
2247 |
| James I accepts the terms of the Great Contract |
2011-02-01 |
1616 |
| James I and VI revisits Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
524 |
| James I angrily dissolves Parliament before 'The Great Contract' is arranged |
2011-02-01 |
1366 |
| James I attempts to settle the Palatinate crisis with the Emperor but fails |
2011-02-01 |
1055 |
| James I becomes his own Principal Secretary |
2011-02-01 |
1622 |
| James I begins to sell peerages |
2011-02-01 |
1779 |
| James I dissolves Parliament without a single Act having been passed |
2011-02-01 |
764 |
| James I dissolves the English Parliament |
2011-02-01 |
674 |
| James I finally breaks off the Spanish marriage treaty |
2011-02-01 |
1126 |
| James I forbids the discussion of state affairs |
2011-02-01 |
1615 |
| James I imprisons Sir Edward Coke for his share in the Protestation |
2011-02-01 |
1787 |
| James I makes his favourite, Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester |
2011-02-01 |
1777 |
| James I makes his favourite, Viscount Rochester, Earl of Somerset |
2011-02-01 |
1880 |
| James I negotiates for his daughter Elizabeth to marry the Elector Palatine |
2011-02-01 |
1052 |
| James I negotiates marriage of his daughter to the Elector Palatine |
2011-02-01 |
1197 |
| James I of England is crowned |
2011-02-01 |
1702 |
| James I offers to mediate in Bohemia |
2011-02-01 |
2075 |
| James I places John Pym, the Parliamentary leader, under house arrest |
2011-02-01 |
1774 |
| James I prorogues English Parliament |
2011-02-01 |
835 |
| James I prorogues English Parliament |
2011-02-01 |
1001 |
| James I prorogues Parliament |
2011-02-01 |
1142 |
| James I refuses to aid Frederick V of the Palatinate in Bohemia |
2011-02-01 |
2292 |
| James I removes the £20 per month fines levied on Catholic recusants |
2011-02-01 |
1642 |
| James I sacks Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas |
2011-02-01 |
1402 |
| James I tears the Protestation from the Commons Journal |
2011-02-01 |
2421 |
| James I's first Parliament opposes his plans for a Union with Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
1060 |
| James I's second Parliament meets, known as 'The Addled Parliament' |
2011-02-01 |
2590 |
| James II attempts to escape but is brought back to London |
2011-04-01 |
1166 |
| James II flees from England |
2011-03-01 |
1151 |
| James II forms a camp of troops on Hounslow Heath |
2011-04-01 |
960 |
| James II introduces Roman Catholics into the Church and army |
2011-04-01 |
1561 |
| James II lands in Ireland |
2011-03-01 |
1139 |
| James II recalls the regiments in Holland to England |
2011-04-01 |
1227 |
| James II receives the Papal Nuncio |
2011-04-01 |
1216 |
| James II sets up a court for ecclesiastical commissions |
2011-04-01 |
1207 |
| James II tries to appoint Catholics to Oxford and Cambridge colleges |
2011-04-01 |
1459 |
| James II's widow dies in France |
2011-04-01 |
946 |
| James III the Pretender is forced to leave France |
2011-04-01 |
1331 |
| James III the Pretender returns to France |
2011-04-01 |
1755 |
| James III, the 'Pretender', arrives at Peterhead from France |
2011-04-01 |
1609 |
| James IV crosses the Tweed and attacks Norham Castle |
2010-11-01 |
1556 |
| James IV of Scotland declares war against England |
2010-11-01 |
1335 |
| James IV of Scotland invades Northumberland in support of Perkin Warbeck |
2010-11-01 |
2129 |
| James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor |
2010-11-01 |
768 |
| James IV of Scotland receives Perkin Warbeck at Stirling |
2010-11-01 |
1037 |
| James Joule and Lord Kelvin demonstrate that a rapidly expanding gas cools |
2013-08-30 |
2164 |
| James K Polk elected US President |
2011-12-30 |
1548 |
| James Lancaster leads the first East India Company voyage from London |
2011-02-01 |
1995 |
| James Madison defeats De Witt Clinton |
2010-03-01 |
1100 |
| James Monroe begins second term as USA President |
2011-12-30 |
1153 |
| James Oglethorpe founds Savannah |
2011-04-01 |
768 |
| James V of Scotland arrives in France |
2010-11-01 |
911 |
| James V of Scotland forces Galloway clans to submit |
2010-11-01 |
2236 |
| James V of Scotland is 'erected' King, aged twelve |
2010-11-01 |
1417 |
| James V of Scotland marries Madeleine, daughter of Francis I |
2010-11-01 |
959 |
| James V of Scotland marries Mary of Guise |
2010-11-01 |
955 |
| James V succeeds as King of Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1280 |
| James VI and I is proclaimed King of Great Britain, France and Ireland |
2011-02-01 |
2075 |
| James VI and I suggests a flag combining that of England and Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
1416 |
| James VI of Scotland escapes from his Ruthven captors |
2011-02-01 |
1181 |
| James VI of Scotland is born |
2011-02-01 |
1157 |
| James VI signs the second Confession of Faith in Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
2044 |
| James VI takes over the government of Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
1684 |
| James, Duke of York, is forced by Test Act to resign as Lord High Admiral |
2011-04-01 |
1365 |
| James, Duke of York, is restored as Lord Admiral |
2011-04-01 |
756 |
| James, Duke of York, leaves England for Antwerp |
2011-04-01 |
518 |
| James, Earl of Mort succeeds as Regent of Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
556 |
| James, Earl of Stanhope, dies |
2011-04-01 |
708 |
| Jameson Raid: invasion of Transvaal |
|
1173 |
| Jameson surrenders to the Boers at Doornkop |
2011-12-30 |
1027 |
| Jan Hus begins preaching in Prague |
2010-03-01 |
2894 |
| Jan Hus burned as a heretic |
2010-03-01 |
3162 |
| Jan Hus starts giving lectures at the University of Prague |
2010-03-01 |
3322 |
| Jan Smuts captures Wilhemsthal |
2011-03-01 |
635 |
| Jansenism |
2002-12-29 |
7638 |
| Japan adopts gold standard |
2011-12-30 |
461 |
| Japan becomes signatory to treaty of London |
2010-03-01 |
628 |
| Japan concludes tariff convention with Britain, France, Holland and USA |
2011-12-30 |
1099 |
| Japan decides to conclude alliance with Britain |
2010-03-01 |
618 |
| Japan departs League of Nations |
2010-02-01 |
717 |
| Japan erects puppet regime in China |
2010-02-01 |
923 |
| Japan invades Korea |
2010-03-01 |
783 |
| Japan occupies French Indochina |
2010-02-01 |
1052 |
| Japan opens the port of Nagasaki to overseas trade |
2011-02-01 |
824 |
| Japan opposes Russian attempts to secure naval base |
2010-03-01 |
1168 |
| Japan restricts commerce with foreigners |
2005-09-13 |
1298 |
| Japan sends flotilla to Yangtze river |
2010-03-01 |
748 |
| Japan surrenders Liao Tung peninsula and Port Arthur to China |
2011-12-30 |
1247 |
| Japan's Constitution gives it a two-chamber Diet but maintains imperial power |
2011-12-30 |
393 |
| Japan's secret ultimatum to China |
2010-03-01 |
1198 |
| Japanese annihilate Russian fleet |
2010-03-01 |
1008 |
| Japanese cripple Russian fleet off Port Arthur |
2010-03-01 |
1735 |
| Japanese defeat by Soviets |
2010-02-01 |
771 |
| Japanese defeat Russians at Liaoyang, China |
2011-03-01 |
1173 |
| Japanese defeat Russians at Mukden |
2010-03-01 |
1115 |
| Japanese foreign minister fails to abolish extra-territorial concessions |
2011-12-30 |
974 |
| Japanese immigration to the US limited |
2010-03-01 |
1924 |
| Japanese note to Russia regarding Manchuria |
2010-03-01 |
1561 |
| Japanese occupy Dalny (Dairen), Russia |
2011-03-01 |
784 |
| Japanese proclaim "New Order" for Asia |
2010-02-01 |
650 |
| Japanese ruler Otomo Yoshishige converts to Christianity |
2011-02-01 |
781 |
| Japanese troops seize the palace in Seoul |
2011-12-30 |
953 |
| Japanese ultimatum to Germany |
2010-03-01 |
1375 |
| Japanese victory over Chinese at Port Arthur |
2011-12-30 |
1099 |
| Japanese-German anti-Comintern pact |
2010-02-01 |
664 |
| Jean Calvin is expelled from Geneva |
2010-11-01 |
1548 |
| Jean VilleIe resigns as French Prime Minister after election defeats |
2011-12-30 |
1189 |
| Jean VilleIe secures royal ordinance to censor French press |
2011-12-30 |
928 |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert becomes chief minister in France |
2011-03-01 |
1178 |
| Jean-Jaurés murdered in Paris |
2010-03-01 |
1029 |
| Jeans length determined |
2009-05-01 |
1139 |
| Jefferson champions the rights of slaves |
2010-03-01 |
1861 |
| Jefferson Davis introduces Resolutions in favour of slave trade |
2011-12-30 |
933 |
| Jefferson Davis is captured near Florida border and imprisoned |
2011-12-30 |
2093 |
| Jefferson's land ordinance passed |
2010-03-01 |
1850 |
| Jehangir succeeds as Mogul Emperor of India |
2011-02-01 |
480 |
| Jerome Bonaparte created King of Westphalia |
2010-03-01 |
927 |
| Jervis and Nelson defeat Spanish fleet |
2011-03-01 |
1350 |
| Jesuit Henry Garnett executed for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot |
2011-02-01 |
1189 |
| Jesuit Jean Châtel attempts to assassinate Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2770 |
| Jesuit Robert Southwell is hanged at Tyburn |
2011-02-01 |
2377 |
| Jesuits |
2010-03-01 |
3439 |
| Jesuits and seminary priests are ordered to leave England |
2011-02-01 |
2686 |
| Jesuits begin to arrive in Brazil |
2010-03-01 |
1158 |
| Jesuits establish their first mission base in Paraguay |
2011-02-01 |
1134 |
| Jesuits Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion land in England |
2011-02-01 |
4210 |
| Jet engine patented |
2010-02-01 |
1162 |
| Jewish families are expelled from Bordeaux |
2011-04-01 |
2175 |
| Jews are persecuted in Germany |
2010-03-01 |
2122 |
| Jews in Spain forced to decide between Christianity and exile |
2010-11-01 |
2182 |
| Joachim II, a moderate Catholic, becomes Elector of Brandenburg |
2010-11-01 |
1374 |
| Joachim II, Elector of Brandenburg, becomes a Protestant |
2010-11-01 |
756 |
| Joachim of Brandenburg attacks Turkey |
2010-11-01 |
1218 |
| Joan of Arc burned as a heretic by the English |
2010-03-01 |
1632 |
| Joan of Arc relieves the siege of Orleans |
2010-03-01 |
2040 |
| Johan Banér attacks Regensburg; almost captures the Emperor |
2011-02-01 |
903 |
| Johan van Oldenbarneveldt is arrested for treason |
2011-02-01 |
804 |
| Johan van Oldenbarneveldt is found guilty of treason |
2011-02-01 |
236 |
| Johann Ludwig Burckhardt discovers Petra |
2010-01-01 |
855 |
| Johannes Kepler describes how the eye focuses light |
2009-05-01 |
2265 |
| John Abbot becomes premier of Canada |
2011-12-30 |
729 |
| John Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is sent to the Tower |
2011-04-01 |
934 |
| John Cabot reaches Newfoundland |
2010-03-01 |
2731 |
| John Casimir holds Ghent |
2011-02-01 |
961 |
| John Casimir leads a German Protestant army to support the Huguenots |
2011-02-01 |
2544 |
| John Casimir of the Palatinate signs an alliance with Henry of Navarre |
2011-02-01 |
2060 |
| John Casimir provokes civil strife in the southern Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
990 |
| John Casimir signs a treaty with the French Huguenot leaders |
2011-02-01 |
2357 |
| John Cowell's law dictionary is censured |
2011-02-01 |
3035 |
| John de Castro is appointed Viceroy of Portuguese India |
2010-11-01 |
407 |
| John de Witt becomes Grand Pensionary in Holland |
2011-04-01 |
631 |
| John Dudley is created Duke of Northumberland |
2010-11-01 |
2296 |
| John Dunstable develops musical counterpoint |
2010-03-01 |
734 |
| John Fisher, First Sea Lord, resigns |
2010-03-01 |
453 |
| John Frederick of Saxony and Philip of Hesse invade Brunswick |
2010-11-01 |
1562 |
| John Frederick of Saxony recovers his lands from Maurice |
2010-11-01 |
1113 |
| John Frederick succeeds as Elector of Saxony |
2010-11-01 |
671 |
| John Frederick, the Ernestine Elector of Saxony, dies |
2010-11-01 |
1042 |
| John George Duke of Saxony applies to join the Protestant Union |
2011-02-01 |
917 |
| John George III of Saxony calls on German princes to oppose Louis XIV |
2011-04-01 |
303 |
| John George of Brandenburg is placed under the ban of the Empire |
2011-02-01 |
459 |
| John Hampden fails to overturn imposition of Ship Money |
2010-02-01 |
1736 |
| John Hawkins and Francis Drake are trapped by Spanish ships in the West Indies |
2010-03-01 |
2119 |
| John Hawkins begins a slave trade between Sierra Leone and Hispaniola |
2010-03-01 |
2479 |
| John Hawkins sets off on a second voyage to the New World |
2011-02-01 |
1990 |
| John II (John Casimir) succeeds in Poland |
2011-04-01 |
990 |
| John II (John Casimir), King of Poland, abdicates |
2011-04-01 |
1188 |
| John II becomes King of Portugal |
2010-03-01 |
1135 |
| John II of Denmark defeats the Swedes at Brunkeberg |
2010-11-01 |
1680 |
| John III (the Pious) succeeds as King of Portugal |
2010-11-01 |
1015 |
| John III is proclaimed King of Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1071 |
| John III of Poland and Charles of Lorraine raise Turkish siege of Vienna |
2011-04-01 |
1151 |
| John III of Sweden unofficially becomes Catholic |
2011-02-01 |
2645 |
| John Knox articulates a Calvinist constitution for the Church of Scotland |
2010-03-01 |
2981 |
| John Knox is captured and enslaved in a French galley |
2010-03-01 |
2331 |
| John Knox preaches a defiant sermon that incites violent riots |
2011-02-01 |
2215 |
| John Knox returns to Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
1713 |
| John Law sets up a joint-stock Banque Generale in Paris |
2011-04-01 |
1332 |
| John Law's Edict |
2011-04-01 |
1418 |
| John Law's Mississippi Company is given a monopoly of trade with Louisiana |
2011-04-01 |
934 |
| John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, confesses the Ridolfi Conspiracy |
2011-02-01 |
2729 |
| John Lord Russell is appointed Lord Privy Seal |
2010-11-01 |
1911 |
| John McDouall Stuart explores the north of South Australia |
2010-01-01 |
1146 |
| John of Gaunt |
2012-07-31 |
2091 |
| John of Salisbury |
2012-07-31 |
2194 |
| John Penry is executed for denying Queen Elizabeth's royal supremacy |
2011-02-01 |
2188 |
| John Sigismund of Brandenburg is converted to Calvinism |
2011-02-01 |
938 |
| John Sigismund succeeds as Elector of Brandenburg |
2011-02-01 |
660 |
| John Sigismund Zapolya of Transylvania dies |
2011-02-01 |
1364 |
| John Sigismund Zapolya of Transylvania signs a secret treaty with Maximilian II |
2011-02-01 |
2470 |
| John Sobieski defeats Turks at Khorzim |
2011-04-01 |
1290 |
| John Somerville, who had plotted to assassinate Elizabeth I, is executed |
2011-02-01 |
1161 |
| John the Infante of Spain marries Margaret of Austria |
2010-11-01 |
1597 |
| John the Steadfast succeeds as Elector of Saxony |
2010-11-01 |
1226 |
| John the Terrible, Prince of Moldavia, is killed attacking the Turks |
2011-02-01 |
1096 |
| John Thompson becomes premier of Canada |
2011-12-30 |
954 |
| John Tutchin dies on the pillory |
2010-02-01 |
1879 |
| John V becomes King of Portugal |
2011-04-01 |
526 |
| John VI annuls Portuguese Constitution of 1822 |
2011-12-30 |
383 |
| John VI of Portugal dies |
2011-12-30 |
503 |
| John VI of Portugal re-asserts his authority |
2011-12-30 |
1394 |
| John VI promises to apply parts of Portuguese Constitution to Brazil |
2011-12-30 |
343 |
| John VI returns to Portugal, leaving his son as Regent of Brazil |
2011-12-30 |
335 |
| John Wheeler discusses the need for quantum gravity |
2009-05-01 |
2030 |
| John Whitgift is elected Archbishop of Canterbury |
2011-02-01 |
1539 |
| John Wilkes attacks the King's Speech |
2010-03-01 |
1731 |
| John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, is appointed Lord Keeper |
2011-02-01 |
1314 |
| John Zapolya is crowned King of Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
1829 |
| John Zápolya makes a treaty with Suleiman I |
2010-11-01 |
2574 |
| John, Duke of Marlborough, dies |
2011-04-01 |
787 |
| John, Earl of Mar, succeeds as Regent of Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
423 |
| John, Lord Carteret becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
2011-04-01 |
456 |
| John, Lord Carteret, a rival to Robert Walpole, is dismissed |
2011-04-01 |
816 |
| Johnson noise in a resistor discovered |
2009-05-01 |
795 |
| Joint declaration by Russia and China |
2010-03-01 |
1144 |
| Joint imperial and English armies take St. Dizier and threaten Paris |
2010-11-01 |
1793 |
| Jointure |
2001-11-01 |
2913 |
| Jose Balmaceda driven from office in Chile |
2011-12-30 |
527 |
| Joseph Banks founds Africa Association |
2010-03-01 |
914 |
| Joseph Bonaparte made king of Spain |
2010-02-01 |
2724 |
| Joseph Caillaux arrested for treason |
2010-03-01 |
323 |
| Joseph Chamberlain becomes Commons leader of Liberal Unionists |
2011-12-30 |
1045 |
| Joseph Chamberlain converts to Imperial Preference |
2011-03-01 |
566 |
| Joseph Chamberlain criticises Russia and leans towards USA and Germany |
2011-12-30 |
899 |
| Joseph Chamberlain gives anti-German speech |
2010-03-01 |
576 |
| Joseph Chamberlain resigns |
2010-03-01 |
664 |
| Joseph Chamberlain suggests an Anglo-German alliance |
2011-12-30 |
971 |
| Joseph Chamberlain visits South Africa |
2010-03-01 |
798 |
| Joseph Fourier formally introduces the use of dimensions for physical quantities |
2009-05-01 |
2134 |
| Joseph I is elected King of the Romans |
2011-04-01 |
242 |
| Joseph I succeeds as King of Portugal |
2011-04-01 |
490 |
| Joseph II abrogates Barrier treaty of 1715 |
2010-03-01 |
903 |
| Joseph II abrogates Transylvanian constitution |
2010-03-01 |
376 |
| Joseph II Bavarian Exchange Scheme |
2010-03-01 |
982 |
| Joseph II breaks diplomatic relations with Holland |
2010-03-01 |
977 |
| Joseph II delivers Summary of Claims to Dutch |
2011-03-01 |
902 |
| Joseph II enforces German language in Bohemia |
2010-03-01 |
963 |
| Joseph II establishes single seminary |
2010-03-01 |
1039 |
| Joseph II returns to Vienna |
2010-03-01 |
909 |
| Joseph II succeeds Francis I as Holy Roman Emperor |
2010-03-01 |
1063 |
| Joseph II visits Catherine The Great |
2010-03-01 |
937 |
| Joseph Joffre opens battle of Champagne |
2010-03-01 |
438 |
| Joseph Pulitzer purchases the New York World from Jay Gould |
2010-03-01 |
927 |
| Joseph Ward resigns |
2010-03-01 |
462 |
| Jouissance |
2004-01-01 |
42781 |
| Jourdan invades Germany |
2010-03-01 |
2138 |
| Journeys of Niccolo Conti recorded by Poggio Bracciolini |
2010-03-01 |
2735 |
| Juan de Rosas becomes Dictator in Argentina |
2011-12-30 |
332 |
| Juana and Philip the Handsome visit Henry VII at Windsor |
2010-11-01 |
1102 |
| Juana, wife of Philip the Handsome, inherits Castile |
2010-11-01 |
926 |
| Judge Advocate Atkins excludes Aboriginal evidence from law courts |
2010-03-01 |
555 |
| Judge Jeffreys conducts the 'Bloody Assizes' |
2011-04-01 |
1722 |
| Judgment in U.S. Northern Securities case |
2010-03-01 |
1357 |
| Jules Dufaure forms ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
1046 |
| Jules Ferry forms second ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
1126 |
| Jules Grevy is elected President of France |
2011-12-30 |
832 |
| Jules Grevy is re-elected President of France |
2011-12-30 |
878 |
| Jules Grevy resigns presidency of France in financial scandal |
2011-12-30 |
985 |
| Jules Mazarin is elected a Cardinal |
2011-02-01 |
1051 |
| Julian calendar developed |
2009-05-01 |
835 |
| Julius Andrassy calls for religious freedom in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
2011-12-30 |
368 |
| Julius II declares war on Ferrara |
2010-11-01 |
1263 |
| Julius II deposes the Duke of Bologna with French help |
2010-11-01 |
1661 |
| Julius II engages 15,000 Swiss mercenaries and takes Modena |
2010-11-01 |
927 |
| Julius II gives Naples to Ferdinand of Spain to keep his allegiance |
2010-11-01 |
1123 |
| Julius II is seriously ill but recovers |
2010-11-01 |
1519 |
| Julius II plans a league against Venice |
2010-11-01 |
1262 |
| Junius |
2010-01-01 |
2527 |
| Juries Act |
2010-03-01 |
630 |
| K'ang-hsi becomes Emperor of China |
2011-04-01 |
388 |
| K'ang-hsi opens all Chinese ports to foreign trade |
2011-04-01 |
842 |
| Kaffir War in South Africa |
2011-03-01 |
1981 |
| Kaiser William II congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid |
2010-01-01 |
1637 |
| Kaiser William II denies President Kruger audience |
2010-03-01 |
945 |
| Kaiser William II's meeting with Lord Salisbury creates mutual distrust |
2011-12-30 |
705 |
| Kaluza-Klein theory formulated |
2009-05-01 |
1177 |
| Kanajeji, King of Kano, dies |
2010-03-01 |
1427 |
| Kasimir Badeni forms ministry in Austro-Hungary |
2011-12-30 |
1002 |
| Katanga Company is formed to exploit copper deposits for Belgium |
2011-12-30 |
992 |
| Katyn Massacre |
2009-05-01 |
1045 |
| Kay’s 'Flying Shuttle' invented |
2005-05-19 |
10051 |
| Kemal Pasha proclaims Turkish Republic |
2010-02-01 |
1333 |
| Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions |
2010-03-01 |
864 |
| Kentucky becomes American state |
2010-03-01 |
847 |
| Kerr solution found to describe a spinning black hole |
2009-05-01 |
1001 |
| Kett’s Rebellion |
2006-02-15 |
3544 |
| Khalifa of Sudan is killed by Reginald Wingate on the White Nile |
2011-12-30 |
800 |
| Khedive is forced to appoint a Nationalist ministry in Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
515 |
| Khitan (Cathay) dynasty established |
2009-05-01 |
809 |
| Khmer Kingdom capital shifts from Angkor to Phnom Penh |
2010-03-01 |
1376 |
| Khrushchev deposed |
2010-02-01 |
702 |
| Khwarizmi |
2008-03-30 |
1911 |
| Kilmainham 'treaty' between Parnell and Britain for an amnesty |
2011-12-30 |
879 |
| Kilwa Sultans initiate a large building programme |
2010-03-01 |
1326 |
| Kimberley diamond region annexed by Britain |
2011-03-01 |
2062 |
| King Alfred defeats the Danes at Edington; Peace of Wedmore concluded |
2009-05-01 |
1944 |
| King arrests nine MPs |
2010-01-01 |
1517 |
| King George I lands in England |
2011-04-01 |
911 |
| King George V of Hanover abolishes liberal institutions |
2011-12-30 |
549 |
| King Joseph flees Madrid |
2011-03-01 |
744 |
| King Joseph I of Spain dies |
2011-04-01 |
1105 |
| King Lobengula grants Rhodes mining rights in Matabeleland |
2011-12-30 |
962 |
| King Lobengula of Matabele accepts British protection |
2011-12-30 |
856 |
| King Louis XIV returns to Paris and government is re-established |
2011-04-01 |
2142 |
| King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate |
2009-05-01 |
761 |
| King Michael's coup |
2009-05-01 |
1578 |
| King Mieszko I of Poland accepts Christianity |
2009-05-01 |
1157 |
| King Movement demands Maori state |
2010-02-01 |
1603 |
| King Nicholas dethroned in Montenegro |
2010-03-01 |
495 |
| King of France orders the Paris Parlement not to meddle in politics |
2011-04-01 |
1017 |
| King of Hanover dismisses his pro-Constitutional opponents |
2011-12-30 |
1271 |
| King of Holland abdicates |
2011-03-01 |
608 |
| King of Korea proclaims himself emperor |
2011-12-30 |
931 |
| King of Sicily surrenders his title at the command of Quadruple Alliance |
2011-04-01 |
614 |
| King Swein leads a Danish invasion of England |
2010-01-01 |
1995 |
| King Sweyn returns; accepted as King by the Danelaw |
2012-07-31 |
1458 |
| King Tutankhamun's tomb uncovered |
2010-02-01 |
762 |
| King's College, London, founded |
2013-08-30 |
945 |
| King's Commissioner arrives in Scotland |
2010-02-01 |
1716 |
| Kingdom of England created |
2009-05-01 |
1719 |
| Kingdom of Leon is subject to Muslim rule |
2009-05-01 |
1765 |
| Kingdom of Scotland founded |
2009-05-01 |
1109 |
| Kingdom of Yugoslavia formed |
2009-05-01 |
814 |
| Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents the bicycle |
2013-08-30 |
900 |
| Kléber's French army defeats Turks |
2010-03-01 |
2485 |
| Klein-Nishina formula |
2009-05-01 |
714 |
| Knights of Labor riot in Chicago |
2011-12-30 |
1393 |
| Konstantin Fehrenback becomes chancellor of Germany |
2010-03-01 |
668 |
| Korea becomes a tributary state of China |
2011-02-01 |
648 |
| Korea partitioned |
2010-02-01 |
448 |
| Korean cultural efflorescence under the reign of Sejong |
2010-03-01 |
1106 |
| Koreans attack Japanese legation in Seoul |
2011-12-30 |
1050 |
| Krell, former Chancellor of Saxony, is executed |
2011-02-01 |
971 |
| Krishna Deva Raya is King of Vijayanagara |
2010-03-01 |
535 |
| Krystallnacht |
2010-02-01 |
1917 |
| Kurt Eisner, Bavarian premier, assassinated |
2010-03-01 |
653 |
| Kut-el-Amara falls to Turks |
2010-03-01 |
1047 |
| L. Starr Jameson founds Unionist party |
2010-03-01 |
764 |
| La Chambre Ardente is created in Paris for heretic trials |
2010-11-01 |
1423 |
| La Rochelle falls |
2010-01-01 |
2845 |
| La Rochelle resists authority of Louis XIII |
2010-02-01 |
2671 |
| La Salle is murdered by his colleagues |
2011-04-01 |
1075 |
| La Vendée: revolt against French revolution |
2007-11-28 |
3812 |
| Labour Department formed in Germany |
2011-12-30 |
680 |
| Labour government in Australia |
2011-03-01 |
599 |
| Labour Party |
2004-02-19 |
3899 |
| Labrador explored by Martin Frobisher, who discovers Baffin Island |
2010-01-01 |
1638 |
| Lachlan Macquarie becomes Governor of New South Wales |
2010-03-01 |
1178 |
| Ladislas II becomes King of Hungary |
2010-03-01 |
2107 |
| Lady Arabella Stuart dies in the Tower of London |
2011-02-01 |
1263 |
| Lady Jane Grey and Protestant advisors are tried for treason |
2010-11-01 |
3632 |
| Lady Jane Grey is deposed and Mary proclaimed Queen |
2010-11-01 |
1589 |
| Lady Jane Grey is executed |
2010-11-01 |
1466 |
| Lady Jane Grey is unwillingly proclaimed Queen of England |
2010-11-01 |
917 |
| Lady Jane Grey marries Lord Guildford Dudley |
2010-11-01 |
550 |
| Lady Jane Grey's father is executed |
2010-11-01 |
1241 |
| Lagos becomes separate British colony from Nigeria |
2011-12-30 |
667 |
| Lajos Kossuth proclaimed president of Hungarian defence committee |
2011-12-30 |
687 |
| Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, world's longest bridge, opens |
2010-02-01 |
1162 |
| Lake Victoria established as the source of the Nile |
2010-01-01 |
828 |
| Lally advances against Madras |
2011-12-30 |
1243 |
| Lancastrians defeated at Towton, England |
2010-03-01 |
2250 |
| Lancelot (Launcelot) |
2010-02-01 |
3577 |
| Land Acquisition Act in Zimbabwe |
2010-02-01 |
533 |
| Land Act |
2010-02-01 |
1855 |
| Land Act (2) |
2013-08-30 |
1055 |
| Land bill for Ireland extends tenants' rights |
2011-12-30 |
1018 |
| Land tax reduced in Britain |
2010-03-01 |
1645 |
| Landgrave of Hesse agrees to supply troops to defend Hanover |
2011-12-30 |
843 |
| Laon is taken |
2011-02-01 |
2171 |
| Laplace’s nebular hypothesis formulated |
2009-05-01 |
688 |
| Lapse of the Licensing Act |
2004-04-02 |
12396 |
| Laquadra becomes Chief Minister in Spain |
2011-04-01 |
755 |
| Large silver mine opened at Potosi |
2010-03-01 |
295 |
| Large-scale emigration of Huguenots from France begins |
2011-04-01 |
1066 |
| Large-scale German and Scots-Irish immigrations to North America |
2011-04-01 |
977 |
| Large-scale vacuum energy fluctuation theory of the universe |
2009-05-01 |
781 |
| Last Chartist Petition rejected |
2013-08-30 |
4278 |
| Last English woman burned at the stake |
2010-06-18 |
2116 |
| Last French troops quit Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
726 |
| Last German garrison in Cameroon surrenders |
2010-03-01 |
509 |
| Last Habsburg Emperor Charles VI dies, succeeded by Maria Theresa |
2011-04-01 |
769 |
| Last of Swift's Drapiers Letters |
2011-04-01 |
690 |
| Last rising of French Huguenots under Rohan |
2011-02-01 |
2061 |
| Latency Period |
2005-10-22 |
6750 |
| Lateran Accords |
2010-02-01 |
1201 |
| Latin American states recognise Venustiano Carranza |
2010-03-01 |
276 |
| Latvia declares war on Germany |
2010-03-01 |
552 |
| Latvian independence |
2010-03-01 |
413 |
| Laudon takes the Silesian fortress of Glatz from the Prussians |
2011-12-30 |
652 |
| Launch of the Einstein X-ray satellite (HEAO-2) |
2009-05-01 |
776 |
| Law against Jesuits in France |
2011-12-30 |
1130 |
| Law of induction stated by Michael Faraday |
2013-08-30 |
3105 |
| Law of Malus formulated |
2009-05-01 |
819 |
| Law Society formed |
2013-08-30 |
1020 |
| Laws of black home mechanics proposed |
2009-05-01 |
854 |
| Laws of Burgos |
2010-03-01 |
387 |
| Laws of electrolysis stated by Michael Faraday |
2013-08-30 |
3165 |
| Laws of genetic inheritance formulated by Gregor Mendel |
2010-02-01 |
1330 |
| Laws suppressing anarchist and socialist organisations in Italy |
2011-12-30 |
332 |
| Le Chatelier’s pinciple formulated |
2009-05-01 |
670 |
| Le Mans and Bayeux surrender to Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2029 |
| Le Peletier becomes leading Finance Minister of France |
2011-04-01 |
1245 |
| Leaders of revolt in Hungary are executed |
2011-04-01 |
701 |
| Leaders of the Orthodox Church in Poland ally against the Jesuits |
2011-02-01 |
778 |
| Leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace are executed |
2010-11-01 |
1886 |
| Leaders of the Schmalkaldic League outlawed by the Empire |
2010-11-01 |
2320 |
| Leading members of the Paris Parlement are imprisoned |
2011-02-01 |
647 |
| League of Augsburg is formed against Louis XIV |
2011-04-01 |
553 |
| League of Cambrai |
2010-03-01 |
2113 |
| League of Gotha created as an association of Protestant princes |
2010-11-01 |
4912 |
| League of Heidelberg is formed by German princes |
2010-11-01 |
738 |
| League of Heilbronn |
2011-02-01 |
1285 |
| League of Nations comes into being |
2010-03-01 |
354 |
| League of Nations Covenant set before Peace Conference |
2010-03-01 |
1009 |
| League of Rivoli formed |
2011-02-01 |
1069 |
| League of Schmalkalden/ Schmalkaldic League |
2010-03-01 |
5890 |
| League of the Three Emperors: Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary |
2010-01-01 |
1443 |
| League of Torgau formed |
2011-02-01 |
2196 |
| League of Torgau: a union of Protestant states in the German Empire |
2010-03-01 |
2705 |
| League of Turin formed against the Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
1210 |
| Lee, Chang-rae |
2004-06-24 |
6825 |
| Left bank of the Rhine is freed of Germans |
2011-04-01 |
902 |
| Leftist leader Kalman Tisza forms ministry in Hungary |
2011-12-30 |
975 |
| Legal minimum wage recommended by Maxwell Commission |
2010-02-01 |
1792 |
| Legal ruling that any Scot born after 1603 is a subject of the King of England |
2011-02-01 |
2031 |
| Legend of Robin Hood emerges in England |
2012-07-31 |
2375 |
| Legislative Assembly meets |
2010-03-01 |
2213 |
| Leicester angers moderates by aiding Calvinists |
2011-02-01 |
783 |
| Leicester returns to England from the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1189 |
| Lemanic Republic proclaimed |
2011-03-01 |
2168 |
| Length of a cycloid established |
2009-05-01 |
640 |
| Lenin dies |
2010-02-01 |
765 |
| Leo Africanus explores Timbuktu, Gao, Katsina, Kano and Lake Chad |
2010-03-01 |
2628 |
| Leon Bourgeois forms Radical ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
837 |
| Leon Gambetta falls; Charles Freycinet forms ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
1050 |
| Leon Gambetta forms ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
644 |
| Leonard Lord Grey is executed for treason |
2010-11-01 |
1345 |
| Leoni, James |
2005-05-26 |
3535 |
| Leonid Krasin arrives in London |
2010-03-01 |
1207 |
| Leopold I is elected Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
749 |
| Leopold I makes treaties of alliance with Holland and Bavaria |
2011-04-01 |
999 |
| Leopold I of Belgium dies |
2011-12-30 |
416 |
| Leopold I signs a treaty with Transylvania |
2011-04-01 |
914 |
| Leopold II becomes Holy Roman Emperor |
2011-03-01 |
554 |
| Leopold II calls on powers to support Louis XVI |
2010-03-01 |
1957 |
| Leopold II hands Congo over to Belgium |
2010-03-01 |
2153 |
| Leopold II of Belgium abandons claims to Upper Nile territory |
2011-12-30 |
679 |
| Leopold II of Belgium agrees to co-operate with French on Upper Nile |
2011-12-30 |
618 |
| Leopold II of Tuscany abolishes Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
297 |
| Leopold II's death |
2010-03-01 |
277 |
| Leopold of Hohenzollern's acceptance of the Spanish throne is withdrawn |
2011-12-30 |
657 |
| Leopold, Prince of Anhalt, organises Prussian army |
2011-04-01 |
779 |
| Leopold's mercenaries devastate Upper Austria and move towards Prague |
2011-02-01 |
1651 |
| Lepanto surrenders to the Sultan |
2010-11-01 |
1162 |
| Leslie Orgel shows that RNA can replicate without RNA-replicase |
2009-05-01 |
567 |
| Letters of Junius creators tried for seditious libel |
2010-01-01 |
1189 |
| Leveller leaders arrested on charges of sedition |
2011-03-01 |
3634 |
| Levellers publish Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens |
2011-02-01 |
4491 |
| Levellers' mutiny crushed at Burford |
2011-03-01 |
2272 |
| Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm formulated |
2009-05-01 |
714 |
| Levy en Masse Act |
2010-02-01 |
1512 |
| Lewis of Baden defeats the Turks and occupies Bulgaria |
2011-04-01 |
1094 |
| Lewis of Nassau seizes Mons |
2011-02-01 |
1117 |
| Lewis of Nassau takes Valenciennes from the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
996 |
| Lhasa is seized by western Mongols |
2011-04-01 |
815 |
| Li-Fournier Convention |
2010-02-01 |
2193 |
| Liberal Constitution in Denmark establishes limited monarchy |
2011-12-30 |
373 |
| Liberal Constitution introduced in Baden |
2010-03-01 |
898 |
| Liberal constitution introduced in the Ottoman Empire |
2010-01-01 |
604 |
| Liberal Constitution is proclaimed in Spain |
2011-12-30 |
460 |
| Liberal landslide in British general election |
2010-03-01 |
1130 |
| Liberal ministry in Spain |
2010-03-01 |
840 |
| Liberal opposition wins majority in French election |
2011-12-30 |
673 |
| Liberal republican Constitution adopted in Greece |
2011-12-30 |
314 |
| Liberal revolt in Cuba |
2010-03-01 |
1275 |
| Liberal victory in Cuban elections |
2011-03-01 |
241 |
| Liberals defeated in Canadian general election |
2010-03-01 |
968 |
| Liberals in Hungary obtain a governmental majority |
2011-12-30 |
649 |
| Liberals meet in Brussels to demand reforms |
2011-12-30 |
637 |
| Liberals secure majority in British elections |
2011-12-30 |
715 |
| Liberia is founded by freed slaves |
2011-03-01 |
528 |
| Liberia is proclaimed an independent republic |
2011-12-30 |
383 |
| Liberty of the press is restricted in France |
2011-12-30 |
1009 |
| Libyan independence |
2011-03-01 |
321 |
| Liechtenstein becomes an independent Principality of the Empire |
2011-04-01 |
304 |
| Light described as an electromagnetic phenomenon by Maxwell |
2013-08-30 |
3600 |
| Ligurian Republic united with France |
2011-03-01 |
2670 |
| Lille falls to British troops |
2010-03-01 |
315 |
| Limerick, the last Irish Jacobite city, surrenders |
2010-01-01 |
1943 |
| Limited Liability Act |
2013-08-30 |
348 |
| Limited right of public meeting allowed in France |
2011-12-30 |
1041 |
| Lin Zexu becomes imperial commissioner in Canton |
2010-02-01 |
1420 |
| Lincoln calls for Militia to suppress Confederacy |
2011-12-30 |
1900 |
| Lindisfarne Gospels |
2009-05-01 |
1415 |
| Linear differential equations given solution |
2009-05-01 |
933 |
| Lionel Cranfield is appointed Lord Treasurer of England |
2011-02-01 |
1219 |
| Lisbon becomes the centre of Portuguese government |
2010-03-01 |
1162 |
| Lisbon Earthquake |
2005-09-13 |
1366 |
| Lisbon is occupied by supporters of Dom Pedro and Queen Maria |
2011-12-30 |
792 |
| Literary Annuals and Giftbooks |
2013-08-30 |
6234 |
| Lithium and boron nuclei split |
2009-05-01 |
1005 |
| Lithuanian-Russo War breaks out |
2010-11-01 |
1179 |
| Litotes |
2001-11-01 |
5719 |
| Liverpool Sanitary Act |
2010-02-01 |
1899 |
| Lloyd George’s “People’s Budget” |
2010-02-01 |
1038 |
| Local Government Act establishes county councils in Britain |
2011-12-30 |
778 |
| Local government board created in England |
2011-12-30 |
1025 |
| Locks invented in China |
2009-05-01 |
846 |
| Locomotive Act |
2010-02-01 |
1310 |
| Lollard reformers persecuted in England |
2010-03-01 |
1684 |
| London besieged by Viking forces |
2009-05-01 |
1043 |
| London Conference between great powers |
2011-12-30 |
314 |
| London Conference on Denmark solves nothing and war resumes |
2011-12-30 |
696 |
| London Conference proposes a peace between Belgium and Holland |
2011-12-30 |
625 |
| London Conference's Twenty-four Articles are rejected by the Dutch |
2011-12-30 |
600 |
| London Convention between Britain and Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
779 |
| London Convention of Britain, Spain and France to obtain loan repayments from Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
770 |
| London convention regulates the status of Transvaal |
2011-12-30 |
1254 |
| London dock strike |
2013-08-30 |
1104 |
| London negotiations for Anglo-Japanese alliance |
2010-03-01 |
670 |
| London peace conference |
2010-03-01 |
911 |
| London Protocol aims to secure Greek independence |
2011-12-30 |
971 |
| London Protocol extended to Continental Greece and Euboea |
2011-12-30 |
983 |
| London Protocol of great powers demands Turkey to undertake reforms |
2011-12-30 |
695 |
| London Protocol recognises Greek independence |
2011-12-30 |
852 |
| London railway amalgamation |
2010-03-01 |
1188 |
| London to Edinburgh in 2 days by coach |
2013-08-30 |
1755 |
| London Working Men's Association founded |
2010-01-01 |
1424 |
| London Zoological Society founded |
2013-08-30 |
548 |
| Londonderry is relieved after a siege of 150 days |
2011-04-01 |
1203 |
| Long copyrights introduced |
2013-08-30 |
1264 |
| Long Parliament dissolves itself and calls for an election |
2011-03-01 |
1178 |
| Long Parliament of 1640 restored |
2010-01-01 |
1140 |
| Long Parliament summoned in England |
2010-02-01 |
1487 |
| Lord Ashbourne's Act authorises loans for Irish tenants |
2011-12-30 |
1367 |
| Lord Bolingbroke dies |
2011-04-01 |
631 |
| Lord Bolingbroke flees to France |
2011-04-01 |
1957 |
| Lord Bolingbroke gives up his struggle against Walpole |
2011-04-01 |
722 |
| Lord Bolingbroke returns from exile |
2011-04-01 |
827 |
| Lord Burghley is appointed Lord Treasurer |
2011-02-01 |
983 |
| Lord Byron dies in the fight for Greek independence |
2010-01-01 |
1370 |
| Lord Carnarvon discusses South African federation |
2011-12-30 |
2119 |
| Lord Castlereagh commits suicide |
2011-12-30 |
1098 |
| Lord Chamberlain Stanley tried for complicity with Perkin Warbeck |
2010-11-01 |
2659 |
| Lord Chief Justice Henry Rolle resigns |
2010-02-01 |
558 |
| Lord Clinton leads an English expedition to Brittany |
2011-02-01 |
1493 |
| Lord Cowper is appointed Lord Chancellor |
2011-04-01 |
1031 |
| Lord Derby's ministry is defeated over Disraeli's Reform Bill |
2011-12-30 |
1522 |
| Lord Durham becomes Governor-in-Chief of British North America |
2011-12-30 |
1133 |
| Lord Durham resigns position in Canada |
2011-12-30 |
314 |
| Lord Fairfax urges restoration of the monarchy |
2010-02-01 |
742 |
| Lord Finch, the Lord Keeper, is impeached by the Commons |
2011-02-01 |
1294 |
| Lord Gowrie and his brother Ruthven seize King James VI |
2011-02-01 |
1299 |
| Lord Granville seeks to withdraw forces from Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
1093 |
| Lord Halifax is dismissed as Lord Privy Seal |
2011-04-01 |
1402 |
| Lord Halifax is struck off the Privy Council |
2011-04-01 |
994 |
| Lord Hopton surrenders |
2010-02-01 |
2055 |
| Lord John Russell becomes Prime Minister for the first time |
2013-08-30 |
1980 |
| Lord John Russell calls London Conference to solve Danish Question |
2011-12-30 |
939 |
| Lord John Russell resigns, but returns the same day |
2011-12-30 |
729 |
| Lord John Russell's motion for parliamentary reform is rejected |
2011-12-30 |
1856 |
| Lord Kelvin formally states the second law of thermodynamics |
2013-08-30 |
3346 |
| Lord Kitchener combats Boers' guerrilla actions |
2010-03-01 |
1494 |
| Lord Lake defeats Irish rebels |
2010-03-01 |
1553 |
| Lord Lisle is arrested for betraying Calais to Cardinal Pole |
2010-11-01 |
1814 |
| Lord Liverpool resigns |
2011-03-01 |
988 |
| Lord Liverpool suffers a stroke and is forced to resign as Prime Minister |
2011-12-30 |
970 |
| Lord Melbourne resigns over Jamaican Bill |
2011-12-30 |
3490 |
| Lord Mountjoy begins the reconquest of Ireland from the rebels |
2011-02-01 |
1221 |
| Lord Mountjoy lays siege to Kinsale |
2011-02-01 |
1288 |
| Lord Mountjoy replaces Essex as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
2011-02-01 |
1229 |
| Lord North becomes Chancellor of Exchequer |
2010-03-01 |
1086 |
| Lord Palmerston resigns as Foreign Secretary |
2011-12-30 |
681 |
| Lord Palmerston survives a Parliamentary attack on his foreign policy |
2011-12-30 |
968 |
| Lord Pembroke becomes Lord Privy Seal |
2011-04-01 |
1074 |
| Lord Randolph Churchill outlines a bold programme of domestic reform |
2011-12-30 |
330 |
| Lord Randolph Churchill resigns |
2011-12-30 |
785 |
| Lord Rayleigh discusses the blue sky law and sunsets |
2013-08-30 |
786 |
| Lord Robert Dudley is created Earl of Leicester |
2011-02-01 |
1624 |
| Lord Rosebery attacks idea of Irish Home Rule |
2010-03-01 |
646 |
| Lord Rosebery is defeated on a vote relating to cordite supply |
2011-12-30 |
608 |
| Lord Rosebery resigns Liberal leadership over Armenian question |
2011-12-30 |
612 |
| Lord Salisbury resigns as British Prime Minister |
2011-12-30 |
1922 |
| Lord Salisbury's upholds policy of isolation |
2010-03-01 |
1080 |
| Lord Shelburne resigns |
2010-03-01 |
670 |
| Lord Shrewsbury resigns as a Secretary of State |
2011-04-01 |
1314 |
| Lord Somers and Captain Newport leave Plymouth for Virginia |
2011-02-01 |
1718 |
| Lord Somers is created Lord Chancellor |
2011-04-01 |
1091 |
| Lord Spencer's naval programme in England |
2011-12-30 |
1003 |
| Lord Stafford is executed |
2011-04-01 |
713 |
| Lord Stafford is tried for treason |
2011-04-01 |
1142 |
| Lord Sunderland is appointed Secretary of State, Southern Department |
2011-04-01 |
731 |
| Lord Thomas Fitzgerald assassinates Archbishop Allen of Dublin |
2010-11-01 |
1657 |
| Lord Treasurer Godolphin's resignation leaves an entirely Whig ministry |
2011-04-01 |
1242 |
| Lord Treasurer Lionel Cranfield is impeached for bribery |
2011-02-01 |
1828 |
| Lord Wentworth claims the province of Connaught for Charles I |
2011-02-01 |
747 |
| Lords of the Covenant rout Bothwell at the Battle of Carberry Hill |
2011-02-01 |
1779 |
| Lords pass Parliament bill |
2010-03-01 |
1046 |
| Lords reject Self-Denying Ordinance |
2011-02-01 |
2398 |
| Lords Shaftesbury, Buckingham, Salisbury and Wharton are imprisoned |
2011-04-01 |
1096 |
| Lorenzo Ganganelli elected Pope Clement XIV |
2010-03-01 |
1108 |
| Lothair I dies after partitioning his lands |
2009-05-01 |
1253 |
| Louis (later VIII) invades England |
2012-07-31 |
1005 |
| Louis Botha becomes South African premier |
2010-03-01 |
657 |
| Louis Botha defeated at Bergendal |
2010-03-01 |
1730 |
| Louis Botha forms Het Volk organisation |
2010-03-01 |
901 |
| Louis Botha occupies Windhoek |
2010-03-01 |
691 |
| Louis Botha resigns South African premiership |
2010-03-01 |
559 |
| Louis II succeeds as King of Bohemia and Hungary, aged ten |
2010-11-01 |
1290 |
| Louis IV excommunicated by the Pope |
2010-03-01 |
776 |
| Louis Napoleon escapes from Ham to London |
2011-12-30 |
1405 |
| Louis Napoleon fails to seize power in France |
2011-12-30 |
1820 |
| Louis Napoleon is elected President of France |
2011-12-30 |
666 |
| Louis Napoleon's attempted rising at Boulogne faiIs |
2011-12-30 |
1786 |
| Louis of Baden defeats the Turks at Salem Kamen |
2011-04-01 |
935 |
| Louis of Nassau is defeated at the battle of Mookerheyde |
2011-02-01 |
1248 |
| Louis Philippe becomes king |
2010-02-01 |
1012 |
| Louis Philippe is appointed Lieutenant General of France |
2011-12-30 |
708 |
| Louis the Pious divides the Carolingian Empire among his sons |
2009-05-01 |
1746 |
| Louis the Pious divides the Frankish empire |
2009-05-01 |
1290 |
| Louis VI succeeds as Elector Palatine |
2011-02-01 |
773 |
| Louis XII attacks Genoa with a Swiss army to restore order |
2010-11-01 |
1428 |
| Louis XII confirms the Treaty of Etaples with Henry VII |
2010-11-01 |
2073 |
| Louis XII gives Cesare Borgia a wife and the Duchy of Valentinois |
2010-11-01 |
609 |
| Louis XII makes peace with Pope Leo X |
2010-11-01 |
1415 |
| Louis XII makes treaty of alliance with John Albert, King of Poland |
2010-11-01 |
1545 |
| Louis XII of France and Ferdinand of Aragon sign secret treaty of Granada |
2010-11-01 |
1776 |
| Louis XII of France breaks Burgundian alliance |
2010-11-01 |
1101 |
| Louis XII of France claims the Duchy of Milan |
2010-03-01 |
2116 |
| Louis XII of France marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany |
2010-11-01 |
1452 |
| Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII |
2010-11-01 |
285 |
| Louis XII of France renews alliance with Venice |
2010-11-01 |
1587 |
| Louis XII purchases the neutrality of Cesare Borgia |
2010-11-01 |
964 |
| Louis XII signs agreement with the Swiss League |
2010-11-01 |
1749 |
| Louis XII, Duke of Orleans succeeds as King of France |
2010-11-01 |
1577 |
| Louis XII's solemn entry to Milan |
2010-11-01 |
2112 |
| Louis XIII abolishes the privileges of Guienne in response to revolt |
2011-02-01 |
815 |
| Louis XIII is seriously ill |
2011-02-01 |
600 |
| Louis XIII leads the army against the Huguenots |
2011-02-01 |
2225 |
| Louis XIII recalls Richelieu from Avignon |
2011-02-01 |
955 |
| Louis XIV agrees to help the Dutch if they are attacked |
2011-04-01 |
987 |
| Louis XIV appeals to French nation to reject humiliating peace proposals |
2011-04-01 |
1450 |
| Louis XIV appoints de Frontenac Governor of Canada |
2011-04-01 |
1346 |
| Louis XIV becomes a candidate for Holy Roman Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
1021 |
| Louis XIV captures Ghent and Ypres |
2011-04-01 |
1404 |
| Louis XIV claims the electorate of the Palatine for his sister-in-law |
2011-04-01 |
905 |
| Louis XIV continues his alliance with the League of the Rhine |
2011-04-01 |
848 |
| Louis XIV declares war on Britain |
2011-04-01 |
1374 |
| Louis XIV declares war on Holland |
2011-04-01 |
771 |
| Louis XIV declares war on Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1315 |
| Louis XIV demands a 30-year truce with the Emperor and the German States |
2011-04-01 |
958 |
| Louis XIV fails to take Liège |
2011-04-01 |
1639 |
| Louis XIV makes treaties with Hanover, Osnabrück, Brunswick and Palatinate |
2011-04-01 |
879 |
| Louis XIV marries Madame de Maintenon |
2011-04-01 |
265 |
| Louis XIV of France marries Maria Teresa, Infanta of Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1103 |
| Louis XIV proclaims annexation of Madagascar |
2011-04-01 |
427 |
| Louis XIV promises the Count Palatine a pension |
2011-04-01 |
681 |
| Louis XIV recognises James II's son as king on his father's death |
2011-04-01 |
862 |
| Louis XIV rejects Dutch terms for a peace |
2011-04-01 |
594 |
| Louis XIV rejects peace preliminaries |
2011-04-01 |
3612 |
| Louis XIV reopens the siege of Luxembourg |
2011-04-01 |
594 |
| Louis XIV restores Avignon to the Pope |
2011-04-01 |
895 |
| Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland to fight for James II |
2011-04-01 |
1701 |
| Louis XIV signs a peace treaty with Victor Amadeus of Savoy |
2011-04-01 |
1198 |
| Louis XIV signs a secret treaty with Charles II of England |
2011-04-01 |
1336 |
| Louis XIV signs the defensive League of the Rhine |
2011-04-01 |
892 |
| Louis XIV takes Boucham |
2011-04-01 |
695 |
| Louis XIV takes Valenciennes and St. Omer |
2011-04-01 |
515 |
| Louis XIV tries to negotiate for peace |
2011-04-01 |
2003 |
| Louis XIV wins over the Bishop of Strasburg with a pension |
2011-04-01 |
832 |
| Louis XIV's new foreign policy approach |
2011-04-01 |
393 |
| Louis XV attains his majority |
2011-04-01 |
919 |
| Louis XV dismisses the Spanish Infanta due to marry him |
2011-04-01 |
972 |
| Louis XV exiles the Paris Parlement in the dispute over ecclesiastical causes |
2011-04-01 |
1035 |
| Louis XV is dangerously ill at Metz |
2011-04-01 |
637 |
| Louis XV marries Maria Lesczcyinski of Poland |
2011-04-01 |
635 |
| Louis XV recalls the Paris Parlement to halt risk of civil war |
2011-04-01 |
685 |
| Louis XVI becomes heir to French throne |
2010-03-01 |
1296 |
| Louis XVI caught at Varennes |
2010-03-01 |
2494 |
| Louis XVI convokes the Estates-General |
2007-12-22 |
1116 |
| Louis XVI dismisses Turgot |
2010-03-01 |
711 |
| Louis XVI flees Paris |
2007-12-22 |
2753 |
| Louis XVI is born |
2011-04-01 |
498 |
| Louis XVI obliged to leave Versailles |
2007-12-22 |
2279 |
| Louis XVI recalls Parlements |
2011-03-01 |
735 |
| Louis XVI summons the States-General |
2011-03-01 |
1995 |
| Louis XVI vetoes Assembly decree |
2010-03-01 |
2000 |
| Louis XVIII dissolves the Chamber |
2010-03-01 |
655 |
| Louvois becomes French Minister of War |
2011-04-01 |
1153 |
| Lower Austria submits to the Emperor Ferdinand II |
2011-02-01 |
658 |
| Lubeck and Denmark defeat Swedes off Gotland |
2011-02-01 |
1530 |
| Lubeck declares war on Denmark and lays waste to Bornholm |
2010-11-01 |
1384 |
| Lucretia Borgia divorces Giovanni Sforza |
2010-11-01 |
624 |
| Lucretia Borgia is betrothed to the Duke of Ferrara |
2010-11-01 |
578 |
| Lucretia Borgia marries Giovanni Sforza of Pesano |
2010-11-01 |
606 |
| Luddites |
2004-02-06 |
4705 |
| Ludendorff dismissed |
2010-03-01 |
265 |
| Ludovico Sforza calls on Charles VIII of France to claim Kingdom of Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1385 |
| Ludovico Sforza flees from Milan to the Tyrol to raise an army |
2010-11-01 |
1153 |
| Ludovico Sforza of Milan appeals to France to claim Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1336 |
| Ludovico Sforza of Milan dies |
2010-11-01 |
482 |
| Ludovico Sforza recovers Milan from the French |
2010-11-01 |
1963 |
| Ludwig Leichhardt explores the continent from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arnhem Land |
2010-01-01 |
1280 |
| Luigi Pelloux forms ministry in Italy on Count Rudini's resignation |
2011-12-30 |
929 |
| Luis I of Spain dies and Philip V returns as King |
2011-04-01 |
911 |
| Lusitania: record Atlantic crossing |
2010-02-01 |
1306 |
| Luther and Zwingli hold a disputation at Marburg |
2010-11-01 |
2151 |
| Luther's Ninety-five Theses |
2008-01-01 |
7481 |
| Lutheran deadline for conformity expires |
2010-11-01 |
1664 |
| Lutheranism is adopted by regional German rulers |
2010-11-01 |
2179 |
| Lutheranism remains the state religion in Sweden, despite a Catholic king |
2010-03-01 |
977 |
| Lutherans constrain Archbishop Gebhard of Cologne, a Calvinist convert |
2011-02-01 |
792 |
| Luxembourg referendum in favour of monarchy |
2011-03-01 |
335 |
| Lyon declares for Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2084 |
| Lyric |
2001-11-01 |
5907 |
| Maastricht falls to the Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
1042 |
| Maastricht falls to the Spanish after a siege of four months |
2011-02-01 |
837 |
| Maastricht Treaty increases European integration |
2008-01-01 |
830 |
| Mabo decision |
2010-03-01 |
804 |
| MacDonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada |
2011-12-30 |
794 |
| Mach’s principle formulated |
2009-05-01 |
459 |
| Machault D' Arnouville attempts to reform the French tax system |
2011-04-01 |
985 |
| Machault D'Arnouville becomes French Controller for Finances |
2011-04-01 |
881 |
| MacKenzie Bowell becomes Canadian premier |
2011-12-30 |
1020 |
| Mackenzie sets up provisional government for Upper Canada |
2011-12-30 |
784 |
| Mackinnon treaty between Belgium and British East Africa Company |
2011-12-30 |
520 |
| MacMahon gains presidential powers for seven years |
2011-12-30 |
388 |
| MacMahon is elected French president |
2011-12-30 |
682 |
| Macmillan's Magazine |
2013-08-30 |
5338 |
| Macon's Bill No. 2 |
2010-03-01 |
1649 |
| Madame de Pompadour becomes Louis XV's recognised mistress |
2011-04-01 |
384 |
| Madison furthers Virginia Resolution |
2010-03-01 |
853 |
| Madrid becomes the capital of Spain |
2011-02-01 |
624 |
| Madrid Conference |
2010-02-01 |
1188 |
| Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII |
2011-02-01 |
932 |
| Magdeburg besieged by Maurice of Saxony |
2010-03-01 |
2055 |
| Magdeburg capitulates to Maurice of Saxony |
2010-11-01 |
1144 |
| Magna Carta |
2004-01-23 |
6473 |
| Magnetic poles described |
2009-05-01 |
880 |
| Magyar campaigns in Western Europe |
2009-05-01 |
1489 |
| Magyar tribes settle in Central Europe |
2009-05-01 |
1579 |
| Magyars attack the forces of Frankish emperor Louis II (the German) |
2009-05-01 |
1662 |
| Magyars oppose Hungarian unified army system |
2010-03-01 |
893 |
| Mahamud II succeeds Mustapha IV |
2010-03-01 |
581 |
| Mahommed Ali, Shah of Persia, deposed |
2010-03-01 |
538 |
| Maine adopts a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
2010-03-01 |
1402 |
| Maine is restored to the heirs of Sir Ferdinando Gorges |
2011-04-01 |
791 |
| Major Esterhazy acquited of alleged forgery of Dreyfus document |
2011-12-30 |
586 |
| Majority black rule established in Zimbabwe |
2010-02-01 |
695 |
| Malawi independence |
2010-03-01 |
604 |
| Malaya celebrates independence |
2010-02-01 |
834 |
| Malet conspires to dethrone Napoleon |
2010-03-01 |
1997 |
| Malthusian speculations on human population |
2009-05-01 |
1375 |
| Mamluks unsuccessful in their endeavours to invade Cyprus |
2010-03-01 |
834 |
| Manchester anti-slave trade petition |
2010-02-01 |
2001 |
| Manchester weavers riot |
2013-08-30 |
1558 |
| Manchuria China makes appeals regarding Russia |
2010-03-01 |
1752 |
| Manhattan Project |
2009-05-01 |
866 |
| Manhood suffrage in New Zealand |
2011-12-30 |
551 |
| Manifesto is published in Spain that sparks liberal revolt |
2011-12-30 |
669 |
| Manitoba made Canadian province |
2011-12-30 |
301 |
| Mannheim surrenders to the imperialists |
2011-02-01 |
1927 |
| Mantua falls to the imperialists |
2011-02-01 |
1025 |
| Manuel the Fortunate becomes King of Portugal |
2010-11-01 |
1219 |
| Manuel the Fortunate, King of Portugal, marries Maria, the Infanta of Spain |
2010-11-01 |
1369 |
| Manuel, King of Portugal marries Isabella of Spain |
2010-11-01 |
1371 |
| Manyōshu, an anthology of Japanese poetry, is compiled |
2009-05-01 |
1549 |
| Maori "Musket Wars" |
2010-02-01 |
2579 |
| Marat is murdered |
2011-03-01 |
2698 |
| Maravi Empire founded by Kalunga Masula |
2010-03-01 |
621 |
| Marco Minghetti forms ministry in Italy |
2011-12-30 |
1015 |
| Marco Minghetti resigns in Italy |
2011-12-30 |
1031 |
| Marco Polo leaves Venice for China |
2010-01-01 |
2736 |
| Mardyke captured by the Anglo-French army |
2011-03-01 |
1775 |
| Margaret Countess of Salisbury is executed for conspiracy |
2010-11-01 |
1756 |
| Margaret of Austria appointed Regent of the Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
716 |
| Margaret of Austria confirms marriage treaty between Archduke Charles and Mary Tudor |
2010-11-01 |
1204 |
| Margaret of France marries Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy |
2011-02-01 |
787 |
| Margaret of Parma resigns the regency of the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
420 |
| Margaret of Savoy, Governor of the Netherlands, dies |
2010-11-01 |
796 |
| Margaret of Valois is betrothed to Henry of Navarre |
2011-02-01 |
2921 |
| Margaret Tudor, Regent of Scotland, marries Earl of Angus |
2010-11-01 |
508 |
| Margaret Tudor, the Queen Regent, flees from Scotland to England |
2010-11-01 |
1512 |
| Margaret, Queen Mother of Scotland, remains at the English court |
2010-11-01 |
1388 |
| Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach defeats Heidelberg League |
2010-11-01 |
1235 |
| Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach deserts his Protestant allies |
2010-11-01 |
839 |
| Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach receives the ban of the Empire |
2010-11-01 |
1288 |
| Maria I dies and is succeeded by John VI |
2010-03-01 |
511 |
| Maria Theresa accepts the Crown of Hungary |
2011-04-01 |
639 |
| Maria Theresa and Sardinia sign a treaty confirming the Peace |
2011-04-01 |
931 |
| Maria Theresa appoints John Palffy Governor of Hungary |
2011-04-01 |
368 |
| Maria Theresa concludes an alliance with Russia against Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
788 |
| Maria Theresa is crowned at Prague |
2011-04-01 |
242 |
| Maria Theresa marries Stephen, Duke of Lorraine |
2011-04-01 |
248 |
| Maria Theresa of Austria is born |
2011-04-01 |
288 |
| Maria Theresa unites the Austrian and Bohemian Chanceries |
2011-04-01 |
427 |
| Maria Theresa's husband Francis Stephen is elected Holy Roman Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
827 |
| Marie de' Medici and the Duke of Orleans intrigue against Richelieu |
2011-02-01 |
896 |
| Marie de' Medici, Queen Mother of France, challenges her son's power |
2011-02-01 |
1176 |
| Marlborough and Prince Eugene take Mons |
2011-04-01 |
1895 |
| Marlborough captures Liège |
2011-04-01 |
2072 |
| Marlborough conquers Spanish Netherlands |
2011-04-01 |
2461 |
| Marlborough is sent to the Tower of London |
2011-04-01 |
935 |
| Marlborough is victorious at Donauwörth |
2011-04-01 |
2370 |
| Marlborough meets Prince Eugene of Austria at Mandelsheim |
2011-04-01 |
2412 |
| Marlborough occupies the Electorate of Cologne |
2011-04-01 |
2407 |
| Marlborough takes Roermonde |
2011-04-01 |
2506 |
| Marlborough takes Venlo |
2011-04-01 |
2172 |
| Marquess of Hartington is elected Liberal leader |
2011-12-30 |
1062 |
| Marquette and Joliet descend Mississippi to Arkansas |
2011-04-01 |
1154 |
| Marquis de Rudin forms a right-wing coalition in Italy |
2011-12-30 |
626 |
| Marriage alliance between Burgundy and France arranged |
2010-11-01 |
1227 |
| Marriage arranged between Archduke Charles and Mary Tudor |
2010-11-01 |
1179 |
| Marriage between divorcee Lady Frances Howard and Earl of Somerset |
2011-02-01 |
313 |
| Marriage negotiations between Elizabeth I and François Duke of Anjou |
2011-02-01 |
284 |
| Marriage of Charles I to Henrietta Maria |
2010-02-01 |
404 |
| Marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Elector Palatine |
2010-02-01 |
862 |
| Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert |
2013-08-30 |
479 |
| Marriage of Spanish princess and Louis Philippe's son |
2011-12-30 |
1779 |
| Marriage proposed between Henry Prince of Wales and the Infanta |
2011-02-01 |
1055 |
| Marriage treaties are signed between France and Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1079 |
| Marriage treaty between Catherine of Aragon and Arthur, Prince of Wales ratified |
2010-11-01 |
1778 |
| Marriage treaty is signed to cement Anglo-Scottish relations |
2010-11-01 |
1236 |
| Married Women’s Property Act |
2008-02-21 |
3207 |
| Marshal Francisco Serrano becomes dictator in Spain |
2011-12-30 |
2275 |
| Marshal of France negotiates the future of Spanish dominions |
2011-04-01 |
741 |
| Marshal Prim dies in Spain, after being wounded by assassin |
2011-12-30 |
985 |
| Marshal Soult forms ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
1283 |
| Marshall Tallard is sent London to negotiate a partition treaty |
2011-04-01 |
1000 |
| Martello towers constructed |
2010-02-01 |
1588 |
| Martial law imposed in the Philippines |
2010-02-01 |
819 |
| Martial law in Cork |
2010-03-01 |
1075 |
| Martin Luther advises the Protestant princes not to compromise |
2010-11-01 |
1777 |
| Martin Luther condemns the religious riots in Saxony |
2010-11-01 |
1818 |
| Martin Luther dies |
2010-11-01 |
1276 |
| Martin Luther has private discussions with the papal chamberlain |
2010-11-01 |
2715 |
| Martin Luther is cross-examined at the Diet of Worms |
2010-11-01 |
1910 |
| Martin Luther publicly burns the bull Exsurge |
2010-11-01 |
1613 |
| Martin Luther's public disputation with Johann Eck at Leipzig |
2010-11-01 |
2716 |
| Martin Marprelate |
2005-06-17 |
3182 |
| Martin von Schenck takes Bonn from the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
653 |
| Marxist rises to power in Albania |
2010-02-01 |
731 |
| Mary of Austria marries Louis, King of Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
661 |
| Mary of Guise, Queen Dowager of Scotland dies |
2011-02-01 |
1866 |
| Mary of Guise, the Queen Mother, becomes Regent of Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
639 |
| Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Lochleven |
2011-02-01 |
2367 |
| Mary Queen of Scots is denied passage through England |
2011-02-01 |
2890 |
| Mary Queen of Scots is executed at Fotheringay |
2011-02-01 |
2525 |
| Mary Queen of Scots is tried for treason |
2011-02-01 |
3193 |
| Mary Queen of Scots lands in France |
2010-11-01 |
2551 |
| Mary Queen of Scots marries Bothwell in Edinburgh |
2011-02-01 |
2315 |
| Mary Queen of Scots marries Henry, Lord Darnley |
2011-02-01 |
2213 |
| Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin, the future Francis II |
2011-02-01 |
2116 |
| Mary Queen of Scots pronounced guilty in the Star Chamber |
2011-02-01 |
3090 |
| Mary Queen of Scots recognises Philip II of Spain as her heir |
2011-02-01 |
2699 |
| Mary Queen of Scots' secretary is murdered on Darnley's orders |
2011-02-01 |
2377 |
| Mary Stuart flees to England |
2010-01-01 |
1299 |
| Mary Tudor attempts to flee to Flanders |
2010-11-01 |
1918 |
| Mary Tudor secretly marries Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk |
2010-11-01 |
360 |
| Mary, Queen of Scots, abdicates |
2010-03-01 |
1593 |
| Masaccio deploys perspective, producing a naturalistic style |
2010-03-01 |
1190 |
| Maskelyne, Nevil |
2008-01-01 |
1864 |
| Mass emigration of Germans from Palatinate to North America |
2011-04-01 |
806 |
| Mass migration of US farmers |
2010-02-01 |
982 |
| Massachusetts Assembly dissolved |
2010-03-01 |
1095 |
| Massachusetts banishes Anne Hutchinson |
2010-03-01 |
1418 |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony granted Royal Charter |
2010-01-01 |
2813 |
| Massachusetts buys most of Maine |
2011-04-01 |
1148 |
| Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society founded |
2010-03-01 |
1196 |
| Massacre of Armenians in Constantinople |
2011-12-30 |
453 |
| Massacre of Cawnpore |
2011-12-30 |
1008 |
| Massacre of Fort Pillow |
2010-03-01 |
2451 |
| Massacre of Pottawatomie Creek |
2011-12-30 |
1683 |
| Massacre of the Vaudois in Provence |
2010-11-01 |
1721 |
| Massacre of Verden |
2009-05-01 |
4258 |
| Massacres in Paris |
2007-12-22 |
2785 |
| Massive monarchist demonstrations in Madrid |
2011-12-30 |
531 |
| Maternity Allowance Act |
2010-03-01 |
944 |
| Mathieu Dreyfus discovers that Major Esterhazy convicted his brother |
2011-12-30 |
800 |
| Matilda marries Geoffrey of Anjou |
2012-07-31 |
1049 |
| Matrimonial Causes Act |
2010-02-01 |
2139 |
| Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary, arrives in Macao |
2010-03-01 |
1230 |
| Matthew Earl of Lennox forfeits his Scottish estates |
2010-11-01 |
812 |
| Matthew Parker becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
2011-02-01 |
1282 |
| Matthew, Earl of Lennox, signs a secret treaty with England |
2010-11-01 |
1088 |
| Matthias is crowned King of Bohemia |
2011-02-01 |
2015 |
| Matthias, King of Bohemia succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor |
2011-02-01 |
2279 |
| Mau Mau Uprising: Kenya declares State of Emergency |
2010-02-01 |
740 |
| Maupeou overthrows French Parlements |
2010-03-01 |
888 |
| Maurice accedes as Duke of Saxony |
2010-11-01 |
1085 |
| Maurice completes his occupation of Ernestine Saxony |
2010-11-01 |
1411 |
| Maurice debate in Commons on military manpower |
2010-03-01 |
569 |
| Maurice of Nassau defeats the Spanish at Turnhout |
2011-02-01 |
1302 |
| Maurice of Nassau fails to take Nijmegen from the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
315 |
| Maurice of Nassau is created Captain-General of the United Provinces |
2011-02-01 |
773 |
| Maurice of Nassau is elected Stadtholder of Utrecht, Gelderland and Overyssel |
2011-02-01 |
613 |
| Maurice of Nassau sides with Contra-Remonstrants |
2011-02-01 |
895 |
| Maurice of Nassau succeeds as Prince of Orange |
2011-02-01 |
643 |
| Maurice of Nassau takes Meurs |
2011-02-01 |
879 |
| Maurice of Nassau takes Nijmegen from the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
465 |
| Maurice of Nassau takes Oudenburg from the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
893 |
| Maurice of Saxony captures Linz |
2010-11-01 |
1172 |
| Maurice of Saxony is killed defeating Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach |
2010-11-01 |
1283 |
| Maurice of Saxony secedes from Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
978 |
| Maurice Prince of Orange orders the local levies to be disbanded |
2011-02-01 |
1225 |
| Maurice Prince of Orange relieves Bergen-op-Zoom |
2011-02-01 |
2298 |
| Maurice Rouvier forms ministry excluding Georges Boulanger |
2011-12-30 |
361 |
| Maurice succeeds as Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel |
2011-02-01 |
351 |
| Maurice, Elector of Saxony, signs a secret treaty with Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
700 |
| Maximilian asks German princes to aid him against the French in Italy |
2010-11-01 |
2896 |
| Maximilian disputes Stephen Bathory's election as King of Poland |
2011-02-01 |
513 |
| Maximilian Duke of Bavaria is given the Upper Palatinate |
2011-02-01 |
584 |
| Maximilian I agrees to a representative supreme executive council |
2010-11-01 |
988 |
| Maximilian I aims at creating a universal Hapsburg monarchy |
2010-11-01 |
1368 |
| Maximilian I and Ferdinand I sign truce with Louis XII of France |
2010-11-01 |
1595 |
| Maximilian I and the Swiss join the Holy League against France |
2010-11-01 |
1845 |
| Maximilian I appoints Margaret of Austria Regent in the Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
948 |
| Maximilian I attacks Venice |
2010-11-01 |
1430 |
| Maximilian I becomes Holy Roman Emperor on death of Ferdinand III |
2010-11-01 |
1138 |
| Maximilian I defeats Rupert of the Palatinate near Regensberg |
2010-11-01 |
1636 |
| Maximilian I ends the effective rule of the Executive Council |
2010-11-01 |
1109 |
| Maximilian I guarantees Hapsburg succession to Hungary and Bohemia |
2010-11-01 |
996 |
| Maximilian I is aided by an army from Nuremberg |
2010-11-01 |
1277 |
| Maximilian I is forced to sign a three-year truce with Venice |
2010-11-01 |
1364 |
| Maximilian I leads an army to oust the remaining French from Italy |
2010-11-01 |
2082 |
| Maximilian I leaves Rome, having failed to take Livorno |
2010-11-01 |
1101 |
| Maximilian I pronounces the ban of the Empire on the Elector Palatine's son |
2010-11-01 |
2169 |
| Maximilian I recognises Perkin Warbeck as King of England |
2010-11-01 |
1674 |
| Maximilian I retreats from Italy for the Tyrol |
2010-11-01 |
1325 |
| Maximilian I signs a treaty with England to prevent Venice gaining Verona |
2010-11-01 |
1411 |
| Maximilian I summons the German princes to join him on a crusade |
2010-11-01 |
1524 |
| Maximilian I takes the imperial title without being crowned |
2010-11-01 |
1223 |
| Maximilian I undertakes failed expedition to north Italy |
2010-11-01 |
1035 |
| Maximilian II Emanuel becomes Elector of Bavaria |
2011-04-01 |
432 |
| Maximilian II is implored to intervene in the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1153 |
| Maximilian is elected King of the Romans |
2011-02-01 |
1271 |
| Maximilian is recognised as the next King of Bohemia |
2010-11-01 |
2144 |
| Maximilian of Bavaria occupies the imperial city of Donauwörth |
2011-02-01 |
1220 |
| Maximilian of Bavaria relieves Charleroi from French attack |
2011-04-01 |
1740 |
| Maximilian succeeds as King of Bohemia |
2011-02-01 |
2055 |
| Maximilian takes Kufstein in the Tyrol to aid Duke of Bavaria-Munich |
2010-11-01 |
1469 |
| Maximilian, King of the Romans, is elected King of Hungary |
2011-02-01 |
905 |
| Maximilius von Spee defeats R.N. |
2010-03-01 |
550 |
| Maxwell, James Clerk |
2005-01-21 |
3899 |
| Maxwell theorizes on the nature of Saturn’s rings |
2009-05-01 |
3650 |
| May 4th Movement commences |
2010-02-01 |
812 |
| Maynooth Grant increased to aid education in Ireland |
2011-12-30 |
782 |
| Mazarin forces the Paris Parlement to yield |
2011-02-01 |
848 |
| Mazarin leaves France and offers general amnesty |
2011-04-01 |
1924 |
| McBain, Ed |
2005-02-08 |
4245 |
| McKinley presidential nominee, T. Roosevelt for vice-president |
2010-03-01 |
1919 |
| Meat and butter rationed in London |
2011-03-01 |
258 |
| Mecca sacked by Shiite Qarmatians |
2009-05-01 |
1761 |
| Mechanical equivalent of heat found by James Joule |
2013-08-30 |
2239 |
| Meeting at Ratisbon plans internal Church reform |
2010-11-01 |
1453 |
| Mehemet Ali agrees to terms of treaty of London |
2011-12-30 |
427 |
| Meiji dynasty restored in Japan |
2011-12-30 |
291 |
| Meiosis |
2001-11-01 |
4646 |
| Menelek becomes King of Ethiopia through Italian support |
2011-12-30 |
792 |
| Menelek, Emperor of Ethiopia, denounces Italian claims to a protectorate |
2011-12-30 |
722 |
| Mercantilism |
2007-12-12 |
1542 |
| Merchants Adventurers of England sign agreement with Antwerp |
2010-11-01 |
1462 |
| Mérimée, Prosper. Dernières Nouvelles 1873 |
2009-08-17 |
4427 |
| Mérimée, Prosper. La Vénus d'Ille 1837 |
2009-08-17 |
2879 |
| Mérimée, Prosper. Mosaïque 1833 |
2009-08-17 |
4232 |
| Mérimée, Prosper. Nouvelles 1852 |
2009-08-17 |
4031 |
| Metalanguage |
2007-11-10 |
2660 |
| Metallic catalysts improving the strength of polyethylene polymers discovered |
2011-03-01 |
1099 |
| Metamorphosis |
2004-04-22 |
1813 |
| Method for nonlinear least squares fitting proposed |
2011-03-01 |
751 |
| Methods for computing the exponential of a matrix found |
2009-05-01 |
856 |
| Methuen Treaty between England and Portugal |
2011-04-01 |
1668 |
| Metonymy |
2001-11-01 |
5719 |
| Metropolitan Police founded |
2007-12-12 |
3568 |
| Metternich agrees to peace congress |
2010-03-01 |
2035 |
| Metz, Verdun and Toul occupied by the French |
2010-03-01 |
2580 |
| Mexican democracy restored |
2010-02-01 |
990 |
| Mexican military dictatorship Imposed |
2010-02-01 |
945 |
| Mexican-American War |
2007-12-22 |
2452 |
| Mexico declares a two-year moratorium on foreign debt payments |
2010-02-01 |
999 |
| Mexico declares war on France |
2011-12-30 |
873 |
| Mexico forbids further U.S. immigration into Texas |
2010-03-01 |
1578 |
| Miao people rebel |
2010-02-01 |
1761 |
| Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic radiation |
2010-02-01 |
3908 |
| Michael III, King of Serbia, is murdered |
2011-12-30 |
687 |
| Michael Loris-Melikov becomes Russian minister of interior |
2011-12-30 |
994 |
| Michael Prince of Wallachia assassinated by Hungarians |
2011-02-01 |
892 |
| Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V |
2011-02-01 |
808 |
| Michel de L'Hopital is dismissed from the Chancellorship of France |
2011-02-01 |
1437 |
| Michel de L'Hopital, Chancellor of France, dies |
2011-02-01 |
1105 |
| Michel Ney is shot |
2010-03-01 |
994 |
| Michel Ney takes Ciudad Rodrigo |
2010-03-01 |
1023 |
| Middelburg captured by the Dutch; Spanish relinquish their siege of Leiden |
2010-11-01 |
1124 |
| Migrant ship Cataraqui wrecked |
2010-03-01 |
515 |
| Milan Decrees |
2010-03-01 |
912 |
| Milan of Serbia abdicates in favour of his son |
2011-12-30 |
732 |
| Milankovitch cycles related to long-term climate change proposed |
2009-05-01 |
553 |
| Military agreement between Germany and Italy |
2011-12-30 |
1036 |
| Military convention between Germany and Russia |
2011-12-30 |
994 |
| Military coup d'etat in Sofia |
2011-12-30 |
801 |
| Military dictatorship in Greece |
2010-02-01 |
490 |
| Military reforms in Prussia |
2011-03-01 |
1018 |
| Military revolt in Baden; the Grand Duke flees |
2011-12-30 |
786 |
| Military service becomes compulsory in US |
2010-03-01 |
2163 |
| Militia Act |
2010-02-01 |
3062 |
| Militia Act |
2011-12-30 |
1886 |
| Mill, James |
2007-12-02 |
4413 |
| Millbank Penitentiary opens |
2005-06-01 |
5015 |
| Millenary Petition of the Puritans |
2010-01-01 |
896 |
| Milner-Zaghlul conversations |
2010-03-01 |
614 |
| Milosh is forced to grant Constitution in Serbia |
2011-12-30 |
370 |
| Miners' safety lamp invented by Humphry Davy |
2010-02-01 |
1983 |
| Mines Act |
2010-02-01 |
1019 |
| Ming admiral reaches Malindi and trades in silk, bullion, lions, rhinos and myrrh |
2010-03-01 |
1695 |
| Ming China is unsuccessful in its campaigns against the Mongols |
2010-03-01 |
786 |
| Ming dynasty in China ends |
2011-02-01 |
437 |
| Ming forces are repulsed and leave Annam |
2010-03-01 |
975 |
| Minh Mang revives Confucianism in Vietnam |
|
874 |
| Minimum wage amendment rejected |
2010-03-01 |
915 |
| Mining for copper and lead begins in England |
2011-02-01 |
822 |
| Ministry of All the Talents |
2010-02-01 |
1511 |
| Mir Abdullah becomes ruler of Kandahar |
2011-04-01 |
548 |
| Mir Abdullah of Kandahar is killed by his nephew Mir Mahmud |
2011-04-01 |
924 |
| Mir Kasim of Murshidabad defeated |
2010-03-01 |
1292 |
| Mir Mahmud of Afghanistan begins war against Persia |
2011-04-01 |
812 |
| Mirza Asadulla Ghalib dies |
2010-02-01 |
1864 |
| Mise-en-abyme |
2006-04-22 |
32701 |
| Mississippi Plan |
2010-03-01 |
2536 |
| Mme Caillaux assassinates Gaston Calmette |
2010-03-01 |
1075 |
| Mob invade Tuileries |
2011-03-01 |
2577 |
| Möbius strip invented |
2009-05-01 |
942 |
| Moderate extension of Italian franchise |
2011-12-30 |
252 |
| Modern Big Bang Theory developed by George Gamow |
2010-02-01 |
1163 |
| Modoc War |
2010-02-01 |
2870 |
| Mogadishu Declaration |
2010-02-01 |
1331 |
| Mogul Emperor Akbar begins to campaign in the Deccan |
2011-02-01 |
1364 |
| Mogul Emperor Akbar conquers Afghanistan |
2011-02-01 |
787 |
| Mogul Emperor Akbar conquers Rajput and Lower Bengal |
2011-02-01 |
695 |
| Mohammed IV is deposed in a revolution in Constantinople |
2011-04-01 |
1107 |
| Mohammed Khudabanda succeeds as Shah of Persia |
2011-02-01 |
780 |
| Mohammed Koprulu becomes Grand Vizier in Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
596 |
| Moldavia and Wallachia obtain Phanariot governors |
2011-04-01 |
302 |
| Moldova and Wallachia occupied by Austria |
2010-01-01 |
1399 |
| Monarch deposed in Iraqi military coup |
2010-02-01 |
683 |
| Mongol Khitans invade Northern China |
2009-05-01 |
360 |
| Mongolian independence |
2010-02-01 |
669 |
| Monmouth is beheaded |
2011-04-01 |
828 |
| Monmouth is defeated at Sedgemoor |
2011-04-01 |
833 |
| Monological |
2010-02-01 |
4642 |
| Monroe Doctrine |
2010-01-01 |
4810 |
| Montagu-Chelmsford Report published |
2010-03-01 |
485 |
| Monte Cassino falls to Allies |
2010-02-01 |
1054 |
| Montenegrin independence |
2010-02-01 |
417 |
| Montenegro declares war on Turkey |
2011-12-30 |
446 |
| Montenegro King Nicholas yields Scutari to powers |
2010-03-01 |
1467 |
| Montezuma II surrenders to Hernan Cortes without a fight |
2010-03-01 |
1244 |
| Montmelion falls to the French |
2011-02-01 |
1123 |
| Montmorency is executed for intriguing to overthrow Richelieu |
2011-02-01 |
1146 |
| Montrose is defeated at Carbisdale |
2011-03-01 |
2303 |
| Moorish rebels in western Granada offer stiff resistance to Spanish army |
2010-11-01 |
1059 |
| Moreau defeats Austrians at Hohenlinden |
2011-03-01 |
2062 |
| Morgan defeats Tarleton's forces at battle of Cowpens |
2010-03-01 |
2315 |
| Mormons leave Nauvoo City for the Great Salt Lake |
2011-12-30 |
662 |
| Moroccan mission to Paris, London and Berlin |
2010-03-01 |
369 |
| Morocco made French protectorate |
2010-03-01 |
640 |
| Morrill Tariff is passed in USA |
2011-12-30 |
1174 |
| Moscow conference |
2010-03-01 |
319 |
| Moscow pulls out of US Olympics |
2010-02-01 |
946 |
| Moscow show trials begin |
2009-05-01 |
986 |
| Motif |
2001-11-01 |
6065 |
| Motion against government defeated |
2010-03-01 |
723 |
| Motion against North's administration defeated |
2010-03-01 |
802 |
| Mott Scattering |
2009-05-01 |
751 |
| Mountjoy makes himself the Master of Lough Foyle in Ireland |
2011-02-01 |
947 |
| Mughal Empire established |
2010-03-01 |
915 |
| Muhammad Ture becomes ruler of Songhai |
2010-03-01 |
1139 |
| Muhammed Shah becomes Mughal emperor of India |
2011-04-01 |
445 |
| Mun, Thomas |
2004-10-05 |
19303 |
| Munich Massacre |
2010-02-01 |
878 |
| Munich Putsch |
2010-02-01 |
835 |
| Municipal Act for Ireland extends voting rights |
2011-12-30 |
1548 |
| Municipal Corporations Act |
2010-02-01 |
1225 |
| Munster capitulates to the Hessian army and Catholicism is restored |
2010-11-01 |
2330 |
| Muons discovered |
2009-05-01 |
994 |
| Murad III becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire |
2010-11-01 |
931 |
| Murad IV of Turkey recovers Baghdad |
2011-02-01 |
906 |
| Murad V of Turkey is deposed on grounds of insanity |
2011-12-30 |
686 |
| Murat defeated at Tolentino |
2011-03-01 |
2493 |
| Murat shot |
2010-03-01 |
2050 |
| Murder of Greek Patriarch of Constantinople by Turks |
2011-12-30 |
1298 |
| Murder of Naser-al-Din, Shah of Persia |
2011-12-30 |
1070 |
| Muscovy becomes independent |
2010-03-01 |
589 |
| Muscovy Company established |
2010-03-01 |
1337 |
| Muslim (Moorish) conquest of the Iberian peninsula |
2009-05-01 |
1918 |
| Muslim Indians apply Pressure for an independent and separate state of Pakistan |
2010-02-01 |
1211 |
| Muslim rule extends to Transoxiana |
2009-05-01 |
1196 |
| Muslims massacred at Dali |
2010-02-01 |
1260 |
| Mustafa II succeeds as Sultan of Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
786 |
| Mustafa Kemal declares independence from Istanbul |
2010-03-01 |
708 |
| Mutinies in French army in Champagne |
2010-03-01 |
849 |
| Mutiny of garrisons in South Wales |
2010-02-01 |
2614 |
| Mutiny of Sudanese troops in Uganda |
2011-12-30 |
3051 |
| Mutiny of troops raised by the Duke of Rohan in the Valtelline |
2011-02-01 |
981 |
| Mutiny on battleship Potemkin |
2010-03-01 |
1363 |
| Mutual succession agreed between Brandenburg and Pomerania |
2011-02-01 |
927 |
| Nader Shah Afshar expels Afghans from Persia |
2011-04-01 |
805 |
| Nadir Shah becomes King of Persia |
2011-04-01 |
377 |
| Nadir Shah of Persia sacks Delhi and conquers the Punjab |
2011-04-01 |
1402 |
| Nadir Shar extends his influence in Balkh and Bokhara |
2011-04-01 |
563 |
| Naga Uprising |
2010-02-01 |
1385 |
| Nagasaki Treaty |
2010-02-01 |
1543 |
| Naples falls to the French |
2010-11-01 |
1743 |
| Naples is restored to Spanish rule by Don John |
2011-04-01 |
1005 |
| Naples revolts against Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1076 |
| Napoleon abdicates; restoration of Louis XVIII |
2007-12-22 |
2268 |
| Napoleon annexes Oldenburg |
2010-03-01 |
1200 |
| Napoleon annexes Papal States |
2011-03-01 |
1031 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte crowned Emperor of France |
2010-02-01 |
1784 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Austrians in Italy |
2008-03-01 |
2107 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power |
2008-03-02 |
3137 |
| Napoleon crosses River ViIna |
2011-03-01 |
1939 |
| Napoleon defeats Austrians at Arcole |
2011-03-01 |
2370 |
| Napoleon defeats Prussian and Russian armies |
2010-03-01 |
2002 |
| Napoleon defeats Wurmser |
2011-03-01 |
2134 |
| Napoleon forces Prussia to reduce army |
2010-03-01 |
2053 |
| Napoleon founds Ligurian Republic |
2010-03-01 |
2279 |
| Napoleon I's remains brought to Les Invalides in Paris |
2011-12-30 |
597 |
| Napoleon III announces cession of Venezia by Austria |
2011-12-30 |
420 |
| Napoleon III extends power of French legislature |
2011-12-30 |
640 |
| Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo at Tuileries |
2011-12-30 |
254 |
| Napoleon III overthrows the French legislative assembly and constitution |
2008-03-01 |
2046 |
| Napoleon III withdraws French support for Maximilian of Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
337 |
| Napoleon lands in France |
2010-03-01 |
1830 |
| Napoleon leaves troops with Murat |
2011-03-01 |
1883 |
| Napoleon marches into Russia |
2010-02-01 |
2584 |
| Napoleon proclaimed Emperor |
2011-03-01 |
531 |
| Napoleon proclaimed King of Italy |
2010-02-01 |
2824 |
| Napoleon refuses to accept 1792 French frontier |
2010-03-01 |
1777 |
| Napoleon revokes Berlin and Milan Decrees |
2010-03-01 |
705 |
| Napoleon suppresses Tribunate |
2011-03-01 |
675 |
| Napoleon threatens to invade Berlin |
2010-03-01 |
2040 |
| Napoleon’s Grand Army leaves Boulogne; end of fear of invasion in England |
2007-12-12 |
1900 |
| Napoleon’s Hundred Days |
2008-03-01 |
3064 |
| Nasir Ud-Din becomes Shah of Persia |
2011-12-30 |
402 |
| Natal becomes a Dutch colony |
2011-04-01 |
1290 |
| Natal is combined with Cape Colony for administrative purposes |
2011-12-30 |
1712 |
| Natal is granted self-government |
2011-12-30 |
869 |
| Nathan Bacon revolt |
2010-03-01 |
932 |
| Nathaniel Bacon's manifesto gains support for rebellion in Virginia |
2011-04-01 |
2949 |
| National Assembly dissolved |
2010-03-01 |
2126 |
| National Assembly members forbidden to accept office |
2010-03-01 |
2204 |
| National Banking Act |
2011-03-01 |
1516 |
| National bankruptcy in Portugal |
2010-03-01 |
636 |
| National Congress in Belgium decrees independence |
2011-12-30 |
253 |
| National Convention of Chartists begins in London |
2011-12-30 |
2561 |
| National Gallery built in Trafalgar Square |
2013-08-30 |
2417 |
| National Gallery founded |
2013-08-30 |
1487 |
| National Health Insurance bill introduced |
2010-03-01 |
906 |
| National Insurance Act |
2010-02-01 |
1437 |
| National network television introduced |
2010-02-01 |
822 |
| National Political Union |
2013-08-30 |
366 |
| National Progressive Republican League founded |
2011-03-01 |
1268 |
| National Prohibition Party formed in Chicago to urge temperance |
2011-12-30 |
1412 |
| National revolt after Christian II massacres leading Swedes |
2010-11-01 |
1221 |
| National Socialist Party formed in Germany |
2010-03-01 |
872 |
| National Society for Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People |
2013-08-30 |
1068 |
| National Union of the Working Classes |
2013-08-30 |
1631 |
| National Vigilance Association - banning of Zola’s novels |
2008-02-15 |
5233 |
| National Workshops are erected in France to provide relief |
2011-12-30 |
658 |
| Nationalist Party successful in South African elections |
2010-03-01 |
567 |
| Nationalist Radical party revolts against Serbian government |
2011-12-30 |
698 |
| Nationalist riots in Cairo |
2010-03-01 |
762 |
| Nationalist rising in Egypt under Arabi Pasha |
2011-12-30 |
1002 |
| Nationalist uprisings in Algeria |
2010-02-01 |
1164 |
| Native American land in Oklahoma given to white settlers |
2010-02-01 |
2236 |
| Native insurrection in Philippines |
2011-12-30 |
750 |
| Native risings in Mozambique |
2011-12-30 |
871 |
| Natives expel the French from Madagascar |
2011-04-01 |
959 |
| Naturalist Henry Bates identifies 8000 new insects from the Amazon region |
2013-08-30 |
1633 |
| Naval appropriations bill passed |
2010-03-01 |
1142 |
| Naval backing forces Charles Fleetwood to restore the Rump Parliament |
2010-01-01 |
657 |
| Naval convention of Triple Alliance |
2010-03-01 |
1043 |
| Naval Defence Act in Britain increases ship-building |
2011-12-30 |
1134 |
| Naval mutiny at Spithead |
2011-03-01 |
1619 |
| Navarre is annexed to the Crown of France |
2011-02-01 |
984 |
| Navigation Acts are modified and relaxed |
2011-12-30 |
1126 |
| Navy Department created in U.S. |
2010-03-01 |
947 |
| Nazi Party permitted in Prussia |
2010-02-01 |
924 |
| Nazi-Soviet Non-agression Pact |
2010-02-01 |
911 |
| Nazim Pasha murdered in Turkish coup |
2011-03-01 |
787 |
| Neapolitan Parliament finally dissolved |
2011-12-30 |
337 |
| Necker abolishes farming of taxes |
2010-03-01 |
1084 |
| Necker's dismissal implies royalist coup d'état |
2010-03-01 |
2457 |
| Negative Capability |
2005-05-25 |
14380 |
| Negotiations between Royalists and Parliamentarians open at Oxford |
2010-01-01 |
1987 |
| Negotiations for an alliance between Britain and Austria |
2011-12-30 |
919 |
| Negotiations for marriage between Elizabeth I and Henry Duke of Anjou |
2011-02-01 |
1747 |
| Negotiations for Prince Charles' marriage with the Infanta |
2011-02-01 |
892 |
| Nelson Dingley's tariff increases US protection |
2011-12-30 |
1088 |
| Neon, krypton, and xenon discovered by William Ramsay and Morris Travers |
2013-08-30 |
4912 |
| Neptune’s existence predicted |
2009-05-01 |
1066 |
| Netherlands adopts Proportional Representation |
2011-12-30 |
309 |
| Netherlands Councillors suspected of Spanish leanings are imprisoned |
2011-02-01 |
1048 |
| Netherlands enforce an embargo on English trade |
2011-02-01 |
1091 |
| Neuhausel surrenders to the Turks |
2011-04-01 |
1246 |
| Neutrality Act |
2010-03-01 |
279 |
| Neutrino hypothesis formulated by Pauli |
2009-05-01 |
1363 |
| Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister |
2005-11-02 |
1859 |
| New Austrian constitution |
2010-03-01 |
623 |
| New Austrian Constitution accepts Dual System with regard to Hungary |
2011-12-30 |
656 |
| New Berne, North Carolina, is captured by Unionists |
2011-12-30 |
1332 |
| New British offensive in Mesopotamia |
2010-03-01 |
914 |
| New British Parliament |
2011-03-01 |
700 |
| New British Parliament assembles |
2010-03-01 |
721 |
| New buildings forbidden to restrict London's growth |
2011-02-01 |
1798 |
| New Constitution in Argentina is not accepted by Buenos Aires |
2011-12-30 |
295 |
| New Constitution in France |
2008-03-01 |
2658 |
| New constitution in Sweden abolishes traditional four Estates |
2011-12-30 |
323 |
| New Corn Law |
2010-02-01 |
1633 |
| New defensive Konigsberg league tries to gain French support |
2010-11-01 |
2162 |
| New electoral law in France |
2010-03-01 |
1056 |
| New electoral law introduced in France |
2011-03-01 |
1005 |
| New England Confederation constituted |
2010-03-01 |
901 |
| New England Confederation declares war against Wampanoag Indians |
2011-04-01 |
2150 |
| New Englanders capture Fort Louisbourg from the French in Nova Scotia |
2010-03-01 |
1923 |
| New evidence favourable to Dreyfus is suppressed in France |
2011-12-30 |
373 |
| New France becomes a French royal province under Louis XIV |
2010-01-01 |
1303 |
| New French Constitution |
2010-02-01 |
2510 |
| New French offensive in Netherlands |
2010-03-01 |
2235 |
| New Granada proclaims a republican constitution |
2011-12-30 |
257 |
| New Greek democratic Constitution with one Chamber of Deputies |
2011-12-30 |
342 |
| New Guinea first sighted by a European: Jorge de Meneses |
2010-01-01 |
4009 |
| New Hampshire is created a separate province from Massachusetts |
2011-04-01 |
343 |
| New Japanese Constitution |
2010-02-01 |
985 |
| New Jersey is reunited as Royal Province |
2011-04-01 |
514 |
| New Jersey voting rights |
2010-03-01 |
1998 |
| New liberal Constitution granted in Hanover by William IV |
2011-12-30 |
1019 |
| New Maori risings in New Zealand |
2011-12-30 |
1969 |
| New Model Army Ordinance |
2011-03-01 |
2284 |
| New monopoly of Merchants Adventurers for the export of English cloth |
2011-02-01 |
1149 |
| New Parishes Act |
2010-02-01 |
1174 |
| New penal code in Japan, based on that of France |
2011-12-30 |
519 |
| New press law in France relieves censorship |
2011-12-30 |
852 |
| New royal charter for the English Merchants Adventurers Company |
2011-02-01 |
2512 |
| New South Wales and Victoria Constitution Acts |
2010-03-01 |
675 |
| New South Wales Gold Fields Act |
2010-03-01 |
734 |
| New South Wales Legislative Council Bushranging Act |
2010-03-01 |
1157 |
| New South Wales police reformed |
2010-03-01 |
459 |
| New South Wales Treason Felony Act |
2010-03-01 |
702 |
| New Spanish constitution |
2011-12-30 |
404 |
| New Spanish Constitution continues monarchical government |
2011-12-30 |
632 |
| New Spanish Constitution is approved |
2011-03-01 |
494 |
| New star identified by Tycho Brahe |
2010-03-01 |
582 |
| New Whig Tariff in USA replaces Compromise Tariff |
2011-12-30 |
1097 |
| New York Assembly suspended |
2010-03-01 |
1134 |
| New York City revokes the licenses of the city's movie theaters |
2010-03-01 |
1209 |
| New York subway opens |
2010-02-01 |
1198 |
| New Yugoslavian President |
2010-02-01 |
531 |
| New Zealand adopts one government |
2010-01-01 |
663 |
| New Zealand Association founded |
2005-01-01 |
3216 |
| New Zealand Constitution sweeps away provincial councils |
2011-12-30 |
325 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne captured by the Scots |
2011-03-01 |
2454 |
| Newcastle's ministry is reconstructed |
2011-12-30 |
915 |
| Newcomen builds the first steam Engine |
2004-01-23 |
4868 |
| Newlands Reclamation Act |
2010-03-01 |
1951 |
| Newspaper Publications Acts |
2010-02-01 |
1962 |
| Newspaper Stamp Act |
2010-01-01 |
3828 |
| Newspapers in France can now only be sold with government approval |
2011-12-30 |
780 |
| Niagara Falls delegates approve Mexican government |
2010-03-01 |
989 |
| Niccolo Sfondrato elected Pope Gregory XIV |
2011-02-01 |
961 |
| Nice is attacked by France and a Berber corsair |
2010-03-01 |
2810 |
| Nicholas Bacon becomes Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England |
2011-02-01 |
1270 |
| Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York, is appointed Lord Chancellor |
2011-02-01 |
1825 |
| Nicholas II stops opposing Baghdad Railway |
2010-03-01 |
726 |
| Nicholas II takes over military operation command |
2010-03-01 |
726 |
| Nicholas King of Montenegro deposed |
2010-03-01 |
819 |
| Nigerian Civil War and Biafra War |
2005-12-01 |
2145 |
| Night Poaching Act 1800 |
2009-06-24 |
1289 |
| Night Poaching Act 1817 |
2009-06-24 |
1256 |
| Nikolaus Otto builds the internal-combustion engine |
2010-02-01 |
1330 |
| Noailles invades Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1831 |
| Nobel Peace Prize to Wilson and Bourgeois |
2010-03-01 |
1309 |
| Nobles in Sweden rally to Duke John, declaring Eric XIV insane |
2011-02-01 |
756 |
| Non-Intercourse Act renewed |
2010-03-01 |
1739 |
| Non-stop flight: London to Paris |
2010-02-01 |
1339 |
| Norfolk and Surrey are accused of treason |
2010-11-01 |
2326 |
| Normandy founded by Vikings |
2009-05-01 |
506 |
| North and South Carolina become Crown colonies |
2011-04-01 |
1074 |
| North Pole reached by James Clark Ross |
2010-01-01 |
992 |
| Northcote-Trevelyan Report on Civil Service Reform |
2008-02-22 |
8383 |
| Northern Circars, Madras ceded to Britain |
2010-03-01 |
636 |
| Northern Democrats nominate Stephen Douglas for the presidency |
2010-03-01 |
1493 |
| Northern England raided by the Scots |
2012-07-31 |
1099 |
| Northern European alliance formed against Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
1489 |
| Northern Rebellion ended by defeat of the rebel army in Cumberland |
2011-02-01 |
2244 |
| Northern Rising |
2010-01-01 |
1318 |
| Northern Territory separates from New South Wales |
2010-03-01 |
1083 |
| Northern War |
2010-02-01 |
1630 |
| Northumberland leaves London to face Mary's supporters in East Anglia |
2010-11-01 |
1287 |
| Northumberland surrenders at Cambridge |
2010-11-01 |
1344 |
| Northumbria ceded to David I of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
1191 |
| Northumbria falls to the Vikings |
2009-05-01 |
1751 |
| Northumbria regained by Henry II for England |
2012-07-31 |
1131 |
| Northumbria retaken by the English |
2009-05-01 |
410 |
| Northumbria under Viking control |
2009-05-01 |
1426 |
| Norway annexes Spitzbergen |
2010-03-01 |
1141 |
| Norway granted sovereignty over Spitzbergen |
2011-03-01 |
931 |
| Norway-Sweden Treaty of Separation |
2011-03-01 |
1480 |
| Norway, Denmark and Netherlands join League |
2010-03-01 |
560 |
| Norwegian independence |
2010-02-01 |
1374 |
| Norwegian National Assembly meet |
2010-03-01 |
1504 |
| Note from the Powers to the Sultan of Turkey |
2011-12-30 |
950 |
| Nottingham again becomes sole Secretary of State |
2011-04-01 |
983 |
| NSW Judicature Act receives royal assent |
2010-03-01 |
793 |
| Nubar Pasha forms ministry in Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
878 |
| Nuclear fission in Hahn-Strassman-Meitner experiments |
2009-05-01 |
652 |
| Nuclear magnetic resonance developed |
2009-05-01 |
1691 |
| Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty signed |
2010-02-01 |
666 |
| Nucleotide sequence of the 5S ribosomal RNA from Escherichia coli established |
2009-05-01 |
625 |
| Numerical representation of zero |
2009-05-01 |
1166 |
| Nuncomar hanged |
2010-03-01 |
666 |
| Nuremberg Laws proclaimed |
2010-02-01 |
551 |
| Nylon produced |
2010-02-01 |
860 |
| O'Dogherty's rebellion in Ulster collapses |
2011-02-01 |
2048 |
| O'Donnell returns to power in Spain |
2011-12-30 |
827 |
| Oath of Association is taken to defend William III and Protestantism |
2011-04-01 |
1252 |
| Oath of Strasbourg |
2009-05-01 |
1895 |
| Oberlin opens: first coeducational college in the US |
2010-03-01 |
986 |
| Objective Correlative |
2001-11-01 |
80979 |
| Observation on venous blood circulation |
2009-05-01 |
840 |
| Occasional Conformity Act |
2007-06-19 |
3514 |
| Occasional Poem |
2010-02-01 |
11116 |
| October Diploma amends Austrian Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
951 |
| October Manifesto |
2009-05-01 |
392 |
| October Manifesto by Canadians in support of union with US |
2011-12-30 |
962 |
| Octosyllabic |
2001-11-01 |
5342 |
| Ode |
2001-11-01 |
7584 |
| Odoacer |
2006-01-01 |
2195 |
| Offa’s Dyke built |
2009-05-01 |
743 |
| Offences Against the Person Act |
2010-02-01 |
2575 |
| Offensive alliance between England and Spain |
2010-11-01 |
1637 |
| Ogden, C. K. |
2005-08-17 |
5403 |
| Oil found at Titusville, Pa., by Edwin L. Drake |
2010-03-01 |
1271 |
| Olaf I Tryggvason becomes king of Norway |
2009-05-01 |
1279 |
| Old Price Riots |
2010-02-01 |
2344 |
| Oldenburg and Hanover join Zollverein |
2011-12-30 |
632 |
| Oliver Cromwell conquers Ireland |
2010-02-01 |
2565 |
| Oliver Cromwell conquers Scotland |
2010-02-01 |
2435 |
| Oliver Cromwell defeats Royalists at Grantham |
2011-02-01 |
2143 |
| Oliver Cromwell flees from Parliament to the army |
2011-04-01 |
2261 |
| Oliver Cromwell is re-installed as Lord Protector |
2010-02-01 |
744 |
| Oliver Cromwell is victorious at Langport |
2011-02-01 |
2020 |
| Oliver Cromwell rejects the title of King |
2011-03-01 |
774 |
| Oliver Cromwell takes Gainsborough |
2011-02-01 |
2228 |
| Oliver Cromwell takes Perth |
2011-03-01 |
2190 |
| Oliver Cromwell takes power from the purged Rump Parliament |
2010-01-01 |
2078 |
| Olivier Ollivier becomes French premier |
2011-12-30 |
1094 |
| Olof Skötkonung (the Tax King) unites Sweden |
2009-05-01 |
1868 |
| On Alexander III's death Nicholas II becomes Tsar |
2011-12-30 |
426 |
| On the death of Tsar Feodore, Tsaritza Sophia becomes Regent |
2011-04-01 |
309 |
| Onomatopoeia |
2001-11-01 |
5131 |
| Oombulgurri massacre |
2010-03-01 |
1204 |
| Oort cloud posited |
2009-05-01 |
309 |
| Opening of Delagoa Bay railway gives Transvaal an outlet |
2011-12-30 |
484 |
| Opening of Japan |
2005-09-13 |
1263 |
| Operation Bagration |
2010-03-01 |
829 |
| Operation Desert Storm |
2011-12-20 |
815 |
| Operation Solomon begins |
2010-03-01 |
998 |
| Operation Torch commences |
2010-02-01 |
541 |
| Opposition to Pitt in Parliament dwindles |
2010-03-01 |
565 |
| Opposition to the restoration of the Medici in Florence |
2010-11-01 |
986 |
| Oral Phase |
2005-10-22 |
8915 |
| Orange Order founded in Ulster, Northern Ireland |
2007-12-22 |
1332 |
| Ordinance for the Union of England with Scotland and Ireland |
2011-03-01 |
2162 |
| Ordinance of Nantes orders all French fortresses to be dismantled |
2011-02-01 |
1182 |
| Ordinances for elections in Scotland and Ireland |
2010-02-01 |
444 |
| Ordnance Survey completes First Series maps begun in 1805 |
2013-08-30 |
1915 |
| Organic Act applies laws of Oregon to Alaska |
2011-12-30 |
1243 |
| Organic Law in Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
538 |
| Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development established |
2010-02-01 |
1431 |
| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) founded |
2010-02-01 |
1053 |
| Origin of Crab Nebula posited |
2009-05-01 |
377 |
| Origin of singularities posited |
2009-05-01 |
923 |
| Orion and Perseus arms of the Milky Way discovered |
2011-03-01 |
657 |
| Orissa taken by Mughal forces |
2010-11-01 |
808 |
| Orleans family is banished from France by Presidential decree |
2011-12-30 |
474 |
| Oscar Wilde sentenced to two years hard labour |
2013-08-30 |
4529 |
| Oslo Accords |
2010-02-01 |
1123 |
| Ostend Manifesto |
2010-03-01 |
1771 |
| Ottava Rima |
2001-11-01 |
5687 |
| Ottavio Farnese of Parma seeks French help against Milan |
2010-11-01 |
969 |
| Otto I of Greece convokes National Assembly |
2011-12-30 |
447 |
| Otto II marries Theophano, John I Tzimisces’s niece |
2009-05-01 |
1198 |
| Otto von Bismarck advocates a larger German army |
2011-12-30 |
948 |
| Otto von Bismarck and Napoleon III meet at Biarritz |
2011-12-30 |
2734 |
| Otto von Bismarck passes strong antisocialist legislation |
2010-01-01 |
518 |
| Otto von Bismarck seeks to preserve Germany's entente with Russia |
2011-12-30 |
239 |
| Ottoman Empire gains control of Transylvania |
2010-03-01 |
978 |
| Ottoman Governor of Egypt seeks to attack India |
2011-03-01 |
644 |
| Ottoman invasion of Greece |
2010-01-01 |
1780 |
| Ottoman Sultan deposed |
2010-02-01 |
945 |
| Ottoman territories divided |
2010-02-01 |
1079 |
| Ottomans conquer Mamluk Egypt and occupy Cairo |
2010-03-01 |
1092 |
| Ottomans conquer the island of Rhodes after a six-month siege |
2010-03-01 |
1091 |
| Ottomans declare war on Russia when they invade Moldova and Wallachia |
2011-07-01 |
1659 |
| Ottomans establish the Janissary corps |
2010-03-01 |
652 |
| Ottomans' siege of Vienna is unsuccessful |
2010-03-01 |
1403 |
| Outbreak of civil war in Rwanda |
2010-02-01 |
522 |
| Outbreak of War of Polish Succession |
2011-04-01 |
1366 |
| Outcry against Archbishop Laud at the punishment of Puritans |
2011-02-01 |
1585 |
| Ove Guldberg secures Struensee's arrest |
2010-03-01 |
802 |
| Overinterpretation [Überdeutung] |
2005-10-22 |
7856 |
| Overlordship of Scotland claimed by Edward I |
2012-07-31 |
1391 |
| Overman bill |
2010-03-01 |
262 |
| Owain the Great of Wales |
2012-07-31 |
1318 |
| Oxford and Cambridge in debate about admitting Dissenters |
2013-08-30 |
1453 |
| Oxford surrenders to Parliament |
2010-02-01 |
1871 |
| Oxford University narrowly votes in favour of the King's divorce |
2010-11-01 |
817 |
| Oxymoron |
2001-11-01 |
4651 |
| Pachacuti becomes ruler of the Inca Empire |
2010-03-01 |
995 |
| Pacification of Ghent unites all 17 Provinces of the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1343 |
| Pacification of Ireland is signed |
2011-02-01 |
1144 |
| Pact made between Spanish Supreme Junta and British |
2010-03-01 |
1070 |
| Pact of Cartagena |
2010-03-01 |
1412 |
| Pact of London |
2010-03-01 |
288 |
| Paen |
2001-11-01 |
58463 |
| Pakistan becomes independent Islamic Republic |
2010-02-01 |
1085 |
| Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire |
2013-08-30 |
1073 |
| Palazzo Venezia in Rome is completed |
2010-03-01 |
257 |
| Palmer Raids |
2010-03-01 |
715 |
| Palmerston Prime Minister for the first time |
2013-08-30 |
1897 |
| Palmerston Prime Minister for the second time |
2013-08-30 |
1926 |
| Pan Slav speech by Russian General Skobelev alarms Germany |
2011-12-30 |
1020 |
| Pan-American Congress meets in Panama |
2011-12-30 |
381 |
| Pan-Slav conference at Cracow (Krakow) |
2011-12-30 |
466 |
| Pan-Slav Congress meets at Prague |
2011-12-30 |
804 |
| Panama given federal status by constitutional amendment |
2011-12-30 |
208 |
| Panama is declared independent of Spain |
2011-12-30 |
476 |
| Panama scandal in France |
2011-12-30 |
580 |
| Panama secedes from Colombia, canal works begin |
2008-05-26 |
3286 |
| Panegyric |
2001-11-01 |
6471 |
| Papacy adopts 1st January as the beginning of the new year |
2011-02-01 |
500 |
| Papacy joins Sardinia against Austria |
2011-12-30 |
679 |
| Papal arbitration settles Germany's dispute with Spain over the Carolines |
2011-12-30 |
1062 |
| Papal bull restores Roman Catholic hierarchy in England |
2007-12-12 |
1961 |
| Papal bull summons a general council to Trent |
2010-11-01 |
1481 |
| Papal commission to assess Henry VIII's marriage |
2010-11-01 |
2751 |
| Papal dispensation for Henry VIII conditional on first marriage's invalidity |
2010-11-01 |
3317 |
| Papal dispensation for marriage of Henry, Prince of Wales and Catherine of Aragon |
2010-11-01 |
1041 |
| Papal nuncio is expelled from Belgium |
2011-12-30 |
490 |
| Papal nuncio is expelled from Switzerland |
2011-12-30 |
328 |
| Papal troops defend Bologna from French attack |
2010-11-01 |
1185 |
| Papal troops occupy the Valtelline |
2011-02-01 |
908 |
| Papua-New Guinea Act |
2010-03-01 |
651 |
| Paradigm Shift |
2009-08-04 |
5942 |
| Paradigm, paradigmatic |
2009-07-24 |
7183 |
| Paraguay begins war against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay |
2011-12-30 |
622 |
| Parapraxis |
2005-10-25 |
13580 |
| Paris capitulates and armistice with Germany is signed |
2011-12-30 |
911 |
| Paris comes under the control of Etienne Marcel, Provost of merchants |
2010-03-01 |
1214 |
| Paris commune abolished |
2010-03-01 |
2001 |
| Paris Commune is formally set up |
2011-12-30 |
595 |
| Paris Commune/ Commune of Paris |
2010-02-01 |
3466 |
| Paris Parlement banished to Troyes |
2010-03-01 |
741 |
| Paris parlement opposes Brienne |
2010-03-01 |
991 |
| Paris Parlement places the clergy under the jurisdiction of the Crown |
2011-04-01 |
1299 |
| Paris surrounded: Allies enter the city triumphantly |
2010-02-01 |
2586 |
| Paris-London Telegraph |
2005-06-28 |
1144 |
| Parish Registers introduced across England |
2010-11-01 |
3114 |
| Parity violation by the weak force suggested |
2009-05-01 |
291 |
| Parlement demands the calling of Estates-General |
2010-03-01 |
799 |
| Parlement of Paris condemns the maladministration of France |
2011-02-01 |
652 |
| Parlement of Paris deprived of rights |
2007-12-12 |
2188 |
| Parliament abolishes the Monarchy |
2011-03-01 |
2453 |
| Parliament adjourns to Oxford because of plague at Westminster |
2011-02-01 |
1020 |
| Parliament attacks Arminianism and calls for Buckingham's dismissal |
2011-02-01 |
748 |
| Parliament attacks the King for levying tonnage and poundage unilaterally |
2011-02-01 |
1783 |
| Parliament attaints Empson and Dudley |
2010-11-01 |
1599 |
| Parliament charges Sir John Fenwick with treason |
2011-04-01 |
1102 |
| Parliament complains about Duke of Buckingham's mismanagement |
2011-02-01 |
624 |
| Parliament declares James II has abdicated |
2011-04-01 |
1471 |
| Parliament declares monopolies illegal |
2008-01-01 |
3077 |
| Parliament declares the Pope's authority void in England |
2010-11-01 |
2538 |
| Parliament discovers that Charles made a treaty with the Papacy |
2011-02-01 |
1058 |
| Parliament dissolved, Pitt gains majority in ensuing election |
2010-03-01 |
1395 |
| Parliament endorses trial of the King |
2011-03-01 |
2238 |
| Parliament ends Whitefriars' and Savoy's immunity from arrest |
2011-04-01 |
700 |
| Parliament gains control of the Militia |
2010-02-01 |
586 |
| Parliament is dissolved |
2010-03-01 |
1224 |
| Parliament is dissolved |
2010-03-01 |
1463 |
| Parliament is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
571 |
| Parliament is held at Oxford due to plague in Westminster |
2011-04-01 |
1009 |
| Parliament is prorogued |
2010-03-01 |
1587 |
| Parliament legislates to expel Jesuits and seminary priests |
2011-02-01 |
3382 |
| Parliament opens negotiations with Charles I |
2010-02-01 |
2280 |
| Parliament opposes the idea that Philip be crowned King |
2011-02-01 |
1549 |
| Parliament organises Wales into 12 counties |
2010-11-01 |
1701 |
| Parliament passed the Adultery Act |
2010-02-01 |
865 |
| Parliament passes a revised version of the Humble Petition and Advice |
2011-03-01 |
963 |
| Parliament passes anti-Catholic acts |
2011-02-01 |
3023 |
| Parliament passes legislation for the security of the Queen's person |
2011-02-01 |
1575 |
| Parliament passes Poll Tax |
2012-07-31 |
3022 |
| Parliament passes the Act of Pardon and Oblivion |
2010-02-01 |
2028 |
| Parliament passes the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity |
2011-02-01 |
3163 |
| Parliament re-establishes Roman Catholicism |
2010-03-01 |
2835 |
| Parliament refuses to grant supplies before redress of grievances |
2011-02-01 |
2271 |
| Parliament rejects Charles I's concessions |
2011-04-01 |
2147 |
| Parliament split into two Houses |
2012-07-31 |
1856 |
| Parliament suppresses Christmas |
2010-02-01 |
2246 |
| Parliament's western forces are defeated at Stratton |
2011-02-01 |
1997 |
| Parliamentary 'Declaration' sets out Charles I's misdeeds |
2011-04-01 |
2033 |
| Parliamentary alliance with Scotland is confirmed |
2011-02-01 |
2237 |
| Parliamentary Commissioners leave Newport |
2011-04-01 |
1023 |
| Parliamentary Commissioners offer Charles I the 'Newcastle Propositions' |
2011-02-01 |
1371 |
| Parliamentary Protestation denies the King's right to imprison MPs |
2011-02-01 |
1467 |
| Parliamentary system adopted by Napoleon III |
2011-12-30 |
692 |
| Parma captures Sluys |
2011-02-01 |
678 |
| Parnell calls on the Irish in Britain to vote Conservative |
2011-12-30 |
1135 |
| Parnell is imprisoned for inciting the Irish to intimate tenants |
2011-12-30 |
792 |
| Parody |
2010-02-01 |
4416 |
| Partial autonomy granted to Serbs |
2010-03-01 |
759 |
| Partial repeal of British Navigation Acts |
2011-12-30 |
799 |
| Partition of Palestine, creation of a Jewish state |
2004-01-23 |
9290 |
| Pasha in Buda agrees to an amnesty |
2010-11-01 |
1101 |
| Pasquale de' Paoli is elected a general in Corsica |
2011-12-30 |
847 |
| Path across the Australian Blue Mountains discovered |
2010-02-01 |
3201 |
| Pathetic Fallacy |
2001-11-01 |
6649 |
| Patrick Henry delivers radical speech in 'the parson's cause' |
2010-03-01 |
1247 |
| Patriotic outbreak in Hamburg |
2010-03-01 |
713 |
| Paul Deschanel becomes President of France |
2010-03-01 |
778 |
| Paul Falk subjects the Prussian clergy to State control |
2011-12-30 |
1108 |
| Paul I limits peasants' work for landlords |
2010-03-01 |
635 |
| Paul I succeeds as Emperor of Russia |
2011-03-01 |
615 |
| Paul Kruger becomes President of South African Republic |
2011-12-30 |
1004 |
| Paul Kruger is re-elected in Transvaal for third time |
2011-12-30 |
978 |
| Paul Kruger re-elected as President of Transvaal with massive majority |
2011-12-30 |
561 |
| Paul Painlevé forms cabinet in France |
2010-03-01 |
739 |
| Paul von Hindenburg commands Eastern German armies |
2010-03-01 |
860 |
| Payne-Aldrich tariff in U.S. |
2010-03-01 |
976 |
| Peace agreement between the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluks |
2010-03-01 |
1513 |
| Peace at Montpellier between Catholics and Protestants in France |
2010-01-01 |
2501 |
| Peace between Britain and Burma |
2011-12-30 |
673 |
| Peace between England and France |
2010-03-01 |
1488 |
| Peace between Genoa and Venice |
2010-03-01 |
1069 |
| Peace between Prussia and Saxony |
2011-12-30 |
554 |
| Peace between Spain and Morocco |
2011-12-30 |
831 |
| Peace between Spain and Turkey reinforces the status quo |
2011-02-01 |
1036 |
| Peace Conference adopts principle of League of Nations |
2010-03-01 |
985 |
| Peace Conference at Munster and Osnabrück |
2011-02-01 |
1997 |
| Peace Conference at the Hague |
2010-03-01 |
1023 |
| Peace Conference at The Hague: sets up international court of arbitration |
2010-02-01 |
843 |
| Peace Conference at Versailles |
2010-03-01 |
1025 |
| Peace conference between England, France and Spain opens at Cambrai |
2011-02-01 |
1081 |
| Peace Conference disposes of Germany's colonies |
2010-03-01 |
946 |
| Peace Conference grants Japan's German concession |
2010-03-01 |
977 |
| Peace conference of Rastadt |
2010-03-01 |
2303 |
| Peace conference opens at Hamburg |
2011-02-01 |
991 |
| Peace Congress opens at Utrecht |
2011-04-01 |
2154 |
| Peace Convention at Washington in effort to preserve Union |
2011-12-30 |
2659 |
| Peace negotiations are renewed in Cologne and Hamburg |
2011-02-01 |
1022 |
| Peace negotiations between Spain and her enemies founder |
2011-02-01 |
1206 |
| Peace negotiations for Europe are opened at Gertruydenberg |
2011-04-01 |
2139 |
| Peace negotiations in France founder |
2011-02-01 |
1396 |
| Peace negotiations leading to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia open |
2011-02-01 |
1040 |
| Peace negotiations opened between Spain and her enemies |
2011-02-01 |
1058 |
| Peace of Abö between Russia and Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
1095 |
| Peace of Adrianople between Turkey and Russia |
2011-04-01 |
936 |
| Peace of Altranstadt between Sweden and Saxony |
2011-04-01 |
1790 |
| Peace of Ardres |
2010-03-01 |
2427 |
| Peace of Augsburg |
2010-01-01 |
3689 |
| Peace of Basle |
2010-03-01 |
2238 |
| Peace of Belgrade between the Emperor Charles VI and Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1290 |
| Peace of Berlin between Maria Theresa and Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1033 |
| Peace of Breda |
2011-04-01 |
1891 |
| Peace of Bruges |
2010-03-01 |
1357 |
| Peace of Brussels between Francis I and Maximilian |
2010-11-01 |
1728 |
| Peace of Bucharest between Bulgaria and Serbia |
2010-02-01 |
1048 |
| Peace of Caltabellotta |
2010-03-01 |
1687 |
| Peace of Cambrai |
2010-01-01 |
1863 |
| Peace of Cateau-Cambresis |
2010-01-01 |
1649 |
| Peace of Constantinople |
2010-03-01 |
1872 |
| Peace of Constantinople between Greece and Turkey |
2011-12-30 |
537 |
| Peace of Copenhagen ends war between Sweden and Denmark |
2011-04-01 |
864 |
| Peace of Crépy between Francis I and Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
3188 |
| Peace of Dresden between Prussia, Austria and Saxony |
2011-04-01 |
1256 |
| Peace of Étaples |
2010-11-01 |
2577 |
| Peace of Fleix ends the Seventh War of Religion in France |
2011-02-01 |
1692 |
| Peace of Florence |
2010-03-01 |
1216 |
| Peace of Frederikshavn |
2010-03-01 |
987 |
| Peace of Füssen between Maria Theresa and Bavaria |
2011-04-01 |
1204 |
| Peace of Gulistan |
2010-03-01 |
1013 |
| Peace of Karlowitz |
2011-04-01 |
1887 |
| Peace of La Jaunaie |
2010-03-01 |
2405 |
| Peace of La Rochelle |
2011-02-01 |
2029 |
| Peace of Lubeck |
2010-02-01 |
3249 |
| Peace of Malmoe allows Netherlands vessels to trade in the Baltic |
2010-11-01 |
1639 |
| Peace of Milan returns the Valtelline to the Grisons |
2011-02-01 |
986 |
| Peace of Milan: war between Sardinia and Austria ends |
2011-12-30 |
958 |
| Peace of Munster |
2010-02-01 |
2378 |
| Peace of Neuilly between Allies and Bulgaria |
2010-03-01 |
1026 |
| Peace of Nijmegen between Emperor Leopold I and Louis XIV |
2011-04-01 |
1318 |
| Peace of Nijmegen between France and Holland |
2011-04-01 |
1466 |
| Peace of Nijmegen confirmed |
2011-04-01 |
1139 |
| Peace of Noyon between France and Spain |
2010-11-01 |
2000 |
| Peace of Nuremberg |
2010-03-01 |
6275 |
| Peace of Oliva ends war between Brandenburg, Poland, Austria and Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
1621 |
| Peace of Paris ends Anglo-Persian War |
2011-12-30 |
1164 |
| Peace of Passarowitz: ends the war between the Empire and Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1171 |
| Peace of Peking: end of Boxer Rebellion |
2010-02-01 |
1744 |
| Peace of Posen |
2010-03-01 |
693 |
| Peace of Prague between the Emperor Ferdinand II and the Elector of Saxony |
2011-02-01 |
2154 |
| Peace of Prague confirms preliminary peace of Nikolsburg regarding Germany |
2011-12-30 |
1178 |
| Peace of Pressburg |
2010-03-01 |
2186 |
| Peace of Schönbrunn |
2010-03-01 |
950 |
| Peace of St. Germain-en-Laye between Sweden and Brandenburg |
2011-04-01 |
1052 |
| Peace of St. Germain-en-Laye ends the Third Civil War in France |
2011-02-01 |
1411 |
| Peace of Stockholm is finalised between Sweden and Hanover |
2011-04-01 |
1270 |
| Peace of Stolbovo between Russia and Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1109 |
| Peace of Stralsund |
2010-03-01 |
1670 |
| Peace of Szathmar is signed between the Emperor and Hungarian rebels |
2011-04-01 |
934 |
| Peace of Teschen |
2010-03-01 |
1319 |
| Peace of the Pyrenees between Spain and France |
2011-04-01 |
1337 |
| Peace of Turkmanchai between Persia and Russia |
2011-12-30 |
1110 |
| Peace of Tyrnau between Emperor Matthias and Gabor Bethlen |
2011-02-01 |
1580 |
| Peace of Vervins unites France under Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
1278 |
| Peace of Vienna recognises Stephen Bocskai as ruler of Transylvania |
2011-02-01 |
1348 |
| Peace of Vossem between Brandenburg and France |
2011-04-01 |
1295 |
| Peace of Zsitvatorok signed between the Turks and the Austrians |
2011-02-01 |
2057 |
| Peace of Zurawna between Turkey and Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1360 |
| Peace preliminaries at Vienna are decided |
2011-04-01 |
1333 |
| Peace preliminaries between Denmark and Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
647 |
| Peace preliminaries of Fontainebleau between France, Spain and Britain |
2011-12-30 |
1300 |
| Peace signed between Turkey and Serbia |
2011-12-30 |
640 |
| Peace treaty between British and the King of Ashanti |
2010-01-01 |
1336 |
| Peace treaty between Denmark and Prussia |
2010-01-01 |
1440 |
| Peace treaty between Emperor Ferdinand II and Gabor Bethen of Transylvania |
2011-02-01 |
1335 |
| Peace treaty between Ferdinand of Habsburg and the Ottoman Empire |
2010-03-01 |
1610 |
| Peace treaty between Shah Abbas I and the Ottomans |
2010-03-01 |
964 |
| Peace treaty is signed between the Quadruple Alliance and Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1856 |
| Peace treaty of Hubertusburg |
2010-03-01 |
1479 |
| Peace treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardji |
2010-03-01 |
1280 |
| Peace Treaty of Nuremberg |
2011-04-01 |
1344 |
| Peace Treaty of Westminster ends first Anglo-Dutch War |
2011-04-01 |
1206 |
| Peace with France |
2008-02-28 |
3308 |
| Peace with Spain (Treaty of London) |
2010-01-01 |
1276 |
| Peaceful revolution in Tuscany |
2011-12-30 |
532 |
| Pearl Harbour |
2005-03-27 |
1990 |
| Peasant Rising in Hungary and Serbia |
2011-04-01 |
886 |
| Peasant risings across France |
2011-02-01 |
883 |
| Peasant uprising in Japan fails |
2010-02-01 |
1528 |
| Peasants in Majorca massacre the nobility |
2010-11-01 |
689 |
| Peasants' Revolt breaks out in Bern |
2011-04-01 |
692 |
| Peasants' revolt in Alsace |
2010-11-01 |
2237 |
| Peasants' revolt in Kempten is crushed |
2010-11-01 |
1434 |
| Peasants' Revolts in the Black Forest and Wurttemberg |
2010-11-01 |
1192 |
| Pechenegs besiege Kiev |
2009-05-01 |
1189 |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral travels to Brazil and then to India |
2010-03-01 |
2992 |
| Pedro Fernandez de Quiros names the New Hebrides Australia del Espiritu Santo |
2010-01-01 |
1124 |
| Pedro I of Brazil abdicates in order to return to PortugaI |
2011-12-30 |
526 |
| Pedro Navarro leads Spanish expedition to North Africa |
2010-11-01 |
3370 |
| Pedro V of Portugal dies and succeeded by Louis I |
2011-12-30 |
469 |
| Peking becomes capital of Ming China |
2010-03-01 |
295 |
| Pelham Ministry resigns but their opponents fail to form a government |
2011-04-01 |
1087 |
| Penang ceded to Britain |
2011-03-01 |
1183 |
| Penicillin discovered |
2010-02-01 |
1101 |
| Peninsular War |
2010-02-01 |
2479 |
| Pennsylvania adopts a Constitution |
2011-04-01 |
1215 |
| Pennsylvania system of prison management introduced |
2010-03-01 |
1067 |
| Penny Post founded |
2013-08-30 |
2289 |
| Pentameter |
2001-11-01 |
4394 |
| Pentonville Prison founded |
2013-08-30 |
1254 |
| People of Genoa overthrow the nobility and appoint a doge |
2010-11-01 |
841 |
| Pepin III becomes the sole ruler of the Franks as Mayor of the Palace |
2009-05-01 |
1085 |
| Pepin the Short becomes King of the Franks; founding of Carolingian dynasty |
2009-05-01 |
1113 |
| Pepsin isolated |
2009-05-01 |
657 |
| Perceval assassinated in House of Commons |
2010-03-01 |
953 |
| Perfect superconducting diamagnetism discovered |
2009-05-01 |
983 |
| Perigord and Bearn are annexed to the French Crown |
2011-02-01 |
937 |
| Periodicity of Halley’s comet predicted |
2009-05-01 |
983 |
| Periphrasis |
2001-11-01 |
6843 |
| Perkin Warbeck arrives in Cork at the invitation of Sir James Ormond |
2010-11-01 |
1246 |
| Perkin Warbeck arrives in Cornwall |
2010-11-01 |
1682 |
| Perkin Warbeck decides to move to the court of James IV in Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1114 |
| Perkin Warbeck executed |
2010-11-01 |
1875 |
| Perkin Warbeck is captured |
2010-11-01 |
1674 |
| Perkin Warbeck is tried for treason |
2010-11-01 |
2424 |
| Perkin Warbeck publicly confesses his treason and is imprisoned |
2010-11-01 |
1869 |
| Pero de Covilha reaches India via the Red Sea |
2010-01-01 |
1692 |
| Persecution of Christians in China |
2011-04-01 |
448 |
| Persia appoints Morgan Shuster to reorganise finances |
2010-03-01 |
1169 |
| Persia attacks Afghanistan |
2011-04-01 |
692 |
| Persia concludes favourable tariff with Russia |
2010-03-01 |
1245 |
| Persia successfully excludes Turkish invaders |
2010-03-01 |
1025 |
| Persian ambassador negotiates a commercial treaty with England |
2011-02-01 |
1467 |
| Persian Buwayhids capture Baghdad |
2009-05-01 |
2061 |
| Persona |
2001-11-01 |
4347 |
| Personification |
2001-11-01 |
6518 |
| Peru earthquake |
2010-02-01 |
987 |
| Peru secedes from Colombia |
2011-12-30 |
505 |
| Peruzzis go bankrupt |
2010-03-01 |
794 |
| Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias |
2011-04-01 |
870 |
| Peter I makes peace under pressure from Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1152 |
| Peter II becomes King of Portugal |
2010-03-01 |
950 |
| Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia |
2011-04-01 |
606 |
| Peter II of Russia dies |
2011-04-01 |
608 |
| Peter III is assassinated |
2011-12-30 |
717 |
| Peter IV abdicates as King of Portugal |
2011-12-30 |
471 |
| Peter IV declines Portuguese throne in favour of his daughter Maria |
2011-12-30 |
458 |
| Peter IV of Portugal dies, succeeded by Maria II |
2011-12-30 |
665 |
| Peter Karageorgevitch elected King Peter I |
2010-03-01 |
686 |
| Peter the Great arrives in England |
2011-04-01 |
863 |
| Peter the Great becomes Tsar of Russia |
2011-04-01 |
638 |
| Peter the Great executes the Streltzy rebels |
2011-04-01 |
1340 |
| Peter the Great fortifies Kronstadt to protect St Petersburg |
2011-04-01 |
869 |
| Peter the Great introduces administrative reforms to Russia |
2011-04-01 |
784 |
| Peter the Great of Russia dies |
2011-04-01 |
569 |
| Peter the Great returns to Moscow after military defeat |
2011-04-01 |
697 |
| Peter the Great stays in Paris |
2011-04-01 |
1118 |
| Peter the Great takes Azov from the Turks |
2011-04-01 |
1168 |
| Peter the Great takes Dorpat |
2011-04-01 |
1393 |
| Peter the Great takes Narva |
2011-04-01 |
1064 |
| Peter the Great visits Prussia, Holland, England and Vienna |
2011-04-01 |
1320 |
| Peter the Great's son Alexis is murdered on his father's orders |
2011-04-01 |
1039 |
| Peter Wentworth MP punished for challenging the Queen |
2011-02-01 |
1722 |
| Petition of Johannesburg Uitlanders to Queen Victoria |
2011-12-30 |
1374 |
| Petition of Right |
2010-02-01 |
692 |
| Petition of the Three Colonels |
2010-02-01 |
838 |
| Petition to Henry VIII about severity of the church courts |
2010-11-01 |
2840 |
| Petition to remove governor-general Thomas Hutchinson |
2010-03-01 |
1097 |
| Phallocentrism / Phallogocentrism / Logocentrism |
2009-08-04 |
45708 |
| Philadelphia Congress declaration |
2010-03-01 |
2339 |
| Philadelphia convention frames constitution |
2011-03-01 |
1111 |
| Philadelphia Ledger pioneers cylinder printing of newspapers |
2010-03-01 |
1272 |
| Philip Duke of Burgundy marries Juana, heiress to Spanish throne |
2010-11-01 |
2296 |
| Philip Duke of Orleans marries Henrietta, sister of Charles II |
2011-04-01 |
905 |
| Philip II aids the Earl of Tyrone's rebellion in Ireland |
2011-02-01 |
1455 |
| Philip II appoints Archduke Albert as Governor of the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
889 |
| Philip II appoints Archduke Albert of Austria Viceroy of Portugal |
2011-02-01 |
398 |
| Philip II deposed by the Dutch Estates General; this was a declaration of war |
2010-11-01 |
1151 |
| Philip II enforces the decrees of the Council of Trent |
2011-02-01 |
1598 |
| Philip II gives Spanish Netherlands to Albert of Austria and Infanta Isabel |
2011-02-01 |
813 |
| Philip II imprisons Antonio Perez |
2011-02-01 |
3065 |
| Philip II marries Anne of Austria, daughter of Maximilian II |
2011-02-01 |
255 |
| Philip II of Spain agrees to support the Holy League in France |
2011-02-01 |
1195 |
| Philip II opens peace negotiations with Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2049 |
| Philip II plans to place the Infanta Isabel on the throne of France |
2011-02-01 |
1066 |
| Philip II recalls Cardinal Granvelle from the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1114 |
| Philip II returns briefly to England to gain aid for war with France |
2011-02-01 |
1176 |
| Philip II suppresses the traditional liberties at Tarragona |
2011-02-01 |
732 |
| Philip III expels the ethnic Moors (Moriscos) from Spain |
2011-11-01 |
1186 |
| Philip III of Spain seeks marriage with Princess Elizabeth |
2011-02-01 |
920 |
| Philip III succeeds as King of Spain |
2011-02-01 |
750 |
| Philip III summons the Cortes to deal with Spain's financial crisis |
2011-02-01 |
1198 |
| Philip of Burgundy confirms the Treaty of Senlis with France |
2010-11-01 |
1619 |
| Philip of Hesse comes to terms with the Emperor Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
1008 |
| Philip of Hesse defeats Ferdinand of Austria at Laufen |
2010-11-01 |
2434 |
| Philip of Hesse plans alliance against League of Dessau |
2010-11-01 |
2240 |
| Philip of Orleans marries Liselotte, heiress to the Palatinate |
2011-04-01 |
620 |
| Philip of Spain leaves England for the Low Countries |
2011-02-01 |
1145 |
| Philip of Spain receives the Netherlands, Milan, and Naples |
2011-02-01 |
958 |
| Philip of Spain renounces claim to the French throne |
2011-04-01 |
1367 |
| Philip the Handsome gives up Friesland to Albert of Saxony |
2010-11-01 |
1838 |
| Philip V of Spain abdicates during a fit of religious mania |
2011-04-01 |
1175 |
| Philip V of Spain marries Elizabeth Farnese |
2011-04-01 |
812 |
| Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, is taken prisoner at Halle |
2010-11-01 |
1206 |
| Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, undertakes a bigamous marriage |
2010-11-01 |
794 |
| Philipp Scheidemann forms cabinet in Germany |
2010-03-01 |
977 |
| Philippine Government Act |
2010-02-01 |
1118 |
| Philippines demand independence |
2010-03-01 |
993 |
| Photoelectric investigation into cathode rays |
2009-05-01 |
1478 |
| Phrenology introduced in the US |
2010-03-01 |
415 |
| Physiocracy |
2007-12-12 |
1984 |
| Pi computed to 2,037 decimal places using ENIAC |
2011-03-01 |
745 |
| Pi-meson discovered |
2009-05-01 |
988 |
| Piedmont joins allies against Russia |
2011-12-30 |
666 |
| Pierre Tirard forms ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
758 |
| Piers Plowman Tradition |
2012-07-31 |
4269 |
| Piet Cronje surrenders at Paardeberg |
2010-03-01 |
1567 |
| Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency founded |
|
951 |
| Pinto, Isaac |
2008-04-05 |
2455 |
| Pirates attack the southern coast of France |
2011-04-01 |
782 |
| Pisa revolts against Florence |
2010-11-01 |
1295 |
| Piston-and-cylinder steam-powered water pump built |
2009-05-01 |
1477 |
| Pitesti 're-education' experiment |
2009-05-01 |
1288 |
| Pitt attacks the terms of the Peace in the Commons |
2011-12-30 |
1035 |
| Pitt becomes Secretary of State, Southern Department |
2011-12-30 |
770 |
| Pitt begins negotiations for peace with France |
2011-03-01 |
1371 |
| Pitt fails to carry the Cabinet in continuing the war |
2011-12-30 |
912 |
| Pitt introduces Aliens bill |
2011-03-01 |
1184 |
| Pitt introduces Regency bill |
2010-03-01 |
1581 |
| Pitt is dismissed as Paymaster-General |
2011-12-30 |
826 |
| Pitt issues Exchequer bills |
2010-03-01 |
1329 |
| Pitt presents scheme for Parliamentary Reform |
2010-03-01 |
1516 |
| Pitt resigns as Secretary of State because of opposition from the King |
2011-12-30 |
720 |
| Pitt resigns over a deadlock with Cumberland |
2011-12-30 |
746 |
| Pitt the Elder's illness |
2010-03-01 |
889 |
| Pitt the younger forms ministry |
2010-03-01 |
619 |
| Pitt's influence increases |
2011-12-30 |
584 |
| Pius IV promulgates a final definition of Roman Catholicism |
2011-02-01 |
916 |
| Pius IX disassociates himself from Italian National Movement |
2011-12-30 |
607 |
| Pius IX flees to Gaeta |
2011-12-30 |
620 |
| Pius V makes Cosimo de' Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany |
2011-02-01 |
566 |
| Pius X issues encyclical Editio saepe |
2011-03-01 |
697 |
| Pius X stops circulation of May encyclical |
2010-03-01 |
698 |
| Pizarro executes the Inca of Peru and occupies Cuzco |
2010-11-01 |
1005 |
| Plague breaks out in England |
2010-11-01 |
812 |
| Plague in Copenhagen |
2011-04-01 |
354 |
| Plague in Poona |
2011-12-30 |
535 |
| Plague in Yunnan province, China |
2010-03-01 |
784 |
| Plague occurs in England for the first time |
2012-07-31 |
1140 |
| Plague occurs in England for the second time |
2012-07-31 |
1226 |
| Planck, Max |
2000-10-28 |
4641 |
| Plans for the English settlement of the six counties of Ulster |
2011-02-01 |
1541 |
| Plantation of Ulster promulgated by James I |
2010-02-01 |
1005 |
| Platt Amendment: Cuba authorizes the United States to maintain law and order |
2010-03-01 |
1833 |
| Plebiscite in Carinthia favours Austria |
2010-03-01 |
608 |
| Plebiscite in East and West Prussia |
2010-03-01 |
431 |
| Plebiscite in France supports revival of French Empire |
2011-12-30 |
446 |
| Plebiscite in Schleswig north zone |
2010-03-01 |
586 |
| Plebiscites in Italy vote for union with Sardinia |
2011-12-30 |
473 |
| Plebiscites in Naples and Sicily in support of union with Sardinia |
2011-12-30 |
517 |
| Plebiscites in Umbria and Legations for union with Sardinia |
2011-12-30 |
421 |
| Plebiscites in Venezia support union with Italy |
2011-12-30 |
775 |
| PLO leadership retreats to Tunis |
2010-02-01 |
854 |
| Plot for a Yorkist rising in Kent is discovered |
2010-11-01 |
1556 |
| Plot to assassinate Bonaparte discovered |
2010-03-01 |
2650 |
| Plots against Henry IV by French nobles in league with Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1528 |
| Pluralities Act |
2010-02-01 |
2022 |
| Plymouth Colony founded (colony of Massachusetts) |
2010-02-01 |
4197 |
| Pocket-watch invented by Peter Henlein |
2010-03-01 |
1533 |
| Poet |
2001-11-01 |
4211 |
| Poetic Licence |
2001-11-01 |
7646 |
| Poland agrees to succession of the Elector of Brandenburg in Prussia |
2011-02-01 |
1012 |
| Poland cedes Thorn and Danzig to Prussia |
2010-03-01 |
1096 |
| Poland divided into provinces by Russia |
2011-12-30 |
384 |
| Poland gains Marienburg from the Teutonic Knights |
2010-03-01 |
1096 |
| Poland given mandate over Galicia |
2010-03-01 |
717 |
| Poland signs truces with Sweden and Turkey |
2011-02-01 |
1034 |
| Poland surrenders the left bank of the River Dnieper to Russia |
2010-11-01 |
1111 |
| Pole assumes the functions of Papal Legate in England |
2011-02-01 |
2102 |
| Polio vaccine developed |
2010-02-01 |
1060 |
| Polish alliance with Emperor against the Turks |
2011-04-01 |
864 |
| Polish constitution |
2010-03-01 |
766 |
| Polish Constitution abolished |
2011-12-30 |
740 |
| Polish Diet accepts the Saxon settlement |
2011-04-01 |
772 |
| Polish Diet declares independence of Poland and deposes Romanovs |
2011-12-30 |
973 |
| Polish forces are defeated by Russian army at Ostroleke |
2011-12-30 |
918 |
| Polish military coup |
2010-02-01 |
986 |
| Polish offensive in Ukraine |
2010-03-01 |
1034 |
| Polish rebels surrender after Prussian troops quash insurrection in Warsaw |
2011-12-30 |
975 |
| Polish rising against the Russian empire |
2010-01-01 |
1388 |
| Polish state founded |
2009-05-01 |
449 |
| Polish war with Russia over White Russian region |
2010-11-01 |
935 |
| Polish-Lithuanian armies crush Russians at Orsza |
2010-11-01 |
1357 |
| Polish–Russian War |
2009-05-01 |
784 |
| Political Crisis in France: National Solidarity Government formed |
2010-02-01 |
600 |
| Political Econony Club |
2010-02-01 |
2034 |
| Political purges in Romania |
2009-05-01 |
762 |
| Pombal becomes all-powerful |
2010-03-01 |
495 |
| Pombal curbs power of the Inquisition in Portugal |
2011-04-01 |
713 |
| Pomerania becomes a Protestant state |
2010-11-01 |
600 |
| Poor Employment Act |
2010-02-01 |
1792 |
| Poor harvest in Britain |
2010-02-01 |
1597 |
| Poor harvest in Britain |
2010-02-01 |
1281 |
| Pope Adrian VI dies |
2010-11-01 |
1855 |
| Pope agrees to marriage of Catherine de' Medici and Duke of Orleans |
2010-11-01 |
582 |
| Pope Alexander VI begins to attack the Orsini |
2010-11-01 |
1267 |
| Pope Alexander VI calls on all princes to support a crusade |
2010-11-01 |
1873 |
| Pope Alexander VI declares Louis XII King of Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1776 |
| Pope Alexander VI dies |
2010-11-01 |
1901 |
| Pope Alexander VI divides New World between Spain and Portugal |
2010-11-01 |
46624 |
| Pope Alexander VI forms a league against Naples |
2010-11-01 |
2043 |
| Pope Alexander VI's second bull dividing New World between Spain and Portugal |
2010-11-01 |
1619 |
| Pope Alexander VII dies |
2011-04-01 |
1100 |
| Pope Alexander VII elected in succession to Innocent X |
2011-04-01 |
678 |
| Pope Alexander VIII dies |
2011-04-01 |
653 |
| Pope Alexander VIII elected |
2011-04-01 |
682 |
| Pope bans alchemy |
2010-03-01 |
680 |
| Pope Benedict XIII dies |
2011-04-01 |
658 |
| Pope Benedict XIV dies |
2011-12-30 |
825 |
| Pope Clement IX dies |
2011-04-01 |
609 |
| Pope Clement VII dies |
2010-11-01 |
1366 |
| Pope Clement VII forbids Henry VIII to re-marry until his case is decided |
2010-11-01 |
2565 |
| Pope Clement VII forms the League of Cognac |
2010-11-01 |
2432 |
| Pope Clement VII founds the Inquisition in Lisbon |
2010-11-01 |
1404 |
| Pope Clement VII is forced to sign a treaty with Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
1218 |
| Pope Clement VII is taken ill |
2010-11-01 |
1653 |
| Pope Clement VII makes peace with the Emperor |
2010-11-01 |
1046 |
| Pope Clement VII removes from Orvieto to Viterbo |
2010-11-01 |
1085 |
| Pope Clement VII surrenders to the imperialists |
2010-11-01 |
2104 |
| Pope Clement VII threatens Henry VIII with excommunication |
2010-11-01 |
2780 |
| Pope Clement VIII recognises Henry IV as King of France |
2011-02-01 |
2320 |
| Pope Clement VIII seizes the duchy of Ferrara |
2011-02-01 |
1453 |
| Pope Clement X dies |
2011-04-01 |
629 |
| Pope Clement XII dies |
2011-04-01 |
624 |
| Pope Clement XIV dissolves Jesuits |
2010-03-01 |
1026 |
| Pope declares Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon valid |
2010-11-01 |
3087 |
| Pope employs the Medici as his bankers |
2010-03-01 |
916 |
| Pope Gregory XIII deposes Archbishop Gebhard of Cologne |
2011-02-01 |
1098 |
| Pope Gregory XIV dies |
2011-02-01 |
1023 |
| Pope Innocent VIII dies |
2010-11-01 |
2744 |
| Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia |
2011-04-01 |
5662 |
| Pope Innocent XI dies |
2011-04-01 |
721 |
| Pope Innocent XII attempts to check the sale of papal offices |
2011-04-01 |
571 |
| Pope Innocent XIII dies |
2011-04-01 |
671 |
| Pope Innocent XIII elected |
2011-04-01 |
651 |
| Pope John Paul II elected |
2010-02-01 |
861 |
| Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
2010-02-01 |
876 |
| Pope Julius II abandons the League of Cambrai |
2010-11-01 |
1289 |
| Pope Julius II dies |
2010-11-01 |
1733 |
| Pope Julius II forces Venice to restore Ravenna and Cervia to his control |
2010-11-01 |
1033 |
| Pope Julius II forms the Holy League of Ferdinand I of Aragon, Venice and the Papacy |
2010-11-01 |
1874 |
| Pope Julius II holds Fifth Lateran Council |
2010-11-01 |
2047 |
| Pope Julius II joins the League of Cambrai |
2010-11-01 |
2647 |
| Pope Julius II leaves Rome at the head of an army to reduce Perugia |
2010-11-01 |
248 |
| Pope Julius II leaves the League of Cambrai |
2010-11-01 |
2342 |
| Pope Julius II recovers Bologna |
2010-11-01 |
1208 |
| Pope Julius II restores the Colonna and Orsini to their castles |
2010-11-01 |
734 |
| Pope Julius II takes Mirandola |
2010-11-01 |
1111 |
| Pope Julius III deprives Ottavio Farnese of the duchy of Parma |
2010-11-01 |
899 |
| Pope Julius III dies |
2011-02-01 |
1043 |
| Pope Julius III is elected |
2010-11-01 |
1407 |
| Pope Leo X confers the title 'Defender of the Faith' on Henry VIII |
2010-11-01 |
2450 |
| Pope Leo X demands a five-year peace in Christendom |
2010-11-01 |
1613 |
| Pope Leo X dies |
2010-11-01 |
1823 |
| Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther |
2010-11-01 |
2254 |
| Pope Marcellus II is elected |
2011-02-01 |
1040 |
| Pope Paul III closes the Council of Bologna |
2010-11-01 |
879 |
| Pope Paul III denounces Charles V's attitude to the Lutheran princes |
2010-11-01 |
656 |
| Pope Paul III dies |
2010-11-01 |
1138 |
| Pope Paul III establishes the Inquisition in Rome |
2010-11-01 |
1483 |
| Pope Paul III excommunicates and deposes Henry VIII |
2010-11-01 |
4252 |
| Pope Paul III makes his son Duke of Parma |
2010-11-01 |
715 |
| Pope Paul III summons a general council to Trent |
2010-11-01 |
1360 |
| Pope Paul III undertakes to aid Charles V with 12,000 men |
2010-11-01 |
1600 |
| Pope Paul III's bull for reform of many papal offices is announced |
2010-11-01 |
1529 |
| Pope Paul IV advocates the deposition of all sovereigns who support heresy |
2011-02-01 |
1333 |
| Pope Paul IV dies |
2011-02-01 |
671 |
| Pope Paul IV makes peace with Philip II of Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1087 |
| Pope Paul IV refuses to acknowledge Ferdinand I |
2011-02-01 |
1013 |
| Pope Paul IV signs an armistice with Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1289 |
| Pope Paul V places Venice under an interdict |
2011-02-01 |
1294 |
| Pope Pius IV confirms the decisions of Trent through decrees |
2011-02-01 |
635 |
| Pope Pius IV dies |
2011-02-01 |
832 |
| Pope Pius V dies |
2011-02-01 |
786 |
| Pope Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth I |
2010-11-01 |
2912 |
| Pope Pius V signs a league with Spain and Venice against the Turks |
2011-02-01 |
1429 |
| Pope Pius VI visits Vienna |
2010-03-01 |
982 |
| Pope Pius VII taken prisoner by French |
2011-03-01 |
942 |
| Pope Sixtus V dies |
2011-02-01 |
756 |
| Pope Sixtus V excommunicates Henry of Navarre |
2011-02-01 |
2424 |
| Pope Sixtus V proclaims a Catholic Crusade to invade England |
2011-02-01 |
2033 |
| Pope Urban VIII annexes Urbino |
2011-02-01 |
1113 |
| Pope Urban VIII reduces number of annual feast days |
2011-02-01 |
1047 |
| Popular acclaim at the breakdown of negotiations for a Spanish marriage |
2011-02-01 |
842 |
| Popular insurrection in Paris |
2007-12-02 |
3241 |
| Popular insurrection in Rome |
2011-12-30 |
605 |
| Populist authoritarian rule commences in Argentina |
2010-02-01 |
650 |
| Porfirio Diaz resigns presidency of Mexico |
2010-02-01 |
1476 |
| Port Arthur Massacre |
2010-03-01 |
296 |
| Port Phillip becomes part of New South Wales |
2010-03-01 |
1210 |
| Porteous Riots in Edinburgh |
2011-04-01 |
1284 |
| Portion |
2001-11-01 |
4238 |
| Portugal adopts Liberal constitution |
2010-03-01 |
343 |
| Portugal captures Goa |
2010-03-01 |
1674 |
| Portugal cedes colonies to Spain |
2010-03-01 |
1067 |
| Portugal decides to pull out of African colonies, prompts expatriation of colonists |
2010-02-01 |
971 |
| Portugal defeats the Moslem princes of north-west India |
2010-03-01 |
1748 |
| Portugal defeats the Ottoman and Arab fleet at Diu |
2010-03-01 |
1743 |
| Portugal discovers the Azores, an uninhabited archipelago |
2010-03-01 |
490 |
| Portugal establishes a Liberal Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
310 |
| Portugal grants Tangier and Bombay to Charles II in dowry |
2011-04-01 |
1865 |
| Portugal invents the three-masted caravel |
2010-03-01 |
1552 |
| Portugal joins Grand Alliance |
2011-04-01 |
1982 |
| Portugal loses Mombassa to the Muscat Arabs |
2011-04-01 |
890 |
| Portugal recognises Brazilian independence under Dom Pedro |
2011-12-30 |
415 |
| Portugal secures cession of Macau from China |
2011-12-30 |
930 |
| Portugal signs treaties with France and United Provinces against Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1320 |
| Portuguese Constitution avows liberty and legal equality |
2011-12-30 |
344 |
| Portuguese Cortes plan a Constitution without feudalism or the Inquisition |
2011-12-30 |
569 |
| Portuguese Cortes repeals King John's decisions about Brazil |
2011-12-30 |
501 |
| Portuguese defeat Spanish at Elvas |
2011-04-01 |
1433 |
| Portuguese discover Madeira, settle and cultivate the island |
2010-03-01 |
1049 |
| Portuguese finally surrender Malacca to Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
976 |
| Portuguese government allows a railway from Delagoa Bay to Transvaal |
2011-12-30 |
1116 |
| Portuguese in Brazil rebel against Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
1548 |
| Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator establishes an observatory and a school of navigation |
2010-03-01 |
1394 |
| Portuguese rebellion and regicide |
2010-02-01 |
961 |
| Portuguese Republic declared |
2010-02-01 |
748 |
| Portuguese sack Mombasa after its refusal to pay tribute |
2010-03-01 |
1975 |
| Portuguese South American colonies unified administratively |
2010-03-01 |
834 |
| Positron interpreted as a negative energy electron travelling backward in time |
2009-05-01 |
909 |
| Positronium discovered |
2011-03-01 |
880 |
| Possibility of Anglo-German-Japanese bloc against Russia ends |
2010-03-01 |
1570 |
| Possible Anglo-German alliance is halted by Chamberlain's Leicester speech |
2011-12-30 |
554 |
| Postal Services and Letters |
2005-06-17 |
2999 |
| PostImpressionism, Post-Impressionism |
2003-10-12 |
14901 |
| Potemkin organises Russian Black Sea fleet |
2010-03-01 |
1012 |
| Powers intervene to prevent Serbo-Austrian war |
2010-03-01 |
729 |
| Poynings Law makes Irish legislature dependent on England |
2010-11-01 |
1913 |
| Prague is founded |
2009-05-01 |
1106 |
| Prague is made the capital of the Holy Roman Empire |
2010-03-01 |
1111 |
| Prague Offensive |
2009-05-01 |
1173 |
| Prague University is founded |
2010-03-01 |
1033 |
| Pre-Emption Distribution Act in US gives rights to squatters |
2011-12-30 |
1826 |
| Preconscious |
2005-10-24 |
6237 |
| Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued |
2010-03-01 |
3772 |
| Preliminary peace signed at Leoben |
2011-03-01 |
1155 |
| Preliminary peace signed between France and the maritime powers at Aix-Ia-Chapelle |
2011-04-01 |
1241 |
| Preliminary peace treaty between Prussia and Austria at Nikolsburg |
2011-12-30 |
890 |
| Preliminary Protocol issued at Troppau |
2010-03-01 |
467 |
| Preparations for violence in Paris |
2007-12-02 |
3562 |
| Presbyterians stir up London against the army |
2010-02-01 |
2424 |
| Presidency of James Carter |
2004-09-01 |
3076 |
| Presidency of John Quincy Adams |
2011-12-20 |
3154 |
| President A. Johnson is acquitted by Senate |
2011-12-30 |
1063 |
| President Carranza of Mexico assassinated |
2010-03-01 |
682 |
| President Fonseca of Brazil is driven out and followed by dictatorial rule |
2011-12-30 |
625 |
| President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation |
2010-03-01 |
4586 |
| President MacMahon arbitrates in the Delagoa Bay dispute |
2011-12-30 |
946 |
| President of Council of French universities takes over education |
2011-12-30 |
476 |
| President of Indonesia declares Unitary State of Indonesia |
2010-02-01 |
620 |
| President Oreste of Haiti abdicates during revolt |
2010-03-01 |
1503 |
| President Polk sends troops into New Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
837 |
| President Raymond Poincaré visits Russia |
2010-03-01 |
381 |
| President William McKinley shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz |
2010-03-01 |
2048 |
| Presidential candidates' election expenses will be published |
2010-03-01 |
850 |
| Presidential Succession law in USA |
2011-12-30 |
1348 |
| Press censorship imposed in Egypt |
2010-03-01 |
322 |
| Press Law censoring French press is suspended |
2011-12-30 |
961 |
| Prester John |
2012-07-31 |
2465 |
| Preston mill-workers’ strike |
2008-01-25 |
1990 |
| Pretoria becomes capital of Transvaal |
2011-12-30 |
685 |
| Pretoria Convention: Transvaal's self-government recognised by Britain |
2010-01-01 |
1018 |
| Pretoria taken by Redvers Buller |
2010-03-01 |
2212 |
| Pride's Purge |
2010-01-01 |
1962 |
| Primary education in Belgium is secularised |
2011-12-30 |
302 |
| Primary education in France to be free, compulsory and non-sectarian |
2011-12-30 |
530 |
| Primary Education Law in France gives effective control to Church |
2011-12-30 |
970 |
| Prime Minister Asquith becomes War Secretary |
2010-03-01 |
723 |
| Prime Minister of Iran nationalizes oil |
2010-02-01 |
1054 |
| Prime number theorem proven |
2009-05-01 |
1253 |
| Primogeniture |
2004-08-12 |
7024 |
| Prince Arthur is betrothed to Catherine of Aragon |
2010-11-01 |
1040 |
| Prince Bernhard von Bülow becomes German foreign secretary |
2011-12-30 |
1095 |
| Prince Boris of Bulgaria converts to Russian Orthodoxy |
2011-12-30 |
699 |
| Prince Charles Edward is victorious at Falkirk |
2011-04-01 |
1043 |
| Prince Charles fails to gain the King of Spain's daughter as wife |
2010-02-01 |
891 |
| Prince Charles of Lorraine defeats small Prussian force at Breslau |
2011-12-30 |
1096 |
| Prince Consort, George of Denmark, dies |
2011-04-01 |
579 |
| Prince Edward Island joins the Dominion of Canada |
2011-12-30 |
887 |
| Prince Eugene defeats the French at Turin |
2011-04-01 |
2289 |
| Prince Eugene defeats the Turks at Belgrade |
2011-04-01 |
1398 |
| Prince Eugene defeats the Turks at Peterwardein |
2011-04-01 |
1398 |
| Prince Eugene defeats the Turks at Zenta |
2011-04-01 |
1634 |
| Prince Eugene dies |
2011-04-01 |
293 |
| Prince Eugene raids Cremona |
2011-04-01 |
1998 |
| Prince Henry, eldest son of James I, is created Prince of Wales |
2011-02-01 |
832 |
| Prince Hohenlohe succeeds Count Caprivi as German chancellor |
2011-12-30 |
1205 |
| Prince Ito becomes premier of Japan |
2011-12-30 |
545 |
| Prince Ito of Japan murdered |
2010-03-01 |
701 |
| Prince Ito seeks Japanese concessions in Korea |
2010-03-01 |
843 |
| Prince Kaunitz extends his influence in the Empire |
2011-04-01 |
883 |
| Prince Lvov reforms cabinet in Russia |
2010-03-01 |
1048 |
| Prince Lvov resigns in Russia |
2010-03-01 |
1050 |
| Prince Maurice of Nassau begins the siege of Sluys |
2011-02-01 |
1129 |
| Prince Menshikoff is ousted from government and exiled from Russia |
2011-04-01 |
650 |
| Prince Metternich issues Six Articles to maintain despotic government |
2011-12-30 |
4982 |
| Prince Milan proclaims himself King of Serbia, with Austrian support |
2011-12-30 |
619 |
| Prince Octavio Piccolomini invades France with a Spanish army |
2011-02-01 |
1033 |
| Prince of Condé and Marie de' Medici fight for control in France |
2011-02-01 |
460 |
| Prince of Condé dies |
2011-04-01 |
321 |
| Prince of Condé invades Franche-Comté and besieges Dole |
2011-02-01 |
740 |
| Prince of Condé is reinstated to the governorship of Burgundy |
2011-04-01 |
378 |
| Prince of Condé raises the siege of Orleans |
2011-02-01 |
2160 |
| Prince of Orange-Nassau marries George II's daughter Marie Anne |
2011-04-01 |
825 |
| Prince of Palembang, Paramesvara, becomes a convert to Islam |
2010-03-01 |
983 |
| Prince of Prussia proposes partition of Poland |
2010-03-01 |
1212 |
| Prince of Transylvania dies: dispute over the succession |
2011-04-01 |
452 |
| Prince of Wales visits France |
2011-12-30 |
206 |
| Prince of Wales visits India |
2011-12-30 |
637 |
| Prince Rupert escapes |
2010-02-01 |
972 |
| Prince Waldemar of Denmark is elected King of Bulgaria |
2011-12-30 |
672 |
| Prince William is declared Regent of Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
361 |
| Prince Windischgratz takes Vienna |
2011-12-30 |
371 |
| Princes of Lower Saxony agree to provide troops for Christian IV of Denmark |
2011-02-01 |
1004 |
| Princess Claude of France marries Francis, Duke of Angouleme |
2010-11-01 |
520 |
| Princess Elizabeth is removed from the Tower to Woodstock |
2011-02-01 |
2683 |
| Princess Elizabeth is sent to the Tower for complicity in Wyatt's rebellion |
2011-02-01 |
2681 |
| Princess Elizabeth returns to Mary's court |
2011-02-01 |
2698 |
| Princesses Mary and Elizabeth established as heirs to the English throne |
2010-11-01 |
1805 |
| Principality of Moldova founded |
2009-05-01 |
878 |
| Principality of Transylvania |
2009-05-01 |
563 |
| Principality of Wallachia established |
2009-05-01 |
962 |
| Principles of equivalence of gravitation and inertia used to predict the gravitational redshift |
2009-05-01 |
1413 |
| Principles of the lever and of buoyancy discovered by Archimedes |
2009-05-01 |
957 |
| Printing method developed by Chinese |
2009-05-01 |
1610 |
| Prisoners' Counsel Act |
2010-02-01 |
2128 |
| Privileges granted to foreign traders by English King, Edward I |
2012-07-31 |
874 |
| Privy Council retains American tea duty |
2010-03-01 |
1676 |
| Pro-British Abdur Rahman Khan gains power in Afghanistan |
2010-02-01 |
1689 |
| Pro-Cannabis rally in London's Hyde Park |
2010-02-01 |
1104 |
| Pro-French Marquis of Ensenada becomes Chief Minister in Spain |
2011-04-01 |
863 |
| Pro-slavery forces win the territorial elections in Kansas |
2010-03-01 |
1848 |
| Process for mass-producing steel invented |
2013-08-30 |
965 |
| Proclamation of Austrian Constitution which is quickly undermined |
2011-12-30 |
608 |
| Proclamation of Don Carlos as Charles VII of Spain leads to civil war |
2011-12-30 |
1030 |
| Proclamation of neutrality issued by President Washington |
2010-03-01 |
920 |
| Proclamation of peace in India by British |
2011-12-30 |
674 |
| Progress of Parliament bill accelerated |
2010-03-01 |
1212 |
| Prohibitory Act |
2010-03-01 |
2822 |
| Prominent Girondins executed by guillotine |
2010-03-01 |
2186 |
| Propagator approach to quantum electrodynamics presented |
2011-03-01 |
1048 |
| Proposal for determining the age of the Earth |
2009-05-01 |
405 |
| Proposed marriage between Elizabeth and Duke of Anjou is unpopular |
2011-02-01 |
316 |
| Prosody |
2005-01-01 |
6495 |
| Protectionist laws for industry and agriculture split the German Liberal Party |
2011-12-30 |
822 |
| Protective tariffs in New Zealand and Sweden |
2011-12-30 |
521 |
| Protector Somerset renews English feudal claims to Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
868 |
| Protector Somerset tries to bargain with France over Edward VI's marriage |
2010-11-01 |
1116 |
| Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell |
2010-02-01 |
1139 |
| Protectorate of Richard Cromwell |
2010-02-01 |
1015 |
| Protestant 'Fourteen of Meaux' are executed for heresy |
2010-11-01 |
1984 |
| Protestant cantons of Berne, Geneva and Zurich ally against Savoy |
2011-02-01 |
1318 |
| Protestant demands are refused at the Diet of Worms |
2010-11-01 |
2120 |
| Protestant Henry of Navarre becomes heir of France |
2011-02-01 |
2457 |
| Protestant immigrants are expelled from the imperial city of Aachen |
2011-02-01 |
1068 |
| Protestant missionaries from the US sent to foreign countries and Indian tribes |
2010-03-01 |
2428 |
| Protestant princes at the Diet of Ratisbon oppose imperial tax demands |
2011-02-01 |
1034 |
| Protestant princes ordered to conform by 15th April 1531 |
2010-11-01 |
1716 |
| Protestant Union of Germany signs a defensive alliance with England |
2011-02-01 |
955 |
| Protestants begin to leave England for Geneva and Zurich |
2010-11-01 |
2929 |
| Protestants break up the Diet of Ratisbon |
2011-02-01 |
1617 |
| Protestants from Salzburg settle in Georgia |
2011-04-01 |
1152 |
| Protestants in Hungary revolt against the Habsburgs |
2011-02-01 |
1114 |
| Protestants in the Imperial Diet are condemned |
2011-02-01 |
970 |
| Protestants in the Netherlands protest against new Catholic bishoprics |
2011-02-01 |
1059 |
| Protestants in the Vatelline are massacred |
2011-02-01 |
1345 |
| Protestants in the Vaudois district of Savoy are massacred |
2011-04-01 |
1066 |
| Protestants riot in Dublin against union with Britain |
2011-12-30 |
1275 |
| Prothalamion |
2001-11-01 |
6442 |
| Protozoa discovered |
2009-05-01 |
706 |
| Provincial Diets are established in Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
790 |
| Provisional peace treaty to contain France is drawn up |
2011-04-01 |
1325 |
| Prussia acquires East Friesland |
2011-04-01 |
1111 |
| Prussia acquires Neuchatel, Tecklenburg and Valengrin |
2011-04-01 |
1219 |
| Prussia adheres to 'Continental System' |
2010-03-01 |
1143 |
| Prussia again recognises German Confederation |
2011-12-30 |
581 |
| Prussia and Russia form alliance at Kalisch |
2010-03-01 |
1879 |
| Prussia annexes Hanover, Hesse, Nassau and Frankfurt |
2011-12-30 |
1110 |
| Prussia begins to mobilise against France |
2011-12-30 |
839 |
| Prussia concludes commercial treaty with Hanover |
2011-12-30 |
261 |
| Prussia concludes peace treaty with Wurttemberg |
2011-12-30 |
653 |
| Prussia confiscates territory of King of Hanover |
2011-12-30 |
988 |
| Prussia conquered by the Teutonic Order |
2010-03-01 |
871 |
| Prussia declares war against France |
2010-03-01 |
1934 |
| Prussia declares war on Austria |
2010-03-01 |
826 |
| Prussia declares war on France |
2010-02-01 |
2457 |
| Prussia establishes a General Directory of War, Finance and Domains |
2011-04-01 |
939 |
| Prussia forms customs union with Hesse-Darmstadt |
2011-12-30 |
418 |
| Prussia frees herself from jurisdiction of the Imperial Courts |
2011-04-01 |
340 |
| Prussia guarantees Belgian neutrality in war with France |
2011-12-30 |
547 |
| Prussia invades Denmark |
2010-02-01 |
1419 |
| Prussia invades Saxony, Hanover and Hesse during the night |
2011-12-30 |
933 |
| Prussia made a Protestant state by Albert von Brandenburg |
2010-03-01 |
3040 |
| Prussia renounces sovereignty over Neuchatel |
2011-12-30 |
786 |
| Prussia yields lands on left bank of Rhine |
2010-03-01 |
2203 |
| Prussia, Russia and Austria agree to support the Ottoman Empire |
2011-12-30 |
1232 |
| Prussian 'Councils of State' established |
2010-03-01 |
1019 |
| Prussian army at Landeshut suffers crushing defeat |
2011-12-30 |
784 |
| Prussian army defeats Saxons at Kesselsdorf |
2011-04-01 |
1209 |
| Prussian army of von Finck capitulates at Maxen |
2011-12-30 |
901 |
| Prussian blockade of Olmütz is defeated |
2011-12-30 |
1002 |
| Prussian Diet rejects increase in military budget |
2011-12-30 |
1172 |
| Prussian dispatch suggests German Union without Austria |
2011-12-30 |
715 |
| Prussian forces victorious at Vionville and Mars-la-Tour |
2011-12-30 |
961 |
| Prussian government expropriates Polish land-owners |
2011-12-30 |
586 |
| Prussian Kulturkampf: bans all religious assemblies; Jesuits are expelled |
2011-03-01 |
460 |
| Prussian lands pass to the electorate of Brandenburg |
2011-02-01 |
786 |
| Prussian National Assembly meets in Berlin |
2011-12-30 |
799 |
| Prussian Tariff Reform Act |
2011-03-01 |
1096 |
| Prussian Upper House reconstituted with increased landowning influence |
2011-12-30 |
811 |
| Prussians cross the Rhine |
2010-03-01 |
1984 |
| Prussians lose Olmütz as Frederick II's Moravian campaign fails |
2011-04-01 |
1227 |
| Prussians take Longwy and Verdun |
2007-12-02 |
3193 |
| Prussians take Olmütz |
2011-04-01 |
1566 |
| Prussians take Stralsund from Sweden; Charles XII attacks Norway |
2011-04-01 |
1422 |
| Prusso-Russian alliance renewed |
2010-03-01 |
931 |
| Prusso-Swedish Alliance of Stockholm for mutual defence |
2011-04-01 |
940 |
| Pseudo-Dionysius |
2008-07-17 |
3589 |
| Public Health Act |
2010-02-01 |
458 |
| Public Health Act in Britain |
2011-12-30 |
871 |
| Public Record Office established |
2013-08-30 |
1274 |
| Public theological disputation in Oxford |
2011-02-01 |
2632 |
| Publication of John Gould's The Birds of Australia in London |
2013-08-30 |
1258 |
| Publication of Parliamentary debates is deemed a breach of privilege |
2011-04-01 |
793 |
| Publication of the Tyndale New Testament |
2004-04-09 |
2693 |
| Pugachoff leads Cossack revolt in South-East Russia |
2010-03-01 |
1572 |
| Pugachov delivered by Cossacks to Russian government |
2010-03-01 |
585 |
| Puisieulx succeeds D'Argenson as French Foreign Minister |
2011-04-01 |
980 |
| Pun |
2001-11-01 |
4542 |
| Punch |
2013-08-30 |
3468 |
| Punctuated equilibrium effects in evolution proposed |
2009-05-01 |
324 |
| Puritans in Parliament fail to gain radical Church reform |
2011-02-01 |
3043 |
| Putney Debates |
2010-02-01 |
2058 |
| Pyramid temple in honour of Huitzilopochtli at Tenochtitlan |
2010-03-01 |
529 |
| Qarmatians establish an independent state in Bahrain |
2009-05-01 |
688 |
| Quadruple Alliance against Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1626 |
| Quadruple Alliance between Britain, Maria Theresa, Saxony-Poland and Holland |
2011-04-01 |
1166 |
| Quadruple Alliance between Holland, Brandenburg, Brunswick and Denmark |
2011-04-01 |
895 |
| Quadruple Alliance of Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia |
2010-02-01 |
2978 |
| Quadruple Alliance renewed |
2010-03-01 |
1082 |
| Quakerism |
2010-02-01 |
7126 |
| Quakers no longer persecuted in Massachusetts |
2010-03-01 |
1727 |
| Quantitative justification of the concept of atomic number proposed |
2009-05-01 |
893 |
| Quantum matrix mechanics formulated |
2009-05-01 |
2229 |
| Quantum Mechanics |
2000-10-28 |
6834 |
| Quark/aces model proposed |
2009-05-01 |
374 |
| Quartering Act |
2010-02-01 |
1822 |
| Quasar density shown to increase with redshift |
2009-05-01 |
996 |
| Quatrain |
2011-03-01 |
5175 |
| Queen Anne Boleyn gives birth to Princess Elizabeth |
2010-11-01 |
1401 |
| Queen Anne dismisses Godolphin |
2007-12-02 |
1030 |
| Queen Anne's fourth Parliament is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
551 |
| Queen Anne's second Parliament becomes first Parliament of Great Britain |
2011-04-01 |
721 |
| Queen Anne's second Parliament meets with a Whig majority |
2011-04-01 |
570 |
| Queen Caroline dies |
2011-12-30 |
370 |
| Queen Caroline dies |
2011-04-01 |
412 |
| Queen Caroline is granted an annuity of £50 000 |
2011-12-30 |
391 |
| Queen Catherine of Aragon is established in a separate household |
2010-11-01 |
327 |
| Queen Christina begins to govern Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
866 |
| Queen Elizabeth attempts to sign a treaty of alliance with Turkey against Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1049 |
| Queen Elizabeth confirms the sentence against Mary Queen of Scots |
2011-02-01 |
3168 |
| Queen Elizabeth declines the sovereignty of the Low Countries |
2011-02-01 |
1689 |
| Queen Elizabeth I recalls Robert Earl of Essex from his command in France |
2011-02-01 |
1635 |
| Queen Elizabeth is dangerously ill from smallpox |
2011-02-01 |
675 |
| Queen Elizabeth knights Francis Drake at Deptford |
2011-02-01 |
2256 |
| Queen Elizabeth's last Parliament meets at Westminster |
2011-02-01 |
982 |
| Queen Henrietta Maria flees to France |
2011-02-01 |
1932 |
| Queen Isabella II of Spain is declared of age |
2011-12-30 |
685 |
| Queen Isabella of Spain is declared deposed |
2011-12-30 |
966 |
| Queen Jane Seymour dies following the birth of Prince Edward |
2010-11-01 |
1268 |
| Queen Katherine Howard is executed |
2010-11-01 |
1195 |
| Queen Katherine Howard is sent to the Tower of London |
2010-11-01 |
1583 |
| Queen Mary dies |
2011-03-01 |
1161 |
| Queen Mary I enters London |
2010-11-01 |
1326 |
| Queen Mary I marries Philip of Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1031 |
| Queen of France allies with the new Fronde against Condé |
2011-04-01 |
1960 |
| Queen Regent Cristina of Spain resigns after revolts |
2011-12-30 |
614 |
| Queen Victoria forced to accept Commander-in-Chief's resignation |
2011-12-30 |
839 |
| Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross |
2011-12-30 |
911 |
| Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India |
2007-01-01 |
2676 |
| Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee |
2011-12-30 |
509 |
| Queen's College, London, founded |
2013-08-30 |
944 |
| Quicksort algorithm invented |
2011-03-01 |
395 |
| Quinine synthesized |
2009-05-01 |
678 |
| R.A.F. formed, replacing R.F.C. |
2010-03-01 |
714 |
| R.N. under David Beatty raids Bight of Heligoland |
2010-03-01 |
314 |
| Race Riots |
2010-02-01 |
1569 |
| Race riots in Chicago |
2010-03-01 |
1373 |
| Race riots in Oxford, Mississippi, over enrolment of first black university student |
2010-02-01 |
2650 |
| Radical attempt to assassinate Emperor William I of Germany |
2011-12-30 |
554 |
| Radical Mexican forces defeated |
2010-02-01 |
1048 |
| Radicals attempt to introduce a secret ballot, more frequent elections and free trade in corn |
2013-08-30 |
1960 |
| Radio pulses from the pulsar PSR 1919+21 discovered |
2009-05-01 |
830 |
| Radio Transmitter invented |
2010-02-01 |
862 |
| Radioactivity identified as partially responsible for the Earth’s heat |
2009-05-01 |
1580 |
| Radium, Discovery of |
2005-01-20 |
3150 |
| Rafael Reyes becomes Colombian dictator |
2011-03-01 |
686 |
| Raid into Scotland destroys abbeys and castles |
2010-11-01 |
1642 |
| Raids from Bulgaria into Macedonia |
2011-12-30 |
625 |
| Raleigh colonizes Virginia |
2010-01-01 |
2887 |
| Ralph Abercromby arrives in Ireland |
2011-03-01 |
951 |
| Rama I founds new dynasty in Siam |
2011-03-01 |
858 |
| Rambouillet Decrees |
2010-03-01 |
770 |
| Ramon Narvaez dismissed in Spain and replaced by Leopold O'Donnell |
2011-12-30 |
1531 |
| Rampant unemployment in Britain |
2010-02-01 |
1248 |
| Rampant unemployment in Germany |
2010-02-01 |
869 |
| Rapid gene sequencing technique devised |
2009-05-01 |
863 |
| Ratification of Constitution |
2010-01-01 |
4690 |
| Raymond Poincaré elected President of France |
2010-03-01 |
797 |
| Raymond Poincaré forms cabinet |
2010-03-01 |
1184 |
| Raymond Poincaré visits Russia |
2010-03-01 |
353 |
| Re-election of Ulysses Grant as US President |
2011-12-30 |
982 |
| Re-establishment of Spanish Constitution of 1845 |
2011-12-30 |
623 |
| Re-trial of those responsible for the Myall Creek massacre |
2010-03-01 |
571 |
| Rebel leader Robert Aske is sentenced to death |
2010-11-01 |
2086 |
| Rebellion against Louis XIII aims to restore the Queen Mother's power |
2011-02-01 |
1126 |
| Rebellion against Spain in Philippines |
2011-12-30 |
861 |
| Rebellion in Cuba leads to deterioration of US-Spanish relations |
2011-12-30 |
1503 |
| Rebellion in Denmark |
2010-03-01 |
1151 |
| Rebellion in Formosa |
2011-03-01 |
740 |
| Rebellion in Montreal against British rule |
2011-12-30 |
903 |
| Rebellion of Camisards Protestant peasants in Cévennes |
2011-04-01 |
1828 |
| Rebellion of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, in Scotland is crushed |
2011-02-01 |
1734 |
| Rebellion of Thomas Wyatt |
2010-01-01 |
2038 |
| Rebels in France are defeated at Etampes by Royalist forces |
2011-04-01 |
2254 |
| Rebels support Robert Curthose |
2012-07-31 |
1909 |
| Rebels under Perkin Warbeck attempt to take Exeter |
2010-11-01 |
1793 |
| Recognition that Aborigines have equal rights under English law |
2010-03-01 |
943 |
| Reconciliation between Charles IX and Admiral Coligny |
2011-02-01 |
1095 |
| Reconciliation of Comte de Chambord and Comte de Paris |
2011-12-30 |
256 |
| Reconstruction of Saint Sophia in Constantinople |
2005-11-16 |
1502 |
| Red Army takes Omsk |
2010-03-01 |
597 |
| Red River War |
2010-02-01 |
2845 |
| Reform Act is extended into Scotland |
2011-12-30 |
1592 |
| Reform Bill |
2010-03-01 |
3264 |
| Reform Bill checked: Parliament is dissolved |
2010-01-01 |
3286 |
| Reform majority returned in the General election |
2013-08-30 |
1212 |
| Reform of Austrian franchise in favour of Germans |
2011-12-30 |
593 |
| Reform of Oxford and Cambridge |
2013-08-30 |
864 |
| Reform of suffrage in Holland |
2011-12-30 |
221 |
| Reform of the Church of England |
2010-02-01 |
1586 |
| Reformation Parliament in England |
2005-06-17 |
10976 |
| Reformation, The |
2010-02-01 |
5691 |
| Reforms of Japanese courts of law |
2011-12-30 |
179 |
| Refrigerated shipment of meat from New Zealand to Britain |
2013-08-30 |
1978 |
| Refusals to recognise Huerta's government |
2010-03-01 |
621 |
| Regency Act |
2010-02-01 |
927 |
| Regency Crisis, Madness of George III |
2004-09-09 |
4812 |
| Regent of Korea declares war on China |
2011-12-30 |
1118 |
| Reginald Pole is created a cardinal |
2010-11-01 |
865 |
| Regulating Act (India Act) |
2010-02-01 |
2425 |
| Regulation of motor-cars in Britain |
2011-03-01 |
899 |
| Reichenbach Conference |
2010-03-01 |
1061 |
| Reichsregiment fails |
2010-11-01 |
1733 |
| Reichstag adjourned |
2010-03-01 |
311 |
| Reichstag debate further sours Anglo-German relations |
2010-03-01 |
299 |
| Reichstag opposes expenses on colonial wars |
2010-03-01 |
509 |
| Reichstag passes motion for peace |
2010-03-01 |
529 |
| Reichstag rejects Bismarck's proposed repression of radicals |
2011-12-30 |
745 |
| Reign of Charles X of France |
2007-12-22 |
2788 |
| Reign of Henri IV of France |
|
2403 |
| Reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V |
2010-02-01 |
1383 |
| Reign of James VI of Scotland |
2005-06-17 |
3983 |
| Reign of Khan Krum in Bulgaria |
2009-05-01 |
923 |
| Reign of King Alexander II of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
4672 |
| Reign of King Alexander III of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
4180 |
| Reign of King Alexander of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
3061 |
| Reign of King David I of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
3781 |
| Reign of King Edgar of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
3459 |
| Reign of King Edward I |
2012-07-31 |
2896 |
| Reign of King Edward I of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
3232 |
| Reign of King Edward III |
2012-07-31 |
2897 |
| Reign of King Edward VI |
2005-06-17 |
4891 |
| Reign of King George III |
2011-03-01 |
2994 |
| Reign of King George IV |
2013-08-30 |
3520 |
| Reign of King Henry I |
2012-07-31 |
3002 |
| Reign of King Henry II |
2012-07-31 |
2708 |
| Reign of King Henry III |
2012-07-31 |
2626 |
| Reign of King Henry VIII |
2005-06-17 |
5325 |
| Reign of King James I of England |
2010-02-01 |
4042 |
| Reign of King James I of Scotland |
2010-02-01 |
2732 |
| Reign of King John |
2012-07-31 |
2548 |
| Reign of King John Baliol of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
3244 |
| Reign of King Malcolm IV of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
3041 |
| Reign of King Richard I of England |
2012-07-31 |
2785 |
| Reign of King Robert I of Scotland (Robert the Bruce) |
2012-07-31 |
2904 |
| Reign of King Robert II |
2012-07-31 |
2945 |
| Reign of King Stephen |
2012-07-31 |
2749 |
| Reign of King Stephen III of Moldavia |
2009-05-01 |
1321 |
| Reign of King William the Lion of Scotland |
2012-07-31 |
3332 |
| Reign of last Aztec Emperor: Montezuma II |
2010-03-01 |
462 |
| Reign of Louis XIII of France |
2010-02-01 |
2536 |
| Reign of Louis XV of France |
2008-02-13 |
3095 |
| Reign of Louis XVIII of France |
2007-12-22 |
2312 |
| Reign of Mary Queen of Scots |
2010-03-01 |
4032 |
| Reign of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary |
2009-05-01 |
1418 |
| Reign of Mircea the Elder |
2009-05-01 |
636 |
| Reign of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine |
2006-07-20 |
1220 |
| Reign of Queen Elizabeth I |
2005-06-17 |
15545 |
| Reign of Queen Margaret of Scotland |
2010-02-01 |
3110 |
| Reign of Queen Mary I of England |
2005-06-22 |
5047 |
| Reign of Queen Mary II |
2010-02-01 |
3796 |
| Reign of Queen Victoria |
2013-08-30 |
3292 |
| Reign of Simeon I the Great |
2009-05-01 |
839 |
| Reign of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia |
2009-05-01 |
605 |
| Reign of William II, William Rufus |
2012-07-31 |
1543 |
| Reign of William the Conqueror |
2012-07-31 |
2793 |
| Relations between WaIlenstein and the Emperor Ferdinand II deteriorate |
2011-02-01 |
1112 |
| Relations severed between Turkey and Russia |
2011-12-30 |
779 |
| Relief of Distress Act for Ireland |
2011-12-30 |
692 |
| Religion divides the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
756 |
| Religious civil war in Switzerland |
2010-03-01 |
2324 |
| Religious decrees in France hostile towards the Catholic Church |
2011-12-30 |
1002 |
| Religious orders abolished in Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
945 |
| Religious tests abolished for entry to Oxford and Cambridge |
2011-12-30 |
1596 |
| Religious toleration granted to the Vaudois in Savoy |
2011-02-01 |
908 |
| Religious toleration is granted to Hungarian Protestants |
2011-04-01 |
566 |
| Rene Goblet forms ministry in France |
2011-12-30 |
842 |
| Rene Goblet's cabinet falls in France |
2011-12-30 |
334 |
| Rene of Chalons becomes stadtholder in Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht |
2010-11-01 |
870 |
| René Waldeck-Rousseau becomes French premier |
2011-12-30 |
747 |
| René Waldeck-Rousseau resigns in France |
2010-03-01 |
1097 |
| Renewal of Germany-Austria-Italy Triple Alliance |
2011-03-01 |
433 |
| Repeal of the Corn Laws |
2002-01-10 |
4495 |
| Repeal of the South Australia Act |
2010-02-01 |
141 |
| Report of Commission of Inquiry into Congo atrocities |
2011-03-01 |
2343 |
| Representation of organic molecules proposed |
2009-05-01 |
487 |
| Representatives of the Habsburg Estates meet at Linz |
2011-02-01 |
423 |
| Repressive measures in France, including censorship of press |
2011-12-30 |
1068 |
| Repressive Prevention of Crimes bill for Ireland suspends trial by jury |
2011-12-30 |
832 |
| Republic of China declared |
2010-02-01 |
896 |
| Republic of San Domingo is declared independent of Spain |
2011-12-30 |
374 |
| Republic of Venice is excommunicated |
2010-03-01 |
1307 |
| Republic proclaimed in Paris |
2010-01-01 |
745 |
| Republican bloc formed in France |
2010-03-01 |
1087 |
| Republican Charles Dilke demands an inquiry into Queen Victoria's expenditure |
2011-12-30 |
1416 |
| Republican Constitution is declared in France |
2011-12-30 |
864 |
| Republican Convention nominates Charles E. Hughes |
2010-03-01 |
646 |
| Republican Convention nominates Warren G. Harding |
2010-03-01 |
827 |
| Republican Provisional government is proclaimed in France |
2011-12-30 |
1415 |
| Republican William McKinley wins US presidental election |
2011-12-30 |
1010 |
| Republicans choose Horace Greeley as their presidential candidate |
2011-12-30 |
1446 |
| Republicans gain in French senatorial elections |
2011-12-30 |
708 |
| Requesens runs out of money to pay his soldiers |
2011-02-01 |
1203 |
| Requesens tries to cut communications between Holland and Zeeland |
2011-02-01 |
883 |
| Resistance to Spanish persecution in the Netherlands is organised |
2011-02-01 |
1125 |
| Resonance bonding discovered |
2009-05-01 |
1127 |
| Resonance phenomenon observed |
2009-05-01 |
504 |
| Responsible government established in almost all Australian States |
2011-12-30 |
999 |
| Restoration of Roman Catholicism in Bearn |
2011-02-01 |
1071 |
| Restoration of Serbian constitution of 1869 |
2011-12-30 |
349 |
| Restriction Act suspends specie payment by banks until one year after the end of the war. |
2005-04-01 |
4580 |
| Resumption of convertibility of bank notes into gold |
2007-12-12 |
1557 |
| Resumption of specie payments in USA |
2011-12-30 |
1067 |
| Retreat of Romans from Dacia - migratory waves |
2009-05-01 |
841 |
| Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered in Illinois |
2010-03-01 |
1168 |
| Reverse transcriptase enzymes discovered |
2009-05-01 |
328 |
| Revised National Banking Act in USA |
2011-12-30 |
856 |
| Revised Ptolemy's Geographia published |
2010-03-01 |
796 |
| Revisionist German Social Democrats abandon strict Marxism |
2011-12-30 |
1126 |
| Revival of Young Turk movement |
2011-12-30 |
935 |
| Revolt against the gabelle tax in Guienne, France |
2010-11-01 |
1371 |
| Revolt begins in Naples |
2010-03-01 |
796 |
| Revolt breaks out among Protestant peasants in upper Austria |
2011-02-01 |
557 |
| Revolt in Ireland |
2010-02-01 |
2248 |
| Revolt in Moldavia against Turkish rule sparks Greek War of Independence |
2011-12-30 |
1180 |
| Revolt in New Grenada |
2011-03-01 |
822 |
| Revolt in Palermo, Sicily, against corruption of Bourbons |
2011-12-30 |
807 |
| Revolt in Paris due to failure of Louis Philippe and economic depression |
2011-12-30 |
1464 |
| Revolt in Parma |
2011-12-30 |
763 |
| Revolt in Portugal when Alfonso VI is banished by his brother |
2011-04-01 |
1105 |
| Revolt in Rio de la Plata |
2011-03-01 |
490 |
| Revolt in San Domingo forces Spain to renounce sovereignty |
2011-12-30 |
612 |
| Revolt in Upper Canada under William Lyon Mackenzie |
2011-12-30 |
829 |
| Revolt of Abraham Davel in the Vaud |
2011-04-01 |
1018 |
| Revolt of Imola against the Duke of Valentinois |
2010-11-01 |
1496 |
| Revolt of Moors in Spain |
2010-03-01 |
1666 |
| Revolt of silk-weavers in Lyons |
2011-12-30 |
990 |
| Revolt of the Streltsy in Russia |
2011-04-01 |
1013 |
| Revolts break out in Barcelona and spread throughout Catalonia |
2011-02-01 |
607 |
| Revolts in Dresden, suppressed by Prussians |
2011-12-30 |
705 |
| Revolts in Dutch East Indies |
2011-12-30 |
935 |
| Revolts in Galicia; Cracow is annexed |
2010-01-01 |
1099 |
| Revolts in Saxony, Hesse and Brunswick |
2011-12-30 |
868 |
| Revolution begins in Piedmont |
2011-12-30 |
717 |
| Revolution begins in Portugal |
2010-03-01 |
873 |
| Revolution breaks out in Central China |
2010-03-01 |
789 |
| Revolution in Astrakhan against Tsar Peter's westernisation |
2011-04-01 |
817 |
| Revolution in Berlin |
2010-03-01 |
543 |
| Revolution in Lubeck makes Jurgen Wullenwever burgomaster |
2010-11-01 |
1374 |
| Revolution in Portugal is attempted but plotters soon arrested |
2011-12-30 |
1194 |
| Revolution in Siam against French influence |
2011-04-01 |
1256 |
| Revolution in Venice under Daniele Manin |
2011-12-30 |
643 |
| Revolution in Vienna begins with university demonstrations |
2011-12-30 |
436 |
| Revolution Society congratulates National Assembly |
2010-03-01 |
1529 |
| Revolutionaries in Germany attempt to take over Frankfurt Diet |
2011-12-30 |
639 |
| Revolutionary outbreaks in Modena, Parma and Papal States |
2011-12-30 |
1002 |
| Revolutionary societies forbidden |
2010-02-01 |
1469 |
| Revolutionary tendencies revealled at Wartburg Festival |
2010-03-01 |
1027 |
| Rhapsody |
2001-11-01 |
5090 |
| Rhenish League established under Protectorate of French |
2011-04-01 |
1399 |
| Rhetoric |
2001-11-01 |
3556 |
| Rhetorical Question |
2001-11-01 |
5097 |
| Rhode Island founded |
2010-03-01 |
948 |
| Rhodes conquered by the Hospitallers |
2010-03-01 |
453 |
| Rhodri Mawr (“the Great”) becomes king of Gwynedd in Wales |
2009-05-01 |
1020 |
| Rhyme Royal |
2001-11-01 |
6665 |
| Rhyme Scheme |
2001-11-01 |
7166 |
| Rialto Bridge in Venice is completed |
2010-03-01 |
557 |
| Ribault establishes a Huguenot colony in Florida |
2011-02-01 |
2589 |
| Richard Bancroft is elected Archbishop of Canterbury |
2011-02-01 |
1768 |
| Richard Burton and John Speke reach Lake Tanganyika |
2010-01-01 |
1905 |
| Richard Cromwell resigns; the Rump Parliament re-establishes the Commonwealth |
2011-03-01 |
746 |
| Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley are accused of fiscal extortion |
2010-11-01 |
1267 |
| Richard Hunne dies in the Tower of London |
2010-11-01 |
3513 |
| Richard II, King of England, undertakes campaign in Ireland |
2010-03-01 |
1826 |
| Richard Layton and Thomas Leigh begin monastery visitations |
2010-11-01 |
2987 |
| Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnel, is sworn in as Lord Deputy in Ireland |
2011-04-01 |
533 |
| Richard von Küihlmann becomes German foreign minister |
2010-03-01 |
634 |
| Richard Weston is appointed Lord Treasurer of England |
2011-02-01 |
1265 |
| Richelieu arranges a secret subsidy to Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar |
2011-02-01 |
870 |
| Richelieu arrests Charles, Pretender to the Palatinate |
2011-02-01 |
1099 |
| Richelieu becomes Minister of State for foreign affairs and war |
2011-02-01 |
1342 |
| Richelieu founds the French companies for Canada and Senegal |
2011-02-01 |
1464 |
| Richelieu is appointed Superintendent General of commerce and navigation |
2011-02-01 |
325 |
| Richelieu is created a Cardinal |
2011-02-01 |
749 |
| Richelieu is ordered into exile in Avignon |
2011-02-01 |
1085 |
| Richelieu is recalled to the Council of Louis XIII |
2011-02-01 |
529 |
| Richelieu negotiates peace in France |
2011-02-01 |
928 |
| Richelieu resigns in France |
2010-03-01 |
646 |
| Richelieu tries to persuade German rulers to urge Wallenstein's dismissal |
2011-02-01 |
2115 |
| Richelieu tries to unite Sweden and Catholic League against the Habsburgs |
2011-02-01 |
2142 |
| Richlieu weakens provincial power by making Intendants Crown representatives |
2011-02-01 |
1021 |
| Richmond, Virginia, surrenders to Grant |
2011-12-30 |
2074 |
| Richter scale devised |
2009-05-01 |
443 |
| Riddles |
2010-02-01 |
3856 |
| Rif War - Second Moroccan War |
2011-03-01 |
742 |
| Rift between Pope Julius II and Louis XII of France widens |
2010-11-01 |
1208 |
| Riga treaty between U.S.S.R. and Latvia |
2010-03-01 |
333 |
| Right-wing coup unseats Allende government in Chile |
2010-02-01 |
1074 |
| Rio de Janeiro captured by the French |
2011-04-01 |
967 |
| Riot by Lancashire weavers |
2013-08-30 |
2106 |
| Riot of silk-weavers in Lyons |
2011-12-30 |
1007 |
| Rioters prevent Louis XVI's journey to St. Cloud |
2010-03-01 |
3624 |
| Rioting in Moscow |
2011-04-01 |
618 |
| Rioting in Philadelphia |
2010-03-01 |
1332 |
| Riots in Derbyshire |
2010-03-01 |
1403 |
| Riots in Northamptonshire against enclosure of common land |
2011-02-01 |
2522 |
| Riots in Paris signify outbreak of second Fronde |
2011-04-01 |
2124 |
| Riots in Scotland over proposed union with England |
2011-04-01 |
1147 |
| Riots in Sicily |
2011-12-30 |
564 |
| Rising against Baldomero Espartero in Barcelona |
2011-12-30 |
405 |
| Rising against the French in Algeria |
2011-12-30 |
753 |
| Rising in Geneva |
2010-11-01 |
1130 |
| Rising in Hesse-Cassel |
2011-12-30 |
742 |
| Rising in Transylvania on behalf of the Archduke Ferdinand |
2010-11-01 |
974 |
| Rising Metre |
2001-11-01 |
4456 |
| Rising of Afghans at Kandahar under Mir Vais |
2011-04-01 |
835 |
| Rising of Batetelas on Upper Congo |
2011-12-30 |
836 |
| Rising of nobles in Denmark against Christian II for misrule |
2010-11-01 |
1020 |
| Rising of peasants in Upper Austria |
2011-02-01 |
1123 |
| Rising of Protestants in the Cevennes |
2011-04-01 |
909 |
| Rising of Yamassees and other Indian tribes in South Carolina |
2011-04-01 |
2141 |
| Rising spreads to Durham, Cumberland and Westmorland |
2010-11-01 |
1431 |
| Risings in the West Country against the newly enforced Prayer Book |
2010-11-01 |
3132 |
| Risings in Thessaly |
2011-12-30 |
715 |
| Rivalry between France and Italy in Tunis |
2011-12-30 |
807 |
| RNA polymerase enzymes discovered |
2011-03-01 |
646 |
| Roanoke Colony founded |
2005-06-17 |
5797 |
| Robert Aske tries to pacify the rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace |
2010-11-01 |
1580 |
| Robert Baden-Powell puts down Matabele rising |
2011-12-30 |
879 |
| Robert Barley becomes Secretary of State, Northern Department |
2011-04-01 |
840 |
| Robert Blake blockades the Royalist fleet at Kinsale |
2010-02-01 |
1938 |
| Robert Borden becomes Canadian premier |
2011-03-01 |
867 |
| Robert Bruce attempts to invade England |
2012-07-31 |
1082 |
| Robert Bruce rebels against England |
2012-07-31 |
1771 |
| Robert Clive becomes Governor of Bengal |
2011-12-30 |
1460 |
| Robert Clive leaves India |
2011-12-30 |
1045 |
| Robert Clive leaves India |
2010-03-01 |
914 |
| Robert Clive takes Arcot |
2011-04-01 |
1265 |
| Robert Clive takes Fulta and relieves the English fugitives |
2011-12-30 |
1284 |
| Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
2011-02-01 |
1732 |
| Robert Earl of Essex is sent to France |
2011-02-01 |
1328 |
| Robert Earl of Essex is tried for misdemeanours in Ireland |
2011-02-01 |
2292 |
| Robert Emmet rebels |
2010-03-01 |
975 |
| Robert Harley becomes Lord Treasurer |
2011-04-01 |
586 |
| Robert Harley is dismissed as Secretary of State |
2011-04-01 |
648 |
| Robert Harley proposes reducing the size of the British Army |
2011-04-01 |
1176 |
| Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, is acquitted of subterfuge with the French |
2011-04-01 |
1592 |
| Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, is imprisoned in the Tower |
2011-04-01 |
852 |
| Robert Kett's Norfolk rebels defeated at the Battle of Dussindale |
2010-11-01 |
2081 |
| Robert Lansing becomes U.S. secretary of state |
2011-03-01 |
917 |
| Robert Menzies attempts to dissolve the Communist Party |
2010-03-01 |
519 |
| Robert Nelson proclaims himself President of Lower Canada |
2010-02-01 |
1399 |
| Robert Nivelle made French Commander-in-Chief |
2011-03-01 |
792 |
| Robert Owen sets up New Harmony |
2010-02-01 |
1897 |
| Robert Peel allows employment of transported convicts in colonies |
2011-12-30 |
1226 |
| Robert Peel enters Lord Liverpool's Cabinet as home secretary |
2011-12-30 |
1274 |
| Robert Peel issues Tamworth Manifesto |
2011-12-30 |
1777 |
| Robert Peel reforms criminal law |
2011-12-30 |
1115 |
| Robert Peel resigns |
2011-12-30 |
794 |
| Robert Peel resigns |
2011-12-30 |
904 |
| Robert Walpole is appointed Secretary at War |
2011-04-01 |
595 |
| Robert Walpole is sent to the Tower for alleged corruption |
2011-04-01 |
827 |
| Robert Walpole quarrels with Charles Townshend |
2011-04-01 |
779 |
| Robert Walpole takes control of finance and the economy |
2011-04-01 |
1057 |
| Robert-Francois Damiens attempts to assassinate Louis XV |
2011-12-30 |
1444 |
| Robert, Lord Dudley becomes chief favourite of Elizabeth I |
2011-02-01 |
1464 |
| Roberts and Kitchener reach South Africa |
2010-03-01 |
1618 |
| Rochdale Co-operative Society of Equitable Pioneers established |
2013-08-30 |
923 |
| Roche’s theory on the planetary rings of Saturn |
2009-05-01 |
1348 |
| Rockingham Whigs cease to attend Parliament |
2010-03-01 |
1209 |
| Roderic becomes king of the Visigoths |
2009-05-01 |
889 |
| Roderigo Borgia is elected Pope Alexander VI |
2010-11-01 |
1607 |
| Roger Bacon states formulas for gunpowder |
2012-07-31 |
741 |
| Roger Casement lands in Ireland |
2010-03-01 |
693 |
| Roman a clef |
2001-11-01 |
5878 |
| Roman campaigns in Dacia |
2009-05-01 |
853 |
| Roman Catholics are excluded from both Houses of Parliament |
2011-04-01 |
1181 |
| Roman Republic proclaimed |
2010-03-01 |
2039 |
| Romanesque |
2005-11-07 |
3352 |
| Romania eliminated from WWI |
2010-02-01 |
1188 |
| Romania enters war against Turkey |
2011-12-30 |
866 |
| Romania warns Bulgaria she will not remain neutral |
2010-03-01 |
931 |
| Romanian principalities of Moldova, Wallachia and Transylvania briefly united |
2009-05-01 |
581 |
| Romanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldova unite |
2010-02-01 |
888 |
| Romanian royal dictatorship established |
2010-02-01 |
1022 |
| Romanian troops asked to withdraw from Hungary |
2011-03-01 |
802 |
| Romanian-Greek relations deteriorate |
2011-03-01 |
818 |
| Rome becomes capital of Italy |
2011-12-30 |
253 |
| Rome burnt by German mercenaries |
2010-03-01 |
1174 |
| Rome proclaimed Republic under Giuseppe Mazzini |
2011-12-30 |
193 |
| Ronald Ryan hanged - Last hanging in Australia |
2010-03-01 |
320 |
| Roosevelt authorised to buy French Panama Co. rights |
2010-03-01 |
1855 |
| Rosnay, Duke of Sully, becomes French Superintendent of Finances |
2011-02-01 |
1008 |
| Rotation curves of several spiral galaxies measured |
2009-05-01 |
287 |
| Rouen captured by Henry V |
2010-03-01 |
1802 |
| Roundheads take Winchester |
2011-02-01 |
2446 |
| Rouvier fails to settle Moroccan question |
2011-03-01 |
524 |
| Royal Agricultural Society of England founded |
2013-08-30 |
1863 |
| Royal charter establishes the English colony of Maryland |
2010-01-01 |
1124 |
| Royal charter for Pennsylvania |
2010-03-01 |
1043 |
| Royal College of Physicians allowed to dissect the human body |
2010-03-01 |
498 |
| Royal Commission on hand-loom weavers |
2013-08-30 |
830 |
| Royal Commission on the Health of Towns |
2013-08-30 |
1283 |
| Royal Jubilee |
2010-02-01 |
1440 |
| Royal Manchester Institution established |
2010-02-01 |
1711 |
| Royal Marriage Act |
2010-01-01 |
2727 |
| Royal Navy destroys Chinese fleet |
2011-12-30 |
926 |
| Royal Navy sinks the Westfalen in North Sea |
2010-03-01 |
785 |
| Royal Navy under Admiral Hawke defeats French at Quiberon Bay |
2011-12-30 |
980 |
| Royal Observatory, Greenwich, founded |
2009-01-16 |
2096 |
| Royal physician Roderigo Lopez arrested for planning to poison Queen Elizabeth |
2011-02-01 |
4313 |
| Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals founded |
2013-08-30 |
925 |
| Royal Titles Act |
2010-03-01 |
265 |
| Royalist army defeats Parliament |
2010-02-01 |
2164 |
| Royalist Insurrection (Penruddock's Uprising) |
2010-02-01 |
1005 |
| Royalist rebellion in Paris |
2007-12-02 |
2566 |
| Royalist victory at Inverlochy |
2011-03-01 |
2633 |
| Royalists captured Brentford |
2010-02-01 |
2400 |
| Royalists lose Carlisle |
2011-02-01 |
1840 |
| Royalists lose Winchester |
2011-02-01 |
1980 |
| Rudolf II meets the Diet at Ratisbon to gain supplies for the Turkish war |
2011-02-01 |
936 |
| Rudolf II summons the Imperial Diet to Ratisbon |
2011-02-01 |
1030 |
| Rudolf, King of Hungary is elected King of the Romans |
2011-02-01 |
738 |
| Rugby invented |
2013-08-30 |
918 |
| Ruler of the Netherlands, Philip the Fair, dies |
2010-03-01 |
1039 |
| Rum Rebellion |
2010-03-01 |
514 |
| Rumours about Georges Boulanger |
2011-12-30 |
659 |
| Rumours of a Catholic conspiracy alarm Philip of Hesse |
2010-11-01 |
1054 |
| Rump Parliament gathers |
2010-02-01 |
1978 |
| Rump Parliament restored |
2010-02-01 |
550 |
| Rus’-Byzantine War |
2009-05-01 |
1156 |
| Rus’-Byzantine War |
2009-05-01 |
1341 |
| Russell begins parliamentary reform campaign |
2010-03-01 |
1668 |
| Russia abolishes privileges of English traders |
2011-04-01 |
1083 |
| Russia abolishes the poll tax |
2011-12-30 |
337 |
| Russia accedes to the Treaty of Versailles |
2011-12-30 |
682 |
| Russia and Austria call for reform programme |
2011-03-01 |
503 |
| Russia and Austria sign Secret treaty |
2011-03-01 |
895 |
| Russia and Britain are leased ports in northern China |
2011-12-30 |
703 |
| Russia and Italy sign Racconigi agreement |
2010-03-01 |
682 |
| Russia and the Empire make a new alliance to conquer Silesia and Glatz |
2011-12-30 |
760 |
| Russia attacks Turkey in order to regain Azov |
2011-04-01 |
1003 |
| Russia breaks relations with Britain |
2011-03-01 |
1205 |
| Russia builds forts on River Amur |
2011-04-01 |
696 |
| Russia conquers Kamchatka |
2011-04-01 |
874 |
| Russia declares armed neutrality |
2010-03-01 |
692 |
| Russia declares she will aid any power against Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
581 |
| Russia declares war against Persia |
2011-12-30 |
780 |
| Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire |
2010-02-01 |
1230 |
| Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire |
2010-02-01 |
1391 |
| Russia declares war on Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1069 |
| Russia defeated at Smolensk |
2010-03-01 |
2042 |
| Russia defeats Turkish navy at Tchesme |
2010-03-01 |
1482 |
| Russia drops draft convention with China |
2010-03-01 |
2164 |
| Russia encouraged to restore conquests |
2010-03-01 |
1250 |
| Russia fails to reconcile Austria to treaty of San Stefano |
2011-12-30 |
379 |
| Russia forms governor-generalship over Turkestan |
2011-12-30 |
810 |
| Russia hands Saxony to Prussia |
2010-03-01 |
777 |
| Russia intervenes in Georgia |
2010-03-01 |
520 |
| Russia is divided into eight governments for administrative purposes |
2011-04-01 |
346 |
| Russia joins the war against Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
764 |
| Russia launches Sputnik, first satellite |
2010-02-01 |
829 |
| Russia obtains territory at mouth of River Amur |
2011-12-30 |
983 |
| Russia occupies Port Arthur |
2011-12-30 |
717 |
| Russia plans to seize Constantinople |
2011-12-30 |
705 |
| Russia plans to seize Constantinople if Britain intervenes in Crete |
2011-12-30 |
650 |
| Russia prepares for war against Turkey |
2011-12-30 |
508 |
| Russia promises autonomy to Poland |
2011-03-01 |
606 |
| Russia proposes to Austria that Prussia be partitioned |
2011-12-30 |
1019 |
| Russia pulls out of the Continental Blockade |
2010-02-01 |
1303 |
| Russia resigns its claims to Lithuania |
2010-03-01 |
1058 |
| Russia sends troops to Kazvin, Persia |
2010-03-01 |
1064 |
| Russia signs secret alliance |
2010-03-01 |
703 |
| Russia takes Warsaw and Polish revolt collapses |
2011-12-30 |
768 |
| Russia warns Germany she supports France |
2011-03-01 |
752 |
| Russia warns Turkey to withdraw troops from Montenegro frontier |
2011-03-01 |
554 |
| Russia, France and Britain urge Ottomans to call a truce |
2011-12-30 |
805 |
| Russia, France and Germany protest against cession of mainland China to Japan |
2011-12-30 |
643 |
| Russia's treaty with Austria Concluded |
2010-03-01 |
749 |
| Russian ambassador to London undertakes to divide Bulgaria |
2011-12-30 |
214 |
| Russian and Swedish troops ravage Pomerania |
2011-12-30 |
747 |
| Russian army crosses the Prut river and invades Danubian Provinces |
2011-12-30 |
1257 |
| Russian Bloody Sunday |
2010-02-01 |
831 |
| Russian Constitution |
2010-02-01 |
815 |
| Russian constitutional assembly opens in Petrograd |
2011-03-01 |
194 |
| Russian expedition to Alaska opens fur trade under Behring |
2011-04-01 |
798 |
| Russian expedition to Khiva fails |
2011-04-01 |
1131 |
| Russian fleet fires on British trawlers |
2010-03-01 |
625 |
| Russian fleet visits Toulon |
2011-12-30 |
869 |
| Russian intervention in Germany in Austria's favour |
2011-12-30 |
993 |
| Russian intrigues in Sweden alarm Frederick II of Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
718 |
| Russian judiciary reformed |
2011-12-30 |
414 |
| Russian minister of propaganda murdered |
2010-03-01 |
675 |
| Russian occupation of Penjdeh; crisis in Anglo-Russian relations ensues |
2011-12-30 |
1143 |
| Russian Revolution commences |
2010-02-01 |
1299 |
| Russian ships enter Bosphorus to aid Turkey against Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
940 |
| Russian Social Democratic Party splits |
2010-03-01 |
827 |
| Russian Socialists split |
2010-02-01 |
1010 |
| Russian southern front collapses |
2010-03-01 |
211 |
| Russian successes in the Crimea |
2011-04-01 |
868 |
| Russian troops pass through Bohemia en route for the Rhine |
2011-04-01 |
1452 |
| Russian troops take Gdansk |
2011-04-01 |
1033 |
| Russian ultimatum to Turkey over Serbia and Danubian Provinces |
2011-12-30 |
767 |
| Russian victory over Prussians at Gross Jägersdorf |
2011-12-30 |
1538 |
| Russians break through in Ivangorod |
2010-03-01 |
212 |
| Russians cross the Danube |
2011-12-30 |
792 |
| Russians defeated at Limanova |
2010-02-01 |
1004 |
| Russians defeated by Masséna at Zurich |
2010-03-01 |
2305 |
| Russians found Vladivostok in vicinity of Korean border |
2011-12-30 |
317 |
| Russians invade Danubian Principalities at Turkey's request |
2011-12-30 |
1269 |
| Russians invade Livonia in a war of succession |
2011-02-01 |
1651 |
| Russians leave Denmark and occupy Mecklenburg |
2011-04-01 |
1371 |
| Russians occupy and burn Berlin |
2011-12-30 |
573 |
| Russians retake East Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
832 |
| Russians storm Kars |
2011-12-30 |
221 |
| Russians take Baku and Derbent from Persia |
2011-04-01 |
1138 |
| Russians take Bitlis |
2010-03-01 |
657 |
| Russians take Kolberg and gain a strategic harbour |
2011-12-30 |
831 |
| Russians take Merv from the Amir of Afghanistan |
2011-12-30 |
798 |
| Russians take Ochakov from the Turks |
2011-04-01 |
1275 |
| Russians take Trebizond |
2010-03-01 |
660 |
| Russians under Saltikov defeat Prussians at Kay |
2011-12-30 |
914 |
| Russo-Austrian convention that no large state be erected in the Balkans |
2011-12-30 |
210 |
| Russo-British negotiations suspended |
2010-03-01 |
216 |
| Russo-Japanese agreement |
2010-03-01 |
634 |
| Russo-Japanese agreement over China |
2010-03-01 |
660 |
| Russo-Japanese War commences |
2010-02-01 |
900 |
| Russo-Polish Twenty Years' War ends |
2010-11-01 |
1088 |
| Russo-Prussian alliance against Austria is formally concluded |
2011-12-30 |
859 |
| Russo-Prussian force occupies Dresden |
2010-03-01 |
1003 |
| Russo-Swedish war breaks out |
2011-04-01 |
759 |
| Safavid dynasty in Persia |
2010-03-01 |
860 |
| Safavid Persians conquered by the Ottomans |
2010-03-01 |
1101 |
| Saint-Simon, Louis de Rourvroy |
2005-10-22 |
5262 |
| Sakharov’s baryon-antibaryon asymmetry formulated |
2009-05-01 |
629 |
| Salisbury rejects US arbitration in British Guiana-Venezuela boundary dispute |
2011-12-30 |
862 |
| Salvation Army founded |
2013-08-30 |
861 |
| Samuel Adams forms Committees of Correspondence |
2010-03-01 |
1174 |
| Samuel Marsden goes to England to recruit clergy for New South Wales |
2010-03-01 |
1455 |
| San Francisco Earthquake |
2001-01-01 |
4945 |
| San Juan founded |
2010-03-01 |
741 |
| San Salvador, Bahamas, asks for incorporation with USA |
2011-12-30 |
760 |
| San Sebastian capitulates to Wellington |
2010-03-01 |
544 |
| Santa Elena is destroyed |
2010-03-01 |
272 |
| Sarawak and North Borneo become British Protectorates |
2010-01-01 |
1188 |
| Sarawak ceded to James Brooke by Sultan of Brunei |
2010-02-01 |
1186 |
| Sardinia cedes Savoy and Nice to France |
2011-03-01 |
2044 |
| Sardinia declares war on Austria |
2011-12-30 |
651 |
| Sardinia ends truce with Austria |
2011-12-30 |
643 |
| Sardinian troops are expelled from Venice |
2011-12-30 |
629 |
| Sardinian troops defeat Austrians at second battle of Goito |
2011-12-30 |
945 |
| Sarsa Dengel, King of Ethiopia, dies |
2010-03-01 |
563 |
| Satsuma rebellion in Japan |
2010-02-01 |
1663 |
| Saudi Arabian King dies |
2010-02-01 |
631 |
| Savile's act modifies penal laws against Roman Catholics |
2010-03-01 |
1519 |
| Savonarola condemned to death |
2010-11-01 |
1499 |
| Savoy formally joins the Grand Alliance against France |
2011-04-01 |
859 |
| Savoy joins the Grand Alliance |
2011-04-01 |
2747 |
| Saxon and Hanoverian federal troops enter Holstein |
2011-12-30 |
851 |
| Saxon army capitulates to Prussia at Pirna |
2011-12-30 |
1144 |
| Saxon electorate is given to Duke Maurice |
2010-11-01 |
849 |
| Saxon troops invade Bohemia |
2011-02-01 |
2784 |
| Saxon troops invade Livonia; this marks the start of the Great Northern War |
2011-04-01 |
1441 |
| Saxon troops under Arnim take Prague |
2011-02-01 |
1380 |
| Saxony is granted Constitution after revolt |
2011-12-30 |
817 |
| Saxony joins France against Maria Theresa |
2011-04-01 |
1001 |
| Schism Act |
2007-02-06 |
1870 |
| Schleswig annexed by Denmark |
2010-02-01 |
1619 |
| Schleswig incorporated in New Danish Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
654 |
| Schleswig-Holstein insurgents defeated at Idstedt |
2011-12-30 |
890 |
| Schleswig-Holstein is incorporated in Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
700 |
| Schmalkaldic League holds a Diet at Frankfurt |
2010-11-01 |
2121 |
| Schmalkaldic League plans a military campaign against Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
2155 |
| Schmalkaldic League prepares for civil war in Germany |
2010-11-01 |
2064 |
| Schmalkaldic strongholds submit to Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
2320 |
| Schrödinger equation formulated |
2009-05-01 |
431 |
| Schurman's Commission offers representative government to the Filipinos |
2011-12-30 |
2263 |
| Schwarzschild spacetime geometry posited as unique solution of the Einstein vacuum field equations |
2009-05-01 |
1162 |
| Scots are victorious at Ancrum Moor |
2010-11-01 |
1946 |
| Scots crown Charles II |
2011-03-01 |
3480 |
| Scots defeat the English |
2010-01-01 |
2314 |
| Scots give Charles I to Parliament |
2010-02-01 |
2213 |
| Scots invade England |
2010-02-01 |
2500 |
| Scots invade England precipitating the Second Civil War |
2011-03-01 |
2697 |
| Scots seize English territory |
2010-02-01 |
2013 |
| Scott's expedition to the South Pole |
2010-01-01 |
1094 |
| Scottish army crosses the Border and lays siege to Norham Castle |
2010-11-01 |
1766 |
| Scottish Catholic leader found guilty of forging a letter from the King |
2011-02-01 |
1210 |
| Scottish Commissioners arrive in London |
2010-02-01 |
1657 |
| Scottish Covenanters are crushed at the battle of Pentland Hills |
2011-04-01 |
858 |
| Scottish Education Act |
2013-08-30 |
950 |
| Scottish estates forfeited in the 1745 are deemed to belong to the Crown |
2011-04-01 |
1255 |
| Scottish Jacobites defeat the Covenanters at Killiekrankie |
2011-04-01 |
847 |
| Scottish Labour Party founded |
2013-08-30 |
1303 |
| Scottish leader, William Wallace, is executed |
2010-03-01 |
1479 |
| Scottish Parliament introduces Anglican principles to Scottish worship |
2011-02-01 |
3027 |
| Scottish Parliament names Duke of Albany as Protector of Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
315 |
| Scottish Parliament repudiates the Treaties of Greenwich |
2010-11-01 |
995 |
| Scottish Protestant Lords depose the Regent Mary of Guise |
2011-02-01 |
1536 |
| Scottish Toleration Act |
2011-04-01 |
1601 |
| Sea swell leads to the death of approximately 10 000 people in the Netherlands |
2010-03-01 |
1472 |
| Sebastian I succeeds to the throne of Portugal |
2011-02-01 |
986 |
| Sebastian, King of Portugal, invades Morocco |
2011-02-01 |
1648 |
| Sebastopol captured by the British and French |
2010-02-01 |
1796 |
| Secession and civil war in Congo/ Zaire |
2010-02-01 |
896 |
| Seckendorf, Austrian Field Marshal, is recalled and imprisoned |
2011-04-01 |
216 |
| Second Afghan War begins |
2011-12-30 |
992 |
| Second Anglo-Afghan War |
2010-02-01 |
1635 |
| Second Anglo-Burmese War |
2010-02-01 |
1690 |
| Second Anglo-Dutch War |
2010-01-01 |
1907 |
| Second Arab siege of Constantinople |
2009-05-01 |
1224 |
| Second Armed Neutrality of the North |
2010-03-01 |
1099 |
| Second Austrian invasion of Serbia |
2010-02-01 |
994 |
| Second Balkan War |
2010-02-01 |
956 |
| Second battle of Aisne |
2010-03-01 |
397 |
| Second Battle of Artois |
2010-02-01 |
786 |
| Second battle of Breitenfeld |
2011-02-01 |
2973 |
| Second battle of Bull Run: Thomas Jackson defeats Union Army |
2011-12-30 |
1866 |
| Second battle of Gaza |
2010-03-01 |
1005 |
| Second Battle of Masurian Lakes |
2010-02-01 |
1001 |
| Second Battle of Newbury |
2010-02-01 |
1812 |
| Second battle of Schooneveld |
2010-02-01 |
981 |
| Second Battle of the Marne |
2010-02-01 |
595 |
| Second battle of Verdun: French gain positions |
2010-03-01 |
388 |
| Second Battle of Ypres |
2010-02-01 |
1061 |
| Second Brusilov Offensive |
2010-02-01 |
1155 |
| Second Chartist Petition rejected |
2013-08-30 |
3545 |
| Second Civil War in France |
2011-02-01 |
1360 |
| Second civil war in the French Wars of Religion |
2010-11-01 |
2542 |
| Second Coalition against France |
2010-03-01 |
2217 |
| Second colony established by English settlers off the coast of the US |
2010-03-01 |
1817 |
| Second Combination Act |
2010-02-01 |
1381 |
| Second Continental Congress |
2007-12-02 |
2281 |
| Second Council of Nicaea |
2009-05-01 |
1213 |
| Second Crusade |
2010-02-01 |
2103 |
| Second Dutch Barrier Treaty |
2011-04-01 |
1357 |
| Second Exclusion Bill proposes exiling James Duke of York from Britain |
2011-04-01 |
1002 |
| Second Family Compact between France and Spain |
2011-04-01 |
1166 |
| Second French and Indian War - also known as Queen Anne's War |
2010-03-01 |
6028 |
| Second German Naval Act |
2010-03-01 |
1105 |
| Second Hay-Pauncefote treaty |
2010-03-01 |
796 |
| Second Indo-Pakistan War over Jammu and Kashmir |
2010-02-01 |
1370 |
| Second Irish Home Rule Bill |
2010-01-01 |
1618 |
| Second Jaga War |
2010-03-01 |
356 |
| Second Mahratha War |
2010-03-01 |
824 |
| Second Maratha War; British seize Delhi |
|
815 |
| Second Opium War; Anglo-French War with China |
2010-02-01 |
2082 |
| Second Parliament of George I |
2011-04-01 |
521 |
| Second Parliament of George II meets |
2011-04-01 |
640 |
| Second Parliament of William and Mary meets |
2011-04-01 |
988 |
| Second partition of Poland by Prussia and Russia |
2009-06-26 |
2958 |
| Second Partition Treaty is signed between France, England and Holland |
2011-04-01 |
1386 |
| Second Peace of Paris |
2010-03-01 |
2277 |
| Second Protectorate Parliament assembles |
2011-03-01 |
562 |
| Second Protectorate Parliament begins its second session |
2011-03-01 |
559 |
| Second Protectorate Parliament is dissolved by Oliver Cromwell |
2011-03-01 |
796 |
| Second Reconstruction Act |
2010-03-01 |
1106 |
| Second Reform Act - Representation of the People Act |
2005-04-01 |
8841 |
| Second rising in Vienna against new Austrian Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
513 |
| Second Seminole War |
2010-02-01 |
3075 |
| Second session of the 'Reformation Parliament'. |
2010-11-01 |
2411 |
| Second session of the Council of Trent |
2010-11-01 |
1088 |
| Second Siamese embassy is sent to France |
2011-04-01 |
458 |
| Second Sikh War |
2010-01-01 |
1018 |
| Second Silesian War begins |
2011-04-01 |
777 |
| Second Spanish Partition Treaty is ratified |
2011-04-01 |
1278 |
| Second Treaty of Torun |
2010-03-01 |
1696 |
| Second Treaty of Versailles between France and Empire |
2011-12-30 |
1655 |
| Second Uniformity Act authorises more radical Second Prayer Book |
2010-11-01 |
3258 |
| Second Vatican Council |
2010-03-01 |
630 |
| Second Vienna Award |
2009-05-01 |
1212 |
| Second World War begins |
2004-02-22 |
4719 |
| Second Zimba War |
2010-03-01 |
1533 |
| Secret 'Three Emperors' League' alliance between Germany, Austria and Russia |
2011-12-30 |
235 |
| Secret alliance between Charles II of Britain and Louis XIV |
2011-04-01 |
619 |
| Secret alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy against France |
2010-01-01 |
1369 |
| Secret Anglo-Russian agreement to reduce the size of Bulgaria |
2011-12-30 |
231 |
| Secret Austro-Romanian alliance |
2011-12-30 |
1087 |
| Secret Ballot introduced in UK |
2013-08-30 |
2132 |
| Secret defence pact between Austria, Britain and the Duchy of Modena |
2011-04-01 |
1024 |
| Secret Franco-Italian agreement |
2010-03-01 |
1484 |
| Secret marriage treaty between Charles, Prince of Wales and the Infanta Maria of Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1158 |
| Secret negotiations on behalf of Mary Queen of Scots |
2011-02-01 |
2080 |
| Secret treaty between Austria and France |
2011-12-30 |
381 |
| Secret treaty between Austria, Britain and France |
2010-03-01 |
2188 |
| Secret treaty between British East India Company and Mir Kassem |
2011-12-30 |
1549 |
| Secret treaty between Charles I and the Scots |
2010-01-01 |
2573 |
| Secret treaty between Russia and China |
2010-01-01 |
1133 |
| Secret Treaty of 1714 between France and Bavaria is renewed |
2011-04-01 |
1231 |
| Secret treaty of alliance between Brandenburg and France |
2011-04-01 |
1086 |
| Secret Treaty of Bruges between Charles V and Wolsey for war on France |
2010-11-01 |
3329 |
| Secret Treaty of Paris between France and the Empire |
2011-12-30 |
890 |
| Secret treaty of San Ildefonso |
2011-03-01 |
2083 |
| Secular education introduced to Spain |
2010-03-01 |
388 |
| Seditious libels excluded from parlimentary privilege |
2010-03-01 |
1022 |
| Seditious Meetings Act and Treasonable Practices Act |
2006-01-21 |
5576 |
| Segregation of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children ordered by the San Francisco school board |
2010-03-01 |
983 |
| Seismograph invented by John Milne |
2013-08-30 |
2495 |
| Select Committee on Agriculture |
2013-08-30 |
1513 |
| Self-Denying Ordinance is passed by the House of Lords |
2011-02-01 |
2378 |
| Selim I becomes Ottoman Sultan with the support of the Janissaries |
2010-03-01 |
949 |
| Selim I creates an Ottoman fleet |
2010-03-01 |
1297 |
| Selim I defeats Shah Ismail of Persia at Chaldiran |
2010-11-01 |
1239 |
| Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, begins to march his army towads Persia |
2010-11-01 |
1489 |
| Selim II becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire |
2010-03-01 |
881 |
| Seminary priest Cuthbert Maine is executed for treason |
2011-02-01 |
2862 |
| Senate in France made an Upper House |
2011-12-30 |
962 |
| Sentimentality, Sentimentalism |
2003-11-01 |
11526 |
| Separate Treaty of Tilsit |
2010-03-01 |
786 |
| Septennial Act |
2006-02-17 |
4642 |
| Serbia becomes virtual protectorate of Austria by secret treaty |
2011-12-30 |
435 |
| Serbia invades Bulgaria, following the union with Eastern Rumelia |
2011-12-30 |
915 |
| Serbia, siding with Russia, declares war on Turkey |
2011-12-30 |
626 |
| Serbian Diet deposes Alexander Karageorgevitch |
2011-12-30 |
281 |
| Serbian regicide |
2010-02-01 |
756 |
| Serbo-Croat-Slovene Kingdom peace treaties |
2011-03-01 |
544 |
| Serbs defeated at Slivnitsa |
2011-12-30 |
847 |
| Serfdom abolished in Austria |
2010-03-01 |
971 |
| Sergei Witte becomes Russian finance minister |
2011-12-30 |
994 |
| Serious defeat for the Yorkists at Wakefield, England |
2010-03-01 |
2628 |
| Serious famine in Bengal |
2010-03-01 |
1246 |
| Sessions of the German Imperial Diet at Ratisbon are made permanent |
2011-04-01 |
412 |
| Sestet |
2001-11-01 |
4588 |
| Settlement at Derwent River |
2010-03-01 |
915 |
| Settlement of Alaskan frontier by 3-power commission |
2010-03-01 |
1484 |
| Settlement of British Guiana-Venezuelan boundary dispute |
2011-12-30 |
1029 |
| Settlement of Investiture Dispute |
2012-07-31 |
1766 |
| Seven Bishops are tried for opposing the Declaration of Indulgence |
2011-04-01 |
1622 |
| Seven Whig Lords invite William of Orange to England |
2011-04-01 |
1163 |
| Seventh (last) Crusade |
2010-02-01 |
1377 |
| Seventh battle of Isonzo |
2010-03-01 |
838 |
| Seventh civil war in French Wars of Religion |
2010-03-01 |
2645 |
| Several members of Ottoman government assassinated |
2011-12-30 |
509 |
| Severe famine in Florence |
2010-11-01 |
908 |
| Severe famine in India |
2011-12-30 |
560 |
| Shaftesbury dies in Holland |
2011-04-01 |
1024 |
| Shaftesbury is removed from Chancellorship |
2011-04-01 |
783 |
| Shah Ismail of Persia drives the Usbeks from Khorasan |
2010-03-01 |
974 |
| Shah Jahan becomes Mogul Emperor of India |
2011-02-01 |
451 |
| Shah Mohammed Ali overthrows Persian constitution |
2010-03-01 |
368 |
| Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Persia |
2011-04-01 |
343 |
| Shah Suleiman succeeds as ruler of Persia |
2011-04-01 |
492 |
| Shane O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone defeats the MacDonnells at Ballycastle |
2011-02-01 |
2040 |
| Shanghai Massacre |
2009-05-01 |
1465 |
| Shapely-Curtis debate on the Milky Way |
2009-05-01 |
822 |
| Sharpeville massacre |
2010-02-01 |
690 |
| Sheen Palace destroyed by fire |
2010-11-01 |
1294 |
| Sherman occupies Savannah, Georgia |
2011-12-30 |
1907 |
| Shih Tsung becomes Emperor of China |
2010-11-01 |
342 |
| Shiite Fatimid dynasty takes control of Egypt |
2009-05-01 |
1137 |
| Ship Money |
2005-11-14 |
2068 |
| Ships of the Lubeck Hansa capture a Netherlands trading fleet |
2010-11-01 |
1841 |
| Shiraz and Isfahan conquered by Timur |
2010-03-01 |
588 |
| Short Parliament called |
2010-01-01 |
1179 |
| Shots fired at Prince Regent |
2010-03-01 |
779 |
| Siam cedes territory to France; Laos is recognised as a French Protectorate |
2010-01-01 |
899 |
| Sicilian Vespers |
2009-05-01 |
1299 |
| Sicily is declared independent of Naples |
2011-12-30 |
773 |
| Sicily is forced to submit to Naples |
2011-12-30 |
615 |
| Sidney Godolphin again becomes Treasurer |
2011-04-01 |
499 |
| Sidney Godolphin becomes Treasurer |
2011-04-01 |
453 |
| Sidney Godolphin dies |
2011-04-01 |
590 |
| Siege of Antwerp |
2010-02-01 |
1237 |
| Siege of Baghdad; Al-Ma’mun becomes caliph of the Abbasid Empire |
2009-05-01 |
338 |
| Siege of Belgrade |
2010-03-01 |
1631 |
| Siege of Chester |
2010-02-01 |
2715 |
| Siege of Danzig |
2011-04-01 |
960 |
| Siege of Dartmouth |
2010-02-01 |
2234 |
| Siege of Gloucester |
2011-03-01 |
1969 |
| Siege of Hereford |
2010-02-01 |
1972 |
| Siege of Leningrad |
2010-03-01 |
244 |
| Siege of Londonderry |
2011-04-01 |
1163 |
| Siege of Louisbourg |
2010-02-01 |
2959 |
| Siege of Montauban by royalists begins |
2011-02-01 |
2336 |
| Siege of Paris by Prussian forces begins |
2011-12-30 |
814 |
| Siege of Plevna |
2009-05-01 |
1070 |
| Siege of Serdica |
2009-05-01 |
1031 |
| Siege works to cut off Amiens from the north |
2011-02-01 |
934 |
| Siena is incorporated in Tuscany |
2011-02-01 |
825 |
| Siena revolts against the imperial garrison |
2010-11-01 |
1307 |
| Siena surrenders to Spain after a famine |
2011-02-01 |
1477 |
| Sigismund Bathory becomes Prince of Transylvania |
2011-02-01 |
752 |
| Sigismund Bathory defeats the Ottomans at Giurgiu |
2011-03-01 |
1169 |
| Sigismund I accedes to the throne of Poland |
2010-11-01 |
1035 |
| Sigismund II Augustus succeeds as King of Poland |
2010-11-01 |
1206 |
| Sigismund III succeeds as King of Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1017 |
| Sigismund III, son of John of Sweden, elected King of Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1146 |
| Sigismund of Poland makes an armistice with Gustavus II of Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1034 |
| Sign, Arbitrary Nature of |
2010-02-01 |
5963 |
| Signifier and Signified |
2010-02-01 |
6558 |
| Sikhs capture Peshawar |
|
736 |
| Sikhs surrender at Rawalpindi: British take control of Punjab |
2011-12-30 |
809 |
| Silesia submits to Wallenstein |
2011-02-01 |
2104 |
| Simile |
2001-11-01 |
4930 |
| Simon Bolivar abdicates as President of Colombia |
2011-12-30 |
418 |
| Simon Bolivar is recognised as dictator in Peru |
2011-12-30 |
227 |
| Simon Ferdinando lands in Maine |
2010-03-01 |
2701 |
| Sind region of Indian captured by the British |
2010-01-01 |
1087 |
| Single European Act |
2010-03-01 |
242 |
| Single-lens reflex camera developed |
2010-02-01 |
740 |
| Sinn Fein founded |
2010-02-01 |
1945 |
| Sino-French Treaty |
2010-02-01 |
1870 |
| Sino-Indian War commences |
2010-02-01 |
559 |
| Sino-Japanese War commences |
2010-02-01 |
764 |
| Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Weihaiwei |
2010-02-01 |
2752 |
| Sir Brian O'Rourke is executed at Tyburn |
2011-02-01 |
1259 |
| Sir Christopher Hatton is appointed Lord Chancellor |
2011-02-01 |
1805 |
| Sir Cloudesley Shovell bombards Dunkirk |
2011-03-01 |
1221 |
| Sir Dudley Carleton becomes a Principal Secretary of State |
2011-02-01 |
868 |
| Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered |
2011-04-01 |
894 |
| Sir Edward Conway is appointed a Principal Secretary of State |
2011-02-01 |
1207 |
| Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason obtain lands in Maine |
2011-02-01 |
1487 |
| Sir Francis Drake leaves for the West Indies as a privateer |
2011-02-01 |
2046 |
| Sir Francis Drake sacks Cadiz |
2011-02-01 |
1099 |
| Sir Francis Walsingham is appointed a Principal Secretary of State in England |
2011-02-01 |
999 |
| Sir Francis Windebank becomes a Principal Secretary of State |
2011-02-01 |
1173 |
| Sir Francis Wyatt brings administrative reforms to Virginia |
2011-02-01 |
1604 |
| Sir George Anson completes voyage round the world |
2011-04-01 |
1522 |
| Sir George Rooke seizes part of Spanish treasure fleet in Vigo Bay |
2011-04-01 |
2770 |
| Sir George Villiers appointed Master of the Horse |
2011-02-01 |
1288 |
| Sir Harry Vane is appointed Secretary of State |
2011-02-01 |
1028 |
| Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman becomes Prime Minister |
2013-08-30 |
2164 |
| Sir Henry Docwra lands at the head of Lough Foyle |
2010-01-01 |
1430 |
| Sir Henry Morgan leads buccaneers in sack of Panama |
2008-05-24 |
1165 |
| Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition to the West Indies fails |
2011-02-01 |
1813 |
| Sir John Burrows captures a valuable Portuguese galleon |
2011-02-01 |
2145 |
| Sir John Child becomes Governor of Bombay |
2011-04-01 |
1148 |
| Sir John Eliot dies in the Tower of London |
2011-02-01 |
1225 |
| Sir John Fenwick is executed for treason |
2011-04-01 |
1187 |
| Sir John Franklin's third voyage to the Arctic |
2008-02-22 |
2168 |
| Sir John Norris is sent to Ireland to put down the rebellion |
2011-02-01 |
1316 |
| Sir Philip Sidney is fatally wounded |
2011-02-01 |
1158 |
| Sir Ralph Abercromby achieved victories at Aboukir and Alexandria |
2010-02-01 |
2562 |
| Sir Ralph Winwood appointed Secretary of State |
2011-02-01 |
1683 |
| Sir Robert Naunton is appointed a Principal Secretary of State |
2011-02-01 |
1083 |
| Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister for the first time |
2011-03-01 |
2186 |
| Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister for the second time |
2013-08-30 |
2077 |
| Sir Robert Walpole resigns all offices; the Earl of Wilmington becomes Prime Minister |
2011-03-01 |
2006 |
| Sir Thomas Audley is appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal |
2010-11-01 |
1845 |
| Sir Thomas Coventry is appointed Lord Keeper |
2011-02-01 |
1030 |
| Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians |
2011-02-01 |
2191 |
| Sir Thomas Lake becomes Secretary of State |
2011-02-01 |
1309 |
| Sir Thomas More is elected Speaker of the Commons |
2010-11-01 |
3090 |
| Sir Thomas More refuses to take the oath to the succession |
2010-11-01 |
6152 |
| Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor |
2010-11-01 |
3535 |
| Sir Thomas Osborne becomes Lord High Treasurer |
2011-04-01 |
748 |
| Sir Thomas Overbury is poisoned |
2011-02-01 |
1062 |
| Sir Thomas Roe is sent as ambassador to the Mogul of India |
2011-02-01 |
929 |
| Sir Thomas Smith is appointed a principal Secretary of State |
2010-11-01 |
954 |
| Sir Thomas Smith loses his secretaryship |
2010-11-01 |
1368 |
| Sir Thomas Wriothesley and Sir Ralph Sadler become principal secretaries |
2010-11-01 |
1678 |
| Sir Walter Ralegh sails for Guiana |
2007-12-02 |
2740 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh found guilty of high treason |
2011-02-01 |
2318 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh is executed on his return to England |
2011-02-01 |
1273 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh is released from the Tower |
2011-02-01 |
959 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh leaves England on his expedition to Guiana |
2011-02-01 |
1110 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh reaches the Orinoco and begins searching for gold |
2011-02-01 |
1442 |
| Sir William Cecil is appointed a principal Secretary of State |
2011-02-01 |
1265 |
| Sir William Cecil is appointed principal Secretary of State |
2010-11-01 |
1379 |
| Sir William Cecil is created Lord Burghley |
2011-02-01 |
941 |
| Sir William Paget becomes Principal Secretary of State |
2010-11-01 |
1750 |
| Sir William Stanley is executed |
2010-11-01 |
2078 |
| Sivaji, founder of the Mahratha State, concludes a treaty with Britain |
2011-04-01 |
594 |
| Six Articles |
2005-06-17 |
2465 |
| Six-Day War |
2010-02-01 |
851 |
| Sixth civil war in the French Wars of Religion |
2010-03-01 |
2197 |
| Sixth Crusade |
2010-02-01 |
1477 |
| Sixth Parliament of William III |
2011-04-01 |
643 |
| Slave asylum founded on British settlement |
2011-03-01 |
1280 |
| Slave insurrection in Charleston |
2010-03-01 |
2256 |
| Slave Quork Walker successfully petitions for his freedom |
2010-03-01 |
2064 |
| Slave Trade, beginning of |
2010-02-01 |
2510 |
| Slavery abolished in Brazil |
2010-02-01 |
1253 |
| Slavery abolished in the Cape Colony |
2010-02-01 |
1811 |
| Slavery Abolition Act - slavery abolished in British Empire |
2010-02-01 |
4718 |
| Slobodan Milosevic becomes leader of Serbia |
2010-02-01 |
691 |
| Slovak-Hungarian War |
2009-05-01 |
954 |
| Slovakia becomes a German client state |
2010-02-01 |
586 |
| Slovakia becomes part of Czechoslovakia |
2009-05-01 |
476 |
| Sluys falls to Maurice of Nassau |
2011-02-01 |
1004 |
| Smoot-Hawley protective tariffs |
2010-02-01 |
885 |
| Smyrna Convoy action |
2010-01-01 |
1894 |
| Social Democratic Federation holds a rally in Trafalgar Square |
2011-12-30 |
1255 |
| Social legislation in Denmark |
2011-12-30 |
300 |
| Social Revolutionary Party organised in Russia |
2010-03-01 |
860 |
| Socialists lose Italian election |
2010-03-01 |
815 |
| Society for the Suppression of Vice established |
2010-02-01 |
1772 |
| Socotra seized by Afonso de Albuquerque |
2010-03-01 |
1619 |
| Sojourner Truth |
2005-10-22 |
8333 |
| Solar dark lines explained |
2009-05-01 |
505 |
| Solar eclipse expedition led by Arthur Eddington |
2009-05-01 |
739 |
| Solar flares discovered by Richard Carrington |
2009-05-01 |
2205 |
| Solar helium discovered |
2009-05-01 |
552 |
| Solitary wave type behaviour discovered |
2009-05-01 |
673 |
| Solomon Islands explored by Alvaro de Mendana |
2010-01-01 |
1782 |
| Somalia created |
2010-02-01 |
766 |
| Sonar echolocation by bats discovered |
2009-05-01 |
685 |
| Sonderbund War |
2010-01-01 |
1101 |
| Song dynasty in North China founded |
2009-05-01 |
307 |
| Songhai Empire reaches its broadest geographical extent |
2010-03-01 |
1293 |
| Sonnet |
|
7612 |
| Sophocles Skouloudis forms ministry in Greece |
2010-03-01 |
434 |
| Sotho kingdom requests British annexation |
2010-02-01 |
2228 |
| South Africa becomes an independent Republic |
2010-02-01 |
1770 |
| South Africa constitutional convention |
2010-03-01 |
534 |
| South African autonomy |
2010-02-01 |
879 |
| South African troops occupy Swakopmund |
2011-03-01 |
1524 |
| South Australia Constitution Act |
2010-03-01 |
825 |
| South Carolina is founded |
2011-04-01 |
757 |
| South Carolina revokes its Ordinance of Nullification |
2010-03-01 |
1031 |
| South East Asia Treaty Organization established |
2010-02-01 |
729 |
| Southern delegates walk out of the Democratic National Convention in Charleston |
2010-03-01 |
1516 |
| Southern Tang Kingdom of China submits to the Northern Song dynasty |
2009-05-01 |
628 |
| Southern US states hold Congress of Montgomery |
2011-12-30 |
1872 |
| Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina |
2009-05-01 |
2245 |
| Soviet Republic established in Bavaria |
2010-03-01 |
271 |
| Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations |
2011-03-01 |
1024 |
| Soviet-Finnish War: Finland attacked by the Soviet Union |
2009-05-01 |
839 |
| Spa Conference |
2010-03-01 |
774 |
| Spa Field Riots |
2010-02-01 |
2104 |
| Space travel and rocket propulsion first theorized |
2009-05-01 |
785 |
| Spain accedes to the preliminary Treaty of Vienna of 1735 |
2011-04-01 |
501 |
| Spain accedes to the Treaty |
2011-04-01 |
654 |
| Spain agrees to cede Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain |
2011-04-01 |
2541 |
| Spain agrees to end slave trade |
2011-03-01 |
1215 |
| Spain agrees to the peace preliminaries at Vienna |
2011-04-01 |
868 |
| Spain and France give Portugal ultimatum |
2010-03-01 |
2712 |
| Spain and Portugal sign a treaty on South America |
2011-04-01 |
728 |
| Spain annexes Cuba |
2010-11-01 |
1001 |
| Spain annexes San Domingo at latter's request |
2011-12-30 |
709 |
| Spain attacks Sardinia |
2011-04-01 |
1165 |
| Spain captures Ostend from the Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
916 |
| Spain captures Tunis and Bizerta |
2010-03-01 |
909 |
| Spain cedes Falkland Isles to Britain |
2010-03-01 |
950 |
| Spain completes conquest of Naples at the battle of Garigliano |
2010-11-01 |
2073 |
| Spain declared neutral |
2010-03-01 |
1907 |
| Spain declares war against France |
2011-04-01 |
275 |
| Spain declares war against the Moors in Morocco |
2011-12-30 |
785 |
| Spain declares war on Britain |
2010-02-01 |
2183 |
| Spain declares war on Britain |
2011-03-01 |
1064 |
| Spain declares war on England |
2011-04-01 |
976 |
| Spain declares war on England - Siege of Gibraltar |
2010-03-01 |
1153 |
| Spain defeats France at Gravelines |
2010-03-01 |
1595 |
| Spain delays signing agreement on Morocco with France |
2011-03-01 |
928 |
| Spain eliminates French colonists in Florida and establishes St Augustine |
2010-03-01 |
1474 |
| Spain founds Pensacola, Florida |
2011-04-01 |
1045 |
| Spain gains island of Tenerife at battle of La Laguna |
2010-11-01 |
1300 |
| Spain gains the island of Palma |
2010-11-01 |
1201 |
| Spain invades north-east France from the Spanish Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1272 |
| Spain invades Provence |
2010-11-01 |
1386 |
| Spain joins NATO |
2010-02-01 |
989 |
| Spain joins the Grand Alliance against France |
2011-04-01 |
543 |
| Spain joins the Treaty of Vienna |
2011-04-01 |
729 |
| Spain loses Tunis to the Turks |
2011-02-01 |
794 |
| Spain makes a defensive treaty with Holland |
2011-04-01 |
959 |
| Spain occupies Texas |
2011-04-01 |
1860 |
| Spain orders the expulsion of all non-baptised Moors |
2010-03-01 |
1715 |
| Spain proclaims protectorate over Spanish Guinea |
2011-12-30 |
747 |
| Spain raises the siege of Gibraltar |
2011-04-01 |
843 |
| Spain regains Haarlem |
2010-11-01 |
1202 |
| Spain seeks to crush the Dutch revolt |
2010-03-01 |
1748 |
| Spain signs peace with France |
2010-03-01 |
2501 |
| Spain supports Anglo-Italian agreement on Mediterranean |
2011-12-30 |
493 |
| Spain takes Breda from the Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
1106 |
| Spain takes control of Cuba |
2010-03-01 |
940 |
| Spain yields to British demand |
2010-03-01 |
769 |
| Spaniards defeat English force at Cranori |
2011-02-01 |
1878 |
| Spaniards lay siege to Mantua |
2011-04-01 |
1116 |
| Spaniards put down a Maya rising in Mexico |
2010-11-01 |
996 |
| Spanish ambassador gains papal aid for an Armada against England |
2011-02-01 |
1264 |
| Spanish ambassador is expelled for complicity in the Throgmorton Plot |
2011-02-01 |
1139 |
| Spanish are defeated at Gravelines |
2011-04-01 |
1436 |
| Spanish are defeated by the Portuguese and British at Montes Claros |
2011-04-01 |
1153 |
| Spanish Armada |
2005-06-22 |
4019 |
| Spanish Armada sets off for England |
2011-02-01 |
1202 |
| Spanish army forces the French invaders to retreat |
2011-02-01 |
743 |
| Spanish army in North Africa takes Mers-el-Kebir from the Moors |
2010-11-01 |
1687 |
| Spanish army sails for Sicily |
2011-04-01 |
1217 |
| Spanish army under the Duke of Alva invades Navarre and occupies it |
2010-11-01 |
876 |
| Spanish Civil War begins |
2010-02-01 |
1122 |
| Spanish Civil War ends |
2010-02-01 |
1014 |
| Spanish coinage further devalued |
2011-02-01 |
919 |
| Spanish colonies in South America begin to revolt |
|
741 |
| Spanish colonisation of La Plata |
2010-11-01 |
896 |
| Spanish communeros revolt in Toledo and Castile |
2010-11-01 |
781 |
| Spanish Concordat with Papacy |
2011-12-30 |
503 |
| Spanish conquest of Yucatan |
2010-11-01 |
952 |
| Spanish Constitutional amendment annulled |
2011-12-30 |
447 |
| Spanish Cortes pass liberal constitution |
2011-03-01 |
573 |
| Spanish currency is deflated |
2011-02-01 |
870 |
| Spanish cut communications between Walcheren and south Holland |
2011-02-01 |
1075 |
| Spanish defeated at Ocana |
2010-03-01 |
755 |
| Spanish dictator overthrown |
2010-02-01 |
1394 |
| Spanish expedition to support the Earl of Tyrone |
2011-02-01 |
1684 |
| Spanish expeditions against Zapotec Highlanders |
2010-03-01 |
707 |
| Spanish force begins the siege of Ostend |
2011-02-01 |
1015 |
| Spanish forces drive French from Aragon |
2011-02-01 |
591 |
| Spanish guarda-costas mutilate British captain |
2011-04-01 |
1151 |
| Spanish invade Portugal |
2011-02-01 |
1466 |
| Spanish invaders are defeated at Glen Shiel |
2011-04-01 |
1376 |
| Spanish invasion of Portugal |
2011-12-30 |
1085 |
| Spanish invasion scare in England |
2011-02-01 |
1169 |
| Spanish lay siege to Gibraltar |
2011-04-01 |
971 |
| Spanish military coup |
2010-02-01 |
1211 |
| Spanish military coup: Marshal Serrano regains power |
2010-01-01 |
1284 |
| Spanish monarchy is restored |
2011-03-01 |
827 |
| Spanish mutinies delay Charles V's Turkish expedition |
2010-11-01 |
1128 |
| Spanish Navarre is incorporated with Castile |
2010-11-01 |
647 |
| Spanish plan an invasion of England |
2011-02-01 |
1246 |
| Spanish power passes to Hapsburgs at the death of Cardinal Ximenes |
2010-11-01 |
885 |
| Spanish Revolution begins |
2010-03-01 |
663 |
| Spanish traders arrive in eastern Japan |
2011-02-01 |
761 |
| Spanish treasure ships are captured off Cadiz |
2011-03-01 |
1285 |
| Spanish troops attack Ostia |
2010-11-01 |
1867 |
| Spanish troops force the Turks to abandon the siege of Malta |
2011-02-01 |
1741 |
| Spanish troops from the Netherlands invade the Palatinate |
2011-02-01 |
1394 |
| Spanish troops land in Tuscany |
2011-04-01 |
1010 |
| Spanish troops occupy the Campagna |
2011-02-01 |
1188 |
| Spanish troops take Orbitello in Tuscany |
2011-04-01 |
1109 |
| Spanish under Cardinal Cisneros take Oran from the Moors |
2010-11-01 |
1406 |
| Spanish-American War |
2009-01-20 |
4055 |
| Specie Circular issued |
2010-03-01 |
1290 |
| Spectral lines from space identified as forbidden transition lines |
2009-05-01 |
898 |
| Spectroheliograph developed by George Hale |
2009-05-01 |
1040 |
| Speed of light determined at about 283,000 km/s |
2009-05-01 |
991 |
| Speed of light estimated at about 227,000 km/s |
2009-05-01 |
468 |
| Spenserian Stanza |
2001-11-01 |
4684 |
| Spermatozoa observed |
2011-03-01 |
678 |
| Splitting [Spaltung] |
2005-10-24 |
11948 |
| Spondee |
2001-11-01 |
4463 |
| Sprung Rhythm |
2001-11-01 |
10850 |
| Srebrenica Massacre |
2010-03-01 |
434 |
| St Helena is occupied by East India Company |
2011-04-01 |
595 |
| St James's Day Fight |
2011-03-01 |
854 |
| St Kitts captured by the French |
2011-03-01 |
1486 |
| St Malo bombarded by the English |
2011-03-01 |
1736 |
| St Petersburg Protocol between Britain and Russia to mediate Greek problem |
2011-12-30 |
1450 |
| St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre |
2010-02-01 |
4438 |
| St. Paul's Cathedral, London, is badly damaged by fire |
2011-02-01 |
1437 |
| Stability of physical fine-structure constant of universe shown |
2009-05-01 |
515 |
| Stage Licensing Act |
2004-03-25 |
7705 |
| Stalin confiscates peasant lands and savings |
2010-02-01 |
574 |
| Stamp Act repealed by Parliament |
2010-03-01 |
1638 |
| Stanhope enacts Walpole's Sinking Fund to reduce the national debt |
2011-04-01 |
1216 |
| Stanislas Poniatowski elected King of Poland |
2010-03-01 |
880 |
| Stanislaus I formally abdicates as King of Poland |
2011-04-01 |
841 |
| Stanislaus is expelled from Poland |
2011-04-01 |
584 |
| Stanislaus Lesczcynski is elected King of Poland |
2011-04-01 |
815 |
| Stanza |
2001-11-01 |
4096 |
| Starr Jameson becomes administrator of South Africa Company's territories |
2011-12-30 |
1169 |
| Starr Jameson completes occupation of Matabeleland |
2011-12-30 |
745 |
| State of Koryo/ Goryeo (Korea) founded |
2009-05-01 |
872 |
| States allowed to fix inter-state rail rates |
2010-03-01 |
957 |
| States of Holland adopt the 'Scherpe Resolution' |
2011-02-01 |
233 |
| States-General suggest giving the French Crown to Duke of Guise |
2011-02-01 |
2612 |
| States-General takes over government of Holland |
2011-04-01 |
812 |
| Stationers’ Company |
2004-04-02 |
15898 |
| Statute of Piotrkow in Poland |
2010-11-01 |
1275 |
| Statutes of Kilkenny |
2010-03-01 |
1682 |
| Steady state cosmologies proposed |
2009-05-01 |
1021 |
| Steam-powered water pump built |
2009-05-01 |
1491 |
| Stefan-Boltzmann blackbody radiant flux law postulated |
2009-05-01 |
543 |
| Stellar proper motions discovered by Halley |
2009-05-01 |
925 |
| Stephen Bathory is elected King of Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1307 |
| Stephen Bathory of Poland invades Russia |
2011-02-01 |
1219 |
| Stephen Bathory, King of Poland, dies |
2011-02-01 |
875 |
| Stephen Bocskai is elected Prince of Transylvania |
2011-02-01 |
436 |
| Stephen Cave is sent to Egypt to inquire into its finances |
2011-12-30 |
771 |
| Stephen Cave's report on Egyptian finances published |
2011-12-30 |
1753 |
| Stephen Dolet is burnt as a heretic in France |
2010-11-01 |
1583 |
| Stephen G. Cleveland wins US Presidental election |
2011-12-30 |
568 |
| Stephen Gardiner is appointed Lord Chancellor |
2010-11-01 |
2131 |
| Stephen Gardiner loses the see of Winchester |
2010-11-01 |
1863 |
| Stephen Hawking applies quantum field theory to black hole spacetimes |
2009-05-01 |
864 |
| Stephen I (the Saint) becomes King of Hungary |
2009-05-01 |
1353 |
| Stephen Stambulov, Bulgarian premier, is murdered |
2011-12-30 |
737 |
| Stephenson's Rocket |
2010-02-01 |
2602 |
| Stop of Exchequer |
2010-01-01 |
1997 |
| Storm over Sebastopol wrecks allied supply ships |
2011-12-30 |
677 |
| Story |
2010-02-01 |
3273 |
| Strait of Belle Isle and St Lawrence explored by Jacques Cartier |
2010-03-01 |
2421 |
| Straits Settlements become a Crown Colony |
2011-12-30 |
773 |
| Strasbourg surrenders to Prussian forces |
2011-12-30 |
819 |
| Streltzy rebellion in Moscow |
2011-04-01 |
1200 |
| Strike of agricultural workers in eastern England |
2011-12-30 |
1036 |
| Structure of DNA examined by X-ray diffraction |
2009-05-01 |
918 |
| Structure of hemoglobin determined |
2009-05-01 |
835 |
| Struensee abolishes supremacy of Danish council |
2010-03-01 |
665 |
| Student protest at Columbia University |
2010-03-01 |
3549 |
| Student-worker strikes and sit-ins paralyse Paris; 800,000 demonstrate |
2010-02-01 |
3242 |
| Students stage peaceful protest against Dow Chemicals |
2010-02-01 |
789 |
| Sublimation |
2007-05-06 |
10770 |
| Submission of the Clergy |
2005-06-17 |
3880 |
| Succession to the English throne passes to the Electress Sophia |
2011-04-01 |
1277 |
| Sudanese Civil War commences |
2010-02-01 |
849 |
| Suez Canal convention opens it to all nations in war and peace |
2011-12-30 |
756 |
| Suez Canal opened |
2007-03-23 |
3186 |
| Suffragettes |
2009-01-01 |
4019 |
| Suffragettes damage 'Rokeby Venus' by Velasquez |
2011-03-01 |
632 |
| Suleiman I invades Hungary and advances towards Vienna |
2010-11-01 |
1451 |
| Suleiman I takes Buda |
2010-11-01 |
1227 |
| Suleiman I takes Buda and annexes Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
1267 |
| Suleyman the Magnificent becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire |
2010-03-01 |
960 |
| Sultan Abdul Hamid II restores 1876 constitution |
2010-03-01 |
481 |
| Sultan Abdul Mejid of Turkey dies |
2011-12-30 |
746 |
| Sultan accepts Treaty of London (2) |
2011-12-30 |
583 |
| Sultan Ibrahim is deposed and murdered |
2011-04-01 |
503 |
| Sultan Ibrahim succeeds Murad IV of Turkey |
2011-02-01 |
560 |
| Sultan Mahmud II rejects right of allies to mediate in war with Greece |
2011-12-30 |
766 |
| Sultan Mahmud II removes the elite of the Ottoman army |
2010-01-01 |
1004 |
| Sultan of Oman establishes capital at Zanzibar |
2010-02-01 |
967 |
| Sultan of Turkey agrees to the creation of Romania |
2011-12-30 |
713 |
| Sultan of Turkey limits authority of Milosh in Serbia |
2011-12-30 |
839 |
| Sultan of Turkey refuses London Protocol |
2011-12-30 |
205 |
| Sultan of Zanzibar abolishes slavery |
2011-12-30 |
474 |
| Sultan rejects Russian, French and British demand for truce |
2011-12-30 |
1005 |
| Sultan Selim I conquers eastern Anatolia and Kurdistan |
2010-11-01 |
1146 |
| Sultan Selim I defeats the Sultan of Egypt and annexes Syria |
2010-11-01 |
1277 |
| Sultan Selim II makes peace with the Emperor Maximilian II |
2011-02-01 |
1311 |
| Sultan Suleiman I makes peace with Persia |
2010-11-01 |
916 |
| Summer Olympics open in Germany |
2011-03-01 |
379 |
| Sun Yat-sen elected president of United Provinces of China |
2010-03-01 |
1378 |
| Sun Yat-sen organises union of secret societies |
2010-03-01 |
1362 |
| Sunday Beer Act (Wilson Patten Act) |
2010-03-01 |
1135 |
| Sunderland becomes Lord President |
2011-04-01 |
1005 |
| Sunderland is appointed Secretary of State |
2011-04-01 |
977 |
| Sunderland is dismissed |
2011-04-01 |
593 |
| Sunni Ali dies |
2010-03-01 |
694 |
| Superfluidity of helium-3 discovered |
2009-05-01 |
243 |
| Supplementary Treaty of Vienna |
2011-04-01 |
811 |
| Suppression of Satsuma Rebellion in Japan |
2011-12-30 |
698 |
| Suppression of tax riot in Paris |
2010-03-01 |
1203 |
| Suppression of Tulunid dynasty in Egypt |
2009-05-01 |
937 |
| Supremacy of the Pope challenged by John Wyclif |
2012-07-31 |
2883 |
| Supreme Allied Council agrees German war reparations |
2010-03-01 |
209 |
| Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States |
2010-03-01 |
1300 |
| Surrealist Manifesto |
2010-02-01 |
6021 |
| Surrender of Apache leader to General Nelson A Miles |
2010-02-01 |
3268 |
| Surrender of Breisach signifies end of Fronde |
2011-04-01 |
1857 |
| Surrender of Limerick after long siege |
2011-04-01 |
964 |
| Survey Act |
2010-07-01 |
2128 |
| Suspected pending Japanese invasion of Australia |
2010-02-01 |
889 |
| Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland |
2011-12-30 |
878 |
| Suspension of London peace conference |
2010-03-01 |
863 |
| Sweden adopts proportional representation |
2010-03-01 |
520 |
| Sweden agrees to aid Tsar Basil Shuisky of Russia against Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1027 |
| Sweden and Denmark conclude a peace at Brömsebro |
2011-02-01 |
990 |
| Sweden and Poland sign the twenty-year truce of Stuhmsdorf |
2011-02-01 |
1116 |
| Sweden at war with Denmark |
2011-02-01 |
1083 |
| Sweden enters the Thirty Years War |
2011-02-01 |
2007 |
| Sweden establishes male hereditary succession to the Crown |
2010-11-01 |
1138 |
| Sweden joins 'Continental System' |
2010-03-01 |
686 |
| Sweden signs a further alliance with France |
2011-02-01 |
728 |
| Sweden's Baltic regions are invaded by Russians |
2011-04-01 |
1053 |
| Swedes are defeated at Íland by a combined Dutch-Danish fleet |
2011-04-01 |
849 |
| Swedes cross the Danish border in Jutland and spark war |
2011-02-01 |
339 |
| Swedes defeat Russians at Bronnitsy |
2011-02-01 |
1198 |
| Swedish Africa Company is formed |
2011-04-01 |
638 |
| Swedish alliance with Britain, France and Turkey against Russia |
2011-12-30 |
830 |
| Swedish Ambassador in London is arrested on suspicion of Jacobitism |
2011-04-01 |
761 |
| Swedish ambassador is released |
2011-04-01 |
776 |
| Swedish armies overrun Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1184 |
| Swedish general Banér dies; succeeded by Lennart Torstensson |
2011-02-01 |
632 |
| Swedish victory at Gemauerthof |
2011-04-01 |
963 |
| Swedish-Brandenburg alliance at Marienberg |
2011-04-01 |
1112 |
| Swift, Jonathan. The Examiner 1710 |
2010-05-12 |
3437 |
| Swift's Drapier's Letters attack British dictation over Ireland |
2011-04-01 |
329 |
| Swiss beat Swabian League at Battle of Dornach |
2010-11-01 |
1835 |
| Swiss constitutional revisions centralise authority |
2011-12-30 |
326 |
| Swiss defeat the French |
2010-03-01 |
1380 |
| Swiss Diet votes to restore old constitution |
2011-03-01 |
282 |
| Swiss federal government introduces social insurance |
2011-12-30 |
275 |
| Swiss mercenaries attack Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1102 |
| Swiss occupy Franche Comté |
2010-11-01 |
1019 |
| Switzerland becomes a federal union under a new constitution |
2011-12-30 |
243 |
| Sydney Convention draws up a federal Constitution for Australia |
2011-12-30 |
581 |
| Syllabic verse |
2007-06-04 |
2069 |
| Synaesthesia |
2001-11-01 |
8155 |
| Synchronic, Synchrony |
2009-07-24 |
11999 |
| Synchrotron radiation hypothesis |
2009-05-01 |
687 |
| Synecdoche |
2001-11-01 |
6632 |
| Synod of French bishops at Tours condemns Pope Julius II |
2010-11-01 |
2043 |
| Syntagm / syntagmatic |
2009-07-24 |
4838 |
| Synthesis of proteins studied and explained |
2009-05-01 |
776 |
| System of algebra invented in the Arab Empire |
2009-05-01 |
1415 |
| T. Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia |
2010-03-01 |
584 |
| T. Roosevelt declines nomination |
2010-03-01 |
461 |
| Tadeus Reichstein artificially synthesizes vitamin C |
2009-05-01 |
299 |
| Taff Vale Case |
2008-01-01 |
2441 |
| Taft Commission exercises legislative power in Philippines |
2010-03-01 |
1187 |
| Taft nominated Republican presidential candidate |
2010-03-01 |
1104 |
| Tahitian typhoon |
2010-02-01 |
1020 |
| Taiping Rebellion led by Hong Xiuchuan |
2010-01-01 |
1691 |
| Taiping ruler commits suicide |
|
874 |
| Taormina destroyed by Arabs |
2009-05-01 |
553 |
| Taranto surrenders to the Spanish after a siege |
2010-11-01 |
1053 |
| Tariff war between France and Switzerland |
2011-12-30 |
561 |
| Tax is levied to finance the Scottish war |
2010-11-01 |
2339 |
| Tea Act |
2007-12-12 |
3085 |
| Tea and spirits duties reduced with the Commutation Act |
2007-12-12 |
1115 |
| Teflon developed and patented |
2010-03-01 |
610 |
| Teheran rebellion |
2010-02-01 |
1952 |
| Tehran captured by Russia |
2010-02-01 |
1518 |
| Temperance society founded |
2010-03-01 |
397 |
| Temporary provision made by British government for Lower Canada |
2011-12-30 |
1671 |
| Temporary truce between Spain and Colombia |
2010-03-01 |
591 |
| Tenant Right league is founded in Ireland |
2011-12-30 |
807 |
| Tenerife surrenders to the Spanish |
2010-11-01 |
2035 |
| Tennis emerges as a popular outdoor game in England |
2012-07-31 |
978 |
| Tension between France and Germany |
2011-12-30 |
896 |
| Tension in Anglo-German relations |
2010-03-01 |
581 |
| Tension in Franco-Italian relations |
2011-12-30 |
135 |
| Tension in Ireland |
2010-02-01 |
1146 |
| Tenure of Office Act passed in USA over President's veto |
2011-12-30 |
799 |
| Tercet |
2001-11-01 |
5168 |
| Term 'Internet' first used |
2010-02-01 |
1954 |
| Terms established for British to remove from Suez-Canal Zone |
2010-02-01 |
886 |
| Terrestrial helium discovered |
2009-05-01 |
2038 |
| Territory of Montana organised in USA |
2011-12-30 |
901 |
| Terrorist massacre of Irish family at Maamtrasna |
2011-12-30 |
782 |
| Terza Rima |
2001-11-01 |
3898 |
| Test Acts |
2005-02-16 |
6141 |
| Test and Corporation Acts are repealed |
2010-01-01 |
1370 |
| Tetanus and diptheria vaccines developed |
2009-05-01 |
739 |
| Tetrameter |
2001-11-01 |
6160 |
| Teutonic Order in Livonia crumbles |
2010-03-01 |
1240 |
| Tewfik Pasha becomes Grand Vizier of Persia |
2010-03-01 |
439 |
| Texas independence recognised by Mexico |
2010-03-01 |
646 |
| Texas surrenders her claim to New Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
886 |
| Thatcher Government breaks miners' strike |
2010-02-01 |
893 |
| The 'Cavalier Parliament' meets |
2011-04-01 |
446 |
| The 'Good Parliament' meets in England |
2012-07-31 |
1266 |
| The 'Representation of the Army' sets out grievances |
2011-04-01 |
2106 |
| The “Fronde” rebellion in France |
|
8708 |
| The “Great Purge” in USSR [Great Terror] |
2010-02-01 |
1470 |
| The Book of Armagh is written by Ferdomnach |
2009-05-01 |
1760 |
| The Boston News-Letter appears |
2010-03-01 |
1256 |
| The Constitutio Romana enacted |
2009-05-01 |
973 |
| The Nihon Shoki, the second oldest book of Japanase history, is completed |
2009-05-01 |
1560 |
| The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution adopted |
2010-03-01 |
1922 |
| The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution |
2010-03-01 |
1027 |
| The 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen observed |
2009-05-01 |
316 |
| The Abbots of Reading and Colchester are executed for treason |
2010-11-01 |
2065 |
| The Act of Grace releases Jacobite rebels from British prisons |
2011-04-01 |
1168 |
| The Afghan ruler Mahmud becomes insane and orders a massacre |
2011-04-01 |
512 |
| The Africa trade is opened to all English subjects |
2011-04-01 |
1001 |
| The Albany Congress |
2010-03-01 |
1176 |
| The Alliance of the Hague |
2011-04-01 |
1218 |
| The An Shi Rebellion in China |
2009-05-01 |
3178 |
| The Archbishopric of Magdeburg is incorporated with Brandenburg |
2011-04-01 |
834 |
| The Archduke Albert captures Calais from the French |
2011-02-01 |
1145 |
| The Archduke Ernest of Austria arrives in Brussels as Governor |
2011-02-01 |
598 |
| The Archduke Leopold succeeds as ruler of the Tyrol |
2011-02-01 |
183 |
| The archdukes aim to keep the imperial crown Habsburg |
2011-02-01 |
1086 |
| The Armada anchors off Calais |
2011-02-01 |
1149 |
| The Associated Press publishes the Zimmermann Telegram |
2010-03-01 |
1124 |
| The Augsburg Interim attempts religious compromise |
2010-11-01 |
2415 |
| The Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs sign a treaty for mutual succession |
2011-02-01 |
668 |
| The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction |
2011-04-01 |
734 |
| The Babington Plot |
2011-02-01 |
904 |
| The Bahamas are granted to the proprietors of Carolina |
2011-04-01 |
803 |
| The Bank of Genoa fails |
2011-02-01 |
735 |
| The battle of Aspern |
2010-03-01 |
480 |
| The Battle of Gettysburg |
2010-03-01 |
3153 |
| The Battle of Posada |
2009-05-01 |
1775 |
| The battle of Seringapatam |
2010-03-01 |
1559 |
| The battle of St. Denis between French and Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
559 |
| The Bibliotheca Palatina is removed from Heidelburg to Rome |
2011-02-01 |
686 |
| The Bishop of Münster is forced to sue for peace |
2011-04-01 |
692 |
| The Bishop of Münster signs a treaty of alliance with Louis XIV |
2011-04-01 |
859 |
| The Black Hawk War begins |
2010-03-01 |
2337 |
| The Bond of Association is presented to Elizabeth I |
2011-02-01 |
4018 |
| The Book of Kells produced by Celtic monks |
2009-05-01 |
2088 |
| The British Government closes Convocation |
2011-04-01 |
867 |
| The British Magazine |
2010-02-01 |
3964 |
| The British set fire to the White House and the Capitol |
2010-03-01 |
1037 |
| The Broglie hypothesis formulated |
2009-05-01 |
853 |
| The Buggery Act |
2009-01-01 |
5224 |
| The Byzantine emperor Basil I defeats the Paulicians |
2009-05-01 |
438 |
| The Byzantine empire makes peace with the Russians at Kiev |
2009-05-01 |
2037 |
| The Canaries are navigated and settled by Castilians |
2010-03-01 |
782 |
| The Cape of Good Hope is explored by Bartolome Dias |
2010-03-01 |
2901 |
| The capital of Spain is transferred from Madrid to Valladolid |
2011-02-01 |
455 |
| The Catholic Earl of Worcester is appointed Lord Privy Seal |
2011-02-01 |
1140 |
| The Catholic League and Protestant Union of Germany sign an agreement |
2011-02-01 |
2333 |
| The Catholic League and the Protestant Union sign an agreement |
2011-02-01 |
2743 |
| The Catholic League of Halle is formed |
2010-11-01 |
1342 |
| The charter of the Bank of England is renewed |
2011-04-01 |
1754 |
| The Chicago Black Sox |
2010-03-01 |
1046 |
| The Chushingura incident |
2011-04-01 |
449 |
| The colony of Massachusetts is given a new charter |
2011-04-01 |
1566 |
| The Commons reject a British Peerage Bill to close the House of Lords |
2011-04-01 |
507 |
| The Commonwealth |
2006-02-15 |
2849 |
| The compromise tariff of 1833 |
2010-03-01 |
1988 |
| The concepts of the de Sitter space and de Sitter universe proposed |
2009-05-01 |
479 |
| The Confession of Augsburg is signed by the Protestant princes |
2010-11-01 |
2434 |
| The Congress of Soissons is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
1055 |
| The Congress of Soissons meets |
2011-04-01 |
884 |
| The conspiracy of the Comte de Soissons against Louis XIII fails |
2011-02-01 |
995 |
| The Constitution of Radom makes the Diet the legislative organ of Poland |
2010-11-01 |
1132 |
| The Convention of Niederschönfeld temporarily grants Bavaria to Austria |
2011-04-01 |
783 |
| The Cossacks make a treaty with Tsar Alexis |
2011-04-01 |
701 |
| The Council of Trent ends |
2011-02-01 |
1537 |
| The Council of Trent moves to Bologna |
2010-11-01 |
921 |
| The Count of Auvergne is restrained from rebellion |
2011-02-01 |
1277 |
| The Count of Nassau is forced to abandon the siege of Peronne |
2010-11-01 |
1232 |
| The Count of Nassau occupies Guise |
2010-11-01 |
1124 |
| The Counter-Reformation is enforced in Hapsburg central Europe |
2011-02-01 |
653 |
| The Counts' War breaks out over succession to Gotland and Helsingborg |
2010-11-01 |
1430 |
| The County of East Frisia becomes a hereditary principality |
2011-04-01 |
526 |
| The Critical Review |
2010-02-01 |
3373 |
| The Czech language is granted equality with German in Bohemia |
2011-12-30 |
855 |
| The Danelaw is formalised |
2009-05-01 |
1154 |
| The Danes occupy Bremen |
2011-04-01 |
1131 |
| The Danes take St Thomas |
2011-04-01 |
617 |
| The Danevirke fortification system is started by the Vikings in Denmark |
2009-05-01 |
2008 |
| The Dauphin dies |
2011-04-01 |
494 |
| The Dauphin Francis dies |
2010-11-01 |
995 |
| The Dauphin marries a Bavarian princess |
2011-04-01 |
380 |
| The Dawes Severalty Act |
2010-03-01 |
1320 |
| The decrees of Folembray end the war of the Catholic League |
2011-02-01 |
2368 |
| The deposed Christian II goes into exile |
2010-11-01 |
1164 |
| The Diet of Augsburg meets in the presence of Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
2181 |
| The Diet of Ratisbon is forced to admit Protestants to the Imperial Chamber |
2010-11-01 |
1391 |
| The Diet of Worms proclaims Perpetual Peace within the Empire |
2010-11-01 |
692 |
| The direct Farnese line becomes extinct |
2011-04-01 |
556 |
| The discredited Duke of Albany leaves Scotland for the last time |
2010-11-01 |
1233 |
| The dominant Orange Party in Holland urge opposition to France |
2011-04-01 |
1147 |
| The Dorr Rebellion |
2010-03-01 |
1283 |
| The Duke of Albany arrives from France and begins to rally the Scots |
2010-11-01 |
1549 |
| The Duke of Albany leaves Scotland for France |
2010-11-01 |
2523 |
| The Duke of Albany takes Naples from Francis I |
2010-11-01 |
680 |
| The Duke of Alva arrests Counts Egmont and Hoorn |
2011-02-01 |
1674 |
| The Duke of Alva asks Philip II to recall him from the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
870 |
| The Duke of Alva confiscates the property of opposition nobles |
2011-02-01 |
874 |
| The Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau at Jemmingen |
2011-02-01 |
1827 |
| The Duke of Alva introduces additional taxation in the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
487 |
| The Duke of Alva recaptures Mons |
2011-02-01 |
653 |
| The Duke of Anjou becomes Duke of Brabant in Antwerp |
2011-02-01 |
326 |
| The Duke of Anjou fails to reduce the Huguenot stronghold of La Rochelle |
2011-02-01 |
2547 |
| The Duke of Anjou forces Henry III to release the Duke of Montmorency |
2011-02-01 |
2040 |
| The Duke of Anjou gains new titles including Count of Flanders |
2011-02-01 |
833 |
| The Duke of Anjou invades the southern Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1143 |
| The Duke of Anjou leaves England |
2011-02-01 |
1282 |
| The Duke of Anjou visits Elizabeth at Greenwich |
2011-02-01 |
188 |
| The Duke of Anjou's army joins with John Casimir's army at Moulins |
2011-02-01 |
1760 |
| The Duke of Biron is sent with a substantial army to lay siege to Amiens |
2011-02-01 |
2139 |
| The Duke of Bourbon invades Provence |
2010-11-01 |
762 |
| The Duke of Bourbon takes Aix-en-Provence |
2010-11-01 |
512 |
| The Duke of Choiseul becomes French Foreign Secretary |
2011-12-30 |
884 |
| The Duke of Guise defeats a German force near Chartres |
2011-02-01 |
2128 |
| The Duke of Guise forces a Huguenot army back across the River Marne |
2011-02-01 |
2041 |
| The Duke of Guise prevents the Spanish capture of Marseilles |
2011-02-01 |
1231 |
| The Duke of Guise secures an Estates-General opposed to the Huguenots |
2011-02-01 |
1971 |
| The Duke of Guise surrenders Champagne to Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2219 |
| The Duke of Lerma in Spain retires from office |
2011-02-01 |
839 |
| The Duke of Lorraine recaptures Neuhausel from the Turks |
2011-04-01 |
1291 |
| The Duke of Mayenne leaves the capital |
2011-02-01 |
1059 |
| The Duke of Medina-Celi becomes First Minister in Spain |
2011-04-01 |
944 |
| The Duke of Mercoeur in Brittany sues for terms from Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2010 |
| The Duke of Monmouth becomes Captain-General of the army |
2011-04-01 |
1194 |
| The Duke of Monmouth flees to Holland |
2011-04-01 |
767 |
| The Duke of Norfolk invades Scotland and burns Kelso |
2010-11-01 |
2184 |
| The Duke of Norfolk is imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth |
2011-02-01 |
1507 |
| The Duke of Norfolk promises a pardon to the Yorkshire rebels |
2010-11-01 |
1418 |
| The Duke of Northumberland is executed |
2010-11-01 |
1278 |
| The Duke of Orleans, Francis I's second son, dies |
2010-11-01 |
709 |
| The Duke of Osuna plunders Venice with Spanish agreement |
2011-02-01 |
1116 |
| The Duke of Parma captures Neurs |
2011-02-01 |
646 |
| The Duke of Parma forces Henry IV to raise the siege of Paris |
2011-02-01 |
1967 |
| The Duke of Parma recovers Ypres from the Dutch |
2011-02-01 |
792 |
| The Duke of Parma sacks Antwerp |
2011-02-01 |
746 |
| The Duke of Parma strengthens the Leaguer garrison of Paris |
2011-02-01 |
1910 |
| The Duke of Parma takes Oudenarde |
2011-02-01 |
448 |
| The Duke of Parma takes Tournai |
2011-02-01 |
1044 |
| The Duke of Parma takes Venlo |
2011-02-01 |
307 |
| The Duke of Rohan expels the Spanish from the Valtelline |
2011-02-01 |
1135 |
| The Duke of Rohan gains support in Guienne and Languedoc |
2011-02-01 |
1556 |
| The Duke of Savoy again invades Dauphiné |
2011-04-01 |
2573 |
| The Duke of Savoy attacks Geneva |
2011-02-01 |
1090 |
| The Duke of Savoy invades Dauphiné |
2011-04-01 |
1393 |
| The Duke of Savoy invades Lombardy |
2011-02-01 |
1437 |
| The Duke of Savoy persecutes the Protestant Vaudois |
2011-04-01 |
465 |
| The Duke of Somerset formally submits to Edward VI and his council |
2010-11-01 |
1789 |
| The Duke of Suffolk arrives at Lincoln to suppress the Lincolnshire rising |
2010-11-01 |
1382 |
| The Duke of Urbino begins the blockade of Milan |
2010-11-01 |
426 |
| The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister for the first time |
2013-08-30 |
2275 |
| The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister for the second time |
2013-08-30 |
2347 |
| The Dutch 'Beggars of the Sea' increase their attacks on Spanish shipping |
2011-02-01 |
1332 |
| The Dutch 'Beggars of the Sea' spark the Dutch War of Independence |
2011-02-01 |
1441 |
| The Dutch are defeated by Villars at Denain |
2011-04-01 |
2000 |
| The Dutch buy the island of Goree, off Cape Verde |
2011-02-01 |
806 |
| The Dutch capitulate to Clive at Chinsura |
2011-12-30 |
1533 |
| The Dutch capture the Island of Curaçao |
2011-02-01 |
903 |
| The Dutch establish a trading post at Archangel on the White Sea |
2011-02-01 |
1376 |
| The Dutch expel the Portuguese from the Gold Coast |
2011-02-01 |
1505 |
| The Dutch found a colony at Essequibo, Guyana |
2011-02-01 |
1178 |
| The Dutch occupy St Helena |
2011-02-01 |
180 |
| The Dutch office of Stadtholder becomes hereditary |
2011-04-01 |
591 |
| The Dutch purchase Swedish colonies on Gold Coast |
2011-04-01 |
819 |
| The Dutch ravage Kent |
2011-04-01 |
818 |
| The Dutch recapture Breda |
2011-02-01 |
595 |
| The Dutch seize Amboyna, Malaysia |
2011-02-01 |
1618 |
| The Dutch seize the Moluccas from the Portuguese |
2011-02-01 |
1740 |
| The Dutch send an expedition to Bahia |
2011-02-01 |
1189 |
| The Dutch take Mauritius |
2011-02-01 |
1092 |
| The Dutch take Pernambuco from the Portuguese and occupy Formosa |
2011-02-01 |
1045 |
| The Earl of Aberdeen becomes Prime Minister |
2010-01-01 |
2206 |
| The Earl of Argyle is executed |
2011-04-01 |
827 |
| The Earl of Bute is appointed Secretary of State, Northern Department |
2011-12-30 |
1065 |
| The Earl of Clarendon is banished |
2011-04-01 |
1025 |
| The Earl of Derby becomes Prime Minister for the first time |
2010-01-01 |
1931 |
| The Earl of Derby becomes Prime Minister for the second time |
2010-01-01 |
2223 |
| The Earl of Derby becomes Prime Minister for the third time |
2010-01-01 |
2139 |
| The Earl of Desmond is killed |
2011-02-01 |
1084 |
| The Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh undertake a voyage to the Azores |
2011-02-01 |
1659 |
| The Earl of Essex divorced from Lady Frances Howard |
2011-02-01 |
249 |
| The Earl of Essex rebels |
2010-11-01 |
1003 |
| The Earl of Leicester resigns his command in the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1131 |
| The Earl of Leicester returns to his command in the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1134 |
| The Earl of Leicester secretly marries Lettice Knollys |
2011-02-01 |
258 |
| The Earl of Leicester takes up his command in the Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1273 |
| The Earl of Lennox becomes Regent of Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
343 |
| The Earl of Mar, Regent in Scotland, dies |
2011-02-01 |
304 |
| The Earl of Marlborough is restored to favour by William III |
2011-04-01 |
1015 |
| The Earl of Morton discovers the Casket Letters |
2011-02-01 |
901 |
| The Earl of Morton is executed for complicity in Darnley's murder |
2011-02-01 |
1369 |
| The Earl of Northumberland harries the Scottish border |
2010-11-01 |
1450 |
| The Earl of Northumberland is executed at York for treason |
2011-02-01 |
868 |
| The Earl of Oxford is dismissed |
2011-04-01 |
497 |
| The Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister |
2010-01-01 |
1716 |
| The Earl of Russell becomes Prime Minister for the second time |
2010-01-01 |
1974 |
| The Earl of Shaftesbury is appointed Lord Chancellor |
2011-04-01 |
1046 |
| The Earl of Shaftesbury is released from the Tower |
2011-04-01 |
871 |
| The Earl of Shaftesbury is released from the Tower on bail |
2011-04-01 |
653 |
| The Earl of Shelburne becomes Prime Minister |
2010-01-01 |
3197 |
| The Earl of Strafford is formally accused by Commons |
2011-02-01 |
965 |
| The Earl of Surrey harries the Scottish border |
2010-11-01 |
1289 |
| The Earl of Tyrone breaks his promise to submit to Queen Elizabeth |
2011-02-01 |
1443 |
| The Earl of Tyrone leads a second rebellion in Ireland |
2011-02-01 |
1948 |
| The Earl of Tyrone proclaimed a traitor |
2011-02-01 |
1594 |
| The Earl of Tyrone surrenders to Queen Elizabeth |
2011-02-01 |
2305 |
| The Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland flee to Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
1991 |
| The East India Company has its beginnings in London |
2011-04-01 |
928 |
| The Edict of Courcy in France promises freedom of conscience |
2010-11-01 |
1459 |
| The Elector of Bavaria agrees to a truce |
2011-02-01 |
1056 |
| The Elector of Brandenburg moves his capital to Konigsberg |
2011-02-01 |
884 |
| The Elector of Mainz and the Landgrave of Hesse withdraw from the war |
2011-04-01 |
1806 |
| The Elector of Saxony allies with Gustavus II of Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
756 |
| The Elector of Saxony enters Prague |
2011-02-01 |
1598 |
| The Elector of Saxony gathers an army to fight the Swedes |
2011-02-01 |
1072 |
| The Elector Palatine joins the Coalition against France |
2011-04-01 |
516 |
| The Elector Palatine, Frederick V, arrives in England |
2011-02-01 |
2205 |
| The Elizabethan Prayer Book is first used |
2011-02-01 |
2552 |
| The Emergency commences |
2010-02-01 |
1643 |
| The Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France sign the Treaty of Toledo |
2010-11-01 |
3816 |
| The Emperor Charles V invades Italy |
2010-11-01 |
1143 |
| The Emperor Charles V marries Isabella of Portugal |
2010-11-01 |
896 |
| The Emperor declares war on Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1121 |
| The Emperor Ferdinand II declares Wallenstein a traitor |
2011-02-01 |
2220 |
| The Emperor Ferdinand II suspects Wallenstein of treachery |
2011-02-01 |
2015 |
| The Emperor Matthias signs a peace treaty with the Turks |
2011-02-01 |
1207 |
| The Emperor Maximilian II establishes a supervisory Monastic Council |
2011-02-01 |
487 |
| The Emperor refuses to agree to the Treaty of Prague |
2011-02-01 |
760 |
| The Emperor Rudolf II forced to permit freedom of religion in Bohemia |
2011-02-01 |
2103 |
| The Emperor Rudolf is forced to resign the Bohemian crown |
2011-02-01 |
2119 |
| The Empire and Russia conclude a military alliance against Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1007 |
| The Empire, Russia and Prussia agree to act together to oppose Poland |
2011-04-01 |
899 |
| The English abandon Haddington to the Scots |
2010-11-01 |
1369 |
| The English army is summoned to Tilbury to repel invasion |
2011-02-01 |
1170 |
| The English bombard St Malo |
2011-04-01 |
1568 |
| The English Council undertake an enquiry into the plantation of Ulster |
2011-02-01 |
1380 |
| The English Merchants Adventurers Company leave Antwerp for Emden |
2011-02-01 |
1128 |
| The English Parliament is prorogued |
2011-02-01 |
1163 |
| The English parliament passes strict laws against Protestant dissenters |
2010-03-01 |
3309 |
| The English Parliament presses Queen Elizabeth to marry |
2011-02-01 |
734 |
| The English Parliament reassembles |
2011-02-01 |
1125 |
| The English plantation of Munster is attempted |
2011-02-01 |
1701 |
| The English Treasury is put in commission after corruption is revealed |
2011-02-01 |
1069 |
| The Engraver’s Copyright Bill receives royal assent |
2006-12-12 |
1334 |
| The Estates of Poland declare the monarchy elective |
2011-02-01 |
687 |
| The Eureka Stockade |
2010-03-01 |
409 |
| The ex-Emperor Charles V dies |
2011-02-01 |
760 |
| The Examiner (2) |
2010-06-21 |
4422 |
| The exiled Duke of Bourbon expels Admiral Bonnivet from Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1237 |
| The expanding-universe theory proposed |
2009-05-01 |
619 |
| The False Dmitri appears in Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1252 |
| The False Dmitri enters Moscow and assassinates the Tsar |
2011-02-01 |
789 |
| The False Dmitri is defeated by Tsar Boris Godunov |
2011-02-01 |
1109 |
| The False Dmitri is murdered in Russia |
2011-02-01 |
854 |
| The financial Panic of 1819 |
2010-03-01 |
1261 |
| The Financial Panic of 1873 begins; 5,183 business fail |
2010-03-01 |
1196 |
| The first big cattle drive |
2010-03-01 |
868 |
| The First Covenant is signed in Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
1971 |
| The first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity |
2009-05-01 |
2113 |
| The first Islamic conquests in the Indian subcontinent |
2009-05-01 |
1141 |
| The first national women's rights convention held in Worcester, Mass. |
2010-03-01 |
2455 |
| The first Parliament of George II is dissolved |
2011-04-01 |
656 |
| The first Peace of Kappel ends the civil war in Switzerland |
2010-11-01 |
1205 |
| The first Woman's Rights Convention held in New York |
2010-03-01 |
1540 |
| The Flemish language is admitted in courts of Flanders |
2011-12-30 |
640 |
| The fourth Parliament of William III meets |
2011-04-01 |
644 |
| The Franco-Swedish alliance is renewed for three years |
2011-02-01 |
925 |
| The Frankish Civil War |
2009-05-01 |
6743 |
| The French ambassador is recalled from London |
2011-12-30 |
866 |
| The French are defeated by an Anglo-Spanish force at St. Quentin |
2011-02-01 |
2036 |
| The French army capitulate at Aversa |
2010-11-01 |
931 |
| The French army crosses the Rhine at Tolhuys |
2011-04-01 |
1140 |
| The French army in Lombardy retreats |
2010-11-01 |
1110 |
| The French army occupies Alsace |
2011-02-01 |
1125 |
| The French army under Admiral Bonnivet crosses the River Ticino |
2010-11-01 |
1180 |
| The French attempt to establish a colonial empire in West Africa |
2011-04-01 |
1120 |
| The French attempt to recover Boulogne |
2010-11-01 |
1032 |
| The French bombard Genoa |
2011-04-01 |
743 |
| The French build Fort Niagara against the British |
2011-04-01 |
1404 |
| The French burn Baden-Baden |
2011-04-01 |
1507 |
| The French campaign in the Netherlands fails |
2011-04-01 |
717 |
| The French capitulate at Cassel and evacuate the right bank of the Rhine |
2011-12-30 |
246 |
| The French capture Ambleteuse and begin the siege of Boulogne |
2010-11-01 |
937 |
| The French capture Namur |
2011-04-01 |
1572 |
| The French capture Sainte-Menehould from the Spanish |
2011-04-01 |
214 |
| The French capture St. Andrews Castle, Scotland |
2010-11-01 |
1342 |
| The French conquer Madras |
2011-04-01 |
1141 |
| The French defeat Imperial troops at Villaviciosa |
2011-04-01 |
2453 |
| The French destroy Heidelberg, and ravage the Rhineland |
2011-04-01 |
1717 |
| The French drive the Spaniards from Canosa |
2010-11-01 |
1283 |
| The French East India Company receives its charter |
2011-02-01 |
903 |
| The French enter the Bay of Rio de Janiero |
2011-04-01 |
1035 |
| The French establish a legation in China |
2011-04-01 |
566 |
| The French evacuate Prague and return to France |
2011-04-01 |
723 |
| The French fail to take Orbetello |
2011-02-01 |
961 |
| The French fleet is captured in Rapallo |
2010-11-01 |
2232 |
| The French fleet leaves the Solent unscathed |
2010-11-01 |
1588 |
| The French fortify Crown Point on Lake Champlain |
2011-04-01 |
1421 |
| The French gain Mauritius from the Dutch |
2011-04-01 |
1015 |
| The French gain the Austrian Netherlands |
2011-04-01 |
959 |
| The French garrison in Novara capitulates to Ludovico Sforza |
2010-11-01 |
1714 |
| The French invade Italy |
2011-02-01 |
1170 |
| The French invade Italy and advance as far as Rivoli |
2010-11-01 |
1145 |
| The French occupy Liège |
2011-04-01 |
1655 |
| The French occupy Lorraine |
2011-02-01 |
973 |
| The French occupy Lorraine and the Electorate of Trèves |
2011-04-01 |
1083 |
| The French occupy Martinique and Guadeloupe |
2011-02-01 |
1384 |
| The French occupy Mauritius and call it Ile de France |
2011-04-01 |
921 |
| The French occupy Pondicherry and Coromandel Coast in India |
2011-04-01 |
1062 |
| The French occupy the Palatinate |
2011-04-01 |
1470 |
| The French prepare for an invasion of England |
2011-04-01 |
1743 |
| The French send an expedition against the Barbary pirates |
2011-04-01 |
954 |
| The French Senegal company is founded |
2011-04-01 |
887 |
| The French States-General agree to support the young Duke of Guise |
2011-02-01 |
2224 |
| The French States-General are dismissed with vague promises of reforms |
2011-02-01 |
978 |
| The French States-General assemble at Paris |
2011-02-01 |
1236 |
| The French surrender to Clive and Lawrence in south India |
2011-04-01 |
1367 |
| The French take Chandarnaga, north of Calcutta |
2011-04-01 |
1096 |
| The French take Charleroi |
2011-04-01 |
1577 |
| The French take Freiburg |
2011-04-01 |
772 |
| The French take Minorca |
2011-12-30 |
1229 |
| The French take Montmidi in Luxemburg |
2011-04-01 |
916 |
| The French take Montserrat from the English |
2011-04-01 |
1426 |
| The French take Pavia and Genoa |
2010-11-01 |
855 |
| The French take Thionville from the English |
2011-02-01 |
1360 |
| The French take Tortosa |
2011-04-01 |
560 |
| The French under Bonnivet are forced to abandon the siege of Milan |
2010-11-01 |
1191 |
| The French under Condé occupy Franche-Comté |
2011-04-01 |
692 |
| The French under Harcourt raise the siege of Lerida |
2011-02-01 |
685 |
| The future Louis XIII of France is born to Queen Marie de' Medici |
2011-02-01 |
1116 |
| The future Louis XIV is born |
2011-02-01 |
691 |
| The Gallican Church is reconciled with the Papacy |
2011-04-01 |
704 |
| The Geiger–Marsden experiment |
2009-05-01 |
1072 |
| The Genoese occupy Savona |
2010-11-01 |
817 |
| The German Catholic League is persuaded to fight for Ferdinand II |
2011-02-01 |
2282 |
| The German Diet declares war against France |
2011-04-01 |
1358 |
| The German Protestant princes deliberate at Schmalkalden |
2010-11-01 |
1707 |
| The German Protestant princes meet at Heilbronn |
2011-02-01 |
615 |
| The Ghaznavid dynasty founded in Afghanistan |
2009-05-01 |
934 |
| The Goths |
2005-11-16 |
3792 |
| The Grand Duke of Tuscany dies |
2011-04-01 |
428 |
| The Grand Tour |
2005-05-10 |
6176 |
| The Great Attractor theory |
2009-05-01 |
290 |
| The Great Elector conquers Stralsund from the Swedes |
2011-04-01 |
945 |
| The Great Elector invades Prussia to resist a Swedish advance |
2011-04-01 |
1242 |
| The Great Elector is forced to submit to Charles X of Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
743 |
| The Great Elector makes preliminary peace with Louis XIV |
2011-04-01 |
954 |
| The Great Elector of Brandenburg aids the Danes |
2011-04-01 |
1216 |
| The Great Elector offers refuge to French Huguenots |
2011-04-01 |
1277 |
| The Great Elector summons a Diet in Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
548 |
| The Great Elector takes Greifswald from Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
979 |
| The Great Hunger - The Irish Potato Famine |
2010-02-01 |
2287 |
| The Great Northern War |
2010-02-01 |
1834 |
| The Great Terror in France |
2007-12-22 |
2721 |
| The Greek Government submits to British demands for compensation |
2011-12-30 |
603 |
| The Grisons leader, George Jenatsch, is assassinated |
2011-02-01 |
757 |
| The Gutenberg Bible |
2010-02-01 |
3040 |
| The Habsburg archdukes rebel against the Emperor Rudolf II |
2011-02-01 |
1149 |
| The Habsburgs are recognised as rulers of Transylvania |
2011-04-01 |
436 |
| The Hague Conference for peace negotiations is opened |
2011-04-01 |
2378 |
| The Halfway Covenant adopted |
2010-03-01 |
1705 |
| The Hanoverian Alliance is joined by Denmark |
2011-04-01 |
1409 |
| The Hapsburg administration of Austria is reorganised |
2010-11-01 |
690 |
| The Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago |
2010-03-01 |
1155 |
| The Hindu religion is banned in India by Aurangzeb |
2011-04-01 |
171 |
| The Holy Roman Empire establishes standing army |
2011-04-01 |
533 |
| The Homestead Act |
2010-03-01 |
1141 |
| The House of Commons petitions James I against levying impositions |
2011-02-01 |
1145 |
| The House of Habsburg abandons Transylvania to Stephen Bocskai |
2011-02-01 |
1246 |
| The House of Lords condemns the Spanish marriage treaty |
2011-02-01 |
756 |
| The Huguenot Lesdiguières takes Grenoble for Henry IV |
2011-02-01 |
2284 |
| The Humble Petition and Advice is presented to Parliament despite army opposition |
2010-02-01 |
714 |
| The Hungarian Diet accepts the Grand Duke Francis as co-ruler |
2011-04-01 |
750 |
| The Hungarian Diet rejects the Pragmatic Sanction |
2011-04-01 |
908 |
| The Huns |
2005-11-16 |
1239 |
| The Imperial army joins forces with the French |
2011-12-30 |
1133 |
| The imperial army leaves Rome to meet French advance |
2010-11-01 |
1332 |
| The imperial campaign against the Turks in Hungary fails |
2010-11-01 |
1146 |
| The Imperial Diet is summoned by Rudolf II |
2011-02-01 |
816 |
| The Imperial Diet opens in Worms |
2010-11-01 |
1590 |
| The imperialist general Prospero Colonna dies |
2010-11-01 |
881 |
| The imperialists drive the French from Genoa |
2010-11-01 |
965 |
| The imperialists take Philippsburg from the French |
2011-02-01 |
862 |
| The Importants in France are suppressed |
2011-02-01 |
903 |
| The independent British Colony of Kaffraria is incorporated with Cape Colony |
2011-12-30 |
1588 |
| The infant John Sigismund Zápolya succeeds as King of Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
2795 |
| The Infante Charles of Austria takes over as Governor of the Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
622 |
| The Infante Juan of Spain dies |
2010-11-01 |
660 |
| The Inquisition becomes very active in Spain |
2010-02-01 |
1701 |
| The international powers blockade Greece |
2011-12-30 |
548 |
| The International Workers of the World (the IWW or the Wobblies) formed |
2010-03-01 |
1023 |
| The Interstate Commerce Act adopted |
2010-03-01 |
1477 |
| The Irish rebellion is effectively crushed |
2011-02-01 |
2101 |
| The Jacobites are defeated at Sheriffmuir |
2011-04-01 |
1015 |
| The Kansas Nebraska Act |
2010-03-01 |
1440 |
| The Khitan found the Liao dynasty |
2009-05-01 |
541 |
| The King's delegates seize the greater monasteries in England and Wales |
2010-11-01 |
2637 |
| The Knights Hospitallers are established in Malta |
2010-11-01 |
498 |
| The Knights of St. John defend Malta from the Turks |
2011-02-01 |
593 |
| The Kosciuszko Uprising |
2009-05-01 |
1496 |
| The lands of Luneburg-Celle are united with Hanover |
2011-04-01 |
760 |
| The last independent convocation of the clergy is held in England |
2010-11-01 |
2575 |
| The League of the Rhine is dissolved by France's allies |
2011-04-01 |
952 |
| The League proclaims Cardinal of Bourbon as King Charles X |
2011-02-01 |
1180 |
| The Lewis and Clark Expedition |
2010-02-01 |
2325 |
| The Liberal Midhat Pasha forms ministry in Constantinople |
2011-12-30 |
747 |
| The Lisbon spice market is closed to Dutch and English merchants |
2011-02-01 |
1401 |
| The London headquarters of the Hanseatic League is closed |
2011-02-01 |
1263 |
| The Long Parliament meets again |
2011-04-01 |
971 |
| The Mahdi in Khartoum reject British attempts at negotiations |
2011-12-30 |
295 |
| The Mahdi takes Omdurman |
2011-12-30 |
198 |
| The Manchester Guardian first printed |
2007-12-12 |
1389 |
| The Manchus proclaim the Ch'ing dynasty at Mukden |
2011-02-01 |
307 |
| The Mann-Elkins Act |
2010-03-01 |
397 |
| The Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister for a second term |
2010-01-01 |
2396 |
| The Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister for the first time |
2010-01-01 |
2538 |
| The Marquess of Salisbury becomes Prime Minister for the first time |
2013-08-30 |
1834 |
| The Marquess of Salisbury becomes Prime Minister for the second time |
2013-08-30 |
1833 |
| The Marquess of Salisbury becomes Prime Minister for the third time |
2013-08-30 |
2504 |
| The Marquis of Ensenada is dismissed in Spain for intriguing with France |
2011-04-01 |
1261 |
| The Marquis of Santa Cruz, the Spanish admiral, dies |
2011-02-01 |
1400 |
| The Marquis of Tavora and his wife are executed in Portugal |
2011-12-30 |
1171 |
| The Mayflower Compact signed |
2010-03-01 |
3123 |
| The Maypole at Merry Mount |
2010-01-01 |
2625 |
| The Mississippian Period begins in the central North American Continent |
2009-05-01 |
743 |
| The Missouri crisis |
2010-03-01 |
1355 |
| The Mogul Emperor Akbar annexes Afghanistan |
2011-02-01 |
718 |
| The Mogul Emperor Akbar annexes Khandesh |
2011-02-01 |
719 |
| The Mogul Emperor Akbar takes Kandahar |
2011-02-01 |
844 |
| The Mogul Emperor Akbar takes Sind |
2011-02-01 |
1284 |
| The Mogul Emperor Barbar invades the Punjab |
2010-11-01 |
729 |
| The Muromachi Shogun submits to Oda Nobunaga |
2010-03-01 |
313 |
| The national debt is established in England |
2011-04-01 |
1166 |
| The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry founded |
2010-03-01 |
921 |
| The Negro Conspiracy of 1741 |
2010-03-01 |
2574 |
| The Netherlands are made independent of the Empire |
2010-11-01 |
1325 |
| The New East India Company is granted a charter by William III |
2011-04-01 |
1284 |
| The New Testament becomes available in English |
2010-03-01 |
3186 |
| The Newburgh Conspiracy |
2010-03-01 |
1621 |
| The Night Attack |
2009-05-01 |
1224 |
| The nobility and clergy withdraw from the Cortes of Castile |
2010-11-01 |
1082 |
| The Northwest Ordinance |
2010-03-01 |
2030 |
| The Norwegian Constitution is reformed |
2011-12-30 |
1031 |
| The Notables meet in Paris at Richelieu's instigation |
2011-02-01 |
693 |
| The Office of Price Administration established |
2010-03-01 |
511 |
| The Old Pretender arrives at Firth of Forth but soon returns to Dunkirk |
2011-04-01 |
1035 |
| The Pacification of Perth ends fighting |
2011-02-01 |
1321 |
| The Palatinate becomes Protestant |
2010-11-01 |
478 |
| The Parlement of Paris calls for the exclusion of foreigners from office |
2011-02-01 |
1160 |
| The Parlement of Paris seizes the Archbishop of Paris' possessions |
2011-04-01 |
1870 |
| The Peace of Bergerac ends the Sixth War of Religion |
2011-02-01 |
1519 |
| The Peace of Cardan restores of Ulrich of Wurttemberg to his duchy |
2010-11-01 |
1151 |
| The Peace of Constantinople |
2011-02-01 |
1227 |
| The Peace of Ferrara |
2011-02-01 |
984 |
| The Peace of Iaşi (Jassy) |
2010-03-01 |
1059 |
| The Peace of Kappel creates Catholic and Protestant areas of Switzerland |
2010-11-01 |
2238 |
| The Peace of Kardis between Russia and Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
1123 |
| The Peace of Knarod |
2011-02-01 |
953 |
| The Peace of Madrid between Venice and Austria |
2011-02-01 |
948 |
| The Peace of Madrid is ratified |
2011-02-01 |
959 |
| The Peace of Rastatt between France and Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
2603 |
| The Peace of Susa ends the war between England and France |
2011-02-01 |
1259 |
| The Peasants' Revolt in south Germany is suppressed |
2010-11-01 |
1136 |
| The Persians capture Kandahar |
2011-04-01 |
660 |
| The Phallic Stage |
2005-10-24 |
10416 |
| The Pilgrim Fathers set off for North America in the Mayflower |
2011-12-20 |
5775 |
| The Pilgrimage of Grace |
2005-06-17 |
4179 |
| The Poles defeat the Cossacks and Tartars |
2011-04-01 |
1280 |
| The Pope's son is murdered |
2010-11-01 |
832 |
| The Portuguese are expelled from China |
2010-11-01 |
372 |
| The Portuguese are forced to leave Bengal |
2011-02-01 |
1291 |
| The Portuguese begin settlement at Angola |
2010-11-01 |
959 |
| The Portuguese Cortes at Thomar submit to Philip II |
2011-02-01 |
986 |
| The Portuguese secure trading privileges at Martaban in Burma |
2010-11-01 |
956 |
| The Portuguese settle at Macao |
2011-02-01 |
540 |
| The Portuguese settle at Mombasa |
2011-02-01 |
644 |
| The Pragmatic Sanction is recognised by Estates of Upper and Lower Austria |
2011-04-01 |
785 |
| The Prayer Book rising in the West Country is ended |
2010-11-01 |
2662 |
| The Presbyterian “Westminster Confession” adopted by Parliament |
2010-02-01 |
6239 |
| The Prince of Condé and John Casimir of the Palatinate invade France |
2011-02-01 |
2771 |
| The Prince of Condé arrested and imprisoned in the Bastille |
2011-02-01 |
961 |
| The Prince of Condé invades Spain |
2011-02-01 |
908 |
| The Prince of Condé rebels against the Queen Mother and Concino Concini |
2011-02-01 |
1390 |
| The Prince of Condé retires from military affairs |
2011-04-01 |
742 |
| The Prince of Condé takes control of Poitou |
2011-02-01 |
1312 |
| The Prince of Neuburg seizes Jülich |
2011-02-01 |
1198 |
| The Protector's brother is executed for treason |
2010-11-01 |
1453 |
| The Protestant princes denounce the Council of Trent |
2010-11-01 |
650 |
| The Protestant Princes of Germany meet at Ulm |
2010-11-01 |
1990 |
| The Protestant Union assists the Bohemian rebels |
2011-02-01 |
2417 |
| The Protestant Union in Germany is dissolved |
2011-02-01 |
696 |
| The Protestant Union meet at Heilbronn |
2011-02-01 |
852 |
| The proton-proton chain and CNO cycle in stars detailed |
2009-05-01 |
709 |
| The Province of Holland passes an Act of exclusion against William III |
2011-04-01 |
475 |
| The Prussian legation at the Vatican is restored |
2011-12-30 |
644 |
| The quipu becomes the standard recording device of the Andean civilizations |
2009-05-01 |
1658 |
| The Ratisbon assembly forces Ferdinand II to dismiss Wallenstein |
2011-02-01 |
2490 |
| The reactionary Ramon Narvaez becomes premier of Spain |
2011-12-30 |
1422 |
| The Real |
2004-03-07 |
6945 |
| The rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace submit to Henry VIII at York |
2010-11-01 |
2465 |
| The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill |
2010-03-01 |
1353 |
| The ruler of Transylvania is assassinated by imperialists |
2010-11-01 |
987 |
| The Russians retire into Poland |
2011-12-30 |
591 |
| The Russo-Prussian alliance revised |
2010-03-01 |
842 |
| The Rutherford model or planetary model of the atom formulated |
2009-05-01 |
1263 |
| The Sachs–Wolfe effect posited |
2009-05-01 |
921 |
| The Sack of Lawrence |
2010-03-01 |
998 |
| The Schmalkaldic League begins to disintegrate |
2010-11-01 |
1820 |
| The Schmalkaldic League loses important members |
2010-11-01 |
2307 |
| The Schmalkaldic League takes the imperial city of Donauwörth |
2010-11-01 |
2100 |
| The Scots attack Northumberland and the borders |
2010-11-01 |
1697 |
| The Scots settle at Acadia in Nova Scotia |
2011-02-01 |
1176 |
| The Scottish Covenanters defeat Royal troops at Drumclog |
2011-04-01 |
677 |
| The Scottish Covenanters take Edinburgh and key towns |
2011-02-01 |
1711 |
| The Scottish National Covenant is signed and circulated |
2011-02-01 |
2104 |
| The Scottish Parliament enquires into the massacre of Glencoe |
2011-04-01 |
1090 |
| The Scottish Parliament is dissolved |
2011-02-01 |
1279 |
| The Scottish Parliament meets |
2010-11-01 |
1132 |
| The Scottish settlement at Acadia (Nova Scotia) fails |
2011-02-01 |
1231 |
| The Second False Dmitri defeats Tsar Shuisky |
2011-02-01 |
1224 |
| The secretary of the Spanish ambassador is seized in Naples |
2011-02-01 |
687 |
| The sit-in movement begins |
2010-03-01 |
3628 |
| The Sixteen establish a revolutionary government in Paris |
2011-02-01 |
2224 |
| The size of the British army is drastically reduced |
2011-04-01 |
1147 |
| The Slánský trial |
2010-03-01 |
219 |
| The slave trade is forbidden in the District of Columbia |
2011-12-30 |
1014 |
| The Sluices are opened in Holland to save Amsterdam from the French |
2011-04-01 |
737 |
| The Smith Act |
2010-03-01 |
221 |
| The Social Democratic Federation |
2010-03-01 |
1615 |
| The Somerville Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I is discovered |
2011-02-01 |
3189 |
| The Sonderbund league of Catholic Swiss Cantons is established |
2011-12-30 |
701 |
| The South African Republic (Transvaal) is organised |
2011-12-30 |
1194 |
| The Soviet Union and Japan sign Neutrality Pact |
2010-02-01 |
437 |
| The Spaniards are driven from Cerignola |
2010-11-01 |
944 |
| The Spanish Armada is sighted off the Cornish coast |
2011-02-01 |
1350 |
| The Spanish army conquers Naples |
2011-04-01 |
1234 |
| The Spanish army mutinies and sacks Antwerp |
2011-02-01 |
984 |
| The Spanish army wins the battle of Bitonto |
2011-04-01 |
1679 |
| The Spanish attack on Roussillon fails |
2010-11-01 |
471 |
| The Spanish begin the conquest of Peru |
2010-11-01 |
1092 |
| The Spanish besiege Casale |
2011-02-01 |
1324 |
| The Spanish communeros are defeated |
2010-11-01 |
806 |
| The Spanish fail to take Alkmaar |
2011-02-01 |
862 |
| The Spanish fail to take Haarlem from the Dutch rebels |
2011-02-01 |
1492 |
| The Spanish land in Cornwall |
2011-02-01 |
1271 |
| The Spanish raise the siege of Thionville |
2011-02-01 |
723 |
| The Spanish stronghold of La Fère capitulates to the French |
2011-02-01 |
2192 |
| The Spanish surrender Milan to the French |
2010-11-01 |
1141 |
| The Spanish take Dunkirk |
2011-04-01 |
296 |
| The Spanish take Gravelines |
2011-04-01 |
404 |
| The Spanish take Vercelli |
2011-02-01 |
1019 |
| The Speaker of the House of Commons is expelled for accepting a bribe |
2011-04-01 |
652 |
| The Stadtholder William II dies in Holland |
2011-04-01 |
1542 |
| The Stamp Act Congress |
2010-03-01 |
1288 |
| The Star-Spangled Banner composed |
2010-03-01 |
1182 |
| The Stark effect posited |
2009-05-01 |
933 |
| The States of Holland anticipate civil war |
2011-02-01 |
997 |
| The Straits Convention |
2010-01-01 |
1798 |
| The Sultan of Turkey promises reforms throughout the Ottoman Empire |
2011-12-30 |
439 |
| The Sunday Times |
2013-08-30 |
1865 |
| The Swabian League expels Ulrich Duke of Wurttemburg from his duchy |
2010-11-01 |
756 |
| The Swedes capitulate at Oldensworth |
2011-04-01 |
1337 |
| The Swedes defeat the Danes at Gadebusch |
2011-04-01 |
1180 |
| The Swedes take Estonia |
2011-02-01 |
1269 |
| The Swedes take Prague |
2011-02-01 |
1310 |
| The Swedes withdraw from Bohemia |
2011-02-01 |
2332 |
| The Swedish army returns to the Palatinate |
2011-02-01 |
908 |
| The Swiss attack Dijon |
2010-11-01 |
898 |
| The Swiss desert Julius II |
2010-11-01 |
1217 |
| The Synod of Dort ends |
2011-02-01 |
785 |
| The Synod of Dort opens |
2011-02-01 |
723 |
| The Taiho Code issued in Japan |
2009-05-01 |
2871 |
| The Tartars of Manchu invade China |
2011-02-01 |
483 |
| The Ten Articles are presented to Parliament |
2010-11-01 |
2642 |
| The Third Estate attacks the Taille and the sale of offices |
2011-02-01 |
1283 |
| The third session of the Council of Trent opens |
2011-02-01 |
946 |
| The Thirty-Nine Articles |
2005-01-01 |
4660 |
| The Throgmorton Plot, for a Spanish invasion of England, is discovered |
2011-02-01 |
2098 |
| The Times declares in favour of free trade |
2011-12-30 |
1261 |
| The Times newspaper installs steam press |
2007-12-02 |
1776 |
| The Times publishes letters incriminating Parnell |
2011-12-30 |
1439 |
| The Toltec kingdom of Mexico established |
2009-05-01 |
1013 |
| The Toltec Kukulcan conquers Maya in Yucatan |
2009-05-01 |
1049 |
| The Treaty of Aarau ends the Swiss war |
2011-04-01 |
910 |
| The Treaty of Bristol settles disputes between English and Spanish merchants |
2011-02-01 |
2967 |
| The Treaty of Cherasco ends the War of Mantuan Succession |
2011-02-01 |
1929 |
| The Treaty of Ponts de Cé effectively ends the civil war in France |
2011-02-01 |
557 |
| The Treaty of Preobrazhenskoe |
2011-04-01 |
2113 |
| The Treaty of Saint Germain-en-Laye |
2011-02-01 |
860 |
| The Treaty of Teusina |
2011-02-01 |
1231 |
| The Turkish corsair Dragut recaptures Mehedia from the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
1591 |
| The Turkish fleet attacks Arab corsairs |
2010-11-01 |
1149 |
| The Turkish fleet harry shipping in the Adriatic |
2011-02-01 |
908 |
| The Turko-Hungarian war is renewed despite a truce |
2011-02-01 |
1070 |
| The Turko-Persian War ends |
2011-04-01 |
827 |
| The Turks capture Tenedos and Lemnos from the Venetians |
2011-04-01 |
1598 |
| The Turks fail to capture Oran in North Africa |
2011-02-01 |
1098 |
| The Turks invade Hungary |
2011-02-01 |
1202 |
| The Turks invade Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
1003 |
| The Turks lose Timisoara to the Empire |
2011-04-01 |
1006 |
| The Turks mass on the borders of Syria |
2011-04-01 |
650 |
| The Turks occupy Moldavia |
2010-11-01 |
899 |
| The Turks occupy Tabriz, Persia |
2010-11-01 |
653 |
| The Turks proclaim Emeric Tokoly King of Hungary |
2011-04-01 |
839 |
| The Turks ravage Vicenza |
2010-11-01 |
798 |
| The Turks sack Nicosia, Cyprus |
2011-02-01 |
823 |
| The Turks take Famagusta, Cyprus |
2011-02-01 |
1321 |
| The Turks take Hungary |
2010-11-01 |
1161 |
| The Turks take Raab from the Austrians |
2011-02-01 |
1156 |
| The Tuscarora Indian War |
2010-03-01 |
3313 |
| The Uighur Turks of Central Asia are pushed out by the Khirgiz |
2009-05-01 |
1340 |
| The United Provinces adopt a Calvinist 'Netherlands Confession' |
2011-02-01 |
658 |
| The United Provinces appoint William of Orange as Captain-General |
2011-04-01 |
806 |
| The United Provinces sign a commercial treaty with Persia |
2011-02-01 |
1047 |
| The United States bombs North Vietnam |
2010-03-01 |
1736 |
| The universities endorse Henry VIII's divorce |
2010-11-01 |
2100 |
| The vacuum-insulated, silver-plated glass Dewar invented |
2013-08-30 |
717 |
| The Venetians finally surrender Crete to the Turks |
2011-04-01 |
1232 |
| The Vice-Royalty of New Grenada is separated from Peru |
2011-04-01 |
467 |
| The Visigoths |
2005-11-16 |
1754 |
| The visitation of the greater monasteries in England begins |
2010-11-01 |
3198 |
| The War of Kalmer begins between Denmark and Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
1266 |
| The War Party take over in Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
624 |
| The Warden of the East March is captured by the Scots |
2010-11-01 |
1636 |
| The Welsh expel the Anglo-Normans |
2013-03-28 |
1160 |
| The white dwarf maximum mass limit discovered |
2011-03-01 |
1071 |
| The XYZ Affair |
2010-03-01 |
862 |
| The Yoro Code of Japan completed |
2009-05-01 |
3436 |
| Theatre Regulation Act |
2010-02-01 |
2923 |
| Theatre Workshop |
2006-08-21 |
1269 |
| Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg becomes German chancellor |
2011-03-01 |
584 |
| Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg visits St. Petersburg |
2010-03-01 |
385 |
| Theodor Svedberg develops the ultra-centrifuge |
2009-05-01 |
753 |
| Theodore III, son of Alexis, becomes Tsar of Russia |
2011-04-01 |
1072 |
| Theodore Roosevelt ends U.S. coal strike |
2010-03-01 |
1421 |
| Theodore Roosevelt's 'New Nationalism' |
2010-03-01 |
992 |
| Theophile Delcasse appointed French foreign secretary |
2011-12-30 |
766 |
| Théophraste Renaudot founds La Gazette |
2008-01-01 |
3177 |
| Theorem on Gaussian-Markoff processes stated |
2011-03-01 |
672 |
| Theory of continental drift proposed |
2009-05-01 |
326 |
| Theory of epidemic diseases formulated |
2009-05-01 |
477 |
| Theory of neutron absorption by atomic nuclei proposed |
2011-03-01 |
583 |
| Theory of prime numbers first formulated |
2009-05-01 |
673 |
| Theory of radioactivity starts being developed by Marie Curie |
2009-05-01 |
2136 |
| Theory of special relativity completed; law of mass-energy conservation stated |
2009-05-01 |
2241 |
| Thermodynamic simulated annealing algorithms introduced |
2011-03-01 |
682 |
| Thermometer built by Galilei |
2009-05-01 |
2724 |
| Thérouanne surrenders to the English |
2010-11-01 |
902 |
| Thiers becomes head of French executive |
2011-12-30 |
1238 |
| Thiers elected French President |
2011-12-30 |
794 |
| Thiers forms opposition Third Party in France |
2011-12-30 |
534 |
| Third Anglo-Afghan War |
2010-02-01 |
1882 |
| Third Anglo-Burmese War |
2010-02-01 |
1352 |
| Third Austrian invasion of Serbia |
2010-02-01 |
778 |
| Third civil war in the French Wars of Religion |
2010-03-01 |
2428 |
| Third Crusade |
2010-02-01 |
1405 |
| Third Duma meets, elected on restricted franchise |
2010-03-01 |
462 |
| Third German naval bill |
2010-03-01 |
1035 |
| Third Irish Home Rule Bill |
2010-02-01 |
1431 |
| Third Maori War breaks out in New Zealand |
2011-03-01 |
2505 |
| Third Parliament of Anne, with a Whig majority, meets |
2011-04-01 |
1263 |
| Third Parliament of Charles II meets |
2011-04-01 |
565 |
| Third Parliament of George II |
2011-04-01 |
567 |
| Third Partition of Poland by Prussia, Russia, and Austria |
2009-05-01 |
2696 |
| Third Protectorate Parliament assembles |
2011-03-01 |
638 |
| Third Protectorate Parliament dissolved |
2010-02-01 |
1055 |
| Third Reconstruction Act |
2010-03-01 |
963 |
| Third Reform Act |
2010-01-01 |
2862 |
| Third Reform Bill introduced in House of Commons |
2011-12-30 |
2546 |
| Third revolution in Vienna |
2011-12-30 |
412 |
| Third session of the 'Reformation Parliament' |
2010-11-01 |
2413 |
| Thirty-Nine Articles reissued |
2010-02-01 |
1906 |
| Thomas Becket becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
2012-07-31 |
1791 |
| Thomas Becket is murdered |
2012-07-31 |
834 |
| Thomas Boleyn is sent to the Pope to press for Henry VIII's divorce |
2010-11-01 |
580 |
| Thomas Cook organises his first excursion |
2010-02-01 |
1309 |
| Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
2010-11-01 |
1643 |
| Thomas Cranmer is deposed and executed |
2011-02-01 |
829 |
| Thomas Cromwell is appointed Lord Privy Seal |
2010-11-01 |
1970 |
| Thomas Cromwell is appointed Vicar General |
2010-11-01 |
2279 |
| Thomas Cromwell is arrested for treason |
2010-11-01 |
1632 |
| Thomas Cromwell is created Earl of Essex |
2010-11-01 |
1830 |
| Thomas Earl of Sussex harries the Scottish border |
2011-02-01 |
1440 |
| Thomas Edison invents the light bulb |
2010-02-01 |
1990 |
| Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, is appointed Lord Treasurer |
2011-02-01 |
1213 |
| Thomas Lord Wentworth becomes Charles I's principal adviser |
2011-02-01 |
1225 |
| Thomas Lord Wentworth is appointed Deputy of Ireland |
2011-02-01 |
971 |
| Thomas Osborne is impeached by the House of Commons |
2011-04-01 |
1779 |
| Thomas Paine publishes The Crisis |
2010-03-01 |
756 |
| Thomas Wentworth is appointed President of the Council in the North |
2011-02-01 |
905 |
| Thomas Wentworth is created Earl of Strafford |
2011-02-01 |
1129 |
| Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, executed |
2010-02-01 |
1258 |
| Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed Governor of Virginia |
2011-02-01 |
1173 |
| Thomas Wolsey begins secret negotiations for a peace with France |
2010-11-01 |
1168 |
| Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York |
2010-11-01 |
1671 |
| Thomas Wolsey is appointed Lord Chancellor of England |
2010-01-01 |
1449 |
| Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, is sent back to the Tower on suspicion of treason |
2011-02-01 |
1247 |
| Thomas, Earl of Kildare is imprisoned for alleged treasons |
2010-11-01 |
2224 |
| Thomé de Souza founds Sao Salvador |
2010-11-01 |
1138 |
| Thor’s Oak felled |
2009-05-01 |
1598 |
| Thorough factory inspection in Germany |
2011-12-30 |
624 |
| Thousands of Protestants are expelled from Salzburg |
2011-04-01 |
199 |
| Three Antarctic voyages by James Clark Ross |
2010-01-01 |
1008 |
| Three component theory of the interstellar medium proposed |
2009-05-01 |
279 |
| Three Nights' Blitz over Swansea |
2010-03-01 |
2651 |
| Three possible heirs to the English throne are sentenced to death |
2010-11-01 |
1367 |
| Three-Kings' League of Prussia, Saxony and Hanover |
2011-12-30 |
765 |
| Threnody |
2001-11-01 |
4896 |
| Tianjin Massacre |
2010-02-01 |
1081 |
| Ticket-of-leave system set up by Governor King |
2010-03-01 |
926 |
| Tilly co-operates with Wallenstein in Brunswick |
2011-02-01 |
1831 |
| Tilly defeats Christian IV of Denmark at Lutter |
2011-02-01 |
2103 |
| Timbuktu captured by Moroccan troops |
2010-03-01 |
651 |
| Timur builds the Registan |
2010-03-01 |
659 |
| Timur defeats the Ottomans at Ankara |
2010-03-01 |
881 |
| Timur invades India and sacks the capital, Delhi |
2010-03-01 |
1432 |
| Timur sacks Baghdad a second time |
2010-03-01 |
1071 |
| Timur's grandson, Ulugh Beg, dies |
2010-03-01 |
682 |
| Timur's mausoleum is built in Samarkand |
2010-03-01 |
693 |
| Tippoo of Mysore attacks Rajah of Travancore |
2010-03-01 |
593 |
| Tippoo of Mysore cedes land to Britain |
2010-03-01 |
655 |
| Tithe Commutation Act |
2010-02-01 |
1193 |
| Tithes |
2004-07-14 |
7558 |
| Titus Oates gives his rendition of the Popish Plot before a magistrate |
2011-04-01 |
1144 |
| Titus Oates is flogged through the streets of London |
2011-04-01 |
1641 |
| Tlatelolco massacre |
2010-02-01 |
613 |
| Tobago is established as a colony of James, Duke of Courland |
2011-04-01 |
1023 |
| Toleration Act passed by the English Parliament |
2010-02-01 |
1407 |
| Tolpuddle Martyrs |
2010-02-01 |
1631 |
| Tom Mann arrested |
2010-03-01 |
915 |
| Topos |
2001-11-01 |
15879 |
| Tortuga, off Hispaniola, is settled by pirates |
2011-02-01 |
1373 |
| Tournai surrenders to the English |
2010-11-01 |
1144 |
| Townshend Acts |
2010-02-01 |
2230 |
| Townshend becomes Secretary of State in a Whig ministry |
2011-04-01 |
1211 |
| Townshend is dismissed as Secretary of State |
2011-04-01 |
496 |
| Townshend resigns as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland |
2011-04-01 |
855 |
| Tractarian Movement |
2010-02-01 |
3769 |
| Trade Disputes Act |
2013-08-30 |
726 |
| Trade Disputes Act |
2010-02-01 |
1176 |
| Trade unions in France are legalised |
2011-12-30 |
1066 |
| Trail of Tears |
2010-02-01 |
3084 |
| Traitorous Correspondence Act |
2010-03-01 |
1834 |
| Trans-Amazonian Highway inaugurated |
2010-02-01 |
676 |
| Transference |
2005-10-25 |
6947 |
| Translation of Ptolemy's Geography |
2010-03-01 |
2068 |
| Transportation of convicted criminals |
2010-02-01 |
2170 |
| Transvaal allies with Orange Free State |
2011-12-30 |
829 |
| Transvaal and Orange Free State granted autonomy |
2010-02-01 |
858 |
| Transvaal Boers under Kruger declare a Republic |
2011-12-30 |
1891 |
| Transvaal Commission favours immigrant Chinese labour |
2010-03-01 |
499 |
| Transvaal declares itself independent of Britain |
2011-12-30 |
1608 |
| Transvaal government gives franchise to immigrants after seven years residence |
2011-12-30 |
449 |
| Transvaal granted constitution |
2010-03-01 |
1269 |
| Transvaal Republic is proclaimed |
2011-12-30 |
1418 |
| Transylvania revolts against the Emperor Rudolf II |
2011-02-01 |
794 |
| Transylvania unites with Romania |
2009-05-01 |
440 |
| Treason Act |
2010-02-01 |
2324 |
| Treason Trials |
2006-01-21 |
3766 |
| Treaties of Tianjin |
2010-01-01 |
2023 |
| Treaties of Tilsit |
2008-05-26 |
3080 |
| Treaty 'Malus intercursus' between England and the Netherlands |
2010-11-01 |
5801 |
| Treaty at Hague |
2011-04-01 |
840 |
| Treaty between Austria and Russia against Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
742 |
| Treaty between Bolivia and Chile |
2011-12-30 |
158 |
| Treaty between England and Holland regulates trade in the East |
2011-02-01 |
1290 |
| Treaty between Russia and Prussia |
2010-03-01 |
916 |
| Treaty between Spain and Bavaria to partition the Habsburg lands |
2011-04-01 |
792 |
| Treaty between Spain and Peru effectively recognises Peruvian independence |
2011-12-30 |
394 |
| Treaty between Turkey and the Empire reduces the power of Transylvania |
2011-02-01 |
799 |
| Treaty between Venice and Turkey is signed at Constantinople |
2010-11-01 |
1563 |
| Treaty for separation of Holland and Belgium is accepted internationally |
2011-12-30 |
448 |
| Treaty of Abo/ Turku: Sweden grants Finland to Russia |
2010-02-01 |
1745 |
| Treaty of Addis Ababa |
2010-02-01 |
1241 |
| Treaty of Adrianopol ends Russo-Turkish war |
2010-02-01 |
1743 |
| Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle |
2010-01-01 |
1776 |
| Treaty of Alcacovas |
2010-03-01 |
2285 |
| Treaty of Alexandropol |
2011-03-01 |
322 |
| Treaty of alliance between France and Sardinia |
2011-12-30 |
717 |
| Treaty of Amiens - peace between Britain and France |
2007-01-01 |
3396 |
| Treaty of Amity between England and France |
2011-04-01 |
648 |
| Treaty of Angouleme |
2011-02-01 |
1116 |
| Treaty of Antwerp between England and the Empire |
2010-11-01 |
3009 |
| Treaty of Aranjuez between Spain and Empire |
2011-04-01 |
391 |
| Treaty of Arras |
2010-03-01 |
1421 |
| Treaty of Arras effects a reconciliation with Philip II |
2011-02-01 |
1047 |
| Treaty of Assistance between Brandenburg and the Netherlands |
2011-04-01 |
871 |
| Treaty of Augsburg |
2010-03-01 |
2537 |
| Treaty of Badajoz |
2010-03-01 |
814 |
| Treaty of Barcelona |
2010-03-01 |
2240 |
| Treaty of Barcelona between Pope Clement VII and Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
4550 |
| Treaty of Bardo: Tunisia becomes a French Protectorate |
2011-03-01 |
1289 |
| Treaty of Barwalde |
2011-02-01 |
1636 |
| Treaty of Basle |
2010-03-01 |
1354 |
| Treaty of Bassein |
2010-03-01 |
889 |
| Treaty of Belgrade between Russia and Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1158 |
| Treaty of Berlin between Germany and Latvia |
2010-03-01 |
299 |
| Treaty of Berlin between the Emperor and Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1076 |
| Treaty of Berlin divides Bulgaria |
2011-12-30 |
788 |
| Treaty of Berwick |
2011-02-01 |
1617 |
| Treaty of Berwick between England and Lords of the Scottish Congregation |
2011-02-01 |
1521 |
| Treaty of Blois between Louis XII and Ferdinand I of Aragon |
2010-11-01 |
3616 |
| Treaty of Blois signed between France and Burgundy |
2010-11-01 |
1781 |
| Treaty of Bordesholm has Christian II abandon claim to Schleswig-Holstein |
2010-11-01 |
1195 |
| Treaty of Breslau between France and Prussia to partition the Empire |
2011-04-01 |
1172 |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
2010-03-01 |
633 |
| Treaty of Bretigny |
2010-03-01 |
992 |
| Treaty of Bromberg |
2011-04-01 |
1336 |
| Treaty of Bucharest (2) |
2009-05-01 |
737 |
| Treaty of Bucharest: end of Russo-Turkish War |
2010-02-01 |
1505 |
| Treaty of Buczacz |
2011-04-01 |
1216 |
| Treaty of Calais between Henry VIII and Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
2591 |
| Treaty of Campo Formio: peace between Austria and France |
2010-02-01 |
3069 |
| Treaty of Chambard confirms alliance between German princes and France |
2010-11-01 |
893 |
| Treaty of Charlottenburg between Britain and Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1344 |
| Treaty of Chaumont |
2010-03-01 |
2674 |
| Treaty of Commerce between England and Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
893 |
| Treaty of commerce between Siam and Britain |
2011-12-30 |
625 |
| Treaty of Constantinople |
2009-05-01 |
1060 |
| Treaty of Constantinople between Russia and Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1260 |
| Treaty of Copenhagen |
2010-03-01 |
757 |
| Treaty of Dusseldorf |
2011-02-01 |
1090 |
| Treaty of Edinburgh between England and Scotland |
2011-02-01 |
1351 |
| Treaty of Escurial between France and Spain against England |
2011-04-01 |
1159 |
| Treaty of Etaples |
2010-03-01 |
2027 |
| Treaty of federation of Straits Settlements |
2011-12-30 |
243 |
| Treaty of Fontainebleau |
2010-03-01 |
1803 |
| Treaty of Fontainebleau |
2010-03-01 |
902 |
| Treaty of Fontainebleau between France and Maximilian of Bavaria |
2011-02-01 |
1109 |
| Treaty of Frederiksborg |
2010-02-01 |
1390 |
| Treaty of Freiburg pledges 'perpetual peace' between French and Swiss |
2010-11-01 |
2744 |
| Treaty of Friedewalde between German princes and France |
2010-11-01 |
991 |
| Treaty of friendship between Germany and South African Republic |
2011-12-30 |
721 |
| Treaty of friendship between Japan and Korea |
2011-12-30 |
550 |
| Treaty of Gandamak |
2010-02-01 |
1352 |
| Treaty of Ghent ends war between Britain and USA |
2006-02-02 |
1194 |
| Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo - USA gains Texas and California from Mexico |
2008-05-26 |
1519 |
| Treaty of Gulistan |
2010-02-01 |
1378 |
| Treaty of Hamburg between Sweden and Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
1335 |
| Treaty of Hampton Court |
2010-03-01 |
2176 |
| Treaty of Hanover between Britain (Hanover) and France |
2011-04-01 |
1408 |
| Treaty of Herrenhausen (or Hanover) between Britain, France and Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
1329 |
| Treaty of Hildesheim |
2011-04-01 |
641 |
| Treaty of Hyderabad |
2011-03-01 |
823 |
| Treaty of Joinville |
2011-02-01 |
4111 |
| Treaty of Jüterbog |
2011-02-01 |
947 |
| Treaty of Kalisz |
2010-03-01 |
996 |
| Treaty of Kanagawa |
2007-12-12 |
1593 |
| Treaty of Karlsburg re-affirms Ferdinand's rights in Hungary and Transylvania |
2010-11-01 |
1271 |
| Treaty of Kiel |
2010-03-01 |
1203 |
| Treaty of Kilkenny |
2010-02-01 |
1395 |
| Treaty of Königsberg between Brandenburg and Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
957 |
| Treaty of Kutahya: Turkey recognises independence of Egypt |
2010-02-01 |
1947 |
| Treaty of Labiau between Sweden and Brandenburg |
2011-04-01 |
722 |
| Treaty of Lahore: End of First Sikh War |
2010-02-01 |
938 |
| Treaty of Lausanne |
2010-02-01 |
619 |
| Treaty of Leulinghen |
2010-03-01 |
1018 |
| Treaty of Lindau |
2011-02-01 |
1039 |
| Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognises the independence of Portugal |
2011-04-01 |
1015 |
| Treaty of Livadia between Russia and China |
2011-12-30 |
955 |
| Treaty of London |
2010-02-01 |
1214 |
| Treaty of London |
2010-02-01 |
1654 |
| Treaty of London |
2010-02-01 |
954 |
| Treaty of London between Britain, France, Russia, Denmark and Sweden |
2011-12-30 |
840 |
| Treaty of London guarantees integrity of Denmark |
2011-12-30 |
876 |
| Treaty of Longjumean ends the Second War of Religion in France |
2011-02-01 |
807 |
| Treaty of Loudun ends the Second Civil War in France |
2011-02-01 |
2585 |
| Treaty of Lund brings formal peace between Denmark and Sweden |
2011-04-01 |
911 |
| Treaty of Lyon has France cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon |
2010-11-01 |
2012 |
| Treaty of Lyons between France, Spain and Savoy |
2011-02-01 |
1185 |
| Treaty of Madrid between Spain and France |
2011-04-01 |
1954 |
| Treaty of Madrid confirms Treaty of Badajoz |
2010-03-01 |
760 |
| Treaty of Marcoussis weakens the Holy League |
2010-11-01 |
2224 |
| Treaty of Mechlin between Maximilian, Henry VIII, Ferdinand and Pope Leo X |
2010-11-01 |
2075 |
| Treaty of Mersen (Meerssen) concluded |
2009-05-01 |
2443 |
| Treaty of Montluçon |
2010-03-01 |
2794 |
| Treaty of Monzon between France and Spain |
2011-02-01 |
1595 |
| Treaty of Mundoseer |
2010-03-01 |
875 |
| Treaty of Nanjing: Hong Kong ceded to the British |
2004-01-23 |
4607 |
| Treaty of Nemours provokes 'The War of the Three Henries' |
2011-02-01 |
1953 |
| Treaty of Neutrality between France and Emperor Leopold I |
2011-04-01 |
882 |
| Treaty of non-aggression between France and the United Provinces |
2011-02-01 |
1134 |
| Treaty of Nonsuch |
2005-06-17 |
2372 |
| Treaty of Northampton |
2010-03-01 |
608 |
| Treaty of Nymphenburg between France and Bavaria |
2011-04-01 |
1812 |
| Treaty of Paris - Britain recognizes independence of the United States |
2010-01-01 |
3976 |
| Treaty of Paris between England and France against Spain |
2011-04-01 |
778 |
| Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War |
2010-01-01 |
6122 |
| Treaty of Paris: end of Crimean War |
|
795 |
| Treaty of Paris: European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) established |
2010-02-01 |
1346 |
| Treaty of Passau annuls the Augsburg Interim and allows Lutheranism |
2010-11-01 |
2482 |
| Treaty of Pavia ends war between Spain and Savoy |
2011-02-01 |
990 |
| Treaty of peace between Britain and Nepal |
2011-03-01 |
852 |
| Treaty of peace concluded |
2010-03-01 |
1013 |
| Treaty of Peking: Chinese ratify treaties with Britain and France |
2011-12-30 |
651 |
| Treaty of Peshawar |
2010-01-01 |
1698 |
| Treaty of Petropolis |
2010-03-01 |
298 |
| Treaty of Pisa |
2011-04-01 |
1402 |
| Treaty of Pressburg |
2011-02-01 |
1184 |
| Treaty of Rapallo |
2010-01-01 |
478 |
| Treaty of Razilly betwen France and Morocco |
2011-02-01 |
923 |
| Treaty of Reichenbach |
2010-03-01 |
2238 |
| Treaty of Riascha |
2011-04-01 |
1116 |
| Treaty of Ribe |
2010-03-01 |
2152 |
| Treaty of Ried |
2010-03-01 |
2337 |
| Treaty of Ripon |
2010-02-01 |
1496 |
| Treaty of Rome founds European Economic Community |
2010-02-01 |
623 |
| Treaty of Rueil ends first Fronde |
2011-04-01 |
2111 |
| Treaty of Rystad (Nystad) concluded |
2010-02-01 |
1549 |
| Treaty of Ryswick (Rijswijk) |
2004-06-30 |
7715 |
| Treaty of Saigon between France and Annam |
2011-12-30 |
863 |
| Treaty of Saint Julien between Savoy and Geneva |
2011-02-01 |
1176 |
| Treaty of Salamanca sets out a joint rule of Ferdinand, Juana and Philip |
2010-11-01 |
1486 |
| Treaty of San Francisco: peace treaty with Japan |
2010-02-01 |
984 |
| Treaty of San Lorenzo |
2010-03-01 |
844 |
| Treaty of San Stefano |
2010-01-01 |
1351 |
| Treaty of Saragossa defines the interests of Spain and Portugal in the Pacific |
2010-11-01 |
1693 |
| Treaty of Schönbrunn |
2010-03-01 |
743 |
| Treaty of Senlis between France and the Holy Roman Empire |
2010-11-01 |
2049 |
| Treaty of Seville between Spain, France and Britain |
2011-04-01 |
1329 |
| Treaty of Sèvres |
2010-03-01 |
245 |
| Treaty of Speyer |
2010-03-01 |
882 |
| Treaty of St Petersburg |
2010-02-01 |
1028 |
| Treaty of St. Petersburg |
2010-03-01 |
598 |
| Treaty of St. Petersburg between Russia and Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
1044 |
| Treaty of Stockholm |
2010-03-01 |
928 |
| Treaty of Stockholm between Prussia and Sweden |
2010-02-01 |
1615 |
| Treaty of Stockholm between Sweden and Russia |
2011-04-01 |
883 |
| Treaty of Tangiers |
2011-03-01 |
1391 |
| Treaty of Teschen |
2011-03-01 |
814 |
| Treaty of The Hague |
2010-03-01 |
806 |
| Treaty of Tianjin: Prussia concludes commercial treaty with China |
2011-12-30 |
766 |
| Treaty of Tolentino |
2010-03-01 |
2587 |
| Treaty of Tordesillas |
2010-03-01 |
1689 |
| Treaty of Troyes |
2010-03-01 |
1338 |
| Treaty of Turin: Sardinia cedes Nice and Savoy to France |
2010-02-01 |
1461 |
| Treaty of Ucciali: Italy claims protectorate over Ethiopia/ Eritrea |
2011-03-01 |
1266 |
| Treaty of Ulm with France and Sweden |
2011-02-01 |
2592 |
| Treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi between Turkey and Russia |
2011-12-30 |
1655 |
| Treaty of Valençay |
2010-03-01 |
2285 |
| Treaty of Valparaiso |
|
960 |
| Treaty of Vercelli between Charles VIII and Milan undermines Holy League |
2010-11-01 |
2205 |
| Treaty of Verdun concluded |
2009-05-01 |
1094 |
| Treaty of Verdun divides the Carolingian empire |
2005-11-17 |
3524 |
| Treaty of Verela |
2010-03-01 |
1265 |
| Treaty of Versailles |
2010-02-01 |
295 |
| Treaty of Vienna between the Emperor and Spain |
2011-04-01 |
904 |
| Treaty of Vienna: end of the war between Austria and Italy |
2011-12-30 |
578 |
| Treaty of Vilna between Russia and Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1394 |
| Treaty of Waitangi |
2005-06-01 |
2826 |
| Treaty of Wanaghiya |
2010-02-01 |
1591 |
| Treaty of Warsaw for the partition of Prussia |
2011-04-01 |
819 |
| Treaty of Washington settles difficulties between Britain and USA |
2011-12-30 |
994 |
| Treaty of Wehlau |
2011-04-01 |
1044 |
| Treaty of Westminster |
2010-01-01 |
1989 |
| Treaty of Westminster |
2010-02-01 |
726 |
| Treaty of Westminster between Britain and Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
815 |
| Treaty of Westphalia: End of the Thirty Years War |
2010-01-01 |
4480 |
| Treaty of Windsor between Charles V and Henry VIII plans a joint invasion of France |
2010-11-01 |
3020 |
| Treaty of Windsor has Philip promise to extradite Yorkist pretender Suffolk |
2010-11-01 |
14380 |
| Treaty of Windsor: Portugal undertakes to assist Britain in Transvaal |
2011-12-30 |
1675 |
| Treaty of Worms between Maria Theresa, Britain and Sardinia |
2011-04-01 |
1747 |
| Treaty of Wusterhausen between Prussia and the Empire |
2011-04-01 |
1258 |
| Treaty of Xanten |
2011-02-01 |
1786 |
| Treaty of Yandabu ends Burmese War |
2011-12-30 |
1322 |
| Treaty of Zurich confirms the peace of Villafranca |
2011-12-30 |
1738 |
| Treaty of Zurich: Offers recognition of Swiss territories |
2010-03-01 |
1533 |
| Trent affair: Confederate Commissioners to Europe are captured by Unionists |
2011-12-30 |
1949 |
| Trevelyan's bill for extension of household suffrage is defeated |
2011-12-30 |
1240 |
| Trial of Archbishop Cranmer and Bishops Ridley and Latimer |
2011-02-01 |
2484 |
| Trial of Burton, Bastwicke and Prynne |
2011-03-01 |
1512 |
| Trial of Charles I |
2010-02-01 |
2193 |
| Trial of Dr Sacheverell |
2010-02-01 |
963 |
| Trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators |
2011-02-01 |
1990 |
| Trial of Louis XVI |
2011-03-01 |
1855 |
| Trial of Sir John Eliot |
2011-02-01 |
1197 |
| Trial of Strafford opens |
2011-02-01 |
1090 |
| Trial of the Lancashire witches |
2011-02-01 |
1575 |
| Trianon Tariff |
2010-03-01 |
730 |
| Tridentine decrees end hopes of reconciliation with German Protestant princes |
2010-11-01 |
666 |
| Triennial Act |
2006-02-17 |
3228 |
| Triennial Act (II) |
2010-02-01 |
1967 |
| Triennial Act is repealed |
2011-04-01 |
1251 |
| Tripartite Pact |
2010-02-01 |
515 |
| Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy renewed |
2011-12-30 |
940 |
| Triple alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy renewed |
2010-03-01 |
388 |
| Triple Alliance of Britain, France and Holland against the Jacobite Pretender |
2011-04-01 |
1614 |
| Triple Alliance of Emperor, Dutch and Spanish against French |
2011-04-01 |
964 |
| Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria and Italy is renewed for twelve years |
2011-12-30 |
233 |
| Tripoli becomes independent from Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
909 |
| Tristan de Cunha discovers an island which he names after himself |
2010-01-01 |
623 |
| Triton discovered by William Lassell |
2013-08-30 |
824 |
| Trochee (Trochaic) |
2001-11-01 |
5324 |
| Troops put down religious disturbances in Spanish Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
1166 |
| Trope |
2001-11-01 |
6263 |
| Troy Female Seminary opened |
2010-03-01 |
1604 |
| Truce between England and France |
2010-03-01 |
1657 |
| Truce between France and England |
2012-07-31 |
992 |
| Truce between Prussia, Saxony and the Empire |
2011-12-30 |
1008 |
| Truce between Russia and Turkey |
2011-04-01 |
1031 |
| Truce between Spain and United Provinces concluded |
2010-01-01 |
1711 |
| Truce of Altmark between Sweden and Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1678 |
| Truce of Andrussov between Russia and Poland ends the Thirteen Years War |
2011-04-01 |
1445 |
| Truce of Malmo between Denmark and Prussia |
2011-12-30 |
751 |
| Truce of Ratisbon between Emperor Leopold I and Louis XIV |
2011-04-01 |
2492 |
| Truce of Vasvar ends war between Turkey and Emperor |
2011-04-01 |
1151 |
| Truce signed between France and Spain at Lyon |
2010-11-01 |
1960 |
| Truce signed with Confederation of Kilkenny |
2010-02-01 |
2163 |
| Truman Doctrine proclaimed |
2010-02-01 |
1327 |
| Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act |
2010-02-01 |
484 |
| Tsar Alexander and his foreign minister visit Berlin |
2011-12-30 |
217 |
| Tsar Alexander I dies |
2011-12-30 |
471 |
| Tsar Alexander II appoints committee to consider emancipation of serfs |
2011-12-30 |
523 |
| Tsar Alexander II assassinated |
2010-02-01 |
1003 |
| Tsar Alexander II grants amnesty for Polish insurgents |
2011-12-30 |
1244 |
| Tsar Alexander III fails to achieve a German-Russian entente |
2011-12-30 |
148 |
| Tsar Alexis takes Smolensk in war with Poland |
2011-04-01 |
1335 |
| Tsar invites powers to co-operate in reducing armaments |
2011-12-30 |
254 |
| Tsar Ivan IV calls the first national assembly in Russia |
2010-11-01 |
294 |
| Tsar Nicholas I of Russia dies |
2011-12-30 |
446 |
| Tsar Nicholas I suggests partition of Ottoman Empire |
2011-12-30 |
1155 |
| Tsar Nicholas II forced to dissolve Second Duma |
2010-03-01 |
457 |
| Tsar Nicholas II promises reforms |
2010-03-01 |
1036 |
| Tsar Nicholas II suppresses liberties in Finland |
2011-12-30 |
1451 |
| Tsar Nicholas II visits Paris and London |
2011-12-30 |
974 |
| Tsar Peter's second visit to Western Europe |
2011-04-01 |
777 |
| Tsarina Anne dies |
2011-04-01 |
577 |
| Tsarina Elizabeth of Russia dies |
2011-12-30 |
532 |
| Tsunayoshi becomes Shogun of Japan |
2011-04-01 |
250 |
| Tuaregs conquer Timbuktu and seize control of important trade routes |
2010-03-01 |
656 |
| Tughluq dynasty takes control |
2010-03-01 |
926 |
| Tully-Fisher relation discovered |
2009-05-01 |
661 |
| Tulunid dynasty in Egypt |
2009-05-01 |
735 |
| Tunis accepts control by Britain, Italy and France because of bankruptcy |
2011-12-30 |
862 |
| Tunis throws off Turkish suzerainty |
2011-04-01 |
932 |
| Turenne begins his march across the Vosges |
2011-04-01 |
475 |
| Turenne captures Trèves |
2011-02-01 |
656 |
| Turenne concludes treaty for French rebels with Spain |
2011-04-01 |
821 |
| Turenne defeats Bavarians at Nördlingen |
2011-02-01 |
2288 |
| Turenne defeats Condé in the Faubourg St. Antoine |
2011-04-01 |
2292 |
| Turenne defeats the Elector of Bavaria at Zusmarshausen |
2011-04-01 |
1223 |
| Turenne defeats the Great Elector of Bramdenburg at Colmar |
2011-04-01 |
948 |
| Turenne defeats the Savoyards and imperialists |
2011-02-01 |
899 |
| Turenne is defeated at Herbsthausen |
2011-02-01 |
1032 |
| Turenne is killed at Sassbach |
2011-04-01 |
1213 |
| Turenne takes La Capelle from the Spanish |
2011-04-01 |
987 |
| Turenne's victory over Frondeurs at Jargeau |
2011-04-01 |
2130 |
| Turgot abolishes 'Jurandes' |
2010-03-01 |
1153 |
| Turgot re-introduces free trade in corn |
2010-03-01 |
936 |
| Turkey accepts great powers' peace recommendations |
2010-03-01 |
937 |
| Turkey acquiesces to Russia |
2010-03-01 |
681 |
| Turkey agrees to six-week armistice |
2011-12-30 |
624 |
| Turkey allows Germany to build a railway to Ankara |
2011-12-30 |
543 |
| Turkey allows Montenegro to occupy Dulcigno |
2011-12-30 |
716 |
| Turkey and Hungary signs a seven-year truce |
2010-11-01 |
1173 |
| Turkey and Russia sign a treaty of neutrality |
2011-04-01 |
674 |
| Turkey besieges Vienna |
2004-04-08 |
4126 |
| Turkey cedes Orova to Austria |
2010-03-01 |
979 |
| Turkey declares war against Russia |
2011-04-01 |
823 |
| Turkey declares war on France |
2010-02-01 |
2545 |
| Turkey declares war on Mohammed Ali, Khedive of Egypt |
2011-12-30 |
1007 |
| Turkey declares war on Poland |
2011-04-01 |
938 |
| Turkey declares war on Russia |
2010-03-01 |
968 |
| Turkey declares war on Russia |
2010-03-01 |
894 |
| Turkey declares war on Venice for refusing to surrender Cyprus |
2011-02-01 |
808 |
| Turkey declines to undertake reforms in Macedonia |
2011-03-01 |
206 |
| Turkey denounces Paris and Berlin treaties |
2010-03-01 |
870 |
| Turkey formally recovers Egypt |
2011-03-01 |
864 |
| Turkey grants Austria temporary occupation of the Danubian Principalities |
2011-12-30 |
889 |
| Turkey is persuaded to sign a convention with Greece |
2011-12-30 |
391 |
| Turkey joins War |
2010-02-01 |
525 |
| Turkey obtains Parga |
2010-03-01 |
1705 |
| Turkey promises Bulgaria to withdraw troops |
2011-03-01 |
855 |
| Turkey recognises Austria's annexation of Bosnia |
2011-03-01 |
725 |
| Turkey signs armistice with Russia |
2011-12-30 |
597 |
| Turkey surrenders Athens after a Venetian bombardment |
2011-04-01 |
1139 |
| Turkey will retain Constantinople |
2010-03-01 |
689 |
| Turkish army defeats Maria Theresa's pro-Russian forces |
2011-04-01 |
1068 |
| Turkish army invades Syria |
2011-12-30 |
1138 |
| Turkish attack on Austria |
2010-11-01 |
932 |
| Turkish fleet captures island of Chios and massacres Christian inhabitants |
2011-12-30 |
1081 |
| Turkish fleet fails to capture Malta |
2010-11-01 |
504 |
| Turkish fleet fails to capture the coast of Zanzibar from the Portuguese |
2011-02-01 |
1318 |
| Turkish fleet surrenders to Mehemet Ali at Alexandria |
2011-12-30 |
1773 |
| Turkish galleys rout Spanish fleet off Tripoli |
2011-02-01 |
1322 |
| Turkish Manifesto rejects allied Note for truce with Greece |
2011-12-30 |
1111 |
| Turkish national pact of Ankara signed |
2011-03-01 |
752 |
| Turkish Sultan agrees to introduce self-government in Crete |
2011-12-30 |
473 |
| Turkish troops massacre Bulgarians |
2011-12-30 |
741 |
| Turkish ultimatum to Greeks to leave Crete |
2011-12-30 |
581 |
| Turkish-Venetian war breaks out |
2011-02-01 |
1116 |
| Turko-Persian war |
2011-04-01 |
992 |
| Turks and Russians complete conquest of Ionian Islands |
2010-03-01 |
1223 |
| Turks appeal to powers to mediate |
2011-12-30 |
242 |
| Turks are defeated at St. Gotthard-on-the Raab by the Holy Roman Empire |
2011-04-01 |
900 |
| Turks bombard Belgrade after Serb rising there |
2011-12-30 |
751 |
| Turks capitulate at Shipka Pass and appeal to Russia for an armistice |
2011-12-30 |
612 |
| Turks declare war against Emperor Leopold I |
2011-04-01 |
970 |
| Turks defeat Emperor's troops at Crocyka |
2011-04-01 |
1410 |
| Turks defeat Greek rebels at Dragasani |
2011-12-30 |
1180 |
| Turks defeat Venetian fleet at Sapienza |
2010-11-01 |
1831 |
| Turks invade Dalmatia and Croatia |
2010-11-01 |
1125 |
| Turks lose Belgrade to the Emperor Leopold I |
2011-04-01 |
1269 |
| Turks reconquer Belgrade and reoccupy Bulgaria |
2011-04-01 |
759 |
| Turks reject Russian ultimatum |
2011-12-30 |
518 |
| Turks renew peace with Emperor Ferdinand III |
2011-02-01 |
1026 |
| Turks repulsed from Suez Canal |
2010-03-01 |
1084 |
| Turks surrender |
2010-02-01 |
673 |
| Turks take Orsova |
2011-04-01 |
1253 |
| Tuscany recalls Grand Duke Leopold |
2011-12-30 |
338 |
| Twelfth Amendment added to American Constitution |
2010-03-01 |
1444 |
| Two Dutch Anabaptists are burnt at Smithfield on Elizabeth's orders |
2011-02-01 |
1734 |
| Two hundred Irish convicts rebel |
2010-03-01 |
607 |
| Two regiments of British troops land in Boston |
2010-03-01 |
1743 |
| Two-way mobile radios |
2010-02-01 |
968 |
| Tzu-hsi, Dowager Empress of China, seizes power and revokes reforms |
2011-12-30 |
602 |
| U.S. acquires French Panama Canal co. property |
2010-03-01 |
1152 |
| U.S. and Turkey sever relations |
2010-03-01 |
428 |
| U.S. approves direct election of senators |
2010-03-01 |
654 |
| U.S. asks Austria to recall her ambassador |
2010-03-01 |
696 |
| U.S. cavalry sent to preserve Rio Grande's neutrality |
2011-03-01 |
1168 |
| U.S. Congress meets in extra-ordinary sessions |
2010-03-01 |
1204 |
| U.S. Congress passes Foraker Act |
2010-03-01 |
2063 |
| U.S. Congressional elections |
2010-03-01 |
468 |
| U.S. denies Germany's claims to sink armed merchantmen |
2010-03-01 |
635 |
| U.S. Departments of State are moved |
2011-03-01 |
721 |
| U.S. excise bill |
2010-03-01 |
960 |
| U.S. force captures York |
2010-03-01 |
1099 |
| U.S. introduces ninety-day embargo |
2010-03-01 |
1835 |
| U.S. marines land at Santiago, Cuba |
2010-03-01 |
721 |
| U.S. marines land in Cuba |
2010-03-01 |
1749 |
| U.S. mission under E. Root arrives in Petrograd |
2010-03-01 |
1041 |
| U.S. note to Britain on use of U.S. flag |
2010-03-01 |
552 |
| U.S. occupy Fort St. George |
2010-03-01 |
1195 |
| U.S. protests against British 'Black List' |
2010-03-01 |
445 |
| U.S. Senate passes Immigration bill |
2010-03-01 |
1063 |
| U.S. Senate resolves to extend Monroe doctrine |
2010-03-01 |
484 |
| U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Venezuela |
2010-03-01 |
704 |
| U.S. special sessions of Congress for war declaration |
2011-03-01 |
189 |
| U.S. steel strike |
2010-03-01 |
832 |
| U.S. Supreme Court declares George W. Bush elected president |
2010-03-01 |
292 |
| U.S. Supreme Court upholds Eugene V. Debs's conviction |
2010-03-01 |
1801 |
| U.S. Telecommuncations market opened up |
2010-03-01 |
596 |
| U.S. troops withdraw from Vera Cruz |
2010-03-01 |
638 |
| U.S. vessel Gulflight sunk by German submarines |
2010-03-01 |
1404 |
| U.S.-Mexican protocol signed at Atlantic City |
2010-03-01 |
454 |
| U.S.S.R. offensive against Poland opens |
2010-03-01 |
1102 |
| Uganda railway completed |
2011-03-01 |
217 |
| Ugo Buoncompagni is elected Pope Gregory XIII |
2011-02-01 |
877 |
| Uhlfeld becomes Chancellor of Austria |
2011-04-01 |
730 |
| Uhlfeld becomes Minister of State in Austria |
2011-04-01 |
778 |
| Uljaitu becomes ruler of Mongol Persia |
2010-03-01 |
1282 |
| Ulm, Nuremberg and Augsburg form a league for religious freedom |
2010-11-01 |
2385 |
| Ulrica, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband |
2011-04-01 |
605 |
| Ulrich Zwingli preaches evangelical sermons that challenge the Catholic church in Switzerland |
2010-03-01 |
2717 |
| Ulrich, Duke of Wurttemburg, attacks the free city of Reutlingen |
2010-11-01 |
850 |
| Ulster Anti-Home Rule demonstrations |
2010-03-01 |
1428 |
| Ulster Unionists appoint provisional government |
2010-03-01 |
837 |
| Ulster Unionists resolution |
2010-03-01 |
848 |
| Ulster's determination to resist Home Rule reaffirmed |
2011-03-01 |
733 |
| Ultra-conservative Jean VilleIe succeeds Richelieu in France |
2011-12-30 |
1162 |
| Ultra-Conservative Prince de Polignac appointed French Prime Minister |
2011-12-30 |
1313 |
| Ultra-Conservatives are defeated by Liberal opposition in French elections |
2011-12-30 |
860 |
| Ulysses Grant's last message to Congress |
2011-12-30 |
916 |
| Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson |
2011-12-30 |
2410 |
| Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry on Tennessee River from Confederates |
2011-12-30 |
2004 |
| Ulysses S. Grant wins US Presidential election |
2011-12-30 |
930 |
| UN Conference on Environment and Development (The Earth Summit) held in Brazil |
2010-02-01 |
1064 |
| Undecided battle of Zorndorf between Prussians and Russians |
2011-12-30 |
1305 |
| Unification of English and Welsh systems of government. |
2005-06-17 |
3440 |
| Union of Clerical and Liberal Parties in Belgium |
2011-12-30 |
562 |
| Union of Connecticut and New Haven |
2011-04-01 |
869 |
| Union of Frankfurt between Prussia, Bavaria, the Palatinate and Hesse |
2011-04-01 |
948 |
| Union of Kalmar |
2010-03-01 |
1046 |
| Union of Krewo: Jagiellonian dynasty established |
2010-03-01 |
1489 |
| Union of Portugal and Spain when Philip II claims the Portuguese crown |
2010-03-01 |
1046 |
| Union of South Africa becomes dominion |
2010-03-01 |
341 |
| Union of South Africa formed |
2010-02-01 |
750 |
| Union of Unions demands parliamentary institutions |
2010-03-01 |
697 |
| Union of Utrecht |
2007-12-02 |
1921 |
| Unionist fleet takes Charleston after long siege |
2011-12-30 |
2133 |
| Unionist reconstruction of House of Lords bill |
2011-03-01 |
443 |
| Unionists besiege New Orleans |
2011-12-30 |
1797 |
| Unionists capture Forts Clark and Hatteras on North Carolina coast |
2011-12-30 |
2609 |
| Unionists take Amelia Island, Florida |
2011-12-30 |
2180 |
| Unionists take Columbia, South Carolina |
2011-12-30 |
1999 |
| Unionists take Roanoke Isle |
2011-12-30 |
2307 |
| United Diet summoned in Prussia by Frederick William IV |
2011-12-30 |
1112 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland proclaimed |
2009-05-01 |
294 |
| United Mine Workers strike |
2010-03-01 |
1608 |
| United Provinces sign a twelve-year alliance with England and France |
2011-02-01 |
971 |
| United Provinces take Bois-le-Duc from the Spanish |
2011-02-01 |
1193 |
| United States "Stop the Draft" week |
2010-02-01 |
1512 |
| United States declares war on Britain |
2006-02-02 |
1441 |
| United States Invades Haiti and the Dominican Republic |
2010-02-01 |
1018 |
| United States leads Japanese economic reconstruction |
2010-02-01 |
494 |
| United States spurns Versailles and League of Nations |
2010-01-01 |
386 |
| UNIVAC I, first mass-produced electronic computer, completed |
2009-05-01 |
819 |
| Universal suffrage in France is abolished |
2011-12-30 |
759 |
| University College, London founded |
2013-08-30 |
922 |
| University of Cambridge founded |
2012-07-31 |
2038 |
| University of Cordoba founded |
2009-05-01 |
840 |
| University of Oxford founded |
2012-07-31 |
3055 |
| Unrest in Brazil |
2010-03-01 |
385 |
| Unsuccessful attempt by Spain to land in Ireland |
2010-03-01 |
1782 |
| Unsuccessful expedition by Charles V against Algeria |
2010-03-01 |
1083 |
| Unsuccessful rising of Prussian royalists in Neuchatel Canton |
2011-12-30 |
1047 |
| Upper and Lower Canada are united |
2010-01-01 |
1244 |
| Uprising in Flanders |
2010-03-01 |
1980 |
| Uprising in Spain against General Espartero; plan to restore monarchy |
2011-03-01 |
820 |
| Uprising of 1953 in East Germany |
2010-02-01 |
477 |
| Uranium atoms split |
2010-02-01 |
501 |
| Uranium radiation explained by Rutherford |
2009-05-01 |
2076 |
| Uranus discovered |
2009-05-01 |
923 |
| Uruguay becomes an independent republic |
2010-01-01 |
444 |
| Uruguay declares war against Argentina |
2011-12-30 |
523 |
| US 14th Amendment extends enfranchisement to black men |
2011-12-30 |
1556 |
| US Civil War ends with surrender of last Confederate army at Shreveport |
2011-12-30 |
2108 |
| US commences underground nuclear testing |
2010-02-01 |
445 |
| US commission appointed to investigate Venezuelan boundary question |
2011-12-30 |
1055 |
| US Commodore James Biddle is refused trading facilities in Japan |
2011-03-01 |
2012 |
| US Congress amends tariff of Jury 1832 |
2011-12-30 |
765 |
| US Congress appoints canal commission to investigate Panama |
2011-12-30 |
849 |
| US Department of Defense introduces Navstar Global Positioning System |
2010-02-01 |
497 |
| US Desert Land bill |
2011-12-30 |
856 |
| US electoral commission decides in favour of the Republican Hayes |
2011-12-30 |
743 |
| US Embargo Act against Britain and France |
2008-02-01 |
4111 |
| US forces capture Manila |
2011-12-30 |
1954 |
| US forces capture Santa Fe |
2011-12-30 |
796 |
| US forces under Zachary Taylor defeat Mexicans at Palo Alto |
2011-12-30 |
953 |
| US Land Act |
2010-02-01 |
2497 |
| US launches first manned flight to orbit moon |
2010-02-01 |
793 |
| US naval victory at Santiago |
2011-12-30 |
2072 |
| US Populist party is organised at St. Louis |
2011-12-30 |
1339 |
| US President James Garfield is shot |
2011-12-20 |
1006 |
| US Senate resolves to end British joint occupation of Oregon |
2011-12-30 |
1053 |
| US slave ship Creole is taken over by slaves |
2011-12-30 |
1777 |
| US Supreme Court declares Bus Segregation Laws illegal |
2010-02-01 |
2593 |
| US takes over Virgin Islands from Denmark |
2010-03-01 |
435 |
| US Tariff Act is passed |
2011-12-30 |
1058 |
| US ultimatum to Spain to relinquish authority in Cuba |
2011-12-30 |
2151 |
| US Voting Rights Act |
2010-02-01 |
2400 |
| US-Cuban Military Aid Pact |
2010-02-01 |
406 |
| US: 22nd Amendment passed |
2010-02-01 |
568 |
| USA annexes New Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
1017 |
| USA demands recall of French troops from Mexico |
2011-12-30 |
770 |
| USA enters the Second World War |
2010-02-01 |
4172 |
| USA invades Puerto Rico |
2011-12-30 |
2292 |
| USA is granted St Juan in dispute with Britain |
2011-12-30 |
934 |
| USA recognises independence of Hawaii |
2011-12-30 |
646 |
| USA recognises independence of Liberia |
2011-12-30 |
646 |
| USA secures trading rights in Korea |
2011-12-30 |
952 |
| USA signs treaty of friendship with Samoa |
2011-12-30 |
1079 |
| USA warns Britain against shifting British Guiana's boundary with Venezuela |
2011-12-30 |
885 |
| USA, Britain and Germany discuss Samoa |
2011-12-30 |
956 |
| USSR and US test Intercontinental ballistic missiles |
2010-02-01 |
339 |
| USSR's ethnic minorities moved en masse to Labour Camps |
2010-02-01 |
1122 |
| Uxbridge Treaty negotiations begin and then fail |
2011-03-01 |
2465 |
| V-A Lagrangian for weak interactions proposed |
2009-05-01 |
417 |
| Valenciennes, hotbed of Calvinist disturbances, surrenders |
2011-02-01 |
2602 |
| Van der Noot drives Democrats from power |
2010-03-01 |
806 |
| Van der Noot starts Revolution |
2010-03-01 |
1397 |
| Van der Waals forces explained |
2009-05-01 |
1096 |
| Van Dyck knighted and granted pension by Charles I |
2008-01-01 |
1805 |
| Vandals Sack Rome |
2005-11-07 |
1551 |
| Vasco de Gama discovers a sea-route from Europe to India via the Cape of Good Hope |
2010-01-01 |
1809 |
| Vauban begins construction of forts in the Netherlands |
2011-04-01 |
1872 |
| Vauban forts constructed in continental Europe |
2005-10-22 |
4415 |
| Vaudois attack Savoy in defence of their Protestant Confession |
2011-02-01 |
1571 |
| Vauxhall Motors |
2018-02-27 |
174 |
| Venetian Constitution amended |
2011-02-01 |
608 |
| Venetians are expelled from the Morea by Turks |
2011-04-01 |
1243 |
| Venetians seize Santa Maura from the Turks |
2010-11-01 |
1239 |
| Venezuela achieves independence |
2010-01-01 |
948 |
| Venezuela becomes independent |
2010-03-01 |
762 |
| Venezuela secedes from Colombia, becoming an independent state |
2011-12-30 |
419 |
| Venezuela, Ecuador and New Granada dissolve Union of Colombia |
2011-12-30 |
543 |
| Venezuelan Republic falls, Francisco de Miranda arrested |
2011-03-01 |
883 |
| Venezulan Revolt against Joseph Bonaparte |
2010-03-01 |
709 |
| Venice at war with the Ottoman Empire |
2010-03-01 |
1030 |
| Venice buys Cyprus |
2010-03-01 |
1355 |
| Venice conquers parts of the Morea and Dalmatia |
2011-04-01 |
1310 |
| Venice invades the Romagna |
2010-11-01 |
836 |
| Venice joins Charles V's league against France |
2010-11-01 |
1616 |
| Venice lose Salonica to the Ottomans |
2010-03-01 |
1567 |
| Venice proposes the construction of a Suez Canal |
2010-11-01 |
1715 |
| Venice recognizes Byzantine rule |
2009-05-01 |
1045 |
| Venice sends an ambassador to Istanbul |
2010-11-01 |
699 |
| Venice signs peace treaty with the Turks |
2010-11-01 |
1638 |
| Venice submits to Austria after long siege |
2011-12-30 |
507 |
| Verisimilitude |
2001-11-01 |
7158 |
| Verrazzano explores New York Bay and Newfoundland |
2001-11-01 |
2253 |
| Vesalius’ De humanis corpora fabrica libri septem revolutionizes medicine |
2009-05-01 |
1276 |
| Viacheslav Plehve made Russian minister of interior |
2010-03-01 |
1203 |
| Viborg Manifesto |
2010-03-01 |
1157 |
| Vicomte Lautrec dies of the plague in Italy |
2010-11-01 |
1349 |
| Vicomte Lautrec lays siege to Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1150 |
| Victor Amadeus II becomes Duke of Savoy |
2011-04-01 |
404 |
| Victor Amadeus XI of Savoy abdicates |
2011-04-01 |
328 |
| Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont abdicates |
2011-12-30 |
774 |
| Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, invades Papal States |
2011-12-30 |
781 |
| Victoria government restricts Chinese immigration |
2011-12-30 |
758 |
| Victorian Electoral Act |
2010-03-01 |
1160 |
| Victory in Europe Day (VE-Day) |
2010-05-01 |
769 |
| Vidukind, Saxon prince, coverts to Christianity |
2009-05-01 |
2051 |
| Vienna Note to solve Eastern Question |
2011-12-30 |
2488 |
| Viet Minh formed |
2010-02-01 |
953 |
| Viking “Great Army” creates kingdom of York |
2011-03-01 |
1416 |
| Viking Siege of Paris |
2009-05-01 |
1044 |
| Vikings establish bases in France |
2009-05-01 |
979 |
| Vikings invade Devon |
2009-05-01 |
1766 |
| Vikings seize Kiev |
2009-05-01 |
1538 |
| Villars and Chauvelin urge a French alliance with Spain against England |
2011-04-01 |
1113 |
| Villeroi bombards Brussels |
2011-04-01 |
1204 |
| Virginia Assembly dissolved |
2010-03-01 |
1055 |
| Virginia becomes a Crown colony |
2011-02-01 |
1155 |
| Virginia Colony founded at Jamestown |
2014-04-02 |
7496 |
| Virginia Companies of London and Plymouth receive royal charters |
2011-02-01 |
1398 |
| Virginia convention instructs proposal of independence |
2010-03-01 |
2108 |
| Virginia proclaims Charles II King |
2011-04-01 |
905 |
| Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister |
2013-08-30 |
2140 |
| Viscount Melbourne becomes Prime Minister for the first time |
2011-03-01 |
2200 |
| Viscount Melbourne becomes Prime Minister for the second time |
2013-08-30 |
1836 |
| Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome |
2005-11-16 |
1028 |
| Visit of Russian Emperor to France |
2011-03-01 |
921 |
| Vitamin D discovered |
2009-05-01 |
691 |
| Vitamins’ existence posited |
2009-05-01 |
844 |
| Vlad the Impaler is King of Romania |
2010-03-01 |
242 |
| Vladimir, prince of Novgorod, converts to Christianity |
2009-05-01 |
1431 |
| Vladislav IV succeeds to the throne of Poland |
2011-02-01 |
1017 |
| Volga-Baltic Canal completed |
2010-02-01 |
714 |
| Volkswagen introduced |
2010-02-01 |
852 |
| Volstead Prohibition Enforcement bill |
2010-03-01 |
246 |
| Voltaire is banished from France |
2011-04-01 |
3216 |
| Von Kray becomes commander of Austrian army |
2011-03-01 |
377 |
| W. F. Massey forms ministry in New Zealand |
2011-03-01 |
364 |
| W. H. Taft commission appointed |
2010-03-01 |
1949 |
| W. H. Taft governor-general of Philippines |
2010-03-01 |
830 |
| W. S. Churchill resigns from British cabinet |
2010-03-01 |
368 |
| Waddington becomes French Prime Minister |
2011-12-30 |
834 |
| Waldensians massacred in southern France |
2010-03-01 |
1605 |
| Wallachia founded |
2009-05-01 |
979 |
| Wallenstein assumes the title of Admiral of the Baltic |
2011-02-01 |
2000 |
| Wallenstein becomes General of the Imperial Forces |
2011-02-01 |
1997 |
| Wallenstein goes into winter quarters in Bohemia |
2011-02-01 |
2273 |
| Wallenstein invades Silesia |
2011-02-01 |
2125 |
| Wallenstein is created Duke of Mecklenburg |
2011-02-01 |
2215 |
| Wallenstein opens peace negotiations with the Elector of Saxony |
2011-02-01 |
1974 |
| Wallenstein raises the siege of Stralsund |
2011-02-01 |
1901 |
| Wallenstein requires lieutenants to sign a declaration of loyalty |
2011-02-01 |
2086 |
| Wallenstein seizes the duchy of Mecklenburg |
2011-02-01 |
1932 |
| Wallenstein takes lands in northern Germany |
2011-02-01 |
1586 |
| Wallingford Castle falls |
2010-02-01 |
2230 |
| Walpole dies |
2011-04-01 |
798 |
| Wannsee Conference |
2010-02-01 |
828 |
| War between Denmark and Sweden breaks out |
2011-04-01 |
303 |
| War between France and Spain in Italy over the partition of Naples |
2010-11-01 |
1753 |
| War between Paraguay and combined Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay ends |
2011-12-30 |
789 |
| War between Spain and France |
2010-03-01 |
2322 |
| War between Sweden and Poland is resumed |
2011-02-01 |
1296 |
| War between the Boers and British in Natal |
2011-12-30 |
1469 |
| War between the Swabian League and the Swiss Cantons flares up in the Rhine. |
2010-11-01 |
1430 |
| War between Turkey and Russia |
2010-03-01 |
782 |
| War breaks out between England and Holland |
2011-04-01 |
1854 |
| War is averted between France and Germany |
2011-12-30 |
1038 |
| War of Devolution in the Spanish Netherlands |
2011-04-01 |
1207 |
| War of Emboabas in Brazil between Portuguese and Paulistas |
2011-04-01 |
1608 |
| War of Mascates between Portuguese and Brazilian Indians begins |
2011-04-01 |
1276 |
| War of Second Coalition begins |
2010-02-01 |
2508 |
| War of Succession between Bahadur's four sons in India |
2011-04-01 |
1192 |
| War of succession between Bavaria and the Palatinate |
2010-11-01 |
1595 |
| War of the Axe |
2010-02-01 |
1900 |
| War of the Bavarian Succession |
2010-03-01 |
644 |
| War of the First Coalition |
2011-03-01 |
2176 |
| War of the German Knights against the bishoprics begins |
2010-11-01 |
767 |
| War of the Pacific |
2010-02-01 |
1040 |
| War of Third Coalition begins |
2010-02-01 |
2490 |
| War over the Italian duchies is averted by the Treaty of Vienna |
2011-04-01 |
1008 |
| War resumes between Turkey and Persia |
2011-04-01 |
924 |
| Warehousing of Goods Act |
2011-12-30 |
1199 |
| Warning to Italian ambassador in Vienna |
2010-03-01 |
397 |
| Warren G. Harding elected President of U.S. |
2010-03-01 |
882 |
| Warren Hastings is acquitted |
2007-12-02 |
2072 |
| Wars of the League |
2010-03-01 |
2209 |
| Warsaw Massacre by Russian troops |
2011-12-30 |
1033 |
| Warsaw Pact countries invade Czechoslovakia to stamp out the "Prague Spring" |
2010-02-01 |
3691 |
| Washington’s army encamped at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania |
2010-02-01 |
2707 |
| Watergate scandal |
2010-03-01 |
875 |
| Waterproof fabric invented by Charles Macintosh |
2010-02-01 |
1932 |
| Weak equivalence principle tested |
2009-05-01 |
929 |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
2010-02-01 |
1514 |
| Welfare Bill: Old age pensions and disability insurance |
2011-03-01 |
892 |
| Wellesley defeats French under Soult |
2010-03-01 |
2018 |
| Wellesley defeats Sindhia at Assaye |
2011-03-01 |
1114 |
| Wellesley lands at Lisbon |
2011-03-01 |
494 |
| Wellesley resigns as foreign secretary |
2010-03-01 |
1461 |
| Wellington becomes the capital of New Zealand |
2010-01-01 |
961 |
| Wellington defeats French under Soult |
2010-03-01 |
1862 |
| Welsh Church Disestablishment bill passes Commons |
2011-03-01 |
1461 |
| Welsh Education Report |
2013-08-30 |
1016 |
| Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth |
2009-05-01 |
2143 |
| Welsh revolt |
2013-03-28 |
1507 |
| Welsh revolt |
2013-03-28 |
1495 |
| Wessel studies complex numbers |
2009-05-01 |
794 |
| Wessex battles the Vikings; Danes occupy part of England |
2009-05-01 |
2036 |
| Western Australia granted representative government |
2011-12-30 |
1062 |
| Western Design |
2010-02-01 |
1046 |
| Western Front stabilized |
2010-02-01 |
1015 |
| Westminster parliament adopts the Presbyterian solemn league and covenant |
2006-02-02 |
4683 |
| Westminster riots in favour of Wilkes |
2010-03-01 |
2548 |
| Wexford is sacked |
2011-03-01 |
1911 |
| Whig leader, Lord John Russell, converts to free trade |
2011-12-30 |
667 |
| Whig Lord Somers is appointed Lord Keeper |
2011-04-01 |
715 |
| Whig party split over Parliamentary reform |
2010-03-01 |
1721 |
| Whig Reform Bill defeated |
2010-03-01 |
1806 |
| While engaged on an expedition against China, Timur dies |
2010-03-01 |
1033 |
| Whiskey Rebellion |
2010-03-01 |
1122 |
| Whitbread, Samuel |
2004-11-02 |
2411 |
| Whitbread, Samuel |
2004-11-02 |
3598 |
| White Australia policy |
2010-03-01 |
949 |
| White Slavery |
2010-03-01 |
1246 |
| White Supremacists win election in South Africa |
2010-02-01 |
1015 |
| White Terror in Southern France |
2010-03-01 |
1954 |
| Whiteboys societies founded in Ireland |
2011-12-30 |
1208 |
| WiIIiam II becomes Stadtholder in Holland |
2011-02-01 |
502 |
| Wilfred Laurier forms Liberal ministry in Canada |
2011-12-30 |
598 |
| WilIiam Huskisson enters British Cabinet as President of Board of Trade |
2011-12-30 |
882 |
| Wilkes expelled from Commons for seditious libel |
2010-03-01 |
2243 |
| Wilkes expelled from Parliament |
2010-03-01 |
1663 |
| William and Mary recognise old charters of the English colonies |
2011-04-01 |
1786 |
| William Barents, Dutch explorer, dies while attempting to find a passage to China |
2010-01-01 |
2420 |
| William Bradford becomes Governor of Plymouth Colony |
2011-02-01 |
900 |
| William Byrd founds Richmond, Virginia |
2011-04-01 |
894 |
| William Clifford suggests that the motion of matter may be due to changes in the geometry of space |
2013-08-30 |
2518 |
| William Dampier lands on west coast of Australia |
2010-02-01 |
1883 |
| William Gladstone is elected MP for Greenwich |
2011-12-30 |
1596 |
| William Hamilton discovers the calculus of quaternions |
2009-05-01 |
2011 |
| William Harvey explains blood circulation system |
2009-05-01 |
872 |
| William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan |
2010-03-01 |
668 |
| William Hughes becomes premier of Australia |
2010-03-01 |
659 |
| William Huskisson killed by train at opening of Liverpool-Manchester Railway |
2011-12-30 |
1155 |
| William Huskisson resigns as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies |
2011-12-30 |
782 |
| William I of Holland abdicates in favour of his son |
2011-12-30 |
850 |
| William II and Nicholas II sign treaty of Bjorko |
2010-03-01 |
719 |
| William II becomes Emperor of Germany |
2011-12-30 |
414 |
| William II dismisses Count Friedrich Holstein |
2010-03-01 |
789 |
| William II of Germany visits Palestine and Syria |
2011-12-30 |
271 |
| William II of Holland appoints committee to revise Constitution |
2011-12-30 |
156 |
| William II speaks on Germany |
2010-03-01 |
839 |
| William II tries to persuade Britain to join Triple Alliance |
2011-12-30 |
484 |
| William II visits England for Victoria's last days |
2013-08-30 |
901 |
| William II's Tangier visit triggers first Moroccan crisis |
2010-03-01 |
1287 |
| William III announces Sir John Fenwick's plot to assassinate him |
2011-04-01 |
817 |
| William III fails to take Limerick |
2011-04-01 |
1356 |
| William III is defeated at Neerwinden |
2011-04-01 |
1803 |
| William III is defeated at Steinkirke |
2011-04-01 |
1976 |
| William III is forced to dismiss Somers as Lord Chancellor |
2011-04-01 |
656 |
| William III is in Holland campaigning against the French |
2011-04-01 |
1816 |
| William III leaves for Holland |
2011-04-01 |
1292 |
| William III leaves for Ireland |
2011-04-01 |
1872 |
| William III reconciles with his sister-in-law Anne |
2011-04-01 |
864 |
| William III remodels his ministry by replacing Tories with a Whig Junta |
2011-04-01 |
1295 |
| William III restored to power in the Netherlands |
2011-03-01 |
790 |
| William III returns to England |
2011-04-01 |
1128 |
| William III serves with the army in Holland |
2011-04-01 |
941 |
| William III takes Namur |
2011-04-01 |
1157 |
| William III vetoes a bill for a landed property qualification for MPs |
2011-04-01 |
1874 |
| William III vetoes bills to reform Parliament |
2011-04-01 |
1331 |
| William III visits Holland to plan the defeat of France |
2011-04-01 |
1724 |
| William III's lavish grants to his followers are attacked in Parliament |
2011-04-01 |
796 |
| William III's third Parliament is staunchly Whig |
2011-04-01 |
1304 |
| William IV |
2013-08-30 |
2105 |
| William IV forces Grey to resign over Reform Bill |
2011-12-30 |
999 |
| William IV of Orange-Nassau is elected hereditary Stadtholder of Holland |
2011-04-01 |
626 |
| William Jansz leads Dutch expedition to explore the coast of Cape York |
2010-01-01 |
1599 |
| William Juxon is elected Bishop of London |
2011-02-01 |
1841 |
| William Laud appointed Archbishop of Canterbury |
2010-01-01 |
1673 |
| William Laud is appointed Bishop of London |
2011-02-01 |
1400 |
| William Laud is elected President of St John's College Oxford |
2011-02-01 |
754 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie is arrested in USA |
2011-12-30 |
877 |
| William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan |
2010-03-01 |
1845 |
| William O'Brien and John Dillon call on Irish tenants to organise themselves |
2011-12-30 |
1084 |
| William of Cleves, a Lutheran, succeeds to the duchy of Gelders |
2010-11-01 |
2060 |
| William of Normandy invades Wales |
2013-03-28 |
1229 |
| William of Orange accepts the invitation to England |
2011-04-01 |
802 |
| William of Orange accepts the sovereignty of the northern Netherlands |
2011-02-01 |
600 |
| William of Orange calls Congress to Ghent to discuss peace |
2011-02-01 |
805 |
| William of Orange captures Bonn |
2011-04-01 |
877 |
| William of Orange captures Naarden |
2011-04-01 |
255 |
| William of Orange declared an outlaw |
2011-02-01 |
478 |
| William of Orange endorses the 'Beggars of the Sea' |
2011-02-01 |
1419 |
| William of Orange enters Brussels |
2011-02-01 |
1000 |
| William of Orange enters London |
2011-04-01 |
1176 |
| William of Orange invades Gelderland from Germany |
2011-02-01 |
1184 |
| William of Orange is assassinated on Philip II's orders |
2011-02-01 |
764 |
| William of Orange is defeated at Cassel by the Duke of Orleans |
2011-04-01 |
693 |
| William of Orange is elected Stadtholder |
2011-02-01 |
667 |
| William of Orange is forced to raise the siege of Charleroi |
2011-04-01 |
1122 |
| William of Orange lands at Torbay |
2010-02-01 |
2560 |
| William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon |
2011-02-01 |
242 |
| William of Orange marries Princess Mary of England |
2011-04-01 |
796 |
| William of Orange raises the siege of Leyden |
2011-02-01 |
792 |
| William of Orange signs a defensive alliance with Denmark |
2011-04-01 |
819 |
| William of Orange summons the Estates of Holland and Zeeland |
2011-02-01 |
652 |
| William of Orange takes Grave, but is unable to invade France |
2011-04-01 |
774 |
| William of Orange's defeat of the Spanish sparks the Dutch Revolt |
2011-02-01 |
1512 |
| William Paulet becomes Lord Treasurer of England |
2010-11-01 |
1199 |
| William Penn buys land from Indians |
2010-03-01 |
2905 |
| William Pitt becomes Paymaster-General for the forces |
2011-04-01 |
980 |
| William Pitt introduces Income Tax |
2010-02-01 |
1575 |
| William Pitt joins the opposition to Robert Walpole |
2011-04-01 |
1207 |
| William Pitt sets up a sinking fund |
2010-02-01 |
1643 |
| William Pitt's "Reign of Terror" |
2010-02-01 |
3873 |
| William Pitt's India Act |
2010-01-01 |
2844 |
| William Pitt's Triple Assessment |
|
862 |
| William Prynne is tried for libelling Queen Henrietta Maria |
2011-02-01 |
2109 |
| William Prynne loses both his ears as punishment for libel |
2011-02-01 |
2203 |
| William Russell is beheaded for his part in plotting against the King |
2011-04-01 |
639 |
| William Sherman marches Unionist army through Georgia |
2011-12-30 |
1930 |
| William Turner pains Rain, Steam and Speed |
2013-08-30 |
2853 |
| William V, Elector of Bavaria abdicates in favour of his son Maximilian I |
2011-02-01 |
328 |
| William Walker lectures on 'Australian Literature' |
2010-03-01 |
457 |
| William Warham is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury |
2010-11-01 |
1885 |
| William Wilberforce sets up his Proclamation Society |
2010-02-01 |
1968 |
| William, Lord Dacre, is acquitted of treason |
2010-11-01 |
1900 |
| William, Prince of Denmark, recognised as King of Greece |
2011-12-30 |
413 |
| Wilson refuses to reopen negotiations with Germany |
2010-03-01 |
219 |
| Wilson-Gorman tariff |
2011-12-30 |
1337 |
| Wilson's Fourteen Points announced |
2010-02-01 |
547 |
| Wit |
2001-11-01 |
5668 |
| Witchcraft Craze in East Anglia |
2005-05-26 |
1586 |
| Wolfenbüttel surrenders to the imperialists |
2011-02-01 |
491 |
| Wolfgang Kapp attempts pro-monarchist coup d'état |
2010-03-01 |
585 |
| Wolsey signs a Peace with France |
2010-11-01 |
1231 |
| Women and children prisoners at Cawnpore are brutally murdered |
2011-12-30 |
951 |
| Women permitted to compete in Olympics |
2010-02-01 |
2054 |
| Woodrow Wilson orders arming of U.S. merchant ships |
2010-03-01 |
979 |
| Woodrow Wilson re-nominated Democratic presidential candidate |
2011-03-01 |
1101 |
| Woodrow Wilson vetoes Knox peace resolution |
2010-03-01 |
736 |
| Woodrow Wilson wins U.S. presidential election |
2010-03-01 |
982 |
| Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, re-elected U.S. president |
2010-03-01 |
906 |
| Woodrow Wilson's peace note |
2010-03-01 |
2182 |
| Work begins on the Grand Mosque of Damascus (the Umayyad Mosque) |
2009-05-01 |
1132 |
| Workers in St. Petersburg form first Soviet |
2010-03-01 |
879 |
| Working Men's Party founded in New York |
2011-12-30 |
1247 |
| World Health Organization founded |
2010-02-01 |
536 |
| World map names America after Amerigo Vespucci |
2010-03-01 |
949 |
| World's largest oil field discovered |
2010-02-01 |
777 |
| Wreck of the White Ship |
2012-07-31 |
1112 |
| Writs are issued for a Parliament in England |
2010-11-01 |
1509 |
| Wullenwever, Burgomaster of Lubeck, is executed |
2010-11-01 |
891 |
| Wurttemberg and Franconia are reconquered by imperialists |
2011-02-01 |
677 |
| Württemberg given constitution |
2010-03-01 |
993 |
| Wurzburg falls to Gustavus II |
2011-02-01 |
870 |
| Wyatt is tried and executed |
2010-11-01 |
1294 |
| Wyoming massacre |
2010-03-01 |
2989 |
| X-ray background formally discovered |
2009-05-01 |
768 |
| Yakub the Amir of Afghanistan abdicates and surrenders to Britain |
2011-12-30 |
901 |
| Yom Kippur War |
2010-02-01 |
990 |
| York Conference into the conduct of Mary Queen of Scots opens |
2011-02-01 |
4411 |
| Yorkshire petition presented at Westminster |
2010-03-01 |
1129 |
| Yoshimasa becomes the eighth shogun of Japan |
2010-03-01 |
231 |
| Yoshimitsu constructs the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto |
2010-03-01 |
273 |
| Yoshimune becomes Shogun of Japan |
2011-04-01 |
266 |
| Young Ireland insurrection |
2010-02-01 |
1611 |
| Young Men's Christian Association founded |
2013-08-30 |
1094 |
| Young Turks depose Sultan Abdul Hamid |
2010-03-01 |
813 |
| Young Turks formed |
2010-02-01 |
933 |
| Young Turks under Niazi Bey stage revolt at Resina |
2010-03-01 |
626 |
| Yugoslavian dictatorship established |
2010-02-01 |
762 |
| Zabern incident embitters Franco-German relations |
2010-03-01 |
548 |
| Zambia created |
2010-03-01 |
432 |
| Zeebrugge raid blocks entrance to Bruges Canal |
2010-03-01 |
835 |
| Zeeland falls to the Dutch rebels |
2011-02-01 |
1522 |
| Zemski Sobor elect Tsar Michael Romanov |
2010-02-01 |
1268 |
| Zemstvo Congress demands republican constitution |
2010-03-01 |
536 |
| Zemstvo Law in Russia establishing provincial councils |
2011-12-30 |
523 |
| Zeugma |
2001-11-01 |
15553 |
| Zheng He, the Chinese Admiral, begins his seven voyages in the Indian Ocean |
2010-03-01 |
3266 |
| Zimba War |
2010-03-01 |
1082 |
| Zoot Suit Riots |
2010-03-01 |
951 |
| Zulu War |
2008-01-25 |
1669 |
| Zululand is annexed to Natal |
2011-12-30 |
1280 |
| Zurich declares war on the Swiss Catholic Forest Cantons |
2010-11-01 |
1340 |
| Zurich is forced to confirm the terms of the Peace of Kappel |
2010-11-01 |
834 |
| Zurich's plans for a centralised Swiss State is rejected |
2011-04-01 |
286 |
| Zutphen falls to Maurice and William Lewis of Nassau |
2011-02-01 |
412 |
| Zwingli's Confession is presented to Charles V |
2010-11-01 |
1666 |
