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Historic Events A-Z

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Last updated: February 3, 2023
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"an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America"
American Revolution
" a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states"
Balkan Wars
"a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign---in the
United States to abolish legalized institutional racial
segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout
the United States"
Civil Rights Movement
"air raid --- by the United States on the Japanese capital
Tokyo and other places on Honshu"
Doolittle Raid
"a major stratovolcano in southern Italy---which was one
of the deadliest in European history"
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
"a brief military conflict fought between El Salvador and Honduras"
Football War
"a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking
areas in Central Europe"
Great Peasants' War
" at the time the costliest tropical cyclone on record and
is now tied with 2017's Hurricane Harvey"
Hurricane Katrina
"was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence
and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State"
Irish Civil War
"With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equaled
the average flow rate of the Mississippi River,
the flood killed 2,209 people
and accounted for US$17,000,000 in damage"
Johnstown Flood
"War---fought between North Korea and South Korea"
Korean War
"an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012"
London Summer Olympics 2012
"a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573"
Muromachi period
"Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history"
Normandy landings
"was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of
Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian
Revolution of 1917–1923"
October Revolution
"was the change of political borders and
the division of other assets that accompanied
the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia
and the creation of two independent dominions
India and Pakistan"
The Partition
"an armed conflict---between the occupying colonialists of Spain
and the-- Rifians people"
Rif War
"the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang"
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
"war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature"
Trojan War
"The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories"
United States' Civil War
"the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end"
Victory over Japan Day
"an armed conflict from 2001 to 2021"
War in Afghanistan
"was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States"
Yalta Conference
"led to the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab government by the island's majority Black African population."
Zanzibar Revolution
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