727 results for “World War” — type: events (181 ms)
War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
The Third Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks.
Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.