727 results for “World War” — type: events (178 ms)
A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Abd el-Krim ends surrenders to the French, bringing an end to the Rif War.
Conclusion of the American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galvest�
Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.
Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.
The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Eighty Years' War.
Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.
Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
American Civil War: The first Union infantry assault of the Siege of Port Hudson occurs.
Giuseppe Garibaldi begins the Siege of Palermo, part of the wars of Italian unification.
War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
A Gaelic Irish army successfully ambushes an English force in the battle of Clontibret during the Nine Years' War.
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
English Civil War: Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.