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'Act of Satisfaction' for distribution of forfeited lands in Ireland 2011-04-01 12112
'Animal electricity' discovered 2009-05-01 12017
'Big Brother' movement 2010-03-01 11665
'Big Sword' society broken by Chinese authorities 2010-02-01 13362
'Black List' of firms in neutral countries issued 2010-03-01 11558
'Bloody Sunday' at Socialist meeting in Trafalgar Square 2011-12-30 9392
'Bloody Week' in Paris ends with defeat of the Commune 2011-12-30 9508
'British' Bechuanaland is annexed to Cape Colony 2011-12-30 10412
'Chambers of Reunion' meet at Metz, Breisach, Besançon and Tournai 2011-04-01 11078
'Darnel's case' sees five imprisoned Englishmen plead for release 2011-02-01 11317
'Defenestration of Prague' starts the Thirty Years War 2011-02-01 11448
'Dirty Wars' commence in Argentina 2010-02-01 9414
'English Armada:' Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norris undertake an expedition to Portugal 2011-02-01 11144
'Four Bills' are presented to King by Parliament but rejected 2011-04-01 9831
'Gang of Four' denounced and arrested 2010-02-01 10986
'Jenkins' Ear' debate in Parliament urging war on Spain 2011-04-01 8882
'June Days' in France, where thousands of Paris workmen are killed 2011-12-30 7723
'Lichfield House Compact' allies Daniel O'Connell with Whig opposition 2011-12-30 2384
'Little Entente' formed 2010-03-01 2614
'Mad Mullah' raids on British and Italian Somaliland 2011-12-30 1487
'March of the Blanketeers' 2010-03-01 2367
'Ministry of all the Talents' falls 2010-03-01 2349
'Perpetual' Alliance between Prussia and Sweden 2011-04-01 1763
'Reform Banquets' in France 2010-02-01 2795
'Reign of Terror' in Russia under Ivan IV 2010-03-01 1588
'Root and Branch' petition to abolish Episcopacy 2011-02-01 4339
'September Laws' in France impose press censorship 2011-12-30 3383
'Tariff of Abominations' attempts to make USA economically self-sufficient 2011-12-30 1967
'The Directors' of the Bernardine Army swear fidelity to France 2011-02-01 1895
'The Main Plot' to replace James I with Arabella Stuart is discovered 2011-02-01 2245
'Time of the Troubles' begins in Russia 2011-02-01 2199
'Velvet Divorce' 2010-02-01 2539
'War of a Thousand Days' 2010-02-01 2222
'White boys' revolt in Ireland 2010-03-01 2058
’Dirty snowball’ model of the cometary nucleus outlined 2009-05-01 1998
"Morley-Minto" Reforms 2010-02-01 5563
“Chronicle of 754” (or Continuatio Hispana) composed 2009-05-01 6572
“Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms” period in China 2009-05-01 4790
“The Directory” -- New French Constitution 2007-12-02 3797
“The Mohocks” terrorise streets of London 2006-12-02 2348
A History of Bornu written by Sheikh Masfarma ben Uthman 2010-03-01 1488
Australian Magazine 2010-03-01 1771
Canton Register 2010-02-01 3215
Daily Mail 2011-03-01 1669
Daily Telegraph first published 2013-08-30 3716
El Diario de Mexico 2057
Freedom's Journal published 2010-03-01 2467
Malleus Maleficarum is published in Rome 2010-03-01 2356
Mappa Mundi at Hereford 2010-03-01 1662
Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun completed 2010-03-01 2137
Pi computed to 100 decimal places 2009-05-01 1756
Sati (or Suttee) abolished in India 2010-02-01 3067
South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register 2010-03-01 1597
The Classic of Tea is written by Chinese writer Lu Yu 2009-05-01 3179
The Fundamentals published 2010-03-01 1975
The Story of the Bamboo Gatherer, earliest Japanese prose narrative 2009-05-01 2237
120 colonists set off to Virginia under Captain Christopher Newport 2011-02-01 2663
139 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled by order of the King 2011-04-01 2357
1552 Prayer Book rejected 2010-11-01 3643
17th Amendment to U.S. constitution 2011-03-01 1888
2.2 micron sky survey with a 1.6-metre telescope on Mount Wilson 2009-05-01 1667
20 000 Salzburg Protestants settle in East Prussia 2011-04-01 1766
31-foot radio telescope built 2011-03-01 1682
4,000 English troops arrive in France to aid Henry of Navarre 2011-02-01 3109
8500 British troops join Ferdinand of Brunswick 2011-12-30 3108
90 000 miners in the Ruhr strike 2010-02-01 2278
A 'Communist state' is established by the Anabaptists at Munster 2010-11-01 2524
A Boston crowd mobs William Lloyd Garrison 2010-03-01 1909
A bride is sought for Charles, Prince of Wales 2011-02-01 1117
A Catholic League of German princes is formed at Munich 2011-02-01 2113
A Charter is granted to Rhode Island 2011-04-01 1576
A Charter unites Providence, Rhode Island, with Newport and Portsmouth 2011-02-01 1385
A chartered imperial company for East Indies trade is proposed 2011-04-01 1878
A combined Spanish and French force storms Barcelona 2011-04-01 2737
A Constitution is granted in Hesse-Cassel 2011-12-30 1420
A coup d'état in Spain overthrows the Queen Mother 2011-04-01 1264
A crisis in the wool trade leads to riots in Kent 2010-11-01 2821
A Danish settlement is made on the Gold Coast 2011-04-01 1375
A Danish-Swedish army defeats the troops of Lubeck at Battle of Assens 2010-11-01 2173
A Dauphin of France is born 2010-11-01 1503
A defensive alliance is signed between Brandenburg and France 2011-04-01 1440
A defensive league of Italian powers is formed 2010-11-01 1634
A demarcation line between East and West New Jersey is settled 2011-04-01 1258
A drastic Irish Crimes Act is passed 2011-12-30 2069
A force of Italians and Spaniards lands in Ireland to aid the rebels 2011-02-01 1759
A Foreign Ministry is established in Prussia 2011-04-01 1183
A fort and settlement is founded at Detroit 2011-04-01 1317
A Franco-Russian commercial treaty is signed 2011-02-01 1692
A French army begins the conquest of Artois from the Spanish 2011-02-01 2099
A French army enters the Palatinate 2011-02-01 2389
A French army forces the imperialists to raise the siege of Heidelberg 2011-02-01 2932
A French army is sent to aid Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange 2011-02-01 1840
A French army tries to rescue the Pope 2010-11-01 2125
A French army under the Duke of Anjou enters Cambrai 2011-02-01 2693
A French army with Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar defeats the Bavarians 2011-02-01 2266
A French Embassy is sent to Siam 2011-04-01 1336
A French factory is founded in Siam 2011-04-01 1661
A French fleet sinks the Mary Rose 2010-11-01 2538
A French force lands on the Isle of Wight 2010-11-01 2546
A French loan is floated to finance Trans-Siberian railway 2011-12-30 2209
A fresh war between Persia and Turkey breaks out 2011-02-01 1589
A General Assembly of Presbyterian ministers meets in defiance of James VI 2011-02-01 2387
A general council meets of dissident ecclesiastics hostile to Julius II 2010-11-01 1896
A German Parliament is summoned by Frederick William IV of Prussia 2011-12-30 1377
A great Danish Viking army invades East Anglia 2009-05-01 2298
A joint expedition from German states is made against Munster 2010-11-01 2597
A joint Spanish-Italian expedition against Algiers fails 2011-02-01 1623
A list of heretical books including Tyndale's Bible is drawn up in London 2010-11-01 3705
A marriage treaty is signed between Anjou and Elizabeth I but peters out 2011-02-01 1849
A marriage treaty is signed between Mary I and Philip of Spain 2010-11-01 3136
A new charter is granted to the old East India Company 2011-04-01 1828
A new Senate and Chamber are elected in France 2011-12-30 1339
A new Turkish fleet sets off to complete the capture of Cyprus 2011-02-01 1626
A peace conference opens at Cologne 2011-04-01 1376
A peasants' revolt in Austria is suppressed with great cruelty 2010-11-01 1849
A plot to assassinate Maurice Prince of Orange is discovered 2011-02-01 1563
A poor rate is levied in the city of London 2010-11-01 2202
A protest against the Diet's decisions creates the word 'Protestant' 2010-11-01 2135
A Protestant Union of German princes is formed at Anhausen 2011-02-01 2063
A Prussian bill for religious education is withdrawn after angry debate 2011-12-30 1481
A ravaging Franco-Turkish fleet provokes a rebellion in Corsica 2010-11-01 2368
A rebellion breaks out in Naples 2010-11-01 1724
A religious disputation held at Worms is the final effort at conciliation 2011-02-01 2373
A revolt of peasants is suppressed in Barcelona 2010-11-01 1450
A rival to the Swabian League is formed 2010-11-01 1816
A Royalist conspiracy is discovered in England 2011-04-01 2223
A Russian army reaches the Rhine 2011-04-01 2013
A Scottish colony is established in the Darien Isthmus 2011-04-01 1404
A second revolution in Naples 2011-04-01 1658
A Secretary of State for Scotland is appointed 2011-12-30 1246
A Spanish army from Catalonia invades Languedoc 2011-02-01 2235
A Spanish fleet is defeated by the Dutch off Enckhuysen 2011-02-01 1861
A Spanish force crosses the Pyrenees to threaten Bayonne 2010-11-01 1903
A Spanish force lands in Brittany to join forces with the League 2011-02-01 2713
A Spanish force recaptures Bonn from John Casimir 2011-02-01 1622
A statue of the Virgin Mary is defaced in Paris 2010-11-01 2423
A Swedish army defeats Archduke Leopold William near Chemnitz 2011-02-01 2124
A Swedish army takes Regensburg from Maximilian of Bavaria 2011-02-01 1957
A truce in the French War is signed at Marigny 2011-02-01 3136
A truce is signed at Vaucelles between Henry II and Philip II 2011-02-01 5939
A truce is signed between England and the Netherlands 2010-11-01 1713
A Turkish fleet fails to take Corfu 2010-11-01 1581
A Union of England and Scotland is suggested 2010-11-01 1563
Abbas I accedes as Shah of Persia 2011-02-01 1040
Abbas I, Viceroy of Egypt, is murdered 2011-12-30 1305
Abbas II deposed 2010-03-01 1350
Abbas Khedive of Egypt dismisses pro-British ministers 2011-12-30 1147
Abbas the Great of Persia takes Tabriz from the Turks 2011-02-01 1445
Abd-al-Rahman becomes emir of Cordoba 2009-05-01 2069
Abdication of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 2007-12-02 2448
Abdication of Charles X 2011-12-30 1607
Abdication of Milosh in Serbia 2011-12-30 1354
Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand 2010-01-01 3801
Abjection 2011-04-01 3584
Abolition of British secretaryship in colonies 2010-03-01 1947
Abolition of British window-tax 2011-12-30 1983
Abolition of serfdom in Austria 2011-12-30 1313
Abolition of slave trade in the British Empire; prohibition of slave imports to USA 2010-02-01 5431
Abolition of stamp duty on newspapers in Britain 2011-12-30 2148
Abolition of the Office of Statholder in Norway 2011-12-30 1939
Abortive Fenian risings in Ireland 2011-12-30 2234
Abortive French attempt to invade Ireland 2007-12-02 3711
Abortive London naval conference of the powers 2011-03-01 1882
Abraham Darby uses coke to make cast iron 2005-10-28 5032
Abraham Lincoln accepts the Republican nomination for US Senate 2010-03-01 2100
Abraham Lincoln is elected president 2010-03-01 1757
Absolute zero point of temperature discovered by Lord Kelvin 2013-08-30 4535
Abu Muslim unites the Abbasids against the Umayyads 2009-05-01 2166
Accession of Abdul Hamid I 2011-03-01 1464
Accession of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony 2011-04-01 1074
Accession of Christian II of Saxony 2011-02-01 1217
Accession of Ferdinand II of Naples 2011-12-30 1489
Accession of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway 2011-02-01 1270
Accession of Hussain, Shah of Persia 2011-04-01 1208
Accession of Ivan IV (The Terrible) of Russia 2010-11-01 1436
Accession of Oscar I in Sweden 2011-12-30 1276
Accession of Queen Christina of Sweden 2011-02-01 1444
Accession of Shah Abbas II 2011-02-01 1223
Accession of Shih Tsung begins the Yung Cheng dynasty 2011-04-01 1246
Accession of the Emperor Rudolf II 2011-02-01 1621
Accession of William V, Duke of Bavaria 2011-02-01 1326
Act against Administering Unlawful Oaths 2007-12-02 7331
Act for relief of poor 2005-05-18 5432
Act for the attainder of the Pretender against 'James III' 2011-04-01 2098
Act in Restraint of Appeals 2005-06-17 4939
Act limiting working hours for children 2011-12-30 1718
Act of Abjuration of the Pretender 2011-04-01 1972
Act of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford 2011-03-01 2383
Act of Grace is passed in England 2011-04-01 2246
Act of Parliament regulates children's and women's working conditions 2011-12-30 1603
Act of Parliament removes disabilities of Jews 2011-12-30 2004
Act of Security to protect the Presbyterian Church of Scotland 2011-04-01 2244
Act of Settlement designates Hanoverian heirs to British throne 2011-04-01 2516
Act of Settlement of the Poor 2005-05-18 4242
Act of Supremacy 2005-06-17 8209
Act of Toleration 2007-09-10 11844
Act of Uniformity 2005-02-16 9438
Act of Uniformity 2 2010-03-01 3558
Act of Union between Norway and Denmark 2011-03-01 1826
Act of Unity and Security 2010-03-01 1178
Act passed to expand the German navy 2010-01-01 1454
Act suspending Habeas Corpus repealed 2010-03-01 1928
Act to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia 2010-03-01 1118
Acton, Lord 2002-04-23 11471
Acts against unlawful assemblies and destruction of enclosures 2010-11-01 2067
Acts of Succession 2005-06-17 2970
Acute financial and commercial crisis in Britain 2013-08-30 1993
Adam Duncan defeats Dutch off Camperdown 2010-03-01 2205
Adams defeats Jefferson in presidential elections 2011-03-01 2376
Adamson Eight-Hour Act 2010-03-01 2025
Additional Force Act 2010-02-01 2218
Additional galaxies discovered 2010-02-01 1696
Additional Petition and Advice enhances power of Parliament 2011-04-01 1487
Administrative reorganisation of Bengal 2011-04-01 1871
Administrative Senate formed to rule while Peter the Great is absent 2011-04-01 1271
Admiral Alexander Koltchak defeated at Krasnoyarsk 2010-03-01 1614
Admiral Byng defeats Spain off Cape Passaro 2011-04-01 2288
Admiral Byng is shot for neglect of duty 2011-12-30 1594
Admiral Hosier blockades Porto Bello 2011-04-01 2387
Admiral Rodney defeats Spanish 2010-03-01 1803
Admiral Vernon captures Porto Bello 2011-04-01 2355
Adolphe Thiers demands a wider franchise 2011-12-30 1356
Adolphe Thiers forced to resign 2011-12-30 1780
Adolphe Thiers forms second ministry in France 2011-12-30 1734
Adolphe Thiers is forced to resign in France 2011-12-30 1967
Adolphus Frederick, Swedish heir, marries Frederick the Great's daughter 2011-04-01 1454
Adrian of Utrecht, Regent of Spain, is elected Pope Adrian VI 2010-11-01 2752
Advances in the study of trade winds, monsoons and solar heating 2009-05-01 2243
Aestheticism 2001-11-01 15353
Afghan troops massacre the British legation at Kabul 2011-12-30 1691
Afghan War ends with British proclamation of victory 2011-12-30 1996
Afghani independence granted 2010-02-01 1738
Afghanistan becomes independent of Persia 2011-04-01 1142
Afghans defeat Mahrattas at Paniput 2011-12-30 2197
African kingdom of Ghana established 2009-05-01 1829
African National Congress formed 2010-02-01 1672
Aga Khan founds All India Muslim League 2010-03-01 1742
Age of Earth estimated 2009-05-01 2654
Agenor Goluchowski becomes Austrian foreign secretary 2011-12-30 1206
Agitation grows in England against harsh ecclesiastical sentences 2011-02-01 1896
Agostino Depretis forms ministry of the Left in Italy 2011-12-30 1575
Agrarian rising in Romania 2011-12-30 1266
Agreement of Plombieres 2010-02-01 3488
Agricultural and industrial depression in France 2011-12-30 1062
Agricultural crisis 2004-08-19 6284
Agricultural Enclosures: 1200-1660 2004-09-01 4786
Agricultural Enclosures: 1660-1760 2004-09-01 5190
Agriculture before the Enclosures 2004-09-01 4484
Ahmad Koprulu becomes Grand Vizier of Turkey 2011-04-01 1288
Ahmad XII is deposed and succeeded by Mahmoud I in Turkey 2011-04-01 1196
Ahmed I succeeds as Sultan of Turkey 2011-02-01 961
Ahmed II succeeds as Sultan of Turkey 2011-04-01 1429
AIberoni becomes a Cardinal 2011-04-01 1308
Ak Koyunlu is founded 2010-03-01 1319
Akbar becomes Mughal Emperor 2010-03-01 1517
Akkerman Convention between Russia and Ottoman Empire 2011-12-30 2164
Al-Azhar University founded in Cairo 2009-05-01 1786
Al-Zahiri, the Mamluk Sultan, dies 2010-03-01 1080
Albania declares its independence 2010-03-01 1233
Albania departs Warsaw Pact 2010-02-01 1517
Albania truncates relations with Yugoslavia 2010-02-01 1797
Albanian independence proclaimed 2011-03-01 1345
Albanian Marxist leader, Enver Hoxha dies 2010-02-01 2191
Albany Congress accepts Benjamin Franklin's scheme for an American Union 2011-04-01 1854
Albany leaves Scotland for France 2010-11-01 2149
Albert of Bavaria-Munich defeats Rupert of the Palatinate 2010-11-01 2092
Albert of Brandenburg is elected Archbishop of Mainz through bribery 2010-11-01 1835
Albert von Roon is appointed Minister of War in Prussia 2011-12-30 2066
Alessandro de' Medici is appointed Governor of Florence 2010-11-01 1454
Alessandro de' Medici is assassinated 2010-11-01 1536
Alessandro de' Medici is elected Pope Leo XI 2011-02-01 1723
Alessandro Farnese is elected Pope Paul III and appoints reforming cardinals 2010-11-01 1865
Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, is appointed Governor of Netherlands 2011-02-01 1365
Alexander I announces annexation of Georgia 2010-03-01 1684
Alexander I issues Polish Constitution 2010-03-01 1387
Alexander I of Serbia dissolves Regency Council 2011-12-30 1333
Alexander Izvolski visits London 2010-03-01 1472
Alexander Leslie becomes Scottish commander in First Bishops' War 2011-02-01 1610
Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV 2011-02-01 1651
Alexander Menshikov claims Russian protection for Christian Ottomans 2011-12-30 1845
Alexander of Battenberg is elected Prince Alexander I of Bulgaria 2011-12-30 899
Alexander of Bulgaria abdicates 2011-12-30 1311
Alexander of Bulgaria becomes governor of Eastern Rumelia 2011-12-30 990
Alexander of Bulgaria restores the constitution of 1879 2011-12-30 946
Alexander VI makes peace with Naples 2010-11-01 2094
Alexander VI makes peace with the Orsini 2010-11-01 2191
Alexandre Millerand elected President of France 2010-03-01 1604
Alexis is faced with revolt in Moscow 2011-04-01 1402
Alexis succeeds as Tsar of Russia 2011-02-01 1309
Alfonso declares for a constitutional monarchy in Spain 2011-12-30 1045
Alfonso Fernandez de Lugo lands at Santa Cruz to conquer Tenerife 2010-11-01 2262
Alfonso II of Naples flees to Sicily 2010-11-01 1682
Alfonso II succeeds to the throne of Naples 2010-11-01 1580
Alfonso of Naples, Lucretia Borgia's husband, is murdered 2010-11-01 1556
Alfonso VI assumes the government of Portugal 2011-04-01 1245
Alfonso XII lands at Barcelona, but Carlist War continues 2011-12-30 1192
Alfred becomes king of Wessex 2009-05-01 2962
Alfred Milner becomes high commissioner for South Africa 2011-12-30 1368
Alfred von Tirpitz appointed German naval secretary 2011-12-30 1299
Algeciras Act signed 2010-03-01 1733
Algeciras conference on Morocco opens (-Apr.) 2010-03-01 2451
Algerian resistance leader takes refuge in Morocco 2010-02-01 2858
Algernon Sydney is executed for plotting against Charles II 2011-04-01 1945
Algiers submits to French bombardment 2011-04-01 1637
Algol paradox resolved 2009-05-01 1626
Ali Pasha of Janina is assassinated 2011-12-30 1608
Aliens Immigration Act in Transvaal restricts liberty of press 2011-12-30 1084
All Baltic trade with France prohibited 2010-03-01 2613
All magistrates are to swear loyalty to the King and Church of England 2011-04-01 2265
All-India Campaign for Self-Rule launched 2010-02-01 2429
Alleged paramours of Anne Boleyn are tried for treason 2010-11-01 2139
Alleged paramours of Queen Katherine Howard are executed 2010-11-01 1914
Alleyn, Edward 2004-10-22 5526
Alliance between Brandenburg and the Emperor Leopold I 2011-04-01 1200
Alliance between Emperor Leopold I and the Great Elector 2011-04-01 1190
Alliance between France and Poland 2011-04-01 1266
Alliance between French and Swedes against the Dutch 2011-04-01 1411
Alliance between Henry IV of France and Venice 2011-02-01 1636
Alliance between Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Vladislav II of Bohemia 2010-03-01 2742
Alliance between Saxony and France 2011-04-01 1645
Alliance between the Protestant Union of Germany and the United Provinces 2011-02-01 1885
Alliance between Venice and Savoy against Austria 2011-02-01 1684
Alliance of Brandenburg and France 2011-04-01 1541
Alliance of France and Brandenburg 2011-04-01 1552
Alliance of France, Britain, Russia and the Ottoman Empire against Egypt 2010-01-01 1941
Alliance of Orebro 2011-03-01 1649
Alliance of San Ildefonso 2010-03-01 2630
Alliance of St. Petersburg 2010-03-01 1541
Alliance of the Emperor Leopold I with Holland 2011-04-01 1445
Alliance of the emperors of Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary 2011-12-30 1004
Alliance of Versailles between France and Austria 2011-12-30 1638
Alliance of Vienna between Britain, Hanover, Saxony, Poland and Empire 2011-04-01 1911
Alliance treaty between North German Confederation and Bavaria 2011-12-30 1166
Allied air attack on Zeebrugge 2010-03-01 1967
Allied ambassadors leave Constantinople 2011-12-30 1087
Allied break-through in Bulgaria 2010-03-01 1621
Allied conference agree peace terms for Germany 2010-03-01 1840
Allied conference at Rapallo 2010-03-01 1885
Allied economic conference in Paris 2010-03-01 3730
Allied forces land in Sicily 2010-03-01 1640
Allied forces lift German siege of Leningrad 2010-02-01 2036
Allied forces withdraw from the Rhineland 2010-02-01 1929
Allied peace treaty with Austria at St. Germain 2010-03-01 1883
Allied powers land unopposed in Crimea 2011-12-30 1914
Allied ultimatum to Greece 2010-03-01 1214
Allied victory at Zaragoza 2011-04-01 2738
Allies agree to evacuate troops 2010-03-01 2173
Allies blockade Greece 2010-03-01 1627
Allies declare they will assist Serbia 2010-03-01 1742
Allies enter Paris 2010-03-01 2480
Allies evacuate Dobrudja 2010-03-01 1685
Allies evacuate Odessa 2010-03-01 1946
Allies fail to take Toulon by siege 2011-04-01 2465
Allies land troops at Salonika 2010-03-01 1610
Allies offer peace proposals to Napoleon 2010-03-01 2198
Allies recapture Mayence 2010-03-01 1985
Allies relieve siege of Imphal 2010-02-01 2270
Allies sign armistice with Austria-Hungary 2010-03-01 1882
Allies take Lille 2011-04-01 2439
Allies withdraw from Shenkursk 2011-03-01 1602
Alliteration 2001-11-01 7597
Alphonso VI becomes King of Portugal 2011-03-01 1926
Alsace-Lorraine is declared part of the German Reich 2011-12-30 1521
Alteration to Britain's drink licensing laws 2010-03-01 1562
Alvan Clark finishes the Yerkes 40-inch optical refracting telescope 2009-05-01 1819
Amadeus, Duke of Aosta, elected King of Spain 2011-12-30 1222
Amau Doctrine 2010-02-01 2771
Amazon explored by Francisco de Orellana 2010-01-01 2198
Ameer of Afghanistan murdered 2010-03-01 1433
Amended Second Reform Bill passed by the House of Commons 2013-08-30 3946
America declares its 'manifest destiny' 2010-03-01 1984
American Anti-Slavery Society founded 2011-12-20 3456
American colonies enforce non-importation of British goods 2010-03-01 1806
American soldiers occupy Vera Cruz 2010-03-01 1674
American space probe arrives at Mars 2010-02-01 1642
Amerigo Vespucci explores parts of South America 2010-01-01 2204
Amiens falls to Henry IV 2011-02-01 2605
Amino acid simulation posited 2009-05-01 1417
Amir Khusrau, mystic Muslim poet, dies 2010-03-01 1816
Amistad mutiny 2010-03-01 2027
Amundsen reaches South Pole 2010-01-01 1388
Amur-Ussuri border dispute 2010-02-01 2017
An Act is passed to prevent bribery in Parliamentary elections 2011-04-01 1860
An Act of Attainder is passed against Bolingbroke 2011-04-01 1487
An American Dictionary of the English Language published 2007-12-02 4421
An Arian is burnt for heresy at Smithfield 2011-02-01 2024
An English army lands in France for a joint attack with Imperial forces 2010-11-01 1945
An English army sets off to aid the Elector Palatine 2011-02-01 3944
An English expedition to Scotland captures Leith and burns Edinburgh 2010-11-01 2239
An English fleet is sent against the Barbary pirates of Algiers 2011-02-01 1717
An English force is defeated at St. Etienne 2010-11-01 2636
An English party of colonists settles at Salem, Massachusetts 2011-02-01 2075
An English trading post is founded in Bengal 2011-02-01 2083
An imperial army enters Bohemia to defeat the rebels 2011-02-01 2761
An Imperial force take Grosswardein from Turks 2011-04-01 1560
Anabaptist leader John of Leiden crushes an attempted coup 2010-11-01 3016
Anacrusis 2001-11-01 13653
Analogy 2001-11-01 7476
Anapest 2001-11-01 7530
Anarchist Auguste Vaillant explodes a bomb in Paris Chamber of Deputies 2011-12-30 4134
Anarchist outrages in Paris 2011-12-30 1442
Ancient Rome - The Republic 5841
Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber 2009-05-01 2449
Andras III, King of Hungary, dies 2010-03-01 1879
Andrea and Fillipino Doria defect to the Emperor 2010-11-01 1911
Andrei Rublev completes the Trinity icons in the Zagorsk monastery 2010-03-01 1509
Andrew Jackson asks Congress to enforce tariff in South Carolina 2011-12-30 1707
Andrew Jackson elected President of the USA 2011-12-30 2002
Andrew Jackson is re-elected for second term as President of USA 2011-12-30 2365
Anglican Church becomes the established religion of New South Wales 2010-03-01 1464
Anglo-American treaty on Bering Sea seal fishery 2011-12-30 1370
Anglo-Austrian agreement on Bulgaria 2011-12-30 1181
Anglo-Belgian agreement 2010-03-01 1549
Anglo-Belgian agreement over Nile territory 2011-12-30 1322
Anglo-Belgian loan to China cancelled 2011-03-01 1856
Anglo-Chinese agreement recognises British position in Burma 2011-12-30 1242
Anglo-Chinese commercial treaty 2013-08-30 1842
Anglo-Danish treaty of commerce 2011-04-01 1686
Anglo-Dutch army defeats French at Aughrim 2011-04-01 2515
Anglo-Dutch army lands in Ireland 2011-03-01 2394
Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Dieppe 2011-03-01 2869
Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Le Havre 2011-03-01 2925
Anglo-Dutch treaty for mutual defence 2011-02-01 1773
Anglo-Ethiopian treaty 2010-03-01 1458
Anglo-French 'Cobden' treaty 2010-01-01 2144
Anglo-French agreement on boundaries of Sierra Leone and French Guinea 2011-12-30 1410
Anglo-French agreement on Siam 2011-12-30 1434
Anglo-French alliance designed by Wolsey is signed 2010-11-01 1594
Anglo-French commercial treaty 2011-12-30 1058
Anglo-French condominium over New Hebrides 2011-12-30 1335
Anglo-French convention defines boundaries in Nigeria and Gold Coast 2011-12-30 1351
Anglo-French convention defines spheres of influence in Africa 2011-12-30 1247
Anglo-French convention on hinterland of Tripoli 2011-12-30 1182
Anglo-French defensive treaty signed at Blois 2011-02-01 2083
Anglo-French discussions about the boundary between Canada and Nova Scotia 2011-04-01 1607
Anglo-French discussions on colonial boundaries in North America 2011-04-01 1435
Anglo-French dual control of Egypt re-established 2011-12-30 1439
Anglo-French expedition to dislodge the Spanish from Brittany 2011-02-01 3405
Anglo-French force recaptures Brest from the Spaniards 2011-02-01 2017
Anglo-French marriage treaty 2011-02-01 1608
Anglo-French marriage treaty for Mary Tudor to marry the Dauphin 2010-11-01 1676
Anglo-French military conversations 2010-03-01 1775
Anglo-French naval attack on Dardanelles fails 2010-03-01 1937
Anglo-French peace treaty is signed 2010-11-01 2057
Anglo-French treaty against Spain 2011-04-01 1413
Anglo-French Treaty of Dover 2004-10-06 2654
Anglo-French Treaty of Hampton Court 2011-02-01 1574
Anglo-French troops defeat Chinese at Palikau 2011-12-30 1936
Anglo-French troops take Tianjin in war with China 2011-12-30 1288
Anglo-French truce 2010-11-01 1984
Anglo-French truce 2011-04-01 2946
Anglo-French War 2012-07-31 3298
Anglo-French war breaks out in North America 2011-04-01 2102
Anglo-German agreement 2010-03-01 1185
Anglo-German agreement 2011-03-01 1405
Anglo-German agreement defines Nigeria-Cameroons boundary 2011-12-30 1206
Anglo-German agreement on Baghdad Railway 2011-03-01 1850
Anglo-German convention over Cameroons 2011-12-30 1075
Anglo-German secret agreement on Portugal's African territories 2011-12-30 2024
Anglo-Gurkha war 2010-02-01 2420
Anglo-Indian force massacred in retreat from Kabul 2010-01-01 2296
Anglo-Italian agreement over East Africa 2011-12-30 977
Anglo-Italian agreement over Ethiopia defines frontiers 2011-12-30 1483
Anglo-Italian agreement to maintain status quo in Mediterranean 2011-12-30 1153
Anglo-Japanese alliance renewed for ten years 2013-08-30 943
Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty 2011-12-30 1130
Anglo-Persian agreement 2010-03-01 1157
Anglo-Persian agreement at Teheran 2011-03-01 1077
Anglo-Persian Oil Company Founded 2010-02-01 1666
Anglo-Portuguese agreement on territory around Lake Nyasa 2011-03-01 1442
Anglo-Portuguese agreement on Zambesi and the Congo 2011-12-30 1469
Anglo-Portuguese treaty places Portugal under English control 2011-04-01 1504
Anglo-Prussian defensive alliance, aimed at France 2011-04-01 1551
Anglo-Russian agreement on Afghanistan 2011-12-30 978
Anglo-Russian alliance 2010-03-01 1402
Anglo-Russian alliance is signed 2011-04-01 1677
Anglo-Russian commercial treaty 2011-02-01 1709
Anglo-Russian Convention of St. Petersburg 2011-12-30 1377
Anglo-Russian Convention on Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet 2010-03-01 1909
Anglo-Russian conversations break down 2010-03-01 1275
Anglo-Russian crisis over loan to China 2011-12-30 1813
Anglo-Russian treaty of commerce 2011-04-01 1498
Anglo-Russian Treaty over rights on north-west American coast and Pacific 2011-12-30 1560
Anglo-Scottish Peace is signed 2010-11-01 1782
Anglo-Scottish peace treaty is signed 2010-11-01 1713
Anglo-Scottish truce is extended to the lives of Henry VII and James IV 2010-11-01 2142
Anglo-Scottish truce is signed at Ayton to last for 7 years 2010-11-01 2250
Anglo-Spanish commercial treaty 2010-11-01 1595
Anglo-Spanish commercial treaty 2011-04-01 1642
Anglo-Tibetan Treaty 2010-03-01 1603
Anglo-White Russian forces defeat Soviet forces 2011-03-01 1110
Angola becomes independent; Civil War soon breaks out 2010-02-01 1621
Angular size of the Crab Nebula measured 2009-05-01 1313
Annam is occupied by Ming China 2010-03-01 1518
Annapolis convention 2010-03-01 1924
Anne Askew is burnt at Smithfield for denying transubstantiation 2010-11-01 3917
Anne Boleyn is beheaded 2010-03-01 2286
Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke 2010-11-01 1102
Anne of Austria, the Queen Mother, gains supreme power in France 2011-02-01 1729
Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, dies 2010-11-01 2470
Anne, Duke of Montmorency, Constable of France, is disgraced 2010-11-01 1790
Anne's fourth Parliament meets with Tory majority 2011-04-01 1486
Anonymous. Newgate Calendar 1773 2004-01-23 5334
Anonymous. The Female Tatler 1709 2006-01-22 5456
Another Armada against England gathers in Spain but fails 2011-02-01 1652
Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury 2012-07-31 2385
Anstey, Christopher. New Bath Guide 1766 2007-05-14 2913
Anthony Babington and his fellow conspirators are executed 2011-02-01 1667
Anthony Trollope's 'Australian' novels published in London 2010-03-01 1600
Anti-black rioting in Springfield, Illinois 2010-03-01 2379
Anti-British Abbas becomes Khedive of Egypt 2011-12-30 845
Anti-British Chauvelin becomes French Foreign Secretary 2011-04-01 1983
Anti-colonial riots in Egypt 2010-02-01 2031
Anti-Corn Law League founded 2010-02-01 4967
Anti-foreign riots in Alexandria 2011-12-30 1507
Anti-French riots 2010-02-01 1850
Anti-Liberal Holy Alliance formed 2010-03-01 2507
Anti-papal iconoclasm in southern England 2010-11-01 3425
Anti-Russian insurrection in Warsaw 2010-01-01 2113
Anti-Spanish revolution in Mexico led by Father Miguel Hidalgo 2010-02-01 2295
Anti-State Church Association founded 2013-08-30 2124
Antineutrinos detected 2009-05-01 1295
Antiproton discovered 2009-05-01 1343
Antonio Blanco loses Presidency of Venezuela through rebellion 2011-12-30 1206
Antonio Facchinetti is elected Pope Innocent IX 2011-02-01 1697
Antonio Perez escapes from prison 2011-02-01 1410
Antonio Perez, former private secretary to Philip II, defects to France 2011-02-01 1918
Antwerp Declaration 2011-12-30 1228
Antwerp falls to Marshal Saxe 2011-04-01 1530
Anzacs arrive in France 2010-03-01 1347
ANZUS Crisis 2010-03-01 1126
ANZUS Pact signed 2010-02-01 1378
Apogee of Umayyad caliphate at Cordoba 2009-05-01 1701
Apollonius names the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola 2011-03-01 1681
Appellate Jurisdictions Act in Britain 2011-12-30 1577
Appointment of a Commission of Ejectors 2010-02-01 1566
Appointment of first school inspectors in the UK 2013-08-30 1592
Arab merchants settle on the East African coast 2009-05-01 2140
Arab navigators perfect the astrolabe and travel to China 2009-05-01 2973
Arab Revolt in Hedjaz begins 2010-02-01 1815
Arab revolt in Palestine 2009-05-01 2016
Arab rising in German East Africa 2011-12-30 1371
Arabella Stuart escapes from the Tower of London to Ostend 2011-02-01 2011
Arabella Stuart is imprisoned for marrying another claimant to the throne 2011-02-01 1795
Arabs cross the straits of Gibraltar 2005-11-16 4005
Arabs take Muscat from Portugal 2011-04-01 1725
Aragon and Castile unite to form the Kingdom of Spain 2011-03-01 1960
Arcadia 2001-11-01 9940
Archbishop Abbot of Canterbury withdraws from public affairs 2011-02-01 1958
Archbishop Beaton, leader of the pro-French party, is imprisoned 2010-11-01 1903
Archbishop Edward Grindal suspended for refusing to suppress Puritanism 2011-02-01 3645
Archbishop Laud becomes First Lord of the Treasury 2011-02-01 1980
Archbishop of Cologne is deposed for favouring Protestantism 2010-11-01 1575
Archbishop of Dublin prorogues the Irish Parliament over the Money Bill 2011-04-01 2010
Archbishop of St. Andrews becomes a Cardinal 2010-11-01 2120
Archbishop Sharp of St. Andrews is killed by Covenanters 2011-04-01 1430
Archduke Albert of Austria becomes Governor of the Spanish Netherlands 2011-02-01 943
Archduke Albert of Austria captures Amiens 2011-02-01 1714
Archduke Albert plans to take Metz 2011-02-01 1443
Archduke Albert tries to relieve Amiens 2011-02-01 1329
Archduke Charles arrives in Spain from the Netherlands 2010-11-01 1913
Archduke Charles defeats Jourdan at Würzburg 2011-03-01 3046
Archduke Charles is proclaimed King of Spain in Madrid 2011-04-01 1538
Archduke Ernest becomes Governor of the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1091
Archduke Ferdinand is empowered to settle the religious question 2011-02-01 1760
Archduke Ferdinand marries Anne of Hungary 2010-11-01 1702
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is crowned King of Bohemia 2010-11-01 3812
Archduke Ferdinand refuses to make any concessions to the Lutherans 2010-11-01 2007
Archduke Ferdinand, son of the Emperor, is elected King of the Romans 2011-02-01 1207
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated 2010-02-01 1784
Archduke John of Austria is elected Regent of the Reich 2011-12-30 817
Archduke Joseph becomes Hungary's 'state governor' 2010-03-01 1023
Archduke Leopold becomes ruler of Tuscany 2010-03-01 949
Archduke Leopold of Austria is expelled from Jülich 2011-02-01 1734
Archduke Matthias is welcomed as he enters Prague 2011-02-01 985
Archduke Matthias sent to govern Hungary 2011-02-01 1033
Archduke Maximilian is defeated and imprisoned in Poland 2011-02-01 1411
Archduke Maximilian of Austria accepts title of Emperor of Mexico 2011-12-30 1064
Archduke Maximilian renounces his claim to the Polish throne 2011-02-01 1864
Archdukes back Ferdinand of Styria's claim to the Empire 2011-02-01 1579
Archetype 2008-01-01 8184
Argentina, Brazil and Chile arbitrate between U.S. and Mexico 2010-03-01 1847
Argentinean leader deposed 2010-02-01 1758
Argon discovered 2009-05-01 2277
Arian Heresy 2010-02-01 3569
Aristide Briand calls out troops in French railway strike 2010-03-01 1765
Aristide Briand forms ministry in France 2011-03-01 1057
Aristide Briand forms ministry in France 2010-03-01 1215
Arizona organised as US territory 2011-12-30 1259
Armed insurrection by Chartists 2010-01-01 4325
Armenian Massacre 2010-02-01 1264
Armenian massacres continue 2011-12-30 1069
Armies of Roberts and Buller join forces 2011-03-01 2113
Armistice between Austria and Sardinia agreed at Vigevano 2011-12-30 1349
Armistice Day 2010-02-01 1432
Armistice in Graeco-Turkish war 2011-12-30 1093
Armistice of Villafranca between France and Austria 2011-12-30 3756
Army bill passed in Hungary 2010-03-01 1124
Army counter-revolution in Constantinople 2011-03-01 1368
Army drafts demands for national government 2010-02-01 1247
Army expels the Rump Parliament 2011-03-01 1300
Army officers petition for reform 2010-02-01 1442
Army to support the French Huguenots crosses the River Loire 2011-02-01 2528
Arrival at Versailles of Embassy from Siam 2011-04-01 1174
Arthur Balfour becomes Prime Minister 2013-08-30 2141
Arthur Balfour resigns 2010-03-01 1426
Arthur Cayley shows that quaternions can be used to represent rotations in four-dimensional space 2013-08-30 2145
Arthur Eddington begins his statistical study of stellar motions 2013-08-30 1443
Arthur Henderson wins Barnard Castle by-election 2010-03-01 2075
Arthur Zimmermann becomes German foreign minister 2010-03-01 1489
Arthur, Prince of Wales dies 2010-11-01 1766
Arthur, Prince of Wales, marries Catherine of Aragon 2010-11-01 1670
Artificial radioactivity induced 2009-05-01 1343
Ashraf Shah, an Afghan, succeeds Mahmud in Persia 2011-04-01 1381
Asian immigration to United States restricted 2010-02-01 1740
Assassination attempt on Louis PhiIippe 2011-12-30 1369
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 2010-02-01 2985
Assassination of Count Capo d'Istria in Greece 2011-12-30 1378
Assassination of Empress of Korea 2011-12-30 1319
Assassination of Fick, the 'Eire Ring' speculator, in New York 2011-12-30 2001
Assassination of Francisco Pizarro 2010-03-01 1889
Assassination of Henry IV of France 2010-01-01 3007
Assassination of Oliver Cromwell advocated 2010-02-01 1430
Assassination of Peter Stolypin 2010-03-01 1408
Assassination of Tsar Paul I 2011-03-01 1544
Assassination of Viacheslav Plehve 2010-03-01 1236
Assassination plot on the President of the Council of the North is discovered 2010-11-01 2102
Assize of Clarendon 2012-07-31 2017
Astronomical unit measured to be about 138,370,000 km 2009-05-01 997
Aswan dam opened 2010-03-01 1492
Asymptotic freedom of quarks proposed 2011-03-01 1239
At Madras British sign treaty with Mysore 2010-03-01 1319
Athenaeum Club 2013-08-30 3401
Atlantic and Pacific linked by the Panama Railroad 2008-05-24 1776
Atomic clock built 2009-05-01 1082
Atomic ideas introduced into chemistry 2009-05-01 1670
Atomic theory formulated by John Dalton 2010-02-01 2362
Attack on French Jesuits by Vicomte de Martignac 2011-12-30 1560
Attempt at German unification under a parliamentary system fails 2011-12-30 1084
Attempt by 'Young Italy' followers of Giuseppe Mazzini on Savoy fails 2011-12-30 1673
Attempt to introduce licensing for Dissenting ministers 2010-02-01 3063
Attempt to reduce the U.S. Speaker's powers 2010-03-01 1515
Attempt to renew Russo-German alliance fails 2011-12-30 885
Attempted assassination of Aristide Briand 2011-03-01 1675
Attempted assassination of Tsar Alexander II 2010-02-01 1851
Attempted assassination of William of Orange 2011-02-01 1639
Atterbury Plot: Jacobites 2010-01-01 1935
Audiencia of New Grenada is created 2010-11-01 1122
Augsburg and Strasbourg submit to Charles V 2010-11-01 2507
Augustan Literature 2001-11-01 13287
Augustus de Iturbide forced to abdicate in Mexico 2011-12-30 1259
Augustus de Iturbide is elected Emperor of Mexico 2011-12-30 1181
Augustus II of Poland (and Saxony) dies 2011-04-01 1340
Augustus II of Poland is deposed 2011-04-01 1455
Augustus, the Elector of Saxony, converts to Catholicism 2011-04-01 1570
Augustus, the Elector of Saxony, is elected King of Poland 2011-04-01 1467
Aurangzeb annexes the Kingdom of Bijapur 2011-04-01 1554
Aurangzeb conquers Golkonda 2011-04-01 1618
Aurangzeb dies and the Mughal Empire falls apart 2011-04-01 1253
Aurangzeb formally becomes Mughal Emperor 2011-04-01 1130
Aurangzeb imprisons his father the Shah 2011-04-01 1392
Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal Emperor 2011-04-01 1291
Australia Government Act for South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria 2011-12-30 1015
Australia League established 2010-03-01 1212
Australia's first children's book published 2010-03-01 1585
Australia's first subscription library 2010-03-01 1138
Australia's highest mountain climbed 2010-03-01 1198
Australian Commonwealth Electoral Act 2010-03-01 1248
Australian continent circumnavigated and mapped 2010-03-01 1483
Australian federal convention meets to discuss draft federal constitution 2011-12-30 1076
Australian Imperial Force lands at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli 2010-03-01 2355
Australian independence 2010-02-01 1733
Austria agrees to send an army into Naples to suppress revolt 2011-12-30 1141
Austria and France conclude the Peace of Luneville 2008-01-01 3519
Austria and Prussia conclude defensive alliance against Russia 2011-12-30 1498
Austria and Prussia plan to halt Russia's expansion 2010-03-01 1575
Austria and Prussia send ultimatum to Denmark to repeal constitution 2011-12-30 1220
Austria and Russia promise Ottoman Empire protection 2010-03-01 1499
Austria and Saxony sign an alliance 2011-04-01 1451
Austria annexes Bukovina 2009-05-01 1461
Austria becomes signatory to Anglo-Italian agreement on Mediterranean 2011-12-30 1080
Austria concludes alliance with Britain and France 2011-12-30 1503
Austria declares war against Naples 2010-03-01 1246
Austria defeats Italian uprising 2010-03-01 1300
Austria evades Salisbury's suggestions for common action against Russia 2011-12-30 933
Austria gains Dresden when Frederick II is defeated at Kunersdorf 2011-12-30 1428
Austria grants amnesty for Hungarian insurgents 2011-12-30 1228
Austria invades Serbia 2010-02-01 1409
Austria promises to remain neutral in a Russo-Turkish War 2011-12-30 929
Austria protests terms of Peace Conference 2010-03-01 1011
Austria revives the old Bundestag 2011-12-30 1177
Austria revokes 1855 Concordat with Papacy 2011-12-30 1032
Austria supports France 2010-03-01 2273
Austria-Hungary is born 2010-11-01 1562
Austria, Bavaria, Saxony and Wurttemberg agree to uphold German union 2011-12-30 1241
Austrian ambassador in Paris negotiations for a treaty with France 2011-12-30 1176
Austrian and Bavarian troops occupy Hanau in Hesse-Cassel 2011-12-30 1306
Austrian and Russian troops defeat Turks 2010-03-01 1183
Austrian and Russian troops defeat Turks (2) 2010-03-01 1303
Austrian army is defeated at Guastalla 2011-04-01 1724
Austrian army under Joseph Radetzky is victorious at Custoza 2011-12-30 1476
Austrian authoritarian rule established 2010-02-01 1155
Austrian Chancellor assassinated by Nazi sympathizers 2010-02-01 1264
Austrian Concordat with Pope 2011-12-30 1248
Austrian constitution centralised by 'February Patent' 2011-12-30 1198
Austrian Constitution is abolished 2011-12-30 1159
Austrian constitution temporarily annulled 2011-12-30 1093
Austrian Emperor agrees to triennial meetings of the Hungarian Diet 2011-12-30 884
Austrian forces cross Sardinian frontier 2011-12-30 1191
Austrian forces enter France 2010-03-01 2636
Austrian forces occupy Warsaw 2010-03-01 1259
Austrian government plans to build railway towards Salonika 2010-03-01 962
Austrian Imperial Council is enlarged by March Patent 2011-12-30 915
Austrian Netherlands constituted province of Austrian monarchy 2010-03-01 1501
Austrian Reichstag meets 2011-12-30 743
Austrian State Treaty 2010-02-01 1110
Austrian troops abandon Burgundy 2011-02-01 1442
Austrian troops enter Italian Peninsula to put down revolts 2011-12-30 1516
Austrian troops evacuate Papal States except for Ferrara 2011-12-30 1122
Austrian troops invade Alsace 2011-04-01 1459
Austrian troops occupy Ancona after risings in the Papal States 2011-12-30 1228
Austrian troops occupy Ferrara after unrest 2011-12-30 1221
Austrian troops suppress Czech revolt in Prague 2011-12-30 1313
Austrian troops take Schweidnitz and blockade Frederick II at Bunzelwitz 2011-12-30 1362
Austrian ultimatum to Russia against carrying the war across the Balkans 2011-12-30 1107
Austrian ultimatum to Russia threatens war 2011-12-30 1661
Austrian ultimatum to Sardinia to disarm 2011-12-30 959
Austrian victory at Curtatone against Tuscany 2011-12-30 1290
Austrian victory at Hochkirch against Prussia 2011-12-30 1513
Austrians are defeated at Pastrengo 2011-12-30 1227
Austrians are defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Basignano in Italy 2011-04-01 1718
Austrians begin siege of Neisse 2011-12-30 1317
Austrians defeat Jourdan's army at Stockach 2011-03-01 2404
Austrians defeated at first battle of Goito 2011-12-30 1618
Austrians defeated at Magenta 2011-12-30 1394
Austrians suppress revolt in Cracow 2011-12-30 1236
Austrians victorious at Vicenza 2011-12-30 1128
Austro-Bavarian army defeat French at Tuttlingen 2011-02-01 2154
Austro-German counter-offensive in Romania 2010-03-01 1407
Austro-German forces take Lemberg (Lviv) 2010-03-01 1707
Austro-German troops occupy Belgrade 2010-03-01 1420
Austro-Hungarian peace offer 2010-03-01 1033
Austro-Hungarian Socialist party splits into six nationalist groups 2011-12-30 1281
Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia 2010-03-01 1818
Austro-Italian armistice 2011-12-30 1300
Austro-Prussian troops enter Schleswig 2011-12-30 1385
Austro-Russian agreement to maintain status quo in the Balkans 2011-12-30 1503
Austro-Russian Mürzstag agreement 2010-03-01 1365
Austro-Serbian alliance 2011-12-30 1349
Avogadro’s principle formulated 2009-05-01 1248
Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran and within ten days controls Tehran 2010-02-01 1434
Ayutthaya, capital of Siam, is established 2010-03-01 1382
Aztec capital captured by the Spanish and their allies 2010-03-01 1848
Aztecs expand their empire 2010-03-01 1766
Æthelbald succeeds to the throne of Mercia 2009-05-01 2236
Æthelred orders massacre of Danes 2012-07-31 1808
Babbage's Calculating Machine 2013-08-30 3854
Babi Yar massacre of Jews 2010-02-01 2445
Babington and his fellow conspirators stand trial 2011-02-01 1550
Bacon, Francis. Novum Organum 1620 2012-11-16 5526
Bacon is impeached, fined and imprisoned; later pardoned 2011-02-01 1576
Bacon's Rebellion 2010-03-01 2117
Bacteria observed 2011-03-01 1160
Bacterial resistance to virus infection explained 2009-05-01 1264
Baden decides to seek entry to North German Confederation 2011-12-30 964
Baden insurgents capitulate to Prussian troops 2011-12-30 1670
Baden joins Zollverein 2011-12-30 1234
Baghdad Pact 2010-02-01 1754
Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama and sees the Pacific 2008-05-07 2767
Baldomero Espartero is appointed Regent of Spain 2011-12-30 947
Baldomero Espartero is recalled to Spain 2011-12-30 1319
Balfour Declaration 2004-01-23 5036
Balkan allies accept mediation of great powers 2011-03-01 1682
Balkan Pact 2010-03-01 1323
Balkan states sign armistice in Bucharest 2010-03-01 1225
Ballad Stanza 2001-11-01 9167
Baltic Convention 2010-03-01 1379
Bangladeshi cyclone 2010-02-01 1547
Bangladeshi famine 2010-02-01 1332
Bank Charter Act 2010-02-01 2208
Bank Charter Act 2011-12-30 1416
Bank of England loan subscribed in 4 hours 2010-01-01 1493
Banking Crisis and the Restriction Act 2005-04-01 5774
Banks in Newfoundland fail 2011-12-30 908
Bantry Bay expedition fails through gales 2010-01-01 2493
Barack Obama elected president of the US 2010-03-01 1335
Barbados is claimed as an English colony 2011-02-01 1986
Barbarossa sails from Toulon for Constantinople 2010-11-01 1700
Barbarossa takes the Morea from Venice 2010-11-01 1594
Barebone's Parliament (or Nominated Assembly) gathers 2011-03-01 1694
Barebone's Parliament dissolved and the Protectorate set up 2011-03-01 1471
Barent Erikszen leads a voyage to the coast of Guinea 2011-02-01 1646
Barium discovered 2009-05-01 1524
Barometric pressure correlated with height above sea level 2009-05-01 1267
Baron Hayashi reopens Anglo-Japanese negotiations 2013-08-30 989
Baron Montigny is assassinated in Spain on Philip II's orders 2011-02-01 2232
Baron Stein dismissed 2010-03-01 1490
Baron Theodore of Neuhofis elected King of Corsica 2011-04-01 1571
Barrier Treaty is signed between Holland and the Empire 2011-04-01 1777
Basil III becomes ruler of Russia 2010-11-01 888
Basil III of Moscow takes Smolensk 2010-11-01 1369
Basil Shuisky, Tsar of Russia, is deposed 2011-02-01 1821
Basing House falls to Parliamentarians after a siege 2011-02-01 2901
Basle and Schaftenhausen become members of the Swiss Confederation 2010-11-01 1257
Basutoland becomes a native state under British protection 2011-12-30 1854
Basutoland comes under the control of the Cape Colony 2011-03-01 1955
Bataan Death March begins 2010-03-01 1367
Bathos 2001-11-01 20040
Battle at Schweidnitz 2011-02-01 1687
Battle for Warsaw 2010-03-01 1426
Battle of Adwalton Moor 2010-02-01 2528
Battle of Akroinion 2009-05-01 1721
Battle of Alexinatz: Serbs defeated by the Ottomans 2011-12-30 1465
Battle of Alford 2011-03-01 2825
Battle of Aljubarrota 2011-03-01 1854
Battle of Alma: British and French troops are victorious 2011-12-30 1874
Battle of Amblève 2009-05-01 4574
Battle of Ameixial 2011-04-01 2063
Battle of Anchilaus 2009-05-01 1652
Battle of Antietam 2010-03-01 2795
Battle of Arques 2011-02-01 2717
Battle of Atlanta: Sherman defeats Confederate army of John Hood 2011-12-30 2429
Battle of Auldern 2011-03-01 2833
Battle of Austerlitz, Moravia 2010-02-01 3224
Battle of Avignon 2009-05-01 3034
Battle of Ayacucho 2010-02-01 1998
Battle of Bad Axe River 2010-02-01 3643
Battle of Baia 2009-05-01 2766
Battle of Balaklava (Crimean War) 2011-03-01 1873
Battle of Bannockburn 2012-07-31 1980
Battle of Bautzen 2010-03-01 2425
Battle of Beachy Head 2011-03-01 2655
Battle of Bir Hakeim 2010-03-01 1253
Battle of Blenheim 2011-04-01 2782
Battle of Blood River 1528
Battle of Borodino 2010-02-01 2942
Battle of Bosworth 2006-01-01 1842
Battle of Bouvines 2012-07-31 1232
Battle of Breitenfeld 2011-02-01 2653
Battle of Brunanburgh 2009-05-01 1569
Battle of Bull Run: Indecisive victory of Confederates 2011-12-30 2364
Battle of Bunker Hill 2010-02-01 3487
Battle of Cable Street 2004-01-23 3948
Battle of Carpi 2011-04-01 2916
Battle of Carrizal 2010-03-01 1738
Battle of Caseros: Juan de Rosas is overthrown in Argentina 2011-12-30 1340
Battle of Cassano 2010-03-01 2526
Battle of Castelfidardo: Cavour defeats Papal troops 2011-12-30 1636
Battle of Ceresole 2010-03-01 2535
Battle of Cerignola 2010-03-01 2146
Battle of Chalgrove Field 2011-03-01 2311
Battle of Chancellorsville: Confederate victory 2011-12-30 2446
Battle of Chemin des Dames 2010-03-01 1162
Battle of Cheriton 2010-02-01 2198
Battle of Chiari 2011-04-01 2816
Battle of Chillianwala 2011-07-01 1545
Battle of Chupas 2010-03-01 2130
Battle of Cologne 2009-05-01 4072
Battle of Compiègne 2009-05-01 5756
Battle of Coultras 2011-02-01 2757
Battle of Courtrai 2010-03-01 2416
Battle of Covadonga 2009-05-01 2321
Battle of Crecy 2011-03-01 1815
Battle of Cropredy Bridge 2011-03-01 2353
Battle of Culloden 2010-03-01 4521
Battle of Custozza: Austrian force defeats Italians 2011-12-30 1044
Battle of Dalnaspidal 2010-02-01 1684
Battle of Dormans: Catholics defeat the Protestants 2010-03-01 3001
Battle of Doroloston 2009-05-01 1489
Battle of Dresden 2010-03-01 2495
Battle of Dreux 2011-02-01 2935
Battle of Dunbar 2010-02-01 2688
Battle of Dungeness 2011-03-01 1133
Battle of Edgehill 2006-02-02 2264
Battle of El Alamein 2010-02-01 2932
Battle of Ellandun; Wessex becomes the dominant Anglo-Saxon kingdom 2009-05-01 2896
Battle of Evesham; Simon de Montfort dies 2012-07-31 1712
Battle of Eylau 2010-02-01 2962
Battle of Fallen Timbers 2010-03-01 1820
Battle of Fleurus 2010-02-01 2791
Battle of Flodden: English defeat the Scots 2010-01-01 2240
Battle of Fontaney 2009-05-01 1400
Battle of Fraustadt 2011-04-01 2017
Battle of Fredericksburg: victory of Confederate army under Robert E. Lee 2011-12-30 2660
Battle of Freiburg 2011-12-30 1512
Battle of Freidland 2010-02-01 2726
Battle of Fuentes de Onoro: Duke of Wellington defeats French 2010-02-01 2366
Battle of Ganja 2463
Battle of Gembloux 2011-02-01 1838
Battle of Glencoe/ Talana Hill: Boers defeated 2011-12-30 2021
Battle of Great Meadows 2010-02-01 4430
Battle of Guadalcanal 2010-03-01 1359
Battle of Guilford Courthouse 2010-03-01 2558
Battle of Halidon Hill 2012-07-31 1550
Battle of Hingston Down 2009-05-01 1906
Battle of Höchst completes the conquest of the Palatinate 2011-02-01 1915
Battle of Horse Shoe Bend 2010-03-01 3167
Battle of Inchon, Korea 2010-02-01 1125
Battle of Inkerman (Crimean War) 2011-03-01 2174
Battle of Isandhlwana: Zulus defeat British troops 2011-12-30 1722
Battle of Ituzaingo: Brazilian forces defeated by Uruguay and Argentina 2011-12-30 1163
Battle of Jarnac: Huguenots defeated by French royalists 2010-03-01 3104
Battle of Jassy (Iasi) 2011-02-01 2982
Battle of Jemappes 2010-02-01 3203
Battle of Jena and Auerstadt 2010-02-01 2888
Battle of Jumonville 2010-02-01 3680
Battle of Junin: Simon Bolivar defeats Spanish forces 2011-12-30 1980
Battle of Jutland 2010-02-01 1353
Battle of Kempten 2011-02-01 1491
Battle of Khanua 2010-03-01 1918
Battle of Klausen 2011-04-01 1749
Battle of Klissow 2011-04-01 1727
Battle of Knotsenburg 2011-02-01 1379
Battle of Konieh: Egyptian forces rout Turkish army 2011-12-30 2583
Battle of Konya 2010-03-01 2271
Battle of Kosovo 2010-03-01 1786
Battle of Krefeld 2011-12-30 1402
Battle of Kursk 2010-02-01 1336
Battle of La Hougue 2011-03-01 2109
Battle of Ladysmith: Boers win 2011-12-30 2177
Battle of Lagos 2011-04-01 2292
Battle of Laing's Nek: Boers repulse the British 2011-12-30 2750
Battle of Lake George 2008-01-25 3813
Battle of Langensalza: Prussians defeat Hanoverian army 2011-12-30 1237
Battle of Laon 2010-03-01 2537
Battle of Lechfeld (Augsburg) 2009-05-01 2224
Battle of Leipzig 2010-02-01 2737
Battle of Lepanto 2010-02-01 3303
Battle of Lesnaya 2011-04-01 1457
Battle of Lewes; Simon de Montfort governs England 2012-07-31 1603
Battle of Leyte Gulf 2010-02-01 1923
Battle of Lipany 2010-03-01 3289
Battle of Little Bighorn 2010-02-01 3234
Battle of Lobositz 2011-12-30 1575
Battle of Loos 2010-03-01 1257
Battle of Lowestoft 2011-03-01 1425
Battle of Lützen 2011-02-01 1512
Battle of Magersfontein: British are repulsed by Piet Cronje 2011-12-30 2161
Battle of Mahiwa 2010-03-01 1674
Battle of Majuba Hill: British defeated by the Boers 2010-01-01 2514
Battle of Malplaquet 2011-04-01 2328
Battle of Marciano 2010-03-01 2621
Battle of Marengo 2010-02-01 2773
Battle of Marsaglia 2011-04-01 2514
Battle of Marston Moor 2010-02-01 2134
Battle of Megiddo 2010-02-01 1490
Battle of Messines 2010-03-01 1560
Battle of Midway 2010-02-01 1520
Battle of Minden 2011-12-30 888
Battle of Mohacs 2011-04-01 1471
Battle of Mohacs 2010-03-01 1846
Battle of Mollwitz; Silesia conquered by Frederick II of Prussia 2011-04-01 1970
Battle of Montmorency 2010-02-01 2983
Battle of Muhlberg 2010-03-01 4885
Battle of Nancy 2010-03-01 2755
Battle of Nantwich 2011-03-01 2704
Battle of Narva 2011-04-01 1662
Battle of Naseby 2006-02-02 955
Battle of Navarino 2010-02-01 2275
Battle of New Orleans 2010-02-01 2222
Battle of Newburn 2010-01-01 2859
Battle of Nezib: Ibrahim routs Turkish forces 2011-12-30 1647
Battle of Nicopolis 2010-03-01 1981
Battle of Nieuport 2011-02-01 2399
Battle of Nördlingen 2011-02-01 2815
Battle of Novara 2010-01-01 1956
Battle of Omdurman: Horatio Kitchener defeats Dervishes 2011-12-30 1207
Battle of Oudenarde 2011-04-01 2503
Battle of Philiphaugh 2010-02-01 2595
Battle of Piacenza won by Maria Theresa and Sardinia 2011-04-01 1739
Battle of Pinkie: English defeat the Scots 2010-03-01 2564
Battle of Plassey ends Mogul threat to British in north-east India 2007-12-12 4778
Battle of Poitiers 2005-11-17 2999
Battle of Poltava 2010-02-01 2053
Battle of Ponts de Cé 2011-02-01 1987
Battle of Portland 2010-02-01 1438
Battle of Powick Bridge 2011-03-01 3066
Battle of Prague: Frederick II invades Bohemia 2011-12-30 1595
Battle of Preston 2010-02-01 2639
Battle of Preston: Jacobites are defeated 2011-04-01 1706
Battle of Ravenna 2009-05-01 1476
Battle of Ravenna: France defeats the Holy League 2010-03-01 2296
Battle of Rethel 2011-04-01 1489
Battle of Riade 2009-05-01 2453
Battle of Rieti 2011-12-30 1574
Battle of Roncevaux 2009-05-01 5417
Battle of Roundaway Down 2010-02-01 2244
Battle of Rovine 2009-05-01 2299
Battle of Saint Foy 2010-02-01 2729
Battle of Salins 2010-11-01 2353
Battle of Sedan: French defeated 2011-12-30 1282
Battle of Sennheim 2011-02-01 2196
Battle of Sluys 2010-03-01 2266
Battle of Sobrahan: British army defeats Sikhs 2011-12-30 1542
Battle of Soissons 2009-05-01 4018
Battle of Solferino: Austrians defeated by French and Sardinian forces 2011-12-30 1319
Battle of Solway Moss: English defeat the Scots 2010-01-01 2530
Battle of Southwold Bay 2010-02-01 1197
Battle of St Fagans 2010-02-01 3106
Battle of St. Julien 2010-03-01 1201
Battle of Stadtlohn 2011-02-01 2791
Battle of Staffarda 2011-04-01 2373
Battle of Stalingrad 2010-02-01 1583
Battle of Stangebro 2011-02-01 1817
Battle of Steinau 2011-02-01 2267
Battle of Storkyro leads to Russian domination of Finland 2011-04-01 1871
Battle of Stormberg: British are defeated 2011-12-30 2151
Battle of Stow on the Wold 2010-02-01 2074
Battle of Talavera 2010-02-01 2899
Battle of Talikota 2010-03-01 1835
Battle of Tannenberg 2010-02-01 1304
Battle of Tannenberg II 2010-03-01 2232
Battle of Tel-el-Kebir: British re-occupy Egypt 2011-03-01 1686
Battle of the Boyne 2007-12-12 4957
Battle of the Bridge of Dessau 2011-02-01 2627
Battle of the Bulge 2010-02-01 1337
Battle of the Downs 2010-02-01 2034
Battle of the Downs 2011-04-01 1382
Battle of the Dunes (Battle of Dunkirk) 2010-02-01 1971
Battle of the Frontiers 2010-02-01 1371
Battle of the Gabbard 2011-03-01 1608
Battle of the Kentish Knock 2011-03-01 836
Battle of the Lys 2010-03-01 1434
Battle of the Monongahela 2010-02-01 3299
Battle of the Nations 2429
Battle of the Nile (Aboukir) 2010-02-01 2757
Battle of the Philippine Sea 2010-02-01 1590
Battle of the Plains of Abraham 2010-02-01 2662
Battle of the Pyramids 2010-03-01 2316
Battle of the Rishki Pass 2009-05-01 2545
Battle of the Ristigouche 2010-02-01 2856
Battle of the River Niemen 2010-03-01 1570
Battle of The Saints 2010-03-01 1676
Battle of the Somme 2004-02-24 3846
Battle of the Texel 2010-01-01 1458
Battle of the Texel (or Scheveningen) 2011-03-01 1558
Battle of the Thames, Canada 2010-03-01 3638
Battle of The Trebbia 2010-03-01 2382
Battle of the White Mountain 2010-02-01 2634
Battle of Tinchebray 2012-07-31 2232
Battle of Tornavento 2011-02-01 2070
Battle of Torrington 2010-02-01 2089
Battle of Toulouse 2009-05-01 2088
Battle of Tours (Poitiers) 2009-05-01 2125
Battle of Trafalgar 2004-10-24 4433
Battle of Trocadero 2010-02-01 1990
Battle of Ulm 2010-02-01 2756
Battle of Valmy 2010-02-01 2936
Battle of Vaslui 2009-05-01 2283
Battle of Verdun 2010-02-01 1267
Battle of Villmergen 2011-04-01 1659
Battle of Villmergen 2011-04-01 1724
Battle of Vincy 2009-05-01 4951
Battle of Vitoria 2010-03-01 2280
Battle of Wadi Bekka 2009-05-01 2686
Battle of Wagram 2010-02-01 2550
Battle of Wandiwash 2011-12-30 2344
Battle of Warsaw in the Great Northern War 2011-04-01 1725
Battle of Weissenberg: French are defeated by Crown Prince Frederick 2011-12-30 1199
Battle of Wenden 2011-02-01 1910
Battle of Wiesloch 2011-02-01 1907
Battle of Wimpfen 2011-02-01 1840
Battle of Winceby 2010-02-01 2319
Battle of Wittstock 2011-02-01 2527
Battle of Wolfenbüttel 2011-02-01 1930
Battle of Worcester 2010-02-01 2029
Battle of Xaquixaguana ends the separatist movement in Peru 2010-11-01 2146
Battle of Yellow Ford: Hugh O'Neill defeats the English 2010-03-01 2303
Battle of Yorktown 2010-02-01 3160
Battle of Yungay 2010-02-01 1987
Battle of Zab 2009-05-01 2698
Battle of Zborov 2010-03-01 2021
Battles at Werben 2011-02-01 1264
Battles of Lexington and Concord lead to the siege of Boston 2010-02-01 3278
Bavaria and Cologne intervene in the war on behalf of the Emperor 2011-04-01 2454
Bavaria and Wurttemburg support Prussia's commercial policy 2011-12-30 1177
Bavaria joins the Schmalkaldic League despite being a Catholic state 2010-11-01 8120
Bavaria passes to Charles Theodore, Elector Palatine 2010-03-01 1362
Bavarian Constitution proclaimed 2010-03-01 1384
Bavarian government troops capture Munich 2011-03-01 798
Bayt al-Hikmah (House of Wisdom) founded in Baghdad 2009-05-01 1887
BCS theory of superconductivity proposed 2009-05-01 1153
Beast Epic 2001-11-01 6094
Beaune, Dijon and Autun revolt against Henry IV 2011-02-01 2611
Beccaria, Cesare 2002-09-15 6308
Bechuanaland is placed under a British governor 2011-12-30 1031
Bede’s On the Reckoning of Time published 2009-05-01 1813
Bedford Whigs join Government 2010-03-01 1514
Bedlam 2012-07-31 1930
Beginning of Icelandic Commonwealth; Althing founded 2009-05-01 1906
Beginning of Russian advance into Persia 2011-12-30 1333
Beginning of trade between Russia and China 2011-04-01 1381
Beginnings of Armenian nationalist revolutionary movement 2011-12-30 1003
Beginnings of native segregation in Natal 2011-12-30 1325
Beginnings of the English reconquest of the Danelaw 2009-05-01 2801
Bela Kun's Hungarian Socialist régime overthrown 2011-03-01 1785
Belgian common policy agreed 2010-03-01 1504
Belgian Congress proclaims Leopold of Saxe-Coburg King 2011-12-30 878
Belgian Congress votes for monarchy 2011-12-30 782
Belgian Constitution proclaimed 2011-12-30 727
Belgian Labour Party is founded 2011-12-30 1084
Belgian War of Independence 2010-02-01 2020
Belgians capture Dixmude 2010-03-01 1140
Belgians elect French Duc de Nemours as their king 2011-12-30 1179
Belgians suppress rising of Arab slave-holders in Upper Congo 2011-12-30 1386
Belgium attacks the Garenganze kingdom 2010-02-01 1705
Belgium to gain part of German South-West Africa 2011-03-01 1235
Belgo-Dutch agreement on River Scheldt 2010-03-01 1091
Belgrade captured by the Ottomans 2010-03-01 1629
Belgrade liberated 2010-03-01 1078
Benazir Bhutto becomes Pakistani leader 2010-02-01 1172
Benedict XIII is elected Pope 2011-04-01 1207
Bengal becomes independent under Alivardi Khan 2011-04-01 1654
Bengal captured by the Mughal Empire 2010-11-01 1899
Bengal partitioned 2010-02-01 1676
Benito Mussolini founds Fasci del Combattimento 2010-03-01 1813
Benito Mussolini seizes power in Italy 2010-02-01 1265
Benjamin Disraeli becomes leader of Conservative Party 2011-12-30 1480
Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister for the second time 2013-08-30 2156
Benjamin Franklin publishes his Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind 2010-03-01 1731
Benjamin Franklin shows that lightning is electricity 2009-05-01 1068
Benjamin Harrison is elected President of USA 2011-12-30 1492
Benjamin Harrison, Republican, inaugurated as US President 2011-12-30 1339
Bennelong and Yermmerawannie go to England 2010-03-01 1826
Berlin conference demands nationalisation of industries 2010-03-01 994
Berlin Memorandum of Germany, Russia and Austria to Turkey 2011-12-30 1264
Berlin Post 'Is War in Sight?' article starts war scare 2011-12-30 2304
Bernadino de Mendoza arrives in England as Spanish ambassador 2011-02-01 1662
Bernadotte succeeds Swedish throne 2010-03-01 1091
Bernard Rothmann invites Dutch Anabaptists to Munster 2010-11-01 2309
Berne restores Gex and Chablais to Savoy 2011-02-01 958
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar takes Breisach 2011-02-01 1085
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar takes Rheinfelden from the imperialists 2011-02-01 1044
Bernhard von Bülow made German chancellor 2011-03-01 1307
Bernstorff recalled to office 2010-03-01 1006
Berwick and Carlisle seized 2010-02-01 2401
Beverley Grammar School founded 2009-05-01 1330
Biafra capitulates to Nigerian forces 2010-02-01 1052
Big Bang theory first proposed by Georges Lemaître 2009-05-01 979
Bill against Queen Caroline dropped 2010-03-01 1750
Bill of Pains and Penalties against Princess Caroline 2010-03-01 1471
Bill of Rights (England) 2005-01-01 7150
Bill of Rights (USA) 2631
Bill of Rights is amended 2011-04-01 2083
Bill on Church of England's right to run private schools 2011-04-01 2060
Bill proposes increasing German army 2010-01-01 1065
Bill suspends Home Rule and Welsh Church bills 2010-03-01 1676
Bill to Amend the Law on Married Women’s Property 2010-01-01 2957
Bill to repeal Septennial Act defeated 2010-03-01 1637
Birmingham Political Union 2010-02-01 1683
Birmingham Reform demonstrations 2010-03-01 1839
Birr Castle 72-inch optical reflecting telescope built 2009-05-01 1320
Birth control pill comes in use 2010-03-01 1219
Birth of Comte de Chambord 2011-03-01 1783
Birth of François-Charles-Joseph 2010-03-01 1739
Birth of genetics: genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity 2009-05-01 1668
Birth of James II's son 2011-03-01 2211
Birth of Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender 2011-04-01 1236
Birth of Prince Imperial in France 2011-12-30 948
Birth of Prince of Wales, heir to British throne 2011-12-30 883
Birth of the Dauphin 2011-04-01 966
Bishop Hooper of Gloucester is burnt at Smithfield for heresy 2011-02-01 3419
Bishop John Juxon is appointed Lord Treasurer of England 2011-02-01 2051
Bishop Latimer is sent to the Tower of London 2010-11-01 3340
Bishops Shaxton and Latimer resign on doctrinal grounds 2010-11-01 3740
Bismarck begins struggle with Catholic Church 2011-12-30 1314
Bismarck introduces health insurance schemes in Germany 2011-12-30 882
Bismarck obtains indemnity from Prussian Diet 2011-12-30 1406
Bismarck passes County Organisation bill to remodel Prussian government 2011-12-30 1092
Bismarck reminds Russia of the Germano-Austrian alliance 2011-12-30 972
Bismarck reveals the secret 1887 Russo-German Reinsurance Treaty 2011-12-30 1114
Bismarck's 'Blood and Iron' speech 2011-12-30 4122
Bitter Parliamentary conflict in Italy 2010-03-01 1263
Bitterness between Catholics and Protestants at the Ratisbon Imperial Diet 2011-02-01 1703
Black Death appears in Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Britain and North Africa 2012-07-31 1902
Black hole entropy 2009-05-01 1113
Black holes within galaxies theory 2009-05-01 1336
Black slaves carried to Virginia on a Dutch ship 2010-03-01 2058
Blackbody radiation hypothesis formulated 2009-05-01 1702
Blake destroys pirate fleet from Bey of Tunis 2011-03-01 1593
Bland-Allison bill reintroduces silver standard in USA 2011-12-30 1543
Blandford-Znajek Process developed - model for the extraction of energy from a black hole 2009-05-01 1397
Blank Verse 2001-11-01 6814
Blasphemy Act 2010-02-01 1130
Blasphemy Act is passed at Westminster 2011-04-01 2274
Bleeding Kansas 2010-03-01 2309
Blockade of Crete by the powers begins 2011-12-30 1075
Bloemfontein Conference fails to produce agreement on Transvaal 2011-12-30 1979
Bloody Sunday 2004-12-04 3297
Board of Agriculture founded 2007-01-01 2036
Body of Liberties set up by General Court of Massachusetts Bay Company 2011-02-01 1055
Boer guerrillas raid British outposts 2010-03-01 2005
Boer rebellion against British in South Africa 2010-03-01 1801
Boer republic of Stellaland founded in Bechuanaland 2011-12-30 1542
Boers defeated at Boomplatz by British forces 2011-12-30 1917
Boers surrender 2010-02-01 2630
Bohemia becomes independent from Moravia 2009-05-01 1929
Bohemia declares its independence 2009-05-01 1880
Bohemia is divided into Czech, German and mixed districts 2011-12-30 789
Bohemian army attacks the imperial garrison of Budweis 2011-02-01 2754
Bohemian Estates recognise Archduke Ferdinand of Styria as heir 2011-02-01 2473
Bohemian language ordinances of 1897 are repealed 2011-12-30 2053
Bohemian Peasants revolt 2010-03-01 2329
Bohr, Niels 2000-10-28 5466
Bohr's atomic model generalised and refined 2010-03-01 2638
Bolingbroke and Pulteney create the Craftsman journal to attack Walpole 2011-04-01 964
Bolingbroke becomes advisor to the exiled James III 2011-04-01 1783
Bolingbroke is impeached 2011-04-01 1636
Bolivar invades Venezuela from Haiti 2010-03-01 1296
Bolivar is President of Republic of Colombia 2010-03-01 1239
Bolivar organises independent government 2010-03-01 1170
Bolivia-Chile boundary is fixed 2011-12-30 648
Bolshevik (October) Revolution 2010-02-01 1852
Bolshevik-German Armistice 2010-02-01 1533
Bolsheviks take Novorossiisk on Black Sea 2010-03-01 1017
Boltzmann equation stated 2009-05-01 1063
Bolzano’s theorem 2009-05-01 1393
Bombardment of Beirut by British to force Mehemet Ali to submit 2011-12-30 1290
Bombay passes to the control of the English East India Company 2011-04-01 1328
Bonaparte advises the Directory against an invasion of England 2010-02-01 3063
Bonaparte and Orleans families are banished from France 2011-12-30 1055
Bonaparte becomes President of Italian Republic 2011-03-01 1511
Bonaparte consul for life 2010-02-01 3235
Bonaparte declares French Empire 2007-12-02 1886
Bonaparte defeats Austrians at Rivoli 2011-03-01 2898
Bonaparte promises Tuscany to Duke of Parma 2010-03-01 2395
Bonaparte reaappoints Talleyrand 2011-03-01 3165
Bonaparte takes Toulon 2011-03-01 2428
Bonn is captured by Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg 2011-04-01 1849
Book of Common Prayer prescribed for Church of Scotland 2010-02-01 3136
Booth's Uprising 2010-02-01 5340
Border warfare between England and Scotland intensifies 2010-11-01 1976
Boris Godunov formally elected Tsar of Russia 2011-02-01 1263
Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia 2011-02-01 1089
Boris Stürmer becomes Russian premier 2010-03-01 1446
Borno is made capital of the Kanuri Empire 2010-03-01 1443
Borromean League of Seven Swiss Catholic Cantons is formed 2011-02-01 1544
Boscawen defeats French off Cape St. Vincent 2011-12-30 1561
Boshin War 2010-02-01 1941
Boston Massacre 2007-12-12 3703
Boston protests against new taxes 2010-03-01 1206
Boston Tea Party 2007-12-02 2329
Both Houses pass Third Reform Bill 2013-08-30 3936
Botha meets Kitchener at Middelburg 2010-03-01 1538
Bothwell carries off Mary Queen of Scots to Dunbar 2011-02-01 2286
Bottle Riots in Dublin 2011-12-30 1481
Boulanger begins campaign for revision of constitution 2011-12-30 1369
Boulanger flees France fearing trial for treason 2011-12-30 1347
Boulanger is retired from the French army 2011-12-30 1618
Boulanger's popularity increases 2011-12-30 1453
Boundaries of Montenegro are fixed 2011-12-30 1156
Boundary between Sierra Leone and Liberia is defined 2011-12-30 838
Boundary between the US and Canada established 2010-03-01 1210
Bourbon Family Compact between France and Spain 2011-12-30 2362
Bourbon retires from Provence 2010-11-01 999
Bourbons of Naples accept armistice with Sicily 2011-12-30 1325
Boustrophedon 2002-03-01 6788
Boxers rising in China against Europeans 2010-03-01 2303
Boxers society founded in China to combat westernisation 2011-12-30 1413
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali stripped of his title 2010-03-01 1473
Boycott, land agent in Mayo, is 'boycotted' 2011-12-30 875
Boyle's Law 2010-02-01 2286
Boyne treaty between France and England 2011-04-01 2417
Bradford, William. Mourt's Relation 1622 2008-03-24 2573
Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation 1650 2008-03-24 2660
Brandenburg and Neuburg agree to partition Jülich-Cleves 2011-04-01 1156
Brandenburg East African Company builds fortresses on Guinea coast 2011-04-01 1481
Brandenburg establishes standing army 2011-04-01 981
Brandenburg forms a defensive alliance with Sweden 2011-04-01 1029
Brandenburg makes an offensive alliance with Denmark 2011-04-01 1206
Brandenburg signs two-year treaty of neutrality with Sweden 2011-02-01 1328
Brass Crosby detained for printing paliamentary debates 2010-03-01 1581
Brazil ceded to the Portuguese and Ceylon to the Dutch 2011-04-01 1509
Brazil declares independence from Portugal 2010-01-01 1221
Brazil declares war against Argentina 2011-12-30 1175
Brazil leaves League of Nations 2010-02-01 1359
Brazil ruled directly by Portugal from a new capital at Bahia 2010-03-01 1576
Brazilian Constitution establishes hereditary monarchy and two chambers 2011-12-30 1110
Brazilian dictator deposed 2010-02-01 1313
Brazilian Emperor appoints Dom Miguel lieutenant of Portugal 2011-12-30 913
Brazilian Fascist State launched 2010-02-01 1228
Brazilian military coup 2010-02-01 1122
Brazilian military revolution 2010-02-01 1249
Bread riots in Milan are put down with heavy loss of life 2011-12-30 1382
Breisach Parlement adjudges French sovereignty in Alsace 2011-04-01 1434
Breslau and Goeben escape through Dardanelles 2010-03-01 1057
Breslau sunk in Dardanelles 2010-03-01 1437
Bribery Act 2010-02-01 1957
Bridgewater Canal opens 2005-06-21 1754
Brienne is dismissed 2010-03-01 1175
Bristol retaken by Parliamentary army 2010-01-01 2348
Bristol Riots after rejection of Reform Bill 2011-12-30 3156
Bristol taken by Royalists 2011-03-01 2112
Britain accedes to Russian-Empire alliance 2011-04-01 1118
Britain accepts Count Berchtold's project 2010-03-01 1378
Britain adopts a standard railway gauge 2013-08-30 1518
Britain agrees to evacuate Egypt in three years 2011-12-30 1185
Britain agrees to stop convict transportation to Van Diemen's Land 2013-08-30 1958
Britain agrees to the annexation of Swaziland by the Transvaal 2011-12-30 716
Britain aids Canada by denouncing its treaties with Belgium and Germany 2011-12-30 1150
Britain and America call for cessation of arms 2010-03-01 2695
Britain and France conclude alliance with Turkey against Russia 2011-12-30 1329
Britain and France recognise independence of Hawaii 2011-12-30 1404
Britain and France recognise independence of Zanzibar 2011-12-30 1362
Britain and France refuse to support Baghdad Railway 2010-03-01 1994
Britain and Holland define their boundaries in Borneo 2011-12-30 1132
Britain and Holland join the League of Augsburg 2011-04-01 1763
Britain and the USA sign the Jay Treaty 2010-02-01 2266
Britain and U.S. guarantee France 2010-03-01 1073
Britain and USA agree to share a proposed Panama canal 2011-12-30 1425
Britain annexes Cyprus 2010-03-01 1082
Britain annexes East African Protectorate 2011-03-01 987
Britain annexes Oudh 2010-01-01 1498
Britain annexes Pondoland 2011-12-30 1979
Britain annexes St. Lucia Bay to Natal 2011-12-30 2210
Britain annexes the Transvaal 2010-01-01 1992
Britain annexes Togoland to block Transvaal's access to sea 2011-12-30 1142
Britain annexes Walvis Bay on south-west African coast 2011-12-30 1163
Britain annexes Zululand 2011-12-30 1968
Britain attempts to mediate between Austria and Prussia 2011-04-01 1338
Britain blockaded by Napoleon 2010-02-01 2910
Britain buys the possessions of the Niger Company 2011-12-30 811
Britain captures colonies but abandons Corsica 2010-03-01 2626
Britain captures new colonies in the Caribbean 2011-12-30 1252
Britain ceases to subsidise Prussia 2011-12-30 1172
Britain claims reparation from Spain 2011-04-01 1354
Britain controls oil properties in Persian Gulf 2010-03-01 1337
Britain decides on re-conquest of Sudan 2011-12-30 1158
Britain decides to declare war on Russia if she occupied Constantinople 2011-12-30 980
Britain decides to send fleet to Constantinople 2011-12-30 1324
Britain declares blockade of French coast and allies 2010-03-01 1475
Britain declares Monroe Doctrine not binding on European countries 2011-12-30 1328
Britain declares war against Spain 2011-04-01 1328
Britain declares war against Spain and Naples 2011-12-30 1218
Britain declares war on France 2007-12-12 2095
Britain declares war on Holland 2010-03-01 1637
Britain declares war on Persia 2010-02-01 2000
Britain declares war on Prussia 2011-03-01 1056
Britain declares war on Spain 2011-04-01 1250
Britain demands a contingent of 6000 troops from Holland 2011-12-30 1358
Britain ends alliance with Austria 2011-12-30 1072
Britain ends isolation by signing treaty with Japan 2010-03-01 1044
Britain ends restrictions on Irish trade 2010-03-01 1450
Britain engages Hessian mercenaries for the defence of Hanover 2011-04-01 1674
Britain enlarges navy 2010-03-01 1497
Britain establishes protectorate over Ionian Islands 2010-03-01 1626
Britain establishes protectorate over section of Somali coast 2011-12-30 826
Britain experiences serious economic and commercial crisis 2010-02-01 2009
Britain forced to pay millions of dollars of damages to USA 2011-12-30 1604
Britain formally annexes Transvaal 2010-03-01 1792
Britain gains Pemba and Zanzibar; Germany gains Heligoland 2010-01-01 1334
Britain grants self-government to Tasmania and New Zealand 2011-12-30 1580
Britain helps Austria with money and troops 2010-03-01 1272
Britain invades Afghanistan 2011-12-30 1273
Britain joins Austro-Russian alliance against Prussia 2011-04-01 1306
Britain joins the Treaty of Madrid 2011-04-01 1206
Britain makes compromise settlement with Russia over Afghanistan frontier 2011-12-30 823
Britain occupies Cyprus 2010-01-01 2341
Britain occupies Port Hamilton, Korea 2011-12-30 813
Britain occupies Uganda and Buganda 2010-01-01 935
Britain places embargo on French and Dutch ships 2010-03-01 1456
Britain proclaims protectorate over North Bechuanaland 2011-12-30 891
Britain proclaims protectorate over Southern New Guinea 2011-12-30 1084
Britain proposes full discussions on Morocco 2013-08-30 829
Britain recognises International Association of the Congo 2011-12-30 1234
Britain refuses Queensland's request to annex New Guinea 2011-12-30 1341
Britain rejects Austro-Russian proposal for blockade of Piraeus 2011-12-30 1151
Britain removes the Khedive of Egypt and replace him with Taufiq 2010-01-01 1268
Britain renounces the Asiento by treaty with Spain 2011-04-01 1067
Britain repeals Schism Act and Act of Occasional Conformity 2011-04-01 1380
Britain restricts limits of blockade 2010-03-01 1454
Britain secures the neutrality of Russia 2011-04-01 1170
Britain seizes Danish and Swedish islands 2010-03-01 1479
Britain separates Colonial and War Secretaryships 2011-12-30 1398
Britain sets up Coal Commission 2010-03-01 830
Britain shifts its calendar, making 1st January the start of the New Year 2011-04-01 1091
Britain signs peace with Zulu chiefs 2011-12-30 1112
Britain signs treaty of commerce with Madagascar 2011-12-30 767
Britain signs treaty with Uganda 2010-03-01 813
Britain steps in to stop massacre of Armenians 2010-01-01 1383
Britain supports Portugal against Spain by sending troops to Tagus 2010-01-01 1711
Britain takes Baji Rao and Peshwa of Poona's dominions 2010-03-01 1524
Britain takes control of the Boer Republic of Natal 2010-01-01 2940
Britain takes Seychelles, Martinique, St. Lucia and Guadaloupe 2010-03-01 2018
Britain takes St. Lucia from French 2010-03-01 1802
Britain threatens war with Russia but cannot find back-up 2011-12-30 1446
Britain undertakes to pay subsidies to Maria Theresa 2011-04-01 1435
Britain warn Russia against blockading Suez or occupying Egypt 2011-12-30 942
Britain warns against French occupation of Upper Nile 2011-12-30 1061
Britain will resist establishment of Persian Gulf base 2010-03-01 1610
Britain-Germany Yangtze Agreement 2010-03-01 3447
Britain, Austria and France state conditions of peace with Russia 2011-12-30 1510
Britain, Austria and Italy sign treaty to maintain status quo in Near East 2011-12-30 1072
Britain, France and Austria guarantee Turkish independence 2011-12-30 1034
Britain, France and Italy sign secret convention 2010-03-01 1046
Britain, France, Spain and Portugal ally in support of liberal constitutions 2011-12-30 1545
Britain, USA and Germany recognise the King of Samoa 2011-12-30 1227
Britain's 'Khaki' election: Conservatives retain power 2010-03-01 1467
British 'undertakers' for the plantation of Ulster 2011-02-01 1372
British abandon Tangiers to the Moors 2011-04-01 1130
British acquire fiscal rights in Isle of Man 2010-03-01 1128
British Act of Parliament for legalising trade unions 2011-12-30 1253
British Act of Parliament separates Gambia from Sierra Leone 2011-12-30 1200
British agreement with Maria Theresa is extended to provide troops 2011-04-01 1335
British Air Force sinks German pocket-battleship Bismarck 2010-02-01 974
British and Arab forces occupy Damascus 2010-03-01 1804
British and French forces try to besiege Sebastopol 2011-12-30 1464
British and French public radio broadcasts 2010-02-01 959
British and Irish parties disagree 2010-03-01 1033
British and Portuguese enter Madrid 2011-04-01 2584
British annexe New Netherlands from Connecticut to Delaware 2011-04-01 1628
British Anti-Slavery Society founded 2007-12-12 2619
British are defeated at Almanza 2011-04-01 2603
British attack on Cartagena and Cuba fails 2011-04-01 1377
British attack on Ostend 2010-03-01 1105
British besiege Fort Beausejour 2010-02-01 3665
British Board of Agriculture founded 2011-12-30 1292
British bombardment of Copenhagen 2010-03-01 1004
British budget removes export duties and reduces import tariffs 2010-01-01 1592
British cabinet changes 2010-03-01 1378
British cabinet fears further Russian aggression 2011-12-30 845
British Cabinet is reconstructed, headed by John Carteret, Earl Granville 2011-04-01 1492
British capitulate to French at Klosterzeven 2011-12-30 1449
British capture Bapaume and Péronne on Western Front 2010-03-01 784
British capture Minorca 2011-04-01 2432
British capture of Acre forces Ibrahim to evacuate all Syria 2011-12-30 1267
British check French at Albuhera 2011-03-01 955
British Civil Service becomes open to competitive examination 2011-12-30 1230
British colonial governments for Quebec, Florida and Grenada 2010-03-01 1991
British Columbia joins Dominion of Canada 2011-12-30 1265
British Columbia organised as a colony 2011-12-30 1191
British Commonwealth established 2010-02-01 1214
British conquer French Senegal 2011-12-30 1336
British conquest of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa 2010-02-01 4018
British defeat Sikhs at Gujrat 2011-12-30 1311
British defeat U.S. at Queenston Heights 2010-03-01 1769
British defeated at King's Mountain 2010-03-01 2468
British East Africa Company is chartered 2011-12-30 864
British East Africa Company occupies Uganda 2011-12-30 733
British East India and New East India Companies are merged 2011-04-01 1573
British establish protectorate over Niger River region 2011-12-30 991
British expedition against Acadia lands 2011-04-01 1474
British expedition to Cadiz fails 2011-04-01 1828
British expedition to Ethiopia 2011-12-30 1110
British Factory Act extends terms of previous acts 2011-12-30 1308
British first use tanks on Western Front 2010-03-01 1624
British fleet blockades Piraeus 2011-12-30 1722
British fleet bombards Canton 2011-12-30 1268
British fleet forces way through Dardanelles 2010-03-01 1314
British fleet is sent into Black Sea 2011-12-30 1350
British fleet ordered to assemble off Dardanelles 2011-12-30 1262
British force lands at Vladivostok 2010-03-01 998
British forces annex Lower Burma 2011-12-30 1153
British forces burn Buffalo 2010-03-01 1558
British forces recapture Cawnpore 2011-12-30 1024
British forces support Portuguese Queen Maria 2011-12-30 1328
British free trade legislation begins 2011-12-30 1231
British frigate Leopard fires on American warship Chesapeake 2010-03-01 2030
British general election 2010-03-01 1128
British general election confirms Lord Salisbury's majority 2011-12-30 1344
British general election gives Irish Home-Rulers the balance of power 2011-12-30 1522
British general election produces a hung parliament 2011-12-30 1293
British government abandons Home Rule 2011-03-01 1053
British government takes over Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast 2011-12-30 1317
British government takes over South Wales coalfield 2010-03-01 1468
British High Commissioner in South Africa delivers ultimatum to Zulus 2011-12-30 1775
British House of Commons reduces powers of Lords 2010-03-01 780
British Indian Army subdues Sikhs in the Punjab 2010-02-01 2065
British Labour organisations appoint Council of Action 2010-03-01 1525
British land at Quiberon 2011-03-01 2360
British launch battle of Neuve Chapelle 2010-03-01 1262
British launch West Desert Offensive 2010-02-01 1514
British Liberal party adopts the radical 'Newcastle Programme' 2011-12-30 1601
British military expedition takes St Eustatius from the Dutch 2011-04-01 1536
British Military Service Act in force 2010-03-01 964
British National Registration Act 2010-03-01 834
British naval bill passes 2010-03-01 886
British naval forces attack Canton 2010-02-01 2221
British Navigation Acts are finally repealed 2011-12-30 1158
British navy prevents Neapolitans and Spaniards from taking Lombardy 2011-04-01 1912
British navy takes Barcelona 2011-04-01 2553
British Niger Company proclaims protectorate over Busa and Nikki 2011-12-30 787
British occupation of Cyprus is confirmed 2011-12-30 904
British occupy Cape of Good Hope 2010-03-01 2653
British offensive near Ypres 2010-03-01 1421
British Orders-in-Council restricting U.S. trade revoked 2010-03-01 1832
British oust French from Pondicherry, south-east India 2007-12-02 2450
British ousted from Calcutta by Mogul forces 2010-02-01 2325
British Parliament dissolved 2010-03-01 1198
British Parliament establishes a council to make laws for Lower Canada 2011-12-30 1379
British Parliament is adjourned 2011-04-01 1021
British Parliament orders reinforcement of the Mediterranean fleet 2011-04-01 1596
British plunder St Augustine in Florida in the war with Spain 2011-04-01 2871
British Possessions Act gives Canada the right to fix tariffs 2011-12-30 1453
British Prince Alfred marries Russian Princess Marie Alexandrovna 2011-12-30 739
British protectorate in Ashanti (Ghana) proclaimed 2011-12-30 1493
British railwaymen, under John Burns, strike 2010-03-01 1221
British raise siege of Barcelona by French 2011-04-01 2562
British rebate question: EEC Summit collapses 2010-02-01 927
British recapture Calcutta from Mogul forces 2010-02-01 2482
British Redistribution of Seats Bill is enacted 2011-12-30 1394
British relief force arrives at Khartoum and the Sudan is evacuated 2011-12-30 1148
British replace French; reforming navy in Naples 2011-03-01 1705
British Representation of the People Act gives the vote to women over the age of 30 2010-02-01 1944
British restrains China regarding Tibet 2010-03-01 1612
British royal family renounces German titles 2010-03-01 1165
British Royal Navy bombards Alexandria 2011-12-30 1350
British Royal Niger Company is chartered 2011-12-30 803
British sign an ineffectual treaty with the Dutch 2011-04-01 1077
British South Africa Company established 2007-12-12 1635
British South Africa Company founds Salisbury in Mashonaland 2011-12-30 1191
British South Africa Company organises territory into Rhodesia 2011-12-30 1262
British Stamp Duties are reduced from 4d. to 1d. 2011-12-30 1352
British suppress Canadian revolts in Ontario and Quebec 2011-03-01 1787
British suppress rising of Ashanti 2010-03-01 1668
British Supreme Court of Judicature and Court of Appeal are established 2011-12-30 1384
British take Amarah on River Tigris 2011-03-01 1638
British take Fort Duquesne 2010-01-01 3211
British take Gaza 2010-03-01 1764
British take Gibraltar 2011-04-01 2294
British take Masulipatam 2011-12-30 1811
British take Maubeuge 2010-03-01 917
British take Port Royal (Annapolis) in Acadia 2011-04-01 4792
British take Rangoon 2011-12-30 1542
British take Sardinia 2011-04-01 2177
British troops are defeated at Brihuega 2011-04-01 2726
British troops land in France 2010-03-01 836
British troops occupy Benin in protest at human sacrifices 2011-12-30 1264
British troops occupy Mandalay 2011-12-30 1278
British troops recalled by Duke of Wellington from Portugal 2011-12-30 1245
British troops sent to Northern Ireland to keep peace 2010-02-01 1146
British troops take Dar-es-Salaam 2010-03-01 2669
British vessels prohibited from carrying corn to Germany 2010-03-01 1289
British victory at Alminara 2011-04-01 2579
British War Office Act subordinates Commander-in-Chief to Secretary of State 2011-12-30 944
British, French and Dutch fleets attack Japan in Shimonoseki Straits 2011-12-30 1442
Britsh forces occupy the Faroe Islands 2009-05-01 951
Bruges becomes the cultural and commercial capital of northern Europe 2010-03-01 1100
Brussels Conference for abolition of slave trade 2011-12-30 969
Brussels conference on Germany's reparations 2010-03-01 1020
Brussels falls to Marshal Saxe after a siege 2011-04-01 1270
Bryant & May Match Girls’s Strike 2013-08-30 1413
Bubonic plague breaks our in Constantinople 2009-05-01 1706
Bubonic plague decimates a quarter of London's inhabitants 2011-03-01 1258
Buchlau conference 2010-03-01 3311
Buckle, Henry Thomas 2002-03-27 6348
Buda and Pest are united to form the capital of Hungary 2011-12-30 859
Buenos Aires adopts a separate constitution from Argentina 2011-12-30 658
Buenos Aires attacked by British 2010-03-01 806
Buenos Aires is defeated by federal Argentine troops 2011-12-30 771
Buenos Aires surrenders to British 2010-03-01 901
Bulgaria annexes east Rumelia and defeats Serbia 2010-01-01 1684
Bulgaria converts to Christianity 2009-05-01 1455
Bulgaria elects Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg as King 2011-12-30 1114
Bulgaria rebels against the Ottoman Empire 2010-02-01 1960
Bulgaria signs armistice with Allies 2010-03-01 1411
Bulgaria signs military alliances with Germany and Turkey 2010-03-01 1185
Bulgaria under Simeon I defeats the Byzantine army 2009-05-01 1494
Bulgarian independence 2010-02-01 1042
Bulgarians are forced to withdraw from Serbia 2011-12-30 1141
Bullion Report 2010-02-01 2081
Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform defeated 2010-03-01 1663
Burgers is elected President of Transvaal Republic 2011-12-30 959
Burgoyne capitulates to Americans 2010-03-01 2350
Burke proposes economic reform 2010-03-01 1583
Burke secures Fox's defeat 2010-03-01 2366
Burlesque 2001-11-01 7387
Burma and Ceylon gain independence 2010-02-01 1316
Burma Road opens 2010-02-01 1798
Burnett Immigration bill passed 2010-03-01 1800
Burnings of Protestants provokes disillusionment with Mary's reign 2011-02-01 1952
Burr Plot 2010-03-01 1518
Bury, John 2002-03-27 7376
Butros Ghali, premier of Egypt, assassinated 2010-03-01 1200
By the Treaty of Gyalu, John Zápolya's widow cedes Hungary to Ferdinand 2010-11-01 2929
By the Treaty of Pilsen, Bavaria renews alliance with Empire 2011-04-01 1445
By Treaty of Bologna Pope Leo X surrenders Parma and Piacenza to France 2010-11-01 1395
By Treaty of Geneva the Swiss sign a peace with France 2010-11-01 2024
By treaty with Ethiopia, Britain abandons certain claims in Somaliland 2011-12-30 741
Byzantine emperor Leo V assassinated in Hagia Sophia 2009-05-01 1459
Byzantine emperor Michael I recognizes Charlemagne as emperor of the west 2009-05-01 3049
Byzantine expansions in the Middle East 2009-05-01 1410
Cadiz sacked by the English 2010-11-01 1620
Caesar defeats Pompey 2010-02-01 1523
Caesar’s expeditions to Britain 2010-02-01 3088
Cahir O'Dogherty of Tyrone raises rebellion in Ulster 2011-02-01 2191
Calais captured by the French 2010-03-01 2471
California claimed for the USA 1316
Calonne appointed controller-general 2010-03-01 1184
Calonne banished to Lorraine 2010-03-01 1124
Calvinist Joachim Frederick succeeds as Elector of Brandenburg 2011-02-01 1735
Calvinist sectaries are annihilated at Austruweel 2011-02-01 1543
Calvinist-Catholic coalition in Holland 2011-12-30 939
Calvinistic First Book of Discipline becomes basis of Church of Scotland 2011-02-01 2225
Calvinists force the Elector of Trier to leave his Archbishopric 2011-02-01 1596
Calvinists in Holland and Zeeland seek concessions from Philip II 2011-02-01 1514
Calvinists, Lutherans and Moravians in Poland ally against the Jesuits 2011-02-01 2002
Cambrai falls to the Spanish 2011-02-01 2473
Camillo Borghese is elected Pope Paul V 2011-02-01 1412
Camillo Cavour is appointed minister in Piedmont 2011-12-30 1534
Camp David Peace Treaty 2010-02-01 1255
Campbell, Colen 2005-05-18 3240
Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet embark on social reforms 2010-03-01 1310
Campus Novel 2010-02-01 6311
Canada Act 2010-02-01 2070
Canada adopts voting by ballot on a single day 2011-12-30 881
Canada becomes a British Dominion 2010-01-01 1163
Canada Constitution Act 2010-03-01 1068
Canada purchases territories in north-west from Hudson Bay Company 2011-12-30 1099
Canadian and Australian Volunteers land in South Africa 2011-12-30 1876
Canadian Corn Act 2010-02-01 1723
Canadian government forces burn US steamer Caroline 2011-12-30 1149
Canadian Liberals urge reciprocity with USA after McKinley tariff 2011-12-30 1291
Canadian Pacific Railway Company founded 2011-12-30 1091
Canadian Parliament preserves union within British Empire 2010-03-01 1568
Canadians and British capture Passchendaele Ridge 2010-03-01 1545
Canal mania in the Midlands 2010-02-01 2156
Canberra founded 2010-03-01 2049
Cane toad introduced 2010-03-01 900
Canning recognises independence of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Colombia 2011-12-30 1162
Canning resigns from Liverpool's Cabinet 2010-03-01 1758
Canning returns to Cabinet 2010-03-01 1651
Cape Colony forbids landing of convicts 2011-12-30 1804
Cape Colony granted self-government 2010-01-01 2103
Cape Parliament rejects scheme for South African federation 2011-12-30 743
Cape railway reaches Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia 2011-12-30 1290
Cape railway reaches to Kimberley 2011-12-30 921
Cape Verde reached by Portuguese navigators 2010-01-01 2197
Capital of Uzbekistan captured by Russia 2010-01-01 1483
Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested 2010-02-01 1838
Captain Cook takes British possession of Australia 2010-01-01 3757
Captain Kidd battles pirates 2010-03-01 2133
Capucin monks ascend River Congo 2011-02-01 905
Carbon-12 resonance predicted 2009-05-01 1307
Cardinal Alberoni falls in Spain and is banished by Philip V 2011-04-01 1180
Cardinal Beaton is assassinated by pro-English party 2010-11-01 2042
Cardinal Beaton marches on Linlithgow with 600 men 2010-11-01 2100
Cardinal Beaton takes over the regency of Scotland 2010-11-01 1009
Cardinal Charles Lavigerie urges Frenchmen to rally to the constitution 2011-12-30 742
Cardinal David Beaton becomes chief adviser to James V of Scotland 2010-11-01 2014
Cardinal de Rohan Arrested in Diamond Necklace Affair 2011-03-01 1312
Cardinal Ferdinand de' Medici succeeds as Grand Duke of Tuscany 2011-02-01 973
Cardinal Fleury becomes Chief Minister in France 2011-04-01 2225
Cardinal Henry of Portugal becomes Regent for Sebastian I 2011-02-01 1098
Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal, dies 2011-02-01 1463
Cardinal Klesl, Bishop of Vienna, is arrested 2011-02-01 1275
Cardinal Mazarin and the Duke of Orleans are reconciled 2011-04-01 1307
Cardinal Mazarin is forced to flee from Paris 2011-04-01 2660
Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris; end of the Fronde 3811
Cardinal Mazarin signs treaty with the Duke of Modena 2011-04-01 1342
Cardinal Mercier protests Belgian deportation 2010-03-01 1832
Cardinal of Lorraine and Theodore Beza discuss the Hugenot problem 2011-02-01 2438
Cardinal Pole becomes Archbishop of Canterbury 2011-02-01 1855
Cardinal Pole fails to win Charles V's support for attacking England 2010-11-01 2557
Cardinal Pole is sent to return Henry VIII to the Church of Rome 2010-11-01 3242
Cardinal Richelieu begins the siege of La Rochelle 2011-02-01 2530
Cardinal Richelieu centralises French administration 2011-02-01 1244
Cardinal Richelieu concentrates power in his own hands 2011-02-01 1796
Cardinal Richelieu leads an expedition to Italy 2011-02-01 1272
Cardinal Richelieu signs a treaty of alliance with Spain 2011-02-01 1227
Cardinal Richelieu suppresses a conspiracy against him 2011-02-01 1602
Cardinal William Allen's manifesto justifying a Spanish invasion 2011-02-01 1570
Cardinal Wolsey devises the Peace of London 2010-11-01 2037
Cardinal Wolsey dissolves 22 religious houses 2010-11-01 3048
Cardinal Wolsey falls from power 2010-11-01 1730
Cardinal Wolsey gives Henry VIII Hampton Court 2010-11-01 1507
Cardinal Wolsey is arrested as a traitor and dies 2010-11-01 2394
Cardinal Wolsey is forced to abandon his proposed unparliamentary tax 2010-11-01 2779
Cardinal Wolsey is indicted in the Court of King's Bench 2010-11-01 2743
Cardinal Wolsey is restored to the archbishopric of York 2010-11-01 1946
Cardinal Wolsey mediates between Francis I and Charles V 2010-11-01 1812
Cardinal Wolsey meets Francis I to ratify the peace treaty 2010-11-01 1832
Cardinal Wolsey persuades French ambassador to detain Duke of Albany 2010-11-01 1629
Cardinal Ximenes increases repression of the Moors in Granada 2010-11-01 1305
Cardinals Campeggio and Wolsey open their legatine court 2010-11-01 2421
Carey Act: encourages irrigation in semi-arid western US states 2011-12-30 1146
Carl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen becomes Prince of Romania 2010-01-01 1384
Carlist Wars in Spain end 2011-12-30 1050
Carlsbad Decrees 2010-02-01 2194
Carnation Revolution: Portuguese military coup 2010-02-01 1513
Carolina is divided into North and South Carolina 2011-04-01 892
Carpe Diem 2001-11-01 5303
Carranza becomes provisional Mexican president 2010-03-01 1139
Carthusian monks are executed at Tyburn 2010-11-01 2836
Carthusian monks are found guilty of treason 2010-11-01 3135
Cartwright's power loom 2004-01-23 12399
Carvalho becomes First Minister in Portugal 2011-12-30 925
Casa Contratacion founded in Spain to deal with American affairs 2010-11-01 1487
Casablanca incident 2010-03-01 1117
Casimir effect predicted 2009-05-01 1049
Casimir IV of Poland dies 2010-11-01 1763
Casimir the Great becomes King of Poland 2010-03-01 1521
Castile and Aragon unite 2010-03-01 1260
CAT scanner developed in UK 2010-02-01 1186
Catachresis 2001-11-01 7329
Catalans defend Roussillon against the French 2011-02-01 1065
Catharsis 2001-11-01 12877
Catherine de Medici becomes Regent of France 2010-03-01 1284
Catherine de' Medici and Henry of Navarre meet near Cognac 2011-02-01 2190
Catherine de' Medici and the Duke of Alva plan eradication of Protestantism 2011-02-01 2645
Catherine de' Medici extends the power of the French Crown 2011-02-01 1522
Catherine de' Medici pays Duke of Savoy to keep French garrisons 2011-02-01 1175
Catherine de' Medici tours France to present her son Charles IX 2011-02-01 1470
Catherine II visits Crimea 2010-03-01 1170
Catherine of Aragon dies at Kimbolton 2010-11-01 1085
Catherine the Great confiscates ecclesiastical lands 2010-03-01 1097
Catherine the Great of Russia is born 2011-04-01 1123
Catholic and Protestant antagonism in Swiss Cantons 2010-11-01 1596
Catholic cantons of Switzerland ally with Spain 2011-02-01 1268
Catholic church establishes the Inquisition 2010-02-01 1715
Catholic Emancipation Act 2005-02-16 5336
Catholic Enterprise to depose Elizabeth I is revealed 2011-02-01 3067
Catholic League army lays siege to Meulan 2011-02-01 2161
Catholic League declares Navarre incapable of inheriting the throne 2011-02-01 2530
Catholic League orders Henry III to purge Huguenot sympathisers 2011-02-01 2930
Catholic oppression in Bohemia rouses national antipathy to the Emperor 2011-02-01 2633
Catholic princes meet to consider a Catholic League 2010-11-01 1858
Catholic Provinces secretly invite Archduke Matthias to Brussels 2011-02-01 1126
Catholic Relief Bill abandoned in Parliament 2010-03-01 1494
Catholic Relief Bill rejected by House of Lords 2010-02-01 2073
Catholic rising in Languedoc 2011-02-01 1228
Catholic troops capture Le Havre from the English 2010-03-01 2723
Catholicism is re-established in Cologne 2010-11-01 1744
Catholics obtain a majority in the Empire's Electoral College 2011-02-01 1208
Catinat takes Nice 2011-04-01 1649
Cauchy integral theorem postulated 2009-05-01 1403
Cause of Brownian motion suggested 2009-05-01 1293
Causes of aurorae occurences suggested 2009-05-01 1582
Cavalier newsheet Mercurius Aulicus published in Oxford 2011-02-01 3140
Cavalier Poets 2001-11-01 10106
Cavaliers lose Bradford 2011-02-01 2311
Cavaliers take Marlborough 2011-02-01 2635
Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape Colony 2011-12-30 1039
Cecil Rhodes begins colonising Rhodesia 2010-01-01 4053
Cecil Rhodes censured by a Parliamentary report into the Jameson Raid 2011-12-30 1253
Cecil Rhodes resigns premiership of Cape Colony 2011-12-30 1254
Cellular automata dynamical systems presented 2009-05-01 1150
Censorship of French press re-established 2011-03-01 1751
Censorship of Prussian press is revived 2011-12-30 1024
Central African Federation established 2010-02-01 1164
Central American states sign treaty of amity 2011-12-30 835
Central European Banks collapse 2010-02-01 1371
Central Powers breakthrough at Gorlice-Tarnow 2010-02-01 1394
Central powers invade Serbia 2010-02-01 1639
Central Powers proclaim Kingdom of Poland 2010-03-01 1009
Cepheid I and Cepheid II variable stars distinguished 2011-03-01 1217
Cerebrum and cerebellum distinguished in the brain 2009-05-01 1325
Cerenkov effect observed 2009-05-01 878
Cesare Borgia begins conquest of the Romagna 2010-11-01 1647
Cesare Borgia dies 2010-11-01 1075
Cesare Borgia is imprisoned for refusing to submit to the new Pope 2010-11-01 2360
Cesare Borgia leaves Rome as papal legate to Louis XII 2010-11-01 1812
Cesare Borgia puts down a revolt of the Orsini with French help 2010-11-01 1703
Cesare Borgia returns to Rome in triumph 2010-11-01 1345
Cesare Borgia seizes Rimini and Pesaro 2010-11-01 2227
Cesare Borgia takes Urbino 2010-11-01 1598
Ceuta, Morocco, captured by Portugal 2010-03-01 1900
Ceylon is settled by the Dutch 2011-02-01 1421
Chaco War commences 2010-02-01 1460
Chaco War ends 2010-02-01 1274
Chain mail replaced with plate armour 2010-03-01 1211
Chamber of Reunion claims Alsace for France 2011-04-01 1697
Chamberlain presides over Second Colonial Conference in London 2011-12-30 713
Chamberlain proposes a joint British-Boer enquiry into Transvaal franchise bills 2011-12-30 1259
Chancellor and Bishop Stephen Gardiner dies 2011-02-01 2773
Chancellor of Brandenburg, von Danckelman, falls from power 2011-04-01 1279
Chancery Rolls established 2012-07-31 1149
Chapbook 2007-11-28 4010
Charlemagne becomes the sole ruler of the Frankish empire 2009-05-01 3530
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor 2005-10-10 9482
Charlemagne’s 13-year campaign against the Saxons begins 2009-05-01 3591
Charles AIbert of Sardinia abdicates in favour of Victor Emmanuel II 2011-12-30 1102
Charles Albert is crowned Emperor Charles VII 2011-04-01 993
Charles Albert of Piedmont dismisses reactionary ministers 2011-12-30 1212
Charles Albert, Elector of Bavaria, is elected Emperor 2011-04-01 1310
Charles Bradlaugh MP claims the right to take a secular oath in Parliament 2011-12-30 793
Charles d' Albret takes charge of the government of France 2011-02-01 1984
Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle 2013-08-30 3801
Charles De Gaulle defeated in referendum, resigns 2010-02-01 998
Charles de Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise, dies 2011-02-01 1158
Charles Edward advances as far south as Derby 2011-04-01 1629
Charles Edward Stuart defeats English army at Prestonpans 2011-04-01 1632
Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, escapes to France 2011-04-01 1809
Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, lands in Scotland 2011-04-01 1819
Charles Emanuel of Sardinia moves to support Austria 2011-04-01 1288
Charles Emanuel of Sardinia recovers Milan 2011-04-01 1494
Charles Emanuel of Sardinia rejects alliance with France and Spain 2011-04-01 1505
Charles Emmanuel I accedes as Duke of Savoy 2011-02-01 1400
Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy enters Aix 2011-02-01 1088
Charles Emmanuel of Sardinia forced to abdicate 2011-03-01 1589
Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy, fails to seize Geneva 2011-02-01 1640
Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy, sends an army to ravage Provence 2011-02-01 1526
Charles Felix forces Charles Albert to renounce his claim to Piedmont 2011-12-30 1023
Charles Fleetwood appointed Commander-in-Chief 2010-02-01 1034
Charles Fleetwood is made Lieutenant-General of the Army 2010-02-01 1261
Charles Fleetwood leaves Ireland 2010-02-01 1078
Charles Hermite solves the general quintic equation 2009-05-01 1458
Charles I accuses several MPs of treason 2010-02-01 2400
Charles I accuses the Scots of seeking to overthrow royal power 2011-02-01 1995
Charles I agrees to subsidise Christian IV of Denmark 2011-02-01 1285
Charles I and Francis I campaign to become Holy Roman Emperor 2010-11-01 1400
Charles I becomes a prisoner of the army 2010-02-01 2512
Charles I bestows Order of the Garter on Strafford 2011-02-01 1760
Charles I decides to call a Parliament 2010-02-01 1729
Charles I demands all wealthy Englishmen to buy knighthoods 2011-02-01 2238
Charles I demands the collection of Ship Money 2011-02-01 2480
Charles I escapes but is captured 2010-02-01 2668
Charles I fails to take control of the arsenal at Kingston upon Hull 2010-02-01 3008
Charles I fines the City of London and seizes its plantation in Ulster 2011-02-01 1794
Charles I fines the City of London for failing to put down a riot 2011-02-01 1546
Charles I formally declares war 2010-02-01 2969
Charles I grants Lord Carlisle the settlement of the Caribbean Islands 2011-02-01 1597
Charles I is crowned King of Scotland; insists on Anglicising the Church 2011-02-01 2334
Charles I issues more writs for the collection of Ship Money 2011-02-01 1997
Charles I joins his army at York 2011-02-01 1777
Charles I leaves London 2011-03-01 2522
Charles I leaves London to face a threatened Scottish invasion 2011-02-01 2998
Charles I of Spain is elected Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V 2010-03-01 1676
Charles I offers some concessions 2011-04-01 2191
Charles I opens a Great Council at York 2011-02-01 1538
Charles I promises to call a General Assembly and Parliament 2011-02-01 1564
Charles I recaptured 2010-02-01 2305
Charles I revives the forest eyre to raise money by fines 2011-02-01 2510
Charles I sends Buckingham's impeachers to the Tower of London 2011-02-01 1455
Charles I sends John Selden to the Tower of London 2011-02-01 1260
Charles I surrenders to the Scots at Newark 2011-03-01 2162
Charles I tries unsuccessfully to escape 2011-02-01 2777
Charles I's Parliament meets at Oxford 2011-02-01 1427
Charles II again dissolves Parliament to halt the Exclusion Bill 2011-04-01 3436
Charles II allies with the Bishop of Münster 2011-04-01 1371
Charles II announces an alliance with the Dutch against France 2011-04-01 1185
Charles II arrives in Scotland and agrees to the Covenant 2011-03-01 2757
Charles II calls parliament but soon prorogues it over the Exclusion Bill 2011-04-01 1059
Charles II dies 2011-04-01 1246
Charles II dissolves parliament to halt the Exclusion Bill 2011-04-01 2306
Charles II enters London 2011-03-01 758
Charles II grants a charter to the Royal African Company 2011-04-01 1215
Charles II issues Declaration of Breda 2011-04-01 1123
Charles II marries Catherine de Braganza 2011-04-01 1173
Charles II of England prorogues English Parliament 2011-04-01 1461
Charles II of Spain appoints Philip of Anjou his heir 2011-04-01 1590
Charles II of Spain attains his majority 2011-04-01 1129
Charles II of Spain marries Marie Louise of Orleans 2011-04-01 1140
Charles II proclaimed King in Edinburgh 2011-03-01 2819
Charles II signs a secret treaty with Louis XIV, but refuses to ratify it 2011-04-01 1208
Charles II signs the Treaty of Breda 2010-02-01 2622
Charles II withdraws Declaration of Indulgence 2011-04-01 1734
Charles II's Declaration for Settling Affairs of Ireland 2011-04-01 1136
Charles II's fourth Parliament finally meets 2011-04-01 1081
Charles III enters Madrid but soon retires to Catalonia 2011-04-01 2964
Charles III expels Jesuits from Spain 2010-03-01 1155
Charles III of Austria is recognised in Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon 2011-04-01 1352
Charles Ill, Duke of Parma, is murdered 2011-12-30 900
Charles IV issues his Golden Bull 2010-03-01 1429
Charles IX and Catherine de' Medici retire to Metz 2011-02-01 1446
Charles IX assumes the title of King of Sweden 2011-02-01 1286
Charles IX marries Elizabeth, daughter of Maximilian II 2011-02-01 689
Charles IX of France is declared to be of age at 13 2011-02-01 1395
Charles IX of Sweden executes leaders of the pro-Polish party 2011-02-01 1446
Charles IX, King of Sweden, is formally crowned 2011-02-01 1142
Charles Louis becomes Elector of the Palatinate 2011-04-01 930
Charles Martel dies 2009-05-01 1813
Charles of Habsburg becomes King of Spain 2010-03-01 1082
Charles of Spain and the Emperor both reject the Partition Treaty 2011-04-01 1211
Charles offers the Scots an unacceptable deal 2011-02-01 2433
Charles Parnell forced to resign due to involvement in a divorce case 2013-08-30 1286
Charles R. Darwin and Alfred Wallace independently propose natural selection theories of evolution 2013-08-30 4352
Charles Townshend becomes Secretary of State for Northern Department 2011-04-01 1352
Charles Townshend resigns as Lord President of Council 2011-04-01 1139
Charles Townshend returns to office as Lord President of the Council 2011-04-01 977
Charles V abandons the siege of Marseilles 2010-11-01 1508
Charles V agrees to a six-month truce with the Protestant princes 2010-11-01 1648
Charles V and Clement VII renew a defensive league 2010-11-01 1254
Charles V and Francis I meet at Aigues Mortes to discuss Protestant heresies 2010-11-01 2835
Charles V and Pope Leo X sign a secret treaty 2010-11-01 1798
Charles V annexes the Netherlands 2010-11-01 1917
Charles V appoints his sister Regent of the Netherlands 2010-11-01 1349
Charles V arrives at Genoa 2010-11-01 1322
Charles V arrives in Genoa to campaign against Francis I 2010-11-01 1625
Charles V arrives in Spain 2010-11-01 893
Charles V attacks Soissons 2010-11-01 1312
Charles V attempts to lay siege to Metz 2010-11-01 1849
Charles V begins the siege of Duren in Gelderland 2010-11-01 1572
Charles V captures Terouanne from the French 2010-11-01 1564
Charles V captures Tunis 2010-03-01 1346
Charles V crosses the Alps for Germany 2010-11-01 1499
Charles V defeats Barbarossa and the Turks at Carthage 2010-11-01 1731
Charles V enters Naples 2010-11-01 1837
Charles V escapes from Maurice across the Brenner Pass 2010-11-01 1800
Charles V executes the leaders of the Ghent revolt 2010-11-01 2131
Charles V fends off the Duke of Mantua by granting him Montferrat 2010-11-01 744
Charles V forbids religious innovations in the empire 2010-11-01 1643
Charles V forces the Castillian Cortes to vote supplies for the war 2010-11-01 1529
Charles V gains Milan 2010-11-01 1866
Charles V gives the Saxon electorate to Maurice of Saxony 2010-11-01 1232
Charles V grants his brother Ferdinand Hapsburg possessions 2010-11-01 1736
Charles V grants his brother Ferdinand various Hapsburg possessions 2010-11-01 1299
Charles V grants Reggio and Modena to the Duke of Ferrara 2010-11-01 1094
Charles V invades Champagne 2010-11-01 1384
Charles V invests his son Philip with the duchy of Milan 2010-11-01 748
Charles V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor 2010-11-01 1473
Charles V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope 2010-11-01 1404
Charles V lands in Sicily 2010-11-01 1332
Charles V leaves Spain for northern Europe 2010-11-01 1136
Charles V manipulates the Duke of Cleves 2010-11-01 1724
Charles V marches his army through southern Germany 2010-11-01 1062
Charles V meets Francis I at Loches 2010-11-01 2058
Charles V meets Mary of Hungary, Regent of the Netherlands 2010-11-01 1109
Charles V meets the German Diet at Regensburg 2010-11-01 1563
Charles V occupies the duchy of Sforza 2010-11-01 1426
Charles V proposes strengthening imperial executive 2010-11-01 1351
Charles V reforms the Imperial Chamber 2010-11-01 1552
Charles V resigns the Holy Roman Empire to his brother 2011-02-01 1486
Charles V retires from Metz and returns to Brussels 2010-11-01 1793
Charles V retires to a Spanish monastery 2011-02-01 1300
Charles V signs a truce with Suleiman I 2010-11-01 1923
Charles V summons a diet to meet at Worms in January 1521 2010-11-01 2518
Charles V suppresses a rebellion in Ghent 2010-03-01 1542
Charles V takes control of Italy 2010-11-01 925
Charles V visits Henry VIII at Dover and Canterbury 2010-11-01 1650
Charles V's army bolstered from troops from Netherlands 2010-11-01 1864
Charles VIII enters Florence and Piero de' Medici is expelled 2010-11-01 1905
Charles VIII enters Lucca 2010-11-01 2644
Charles VIII enters Naples 2010-11-01 2347
Charles VIII enters Rome 2010-11-01 1794
Charles VIII enters Turin 2010-11-01 2270
Charles VIII faces the Holy League at Battle of Fornovo 2010-11-01 2470
Charles VIII is crowned King of Naples 2010-11-01 1298
Charles VIII leaves Rome having apparently forced the Pope into submission 2010-11-01 2365
Charles VIII of France invades Italy to claim throne of Naples 2010-11-01 2675
Charles VIII recognises Ludovico Sforza as Duke of Milan 2010-11-01 1256
Charles VIII returns from Italy 2010-11-01 1590
Charles X allows Jesuits to return to France and teach in State seminaries 2011-12-30 1481
Charles X begins second war with Denmark 2011-04-01 1383
Charles X defeats John Casimir of Poland 2011-04-01 1294
Charles X issues ordinances to control the press and change the electoral system 2011-12-30 1353
Charles X of France dissolves Chambers and calls for elections 2011-12-30 1263
Charles X takes Cracow 2011-04-01 1207
Charles XI becomes King of Sweden 2011-03-01 1200
Charles XI of Sweden declares himself absolute 2011-04-01 1030
Charles XI of Sweden defeats the Danes at Lunden 2011-04-01 1274
Charles XII becomes King of Sweden 2011-03-01 1377
Charles XII defeats Russians at Holowczyn 2011-04-01 1275
Charles XII enforces the peace of Travendal on Denmark 2011-04-01 1575
Charles XII of Sweden arrives at Stralsund 2011-04-01 1353
Charles XII of Sweden declares himself absolute 2011-04-01 954
Charles XII of Sweden defeats Peter the Great at Pultusk 2011-04-01 1499
Charles XII of Sweden is killed at Frederikshall 2011-04-01 1967
Charles XII of Sweden is taken prisoner by the Turkish Sultan 2011-04-01 1211
Charles XII of Sweden relieves Riga from Russian occupation 2011-04-01 1321
Charles XII of Sweden takes Warsaw 2011-04-01 1262
Charles XII takes Mohilev and invades Ukraine 2011-04-01 1251
Charles, Duke of Lorraine, takes Buda from the Turks 2011-04-01 1203
Charles's triumphal entry into Valladolid 2010-11-01 1005
Charleston is successfully defended against French and Spaniards 2011-04-01 2327
Charleston, Carolina, is founded 2011-04-01 1365
Charm quark proposed 2009-05-01 860
Charter of franchises and liberties is drawn up in New York 2011-04-01 1266
Chartist risings in manufacturing areas of England 2011-12-30 3848
Chartres surrenders to Henry IV 2011-02-01 2204
Chatham's bill to conciliate American colonists 2010-03-01 2172
Chauvelin, the French Foreign Secretary, is suddenly dismissed 2011-04-01 1509
Chay Blyth returns to UK after sailing single-handed round-the-world 2010-01-01 1327
Cheap Repository Tracts 2005-04-14 5514
Checkers Speech 2010-03-01 881
Chemical thermodynamics developed 2009-05-01 1772
Chemotheraputic cure for streptococcus developed 2011-03-01 915
Chiasmus 2001-11-01 5581
Chief Joseph's War 2010-02-01 3156
Chief Justice Pratt discharges Wilkes 2010-03-01 2564
Chien Lung becomes Emperor of China 2011-04-01 781
Chile declares war on Peru-Bolivian Federation 2011-12-30 1004
China accepts Japanese ultimatum 2010-03-01 1059
China and Japan declare war on each other 2010-02-01 1590
China conquers Taiwan 2010-03-01 1021
China conquers West Mongolia 2011-04-01 1395
China invades Tibet 2011-04-01 1109
China occupies East Turkestan 2011-12-30 1317
China opposes Italy's demands for concessions at Chekiang 2011-12-30 767
China seeks to limit trade with the West 2010-03-01 1101
China suppresses a revolution in Formosa 2011-04-01 823
Chinese Four Great Books of Song begun 2009-05-01 7637
Chinese banned from emigrating to the USA 2011-12-20 2338
Chinese edict ordering reform of calendar 2011-03-01 831
Chinese encyclopedia entitled Yongluo Dadian is completed 2010-03-01 1311
Chinese famine 2010-02-01 1066
Chinese government declines 6-powers loan 2010-03-01 1412
Chinese princes vote for establishment of monarchy 2010-03-01 833
Chinese troops annihilated by the western Mongols 2011-04-01 881
Chloroform first used as an anaesthetic in childbirth 2008-02-29 1535
Chlorophyll synthesized 2011-03-01 920
Choiseul falls from power 2010-03-01 1664
Choiseul opens peace negotiations 2011-12-30 1439
Cholera Epidemic 2013-08-30 2154
Cholesterol and cortisone synthesized 2011-03-01 1120
Christanisation of the Roman empire 2005-11-16 1852
Christian de Wet surrenders at Bloemfontein 2010-03-01 885
Christian I succeeds as Elector of Saxony 2011-02-01 907
Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunden 2010-11-01 1871
Christian II of Denmark attempts to invade Norway 2010-11-01 1794
Christian II of Denmark is crowned King of Sweden 2010-11-01 1493
Christian II succeeds as King of Denmark and Norway 2010-11-01 1509
Christian III issues Ordinance for the Danish Church 2010-11-01 1440
Christian III's navy end the era of Hanseatic sea-power 2010-11-01 1714
Christian IV accedes to the throne of Denmark 2011-02-01 1087
Christian IV withdraws to Denmark 2011-02-01 1054
Christian IX of Denmark attacks Sweden by sea 2011-02-01 1387
Christian IX of Denmark signs new constitution 2011-12-30 664
Christian of Anhalt becomes the leading German Calvinist prince 2011-02-01 1320
Christian of Halberstadt dies 2011-02-01 1397
Christian V of Denmark is defeated by a Swedish force at Cassel 2011-04-01 1298
Christian VI becomes King of Denmark 2011-04-01 773
Christian VI of Denmark dies 2011-04-01 737
Christian VIII of Denmark dies 2011-12-30 765
Christianized slaves denied freedom in Maryland 2010-03-01 1855
Christians rebel against Ottoman Empire in Crete 2010-01-01 972
Christina of Sweden abdicates 2010-02-01 1314
Church Building Act 2013-08-30 1273
Church Missionary Society founded 2010-02-01 1943
Church of Scotland founded 2005-06-17 4687
Church of Scotland splits 2013-08-30 1482
Churchill resigns as Prime Minister 2010-02-01 2159
CIA-engineered coup in Guatemala 2010-03-01 949
CIA-engineered coup in Iran 2010-03-01 1366
Cipriano Castro assumes power in Venezuela 2011-12-30 694
Circular birefringence postulated 2009-05-01 1109
Circulation of blood and metabolism theorized by Ibn an-Nafis 2009-05-01 1456
Cisalpine Republic proclaimed 2010-03-01 2128
Cispadane Republic established 2010-03-01 2295
Cispadane Republic merged with Ligurian Republic 2010-03-01 2106
City charters are remodelled in favour of the King 2011-04-01 1742
City of London forced to forfeit its charter 2011-04-01 1588
Civil Constitution of the Clergy in France 2008-01-01 3427
Civil government in Panama Canal Zone 2010-03-01 910
Civil List Act 2010-02-01 985
Civil List Act 2010-02-01 2088
Civil List reform 2010-02-01 2138
Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths 2013-08-30 1186
Civil Rights Act 2010-03-01 1776
Civil Rights Act of 1875 2009-01-20 1925
Civil Service Commission founded 2010-02-01 1962
Civil war between Marians and Lords of the Congregation breaks out 2011-02-01 1813
Civil War breaks out in Yemen 2010-02-01 884
Civil War in Afghanistan after death of Dost Mohammed 2011-12-30 1296
Civil war in Laos 2010-02-01 1042
Civil war in Muscovy 2010-03-01 1202
Civil war in Samoa 2011-12-30 874
Civil war in the Ottoman Empire 2010-03-01 1930
Clapham Sect 2007-12-12 5221
Clarendon Code 2005-02-16 5735
Clark completes American conquest of Old Northwest 2010-03-01 2378
Clarkson, Thomas 2007-12-12 3646
Clayton bill passes House of Representatives 2010-03-01 1163
Clément Fallières elected President of France 2011-03-01 1264
Clement Fallieres forms brief ministry in France 2011-12-30 1633
Clement VII forbids lawyers from taking sides on Henry VIII's marriage 2010-11-01 2679
Clement VII is allowed to escape to Orvieto 2010-11-01 1988
Clement X is elected Pope 2011-04-01 1146
Clement XI is elected Pope 2011-04-01 1119
Clement XII is elected Pope 2011-04-01 1000
Clerical Livings 2006-01-03 2018
Clericals defeat Liberals in Belgian elections 2011-12-30 631
Cleveland repeals McKinley tariff 2011-12-30 962
Clinton evacuates troops from Philadelphia 2010-03-01 2232
Clive arrives in Madras 2011-04-01 1342
Clive defeats Dupleix at Arni 2011-04-01 2180
Closed Couplet 2001-11-01 12650
CN Tower completed 2010-02-01 1509
Coalition election manifesto 2010-03-01 656
Coalminers in Newcastle strike 2010-03-01 918
Coblenz made headquarters of French émigrés 2011-03-01 1849
Cocceji becomes Prussian Minister of Justice 2011-04-01 1366
Code Napoleon revises French law 2008-03-01 1495
Codification of Byzantine laws by Justinian 2005-11-16 1454
Coinage Act 2010-02-01 3127
Coinage Act 2010-02-01 2455
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel 2005-08-15 5190
Colin Campbell relieves Lucknow 2011-12-30 917
Collapse of Anton Denikin's White Russian army 2010-03-01 1077
Collapse of Naples revolt 2011-12-30 1016
Collapse of the Mongol Persian (Il-Khanate) Empire 2010-03-01 1674
Collapse of the Soviet Union 2010-03-01 706
Collective Unconscious 2006-05-25 7187
Colombia grants French company a nine-year concession to build Panama Canal 2011-12-30 782
Colonel Henry admits forging a document in the Dreyfus case 2011-12-30 841
Colonel John Lambert escapes 2010-02-01 775
Colonel Poyner refuses to disband his troops 2010-02-01 2473
Colonial charter governing Massachusetts withdrawn 2010-01-01 1541
Colonial Conference in Ottawa 2011-12-30 1050
Colonial Conference resolves for Imperial Preference 2013-08-30 1387
Colonization of Connecticut 2010-01-01 3813
Colony of Georgia founded 2011-12-20 5095
Columbus reaches the Bahamas 2010-11-01 2232
Columbus returns to Spain 2010-11-01 1555
Columbus' voyage of discovery financed by Ferdinand of Spain 2010-11-01 2260
Columbus's expedition departs Palos, Spain 2010-01-01 2745
Columbus's third voyage 2010-03-01 1617
Combination Acts 2007-12-12 4231
Combination Acts repealed - Trades Unions permitted 2010-02-01 2782
Combination laws partially reinstated 2010-01-01 1995
Combinations of Workmen Act 2013-08-30 3618
Comets shown to be celestial entities 2009-05-01 744
Comics, Comic Books 2010-02-01 5066
Comité d'études du Haut-Congo formed 2011-12-30 1604
Commercial radio broadcasting commences 2010-02-01 823
Commercial treaty between Bavaria and Wurttemberg 2011-12-30 849
Commercial treaty between Britain and Dutch 2011-04-01 1254
Commercial treaty between Britain and Spain 2011-04-01 1265
Commercial treaty between Britain and Zollverin 2011-12-30 765
Commercial treaty between France and Prussia 2011-12-30 888
Commercial treaty between France and Russia 2011-12-30 1229
Commercial treaty between Prussia and Austria 2011-12-30 726
Commercial treaty between Prussia and Mecklenburg-Schwerin 2011-12-30 949
Commission of Fees begins operations 2010-02-01 1731
Committee of Correspondence appointed 2010-03-01 1585
Committee of Estates appointed 2010-02-01 1986
Committee of Imperial Defence holds first meeting 2013-08-30 718
Committee of Public Safety established 2011-03-01 963
Committee of Public Safety takes control of the Terror in France 2007-12-22 2352
Committee of Safety appointed 2010-02-01 881
Committee on Child Labour 2013-08-30 1591
Commodore Benbow bombards Calais 2011-04-01 1995
Commons committee appointed to consider Scottish issues 2011-12-30 1119
Commons debate Marconi Report 2010-03-01 792
Commons pass Henry Campbell-Bannerman's resolution 2010-03-01 1024
Commons pass Irish Home Rule bill 2010-03-01 1431
Commons pass Welsh Church bill 2010-03-01 1787
Commons proclaim Ship Money to be an illegal tax 2011-02-01 2431
Commons vote to disband most of the army 2011-04-01 2360
Commonwealth and United Provinces discuss alliance 2010-02-01 1138
Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed federal union 2010-03-01 1281
Communist (Spartacist) revolt in Berlin 2010-03-01 1238
Communist regime imposed in Bulgaria 2010-03-01 2167
Communist regime imposed in Czechoslovakia 2010-03-01 2241
Communist regime imposed in Hungary 2009-05-01 2380
Communist regime imposed in Poland 2009-05-01 2277
Communist regime imposed in Romania 2009-05-01 2330
Communist riots in Paris are defeated 2011-12-30 1567
Communist rising in Paris 2011-12-30 1737
Compilation of the Kojiki, Japan’s oldest chronicle 2009-05-01 3252
Complete Suffrage Union founded 2013-08-30 4289
Completion of the Palomar sky survey 2009-05-01 865
Composition of air discovered 2009-05-01 1518
Composition of benzene established 2009-05-01 1064
Compton scattering Fokker-Planck equation formulated 2011-03-01 886
Compulsory military service in Japan 2011-12-30 937
Compulsory Roman Catholic instruction in Belgian state schools 2011-12-30 622
Computation of pi 2009-05-01 1617
Comte de Chambord ends hope of restoration of French monarchy 2011-12-30 850
Comte de Chambord's Frohsdorf letter of uncompromising Legitimism 2011-12-30 799
Comte de Paris accepts compensation for confiscation of his estates 2011-12-30 632
Concordat between Netherlands and Pope Leo XII 2011-12-30 916
Concordat of Bologna: between France and the Papacy 2010-03-01 3772
Concorde, fastest-ever passenger plane, enters service 2010-02-01 1095
Condé defeats Royalist army at Bléneau 2011-04-01 2908
Condé forces Turenne to raise the siege of Cambrai 2011-04-01 1403
Condé is attainted of treason in the Paris Parlement 2011-04-01 2282
Condé raises the siege of Arras 2011-04-01 929
Condé signs alliances with Philip of Spain and the Duke of Lorraine 2011-04-01 2243
Condé's victory at Lens hastens the peace negotiations 2011-04-01 2354
Conditioned responses demonstrated by Pavlov 2009-05-01 978
Conditions of replicationm, mutation and evolution of RNA molecules posited 2009-05-01 874
Confederate Army surrenders 2010-03-01 2689
Confederate force surrenders at Durham, North Carolina 2011-12-30 2327
Confederate frigate Merrimack sinks Unionist ship Cumberland 2011-12-30 2596
Confederates abandon Atlanta, Georgia 2011-12-30 2184
Confederates buy ships from British boat yard, leading to Alabama case 2011-12-30 2308
Confederates defeated at Chattanooga 2011-12-30 2020
Confederates forced to withdraw from Shilton, Tennessee 2011-12-30 2362
Confederates surrender Fort Hudson to Unionists 2011-12-30 2263
Confederation of Bar 2010-03-01 1266
Confederation of British and Boer States in South Africa 2010-01-01 2245
Confederation of New England is created 2011-02-01 1259
Confederation of United Provinces of Central America is formed 2011-12-30 1041
Conference at Munchengrätz between Russia, Prussia and Austria 2011-12-30 1175
Conference at Troppau 2010-03-01 2050
Conference of Australian officials on Aborigines 2010-03-01 935
Conference of Passau 2010-11-01 1073
Conference of Rastadt dissolved 2010-03-01 1591
Conference to discuss French indemnity 2010-03-01 1939
Conference to modify Federal Act of German States 2010-03-01 1954
Conferences at Breda 2010-03-01 1258
Confirmation that German King automatically becomes Holy Roman Emperor 2010-11-01 1374
Conflict in Reichstag over army bill 2011-12-30 1106
Congo State is established under Leopold II of Belgium 2011-12-30 1057
Congress despatch force to Wyoming Valley 2010-03-01 2925
Congress enacts taxes on real estate and personal income 2010-03-01 1635
Congress of Arras 2010-03-01 1744
Congress of Berlin 2010-02-01 1799
Congress of Cambrai: France and England agree to support Spain 2011-04-01 1958
Congress of Laibach 2011-12-30 2648
Congress of Oppressed Peoples 2010-02-01 1040
Congress of Prague begins 2010-03-01 1180
Congress of Verona ends 2011-12-30 1100
Congress of Verona opens to discuss European problems 2011-12-30 1305
Congress of Vienna 2010-02-01 2334
Congress of Vienna closes 2010-03-01 3546
Congress passes the Espionage Act 2010-03-01 1002
Connecticut is granted a liberal charter 2011-04-01 1100
Connotation 2001-11-01 6716
Conquest of Lombards by Charmelagne 2009-05-01 1396
Conquest of Naples continues 2010-11-01 1705
Conscription abolished in Britain 2010-03-01 880
Conscription is introduced in Prussia 2011-04-01 1083
Conscription is introduced in Russia 2011-12-30 970
Conservative Edmund Bonner is elected Bishop of London 2010-11-01 1989
Conservatives defeated in New Zealand elections 2011-12-30 824
Conservatives win British general election 2011-12-30 1259
Conservatives win by 76 seats in the General election 2013-08-30 1044
Consolidation Act of British Navy for the improvement of the service 2011-04-01 1444
Consonance 2001-11-01 6149
Conspiracy against Venice is discovered 2011-02-01 1221
Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 2010-02-01 1791
Conspiracy in France is discovered by Richelieu 2011-02-01 1314
Conspiracy of La Magione against Cesare Borgia 2010-11-01 2663
Conspiracy to release Perkin Warbeck from the Tower is discovered 2010-11-01 2163
Constable of France promises liberty of worship to Huguenots 2011-02-01 2870
Constancy Principle [Konstanzprinzip] 2005-10-22 13014
Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire 2005-09-26 6473
Constantinople Conference fails to reconcile Russia and Turkey 2011-12-30 759
Constantinople Conference to consider Turkish problem 2011-12-30 1432
Constantinople government signs Treaty of Sèvres 2010-03-01 923
Constitution granted in Bulgaria, with a national assembly 2011-12-30 575
Constitution granted in Prussia 2011-12-30 1064
Constitution granted to Prussia retaining strong monarchical authority 2011-12-30 898
Constitution in Austria 2011-12-30 802
Constitution in Chile establishes Roman Catholicism as State religion 2011-12-30 589
Constitution in Naples proclaimed by Ferdinand II 2011-12-30 659
Constitution in Piedmont and Sardinia 2011-12-30 480
Constitution in Rome promulgated by Pope Pius IX 2011-12-30 514
Constitution proclaimed in Hanover after unrest 2011-12-30 975
Constitution revised in Bulgaria 2011-12-30 480
Constitutional Charter in France establishes an elective monarchy 2011-12-30 1178
Constitutional Revolution in Persia 2010-03-01 1596
Construction begins on Houses of Parliament 2013-08-30 668
Construction of funerary mosque for Qait Bey in Cairo 2010-03-01 1111
Construction of Milan Cathedral begins 2010-03-01 725
Construction of the Buddhist temple of Borobudur begins 2009-05-01 1112
Construction of the Great Mosque of Cordoba begins 2009-05-01 981
Construction of the Leshan Giant Buddha in China 2009-05-01 2026
Construction of York Minster completed 2012-07-31 990
Contagious Diseases Acts 2007-12-12 1104
Control of the imperial army moves from Wallenstein to Count Tilly 2011-02-01 2346
Conventicles Act 2005-02-16 5580
Convention of Alvensleben 2010-02-01 1974
Convention of Amsterdam between France, Russia and Prussia 2011-04-01 1528
Convention of Balta-Liman 2010-02-01 1959
Convention of Bartenstein 2010-03-01 1551
Convention of Bloemfontein 2010-02-01 1521
Convention of El Zanjón ends Ten Years War between Spain and Cuba 2011-12-30 882
Convention of Gastein divides Schleswig-Holstein 2011-12-30 2603
Convention of Gramido ends war in Portugal 2011-12-30 765
Convention of Ilbersheim 2011-04-01 978
Convention of Marsa: France gains effective control of Tunisia 2011-12-30 829
Convention of Moss 2010-03-01 1655
Convention of Olmutz: Prussia recognises Austrian supremacy 2010-01-01 2723
Convention of St. Petersburg between Britain, Holland and Russia 2011-04-01 1300
Convention of Tauroggen 2010-03-01 2555
Convention of the Pardo ends the Anglo-Spanish war 2011-04-01 1904
Convention of the Pardo to settle Anglo-Spanish disputes 2011-04-01 1599
Convention of Ulster Nationalists 2010-03-01 907
Convention Parliament in Scotland proclaims William and Mary monarchs 2011-04-01 1357
Convention Parliament invites Charles to return 2011-03-01 672
Convention Parliament is dissolved in England 2011-04-01 1470
Convention Parliament is summoned to meet 2011-04-01 1011
Convention Parliament meets 2011-04-01 1835
Convex lens eyeglasses proposed by Roger Bacon to treat farsightedness 2012-07-31 1442
Copenhagen surrenders to Christian III 2010-11-01 1165
Copernican system modified by Thomas Digges 2009-05-01 1214
Cordoba becomes the largest city of the world 2009-05-01 1094
Corfu pact for union of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes 2010-03-01 1189
Coriolis effect formulated 2009-05-01 1068
Corn Law 2005-04-01 6573
Corn Law is amended but never comes into effect 2011-12-30 1244
Cornish Rising breaks out 2010-11-01 1788
Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India 2010-03-01 940
Cornwallis defeats Americans at Camden 2010-03-01 2341
Cornwallis promulgates justice code in India 2010-03-01 1024
Coronado explores the south-west of North America 2011-12-20 1682
Coronal gas around the Milky Way predicted 2011-03-01 739
Coronation of Charles II 2011-04-01 1155
Coronation of Elizabeth I 2011-02-01 2453
Coronation of George IV 2010-01-01 1650
Coronation of Louis XIV at Rheims 2011-04-01 897
Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn 2010-11-01 1562
Coronation of William and Mary 2011-04-01 1407
Corporation Act 2005-02-16 4064
Correct explanation of the rainbow 2009-05-01 1046
Correlation interferometer completed 2009-05-01 1065
Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act 2011-12-30 1421
Corruption trial over Panama Canal opens 2011-12-30 797
Corsica becomes independent of Genoa after a series of revolutions 2011-04-01 1914
Corsica is taken by Genoa 2010-03-01 1791
Cort’s puddling process for iron making 2005-10-28 3841
Cortes attempts to found a colony in Lower California 2010-11-01 1409
Cosimo de' Medici advocates sweeping Church reform 2010-11-01 1468
Cosimo de' Medici resigns the government of Tuscany to his son 2011-02-01 969
Cosmic microwave background radiation discovered 2009-05-01 1173
Cosmic radiation discovered 2009-05-01 815
Cosmological redshift explained 2009-05-01 1033
Cossacks defeat the Poles 2011-04-01 1434
Cossacks pledge loyalty to Tsar Alexis 2011-04-01 923
Council and Constitutions of Clarendon 2012-07-31 2227
Council for Foreign Plantations first meets 2011-04-01 1393
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research founded 2010-03-01 642
Council of Nicea 2005-11-16 1837
Council of Officers looks to army for reform 2010-02-01 971
Council of State decides to invade Scotland 2010-02-01 2549
Council of Trent 2010-02-01 2539
Count Andrassy proposes calling a European conference 2011-12-30 522
Count Arnim is arrested for his attacks on the French Republic 2011-12-30 1045
Count Badeni is forced to resign in Austria 2011-12-30 969
Count Capo d'Istria elected President of Greece 2011-12-30 638
Count Carl Stürgkh, Austrian premier, assassinated 2010-03-01 799
Count Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Piedmont 2011-12-30 1586
Count Cavour dies in Italy 2011-12-30 1100
Count Cavour is recalled as Prime Minister in Sardinia 2011-12-30 1329
Count de Broglie is sent as French ambassador to Poland 2011-04-01 1095
Count Mansfeld occupies Pilsen for the Protestant Union 2011-02-01 2476
Count Munnich falls from power in Russia 2011-04-01 662
Count Muraviev's advice about South African War rejected 2010-03-01 2044
Count of Auvergne and Duke of Bouillon rebel against Henry IV of France 2011-02-01 1761
Count of Gondomar becomes the new Spanish ambassador to England 2011-02-01 1131
Count Olivares becomes Chief Minister in Spain 2011-02-01 1060
Count Oropesa becomes First Minister of Spain 2011-04-01 1091
Count Rossi, Papal Premier, is assassinated by fanatical democrat 2011-12-30 645
Count Taaffe forms Austrian ministry 2011-12-30 777
Count Taaffe of Austria-Hungary resigns over universal suffrage 2011-12-30 1155
Count Thurn calls anti-Hapsburg Bohemian Protestants to Prague 2011-02-01 2063
Count Thurn leads an army of Bohemian patriots towards Vienna 2011-02-01 3206
Count Thurn leads the Bohemians to revolt 2011-02-01 2250
Count Tilly burns Halle 2011-02-01 1892
Count Tilly destroys a Swedish garrison at New Brandenburg 2011-02-01 2395
Count Tilly enters Lauenberg 2011-02-01 2175
Count Tilly fails in his attack on Gluckstadt 2011-02-01 1934
Count Tilly invades Lower Saxony 2011-02-01 2341
Count Tilly invades Saxony with 20 000 Imperialist troops 2011-02-01 2299
Count Tilly takes Gottingen 2011-02-01 2160
Count Tilly's imperialist army sacks Magdeburg 2011-02-01 1856
Count Tisza, Hungarian premier, resigns 2010-03-01 922
Count van Götz, with an imperialist army, fails to take Laufenburg 2011-02-01 900
Counter-revolutionary Nicolai Yudenich defeated 2010-03-01 774
Counts Egmont and Hoorn are beheaded in Brussels 2011-02-01 1656
Counts Egmont and Hoorn are found guilty of high treason 2011-02-01 1763
County Councils Act 2013-08-30 729
County Police Act 2010-02-01 2384
Coup d'etat against Andrea Doria in Genoa fails 2010-11-01 1166
Coup d'etat by the Marian Party in Scotland 2011-02-01 1434
Coup d'etat in Bolivia leads to Hilarión Daza's presidency 2011-12-30 496
Coup d’etat of 30 Prairal in Paris 2007-12-02 3903
Coup of 18 Fructidor, year V, in Paris 2007-12-02 3547
Couplet 2001-11-01 5009
Cour de cassation annuls Alfred Dreyfus's first trial 2011-12-30 744
Courland in Poland passes to pro-Russian Ernst Biron 2011-04-01 1016
Court of King's Bench prosecutes the entire clergy of England 2010-11-01 2660
Courtrai falls to French army 2011-02-01 1259
Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission are abolished 2011-02-01 1817
Covenanters defeat Scottish Jacobites at Dunkeld 2011-04-01 1136
Covent Garden 2008-01-01 3109
Crab Nebula pulsar discovered 2009-05-01 521
Cranmer declares Catherine of Aragon's marriage with Henry VIII void 2010-11-01 2366
Cranmer opens court of enquiry into Catherine of Aragon 2010-11-01 2117
Cranmer pronounces Anne Boleyn's marriage to Henry VIII lawful 2010-11-01 3163
Creation of British African squadron 2010-02-01 1802
Creation of Cyrillic alphabet 2009-05-01 1827
Creation of Jordan (Transjordan) 2010-02-01 2122
Creation of the Catalan Atlas 2010-03-01 1436
Creighton, Mandell 2002-03-27 7038
Cremona surrenders to the Duke of Urbino 2010-11-01 848
Creole Affair 2010-03-01 2152
Créquy capitulates to the Duke of Lorraine 2011-04-01 624
Cretan insurrection resumes 2011-12-30 867
Crete proclaims union with Greece 2010-03-01 731
Crete rebels against Ottoman rule 2010-01-01 1138
Crisis in French wine industry 2011-03-01 766
Crisis of Seize Mai in France 2011-12-30 896
Crispi's ministry falls in Italy after failure of Ethiopian War 2011-12-30 1224
Croats are granted internal self-government 2011-12-30 673
Cromford Mill - the first modern factory 2010-02-01 2678
Crompton’s spinning mule 2004-01-23 9288
Cromwell appoints major-generals to rule districts of England 2010-02-01 793
Cromwell becomes Lieutenant-General of the New Model Army 2011-02-01 2539
Cromwell dissolves Parliament 2010-03-01 753
Cromwell forms a permanent economic council 2011-04-01 906
Cromwell prohibits Anglican services 2011-04-01 1177
Cromwell readmits republicans to Parliament 2011-04-01 1107
Cromwell sets up a small council of ten members 2011-04-01 853
Crown Lands ordinance 2010-03-01 1924
Crown of Brittany unites with the Crown of France 2010-11-01 1009
Crown Prince Archduke Rudolf of Austria commits suicide 2011-12-30 492
Crown treaty recognises the Elector of Brandenburg as King of Prussia 2011-04-01 1231
Crozat obtains a monopoly of the Illinois trade 2011-04-01 1468
Crusade of Varna defeated by the Ottomans 2010-03-01 2051
Cuba essentially made U.S. protectorate 2010-03-01 815
Cuba occupation ended 2010-02-01 927
Cuban exiles invade Bay of Pigs 2010-02-01 1074
Cuban rebellion 2010-02-01 1334
Cuban Revolution 2010-02-01 978
Cultural Revolution begins in China 2010-02-01 1175
Curvature of spacetime posited by Einstein 2009-05-01 1398
Custody of Infants Act 2010-02-01 1756
Custody of Infants Act 2010-02-01 2717
Cycloid proven to be the isochrone 2009-05-01 775
Cyclotron invented 2009-05-01 996
Czar assassinated and Civil War commences 2010-02-01 1113
Czechoslovakian Charter 77 2010-02-01 886
D. Lloyd George becomes War Secretary 2010-03-01 791
D'Argenson becomes French Foreign Minister 2011-04-01 1334
D'Epernon submits to Henry IV and south-east of France is pacified 2011-02-01 2199
Dahomey becomes a French protectorate 2011-12-30 595
Daily Telegraph publishes interview with Kaiser William II 2010-03-01 1494
Dampier's A Voyage to New Holland in the Year 1699 2010-03-01 1858
Damville, Marshal of France, calls for religious toleration 2011-02-01 1307
Danes take control of St Crois (Santa Cruz) in the West Indies 2011-04-01 822
Daniel Boone reaches Kentucky for the first time 2011-12-20 1158
Daniel O'Connell found guilty of conspiring against British rule 2013-08-30 1749
Daniel O'Connell is elected to the House of Commons 2010-02-01 2163
Daniel Webster and Robert Y. Hayne debate the Union in US Congress 2011-12-30 1104
Danish constitution altered in favour of King and Upper House 2011-12-30 504
Danish forces defeated at Dybbol; German troops invade Denmark 2011-12-30 1041
Danish treaty with Britain 2010-03-01 1145
Danzig declared a free city 2010-03-01 850
Danzig surrenders to Stephen Bathory, King of Poland 2011-02-01 1506
Darnley is murdered on the orders of Earl of Bothwell 2011-02-01 1644
Darwin's theory of evolution creates controversy 2013-08-30 4045
Dasein 2005-02-04 6657
Dauphin marries Marie Antoinette 2010-03-01 978
David Beatty appointed British fleet Commander-in-Chief 2010-03-01 956
David Livingstone crosses the African continent 2010-01-01 1158
David Walker's Appeal demanding the abolition of slavery 2010-03-01 2942
David Wilmot proposes slavery ban in territory acquired from Mexico 2011-12-30 1805
Davys, Mary. The Merry Wanderer 1725 2006-10-21 2997
Dawes Plan 2010-02-01 913
Day of Dupes: Cardinal Richelieu overthrows a conspiracy against him 2011-02-01 2227
Day of the Barricades 2010-03-01 2837
Days of May 2010-02-01 1731
Dayton Accord signed in Paris 2010-02-01 1370
De Bougainville establishes French colony in Falklands 2010-03-01 1192
De Brazza is appointed commissioner-general of French Congo 2011-12-30 1174
De Croissy becomes chief Finance Minister in France 2011-04-01 1554
De-segregation of American Schools 2010-02-01 3788
Death of Anne of Austria, Queen-Mother of France 2011-04-01 671
Death of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield 2011-12-30 763
Death of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar 2011-02-01 1298
Death of Cardinal Mazarin - beginning of the personal reign of Louis XIV 2011-03-01 1442
Death of Cardinal Richelieu; Mazarin becomes Chief Minister 2011-03-01 1358
Death of Catherine de' Medici, Queen Mother of France 2011-02-01 1639
Death of Charles, Archduke of Inner Austria 2011-02-01 618
Death of Charles, Duke of Berry, next heir to the French throne 2011-04-01 768
Death of Charles, Duke of Lorraine 2011-04-01 522
Death of Cosimo de' Medici 2011-02-01 1015
Death of Dmitri, son of Ivan the Terrible 2010-03-01 975
Death of Don Louis Requesens, Governor of the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1133
Death of Duke Charles of Gelders 2010-11-01 1022
Death of Duke George William, last Piast of Lower Silesia 2011-04-01 744
Death of Duke of Brittany, next heir to the French throne 2011-04-01 683
Death of Edward Bruce 2012-07-31 600
Death of Edward VI 2010-11-01 1246
Death of Elector George William of Brandenburg 2011-02-01 678
Death of Elizabeth I 2010-11-01 2836
Death of Emperor Matthias 2011-02-01 1056
Death of Ernest Augustus of Hanover 2011-12-30 895
Death of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies 2011-12-30 772
Death of Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans 2011-04-01 1190
Death of Ferdinand VII of Spain 2011-12-30 784
Death of Frederick I of Denmark leads to a civil war 2010-11-01 1252
Death of Frederick VI of Denmark 2011-12-30 520
Death of Frederick William III of Prussia 2011-12-30 1048
Death of Gabor Bethlen of Transylvania 2011-02-01 590
Death of General O'Donnell in Spain 2011-12-30 792
Death of George Canning 2011-12-30 670
Death of Henry Prince of Condé 2011-02-01 637
Death of James I and VI 2011-02-01 1697
Death of John III (John Sobieski), King of Poland 2011-04-01 1087
Death of John Pym 2011-03-01 3200
Death of Louis Philippe 2011-12-30 772
Death of Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir to the French throne 2011-04-01 818
Death of Mahdi 2011-12-30 520
Death of Malcolm of Scotland 2010-02-01 2745
Death of Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy 2010-11-01 1059
Death of Maria II of Portugal who is succeeded by Pedro V 2011-12-30 586
Death of Mehemet Ali 2011-12-30 534
Death of Michael, King of Poland 2011-04-01 1321
Death of Milan 2010-03-01 759
Death of Napoleon III 2011-12-30 1379
Death of Oliver Cromwell 2011-04-01 770
Death of Oscar I in Sweden 2011-12-30 619
Death of Pepin II of Herstal, prince of the Franks 2009-05-01 2047
Death of Père Joseph, Richelieu's secret agent 2011-02-01 1270
Death of Philip IV of Spain 2011-04-01 1041
Death of Pipin III and ascent to the throne of Charles the Great (Charlemagne) 2009-05-01 2751
Death of Pope Gregory XIII 2011-02-01 1159
Death of Pope Gregory XV 2011-02-01 1282
Death of Pope Paul V 2011-02-01 1137
Death of Pope Urban VIII 2011-02-01 1075
Death of Prince Albert 2013-08-30 1559
Death of Prince Henry 2010-02-01 1512
Death of Sultan Mahmud II 2011-12-30 844
Death of the Grand Vizier of Turkey, Ahmad Koprulu 2011-04-01 811
Death of the Great Elector Frederick William 2011-04-01 1084
Death of the last Duke of Pomerania, Bogislav XIV 2011-02-01 766
Death of the last of the Medici line 2011-04-01 764
Death of the sole heir of Charles II of Spain 2011-04-01 851
Death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams 2010-03-01 1415
Death of Timur restores Persia, Afghanistan and North India to independence 2010-03-01 1332
Death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi 2010-03-01 1268
Death of Victor Emmanuel 2011-12-30 868
Death of Vincent II of Mantua provokes disputes 2011-02-01 692
Death of William IV of Holland 2011-04-01 725
Deaths of Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel and Dukes of Savoy and Mantua 2011-02-01 652
Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas 2011-12-30 960
Decimation Tax 2010-02-01 1613
Declaration of Arbroath 2011-03-01 753
Declaration of Independence of the United States. War of Independence 1776-1783 begins 2011-03-01 4877
Declaration of Indulgence 2010-02-01 3157
Declaration of Indulgence ( 2 and 3) 2010-02-01 2786
Declaration of Indulgence is reissued 2011-04-01 1598
Declaration of Paris abolishes privateering 2011-12-30 694
Declaration of Pillnitz 2010-03-01 3541
Decree for constitution in Tuscany published 2011-12-30 518
Decree in Brazil for election of deputies to legislative assembly 2011-12-30 761
Decree in England that enclosures made since 1488 are to be destroyed 2010-11-01 2497
Decree in Russia for reform of municipal government 2011-12-30 549
Decree of Star-Chamber Concerning Printing 2004-04-02 5885
Decrees of Fontainebleau 2010-03-01 1063
Defamiliarisation / Ostranenie 2001-11-01 24496
Defeat of Suleyman the Magnificent in Hungary 2010-03-01 1678
Defensive Alliance between Britain, Spain and France 2011-04-01 1510
Defensive anti-Catholic alliance of Weimar formed 2010-11-01 1715
Defensive Treaty of Luzen between Savoy and six Catholic Swiss Cantons 2011-02-01 872
Delaware becomes a separate colony from Pennsylvania 2011-04-01 1642
Delbrück scattering posited 2009-05-01 1322
Delhi is captured by British after siege since June 2011-12-30 780
Demetrios Gournaris forms ministry in Greece 2011-03-01 666
Democratic convention nominates James M. Cox 2010-03-01 471
Democrats make sweeping gains in US state elections 2011-12-30 1712
Demotte's Shah Nama is composed 2010-03-01 1449
Denmark abolishes Slave Trade 2010-03-01 933
Denmark and Russia sign a convention for mutual defence 2011-04-01 1152
Denmark and Sweden sign Convention of Uddevalla 2010-03-01 1078
Denmark attacks Charles X of Sweden 2011-04-01 1352
Denmark cedes land to Prussia 2010-03-01 1077
Denmark forms an alliance with Germany and Poland against Sweden 2011-04-01 1208
Denmark grants Iceland self-government 2011-12-30 1157
Denmark joins the Coalition against France 2011-04-01 697
Denmark recognises Sweden's independence 2011-02-01 1215
Denmark repudiates its alliance with France 2010-11-01 1015
Denotation 2001-11-01 5859
Dependence of solitary water wave velocities on wave amplitude and water depth studied 2009-05-01 1474
Deportation of Acadians who refuse allegiance 2010-02-01 3339
Deposition of Sultan Abdul Aziz 2011-12-30 791
Derby Petition for a permanent settlement of the constitutional crisis 2011-04-01 1782
Derby resigns and is succeeded as foreign minister by Lord Salisbury 2011-12-30 650
Derby retires, Disraeli becomes Prime Minister, then loses election 2013-08-30 2202
Dervishes take Kassala, extending their control over Sudan 2011-12-30 832
Descartes’ work on rainbows 2009-05-01 883
Despotic regime in Romania collapses 2010-02-01 1572
Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police formed 2007-12-12 4133
Determination of Earth radius 2009-05-01 934
Determination of Earth’s age 2009-05-01 1062
Determination of Moon’s radius 2009-05-01 949
Detroit Governor surrenders state to British 2010-03-01 1484
Deus ex machina 2004-06-28 11658
Deuterium and lithium abundances predicted by hot Big Bang 2009-05-01 1111
Deuterium discovered 2009-05-01 1423
Deutsche Bank secures preliminary concessions for Baghdad Railway 2011-12-30 1297
Development of astronomical photography 2009-05-01 1155
Development of Ising model 2009-05-01 926
Development of non-Euclidean geometry (1) 2009-05-01 996
Development of non-Euclidean geometry (2) 2009-05-01 677
Deventer surrenders to the Dutch 2011-02-01 723
Devon Commission on Irish Land 2010-02-01 1903
Diachronic, Diachrony 2009-07-24 10263
Dialogism, Dialogical 2001-11-01 7741
Diamonds discovered in Orange Free State 2011-12-30 1827
Dickens’ Household Words begins publication 2013-08-30 3510
Diction 2001-11-01 5800
Diegesis 2001-11-01 5849
Diet at Ratisbon in deadlock over religions issues 2011-02-01 1026
Diet declares Polish independence 2010-03-01 1135
Diet of Augsburg decrees endorses the Edict of Worms 2010-11-01 2883
Diet of Augsburg divides Germany into six administrative provinces 2010-11-01 987
Diet of Augsburg fails to solve religious crisis 2010-11-01 2386
Diet of Constance restores the imperial chamber court 2010-11-01 1913
Diet of German Confederation opened 2011-03-01 1028
Diet of Nuremberg is split between obedience and demand for reform 2010-11-01 1258
Diet of Nuremberg promises reform from Adrian VI 2010-11-01 2873
Diet of Ratisbon 2010-03-01 1377
Diet of Ratisbon confirms the Peace of Westphalia 2011-04-01 1386
Diet of Ratisbon recognises Charles VI's Pragmatic Sanction 2011-04-01 1041
Diet of Speyer meets 2010-11-01 2518
Difference / différance 2001-11-01 7064
Differential Analyser built 2009-05-01 1014
Differential nature of solar rotation discovered by Richard Carrington 2013-08-30 2504
Dillingham Immigration bill 2010-03-01 1238
Dionysius / Dionysiac 2001-11-01 5386
Diorama opens in London 2013-08-30 734
Diplomatic treaty between Britain and China 2010-02-01 1711
Dirac’s cosmological theory 2009-05-01 1132
Dirge 2001-11-01 5516
Disappearance of Edward IV and Richard of York 2010-03-01 1779
Disastrous earthquake in South Calabria and Sicily 2010-03-01 822
Discovery of ’virus’ 2009-05-01 1072
Discovery of cellular composition of living animal tissue 2009-05-01 1295
Discovery of cellular composition of living plant tissue 2009-05-01 1192
Discovery of female hominid ’Lucy’ 2009-05-01 763
Discovery of the characteristic X-rays of elements 2009-05-01 1396
Discovery of the sunspot cycle 2009-05-01 757
Discovery of William Tweed's fraud Ring in New York 2011-12-30 1120
Discovery that DNA carries genetic information 2010-02-01 1246
Discovery that light propagation is influenced by external magnetic fields 2009-05-01 2510
Discussions begin in Antwerp for the expulsion of English rebels from Empire 2010-11-01 1558
Disestablishment of Irish Church 2011-03-01 1403
Dismissal of Count Witte, Russian finance minister 2010-03-01 1066
Dismissal of Midhat Pasha, leader of the Turkish Liberals 2011-12-30 832
Dismissal of Vicomte de Martignac in France 2011-12-30 1187
Dismissal of Yuan Shih-kai 2010-03-01 1389
Dispute between Ecuador and Peru 2010-03-01 748
Dispute between Louis XIV and Pope 2011-04-01 1334
Disputed US Presidential election between Tilden and Hayes 2011-12-30 1315
Disraeli appeals to electorate over Irish Home Rule 2011-12-30 915
Disraeli leaves the Commons on being created Earl of Beaconsfield 2011-12-30 2536
Disraeli overrules a ruling requiring fugitive slaves to be restored 2011-12-30 1623
Disraeli's first budget is defeated 2011-12-30 830
Dissenters' Chapels Act 2010-02-01 3040
Dissolution of French National Guard by Charles X 2011-12-30 1214
Dissolution of monasteries in Italy 2011-12-30 740
Dissolution of the Monasteries 2005-06-17 5524
Dissolution of the monasteries in Berne 2010-11-01 1429
Dissolution of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railways merger 2010-03-01 1231
Dissonance 2001-11-01 7602
Distance to the Moon determined 2009-05-01 873
Distich 2011-03-01 4305
Distribution law of molecular velocities stated by Maxwell 2013-08-30 9883
Dithyramb 2001-11-01 5078
Diving suit invented by Augustus Siebe 2009-05-01 719
Division of the Roman Empire 2005-11-16 1164
Division of the Roman empire; Diocletian and the Tetrarchy 2005-11-16 1928
Divorce is re-established in France 2011-12-30 882
Dixie composed 2010-03-01 1005
Dmitri is crowned and begins a programme of reforms 2011-02-01 1029
Dmitri Mendeleev establishes the periodic table of chemical elements 2009-05-01 682
DNA identified as genetic material in bacteriophage viruses 2009-05-01 1247
DNA polymerase enzymes discovered 2011-03-01 762
DNA restriction enzymes discovered 2009-05-01 745
DNA structure detailed 2009-05-01 987
Doctrine of transubstantiation formulated 2009-05-01 1193
Dom Miguel becomes King of Portugal in a peaceful coup d'état 2011-12-30 817
Dom Miguel of Portugal surrenders and abdicates 2011-12-30 576
Dom Miguel takes oath as Regent of Portugal 2011-12-30 741
Dom Miguel, heir to Spain and Portugal, dies 2010-11-01 1243
Dom Miguel's supporters in Portugal force Costa Cabral into exile 2011-12-30 1099
Dom Pedro dissolves Brazilian Assembly 2011-12-30 561
Dom Pedro takes Oporto with French and British aid 2011-12-30 998
Domesday Book 2012-07-31 2277
Domestic refrigerator 2010-02-01 736
Dominion Status for Australia and New Zealand 2010-02-01 2660
Don Antonio of Portugal escapes to England 2011-02-01 703
Don Carlos arrives in Florence 2011-04-01 547
Don Carlos, son of Philip II of Spain, dies 2011-02-01 1386
Don John of Austria becomes Governor of the Netherlands 2011-02-01 811
Don John of Austria clears the Moriscos from Andalusia 2011-02-01 947
Don John of Austria enters Brussels 2011-02-01 1395
Don John of Austria enters Naples Bay with Spanish forces 2011-04-01 1256
Don John of Austria seizes Namur 2011-02-01 1592
Don John of Austria subdues the Morisco rebellion in Granada 2011-02-01 1799
Don John of Austria suppresses revolt in Catalonia 2011-04-01 926
Don John of Austria tries to end civil war in Netherlands 2011-02-01 1673
Don Louis Requesens captures Schoonhoven 2011-02-01 1056
Donaldson v. Beckett: Changes in Copyright 2005-04-14 6385
Donation of Pepin 2009-05-01 1560
Donation of Sutri 2009-05-01 1775
Double Helix structure of DNA discovered 2010-02-01 1038
Double-acting high-pressure steam engine invented by Richard Trevithick 2007-12-12 2123
Douglas Haig made British Commander-in-Chief 2010-03-01 993
Doullens agreement 2010-03-01 856
Downfall of Federalist Party 2010-03-01 1692
Dr William Parry MP executed for alleged high treason 2011-02-01 2024
Drake, Hawkins and Frobisher return from an indecisive Spanish expedition 2011-02-01 1864
Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe 2005-06-17 6560
Dramatic Irony 2002-11-01 22269
Dramatic Monologue 2010-02-01 4538
Dresden conference on Germany's constitional problems 2011-12-30 776
Dreyfus is condemned at retrial but then pardoned by presidential decree 2011-12-30 768
Drogheda is stormed and massacred 2011-03-01 2414
Duala in Cameroon surrenders 2010-03-01 452
Dubois becomes a Cardinal by bribery 2011-04-01 1366
Dubois becomes French Foreign Secretary 2011-04-01 1728
Dubois, Louis XV's First Minister, dies 2011-04-01 1438
Duc d'Enghien executed 2010-03-01 1155
Duc de Berry is assassinated 2010-03-01 1175
Duc de Broglie's ministry forced to resign 2011-12-30 847
Duc de Choiseul prevents Spanish and British war 2011-03-01 998
Duc de Decazes dismissed 2010-03-01 1787
Duc de Sully dismissed by Maria de Medici 2010-11-01 1510
Duchesse de Berry is arrested 2011-12-30 918
Duchy of Lorraine incorporated into France 2010-03-01 830
Duchy of Urbino is bequeathed to the Pope 2011-02-01 817
Duke Albert of Bavaria joins the Swabian League 2010-11-01 1933
Duke Ernest Augustus of Hanover becomes the ninth Imperial Elector 2011-04-01 736
Duke Henry of Brunswick defeats Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach 2011-02-01 1120
Duke Henry of Brunswick is restored to his duchy 2010-11-01 928
Duke Henry of Brunswick takes Minden 2010-11-01 1023
Duke of Albany agrees to a truce 2010-11-01 1898
Duke of Alva avoids a battle with William of Orange 2011-02-01 1093
Duke of Alva demands heavy taxes from the States-General at Brussels 2011-02-01 1448
Duke of Anjou prevents the Huguenot army from moving south to Poitou 2011-02-01 2302
Duke of Anjou retires from the Netherlands to France 2011-02-01 1414
Duke of Biron agrees to stand trial for treason before Henry IV 2011-02-01 1740
Duke of Bourbon gains influence over Louis XIV 2011-04-01 1847
Duke of Brunswick Manifesto 2010-03-01 1722
Duke of Buckingham is executed for treason 2010-11-01 2161
Duke of Buckingham is impeached 2011-02-01 1398
Duke of Buckingham murdered 2010-02-01 957
Duke of Devonshire becomes Prime Minister 2010-02-01 2479
Duke of Gandia is murdered by Cesare Borgia 2010-11-01 1173
Duke of Leeds resigns as Lord President of the Council for bribery 2011-04-01 1002
Duke of Leicester accepts Netherlands titles 2011-02-01 980
Duke of Lorraine tries to connect Franche-Comté and Spanish Netherlands 2011-02-01 1473
Duke of Lucca decides to sell his duchy to LeopoId of Tuscany 2011-12-30 842
Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene take Tournai 2011-04-01 2158
Duke of Marlborough begins his march to the Danube 2011-04-01 2424
Duke of Marlborough is dismissed as Commander-in-Chief 2011-04-01 856
Duke of Mayenne, new head of the Catholic League, enters Paris 2011-02-01 2447
Duke of Nemours defeats the Holy League and takes Brescia 2010-11-01 1081
Duke of Newcastle becomes Prime Minister for the second time 2010-02-01 2529
Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason 2011-02-01 1038
Duke of Orleans joins French rebels 2011-04-01 2237
Duke of Parma takes Bruges 2011-02-01 1040
Duke of Portland dissolves Parliament 2010-03-01 865
Duke of Portland resigns 2011-03-01 1036
Duke of Savoy begins to besiege Casale 2011-04-01 1578
Duke of Savoy signs Treaty of Susa 2011-02-01 1496
Duke of Suffolk is appointed Lord President of the Council 2010-11-01 2637
Duke of Villars threatens Vienna 2011-04-01 2226
Duke of Villeroi becomes commander in the Netherlands campaign 2011-04-01 1226
Duke of Wellington blocks Canning's Corn Law in the House of Lords 2013-08-30 1503
Duke of Wellington challenges Earl of Winchilsea to a duel 2011-12-30 1267
Duke of York capitulates at Alkmaar 2011-03-01 2182
Duke of York contracts to marry Maria d'Este of Modena 2011-04-01 1003
Duke of York scandal 2010-02-01 1636
Duke of York unsuccessfully invades the Netherlands 2010-02-01 1619
Duke William V of Bavaria forced to share government with his son Maximilian 2011-02-01 859
Duke William V of Bavaria signs a concordat with Pope Gregory XIII 2011-02-01 1506
Dukes of Mecklenburg placed under the ban of the Empire 2011-02-01 922
Dumouriez defeated at Neerwinden 2010-03-01 1162
Dundas carries motion to recall Hastings from India 2010-03-01 846
Dunkirk sold to France by Charles II 2011-03-01 1413
Dupleix becomes Governor-General of French possessions in India 2011-04-01 1044
Dupleix negotiates with the British but insists on being ruler of the Carnatic 2011-04-01 1222
Dupleix secures French control of the Carnatic region 2011-04-01 1486
Duquesne defeats De Ruyter at Catania, off Messina 2011-04-01 1260
Duquesne, French Governor of Canada, seizes the Ohio Valley 2011-04-01 1500
Durham Report on North America is debated in House of Lords 2011-12-30 1144
During Carlist risings Emilio Castelar is made ruler of Spain 2011-12-30 1055
Dutch and English define their North American colony frontiers 2011-04-01 1143
Dutch annex New Sweden 2011-04-01 1082
Dutch are finally driven out of Brazil by Portuguese 2011-04-01 1238
Dutch army under Prince Maurice of Nassau takes Breda 2011-02-01 981
Dutch attack Sumatra 2011-03-01 1114
Dutch capture New York 2011-12-20 2105
Dutch conclude armistice of indefinite length with Belgium 2011-12-30 814
Dutch conclude treaty of alliance with the Emperor Leopold I 2011-04-01 855
Dutch destroy Malacca 2011-02-01 1057
Dutch enter Chinese trade 2011-04-01 932
Dutch establish settlement in Mauritius 2011-02-01 767
Dutch first use Manhattan Island as a centre for the fur trade 2011-02-01 1688
Dutch forts taken by British on the Gold Coast 2011-03-01 1070
Dutch found New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island 2007-12-12 1705
Dutch government ends railway and dock strikes 2011-03-01 667
Dutch massacre English colonists at Amboyna 2011-02-01 1778
Dutch obtain a monopoly of foreign trade in Japan 2011-02-01 973
Dutch Republic gains independence from Spain 2007-11-28 2192
Dutch revolt precipitated by Calvinist iconoclasm 2010-03-01 1378
Dutch seize the Spanish treasure fleet and occupy Java and Malucca 2011-02-01 1607
Dutch settlers found Capetown 2011-04-01 1211
Dutch take Jaffnapatam from the Portuguese 2011-04-01 1390
Dutch take Pondicherry after siege 2011-04-01 1396
Dutch traders are admitted at Canton 2011-04-01 861
Dutch troops invade Belgium 2011-12-30 974
Dutch war against Portuguese in Brazil 2011-04-01 1912
Dutch West Indies Company starts operating in South America and Africa 2011-02-01 1043
Dutch-Spanish War 2010-02-01 2089
Dynamic theory of the electromagnetic field formulated by Maxwell 2013-08-30 3617
Dynastic marriages within the Habsburg family 2011-02-01 768
E. D. Morel and Roger Casement begin agitation 2010-03-01 2685
Earl and Countess of Somerset found guilty of poisoning Overbury 2011-02-01 1117
Earl and Countess of Somerset interrogated about Sir Thomas Overbury's murder 2011-02-01 1160
Earl Grey becomes Prime Minister 2010-01-01 2517
Earl of Argyle is sentenced to death for treason 2011-04-01 1374
Earl of Arran becomes Regent of Scotland 2010-11-01 1079
Earl of Clarendon forced to resign as Lord Chancellor 2011-04-01 1685
Earl of Dalhousie becomes Governor-General of India 2011-12-30 455
Earl of Danby is discharged from bail 2011-04-01 850
Earl of Essex lays siege to Reading 2011-02-01 2348
Earl of Essex marches Parliamentary armies towards the Midlands 2011-02-01 2542
Earl of Essex signs a truce with the Irish rebel Tyrone 2011-02-01 2653
Earl of Essex surrenders at Fowey 2011-03-01 2511
Earl of Hertford becomes Duke of Somerset 2010-11-01 930
Earl of Hopetoun, first Governor-General of Australia 2011-03-01 808
Earl of Leicester and Duke of Norfolk fail to overthrow William Cecil 2011-02-01 1745
Earl of Marlborough becomes Captain-General of the English armed forces 2011-04-01 1084
Earl of Marlborough is accused of communicating with James II 2011-04-01 1038
Earl of Middleton is appointed a Secretary of State 2011-04-01 1113
Earl of Montrose leads Royalist rebellion in Scotland 2010-01-01 4039
Earl of Mountjoy starts an attack to end the rebellion in Munster 2011-02-01 1228
Earl of Nottingham is dismissed from Secretaryship of State 2011-04-01 977
Earl of Salisbury veers towards an anti-Spanish policy 2011-02-01 1739
Earl of Shrewsbury appointed Secretary of State 2011-04-01 1069
Earl of Sunderland is appointed a Secretary of State 2011-04-01 922
Earl of Sunderland reconstructs cabinet including Stanhope 2011-04-01 1170
Earl of Surrey burns Jedburgh 2010-11-01 1786
Earl of Surrey is executed for treason 2010-11-01 1655
Earl of Tyrone resumes his rebellion against Queen Elizabeth 2011-02-01 1739
Earliest colonisation of the Bermudas from Virginia 2011-02-01 818
Earliest dating of Historia Brittonum, attributed to Nennius 2009-05-01 2431
Earliest geographical globe 2009-05-01 1139
Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel flee from Ireland to Spain 2011-02-01 1822
Earthquake destroys Constantinople 2010-11-01 1202
Earthquake in China 2010-02-01 1132
East Africa divided between Britain and Germany 2010-01-01 1200
East African Protectorate is organised 2011-12-30 888
East India Company acquires Penang off Malay coast 2010-02-01 2083
East India Company annexes Cathar 2011-12-30 963
East India Company annexes Mysore 2011-12-30 983
East India Company voyages reach Java and Agra 2011-02-01 1107
East India Company, Singapore 2010-02-01 2044
East India Company's forces defeat Sikhs at Aliwal 2011-12-30 1147
East Pakistan separates from West Pakistan, becoming Bangladesh 2010-02-01 1192
ECC becomes European Union (EU) 2010-02-01 692
Ecclesiastical Commission 2010-02-01 1904
Ecclesiastical Titles Act 2011-12-30 1380
Ecgberht (Wessex) defeats Mercia 2010-02-01 1663
Eclogue 2001-11-01 5289
Economic crisis 2010-02-01 1903
Ecuador becomes a theocracy 2011-12-30 403
Ecuador established 2010-02-01 548
Eden negotiates Anglo-French commercial treaty 2011-03-01 1079
Edgar the Peaceful becomes King of England 2009-05-01 1542
Edict d'Alès (France) suppressing places of refuge of Protestants 2010-01-01 2672
Edict of Amboise 2010-03-01 3383
Edict of Boulogne 2010-03-01 3133
Edict of Nantes 2004-04-02 6046
Edict of Orleans suspends persecution of the Huguenots 2011-02-01 3264
Edict of Pistres 2009-05-01 2567
Edict of Restitution against German Protestants 2010-01-01 2753
Edict of St. Germain recognises the Huguenots in France 2011-02-01 3520
Edict of St. Germain-en-Laye 2011-02-01 1699
Edict of Turda 2009-05-01 889
Edict of Worms 2010-01-01 6742
Edinburgh Castle surrenders to Cromwell 2011-04-01 712
Edinburgh Castle surrenders to the English 2011-02-01 1518
Edinburgh surrenders to Oliver Cromwell 2011-03-01 2495
Edmund Burke impeaches Warren Hastings 2006-03-06 846
Edmund Campion is executed 2011-02-01 2386
Edmund Campion is seized 2011-02-01 2929
Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, flees to the Continent 2010-11-01 1474
Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, is executed 2010-11-01 2097
Edmund Dudley is found guilty of treason 2010-11-01 2231
Edmund Grindal is elected Archbishop of Canterbury 2011-02-01 1749
Edmund Hilary expedition reaches South Pole 2010-01-01 989
Edmund, Earl of Suffolk, is returned to the Tower of London 2010-11-01 1565
Education Act 2010-02-01 2224
Education Act (UK) 2013-08-30 2580
Education Act for England and Wales 2010-03-01 708
Edward Bruce becomes King of Ireland 2010-03-01 1655
Edward Cardwell's Army reforms reorganise British army 2011-12-30 1346
Edward Carson demands repeal of Home Rule 2010-03-01 717
Edward Courtenay is sent to the Tower for complicity in Wyatt's rebellion 2010-11-01 1995
Edward Grey proposes mediation of Balkan crisis 2010-03-01 1124
Edward Hyde, Lord Chancellor, is created Earl of Clarendon 2011-04-01 1110
Edward I invades Scotland 2012-07-31 1738
Edward I invades Wales 2013-03-28 1247
Edward III, King of England, renews war with France 2012-07-31 1204
Edward Maunder plots the first sunspot ’butterfly diagram’ 2013-08-30 1120
Edward Seymour becomes commander of the English army in France 2010-11-01 1518
Edward Seymour becomes Lord Protector against Henry VIII's will 2010-11-01 939
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, is beheaded for treason 2010-11-01 2033
Edward the Martyr is assassinated 2009-05-01 1252
Edward VI makes Lady Jane Grey his successor 2010-11-01 2175
Edward VII meets Alexander Izvolski 2010-03-01 849
Edward VII meets Nicholas II at Reval 2010-03-01 1014
Edward VII visits Paris 2010-03-01 1161
Edward, Earl of Warwick, is executed for treason 2010-11-01 2120
Edwin Chadwick's report on The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population 2013-08-30 1716
Effective temperature of space measured 2009-05-01 1027
Egotistical Sublime 2006-05-25 53528
Egyptian finances are reorganised 2011-12-30 545
Egyptian force takes Abu Hamed in Sudan 2011-12-30 962
Egyptian forces begin to subdue the Morea region 2011-12-30 1239
Egyptian independence 2010-02-01 1075
Egyptian King deposed for Prime Minister 2010-02-01 831
Egyptian leader, Nasser, dies 2010-02-01 728
Eiffel Tower inaugurated 2010-02-01 1324
Eighth and last session of the 'Reformation Parliament' 2010-11-01 2716
Einstein, Albert 2000-10-28 12114
Einstein, Albert. Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seimen Eneergienhalt abhängig? 1905 2000-10-28 4795
Einstein, Albert. Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme gefordete Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen 1905 2000-10-28 10039
Einstein, Albert. Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtpunkt 1905 2000-10-28 6440
Einstein, Albert. Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper 1905 2000-10-28 6144
Einstein-Maxwell field equations for charged rotating systems solved 2009-05-01 878
Einstein-Maxwell field equations solved 2009-05-01 778
Einstein-Smoluchowski formula found 2009-05-01 2186
Eisenhower Doctrine 2010-02-01 789
Ekphrasis 2006-05-20 2328
Election of Cardinal Joachim Pecci as Pope Leo XIII 2011-12-30 930
Election of Cardinal Mastai-Ferretti as Pope Pius IX 2011-12-30 908
Elections for French Chamber 2011-03-01 729
Elector Frederick III of the Palatinate prioritises the religious crisis 2011-02-01 1119
Elector of Bavaria becomes Governor of the Spanish Netherlands 2011-04-01 528
Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Liegnitz agree to mutual succession 2010-11-01 1050
Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Neuburg both claim Jülich-Cleves 2011-02-01 1682
Elector of Brandenburg colonises Arguin, Guinea 2011-04-01 969
Elector of Brandenburg marries Frederick Henry of Orange's daughter 2011-02-01 419
Elector of Saxony promises support to Archduke Ferdinand 2011-02-01 898
Elector Palatine chosen as King of Bohemia by rebelling Protestants 2010-03-10 2518
Elector Palatine refuses imperial troops passage through his territory 2011-02-01 2379
Electors of Bavaria and Cologne are outlawed by the Emperor 2011-04-01 476
Electors of Bavaria and Cologne sign treaties of alliance with France 2011-04-01 1520
Electrical activity of the brain monitored 2010-02-01 1372
Electricity-powered motor built by Michael Faraday 2013-08-30 4432
Electrolysis used to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen 2009-05-01 1715
Electromagnet invented by William Sturgeon 2013-08-30 4142
Electron discovered by Joseph Thomson 2013-08-30 2506
Elegy 2001-11-01 7458
Element synthesis in a rapidly expanding and cooling universe explained 2009-05-01 831
Eleutherios Venizelos becomes premier of Greece 2011-03-01 599
Elgin Treaty between Britain and USA 2011-12-30 1123
Eli Whitney demonstrates the merits of the mass production of interchangeable parts 2005-06-28 6008
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin 2005-06-28 5977
Elizabeth allies with Resquesens against William of Orange 2011-02-01 1336
Elizabeth Barton is executed for treason 2010-11-01 2157
Elizabeth becomes Empress of Russia after a bloodless revolution 2011-04-01 1223
Elizabeth I aids the Scottish Lords of the Congregation against France 2011-02-01 1546
Elizabeth I gives John Casimir of the Palatinate £20,000 to aid the Dutch 2011-02-01 2464
Elizabeth I is pressed by the Spanish ambassador to marry Philip II 2011-02-01 643
Elizabeth I offers to mediate between Don John of Austria and the Dutch 2011-02-01 1206
Elizabeth I sends 3000 men to aid Henry IV 2011-02-01 2490
Elizabeth I signs the death warrant against Mary Queen of Scots 2011-02-01 3053
Elizabeth I takes the Netherlands under her protection 2011-02-01 1879
Elizabeth I's seizure of Spanish treasure ships severs commerce 2011-02-01 1489
Elizabeth of Russia's heir marries Catherine of Anhalt-Zerbst 2011-04-01 573
Elizabeth refuses Parliament's request to name her successor 2011-02-01 1582
Elizabeth refuses to accept sovereignty of the Netherlands 2011-02-01 2127
Elizabeth resists Parliament's demands to execute Mary Queen of Scots 2011-02-01 2810
Elizabeth’s ‘Golden Speech’ 2005-06-17 18751
Emancipation of serfs in Russia 2010-02-01 1171
Embargo on British vessels in Danish ports 2010-03-01 1335
Embargo on vessels of Armed Neutrality of the North 2011-03-01 1228
Embargo placed on British vessels in Russian ports 2010-03-01 1523
Emden cruises in Bay of Bengal 2010-03-01 1021
Emden sunk off Sumatra 2010-03-01 1114
Emergence of the Muslim Kingdom of Ifat 2010-03-01 1331
Emeric Tokoly becomes leader of the Hungarian rebels 2011-04-01 987
Emerson delivers his American Scholar address 2010-03-01 1157
Émile Combes introduces bill for Church and State's separation 2010-03-01 1185
Émile Loubet and Théophile Delcassé visit Emmanuel III 2010-03-01 685
Émile Loubet and Théophile Delcassé visit London 2010-03-01 1365
Emile Loubet is elected President of France 2011-12-30 1014
Emilio Castelar retires in Spain 2011-12-30 682
Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III creates the Caliphate of Cordoba 2009-05-01 1383
Emmeline Pankhurst sentenced 2010-03-01 1122
Emperor agrees to the Convention of Milan 2011-04-01 2558
Emperor Charles V prohibits the proposed German synod at Speyer 2010-11-01 2465
Emperor Charles VI agrees to suspend the Austrian East India Company 2011-04-01 1340
Emperor Charles VI expels Spaniards from Sicily 2011-04-01 1361
Emperor Charles VI founds Oriental Company in Vienna 2011-04-01 1121
Emperor Charles VI grants a charter to an Austrian East India Company 2011-04-01 1530
Emperor Charles VII dies 2011-04-01 786
Emperor claims reversion of Duchy of Mantua on death of the Duke 2011-04-01 907
Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicates 2011-12-30 495
Emperor Ferdinand I's death divides his inheritance 2011-02-01 1010
Emperor Ferdinand II allows Wallenstein to gather an army 2011-02-01 1794
Emperor Ferdinand III dies 2011-04-01 908
Emperor Francis II abdicates: End of Holy Roman Empire 1056
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria dies 2010-03-01 480
Emperor Leopold I declares war against France 2011-04-01 1016
Emperor Leopold I declares war on France 2011-04-01 1064
Emperor Leopold I dies 2011-04-01 953
Emperor Maximilian executed in Mexico 2011-12-30 463
Emperor Maximilian I dies 2010-11-01 1313
Emperor Maximilian I marries Bianca Sforza 2010-11-01 1213
Emperor Maximilian II gives Lower Austrian nobility religious control 2011-02-01 850
Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy 2010-11-01 1637
Emperor of Korea abdicates 2010-03-01 1005
Emperor Rudolf II is forced to cede Austria and Hungary to his brother 2011-02-01 1255
Emperor Rudolf II makes peace with Poland 2011-02-01 1268
Emperor Sigismund becomes King of Bohemia 2010-03-01 1874
Emperor Te Tsung of China's 100 days of Reform 2011-12-30 1213
Emperor's forces defeat Frederick II at Kollin 2011-12-30 1202
Empire agrees to help Poland by Treaty of Alliance 2011-04-01 902
Empire and Palatinate agree on the succession of Jülich and Berg 2011-04-01 1087
Empire and Spain join Dutch-Swedish alliance of against France 2011-04-01 1212
Empire declares war on Prussia 2011-12-30 1071
Empire of Benin: from the Niger to Lagos 2010-03-01 558
Empire Settlement Act 2010-03-01 501
Empire State building opens 2010-02-01 859
Empress cotton mill opens 2010-02-01 1266
Encomium 2001-11-01 5375
End of Afghan War: Afghan forces surrender 2011-12-30 1056
End of Carlist War with flight of Don Carlos 2011-12-30 711
End of civil disturbances in Arkansas 2011-12-30 1579
End of Maori War in New Zealand 2011-12-30 2197
End of Russian counter-revolution 2010-03-01 1116
End of siege of Gaeta: Francis II of Naples surrenders to Garibaldi 2011-12-30 627
End of Taiping Rebellion in China 2011-12-30 1249
End of the Quaker supremacy in Pennsylvania 2011-12-30 1598
End of the Terror; Fall of Robespierre 2007-12-12 2096
End of the War of Devolution: the Peace of Aix-Ia-Chapelle 2011-04-01 1828
End of Viking dynasty in Dublin 2009-05-01 1186
End-stopped-line 2001-11-01 33200
Engagement Act passed by the English Parliament 2010-02-01 2240
England accedes to the Treaty of Cambrai 2010-11-01 1774
England and France at war 2010-03-01 1467
England and France declare war on Charles V 2010-11-01 2021
England and France sign a commercial treaty 2011-02-01 801
England and Scotland agree to a truce 2010-03-01 1768
England and Scotland at peace 2012-07-31 1441
England and Scotland sign a peace treaty at Greenwich 2010-11-01 3632
England and the United Provinces agree to subsidise Christian IV of Denmark 2011-02-01 1624
England bans American trade with West Indies 2010-03-01 1619
England breaks the Truce of Tours 2010-03-01 1880
England breaks with Rome - the Henrician Reformation 2005-06-17 6298
England declares war against France and Scotland 2010-11-01 1728
England fears French invasion 2007-12-12 1870
England gives Sweden naval support 2010-02-01 865
England joins Pope Julius II's Holy League against France 2010-03-01 1490
England lays claim to Spitsbergen 2011-02-01 1570
England nominally joins the Holy League against France 2010-11-01 1536
England proclaimed as a Commonwealth 2010-02-01 2672
England refuses to pay taxes to the Pope in Rome 2012-07-31 2128
England renounces her claim to Calais by the Peace of Troyes 2011-02-01 1400
England returns Flushing and Brielle to the United Provinces 2011-02-01 946
England signs a commercial treaty with Turkey 2011-02-01 1429
England signs a further commercial treaty with the Empire 2010-11-01 1454
England signs an alliance with the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1516
England surrenders Boulogne to France and removes troops from Scotland 2010-03-01 1836
England, France and the United Provinces sign a league against Spain 2011-02-01 1112
England, Sweden and the United Provinces form the Triple Alliance against France 2010-02-01 1806
English adventurers acquire the Isle of Nevis 2011-02-01 1369
English and imperial armies attempt to besiege Landrecies 2010-11-01 1948
English army marches into Scotland to capture Edinburgh Castle 2011-02-01 1427
English army presents proposals to the King which are rejected 2011-04-01 2228
English begin mounting canon on their ships 2012-07-31 764
English burn villages on Breton coast 2010-11-01 1530
English colonists destroy the French settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia 2011-02-01 2161
English Currency Restored 2010-02-01 3119
English declare war on Dutch 2011-04-01 490
English defeat Dutch fleet off Texel 2011-04-01 1106
English defeated at Loudon Hill by Robert Bruce 2012-07-31 1415
English defeated by the Scots at Otterburn 2010-03-01 2022
English defeated by the Spanish near the Azores 2010-03-01 1614
English expedition in the Palatinate fails 2011-02-01 1277
English expedition to France fails 2010-11-01 1452
English expedition to Guienne lacks Spanish support 2010-11-01 1377
English fleet aids the Huguenot defence of La Rochelle 2011-02-01 2392
English fleet bombards St Malo 2011-04-01 1776
English fleet burns Treport, Normandy 2010-11-01 1477
English fleet destroys 25 French vessels in Brest harbour 2010-11-01 1368
English force under the Duke of Suffolk ravages Normandy and Picardy 2010-11-01 1310
English found Calcutta 2011-03-01 1552
English found colony of Carolina 2011-12-20 1064
English found colony of Maine 2008-01-01 2637
English King Henry VI crowned King of France 2010-03-01 1550
English King, Edward I, conquers Scotland 2012-07-31 1810
English King, Edward II, marries Isabella of Spain 2012-07-31 1227
English land in Jamaica 2010-02-01 1343
English Lollard rebellion crushed 2010-03-01 2062
English longbow reaches the height of its development 2012-07-31 844
English Merchants Adventurers' Company confirmed by Rudolf II 2011-02-01 1283
English merchants are expelled from the Empire 2011-02-01 1403
English merchants return to Antwerp 2010-11-01 1503
English navy defeats Spanish fleet off Santa Cruz 2011-03-01 1301
English occupy Bahamas 2011-02-01 1303
English Parliament adopts Presbyterianism 2010-02-01 3929
English Parliament attacks monopolies 2011-02-01 792
English Parliament attaints Queen Katherine Howard 2010-11-01 1533
English Parliament attaints the Yorkist Edmund, Earl of Suffolk 2010-11-01 1801
English Parliament calls for war on Spain in support of the Palatinate 2011-02-01 1023
English Parliament dismissed 2010-02-01 2665
English Parliament dissolved 2011-02-01 994
English Parliament draws up severe anti-Catholic legislation 2011-02-01 2962
English Parliament grants taxation for war against Scotland 2010-11-01 2038
English Parliament imposes severe penalties against Roman Catholics 2011-02-01 3083
English Parliament is critical of James I's use of his royal prerogative 2011-02-01 1371
English Parliament is dissolved 2011-02-01 1066
English Parliament is dissolved 2010-11-01 1793
English Parliament is dissolved 2011-04-01 655
English Parliament is dissolved 2011-04-01 631
English Parliament is prorogued 2011-02-01 613
English Parliament is prorogued by Charles II 2011-04-01 1779
English Parliament meets 2011-04-01 1309
English Parliament meets 2011-04-01 876
English Parliament meets 2011-04-01 584
English Parliament meets 2010-11-01 1811
English Parliament meets 2011-02-01 1546
English Parliament meets 2011-02-01 939
English Parliament meets 2011-02-01 2085
English Parliament meets 2011-02-01 1301
English Parliament meets 2011-02-01 1369
English Parliament meets at Westminster 2010-11-01 1715
English Parliament meets for a second session 2010-11-01 1298
English Parliament meets to deal with the problem of Mary Queen of Scots 2011-02-01 2652
English Parliament meets to vote money for an expedition to La Rochelle 2011-02-01 2061
English Parliament passes an Act to enforce royal proclamations 2010-11-01 990
English Parliament passes the Chantries Act 2010-11-01 3347
English Parliament passes the Navigation Act 2010-02-01 865
English Parliament passes Three Resolutions 2010-01-01 2449
English Parliament re-assembles 2011-02-01 1196
English Parliament reassembles 2011-02-01 2272
English Parliament reassembles 2011-02-01 1105
English Parliament recalled 2010-02-01 1587
English Parliament rejects Charles I's offer of further concessions 2011-04-01 2309
English Parliament rejects concessions to Nonconformists 2011-04-01 1468
English Parliament states that laws require the consent of both monarch and parliament 2012-07-31 749
English Parliament votes a heavy subsidy 2010-11-01 2247
English Parliament votes supplies for the French war 2010-11-01 1609
English Parliament's Nineteen Propositions 2010-02-01 1747
English privateers take Tobago 2011-04-01 1226
English Protestant exiles return from Zurich and Geneva 2011-02-01 3016
English replaces French as educational language 2012-07-31 1327
English resume command of the English Channel 2010-11-01 1891
English Royal Africa Company obtains a monopoly of slave trade 2011-04-01 833
English settlement of the Leeward Islands is begun from St. Kitts 2011-02-01 1472
English settlements are made in Antigua and Montserrat 2011-02-01 1164
English settlers found a colony at Charlestown, forerunner of Boston 2008-01-01 1351
English shipping in Spanish ports is confiscated 2011-02-01 1286
English statutes of witchcraft are repealed 2011-04-01 1317
English succession will pass to children of Jane Seymour 2010-11-01 2371
English traders establish a factory at Canton 2011-02-01 823
English Treaty of Pacification with Scotland 2010-01-01 1890
English troops are forced to raise the siege of Venlo 2010-11-01 2115
English troops land on the Ile de Ré 2011-03-01 1889
English troops occupy Le Havre 2011-02-01 2256
English troops seize Haddington, Scotland 2010-11-01 1566
English volunteers join the Elector Palatine's army in Bohemia 2011-02-01 2683
English volunteers land in the Netherlands to fight against the Spanish 2011-02-01 1457
Englishmen imprisoned for refusing to pay the forced loan are released 2011-02-01 2219
ENIAC, the first entirely electronic computer, announced 2009-05-01 1662
Enquiry into conduct of Mary Queen of Scots reopens at Westminster 2011-02-01 3245
Entail is introduced in Scotland 2011-04-01 2628
Entropy 2001-11-01 15352
Envoy / Envoi 2001-11-01 3653
Envoys sent by Ethiopia to Spain in an attempt to resist Islam 2010-03-01 1374
Epigram 2001-11-01 4658
Epigraph 2001-11-01 8712
Epilogue 2001-11-01 4460
Epiphany 2001-11-01 7333
Episcopacy is abolished in Scotland 2011-04-01 1895
Episcopacy is abolished in Scotland 2011-02-01 1356
Episcopacy is ended in Denmark 2010-11-01 806
Episcopacy restored in Scotland; Presbyterian ministers are banned 2011-02-01 3339
Episteme 2001-11-01 8481
Epistemology 2001-11-01 5911
Epitaph 2001-11-01 4734
Epithalamion 2001-11-01 5344
Epithet 2001-11-01 8849
EPR paradox formulated 2009-05-01 1095
Erfurt Congress 2010-03-01 1039
Erfurt Parliament is prorogued 2011-12-30 945
Eric XIV of Sweden annexes Reval 2011-02-01 1583
Eric XIV succeeds as King of Sweden 2011-02-01 1077
Erich von Falkenhayn made German Commander-in-chief 2011-03-01 1020
Eritrea declares Independence 2010-02-01 747
Ernest Augustus of Hanover imposes new Constitution 2011-12-30 944
Ernest Augustus suppresses the Constitution in Hanover 2011-12-30 784
Ernst von Mansfeld dies 2011-02-01 1123
Escobedo, secretary to Don John of Austria, is assassinated 2011-02-01 1342
Esme Stuart becomes a royal favourite in Scotland 2011-02-01 857
Espartero becomes premier of Spain 2011-12-30 855
Espartero bombards Barcelona and revolts are soon crushed 2011-12-30 597
Essex returns to London 2011-02-01 3279
Establishment of a High Court of Justice 2010-02-01 2944
Establishment of House of Commons 2012-07-31 1636
Establishment of mechanics institutes in Glasgow and London 2013-08-30 1423
Establishment of Medici Bank in Florence 2010-03-01 1136
Establishment of the Committee of Triers 2010-02-01 916
Estates General meet in France for the first time 2010-03-01 1075
Estonia signs peace with U.S.S.R. 2011-03-01 774
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia invaded by the Soviet Union 2009-05-01 983
Estrone discovered 2009-05-01 840
Ethiopia annexed by Italy 2009-05-01 930
Ethiopian Emperor deposed by Marxist military coup 2010-02-01 1332
Ethiopians defeat Italians at Amba Alagi 2011-12-30 933
Eton College established in England 2010-03-01 1199
Eulogy 2001-11-01 4732
European Congress meets at Frankfurt-on-Main 2011-04-01 646
European economic slump commences 2010-02-01 1218
European Free Trade Association (EFTA) established 2010-02-01 1294
European powers demand abolition of 1812 Spanish Constitution 2011-12-30 855
Europeans settle in the Hawkesbury and Parramatta 2010-03-01 1075
Evelyn Baring lands in Egypt as British agent and consul-general 2011-12-30 933
Evolution and genetic mutation found to be linked 2009-05-01 1102
Exact solution to the two-dimensional Ising model found 2011-03-01 558
Exchange of Bourbon and Habsburg brides at Burgos 2011-02-01 1145
Excise crisis: reorganisation of excise and customs abandoned 2011-03-01 1490
Exclusion of Catholics from London 2004-01-11 3484
Execution of Archbishop Laud 2011-03-01 2142
Execution of Charles I 2010-02-01 4258
Execution of Edith Cavell in Brussels 2010-03-01 1455
Execution of Hébertistes 2010-03-01 3084
Execution of Louis XVI 2007-12-22 3691
Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti 2010-03-01 1316
Existence of five lepton families suggested 2009-05-01 1290
Existence of protons in atomic nucleus posited 2009-05-01 978
Expedition into North America by Hernando de Soto 2010-01-01 963
Expedition sent by Henry of Castile to take control of the Canary Islands 2010-03-01 1932
Experimental radar developed 2010-02-01 1016
Exploration of the Darling and Castlereagh Rivers 2010-03-01 2435
Explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reportedly reach the North Pole 2011-12-20 1622
Exposición Universal de Barcelona 2011-03-01 645
Expulsion of Jesuits begins in Portugal 2011-12-30 832
Expulsion of Jews from England 2012-07-31 2997
Expulsion of Jews from Portugal 2010-03-01 3129
Extension of 1638 treaty of alliance between France and Sweden 2011-02-01 1153
Extension of the Poor Law to Ireland 2013-08-30 638
Eyre Coote becomes British Commander in Madras 2011-12-30 1212
Eyre Coote defeats Hyder Ali at Porto Novo 2011-03-01 1466
Fabian society founded 2013-08-30 519
Factions develop in France 2011-02-01 2010
Factory Act (1) 2010-01-01 2345
Factory Act (2) 2010-02-01 1760
Factory Act (3) 2010-01-01 1403
Factory Act (4) 2010-02-01 1618
Faenza surrenders to Cesare Borgia 2010-11-01 1435
Failed attempt to rescue Alençon and Navarre from the French court 2011-02-01 2172
Failed Indonesian Marxist coup and military countercoup 2010-02-01 1186
Failure of German offensive at Focşani 2010-03-01 1088
Failure of Walcheren expedition 2010-02-01 2211
Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip 2009-05-01 1459
Fairfax takes Wakefield from Royalists 2011-02-01 2119
Fall of Baron Stein 2011-03-01 874
Fall of Constantinople 2010-01-01 3141
Fall of Count Witte in Russia 2010-03-01 958
Fall of Devonshire-Pitt ministry in Britain 2011-12-30 1104
Fall of John Carteret (Earl Granville) produces a Whig Cabinet 2011-04-01 1274
Fall of John de Ripperda in Spain, who is succeeded by Patiño 2011-04-01 803
Fall of Jules Ferry's ministry in France 2011-12-30 1047
Fall of Newcastle ministry 2011-12-30 736
Fall of Nubar ministry in Egypt after army demonstration 2011-12-30 553
Fall of Olivares in Spain 2011-02-01 968
Fall of Protector Somerset 2010-11-01 1741
Fall of Rome 2005-11-16 929
Fall of the Girondins in France 2007-12-02 3978
Fall of the Inca Empire 2010-03-01 1680
Falling Meter 2001-11-01 11758
Family Law Act 2010-03-01 985
Famine in Bengal 2011-12-30 1111
Famine in England 2012-07-31 1050
Famine in India 2011-12-30 689
Famine in India 2011-04-01 593
Famine in the USSR 2010-02-01 1199
Fancy 2001-11-01 3850
Fast Fourier transform algorithm developed 2009-05-01 663
Fatimid Caliphate in North Africa 2009-05-01 1478
February Revolution in Russia 2010-03-01 1565
Federal constitution in Brazil 2010-02-01 725
Federal forces reinstate Kellogg as governor of Louisiana 2011-12-30 564
Federal troops withdraw from the Virginia Peninsula after Seven Days battle 2011-12-30 2134
Federal water power act in U.S. 2010-03-01 542
Federation of Malaysia established 2010-02-01 675
Federation of New England 2010-01-01 2982
Federation of Peru and Bolivia proclaimed 2011-12-30 410
Felice Peretti is elected Pope Sixtus V 2011-02-01 1400
Felix Faure becomes French president 2011-12-30 848
Felix Meline forms progressive ministry in France 2011-12-30 973
Felix Meline introduces rigid Protection in France 2011-12-30 1219
Female Immigrants' Home 2010-03-01 556
Feminism 2010-02-01 8596
Fenian attack on Quebec fails 2011-12-30 1433
Fenian brotherhood Clerkenwell bombing 2010-02-01 1762
Fenian brotherhood Manchester bombing 2010-01-10 3038
Fenians arrested for planning uprising 2010-02-01 2269
Fenians murder Irish chief secretary and under-secretary 2011-12-30 1052
Feodor II succeeds as Tsar of Russia 2011-02-01 1200
Feodore becomes Tsar of Russia 2010-03-01 878
Ferdinand Bebel beomes the first Socialist elected to the Reichstag 2011-12-30 937
Ferdinand becomes King of Aragon and takes control of Antequera 2010-03-01 1238
Ferdinand I (IV) of Naples dies 2011-12-30 1052
Ferdinand I and Louis XII agree to sell Pisa to Florence 2010-11-01 1593
Ferdinand I forms a council of military affairs 2011-02-01 1219
Ferdinand I intensifies a repression of the Moors 2010-11-01 1342
Ferdinand I of Aragon marries Germaine de Foix 2010-11-01 1230
Ferdinand I of Austria flees from Vienna to Innsbruck 2011-12-30 703
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria is recognised by Russia 2011-12-30 421
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria visits Russia 2010-03-01 513
Ferdinand I returns to Vienna 2011-12-30 410
Ferdinand I signs a treaty giving power to his son-in-law Philip of Burgundy 2010-11-01 1113
Ferdinand I suppresses the pro-Hapsburg party in Spain 2010-11-01 1366
Ferdinand I takes the title of Holy Roman Emperor 2011-02-01 1271
Ferdinand II of Naples dies 2010-11-01 789
Ferdinand II reconquers Naples 2010-11-01 1636
Ferdinand II reinstates Wallenstein as Supreme Imperial Commander 2011-02-01 2306
Ferdinand II signs a treaty with Duke Maximilian of Bavaria 2011-02-01 1301
Ferdinand is recognised King of Hungary 2010-11-01 1500
Ferdinand IV declares war against France 2010-03-01 2017
Ferdinand of Aragon suppresses a Moorish revolt in Granada 2010-11-01 1226
Ferdinand of Austria and John Zápolya of Hungary sign Peace of Grosswardein 2010-11-01 2175
Ferdinand of Bohemia and John Zápolya sign a truce 2010-11-01 3971
Ferdinand of Bohemia defeats John Zápolya at Tokay 2010-11-01 3464
Ferdinand of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans 2010-11-01 2411
Ferdinand of Styria is crowned King of Hungary 2011-02-01 1167
Ferdinand VI becomes King of Spain 2011-04-01 997
Ferdinand VI of Spain breaks off the Family Compact with France 2011-04-01 937
Ferdinand VI of Spain dies 2011-12-30 1151
Ferdinand VI of Spain makes a Concordat with the Pope 2011-04-01 910
Ferdinand VII of Spain abrogates Salic Law 2011-12-30 626
Ferdinand VII of Spain begins a reign of tyranny 2011-12-30 1085
Ferdinand VII of Spain refuses to leave Madrid despite French invasion 2011-12-30 890
Ferdinand VII of Spain taken prisoner 2010-02-01 1744
Fermat’s Last Theorem 2009-05-01 674
Fertilized eggs are shown to possess both male and female nuclei 2009-05-01 1046
Festival of Champ de Mars 2011-03-01 2585
Feud between the Colonna and Orsini families in the papal states revives 2010-11-01 2508
Feudalism abolished in Japan 2010-02-01 1561
Fifth civil war in French Wars of Religion 2010-03-01 2606
Fifth Parliament of Charles II is dissolved when the Exclusion Bill is raised 2011-04-01 702
Fifth Parliament of George II meets 2011-04-01 729
Fifth Parliament of Queen Anne 2011-04-01 673
Fifth Parliament of William III has a Tory majority 2011-04-01 1257
Fifth War of Religion in France is ended by the Peace of Monsieur 2011-02-01 1641
Figaro editor makes charges against Caillaux 2010-03-01 839
Fighting at Manchester claims the civil war's first life 2011-02-01 1591
Final Act of the Conference at Vienna 2010-03-01 2142
Final Mongol Emperor in China 2011-03-01 504
Financial collapse of Turkey through heavy borrowing abroad 2011-12-30 563
Financial crisis begins in Vienna and spreads across Europe 2011-12-30 559
Financial crisis in France 2010-02-01 3361
Financial crisis in Spain worsens 2011-02-01 1009
Financial powers of French legislature extended 2011-12-30 777
Finland obtains constitution from Russia 2011-12-30 984
Finnish autonomy abolished 2010-02-01 1332
Finnish autonomy abolished 2010-02-01 1185
Fire ships destroy many of the Spanish galleons off Calais 2011-02-01 1641
First 'Civil Rights March' in Northern Ireland 2010-02-01 1397
First (horse-drawn) public bus proposed 2009-05-01 874
First account of Australian literature 2010-03-01 697
First African-American wins Nobel Prize for literature, Toni Morrison 2010-03-01 4537
First aircraft carrier 2010-02-01 1296
First American novel published 2010-03-01 1627
First American Parliament meets 2010-02-01 2534
First Anglo-Afghan War 2010-02-01 1761
First Anglo-Burmese War 2010-02-01 2359
First Anglo-Chinese Opium War 2010-02-01 2014
First application of Boulton-Watt rotary steam engine to spinning mule 2007-12-02 2460
First Atomic Bomb Tested 2005-03-27 6548
First attempt on the life of a US president 2010-03-01 1648
First Australian federal confederation assembly meets at Sydney 2011-12-30 550
First Australian novel written and published as a book in Hobart 2011-03-01 806
First Australian woman to publish a book of verse 2010-03-01 797
First authorised Catholic mass in Australia 2010-03-01 674
First Balkan War 2010-02-01 1282
First Bank of the United States established 2007-12-02 5193
First battle of Copenhagen 2010-02-01 1491
First battle of El Alamein 2010-02-01 986
First Battle of Isonzo 2008-01-01 1365
First Battle of Newbury 2010-02-01 2196
First battle of Schooneveld 2010-02-01 1057
First Bishops' War between England and Scotland 2010-02-01 3410
First Boer War 2013-08-30 3208
First Book of Common Prayer 2005-06-17 4412
First book published in Australia 2010-03-01 783
First Brandenburg expedition to West Africa 2011-04-01 1039
First budget in Russia 2011-04-01 384
First Canadian troops land in England 2010-03-01 780
First Chartist Petition rejected 2013-08-30 4483
First Christian mission of West Saxon Monk Winfrid (later Saint Boniface) in Frisia 2009-05-01 1694
First circumnavigation of the world by the fleet of Ferdinand Magellan 2010-01-01 3566
First civil war in the French Wars of Religion 2010-03-01 2649
First cloning of a vertebrate 2009-05-01 1187
First Coalition against France 2010-03-01 2331
First Colonial Conference in London opens 2011-12-30 1493
First commercially produced computer 2010-02-01 971
First Commonwealth of Australia Parliament 2010-03-01 756
First Congress meets 2010-03-01 873
First Continental Congress 2007-12-02 2094
First Crusade 2010-02-01 1745
First Diet of Speyer endorses Edict of Worms 2010-11-01 3383
First Duma meets in Russia, resulting in deadlock 2010-03-01 743
First Dutch Barrier Treaty is negotiated with Britain 2011-04-01 1445
First easily portable electronic calculator 2011-03-01 1088
First electrical telegraph in Australia 2011-03-01 541
First electron microscope built 2011-03-01 774
First electronic television system 2010-02-01 1303
First English colony attempt in Newfoundland fails 2010-01-01 2714
First English Settlement in the West Indies 2011-03-01 2552
First English Urban Sanitary Act 2010-03-01 1897
First European contact with Japan 2005-09-13 11199
First European settlement in the present-day US 2010-03-01 1328
First fiber-optic telephone lines 2010-02-01 1339
First Fleet led by Arthur Phillip arrives in Port Jackson 2010-03-01 1280
First flight across English Channel 2010-02-01 1048
First flight of a successful jet airplane 2010-02-01 1209
First French and Indian war begins 2010-03-01 5485
First functional electric telegraph system produced 2010-02-01 2181
First German Zeppelin attack on London 2010-02-01 1289
First hovercraft developed 2010-02-01 1059
First illustrated book published in Australia 2010-03-01 868
First Indian National Congress meets, but lacks Moslem support 2011-12-30 529
First Indo-Pakistan War 2010-02-01 1224
First indoor tennis court 2010-03-01 939
First installation of James Watt's stationary rotary steam engine in a cotton mill 2007-12-02 4467
First Irish Home Rule bill 2010-02-01 1960
First Iron Railroad Bridge 2013-08-30 2369
First iron steamship launched 2013-08-30 1511
First Italian Parliament meets in Turin 2011-12-30 591
First Japanese Diet opened 2011-12-30 390
First jet powered aircraft built 2009-05-01 1225
First Jewish MP admitted to the House of Commons - Lionel de Rothschild 2010-02-01 2417
First jumbo jets in service 2010-02-01 1072
First Kodak camera by George Eastman 2011-12-20 1385
First large cholera epidemic 2013-08-30 1046
First laser built 2011-03-01 1091
First Maori War 2010-01-01 2693
First Maratha War 2010-02-01 2184
First mass killing by gas at Auschwitz 2010-02-01 1163
First meeting of independent Labour Party 2010-01-01 1442
First meeting of Ottoman Parliament 2011-03-01 787
First meeting of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) 2010-03-01 1533
First ministry of Adolphe Thiers in France 2011-12-30 1416
First monasteries built on Mount Athos 2009-05-01 834
First multiwire proportional mode particle detection chamber built 2009-05-01 636
First national strike in the USA 2010-02-01 2086
First Nationalist Congress in Egypt 2011-03-01 615
First Navigation Act adopted 2010-03-01 1602
First neutron star models calculated 2009-05-01 1047
First newspaper written by Aborigines 2011-03-01 800
First non-Abelian gauge theory formulated 2009-05-01 611
First Northern War 2010-02-01 1381
First nuclear fission bomb exploded 2009-05-01 1695
First observation of Brownian motion 2009-05-01 1299
First oil exported from Saudi Arabia 2010-02-01 1517
First opera written, composed and performed in Australia 2010-03-01 779
First Ordinance for Sequestration 2010-02-01 3091
First Pan-American conference at Washington 2011-12-30 867
First Parliament of George I has a Whig majority 2011-04-01 625
First Parliament of George II 2011-04-01 935
First Parliament of George III meets 2011-12-30 723
First Parliament of Queen Anne 2011-04-01 610
First Partition Treaty for the division of Spanish possessions 2011-04-01 1410
First Passenger Air-Service 2010-02-01 1155
First Peace of Paris 2010-03-01 2543
First period of the Commonwealth of England 2010-02-01 2810
First permanent European colony in the US established by the Spanish 2010-01-01 1569
First poem published in Australia 2010-03-01 842
First polio vaccine developed 2011-03-01 1047
First portable radio 2010-02-01 1186
First post-Communist elections held in Romania 2010-03-01 617
First Printed Books (Incunabula) 2005-05-10 4967
First private parliamentary enclosure act 2010-01-10 1507
First production-line supersonic airplane 2010-02-01 991
First Protestant missionaries in New Zealand 2010-02-01 2604
First public exhibition of moden British art 2010-02-01 870
First quartz crystal oscillator clock built 2009-05-01 840
First Railway - Stockton and Darlington 2010-02-01 2396
First Reconstruction Act 2010-03-01 1215
First regular radio program launched 2010-02-01 798
First Russian prisoners are sent to Siberia 2011-04-01 707
First Russian reverses 2011-12-30 424
First satellite navigation system 2010-02-01 976
First Seminole War 2010-02-01 3312
First sequencing of an entire genome 2009-05-01 948
First signs of nationalist movement in Egypt with rising of officers 2011-12-30 923
First Sikh War 2010-02-01 1414
First single-rotor helicopter 2010-02-01 1249
First skirmishes between English and Dutch settlers in India 2011-02-01 1269
First solar-powered electricity plant 2010-02-01 536
First South Pacific Forum 2010-02-01 1333
First St Paul's Cathedral, London, is completed 2012-07-31 907
First stages of a Protestant Reformation in England 2010-11-01 4897
First step towards Zollverein 2010-03-01 1199
First successful ascent to summit of Everest 2010-01-01 1049
First synthetic dye invented by William Perkin 2013-08-30 1230
First systematic southern sky survey by Halley 2009-05-01 1139
First television picture 2010-02-01 650
First theatre opens in Sydney 2010-03-01 780
First Traffic Lights 2010-02-01 1240
First Train to London 2013-08-30 2326
First transatlantic crossing by steamship 2005-06-21 3980
First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable 2005-06-21 1610
First Turkish Parliament meets 2011-12-30 384
First U.S. division arrives in France 2010-03-01 707
First U.S. factory to convert raw cotton into cloth using power machinery 2011-03-01 1724
First United States troops in action 2010-02-01 795
First use of Hypnosis for Health Purposes 2010-02-01 1689
First use of telescope to observe the heavens 2009-07-28 5551
First V2 rocket launched 2009-05-01 904
First vertical takeoff airplane introduced 2010-02-01 1036
First Vienna Award 2009-05-01 1312
First volume of poetry published in Australia 2010-03-01 1116
First voyage by French navigator, Samuel de Champlain to Canada 2010-01-01 2074
First Winter Olympics 2010-02-01 836
First World Cup 2010-02-01 1034
First X-ray transient (Cen X-2) discovered 2009-05-01 753
First Zionist Congress 2010-02-01 1176
Firth, Charles Harding 2002-03-21 6771
Fiume declares her independence 2010-03-01 495
Five Articles of Religion 2011-02-01 2932
Five Mile Act 2010-02-01 2715
Five-day revolution in Milan against Austrian rule 2011-12-30 1003
Five-Year Plan 2010-02-01 775
Flag of united American colonies created 2010-03-01 2515
Fleet under Admiral Russell spends the winter in Cadiz 2011-03-01 941
Flemish grievances towards England are alleviated 2010-11-01 1050
Fleury offers French mediation to the Emperor in his war with Turkey 2011-04-01 1090
Fleury's death initiates an aggressive French foreign policy 2011-04-01 1567
Flooding East Pakistan 2010-02-01 820
Flooding in East Pakistan 2010-02-01 1109
Florence and Naples form secret alliance against Milan 2010-11-01 1778
Florence gains access to the sea by conquering Pisa 2010-03-01 1546
Florence is left at the mercy of the Holy League 2010-11-01 857
Florence is restored to the Medicis by imperial troops 2010-11-01 1133
Florence is ruled by Cosimo de Medici 2010-03-01 586
Florence joins the French alliance for the partition of Milan 2010-11-01 1537
Florence reverts to a republic as the Medici are expelled 2010-11-01 1203
Florence takes Pisa 2010-11-01 813
Florida claimed for Spain by Juan Ponce de Leon 2010-03-01 1881
Florida Purchase 2010-02-01 4769
Flyting 2001-11-01 5959
Force Bill for federal control of elections is rejected by US Senate 2011-12-30 1554
Ford mass-produces all-purpose tractor 2010-02-01 1218
Forli, held by Caterina Sforza, surrenders to Cesare Borgia 2010-11-01 903
Formal dissolution of George II's fifth Parliament 2011-12-30 743
Formal dissolution of the second Parliament of George I 2011-04-01 839
Formal election of Matthias of Bohemia as Holy Roman Emperor 2011-02-01 2018
Formal emergence of the Liberal Party in the government of Britain 1085
Formal proof that black holes cannot be torn apart by their pulsations 2011-03-01 764
Formal reunion of Argentina and Buenos Aires 2011-12-30 386
Formal union of Venice, Sardinia and Lombardy 2011-12-30 891
Formation of German National Association for German unity 2011-12-30 602
Formation of Trades Union Congress 2010-02-01 1607
Formosa becomes independent 2011-04-01 674
Fort Frontenac is founded in Canada 2011-04-01 1280
Fort Gaspereau surrenders to the British 2010-02-01 3160
Fort Orange surrenders to British and is renamed Albany 2011-04-01 1078
Fort St George is founded in Bengal 2011-02-01 1190
Fort William recaptured by the British 2010-02-01 2897
Fort William, Calcutta, is built 2011-04-01 1296
Fortnightly Review, The 2013-08-30 5019
Foundation laid for Antwerp Cathedral 2010-03-01 801
Foundation of “The First International” 2006-02-15 2634
Foundation of Armenian state 2009-05-01 528
Foundation of Benedictine abbey at Cluny 2009-05-01 1311
Foundation of Dublin 2009-05-01 1160
Foundation of political parties in Japan 2011-12-30 769
Foundation of the Barbary States of Algiers and Tunis 2010-11-01 551
Foundation of the Communist League 2011-03-01 2846
Foundation of the Dutch West African Company 2011-02-01 960
Foundation of the London Missionary Society 1073
Foundation of the United Nations 2010-02-01 2056
Founding of Guiana Company 2011-02-01 1482
Fouquet is appointed Superintendent of Finances 2011-04-01 1515
Four Days' Battle 2011-03-01 1087
Fourth Ashanti War: Ghana becomes a British protectorate 2011-12-30 765
Fourth battle of Isonzo 2010-03-01 965
Fourth cholera epidemic - Sanitary Act passed 2013-08-30 1351
Fourth civil war in the French Wars of Religion 2010-03-01 2554
Fourth Crusade 2010-02-01 1632
Fourth German navy bill 2010-03-01 1020
Fourth Parliament of Charles II is dissolved 2011-04-01 809
Fourth Parliament of George II 2011-04-01 865
Fourth session of the 'Reformation Parliament' 2010-11-01 3147
Fox repeals Ireland Act 2010-03-01 2294
Foxites leave the House of Commons 2010-02-01 2129
Fragmentation of Frankish Empire 2009-05-01 1439
Francais Jacques Marquette explores the Mississippi 2011-12-20 1335
France adopts conscription 2011-12-30 704
France agrees to conference on Morocco 2010-03-01 885
France allies with Prussia against Maria Theresa 2011-04-01 1007
France allies with the Turks to attack Charles V 2010-03-01 1165
France and Belgium vie for domination in Congo 2011-12-30 1102
France and Britain occupy Piraeus 2011-12-30 1076
France and Germany agree boundaries of French Congo and Cameroon 2011-12-30 910
France and Holland declare war on England 2010-01-01 890
France and Spain break the Anglo-Austrian blockade of Genoa 2011-04-01 1739
France and the Emperor agree to a future partition of the Spanish Empire 2011-04-01 1160
France and Turkey sign an alliance and a commercial treaty 2010-11-01 1027
France annexes Genoa 2010-11-01 1575
France annexes Tahiti 2011-12-30 1002
France annexes the Valtelline and Chiavenna 2010-03-01 2404
France breaks off negotiations for an alliance with Maria Theresa 2011-04-01 908
France concedes Syrian independence 2010-02-01 965
France concludes a secret treaty with Prussia 2011-04-01 1050
France concludes commercial treaty with Madagascar 2011-12-30 444
France creates 'Union Indo-Chinoise' 2011-12-30 871
France declares the Fifth Republic 2010-02-01 1343
France declares war on Austria (the War of the First Coalition) 2008-01-01 3379
France declares war on England 2011-04-01 1102
France declares war on Maria Theresa 2011-04-01 962
France declares war on Spain 2011-04-01 1422
France declares war on Spain 2011-02-01 1763
France declares war on the Emperor Charles VI 2011-04-01 1708
France declares war on the League of Augsburg and invades the Palatinate 2011-03-01 2771
France declares war on Venice 2010-11-01 1381
France declares war with Spain 2010-03-01 2285
France defeats Venice at Agnadello 2010-03-01 1622
France establishes protectorate over Ivory Coast 2011-12-30 573
France expels Pasquale Paoli from Corsica 2010-03-01 665
France faces bankruptcy 2011-04-01 911
France floats Russian loan, beginning a Franco-Russian entente 2011-12-30 752
France forms a three-year alliance with Sweden 2011-04-01 1073
France grants amnesty to Communards of 1871 2011-12-30 1429
France grants independence to several African nations 2010-02-01 1188
France institutes the Corvée, a system of forced labour for road-building 2011-04-01 1612
France invaded by Imperial forces 2010-03-01 1730
France invades Italy 2010-03-01 1325
France invades Portugal 2010-03-01 1066
France joins Quadruple Alliance of July 1840 2011-12-30 1705
France learns that Leopold of Hohenzollern has accepted Spanish throne 2011-12-30 1241
France obtains a treaty with Ethiopia defining Somali frontier 2011-12-30 744
France obtains concessions in China 2011-12-30 693
France occupies Bern 2010-03-01 2174
France occupies Damascus 2010-03-01 1000
France occupies Ionian Islands 2011-03-01 2385
France occupies Lorraine 2011-04-01 779
France occupies the Valtelline 2011-02-01 1206
France occupies Tunis 2011-12-30 646
France purchases Mentone and Roquebrune from Monaco 2011-12-30 544
France recognises the Pragmatic Sanction at the Peace Treaty of Vienna 2011-04-01 1396
France rejects Treaty of London that protects English lands in France 2010-03-01 1224
France sends troops to halt Belgian advance in the Congo 2011-12-30 1219
France signs a defensive alliance with Bavaria 2011-04-01 816
France signs a further treaty of alliance with Sweden 2011-02-01 1127
France signs a secret treaty with the Emperor 2011-04-01 762
France signs the Peace of Baden with Emperor 2011-04-01 1586
France signs the Treaty of Lyons with Portugal, for an attack on Spain 2010-11-01 2000
France, Spain and England refuse the Pope's offer of peace negotiations 2010-11-01 1802
Francesco Crispi forms ministry in Italy 2011-12-30 1138
Francesco Nitti becomes premier of Italy 2010-03-01 770
Francesco Todeschini is elected Pope Pius III 2010-11-01 2436
Franchise reform in Holland is insufficiently radical for the working class 2011-12-30 437
Francis Bacon becomes Attorney General 2011-02-01 1888
Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Keeper 2011-02-01 1622
Francis Bacon, the Lord Chancellor, is charged with corruption 2011-02-01 2125
Francis Drake and John Hawkins make last voyage to the Spanish Main 2011-02-01 1461
Francis Drake discovers San Francisco Bay 2010-03-01 2936
Francis Drake sees the Pacific 2011-02-01 1285
Francis I and Charles V enter Paris 2010-11-01 926
Francis I and Charles V sign the Peace of Madrid 2010-11-01 2723
Francis I and Charles V sign the Truce of Nice 2010-11-01 4557
Francis I and Pope Clement VII meet at Marseilles 2010-11-01 1094
Francis I calls an assembly of Notables 2010-11-01 2539
Francis I crosses the Mount Cenis Pass to attack the retreating imperialists 2010-11-01 462
Francis I fights against Charles V in alliance with Henry VIII 2010-03-01 1763
Francis I invades Artois 2010-11-01 1936
Francis I invades Luxembourg 2010-11-01 1333
Francis I issues the Edict of Fontainebleau 2010-11-01 1612
Francis I negotiates with Suleiman I, Sultan of Turkey 2010-11-01 910
Francis I of Austria dies 2011-12-30 768
Francis I of France betroths his niece to Duke William of Cleves 2010-11-01 703
Francis I of France conquers Savoy 2010-11-01 1584
Francis I of France is released from Spanish captivity 2010-11-01 1671
Francis I of France marries Eleanor of Portugal 2010-11-01 1099
Francis I of France signs a treaty of alliance with Denmark 2010-11-01 1028
Francis I orders the persecution of French Protestants 2010-11-01 1739
Francis I proposes a meeting with Henry VIII and James V 2010-11-01 1189
Francis I signs a fresh alliance with Sultan Suleiman I 2010-11-01 1113
Francis I signs a treaty of alliance with Sweden 2010-11-01 1085
Francis I signs an alliance with John Zápolya of Hungary 2010-11-01 2166
Francis I succeeds to throne of France 2010-11-01 1414
Francis I, Bavaria, Saxony and Hesse unite against King Ferdinand 2010-03-01 2418
Francis II assumes title 'Emperor of Austrian possessions' 2010-03-01 1038
Francis II succeeds to throne of France 2011-02-01 1347
Francis Joseph appoints bureaucratic ministry 2010-03-01 626
Francis Throgmorton is executed for treason 2011-02-01 1200
Francis Xavier travels to China seeking to introduce Christianity 2011-03-01 1018
Francis, Duke of Guise, is assassinated 2011-02-01 2556
Francisco Ferrer Guardia executed 2010-03-01 1258
Francisco Pizarro leads expedition for the conquest of Peru 2010-11-01 1784
Franco- Dutch alliance 2010-03-01 1023
Franco-Austrian armistice 2011-12-30 871
Franco-Bavarian army takes Linz 2011-04-01 1226
Franco-British conference at Boulogne 2010-03-01 624
Franco-British convention 2010-03-01 559
Franco-British dual control in Egypt is suspended 2011-12-30 631
Franco-British dual control of Egypt established 2011-12-30 816
Franco-British Entente Cordiale 2010-02-01 1402
Franco-German Peace of Frankfurt with humiliating terms for France 2011-12-30 772
Franco-Italian commercial treaty ends tariff war 2011-12-30 1525
Franco-Italian convention over Tunis 2011-12-30 787
Franco-Italian Entente 2010-03-01 1277
Franco-Italian Treaty 2011-12-30 642
Franco-Japanese agreement 2010-03-01 1152
Franco-Prussian Treaty 2010-03-01 1240
Franco-Prussian War 2010-02-01 2479
Franco-Russian alliance extended 2011-12-30 863
Franco-Russian alliance is extended 2011-12-30 879
Franco-Russian alliance is signed 2011-12-30 874
Franco-Russian commercial treaty 2011-12-30 779
Franco-Russian declaration approves Anglo-Japanese alliance 2010-03-01 1841
Franco-Russian entente 2011-12-30 458
Franco-Russian military convention 2011-12-30 1056
Franco-Scottish alliance 2012-07-31 1808
Franco-Spanish blockade of Cochin-China begins 2011-12-30 960
Franco-Spanish peace Treaty of Nijmegen 2011-04-01 1798
Franco-Spanish treaty 2010-03-01 1235
Franco-Spanish troops defeat the Austrians at Parma 2011-04-01 1514
Franco-Spanish troops take Milan 2011-04-01 1110
Franco-U.S. agreement 2010-03-01 1017
François Duke of Anjou (formerly Alençon) joins the Huguenots 2011-02-01 2536
François Duke of Anjou is proclaimed Defender of Liberties in Netherlands 2011-02-01 1353
François Guizot becomes French premier at a time of unrest 2011-12-30 984
François, Duke of Anjou sacks Antwerp, but fails to seize the city 2011-02-01 1152
Frankfurt meeting of German princes to reform Confederation 2011-12-30 897
Frankish emperor Louis I recognizes the independence of Celtic Brittany from the empire 2009-05-01 1497
Franklin Pierce is elected US President 2011-12-30 1377
Franks recapture Narbonne, Southern France, from the Arabs 2009-05-01 1661
Franz von Sickingen and Ulrich von Hutton lose War of the German Knights 2010-11-01 1458
Fraser's Magazine 2013-08-30 4690
Frederick Henry succeeds as Stadtholder of Holland 2011-02-01 718
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, becomes deranged 2011-02-01 685
Frederick I of Prussia acquires countships of Lingen and Mors 2011-04-01 1370
Frederick I of Prussia dies 2011-04-01 1055
Frederick I of Sweden dies 2011-04-01 814
Frederick II and Maria Theresa sign the secret Treaty of Klein Schnellendorf 2011-04-01 1033
Frederick II breaks agreement of Klein Schnellendorf 2011-04-01 1032
Frederick II captures Brieg 2011-04-01 1059
Frederick II defeats Austrian forces at Burkersdorf 2011-12-30 866
Frederick II defeats Austrian troops at Torgau 2011-12-30 900
Frederick II defeats French and Imperial troops at Rossbach 2011-12-30 1036
Frederick II defeats Imperial troops at Leuthen 2011-12-30 978
Frederick II defeats the Austrians at Chotusitz 2011-04-01 1554
Frederick II defeats the Austrians at Hennersdorf 2011-04-01 1263
Frederick II defeats the Austrians at Sohr 2011-04-01 833
Frederick II forms Die Fürstenbund 2010-03-01 1221
Frederick II introduces liberty of the press and freedom of worship in Prussia 2011-04-01 764
Frederick II invades Saxony - start of Seven Years' War 2011-12-30 1575
Frederick II makes Wallenstein Duke of Friedland 2011-02-01 1832
Frederick II of Prussia begins the first Silesian War 2011-04-01 1378
Frederick II takes Breslau 2011-04-01 886
Frederick II takes Prague but is driven back into Saxony 2011-04-01 1184
Frederick II unexpectedly defeats Austrian forces at Leignitz 2011-12-30 857
Frederick III of Brandenburg is crowned King of Prussia 2011-04-01 1603
Frederick III succeeds as King of Naples 2010-11-01 1004
Frederick III's coup d'état in Denmark strengthens the monarchy 2011-04-01 760
Frederick IV accedes to the throne of Denmark 2011-04-01 723
Frederick IV succeeds as the Elector Palatine 2011-02-01 869
Frederick IV, a Calvinist, succeeds as Elector Palatine 2011-02-01 1433
Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, dies 2011-04-01 644
Frederick of Brandenburg restores Schweibus to Empire 2011-04-01 1213
Frederick of Prussia defeats Maria Theresa at Hohenfriedberg 2011-04-01 1353
Frederick of Prussia discovers secret articles of the Russo-Austrian treaty 2011-04-01 1017
Frederick Roberts occupies Johannesburg 2010-03-01 2535
Frederick the Great besieges Olmütz but fails 2011-12-30 1014
Frederick the Great dies 2010-03-01 1027
Frederick the Wise of Saxony creates a rival union to the Swabian League 2010-11-01 1630
Frederick V becomes Elector Palatine 2011-02-01 755
Frederick V, Elector Palatine, is placed under the ban of the Empire 2011-02-01 2570
Frederick VII of Denmark announces decision to incorporate Schleswig 2011-12-30 847
Frederick VII of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Christian IX 2011-12-30 465
Frederick William I of Prussia is succeeded by Frederick II 'the Great' 2011-04-01 1180
Frederick William III succeeds as King of Prussia 2011-03-01 885
Frederick William IV of Prussia dies 2011-12-30 1166
Frederick William IV of Prussia suffers a stroke 2011-12-30 904
Frederick, Crown Prince of Prussia, is imprisoned by his father 2011-04-01 1008
Frederick, Prince of Wales, quarrels with his father, George II 2011-04-01 839
Free Soil party formed 2010-03-01 1992
Free Trade in Corn within France 2010-03-01 939
Freedom of press granted in France 2011-12-30 1012
Freedom of the press first invoked to acquit Peter Zenger 2010-03-01 1710
Freeman, Edward Augustus 2002-03-27 7097
French 'Corvée' abolished 2010-03-01 1357
French abandon siege of Madras when a British fleet arrives 2011-12-30 1469
French abandon siege of Quebec 2010-02-01 2144
French accept Perkin Warbeck as rightful claimant to the English throne 2010-11-01 1826
French agree to finance Jibouti-Addis Ababa railway 2010-03-01 1251
French amnesty for political offenders 2011-12-30 1090
French and British attack Madagascar 2010-02-01 1728
French and British troops invade Suez Canal Zone 2010-02-01 968
French and Indian forces attack Deerfield 2009-02-01 3585
French and Indian forces oust British from Adyar 2010-02-01 2944
French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry 2009-04-28 5933
French and Swedish army invades Bavaria 2011-02-01 1269
French and Venetian troops invade Milan 2010-11-01 1401
French are defeated by Imperial troops at Battle of the Sesia 2010-11-01 1994
French are driven out of Lombardy 2010-11-01 1301
French army defeats the allies at Fleurus 2011-04-01 1883
French army enters Spain 2011-04-01 1163
French army masses in Lombardy 2010-11-01 1417
French army occupies the Rhineland 2011-02-01 1339
French army reconquer Milan 2010-11-01 1911
French Assembly of Notables convened 2007-12-12 2595
French Association Law promulgated 2010-03-01 1133
French at war with Spain 2011-12-30 795
French attack British forts at Oswego 2010-02-01 3101
French begin hostilities against Morocco 2011-03-01 1015
French begin siege of Luxembourg 2011-04-01 653
French bishops accept Henry IV as King of France 2011-02-01 2609
French bomb Algiers and subsequently make treaty with the Bey 2011-04-01 878
French brigade surrenders 2010-11-01 1285
French Capetian dynasty founded 2009-05-01 835
French capture Antigua 2011-03-01 1118
French capture Bologna and expel the papal troops 2010-11-01 1396
French capture Dunkirk 2010-02-01 1459
French capture Fort St. David, India 2010-02-01 2131
French capture Mons 2011-04-01 1672
French capture Philippsburg 2011-02-01 1013
French Chamber is moved from Versailles to Paris 2011-12-30 662
French Chambers oppose Polignac's appointment as Prime Minister 2011-12-30 1328
French Civil War ends with the Peace of St. Menehould 2011-02-01 1884
French clergy endorse Louis XIV's limitations on papal power 2011-04-01 1158
French clergy required to take oath 2011-03-01 2347
French colonies of French Guinea and Ivory Coast formally established 2011-12-30 523
French colony of Gabon united with French Congo 2011-12-30 1188
French commander St Pol is captured 2010-11-01 1325
French Company for the Islands of America is incorporated 2011-02-01 1064
French complete the occupation of Alsace 2011-02-01 726
French Concordat with Catholic church 2007-12-22 3276
French Conference adheres to Moscow International 2010-03-01 590
French Constitution gives President monarchical power 2011-12-30 1217
French Constitution of 1875 is completed 2011-12-30 1028
French constitutional acts share power between Deputies and Senate 2011-12-30 956
French Convention assists revolutionaries 2010-03-01 1919
French court returns to Paris 2011-03-01 3491
French Declaration of the Rights of Man 2007-12-22 2165
French defeat British at Fontenoy and conquer the Austrian Netherlands 2011-04-01 1524
French defeat British at Hastenbeck 2011-12-30 1232
French defeat Dutch and Spanish fleets in Bay of Palermo and take Sicily 2011-04-01 1467
French defeat the British at Lauffeld near Maastricht 2011-04-01 1294
French defeated at Gravelotte and St. Privat 2011-12-30 743
French defeated at Grossbeeren 2010-03-01 1975
French defeated at Katzbach 2010-03-01 2067
French defeated at Magnano 2010-03-01 2298
French defeated at Novi 2010-03-01 2246
French defeated at St. Quentin 2011-12-30 910
French devastate the Palatinate 2011-04-01 1699
French East India Company abandons plans for further conquests 2011-04-01 1451
French Eastern Army crosses Swiss frontier and is disarmed 2011-12-30 1776
French ecclesiastics call for a general council of the church 2010-11-01 1953
French enter Rome and restore Pope Pius IX 2011-12-30 720
French envoys arrive at the Congress of Münster 2011-02-01 2030
French Estates-General meet 2007-12-22 3102
French evacuate Fashoda after Britain protests 2011-12-30 667
French expedition lands in Papal States 2011-12-30 624
French expedition maps Australia's north-west coast 2010-03-01 3205
French expedition sets off to claim Sudan 2011-12-30 687
French expedition to Sudan reaches River Bahr-el-Ghazal 2011-12-30 749
French expelled from Holland 2010-03-01 2135
French fail to take Orbetello 2011-02-01 1108
French fleet arrives off Delaware 2010-03-01 2708
French fleet bombards Casablanca 2011-03-01 744
French fleet under Labourdonnais arrives at Pondicherry 2011-04-01 1428
French force invading Piedmont is defeated at the battle of Exilles 2011-04-01 1316
French force lands at Civita Vecchia 2011-12-30 647
French force occupies Fashoda 2011-12-30 750
French forces withdraw from Mexico 2011-12-30 1163
French foreign minister Theophile Delcasse resigns 2010-03-01 777
French gain Capua with the help of Cesare Borgia 2010-11-01 2854
French government aid wine-growers 2011-03-01 1130
French Government retreats to Bordeaux 2010-02-01 996
French Guinea is organised 2011-04-01 1033
French Huguenots settle at the Cape of Good Hope 2011-04-01 1732
French Indochina War 2010-02-01 1370
French invade Rome 2010-11-01 1726
French law compensates nobles for losses in French Revolution 2011-12-30 884
French law forbidding multiple candidates in elections 2011-12-30 1180
French law makes sacrilege a capital offence 2011-12-30 1040
French law refuses entry to France to family of Charles X and Napoleon 2011-12-30 940
French law to censor press rejected by Peers 2011-12-30 920
French Lutherans are brought to trial and French Bible translation burnt 2010-11-01 2646
French miners vote for general strike 2010-03-01 1458
French national assembly abolishes exemptions from taxes 2007-12-22 2953
French National Assembly announces its own dissolution 2011-12-30 703
French National Assembly meets at Bordeaux 2011-12-30 772
French National Assembly voted in by universal male suffrage 2011-12-30 1074
French negotiate trading rights in Pondicherry, India 2007-12-02 1868
French negotiations with Spain are broken off 2011-04-01 961
French note to Siam provokes crisis in Franco-British relations 2011-12-30 370
French occupy Rousillon 2011-02-01 826
French occupy the Antilles and Cayenne 2011-02-01 1671
French offensive between Meuse and Woëvre Plain 2010-03-01 723
French organises colonial empire from Quebec to the Mississippi 2011-04-01 1076
French Panama Canal Company is established 2011-12-30 596
French Parlement imposes peace on Bordeaux 2011-04-01 2185
French Parlement loses its right to object to Royal Edicts 2011-04-01 989
French peasants revolt against taxation 2011-03-01 952
French plan for intervention in Spain is tentatively accepted at Verona 2011-12-30 1075
French plebiscite supports new constitution of Louis Napoleon 2011-12-30 1094
French possessions reorganised as French West Africa 2011-03-01 671
French President Sadi-Carnot is assassinated by an Italian anarchist 2011-12-30 1837
French pretender Comte de Chambord dies without heir 2011-12-30 660
French protectorate established over Cambodia 2011-12-30 845
French Protestants hold an Assembly at Chatelherault 2011-02-01 1795
French pull out of Indochina 2010-02-01 770
French raise British siege of Pondicherry 2011-04-01 1620
French re-occupy Swedish Pomerania and Rügen 2010-03-01 2195
French Republic proclaimed 2010-03-01 1994
French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille 2007-12-22 4394
French royal family leave Paris; the provinces revolt against Mazarin 2011-03-01 2592
French Senate names provisional government 2011-03-01 803
French spy Duke of Albany lands in Scotland to exploit divisions 2010-11-01 2062
French take Annapolis, Nova Scotia, but withdraw 2011-04-01 1123
French take Heidelberg, Philipsburg and Avignon 2011-04-01 1178
French take Madras (south-east India) from the British 2008-02-15 2212
French take Mainz 2011-02-01 834
French take Stenay 2011-04-01 689
French take Trier, Courtrai, Oudenarde and Luxembourg 2011-04-01 1179
French take Venaissin and Avignon 2011-04-01 1018
French traders found a settlement at the mouth of the Senegal River 2011-02-01 987
French Trades Union Congress adopts principle of general strike 2011-12-30 859
French troops begin conquest of Madagascar 2011-12-30 538
French troops begin conquest of the Upper Niger 2011-12-30 520
French troops cross Rhine to invade south Germany, Austria and Bohemia 2011-04-01 1844
French troops defeat Algerian rebels but sustain heavy losses 2011-12-30 1647
French troops devastate the Palatinate 2011-04-01 1343
French troops invade Holland 2011-03-01 2255
French troops invade Tunis from Algeria 2011-12-30 790
French troops occupy Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Hanau 2011-03-01 571
French troops overrun Holland 2010-03-01 2334
French troops restore Pius IX and garrison Rome 2011-12-30 730
French troops surrender Metz 2011-12-30 605
French troops take Gravelines 2011-02-01 614
French troops take Philipsburg 2011-04-01 1163
French troops take Strasbourg and Casale in peacetime 2011-04-01 794
French troops withdraw from Milan 2010-11-01 1206
French ultimatum to Prussia not to renew Spanish candidature 2011-12-30 790
French victories in Franche-Comté, Flanders and western Germany 2011-04-01 1497
French victory at Bergen near Frankfurt 2011-12-30 647
French victory at Hochstadt 2011-04-01 2356
French victory at Weissenburg 2010-03-01 2175
French victory on Aisne 2010-03-01 462
French Victory over the Spanish at Rocroi 2011-03-01 2812
French War against King Dahomey in West Africa 2011-12-30 760
French War Office accused of anti-Semitism by Emile Zola 2010-01-01 1809
French win victories in Spanish Netherlands 2011-04-01 1225
French-Indian rebellion in western Canada 2010-01-01 3353
French, Bavarian and Saxon troops take Prague 2011-04-01 1465
French/Belgium troops occupy Ruhr 2010-02-01 1002
Frequency of stretched vibrating string established 2009-05-01 873
Fresh Allied landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli 2010-03-01 2070
Freud, Sigmund. Der Untergang des Oedipuskomplexes 1924 2009-11-11 4178
Friedrich Ebert elected President of German republic 2010-03-01 1012
Friedrich III becomes Emperor of Germany 2011-12-30 502
Fritz Zwicky first suggests the existence of dark matter 2009-05-01 611
Fronde leaders, including Condé, are imprisoned 2011-03-01 2597
Fronde surrenders in Bordeaux 2011-04-01 2192
Frontier between France and Spain is defined 2011-12-30 613
Frontier treaty between Russia and USA 2011-12-30 1071
Froude, James Anthony 2002-06-20 7653
Frst installment of the Pentagon Papers published by The New York Times 2010-03-01 1284
Fugitive Slave Act 2001-11-01 2014
Funeral of Nelson 2005-09-13 1280
Further Anglo-Dutch treaty to present an ultimatum to France 2011-04-01 1117
Further Anglo-Kaffir war breaks out 2011-12-30 1832
Further British duties are repealed to modify Navigation Acts 2011-12-30 1176
Further French defeats at Worth and Spicheren 2011-12-30 903
Further Maori risings in New Zealand 2010-02-01 2126
Further Matabele rising in Rhodesia 2011-12-30 585
Further May Laws in Germany against Ultramontane clergy 2011-12-30 848
Further secret treaty between the Empire and Spain 2011-04-01 1058
Further treaty of commerce between England and Sweden 2011-04-01 753
Future Emperor Charles V is born 2010-11-01 1181
Futurist Exhibition in London 2004-01-23 5922
Gabor Bethlen again invades the Austrian dominions 2011-02-01 2513
Gabor Bethlen becomes Prince of Transylvania 2011-02-01 646
Gabor Bethlen captures Bratislava and advances on Vienna 2011-02-01 2319
Gabor Bethlen retreats from Vienna 2011-02-01 2361
Gabriel Bathory becomes ruler of Transylvania under Turkish suzerainty 2011-02-01 1315
Gabriele d'Annunzio leads army to seize Fiume 2010-03-01 969
Gadsden Purchase 2010-02-01 1484
Gaeta, the last French garrison in Naples, surrenders to Spanish troops 2010-11-01 1694
Gag Law adopted 2010-03-01 2149
Gain for Conservatives in the General Election 2010-02-01 2061
Galaxy classifications by Hubble 2009-05-01 740
Galileo sentenced by the Inquisition 2010-02-01 3311
Galileo's laws of motion 2008-01-01 32240
Gallactic redshifts discovered 2009-05-01 1000
Gallipoli captured by the Ottomans 2010-03-01 2264
Galway, last Royalist port in the British Isles, surrenders to Parliament 2010-02-01 2578
Gambia becomes a colony of James, Duke of Courland 2011-04-01 1215
Game Act 1711 2009-06-24 1442
Game Act 1770 2009-06-24 2905
Game Act 1775 2009-08-24 1874
Game Act 1831 2009-06-24 1635
Game Association founded 2009-08-24 1026
Game theory principles; minimax theorem proved 2009-05-01 897
Gamma-ray emission from the plane of the Milky Way discovered 2011-03-01 995
Gandhi arrested 2010-03-01 1043
Gandhi returns to India 2011-03-01 580
Gaols Act 2008-02-29 2589
Gardiner, Samuel Rawson 2002-03-21 7464
Garibaldi begins march on Rome 2011-12-30 475
Garibaldi crosses the Straits, with British connivance 2011-12-30 695
Garibaldi enters Naples 2011-12-30 589
Garibaldi proclaims Victor Emmanuel King of Italy 2011-12-30 910
Garrison in Athens revolts and forces King Otto I to resign 2011-12-30 941
Garrison of Lisbon revolts against John VI 2011-12-30 916
Gauss’s work on integrals 2009-05-01 1193
Gebhard, Archbishop of Cologne, retires to Strasbourg 2011-02-01 1246
General election results in gains for Irish Catholics 2013-08-30 1404
General election; William Pitt's political ascendancy confirmed 2007-12-12 7634
General Election: government endorsed by large majority 2013-08-30 1159
General Franco's dictatorship ends; Prince Carlos takes over in Spain 2010-02-01 1197
General Georges Boulanger becomes war minister 2011-12-30 1142
General Monck and his army arrive in London 2011-03-01 732
General Monck begins to march towards London 2011-03-01 817
General Monck crosses River Tweed into England 2011-04-01 1383
General Monck in Scotland calls for a free Parliament 2011-04-01 1409
General Monck is appointed Commander of all army personnel in England and Scotland 2010-02-01 782
General Monck's officers arrive in London 2010-02-01 635
General Motors introduces the annual model change 2010-02-01 2843
General Pelloux resigns 2010-03-01 933
General relativistic theory of stellar pulsations developed 2009-05-01 845
General Rommel and Afrika Korps deployed 2010-02-01 1049
General Strike 2004-04-12 4744
General strike in Barcelona 2011-03-01 550
General strike in Belgium 2011-12-30 548
General strike in Italy 2010-03-01 567
General V. Huerta re-elected President of Mexico 2010-03-01 734
General Wolfe appointed Commander-in-Chief in British North America 2010-02-01 2759
Geneva becomes independent from Berne Canton 2011-02-01 1046
Genital Phase 2010-02-01 6293
Genoa defeated by Venice 2010-03-01 701
Genoa falls 2010-11-01 891
Genoa regains Corsica 2011-04-01 1327
Genoa regains its independence as a republic 2010-11-01 1041
Genoa surrenders to Austrian and Sardinian forces 2011-04-01 1159
Genoese revolt against Maria Theresa's forces 2011-04-01 996
Geodesic equations of general relativity shown to be deduced from its field equations 2009-05-01 1196
George Abbot is elected Archbishop of Canterbury 2011-02-01 1820
George Anson sets out on a voyage around the world 2011-04-01 745
George Bass explores the south-east coast of Australia 2010-03-01 2553
George Berkeley, governor of Cape Colony, annexes Griqualand West 2011-12-30 2164
George Boole formalizes symbolic logic in The Mathematical Analysis of Logic 2013-08-30 940
George Canning becomes Prime Minister 2013-08-30 2271
George Canning succeeds Castlereagh as Foreign Secretary 2011-12-30 1182
George Curzon made British foreign secretary 2011-03-01 788
George Elector of Saxony succeeds his brother 2011-02-01 737
George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer is performed 2010-03-01 1750
George I's first Parliament is dissolved 2011-04-01 697
George II assents to a land tax 2011-04-01 1312
George II defeats French at Dettingen 2011-04-01 1427
George II secures the neutrality of Hanover by a treaty with France 2011-04-01 1005
George II signs the Convention of Hanover with Prussia 2011-04-01 1245
George II's fourth Parliament is dissolved 2011-04-01 698
George II's second Parliament is dissolved 2011-04-01 678
George II's third Parliament is dissolved 2011-04-01 815
George Lansbury defeated in Bow by-election 2010-03-01 406
George Lansbury protests Suffragette force feeding 2010-03-01 1832
George Lewis succeeds as Elector of Hanover 2011-04-01 631
George Michaelis appointed German chancellor 2010-03-01 975
George Rusden's three volume History of Australia is published 2013-08-30 1083
George Stokes defines the Stokes parameters of polarization 2013-08-30 2575
George Stokes proves Stokes’ Law 2009-05-01 2321
George V holds Delhi Durbar 2010-03-01 954
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham in power 2010-01-01 2130
George Washington's Farewell Address 2008-01-01 4178
George Weymouth visits the New England court 2011-02-01 2060
George Wishart is burnt for heresy in Scotland 2010-11-01 1682
Georges Boulanger commits suicide in exile in Brussels 2011-12-30 779
Georges Clemenceau forms cabinet in France 2010-03-01 660
Georgia becomes Crown province upon surrender of Charter by Trustees 2011-04-01 1267
Georgia proclaims its independence 2010-03-01 552
Georgian Period 2005-09-01 8574
Georgic 2001-11-01 6513
Gera agreement ratified by the House of Hohenzollern 2011-02-01 1283
Gerald Portal hoists British flag in Uganda 2011-12-30 438
Gerd Faltings proves the Mordell Conjecture 2009-05-01 907
German advance halted at the Marne 2010-02-01 1063
German ambassador's assassination begins siege of legations 2010-03-01 1499
German Ante-Parliament meets at Frankfurt 2011-12-30 760
German anti-Jesuit law of 1872 revised 2010-03-01 1308
German anti-socialist law of 1878 expires 2011-12-30 1237
German attack before Verdun 2010-03-01 470
German capitulation in New Guinea 2010-03-01 626
German Catholic and Protestant Leagues form to carry out Peace of Westphalia 2011-04-01 949
German Catholic princes sign the defensive League of Nuremberg 2010-11-01 1736
German Centre Party (Catholic) is established 2011-12-30 1044
German Confederation dissolved by Prussia 2010-02-01 1557
German Confederation reserves its right in Schleswig-Holstein 2011-12-30 835
German Diet appoints Reaction Committee to control small states 2011-12-30 781
German diet in Cologne undertakes further imperial reorganisation 2010-11-01 1490
German Diet votes for federal action against Denmark 2011-12-30 653
German East Africa Company cedes its territorial rights to Germany 2011-12-30 757
German East Africa Company is chartered 2011-12-30 722
German elements in Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein form government 2011-12-30 784
German Empire receives remodelled Constitution 2011-12-30 800
German fleet deliberately sunk at Scapa Flow 2010-02-01 1137
German forces surrender to Louis Botha 2010-03-01 458
German grand fleet mutinies at Kiel 2010-03-01 1008
German gunboat Panther arrives in Agadir 2010-03-01 1331
German Lutherans refuse the Pope's invitation to a general council 2010-11-01 1477
German Marxians and Lassalleans form Socialist Working-Men's Party 2011-12-30 1110
German mercenaries join forces with Admiral Coligny's at Saint Yrieix 2011-02-01 902
German national assembly authorises Peace Treaty's signature 2010-03-01 553
German National Assembly passes Constitution 2011-12-30 787
German National Assembly proclaims fundamental rights 2011-12-30 1017
German National Assembly suspends German Confederation 2011-12-30 731
German National Assembly thinks Frederick William IV refuses the crown 2011-12-30 1084
German Navy of 1848 is sold by auction 2011-12-30 983
German offensives on the Somme 2010-02-01 601
German Professors meet at Frankfurt to discuss German reunification 2011-12-30 788
German Protestant Princes decide to ally with Gustavus II 2011-02-01 1144
German Protestant princes present their grievances to Emperor Rudolf II 2011-02-01 945
German settlement of South-West Africa, modern Namibia 2010-01-01 1131
German Social Democrats' manifesto 2010-03-01 526
German submarine blockade 2010-02-01 1176
German submarine Deutschland reaches U.S. 2010-03-01 1330
German territories divided 2010-02-01 1226
German withdrawal 2010-02-01 599
German-Austrian note to U.S. for armistice 2010-03-01 810
German-Portuguese agreement on boundaries of Angola and South-West Africa 2011-12-30 1152
German-Russian negotiations for alliance break down 2010-03-01 782
Germano-Russo Reinsurance treaty 2011-12-30 474
Germans cross River Marne 2010-03-01 576
Germans enter Warsaw 2010-03-01 717
Germans evacuate France 2011-12-30 519
Germans first use poison gas on Western Front 2010-03-01 1172
Germans introduce gas to the Polish Front 2010-02-01 1034
Germans occupy Brussels 2010-03-01 994
Germans occupy Helsingfors 2010-03-01 1136
Germans shell Paris 2010-03-01 413
Germans surrender at Stalingrad 2010-02-01 651
Germans take Novo-Georgievsk 2010-03-01 1152
Germans victorious at Lodz 2010-02-01 829
Germany allows France free hand in Morocco 2010-03-01 662
Germany allows Reinsurance treaty with Russia to lapse 2011-12-30 919
Germany and Austria agree to Woodrow Wilson's terms 2010-03-01 621
Germany and Austria annul promise of plebiscite in North Schleswig 2011-12-30 648
Germany and Austria struck from Knights of Garter 2010-03-01 730
Germany and Italy declare War against the United States 2010-02-01 600
Germany annexes Western Czechoslovakia 2010-02-01 900
Germany British advances for an alliance 2011-12-30 548
Germany buys the islands of Marianas, Caroline and Pelew 2011-12-30 813
Germany declares war on France, invades Belgium 2010-03-01 1043
Germany departs the League of Nations 2010-01-01 659
Germany enters League of Nations 2010-02-01 603
Germany invades Soviet Russia 2010-02-01 704
Germany occupies Jiaozhou Bay 2010-02-01 1489
Germany occupies Luxembourg 2010-03-01 1051
Germany partitioned 2010-02-01 692
Germany recognises France's special interests in Morocco 2011-03-01 724
Germany requires Russia to cease mobilisation 2010-03-01 525
Germany secures Baghdad Railway contract 2011-12-30 672
Germany signs commercial treaties 2010-03-01 929
Germany signs commercial treaties with Balkan states 2011-12-30 763
Germany signs commercial treaty with Russia 2011-12-30 398
Germany signs commercial treaty with Samoa 2011-12-30 389
Germany signs international commercial treaties 2011-12-30 1108
Germany suspends submarine warfare 2010-03-01 380
Germany takes control of south-west Africa, Togo and Cameroon 2011-03-01 832
Germany thwarts British attempts to move closer to the Triple Alliance 2011-12-30 381
Germany, Austria and Russia renew Three Emperors' Alliance 2011-12-30 801
Germany, Britain and Italy blockade Venezuela 2010-03-01 784
Germany's counter-proposals to Peace Conference 2010-03-01 1026
Germany's declaration to neutrals 2010-03-01 773
Germany's peace note to Allies 2010-03-01 709
Ghana Empire conquers the Berber town of Awdaghost 2009-05-01 1836
Ghandi assassinated 2010-02-01 1216
Ghent refuses to pay a subsidy for Charles V's war with France 2010-11-01 1978
Ghent submits to the Duke of Parma 2011-02-01 816
GI Bill of Rights 2010-03-01 387
Gian Trivulzio recaptures Mirandola; Julius II fails to take Ferrara 2010-11-01 1063
Giant comet or asteroid Earth impact theory elaborated 2009-05-01 643
Gideon Mantell discovers the fossilized skeleton of an iguanodon dinosaur 2013-08-30 1145
Gilchrist-Thomas method for producing steel invented 2013-08-30 832
Gin Act 2007-02-02 1461
Giolitti's Italian ministry falls through bank scandals 2011-12-30 928
Giovanni Battista Castagna elected Pope Urban VII 2011-02-01 1355
Giovanni Battista Pamfili is elected Pope Innocent X 2011-02-01 923
Giovanni de' Medici is elected Pope Leo X 2010-11-01 1738
Giovanni Giolitti overthrown in Italy 2011-03-01 628
Giovanni Giolitti replaces Marquis di Rudin as premier of Italy 2011-12-30 1034
Giovanni Medici elected Pope Pius IV 2011-02-01 1575
Giovanni Pietro Caraffa is elected Pope PauI IV 2011-02-01 1262
Girolamo Morone, Chancellor of Milan, reveals a plot against Charles V 2010-11-01 1313
Girondins form ministry in France 2010-03-01 2269
Girton College, Cambridge, founded 2013-08-30 985
Giuliana della Rovere is elected Pope Julius II 2010-11-01 2651
Giuseppe Saracco overthrown 2010-03-01 823
Glaciation studies demonstrate Ice Age on Earth 2009-05-01 666
Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the second time 2010-01-01 2135
Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the third time 2013-08-30 1922
Gladstone denounces Conservative government in Midlothian Campaign 2011-12-30 1068
Gladstone introduces his first Budget 2011-12-30 839
Gladstone publishes 'The Bulgarian Horrors' and 'The Question of the East' 2011-12-30 2718
Gladstone reforms his ministry and becomes Chancellor of Exchequer 2011-12-30 790
Gladstone resigns as British Prime Minister 2011-12-30 1838
Gladstone resigns following defeat of Irish University bill, but soon returns 2011-12-30 1433
Gladstone resigns Liberal leadership 2011-12-30 1086
Gladstone withdraws Employers' Liability bill on Lords' amendments 2011-12-30 1081
Gladstone's last speech urges British action on Armenian massacres 2011-12-30 1368
Gladstone's Liberal government is defeated over the Irish Home Rule bill 2011-12-30 1181
Glasgow Assembly abolishes Bishops 2010-02-01 2089
Glasgow Assembly dissolved 2010-02-01 2035
Glatz falls to the Prussians 2011-04-01 886
Glen Grey Act in Cape Colony establishes a new policy towards natives 2011-12-30 1008
Glorious Revolution: Liberal uprising in Spain 2011-03-01 2424
GM recognizes the United Automobile Workers 2010-03-01 1053
Godoy forced to resign in Spain 2011-03-01 868
Gold Coast colony granted a Legislative Council by Britain 2010-01-01 916
Gold found in Dakota 2010-02-01 2643
Gold rushes begin at Ballarat and Bendigo 2010-03-01 539
Goliad executions 2010-03-01 1531
Gonzalo de Cordoba defeats French army and enters Naples 2010-11-01 1959
Gonzalo de Cordoba is besieged in Barletta 2010-11-01 1504
Gorbachev introduces Perestroika (Re-structuring) and Glasnost (Openness) 2010-02-01 1007
Goschen and Joubert visit Egypt to establish dual control 2011-12-30 843
Goschen is appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer 2011-12-30 858
Goschen reduces interest on Britain's national debt 2011-12-30 1101
Gothic Architecture 2005-11-07 6139
Government censorship of the press is ended in England 2011-04-01 1470
Government defeat in Commons 2010-03-01 425
Government of India Act 2013-08-30 750
Government of Ireland Act passed 2010-03-01 457
Government of Maine passes to the control of Massachusetts 2011-04-01 1030
Government of the Spanish Netherlands moves to Spain 2011-02-01 1608
Governor Macquarie's School for Education of Children of the Poor 2010-03-01 784
Governor of Maryland suspends government and assumes control 2011-04-01 1574
Governor of New York tries to protect British colonies against French 2011-04-01 1328
Governor of Rouen surrenders to Henry IV 2011-02-01 2271
Governor of Straits Settlements places British residents in Malay states 2011-12-30 859
Governor Spotswood of Virginia endorses settling at Lake Erie 2011-04-01 1051
Governors of North American colonies told to gain Iroquois allegiance 2011-04-01 1060
Governorship of the Netherlands is given to Don Louis Requesens 2011-02-01 1105
Grafton resigns from North's ministry 2010-03-01 2140
Grain bounties introduced 2010-02-01 1465
Granadine Confederation formed 2011-12-30 593
Grand Alliance between Britain, Holland and the Emperor against France 2011-04-01 2226
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg separates from the Netherlands 2011-12-30 536
Grand Duke of Tuscany flees to Gaeta 2011-12-30 528
Grand General Union of Cotton Spinners 2013-08-30 1582
Grand National Consolidated Trades Union founded 2007-12-12 2488
Grand Remonstrance by Parliament 2010-01-01 805
Grand Vizier of Turkey Kiamil Pasha resigns 2010-03-01 689
Gratton makes Irish Declaration of Rights 2011-03-01 1750
Graveyard Poets 2001-11-01 8506
Gravitation, solar system, tides, equinoxes and other astro-physical processes studied by Laplace 2009-05-01 774
Gravitational collapse of a pressure-free homogenous fluid sphere calculated 2009-05-01 1149
Gravitational time delay effect posited 2009-05-01 1125
Great Allied counter-attack opens 2010-03-01 502
Great Britain garrisons Suez Canal 2010-02-01 637
Great Chinese Famine 2010-02-01 1135
Great Elector begins siege of Stettin 2011-04-01 582
Great Elector concludes alliance with Dutch 2011-04-01 887
Great Elector defeats Swedes at Fehrbellin 2011-04-01 1056
Great Elector defeats Swedes at Rathenow 2011-04-01 1137
Great Elector drives out the Swedes from Pomerania and Prussia 2011-04-01 1316
Great Elector of Brandenburg concludes treaty of defence with Dutch 2011-04-01 1290
Great Elector of Brandenburg marries the Duchess of Brunswick 2011-04-01 613
Great Elector takes Stettin 2011-04-01 1037
Great Fire of London 2011-03-01 911
Great Fire of London virtually destroys the city 2011-04-01 791
Great fire of Mereiki 2010-02-01 1152
Great Global Rift discovered 2009-05-01 2412
Great Plague 2007-12-02 2195
Great Schism in the Catholic Church 2010-03-01 1108
Great Schism in the Catholic Church ends 2010-03-01 1375
Great strike in Winnipeg 2010-03-01 1005
Great Western Railway is begun 2013-08-30 1250
Greater Moravia established 2009-05-01 1157
Greece accepts Allies' demands for demobilisation 2010-03-01 741
Greece accepts Allies' ultimatum 2010-03-01 651
Greece agrees to leave Crete 2011-12-30 668
Greece calls for intervention from the international powers 2011-12-30 695
Greece capitulates 2010-03-01 528
Greece declares war on Turkey 2011-12-30 787
Greece is warned to end support for revolution in Eastern Rumelia 2011-12-30 624
Greece refuses Serbian appeal for aid 2010-03-01 739
Greek army mobilised 2010-03-01 863
Greek Assembly elects Queen Victoria's son as their king 2011-12-30 1003
Greek Civil War 2010-02-01 895
Greek Constitution establishes two Chambers 2011-12-30 352
Greek independence guaranteed by Britain, Russia and France 2010-01-01 1197
Greek King assassinated 2010-02-01 828
Greek offensive in Asia Minor 2011-03-01 719
Greeks nearly annihilate Turks at Mitylene 2011-12-30 1163
Greeks propose to place themselves under British protection 2011-12-30 787
Greeks set fire to Turkish admiral's vessel 2011-12-30 1085
Greeks take Tripolitza in the Morea; Turkish population massacred 2011-12-30 1561
Green, John Richard 2002-03-27 7075
Green’s theorem proven 2013-08-30 1290
Greenland discovered 2009-05-01 2753
Gregorian calendar with an improved leap year system introduced 2010-01-01 866
Gregory XIV excommunicates Henry IV of France 2011-02-01 2464
Grenville sent to Paris for peace negotiations 2010-03-01 1398
Grosswardern, Transylvania, surrenders to the Turks 2011-04-01 1098
Grover Cleveland repeals Sherman bill on compulsory silver purchase 2011-12-30 1554
Grover Cleveland, Democrat, wins US presidential election 2011-12-30 1133
Guadaloupe is taken by British 2010-03-01 1507
Guangzu becomes Emperor of China 2011-12-30 510
Guardianship of Infants Act 2010-02-01 2925
Guatemala is declared independent of Spain and aligns itself with Mexico 2011-12-30 833
Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino returns to his duchy with the help of Venice 2010-11-01 828
Guilio de' Medici is elected Pope Clement VII 2010-11-01 1859
Guilio Raspigliosi is elected Pope Clement IX 2011-04-01 948
Guillotine first used 2010-02-01 2854
Guise enters Paris 2011-02-01 2015
Gulf of Mexico explored by Cabeza de Vaca 2010-01-01 2124
Guru Gobind Singh organises political power of Sikhs 2011-04-01 581
Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) established 2010-02-01 1158
Gustav Eriksson rises against Danish rule in Sweden 2010-11-01 1568
Gustave Bauer forms cabinet in Germany 2010-03-01 1021
Gustave II becomes King of the Swedes 2011-03-01 970
Gustavus II attacks Wallenstein at the Alte Veste, Nuremberg 2011-02-01 2041
Gustavus II begins to reform the central administration of Sweden 2011-02-01 741
Gustavus II captures Gdov and returns in triumph to Sweden 2011-02-01 1167
Gustavus II defeats Count Tilly's army at the Lech 2011-02-01 1151
Gustavus II enters Munich and occupies land south of the Danube 2011-02-01 914
Gustavus II lands in Pomerania and marches his army into Germany 2011-02-01 1187
Gustavus II of Sweden campaigns at Gullberg 2011-02-01 1288
Gustavus II of Sweden encourages James I to join the Thirty Years War 2011-02-01 2444
Gustavus II of Sweden holds a Diet at Orebro 2011-02-01 527
Gustavus II of Sweden loses Elfsborg and Gulberg 2011-02-01 1240
Gustavus II of Sweden marries the Elector of Brandenburg's daughter 2011-02-01 435
Gustavus II of Sweden raises the siege of Danzig 2011-02-01 1277
Gustavus II of Sweden resumes his Palatinate campaign 2011-02-01 1140
Gustavus II signs a military convention with the Elector of Brandenburg 2011-02-01 1224
Gustavus II takes Frankfort-on-Oder 2011-02-01 900
Gustavus II takes Oppenheim and occupies Mainz 2011-02-01 759
Gustavus IV of Sweden forced to abdicate 2010-03-01 806
Gustavus of Sweden makes an alliance with France 2010-11-01 927
Gustavus Vasa becomes Administrator of Sweden 2010-11-01 807
Gustavus Vasa implements a Swedish Reformation 2010-11-01 1467
Gustavus Vasa is appointed Lieutenant-General of Sweden 2011-02-01 417
Guyenne claimed by Philip VI of France 2010-03-01 1053
H. A. L. Fisher introduces Education bill 2011-03-01 646
H. H. Asquith again appeals to electorate 2010-03-01 868
H. H. Asquith denounces Lords for breach of constitution 2010-03-01 464
H. H. Asquith forms Coalition 2010-03-01 991
H. H. Asquith introduces minimum wage bill 2010-03-01 1199
H.M.S. Formidable sunk in English Channel 2010-03-01 1011
H.M.S. Hampshire sunk, with Lord Kitchener aboard 2010-03-01 897
H.M.S. King George V launched 2010-03-01 1070
Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Ireland 2011-12-30 2035
Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Ireland after unrest 2011-12-30 1556
Habeas Corpus Amendment Act 2010-02-01 1493
Habeas Corpus suspended 2010-02-01 1033
Habeas Corpus suspended (2) 2010-03-01 789
Habsburg female rights of succession in 'the Pragmatic Sanction' 2011-04-01 1041
Habsburgs take power again in Madrid at the death of Don John 2011-04-01 947
Hadrian's Wall built 2012-07-31 3770
Hague convention fixes three-mile limit for territorial waters 2011-12-30 738
Hague Treaty of Guarantee is signed between Holland and Sweden 2011-04-01 634
Haiku 2001-11-01 7689
Haiti established as an independent state 1723
Halifax becomes Treasurer and then Lord President of the Council 2011-04-01 1368
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is established as a fortress 2011-04-01 847
Halley, Edmond 2004-08-27 4114
Hama Massacre 2010-02-01 1448
Hambach Festival of South German Democrats advocates armed revolt 2011-12-30 1165
Hamburg and Bremen join German customs union 2011-12-30 687
Hampden Clubs founded 2010-02-01 2292
Hampton Court Conference 2010-01-01 1311
Handel, George Frideric. The Triumph of Time and Truth 1757 504
Hanover given Constitution 2010-03-01 1092
Hanover is separated from Britain 2011-12-30 904
Hanover leaves the Three Kings' alliance with Prussia 2011-12-30 1099
Hanover proclaimed a kingdom 2010-03-01 921
Hanseatic League concludes a trade agreement with England 2010-03-01 1032
Hanseatic League is established 2010-03-01 1312
Hanseatic League loses its privileges in England 2010-11-01 1339
Hapsburgs agree that Archduke Ferdinand will succeed Charles V 2010-11-01 1127
Hapsburgs assert hereditary right to the Bohemian Crown 2010-11-01 2376
Harcourt introduces death duties in budget 2011-12-30 829
Harcourt leads French victory over Spaniards 2011-02-01 1189
Hargreaves’ “Spinning Jenny” 2004-01-23 12501
Harley is created Earl of Oxford 2011-04-01 877
Harold becomes King 2012-07-31 2341
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin 2010-03-01 1886
Harrison, Frederic 2002-03-21 7061
Harry Smith annexes country between Orange and Vaal rivers 2011-12-30 2015
Harrying of the North 2012-07-31 1750
Harte, Walter 2004-07-27 6299
Hartford Convention 2010-03-01 1174
Harun al-Rashid becomes caliph 2009-05-01 1452
Harvard College founded 2011-12-20 3637
Hastings deposes Rajah of Benares 2010-03-01 907
Hastings makes alliance with state of Oudh 2010-03-01 1024
Hawking suggests black holes might have been created in the Big Bang 2009-05-01 967
Hay-Herran pact 2010-03-01 1697
Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 2005-05-19 1849
Hearth Tax bill raised in Parliament 2011-04-01 1246
Heian period in Japan 2009-05-01 1204
Heidelberg surrenders to the imperialists 2011-02-01 2109
Heinrich Barth explores sub-Saharan Africa 2010-01-01 1425
Heisenberg presents the proton-neutron model of the nucleus 2009-05-01 1361
Heisenberg, Werner 2000-10-28 5397
Hejaz railway to Arabian Holy Places begun 2010-03-01 1271
Helmuth von Moltke chief of German general staff 2010-03-01 1386
Helsinki Accords signed; Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe founded 2010-02-01 1845
Hemistich 2001-11-01 5416
Henri d' Albret invades Navarre, then under Spanish control 2010-11-01 881
Henri Pétain becomes chief of French staff 2010-03-01 820
Henri Pétain becomes French Commander-in-Chief 2010-03-01 829
Henrietta Maria goes to the Netherlands 2010-02-01 1039
Henrik Hop leads a further expedition beyond Orange River 2011-12-30 1609
Henry Addington revises income tax 2010-02-01 1572
Henry Barrow convicted of slandering Queen Elizabeth 2011-02-01 1715
Henry Barrow is executed 2011-02-01 1557
Henry Campbell-Bannerman becomes Commons leader of Liberals 2011-12-30 629
Henry Campbell-Bannerman forms Liberal ministry 2010-03-01 1071
Henry challenges Britain's right to tax colonies 2010-03-01 1340
Henry Clay proposes compromise resolutions on slavery and territory 2011-12-30 639
Henry Duke of Brunswick defeats Albrecht Alcibiades at Steterburg 2010-11-01 1868
Henry Duke of Guise and Louis Cardinal of Guise are assassinated 2011-02-01 2984
Henry Duke of Orleans marries Catherine de' Medici 2010-11-01 767
Henry Havelock and James Outram temporarily relieve Lucknow 2011-12-30 864
Henry Howard, Earl of Nottingham, becomes first lord of the Treasury 2011-02-01 1551
Henry Hudson enters Hudson’s Bay 2006-08-21 2961
Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon, becomes Keeper of Privy Seal 2011-04-01 1227
Henry I of Germany defeats the Wends 2011-03-01 1353
Henry I settles south Wales 2013-03-28 876
Henry II and Pope Julius III sign a two-year truce 2010-11-01 1421
Henry II of France begins campaigning in Italy against Charles V 2010-11-01 1127
Henry II of France invades the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1698
Henry II of France renews war against the Hapsburgs in Italy 2011-02-01 1303
Henry II returns to Verdun at threats from Mary of Hungary 2010-11-01 1708
Henry II succeeds as King of France 2010-11-01 1273
Henry III agrees to all the Duke of Guise's demands 2011-02-01 2175
Henry III and Henry of Navarre sign a truce to oppose the Catholic League 2011-02-01 2167
Henry III arranges the assassination of Henry, Duke of Guise 2011-02-01 2652
Henry III denounces the 1576 Edict of Beaulieu 2011-02-01 2889
Henry III escapes to Chartres 2011-02-01 2040
Henry III forbids the Duke of Guise to enter Paris 2011-02-01 1907
Henry III gains Swiss mercenaries for defence against Catholic League 2011-02-01 2142
Henry III is assassinated by Jacques Clement, a fanatical monk 2011-02-01 3049
Henry III is met by Henry of Navarre and the Duke of Alençon 2011-02-01 1972
Henry III of France makes a marriage alliance with the House of Guise 2011-02-01 711
Henry III of France refuses the sovereignty of the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1414
Henry III secretly leaves Poland for France 2011-02-01 1430
Henry III succeeds as King of France 2011-02-01 1155
Henry III's army begin to threaten Paris 2011-02-01 2043
Henry IV (of Navarre) establishes his headquarters at Tours 2011-02-01 2354
Henry IV abjures Protestantism in order to gain power in France 2010-03-01 2330
Henry IV attacks Paris from the north, causing famine in the capital 2011-02-01 2126
Henry IV begins the siege of La Fère 2011-02-01 2350
Henry IV captures the Paris faubourgs of St Jacques and St Germain 2011-02-01 2027
Henry IV enters Paris 2011-02-01 2647
Henry IV expels the Jesuits from certain areas of France 2011-02-01 2762
Henry IV holds a lit de justice in Paris 2011-02-01 1225
Henry IV is crowned King of France at Chartres 2011-02-01 2463
Henry IV lays siege to Dreux 2011-02-01 2023
Henry IV makes peace with the Governor of Flanders 2011-02-01 1051
Henry IV occupies Sedan 2011-02-01 1458
Henry IV of France declares war on Savoy 2010-01-01 1913
Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Paulette 2010-02-01 1667
Henry IV of France marries Maria de Medici 2010-02-01 1726
Henry IV of France mediates between Pope Paul V and the Venetians 2011-02-01 1451
Henry IV of France obtains a divorce from Queen Margaret of Valois 2011-02-01 756
Henry IV of France signs an alliance with the German Protestant Union 2011-02-01 1199
Henry IV recalls the Jesuits to France despite opposition 2011-02-01 1432
Henry IV routs Mayenne's Leaguer army at Ivry and marches to Paris 2011-02-01 2406
Henry IV summons an Assembly of Notables to discuss public revenue 2011-02-01 1736
Henry IV takes Bourg 2011-02-01 1403
Henry IV takes Noyon in Picardy 2011-02-01 2093
Henry IV urges German Protestant princes to join an attack on the Spanish Netherlands 2011-02-01 1035
Henry IV's authority challenged by the Parlement of Rouen 2011-02-01 1075
Henry IV's mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées dies 2011-02-01 618
Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingstone 2011-12-20 3216
Henry of Anjou marries Eleanor of Acquitaine 2012-07-31 1244
Henry of Navarre captures Talmont and Fontenay in Poitou 2011-02-01 1947
Henry of Navarre escapes from Paris and rejoins the Huguenots 2011-02-01 2829
Henry of Navarre is recognised as head of the Huguenot Party 2011-02-01 2956
Henry of Navarre marries Margaret of Valois 2011-02-01 2022
Henry Pelham dies 2011-04-01 760
Henry St John is created Viscount Bolingbroke 2011-04-01 780
Henry St John joins the English Ministry as Secretary at War 2011-04-01 828
Henry Tudor is created Prince of Wales 2010-11-01 830
Henry V invades France and gains victory at Agincourt 2010-03-01 2195
Henry VII banishes Flemings from England 2010-11-01 2055
Henry VII begins to woo Juana 'the mad' of Castile 2010-11-01 684
Henry VII besieges Boulogne 2010-11-01 2660
Henry VII commissions the Cabots to discover new lands 2010-11-01 1565
Henry VII defeats the Cornish rebels under Lord Audley at Blackheath 2010-11-01 2058
Henry VII denounces Edmund, Earl of Suffolk as a traitor 2010-11-01 2033
Henry VII denounces Perkin Warbeck to Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy 2010-11-01 3036
Henry VII ends the commercial dispute with Flanders 2010-11-01 2236
Henry VII makes Edward Poynings deputy for Ireland 2010-11-01 1680
Henry VII of England discusses possible alliances with Philip of Burgundy 2010-11-01 1550
Henry VII of England invades France 2010-11-01 2522
Henry VII ratifies the marriage treaty with Spain 2010-11-01 1435
Henry VII refuses to lead a crusade against the Turks 2010-11-01 2360
Henry VII signs a commercial treaty with France 2010-11-01 1450
Henry VII's wife Queen Elizabeth dies in childbirth 2010-11-01 1414
Henry VIII allies with Charles V against France 2010-11-01 1501
Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon testify to legatine court 2010-11-01 3199
Henry VIII and Charles V form a league for a fresh attack on France 2010-11-01 1826
Henry VIII and Francis I agree to meet to arrange the sale of Tournai to France 2010-11-01 1190
Henry VIII and Maximilian I sign an alliance against France 2010-11-01 1710
Henry VIII appeals against the Pope to a general council 2010-11-01 3380
Henry VIII asks Catherine of Aragon to withdraw her appeal 2010-11-01 1962
Henry VIII asks the universities' opinion of his proposed divorce 2010-11-01 2041
Henry VIII assumes the title 'Supreme Head of the Church' 2010-11-01 3290
Henry VIII attempts to forge a defensive league 2010-11-01 1020
Henry VIII becomes Head of the Church in England 2010-11-01 3683
Henry VIII captures Boulogne and orders the siege of Montreuil 2010-11-01 2117
Henry VIII commands his army in France 2010-11-01 1890
Henry VIII confirms his alliance with Francis I 2010-11-01 1177
Henry VIII confiscates annates to pressure Pope Clement VII for his divorce 2010-11-01 1894
Henry VIII creates his natural son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond 2010-11-01 1088
Henry VIII creates the Council of the North 2010-11-01 1421
Henry VIII decides to stand as a candidate for the imperial election 2010-11-01 1527
Henry VIII declares war on France 2010-11-01 1878
Henry VIII explains his divorce to nobles and London citizens 2010-11-01 494
Henry VIII fails to renew the Anglo-Scottish 'perpetual peace' 2010-11-01 1382
Henry VIII fears an invasion and orders defence preparations 2010-11-01 1576
Henry VIII is excommunicated 2010-03-01 3630
Henry VIII is released from his debts by statute 2010-11-01 1874
Henry VIII joins the campaign against Francis I 2010-11-01 1722
Henry VIII makes peace with his nephew, James V of Scotland 2010-11-01 1171
Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves 2010-11-01 784
Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon 2010-11-01 1427
Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr, widow of Lord Latimer 2010-11-01 892
Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour 2010-11-01 464
Henry VIII marries Katherine Howard 2010-11-01 720
Henry VIII meets Francis I and forms an alliance 2010-03-01 1156
Henry VIII refuses peace with Scotland while the Duke of Albany remains there 2010-11-01 1752
Henry VIII returns to England 2010-11-01 1528
Henry VIII schemes to remove the Duke of Albany as Protector of Scotland 2010-11-01 1636
Henry VIII seeks an alliance with the German Protestant princes 2010-11-01 3460
Henry VIII sends bishops to press his case with Clement VII 2010-11-01 3035
Henry VIII signs a secret alliance with Francis I of France 2010-11-01 1133
Henry VIII signs a treaty to marry Anne of Cleves 2010-11-01 1183
Henry VIII summons rebel Robert Aske to court 2010-11-01 1445
Henry VIII takes the title King of Ireland 2010-11-01 1763
Henry VIII tries and fails to send an expedition to aid Bourbon in France 2010-11-01 1333
Henry VIII tries to persuade the Pope to hasten his divorce proceedings 2010-11-01 3275
Henry VIII visits Francis I to sign the Treaty of Boulogne 2010-11-01 1047
Henry VIII's divorce suit is removed to Rome 2010-11-01 2277
Henry VIII's illegitimate son, the Duke of Richmond, dies 2010-11-01 1292
Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled 2010-11-01 610
Henry VIII's worsening health creates factional in-fighting 2010-11-01 1306
Henry, Prince of Wales, denounces his marriage contract with Catherine of Aragon 2010-11-01 990
Henry, Prince of Wales, is betrothed to Catherine of Aragon 2010-11-01 1064
Heptameter 2001-11-01 5612
Heretics persecuted in Paris 2010-11-01 2077
Hereward the Wake 2012-07-31 3407
Hernan Cortez is forced from the Aztec capital by Cuauhtemoc 2010-03-01 1438
Heroic Couplet 2001-11-01 30027
Heroic Quatrain 2001-11-01 8282
Herophilus studies nervous system 2009-05-01 998
Herschel's General Catalogue of stars and nebulae 2013-08-30 1364
Hesdin surrenders to the French 2011-02-01 488
Hessian mercenaries recruited for American war 2010-03-01 2631
Hexameter 2001-11-01 5620
Hidetada succeeds as Shogun of Japan 2011-02-01 443
Hideyoshi is appointed Dictator in Japan 2011-02-01 694
High critical temperature ceramic superconductors discovered 2009-05-01 785
Higher revenue anticipated from Britain's direct taxes 2010-03-01 1013
Hill, Errol 2004-08-26 9426
Hippocrates begins the scientific study of medicine 2009-05-01 1015
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2005-03-27 4586
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany 2010-02-01 1315
HIV Virus discovered 2010-02-01 1086
HMS Dreadnought 2010-02-01 1059
Hobart, Tasmania, founded 2011-03-01 1115
Holland cedes Negapatnam to Britain 2010-03-01 1002
Holland declines to surrender ex-Kaiser William II 2010-03-01 504
Holland House 2007-12-22 1942
Holland is forced to recognise Belgian independence 2011-12-30 861
Holland joins Treaty of Seville 2011-04-01 731
Holland signs a treaty of alliance with the Great Elector of Brandenburg 2011-04-01 1121
Holland states sign treaty with American Colonies 2011-03-01 730
Holland takes Gross-Fredericksburg in West Africa 2011-04-01 1216
Holmes's Bonfire 2010-02-01 1336
Holy League against France 2010-03-01 1592
Holy League holds Congress of Mantua 2010-11-01 1368
Holy League of Linz against the Turks 2011-04-01 2149
Hong Kong taken by British in war with China 2011-12-30 1134
Honoré Mirabeau secret agent of the Crown 2010-03-01 2720
Hoover directs international organisation 2010-03-01 1168
Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in Sudan 2011-12-30 769
Horatio Kitchener's victory at Atbara River 2011-12-30 885
Horne Tooke Act 2010-03-01 1002
Hostility between France and Italy 2011-12-30 512
Hottentot Code of 1809 abolished 2010-02-01 2440
House of Commons adopts Nicholas Vansittart's resolutions on value 2010-02-01 1452
House of Commons passes First Reform Bill by one vote 2006-04-22 2281
House of Commons published Commissioner Bigge's reports 2010-03-01 1469
House of Commons votes on the abolition of the slave trade 2010-02-01 2192
House of Commons votes to exclude 'strangers' when necessary 2011-12-30 1043
House of Lords throws out Second Reform Bill 2010-02-01 3527
House of Representatives defeats women's suffrage proposal 2010-03-01 2892
Hovering Act 2010-03-01 1115
Hovering Stress 2001-11-01 5003
Hoyle-Narlikar theory formulated 2009-05-01 1078
Hubert Walter becomes Archbishop of Canterbury 2012-07-31 1154
Hudgins, Andrew 2007-12-11 3630
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads a rising in Ulster 2011-02-01 2461
Huguenot army fights an indecisive battle in Burgundy 2011-02-01 2364
Huguenot Assembly decides to rebel against Louis XIII 2011-02-01 1361
Huguenot conspiracy at Amboise fails 2011-02-01 3214
Huguenot forces attempt the siege of Poitiers 2011-02-01 2158
Huguenot revolt led by the Comte de Soubise 2010-02-01 2654
Huguenot rising 2011-02-01 1416
Huguenots decide on war 2011-02-01 2512
Huguenots from Picardy settle in England 2011-04-01 2112
Huguenots in France 2430
Huguenots massacred at Vassy 2010-03-01 2531
Hulks Act 2010-03-01 1262
Hundred Years' War ends when Bordeaux falls to France 2010-03-01 1982
Hundred Years' War renewed 2010-03-01 1476
Hungarian army capitulates 2011-12-30 1245
Hungarian Diet dissolved; Imperial Commission takes over 2011-12-30 744
Hungarian Diet of Pressburg makes the Crown a Habsburg inheritance 2011-04-01 1634
Hungarian Diet proclaims independence 2011-12-30 510
Hungarian Diet restores 1848 Constitution 2011-12-30 398
Hungarian King decreed to be independent of Pope and Emperor 2010-11-01 1253
Hungarian magnates conspire against Habsburgs 2011-04-01 1057
Hungarian premier, Count Tisza, assassinated 2010-03-01 707
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 breaks out 2008-01-01 2108
Hungarian Soviet Republic set up 2009-05-01 743
Hungarian state founded 2009-05-01 563
Hungarian-dominated Kolozsvar Diet incorporates Transylvania in Hungary 2011-12-30 512
Hungarians defeated by the Turks 2010-03-01 1223
Hungarians revolt against Emperor 2011-04-01 1518
Hungary and Turkey sign a five-year truce 2010-11-01 1227
Hungary leaves the Warsaw Pact 2010-02-01 645
Hurricane Katrina 2005-09-03 2115
Hussein proclaimed King of the Arabs 2010-03-01 1139
Hussites victorious over German troops 2010-03-01 3326
Hyde Park demonstration of 1866 2010-03-01 1592
Hyde Park demonstration of 1867 2010-03-01 2850
Hyde Park Riots 2005-04-01 8658
Hyde Park Riots against restrictions on Sunday trading 2010-03-01 2004
Hyder Ali of Mysore conquers Carnatic 2010-03-01 1191
Hydrogen Bomb tested 2005-03-27 16752
Hydrogen fusion proposed as the energy source for stars 2011-03-01 702
Hyperbole 2001-11-01 5941
Hysteron Proteron 2001-11-01 4739
Hywel Dda (Howell the Good), ruler of Wales, reforms Welsh laws 2009-05-01 1562
I K Brunel's steamship is launched 2010-02-01 2667
Iambic 2001-11-01 4881
Ibn Battuta undertakes a pilgrimage to Mecca 2010-03-01 1164
Ibrahim, son of Mohammed Ali, takes Acre 2011-12-30 1006
Ibrahim, Viceroy of Egypt, dies 2011-12-30 432
Iceland becomes sovereign state 2010-03-01 1380
Iconoclastic Controversy 2009-05-01 898
Idaho organised as US territory 2011-12-30 892
Idyll 2001-11-01 5491
Ieharu becomes Shogun in Japan 2011-12-30 529
Ienobu becomes Shogun in Japan 2011-04-01 515
Ietsuna becomes Shogun of Japan 2011-04-01 471
Illegitimate daughter of Charles V marries a Medici 2010-11-01 446
Illustrated London News 2013-08-30 3857
Immigration Act 2010-02-01 1828
Immigration Act in New Zealand: restricts Japanese immigration 2011-12-30 769
Immigration office opened on Ellis Island 2010-02-01 1946
Immigration Restriction Act and women franchise in Australia 2010-03-01 2184
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 2010-03-01 1305
Imperial 'Waste Lands (Australia) Act' 2010-03-01 844
Imperial army defeated at Jankowitz 2011-02-01 1487
Imperial Conference, London 2010-03-01 666
Imperial Diet at Augsburg: Martin Luther presents his arguments against Catholicism 2010-03-01 3586
Imperial diet meets at Speyer 2011-02-01 2241
Imperial Electors meet at Nuremberg 2011-02-01 750
Imperial fleet captures Dragut's naval headquarters 2010-11-01 893
Imperial force attempts to restore control to Siena 2010-11-01 908
Imperial force besieges the fortress of Jülich 2011-02-01 1376
Imperial force captures Philipsburg 2011-04-01 951
Imperial forces defeat France at Bicocca 2010-03-01 1899
Imperial forces defeat France; Francis I is captured 2010-03-01 1538
Imperial Preference Provisions Act passed 2010-03-01 437
Imperial troops recover Fuenterrabia 2010-11-01 1184
Impressionism 2003-10-12 18913
Improvement in Anglo-Spanish relations 2011-12-30 554
In 'Evil May Day' riots London apprentices attack foreign residents 2010-11-01 2374
In battle of Arras British third army advances 4 miles 2010-03-01 1171
In Berlin, Frederick William IV is forced to grant a constitution 2011-12-30 712
In British general election Gladstone proposes to abolish income tax 2011-12-30 1296
In France life senatorships are abolished 2011-12-30 995
In Geneva an anti-Calvinist rising is ruthlessly put down 2011-02-01 1522
In Germany Rudolf von Bennigsen forms a new National Liberal Party 2011-12-30 1491
In Japan Nobunaga gains dictatorial powers to bring an era of peace 2011-02-01 650
In Reichstag elections Conservatives gain seats from National Liberals 2011-12-30 971
In Reichstag elections the Ultramontane Catholic Centre increases its seats 2011-12-30 1045
In the Ruthven Raid, the English Party in Scotland capture James VI 2011-02-01 1943
In Transylvania Zapolya suppresses the peasants' revolt led by George Dozsa 2010-11-01 1792
In war with the Greeks, Turkey captures island of Ipsara 2011-12-30 1539
In Zulu War British troops capture Cetywayo 2011-12-30 1492
Inca Empire expands under the leadership of Viracocha Inca 2010-03-01 1402
Inca Empire sets up a second capital at Tomebamba 2010-03-01 1195
Increase in US military spending 2010-02-01 681
Increasing disturbance in Macedonia 2010-03-01 1228
Indecency and Vagrancy Acts 2013-08-30 900
Indecisive battle of Edgehill 2011-02-01 2550
Indecisive battle of Perryville in American Civil War 2011-12-30 1891
Indecisive Civil War battle of Sportsylvania Courthouse 2011-12-30 984
Indecisive Civil War battle of the Wilderness 2011-12-30 2060
Indecisive naval battle between Dutch and French at Catania 2011-04-01 1639
Indecisive naval Battle of Toulon 2011-04-01 1506
Independence and neutrality of Luxembourg guaranteed 2010-01-01 1087
Independence of Chile 2010-03-01 834
Independence of Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein is proposed 2011-12-30 780
Independence of United Provinces of La Plata 2011-03-01 730
Independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam proclaimed 2010-02-01 932
Indeterminacy Principle / Uncertainty Principle 2000-10-28 6721
India achieves partial self-government 2010-02-01 979
India Bill 2006-02-02 1033
India protests Salt Tax 2010-02-01 1032
India refuses aid for the Allied war effort 2010-02-01 1003
India transferred to British Crown 2010-01-01 2086
Indian Councils Act 2 2010-03-01 841
Indian Empire proclaimed 2010-03-01 2668
Indian government and Afghanistan peace conference 2010-03-01 1119
Indian Mutiny or Great Revolt 1254
Indian Removal Act 2010-02-01 3331
Indian troops invade Pakistan 2010-02-01 877
Industrial courts established in Germany to adjust wage disputes 2011-12-30 674
Industrial occupation in Spain not prejudicial to rank 2010-03-01 924
Infant Ietsugu becomes Shogun of Japan 2011-04-01 457
Infinite series established for the logarithm 2009-05-01 1134
Inflationary Big Bang universe theory proposed 2009-05-01 890
Influx of American silver causes bankruptcy in France and Spain 2011-02-01 1993
Innocent XII elected Pope 2011-04-01 776
Inquisition begins in the Spanish Netherlands 2010-02-01 2053
Inquisitors-General in France are appointed 2011-02-01 1496
Insulin isolated 2010-02-01 958
Insulin’s composition determined 2009-05-01 709
Insurgents reject the Turkish Sultan's proposals for reform 2011-12-30 651
Insurrection in Paris by Republicans 2011-12-30 948
Insurrection of Hereros and Hottentots 2011-03-01 917
Insurrectionary Scottish Covenanters are defeated at Bothwell Bridge 2011-04-01 884
Internal Macedonia Revolutionary Organisation for independence is founded 2011-12-30 758
International ambassadors plan rule by a Christian governor in Crete 2011-12-30 558
International Atomic Energy Agency established 2010-02-01 867
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development established 2010-02-01 1554
International Brussels Act passed to eradicate African slave trade 2011-12-30 514
International commission is appointed to control Greek finances 2011-12-30 308
International conference on Egyptian finance in London 2011-12-30 1176
International congress for Protection of Workers held in Berlin 2011-12-30 691
International Court of arbitration at The Hague 2010-03-01 609
International Exhibition opened in Philadelphia 2010-03-01 862
International expedition takes Tientsin 2010-03-01 1722
International Labour Conference at Washington 2010-03-01 618
International London Conference agree to Belgian separation from Holland 2011-12-30 1245
International peace conference at Paris 2011-12-30 1206
International Protocols for separation of Belgium and Holland 2011-12-30 661
International Socialist conference in Berne 2010-03-01 400
International treaty to restore order in Syria 2011-12-30 739
Interstellar absorbtion of dust postulated 2009-05-01 1186
Interstellar carbon monoxide found 2009-05-01 989
Interstellar formaldehyde found 2009-05-01 434
Intolerable Acts 2007-12-12 3276
Introduction of Fifth Constitution in France 2010-03-01 2356
Introduction of first income tax in peace-time; tariffs are reduced 2010-01-01 1029
Introduction of scientific weather forecasts 2012-07-31 982
Invention of basketball 2010-03-01 1303
Invention of paper 2009-05-01 1507
Invention of the machine gun 2013-08-30 565
Inverse-square gravitational force law formulated 2009-05-01 923
Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII 2011-02-01 1331
Iraqi independence 2010-02-01 958
Ireland granted free trade with Britain 2010-03-01 1141
Ireland is declared inseparable from England 2011-04-01 1345
Ireland raided by the Vikings 2009-05-01 1770
Irene becomes sole rule of the Byzantine Empire 2009-05-01 1082
Ireton lays siege to Limerick 2011-04-01 2186
Irish associations suppressed 2013-08-30 1096
Irish Catholics defeat Scots at Benburb 2011-02-01 2760
Irish Constabulary Act 2010-02-01 1836
Irish defeated by Parliamentary forces at Dangan Hill 2011-04-01 2251
Irish Home Government Association founded 2010-02-01 1202
Irish Home Rule bill passes Commons 2010-03-01 1176
Irish Land Act 2010-01-01 861
Irish Land and Coercion Acts 2010-01-01 1020
Irish Land League is prosecuted 2011-12-30 770
Irish Land Purchase Act 2013-08-30 1193
Irish National Land League founded with Parnell as president 2011-12-30 982
Irish Protestant Volunteer movement 2011-03-01 1346
Irish rebel Shane O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, is assassinated 2011-02-01 2226
Irish Rebellion; Rising of the United Irishmen 2007-12-22 2787
Irish Rebellion: Confederation of Kilkenny 2010-01-01 4409
Irish rebels who had taken refuge in Tory Island are massacred 2011-02-01 1414
Irish Reform Act passed 2011-12-30 1653
Irish Republican Brotherhood (Fenians) founded 2010-02-01 3254
Irish-American terrorists try to blow up The Times office 2011-12-30 1626
Iron Curtain declaration 2010-02-01 1444
Ironbridge 2004-02-19 3743
Ironworks founded by Friedrich Krupp in Germany 2010-02-01 1629
Irreconcilable republicans are excluded from Parliament 2011-04-01 580
Irredentist agitation in Italy begins 2011-12-30 707
Isabella of Spain abdicates in Paris in favour of Alfonso XII 2011-12-30 1023
Isabella, wife of Manuel the Fortunate of Portugal, dies in childbirth 2010-11-01 1019
Isfahan rebels against Timur 2010-03-01 1384
Ishege becomes Shogun of Japan 2011-04-01 643
Islamic Caliphate abolished 2010-02-01 1210
Islamic spherical astrolabe is invented 2010-03-01 1334
Islamic terrorist seizes Iranian Embassy, London 2010-02-01 1021
Islington Agricultural Hall meeting of 1867 2010-03-01 1523
Ismail becomes Khedive of Egypt 2011-12-30 541
Israel invades Sinai Peninsula 2010-03-01 876
Italian coalition formed under Paolo Boselli 2010-03-01 963
Italian electoral reform 2011-12-30 405
Italian fleet destroyed by Austrians off Lissa 2011-12-30 805
Italian government prevents general strike 2010-03-01 559
Italian National Association formed by Garibaldi for unification 2011-12-30 544
Italian Socialists extend political influence 2011-03-01 656
Italian states come to terms with France 2010-11-01 1595
Italian troops advance into Ethiopia 2011-12-30 577
Italian-Front Armistice 2010-02-01 864
Italians defeat Mahdists in attack on Eritrea 2011-12-30 827
Italians repulse Austrian offensive 2010-02-01 863
Italians take Kassala, Sudan, from the Dervishes 2011-12-30 552
Italy and Turkey sign peace treaty at Lausanne 2010-03-01 1022
Italy becomes a one-party state 2010-02-01 845
Italy becomes a republic 2010-02-01 1011
Italy cedes Kassala to Egypt 2011-12-30 611
Italy concludes alliance with Prussia against Austria 2011-12-30 681
Italy declares war on Austria 2011-12-30 471
Italy declares war on Turkey 2011-03-01 499
Italy denounces Triple Alliance 2010-03-01 988
Italy departs League of Nations 2010-02-01 802
Italy establishes colony of Eritrea 2011-12-30 738
Italy introduces patents 2010-03-01 698
Italy invades Albania and Greece 2010-02-01 1343
Italy invades Ethiopia 2010-02-01 1037
Italy occupies Massawa in Eritrea 2011-12-30 816
Italy reorganises its Red Sea territories as Eritrea 2011-12-30 1540
Italy signs anti-Comintern pact 2010-02-01 837
Italy supports Menelek of Shoa in his revolt against Johannes IV of Ethiopia 2011-12-30 854
Ivan III becomes ruler of Muscovy 2010-03-01 425
Ivan III frees Muscovy from the control of the Mongols 2010-03-01 1151
Ivan IV is crowned Tsar of Russia 2010-11-01 673
Ivan IV of Russia begins the conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan 2010-11-01 1431
Ivan IV of Russia gains Polotski from Poland 2011-02-01 1360
Ivan IV of Russia is forced to withdraw from Moscow 2011-02-01 925
Ivan the Great of Russia invades Polish Lithuania 2010-11-01 1301
Ivan the Terrible kills his son in a fit of rage 2011-02-01 1170
J. C. Calhoun's treaty for annexation of Texas by US 2011-12-30 1569
Jacksonville, Florida, is taken by Unionists 2011-12-30 1581
Jacobins and Anti-Jacobins 2006-01-20 9509
Jacobins and Cordeliers gain prominence in Paris 2010-03-01 1974
Jacobite Rebellion 2010-01-01 5414
Jacobite Rebellion (2) 2011-03-01 2526
Jacobite victory at Penrith 2011-04-01 1224
Jacobites enter Edinburgh 2011-04-01 1337
Jacobus Coetsee leads a party of Hottentots beyond the Orange River 2011-12-30 1537
Jacquerie peasant revolt is crushed 2010-03-01 1508
Jaga War 2010-03-01 1870
Jamaica conquered by Juan de Esquival 2010-03-01 1073
Jamaican Constitution is suspended after riots 2011-12-30 2113
James B. Weaver becomes Populist Party presidential candidate 2011-12-30 1912
James Buchanan elected US President 2011-12-30 1148
James Cook lands in Botany Bay 2010-03-01 2658
James Elliot discovers the rings of Uranus 2009-05-01 424
James Hertzog invades Cape Colony 2010-03-01 2306
James I accepts the terms of the Great Contract 2011-02-01 1648
James I and VI revisits Scotland 2011-02-01 569
James I angrily dissolves Parliament before 'The Great Contract' is arranged 2011-02-01 1451
James I attempts to settle the Palatinate crisis with the Emperor but fails 2011-02-01 1083
James I becomes his own Principal Secretary 2011-02-01 1647
James I begins to sell peerages 2011-02-01 1872
James I dissolves Parliament without a single Act having been passed 2011-02-01 801
James I dissolves the English Parliament 2011-02-01 755
James I finally breaks off the Spanish marriage treaty 2011-02-01 1151
James I forbids the discussion of state affairs 2011-02-01 1670
James I imprisons Sir Edward Coke for his share in the Protestation 2011-02-01 1848
James I makes his favourite, Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester 2011-02-01 1813
James I makes his favourite, Viscount Rochester, Earl of Somerset 2011-02-01 1935
James I negotiates for his daughter Elizabeth to marry the Elector Palatine 2011-02-01 1060
James I negotiates marriage of his daughter to the Elector Palatine 2011-02-01 1229
James I of England is crowned 2011-02-01 1758
James I offers to mediate in Bohemia 2011-02-01 2103
James I places John Pym, the Parliamentary leader, under house arrest 2011-02-01 1820
James I prorogues English Parliament 2011-02-01 907
James I prorogues English Parliament 2011-02-01 1019
James I prorogues Parliament 2011-02-01 1171
James I refuses to aid Frederick V of the Palatinate in Bohemia 2011-02-01 2343
James I removes the £20 per month fines levied on Catholic recusants 2011-02-01 1686
James I sacks Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 2011-02-01 1475
James I tears the Protestation from the Commons Journal 2011-02-01 2575
James I's first Parliament opposes his plans for a Union with Scotland 2011-02-01 1073
James I's second Parliament meets, known as 'The Addled Parliament' 2011-02-01 2662
James II attempts to escape but is brought back to London 2011-04-01 1220
James II flees from England 2011-03-01 1205
James II forms a camp of troops on Hounslow Heath 2011-04-01 1002
James II introduces Roman Catholics into the Church and army 2011-04-01 1604
James II lands in Ireland 2011-03-01 1158
James II recalls the regiments in Holland to England 2011-04-01 1289
James II receives the Papal Nuncio 2011-04-01 1284
James II sets up a court for ecclesiastical commissions 2011-04-01 1245
James II tries to appoint Catholics to Oxford and Cambridge colleges 2011-04-01 1496
James II's widow dies in France 2011-04-01 983
James III the Pretender is forced to leave France 2011-04-01 1392
James III the Pretender returns to France 2011-04-01 1796
James III, the 'Pretender', arrives at Peterhead from France 2011-04-01 1682
James IV crosses the Tweed and attacks Norham Castle 2010-11-01 1593
James IV of Scotland declares war against England 2010-11-01 1393
James IV of Scotland invades Northumberland in support of Perkin Warbeck 2010-11-01 2179
James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor 2010-11-01 795
James IV of Scotland receives Perkin Warbeck at Stirling 2010-11-01 1060
James Joule and Lord Kelvin demonstrate that a rapidly expanding gas cools 2013-08-30 2199
James K Polk elected US President 2011-12-30 1600
James Lancaster leads the first East India Company voyage from London 2011-02-01 2040
James Madison defeats De Witt Clinton 2010-03-01 1130
James Monroe begins second term as USA President 2011-12-30 1193
James Oglethorpe founds Savannah 2011-04-01 800
James V of Scotland arrives in France 2010-11-01 964
James V of Scotland forces Galloway clans to submit 2010-11-01 2293
James V of Scotland is 'erected' King, aged twelve 2010-11-01 1463
James V of Scotland marries Madeleine, daughter of Francis I 2010-11-01 990
James V of Scotland marries Mary of Guise 2010-11-01 1012
James V succeeds as King of Scotland 2010-11-01 1311
James VI and I is proclaimed King of Great Britain, France and Ireland 2011-02-01 2121
James VI and I suggests a flag combining that of England and Scotland 2011-02-01 1464
James VI of Scotland escapes from his Ruthven captors 2011-02-01 1219
James VI of Scotland is born 2011-02-01 1165
James VI signs the second Confession of Faith in Scotland 2011-02-01 2156
James VI takes over the government of Scotland 2011-02-01 1709
James, Duke of York, is forced by Test Act to resign as Lord High Admiral 2011-04-01 1398
James, Duke of York, is restored as Lord Admiral 2011-04-01 780
James, Duke of York, leaves England for Antwerp 2011-04-01 569
James, Earl of Mort succeeds as Regent of Scotland 2011-02-01 591
James, Earl of Stanhope, dies 2011-04-01 742
Jameson Raid: invasion of Transvaal 1207
Jameson surrenders to the Boers at Doornkop 2011-12-30 1080
Jan Hus begins preaching in Prague 2010-03-01 3022
Jan Hus burned as a heretic 2010-03-01 3285
Jan Hus starts giving lectures at the University of Prague 2010-03-01 3484
Jan Smuts captures Wilhemsthal 2011-03-01 686
Jansenism 2002-12-29 7731
Japan adopts gold standard 2011-12-30 512
Japan becomes signatory to treaty of London 2010-03-01 699
Japan concludes tariff convention with Britain, France, Holland and USA 2011-12-30 1164
Japan decides to conclude alliance with Britain 2010-03-01 656
Japan departs League of Nations 2010-02-01 753
Japan erects puppet regime in China 2010-02-01 971
Japan invades Korea 2010-03-01 849
Japan occupies French Indochina 2010-02-01 1109
Japan opens the port of Nagasaki to overseas trade 2011-02-01 886
Japan opposes Russian attempts to secure naval base 2010-03-01 1219
Japan restricts commerce with foreigners 2005-09-13 1345
Japan sends flotilla to Yangtze river 2010-03-01 789
Japan surrenders Liao Tung peninsula and Port Arthur to China 2011-12-30 1311
Japan's Constitution gives it a two-chamber Diet but maintains imperial power 2011-12-30 429
Japan's secret ultimatum to China 2010-03-01 1262
Japanese annihilate Russian fleet 2010-03-01 1066
Japanese cripple Russian fleet off Port Arthur 2010-03-01 1799
Japanese defeat by Soviets 2010-02-01 814
Japanese defeat Russians at Liaoyang, China 2011-03-01 1241
Japanese defeat Russians at Mukden 2010-03-01 1182
Japanese foreign minister fails to abolish extra-territorial concessions 2011-12-30 1029
Japanese immigration to the US limited 2010-03-01 2000
Japanese note to Russia regarding Manchuria 2010-03-01 1598
Japanese occupy Dalny (Dairen), Russia 2011-03-01 859
Japanese proclaim "New Order" for Asia 2010-02-01 692
Japanese ruler Otomo Yoshishige converts to Christianity 2011-02-01 830
Japanese troops seize the palace in Seoul 2011-12-30 1013
Japanese ultimatum to Germany 2010-03-01 1436
Japanese victory over Chinese at Port Arthur 2011-12-30 1172
Japanese-German anti-Comintern pact 2010-02-01 700
Jean Calvin is expelled from Geneva 2010-11-01 1580
Jean VilleIe resigns as French Prime Minister after election defeats 2011-12-30 1231
Jean VilleIe secures royal ordinance to censor French press 2011-12-30 952
Jean-Baptiste Colbert becomes chief minister in France 2011-03-01 1234
Jean-Jaurés murdered in Paris 2010-03-01 1139
Jeans length determined 2009-05-01 1179
Jefferson champions the rights of slaves 2010-03-01 1895
Jefferson Davis introduces Resolutions in favour of slave trade 2011-12-30 978
Jefferson Davis is captured near Florida border and imprisoned 2011-12-30 2134
Jefferson's land ordinance passed 2010-03-01 1916
Jehangir succeeds as Mogul Emperor of India 2011-02-01 506
Jerome Bonaparte created King of Westphalia 2010-03-01 1007
Jervis and Nelson defeat Spanish fleet 2011-03-01 1407
Jesuit Henry Garnett executed for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot 2011-02-01 1238
Jesuit Jean Châtel attempts to assassinate Henry IV 2011-02-01 2847
Jesuit Robert Southwell is hanged at Tyburn 2011-02-01 2422
Jesuits 2010-03-01 3473
Jesuits and seminary priests are ordered to leave England 2011-02-01 2760
Jesuits begin to arrive in Brazil 2010-03-01 1215
Jesuits establish their first mission base in Paraguay 2011-02-01 1171
Jesuits Robert Parsons and Edmund Campion land in England 2011-02-01 4315
Jet engine patented 2010-02-01 1210
Jewish families are expelled from Bordeaux 2011-04-01 2250
Jews are persecuted in Germany 2010-03-01 2155
Jews in Spain forced to decide between Christianity and exile 2010-11-01 2226
Joachim II, a moderate Catholic, becomes Elector of Brandenburg 2010-11-01 1442
Joachim II, Elector of Brandenburg, becomes a Protestant 2010-11-01 784
Joachim of Brandenburg attacks Turkey 2010-11-01 1249
Joan of Arc burned as a heretic by the English 2010-03-01 1656
Joan of Arc relieves the siege of Orleans 2010-03-01 2089
Johan Banér attacks Regensburg; almost captures the Emperor 2011-02-01 950
Johan van Oldenbarneveldt is arrested for treason 2011-02-01 841
Johan van Oldenbarneveldt is found guilty of treason 2011-02-01 273
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt discovers Petra 2010-01-01 914
Johannes Kepler describes how the eye focuses light 2009-05-01 2564
John Abbot becomes premier of Canada 2011-12-30 775
John Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is sent to the Tower 2011-04-01 955
John Cabot reaches Newfoundland 2010-03-01 2789
John Casimir holds Ghent 2011-02-01 1005
John Casimir leads a German Protestant army to support the Huguenots 2011-02-01 2646
John Casimir of the Palatinate signs an alliance with Henry of Navarre 2011-02-01 2102
John Casimir provokes civil strife in the southern Netherlands 2011-02-01 1037
John Casimir signs a treaty with the French Huguenot leaders 2011-02-01 2427
John Cowell's law dictionary is censured 2011-02-01 3077
John de Castro is appointed Viceroy of Portuguese India 2010-11-01 458
John de Witt becomes Grand Pensionary in Holland 2011-04-01 699
John Dudley is created Duke of Northumberland 2010-11-01 2369
John Dunstable develops musical counterpoint 2010-03-01 796
John Fisher, First Sea Lord, resigns 2010-03-01 490
John Frederick of Saxony and Philip of Hesse invade Brunswick 2010-11-01 1592
John Frederick of Saxony recovers his lands from Maurice 2010-11-01 1148
John Frederick succeeds as Elector of Saxony 2010-11-01 710
John Frederick, the Ernestine Elector of Saxony, dies 2010-11-01 1071
John George Duke of Saxony applies to join the Protestant Union 2011-02-01 945
John George III of Saxony calls on German princes to oppose Louis XIV 2011-04-01 350
John George of Brandenburg is placed under the ban of the Empire 2011-02-01 499
John Hampden fails to overturn imposition of Ship Money 2010-02-01 1782
John Hawkins and Francis Drake are trapped by Spanish ships in the West Indies 2010-03-01 2169
John Hawkins begins a slave trade between Sierra Leone and Hispaniola 2010-03-01 2536
John Hawkins sets off on a second voyage to the New World 2011-02-01 2055
John II (John Casimir) succeeds in Poland 2011-04-01 1050
John II (John Casimir), King of Poland, abdicates 2011-04-01 1218
John II becomes King of Portugal 2010-03-01 1182
John II of Denmark defeats the Swedes at Brunkeberg 2010-11-01 1724
John III (the Pious) succeeds as King of Portugal 2010-11-01 1077
John III is proclaimed King of Sweden 2011-02-01 1095
John III of Poland and Charles of Lorraine raise Turkish siege of Vienna 2011-04-01 1208
John III of Sweden unofficially becomes Catholic 2011-02-01 2694
John Knox articulates a Calvinist constitution for the Church of Scotland 2010-03-01 3019
John Knox is captured and enslaved in a French galley 2010-03-01 2374
John Knox preaches a defiant sermon that incites violent riots 2011-02-01 2292
John Knox returns to Scotland 2011-02-01 1766
John Law sets up a joint-stock Banque Generale in Paris 2011-04-01 1372
John Law's Edict 2011-04-01 1455
John Law's Mississippi Company is given a monopoly of trade with Louisiana 2011-04-01 1198
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, confesses the Ridolfi Conspiracy 2011-02-01 2775
John Lord Russell is appointed Lord Privy Seal 2010-11-01 1957
John McDouall Stuart explores the north of South Australia 2010-01-01 1185
John of Gaunt 2012-07-31 2130
John of Salisbury 2012-07-31 2241
John Penry is executed for denying Queen Elizabeth's royal supremacy 2011-02-01 2236
John Sigismund of Brandenburg is converted to Calvinism 2011-02-01 1004
John Sigismund succeeds as Elector of Brandenburg 2011-02-01 751
John Sigismund Zapolya of Transylvania dies 2011-02-01 1434
John Sigismund Zapolya of Transylvania signs a secret treaty with Maximilian II 2011-02-01 2532
John Sobieski defeats Turks at Khorzim 2011-04-01 1350
John Somerville, who had plotted to assassinate Elizabeth I, is executed 2011-02-01 1204
John the Infante of Spain marries Margaret of Austria 2010-11-01 1643
John the Steadfast succeeds as Elector of Saxony 2010-11-01 1260
John the Terrible, Prince of Moldavia, is killed attacking the Turks 2011-02-01 1172
John Thompson becomes premier of Canada 2011-12-30 985
John Tutchin dies on the pillory 2010-02-01 1911
John V becomes King of Portugal 2011-04-01 567
John VI annuls Portuguese Constitution of 1822 2011-12-30 401
John VI of Portugal dies 2011-12-30 531
John VI of Portugal re-asserts his authority 2011-12-30 1427
John VI promises to apply parts of Portuguese Constitution to Brazil 2011-12-30 393
John VI returns to Portugal, leaving his son as Regent of Brazil 2011-12-30 372
John Wheeler discusses the need for quantum gravity 2009-05-01 2181
John Whitgift is elected Archbishop of Canterbury 2011-02-01 1589
John Wilkes attacks the King's Speech 2010-03-01 1864
John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, is appointed Lord Keeper 2011-02-01 1344
John Zapolya is crowned King of Hungary 2010-11-01 1880
John Zápolya makes a treaty with Suleiman I 2010-11-01 2626
John, Duke of Marlborough, dies 2011-04-01 834
John, Earl of Mar, succeeds as Regent of Scotland 2011-02-01 409
John, Lord Carteret becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 2011-04-01 504
John, Lord Carteret, a rival to Robert Walpole, is dismissed 2011-04-01 882
Johnson noise in a resistor discovered 2009-05-01 817
Joint declaration by Russia and China 2010-03-01 1217
Joint imperial and English armies take St. Dizier and threaten Paris 2010-11-01 1852
Jointure 2001-11-01 2966
Jose Balmaceda driven from office in Chile 2011-12-30 542
Joseph Banks founds Africa Association 2010-03-01 938
Joseph Bonaparte made king of Spain 2010-02-01 2767
Joseph Caillaux arrested for treason 2010-03-01 368
Joseph Chamberlain becomes Commons leader of Liberal Unionists 2011-12-30 1097
Joseph Chamberlain converts to Imperial Preference 2011-03-01 592
Joseph Chamberlain criticises Russia and leans towards USA and Germany 2011-12-30 973
Joseph Chamberlain gives anti-German speech 2010-03-01 631
Joseph Chamberlain resigns 2010-03-01 697
Joseph Chamberlain suggests an Anglo-German alliance 2011-12-30 1052
Joseph Chamberlain visits South Africa 2010-03-01 813
Joseph Fourier formally introduces the use of dimensions for physical quantities 2009-05-01 2200
Joseph I is elected King of the Romans 2011-04-01 272
Joseph I succeeds as King of Portugal 2011-04-01 516
Joseph II abrogates Barrier treaty of 1715 2010-03-01 959
Joseph II abrogates Transylvanian constitution 2010-03-01 398
Joseph II Bavarian Exchange Scheme 2010-03-01 1046
Joseph II breaks diplomatic relations with Holland 2010-03-01 1055
Joseph II delivers Summary of Claims to Dutch 2011-03-01 958
Joseph II enforces German language in Bohemia 2010-03-01 1003
Joseph II establishes single seminary 2010-03-01 1104
Joseph II returns to Vienna 2010-03-01 981
Joseph II succeeds Francis I as Holy Roman Emperor 2010-03-01 1123
Joseph II visits Catherine The Great 2010-03-01 1005
Joseph Joffre opens battle of Champagne 2010-03-01 472
Joseph Pulitzer purchases the New York World from Jay Gould 2010-03-01 951
Joseph Ward resigns 2010-03-01 498
Jouissance 2004-01-01 43491
Jourdan invades Germany 2010-03-01 2185
Journeys of Niccolo Conti recorded by Poggio Bracciolini 2010-03-01 2931
Juan de Rosas becomes Dictator in Argentina 2011-12-30 374
Juana and Philip the Handsome visit Henry VII at Windsor 2010-11-01 1155
Juana, wife of Philip the Handsome, inherits Castile 2010-11-01 965
Judge Advocate Atkins excludes Aboriginal evidence from law courts 2010-03-01 598
Judge Jeffreys conducts the 'Bloody Assizes' 2011-04-01 1813
Judgment in U.S. Northern Securities case 2010-03-01 1411
Jules Dufaure forms ministry in France 2011-12-30 1108
Jules Ferry forms second ministry in France 2011-12-30 1184
Jules Grevy is elected President of France 2011-12-30 883
Jules Grevy is re-elected President of France 2011-12-30 934
Jules Grevy resigns presidency of France in financial scandal 2011-12-30 1007
Jules Mazarin is elected a Cardinal 2011-02-01 1115
Julian calendar developed 2009-05-01 877
Julius Andrassy calls for religious freedom in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011-12-30 405
Julius II declares war on Ferrara 2010-11-01 1323
Julius II deposes the Duke of Bologna with French help 2010-11-01 1692
Julius II engages 15,000 Swiss mercenaries and takes Modena 2010-11-01 981
Julius II gives Naples to Ferdinand of Spain to keep his allegiance 2010-11-01 1150
Julius II is seriously ill but recovers 2010-11-01 1561
Julius II plans a league against Venice 2010-11-01 1291
Junius 2010-01-01 2573
Juries Act 2010-03-01 660
K'ang-hsi becomes Emperor of China 2011-04-01 423
K'ang-hsi opens all Chinese ports to foreign trade 2011-04-01 889
Kaffir War in South Africa 2011-03-01 2057
Kaiser William II congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid 2010-01-01 1672
Kaiser William II denies President Kruger audience 2010-03-01 979
Kaiser William II's meeting with Lord Salisbury creates mutual distrust 2011-12-30 754
Kaluza-Klein theory formulated 2009-05-01 1236
Kanajeji, King of Kano, dies 2010-03-01 1456
Kasimir Badeni forms ministry in Austro-Hungary 2011-12-30 1066
Katanga Company is formed to exploit copper deposits for Belgium 2011-12-30 1006
Katyn Massacre 2009-05-01 1080
Kay’s 'Flying Shuttle' invented 2005-05-19 10148
Kemal Pasha proclaims Turkish Republic 2010-02-01 1391
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 2010-03-01 913
Kentucky becomes American state 2010-03-01 894
Kerr solution found to describe a spinning black hole 2009-05-01 1036
Kett’s Rebellion 2006-02-15 3602
Khalifa of Sudan is killed by Reginald Wingate on the White Nile 2011-12-30 855
Khedive is forced to appoint a Nationalist ministry in Egypt 2011-12-30 557
Khitan (Cathay) dynasty established 2009-05-01 857
Khmer Kingdom capital shifts from Angkor to Phnom Penh 2010-03-01 1522
Khrushchev deposed 2010-02-01 745
Khwarizmi 2008-03-30 1981
Kilmainham 'treaty' between Parnell and Britain for an amnesty 2011-12-30 915
Kilwa Sultans initiate a large building programme 2010-03-01 1387
Kimberley diamond region annexed by Britain 2011-03-01 2157
King Alfred defeats the Danes at Edington; Peace of Wedmore concluded 2009-05-01 1997
King arrests nine MPs 2010-01-01 1548
King George I lands in England 2011-04-01 970
King George V of Hanover abolishes liberal institutions 2011-12-30 592
King Joseph flees Madrid 2011-03-01 797
King Joseph I of Spain dies 2011-04-01 1165
King Lobengula grants Rhodes mining rights in Matabeleland 2011-12-30 1113
King Lobengula of Matabele accepts British protection 2011-12-30 905
King Louis XIV returns to Paris and government is re-established 2011-04-01 2207
King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate 2009-05-01 815
King Michael's coup 2009-05-01 1688
King Mieszko I of Poland accepts Christianity 2009-05-01 1201
King Movement demands Maori state 2010-02-01 1632
King Nicholas dethroned in Montenegro 2010-03-01 538
King of France orders the Paris Parlement not to meddle in politics 2011-04-01 1057
King of Hanover dismisses his pro-Constitutional opponents 2011-12-30 1323
King of Holland abdicates 2011-03-01 646
King of Korea proclaims himself emperor 2011-12-30 966
King of Sicily surrenders his title at the command of Quadruple Alliance 2011-04-01 648
King Swein leads a Danish invasion of England 2010-01-01 2171
King Sweyn returns; accepted as King by the Danelaw 2012-07-31 1515
King Tutankhamun's tomb uncovered 2010-02-01 785
King's College, London, founded 2013-08-30 982
King's Commissioner arrives in Scotland 2010-02-01 1756
Kingdom of England created 2009-05-01 1742
Kingdom of Leon is subject to Muslim rule 2009-05-01 1846
Kingdom of Scotland founded 2009-05-01 1106
Kingdom of Yugoslavia formed 2009-05-01 859
Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents the bicycle 2013-08-30 977
Kléber's French army defeats Turks 2010-03-01 2531
Klein-Nishina formula 2009-05-01 767
Knights of Labor riot in Chicago 2011-12-30 1469
Konstantin Fehrenback becomes chancellor of Germany 2010-03-01 694
Korea becomes a tributary state of China 2011-02-01 698
Korea partitioned 2010-02-01 470
Korean cultural efflorescence under the reign of Sejong 2010-03-01 1170
Koreans attack Japanese legation in Seoul 2011-12-30 1110
Krell, former Chancellor of Saxony, is executed 2011-02-01 1037
Krishna Deva Raya is King of Vijayanagara 2010-03-01 575
Krystallnacht 2010-02-01 1964
Kurt Eisner, Bavarian premier, assassinated 2010-03-01 712
Kut-el-Amara falls to Turks 2010-03-01 1135
L. Starr Jameson founds Unionist party 2010-03-01 815
La Chambre Ardente is created in Paris for heretic trials 2010-11-01 1482
La Rochelle falls 2010-01-01 2895
La Rochelle resists authority of Louis XIII 2010-02-01 2720
La Salle is murdered by his colleagues 2011-04-01 1114
La Vendée: revolt against French revolution 2007-11-28 3897
Labour Department formed in Germany 2011-12-30 702
Labour government in Australia 2011-03-01 625
Labour Party 2004-02-19 3979
Labrador explored by Martin Frobisher, who discovers Baffin Island 2010-01-01 1710
Lachlan Macquarie becomes Governor of New South Wales 2010-03-01 1238
Ladislas II becomes King of Hungary 2010-03-01 2170
Lady Arabella Stuart dies in the Tower of London 2011-02-01 1299
Lady Jane Grey and Protestant advisors are tried for treason 2010-11-01 3690
Lady Jane Grey is deposed and Mary proclaimed Queen 2010-11-01 1631
Lady Jane Grey is executed 2010-11-01 1500
Lady Jane Grey is unwillingly proclaimed Queen of England 2010-11-01 970
Lady Jane Grey marries Lord Guildford Dudley 2010-11-01 582
Lady Jane Grey's father is executed 2010-11-01 1278
Lagos becomes separate British colony from Nigeria 2011-12-30 705
Lajos Kossuth proclaimed president of Hungarian defence committee 2011-12-30 751
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, world's longest bridge, opens 2010-02-01 1213
Lake Victoria established as the source of the Nile 2010-01-01 879
Lally advances against Madras 2011-12-30 1295
Lancastrians defeated at Towton, England 2010-03-01 2316
Lancelot (Launcelot) 2010-02-01 3646
Land Acquisition Act in Zimbabwe 2010-02-01 558
Land Act 2010-02-01 1864
Land Act (2) 2013-08-30 1088
Land bill for Ireland extends tenants' rights 2011-12-30 1053
Land tax reduced in Britain 2010-03-01 1699
Landgrave of Hesse agrees to supply troops to defend Hanover 2011-12-30 878
Laon is taken 2011-02-01 2229
Laplace’s nebular hypothesis formulated 2009-05-01 719
Lapse of the Licensing Act 2004-04-02 12603
Laquadra becomes Chief Minister in Spain 2011-04-01 779
Large silver mine opened at Potosi 2010-03-01 327
Large-scale emigration of Huguenots from France begins 2011-04-01 1105
Large-scale German and Scots-Irish immigrations to North America 2011-04-01 1017
Large-scale vacuum energy fluctuation theory of the universe 2009-05-01 822
Last Chartist Petition rejected 2013-08-30 4417
Last English woman burned at the stake 2010-06-18 2197
Last French troops quit Mexico 2011-12-30 794
Last German garrison in Cameroon surrenders 2010-03-01 553
Last Habsburg Emperor Charles VI dies, succeeded by Maria Theresa 2011-04-01 832
Last of Swift's Drapiers Letters 2011-04-01 810
Last rising of French Huguenots under Rohan 2011-02-01 2093
Latency Period 2005-10-22 7002
Lateran Accords 2010-02-01 1245
Latin American states recognise Venustiano Carranza 2010-03-01 295
Latvia declares war on Germany 2010-03-01 591
Latvian independence 2010-03-01 439
Laudon takes the Silesian fortress of Glatz from the Prussians 2011-12-30 683
Launch of the Einstein X-ray satellite (HEAO-2) 2009-05-01 858
Law against Jesuits in France 2011-12-30 1189
Law of induction stated by Michael Faraday 2013-08-30 3255
Law of Malus formulated 2009-05-01 858
Law Society formed 2013-08-30 1075
Laws of black home mechanics proposed 2009-05-01 888
Laws of Burgos 2010-03-01 426
Laws of electrolysis stated by Michael Faraday 2013-08-30 3313
Laws of genetic inheritance formulated by Gregor Mendel 2010-02-01 1360
Laws suppressing anarchist and socialist organisations in Italy 2011-12-30 377
Le Chatelier’s pinciple formulated 2009-05-01 712
Le Mans and Bayeux surrender to Henry IV 2011-02-01 2049
Le Peletier becomes leading Finance Minister of France 2011-04-01 1297
Leaders of revolt in Hungary are executed 2011-04-01 734
Leaders of the Orthodox Church in Poland ally against the Jesuits 2011-02-01 833
Leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace are executed 2010-11-01 1955
Leaders of the Schmalkaldic League outlawed by the Empire 2010-11-01 2357
Leading members of the Paris Parlement are imprisoned 2011-02-01 716
League of Augsburg is formed against Louis XIV 2011-04-01 579
League of Cambrai 2010-03-01 2169
League of Gotha created as an association of Protestant princes 2010-11-01 5321
League of Heidelberg is formed by German princes 2010-11-01 762
League of Heilbronn 2011-02-01 1344
League of Nations comes into being 2010-03-01 373
League of Nations Covenant set before Peace Conference 2010-03-01 1081
League of Rivoli formed 2011-02-01 1129
League of Schmalkalden/ Schmalkaldic League 2010-03-01 6049
League of the Three Emperors: Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary 2010-01-01 1494
League of Torgau formed 2011-02-01 2226
League of Torgau: a union of Protestant states in the German Empire 2010-03-01 2776
League of Turin formed against the Emperor 2011-04-01 1245
Lecky, William 2002-03-21 6554
Lee, Chang-rae 2004-06-24 6939
Left bank of the Rhine is freed of Germans 2011-04-01 947
Leftist leader Kalman Tisza forms ministry in Hungary 2011-12-30 1061
Legal minimum wage recommended by Maxwell Commission 2010-02-01 1807
Legal ruling that any Scot born after 1603 is a subject of the King of England 2011-02-01 2059
Legend of Robin Hood emerges in England 2012-07-31 2528
Legislative Assembly meets 2010-03-01 2241
Leicester angers moderates by aiding Calvinists 2011-02-01 816
Leicester returns to England from the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1224
Lemanic Republic proclaimed 2011-03-01 2224
Length of a cycloid established 2009-05-01 698
Lenin dies 2010-02-01 777
Leo Africanus explores Timbuktu, Gao, Katsina, Kano and Lake Chad 2010-03-01 2676
Leon Bourgeois forms Radical ministry in France 2011-12-30 891
Leon Gambetta falls; Charles Freycinet forms ministry in France 2011-12-30 1129
Leon Gambetta forms ministry in France 2011-12-30 705
Leonard Lord Grey is executed for treason 2010-11-01 1385
Leoni, James 2005-05-26 3613
Leonid Krasin arrives in London 2010-03-01 1250
Leopold I is elected Emperor 2011-04-01 796
Leopold I makes treaties of alliance with Holland and Bavaria 2011-04-01 1040
Leopold I of Belgium dies 2011-12-30 445
Leopold I signs a treaty with Transylvania 2011-04-01 962
Leopold II becomes Holy Roman Emperor 2011-03-01 583
Leopold II calls on powers to support Louis XVI 2010-03-01 2003
Leopold II hands Congo over to Belgium 2010-03-01 2188
Leopold II of Belgium abandons claims to Upper Nile territory 2011-12-30 737
Leopold II of Belgium agrees to co-operate with French on Upper Nile 2011-12-30 677
Leopold II of Tuscany abolishes Constitution 2011-12-30 361
Leopold II's death 2010-03-01 311
Leopold of Hohenzollern's acceptance of the Spanish throne is withdrawn 2011-12-30 712
Leopold, Prince of Anhalt, organises Prussian army 2011-04-01 817
Leopold's mercenaries devastate Upper Austria and move towards Prague 2011-02-01 1697
Lepanto surrenders to the Sultan 2010-11-01 1222
Leslie Orgel shows that RNA can replicate without RNA-replicase 2009-05-01 615
Letters of Junius creators tried for seditious libel 2010-01-01 1203
Leveller leaders arrested on charges of sedition 2011-03-01 3677
Levellers publish Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens 2011-02-01 4671
Levellers' mutiny crushed at Burford 2011-03-01 2315
Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm formulated 2009-05-01 765
Levy en Masse Act 2010-02-01 1555
Lewis of Baden defeats the Turks and occupies Bulgaria 2011-04-01 1148
Lewis of Nassau seizes Mons 2011-02-01 1158
Lewis of Nassau takes Valenciennes from the Spanish 2011-02-01 1033
Lhasa is seized by western Mongols 2011-04-01 872
Li-Fournier Convention 2010-02-01 2272
Liberal Anglican Historiography 2002-03-27 6825
Liberal Constitution in Denmark establishes limited monarchy 2011-12-30 395
Liberal Constitution introduced in Baden 2010-03-01 943
Liberal constitution introduced in the Ottoman Empire 2010-01-01 625
Liberal Constitution is proclaimed in Spain 2011-12-30 494
Liberal landslide in British general election 2010-03-01 1158
Liberal ministry in Spain 2010-03-01 873
Liberal opposition wins majority in French election 2011-12-30 731
Liberal republican Constitution adopted in Greece 2011-12-30 349
Liberal revolt in Cuba 2010-03-01 1325
Liberal victory in Cuban elections 2011-03-01 273
Liberals defeated in Canadian general election 2010-03-01 998
Liberals in Hungary obtain a governmental majority 2011-12-30 681
Liberals meet in Brussels to demand reforms 2011-12-30 672
Liberals secure majority in British elections 2011-12-30 764
Liberia is founded by freed slaves 2011-03-01 553
Liberia is proclaimed an independent republic 2011-12-30 410
Liberty of the press is restricted in France 2011-12-30 1044
Libyan independence 2011-03-01 362
Liechtenstein becomes an independent Principality of the Empire 2011-04-01 347
Light described as an electromagnetic phenomenon by Maxwell 2013-08-30 3726
Ligurian Republic united with France 2011-03-01 2699
Lille falls to British troops 2010-03-01 363
Limerick, the last Irish Jacobite city, surrenders 2010-01-01 1972
Limited Liability Act 2013-08-30 380
Limited right of public meeting allowed in France 2011-12-30 1099
Lin Zexu becomes imperial commissioner in Canton 2010-02-01 1470
Lincoln calls for Militia to suppress Confederacy 2011-12-30 1941
Lindisfarne Gospels 2009-05-01 1447
Linear differential equations given solution 2009-05-01 963
Lionel Cranfield is appointed Lord Treasurer of England 2011-02-01 1335
Lisbon becomes the centre of Portuguese government 2010-03-01 1201
Lisbon Earthquake 2005-09-13 1394
Lisbon is occupied by supporters of Dom Pedro and Queen Maria 2011-12-30 835
Literary Annuals and Giftbooks 2013-08-30 6381
Lithium and boron nuclei split 2009-05-01 1058
Lithuanian-Russo War breaks out 2010-11-01 1229
Litotes 2001-11-01 5811
Liverpool Sanitary Act 2010-02-01 1963
Lloyd George’s “People’s Budget” 2010-02-01 1072
Local Government Act establishes county councils in Britain 2011-12-30 829
Local government board created in England 2011-12-30 1096
Locks invented in China 2009-05-01 887
Locomotive Act 2010-02-01 1340
Lollard reformers persecuted in England 2010-03-01 1720
London besieged by Viking forces 2009-05-01 1087
London Conference between great powers 2011-12-30 338
London Conference on Denmark solves nothing and war resumes 2011-12-30 750
London Conference proposes a peace between Belgium and Holland 2011-12-30 689
London Conference's Twenty-four Articles are rejected by the Dutch 2011-12-30 648
London Convention between Britain and Prussia 2011-12-30 813
London Convention of Britain, Spain and France to obtain loan repayments from Mexico 2011-12-30 812
London convention regulates the status of Transvaal 2011-12-30 1321
London dock strike 2013-08-30 1139
London negotiations for Anglo-Japanese alliance 2010-03-01 724
London peace conference 2010-03-01 933
London Protocol aims to secure Greek independence 2011-12-30 1024
London Protocol extended to Continental Greece and Euboea 2011-12-30 1019
London Protocol of great powers demands Turkey to undertake reforms 2011-12-30 747
London Protocol recognises Greek independence 2011-12-30 893
London railway amalgamation 2010-03-01 1209
London to Edinburgh in 2 days by coach 2013-08-30 1842
London Working Men's Association founded 2010-01-01 1488
London Zoological Society founded 2013-08-30 591
Londonderry is relieved after a siege of 150 days 2011-04-01 1255
Long copyrights introduced 2013-08-30 1294
Long Parliament dissolves itself and calls for an election 2011-03-01 1223
Long Parliament of 1640 restored 2010-01-01 1179
Long Parliament summoned in England 2010-02-01 1530
Lord Ashbourne's Act authorises loans for Irish tenants 2011-12-30 1419
Lord Bolingbroke dies 2011-04-01 661
Lord Bolingbroke flees to France 2011-04-01 2149
Lord Bolingbroke gives up his struggle against Walpole 2011-04-01 749
Lord Bolingbroke returns from exile 2011-04-01 868
Lord Burghley is appointed Lord Treasurer 2011-02-01 1032
Lord Byron dies in the fight for Greek independence 2010-01-01 1415
Lord Carnarvon discusses South African federation 2011-12-30 2183
Lord Castlereagh commits suicide 2011-12-30 1142
Lord Chamberlain Stanley tried for complicity with Perkin Warbeck 2010-11-01 3148
Lord Chief Justice Henry Rolle resigns 2010-02-01 617
Lord Clinton leads an English expedition to Brittany 2011-02-01 1524
Lord Cowper is appointed Lord Chancellor 2011-04-01 1152
Lord Derby's ministry is defeated over Disraeli's Reform Bill 2011-12-30 1574
Lord Durham becomes Governor-in-Chief of British North America 2011-12-30 1166
Lord Durham resigns position in Canada 2011-12-30 329
Lord Fairfax urges restoration of the monarchy 2010-02-01 775
Lord Finch, the Lord Keeper, is impeached by the Commons 2011-02-01 1385
Lord Gowrie and his brother Ruthven seize King James VI 2011-02-01 1375
Lord Granville seeks to withdraw forces from Egypt 2011-12-30 1127
Lord Halifax is dismissed as Lord Privy Seal 2011-04-01 1464
Lord Halifax is struck off the Privy Council 2011-04-01 1053
Lord Hopton surrenders 2010-02-01 2079
Lord John Russell becomes Prime Minister for the first time 2013-08-30 1995
Lord John Russell calls London Conference to solve Danish Question 2011-12-30 976
Lord John Russell resigns, but returns the same day 2011-12-30 765
Lord John Russell's motion for parliamentary reform is rejected 2011-12-30 1890
Lord Kelvin formally states the second law of thermodynamics 2013-08-30 3417
Lord Kitchener combats Boers' guerrilla actions 2010-03-01 1536
Lord Lake defeats Irish rebels 2010-03-01 1608
Lord Lisle is arrested for betraying Calais to Cardinal Pole 2010-11-01 1854
Lord Liverpool resigns 2011-03-01 1043
Lord Liverpool suffers a stroke and is forced to resign as Prime Minister 2011-12-30 1000
Lord Melbourne resigns over Jamaican Bill 2011-12-30 3856
Lord Mountjoy begins the reconquest of Ireland from the rebels 2011-02-01 1258
Lord Mountjoy lays siege to Kinsale 2011-02-01 1312
Lord Mountjoy replaces Essex as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 2011-02-01 1240
Lord North becomes Chancellor of Exchequer 2010-03-01 1147
Lord Palmerston resigns as Foreign Secretary 2011-12-30 743
Lord Palmerston survives a Parliamentary attack on his foreign policy 2011-12-30 1025
Lord Pembroke becomes Lord Privy Seal 2011-04-01 1123
Lord Randolph Churchill outlines a bold programme of domestic reform 2011-12-30 350
Lord Randolph Churchill resigns 2011-12-30 817
Lord Rayleigh discusses the blue sky law and sunsets 2013-08-30 843
Lord Robert Dudley is created Earl of Leicester 2011-02-01 1668
Lord Rosebery attacks idea of Irish Home Rule 2010-03-01 679
Lord Rosebery is defeated on a vote relating to cordite supply 2011-12-30 657
Lord Rosebery resigns Liberal leadership over Armenian question 2011-12-30 651
Lord Salisbury resigns as British Prime Minister 2011-12-30 1990
Lord Salisbury's upholds policy of isolation 2010-03-01 1120
Lord Shelburne resigns 2010-03-01 710
Lord Shrewsbury resigns as a Secretary of State 2011-04-01 1372
Lord Somers and Captain Newport leave Plymouth for Virginia 2011-02-01 1775
Lord Somers is created Lord Chancellor 2011-04-01 1156
Lord Spencer's naval programme in England 2011-12-30 1068
Lord Stafford is executed 2011-04-01 765
Lord Stafford is tried for treason 2011-04-01 1196
Lord Sunderland is appointed Secretary of State, Southern Department 2011-04-01 780
Lord Thomas Fitzgerald assassinates Archbishop Allen of Dublin 2010-11-01 1694
Lord Treasurer Godolphin's resignation leaves an entirely Whig ministry 2011-04-01 1277
Lord Treasurer Lionel Cranfield is impeached for bribery 2011-02-01 1930
Lord Wentworth claims the province of Connaught for Charles I 2011-02-01 808
Lords of the Covenant rout Bothwell at the Battle of Carberry Hill 2011-02-01 1827
Lords pass Parliament bill 2010-03-01 1085
Lords reject Self-Denying Ordinance 2011-02-01 2458
Lords Shaftesbury, Buckingham, Salisbury and Wharton are imprisoned 2011-04-01 1141
Lorenzo Ganganelli elected Pope Clement XIV 2010-03-01 1156
Lothair I dies after partitioning his lands 2009-05-01 1291
Louis (later VIII) invades England 2012-07-31 1129
Louis Botha becomes South African premier 2010-03-01 690
Louis Botha defeated at Bergendal 2010-03-01 1802
Louis Botha forms Het Volk organisation 2010-03-01 946
Louis Botha occupies Windhoek 2010-03-01 738
Louis Botha resigns South African premiership 2010-03-01 586
Louis II succeeds as King of Bohemia and Hungary, aged ten 2010-11-01 1350
Louis IV excommunicated by the Pope 2010-03-01 809
Louis Napoleon escapes from Ham to London 2011-12-30 1458
Louis Napoleon fails to seize power in France 2011-12-30 1876
Louis Napoleon is elected President of France 2011-12-30 708
Louis Napoleon's attempted rising at Boulogne faiIs 2011-12-30 1866
Louis of Baden defeats the Turks at Salem Kamen 2011-04-01 965
Louis of Nassau is defeated at the battle of Mookerheyde 2011-02-01 1268
Louis Philippe becomes king 2010-02-01 1039
Louis Philippe is appointed Lieutenant General of France 2011-12-30 754
Louis the Pious divides the Carolingian Empire among his sons 2009-05-01 1778
Louis the Pious divides the Frankish empire 2009-05-01 1357
Louis VI succeeds as Elector Palatine 2011-02-01 825
Louis XII attacks Genoa with a Swiss army to restore order 2010-11-01 1471
Louis XII confirms the Treaty of Etaples with Henry VII 2010-11-01 2175
Louis XII gives Cesare Borgia a wife and the Duchy of Valentinois 2010-11-01 635
Louis XII makes peace with Pope Leo X 2010-11-01 1460
Louis XII makes treaty of alliance with John Albert, King of Poland 2010-11-01 1569
Louis XII of France and Ferdinand of Aragon sign secret treaty of Granada 2010-11-01 1844
Louis XII of France breaks Burgundian alliance 2010-11-01 1161
Louis XII of France claims the Duchy of Milan 2010-03-01 2176
Louis XII of France marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany 2010-11-01 1509
Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII 2010-11-01 315
Louis XII of France renews alliance with Venice 2010-11-01 1620
Louis XII purchases the neutrality of Cesare Borgia 2010-11-01 1004
Louis XII signs agreement with the Swiss League 2010-11-01 1811
Louis XII, Duke of Orleans succeeds as King of France 2010-11-01 1634
Louis XII's solemn entry to Milan 2010-11-01 2179
Louis XIII abolishes the privileges of Guienne in response to revolt 2011-02-01 836
Louis XIII is seriously ill 2011-02-01 636
Louis XIII leads the army against the Huguenots 2011-02-01 2262
Louis XIII recalls Richelieu from Avignon 2011-02-01 994
Louis XIV agrees to help the Dutch if they are attacked 2011-04-01 1046
Louis XIV appeals to French nation to reject humiliating peace proposals 2011-04-01 1500
Louis XIV appoints de Frontenac Governor of Canada 2011-04-01 1391
Louis XIV becomes a candidate for Holy Roman Emperor 2011-04-01 1077
Louis XIV captures Ghent and Ypres 2011-04-01 1444
Louis XIV claims the electorate of the Palatine for his sister-in-law 2011-04-01 979
Louis XIV continues his alliance with the League of the Rhine 2011-04-01 876
Louis XIV declares war on Britain 2011-04-01 1391
Louis XIV declares war on Holland 2011-04-01 787
Louis XIV declares war on Spain 2011-04-01 1340
Louis XIV demands a 30-year truce with the Emperor and the German States 2011-04-01 1008
Louis XIV fails to take Liège 2011-04-01 1665
Louis XIV makes treaties with Hanover, Osnabrück, Brunswick and Palatinate 2011-04-01 923
Louis XIV marries Madame de Maintenon 2011-04-01 291
Louis XIV of France marries Maria Teresa, Infanta of Spain 2011-04-01 1144
Louis XIV proclaims annexation of Madagascar 2011-04-01 460
Louis XIV promises the Count Palatine a pension 2011-04-01 718
Louis XIV recognises James II's son as king on his father's death 2011-04-01 889
Louis XIV rejects Dutch terms for a peace 2011-04-01 621
Louis XIV rejects peace preliminaries 2011-04-01 3669
Louis XIV reopens the siege of Luxembourg 2011-04-01 641
Louis XIV restores Avignon to the Pope 2011-04-01 918
Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland to fight for James II 2011-04-01 1751
Louis XIV signs a peace treaty with Victor Amadeus of Savoy 2011-04-01 1243
Louis XIV signs a secret treaty with Charles II of England 2011-04-01 1397
Louis XIV signs the defensive League of the Rhine 2011-04-01 943
Louis XIV takes Boucham 2011-04-01 753
Louis XIV takes Valenciennes and St. Omer 2011-04-01 544
Louis XIV tries to negotiate for peace 2011-04-01 2044
Louis XIV wins over the Bishop of Strasburg with a pension 2011-04-01 896
Louis XIV's new foreign policy approach 2011-04-01 412
Louis XV attains his majority 2011-04-01 1104
Louis XV dismisses the Spanish Infanta due to marry him 2011-04-01 1075
Louis XV exiles the Paris Parlement in the dispute over ecclesiastical causes 2011-04-01 1225
Louis XV is dangerously ill at Metz 2011-04-01 678
Louis XV marries Maria Lesczcyinski of Poland 2011-04-01 798
Louis XV recalls the Paris Parlement to halt risk of civil war 2011-04-01 719
Louis XVI becomes heir to French throne 2010-03-01 1473
Louis XVI caught at Varennes 2010-03-01 2669
Louis XVI convokes the Estates-General 2007-12-22 1179
Louis XVI dismisses Turgot 2010-03-01 752
Louis XVI flees Paris 2007-12-22 2822
Louis XVI is born 2011-04-01 523
Louis XVI obliged to leave Versailles 2007-12-22 2356
Louis XVI recalls Parlements 2011-03-01 765
Louis XVI summons the States-General 2011-03-01 2023
Louis XVI vetoes Assembly decree 2010-03-01 2065
Louis XVIII dissolves the Chamber 2010-03-01 679
Louvois becomes French Minister of War 2011-04-01 1200
Lower Austria submits to the Emperor Ferdinand II 2011-02-01 694
Lubeck and Denmark defeat Swedes off Gotland 2011-02-01 1556
Lubeck declares war on Denmark and lays waste to Bornholm 2010-11-01 1429
Lucretia Borgia divorces Giovanni Sforza 2010-11-01 662
Lucretia Borgia is betrothed to the Duke of Ferrara 2010-11-01 610
Lucretia Borgia marries Giovanni Sforza of Pesano 2010-11-01 664
Luddites 2004-02-06 4808
Ludendorff dismissed 2010-03-01 301
Ludovico Sforza calls on Charles VIII of France to claim Kingdom of Naples 2010-11-01 1428
Ludovico Sforza flees from Milan to the Tyrol to raise an army 2010-11-01 1177
Ludovico Sforza of Milan appeals to France to claim Naples 2010-11-01 1388
Ludovico Sforza of Milan dies 2010-11-01 668
Ludovico Sforza recovers Milan from the French 2010-11-01 2022
Ludwig Leichhardt explores the continent from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arnhem Land 2010-01-01 1325
Luigi Pelloux forms ministry in Italy on Count Rudini's resignation 2011-12-30 995
Luis I of Spain dies and Philip V returns as King 2011-04-01 980
Lusitania: record Atlantic crossing 2010-02-01 1355
Luther and Zwingli hold a disputation at Marburg 2010-11-01 2245
Luther's Ninety-five Theses 2008-01-01 7677
Lutheran deadline for conformity expires 2010-11-01 1703
Lutheranism is adopted by regional German rulers 2010-11-01 2222
Lutheranism remains the state religion in Sweden, despite a Catholic king 2010-03-01 1016
Lutherans constrain Archbishop Gebhard of Cologne, a Calvinist convert 2011-02-01 824
Luxembourg referendum in favour of monarchy 2011-03-01 380
Lyon declares for Henry IV 2011-02-01 2128
Lyric 2001-11-01 5987
Maastricht falls to the Dutch 2011-02-01 1085
Maastricht falls to the Spanish after a siege of four months 2011-02-01 881
Maastricht Treaty increases European integration 2008-01-01 847
Mabo decision 2010-03-01 930
MacDonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada 2011-12-30 825
Mach’s principle formulated 2009-05-01 480
Machault D' Arnouville attempts to reform the French tax system 2011-04-01 1032
Machault D'Arnouville becomes French Controller for Finances 2011-04-01 908
MacKenzie Bowell becomes Canadian premier 2011-12-30 1056
Mackenzie sets up provisional government for Upper Canada 2011-12-30 815
Mackinnon treaty between Belgium and British East Africa Company 2011-12-30 587
MacMahon gains presidential powers for seven years 2011-12-30 414
MacMahon is elected French president 2011-12-30 719
Macmillan's Magazine 2013-08-30 5377
Macon's Bill No. 2 2010-03-01 1722
Madame de Pompadour becomes Louis XV's recognised mistress 2011-04-01 418
Madison furthers Virginia Resolution 2010-03-01 896
Madrid becomes the capital of Spain 2011-02-01 662
Madrid Conference 2010-02-01 1210
Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII 2011-02-01 998
Magdeburg besieged by Maurice of Saxony 2010-03-01 2084
Magdeburg capitulates to Maurice of Saxony 2010-11-01 1186
Magna Carta 2004-01-23 6541
Magnetic poles described 2009-05-01 916
Magyar campaigns in Western Europe 2009-05-01 1532
Magyar tribes settle in Central Europe 2009-05-01 1595
Magyars attack the forces of Frankish emperor Louis II (the German) 2009-05-01 1686
Magyars oppose Hungarian unified army system 2010-03-01 921
Mahamud II succeeds Mustapha IV 2010-03-01 617
Mahommed Ali, Shah of Persia, deposed 2010-03-01 575
Maine adopts a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages 2010-03-01 1445
Maine is restored to the heirs of Sir Ferdinando Gorges 2011-04-01 832
Maitland, Frederic William 2002-03-21 5406
Major Esterhazy acquited of alleged forgery of Dreyfus document 2011-12-30 624
Majority black rule established in Zimbabwe 2010-02-01 724
Malawi independence 2010-03-01 606
Malaya celebrates independence 2010-02-01 876
Malet conspires to dethrone Napoleon 2010-03-01 2028
Malthusian speculations on human population 2009-05-01 1424
Mamluks unsuccessful in their endeavours to invade Cyprus 2010-03-01 900
Manchester anti-slave trade petition 2010-02-01 2072
Manchester weavers riot 2013-08-30 1600
Manchuria China makes appeals regarding Russia 2010-03-01 1812
Manhattan Project 2009-05-01 911
Manhood suffrage in New Zealand 2011-12-30 595
Manifesto is published in Spain that sparks liberal revolt 2011-12-30 704
Manitoba made Canadian province 2011-12-30 344
Mannheim surrenders to the imperialists 2011-02-01 1958
Mantua falls to the imperialists 2011-02-01 1080
Manuel the Fortunate becomes King of Portugal 2010-11-01 1273
Manuel the Fortunate, King of Portugal, marries Maria, the Infanta of Spain 2010-11-01 1426
Manuel, King of Portugal marries Isabella of Spain 2010-11-01 1413
Manyōshu, an anthology of Japanese poetry, is compiled 2009-05-01 1591
Maori "Musket Wars" 2010-02-01 2627
Marat is murdered 2011-03-01 2935
Maravi Empire founded by Kalunga Masula 2010-03-01 658
Marco Minghetti forms ministry in Italy 2011-12-30 1053
Marco Minghetti resigns in Italy 2011-12-30 1086
Marco Polo leaves Venice for China 2010-01-01 2780
Mardyke captured by the Anglo-French army 2011-03-01 1816
Margaret Countess of Salisbury is executed for conspiracy 2010-11-01 1785
Margaret of Austria appointed Regent of the Netherlands 2010-11-01 764
Margaret of Austria confirms marriage treaty between Archduke Charles and Mary Tudor 2010-11-01 1252
Margaret of France marries Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy 2011-02-01 816
Margaret of Parma resigns the regency of the Netherlands 2011-02-01 484
Margaret of Savoy, Governor of the Netherlands, dies 2010-11-01 842
Margaret of Valois is betrothed to Henry of Navarre 2011-02-01 2961
Margaret Tudor, Regent of Scotland, marries Earl of Angus 2010-11-01 530
Margaret Tudor, the Queen Regent, flees from Scotland to England 2010-11-01 1562
Margaret, Queen Mother of Scotland, remains at the English court 2010-11-01 1434
Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach defeats Heidelberg League 2010-11-01 1279
Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach deserts his Protestant allies 2010-11-01 831
Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach receives the ban of the Empire 2010-11-01 1350
Maria I dies and is succeeded by John VI 2010-03-01 573
Maria Theresa accepts the Crown of Hungary 2011-04-01 706
Maria Theresa and Sardinia sign a treaty confirming the Peace 2011-04-01 994
Maria Theresa appoints John Palffy Governor of Hungary 2011-04-01 403
Maria Theresa concludes an alliance with Russia against Prussia 2011-04-01 822
Maria Theresa is crowned at Prague 2011-04-01 277
Maria Theresa marries Stephen, Duke of Lorraine 2011-04-01 262
Maria Theresa of Austria is born 2011-04-01 322
Maria Theresa unites the Austrian and Bohemian Chanceries 2011-04-01 469
Maria Theresa's husband Francis Stephen is elected Holy Roman Emperor 2011-04-01 894
Marie de' Medici and the Duke of Orleans intrigue against Richelieu 2011-02-01 947
Marie de' Medici, Queen Mother of France, challenges her son's power 2011-02-01 1210
Marlborough and Prince Eugene take Mons 2011-04-01 1930
Marlborough captures Liège 2011-04-01 2110
Marlborough conquers Spanish Netherlands 2011-04-01 2478
Marlborough is sent to the Tower of London 2011-04-01 992
Marlborough is victorious at Donauwörth 2011-04-01 2418
Marlborough meets Prince Eugene of Austria at Mandelsheim 2011-04-01 2451
Marlborough occupies the Electorate of Cologne 2011-04-01 2457
Marlborough takes Roermonde 2011-04-01 2549
Marlborough takes Venlo 2011-04-01 2207
Marquess of Hartington is elected Liberal leader 2011-12-30 1132
Marquette and Joliet descend Mississippi to Arkansas 2011-04-01 1209
Marquis de Rudin forms a right-wing coalition in Italy 2011-12-30 655
Marriage alliance between Burgundy and France arranged 2010-11-01 1252
Marriage arranged between Archduke Charles and Mary Tudor 2010-11-01 1252
Marriage between divorcee Lady Frances Howard and Earl of Somerset 2011-02-01 329
Marriage negotiations between Elizabeth I and François Duke of Anjou 2011-02-01 312
Marriage of Charles I to Henrietta Maria 2010-02-01 456
Marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Elector Palatine 2010-02-01 910
Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert 2013-08-30 498
Marriage of Spanish princess and Louis Philippe's son 2011-12-30 2330
Marriage proposed between Henry Prince of Wales and the Infanta 2011-02-01 1081
Marriage treaties are signed between France and Spain 2011-02-01 1123
Marriage treaty between Catherine of Aragon and Arthur, Prince of Wales ratified 2010-11-01 1832
Marriage treaty is signed to cement Anglo-Scottish relations 2010-11-01 1275
Married Women’s Property Act 2008-02-21 3260
Marshal Francisco Serrano becomes dictator in Spain 2011-12-30 2329
Marshal of France negotiates the future of Spanish dominions 2011-04-01 756
Marshal Prim dies in Spain, after being wounded by assassin 2011-12-30 1036
Marshal Soult forms ministry in France 2011-12-30 1357
Marshall Tallard is sent London to negotiate a partition treaty 2011-04-01 1032
Martello towers constructed 2010-02-01 1629
Martial law imposed in the Philippines 2010-02-01 855
Martial law in Cork 2010-03-01 1121
Martin Luther advises the Protestant princes not to compromise 2010-11-01 1825
Martin Luther condemns the religious riots in Saxony 2010-11-01 1866
Martin Luther dies 2010-11-01 1303
Martin Luther has private discussions with the papal chamberlain 2010-11-01 2779
Martin Luther is cross-examined at the Diet of Worms 2010-11-01 1942
Martin Luther publicly burns the bull Exsurge 2010-11-01 1647
Martin Luther's public disputation with Johann Eck at Leipzig 2010-11-01 2771
Martin Marprelate 2005-06-17 3263
Martin von Schenck takes Bonn from the Spanish 2011-02-01 718
Marxist rises to power in Albania 2010-02-01 761
Mary of Austria marries Louis, King of Hungary 2010-11-01 707
Mary of Guise, Queen Dowager of Scotland dies 2011-02-01 1922
Mary of Guise, the Queen Mother, becomes Regent of Scotland 2011-02-01 689
Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Lochleven 2011-02-01 2405
Mary Queen of Scots is denied passage through England 2011-02-01 2937
Mary Queen of Scots is executed at Fotheringay 2011-02-01 2584
Mary Queen of Scots is tried for treason 2011-02-01 3245
Mary Queen of Scots lands in France 2010-11-01 2617
Mary Queen of Scots marries Bothwell in Edinburgh 2011-02-01 2352
Mary Queen of Scots marries Henry, Lord Darnley 2011-02-01 2256
Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin, the future Francis II 2011-02-01 2140
Mary Queen of Scots pronounced guilty in the Star Chamber 2011-02-01 3152
Mary Queen of Scots recognises Philip II of Spain as her heir 2011-02-01 2776
Mary Queen of Scots' secretary is murdered on Darnley's orders 2011-02-01 2392
Mary Stuart flees to England 2010-01-01 1306
Mary Tudor attempts to flee to Flanders 2010-11-01 1955
Mary Tudor secretly marries Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk 2010-11-01 411
Mary, Queen of Scots, abdicates 2010-03-01 1639
Masaccio deploys perspective, producing a naturalistic style 2010-03-01 1243
Maskelyne, Nevil 2008-01-01 1918
Mass emigration of Germans from Palatinate to North America 2011-04-01 852
Mass migration of US farmers 2010-02-01 1009
Massachusetts Assembly dissolved 2010-03-01 1174
Massachusetts banishes Anne Hutchinson 2010-03-01 1465
Massachusetts Bay Colony granted Royal Charter 2010-01-01 2856
Massachusetts buys most of Maine 2011-04-01 1189
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society founded 2010-03-01 1220
Massacre of Armenians in Constantinople 2011-12-30 504
Massacre of Cawnpore 2011-12-30 1097
Massacre of Fort Pillow 2010-03-01 2502
Massacre of Pottawatomie Creek 2011-12-30 1725
Massacre of the Vaudois in Provence 2010-11-01 1769
Massacre of Verden 2009-05-01 4324
Massacres in Paris 2007-12-22 2810
Massive monarchist demonstrations in Madrid 2011-12-30 571
Maternity Allowance Act 2010-03-01 987
Mathieu Dreyfus discovers that Major Esterhazy convicted his brother 2011-12-30 833
Matilda marries Geoffrey of Anjou 2012-07-31 1085
Matrimonial Causes Act 2010-02-01 2164
Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary, arrives in Macao 2010-03-01 1255
Matthew Earl of Lennox forfeits his Scottish estates 2010-11-01 825
Matthew Parker becomes Archbishop of Canterbury 2011-02-01 1306
Matthew, Earl of Lennox, signs a secret treaty with England 2010-11-01 1137
Matthias is crowned King of Bohemia 2011-02-01 2053
Matthias, King of Bohemia succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor 2011-02-01 2357
Mau Mau Uprising: Kenya declares State of Emergency 2010-02-01 761
Maupeou overthrows French Parlements 2010-03-01 942
Maurice accedes as Duke of Saxony 2010-11-01 1115
Maurice completes his occupation of Ernestine Saxony 2010-11-01 1462
Maurice debate in Commons on military manpower 2010-03-01 598
Maurice of Nassau defeats the Spanish at Turnhout 2011-02-01 1352
Maurice of Nassau fails to take Nijmegen from the Spanish 2011-02-01 334
Maurice of Nassau is created Captain-General of the United Provinces 2011-02-01 818
Maurice of Nassau is elected Stadtholder of Utrecht, Gelderland and Overyssel 2011-02-01 637
Maurice of Nassau sides with Contra-Remonstrants 2011-02-01 915
Maurice of Nassau succeeds as Prince of Orange 2011-02-01 685
Maurice of Nassau takes Meurs 2011-02-01 879
Maurice of Nassau takes Nijmegen from the Spanish 2011-02-01 505
Maurice of Nassau takes Oudenburg from the Spanish 2011-02-01 924
Maurice of Saxony captures Linz 2010-11-01 1203
Maurice of Saxony is killed defeating Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach 2010-11-01 1336
Maurice of Saxony secedes from Charles V 2010-11-01 1047
Maurice Prince of Orange orders the local levies to be disbanded 2011-02-01 1248
Maurice Prince of Orange relieves Bergen-op-Zoom 2011-02-01 2345
Maurice Rouvier forms ministry excluding Georges Boulanger 2011-12-30 412
Maurice succeeds as Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel 2011-02-01 380
Maurice, Elector of Saxony, signs a secret treaty with Charles V 2010-11-01 732
Maximilian asks German princes to aid him against the French in Italy 2010-11-01 2950
Maximilian disputes Stephen Bathory's election as King of Poland 2011-02-01 554
Maximilian Duke of Bavaria is given the Upper Palatinate 2011-02-01 629
Maximilian I agrees to a representative supreme executive council 2010-11-01 1020
Maximilian I aims at creating a universal Hapsburg monarchy 2010-11-01 1406
Maximilian I and Ferdinand I sign truce with Louis XII of France 2010-11-01 1645
Maximilian I and the Swiss join the Holy League against France 2010-11-01 1879
Maximilian I appoints Margaret of Austria Regent in the Netherlands 2010-11-01 977
Maximilian I attacks Venice 2010-11-01 1517
Maximilian I becomes Holy Roman Emperor on death of Ferdinand III 2010-11-01 1164
Maximilian I defeats Rupert of the Palatinate near Regensberg 2010-11-01 1669
Maximilian I ends the effective rule of the Executive Council 2010-11-01 1165
Maximilian I guarantees Hapsburg succession to Hungary and Bohemia 2010-11-01 1047
Maximilian I is aided by an army from Nuremberg 2010-11-01 1315
Maximilian I is forced to sign a three-year truce with Venice 2010-11-01 1411
Maximilian I leads an army to oust the remaining French from Italy 2010-11-01 2138
Maximilian I leaves Rome, having failed to take Livorno 2010-11-01 1140
Maximilian I pronounces the ban of the Empire on the Elector Palatine's son 2010-11-01 2188
Maximilian I recognises Perkin Warbeck as King of England 2010-11-01 1780
Maximilian I retreats from Italy for the Tyrol 2010-11-01 1355
Maximilian I signs a treaty with England to prevent Venice gaining Verona 2010-11-01 1461
Maximilian I summons the German princes to join him on a crusade 2010-11-01 1570
Maximilian I takes the imperial title without being crowned 2010-11-01 1287
Maximilian I undertakes failed expedition to north Italy 2010-11-01 1071
Maximilian II Emanuel becomes Elector of Bavaria 2011-04-01 435
Maximilian II is implored to intervene in the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1186
Maximilian is elected King of the Romans 2011-02-01 1284
Maximilian is recognised as the next King of Bohemia 2010-11-01 2165
Maximilian of Bavaria occupies the imperial city of Donauwörth 2011-02-01 1260
Maximilian of Bavaria relieves Charleroi from French attack 2011-04-01 1777
Maximilian succeeds as King of Bohemia 2011-02-01 2125
Maximilian takes Kufstein in the Tyrol to aid Duke of Bavaria-Munich 2010-11-01 1513
Maximilian, King of the Romans, is elected King of Hungary 2011-02-01 910
Maximilius von Spee defeats R.N. 2010-03-01 564
Maxwell, James Clerk 2005-01-21 4034
Maxwell theorizes on the nature of Saturn’s rings 2009-05-01 3723
May 4th Movement commences 2010-02-01 809
Maynooth Grant increased to aid education in Ireland 2011-12-30 800
Mazarin forces the Paris Parlement to yield 2011-02-01 875
Mazarin leaves France and offers general amnesty 2011-04-01 1954
McBain, Ed 2005-02-08 4361
McCarthy, Justin 2002-03-21 5523
McKinley presidential nominee, T. Roosevelt for vice-president 2010-03-01 1966
Meat and butter rationed in London 2011-03-01 265
Mecca sacked by Shiite Qarmatians 2009-05-01 1829
Mechanical equivalent of heat found by James Joule 2013-08-30 2284
Meeting at Ratisbon plans internal Church reform 2010-11-01 1484
Mehemet Ali agrees to terms of treaty of London 2011-12-30 464
Meiji dynasty restored in Japan 2011-12-30 295
Meiosis 2001-11-01 4738
Menelek becomes King of Ethiopia through Italian support 2011-12-30 807
Menelek, Emperor of Ethiopia, denounces Italian claims to a protectorate 2011-12-30 763
Mercantilism 2007-12-12 1579
Merchants Adventurers of England sign agreement with Antwerp 2010-11-01 1489
Mérimée, Prosper. Dernières Nouvelles 1873 2009-08-17 4542
Mérimée, Prosper. La Vénus d'Ille 1837 2009-08-17 3030
Mérimée, Prosper. Mosaïque 1833 2009-08-17 4380
Mérimée, Prosper. Nouvelles 1852 2009-08-17 4158
Metalanguage 2007-11-10 2773
Metallic catalysts improving the strength of polyethylene polymers discovered 2011-03-01 1131
Metamorphosis 2004-04-22 1854
Method for nonlinear least squares fitting proposed 2011-03-01 776
Methods for computing the exponential of a matrix found 2009-05-01 892
Methuen Treaty between England and Portugal 2011-04-01 1743
Metonymy 2001-11-01 5851
Metropolitan Police founded 2007-12-12 3586
Metternich agrees to peace congress 2010-03-01 2086
Metz, Verdun and Toul occupied by the French 2010-03-01 2646
Mexican democracy restored 2010-02-01 1020
Mexican military dictatorship Imposed 2010-02-01 969
Mexican-American War 2007-12-22 2485
Mexico declares a two-year moratorium on foreign debt payments 2010-02-01 1010
Mexico declares war on France 2011-12-30 957
Mexico forbids further U.S. immigration into Texas 2010-03-01 1626
Miao people rebel 2010-02-01 1827
Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic radiation 2010-02-01 4012
Michael III, King of Serbia, is murdered 2011-12-30 721
Michael Loris-Melikov becomes Russian minister of interior 2011-12-30 1049
Michael Prince of Wallachia assassinated by Hungarians 2011-02-01 923
Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V 2011-02-01 842
Michel de L'Hopital is dismissed from the Chancellorship of France 2011-02-01 1478
Michel de L'Hopital, Chancellor of France, dies 2011-02-01 1144
Michel Ney is shot 2010-03-01 1034
Michel Ney takes Ciudad Rodrigo 2010-03-01 1078
Middelburg captured by the Dutch; Spanish relinquish their siege of Leiden 2010-11-01 1153
Migrant ship Cataraqui wrecked 2010-03-01 529
Milan Decrees 2010-03-01 947
Milan of Serbia abdicates in favour of his son 2011-12-30 756
Milankovitch cycles related to long-term climate change proposed 2009-05-01 565
Military agreement between Germany and Italy 2011-12-30 1074
Military convention between Germany and Russia 2011-12-30 1037
Military coup d'etat in Sofia 2011-12-30 824
Military dictatorship in Greece 2010-02-01 513
Military reforms in Prussia 2011-03-01 1066
Military revolt in Baden; the Grand Duke flees 2011-12-30 824
Military service becomes compulsory in US 2010-03-01 2196
Militia Act 2011-12-30 1904
Militia Act 2010-02-01 3099
Mill, James 2007-12-02 4535
Millbank Penitentiary opens 2005-06-01 5151
Millenary Petition of the Puritans 2010-01-01 963
Milner-Zaghlul conversations 2010-03-01 624
Milosh is forced to grant Constitution in Serbia 2011-12-30 398
Miners' safety lamp invented by Humphry Davy 2010-02-01 2033
Mines Act 2010-02-01 1057
Ming admiral reaches Malindi and trades in silk, bullion, lions, rhinos and myrrh 2010-03-01 1730
Ming China is unsuccessful in its campaigns against the Mongols 2010-03-01 816
Ming dynasty in China ends 2011-02-01 463
Ming forces are repulsed and leave Annam 2010-03-01 1022
Minh Mang revives Confucianism in Vietnam 902
Minimum wage amendment rejected 2010-03-01 926
Mining for copper and lead begins in England 2011-02-01 861
Ministry of All the Talents 2010-02-01 1547
Mir Abdullah becomes ruler of Kandahar 2011-04-01 561
Mir Abdullah of Kandahar is killed by his nephew Mir Mahmud 2011-04-01 958
Mir Kasim of Murshidabad defeated 2010-03-01 1352
Mir Mahmud of Afghanistan begins war against Persia 2011-04-01 846
Mirza Asadulla Ghalib dies 2010-02-01 1935
Mise-en-abyme 2006-04-22 33069
Mississippi Plan 2010-03-01 2590
Mme Caillaux assassinates Gaston Calmette 2010-03-01 1113
Mob invade Tuileries 2011-03-01 2632
Möbius strip invented 2009-05-01 966
Moderate extension of Italian franchise 2011-12-30 261
Modern Big Bang Theory developed by George Gamow 2010-02-01 1209
Modoc War 2010-02-01 2898
Mogadishu Declaration 2010-02-01 1375
Mogul Emperor Akbar begins to campaign in the Deccan 2011-02-01 1401
Mogul Emperor Akbar conquers Afghanistan 2011-02-01 808
Mogul Emperor Akbar conquers Rajput and Lower Bengal 2011-02-01 730
Mohammed IV is deposed in a revolution in Constantinople 2011-04-01 1138
Mohammed Khudabanda succeeds as Shah of Persia 2011-02-01 807
Mohammed Koprulu becomes Grand Vizier in Turkey 2011-04-01 629
Moldavia and Wallachia obtain Phanariot governors 2011-04-01 332
Moldova and Wallachia occupied by Austria 2010-01-01 1460
Monarch deposed in Iraqi military coup 2010-02-01 716
Mongol Khitans invade Northern China 2009-05-01 385
Mongolian independence 2010-02-01 685
Monmouth is beheaded 2011-04-01 858
Monmouth is defeated at Sedgemoor 2011-04-01 858
Monological 2010-02-01 4821
Monroe Doctrine 2010-01-01 4948
Montagu-Chelmsford Report published 2010-03-01 535
Monte Cassino falls to Allies 2010-02-01 1081
Montenegrin independence 2010-02-01 430
Montenegro declares war on Turkey 2011-12-30 461
Montenegro King Nicholas yields Scutari to powers 2010-03-01 1497
Montezuma II surrenders to Hernan Cortes without a fight 2010-03-01 1295
Montmelion falls to the French 2011-02-01 1149
Montmorency is executed for intriguing to overthrow Richelieu 2011-02-01 1186
Montrose is defeated at Carbisdale 2011-03-01 2336
Moorish rebels in western Granada offer stiff resistance to Spanish army 2010-11-01 1098
Moreau defeats Austrians at Hohenlinden 2011-03-01 2119
Morgan defeats Tarleton's forces at battle of Cowpens 2010-03-01 2369
Morley, John 2002-06-30 6905
Mormons leave Nauvoo City for the Great Salt Lake 2011-12-30 681
Moroccan mission to Paris, London and Berlin 2010-03-01 375
Morocco made French protectorate 2010-03-01 666
Morrill Tariff is passed in USA 2011-12-30 1218
Moscow conference 2010-03-01 334
Moscow pulls out of US Olympics 2010-02-01 976
Moscow show trials begin 2009-05-01 1017
Motif 2001-11-01 6144
Motion against government defeated 2010-03-01 744
Motion against North's administration defeated 2010-03-01 827
Mott Scattering 2009-05-01 786
Mountjoy makes himself the Master of Lough Foyle in Ireland 2011-02-01 967
Mughal Empire established 2010-03-01 951
Muhammad Ture becomes ruler of Songhai 2010-03-01 1190
Muhammed Shah becomes Mughal emperor of India 2011-04-01 459
Mun, Thomas 2004-10-05 19633
Munich Massacre 2010-02-01 919
Munich Putsch 2010-02-01 860
Municipal Act for Ireland extends voting rights 2011-12-30 1585
Municipal Corporations Act 2010-02-01 1251
Munster capitulates to the Hessian army and Catholicism is restored 2010-11-01 2372
Muons discovered 2009-05-01 1046
Murad III becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire 2010-11-01 976
Murad IV of Turkey recovers Baghdad 2011-02-01 947
Murad V of Turkey is deposed on grounds of insanity 2011-12-30 733
Murat defeated at Tolentino 2011-03-01 2541
Murat shot 2010-03-01 2115
Murder of Greek Patriarch of Constantinople by Turks 2011-12-30 1343
Murder of Naser-al-Din, Shah of Persia 2011-12-30 1122
Muscovy becomes independent 2010-03-01 606
Muscovy Company established 2010-03-01 1345
Muslim (Moorish) conquest of the Iberian peninsula 2009-05-01 1956
Muslim Indians apply Pressure for an independent and separate state of Pakistan 2010-02-01 1250
Muslim rule extends to Transoxiana 2009-05-01 1240
Muslims massacred at Dali 2010-02-01 1300
Mustafa II succeeds as Sultan of Turkey 2011-04-01 813
Mustafa Kemal declares independence from Istanbul 2010-03-01 721
Mutinies in French army in Champagne 2010-03-01 885
Mutiny of garrisons in South Wales 2010-02-01 2633
Mutiny of Sudanese troops in Uganda 2011-12-30 8703
Mutiny of troops raised by the Duke of Rohan in the Valtelline 2011-02-01 1002
Mutiny on battleship Potemkin 2010-03-01 1409
Mutual succession agreed between Brandenburg and Pomerania 2011-02-01 973
Nader Shah Afshar expels Afghans from Persia 2011-04-01 832
Nadir Shah becomes King of Persia 2011-04-01 392
Nadir Shah of Persia sacks Delhi and conquers the Punjab 2011-04-01 1453
Nadir Shar extends his influence in Balkh and Bokhara 2011-04-01 593
Naga Uprising 2010-02-01 1426
Nagasaki Treaty 2010-02-01 1588
Naples falls to the French 2010-11-01 1789
Naples is restored to Spanish rule by Don John 2011-04-01 1046
Naples revolts against Spain 2011-04-01 1119
Napoleon abdicates; restoration of Louis XVIII 2007-12-22 2320
Napoleon annexes Oldenburg 2010-03-01 1269
Napoleon annexes Papal States 2011-03-01 1074
Napoleon Bonaparte crowned Emperor of France 2010-02-01 1824
Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Austrians in Italy 2008-03-01 2150
Napoleon Bonaparte seizes power 2008-03-02 3187
Napoleon crosses River ViIna 2011-03-01 1964
Napoleon defeats Austrians at Arcole 2011-03-01 2408
Napoleon defeats Prussian and Russian armies 2010-03-01 2024
Napoleon defeats Wurmser 2011-03-01 2170
Napoleon forces Prussia to reduce army 2010-03-01 2099
Napoleon founds Ligurian Republic 2010-03-01 2319
Napoleon I's remains brought to Les Invalides in Paris 2011-12-30 616
Napoleon III announces cession of Venezia by Austria 2011-12-30 447
Napoleon III extends power of French legislature 2011-12-30 670
Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo at Tuileries 2011-12-30 275
Napoleon III overthrows the French legislative assembly and constitution 2008-03-01 2115
Napoleon III withdraws French support for Maximilian of Mexico 2011-12-30 353
Napoleon lands in France 2010-03-01 1872
Napoleon leaves troops with Murat 2011-03-01 1901
Napoleon marches into Russia 2010-02-01 2617
Napoleon proclaimed Emperor 2011-03-01 543
Napoleon proclaimed King of Italy 2010-02-01 2878
Napoleon refuses to accept 1792 French frontier 2010-03-01 1798
Napoleon revokes Berlin and Milan Decrees 2010-03-01 741
Napoleon suppresses Tribunate 2011-03-01 710
Napoleon threatens to invade Berlin 2010-03-01 2088
Napoleon’s Grand Army leaves Boulogne; end of fear of invasion in England 2007-12-12 1941
Napoleon’s Hundred Days 2008-03-01 3095
Nasir Ud-Din becomes Shah of Persia 2011-12-30 427
Natal becomes a Dutch colony 2011-04-01 1324
Natal is combined with Cape Colony for administrative purposes 2011-12-30 1758
Natal is granted self-government 2011-12-30 914
Nathan Bacon revolt 2010-03-01 967
Nathaniel Bacon's manifesto gains support for rebellion in Virginia 2011-04-01 3014
National Assembly dissolved 2010-03-01 2149
National Assembly members forbidden to accept office 2010-03-01 2238
National Banking Act 2011-03-01 1554
National bankruptcy in Portugal 2010-03-01 701
National Congress in Belgium decrees independence 2011-12-30 271
National Convention of Chartists begins in London 2011-12-30 2658
National Gallery built in Trafalgar Square 2013-08-30 2437
National Gallery founded 2013-08-30 1523
National Health Insurance bill introduced 2010-03-01 927
National Insurance Act 2010-02-01 1448
National network television introduced 2010-02-01 838
National Political Union 2013-08-30 373
National Progressive Republican League founded 2011-03-01 1302
National Prohibition Party formed in Chicago to urge temperance 2011-12-30 1455
National revolt after Christian II massacres leading Swedes 2010-11-01 1264
National Socialist Party formed in Germany 2010-03-01 902
National Society for Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People 2013-08-30 1117
National Union of the Working Classes 2013-08-30 1829
National Vigilance Association - banning of Zola’s novels 2008-02-15 5489
National Workshops are erected in France to provide relief 2011-12-30 686
Nationalist Party successful in South African elections 2010-03-01 580
Nationalist Radical party revolts against Serbian government 2011-12-30 695
Nationalist riots in Cairo 2010-03-01 807
Nationalist rising in Egypt under Arabi Pasha 2011-12-30 1052
Nationalist uprisings in Algeria 2010-02-01 1199
Native American land in Oklahoma given to white settlers 2010-02-01 2281
Native insurrection in Philippines 2011-12-30 778
Native risings in Mozambique 2011-12-30 907
Natives expel the French from Madagascar 2011-04-01 988
Naturalist Henry Bates identifies 8000 new insects from the Amazon region 2013-08-30 2441
Naval appropriations bill passed 2010-03-01 1174
Naval backing forces Charles Fleetwood to restore the Rump Parliament 2010-01-01 670
Naval convention of Triple Alliance 2010-03-01 1083
Naval Defence Act in Britain increases ship-building 2011-12-30 1167
Naval mutiny at Spithead 2011-03-01 1676
Navarre is annexed to the Crown of France 2011-02-01 1051
Navigation Acts are modified and relaxed 2011-12-30 1158
Navy Department created in U.S. 2010-03-01 987
Nazi Party permitted in Prussia 2010-02-01 950
Nazi-Soviet Non-agression Pact 2010-02-01 940
Nazim Pasha murdered in Turkish coup 2011-03-01 815
Neapolitan Parliament finally dissolved 2011-12-30 397
Necker abolishes farming of taxes 2010-03-01 1092
Necker's dismissal implies royalist coup d'état 2010-03-01 2518
Negative Capability 2005-05-25 14543
Negotiations between Royalists and Parliamentarians open at Oxford 2010-01-01 2061
Negotiations for an alliance between Britain and Austria 2011-12-30 940
Negotiations for marriage between Elizabeth I and Henry Duke of Anjou 2011-02-01 1803
Negotiations for Prince Charles' marriage with the Infanta 2011-02-01 930
Nelson Dingley's tariff increases US protection 2011-12-30 1119
Neon, krypton, and xenon discovered by William Ramsay and Morris Travers 2013-08-30 4964
Neptune’s existence predicted 2009-05-01 1080
Netherlands adopts Proportional Representation 2011-12-30 319
Netherlands Councillors suspected of Spanish leanings are imprisoned 2011-02-01 1073
Netherlands enforce an embargo on English trade 2011-02-01 1127
Neuhausel surrenders to the Turks 2011-04-01 1291
Neutrality Act 2010-03-01 290
Neutrino hypothesis formulated by Pauli 2009-05-01 1417
Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister 2005-11-02 1905
New Austrian constitution 2010-03-01 656
New Austrian Constitution accepts Dual System with regard to Hungary 2011-12-30 701
New Berne, North Carolina, is captured by Unionists 2011-12-30 1368
New British offensive in Mesopotamia 2010-03-01 952
New British Parliament 2011-03-01 725
New British Parliament assembles 2010-03-01 757
New buildings forbidden to restrict London's growth 2011-02-01 1840
New Constitution in Argentina is not accepted by Buenos Aires 2011-12-30 305
New Constitution in France 2008-03-01 2703
New constitution in Sweden abolishes traditional four Estates 2011-12-30 341
New Corn Law 2010-02-01 1665
New defensive Konigsberg league tries to gain French support 2010-11-01 2292
New electoral law in France 2010-03-01 1052
New electoral law introduced in France 2011-03-01 1020
New England Confederation constituted 2010-03-01 943
New England Confederation declares war against Wampanoag Indians 2011-04-01 2185
New Englanders capture Fort Louisbourg from the French in Nova Scotia 2010-03-01 1975
New evidence favourable to Dreyfus is suppressed in France 2011-12-30 387
New France becomes a French royal province under Louis XIV 2010-01-01 1357
New French Constitution 2010-02-01 2549
New French offensive in Netherlands 2010-03-01 2270
New Granada proclaims a republican constitution 2011-12-30 277
New Greek democratic Constitution with one Chamber of Deputies 2011-12-30 355
New Guinea first sighted by a European: Jorge de Meneses 2010-01-01 5037
New Hampshire is created a separate province from Massachusetts 2011-04-01 360
New Japanese Constitution 2010-02-01 1002
New Jersey is reunited as Royal Province 2011-04-01 546
New Jersey voting rights 2010-03-01 2048
New liberal Constitution granted in Hanover by William IV 2011-12-30 1056
New Maori risings in New Zealand 2011-12-30 2017
New Model Army Ordinance 2011-03-01 2306
New monopoly of Merchants Adventurers for the export of English cloth 2011-02-01 1197
New Parishes Act 2010-02-01 1217
New penal code in Japan, based on that of France 2011-12-30 545
New press law in France relieves censorship 2011-12-30 872
New royal charter for the English Merchants Adventurers Company 2011-02-01 2563
New South Wales and Victoria Constitution Acts 2010-03-01 689
New South Wales Gold Fields Act 2010-03-01 761
New South Wales Legislative Council Bushranging Act 2010-03-01 1185
New South Wales police reformed 2010-03-01 484
New South Wales Treason Felony Act 2010-03-01 730
New Spanish constitution 2011-12-30 427
New Spanish Constitution continues monarchical government 2011-12-30 653
New Spanish Constitution is approved 2011-03-01 499
New star identified by Tycho Brahe 2010-03-01 585
New Whig Tariff in USA replaces Compromise Tariff 2011-12-30 1133
New York Assembly suspended 2010-03-01 1180
New York City revokes the licenses of the city's movie theaters 2010-03-01 1236
New York subway opens 2010-02-01 1216
New Yugoslavian President 2010-02-01 549
New Zealand adopts one government 2010-01-01 677
New Zealand Association founded 2005-01-01 3254
New Zealand Constitution sweeps away provincial councils 2011-12-30 378
Newcastle-upon-Tyne captured by the Scots 2011-03-01 2490
Newcastle's ministry is reconstructed 2011-12-30 948
Newcomen builds the first steam Engine 2004-01-23 4880
Newlands Reclamation Act 2010-03-01 1977
Newspaper Publications Acts 2010-02-01 2002
Newspaper Stamp Act 2010-01-01 3877
Newspapers in France can now only be sold with government approval 2011-12-30 812
Niagara Falls delegates approve Mexican government 2010-03-01 1035
Niccolo Sfondrato elected Pope Gregory XIV 2011-02-01 1005
Nice is attacked by France and a Berber corsair 2010-03-01 2836
Nicholas Bacon becomes Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England 2011-02-01 1312
Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York, is appointed Lord Chancellor 2011-02-01 1859
Nicholas II stops opposing Baghdad Railway 2010-03-01 750
Nicholas II takes over military operation command 2010-03-01 764
Nicholas King of Montenegro deposed 2010-03-01 859
Nigerian Civil War and Biafra War 2005-12-01 2158
Night Poaching Act 1800 2009-06-24 1339
Night Poaching Act 1817 2009-06-24 1258
Nikolaus Otto builds the internal-combustion engine 2010-02-01 1375
Noailles invades Spain 2011-04-01 1861
Nobel Peace Prize to Wilson and Bourgeois 2010-03-01 1352
Nobles in Sweden rally to Duke John, declaring Eric XIV insane 2011-02-01 789
Non-Intercourse Act renewed 2010-03-01 1798
Non-stop flight: London to Paris 2010-02-01 1367
Norfolk and Surrey are accused of treason 2010-11-01 2374
Normandy founded by Vikings 2009-05-01 536
North and South Carolina become Crown colonies 2011-04-01 1102
North Pole reached by James Clark Ross 2010-01-01 1037
Northcote-Trevelyan Report on Civil Service Reform 2008-02-22 8807
Northern Circars, Madras ceded to Britain 2010-03-01 705
Northern Democrats nominate Stephen Douglas for the presidency 2010-03-01 1498
Northern England raided by the Scots 2012-07-31 1129
Northern European alliance formed against Sweden 2011-04-01 1521
Northern Rebellion ended by defeat of the rebel army in Cumberland 2011-02-01 2290
Northern Rising 2010-01-01 1349
Northern Territory separates from New South Wales 2010-03-01 1113
Northern War 2010-02-01 1656
Northumberland leaves London to face Mary's supporters in East Anglia 2010-11-01 1328
Northumberland surrenders at Cambridge 2010-11-01 1375
Northumbria ceded to David I of Scotland 2012-07-31 1214
Northumbria falls to the Vikings 2009-05-01 1749
Northumbria regained by Henry II for England 2012-07-31 1146
Northumbria retaken by the English 2009-05-01 434
Northumbria under Viking control 2009-05-01 1440
Norway annexes Spitzbergen 2010-03-01 1179
Norway granted sovereignty over Spitzbergen 2011-03-01 971
Norway-Sweden Treaty of Separation 2011-03-01 1517
Norway, Denmark and Netherlands join League 2010-03-01 577
Norwegian independence 2010-02-01 1401
Norwegian National Assembly meet 2010-03-01 1565
Note from the Powers to the Sultan of Turkey 2011-12-30 1016
Nottingham again becomes sole Secretary of State 2011-04-01 1029
NSW Judicature Act receives royal assent 2010-03-01 825
Nubar Pasha forms ministry in Egypt 2011-12-30 879
Nuclear fission in Hahn-Strassman-Meitner experiments 2009-05-01 679
Nuclear magnetic resonance developed 2009-05-01 1749
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty signed 2010-02-01 672
Nucleotide sequence of the 5S ribosomal RNA from Escherichia coli established 2009-05-01 647
Numerical representation of zero 2009-05-01 1201
Nuncomar hanged 2010-03-01 706
Nuremberg Laws proclaimed 2010-02-01 606
Nylon produced 2010-02-01 879
O'Dogherty's rebellion in Ulster collapses 2011-02-01 2097
O'Donnell returns to power in Spain 2011-12-30 855
Oath of Association is taken to defend William III and Protestantism 2011-04-01 1269
Oath of Strasbourg 2009-05-01 1981
Oberlin opens: first coeducational college in the US 2010-03-01 1016
Objective Correlative 2001-11-01 81674
Observation on venous blood circulation 2009-05-01 865
Occasional Conformity Act 2007-06-19 3551
Occasional Poem 2010-02-01 11245
October Diploma amends Austrian Constitution 2011-12-30 988
October Manifesto 2009-05-01 415
October Manifesto by Canadians in support of union with US 2011-12-30 1003
Octosyllabic 2001-11-01 5427
Ode 2001-11-01 7648
Odoacer 2006-01-01 2226
Offa’s Dyke built 2009-05-01 763
Offences Against the Person Act 2010-02-01 2591
Offensive alliance between England and Spain 2010-11-01 1690
Ogden, C. K. 2005-08-17 5636
Oil found at Titusville, Pa., by Edwin L. Drake 2010-03-01 1303
Olaf I Tryggvason becomes king of Norway 2009-05-01 1332
Old Price Riots 2010-02-01 2430
Oldenburg and Hanover join Zollverein 2011-12-30 665
Oliver Cromwell conquers Ireland 2010-02-01 2608
Oliver Cromwell conquers Scotland 2010-02-01 2471
Oliver Cromwell defeats Royalists at Grantham 2011-02-01 2200
Oliver Cromwell flees from Parliament to the army 2011-04-01 2322
Oliver Cromwell is re-installed as Lord Protector 2010-02-01 771
Oliver Cromwell is victorious at Langport 2011-02-01 2047
Oliver Cromwell rejects the title of King 2011-03-01 813
Oliver Cromwell takes Gainsborough 2011-02-01 2290
Oliver Cromwell takes Perth 2011-03-01 2235
Oliver Cromwell takes power from the purged Rump Parliament 2010-01-01 2102
Olivier Ollivier becomes French premier 2011-12-30 1138
Olof Skötkonung (the Tax King) unites Sweden 2009-05-01 1904
On Alexander III's death Nicholas II becomes Tsar 2011-12-30 458
On the death of Tsar Feodore, Tsaritza Sophia becomes Regent 2011-04-01 324
Onomatopoeia 2001-11-01 5225
Oombulgurri massacre 2010-03-01 1246
Oort cloud posited 2009-05-01 323
Opening of Delagoa Bay railway gives Transvaal an outlet 2011-12-30 510
Opening of Japan 2005-09-13 1316
Operation Bagration 2010-03-01 857
Operation Desert Storm 2011-12-20 837
Operation Solomon begins 2010-03-01 1034
Operation Torch commences 2010-02-01 570
Opposition to Pitt in Parliament dwindles 2010-03-01 590
Opposition to the restoration of the Medici in Florence 2010-11-01 1029
Oral Phase 2005-10-22 9200
Orange Order founded in Ulster, Northern Ireland 2007-12-22 1369
Ordinance for the Union of England with Scotland and Ireland 2011-03-01 2189
Ordinance of Nantes orders all French fortresses to be dismantled 2011-02-01 1222
Ordinances for elections in Scotland and Ireland 2010-02-01 457
Ordnance Survey completes First Series maps begun in 1805 2013-08-30 2053
Organic Act applies laws of Oregon to Alaska 2011-12-30 1286
Organic Law in Egypt 2011-12-30 581
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development established 2010-02-01 1467
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) founded 2010-02-01 1085
Origin of Crab Nebula posited 2009-05-01 402
Origin of singularities posited 2009-05-01 954
Orion and Perseus arms of the Milky Way discovered 2011-03-01 689
Orissa taken by Mughal forces 2010-11-01 855
Orleans family is banished from France by Presidential decree 2011-12-30 509
Oscar Wilde sentenced to two years hard labour 2013-08-30 4705
Oslo Accords 2010-02-01 1171
Ostend Manifesto 2010-03-01 1833
Ottava Rima 2001-11-01 5778
Ottavio Farnese of Parma seeks French help against Milan 2010-11-01 1004
Otto I of Greece convokes National Assembly 2011-12-30 462
Otto II marries Theophano, John I Tzimisces’s niece 2009-05-01 1243
Otto von Bismarck advocates a larger German army 2011-12-30 986
Otto von Bismarck and Napoleon III meet at Biarritz 2011-12-30 3026
Otto von Bismarck passes strong antisocialist legislation 2010-01-01 523
Otto von Bismarck seeks to preserve Germany's entente with Russia 2011-12-30 250
Ottoman Empire gains control of Transylvania 2010-03-01 1003
Ottoman Governor of Egypt seeks to attack India 2011-03-01 665
Ottoman invasion of Greece 2010-01-01 1856
Ottoman Sultan deposed 2010-02-01 982
Ottoman territories divided 2010-02-01 1111
Ottomans conquer Mamluk Egypt and occupy Cairo 2010-03-01 1124
Ottomans conquer the island of Rhodes after a six-month siege 2010-03-01 1129
Ottomans declare war on Russia when they invade Moldova and Wallachia 2011-07-01 1724
Ottomans establish the Janissary corps 2010-03-01 682
Ottomans' siege of Vienna is unsuccessful 2010-03-01 1436
Outbreak of civil war in Rwanda 2010-02-01 529
Outbreak of War of Polish Succession 2011-04-01 1418
Outcry against Archbishop Laud at the punishment of Puritans 2011-02-01 1632
Ove Guldberg secures Struensee's arrest 2010-03-01 832
Overinterpretation [Überdeutung] 2005-10-22 8063
Overlordship of Scotland claimed by Edward I 2012-07-31 1442
Overman bill 2010-03-01 288
Owain the Great of Wales 2012-07-31 1337
Oxford and Cambridge in debate about admitting Dissenters 2013-08-30 1487
Oxford surrenders to Parliament 2010-02-01 1891
Oxford University narrowly votes in favour of the King's divorce 2010-11-01 831
Oxymoron 2001-11-01 4736
Pachacuti becomes ruler of the Inca Empire 2010-03-01 1017
Pacification of Ghent unites all 17 Provinces of the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1474
Pacification of Ireland is signed 2011-02-01 1196
Pact made between Spanish Supreme Junta and British 2010-03-01 1117
Pact of Cartagena 2010-03-01 1443
Pact of London 2010-03-01 309
Paen 2001-11-01 59915
Pakistan becomes independent Islamic Republic 2010-02-01 1111
Palace of Westminster is destroyed by fire 2013-08-30 1091
Palazzo Venezia in Rome is completed 2010-03-01 271
Palmer Raids 2010-03-01 746
Palmerston Prime Minister for the first time 2013-08-30 1930
Palmerston Prime Minister for the second time 2013-08-30 1979
Pan Slav speech by Russian General Skobelev alarms Germany 2011-12-30 1071
Pan-American Congress meets in Panama 2011-12-30 403
Pan-Slav conference at Cracow (Krakow) 2011-12-30 512
Pan-Slav Congress meets at Prague 2011-12-30 821
Panama given federal status by constitutional amendment 2011-12-30 219
Panama is declared independent of Spain 2011-12-30 511
Panama scandal in France 2011-12-30 618
Panama secedes from Colombia, canal works begin 2008-05-26 3313
Panegyric 2001-11-01 6516
Papacy adopts 1st January as the beginning of the new year 2011-02-01 510
Papacy joins Sardinia against Austria 2011-12-30 698
Papal arbitration settles Germany's dispute with Spain over the Carolines 2011-12-30 1134
Papal bull restores Roman Catholic hierarchy in England 2007-12-12 2052
Papal bull summons a general council to Trent 2010-11-01 1543
Papal commission to assess Henry VIII's marriage 2010-11-01 2805
Papal dispensation for Henry VIII conditional on first marriage's invalidity 2010-11-01 3568
Papal dispensation for marriage of Henry, Prince of Wales and Catherine of Aragon 2010-11-01 1109
Papal nuncio is expelled from Belgium 2011-12-30 508
Papal nuncio is expelled from Switzerland 2011-12-30 340
Papal troops defend Bologna from French attack 2010-11-01 1222
Papal troops occupy the Valtelline 2011-02-01 943
Papua-New Guinea Act 2010-03-01 682
Paradigm Shift 2009-08-04 6056
Paradigm, paradigmatic 2009-07-24 7859
Paraguay begins war against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay 2011-12-30 639
Parapraxis 2005-10-25 13961
Paris capitulates and armistice with Germany is signed 2011-12-30 937
Paris comes under the control of Etienne Marcel, Provost of merchants 2010-03-01 1271
Paris commune abolished 2010-03-01 2040
Paris Commune is formally set up 2011-12-30 613
Paris Commune/ Commune of Paris 2010-02-01 3608
Paris Parlement banished to Troyes 2010-03-01 767
Paris parlement opposes Brienne 2010-03-01 1195
Paris Parlement places the clergy under the jurisdiction of the Crown 2011-04-01 1336
Paris surrounded: Allies enter the city triumphantly 2010-02-01 2628
Paris-London Telegraph 2005-06-28 1167
Parish Registers introduced across England 2010-11-01 3161
Parity violation by the weak force suggested 2009-05-01 303
Parlement demands the calling of Estates-General 2010-03-01 820
Parlement of Paris condemns the maladministration of France 2011-02-01 677
Parlement of Paris deprived of rights 2007-12-12 2240
Parliament abolishes the Monarchy 2011-03-01 2482
Parliament adjourns to Oxford because of plague at Westminster 2011-02-01 1038
Parliament attacks Arminianism and calls for Buckingham's dismissal 2011-02-01 807
Parliament attacks the King for levying tonnage and poundage unilaterally 2011-02-01 1821
Parliament attaints Empson and Dudley 2010-11-01 1634
Parliament charges Sir John Fenwick with treason 2011-04-01 1141
Parliament complains about Duke of Buckingham's mismanagement 2011-02-01 626
Parliament declares James II has abdicated 2011-04-01 1499
Parliament declares monopolies illegal 2008-01-01 3110
Parliament declares the Pope's authority void in England 2010-11-01 2601
Parliament discovers that Charles made a treaty with the Papacy 2011-02-01 1082
Parliament dissolved, Pitt gains majority in ensuing election 2010-03-01 1443
Parliament endorses trial of the King 2011-03-01 2276
Parliament ends Whitefriars' and Savoy's immunity from arrest 2011-04-01 718
Parliament gains control of the Militia 2010-02-01 616
Parliament is dissolved 2011-04-01 596
Parliament is dissolved 2010-03-01 1258
Parliament is dissolved 2010-03-01 1500
Parliament is held at Oxford due to plague in Westminster 2011-04-01 1047
Parliament is prorogued 2010-03-01 1608
Parliament legislates to expel Jesuits and seminary priests 2011-02-01 3438
Parliament opens negotiations with Charles I 2010-02-01 2340
Parliament opposes the idea that Philip be crowned King 2011-02-01 1615
Parliament organises Wales into 12 counties 2010-11-01 1711
Parliament passed the Adultery Act 2010-02-01 866
Parliament passes a revised version of the Humble Petition and Advice 2011-03-01 995
Parliament passes anti-Catholic acts 2011-02-01 3077
Parliament passes legislation for the security of the Queen's person 2011-02-01 1602
Parliament passes Poll Tax 2012-07-31 3058
Parliament passes the Act of Pardon and Oblivion 2010-02-01 2051
Parliament passes the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity 2011-02-01 3218
Parliament re-establishes Roman Catholicism 2010-03-01 2872
Parliament refuses to grant supplies before redress of grievances 2011-02-01 2315
Parliament rejects Charles I's concessions 2011-04-01 2178
Parliament split into two Houses 2012-07-31 1874
Parliament suppresses Christmas 2010-02-01 2258
Parliament's western forces are defeated at Stratton 2011-02-01 2034
Parliamentary 'Declaration' sets out Charles I's misdeeds 2011-04-01 2101
Parliamentary alliance with Scotland is confirmed 2011-02-01 2289
Parliamentary Commissioners leave Newport 2011-04-01 1048
Parliamentary Commissioners offer Charles I the 'Newcastle Propositions' 2011-02-01 1412
Parliamentary Protestation denies the King's right to imprison MPs 2011-02-01 1513
Parliamentary system adopted by Napoleon III 2011-12-30 716
Parma captures Sluys 2011-02-01 704
Parnell calls on the Irish in Britain to vote Conservative 2011-12-30 1166
Parnell is imprisoned for inciting the Irish to intimate tenants 2011-12-30 823
Parody 2010-02-01 4490
Partial autonomy granted to Serbs 2010-03-01 787
Partial repeal of British Navigation Acts 2011-12-30 806
Partition of Palestine, creation of a Jewish state 2004-01-23 9390
Pasha in Buda agrees to an amnesty 2010-11-01 1152
Pasquale de' Paoli is elected a general in Corsica 2011-12-30 891
Path across the Australian Blue Mountains discovered 2010-02-01 3226
Pathetic Fallacy 2001-11-01 6734
Patrick Henry delivers radical speech in 'the parson's cause' 2010-03-01 1290
Patriotic outbreak in Hamburg 2010-03-01 726
Paul Deschanel becomes President of France 2010-03-01 821
Paul Falk subjects the Prussian clergy to State control 2011-12-30 1154
Paul I limits peasants' work for landlords 2010-03-01 668
Paul I succeeds as Emperor of Russia 2011-03-01 638
Paul Kruger becomes President of South African Republic 2011-12-30 1043
Paul Kruger is re-elected in Transvaal for third time 2011-12-30 1036
Paul Kruger re-elected as President of Transvaal with massive majority 2011-12-30 580
Paul Painlevé forms cabinet in France 2010-03-01 787
Paul von Hindenburg commands Eastern German armies 2010-03-01 899
Payne-Aldrich tariff in U.S. 2010-03-01 1023
Peace agreement between the Ottoman Empire and the Mamluks 2010-03-01 1552
Peace at Montpellier between Catholics and Protestants in France 2010-01-01 2551
Peace between Britain and Burma 2011-12-30 683
Peace between England and France 2010-03-01 1541
Peace between Genoa and Venice 2010-03-01 1090
Peace between Prussia and Saxony 2011-12-30 570
Peace between Spain and Morocco 2011-12-30 851
Peace between Spain and Turkey reinforces the status quo 2011-02-01 1079
Peace Conference adopts principle of League of Nations 2010-03-01 1033
Peace Conference at Munster and Osnabrück 2011-02-01 2041
Peace Conference at the Hague 2010-03-01 1030
Peace Conference at The Hague: sets up international court of arbitration 2010-02-01 847
Peace Conference at Versailles 2010-03-01 1090
Peace conference between England, France and Spain opens at Cambrai 2011-02-01 1136
Peace Conference disposes of Germany's colonies 2010-03-01 981
Peace Conference grants Japan's German concession 2010-03-01 1012
Peace conference of Rastadt 2010-03-01 2381
Peace conference opens at Hamburg 2011-02-01 1021
Peace Congress opens at Utrecht 2011-04-01 2196
Peace Convention at Washington in effort to preserve Union 2011-12-30 2700
Peace negotiations are renewed in Cologne and Hamburg 2011-02-01 1059
Peace negotiations between Spain and her enemies founder 2011-02-01 1261
Peace negotiations for Europe are opened at Gertruydenberg 2011-04-01 2181
Peace negotiations in France founder 2011-02-01 1435
Peace negotiations leading to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia open 2011-02-01 1084
Peace negotiations opened between Spain and her enemies 2011-02-01 1104
Peace of Abö between Russia and Sweden 2011-04-01 1142
Peace of Adrianople between Turkey and Russia 2011-04-01 978
Peace of Altranstadt between Sweden and Saxony 2011-04-01 1886
Peace of Ardres 2010-03-01 2825
Peace of Augsburg 2010-01-01 3744
Peace of Basle 2010-03-01 2276
Peace of Belgrade between the Emperor Charles VI and Turkey 2011-04-01 1337
Peace of Berlin between Maria Theresa and Prussia 2011-04-01 1064
Peace of Breda 2011-04-01 1920
Peace of Bruges 2010-03-01 1420
Peace of Brussels between Francis I and Maximilian 2010-11-01 1870
Peace of Bucharest between Bulgaria and Serbia 2010-02-01 1072
Peace of Caltabellotta 2010-03-01 1763
Peace of Cambrai 2010-01-01 1915
Peace of Cateau-Cambresis 2010-01-01 1721
Peace of Constantinople 2010-03-01 1913
Peace of Constantinople between Greece and Turkey 2011-12-30 554
Peace of Copenhagen ends war between Sweden and Denmark 2011-04-01 901
Peace of Crépy between Francis I and Charles V 2010-11-01 3580
Peace of Dresden between Prussia, Austria and Saxony 2011-04-01 1355
Peace of Étaples 2010-11-01 2805
Peace of Fleix ends the Seventh War of Religion in France 2011-02-01 1784
Peace of Florence 2010-03-01 1270
Peace of Frederikshavn 2010-03-01 1009
Peace of Füssen between Maria Theresa and Bavaria 2011-04-01 1263
Peace of Gulistan 2010-03-01 1059
Peace of Karlowitz 2011-04-01 1952
Peace of La Jaunaie 2010-03-01 2465
Peace of La Rochelle 2011-02-01 2096
Peace of Lubeck 2010-02-01 3314
Peace of Malmoe allows Netherlands vessels to trade in the Baltic 2010-11-01 1701
Peace of Milan returns the Valtelline to the Grisons 2011-02-01 1031
Peace of Milan: war between Sardinia and Austria ends 2011-12-30 993
Peace of Munster 2010-02-01 2439
Peace of Neuilly between Allies and Bulgaria 2010-03-01 1056
Peace of Nijmegen between Emperor Leopold I and Louis XIV 2011-04-01 1346
Peace of Nijmegen between France and Holland 2011-04-01 1535
Peace of Nijmegen confirmed 2011-04-01 1190
Peace of Noyon between France and Spain 2010-11-01 2169
Peace of Nuremberg 2010-03-01 6486
Peace of Oliva ends war between Brandenburg, Poland, Austria and Sweden 2011-04-01 1735
Peace of Paris ends Anglo-Persian War 2011-12-30 1217
Peace of Passarowitz: ends the war between the Empire and Turkey 2011-04-01 1204
Peace of Peking: end of Boxer Rebellion 2010-02-01 1802
Peace of Posen 2010-03-01 711
Peace of Prague between the Emperor Ferdinand II and the Elector of Saxony 2011-02-01 2185
Peace of Prague confirms preliminary peace of Nikolsburg regarding Germany 2011-12-30 1224
Peace of Pressburg 2010-03-01 2235
Peace of Schönbrunn 2010-03-01 1014
Peace of St. Germain-en-Laye between Sweden and Brandenburg 2011-04-01 1081
Peace of St. Germain-en-Laye ends the Third Civil War in France 2011-02-01 1513
Peace of Stockholm is finalised between Sweden and Hanover 2011-04-01 1316
Peace of Stolbovo between Russia and Sweden 2011-02-01 1170
Peace of Stralsund 2010-03-01 1745
Peace of Szathmar is signed between the Emperor and Hungarian rebels 2011-04-01 1011
Peace of Teschen 2010-03-01 1359
Peace of the Pyrenees between Spain and France 2011-04-01 1384
Peace of Turkmanchai between Persia and Russia 2011-12-30 1127
Peace of Tyrnau between Emperor Matthias and Gabor Bethlen 2011-02-01 1643
Peace of Vervins unites France under Henry IV 2011-02-01 1354
Peace of Vienna recognises Stephen Bocskai as ruler of Transylvania 2011-02-01 1403
Peace of Vossem between Brandenburg and France 2011-04-01 1346
Peace of Zsitvatorok signed between the Turks and the Austrians 2011-02-01 2165
Peace of Zurawna between Turkey and Poland 2011-04-01 1426
Peace preliminaries at Vienna are decided 2011-04-01 1384
Peace preliminaries between Denmark and Prussia 2011-12-30 674
Peace preliminaries of Fontainebleau between France, Spain and Britain 2011-12-30 1366
Peace signed between Turkey and Serbia 2011-12-30 686
Peace treaty between British and the King of Ashanti 2010-01-01 1376
Peace treaty between Denmark and Prussia 2010-01-01 1483
Peace treaty between Emperor Ferdinand II and Gabor Bethen of Transylvania 2011-02-01 1418
Peace treaty between Ferdinand of Habsburg and the Ottoman Empire 2010-03-01 1656
Peace treaty between Shah Abbas I and the Ottomans 2010-03-01 1001
Peace treaty is signed between the Quadruple Alliance and Spain 2011-04-01 1905
Peace treaty of Hubertusburg 2010-03-01 1540
Peace treaty of Kutchuk-Kainardji 2010-03-01 1324
Peace Treaty of Nuremberg 2011-04-01 1393
Peace Treaty of Westminster ends first Anglo-Dutch War 2011-04-01 1261
Peace with France 2008-02-28 3377
Peace with Spain (Treaty of London) 2010-01-01 1310
Peaceful revolution in Tuscany 2011-12-30 542
Pearl Harbour 2005-03-27 1993
Peasant Rising in Hungary and Serbia 2011-04-01 907
Peasant risings across France 2011-02-01 920
Peasant uprising in Japan fails 2010-02-01 1594
Peasants in Majorca massacre the nobility 2010-11-01 725
Peasants' Revolt breaks out in Bern 2011-04-01 713
Peasants' revolt in Alsace 2010-11-01 2269
Peasants' revolt in Kempten is crushed 2010-11-01 1481
Peasants' Revolts in the Black Forest and Wurttemberg 2010-11-01 1237
Pechenegs besiege Kiev 2009-05-01 1268
Pedro Alvares Cabral travels to Brazil and then to India 2010-03-01 3041
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros names the New Hebrides Australia del Espiritu Santo 2010-01-01 1257
Pedro I of Brazil abdicates in order to return to PortugaI 2011-12-30 557
Pedro Navarro leads Spanish expedition to North Africa 2010-11-01 3400
Pedro V of Portugal dies and succeeded by Louis I 2011-12-30 511
Peking becomes capital of Ming China 2010-03-01 304
Pelham Ministry resigns but their opponents fail to form a government 2011-04-01 1127
Penang ceded to Britain 2011-03-01 1237
Penicillin discovered 2010-02-01 1123
Peninsular War 2010-02-01 2518
Pennsylvania adopts a Constitution 2011-04-01 1254
Pennsylvania system of prison management introduced 2010-03-01 1090
Penny Post founded 2013-08-30 2354
Pentameter 2001-11-01 4473
Pentonville Prison founded 2013-08-30 1292
People of Genoa overthrow the nobility and appoint a doge 2010-11-01 869
Pepin III becomes the sole ruler of the Franks as Mayor of the Palace 2009-05-01 1133
Pepin the Short becomes King of the Franks; founding of Carolingian dynasty 2009-05-01 1154
Pepsin isolated 2009-05-01 650
Perceval assassinated in House of Commons 2010-03-01 972
Perfect superconducting diamagnetism discovered 2009-05-01 1012
Perigord and Bearn are annexed to the French Crown 2011-02-01 991
Periodicity of Halley’s comet predicted 2009-05-01 994
Periphrasis 2001-11-01 6938
Perkin Warbeck arrives in Cork at the invitation of Sir James Ormond 2010-11-01 1281
Perkin Warbeck arrives in Cornwall 2010-11-01 1707
Perkin Warbeck decides to move to the court of James IV in Scotland 2010-11-01 1154
Perkin Warbeck executed 2010-11-01 1899
Perkin Warbeck is captured 2010-11-01 1707
Perkin Warbeck is tried for treason 2010-11-01 2466
Perkin Warbeck publicly confesses his treason and is imprisoned 2010-11-01 1907
Pero de Covilha reaches India via the Red Sea 2010-01-01 1746
Persecution of Christians in China 2011-04-01 455
Persia appoints Morgan Shuster to reorganise finances 2010-03-01 1189
Persia attacks Afghanistan 2011-04-01 710
Persia concludes favourable tariff with Russia 2010-03-01 1273
Persia successfully excludes Turkish invaders 2010-03-01 1060
Persian ambassador negotiates a commercial treaty with England 2011-02-01 1509
Persian Buwayhids capture Baghdad 2009-05-01 2124
Persona 2001-11-01 4438
Personification 2001-11-01 6617
Peru earthquake 2010-02-01 1004
Peru secedes from Colombia 2011-12-30 536
Peruzzis go bankrupt 2010-03-01 801
Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias 2011-04-01 895
Peter I makes peace under pressure from Turkey 2011-04-01 1180
Peter II becomes King of Portugal 2010-03-01 986
Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia 2011-04-01 629
Peter II of Russia dies 2011-04-01 627
Peter III is assassinated 2011-12-30 753
Peter IV abdicates as King of Portugal 2011-12-30 486
Peter IV declines Portuguese throne in favour of his daughter Maria 2011-12-30 479
Peter IV of Portugal dies, succeeded by Maria II 2011-12-30 690
Peter Karageorgevitch elected King Peter I 2010-03-01 716
Peter the Great arrives in England 2011-04-01 883
Peter the Great becomes Tsar of Russia 2011-04-01 679
Peter the Great executes the Streltzy rebels 2011-04-01 1399
Peter the Great fortifies Kronstadt to protect St Petersburg 2011-04-01 890
Peter the Great introduces administrative reforms to Russia 2011-04-01 787
Peter the Great of Russia dies 2011-04-01 594
Peter the Great returns to Moscow after military defeat 2011-04-01 718
Peter the Great stays in Paris 2011-04-01 1142
Peter the Great takes Azov from the Turks 2011-04-01 1192
Peter the Great takes Dorpat 2011-04-01 1418
Peter the Great takes Narva 2011-04-01 1126
Peter the Great visits Prussia, Holland, England and Vienna 2011-04-01 1357
Peter the Great's son Alexis is murdered on his father's orders 2011-04-01 1073
Peter Wentworth MP punished for challenging the Queen 2011-02-01 1823
Petition of Johannesburg Uitlanders to Queen Victoria 2011-12-30 1545
Petition of Right 2010-02-01 717
Petition of the Three Colonels 2010-02-01 889
Petition to Henry VIII about severity of the church courts 2010-11-01 2886
Petition to remove governor-general Thomas Hutchinson 2010-03-01 1148
Phallocentrism / Phallogocentrism / Logocentrism 2009-08-04 49126
Philadelphia Congress declaration 2010-03-01 2368
Philadelphia convention frames constitution 2011-03-01 1179
Philadelphia Ledger pioneers cylinder printing of newspapers 2010-03-01 1327
Philip Duke of Burgundy marries Juana, heiress to Spanish throne 2010-11-01 2359
Philip Duke of Orleans marries Henrietta, sister of Charles II 2011-04-01 936
Philip II aids the Earl of Tyrone's rebellion in Ireland 2011-02-01 1493
Philip II appoints Archduke Albert as Governor of the Netherlands 2011-02-01 919
Philip II appoints Archduke Albert of Austria Viceroy of Portugal 2011-02-01 422
Philip II deposed by the Dutch Estates General; this was a declaration of war 2010-11-01 1230
Philip II enforces the decrees of the Council of Trent 2011-02-01 1621
Philip II gives Spanish Netherlands to Albert of Austria and Infanta Isabel 2011-02-01 858
Philip II imprisons Antonio Perez 2011-02-01 3129
Philip II marries Anne of Austria, daughter of Maximilian II 2011-02-01 270
Philip II of Spain agrees to support the Holy League in France 2011-02-01 1238
Philip II opens peace negotiations with Henry IV 2011-02-01 2084
Philip II plans to place the Infanta Isabel on the throne of France 2011-02-01 1106
Philip II recalls Cardinal Granvelle from the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1131
Philip II returns briefly to England to gain aid for war with France 2011-02-01 1236
Philip II suppresses the traditional liberties at Tarragona 2011-02-01 760
Philip III expels the ethnic Moors (Moriscos) from Spain 2011-11-01 1218
Philip III of Spain seeks marriage with Princess Elizabeth 2011-02-01 959
Philip III succeeds as King of Spain 2011-02-01 778
Philip III summons the Cortes to deal with Spain's financial crisis 2011-02-01 1240
Philip of Burgundy confirms the Treaty of Senlis with France 2010-11-01 1689
Philip of Hesse comes to terms with the Emperor Charles V 2010-11-01 1045
Philip of Hesse defeats Ferdinand of Austria at Laufen 2010-11-01 2487
Philip of Hesse plans alliance against League of Dessau 2010-11-01 2321
Philip of Orleans marries Liselotte, heiress to the Palatinate 2011-04-01 651
Philip of Spain leaves England for the Low Countries 2011-02-01 1172
Philip of Spain receives the Netherlands, Milan, and Naples 2011-02-01 968
Philip of Spain renounces claim to the French throne 2011-04-01 1398
Philip the Handsome gives up Friesland to Albert of Saxony 2010-11-01 1882
Philip V of Spain abdicates during a fit of religious mania 2011-04-01 1224
Philip V of Spain marries Elizabeth Farnese 2011-04-01 857
Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, is taken prisoner at Halle 2010-11-01 1243
Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, undertakes a bigamous marriage 2010-11-01 833
Philipp Scheidemann forms cabinet in Germany 2010-03-01 1029
Philippine Government Act 2010-02-01 1155
Philippines demand independence 2010-03-01 1037
Photoelectric investigation into cathode rays 2009-05-01 1534
Phrenology introduced in the US 2010-03-01 420
Physiocracy 2007-12-12 2024
Pi computed to 2,037 decimal places using ENIAC 2011-03-01 754
Pi-meson discovered 2009-05-01 1027
Piedmont joins allies against Russia 2011-12-30 722
Pierre Tirard forms ministry in France 2011-12-30 920
Piers Plowman Tradition 2012-07-31 4409
Piet Cronje surrenders at Paardeberg 2010-03-01 1584
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency founded 986
Pinto, Isaac 2008-04-05 2522
Pirates attack the southern coast of France 2011-04-01 801
Pisa revolts against Florence 2010-11-01 1427
Piston-and-cylinder steam-powered water pump built 2009-05-01 1508
Pitesti 're-education' experiment 2009-05-01 1339
Pitt attacks the terms of the Peace in the Commons 2011-12-30 1077
Pitt becomes Secretary of State, Southern Department 2011-12-30 805
Pitt begins negotiations for peace with France 2011-03-01 1399
Pitt fails to carry the Cabinet in continuing the war 2011-12-30 959
Pitt introduces Aliens bill 2011-03-01 1200
Pitt introduces Regency bill 2010-03-01 1651
Pitt is dismissed as Paymaster-General 2011-12-30 856
Pitt issues Exchequer bills 2010-03-01 1372
Pitt presents scheme for Parliamentary Reform 2010-03-01 1564
Pitt resigns as Secretary of State because of opposition from the King 2011-12-30 776
Pitt resigns over a deadlock with Cumberland 2011-12-30 802
Pitt the Elder's illness 2010-03-01 933
Pitt the younger forms ministry 2010-03-01 637
Pitt's influence increases 2011-12-30 612
Pius IV promulgates a final definition of Roman Catholicism 2011-02-01 963
Pius IX disassociates himself from Italian National Movement 2011-12-30 620
Pius IX flees to Gaeta 2011-12-30 643
Pius V makes Cosimo de' Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany 2011-02-01 594
Pius X issues encyclical Editio saepe 2011-03-01 712
Pius X stops circulation of May encyclical 2010-03-01 728
Pizarro executes the Inca of Peru and occupies Cuzco 2010-11-01 1055
Plague breaks out in England 2010-11-01 836
Plague in Copenhagen 2011-04-01 376
Plague in Poona 2011-12-30 548
Plague in Yunnan province, China 2010-03-01 799
Plague occurs in England for the first time 2012-07-31 1164
Plague occurs in England for the second time 2012-07-31 1246
Planck, Max 2000-10-28 4797
Plans for the English settlement of the six counties of Ulster 2011-02-01 1584
Plantation of Ulster promulgated by James I 2010-02-01 1046
Platt Amendment: Cuba authorizes the United States to maintain law and order 2010-03-01 1992
Plebiscite in Carinthia favours Austria 2010-03-01 630
Plebiscite in East and West Prussia 2010-03-01 444
Plebiscite in France supports revival of French Empire 2011-12-30 466
Plebiscite in Schleswig north zone 2010-03-01 594
Plebiscites in Italy vote for union with Sardinia 2011-12-30 487
Plebiscites in Naples and Sicily in support of union with Sardinia 2011-12-30 545
Plebiscites in Umbria and Legations for union with Sardinia 2011-12-30 453
Plebiscites in Venezia support union with Italy 2011-12-30 792
PLO leadership retreats to Tunis 2010-02-01 890
Plot for a Yorkist rising in Kent is discovered 2010-11-01 1597
Plot to assassinate Bonaparte discovered 2010-03-01 2707
Plots against Henry IV by French nobles in league with Spain 2011-02-01 1579
Pluralities Act 2010-02-01 2071
Plymouth Colony founded (colony of Massachusetts) 2010-02-01 4345
Pocket-watch invented by Peter Henlein 2010-03-01 1573
Poet 2001-11-01 4285
Poetic Licence 2001-11-01 7727
Poland agrees to succession of the Elector of Brandenburg in Prussia 2011-02-01 1032
Poland cedes Thorn and Danzig to Prussia 2010-03-01 1144
Poland divided into provinces by Russia 2011-12-30 408
Poland gains Marienburg from the Teutonic Knights 2010-03-01 1147
Poland given mandate over Galicia 2010-03-01 752
Poland signs truces with Sweden and Turkey 2011-02-01 1087
Poland surrenders the left bank of the River Dnieper to Russia 2010-11-01 1137
Pole assumes the functions of Papal Legate in England 2011-02-01 2146
Polio vaccine developed 2010-02-01 1102
Polish alliance with Emperor against the Turks 2011-04-01 892
Polish constitution 2010-03-01 800
Polish Constitution abolished 2011-12-30 774
Polish Diet accepts the Saxon settlement 2011-04-01 801
Polish Diet declares independence of Poland and deposes Romanovs 2011-12-30 1013
Polish forces are defeated by Russian army at Ostroleke 2011-12-30 970
Polish military coup 2010-02-01 1028
Polish offensive in Ukraine 2010-03-01 1070
Polish rebels surrender after Prussian troops quash insurrection in Warsaw 2011-12-30 1005
Polish rising against the Russian empire 2010-01-01 1425
Polish state founded 2009-05-01 475
Polish war with Russia over White Russian region 2010-11-01 967
Polish-Lithuanian armies crush Russians at Orsza 2010-11-01 1414
Polish–Russian War 2009-05-01 806
Political Crisis in France: National Solidarity Government formed 2010-02-01 622
Political Econony Club 2010-02-01 2063
Political purges in Romania 2009-05-01 800
Pollard, Albert Frederick 2002-03-21 6461
Pombal becomes all-powerful 2010-03-01 500
Pombal curbs power of the Inquisition in Portugal 2011-04-01 738
Pomerania becomes a Protestant state 2010-11-01 630
Poor Employment Act 2010-02-01 1828
Poor harvest in Britain 2010-02-01 1602
Poor harvest in Britain 2010-02-01 1299
Pope Adrian VI dies 2010-11-01 2070
Pope agrees to marriage of Catherine de' Medici and Duke of Orleans 2010-11-01 613
Pope Alexander VI begins to attack the Orsini 2010-11-01 1317
Pope Alexander VI calls on all princes to support a crusade 2010-11-01 1906
Pope Alexander VI declares Louis XII King of Naples 2010-11-01 1831
Pope Alexander VI dies 2010-11-01 2172
Pope Alexander VI divides New World between Spain and Portugal 2010-11-01 52782
Pope Alexander VI forms a league against Naples 2010-11-01 2080
Pope Alexander VI's second bull dividing New World between Spain and Portugal 2010-11-01 1663
Pope Alexander VII dies 2011-04-01 1130
Pope Alexander VII elected in succession to Innocent X 2011-04-01 706
Pope Alexander VIII dies 2011-04-01 682
Pope Alexander VIII elected 2011-04-01 694
Pope bans alchemy 2010-03-01 723
Pope Benedict XIII dies 2011-04-01 686
Pope Benedict XIV dies 2011-12-30 845
Pope Clement IX dies 2011-04-01 640
Pope Clement VII dies 2010-11-01 1416
Pope Clement VII forbids Henry VIII to re-marry until his case is decided 2010-11-01 2615
Pope Clement VII forms the League of Cognac 2010-11-01 2512
Pope Clement VII founds the Inquisition in Lisbon 2010-11-01 1500
Pope Clement VII is forced to sign a treaty with Charles V 2010-11-01 1267
Pope Clement VII is taken ill 2010-11-01 1698
Pope Clement VII makes peace with the Emperor 2010-11-01 1078
Pope Clement VII removes from Orvieto to Viterbo 2010-11-01 1123
Pope Clement VII surrenders to the imperialists 2010-11-01 2155
Pope Clement VII threatens Henry VIII with excommunication 2010-11-01 2804
Pope Clement VIII recognises Henry IV as King of France 2011-02-01 2358
Pope Clement VIII seizes the duchy of Ferrara 2011-02-01 1508
Pope Clement X dies 2011-04-01 654
Pope Clement XII dies 2011-04-01 644
Pope Clement XIV dissolves Jesuits 2010-03-01 1059
Pope declares Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon valid 2010-11-01 3135
Pope employs the Medici as his bankers 2010-03-01 928
Pope Gregory XIII deposes Archbishop Gebhard of Cologne 2011-02-01 1146
Pope Gregory XIV dies 2011-02-01 1071
Pope Innocent VIII dies 2010-11-01 2803
Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia 2011-04-01 6213
Pope Innocent XI dies 2011-04-01 748
Pope Innocent XII attempts to check the sale of papal offices 2011-04-01 618
Pope Innocent XIII dies 2011-04-01 699
Pope Innocent XIII elected 2011-04-01 686
Pope John Paul II elected 2010-02-01 875
Pope John Paul II visits Poland 2010-02-01 910
Pope Julius II abandons the League of Cambrai 2010-11-01 1337
Pope Julius II dies 2010-11-01 1817
Pope Julius II forces Venice to restore Ravenna and Cervia to his control 2010-11-01 1058
Pope Julius II forms the Holy League of Ferdinand I of Aragon, Venice and the Papacy 2010-11-01 1896
Pope Julius II holds Fifth Lateran Council 2010-11-01 2119
Pope Julius II joins the League of Cambrai 2010-11-01 2672
Pope Julius II leaves Rome at the head of an army to reduce Perugia 2010-11-01 262
Pope Julius II leaves the League of Cambrai 2010-11-01 2397
Pope Julius II recovers Bologna 2010-11-01 1296
Pope Julius II restores the Colonna and Orsini to their castles 2010-11-01 773
Pope Julius II takes Mirandola 2010-11-01 1130
Pope Julius III deprives Ottavio Farnese of the duchy of Parma 2010-11-01 927
Pope Julius III dies 2011-02-01 1073
Pope Julius III is elected 2010-11-01 1440
Pope Leo X confers the title 'Defender of the Faith' on Henry VIII 2010-11-01 2556
Pope Leo X demands a five-year peace in Christendom 2010-11-01 1660
Pope Leo X dies 2010-11-01 1885
Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther 2010-11-01 2310
Pope Marcellus II is elected 2011-02-01 1049
Pope Paul III closes the Council of Bologna 2010-11-01 907
Pope Paul III denounces Charles V's attitude to the Lutheran princes 2010-11-01 672
Pope Paul III dies 2010-11-01 1168
Pope Paul III establishes the Inquisition in Rome 2010-11-01 1496
Pope Paul III excommunicates and deposes Henry VIII 2010-11-01 4354
Pope Paul III makes his son Duke of Parma 2010-11-01 728
Pope Paul III summons a general council to Trent 2010-11-01 1386
Pope Paul III undertakes to aid Charles V with 12,000 men 2010-11-01 1627
Pope Paul III's bull for reform of many papal offices is announced 2010-11-01 1558
Pope Paul IV advocates the deposition of all sovereigns who support heresy 2011-02-01 1391
Pope Paul IV dies 2011-02-01 721
Pope Paul IV makes peace with Philip II of Spain 2011-02-01 1146
Pope Paul IV refuses to acknowledge Ferdinand I 2011-02-01 1044
Pope Paul IV signs an armistice with Spain 2011-02-01 1331
Pope Paul V places Venice under an interdict 2011-02-01 1344
Pope Pius IV confirms the decisions of Trent through decrees 2011-02-01 642
Pope Pius IV dies 2011-02-01 851
Pope Pius V dies 2011-02-01 823
Pope Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth I 2010-11-01 2961
Pope Pius V signs a league with Spain and Venice against the Turks 2011-02-01 1485
Pope Pius VI visits Vienna 2010-03-01 1013
Pope Pius VII taken prisoner by French 2011-03-01 972
Pope Sixtus V dies 2011-02-01 837
Pope Sixtus V excommunicates Henry of Navarre 2011-02-01 2462
Pope Sixtus V proclaims a Catholic Crusade to invade England 2011-02-01 2153
Pope Urban VIII annexes Urbino 2011-02-01 1141
Pope Urban VIII reduces number of annual feast days 2011-02-01 1086
Popular acclaim at the breakdown of negotiations for a Spanish marriage 2011-02-01 886
Popular insurrection in Paris 2007-12-02 3289
Popular insurrection in Rome 2011-12-30 614
Populist authoritarian rule commences in Argentina 2010-02-01 667
Porfirio Diaz resigns presidency of Mexico 2010-02-01 1518
Port Arthur Massacre 2010-03-01 323
Port Phillip becomes part of New South Wales 2010-03-01 1241
Porteous Riots in Edinburgh 2011-04-01 1327
Portion 2001-11-01 4274
Portugal adopts Liberal constitution 2010-03-01 367
Portugal captures Goa 2010-03-01 1715
Portugal cedes colonies to Spain 2010-03-01 1107
Portugal decides to pull out of African colonies, prompts expatriation of colonists 2010-02-01 997
Portugal defeats the Moslem princes of north-west India 2010-03-01 1821
Portugal defeats the Ottoman and Arab fleet at Diu 2010-03-01 1779
Portugal discovers the Azores, an uninhabited archipelago 2010-03-01 504
Portugal establishes a Liberal Constitution 2011-12-30 317
Portugal grants Tangier and Bombay to Charles II in dowry 2011-04-01 1917
Portugal invents the three-masted caravel 2010-03-01 1592
Portugal joins Grand Alliance 2011-04-01 2027
Portugal loses Mombassa to the Muscat Arabs 2011-04-01 914
Portugal recognises Brazilian independence under Dom Pedro 2011-12-30 424
Portugal secures cession of Macau from China 2011-12-30 967
Portugal signs treaties with France and United Provinces against Spain 2011-02-01 1360
Portuguese Constitution avows liberty and legal equality 2011-12-30 348
Portuguese Cortes plan a Constitution without feudalism or the Inquisition 2011-12-30 610
Portuguese Cortes repeals King John's decisions about Brazil 2011-12-30 525
Portuguese defeat Spanish at Elvas 2011-04-01 1487
Portuguese discover Madeira, settle and cultivate the island 2010-03-01 1054
Portuguese finally surrender Malacca to Dutch 2011-02-01 1028
Portuguese government allows a railway from Delagoa Bay to Transvaal 2011-12-30 1169
Portuguese in Brazil rebel against Dutch 2011-02-01 1603
Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator establishes an observatory and a school of navigation 2010-03-01 1467
Portuguese rebellion and regicide 2010-02-01 991
Portuguese Republic declared 2010-02-01 729
Portuguese sack Mombasa after its refusal to pay tribute 2010-03-01 7282
Portuguese South American colonies unified administratively 2010-03-01 880
Positron interpreted as a negative energy electron travelling backward in time 2009-05-01 921
Positronium discovered 2011-03-01 895
Possibility of Anglo-German-Japanese bloc against Russia ends 2010-03-01 1631
Possible Anglo-German alliance is halted by Chamberlain's Leicester speech 2011-12-30 607
Postal Services and Letters 2005-06-17 3020
PostImpressionism, Post-Impressionism 2003-10-12 15030
Potemkin organises Russian Black Sea fleet 2010-03-01 1068
Powell, Frederick York 2002-03-21 5481
Powers intervene to prevent Serbo-Austrian war 2010-03-01 742
Poynings Law makes Irish legislature dependent on England 2010-11-01 1951
Prague is founded 2009-05-01 1144
Prague is made the capital of the Holy Roman Empire 2010-03-01 1168
Prague Offensive 2009-05-01 1217
Prague University is founded 2010-03-01 1051
Pre-Emption Distribution Act in US gives rights to squatters 2011-12-30 1868
Preconscious 2005-10-24 6429
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued 2010-03-01 3867
Preliminary peace signed at Leoben 2011-03-01 1207
Preliminary peace signed between France and the maritime powers at Aix-Ia-Chapelle 2011-04-01 1299
Preliminary peace treaty between Prussia and Austria at Nikolsburg 2011-12-30 965
Preliminary Protocol issued at Troppau 2010-03-01 498
Preparations for violence in Paris 2007-12-02 3619
Presbyterians stir up London against the army 2010-02-01 2490
Presidency of James Carter 2004-09-01 3090
Presidency of John Quincy Adams 2011-12-20 3205
President A. Johnson is acquitted by Senate 2011-12-30 1091
President Carranza of Mexico assassinated 2010-03-01 700
President Fonseca of Brazil is driven out and followed by dictatorial rule 2011-12-30 650
President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation 2010-03-01 4674
President MacMahon arbitrates in the Delagoa Bay dispute 2011-12-30 970
President of Council of French universities takes over education 2011-12-30 502
President of Indonesia declares Unitary State of Indonesia 2010-02-01 642
President Oreste of Haiti abdicates during revolt 2010-03-01 1547
President Polk sends troops into New Mexico 2011-12-30 844
President Raymond Poincaré visits Russia 2010-03-01 407
President William McKinley shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz 2010-03-01 2096
Presidential candidates' election expenses will be published 2010-03-01 863
Presidential Succession law in USA 2011-12-30 1367
Press censorship imposed in Egypt 2010-03-01 333
Press Law censoring French press is suspended 2011-12-30 991
Prester John 2012-07-31 2517
Preston mill-workers’ strike 2008-01-25 2046
Pretoria becomes capital of Transvaal 2011-12-30 725
Pretoria Convention: Transvaal's self-government recognised by Britain 2010-01-01 1069
Pretoria taken by Redvers Buller 2010-03-01 2256
Pride's Purge 2010-01-01 2003
Primary education in Belgium is secularised 2011-12-30 318
Primary education in France to be free, compulsory and non-sectarian 2011-12-30 535
Primary Education Law in France gives effective control to Church 2011-12-30 969
Prime Minister Asquith becomes War Secretary 2010-03-01 751
Prime Minister of Iran nationalizes oil 2010-02-01 1082
Prime number theorem proven 2009-05-01 1295
Primogeniture 2004-08-12 7090
Prince Arthur is betrothed to Catherine of Aragon 2010-11-01 1060
Prince Bernhard von Bülow becomes German foreign secretary 2011-12-30 1137
Prince Boris of Bulgaria converts to Russian Orthodoxy 2011-12-30 717
Prince Charles Edward is victorious at Falkirk 2011-04-01 1064
Prince Charles fails to gain the King of Spain's daughter as wife 2010-02-01 915
Prince Charles of Lorraine defeats small Prussian force at Breslau 2011-12-30 1136
Prince Consort, George of Denmark, dies 2011-04-01 602
Prince Edward Island joins the Dominion of Canada 2011-12-30 901
Prince Eugene defeats the French at Turin 2011-04-01 2327
Prince Eugene defeats the Turks at Belgrade 2011-04-01 1451
Prince Eugene defeats the Turks at Peterwardein 2011-04-01 1456
Prince Eugene defeats the Turks at Zenta 2011-04-01 1690
Prince Eugene dies 2011-04-01 320
Prince Eugene raids Cremona 2011-04-01 2032
Prince Henry, eldest son of James I, is created Prince of Wales 2011-02-01 867
Prince Hohenlohe succeeds Count Caprivi as German chancellor 2011-12-30 1237
Prince Ito becomes premier of Japan 2011-12-30 576
Prince Ito of Japan murdered 2010-03-01 727
Prince Ito seeks Japanese concessions in Korea 2010-03-01 860
Prince Kaunitz extends his influence in the Empire 2011-04-01 925
Prince Lvov reforms cabinet in Russia 2010-03-01 1105
Prince Lvov resigns in Russia 2010-03-01 1107
Prince Maurice of Nassau begins the siege of Sluys 2011-02-01 1170
Prince Menshikoff is ousted from government and exiled from Russia 2011-04-01 663
Prince Metternich issues Six Articles to maintain despotic government 2011-12-30 5260
Prince Milan proclaims himself King of Serbia, with Austrian support 2011-12-30 640
Prince Octavio Piccolomini invades France with a Spanish army 2011-02-01 1062
Prince of Condé and Marie de' Medici fight for control in France 2011-02-01 479
Prince of Condé dies 2011-04-01 360
Prince of Condé invades Franche-Comté and besieges Dole 2011-02-01 773
Prince of Condé is reinstated to the governorship of Burgundy 2011-04-01 397
Prince of Condé raises the siege of Orleans 2011-02-01 2208
Prince of Orange-Nassau marries George II's daughter Marie Anne 2011-04-01 855
Prince of Palembang, Paramesvara, becomes a convert to Islam 2010-03-01 1040
Prince of Prussia proposes partition of Poland 2010-03-01 1234
Prince of Transylvania dies: dispute over the succession 2011-04-01 463
Prince of Wales visits France 2011-12-30 210
Prince of Wales visits India 2011-12-30 707
Prince Rupert escapes 2010-02-01 1034
Prince Waldemar of Denmark is elected King of Bulgaria 2011-12-30 685
Prince William is declared Regent of Prussia 2011-12-30 388
Prince Windischgratz takes Vienna 2011-12-30 369
Princes of Lower Saxony agree to provide troops for Christian IV of Denmark 2011-02-01 1038
Princess Claude of France marries Francis, Duke of Angouleme 2010-11-01 559
Princess Elizabeth is removed from the Tower to Woodstock 2011-02-01 2734
Princess Elizabeth is sent to the Tower for complicity in Wyatt's rebellion 2011-02-01 2742
Princess Elizabeth returns to Mary's court 2011-02-01 2706
Princesses Mary and Elizabeth established as heirs to the English throne 2010-11-01 1835
Principality of Moldova founded 2009-05-01 932
Principality of Transylvania 2009-05-01 585
Principality of Wallachia established 2009-05-01 985
Principles of equivalence of gravitation and inertia used to predict the gravitational redshift 2009-05-01 1455
Principles of the lever and of buoyancy discovered by Archimedes 2009-05-01 991
Printing method developed by Chinese 2009-05-01 1654
Prisoners' Counsel Act 2010-02-01 2196
Privileges granted to foreign traders by English King, Edward I 2012-07-31 892
Privy Council retains American tea duty 2010-03-01 1720
Pro-British Abdur Rahman Khan gains power in Afghanistan 2010-02-01 1719
Pro-Cannabis rally in London's Hyde Park 2010-02-01 1146
Pro-French Marquis of Ensenada becomes Chief Minister in Spain 2011-04-01 895
Pro-slavery forces win the territorial elections in Kansas 2010-03-01 1893
Process for mass-producing steel invented 2013-08-30 999
Proclamation of Austrian Constitution which is quickly undermined 2011-12-30 626
Proclamation of Don Carlos as Charles VII of Spain leads to civil war 2011-12-30 1067
Proclamation of neutrality issued by President Washington 2010-03-01 933
Proclamation of peace in India by British 2011-12-30 694
Progress of Parliament bill accelerated 2010-03-01 1231
Prohibitory Act 2010-03-01 2849
Prominent Girondins executed by guillotine 2010-03-01 2231
Propagator approach to quantum electrodynamics presented 2011-03-01 1078
Proposal for determining the age of the Earth 2009-05-01 417
Proposed marriage between Elizabeth and Duke of Anjou is unpopular 2011-02-01 323
Prosody 2005-01-01 6665
Protectionist laws for industry and agriculture split the German Liberal Party 2011-12-30 857
Protective tariffs in New Zealand and Sweden 2011-12-30 543
Protector Somerset renews English feudal claims to Scotland 2010-11-01 902
Protector Somerset tries to bargain with France over Edward VI's marriage 2010-11-01 1142
Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell 2010-02-01 1175
Protectorate of Richard Cromwell 2010-02-01 1046
Protestant 'Fourteen of Meaux' are executed for heresy 2010-11-01 2017
Protestant cantons of Berne, Geneva and Zurich ally against Savoy 2011-02-01 1333
Protestant demands are refused at the Diet of Worms 2010-11-01 2168
Protestant Henry of Navarre becomes heir of France 2011-02-01 2484
Protestant immigrants are expelled from the imperial city of Aachen 2011-02-01 1089
Protestant missionaries from the US sent to foreign countries and Indian tribes 2010-03-01 2455
Protestant princes at the Diet of Ratisbon oppose imperial tax demands 2011-02-01 1062
Protestant princes ordered to conform by 15th April 1531 2010-11-01 1761
Protestant Union of Germany signs a defensive alliance with England 2011-02-01 980
Protestants begin to leave England for Geneva and Zurich 2010-11-01 2967
Protestants break up the Diet of Ratisbon 2011-02-01 1653
Protestants from Salzburg settle in Georgia 2011-04-01 1204
Protestants in Hungary revolt against the Habsburgs 2011-02-01 1146
Protestants in the Imperial Diet are condemned 2011-02-01 1013
Protestants in the Netherlands protest against new Catholic bishoprics 2011-02-01 1094
Protestants in the Vatelline are massacred 2011-02-01 1376
Protestants in the Vaudois district of Savoy are massacred 2011-04-01 1081
Protestants riot in Dublin against union with Britain 2011-12-30 1303
Prothalamion 2001-11-01 6518
Protozoa discovered 2009-05-01 722
Provincial Diets are established in Prussia 2011-12-30 826
Provisional peace treaty to contain France is drawn up 2011-04-01 1381
Prussia acquires East Friesland 2011-04-01 1143
Prussia acquires Neuchatel, Tecklenburg and Valengrin 2011-04-01 1264
Prussia adheres to 'Continental System' 2010-03-01 1183
Prussia again recognises German Confederation 2011-12-30 608
Prussia and Russia form alliance at Kalisch 2010-03-01 1904
Prussia annexes Hanover, Hesse, Nassau and Frankfurt 2011-12-30 1156
Prussia begins to mobilise against France 2011-12-30 878
Prussia concludes commercial treaty with Hanover 2011-12-30 274
Prussia concludes peace treaty with Wurttemberg 2011-12-30 655
Prussia confiscates territory of King of Hanover 2011-12-30 1020
Prussia conquered by the Teutonic Order 2010-03-01 894
Prussia declares war against France 2010-03-01 1941
Prussia declares war on Austria 2010-03-01 861
Prussia declares war on France 2010-02-01 2463
Prussia establishes a General Directory of War, Finance and Domains 2011-04-01 979
Prussia forms customs union with Hesse-Darmstadt 2011-12-30 424
Prussia frees herself from jurisdiction of the Imperial Courts 2011-04-01 348
Prussia guarantees Belgian neutrality in war with France 2011-12-30 568
Prussia invades Denmark 2010-02-01 1460
Prussia invades Saxony, Hanover and Hesse during the night 2011-12-30 964
Prussia made a Protestant state by Albert von Brandenburg 2010-03-01 3073
Prussia renounces sovereignty over Neuchatel 2011-12-30 815
Prussia yields lands on left bank of Rhine 2010-03-01 2247
Prussia, Russia and Austria agree to support the Ottoman Empire 2011-12-30 1294
Prussian 'Councils of State' established 2010-03-01 1069
Prussian army at Landeshut suffers crushing defeat 2011-12-30 815
Prussian army defeats Saxons at Kesselsdorf 2011-04-01 1256
Prussian army of von Finck capitulates at Maxen 2011-12-30 948
Prussian blockade of Olmütz is defeated 2011-12-30 1038
Prussian Diet rejects increase in military budget 2011-12-30 1215
Prussian dispatch suggests German Union without Austria 2011-12-30 747
Prussian forces victorious at Vionville and Mars-la-Tour 2011-12-30 1031
Prussian government expropriates Polish land-owners 2011-12-30 632
Prussian Kulturkampf: bans all religious assemblies; Jesuits are expelled 2011-03-01 498
Prussian lands pass to the electorate of Brandenburg 2011-02-01 827
Prussian National Assembly meets in Berlin 2011-12-30 825
Prussian Tariff Reform Act 2011-03-01 1142
Prussian Upper House reconstituted with increased landowning influence 2011-12-30 846
Prussians cross the Rhine 2010-03-01 2009
Prussians lose Olmütz as Frederick II's Moravian campaign fails 2011-04-01 1272
Prussians take Longwy and Verdun 2007-12-02 3241
Prussians take Olmütz 2011-04-01 1590
Prussians take Stralsund from Sweden; Charles XII attacks Norway 2011-04-01 1451
Prusso-Russian alliance renewed 2010-03-01 963
Prusso-Swedish Alliance of Stockholm for mutual defence 2011-04-01 968
Pseudo-Dionysius 2008-07-17 3750
Public Health Act 2010-02-01 473
Public Health Act in Britain 2011-12-30 894
Public Record Office established 2013-08-30 1309
Public theological disputation in Oxford 2011-02-01 2663
Publication of John Gould's The Birds of Australia in London 2013-08-30 1286
Publication of Parliamentary debates is deemed a breach of privilege 2011-04-01 824
Publication of the Tyndale New Testament 2004-04-09 2739
Pugachoff leads Cossack revolt in South-East Russia 2010-03-01 1593
Pugachov delivered by Cossacks to Russian government 2010-03-01 598
Puisieulx succeeds D'Argenson as French Foreign Minister 2011-04-01 1016
Pun 2001-11-01 4636
Punch 2013-08-30 3520
Punctuated equilibrium effects in evolution proposed 2009-05-01 336
Puritans in Parliament fail to gain radical Church reform 2011-02-01 3089
Putney Debates 2010-02-01 2089
Pyramid temple in honour of Huitzilopochtli at Tenochtitlan 2010-03-01 550
Qarmatians establish an independent state in Bahrain 2009-05-01 710
Quadruple Alliance against Spain 2011-04-01 1661
Quadruple Alliance between Britain, Maria Theresa, Saxony-Poland and Holland 2011-04-01 1216
Quadruple Alliance between Holland, Brandenburg, Brunswick and Denmark 2011-04-01 947
Quadruple Alliance of Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia 2010-02-01 3016
Quadruple Alliance renewed 2010-03-01 1124
Quakerism 2010-02-01 7299
Quakers no longer persecuted in Massachusetts 2010-03-01 1745
Quantitative justification of the concept of atomic number proposed 2009-05-01 921
Quantum matrix mechanics formulated 2009-05-01 2348
Quantum Mechanics 2000-10-28 7016
Quark/aces model proposed 2009-05-01 375
Quartering Act 2010-02-01 1863
Quasar density shown to increase with redshift 2009-05-01 1043
Quatrain 2011-03-01 5262
Queen Anne Boleyn gives birth to Princess Elizabeth 2010-11-01 1444
Queen Anne dismisses Godolphin 2007-12-02 1047
Queen Anne's fourth Parliament is dissolved 2011-04-01 581
Queen Anne's second Parliament becomes first Parliament of Great Britain 2011-04-01 765
Queen Anne's second Parliament meets with a Whig majority 2011-04-01 596
Queen Caroline dies 2011-04-01 425
Queen Caroline dies 2011-12-30 389
Queen Caroline is granted an annuity of £50 000 2011-12-30 411
Queen Catherine of Aragon is established in a separate household 2010-11-01 349
Queen Christina begins to govern Sweden 2011-02-01 893
Queen Elizabeth attempts to sign a treaty of alliance with Turkey against Spain 2011-02-01 1062
Queen Elizabeth confirms the sentence against Mary Queen of Scots 2011-02-01 3206
Queen Elizabeth declines the sovereignty of the Low Countries 2011-02-01 1723
Queen Elizabeth I recalls Robert Earl of Essex from his command in France 2011-02-01 1661
Queen Elizabeth is dangerously ill from smallpox 2011-02-01 707
Queen Elizabeth knights Francis Drake at Deptford 2011-02-01 2298
Queen Elizabeth's last Parliament meets at Westminster 2011-02-01 1039
Queen Henrietta Maria flees to France 2011-02-01 1956
Queen Isabella II of Spain is declared of age 2011-12-30 703
Queen Isabella of Spain is declared deposed 2011-12-30 1009
Queen Jane Seymour dies following the birth of Prince Edward 2010-11-01 1315
Queen Katherine Howard is executed 2010-11-01 1235
Queen Katherine Howard is sent to the Tower of London 2010-11-01 1616
Queen Mary dies 2011-03-01 1170
Queen Mary I enters London 2010-11-01 1353
Queen Mary I marries Philip of Spain 2011-02-01 1058
Queen of France allies with the new Fronde against Condé 2011-04-01 1991
Queen Regent Cristina of Spain resigns after revolts 2011-12-30 631
Queen Victoria forced to accept Commander-in-Chief's resignation 2011-12-30 858
Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross 2011-12-30 922
Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India 2007-01-01 2755
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee 2011-12-30 562
Queen's College, London, founded 2013-08-30 985
Quicksort algorithm invented 2011-03-01 409
Quinine synthesized 2009-05-01 700
R.A.F. formed, replacing R.F.C. 2010-03-01 748
R.N. under David Beatty raids Bight of Heligoland 2010-03-01 337
Race Riots 2010-02-01 1593
Race riots in Chicago 2010-03-01 1421
Race riots in Oxford, Mississippi, over enrolment of first black university student 2010-02-01 2712
Radical attempt to assassinate Emperor William I of Germany 2011-12-30 585
Radical Mexican forces defeated 2010-02-01 1076
Radicals attempt to introduce a secret ballot, more frequent elections and free trade in corn 2013-08-30 1996
Radio pulses from the pulsar PSR 1919+21 discovered 2009-05-01 861
Radio Transmitter invented 2010-02-01 892
Radioactivity identified as partially responsible for the Earth’s heat 2009-05-01 1604
Radium, Discovery of 2005-01-20 3342
Rafael Reyes becomes Colombian dictator 2011-03-01 689
Raid into Scotland destroys abbeys and castles 2010-11-01 1672
Raids from Bulgaria into Macedonia 2011-12-30 656
Raleigh colonizes Virginia 2010-01-01 2934
Ralph Abercromby arrives in Ireland 2011-03-01 994
Rama I founds new dynasty in Siam 2011-03-01 881
Rambouillet Decrees 2010-03-01 798
Ramon Narvaez dismissed in Spain and replaced by Leopold O'Donnell 2011-12-30 1564
Rampant unemployment in Britain 2010-02-01 1266
Rampant unemployment in Germany 2010-02-01 878
Rapid gene sequencing technique devised 2009-05-01 870
Ratification of Constitution 2010-01-01 4735
Raymond Poincaré elected President of France 2010-03-01 815
Raymond Poincaré forms cabinet 2010-03-01 1238
Raymond Poincaré visits Russia 2010-03-01 373
Re-election of Ulysses Grant as US President 2011-12-30 1030
Re-establishment of Spanish Constitution of 1845 2011-12-30 644
Re-trial of those responsible for the Myall Creek massacre 2010-03-01 590
Rebel leader Robert Aske is sentenced to death 2010-11-01 2122
Rebellion against Louis XIII aims to restore the Queen Mother's power 2011-02-01 1167
Rebellion against Spain in Philippines 2011-12-30 885
Rebellion in Cuba leads to deterioration of US-Spanish relations 2011-12-30 1552
Rebellion in Denmark 2010-03-01 1183
Rebellion in Formosa 2011-03-01 770
Rebellion in Montreal against British rule 2011-12-30 928
Rebellion of Camisards Protestant peasants in Cévennes 2011-04-01 1871
Rebellion of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly, in Scotland is crushed 2011-02-01 1788
Rebellion of Thomas Wyatt 2010-01-01 2072
Rebels in France are defeated at Etampes by Royalist forces 2011-04-01 2319
Rebels support Robert Curthose 2012-07-31 1933
Rebels under Perkin Warbeck attempt to take Exeter 2010-11-01 1834
Recognition that Aborigines have equal rights under English law 2010-03-01 952
Reconciliation between Charles IX and Admiral Coligny 2011-02-01 1121
Reconciliation of Comte de Chambord and Comte de Paris 2011-12-30 278
Reconstruction of Saint Sophia in Constantinople 2005-11-16 1550
Red Army takes Omsk 2010-03-01 654
Red River War 2010-02-01 2883
Reform Act is extended into Scotland 2011-12-30 1629
Reform Bill 2010-03-01 3412
Reform Bill checked: Parliament is dissolved 2010-01-01 3418
Reform majority returned in the General election 2013-08-30 1237
Reform of Austrian franchise in favour of Germans 2011-12-30 628
Reform of Oxford and Cambridge 2013-08-30 906
Reform of suffrage in Holland 2011-12-30 238
Reform of the Church of England 2010-02-01 1633
Reformation Parliament in England 2005-06-17 11235
Reformation, The 2010-02-01 5847
Reforms of Japanese courts of law 2011-12-30 194
Refrigerated shipment of meat from New Zealand to Britain 2013-08-30 1989
Refusals to recognise Huerta's government 2010-03-01 641
Regency Act 2010-02-01 970
Regency Crisis, Madness of George III 2004-09-09 4864
Regent of Korea declares war on China 2011-12-30 1169
Reginald Pole is created a cardinal 2010-11-01 891
Regulating Act (India Act) 2010-02-01 2474
Regulation of motor-cars in Britain 2011-03-01 916
Reichenbach Conference 2010-03-01 1075
Reichsregiment fails 2010-11-01 1774
Reichstag adjourned 2010-03-01 321
Reichstag debate further sours Anglo-German relations 2010-03-01 311
Reichstag opposes expenses on colonial wars 2010-03-01 510
Reichstag passes motion for peace 2010-03-01 562
Reichstag rejects Bismarck's proposed repression of radicals 2011-12-30 782
Reign of Charles X of France 2007-12-22 2864
Reign of Henri IV of France 2434
Reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V 2010-02-01 1427
Reign of James VI of Scotland 2005-06-17 4036
Reign of Khan Krum in Bulgaria 2009-05-01 956
Reign of King Alexander II of Scotland 2012-07-31 4723
Reign of King Alexander III of Scotland 2012-07-31 4225
Reign of King Alexander of Scotland 2012-07-31 3100
Reign of King David I of Scotland 2012-07-31 3803
Reign of King Edgar of Scotland 2012-07-31 3497
Reign of King Edward I 2012-07-31 2955
Reign of King Edward I of Scotland 2012-07-31 3255
Reign of King Edward III 2012-07-31 2916
Reign of King Edward VI 2005-06-17 4943
Reign of King George III 2011-03-01 3024
Reign of King George IV 2013-08-30 3547
Reign of King Henry I 2012-07-31 3040
Reign of King Henry II 2012-07-31 2722
Reign of King Henry III 2012-07-31 2659
Reign of King Henry VIII 2005-06-17 5390
Reign of King James I of England 2010-02-01 4090
Reign of King James I of Scotland 2010-02-01 2767
Reign of King John 2012-07-31 2570
Reign of King John Baliol of Scotland 2012-07-31 3281
Reign of King Malcolm IV of Scotland 2012-07-31 3069
Reign of King Richard I of England 2012-07-31 2797
Reign of King Robert I of Scotland (Robert the Bruce) 2012-07-31 2922
Reign of King Robert II 2012-07-31 2977
Reign of King Stephen 2012-07-31 2781
Reign of King Stephen III of Moldavia 2009-05-01 1340
Reign of King William the Lion of Scotland 2012-07-31 3376
Reign of last Aztec Emperor: Montezuma II 2010-03-01 497
Reign of Louis XIII of France 2010-02-01 2575
Reign of Louis XV of France 2008-02-13 3178
Reign of Louis XVIII of France 2007-12-22 2412
Reign of Mary Queen of Scots 2010-03-01 4063
Reign of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary 2009-05-01 1451
Reign of Mircea the Elder 2009-05-01 666
Reign of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine 2006-07-20 1256
Reign of Queen Elizabeth I 2005-06-17 15820
Reign of Queen Margaret of Scotland 2010-02-01 3143
Reign of Queen Mary I of England 2005-06-22 5120
Reign of Queen Mary II 2010-02-01 3867
Reign of Queen Victoria 2013-08-30 3393
Reign of Simeon I the Great 2009-05-01 885
Reign of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia 2009-05-01 644
Reign of William II, William Rufus 2012-07-31 1600
Reign of William the Conqueror 2012-07-31 2811
Relations between WaIlenstein and the Emperor Ferdinand II deteriorate 2011-02-01 1147
Relations severed between Turkey and Russia 2011-12-30 813
Relief of Distress Act for Ireland 2011-12-30 724
Religion divides the Netherlands 2011-02-01 758
Religious civil war in Switzerland 2010-03-01 2352
Religious decrees in France hostile towards the Catholic Church 2011-12-30 1050
Religious orders abolished in Prussia 2011-12-30 987
Religious tests abolished for entry to Oxford and Cambridge 2011-12-30 1651
Religious toleration granted to the Vaudois in Savoy 2011-02-01 913
Religious toleration is granted to Hungarian Protestants 2011-04-01 609
Rene Goblet forms ministry in France 2011-12-30 875
Rene Goblet's cabinet falls in France 2011-12-30 353
Rene of Chalons becomes stadtholder in Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht 2010-11-01 909
René Waldeck-Rousseau becomes French premier 2011-12-30 766
René Waldeck-Rousseau resigns in France 2010-03-01 1135
Renewal of Germany-Austria-Italy Triple Alliance 2011-03-01 457
Repeal of the Corn Laws 2002-01-10 4519
Repeal of the South Australia Act 2010-02-01 152
Report of Commission of Inquiry into Congo atrocities 2011-03-01 2394
Representation of organic molecules proposed 2009-05-01 503
Representatives of the Habsburg Estates meet at Linz 2011-02-01 432
Repressive measures in France, including censorship of press 2011-12-30 1134
Repressive Prevention of Crimes bill for Ireland suspends trial by jury 2011-12-30 862
Republic of China declared 2010-02-01 913
Republic of San Domingo is declared independent of Spain 2011-12-30 401
Republic of Venice is excommunicated 2010-03-01 1348
Republic proclaimed in Paris 2010-01-01 759
Republican bloc formed in France 2010-03-01 1098
Republican Charles Dilke demands an inquiry into Queen Victoria's expenditure 2011-12-30 1446
Republican Constitution is declared in France 2011-12-30 872
Republican Convention nominates Charles E. Hughes 2010-03-01 655
Republican Convention nominates Warren G. Harding 2010-03-01 846
Republican Provisional government is proclaimed in France 2011-12-30 1452
Republican William McKinley wins US presidental election 2011-12-30 1038
Republicans choose Horace Greeley as their presidential candidate 2011-12-30 1476
Republicans gain in French senatorial elections 2011-12-30 740
Requesens runs out of money to pay his soldiers 2011-02-01 1247
Requesens tries to cut communications between Holland and Zeeland 2011-02-01 908
Resistance to Spanish persecution in the Netherlands is organised 2011-02-01 1161
Resonance bonding discovered 2009-05-01 1151
Resonance phenomenon observed 2009-05-01 517
Responsible government established in almost all Australian States 2011-12-30 1026
Restoration of Roman Catholicism in Bearn 2011-02-01 1086
Restoration of Serbian constitution of 1869 2011-12-30 384
Restriction Act suspends specie payment by banks until one year after the end of the war. 2005-04-01 4616
Resumption of convertibility of bank notes into gold 2007-12-12 1624
Resumption of specie payments in USA 2011-12-30 1125
Retreat of Romans from Dacia - migratory waves 2009-05-01 867
Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered in Illinois 2010-03-01 1211
Reverse transcriptase enzymes discovered 2009-05-01 344
Revised National Banking Act in USA 2011-12-30 874
Revised Ptolemy's Geographia published 2010-03-01 805
Revisionist German Social Democrats abandon strict Marxism 2011-12-30 1179
Revival of Young Turk movement 2011-12-30 961
Revolt against the gabelle tax in Guienne, France 2010-11-01 1407
Revolt begins in Naples 2010-03-01 802
Revolt breaks out among Protestant peasants in upper Austria 2011-02-01 578
Revolt in Ireland 2010-02-01 2293
Revolt in Moldavia against Turkish rule sparks Greek War of Independence 2011-12-30 1215
Revolt in New Grenada 2011-03-01 857
Revolt in Palermo, Sicily, against corruption of Bourbons 2011-12-30 852
Revolt in Paris due to failure of Louis Philippe and economic depression 2011-12-30 1507
Revolt in Parma 2011-12-30 792
Revolt in Portugal when Alfonso VI is banished by his brother 2011-04-01 1125
Revolt in Rio de la Plata 2011-03-01 508
Revolt in San Domingo forces Spain to renounce sovereignty 2011-12-30 641
Revolt in Upper Canada under William Lyon Mackenzie 2011-12-30 856
Revolt of Abraham Davel in the Vaud 2011-04-01 1050
Revolt of Imola against the Duke of Valentinois 2010-11-01 1536
Revolt of Moors in Spain 2010-03-01 1727
Revolt of silk-weavers in Lyons 2011-12-30 1031
Revolt of the Streltsy in Russia 2011-04-01 1059
Revolts break out in Barcelona and spread throughout Catalonia 2011-02-01 650
Revolts in Dresden, suppressed by Prussians 2011-12-30 742
Revolts in Dutch East Indies 2011-12-30 968
Revolts in Galicia; Cracow is annexed 2010-01-01 1134
Revolts in Saxony, Hesse and Brunswick 2011-12-30 936
Revolution begins in Piedmont 2011-12-30 753
Revolution begins in Portugal 2010-03-01 908
Revolution breaks out in Central China 2010-03-01 820
Revolution in Astrakhan against Tsar Peter's westernisation 2011-04-01 868
Revolution in Berlin 2010-03-01 579
Revolution in Lubeck makes Jurgen Wullenwever burgomaster 2010-11-01 1442
Revolution in Portugal is attempted but plotters soon arrested 2011-12-30 1235
Revolution in Siam against French influence 2011-04-01 1290
Revolution in Venice under Daniele Manin 2011-12-30 653
Revolution in Vienna begins with university demonstrations 2011-12-30 445
Revolution Society congratulates National Assembly 2010-03-01 1596
Revolutionaries in Germany attempt to take over Frankfurt Diet 2011-12-30 674
Revolutionary outbreaks in Modena, Parma and Papal States 2011-12-30 1031
Revolutionary societies forbidden 2010-02-01 1513
Revolutionary tendencies revealled at Wartburg Festival 2010-03-01 1042
Rhapsody 2001-11-01 5149
Rhenish League established under Protectorate of French 2011-04-01 1428
Rhetoric 2001-11-01 3601
Rhetorical Question 2001-11-01 5170
Rhode Island founded 2010-03-01 996
Rhodes conquered by the Hospitallers 2010-03-01 461
Rhodri Mawr (“the Great”) becomes king of Gwynedd in Wales 2009-05-01 1038
Rhyme Royal 2001-11-01 6774
Rhyme Scheme 2001-11-01 7278
Rialto Bridge in Venice is completed 2010-03-01 573
Ribault establishes a Huguenot colony in Florida 2011-02-01 2645
Richard Bancroft is elected Archbishop of Canterbury 2011-02-01 1822
Richard Burton and John Speke reach Lake Tanganyika 2010-01-01 1958
Richard Cromwell resigns; the Rump Parliament re-establishes the Commonwealth 2011-03-01 765
Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley are accused of fiscal extortion 2010-11-01 1326
Richard Hunne dies in the Tower of London 2010-11-01 3580
Richard II, King of England, undertakes campaign in Ireland 2010-03-01 1871
Richard Layton and Thomas Leigh begin monastery visitations 2010-11-01 3071
Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnel, is sworn in as Lord Deputy in Ireland 2011-04-01 558
Richard von Küihlmann becomes German foreign minister 2010-03-01 654
Richard Weston is appointed Lord Treasurer of England 2011-02-01 1325
Richelieu arranges a secret subsidy to Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar 2011-02-01 888
Richelieu arrests Charles, Pretender to the Palatinate 2011-02-01 1133
Richelieu becomes Minister of State for foreign affairs and war 2011-02-01 1382
Richelieu founds the French companies for Canada and Senegal 2011-02-01 1510
Richelieu is appointed Superintendent General of commerce and navigation 2011-02-01 342
Richelieu is created a Cardinal 2011-02-01 777
Richelieu is ordered into exile in Avignon 2011-02-01 1131
Richelieu is recalled to the Council of Louis XIII 2011-02-01 514
Richelieu negotiates peace in France 2011-02-01 974
Richelieu resigns in France 2010-03-01 672
Richelieu tries to persuade German rulers to urge Wallenstein's dismissal 2011-02-01 2145
Richelieu tries to unite Sweden and Catholic League against the Habsburgs 2011-02-01 2173
Richlieu weakens provincial power by making Intendants Crown representatives 2011-02-01 1049
Richmond, Virginia, surrenders to Grant 2011-12-30 2104
Richter scale devised 2009-05-01 458
Riddles 2010-02-01 3945
Rif War - Second Moroccan War 2011-03-01 771
Rift between Pope Julius II and Louis XII of France widens 2010-11-01 1305
Riga treaty between U.S.S.R. and Latvia 2010-03-01 339
Right-wing coup unseats Allende government in Chile 2010-02-01 1119
Rio de Janeiro captured by the French 2011-04-01 1005
Riot by Lancashire weavers 2013-08-30 2173
Riot of silk-weavers in Lyons 2011-12-30 1038
Rioters prevent Louis XVI's journey to St. Cloud 2010-03-01 3682
Rioting in Moscow 2011-04-01 636
Rioting in Philadelphia 2010-03-01 1357
Riots in Derbyshire 2010-03-01 1454
Riots in Northamptonshire against enclosure of common land 2011-02-01 2563
Riots in Paris signify outbreak of second Fronde 2011-04-01 2151
Riots in Scotland over proposed union with England 2011-04-01 1189
Riots in Sicily 2011-12-30 598
Rising against Baldomero Espartero in Barcelona 2011-12-30 420
Rising against the French in Algeria 2011-12-30 783
Rising in Geneva 2010-11-01 1169
Rising in Hesse-Cassel 2011-12-30 790
Rising in Transylvania on behalf of the Archduke Ferdinand 2010-11-01 1015
Rising Metre 2001-11-01 4541
Rising of Afghans at Kandahar under Mir Vais 2011-04-01 871
Rising of Batetelas on Upper Congo 2011-12-30 888
Rising of nobles in Denmark against Christian II for misrule 2010-11-01 1057
Rising of peasants in Upper Austria 2011-02-01 1161
Rising of Protestants in the Cevennes 2011-04-01 929
Rising of Yamassees and other Indian tribes in South Carolina 2011-04-01 2155
Rising spreads to Durham, Cumberland and Westmorland 2010-11-01 1477
Risings in the West Country against the newly enforced Prayer Book 2010-11-01 3167
Risings in Thessaly 2011-12-30 755
Rivalry between France and Italy in Tunis 2011-12-30 830
RNA polymerase enzymes discovered 2011-03-01 663
Roanoke Colony founded 2005-06-17 5865
Robert Aske tries to pacify the rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace 2010-11-01 1639
Robert Baden-Powell puts down Matabele rising 2011-12-30 889
Robert Barley becomes Secretary of State, Northern Department 2011-04-01 874
Robert Blake blockades the Royalist fleet at Kinsale 2010-02-01 1960
Robert Borden becomes Canadian premier 2011-03-01 908
Robert Bruce attempts to invade England 2012-07-31 1125
Robert Bruce rebels against England 2012-07-31 1798
Robert Clive becomes Governor of Bengal 2011-12-30 1493
Robert Clive leaves India 2011-12-30 1085
Robert Clive leaves India 2010-03-01 936
Robert Clive takes Arcot 2011-04-01 1291
Robert Clive takes Fulta and relieves the English fugitives 2011-12-30 1326
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 2011-02-01 1793
Robert Earl of Essex is sent to France 2011-02-01 1384
Robert Earl of Essex is tried for misdemeanours in Ireland 2011-02-01 2331
Robert Emmet rebels 2010-03-01 1010
Robert Harley becomes Lord Treasurer 2011-04-01 636
Robert Harley is dismissed as Secretary of State 2011-04-01 685
Robert Harley proposes reducing the size of the British Army 2011-04-01 1210
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, is acquitted of subterfuge with the French 2011-04-01 1654
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, is imprisoned in the Tower 2011-04-01 884
Robert Kett's Norfolk rebels defeated at the Battle of Dussindale 2010-11-01 2134
Robert Lansing becomes U.S. secretary of state 2011-03-01 944
Robert Menzies attempts to dissolve the Communist Party 2010-03-01 544
Robert Nelson proclaims himself President of Lower Canada 2010-02-01 1448
Robert Nivelle made French Commander-in-Chief 2011-03-01 836
Robert Owen sets up New Harmony 2010-02-01 1951
Robert Peel allows employment of transported convicts in colonies 2011-12-30 1262
Robert Peel enters Lord Liverpool's Cabinet as home secretary 2011-12-30 1310
Robert Peel issues Tamworth Manifesto 2011-12-30 1865
Robert Peel reforms criminal law 2011-12-30 1146
Robert Peel resigns 2011-12-30 815
Robert Peel resigns 2011-12-30 958
Robert Walpole is appointed Secretary at War 2011-04-01 626
Robert Walpole is sent to the Tower for alleged corruption 2011-04-01 855
Robert Walpole quarrels with Charles Townshend 2011-04-01 809
Robert Walpole takes control of finance and the economy 2011-04-01 1121
Robert-Francois Damiens attempts to assassinate Louis XV 2011-12-30 1465
Robert, Lord Dudley becomes chief favourite of Elizabeth I 2011-02-01 1502
Roberts and Kitchener reach South Africa 2010-03-01 1648
Rochdale Co-operative Society of Equitable Pioneers established 2013-08-30 961
Roche’s theory on the planetary rings of Saturn 2009-05-01 1431
Rockingham Whigs cease to attend Parliament 2010-03-01 1233
Roderic becomes king of the Visigoths 2009-05-01 948
Roderigo Borgia is elected Pope Alexander VI 2010-11-01 1633
Roger Bacon states formulas for gunpowder 2012-07-31 763
Roger Casement lands in Ireland 2010-03-01 735
Roman a clef 2001-11-01 5929
Roman campaigns in Dacia 2009-05-01 858
Roman Catholics are excluded from both Houses of Parliament 2011-04-01 1210
Roman Republic proclaimed 2010-03-01 2081
Romanesque 2005-11-07 3473
Romania eliminated from WWI 2010-02-01 1209
Romania enters war against Turkey 2011-12-30 895
Romania warns Bulgaria she will not remain neutral 2010-03-01 954
Romanian principalities of Moldova, Wallachia and Transylvania briefly united 2009-05-01 601
Romanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldova unite 2010-02-01 903
Romanian royal dictatorship established 2010-02-01 1047
Romanian troops asked to withdraw from Hungary 2011-03-01 826
Romanian-Greek relations deteriorate 2011-03-01 841
Rome becomes capital of Italy 2011-12-30 264
Rome burnt by German mercenaries 2010-03-01 1240
Rome proclaimed Republic under Giuseppe Mazzini 2011-12-30 209
Ronald Ryan hanged - Last hanging in Australia 2010-03-01 321
Roosevelt authorised to buy French Panama Co. rights 2010-03-01 1893
Rosnay, Duke of Sully, becomes French Superintendent of Finances 2011-02-01 1046
Rotation curves of several spiral galaxies measured 2009-05-01 309
Rouen captured by Henry V 2010-03-01 1873
Roundheads take Winchester 2011-02-01 2485
Rouvier fails to settle Moroccan question 2011-03-01 551
Royal Agricultural Society of England founded 2013-08-30 1895
Royal charter establishes the English colony of Maryland 2010-01-01 1151
Royal charter for Pennsylvania 2010-03-01 1079
Royal College of Physicians allowed to dissect the human body 2010-03-01 519
Royal Commission on hand-loom weavers 2013-08-30 939
Royal Commission on the Health of Towns 2013-08-30 1335
Royal Jubilee 2010-02-01 1482
Royal Manchester Institution established 2010-02-01 1752
Royal Marriage Act 2010-01-01 2777
Royal Navy destroys Chinese fleet 2011-12-30 966
Royal Navy sinks the Westfalen in North Sea 2010-03-01 809
Royal Navy under Admiral Hawke defeats French at Quiberon Bay 2011-12-30 1025
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, founded 2009-01-16 2217
Royal physician Roderigo Lopez arrested for planning to poison Queen Elizabeth 2011-02-01 4456
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals founded 2013-08-30 988
Royal Titles Act 2010-03-01 283
Royalist army defeats Parliament 2010-02-01 2177
Royalist Insurrection (Penruddock's Uprising) 2010-02-01 1037
Royalist rebellion in Paris 2007-12-02 2606
Royalist victory at Inverlochy 2011-03-01 2685
Royalists captured Brentford 2010-02-01 2442
Royalists lose Carlisle 2011-02-01 1873
Royalists lose Winchester 2011-02-01 1972
Rudolf II meets the Diet at Ratisbon to gain supplies for the Turkish war 2011-02-01 963
Rudolf II summons the Imperial Diet to Ratisbon 2011-02-01 1066
Rudolf, King of Hungary is elected King of the Romans 2011-02-01 757
Rugby invented 2013-08-30 943
Ruler of the Netherlands, Philip the Fair, dies 2010-03-01 1072
Rum Rebellion 2010-03-01 524
Rumours about Georges Boulanger 2011-12-30 725
Rumours of a Catholic conspiracy alarm Philip of Hesse 2010-11-01 1095
Rump Parliament gathers 2010-02-01 2006
Rump Parliament restored 2010-02-01 568
Rus’-Byzantine War 2009-05-01 1221
Rus’-Byzantine War 2009-05-01 1416
Russell begins parliamentary reform campaign 2010-03-01 1717
Russia abolishes privileges of English traders 2011-04-01 1126
Russia abolishes the poll tax 2011-12-30 401
Russia accedes to the Treaty of Versailles 2011-12-30 703
Russia and Austria call for reform programme 2011-03-01 517
Russia and Austria sign Secret treaty 2011-03-01 939
Russia and Britain are leased ports in northern China 2011-12-30 732
Russia and Italy sign Racconigi agreement 2010-03-01 702
Russia and the Empire make a new alliance to conquer Silesia and Glatz 2011-12-30 778
Russia attacks Turkey in order to regain Azov 2011-04-01 1036
Russia breaks relations with Britain 2011-03-01 1258
Russia builds forts on River Amur 2011-04-01 715
Russia conquers Kamchatka 2011-04-01 925
Russia declares armed neutrality 2010-03-01 718
Russia declares she will aid any power against Prussia 2011-12-30 601
Russia declares war against Persia 2011-12-30 827
Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire 2010-02-01 1271
Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire 2010-02-01 1421
Russia declares war on Turkey 2011-04-01 1102
Russia defeated at Smolensk 2010-03-01 2075
Russia defeats Turkish navy at Tchesme 2010-03-01 1537
Russia drops draft convention with China 2010-03-01 2208
Russia encouraged to restore conquests 2010-03-01 1281
Russia fails to reconcile Austria to treaty of San Stefano 2011-12-30 388
Russia forms governor-generalship over Turkestan 2011-12-30 863
Russia hands Saxony to Prussia 2010-03-01 803
Russia intervenes in Georgia 2010-03-01 550
Russia is divided into eight governments for administrative purposes 2011-04-01 363
Russia joins the war against Turkey 2011-04-01 803
Russia launches Sputnik, first satellite 2010-02-01 855
Russia obtains territory at mouth of River Amur 2011-12-30 1011
Russia occupies Port Arthur 2011-12-30 751
Russia plans to seize Constantinople 2011-12-30 769
Russia plans to seize Constantinople if Britain intervenes in Crete 2011-12-30 686
Russia prepares for war against Turkey 2011-12-30 538
Russia promises autonomy to Poland 2011-03-01 628
Russia proposes to Austria that Prussia be partitioned 2011-12-30 1056
Russia pulls out of the Continental Blockade 2010-02-01 1325
Russia resigns its claims to Lithuania 2010-03-01 1095
Russia sends troops to Kazvin, Persia 2010-03-01 1095
Russia signs secret alliance 2010-03-01 726
Russia takes Warsaw and Polish revolt collapses 2011-12-30 807
Russia warns Germany she supports France 2011-03-01 746
Russia warns Turkey to withdraw troops from Montenegro frontier 2011-03-01 557
Russia, France and Britain urge Ottomans to call a truce 2011-12-30 826
Russia, France and Germany protest against cession of mainland China to Japan 2011-12-30 665
Russia's treaty with Austria Concluded 2010-03-01 777
Russian ambassador to London undertakes to divide Bulgaria 2011-12-30 211
Russian and Swedish troops ravage Pomerania 2011-12-30 771
Russian army crosses the Prut river and invades Danubian Provinces 2011-12-30 1301
Russian Bloody Sunday 2010-02-01 877
Russian Constitution 2010-02-01 828
Russian constitutional assembly opens in Petrograd 2011-03-01 213
Russian expedition to Alaska opens fur trade under Behring 2011-04-01 837
Russian expedition to Khiva fails 2011-04-01 1144
Russian fleet fires on British trawlers 2010-03-01 642
Russian fleet visits Toulon 2011-12-30 917
Russian intervention in Germany in Austria's favour 2011-12-30 1038
Russian intrigues in Sweden alarm Frederick II of Prussia 2011-04-01 748
Russian judiciary reformed 2011-12-30 442
Russian minister of propaganda murdered 2010-03-01 688
Russian occupation of Penjdeh; crisis in Anglo-Russian relations ensues 2011-12-30 1204
Russian Revolution commences 2010-02-01 1320
Russian ships enter Bosphorus to aid Turkey against Egypt 2011-12-30 955
Russian Social Democratic Party splits 2010-03-01 848
Russian Socialists split 2010-02-01 1042
Russian southern front collapses 2010-03-01 221
Russian successes in the Crimea 2011-04-01 885
Russian troops pass through Bohemia en route for the Rhine 2011-04-01 1465
Russian troops take Gdansk 2011-04-01 1085
Russian ultimatum to Turkey over Serbia and Danubian Provinces 2011-12-30 806
Russian victory over Prussians at Gross Jägersdorf 2011-12-30 1604
Russians break through in Ivangorod 2010-03-01 224
Russians cross the Danube 2011-12-30 809
Russians defeated at Limanova 2010-02-01 1041
Russians defeated by Masséna at Zurich 2010-03-01 2360
Russians found Vladivostok in vicinity of Korean border 2011-12-30 328
Russians invade Danubian Principalities at Turkey's request 2011-12-30 1306
Russians invade Livonia in a war of succession 2011-02-01 1692
Russians leave Denmark and occupy Mecklenburg 2011-04-01 1392
Russians occupy and burn Berlin 2011-12-30 575
Russians retake East Prussia 2011-12-30 861
Russians storm Kars 2011-12-30 232
Russians take Baku and Derbent from Persia 2011-04-01 1174
Russians take Bitlis 2010-03-01 683
Russians take Kolberg and gain a strategic harbour 2011-12-30 861
Russians take Merv from the Amir of Afghanistan 2011-12-30 823
Russians take Ochakov from the Turks 2011-04-01 1316
Russians take Trebizond 2010-03-01 688
Russians under Saltikov defeat Prussians at Kay 2011-12-30 956
Russo-Austrian convention that no large state be erected in the Balkans 2011-12-30 219
Russo-British negotiations suspended 2010-03-01 219
Russo-Japanese agreement 2010-03-01 653
Russo-Japanese agreement over China 2010-03-01 668
Russo-Japanese War commences 2010-02-01 906
Russo-Polish Twenty Years' War ends 2010-11-01 1110
Russo-Prussian alliance against Austria is formally concluded 2011-12-30 899
Russo-Prussian force occupies Dresden 2010-03-01 1029
Russo-Swedish war breaks out 2011-04-01 786
Safavid dynasty in Persia 2010-03-01 888
Safavid Persians conquered by the Ottomans 2010-03-01 1107
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rourvroy 2005-10-22 5391
Sakharov’s baryon-antibaryon asymmetry formulated 2009-05-01 609
Salisbury rejects US arbitration in British Guiana-Venezuela boundary dispute 2011-12-30 887
Salvation Army founded 2013-08-30 879
Samuel Adams forms Committees of Correspondence 2010-03-01 1205
Samuel Marsden goes to England to recruit clergy for New South Wales 2010-03-01 1497
San Francisco Earthquake 2001-01-01 4974
San Juan founded 2010-03-01 768
San Salvador, Bahamas, asks for incorporation with USA 2011-12-30 789
San Sebastian capitulates to Wellington 2010-03-01 549
Santa Elena is destroyed 2010-03-01 317
Sarawak and North Borneo become British Protectorates 2010-01-01 1213
Sarawak ceded to James Brooke by Sultan of Brunei 2010-02-01 1179
Sardinia cedes Savoy and Nice to France 2011-03-01 2075
Sardinia declares war on Austria 2011-12-30 678
Sardinia ends truce with Austria 2011-12-30 663
Sardinian troops are expelled from Venice 2011-12-30 651
Sardinian troops defeat Austrians at second battle of Goito 2011-12-30 988
Sarsa Dengel, King of Ethiopia, dies 2010-03-01 613
Satsuma rebellion in Japan 2010-02-01 1694
Saudi Arabian King dies 2010-02-01 649
Savile's act modifies penal laws against Roman Catholics 2010-03-01 1549
Savonarola condemned to death 2010-11-01 1527
Savoy formally joins the Grand Alliance against France 2011-04-01 889
Savoy joins the Grand Alliance 2011-04-01 2813
Saxon and Hanoverian federal troops enter Holstein 2011-12-30 873
Saxon army capitulates to Prussia at Pirna 2011-12-30 1200
Saxon electorate is given to Duke Maurice 2010-11-01 880
Saxon troops invade Bohemia 2011-02-01 2846
Saxon troops invade Livonia; this marks the start of the Great Northern War 2011-04-01 1554
Saxon troops under Arnim take Prague 2011-02-01 1421
Saxony is granted Constitution after revolt 2011-12-30 844
Saxony joins France against Maria Theresa 2011-04-01 1023
Schism Act 2007-02-06 1992
Schleswig annexed by Denmark 2010-02-01 1662
Schleswig incorporated in New Danish Constitution 2011-12-30 679
Schleswig-Holstein insurgents defeated at Idstedt 2011-12-30 919
Schleswig-Holstein is incorporated in Prussia 2011-12-30 725
Schmalkaldic League holds a Diet at Frankfurt 2010-11-01 2162
Schmalkaldic League plans a military campaign against Charles V 2010-11-01 2201
Schmalkaldic League prepares for civil war in Germany 2010-11-01 2107
Schmalkaldic strongholds submit to Charles V 2010-11-01 2355
Schrödinger equation formulated 2009-05-01 451
Schurman's Commission offers representative government to the Filipinos 2011-12-30 2487
Schwarzschild spacetime geometry posited as unique solution of the Einstein vacuum field equations 2009-05-01 1209
Scots are victorious at Ancrum Moor 2010-11-01 1982
Scots crown Charles II 2011-03-01 3560
Scots defeat the English 2010-01-01 2373
Scots give Charles I to Parliament 2010-02-01 2257
Scots invade England 2010-02-01 2536
Scots invade England precipitating the Second Civil War 2011-03-01 2729
Scots seize English territory 2010-02-01 2044
Scott's expedition to the South Pole 2010-01-01 1114
Scottish army crosses the Border and lays siege to Norham Castle 2010-11-01 1808
Scottish Catholic leader found guilty of forging a letter from the King 2011-02-01 1241
Scottish Commissioners arrive in London 2010-02-01 1709
Scottish Covenanters are crushed at the battle of Pentland Hills 2011-04-01 895
Scottish Education Act 2013-08-30 972
Scottish estates forfeited in the 1745 are deemed to belong to the Crown 2011-04-01 1277
Scottish Jacobites defeat the Covenanters at Killiekrankie 2011-04-01 878
Scottish Labour Party founded 2013-08-30 1348
Scottish leader, William Wallace, is executed 2010-03-01 1513
Scottish Parliament introduces Anglican principles to Scottish worship 2011-02-01 3081
Scottish Parliament names Duke of Albany as Protector of Scotland 2010-11-01 334
Scottish Parliament repudiates the Treaties of Greenwich 2010-11-01 1013
Scottish Protestant Lords depose the Regent Mary of Guise 2011-02-01 1577
Scottish Toleration Act 2011-04-01 1654
Sea swell leads to the death of approximately 10 000 people in the Netherlands 2010-03-01 1520
Sebastian I succeeds to the throne of Portugal 2011-02-01 1010
Sebastian, King of Portugal, invades Morocco 2011-02-01 1710
Sebastopol captured by the British and French 2010-02-01 1824
Secession and civil war in Congo/ Zaire 2010-02-01 921
Seckendorf, Austrian Field Marshal, is recalled and imprisoned 2011-04-01 236
Second Afghan War begins 2011-12-30 1026
Second Anglo-Afghan War 2010-02-01 1685
Second Anglo-Burmese War 2010-02-01 1715
Second Anglo-Dutch War 2010-01-01 1929
Second Arab siege of Constantinople 2009-05-01 1282
Second Armed Neutrality of the North 2010-03-01 1148
Second Austrian invasion of Serbia 2010-02-01 1033
Second Balkan War 2010-02-01 989
Second battle of Aisne 2010-03-01 423
Second Battle of Artois 2010-02-01 801
Second battle of Breitenfeld 2011-02-01 3037
Second battle of Bull Run: Thomas Jackson defeats Union Army 2011-12-30 1915
Second battle of Gaza 2010-03-01 1031
Second Battle of Masurian Lakes 2010-02-01 1042
Second Battle of Newbury 2010-02-01 1853
Second battle of Schooneveld 2010-02-01 1055
Second Battle of the Marne 2010-02-01 610
Second battle of Verdun: French gain positions 2010-03-01 406
Second Battle of Ypres 2010-02-01 1094
Second Brusilov Offensive 2010-02-01 1206
Second Chartist Petition rejected 2013-08-30 3695
Second Civil War in France 2011-02-01 1386
Second civil war in the French Wars of Religion 2010-11-01 2605
Second Coalition against France 2010-03-01 2270
Second colony established by English settlers off the coast of the US 2010-03-01 1884
Second Combination Act 2010-02-01 1406
Second Continental Congress 2007-12-02 2362
Second Council of Nicaea 2009-05-01 1245
Second Crusade 2010-02-01 2129
Second Dutch Barrier Treaty 2011-04-01 1380
Second Exclusion Bill proposes exiling James Duke of York from Britain 2011-04-01 1024
Second Family Compact between France and Spain 2011-04-01 1230
Second French and Indian War - also known as Queen Anne's War 2010-03-01 6197
Second German Naval Act 2010-03-01 1157
Second Hay-Pauncefote treaty 2010-03-01 853
Second Indo-Pakistan War over Jammu and Kashmir 2010-02-01 1415
Second Irish Home Rule Bill 2010-01-01 1648
Second Jaga War 2010-03-01 333
Second Mahratha War 2010-03-01 828
Second Maratha War; British seize Delhi 834
Second Opium War; Anglo-French War with China 2010-02-01 2163
Second Parliament of George I 2011-04-01 543
Second Parliament of George II meets 2011-04-01 652
Second Parliament of William and Mary meets 2011-04-01 1022
Second partition of Poland by Prussia and Russia 2009-06-26 3203
Second Partition Treaty is signed between France, England and Holland 2011-04-01 1442
Second Peace of Paris 2010-03-01 2331
Second Protectorate Parliament assembles 2011-03-01 586
Second Protectorate Parliament begins its second session 2011-03-01 589
Second Protectorate Parliament is dissolved by Oliver Cromwell 2011-03-01 828
Second Reconstruction Act 2010-03-01 1125
Second Reform Act - Representation of the People Act 2005-04-01 8947
Second rising in Vienna against new Austrian Constitution 2011-12-30 532
Second Seminole War 2010-02-01 3120
Second session of the 'Reformation Parliament'. 2010-11-01 2430
Second session of the Council of Trent 2010-11-01 1114
Second Siamese embassy is sent to France 2011-04-01 479
Second Sikh War 2010-01-01 1043
Second Silesian War begins 2011-04-01 836
Second Spanish Partition Treaty is ratified 2011-04-01 1315
Second Treaty of Torun 2010-03-01 1742
Second Treaty of Versailles between France and Empire 2011-12-30 1711
Second Uniformity Act authorises more radical Second Prayer Book 2010-11-01 3313
Second Vatican Council 2010-03-01 673
Second Vienna Award 2009-05-01 1346
Second World War begins 2004-02-22 4786
Second Zimba War 2010-03-01 1594
Secret 'Three Emperors' League' alliance between Germany, Austria and Russia 2011-12-30 272
Secret alliance between Charles II of Britain and Louis XIV 2011-04-01 635
Secret alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy against France 2010-01-01 1385
Secret Anglo-Russian agreement to reduce the size of Bulgaria 2011-12-30 257
Secret Austro-Romanian alliance 2011-12-30 1143
Secret Ballot introduced in UK 2013-08-30 2154
Secret defence pact between Austria, Britain and the Duchy of Modena 2011-04-01 1059
Secret Franco-Italian agreement 2010-03-01 1514
Secret marriage treaty between Charles, Prince of Wales and the Infanta Maria of Spain 2011-02-01 1176
Secret negotiations on behalf of Mary Queen of Scots 2011-02-01 2112
Secret treaty between Austria and France 2011-12-30 427
Secret treaty between Austria, Britain and France 2010-03-01 2247
Secret treaty between British East India Company and Mir Kassem 2011-12-30 1590
Secret treaty between Charles I and the Scots 2010-01-01 2623
Secret treaty between Russia and China 2010-01-01 1166
Secret Treaty of 1714 between France and Bavaria is renewed 2011-04-01 1292
Secret treaty of alliance between Brandenburg and France 2011-04-01 1117
Secret Treaty of Bruges between Charles V and Wolsey for war on France 2010-11-01 3624
Secret Treaty of Paris between France and the Empire 2011-12-30 923
Secret treaty of San Ildefonso 2011-03-01 2130
Secular education introduced to Spain 2010-03-01 425
Seditious libels excluded from parlimentary privilege 2010-03-01 1055
Seditious Meetings Act and Treasonable Practices Act 2006-01-21 5682
Seely, John 2002-03-21 9642
Segregation of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children ordered by the San Francisco school board 2010-03-01 1009
Seismograph invented by John Milne 2013-08-30 2565
Select Committee on Agriculture 2013-08-30 1556
Self-Denying Ordinance is passed by the House of Lords 2011-02-01 2422
Selim I becomes Ottoman Sultan with the support of the Janissaries 2010-03-01 981
Selim I creates an Ottoman fleet 2010-03-01 1339
Selim I defeats Shah Ismail of Persia at Chaldiran 2010-11-01 1277
Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, begins to march his army towads Persia 2010-11-01 1524
Selim II becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire 2010-03-01 931
Seminary priest Cuthbert Maine is executed for treason 2011-02-01 2914
Senate in France made an Upper House 2011-12-30 994
Sentimentality, Sentimentalism 2003-11-01 11617
Separate Treaty of Tilsit 2010-03-01 839
Septennial Act 2006-02-17 4718
Serbia becomes virtual protectorate of Austria by secret treaty 2011-12-30 447
Serbia invades Bulgaria, following the union with Eastern Rumelia 2011-12-30 958
Serbia, siding with Russia, declares war on Turkey 2011-12-30 645
Serbian Diet deposes Alexander Karageorgevitch 2011-12-30 308
Serbian regicide 2010-02-01 776
Serbo-Croat-Slovene Kingdom peace treaties 2011-03-01 561
Serbs defeated at Slivnitsa 2011-12-30 1114
Serfdom abolished in Austria 2010-03-01 1004
Sergei Witte becomes Russian finance minister 2011-12-30 1038
Serious defeat for the Yorkists at Wakefield, England 2010-03-01 2682
Serious famine in Bengal 2010-03-01 1288
Sessions of the German Imperial Diet at Ratisbon are made permanent 2011-04-01 437
Sestet 2001-11-01 4659
Settlement at Derwent River 2010-03-01 950
Settlement of Alaskan frontier by 3-power commission 2010-03-01 1520
Settlement of British Guiana-Venezuelan boundary dispute 2011-12-30 1064
Settlement of Investiture Dispute 2012-07-31 1822
Seven Bishops are tried for opposing the Declaration of Indulgence 2011-04-01 1672
Seven Whig Lords invite William of Orange to England 2011-04-01 1212
Seventh (last) Crusade 2010-02-01 1401
Seventh battle of Isonzo 2010-03-01 866
Seventh civil war in French Wars of Religion 2010-03-01 2687
Several members of Ottoman government assassinated 2011-12-30 510
Severe famine in Florence 2010-11-01 934
Severe famine in India 2011-12-30 579
Shaftesbury dies in Holland 2011-04-01 1073
Shaftesbury is removed from Chancellorship 2011-04-01 822
Shah Ismail of Persia drives the Usbeks from Khorasan 2010-03-01 1006
Shah Jahan becomes Mogul Emperor of India 2011-02-01 471
Shah Mohammed Ali overthrows Persian constitution 2010-03-01 380
Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Persia 2011-04-01 364
Shah Suleiman succeeds as ruler of Persia 2011-04-01 517
Shane O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone defeats the MacDonnells at Ballycastle 2011-02-01 2088
Shanghai Massacre 2009-05-01 1521
Shapely-Curtis debate on the Milky Way 2009-05-01 858
Sharpeville massacre 2010-02-01 720
Sheen Palace destroyed by fire 2010-11-01 1326
Sherman occupies Savannah, Georgia 2011-12-30 1954
Shih Tsung becomes Emperor of China 2010-11-01 357
Shiite Fatimid dynasty takes control of Egypt 2009-05-01 1186
Ship Money 2005-11-14 2135
Ships of the Lubeck Hansa capture a Netherlands trading fleet 2010-11-01 1891
Shiraz and Isfahan conquered by Timur 2010-03-01 609
Short Parliament called 2010-01-01 1206
Shots fired at Prince Regent 2010-03-01 800
Siam cedes territory to France; Laos is recognised as a French Protectorate 2010-01-01 927
Sicilian Vespers 2009-05-01 1316
Sicily is declared independent of Naples 2011-12-30 795
Sicily is forced to submit to Naples 2011-12-30 639
Sidney Godolphin again becomes Treasurer 2011-04-01 478
Sidney Godolphin becomes Treasurer 2011-04-01 471
Sidney Godolphin dies 2011-04-01 617
Siege of Antwerp 2010-02-01 1273
Siege of Baghdad; Al-Ma’mun becomes caliph of the Abbasid Empire 2009-05-01 354
Siege of Belgrade 2010-03-01 1681
Siege of Chester 2010-02-01 2741
Siege of Danzig 2011-04-01 981
Siege of Dartmouth 2010-02-01 2265
Siege of Gloucester 2011-03-01 1984
Siege of Hereford 2010-02-01 1991
Siege of Leningrad 2010-03-01 243
Siege of Londonderry 2011-04-01 1201
Siege of Louisbourg 2010-02-01 2983
Siege of Montauban by royalists begins 2011-02-01 2359
Siege of Paris by Prussian forces begins 2011-12-30 848
Siege of Plevna 2009-05-01 1122
Siege of Serdica 2009-05-01 1077
Siege works to cut off Amiens from the north 2011-02-01 984
Siena is incorporated in Tuscany 2011-02-01 847
Siena revolts against the imperial garrison 2010-11-01 1353
Siena surrenders to Spain after a famine 2011-02-01 1500
Sigismund Bathory becomes Prince of Transylvania 2011-02-01 832
Sigismund Bathory defeats the Ottomans at Giurgiu 2011-03-01 1206
Sigismund I accedes to the throne of Poland 2010-11-01 1073
Sigismund II Augustus succeeds as King of Poland 2010-11-01 1242
Sigismund III succeeds as King of Sweden 2011-02-01 1061
Sigismund III, son of John of Sweden, elected King of Poland 2011-02-01 1195
Sigismund of Poland makes an armistice with Gustavus II of Sweden 2011-02-01 1093
Sign, Arbitrary Nature of 2010-02-01 6113
Signifier and Signified 2010-02-01 6694
Sikhs capture Peshawar 749
Sikhs surrender at Rawalpindi: British take control of Punjab 2011-12-30 841
Silesia submits to Wallenstein 2011-02-01 2152
Simile 2001-11-01 5008
Simon Bolivar abdicates as President of Colombia 2011-12-30 434
Simon Bolivar is recognised as dictator in Peru 2011-12-30 254
Simon Ferdinando lands in Maine 2010-03-01 2750
Sind region of Indian captured by the British 2010-01-01 1110
Single European Act 2010-03-01 234
Single-lens reflex camera developed 2010-02-01 757
Sinn Fein founded 2010-02-01 1986
Sino-French Treaty 2010-02-01 1904
Sino-Indian War commences 2010-02-01 578
Sino-Japanese War commences 2010-02-01 772
Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Weihaiwei 2010-02-01 2809
Sir Brian O'Rourke is executed at Tyburn 2011-02-01 1374
Sir Christopher Hatton is appointed Lord Chancellor 2011-02-01 1850
Sir Cloudesley Shovell bombards Dunkirk 2011-03-01 1234
Sir Dudley Carleton becomes a Principal Secretary of State 2011-02-01 907
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered 2011-04-01 936
Sir Edward Conway is appointed a Principal Secretary of State 2011-02-01 1244
Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason obtain lands in Maine 2011-02-01 1539
Sir Francis Drake leaves for the West Indies as a privateer 2011-02-01 2090
Sir Francis Drake sacks Cadiz 2011-02-01 1131
Sir Francis Walsingham is appointed a Principal Secretary of State in England 2011-02-01 1023
Sir Francis Windebank becomes a Principal Secretary of State 2011-02-01 1191
Sir Francis Wyatt brings administrative reforms to Virginia 2011-02-01 1660
Sir George Anson completes voyage round the world 2011-04-01 1568
Sir George Rooke seizes part of Spanish treasure fleet in Vigo Bay 2011-04-01 2788
Sir George Villiers appointed Master of the Horse 2011-02-01 1338
Sir Harry Vane is appointed Secretary of State 2011-02-01 1064
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman becomes Prime Minister 2013-08-30 2196
Sir Henry Docwra lands at the head of Lough Foyle 2010-01-01 1469
Sir Henry Morgan leads buccaneers in sack of Panama 2008-05-24 1194
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's expedition to the West Indies fails 2011-02-01 1866
Sir John Burrows captures a valuable Portuguese galleon 2011-02-01 2196
Sir John Child becomes Governor of Bombay 2011-04-01 1209
Sir John Eliot dies in the Tower of London 2011-02-01 1255
Sir John Fenwick is executed for treason 2011-04-01 1234
Sir John Franklin's third voyage to the Arctic 2008-02-22 2207
Sir John Norris is sent to Ireland to put down the rebellion 2011-02-01 1356
Sir Philip Sidney is fatally wounded 2011-02-01 1187
Sir Ralph Abercromby achieved victories at Aboukir and Alexandria 2010-02-01 2596
Sir Ralph Winwood appointed Secretary of State 2011-02-01 1724
Sir Robert Naunton is appointed a Principal Secretary of State 2011-02-01 1130
Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister for the first time 2011-03-01 2228
Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister for the second time 2013-08-30 2125
Sir Robert Walpole resigns all offices; the Earl of Wilmington becomes Prime Minister 2011-03-01 2046
Sir Thomas Audley is appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 2010-11-01 1905
Sir Thomas Coventry is appointed Lord Keeper 2011-02-01 1067
Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians 2011-02-01 2221
Sir Thomas Lake becomes Secretary of State 2011-02-01 1350
Sir Thomas More is elected Speaker of the Commons 2010-11-01 3220
Sir Thomas More refuses to take the oath to the succession 2010-11-01 6319
Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor 2010-11-01 3674
Sir Thomas Osborne becomes Lord High Treasurer 2011-04-01 791
Sir Thomas Overbury is poisoned 2011-02-01 1087
Sir Thomas Roe is sent as ambassador to the Mogul of India 2011-02-01 961
Sir Thomas Smith is appointed a principal Secretary of State 2010-11-01 960
Sir Thomas Smith loses his secretaryship 2010-11-01 1420
Sir Thomas Wriothesley and Sir Ralph Sadler become principal secretaries 2010-11-01 1714
Sir Walter Ralegh sails for Guiana 2007-12-02 2779
Sir Walter Raleigh found guilty of high treason 2011-02-01 2376
Sir Walter Raleigh is executed on his return to England 2011-02-01 1316
Sir Walter Raleigh is released from the Tower 2011-02-01 995
Sir Walter Raleigh leaves England on his expedition to Guiana 2011-02-01 1105
Sir Walter Raleigh reaches the Orinoco and begins searching for gold 2011-02-01 1484
Sir William Cecil is appointed a principal Secretary of State 2011-02-01 1285
Sir William Cecil is appointed principal Secretary of State 2010-11-01 1407
Sir William Cecil is created Lord Burghley 2011-02-01 963
Sir William Paget becomes Principal Secretary of State 2010-11-01 1798
Sir William Stanley is executed 2010-11-01 2124
Sivaji, founder of the Mahratha State, concludes a treaty with Britain 2011-04-01 622
Six Articles 2005-06-17 2515
Six-Day War 2010-02-01 876
Sixth civil war in the French Wars of Religion 2010-03-01 2232
Sixth Crusade 2010-02-01 1503
Sixth Parliament of William III 2011-04-01 664
Slave asylum founded on British settlement 2011-03-01 1312
Slave insurrection in Charleston 2010-03-01 2301
Slave Quork Walker successfully petitions for his freedom 2010-03-01 2116
Slave Trade, beginning of 2010-02-01 2540
Slavery abolished in Brazil 2010-02-01 1282
Slavery abolished in the Cape Colony 2010-02-01 1852
Slavery Abolition Act - slavery abolished in British Empire 2010-02-01 4755
Slobodan Milosevic becomes leader of Serbia 2010-02-01 708
Slovak-Hungarian War 2009-05-01 985
Slovakia becomes a German client state 2010-02-01 615
Slovakia becomes part of Czechoslovakia 2009-05-01 509
Sluys falls to Maurice of Nassau 2011-02-01 1026
Smith, Goldwin 2002-03-21 10367
Smoot-Hawley protective tariffs 2010-02-01 900
Smyrna Convoy action 2010-01-01 1941
Social Democratic Federation holds a rally in Trafalgar Square 2011-12-30 1291
Social legislation in Denmark 2011-12-30 307
Social Revolutionary Party organised in Russia 2010-03-01 893
Socialists lose Italian election 2010-03-01 822
Society for the Suppression of Vice established 2010-02-01 1812
Socotra seized by Afonso de Albuquerque 2010-03-01 1669
Sojourner Truth 2005-10-22 8433
Solar dark lines explained 2009-05-01 525
Solar eclipse expedition led by Arthur Eddington 2009-05-01 769
Solar flares discovered by Richard Carrington 2009-05-01 2236
Solar helium discovered 2009-05-01 564
Solitary wave type behaviour discovered 2009-05-01 695
Solomon Islands explored by Alvaro de Mendana 2010-01-01 1847
Somalia created 2010-02-01 770
Sonar echolocation by bats discovered 2009-05-01 721
Sonderbund War 2010-01-01 1156
Song dynasty in North China founded 2009-05-01 330
Songhai Empire reaches its broadest geographical extent 2010-03-01 1322
Sonnet 7785
Sophocles Skouloudis forms ministry in Greece 2010-03-01 461
Sotho kingdom requests British annexation 2010-02-01 2270
South Africa becomes an independent Republic 2010-02-01 1864
South Africa constitutional convention 2010-03-01 561
South African autonomy 2010-02-01 922
South African troops occupy Swakopmund 2011-03-01 1586
South Australia Constitution Act 2010-03-01 839
South Carolina is founded 2011-04-01 786
South Carolina revokes its Ordinance of Nullification 2010-03-01 1056
South East Asia Treaty Organization established 2010-02-01 748
Southern delegates walk out of the Democratic National Convention in Charleston 2010-03-01 1576
Southern Tang Kingdom of China submits to the Northern Song dynasty 2009-05-01 640
Southern US states hold Congress of Montgomery 2011-12-30 1916
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina 2009-05-01 2386
Soviet Republic established in Bavaria 2010-03-01 276
Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations 2011-03-01 1058
Soviet-Finnish War: Finland attacked by the Soviet Union 2009-05-01 887
Spa Conference 2010-03-01 809
Spa Field Riots 2010-02-01 2183
Space travel and rocket propulsion first theorized 2009-05-01 796
Spain accedes to the preliminary Treaty of Vienna of 1735 2011-04-01 522
Spain accedes to the Treaty 2011-04-01 682
Spain agrees to cede Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain 2011-04-01 2593
Spain agrees to end slave trade 2011-03-01 1273
Spain agrees to the peace preliminaries at Vienna 2011-04-01 906
Spain and France give Portugal ultimatum 2010-03-01 2751
Spain and Portugal sign a treaty on South America 2011-04-01 759
Spain annexes Cuba 2010-11-01 1033
Spain annexes San Domingo at latter's request 2011-12-30 756
Spain attacks Sardinia 2011-04-01 1203
Spain captures Ostend from the Dutch 2011-02-01 956
Spain captures Tunis and Bizerta 2010-03-01 938
Spain cedes Falkland Isles to Britain 2010-03-01 966
Spain completes conquest of Naples at the battle of Garigliano 2010-11-01 2139
Spain declared neutral 2010-03-01 1929
Spain declares war against France 2011-04-01 300
Spain declares war against the Moors in Morocco 2011-12-30 828
Spain declares war on Britain 2011-03-01 1102
Spain declares war on Britain 2010-02-01 2216
Spain declares war on England 2011-04-01 1018
Spain declares war on England - Siege of Gibraltar 2010-03-01 1175
Spain defeats France at Gravelines 2010-03-01 1632
Spain delays signing agreement on Morocco with France 2011-03-01 973
Spain eliminates French colonists in Florida and establishes St Augustine 2010-03-01 1503
Spain founds Pensacola, Florida 2011-04-01 1072
Spain gains island of Tenerife at battle of La Laguna 2010-11-01 1351
Spain gains the island of Palma 2010-11-01 1225
Spain invades north-east France from the Spanish Netherlands 2011-02-01 1308
Spain invades Provence 2010-11-01 1442
Spain joins NATO 2010-02-01 1022
Spain joins the Grand Alliance against France 2011-04-01 566
Spain joins the Treaty of Vienna 2011-04-01 755
Spain loses Tunis to the Turks 2011-02-01 818
Spain makes a defensive treaty with Holland 2011-04-01 1006
Spain occupies Texas 2011-04-01 1895
Spain orders the expulsion of all non-baptised Moors 2010-03-01 1750
Spain proclaims protectorate over Spanish Guinea 2011-12-30 763
Spain raises the siege of Gibraltar 2011-04-01 864
Spain regains Haarlem 2010-11-01 1246
Spain seeks to crush the Dutch revolt 2010-03-01 1797
Spain signs peace with France 2010-03-01 2556
Spain supports Anglo-Italian agreement on Mediterranean 2011-12-30 528
Spain takes Breda from the Dutch 2011-02-01 1130
Spain takes control of Cuba 2010-03-01 978
Spain yields to British demand 2010-03-01 803
Spaniards defeat English force at Cranori 2011-02-01 1909
Spaniards lay siege to Mantua 2011-04-01 1134
Spaniards put down a Maya rising in Mexico 2010-11-01 1039
Spanish ambassador gains papal aid for an Armada against England 2011-02-01 1339
Spanish ambassador is expelled for complicity in the Throgmorton Plot 2011-02-01 1186
Spanish are defeated at Gravelines 2011-04-01 1481
Spanish are defeated by the Portuguese and British at Montes Claros 2011-04-01 1175
Spanish Armada 2005-06-22 4087
Spanish Armada sets off for England 2011-02-01 1238
Spanish army forces the French invaders to retreat 2011-02-01 770
Spanish army in North Africa takes Mers-el-Kebir from the Moors 2010-11-01 1744
Spanish army sails for Sicily 2011-04-01 1251
Spanish army under the Duke of Alva invades Navarre and occupies it 2010-11-01 925
Spanish Civil War begins 2010-02-01 1146
Spanish Civil War ends 2010-02-01 1044
Spanish coinage further devalued 2011-02-01 953
Spanish colonies in South America begin to revolt 777
Spanish colonisation of La Plata 2010-11-01 946
Spanish communeros revolt in Toledo and Castile 2010-11-01 823
Spanish Concordat with Papacy 2011-12-30 534
Spanish conquest of Yucatan 2010-11-01 1005
Spanish Constitutional amendment annulled 2011-12-30 457
Spanish Cortes pass liberal constitution 2011-03-01 593
Spanish currency is deflated 2011-02-01 905
Spanish cut communications between Walcheren and south Holland 2011-02-01 1106
Spanish defeated at Ocana 2010-03-01 784
Spanish dictator overthrown 2010-02-01 1415
Spanish expedition to support the Earl of Tyrone 2011-02-01 1717
Spanish expeditions against Zapotec Highlanders 2010-03-01 761
Spanish force begins the siege of Ostend 2011-02-01 1043
Spanish forces drive French from Aragon 2011-02-01 601
Spanish guarda-costas mutilate British captain 2011-04-01 1181
Spanish invade Portugal 2011-02-01 1500
Spanish invaders are defeated at Glen Shiel 2011-04-01 1419
Spanish invasion of Portugal 2011-12-30 1141
Spanish invasion scare in England 2011-02-01 1199
Spanish lay siege to Gibraltar 2011-04-01 980
Spanish military coup 2010-02-01 1237
Spanish military coup: Marshal Serrano regains power 2010-01-01 1307
Spanish monarchy is restored 2011-03-01 846
Spanish mutinies delay Charles V's Turkish expedition 2010-11-01 1134
Spanish Navarre is incorporated with Castile 2010-11-01 680
Spanish plan an invasion of England 2011-02-01 1285
Spanish power passes to Hapsburgs at the death of Cardinal Ximenes 2010-11-01 918
Spanish Revolution begins 2010-03-01 703
Spanish traders arrive in eastern Japan 2011-02-01 785
Spanish treasure ships are captured off Cadiz 2011-03-01 1320
Spanish troops attack Ostia 2010-11-01 1911
Spanish troops force the Turks to abandon the siege of Malta 2011-02-01 1775
Spanish troops from the Netherlands invade the Palatinate 2011-02-01 1431
Spanish troops land in Tuscany 2011-04-01 1029
Spanish troops occupy the Campagna 2011-02-01 1211
Spanish troops take Orbitello in Tuscany 2011-04-01 1120
Spanish under Cardinal Cisneros take Oran from the Moors 2010-11-01 1461
Spanish-American War 2009-01-20 4143
Specie Circular issued 2010-03-01 1326
Spectral lines from space identified as forbidden transition lines 2009-05-01 922
Spectroheliograph developed by George Hale 2009-05-01 1089
Speed of light determined at about 283,000 km/s 2009-05-01 1007
Speed of light estimated at about 227,000 km/s 2009-05-01 466
Spenserian Stanza 2001-11-01 4777
Spermatozoa observed 2011-03-01 702
Splitting [Spaltung] 2005-10-24 12326
Spondee 2001-11-01 4550
Sprung Rhythm 2001-11-01 11002
Srebrenica Massacre 2010-03-01 465
St Helena is occupied by East India Company 2011-04-01 625
St James's Day Fight 2011-03-01 913
St Kitts captured by the French 2011-03-01 1522
St Malo bombarded by the English 2011-03-01 1770
St Petersburg Protocol between Britain and Russia to mediate Greek problem 2011-12-30 1546
St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre 2010-02-01 4490
St. Paul's Cathedral, London, is badly damaged by fire 2011-02-01 1470
Stability of physical fine-structure constant of universe shown 2009-05-01 617
Stage Licensing Act 2004-03-25 7864
Stalin confiscates peasant lands and savings 2010-02-01 589
Stamp Act repealed by Parliament 2010-03-01 1677
Stanhope enacts Walpole's Sinking Fund to reduce the national debt 2011-04-01 1314
Stanislas Poniatowski elected King of Poland 2010-03-01 924
Stanislaus I formally abdicates as King of Poland 2011-04-01 901
Stanislaus is expelled from Poland 2011-04-01 602
Stanislaus Lesczcynski is elected King of Poland 2011-04-01 842
Stanza 2001-11-01 4166
Starr Jameson becomes administrator of South Africa Company's territories 2011-12-30 1216
Starr Jameson completes occupation of Matabeleland 2011-12-30 780
State of Koryo/ Goryeo (Korea) founded 2009-05-01 910
States allowed to fix inter-state rail rates 2010-03-01 981
States of Holland adopt the 'Scherpe Resolution' 2011-02-01 266
States-General suggest giving the French Crown to Duke of Guise 2011-02-01 2667
States-General takes over government of Holland 2011-04-01 856
Stationers’ Company 2004-04-02 16252
Statute of Piotrkow in Poland 2010-11-01 1337
Statutes of Kilkenny 2010-03-01 1738
Steady state cosmologies proposed 2009-05-01 1051
Steam-powered water pump built 2009-05-01 1529
Stefan-Boltzmann blackbody radiant flux law postulated 2009-05-01 553
Stellar proper motions discovered by Halley 2009-05-01 951
Stephen Bathory is elected King of Poland 2011-02-01 1456
Stephen Bathory of Poland invades Russia 2011-02-01 1252
Stephen Bathory, King of Poland, dies 2011-02-01 980
Stephen Bocskai is elected Prince of Transylvania 2011-02-01 475
Stephen Cave is sent to Egypt to inquire into its finances 2011-12-30 817
Stephen Cave's report on Egyptian finances published 2011-12-30 1818
Stephen Dolet is burnt as a heretic in France 2010-11-01 1644
Stephen G. Cleveland wins US Presidental election 2011-12-30 607
Stephen Gardiner is appointed Lord Chancellor 2010-11-01 2202
Stephen Gardiner loses the see of Winchester 2010-11-01 1901
Stephen Hawking applies quantum field theory to black hole spacetimes 2009-05-01 898
Stephen I (the Saint) becomes King of Hungary 2009-05-01 1396
Stephen Stambulov, Bulgarian premier, is murdered 2011-12-30 763
Stephenson's Rocket 2010-02-01 2645
Stop of Exchequer 2010-01-01 2013
Storm over Sebastopol wrecks allied supply ships 2011-12-30 696
Story 2010-02-01 3350
Strait of Belle Isle and St Lawrence explored by Jacques Cartier 2010-03-01 2460
Straits Settlements become a Crown Colony 2011-12-30 787
Strasbourg surrenders to Prussian forces 2011-12-30 859
Streltzy rebellion in Moscow 2011-04-01 1246
Strike of agricultural workers in eastern England 2011-12-30 1076
Structure of DNA examined by X-ray diffraction 2009-05-01 958
Structure of hemoglobin determined 2009-05-01 872
Struensee abolishes supremacy of Danish council 2010-03-01 693
Stubbs, William 2002-03-21 5896
Student protest at Columbia University 2010-03-01 3674
Student-worker strikes and sit-ins paralyse Paris; 800,000 demonstrate 2010-02-01 3374
Students stage peaceful protest against Dow Chemicals 2010-02-01 811
Sublimation 2007-05-06 11689
Submission of the Clergy 2005-06-17 3963
Succession to the English throne passes to the Electress Sophia 2011-04-01 1321
Sudanese Civil War commences 2010-02-01 854
Suez Canal convention opens it to all nations in war and peace 2011-12-30 801
Suez Canal opened 2007-03-23 3204
Suffragettes 2009-01-01 4074
Suffragettes damage 'Rokeby Venus' by Velasquez 2011-03-01 656
Suleiman I invades Hungary and advances towards Vienna 2010-11-01 1504
Suleiman I takes Buda 2010-11-01 1270
Suleiman I takes Buda and annexes Hungary 2010-11-01 1297
Suleyman the Magnificent becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire 2010-03-01 1000
Sultan Abdul Hamid II restores 1876 constitution 2010-03-01 497
Sultan Abdul Mejid of Turkey dies 2011-12-30 1004
Sultan accepts Treaty of London (2) 2011-12-30 597
Sultan Ibrahim is deposed and murdered 2011-04-01 537
Sultan Ibrahim succeeds Murad IV of Turkey 2011-02-01 606
Sultan Mahmud II rejects right of allies to mediate in war with Greece 2011-12-30 786
Sultan Mahmud II removes the elite of the Ottoman army 2010-01-01 1012
Sultan of Oman establishes capital at Zanzibar 2010-02-01 978
Sultan of Turkey agrees to the creation of Romania 2011-12-30 736
Sultan of Turkey limits authority of Milosh in Serbia 2011-12-30 871
Sultan of Turkey refuses London Protocol 2011-12-30 226
Sultan of Zanzibar abolishes slavery 2011-12-30 487
Sultan rejects Russian, French and British demand for truce 2011-12-30 1043
Sultan Selim I conquers eastern Anatolia and Kurdistan 2010-11-01 1204
Sultan Selim I defeats the Sultan of Egypt and annexes Syria 2010-11-01 1317
Sultan Selim II makes peace with the Emperor Maximilian II 2011-02-01 1343
Sultan Suleiman I makes peace with Persia 2010-11-01 949
Summer Olympics open in Germany 2011-03-01 391
Sun Yat-sen elected president of United Provinces of China 2010-03-01 1417
Sun Yat-sen organises union of secret societies 2010-03-01 1372
Sunday Beer Act (Wilson Patten Act) 2010-03-01 1159
Sunderland becomes Lord President 2011-04-01 1048
Sunderland is appointed Secretary of State 2011-04-01 1026
Sunderland is dismissed 2011-04-01 637
Sunni Ali dies 2010-03-01 721
Superfluidity of helium-3 discovered 2009-05-01 263
Supplementary Treaty of Vienna 2011-04-01 825
Suppression of Satsuma Rebellion in Japan 2011-12-30 729
Suppression of tax riot in Paris 2010-03-01 1234
Suppression of Tulunid dynasty in Egypt 2009-05-01 987
Supremacy of the Pope challenged by John Wyclif 2012-07-31 2931
Supreme Allied Council agrees German war reparations 2010-03-01 238
Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States 2010-03-01 1334
Surrealist Manifesto 2010-02-01 6211
Surrender of Apache leader to General Nelson A Miles 2010-02-01 3299
Surrender of Breisach signifies end of Fronde 2011-04-01 1881
Surrender of Limerick after long siege 2011-04-01 998
Survey Act 2010-07-01 2253
Suspected pending Japanese invasion of Australia 2010-02-01 936
Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland 2011-12-30 901
Suspension of London peace conference 2010-03-01 863
Sweden adopts proportional representation 2010-03-01 551
Sweden agrees to aid Tsar Basil Shuisky of Russia against Poland 2011-02-01 1075
Sweden and Denmark conclude a peace at Brömsebro 2011-02-01 1031
Sweden and Poland sign the twenty-year truce of Stuhmsdorf 2011-02-01 1163
Sweden at war with Denmark 2011-02-01 1120
Sweden enters the Thirty Years War 2011-02-01 2049
Sweden establishes male hereditary succession to the Crown 2010-11-01 1174
Sweden joins 'Continental System' 2010-03-01 743
Sweden signs a further alliance with France 2011-02-01 762
Sweden's Baltic regions are invaded by Russians 2011-04-01 1091
Swedes are defeated at Íland by a combined Dutch-Danish fleet 2011-04-01 887
Swedes cross the Danish border in Jutland and spark war 2011-02-01 338
Swedes defeat Russians at Bronnitsy 2011-02-01 1245
Swedish Africa Company is formed 2011-04-01 694
Swedish alliance with Britain, France and Turkey against Russia 2011-12-30 871
Swedish Ambassador in London is arrested on suspicion of Jacobitism 2011-04-01 780
Swedish ambassador is released 2011-04-01 812
Swedish armies overrun Poland 2011-04-01 1220
Swedish general Banér dies; succeeded by Lennart Torstensson 2011-02-01 771
Swedish victory at Gemauerthof 2011-04-01 1003
Swedish-Brandenburg alliance at Marienberg 2011-04-01 1150
Swift, Jonathan. The Examiner 1710 2010-05-12 3602
Swift's Drapier's Letters attack British dictation over Ireland 2011-04-01 349
Swiss beat Swabian League at Battle of Dornach 2010-11-01 1898
Swiss constitutional revisions centralise authority 2011-12-30 343
Swiss defeat the French 2010-03-01 1404
Swiss Diet votes to restore old constitution 2011-03-01 296
Swiss federal government introduces social insurance 2011-12-30 284
Swiss mercenaries attack Milan 2010-11-01 1132
Swiss occupy Franche Comté 2010-11-01 1058
Switzerland becomes a federal union under a new constitution 2011-12-30 251
Sydney Convention draws up a federal Constitution for Australia 2011-12-30 607
Syllabic verse 2007-06-04 2140
Synaesthesia 2001-11-01 8261
Synchronic, Synchrony 2009-07-24 12443
Synchrotron radiation hypothesis 2009-05-01 702
Synecdoche 2001-11-01 6813
Synod of French bishops at Tours condemns Pope Julius II 2010-11-01 2092
Syntagm / syntagmatic 2009-07-24 4997
Synthesis of proteins studied and explained 2009-05-01 798
System of algebra invented in the Arab Empire 2009-05-01 1459
T. Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia 2010-03-01 605
T. Roosevelt declines nomination 2010-03-01 478
Tadeus Reichstein artificially synthesizes vitamin C 2009-05-01 315
Taff Vale Case 2008-01-01 2484
Taft Commission exercises legislative power in Philippines 2010-03-01 1234
Taft nominated Republican presidential candidate 2010-03-01 1118
Tahitian typhoon 2010-02-01 1035
Taiping Rebellion led by Hong Xiuchuan 2010-01-01 1746
Taiping ruler commits suicide 901
Taormina destroyed by Arabs 2009-05-01 564
Taranto surrenders to the Spanish after a siege 2010-11-01 1101
Tariff war between France and Switzerland 2011-12-30 577
Tax is levied to finance the Scottish war 2010-11-01 2382
Tea Act 2007-12-12 3145
Tea and spirits duties reduced with the Commutation Act 2007-12-12 1166
Teflon developed and patented 2010-03-01 649
Teheran rebellion 2010-02-01 1989
Tehran captured by Russia 2010-02-01 1579
Temperance society founded 2010-03-01 415
Temporary provision made by British government for Lower Canada 2011-12-30 1722
Temporary truce between Spain and Colombia 2010-03-01 610
Tenant Right league is founded in Ireland 2011-12-30 837
Tenerife surrenders to the Spanish 2010-11-01 2070
Tennis emerges as a popular outdoor game in England 2012-07-31 992
Tension between France and Germany 2011-12-30 965
Tension in Anglo-German relations 2010-03-01 603
Tension in Franco-Italian relations 2011-12-30 162
Tension in Ireland 2010-02-01 1181
Tenure of Office Act passed in USA over President's veto 2011-12-30 819
Tercet 2001-11-01 5253
Term 'Internet' first used 2010-02-01 2066
Terms established for British to remove from Suez-Canal Zone 2010-02-01 890
Terrestrial helium discovered 2009-05-01 2063
Territory of Montana organised in USA 2011-12-30 952
Terrorist massacre of Irish family at Maamtrasna 2011-12-30 803
Terza Rima 2001-11-01 3997
Test Acts 2005-02-16 6235
Test and Corporation Acts are repealed 2010-01-01 1389
Tetanus and diptheria vaccines developed 2009-05-01 756
Tetrameter 2001-11-01 6243
Teutonic Order in Livonia crumbles 2010-03-01 1302
Tewfik Pasha becomes Grand Vizier of Persia 2010-03-01 459
Texas independence recognised by Mexico 2010-03-01 663
Texas surrenders her claim to New Mexico 2011-12-30 916
Thatcher Government breaks miners' strike 2010-02-01 916
The 'Cavalier Parliament' meets 2011-04-01 494
The 'Good Parliament' meets in England 2012-07-31 1291
The 'Representation of the Army' sets out grievances 2011-04-01 2198
The “Fronde” rebellion in France 8984
The “Great Purge” in USSR [Great Terror] 2010-02-01 1544
The Book of Armagh is written by Ferdomnach 2009-05-01 1799
The Boston News-Letter appears 2010-03-01 1278
The Constitutio Romana enacted 2009-05-01 1021
The Nihon Shoki, the second oldest book of Japanase history, is completed 2009-05-01 1635
The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution adopted 2010-03-01 1966
The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution 2010-03-01 1059
The 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen observed 2009-05-01 333
The Abbots of Reading and Colchester are executed for treason 2010-11-01 2139
The Act of Grace releases Jacobite rebels from British prisons 2011-04-01 1195
The Afghan ruler Mahmud becomes insane and orders a massacre 2011-04-01 528
The Africa trade is opened to all English subjects 2011-04-01 1038
The Albany Congress 2010-03-01 1227
The Alliance of the Hague 2011-04-01 1241
The An Shi Rebellion in China 2009-05-01 3276
The Archbishopric of Magdeburg is incorporated with Brandenburg 2011-04-01 891
The Archduke Albert captures Calais from the French 2011-02-01 1183
The Archduke Ernest of Austria arrives in Brussels as Governor 2011-02-01 618
The Archduke Leopold succeeds as ruler of the Tyrol 2011-02-01 198
The archdukes aim to keep the imperial crown Habsburg 2011-02-01 1118
The Armada anchors off Calais 2011-02-01 1194
The Associated Press publishes the Zimmermann Telegram 2010-03-01 1163
The Augsburg Interim attempts religious compromise 2010-11-01 2464
The Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs sign a treaty for mutual succession 2011-02-01 674
The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction 2011-04-01 801
The Babington Plot 2011-02-01 930
The Bahamas are granted to the proprietors of Carolina 2011-04-01 835
The Bank of Genoa fails 2011-02-01 777
The battle of Aspern 2010-03-01 497
The Battle of Gettysburg 2010-03-01 3227
The Battle of Posada 2009-05-01 1881
The battle of Seringapatam 2010-03-01 1610
The battle of St. Denis between French and Dutch 2011-04-01 584
The Bibliotheca Palatina is removed from Heidelburg to Rome 2011-02-01 711
The Bishop of Münster is forced to sue for peace 2011-04-01 712
The Bishop of Münster signs a treaty of alliance with Louis XIV 2011-04-01 872
The Black Hawk War begins 2010-03-01 2373
The Bond of Association is presented to Elizabeth I 2011-02-01 4241
The Book of Kells produced by Celtic monks 2009-05-01 2131
The British Government closes Convocation 2011-04-01 895
The British Magazine 2010-02-01 3999
The British set fire to the White House and the Capitol 2010-03-01 1077
The Broglie hypothesis formulated 2009-05-01 860
The Buggery Act 2009-01-01 5372
The Byzantine emperor Basil I defeats the Paulicians 2009-05-01 448
The Byzantine empire makes peace with the Russians at Kiev 2009-05-01 2086
The Canaries are navigated and settled by Castilians 2010-03-01 801
The Cape of Good Hope is explored by Bartolome Dias 2010-03-01 2934
The capital of Spain is transferred from Madrid to Valladolid 2011-02-01 466
The Catholic Earl of Worcester is appointed Lord Privy Seal 2011-02-01 1177
The Catholic League and Protestant Union of Germany sign an agreement 2011-02-01 2400
The Catholic League and the Protestant Union sign an agreement 2011-02-01 2785
The Catholic League of Halle is formed 2010-11-01 1394
The charter of the Bank of England is renewed 2011-04-01 1785
The Chicago Black Sox 2010-03-01 1076
The Chushingura incident 2011-04-01 474
The colony of Massachusetts is given a new charter 2011-04-01 1610
The Commons reject a British Peerage Bill to close the House of Lords 2011-04-01 560
The Commonwealth 2006-02-15 2879
The compromise tariff of 1833 2010-03-01 2045
The concepts of the de Sitter space and de Sitter universe proposed 2009-05-01 485
The Confession of Augsburg is signed by the Protestant princes 2010-11-01 2476
The Congress of Soissons is dissolved 2011-04-01 1069
The Congress of Soissons meets 2011-04-01 910
The conspiracy of the Comte de Soissons against Louis XIII fails 2011-02-01 1050
The Constitution of Radom makes the Diet the legislative organ of Poland 2010-11-01 1164
The Convention of Niederschönfeld temporarily grants Bavaria to Austria 2011-04-01 820
The Cossacks make a treaty with Tsar Alexis 2011-04-01 730
The Council of Trent ends 2011-02-01 1570
The Council of Trent moves to Bologna 2010-11-01 957
The Count of Auvergne is restrained from rebellion 2011-02-01 1312
The Count of Nassau is forced to abandon the siege of Peronne 2010-11-01 1275
The Count of Nassau occupies Guise 2010-11-01 1172
The Counter-Reformation is enforced in Hapsburg central Europe 2011-02-01 696
The Counts' War breaks out over succession to Gotland and Helsingborg 2010-11-01 1503
The County of East Frisia becomes a hereditary principality 2011-04-01 556
The Critical Review 2010-02-01 3394
The Czech language is granted equality with German in Bohemia 2011-12-30 902
The Danelaw is formalised 2009-05-01 1156
The Danes occupy Bremen 2011-04-01 1146
The Danes take St Thomas 2011-04-01 638
The Danevirke fortification system is started by the Vikings in Denmark 2009-05-01 2041
The Dauphin dies 2011-04-01 508
The Dauphin Francis dies 2010-11-01 1032
The Dauphin marries a Bavarian princess 2011-04-01 391
The Dawes Severalty Act 2010-03-01 1346
The decrees of Folembray end the war of the Catholic League 2011-02-01 2466
The deposed Christian II goes into exile 2010-11-01 1202
The Diet of Augsburg meets in the presence of Charles V 2010-11-01 2235
The Diet of Ratisbon is forced to admit Protestants to the Imperial Chamber 2010-11-01 1424
The Diet of Worms proclaims Perpetual Peace within the Empire 2010-11-01 740
The direct Farnese line becomes extinct 2011-04-01 568
The discredited Duke of Albany leaves Scotland for the last time 2010-11-01 1264
The dominant Orange Party in Holland urge opposition to France 2011-04-01 1179
The Dorr Rebellion 2010-03-01 1328
The Duke of Albany arrives from France and begins to rally the Scots 2010-11-01 1601
The Duke of Albany leaves Scotland for France 2010-11-01 2557
The Duke of Albany takes Naples from Francis I 2010-11-01 706
The Duke of Alva arrests Counts Egmont and Hoorn 2011-02-01 1728
The Duke of Alva asks Philip II to recall him from the Netherlands 2011-02-01 901
The Duke of Alva confiscates the property of opposition nobles 2011-02-01 890
The Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau at Jemmingen 2011-02-01 1855
The Duke of Alva introduces additional taxation in the Netherlands 2011-02-01 512
The Duke of Alva recaptures Mons 2011-02-01 684
The Duke of Anjou becomes Duke of Brabant in Antwerp 2011-02-01 343
The Duke of Anjou fails to reduce the Huguenot stronghold of La Rochelle 2011-02-01 2586
The Duke of Anjou forces Henry III to release the Duke of Montmorency 2011-02-01 2070
The Duke of Anjou gains new titles including Count of Flanders 2011-02-01 866
The Duke of Anjou invades the southern Netherlands 2011-02-01 1212
The Duke of Anjou leaves England 2011-02-01 1314
The Duke of Anjou visits Elizabeth at Greenwich 2011-02-01 198
The Duke of Anjou's army joins with John Casimir's army at Moulins 2011-02-01 1783
The Duke of Biron is sent with a substantial army to lay siege to Amiens 2011-02-01 2166
The Duke of Bourbon invades Provence 2010-11-01 782
The Duke of Bourbon takes Aix-en-Provence 2010-11-01 544
The Duke of Choiseul becomes French Foreign Secretary 2011-12-30 928
The Duke of Guise defeats a German force near Chartres 2011-02-01 2156
The Duke of Guise forces a Huguenot army back across the River Marne 2011-02-01 2066
The Duke of Guise prevents the Spanish capture of Marseilles 2011-02-01 1275
The Duke of Guise secures an Estates-General opposed to the Huguenots 2011-02-01 2013
The Duke of Guise surrenders Champagne to Henry IV 2011-02-01 2268
The Duke of Lerma in Spain retires from office 2011-02-01 882
The Duke of Lorraine recaptures Neuhausel from the Turks 2011-04-01 1340
The Duke of Mayenne leaves the capital 2011-02-01 1137
The Duke of Medina-Celi becomes First Minister in Spain 2011-04-01 981
The Duke of Mercoeur in Brittany sues for terms from Henry IV 2011-02-01 2055
The Duke of Monmouth becomes Captain-General of the army 2011-04-01 1238
The Duke of Monmouth flees to Holland 2011-04-01 807
The Duke of Norfolk invades Scotland and burns Kelso 2010-11-01 2223
The Duke of Norfolk is imprisoned by Queen Elizabeth 2011-02-01 1536
The Duke of Norfolk promises a pardon to the Yorkshire rebels 2010-11-01 1444
The Duke of Northumberland is executed 2010-11-01 1319
The Duke of Orleans, Francis I's second son, dies 2010-11-01 745
The Duke of Osuna plunders Venice with Spanish agreement 2011-02-01 1154
The Duke of Parma captures Neurs 2011-02-01 659
The Duke of Parma forces Henry IV to raise the siege of Paris 2011-02-01 1976
The Duke of Parma recovers Ypres from the Dutch 2011-02-01 815
The Duke of Parma sacks Antwerp 2011-02-01 773
The Duke of Parma strengthens the Leaguer garrison of Paris 2011-02-01 1931
The Duke of Parma takes Oudenarde 2011-02-01 447
The Duke of Parma takes Tournai 2011-02-01 1067
The Duke of Parma takes Venlo 2011-02-01 323
The Duke of Rohan expels the Spanish from the Valtelline 2011-02-01 1164
The Duke of Rohan gains support in Guienne and Languedoc 2011-02-01 1629
The Duke of Savoy again invades Dauphiné 2011-04-01 2605
The Duke of Savoy attacks Geneva 2011-02-01 1132
The Duke of Savoy invades Dauphiné 2011-04-01 1442
The Duke of Savoy invades Lombardy 2011-02-01 1467
The Duke of Savoy persecutes the Protestant Vaudois 2011-04-01 481
The Duke of Somerset formally submits to Edward VI and his council 2010-11-01 1838
The Duke of Suffolk arrives at Lincoln to suppress the Lincolnshire rising 2010-11-01 1427
The Duke of Urbino begins the blockade of Milan 2010-11-01 450
The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister for the first time 2013-08-30 2337
The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister for the second time 2013-08-30 2401
The Dutch 'Beggars of the Sea' increase their attacks on Spanish shipping 2011-02-01 1406
The Dutch 'Beggars of the Sea' spark the Dutch War of Independence 2011-02-01 1487
The Dutch are defeated by Villars at Denain 2011-04-01 2033
The Dutch buy the island of Goree, off Cape Verde 2011-02-01 862
The Dutch capitulate to Clive at Chinsura 2011-12-30 1591
The Dutch capture the Island of Curaçao 2011-02-01 935
The Dutch establish a trading post at Archangel on the White Sea 2011-02-01 1418
The Dutch expel the Portuguese from the Gold Coast 2011-02-01 1533
The Dutch found a colony at Essequibo, Guyana 2011-02-01 1197
The Dutch occupy St Helena 2011-02-01 199
The Dutch office of Stadtholder becomes hereditary 2011-04-01 615
The Dutch purchase Swedish colonies on Gold Coast 2011-04-01 844
The Dutch ravage Kent 2011-04-01 838
The Dutch recapture Breda 2011-02-01 608
The Dutch seize Amboyna, Malaysia 2011-02-01 1672
The Dutch seize the Moluccas from the Portuguese 2011-02-01 1801
The Dutch send an expedition to Bahia 2011-02-01 1233
The Dutch take Mauritius 2011-02-01 1143
The Dutch take Pernambuco from the Portuguese and occupy Formosa 2011-02-01 1074
The Earl of Aberdeen becomes Prime Minister 2010-01-01 2234
The Earl of Argyle is executed 2011-04-01 870
The Earl of Bute is appointed Secretary of State, Northern Department 2011-12-30 1103
The Earl of Clarendon is banished 2011-04-01 1059
The Earl of Derby becomes Prime Minister for the first time 2010-01-01 1962
The Earl of Derby becomes Prime Minister for the second time 2010-01-01 2237
The Earl of Derby becomes Prime Minister for the third time 2010-01-01 2180
The Earl of Desmond is killed 2011-02-01 1095
The Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh undertake a voyage to the Azores 2011-02-01 1734
The Earl of Essex divorced from Lady Frances Howard 2011-02-01 269
The Earl of Essex rebels 2010-11-01 1058
The Earl of Leicester resigns his command in the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1162
The Earl of Leicester returns to his command in the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1180
The Earl of Leicester secretly marries Lettice Knollys 2011-02-01 276
The Earl of Leicester takes up his command in the Netherlands 2011-02-01 1314
The Earl of Lennox becomes Regent of Scotland 2011-02-01 362
The Earl of Mar, Regent in Scotland, dies 2011-02-01 330
The Earl of Marlborough is restored to favour by William III 2011-04-01 1041
The Earl of Morton discovers the Casket Letters 2011-02-01 952
The Earl of Morton is executed for complicity in Darnley's murder 2011-02-01 1404
The Earl of Northumberland harries the Scottish border 2010-11-01 1492
The Earl of Northumberland is executed at York for treason 2011-02-01 911
The Earl of Oxford is dismissed 2011-04-01 523
The Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister 2010-01-01 1738
The Earl of Russell becomes Prime Minister for the second time 2010-01-01 2005
The Earl of Shaftesbury is appointed Lord Chancellor 2011-04-01 1066
The Earl of Shaftesbury is released from the Tower 2011-04-01 899
The Earl of Shaftesbury is released from the Tower on bail 2011-04-01 686
The Earl of Shelburne becomes Prime Minister 2010-01-01 3225
The Earl of Strafford is formally accused by Commons 2011-02-01 1013
The Earl of Surrey harries the Scottish border 2010-11-01 1328
The Earl of Tyrone breaks his promise to submit to Queen Elizabeth 2011-02-01 1484
The Earl of Tyrone leads a second rebellion in Ireland 2011-02-01 1978
The Earl of Tyrone proclaimed a traitor 2011-02-01 1659
The Earl of Tyrone surrenders to Queen Elizabeth 2011-02-01 2338
The Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland flee to Scotland 2011-02-01 2026
The East India Company has its beginnings in London 2011-04-01 967
The Edict of Courcy in France promises freedom of conscience 2010-11-01 1499
The Elector of Bavaria agrees to a truce 2011-02-01 1099
The Elector of Brandenburg moves his capital to Konigsberg 2011-02-01 890
The Elector of Mainz and the Landgrave of Hesse withdraw from the war 2011-04-01 1833
The Elector of Saxony allies with Gustavus II of Sweden 2011-02-01 781
The Elector of Saxony enters Prague 2011-02-01 1629
The Elector of Saxony gathers an army to fight the Swedes 2011-02-01 1094
The Elector Palatine joins the Coalition against France 2011-04-01 546
The Elector Palatine, Frederick V, arrives in England 2011-02-01 2244
The Elizabethan Prayer Book is first used 2011-02-01 2591
The Emergency commences 2010-02-01 1668
The Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France sign the Treaty of Toledo 2010-11-01 4232
The Emperor Charles V invades Italy 2010-11-01 1193
The Emperor Charles V marries Isabella of Portugal 2010-11-01 910
The Emperor declares war on Turkey 2011-04-01 1158
The Emperor Ferdinand II declares Wallenstein a traitor 2011-02-01 2253
The Emperor Ferdinand II suspects Wallenstein of treachery 2011-02-01 2046
The Emperor Matthias signs a peace treaty with the Turks 2011-02-01 1247
The Emperor Maximilian II establishes a supervisory Monastic Council 2011-02-01 480
The Emperor refuses to agree to the Treaty of Prague 2011-02-01 794
The Emperor Rudolf II forced to permit freedom of religion in Bohemia 2011-02-01 2106
The Emperor Rudolf is forced to resign the Bohemian crown 2011-02-01 2145
The Empire and Russia conclude a military alliance against Turkey 2011-04-01 1038
The Empire, Russia and Prussia agree to act together to oppose Poland 2011-04-01 923
The English abandon Haddington to the Scots 2010-11-01 1394
The English army is summoned to Tilbury to repel invasion 2011-02-01 1208
The English bombard St Malo 2011-04-01 1600
The English Council undertake an enquiry into the plantation of Ulster 2011-02-01 1411
The English Merchants Adventurers Company leave Antwerp for Emden 2011-02-01 1164
The English Parliament is prorogued 2011-02-01 1190
The English parliament passes strict laws against Protestant dissenters 2010-03-01 3356
The English Parliament presses Queen Elizabeth to marry 2011-02-01 781
The English Parliament reassembles 2011-02-01 1154
The English plantation of Munster is attempted 2011-02-01 1740
The English Treasury is put in commission after corruption is revealed 2011-02-01 1105
The Engraver’s Copyright Bill receives royal assent 2006-12-12 1366
The Estates of Poland declare the monarchy elective 2011-02-01 731
The Eureka Stockade 2010-03-01 424
The ex-Emperor Charles V dies 2011-02-01 800
The Examiner (2) 2010-06-21 4519
The exiled Duke of Bourbon expels Admiral Bonnivet from Milan 2010-11-01 1273
The expanding-universe theory proposed 2009-05-01 635
The False Dmitri appears in Poland 2011-02-01 1298
The False Dmitri enters Moscow and assassinates the Tsar 2011-02-01 811
The False Dmitri is defeated by Tsar Boris Godunov 2011-02-01 1131
The False Dmitri is murdered in Russia 2011-02-01 879
The financial Panic of 1819 2010-03-01 1303
The Financial Panic of 1873 begins; 5,183 business fail 2010-03-01 1244
The first big cattle drive 2010-03-01 887
The First Covenant is signed in Scotland 2011-02-01 2011
The first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity 2009-05-01 2245
The first Islamic conquests in the Indian subcontinent 2009-05-01 1170
The first national women's rights convention held in Worcester, Mass. 2010-03-01 2506
The first Parliament of George II is dissolved 2011-04-01 695
The first Peace of Kappel ends the civil war in Switzerland 2010-11-01 1251
The first Woman's Rights Convention held in New York 2010-03-01 1582
The Flemish language is admitted in courts of Flanders 2011-12-30 668
The fourth Parliament of William III meets 2011-04-01 744
The Franco-Swedish alliance is renewed for three years 2011-02-01 945
The Frankish Civil War 2009-05-01 7178
The French ambassador is recalled from London 2011-12-30 925
The French are defeated by an Anglo-Spanish force at St. Quentin 2011-02-01 2079
The French army capitulate at Aversa 2010-11-01 958
The French army crosses the Rhine at Tolhuys 2011-04-01 1163
The French army in Lombardy retreats 2010-11-01 1158
The French army occupies Alsace 2011-02-01 1151
The French army under Admiral Bonnivet crosses the River Ticino 2010-11-01 1200
The French attempt to establish a colonial empire in West Africa 2011-04-01 1170
The French attempt to recover Boulogne 2010-11-01 1066
The French bombard Genoa 2011-04-01 777
The French build Fort Niagara against the British 2011-04-01 1446
The French burn Baden-Baden 2011-04-01 1555
The French campaign in the Netherlands fails 2011-04-01 745
The French capitulate at Cassel and evacuate the right bank of the Rhine 2011-12-30 263
The French capture Ambleteuse and begin the siege of Boulogne 2010-11-01 959
The French capture Namur 2011-04-01 1595
The French capture Sainte-Menehould from the Spanish 2011-04-01 235
The French capture St. Andrews Castle, Scotland 2010-11-01 1417
The French conquer Madras 2011-04-01 1150
The French defeat Imperial troops at Villaviciosa 2011-04-01 2502
The French destroy Heidelberg, and ravage the Rhineland 2011-04-01 1738
The French drive the Spaniards from Canosa 2010-11-01 1308
The French East India Company receives its charter 2011-02-01 940
The French enter the Bay of Rio de Janiero 2011-04-01 1077
The French establish a legation in China 2011-04-01 580
The French evacuate Prague and return to France 2011-04-01 746
The French fail to take Orbetello 2011-02-01 981
The French fleet is captured in Rapallo 2010-11-01 2748
The French fleet leaves the Solent unscathed 2010-11-01 1609
The French fortify Crown Point on Lake Champlain 2011-04-01 1465
The French gain Mauritius from the Dutch 2011-04-01 1030
The French gain the Austrian Netherlands 2011-04-01 1001
The French garrison in Novara capitulates to Ludovico Sforza 2010-11-01 1743
The French invade Italy 2011-02-01 1197
The French invade Italy and advance as far as Rivoli 2010-11-01 1197
The French occupy Liège 2011-04-01 1686
The French occupy Lorraine 2011-02-01 1013
The French occupy Lorraine and the Electorate of Trèves 2011-04-01 1095
The French occupy Martinique and Guadeloupe 2011-02-01 1421
The French occupy Mauritius and call it Ile de France 2011-04-01 949
The French occupy Pondicherry and Coromandel Coast in India 2011-04-01 1097
The French occupy the Palatinate 2011-04-01 1526
The French prepare for an invasion of England 2011-04-01 1792
The French send an expedition against the Barbary pirates 2011-04-01 986
The French Senegal company is founded 2011-04-01 926
The French States-General agree to support the young Duke of Guise 2011-02-01 2256
The French States-General are dismissed with vague promises of reforms 2011-02-01 993
The French States-General assemble at Paris 2011-02-01 1271
The French surrender to Clive and Lawrence in south India 2011-04-01 1416
The French take Chandarnaga, north of Calcutta 2011-04-01 1118
The French take Charleroi 2011-04-01 1616
The French take Freiburg 2011-04-01 793
The French take Minorca 2011-12-30 1261
The French take Montmidi in Luxemburg 2011-04-01 932
The French take Montserrat from the English 2011-04-01 1423
The French take Pavia and Genoa 2010-11-01 881
The French take Thionville from the English 2011-02-01 1383
The French take Tortosa 2011-04-01 580
The French under Bonnivet are forced to abandon the siege of Milan 2010-11-01 1261
The French under Condé occupy Franche-Comté 2011-04-01 710
The French under Harcourt raise the siege of Lerida 2011-02-01 720
The future Louis XIII of France is born to Queen Marie de' Medici 2011-02-01 1164
The future Louis XIV is born 2011-02-01 706
The Gallican Church is reconciled with the Papacy 2011-04-01 726
The Geiger–Marsden experiment 2009-05-01 1116
The Genoese occupy Savona 2010-11-01 835
The German Catholic League is persuaded to fight for Ferdinand II 2011-02-01 2329
The German Diet declares war against France 2011-04-01 1394
The German Protestant princes deliberate at Schmalkalden 2010-11-01 1751
The German Protestant princes meet at Heilbronn 2011-02-01 648
The Ghaznavid dynasty founded in Afghanistan 2009-05-01 972
The Goths 2005-11-16 3899
The Grand Duke of Tuscany dies 2011-04-01 448
The Grand Tour 2005-05-10 6235
The Great Attractor theory 2009-05-01 319
The Great Elector conquers Stralsund from the Swedes 2011-04-01 982
The Great Elector invades Prussia to resist a Swedish advance 2011-04-01 1281
The Great Elector is forced to submit to Charles X of Sweden 2011-04-01 764
The Great Elector makes preliminary peace with Louis XIV 2011-04-01 969
The Great Elector of Brandenburg aids the Danes 2011-04-01 1246
The Great Elector offers refuge to French Huguenots 2011-04-01 1333
The Great Elector summons a Diet in Prussia 2011-04-01 573
The Great Elector takes Greifswald from Sweden 2011-04-01 993
The Great Hunger - The Irish Potato Famine 2010-02-01 2304
The Great Northern War 2010-02-01 1908
The Great Terror in France 2007-12-22 2789
The Greek Government submits to British demands for compensation 2011-12-30 611
The Grisons leader, George Jenatsch, is assassinated 2011-02-01 800
The Gutenberg Bible 2010-02-01 3081
The Habsburg archdukes rebel against the Emperor Rudolf II 2011-02-01 1184
The Habsburgs are recognised as rulers of Transylvania 2011-04-01 451
The Hague Conference for peace negotiations is opened 2011-04-01 2426
The Halfway Covenant adopted 2010-03-01 1747
The Hanoverian Alliance is joined by Denmark 2011-04-01 1467
The Hapsburg administration of Austria is reorganised 2010-11-01 722
The Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago 2010-03-01 1192
The Hindu religion is banned in India by Aurangzeb 2011-04-01 181
The Holy Roman Empire establishes standing army 2011-04-01 544
The Homestead Act 2010-03-01 1160
The House of Commons petitions James I against levying impositions 2011-02-01 1183
The House of Habsburg abandons Transylvania to Stephen Bocskai 2011-02-01 1289
The House of Lords condemns the Spanish marriage treaty 2011-02-01 798
The Huguenot Lesdiguières takes Grenoble for Henry IV 2011-02-01 2309
The Humble Petition and Advice is presented to Parliament despite army opposition 2010-02-01 738
The Hungarian Diet accepts the Grand Duke Francis as co-ruler 2011-04-01 783
The Hungarian Diet rejects the Pragmatic Sanction 2011-04-01 943
The Huns 2005-11-16 1299
The Imperial army joins forces with the French 2011-12-30 1183
The imperial army leaves Rome to meet French advance 2010-11-01 1367
The imperial campaign against the Turks in Hungary fails 2010-11-01 1175
The Imperial Diet is summoned by Rudolf II 2011-02-01 828
The Imperial Diet opens in Worms 2010-11-01 1606
The imperialist general Prospero Colonna dies 2010-11-01 919
The imperialists drive the French from Genoa 2010-11-01 958
The imperialists take Philippsburg from the French 2011-02-01 845
The Importants in France are suppressed 2011-02-01 921
The independent British Colony of Kaffraria is incorporated with Cape Colony 2011-12-30 1635
The infant John Sigismund Zápolya succeeds as King of Hungary 2010-11-01 2858
The Infante Charles of Austria takes over as Governor of the Netherlands 2010-11-01 639
The Infante Juan of Spain dies 2010-11-01 683
The Inquisition becomes very active in Spain 2010-02-01 1744
The international powers blockade Greece 2011-12-30 566
The International Workers of the World (the IWW or the Wobblies) formed 2010-03-01 1054
The Interstate Commerce Act adopted 2010-03-01 1505
The Irish rebellion is effectively crushed 2011-02-01 2135
The Jacobites are defeated at Sheriffmuir 2011-04-01 1057
The Kansas Nebraska Act 2010-03-01 1460
The Khitan found the Liao dynasty 2009-05-01 565
The King's delegates seize the greater monasteries in England and Wales 2010-11-01 2697
The Knights Hospitallers are established in Malta 2010-11-01 514
The Knights of St. John defend Malta from the Turks 2011-02-01 620
The Kosciuszko Uprising 2009-05-01 1556
The lands of Luneburg-Celle are united with Hanover 2011-04-01 785
The last independent convocation of the clergy is held in England 2010-11-01 2617
The League of the Rhine is dissolved by France's allies 2011-04-01 972
The League proclaims Cardinal of Bourbon as King Charles X 2011-02-01 1218
The Lewis and Clark Expedition 2010-02-01 2355
The Liberal Midhat Pasha forms ministry in Constantinople 2011-12-30 800
The Lisbon spice market is closed to Dutch and English merchants 2011-02-01 1467
The London headquarters of the Hanseatic League is closed 2011-02-01 1298
The Long Parliament meets again 2011-04-01 1013
The Mahdi in Khartoum reject British attempts at negotiations 2011-12-30 306
The Mahdi takes Omdurman 2011-12-30 199
The Manchester Guardian first printed 2007-12-12 1425
The Manchus proclaim the Ch'ing dynasty at Mukden 2011-02-01 315
The Mann-Elkins Act 2010-03-01 421
The Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister for a second term 2010-01-01 2463
The Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister for the first time 2010-01-01 2583
The Marquess of Salisbury becomes Prime Minister for the first time 2013-08-30 1873
The Marquess of Salisbury becomes Prime Minister for the second time 2013-08-30 1899
The Marquess of Salisbury becomes Prime Minister for the third time 2013-08-30 2545
The Marquis of Ensenada is dismissed in Spain for intriguing with France 2011-04-01 1329
The Marquis of Santa Cruz, the Spanish admiral, dies 2011-02-01 1500
The Marquis of Tavora and his wife are executed in Portugal 2011-12-30 1227
The Mayflower Compact signed 2010-03-01 3257
The Maypole at Merry Mount 2010-01-01 2686
The Mississippian Period begins in the central North American Continent 2009-05-01 765
The Missouri crisis 2010-03-01 1377
The Mogul Emperor Akbar annexes Afghanistan 2011-02-01 746
The Mogul Emperor Akbar annexes Khandesh 2011-02-01 749
The Mogul Emperor Akbar takes Kandahar 2011-02-01 896
The Mogul Emperor Akbar takes Sind 2011-02-01 1308
The Mogul Emperor Barbar invades the Punjab 2010-11-01 750
The Muromachi Shogun submits to Oda Nobunaga 2010-03-01 328
The national debt is established in England 2011-04-01 1203
The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry founded 2010-03-01 950
The Negro Conspiracy of 1741 2010-03-01 2630
The Netherlands are made independent of the Empire 2010-11-01 1372
The New East India Company is granted a charter by William III 2011-04-01 1310
The New Testament becomes available in English 2010-03-01 3236
The Newburgh Conspiracy 2010-03-01 1664
The Night Attack 2009-05-01 1244
The nobility and clergy withdraw from the Cortes of Castile 2010-11-01 1103
The Northwest Ordinance 2010-03-01 2070
The Norwegian Constitution is reformed 2011-12-30 1064
The Notables meet in Paris at Richelieu's instigation 2011-02-01 734
The Office of Price Administration established 2010-03-01 517
The Old Pretender arrives at Firth of Forth but soon returns to Dunkirk 2011-04-01 1063
The Pacification of Perth ends fighting 2011-02-01 1374
The Palatinate becomes Protestant 2010-11-01 491
The Parlement of Paris calls for the exclusion of foreigners from office 2011-02-01 1195
The Parlement of Paris seizes the Archbishop of Paris' possessions 2011-04-01 1901
The Peace of Bergerac ends the Sixth War of Religion 2011-02-01 1566
The Peace of Cardan restores of Ulrich of Wurttemberg to his duchy 2010-11-01 1194
The Peace of Constantinople 2011-02-01 1276
The Peace of Ferrara 2011-02-01 1055
The Peace of Iaşi (Jassy) 2010-03-01 1104
The Peace of Kappel creates Catholic and Protestant areas of Switzerland 2010-11-01 2292
The Peace of Kardis between Russia and Sweden 2011-04-01 1179
The Peace of Knarod 2011-02-01 970
The Peace of Madrid between Venice and Austria 2011-02-01 968
The Peace of Madrid is ratified 2011-02-01 986
The Peace of Rastatt between France and Emperor 2011-04-01 2648
The Peace of Susa ends the war between England and France 2011-02-01 1295
The Peasants' Revolt in south Germany is suppressed 2010-11-01 1170
The Persians capture Kandahar 2011-04-01 696
The Phallic Stage 2005-10-24 10763
The Pilgrim Fathers set off for North America in the Mayflower 2011-12-20 5919
The Pilgrimage of Grace 2005-06-17 4231
The Poles defeat the Cossacks and Tartars 2011-04-01 1329
The Pope's son is murdered 2010-11-01 855
The Portuguese are expelled from China 2010-11-01 389
The Portuguese are forced to leave Bengal 2011-02-01 1324
The Portuguese begin settlement at Angola 2010-11-01 1000
The Portuguese Cortes at Thomar submit to Philip II 2011-02-01 1030
The Portuguese secure trading privileges at Martaban in Burma 2010-11-01 1000
The Portuguese settle at Macao 2011-02-01 561
The Portuguese settle at Mombasa 2011-02-01 655
The Pragmatic Sanction is recognised by Estates of Upper and Lower Austria 2011-04-01 829
The Prayer Book rising in the West Country is ended 2010-11-01 2695
The Presbyterian “Westminster Confession” adopted by Parliament 2010-02-01 6381
The Prince of Condé and John Casimir of the Palatinate invade France 2011-02-01 2802
The Prince of Condé arrested and imprisoned in the Bastille 2011-02-01 967
The Prince of Condé invades Spain 2011-02-01 944
The Prince of Condé rebels against the Queen Mother and Concino Concini 2011-02-01 1425
The Prince of Condé retires from military affairs 2011-04-01 785
The Prince of Condé takes control of Poitou 2011-02-01 1343
The Prince of Neuburg seizes Jülich 2011-02-01 1230
The Protector's brother is executed for treason 2010-11-01 1514
The Protestant princes denounce the Council of Trent 2010-11-01 672
The Protestant Princes of Germany meet at Ulm 2010-11-01 2025
The Protestant Union assists the Bohemian rebels 2011-02-01 2457
The Protestant Union in Germany is dissolved 2011-02-01 691
The Protestant Union meet at Heilbronn 2011-02-01 879
The proton-proton chain and CNO cycle in stars detailed 2009-05-01 729
The Province of Holland passes an Act of exclusion against William III 2011-04-01 496
The Prussian legation at the Vatican is restored 2011-12-30 660
The quipu becomes the standard recording device of the Andean civilizations 2009-05-01 1682
The Ratisbon assembly forces Ferdinand II to dismiss Wallenstein 2011-02-01 2537
The reactionary Ramon Narvaez becomes premier of Spain 2011-12-30 1424
The Real 2004-03-07 7158
The rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace submit to Henry VIII at York 2010-11-01 2511
The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2010-03-01 1404
The ruler of Transylvania is assassinated by imperialists 2010-11-01 1014
The Russians retire into Poland 2011-12-30 601
The Russo-Prussian alliance revised 2010-03-01 875
The Rutherford model or planetary model of the atom formulated 2009-05-01 1292
The Sachs–Wolfe effect posited 2009-05-01 937
The Sack of Lawrence 2010-03-01 1042
The Schmalkaldic League begins to disintegrate 2010-11-01 1843
The Schmalkaldic League loses important members 2010-11-01 2362
The Schmalkaldic League takes the imperial city of Donauwörth 2010-11-01 2128
The Scots attack Northumberland and the borders 2010-11-01 1740
The Scots settle at Acadia in Nova Scotia 2011-02-01 1197
The Scottish Covenanters defeat Royal troops at Drumclog 2011-04-01 701
The Scottish Covenanters take Edinburgh and key towns 2011-02-01 1740
The Scottish National Covenant is signed and circulated 2011-02-01 2147
The Scottish Parliament enquires into the massacre of Glencoe 2011-04-01 1114
The Scottish Parliament is dissolved 2011-02-01 1305
The Scottish Parliament meets 2010-11-01 1167
The Scottish settlement at Acadia (Nova Scotia) fails 2011-02-01 1254
The Second False Dmitri defeats Tsar Shuisky 2011-02-01 1272
The secretary of the Spanish ambassador is seized in Naples 2011-02-01 695
The sit-in movement begins 2010-03-01 3657
The Sixteen establish a revolutionary government in Paris 2011-02-01 2250
The size of the British army is drastically reduced 2011-04-01 1152
The Slánský trial 2010-03-01 228
The slave trade is forbidden in the District of Columbia 2011-12-30 1059
The Sluices are opened in Holland to save Amsterdam from the French 2011-04-01 747
The Smith Act 2010-03-01 234
The Social Democratic Federation 2010-03-01 1667
The Somerville Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I is discovered 2011-02-01 3288
The Sonderbund league of Catholic Swiss Cantons is established 2011-12-30 723
The South African Republic (Transvaal) is organised 2011-12-30 1237
The Soviet Union and Japan sign Neutrality Pact 2010-02-01 476
The Spaniards are driven from Cerignola 2010-11-01 951
The Spanish Armada is sighted off the Cornish coast 2011-02-01 1392
The Spanish army conquers Naples 2011-04-01 1277
The Spanish army mutinies and sacks Antwerp 2011-02-01 1038
The Spanish army wins the battle of Bitonto 2011-04-01 1746
The Spanish attack on Roussillon fails 2010-11-01 482
The Spanish begin the conquest of Peru 2010-11-01 1123
The Spanish besiege Casale 2011-02-01 1370
The Spanish communeros are defeated 2010-11-01 836
The Spanish fail to take Alkmaar 2011-02-01 889
The Spanish fail to take Haarlem from the Dutch rebels 2011-02-01 1546
The Spanish land in Cornwall 2011-02-01 1306
The Spanish raise the siege of Thionville 2011-02-01 758
The Spanish stronghold of La Fère capitulates to the French 2011-02-01 2240
The Spanish surrender Milan to the French 2010-11-01 1183
The Spanish take Dunkirk 2011-04-01 316
The Spanish take Gravelines 2011-04-01 413
The Spanish take Vercelli 2011-02-01 1048
The Speaker of the House of Commons is expelled for accepting a bribe 2011-04-01 672
The Stadtholder William II dies in Holland 2011-04-01 1590
The Stamp Act Congress 2010-03-01 1326
The Star-Spangled Banner composed 2010-03-01 1190
The Stark effect posited 2009-05-01 956
The States of Holland anticipate civil war 2011-02-01 1027
The Straits Convention 2010-01-01 1850
The Sultan of Turkey promises reforms throughout the Ottoman Empire 2011-12-30 460
The Sunday Times 2013-08-30 1901
The Swabian League expels Ulrich Duke of Wurttemburg from his duchy 2010-11-01 795
The Swedes capitulate at Oldensworth 2011-04-01 1357
The Swedes defeat the Danes at Gadebusch 2011-04-01 1202
The Swedes take Estonia 2011-02-01 1306
The Swedes take Prague 2011-02-01 1346
The Swedes withdraw from Bohemia 2011-02-01 2393
The Swedish army returns to the Palatinate 2011-02-01 933
The Swiss attack Dijon 2010-11-01 954
The Swiss desert Julius II 2010-11-01 1249
The Synod of Dort ends 2011-02-01 788
The Synod of Dort opens 2011-02-01 745
The Taiho Code issued in Japan 2009-05-01 2974
The Tartars of Manchu invade China 2011-02-01 495
The Ten Articles are presented to Parliament 2010-11-01 2681
The Third Estate attacks the Taille and the sale of offices 2011-02-01 1327
The third session of the Council of Trent opens 2011-02-01 984
The Thirty-Nine Articles 2005-01-01 4731
The Throgmorton Plot, for a Spanish invasion of England, is discovered 2011-02-01 2146
The Times declares in favour of free trade 2011-12-30 1296
The Times newspaper installs steam press 2007-12-02 1808
The Times publishes letters incriminating Parnell 2011-12-30 1481
The Toltec kingdom of Mexico established 2009-05-01 1031
The Toltec Kukulcan conquers Maya in Yucatan 2009-05-01 1088
The Treaty of Aarau ends the Swiss war 2011-04-01 964
The Treaty of Bristol settles disputes between English and Spanish merchants 2011-02-01 3376
The Treaty of Cherasco ends the War of Mantuan Succession 2011-02-01 2016
The Treaty of Ponts de Cé effectively ends the civil war in France 2011-02-01 566
The Treaty of Preobrazhenskoe 2011-04-01 2173
The Treaty of Saint Germain-en-Laye 2011-02-01 885
The Treaty of Teusina 2011-02-01 1284
The Turkish corsair Dragut recaptures Mehedia from the Spanish 2011-02-01 1619
The Turkish fleet attacks Arab corsairs 2010-11-01 1176
The Turkish fleet harry shipping in the Adriatic 2011-02-01 939
The Turko-Hungarian war is renewed despite a truce 2011-02-01 1092
The Turko-Persian War ends 2011-04-01 848
The Turks capture Tenedos and Lemnos from the Venetians 2011-04-01 1643
The Turks fail to capture Oran in North Africa 2011-02-01 1135
The Turks invade Hungary 2010-11-01 1026
The Turks invade Hungary 2011-02-01 1262
The Turks lose Timisoara to the Empire 2011-04-01 1028
The Turks mass on the borders of Syria 2011-04-01 684
The Turks occupy Moldavia 2010-11-01 939
The Turks occupy Tabriz, Persia 2010-11-01 674
The Turks proclaim Emeric Tokoly King of Hungary 2011-04-01 899
The Turks ravage Vicenza 2010-11-01 800
The Turks sack Nicosia, Cyprus 2011-02-01 853
The Turks take Famagusta, Cyprus 2011-02-01 1373
The Turks take Hungary 2010-11-01 1180
The Turks take Raab from the Austrians 2011-02-01 1208
The Tuscarora Indian War 2010-03-01 3369
The Uighur Turks of Central Asia are pushed out by the Khirgiz 2009-05-01 1390
The United Provinces adopt a Calvinist 'Netherlands Confession' 2011-02-01 678
The United Provinces appoint William of Orange as Captain-General 2011-04-01 833
The United Provinces sign a commercial treaty with Persia 2011-02-01 1093
The United States bombs North Vietnam 2010-03-01 1755
The universities endorse Henry VIII's divorce 2010-11-01 2124
The vacuum-insulated, silver-plated glass Dewar invented 2013-08-30 763
The Venetians finally surrender Crete to the Turks 2011-04-01 1260
The Vice-Royalty of New Grenada is separated from Peru 2011-04-01 487
The Visigoths 2005-11-16 1875
The visitation of the greater monasteries in England begins 2010-11-01 3251
The War of Kalmer begins between Denmark and Sweden 2011-02-01 1288
The War Party take over in Sweden 2011-04-01 649
The Warden of the East March is captured by the Scots 2010-11-01 1682
The Welsh expel the Anglo-Normans 2013-03-28 1190
The white dwarf maximum mass limit discovered 2011-03-01 1074
The XYZ Affair 2010-03-01 892
The Yoro Code of Japan completed 2009-05-01 3828
Theatre Regulation Act 2010-02-01 2989
Theatre Workshop 2006-08-21 1305
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg becomes German chancellor 2011-03-01 609
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg visits St. Petersburg 2010-03-01 395
Theodor Svedberg develops the ultra-centrifuge 2009-05-01 788
Theodore III, son of Alexis, becomes Tsar of Russia 2011-04-01 1093
Theodore Roosevelt ends U.S. coal strike 2010-03-01 1451
Theodore Roosevelt's 'New Nationalism' 2010-03-01 1006
Theophile Delcasse appointed French foreign secretary 2011-12-30 788
Théophraste Renaudot founds La Gazette 2008-01-01 3212
Theorem on Gaussian-Markoff processes stated 2011-03-01 691
Theory of continental drift proposed 2009-05-01 335
Theory of epidemic diseases formulated 2009-05-01 489
Theory of neutron absorption by atomic nuclei proposed 2011-03-01 591
Theory of prime numbers first formulated 2009-05-01 683
Theory of radioactivity starts being developed by Marie Curie 2009-05-01 2158
Theory of special relativity completed; law of mass-energy conservation stated 2009-05-01 2317
Thermodynamic simulated annealing algorithms introduced 2011-03-01 691
Thermometer built by Galilei 2009-05-01 2825
Thérouanne surrenders to the English 2010-11-01 916
Thiers becomes head of French executive 2011-12-30 1273
Thiers elected French President 2011-12-30 828
Thiers forms opposition Third Party in France 2011-12-30 563
Third Anglo-Afghan War 2010-02-01 1936
Third Anglo-Burmese War 2010-02-01 1395
Third Austrian invasion of Serbia 2010-02-01 812
Third civil war in the French Wars of Religion 2010-03-01 2481
Third Crusade 2010-02-01 1415
Third Duma meets, elected on restricted franchise 2010-03-01 496
Third German naval bill 2010-03-01 1058
Third Irish Home Rule Bill 2010-02-01 1455
Third Maori War breaks out in New Zealand 2011-03-01 2537
Third Parliament of Anne, with a Whig majority, meets 2011-04-01 1286
Third Parliament of Charles II meets 2011-04-01 595
Third Parliament of George II 2011-04-01 589
Third Partition of Poland by Prussia, Russia, and Austria 2009-05-01 2842
Third Protectorate Parliament assembles 2011-03-01 658
Third Protectorate Parliament dissolved 2010-02-01 1096
Third Reconstruction Act 2010-03-01 983
Third Reform Act 2010-01-01 2880
Third Reform Bill introduced in House of Commons 2011-12-30 2661
Third revolution in Vienna 2011-12-30 423
Third session of the 'Reformation Parliament' 2010-11-01 2461
Thirty-Nine Articles reissued 2010-02-01 1952
Thomas Becket becomes Archbishop of Canterbury 2012-07-31 1825
Thomas Becket is murdered 2012-07-31 848
Thomas Boleyn is sent to the Pope to press for Henry VIII's divorce 2010-11-01 614
Thomas Cook organises his first excursion 2010-02-01 1325
Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury 2010-11-01 1687
Thomas Cranmer is deposed and executed 2011-02-01 869
Thomas Cromwell is appointed Lord Privy Seal 2010-11-01 2030
Thomas Cromwell is appointed Vicar General 2010-11-01 2311
Thomas Cromwell is arrested for treason 2010-11-01 1681
Thomas Cromwell is created Earl of Essex 2010-11-01 1877
Thomas Earl of Sussex harries the Scottish border 2011-02-01 1460
Thomas Edison invents the light bulb 2010-02-01 2022
Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, is appointed Lord Treasurer 2011-02-01 1248
Thomas Lord Wentworth becomes Charles I's principal adviser 2011-02-01 1271
Thomas Lord Wentworth is appointed Deputy of Ireland 2011-02-01 983
Thomas Osborne is impeached by the House of Commons 2011-04-01 1799
Thomas Paine publishes The Crisis 2010-03-01 772
Thomas Wentworth is appointed President of the Council in the North 2011-02-01 953
Thomas Wentworth is created Earl of Strafford 2011-02-01 1170
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, executed 2010-02-01 1278
Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed Governor of Virginia 2011-02-01 1221
Thomas Wolsey begins secret negotiations for a peace with France 2010-11-01 1227
Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York 2010-11-01 1715
Thomas Wolsey is appointed Lord Chancellor of England 2010-01-01 1499
Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, is sent back to the Tower on suspicion of treason 2011-02-01 1274
Thomas, Earl of Kildare is imprisoned for alleged treasons 2010-11-01 2284
Thomé de Souza founds Sao Salvador 2010-11-01 1167
Thor’s Oak felled 2009-05-01 1649
Thorough factory inspection in Germany 2011-12-30 639
Thousands of Protestants are expelled from Salzburg 2011-04-01 211
Three Antarctic voyages by James Clark Ross 2010-01-01 1042
Three component theory of the interstellar medium proposed 2009-05-01 291
Three Nights' Blitz over Swansea 2010-03-01 2749
Three possible heirs to the English throne are sentenced to death 2010-11-01 1412
Three-Kings' League of Prussia, Saxony and Hanover 2011-12-30 784
Threnody 2001-11-01 4949
Tianjin Massacre 2010-02-01 1141
Ticket-of-leave system set up by Governor King 2010-03-01 935
Tilly co-operates with Wallenstein in Brunswick 2011-02-01 1824
Tilly defeats Christian IV of Denmark at Lutter 2011-02-01 2148
Timbuktu captured by Moroccan troops 2010-03-01 679
Timur builds the Registan 2010-03-01 695
Timur defeats the Ottomans at Ankara 2010-03-01 898
Timur invades India and sacks the capital, Delhi 2010-03-01 1507
Timur sacks Baghdad a second time 2010-03-01 1101
Timur's grandson, Ulugh Beg, dies 2010-03-01 734
Timur's mausoleum is built in Samarkand 2010-03-01 760
Tippoo of Mysore attacks Rajah of Travancore 2010-03-01 738
Tippoo of Mysore cedes land to Britain 2010-03-01 692
Tithe Commutation Act 2010-02-01 1232
Tithes 2004-07-14 7941
Titus Oates gives his rendition of the Popish Plot before a magistrate 2011-04-01 1194
Titus Oates is flogged through the streets of London 2011-04-01 1696
Tlatelolco massacre 2010-02-01 641
Tobago is established as a colony of James, Duke of Courland 2011-04-01 1078
Toleration Act passed by the English Parliament 2010-02-01 1437
Tolpuddle Martyrs 2010-02-01 1655
Tom Mann arrested 2010-03-01 926
Topos 2001-11-01 17822
Tortuga, off Hispaniola, is settled by pirates 2011-02-01 1421
Tournai surrenders to the English 2010-11-01 1161
Townshend Acts 2010-02-01 2265
Townshend becomes Secretary of State in a Whig ministry 2011-04-01 1249
Townshend is dismissed as Secretary of State 2011-04-01 507
Townshend resigns as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 2011-04-01 890
Tractarian Movement 2010-02-01 3913
Trade Disputes Act 2013-08-30 747
Trade Disputes Act 2010-02-01 1178
Trade unions in France are legalised 2011-12-30 1092
Trail of Tears 2010-02-01 3104
Traitorous Correspondence Act 2010-03-01 1873
Trans-Amazonian Highway inaugurated 2010-02-01 706
Transference 2005-10-25 7174
Translation of Ptolemy's Geography 2010-03-01 2122
Transportation of convicted criminals 2010-02-01 2183
Transvaal allies with Orange Free State 2011-12-30 850
Transvaal and Orange Free State granted autonomy 2010-02-01 902
Transvaal Boers under Kruger declare a Republic 2011-12-30 1944
Transvaal Commission favours immigrant Chinese labour 2010-03-01 505
Transvaal declares itself independent of Britain 2011-12-30 1631
Transvaal government gives franchise to immigrants after seven years residence 2011-12-30 470
Transvaal granted constitution 2010-03-01 1304
Transvaal Republic is proclaimed 2011-12-30 1459
Transylvania revolts against the Emperor Rudolf II 2011-02-01 832
Transylvania unites with Romania 2009-05-01 475
Treason Act 2010-02-01 2374
Treason Trials 2006-01-21 3791
Treaties of Tianjin 2010-01-01 2070
Treaties of Tilsit 2008-05-26 3123
Treaty 'Malus intercursus' between England and the Netherlands 2010-11-01 6133
Treaty at Hague 2011-04-01 874
Treaty between Austria and Russia against Prussia 2011-12-30 755
Treaty between Bolivia and Chile 2011-12-30 160
Treaty between England and Holland regulates trade in the East 2011-02-01 1323
Treaty between Russia and Prussia 2010-03-01 927
Treaty between Spain and Bavaria to partition the Habsburg lands 2011-04-01 815
Treaty between Spain and Peru effectively recognises Peruvian independence 2011-12-30 411
Treaty between Turkey and the Empire reduces the power of Transylvania 2011-02-01 807
Treaty between Venice and Turkey is signed at Constantinople 2010-11-01 1581
Treaty for separation of Holland and Belgium is accepted internationally 2011-12-30 459
Treaty of Abo/ Turku: Sweden grants Finland to Russia 2010-02-01 1821
Treaty of Addis Ababa 2010-02-01 1258
Treaty of Adrianople (Edirne) ends Russo-Turkish war 2010-02-01 1808
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle 2010-01-01 1954
Treaty of Alcacovas 2010-03-01 2352
Treaty of Alexandropol 2011-03-01 345
Treaty of alliance between France and Sardinia 2011-12-30 737
Treaty of Amiens - peace between Britain and France 2007-01-01 3446
Treaty of Amity between England and France 2011-04-01 668
Treaty of Angouleme 2011-02-01 1204
Treaty of Antwerp between England and the Empire 2010-11-01 3414
Treaty of Aranjuez between Spain and Empire 2011-04-01 431
Treaty of Arras 2010-03-01 1467
Treaty of Arras effects a reconciliation with Philip II 2011-02-01 1068
Treaty of Assistance between Brandenburg and the Netherlands 2011-04-01 898
Treaty of Augsburg 2010-03-01 2541
Treaty of Badajoz 2010-03-01 865
Treaty of Barcelona 2010-03-01 2339
Treaty of Barcelona between Pope Clement VII and Charles V 2010-11-01 4750
Treaty of Bardo: Tunisia becomes a French Protectorate 2011-03-01 1322
Treaty of Barwalde 2011-02-01 1740
Treaty of Basle 2010-03-01 1421
Treaty of Bassein 2010-03-01 952
Treaty of Belgrade between Russia and Turkey 2011-04-01 1203
Treaty of Berlin between Germany and Latvia 2010-03-01 308
Treaty of Berlin between the Emperor and Prussia 2011-04-01 1150
Treaty of Berlin divides Bulgaria 2011-12-30 807
Treaty of Berwick 2011-02-01 1768
Treaty of Berwick between England and Lords of the Scottish Congregation 2011-02-01 1559
Treaty of Blois between Louis XII and Ferdinand I of Aragon 2010-11-01 3777
Treaty of Blois signed between France and Burgundy 2010-11-01 1833
Treaty of Bordesholm has Christian II abandon claim to Schleswig-Holstein 2010-11-01 1234
Treaty of Breslau between France and Prussia to partition the Empire 2011-04-01 1264
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 2010-03-01 674
Treaty of Bretigny 2010-03-01 1028
Treaty of Bromberg 2011-04-01 1409
Treaty of Bucharest (2) 2009-05-01 752
Treaty of Bucharest: end of Russo-Turkish War 2010-02-01 1540
Treaty of Buczacz 2011-04-01 1286
Treaty of Calais between Henry VIII and Charles V 2010-11-01 2769
Treaty of Campo Formio: peace between Austria and France 2010-02-01 3134
Treaty of Chambard confirms alliance between German princes and France 2010-11-01 916
Treaty of Charlottenburg between Britain and Prussia 2011-04-01 1430
Treaty of Chaumont 2010-03-01 2748
Treaty of Commerce between England and Sweden 2011-04-01 915
Treaty of commerce between Siam and Britain 2011-12-30 638
Treaty of Constantinople 2009-05-01 1082
Treaty of Constantinople between Russia and Turkey 2011-04-01 1323
Treaty of Copenhagen 2010-03-01 768
Treaty of Dusseldorf 2011-02-01 1123
Treaty of Edinburgh between England and Scotland 2011-02-01 1377
Treaty of Escurial between France and Spain against England 2011-04-01 1219
Treaty of Etaples 2010-03-01 2072
Treaty of federation of Straits Settlements 2011-12-30 249
Treaty of Fontainebleau 2010-03-01 945
Treaty of Fontainebleau 2010-03-01 1848
Treaty of Fontainebleau between France and Maximilian of Bavaria 2011-02-01 1140
Treaty of Frederiksborg 2010-02-01 1431
Treaty of Freiburg pledges 'perpetual peace' between French and Swiss 2010-11-01 2885
Treaty of Friedewalde between German princes and France 2010-11-01 1014
Treaty of friendship between Germany and South African Republic 2011-12-30 750
Treaty of friendship between Japan and Korea 2011-12-30 572
Treaty of Gandamak 2010-02-01 1374
Treaty of Ghent ends war between Britain and USA 2006-02-02 1222
Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo - USA gains Texas and California from Mexico 2008-05-26 1600
Treaty of Gulistan 2010-02-01 1431
Treaty of Hamburg between Sweden and Prussia 2011-12-30 1388
Treaty of Hampton Court 2010-03-01 2302
Treaty of Hanover between Britain (Hanover) and France 2011-04-01 1447
Treaty of Herrenhausen (or Hanover) between Britain, France and Prussia 2011-04-01 1418
Treaty of Hildesheim 2011-04-01 668
Treaty of Hyderabad 2011-03-01 858
Treaty of Joinville 2011-02-01 4522
Treaty of Jüterbog 2011-02-01 1003
Treaty of Kalisz 2010-03-01 1028
Treaty of Kanagawa 2007-12-12 1594
Treaty of Karlsburg re-affirms Ferdinand's rights in Hungary and Transylvania 2010-11-01 1295
Treaty of Kiel 2010-03-01 1253
Treaty of Kilkenny 2010-02-01 1437
Treaty of Königsberg between Brandenburg and Sweden 2011-04-01 990
Treaty of Kutahya: Turkey recognises independence of Egypt 2010-02-01 1986
Treaty of Labiau between Sweden and Brandenburg 2011-04-01 745
Treaty of Lahore: End of First Sikh War 2010-02-01 969
Treaty of Lausanne 2010-02-01 646
Treaty of Leulinghen 2010-03-01 1060
Treaty of Lindau 2011-02-01 1081
Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognises the independence of Portugal 2011-04-01 1037
Treaty of Livadia between Russia and China 2011-12-30 994
Treaty of London 2010-02-01 967
Treaty of London 2010-02-01 1218
Treaty of London 2010-02-01 1710
Treaty of London between Britain, France, Russia, Denmark and Sweden 2011-12-30 866
Treaty of London guarantees integrity of Denmark 2011-12-30 898
Treaty of Longjumean ends the Second War of Religion in France 2011-02-01 835
Treaty of Loudun ends the Second Civil War in France 2011-02-01 2629
Treaty of Lund brings formal peace between Denmark and Sweden 2011-04-01 987
Treaty of Lyon has France cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon 2010-11-01 2078
Treaty of Lyons between France, Spain and Savoy 2011-02-01 1229
Treaty of Madrid between Spain and France 2011-04-01 1997
Treaty of Madrid confirms Treaty of Badajoz 2010-03-01 824
Treaty of Marcoussis weakens the Holy League 2010-11-01 2374
Treaty of Mechlin between Maximilian, Henry VIII, Ferdinand and Pope Leo X 2010-11-01 2131
Treaty of Mersen (Meerssen) concluded 2009-05-01 2643
Treaty of Montluçon 2010-03-01 2841
Treaty of Monzon between France and Spain 2011-02-01 1732
Treaty of Mundoseer 2010-03-01 900
Treaty of Nanjing: Hong Kong ceded to the British 2004-01-23 4705
Treaty of Nemours provokes 'The War of the Three Henries' 2011-02-01 2061
Treaty of Neutrality between France and Emperor Leopold I 2011-04-01 920
Treaty of non-aggression between France and the United Provinces 2011-02-01 1144
Treaty of Nonsuch 2005-06-17 2491
Treaty of Northampton 2010-03-01 643
Treaty of Nymphenburg between France and Bavaria 2011-04-01 1863
Treaty of Paris - Britain recognizes independence of the United States 2010-01-01 4024
Treaty of Paris between England and France against Spain 2011-04-01 797
Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War 2010-01-01 6284
Treaty of Paris: end of Crimean War 802
Treaty of Paris: European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) established 2010-02-01 1386
Treaty of Passau annuls the Augsburg Interim and allows Lutheranism 2010-11-01 3055
Treaty of Pavia ends war between Spain and Savoy 2011-02-01 1012
Treaty of peace between Britain and Nepal 2011-03-01 879
Treaty of peace concluded 2010-03-01 1043
Treaty of Peking: Chinese ratify treaties with Britain and France 2011-12-30 678
Treaty of Peshawar 2010-01-01 1782
Treaty of Petropolis 2010-03-01 317
Treaty of Pisa 2011-04-01 1463
Treaty of Pressburg 2011-02-01 1239
Treaty of Rapallo 2010-01-01 481
Treaty of Razilly betwen France and Morocco 2011-02-01 958
Treaty of Reichenbach 2010-03-01 2336
Treaty of Riascha 2011-04-01 1178
Treaty of Ribe 2010-03-01 2244
Treaty of Ried 2010-03-01 2399
Treaty of Ripon 2010-02-01 1531
Treaty of Rome founds European Economic Community 2010-02-01 638
Treaty of Rueil ends first Fronde 2011-04-01 2214
Treaty of Rystad (Nystad) concluded 2010-02-01 1595
Treaty of Ryswick (Rijswijk) 2004-06-30 7835
Treaty of Saigon between France and Annam 2011-12-30 1024
Treaty of Saint Julien between Savoy and Geneva 2011-02-01 1257
Treaty of Salamanca sets out a joint rule of Ferdinand, Juana and Philip 2010-11-01 1551
Treaty of San Francisco: peace treaty with Japan 2010-02-01 1015
Treaty of San Lorenzo 2010-03-01 888
Treaty of San Stefano 2010-01-01 1363
Treaty of Saragossa defines the interests of Spain and Portugal in the Pacific 2010-11-01 1728
Treaty of Schönbrunn 2010-03-01 777
Treaty of Senlis between France and the Holy Roman Empire 2010-11-01 2089
Treaty of Seville between Spain, France and Britain 2011-04-01 1393
Treaty of Sèvres 2010-03-01 257
Treaty of Speyer 2010-03-01 913
Treaty of St Petersburg 2010-02-01 1041
Treaty of St. Petersburg 2010-03-01 644
Treaty of St. Petersburg between Russia and Prussia 2011-12-30 1075
Treaty of Stockholm 2010-03-01 970
Treaty of Stockholm between Prussia and Sweden 2010-02-01 1658
Treaty of Stockholm between Sweden and Russia 2011-04-01 917
Treaty of Tangiers 2011-03-01 1415
Treaty of Teschen 2011-03-01 829
Treaty of The Hague 2010-03-01 831
Treaty of Tianjin: Prussia concludes commercial treaty with China 2011-12-30 833
Treaty of Tolentino 2010-03-01 2668
Treaty of Tordesillas 2010-03-01 1732
Treaty of Troyes 2010-03-01 1369
Treaty of Turin: Sardinia cedes Nice and Savoy to France 2010-02-01 1502
Treaty of Ucciali: Italy claims protectorate over Ethiopia/ Eritrea 2011-03-01 1310
Treaty of Ulm with France and Sweden 2011-02-01 2664
Treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi between Turkey and Russia 2011-12-30 1724
Treaty of Valençay 2010-03-01 2372
Treaty of Valparaiso 1006
Treaty of Vercelli between Charles VIII and Milan undermines Holy League 2010-11-01 2359
Treaty of Verdun concluded 2009-05-01 1126
Treaty of Verdun divides the Carolingian empire 2005-11-17 3601
Treaty of Verela 2010-03-01 1302
Treaty of Versailles 2010-02-01 296
Treaty of Vienna between the Emperor and Spain 2011-04-01 926
Treaty of Vienna: end of the war between Austria and Italy 2011-12-30 602
Treaty of Vilna between Russia and Poland 2011-04-01 1431
Treaty of Waitangi 2005-06-01 2842
Treaty of Wanaghiya 2010-02-01 1615
Treaty of Warsaw for the partition of Prussia 2011-04-01 832
Treaty of Washington settles difficulties between Britain and USA 2011-12-30 1018
Treaty of Wehlau 2011-04-01 1105
Treaty of Westminster 2010-01-01 2019
Treaty of Westminster 2010-02-01 733
Treaty of Westminster between Britain and Prussia 2011-12-30 830
Treaty of Westphalia: End of the Thirty Years War 2010-01-01 4555
Treaty of Windsor between Charles V and Henry VIII plans a joint invasion of France 2010-11-01 3115
Treaty of Windsor has Philip promise to extradite Yorkist pretender Suffolk 2010-11-01 15854
Treaty of Windsor: Portugal undertakes to assist Britain in Transvaal 2011-12-30 1717
Treaty of Worms between Maria Theresa, Britain and Sardinia 2011-04-01 1814
Treaty of Wusterhausen between Prussia and the Empire 2011-04-01 1344
Treaty of Xanten 2011-02-01 1877
Treaty of Yandabu ends Burmese War 2011-12-30 1362
Treaty of Zurich confirms the peace of Villafranca 2011-12-30 1850
Treaty of Zurich: Offers recognition of Swiss territories 2010-03-01 1560
Trent affair: Confederate Commissioners to Europe are captured by Unionists 2011-12-30 1985
Trevelyan's bill for extension of household suffrage is defeated 2011-12-30 1264
Trial of Archbishop Cranmer and Bishops Ridley and Latimer 2011-02-01 2535
Trial of Burton, Bastwicke and Prynne 2011-03-01 1775
Trial of Charles I 2010-02-01 2216
Trial of Dr Sacheverell 2010-02-01 993
Trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators 2011-02-01 2023
Trial of Louis XVI 2011-03-01 1868
Trial of Sir John Eliot 2011-02-01 1248
Trial of Strafford opens 2011-02-01 1096
Trial of the Lancashire witches 2011-02-01 1605
Trianon Tariff 2010-03-01 760
Tridentine decrees end hopes of reconciliation with German Protestant princes 2010-11-01 697
Triennial Act 2006-02-17 3308
Triennial Act (II) 2010-02-01 1992
Triennial Act is repealed 2011-04-01 1286
Tripartite Pact 2010-02-01 528
Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy renewed 2011-12-30 997
Triple alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy renewed 2010-03-01 402
Triple Alliance of Britain, France and Holland against the Jacobite Pretender 2011-04-01 1635
Triple Alliance of Emperor, Dutch and Spanish against French 2011-04-01 996
Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria and Italy is renewed for twelve years 2011-12-30 244
Tripoli becomes independent from Turkey 2011-04-01 931
Tristan de Cunha discovers an island which he names after himself 2010-01-01 626
Triton discovered by William Lassell 2013-08-30 844
Trochee (Trochaic) 2001-11-01 5442
Troops put down religious disturbances in Spanish Netherlands 2011-02-01 1194
Trope 2001-11-01 6360
Troy Female Seminary opened 2010-03-01 1633
Truce between England and France 2010-03-01 1669
Truce between France and England 2012-07-31 1019
Truce between Prussia, Saxony and the Empire 2011-12-30 1042
Truce between Russia and Turkey 2011-04-01 1058
Truce between Spain and United Provinces concluded 2010-01-01 1725
Truce of Altmark between Sweden and Poland 2011-02-01 1715
Truce of Andrussov between Russia and Poland ends the Thirteen Years War 2011-04-01 1495
Truce of Malmo between Denmark and Prussia 2011-12-30 799
Truce of Ratisbon between Emperor Leopold I and Louis XIV 2011-04-01 2597
Truce of Vasvar ends war between Turkey and Emperor 2011-04-01 1199
Truce signed between France and Spain at Lyon 2010-11-01 2020
Truce signed with Confederation of Kilkenny 2010-02-01 2214
Truman Doctrine proclaimed 2010-02-01 1365
Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act 2010-02-01 491
Tsar Alexander and his foreign minister visit Berlin 2011-12-30 236
Tsar Alexander I dies 2011-12-30 472
Tsar Alexander II appoints committee to consider emancipation of serfs 2011-12-30 547
Tsar Alexander II assassinated 2010-02-01 1020
Tsar Alexander II grants amnesty for Polish insurgents 2011-12-30 1288
Tsar Alexander III fails to achieve a German-Russian entente 2011-12-30 155
Tsar Alexis takes Smolensk in war with Poland 2011-04-01 1378
Tsar invites powers to co-operate in reducing armaments 2011-12-30 260
Tsar Ivan IV calls the first national assembly in Russia 2010-11-01 320
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia dies 2011-12-30 453
Tsar Nicholas I suggests partition of Ottoman Empire 2011-12-30 1187
Tsar Nicholas II forced to dissolve Second Duma 2010-03-01 453
Tsar Nicholas II promises reforms 2010-03-01 1065
Tsar Nicholas II suppresses liberties in Finland 2011-12-30 1507
Tsar Nicholas II visits Paris and London 2011-12-30 1011
Tsar Peter's second visit to Western Europe 2011-04-01 800
Tsarina Anne dies 2011-04-01 595
Tsarina Elizabeth of Russia dies 2011-12-30 541
Tsunayoshi becomes Shogun of Japan 2011-04-01 271
Tuaregs conquer Timbuktu and seize control of important trade routes 2010-03-01 676
Tughluq dynasty takes control 2010-03-01 923
Tully-Fisher relation discovered 2009-05-01 666
Tulunid dynasty in Egypt 2009-05-01 751
Tunis accepts control by Britain, Italy and France because of bankruptcy 2011-12-30 890
Tunis throws off Turkish suzerainty 2011-04-01 964
Turenne begins his march across the Vosges 2011-04-01 483
Turenne captures Trèves 2011-02-01 665
Turenne concludes treaty for French rebels with Spain 2011-04-01 849
Turenne defeats Bavarians at Nördlingen 2011-02-01 2325
Turenne defeats Condé in the Faubourg St. Antoine 2011-04-01 2326
Turenne defeats the Elector of Bavaria at Zusmarshausen 2011-04-01 1263
Turenne defeats the Great Elector of Bramdenburg at Colmar 2011-04-01 969
Turenne defeats the Savoyards and imperialists 2011-02-01 916
Turenne is defeated at Herbsthausen 2011-02-01 1083
Turenne is killed at Sassbach 2011-04-01 1262
Turenne takes La Capelle from the Spanish 2011-04-01 1022
Turenne's victory over Frondeurs at Jargeau 2011-04-01 2174
Turgot abolishes 'Jurandes' 2010-03-01 1177
Turgot re-introduces free trade in corn 2010-03-01 949
Turkey accepts great powers' peace recommendations 2010-03-01 967
Turkey acquiesces to Russia 2010-03-01 716
Turkey agrees to six-week armistice 2011-12-30 627
Turkey allows Germany to build a railway to Ankara 2011-12-30 543
Turkey allows Montenegro to occupy Dulcigno 2011-12-30 746
Turkey and Hungary signs a seven-year truce 2010-11-01 1227
Turkey and Russia sign a treaty of neutrality 2011-04-01 682
Turkey besieges Vienna 2004-04-08 4173
Turkey cedes Orova to Austria 2010-03-01 1017
Turkey declares war against Russia 2011-04-01 825
Turkey declares war on France 2010-02-01 2570
Turkey declares war on Mohammed Ali, Khedive of Egypt 2011-12-30 1039
Turkey declares war on Poland 2011-04-01 965
Turkey declares war on Russia 2010-03-01 992
Turkey declares war on Russia 2010-03-01 924
Turkey declares war on Venice for refusing to surrender Cyprus 2011-02-01 828
Turkey declines to undertake reforms in Macedonia 2011-03-01 207
Turkey denounces Paris and Berlin treaties 2010-03-01 1039
Turkey formally recovers Egypt 2011-03-01 890
Turkey grants Austria temporary occupation of the Danubian Principalities 2011-12-30 962
Turkey is persuaded to sign a convention with Greece 2011-12-30 397
Turkey joins War 2010-02-01 526
Turkey obtains Parga 2010-03-01 1729
Turkey promises Bulgaria to withdraw troops 2011-03-01 865
Turkey recognises Austria's annexation of Bosnia 2011-03-01 762
Turkey signs armistice with Russia 2011-12-30 620
Turkey surrenders Athens after a Venetian bombardment 2011-04-01 1172
Turkey will retain Constantinople 2010-03-01 725
Turkish army defeats Maria Theresa's pro-Russian forces 2011-04-01 1090
Turkish army invades Syria 2011-12-30 1166
Turkish attack on Austria 2010-11-01 937
Turkish fleet captures island of Chios and massacres Christian inhabitants 2011-12-30 1127
Turkish fleet fails to capture Malta 2010-11-01 536
Turkish fleet fails to capture the coast of Zanzibar from the Portuguese 2011-02-01 1331
Turkish fleet surrenders to Mehemet Ali at Alexandria 2011-12-30 1804
Turkish galleys rout Spanish fleet off Tripoli 2011-02-01 1350
Turkish Manifesto rejects allied Note for truce with Greece 2011-12-30 1147
Turkish national pact of Ankara signed 2011-03-01 794
Turkish Sultan agrees to introduce self-government in Crete 2011-12-30 491
Turkish troops massacre Bulgarians 2011-12-30 763
Turkish ultimatum to Greeks to leave Crete 2011-12-30 608
Turkish-Venetian war breaks out 2011-02-01 1161
Turko-Persian war 2011-04-01 1023
Turks and Russians complete conquest of Ionian Islands 2010-03-01 1266
Turks appeal to powers to mediate 2011-12-30 260
Turks are defeated at St. Gotthard-on-the Raab by the Holy Roman Empire 2011-04-01 918
Turks bombard Belgrade after Serb rising there 2011-12-30 764
Turks capitulate at Shipka Pass and appeal to Russia for an armistice 2011-12-30 630
Turks declare war against Emperor Leopold I 2011-04-01 994
Turks defeat Emperor's troops at Crocyka 2011-04-01 1444
Turks defeat Greek rebels at Dragasani 2011-12-30 1247
Turks defeat Venetian fleet at Sapienza 2010-11-01 1865
Turks invade Dalmatia and Croatia 2010-11-01 1133
Turks lose Belgrade to the Emperor Leopold I 2011-04-01 1296
Turks reconquer Belgrade and reoccupy Bulgaria 2011-04-01 779
Turks reject Russian ultimatum 2011-12-30 537
Turks renew peace with Emperor Ferdinand III 2011-02-01 1064
Turks repulsed from Suez Canal 2010-03-01 1111
Turks surrender 2010-02-01 698
Turks take Orsova 2011-04-01 1279
Tuscany recalls Grand Duke Leopold 2011-12-30 358
Twelfth Amendment added to American Constitution 2010-03-01 1477
Two Dutch Anabaptists are burnt at Smithfield on Elizabeth's orders 2011-02-01 1764
Two hundred Irish convicts rebel 2010-03-01 562
Two regiments of British troops land in Boston 2010-03-01 1804
Two-way mobile radios 2010-02-01 977
Tzu-hsi, Dowager Empress of China, seizes power and revokes reforms 2011-12-30 639
U.S. acquires French Panama Canal co. property 2010-03-01 1185
U.S. and Turkey sever relations 2010-03-01 437
U.S. approves direct election of senators 2010-03-01 652
U.S. asks Austria to recall her ambassador 2010-03-01 697
U.S. cavalry sent to preserve Rio Grande's neutrality 2011-03-01 1188
U.S. Congress meets in extra-ordinary sessions 2010-03-01 1220
U.S. Congress passes Foraker Act 2010-03-01 2097
U.S. Congressional elections 2010-03-01 474
U.S. denies Germany's claims to sink armed merchantmen 2010-03-01 639
U.S. Departments of State are moved 2011-03-01 732
U.S. excise bill 2010-03-01 1005
U.S. force captures York 2010-03-01 1127
U.S. introduces ninety-day embargo 2010-03-01 1871
U.S. marines land at Santiago, Cuba 2010-03-01 759
U.S. marines land in Cuba 2010-03-01 1779
U.S. mission under E. Root arrives in Petrograd 2010-03-01 1075
U.S. note to Britain on use of U.S. flag 2010-03-01 570
U.S. occupy Fort St. George 2010-03-01 1226
U.S. protests against British 'Black List' 2010-03-01 452
U.S. Senate passes Immigration bill 2010-03-01 1080
U.S. Senate resolves to extend Monroe doctrine 2010-03-01 480
U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Venezuela 2010-03-01 717
U.S. special sessions of Congress for war declaration 2011-03-01 197
U.S. steel strike 2010-03-01 871
U.S. Supreme Court declares George W. Bush elected president 2010-03-01 299
U.S. Supreme Court upholds Eugene V. Debs's conviction 2010-03-01 1822
U.S. Telecommuncations market opened up 2010-03-01 616
U.S. troops withdraw from Vera Cruz 2010-03-01 675
U.S. vessel Gulflight sunk by German submarines 2010-03-01 1459
U.S.-Mexican protocol signed at Atlantic City 2010-03-01 451
U.S.S.R. offensive against Poland opens 2010-03-01 1126
Uganda railway completed 2011-03-01 202
Ugo Buoncompagni is elected Pope Gregory XIII 2011-02-01 917
Uhlfeld becomes Chancellor of Austria 2011-04-01 743
Uhlfeld becomes Minister of State in Austria 2011-04-01 799
Uljaitu becomes ruler of Mongol Persia 2010-03-01 1317
Ulm, Nuremberg and Augsburg form a league for religious freedom 2010-11-01 2421
Ulrica, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband 2011-04-01 615
Ulrich Zwingli preaches evangelical sermons that challenge the Catholic church in Switzerland 2010-03-01 2770
Ulrich, Duke of Wurttemburg, attacks the free city of Reutlingen 2010-11-01 877
Ulster Anti-Home Rule demonstrations 2010-03-01 1451
Ulster Unionists appoint provisional government 2010-03-01 845
Ulster Unionists resolution 2010-03-01 862
Ulster's determination to resist Home Rule reaffirmed 2011-03-01 748
Ultra-conservative Jean VilleIe succeeds Richelieu in France 2011-12-30 1196
Ultra-Conservative Prince de Polignac appointed French Prime Minister 2011-12-30 1435
Ultra-Conservatives are defeated by Liberal opposition in French elections 2011-12-30 891
Ulysses Grant's last message to Congress 2011-12-30 946
Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson 2011-12-30 2444
Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry on Tennessee River from Confederates 2011-12-30 2038
Ulysses S. Grant wins US Presidential election 2011-12-30 963
UN Conference on Environment and Development (The Earth Summit) held in Brazil 2010-02-01 1099
Undecided battle of Zorndorf between Prussians and Russians 2011-12-30 1322
Unification of English and Welsh systems of government. 2005-06-17 3464
Union of Clerical and Liberal Parties in Belgium 2011-12-30 575
Union of Connecticut and New Haven 2011-04-01 885
Union of Frankfurt between Prussia, Bavaria, the Palatinate and Hesse 2011-04-01 972
Union of Kalmar 2010-03-01 1093
Union of Krewo: Jagiellonian dynasty established 2010-03-01 1525
Union of Portugal and Spain when Philip II claims the Portuguese crown 2010-03-01 1067
Union of South Africa becomes dominion 2010-03-01 351
Union of South Africa formed 2010-02-01 714
Union of Unions demands parliamentary institutions 2010-03-01 717
Union of Utrecht 2007-12-02 2038
Unionist fleet takes Charleston after long siege 2011-12-30 2179
Unionist reconstruction of House of Lords bill 2011-03-01 445
Unionists besiege New Orleans 2011-12-30 1848
Unionists capture Forts Clark and Hatteras on North Carolina coast 2011-12-30 2639
Unionists take Amelia Island, Florida 2011-12-30 2218
Unionists take Columbia, South Carolina 2011-12-30 2039
Unionists take Roanoke Isle 2011-12-30 2343
United Diet summoned in Prussia by Frederick William IV 2011-12-30 1208
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland proclaimed 2009-05-01 288
United Mine Workers strike 2010-03-01 1641
United Provinces sign a twelve-year alliance with England and France 2011-02-01 1001
United Provinces take Bois-le-Duc from the Spanish 2011-02-01 1207
United States "Stop the Draft" week 2010-02-01 1545
United States declares war on Britain 2006-02-02 1499
United States Invades Haiti and the Dominican Republic 2010-02-01 1023
United States leads Japanese economic reconstruction 2010-02-01 490
United States spurns Versailles and League of Nations 2010-01-01 391
UNIVAC I, first mass-produced electronic computer, completed 2009-05-01 847
Universal suffrage in France is abolished 2011-12-30 773
University College, London founded 2013-08-30 963
University of Cambridge founded 2012-07-31 2060
University of Cordoba founded 2009-05-01 854
University of Oxford founded 2012-07-31 3109
Unrest in Brazil 2010-03-01 403
Unsuccessful attempt by Spain to land in Ireland 2010-03-01 1804
Unsuccessful expedition by Charles V against Algeria 2010-03-01 1101
Unsuccessful rising of Prussian royalists in Neuchatel Canton 2011-12-30 1073
Upper and Lower Canada are united 2010-01-01 1279
Uprising in Flanders 2010-03-01 2014
Uprising in Spain against General Espartero; plan to restore monarchy 2011-03-01 848
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany 2010-02-01 494
Uranium atoms split 2010-02-01 498
Uranium radiation explained by Rutherford 2009-05-01 2088
Uranus discovered 2009-05-01 946
Uruguay becomes an independent republic 2010-01-01 451
Uruguay declares war against Argentina 2011-12-30 544
US 14th Amendment extends enfranchisement to black men 2011-12-30 1595
US Civil War ends with surrender of last Confederate army at Shreveport 2011-12-30 2147
US commences underground nuclear testing 2010-02-01 460
US commission appointed to investigate Venezuelan boundary question 2011-12-30 1078
US Commodore James Biddle is refused trading facilities in Japan 2011-03-01 1995
US Congress amends tariff of Jury 1832 2011-12-30 774
US Congress appoints canal commission to investigate Panama 2011-12-30 878
US Department of Defense introduces Navstar Global Positioning System 2010-02-01 493
US Desert Land bill 2011-12-30 867
US electoral commission decides in favour of the Republican Hayes 2011-12-30 770
US Embargo Act against Britain and France 2008-02-01 4139
US forces capture Manila 2011-12-30 2032
US forces capture Santa Fe 2011-12-30 834
US forces under Zachary Taylor defeat Mexicans at Palo Alto 2011-12-30 979
US Land Act 2010-02-01 2525
US launches first manned flight to orbit moon 2010-02-01 822
US naval victory at Santiago 2011-12-30 2164
US Populist party is organised at St. Louis 2011-12-30 1377
US President James Garfield is shot 2011-12-20 1043
US Senate resolves to end British joint occupation of Oregon 2011-12-30 1096
US slave ship Creole is taken over by slaves 2011-12-30 1805
US Supreme Court declares Bus Segregation Laws illegal 2010-02-01 2627
US takes over Virgin Islands from Denmark 2010-03-01 441
US Tariff Act is passed 2011-12-30 1085
US ultimatum to Spain to relinquish authority in Cuba 2011-12-30 2208
US Voting Rights Act 2010-02-01 2425
US-Cuban Military Aid Pact 2010-02-01 421
US: 22nd Amendment passed 2010-02-01 569
USA annexes New Mexico 2011-12-30 1038
USA demands recall of French troops from Mexico 2011-12-30 813
USA enters the Second World War 2010-02-01 4186
USA invades Puerto Rico 2011-12-30 2372
USA is granted St Juan in dispute with Britain 2011-12-30 951
USA recognises independence of Hawaii 2011-12-30 661
USA recognises independence of Liberia 2011-12-30 659
USA secures trading rights in Korea 2011-12-30 986
USA signs treaty of friendship with Samoa 2011-12-30 1126
USA warns Britain against shifting British Guiana's boundary with Venezuela 2011-12-30 913
USA, Britain and Germany discuss Samoa 2011-12-30 971
USSR and US test Intercontinental ballistic missiles 2010-02-01 349
USSR's ethnic minorities moved en masse to Labour Camps 2010-02-01 1137
Uxbridge Treaty negotiations begin and then fail 2011-03-01 2518
V-A Lagrangian for weak interactions proposed 2009-05-01 438
Valenciennes, hotbed of Calvinist disturbances, surrenders 2011-02-01 2627
Van der Noot drives Democrats from power 2010-03-01 835
Van der Noot starts Revolution 2010-03-01 1440
Van der Waals forces explained 2009-05-01 1123
Van Dyck knighted and granted pension by Charles I 2008-01-01 1796
Vandals Sack Rome 2005-11-07 1746
Vasco de Gama discovers a sea-route from Europe to India via the Cape of Good Hope 2010-01-01 1824
Vauban begins construction of forts in the Netherlands 2011-04-01 1955
Vauban forts constructed in continental Europe 2005-10-22 4517
Vaudois attack Savoy in defence of their Protestant Confession 2011-02-01 1584
Vauxhall Motors 2018-02-27 175
Venetian Constitution amended 2011-02-01 609
Venetians are expelled from the Morea by Turks 2011-04-01 1289
Venetians seize Santa Maura from the Turks 2010-11-01 1271
Venezuela achieves independence 2010-01-01 968
Venezuela becomes independent 2010-03-01 791
Venezuela secedes from Colombia, becoming an independent state 2011-12-30 430
Venezuela, Ecuador and New Granada dissolve Union of Colombia 2011-12-30 553
Venezuelan Republic falls, Francisco de Miranda arrested 2011-03-01 902
Venezulan Revolt against Joseph Bonaparte 2010-03-01 722
Venice at war with the Ottoman Empire 2010-03-01 1041
Venice buys Cyprus 2010-03-01 1370
Venice conquers parts of the Morea and Dalmatia 2011-04-01 1349
Venice invades the Romagna 2010-11-01 857
Venice joins Charles V's league against France 2010-11-01 1635
Venice lose Salonica to the Ottomans 2010-03-01 1603
Venice proposes the construction of a Suez Canal 2010-11-01 1822
Venice recognizes Byzantine rule 2009-05-01 1083
Venice sends an ambassador to Istanbul 2010-11-01 725
Venice signs peace treaty with the Turks 2010-11-01 1669
Venice submits to Austria after long siege 2011-12-30 515
Verisimilitude 2001-11-01 7245
Verrazzano explores New York Bay and Newfoundland 2001-11-01 2295
Vesalius’ De humanis corpora fabrica libri septem revolutionizes medicine 2009-05-01 1292
Viacheslav Plehve made Russian minister of interior 2010-03-01 1229
Viborg Manifesto 2010-03-01 1213
Vicomte Lautrec dies of the plague in Italy 2010-11-01 1384
Vicomte Lautrec lays siege to Naples 2010-11-01 1179
Victor Amadeus II becomes Duke of Savoy 2011-04-01 415
Victor Amadeus XI of Savoy abdicates 2011-04-01 334
Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont abdicates 2011-12-30 797
Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, invades Papal States 2011-12-30 810
Victoria government restricts Chinese immigration 2011-12-30 776
Victorian Electoral Act 2010-03-01 1168
Victory in Europe Day (VE-Day) 2010-05-01 803
Vidukind, Saxon prince, coverts to Christianity 2009-05-01 2094
Vienna Note to solve Eastern Question 2011-12-30 3140
Viet Minh formed 2010-02-01 960
Viking “Great Army” creates kingdom of York 2011-03-01 1454
Viking Siege of Paris 2009-05-01 1163
Vikings establish bases in France 2009-05-01 996
Vikings invade Devon 2009-05-01 1813
Vikings seize Kiev 2009-05-01 1570
Villars and Chauvelin urge a French alliance with Spain against England 2011-04-01 1148
Villeroi bombards Brussels 2011-04-01 1234
Virginia Assembly dissolved 2010-03-01 1086
Virginia becomes a Crown colony 2011-02-01 1177
Virginia Colony founded at Jamestown 2014-04-02 7543
Virginia Companies of London and Plymouth receive royal charters 2011-02-01 1435
Virginia convention instructs proposal of independence 2010-03-01 2146
Virginia proclaims Charles II King 2011-04-01 939
Viscount Goderich becomes Prime Minister 2013-08-30 2175
Viscount Melbourne becomes Prime Minister for the first time 2011-03-01 2238
Viscount Melbourne becomes Prime Minister for the second time 2013-08-30 1899
Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome 2005-11-16 1059
Visit of Russian Emperor to France 2011-03-01 937
Vitamin D discovered 2009-05-01 697
Vitamins’ existence posited 2009-05-01 858
Vlad the Impaler is King of Romania 2010-03-01 258
Vladimir, prince of Novgorod, converts to Christianity 2009-05-01 1488
Vladislav IV succeeds to the throne of Poland 2011-02-01 1053
Volga-Baltic Canal completed 2010-02-01 734
Volkswagen introduced 2010-02-01 857
Volstead Prohibition Enforcement bill 2010-03-01 267
Voltaire is banished from France 2011-04-01 3274
Von Kray becomes commander of Austrian army 2011-03-01 384
W. F. Massey forms ministry in New Zealand 2011-03-01 385
W. H. Taft commission appointed 2010-03-01 1986
W. H. Taft governor-general of Philippines 2010-03-01 840
W. S. Churchill resigns from British cabinet 2010-03-01 369
Waddington becomes French Prime Minister 2011-12-30 856
Waldensians massacred in southern France 2010-03-01 1636
Wallachia founded 2009-05-01 1024
Wallenstein assumes the title of Admiral of the Baltic 2011-02-01 2044
Wallenstein becomes General of the Imperial Forces 2011-02-01 2037
Wallenstein goes into winter quarters in Bohemia 2011-02-01 2312
Wallenstein invades Silesia 2011-02-01 2162
Wallenstein is created Duke of Mecklenburg 2011-02-01 2263
Wallenstein opens peace negotiations with the Elector of Saxony 2011-02-01 2038
Wallenstein raises the siege of Stralsund 2011-02-01 1905
Wallenstein requires lieutenants to sign a declaration of loyalty 2011-02-01 2129
Wallenstein seizes the duchy of Mecklenburg 2011-02-01 1931
Wallenstein takes lands in northern Germany 2011-02-01 1611
Wallingford Castle falls 2010-02-01 2252
Walpole dies 2011-04-01 804
Wannsee Conference 2010-02-01 838
War between Denmark and Sweden breaks out 2011-04-01 304
War between France and Spain in Italy over the partition of Naples 2010-11-01 1790
War between Paraguay and combined Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay ends 2011-12-30 821
War between Spain and France 2010-03-01 2345
War between Sweden and Poland is resumed 2011-02-01 1315
War between the Boers and British in Natal 2011-12-30 1502
War between the Swabian League and the Swiss Cantons flares up in the Rhine. 2010-11-01 1473
War between Turkey and Russia 2010-03-01 788
War breaks out between England and Holland 2011-04-01 1894
War is averted between France and Germany 2011-12-30 1087
War of Devolution in the Spanish Netherlands 2011-04-01 1231
War of Emboabas in Brazil between Portuguese and Paulistas 2011-04-01 1646
War of Mascates between Portuguese and Brazilian Indians begins 2011-04-01 1322
War of Second Coalition begins 2010-02-01 2520
War of Succession between Bahadur's four sons in India 2011-04-01 1226
War of succession between Bavaria and the Palatinate 2010-11-01 1639
War of the Axe 2010-02-01 1949
War of the Bavarian Succession 2010-03-01 667
War of the First Coalition 2011-03-01 2234
War of the German Knights against the bishoprics begins 2010-11-01 775
War of the Pacific 2010-02-01 1043
War of Third Coalition begins 2010-02-01 2526
War over the Italian duchies is averted by the Treaty of Vienna 2011-04-01 1035
War resumes between Turkey and Persia 2011-04-01 943
Warehousing of Goods Act 2011-12-30 1185
Warning to Italian ambassador in Vienna 2010-03-01 412
Warren G. Harding elected President of U.S. 2010-03-01 906
Warren Hastings is acquitted 2007-12-02 2086
Wars of the League 2010-03-01 2244
Warsaw Massacre by Russian troops 2011-12-30 1048
Warsaw Pact countries invade Czechoslovakia to stamp out the "Prague Spring" 2010-02-01 3843
Washington’s army encamped at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 2010-02-01 2733
Watergate scandal 2010-03-01 884
Waterproof fabric invented by Charles Macintosh 2010-02-01 1985
Weak equivalence principle tested 2009-05-01 938
Webster-Ashburton Treaty 2010-02-01 1552
Welfare Bill: Old age pensions and disability insurance 2011-03-01 887
Wellesley defeats French under Soult 2010-03-01 2048
Wellesley defeats Sindhia at Assaye 2011-03-01 1151
Wellesley lands at Lisbon 2011-03-01 498
Wellesley resigns as foreign secretary 2010-03-01 1486
Wellington becomes the capital of New Zealand 2010-01-01 955
Wellington defeats French under Soult 2010-03-01 1897
Welsh Church Disestablishment bill passes Commons 2011-03-01 1472
Welsh Education Report 2013-08-30 1034
Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth 2009-05-01 2195
Welsh revolt 2013-03-28 1536
Welsh revolt 2013-03-28 1591
Wessel studies complex numbers 2009-05-01 810
Wessex battles the Vikings; Danes occupy part of England 2009-05-01 2077
Western Australia granted representative government 2011-12-30 1090
Western Design 2010-02-01 1073
Western Front stabilized 2010-02-01 1026
Westminster parliament adopts the Presbyterian solemn league and covenant 2006-02-02 4824
Westminster riots in favour of Wilkes 2010-03-01 2667
Wexford is sacked 2011-03-01 1933
Whig Historiography 2002-03-27 12283
Whig leader, Lord John Russell, converts to free trade 2011-12-30 675
Whig Lord Somers is appointed Lord Keeper 2011-04-01 744
Whig party split over Parliamentary reform 2010-03-01 1765
Whig Reform Bill defeated 2010-03-01 1858
While engaged on an expedition against China, Timur dies 2010-03-01 1045
Whiskey Rebellion 2010-03-01 1158
Whitbread, Samuel 2004-11-02 2486
Whitbread, Samuel 2004-11-02 3645
White Australia policy 2010-03-01 956
White Slavery 2010-03-01 1267
White Supremacists win election in South Africa 2010-02-01 1021
White Terror in Southern France 2010-03-01 1998
Whiteboys societies founded in Ireland 2011-12-30 1237
WiIIiam II becomes Stadtholder in Holland 2011-02-01 531
Wilfred Laurier forms Liberal ministry in Canada 2011-12-30 739
WilIiam Huskisson enters British Cabinet as President of Board of Trade 2011-12-30 914
Wilkes expelled from Commons for seditious libel 2010-03-01 2371
Wilkes expelled from Parliament 2010-03-01 1756
William and Mary recognise old charters of the English colonies 2011-04-01 1807
William Barents, Dutch explorer, dies while attempting to find a passage to China 2010-01-01 2413
William Bradford becomes Governor of Plymouth Colony 2011-02-01 928
William Byrd founds Richmond, Virginia 2011-04-01 920
William Clifford suggests that the motion of matter may be due to changes in the geometry of space 2013-08-30 2538
William Dampier lands on west coast of Australia 2010-02-01 1898
William Gladstone is elected MP for Greenwich 2011-12-30 1635
William Hamilton discovers the calculus of quaternions 2009-05-01 2045
William Harvey explains blood circulation system 2009-05-01 886
William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan 2010-03-01 679
William Hughes becomes premier of Australia 2010-03-01 684
William Huskisson killed by train at opening of Liverpool-Manchester Railway 2011-12-30 1171
William Huskisson resigns as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 2011-12-30 807
William I of Holland abdicates in favour of his son 2011-12-30 855
William II and Nicholas II sign treaty of Bjorko 2010-03-01 769
William II becomes Emperor of Germany 2011-12-30 429
William II dismisses Count Friedrich Holstein 2010-03-01 806
William II of Germany visits Palestine and Syria 2011-12-30 316
William II of Holland appoints committee to revise Constitution 2011-12-30 155
William II speaks on Germany 2010-03-01 862
William II tries to persuade Britain to join Triple Alliance 2011-12-30 500
William II visits England for Victoria's last days 2013-08-30 923
William II's Tangier visit triggers first Moroccan crisis 2010-03-01 1348
William III announces Sir John Fenwick's plot to assassinate him 2011-04-01 878
William III fails to take Limerick 2011-04-01 1385
William III is defeated at Neerwinden 2011-04-01 1839
William III is defeated at Steinkirke 2011-04-01 2011
William III is forced to dismiss Somers as Lord Chancellor 2011-04-01 672
William III is in Holland campaigning against the French 2011-04-01 1857
William III leaves for Holland 2011-04-01 1328
William III leaves for Ireland 2011-04-01 1911
William III reconciles with his sister-in-law Anne 2011-04-01 877
William III remodels his ministry by replacing Tories with a Whig Junta 2011-04-01 1339
William III restored to power in the Netherlands 2011-03-01 819
William III returns to England 2011-04-01 1134
William III serves with the army in Holland 2011-04-01 957
William III takes Namur 2011-04-01 1180
William III vetoes a bill for a landed property qualification for MPs 2011-04-01 1915
William III vetoes bills to reform Parliament 2011-04-01 1360
William III visits Holland to plan the defeat of France 2011-04-01 1764
William III's lavish grants to his followers are attacked in Parliament 2011-04-01 791
William III's third Parliament is staunchly Whig 2011-04-01 1335
William IV 2013-08-30 2127
William IV forces Grey to resign over Reform Bill 2011-12-30 1030
William IV of Orange-Nassau is elected hereditary Stadtholder of Holland 2011-04-01 657
William Jansz leads Dutch expedition to explore the coast of Cape York 2010-01-01 1618
William Juxon is elected Bishop of London 2011-02-01 1839
William Laud appointed Archbishop of Canterbury 2010-01-01 1696
William Laud is appointed Bishop of London 2011-02-01 1442
William Laud is elected President of St John's College Oxford 2011-02-01 784
William Lyon Mackenzie is arrested in USA 2011-12-30 906
William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan 2010-03-01 1885
William O'Brien and John Dillon call on Irish tenants to organise themselves 2011-12-30 1117
William of Cleves, a Lutheran, succeeds to the duchy of Gelders 2010-11-01 2106
William of Normandy invades Wales 2013-03-28 1260
William of Orange accepts the invitation to England 2011-04-01 833
William of Orange accepts the sovereignty of the northern Netherlands 2011-02-01 604
William of Orange calls Congress to Ghent to discuss peace 2011-02-01 835
William of Orange captures Bonn 2011-04-01 902
William of Orange captures Naarden 2011-04-01 259
William of Orange declared an outlaw 2011-02-01 477
William of Orange endorses the 'Beggars of the Sea' 2011-02-01 1458
William of Orange enters Brussels 2011-02-01 1030
William of Orange enters London 2011-04-01 1217
William of Orange invades Gelderland from Germany 2011-02-01 1210
William of Orange is assassinated on Philip II's orders 2011-02-01 779
William of Orange is defeated at Cassel by the Duke of Orleans 2011-04-01 711
William of Orange is elected Stadtholder 2011-02-01 677
William of Orange is forced to raise the siege of Charleroi 2011-04-01 1140
William of Orange lands at Torbay 2010-02-01 2584
William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon 2011-02-01 240
William of Orange marries Princess Mary of England 2011-04-01 821
William of Orange raises the siege of Leyden 2011-02-01 808
William of Orange signs a defensive alliance with Denmark 2011-04-01 855
William of Orange summons the Estates of Holland and Zeeland 2011-02-01 665
William of Orange takes Grave, but is unable to invade France 2011-04-01 798
William of Orange's defeat of the Spanish sparks the Dutch Revolt 2011-02-01 1565
William Paulet becomes Lord Treasurer of England 2010-11-01 1232
William Penn buys land from Indians 2010-03-01 2949
William Pitt becomes Paymaster-General for the forces 2011-04-01 990
William Pitt introduces Income Tax 2010-02-01 2300
William Pitt joins the opposition to Robert Walpole 2011-04-01 1234
William Pitt sets up a sinking fund 2010-02-01 1681
William Pitt's "Reign of Terror" 2010-02-01 4090
William Pitt's India Act 2010-01-01 2876
William Pitt's Triple Assessment 879
William Prynne is tried for libelling Queen Henrietta Maria 2011-02-01 2152
William Prynne loses both his ears as punishment for libel 2011-02-01 2263
William Russell is beheaded for his part in plotting against the King 2011-04-01 655
William Sherman marches Unionist army through Georgia 2011-12-30 1974
William Turner pains Rain, Steam and Speed 2013-08-30 3012
William V, Elector of Bavaria abdicates in favour of his son Maximilian I 2011-02-01 326
William Walker lectures on 'Australian Literature' 2010-03-01 447
William Warham is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury 2010-11-01 1918
William Wilberforce sets up his Proclamation Society 2010-02-01 2045
William, Lord Dacre, is acquitted of treason 2010-11-01 1964
William, Prince of Denmark, recognised as King of Greece 2011-12-30 431
Wilson refuses to reopen negotiations with Germany 2010-03-01 219
Wilson-Gorman tariff 2011-12-30 1373
Wilson's Fourteen Points announced 2010-02-01 550
Wit 2001-11-01 5764
Witchcraft Craze in East Anglia 2005-05-26 1652
Wolfenbüttel surrenders to the imperialists 2011-02-01 516
Wolfgang Kapp attempts pro-monarchist coup d'état 2010-03-01 610
Wolsey signs a Peace with France 2010-11-01 1405
Women and children prisoners at Cawnpore are brutally murdered 2011-12-30 967
Women permitted to compete in Olympics 2010-02-01 2072
Woodrow Wilson orders arming of U.S. merchant ships 2010-03-01 1025
Woodrow Wilson re-nominated Democratic presidential candidate 2011-03-01 1133
Woodrow Wilson vetoes Knox peace resolution 2010-03-01 754
Woodrow Wilson wins U.S. presidential election 2010-03-01 1027
Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, re-elected U.S. president 2010-03-01 918
Woodrow Wilson's peace note 2010-03-01 2229
Work begins on the Grand Mosque of Damascus (the Umayyad Mosque) 2009-05-01 1164
Workers in St. Petersburg form first Soviet 2010-03-01 898
Working Men's Party founded in New York 2011-12-30 1301
World Health Organization founded 2010-02-01 544
World map names America after Amerigo Vespucci 2010-03-01 973
World's largest oil field discovered 2010-02-01 780
Wreck of the White Ship 2012-07-31 1144
Writs are issued for a Parliament in England 2010-11-01 1544
Wullenwever, Burgomaster of Lubeck, is executed 2010-11-01 916
Wurttemberg and Franconia are reconquered by imperialists 2011-02-01 699
Württemberg given constitution 2010-03-01 1006
Wurzburg falls to Gustavus II 2011-02-01 902
Wyatt is tried and executed 2010-11-01 1323
Wyoming massacre 2010-03-01 3034
X-ray background formally discovered 2009-05-01 777
Yakub the Amir of Afghanistan abdicates and surrenders to Britain 2011-12-30 916
Yom Kippur War 2010-02-01 1001
York Conference into the conduct of Mary Queen of Scots opens 2011-02-01 4659
Yorkshire petition presented at Westminster 2010-03-01 1144
Yoshimasa becomes the eighth shogun of Japan 2010-03-01 234
Yoshimitsu constructs the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto 2010-03-01 294
Yoshimune becomes Shogun of Japan 2011-04-01 279
Young Ireland insurrection 2010-02-01 1633
Young Men's Christian Association founded 2013-08-30 1137
Young Turks depose Sultan Abdul Hamid 2010-03-01 842
Young Turks formed 2010-02-01 941
Young Turks under Niazi Bey stage revolt at Resina 2010-03-01 642
Yugoslavian dictatorship established 2010-02-01 794
Zabern incident embitters Franco-German relations 2010-03-01 573
Zambia created 2010-03-01 431
Zeebrugge raid blocks entrance to Bruges Canal 2010-03-01 857
Zeeland falls to the Dutch rebels 2011-02-01 1563
Zemski Sobor elect Tsar Michael Romanov 2010-02-01 1313
Zemstvo Congress demands republican constitution 2010-03-01 556
Zemstvo Law in Russia establishing provincial councils 2011-12-30 552
Zeugma 2001-11-01 16015
Zheng He, the Chinese Admiral, begins his seven voyages in the Indian Ocean 2010-03-01 3294
Zimba War 2010-03-01 1119
Zoot Suit Riots 2010-03-01 961
Zulu War 2008-01-25 1731
Zululand is annexed to Natal 2011-12-30 1325
Zurich declares war on the Swiss Catholic Forest Cantons 2010-11-01 1380
Zurich is forced to confirm the terms of the Peace of Kappel 2010-11-01 873
Zurich's plans for a centralised Swiss State is rejected 2011-04-01 309
Zutphen falls to Maurice and William Lewis of Nassau 2011-02-01 431
Zwingli's Confession is presented to Charles V 2010-11-01 1695

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