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| x 228 Incident |
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Feb 28, 1947 |
The 228 Incident, also known as the 228 Massacre, was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan that began on February 27, 1947 and was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang (KMT) government. Estimates of the number of deaths vary from ten thousand to...
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| x Apollo 12 |
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Nov 14, 1969 | Nov 24, 1969 |
Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. The mission was commanded by Charles "Pete" Conrad. It was launched on November 14, 1969, four months after Apollo 11. Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan...
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| x Apollo 1 |
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Jan 27, 1967 |
Apollo 1 is the official name that was retroactively assigned to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module (CM-012) was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on January 27, 1967, at Pad 34 (Launch Complex...
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| x Defenestrations of Prague |
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The Defenestrations of Prague were two incidents in the history of Bohemia. The first occurred in 1419 and the second in 1618, although the term "Defenestration of Prague" is more commonly used to refer to the latter incident. Both helped to trigger...
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| x Battle of Naseby |
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Jun 14, 1645 | Naseby |
The Battle of Naseby was the key battle of the first English Civil War. On 14 June 1645, the main army of King Charles I was destroyed by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.
At the beginning of 1645, King...
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| x Trafalgar 200 |
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2005 |
Trafalgar 200 was a series of events in 2005 held mostly in the United Kingdom to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, where a British fleet led by Admiral Nelson (who died in the battle) defeated a joint Franco-Spanish fleet...
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| x Battle of Trafalgar |
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Oct 21, 1805 | Oct 21, 1805 | Cape Trafalgar |
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803...
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| x Great Fire of London |
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Sep 2, 1666 | Sep 5, 1666 | London |
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City...
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| x Great Plague of London |
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1665 | 1666 | London |
The Great Plague (1665-1666) was a massive outbreak of disease in the Kingdom of England that killed an estimated 100,000 people, 20% of London's population. The disease is identified as bubonic plague, an infection by the bacterium Yersinia pestis,...
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| x Gunpowder Plot |
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Nov 5, 1605 |
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Powder Treason, as it was known at the time, was a failed attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics to kill King James I of England and VI of Scotland, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in...
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| x First English Civil War |
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1642 | 1646 | England |
The First English Civil War (1642–1646) commenced the series of three wars known as the English Civil War (or "Wars"). "The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations that took place between Parliamentarians and...
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| x Second English Civil War |
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1648 | 1649 | England |
The Second English Civil War (1648–1649) was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War (or Wars) which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642...
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| x Third English Civil War |
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1649 | 1651 | British Isles |
The Third English Civil War (1649–1651) was the last of the English Civil Wars (1642–1652), a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists.
The Preston campaign of the Second Civil War was undertaken...
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| x Scottish Civil War |
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1644 | 1645 | Scotland |
Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms covers Scotland's involvement in the wider conflict known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms between 1644 and 1651. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms were a series of civil wars that were fought in Scotland,...
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| x Greek Civil War |
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1946 | 1949 | Greece |
The Greek Civil War (Greek: ο Eμφύλιος [Πόλεμος], "the Civil War") was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by the United Kingdom and United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece (ΔΣΕ), the military branch of the...
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| x Wars of the Three Kingdoms |
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1939 | 1951 |
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in England, Ireland, and Scotland between 1639 and 1651 after these three countries had come under the "Personal Rule" of the same monarch. The English Civil...
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| x English Civil War |
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1642 | 1651 | England |
The English Civil War (1641–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters...
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| x Seminole Wars |
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1817 | 1858 | Florida |
The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between various groups of Native Americans, collectively known as Seminoles, and the United States. The First Seminole War was from 1817 to 1818; the Second Seminole...
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| x First Carlist War |
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1833 | 1839 | Spain |
The First Carlist War was a civil war in Spain from 1833 to 1839.
At the beginning of the 18th century, Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, promulgated the Salic Law, which declared illegal the inheritance of the Spanish crown by women. His...
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| x Irish Confederate Wars |
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1641 | 1653 | Ireland |
This article is concerned with the military history of Ireland from 1641-53. For the political context of this conflict, see Confederate Ireland.
The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years War (derived from the Irish language name...
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| x The Great Exhibition |
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May 1, 1851 | Oct 15, 1851 |
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Continents or The Great Exhibition, sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held, was an international exhibition that took...
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| x Haymarket Riot |
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1886 |
The Haymarket Riot on May 4, 1886 in Chicago is generally considered to have been an important influence on the origin of international May Day observances for workers. In popular literature this event inspired the caricature of "a bomb-throwing...
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| x Newark riots | Jul 12, 1967 | Jul 17, 1967 | Newark |
The 1967 Newark riots were a major civil disturbance that occurred in the city of Newark, New Jersey between July 12 and July 17, 1967. The six days of rioting, looting, and destruction left 26 dead and hundreds injured.
In the period leading up to...
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| x Battle of Hjörungavágr |
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986 C.E. | 986 C.E. |
The Battle of Hjörungavágr (Modern Norwegian Hjørungavåg) is a semi-legendary naval battle that took place in the late 10th century between the Jarls of Lade and a Danish invasion fleet led by the fabled Jomsvikings. The battle is described in the...
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| x Crusades |
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1095 | 1291 |
The Crusades were a series of religiously-sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Latin Christian Europe, particularly the Franks of France and the Holy Roman Empire. The specific crusades to restore Christian control of the Holy Land were...
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| x Black Death |
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1340 |
The Black Death was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is widely thought to have been an outbreak of bubonic plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, but this view has recently been...
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| x Sieges of Constantinople |
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626 C.E. | 1453 |
There were several sieges of Constantinople during the history of the Byzantine Empire. Two of them resulted in the capture of Constantinople from Byzantine rule: in 1204 by Crusaders, and in 1453 by the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II.
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| x Fall of Constantinople |
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May 29, 1453 |
The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire which occurred after a siege laid by the Ottoman Empire, under the command of Sultan Mehmed II. The siege lasted from Thursday, 5 April 1453 until Tuesday, 29 May 1453...
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| x Washington's crossing of the Delaware |
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Dec 25, 1776 | Dec 25, 1776 | Trenton |
Washington's crossing of the Delaware, occurring on December 25, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a planned surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey.
Planned in...
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| x American Revolutionary War |
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Apr 19, 1775 | Sep 3, 1783 | Lexington |
The American Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783) or American War of Independence began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen former British colonies in North America, and concluded in a global war between several European great...
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| x Battle of Trenton |
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Dec 26, 1776 | Dec 26, 1776 | Trenton |
The Battle of Trenton took place on December 25, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. The hazardous crossing in adverse weather allowed Washington...
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| x The Volpini Exhibition, 1889 |
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1889 |
The Exhibition at the Café Volpini in summer 1889 was arranged by Paul Gauguin and his circle, on the walls of a café just outside the gates of the Exposition universelle, and run by a certain Monsieur Volpini. Though Gauguin and his companions had...
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| x First Crusade |
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1095 | Near East |
The First Crusade was a military expedition by European Christians to regain the Holy Lands taken by the Muslim conquest of the Levant, finally resolving in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. It was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary...
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| x Crimean War |
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Mar 1854 | Feb 1856 | Crimea |
The Crimean War (October 1853–February 1856) was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of the British Empire, France, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia on the other. The war was part of a long-running contest...
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| x Protestant Reformation |
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1517 | 1648 |
The Protestant Reformation was the European Christian reform movement that established Protestantism as a constituent branch of contemporary Christianity; it began in 1517, when Martin Luther published The Ninety-Five Theses, and concluded in 1648,...
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| x Thirty Years' War |
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1618 | 1648 | Europe |
The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily (though not exclusively) in what is now Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe. Naval...
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| x Battle of Adrianople |
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Aug 9, 378 C.E. | Aug 9, 378 C.E. | Edirne |
The Battle of Adrianople (August 9, 378), sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperor Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local...
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| x Pacers-Pistons brawl |
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Nov 19, 2004 |
The Pacers–Pistons brawl (colloquially known as The Malice at the Palace or The Basketbrawl) was an altercation that occurred in a National Basketball Association game between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers on November 19, 2004, at The...
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| x Battle of Hastings |
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Oct 14, 1066 | Oct 14, 1066 | Battle |
The Battle of Hastings (14 October 1066) was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England. It was fought between the Norman army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army of Harold II. The battle took place at Senlac Hill,...
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| x American Revolution |
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1775 | 1783 |
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies among the possessions in North America of the Kingdom of Great Britain at first rejected the governance of the Parliament of...
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| x Rum Rebellion |
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Jan 26, 1808 | Jan 1, 1810 | Sydney |
The Rum Rebellion, also known as the Rum Puncheon Rebellion, of 1808 was the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's history. The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the...
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| x Eureka Stockade |
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Dec 3, 1854 | Dec 3, 1854 | Ballarat |
The rebellion by gold prospectors at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on 3 December 1854 was prompted by grievances over heavily priced mining items, the expense of a Miner's Licence, taxation (via the licence) without...
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| x Victorian gold rush |
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1851 | Victoria |
The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. In 10 years the Australian population nearly tripled.
During this era Victoria dominated the world's gold output. Ballarat for...
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| x Federation of Australia |
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Jan 1, 1901 | Australia |
The federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed a federation. When the Constitution of Australia...
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| x Battle of Gallipoli |
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Apr 25, 1915 | Jan 9, 1916 | Gallipoli |
The Gallipoli Campaign took place at Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey from 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, during the First World War. A joint British Empire and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, and secure a sea...
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| x First Battle of Ypres |
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Oct 19, 1914 | Nov 30, 1914 | Ypres |
The First Battle of Ypres, also called the First Battle of Flanders (French: 1re Bataille des Flandres), was a First World War battle fought for the strategic town of Ypres in western Belgium. The German and Western Allied attempts to secure the...
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| x War of 1812 |
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Jun 18, 1812 | Mar 23, 1815 | Pacific Ocean |
The War of 1812, between the United States of America and the British Empire (particularly Great Britain and British North America), lasted from 1812 to 1815. It was fought chiefly on the Atlantic Ocean and on the land, coasts and waterways of North...
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| x Battle of Waterloo |
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Jun 18, 1815 | Jun 18, 1815 | Waterloo |
In the Battle of Waterloo (Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, Belgium) forces of the French Empire under Emperor Napoleon I were defeated by those of the Seventh Coalition, including an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington...
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| x Storming of the Bastille |
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Jul 14, 1789 | Jul 14, 1789 | Paris |
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris on 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. While the prison only contained seven prisoners at the time of its...
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| x The March on Versailles |
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Oct 5, 1789 | Palace of Versailles |
The March on Versailles, also known as The Bread March of Women, and The Women's March on Versailles, was an event in the French Revolution. Although the National Assembly had taken the Tennis Court Oath and the Bastille had fallen at the hands of...
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| x Treaty of Trianon |
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Jun 4, 1920 | Jun 4, 1920 | Grand Trianon |
The Treaty of Trianon was the peace treaty concluded in 1920 at the end of World War I by the Allies of World War I, on one side, and Hungary, seen as a successor of Austria-Hungary, on the other. The treaty established the borders of Hungary and...
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| x Battle of Ningyuan | 1626 | 1626 | Xingcheng |
The Battle of Ningyuan (寧遠之戰) was a battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Manchurian Later Jin in 1626. The Ming won this battle. This battle marked the temporary resurgence of the Imperial Ming army after a long series of defeats.
Before 1626,...
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| x Revolt of the Three Feudatories |
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1673 | 1681 | China |
The Three Feudatories (Chinese: 三藩; pinyin: sān fán) were territories in southern China bestowed by the early Manchu rulers on three Chinese generals (Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi). In the second half of the 17th century (from around...
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| x White Lotus Rebellion | 1796 | 1804 |
The White Lotus Rebellion (Chinese: 川楚白莲教起义; pinyin: Chuān chŭ bái lián jiào qǐ yì, 1796-1804) was a Chinese anti-Manchu uprising that occurred during the Qing Dynasty. It broke out in 1796 among impoverished settlers in the mountainous region that...
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| x Second Opium War |
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Oct 8, 1856 | Oct 18, 1860 | China |
The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war of the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China from 1856–1860.
"Second...
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| x Wuchang Uprising |
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Oct 10, 1911 | Oct 10, 1911 | Wuchang |
The Wuchang Uprising of October 10, 1911 started the Xinhai Revolution, which led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC).
In 1900, the ruling Qing Dynasty created a modernized army called the "New...
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| x Battle of Lake Poyang |
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Aug 30, 1363 | Oct 4, 1363 | Lake Poyang |
The naval battle of Lake Poyang (鄱陽湖之戰) took place 30 August – 4 October 1363 AD and was one of the final battles fought in the fall of China's Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. There were at this time a number of rebel groups who sought to topple the...
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| x Tumu Crisis | 1449 |
The Tumu Crisis (Chinese: 土木之變; Pinyin: Tŭmù zhī bìan); also called the Crisis of Tumubao (土木堡之變) or Battle of Tumu Fortress (土木之役), was a frontier conflict between the Oirat Mongols and the Chinese Ming Dynasty which led to the capture of the...
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| x Battle of Kulikovo |
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Sep 8, 1380 | Sep 8, 1380 | Kulikovo Field |
The Battle of Kulikovo (Russian: Куликовская битва, битва на Куликовском поле) was fought by the Tartaro-Mongols (the Golden Horde) and the Russians. The battle took place on September 8, 1380 at the Kulikovo Field near the Don River (now Tula...
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| x Battle of Karnal | Feb 24, 1739 | Feb 24, 1739 | Karnal |
The Battle of Karnal (February 13, 1739), was a decisive victory for Nader Shah the emperor of Persia during his invasion of India. Shah's forces defeated the army of Muhammad Shah, the Mughal emperor in little more than three hours thus paving the...
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