Army - Notable Historical Events
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Army - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
539 |
The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. |
479 |
Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece is halted. |
390 |
Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome. |
338 |
A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. |
334 |
The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus |
216 |
Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army under command consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. |
202 |
Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army, defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus. |
105 |
Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus. |
86 |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus. |
42 |
Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide. |
30 |
Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide. |
BC AD | |
69-01-02 |
Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor |
70-09-07 |
Roman army under General Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem |
70-09-27 |
Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Roman army |
193-04-09 |
Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans). |
197-02-19 |
Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon |
284-11-20 |
Diocletian is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his soldiers in the army of the east |
363-03-05 |
Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. |
363-05-29 |
Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city. |
378-08-09 |
Battle of Adrianople, Goth army defeats Roman forces under Emperor Valens |
402-04-06 |
Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten |
406-08-23 |
Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians |
630-01-01 |
The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly. |
641-06-09 |
Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria |
680-10-10 |
Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers killed at Karbala by army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on the way to Kufa |
778-08-15 |
Battle of Roncevaux Pass: Roland, commander of the rearguard of Charlemagne's army is defeated by the Basques |
870-12-31 |
Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
871-01-04 |
Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
871-01-08 |
Battle of Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred (the Great) beat invading Danish army |
871-01-22 |
Battle of Basing: Danish invasion army beats Saxon Ethelred of Wessex |
871-03-22 |
Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
910-08-05 |
The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred. |
917-08-20 |
Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines |
963-07-02 |
The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea. |
971-01-23 |
In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. The Southern Han state is forced to submit to the Song Dynasty, ending Southern Han rule, also first regular war elephant corps employed in Chinese army |
1066-09-25 |
The Battle of Stamford Bridge; an English army under King Harold Godwinson beat the invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed. Three weeks later Harold died fighting the Normans at Hastings. |
1066-10-14 |
Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy and Norman army defeat English forces of Harold II |
1086-10-23 |
Battle of az-Zallaqah: Army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI |
1099-08-12 |
Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth leading the Crusaders beats Egyptians Fatimid army |
1121-08-12 |
Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi. |
1128-06-24 |
Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa |
1167-05-29 |
Battle of Monte Porzio - A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel |
1187-07-03 |
Battle of Horns of Hattin; Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroys Jerusalem's crusader army. |
1190-06-10 |
Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (now called the Göksu in modern Turkey) while leading an army to Jerusalem. |
1229-09-12 |
The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island. |
1240-07-15 |
A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. |
1250-07-03 |
Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself. |
1260-09-03 |
Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army |
1266-02-26 |
Battle of Benevento fought in Southern Italy between Manfred of Sicily and army of Charles of Anjou |
1302-07-11 |
Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish coalition defeat French army |
1306-06-19 |
The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. |
1330-11-09 |
Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush |
1346-08-26 |
Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle |
1355-11-02 |
English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais |
1380-07-19 |
Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais |
1382-05-03 |
Battle of Beverhoutsveldn near Bruges - Ghent town army beats drunken Bruges militia |
1382-11-27 |
Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed |
1388-04-09 |
Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army |
1389-06-28 |
Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan). |
1415-08-13 |
King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River |
1415-10-25 |
Battle of Agincourt: Henry V's forces defeat larger French army and the longbow defeats the armoured knight |
1423-07-31 |
Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. |
1429-05-07 |
English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army |
1429-07-16 |
Army entered Reims |
1429-07-16 |
Joan of Arc and the French army enter the city of Rheims |
1448-10-17 |
Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi were defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II. |
1454-09-18 |
In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War. |
1456-07-22 |
Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II |
1481-12-26 |
Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht |
1483-09-03 |
Utrecht surrenders to Habsburg army |
1485-08-01 |
Henry Tudor's army sails to England (future Henry VII) |
1485-08-07 |
Henry Tudor's (Henry VII to be) army lands in Milford Haven, South Wales |
1487-06-04 |
Lord Lovell & John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire |
1489-12-04 |
Battle of Baza - Spanish army captures Baza from Moors |
1497-07-26 |
"Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbeck's army lands in Cork |
1503-04-28 |
Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France |
1503-12-27 |
Battle at Garigliano] Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France |
1503-12-29 |
Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France |
1509-04-16 |
French army under Louis XII enters Alps |
1514-09-08 |
Battle of Orsha: Polish/Lithuania army defeat the Russian army |
1517-04-13 |
Osmaanse army occupies Cairo |
1522-06-24 |
Battle of La Bicocca: a combined French and Venetian was decisively defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army |
1525-02-20 |
Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois I's army |
1525-05-15 |
The battle of Frankenhausen: German peasant army surrounded, 5,000 slaughtered ; ends the peasants' uprising |
1528-06-30 |
Burgundian army occupies Utrecht |
1531-10-28 |
Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control. |
1537-07-12 |
Battle of Albancay: Diego de Almagro defeated by army led by Alonso de Alvarado on behalf of Francisco Pizarro |
1537-08-25 |
The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. |
1543-02-11 |
Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Muslim army |
1543-08-22 |
Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren |
1549-08-27 |
Battle of Dussindale: John Dudley Earl of Warwick destroys Robert Kett's army, ending Kett's rebellion |
1554-01-25 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary |
1563-07-27 |
French army recaptures Le Havre |
1565-01-25 |
Battle at Talikota India: the Deccan sultanate destroy Vijayanagar's army and the last Hindu kingdom of Southern India |
1567-03-11 |
Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel |
1567-06-15 |
Battle at Carberry, Scotland: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwell's army |
1567-08-08 |
Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels, Belgium |
1567-11-10 |
Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots |
1568-10-05 |
William of Oranges army occupies Brabant |
1570-07-25 |
Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army |
1572-06-09 |
Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland |
1572-07-19 |
Battle at Saint Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries |
1572-10-02 |
Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen |
1572-10-05 |
Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen |
1572-12-13 |
Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet (confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles) under admiral Lumey |
1572-12-17 |
Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands |
1573-07-13 |
Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army |
1575-03-03 |
Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi. |
1576-05-29 |
Spanish army under Mondragon conquerors Zierik sea |
1577-07-24 |
Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur |
1580-06-27 |
Duke of Alva's army occupies Portugal |
1584-07-10 |
Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium |
1585-06-23 |
Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops |
1586-01-15 |
Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army |
1586-09-22 |
Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army |
1586-10-02 |
Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army |
1587-12-17 |
The Earl Leicester's army leaves Netherlands |
1588-08-12 |
Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army |
1590-09-05 |
Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. |
1591-03-13 |
Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai |
1591-11-12 |
Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza |
1595-08-23 |
Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni. |
1595-10-09 |
The Spanish army captures Cambrai. |
1600-07-01 |
Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Neth |
1600-07-02 |
Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army |
1602-01-02 |
Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English army at Kinsdale |
1603-03-30 |
Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish |
1604-04-25 |
Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand |
1604-09-20 |
Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende |
1605-08-18 |
Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen |
1605-10-27 |
Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk |
1608-05-19 |
Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague |
1610-06-19 |
Samuel de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec |
1610-06-24 |
Battle of Klushino: King Sigismund II's Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army beats Russia & Sweden |
1621-06-25 |
French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle |
1631-10-10 |
Saxon army occupies Prague |
1632-09-01 |
Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses |
1632-10-01 |
Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses |
1632-11-06 |
Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies |
1640-08-03 |
2,000 men VOC-army surrounds the city of Malakka |
1640-08-28 |
Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn |
1641-07-06 |
Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army |
1643-05-19 |
Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army |
1643-09-20 |
First Battle of Newbury (English civil war): King Charles I's forces beaten by a parliamentary army led by the Earl of Essex and Philip Stapleton |
1643-11-24 |
Battle of Tuttlingen: Beiers army under Gen Mercy beats France |
1644-01-24 |
Parliamentary army wins battle of Nantwich, Cheshire, English Civil War |
1645-04-03 |
English Long Parliament passes the Self-Denying Ordinance, limiting regional armies, significant step toward New Model Army |
1645-06-14 |
Battle of Naseby, Leicestershire "New Model Army" under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beat royalists forces of English King Charles I |
1645-07-10 |
Battle at Langport, Somerset: Cromwell's New Model Army beats Royalists |
1645-09-11 |
Thomas Fairfax's 'New Model Army' occupies Bristol |
1646-06-25 |
Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Oxford |
1647-06-04 |
English Parliamentary army under Cornet George Joyce takes King Charles I as a prisoner during Second Civil War |
1648-04-22 |
English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed |
1648-11-30 |
English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I |
1650-04-27 |
The Battle of Carbisdale: Royalist army under Marquess of Montrose invades mainland Scotland from Orkney; defeated by a Covenanter army. |
1650-08-03 |
Viceroy Willem II & Amsterdam reach accord about standing army |
1652-05-04 |
Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels |
1655-07-31 |
Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years. |
1657-07-13 |
Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert |
1660-01-01 |
General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London |
1660-01-01 |
Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York |
1660-02-03 |
General Moncks army reaches London |
1663-09-25 |
Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army |
1664-01-21 |
Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army |
1665-06-06 |
Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain |
1665-06-17 |
Battle at Viciosa: English & Portuguese army beat Spain |
1670-10-01 |
-4] Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers |
1672-06-12 |
French army under Gen Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith |
1673-11-11 |
Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used. |
1675-01-05 |
Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg |
1675-06-28 |
Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburg army beats Sweden |
1676-12-03 |
Battle of Lund (Scanian War): Swedish army of 8,000 defeats much larger joint Danish/Dutch force of 13,000 |
1676-12-04 |
Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt. |
1677-12-12 |
Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin |
1687-09-26 |
Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks, the Parthenon is subsequently damaged in the war. |
1688-11-15 |
Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay, England; the 'Glorious Revolution' commences |
1690-06-24 |
King William III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14] |
1690-07-01 |
Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army |
1690-07-01 |
Army of Protestant King William III defeats deposed Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland |
1690-08-01 |
Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus of Savoy |
1691-07-22 |
Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France |
1691-10-03 |
English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland |
1692-08-03 |
Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army |
1693-07-04 |
Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army |
1694-06-07 |
English invasion army under Thomas Tollemache reaches Brest |
1695-09-01 |
Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names |
1695-09-01 |
French garrison of castle Namur surrenders fto the army of the Grand Alliance under the command of King William III of England |
1697-11-10 |
English parliament accept army reduction |
1700-08-18 |
Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark |
1703-05-01 |
Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians |
1703-08-21 |
Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II in The Edirne Event, lessening the power of the sultans |
1703-09-12 |
English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal |
1704-08-13 |
French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany |
1706-02-13 |
Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen |
1708-08-03 |
Battle at Trencsén: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army |
1708-09-11 |
Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power. |
1708-09-28 |
Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy |
1708-10-09 |
Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy |
1711-12-31 |
Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander |
1712-07-24 |
Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army |
1715-11-13 |
Battle of Sheriffmuir during Jacobite rebellion. Battle inconclusive but Government forces halt advance of Jacobite army lead by Scottish Earl of Mar |
1734-03-10 |
Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples |
1734-06-30 |
Russian army occupies Danzig |
1737-07-18 |
Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians |
1739-02-24 |
Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah. |
1741-11-26 |
French & Beiers army occupies Prague |
1743-08-14 |
Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War |
1744-05-17 |
French army takes Austrian Netherlands |
1745-01-06 |
Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow |
1745-09-21 |
Battle of Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army |
1745-09-22 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army returns to Edinburgh |
1745-11-11 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army enters England |
1745-11-29 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle |
1745-12-06 |
Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland |
1745-12-10 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester |
1745-12-17 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army retreats to Scotland |
1745-12-20 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches the river Esk |
1745-12-31 |
Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk |
1746-01-03 |
Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14] |
1746-01-14 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow [OS=Jan 3] |
1746-04-16 |
Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army. |
1746-06-16 |
Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish & French army |
1746-09-21 |
French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras |
1747-07-01 |
Battle at Lafeld: France beat British/Dutch army |
1752-06-09 |
French army surrenders to the British in Trichinopoly India |
1755-09-08 |
Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army beats French |
1756-10-15 |
Saxon army surrenders to Prussia |
1757-05-06 |
Battle of Prague: Frederick II of Prussia's forces defeat Austrian army |
1757-06-18 |
Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia |
1757-06-23 |
Robert Clive defeats army led by Suraja Dowlaat Plassey, wins control of Bengal |
1757-07-26 |
Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats Duke of Cumberland |
1757-08-19 |
Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [NS=Aug 30] |
1757-08-30 |
Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19] |
1757-12-05 |
Battle of Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians |
1758-10-14 |
Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia |
1758-12-31 |
British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal |
1759-08-12 |
Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians |
1759-11-21 |
Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians |
1760-09-08 |
French army surrenders Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst |
1760-09-28 |
Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin |
1760-10-02 |
Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13] |
1760-10-13 |
Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin |
1761-01-07 |
Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten |
1761-12-16 |
Seven Years' War: After four-month siege, Russian army under Pyotr Rumyantsev takes Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg (German: Kolberg). |
1774-06-11 |
Jews of Algiers escape attacking Spanish Army |
1774-07-12 |
Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan |
1775-06-14 |
US Army founded |
1775-06-15 |
George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army |
1775-07-03 |
Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass |
1775-07-10 |
Horatio Gates issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army |
1775-10-08 |
Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army |
1775-10-23 |
Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army |
1775-11-07 |
Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army |
1776-08-30 |
US army evacuates Long Island and falls back to Manhattan, NYC |
1776-12-08 |
George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ |
1777-01-03 |
General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, NJ |
1777-07-31 |
Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army |
1777-12-02 |
British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4 |
1777-12-17 |
George Washington's army returns to Valley Forge, Pa |
1778-02-23 |
Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge |
1778-07-08 |
George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army |
1779-03-11 |
US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) |
1780-01-04 |
Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ |
1781-01-01 |
1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781. |
1781-08-01 |
British army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia |
1782-08-07 |
George Washington first creates Purple Heart medal (original name Badge of Military Merit) as commander of the Continental Army |
1783-11-02 |
General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War |
1783-11-03 |
Washington orders Continental Army disbanded |
1783-12-23 |
General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress |
1787-09-13 |
Prussian army moves into Netherlands |
1787-10-10 |
Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army |
1788-06-07 |
Masses stone French army at Grenoble |
1788-12-17 |
Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov |
1789-09-29 |
US War Dept established a regular army |
1790-12-02 |
Austrian army occupies Brussels |
1792-05-19 |
Russian army enters Poland |
1792-07-11 |
Prussia army moves into French territory |
1792-11-06 |
Battle of Jemappes: French army beats Holy Roman Empire |
1793-03-18 |
2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France |
1794-06-26 |
Battle of Fleurus; major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon |
1795-01-16 |
French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Neth |
1798-03-07 |
The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic. |
1798-08-27 |
Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts the English |
1799-05-04 |
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris. |
1799-08-27 |
British invasion army lands in North-Holland |
1799-09-19 |
English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver |
1799-10-06 |
Battle of Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats British/Russian army |
1799-10-10 |
Convention of Alkmaar: British/Russian invasion army departs |
1800-03-20 |
French army defeats Turks at Helipolis & advance to Cairo |
1802-03-16 |
US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time) |
1803-09-23 |
Battle of Assaye: British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army |
1805-09-30 |
Napoleon Bonaparte's army draws into the Rhine |
1805-11-16 |
Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French |
1806-10-27 |
The French Army enters in Berlin. |
1807-06-14 |
Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Prussia (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. |
1808-06-05 |
-6] Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians |
1809-07-27 |
Battle of Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army |
1811-09-18 |
British expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies |
1812-09-15 |
French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow |
1812-11-29 |
Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia |
1813-03-03 |
Office of Surgeon General of the US Army forms |
1815-06-16 |
Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia |
1817-01-18 |
José de San Martín leads a revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile |
1824-08-06 |
Battle at Junan - Simon Bolívar's army defeats the Spanish |
1826-06-15 |
Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II abolishes the elite Janissary corps executing thousands for treason to make way for a more modern army |
1827-10-01 |
The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia. |
1828-08-24 |
Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea |
1830-03-10 |
The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created. |
1830-09-27 |
Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed |
1830-10-05 |
King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army |
1831-08-02 |
Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium |
1831-08-08 |
Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army |
1832-12-04 |
French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp |
1835-07-25 |
Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine |
1836-02-23 |
Alamo besieged for 13 days until 6th March by Mexican army under General Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed |
1842-01-13 |
Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad. |
1846-05-03 |
Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas |
1847-02-22 |
Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army |
1854-11-28 |
Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo |
1856-11-17 |
On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase. |
1857-04-29 |
US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently forms at Presidio (SF) |
1859-06-24 |
Battle of Solferino, Northern Italy: a French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II overcame the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I. |
1861-03-06 |
Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army |
1861-04-15 |
Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Lincoln (US Civil War) |
1861-04-25 |
The Union Army arrives to reinforce Washington, D.C. (US Civil War) |
1861-05-03 |
Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen |
1861-05-29 |
Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army |
1861-07-13 |
Battle of Corrick's Ford, VA (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53 |
1861-07-27 |
Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army |
1861-08-05 |
US Army abolishes flogging |
1861-09-09 |
Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army |
1862-03-11 |
12] Gen Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief |
1862-05-05 |
French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo |
1862-06-26 |
US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope |
1862-07-17 |
US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers |
1862-07-17 |
United army officially divides corps |
1862-09-09 |
Robert E. Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry |
1862-09-16 |
Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY |
1862-09-18 |
General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia |
1862-11-05 |
Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac |
1862-11-20 |
Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg |
1862-12-25 |
40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC |
1863-01-25 |
General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac |
1863-01-29 |
Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians |
1863-01-31 |
1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army |
1863-03-25 |
1st Army Medal of Honor awarded |
1863-05-04 |
End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws |
1863-06-24 |
Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac |
1863-07-04 |
General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg |
1863-07-15 |
Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army |
1864-02-16 |
Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army |
1864-03-09 |
Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army |
1864-05-04 |
General Ulysses S. Grant's Union Army at Potomac attacks Robert E. Lee's Confederates at Rappahannock River |
1865-02-08 |
1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany |
1865-03-02 |
Conferate General Early's army is defeated at the battle of Waynesboro VA during American Civil War |
1865-04-01 |
Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army |
1865-04-04 |
Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse |
1865-04-06 |
Battle of Sayler's Creek during US Civil War, 1/4rd of Lee's army cut off |
1865-04-26 |
Confederate Gen J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tenn, at Durham NC |
1865-06-23 |
At Fort Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confederate army |
1865-06-28 |
The Army of the Potomac is disbanded |
1865-07-02 |
One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found the Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) as the East London Christian Mission |
1865-09-03 |
Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land |
1865-11-11 |
Mary Edward Walker, the first US Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor |
1866-06-24 |
Second Battle at Custozza: the Austrian Imperial army, joined by the Venetian Army decisively defeated the Italian army, despite the Italians' strong numerical advantage. |
1866-07-25 |
Ulysses S. Grant named 1st general of Army |
1866-11-20 |
First national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org) |
1869-08-16 |
Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance. |
1870-01-23 |
173 Blackfoot (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army |
1870-02-09 |
US Army establishes US National Weather Service |
1870-09-20 |
Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French |
1873-01-17 |
A group of Modoc warriors defeat the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War. |
1876-11-25 |
Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River. |
1877-03-31 |
The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels. |
1877-05-05 |
Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. |
1877-07-21 |
-27] US army breaks railroad strike |
1877-09-24 |
Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion |
1878-01-16 |
Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule. |
1879-01-22 |
Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa |
1880-03-10 |
Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity |
1880-06-16 |
Salvation Army forms in London |
1881-02-27 |
Battle at Amajuba, S Afr: Boers vs Brit army under Gen Colley |
1881-03-27 |
Rioting takes place in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army. |
1881-07-01 |
General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, comes into effect. |
1882-06-06 |
The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River. |
1883-11-05 |
Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army |
1884-09-26 |
Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed |
1884-11-01 |
The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote Irish sport and games; The association denies membership to the police and army and is immediately infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) |
1885-03-28 |
US Salvation Army officially organized |
1885-11-13 |
Serbian army occupies Bulgaria |
1887-01-06 |
`Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II. |
1890-11-29 |
1st US Army - US Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point |
1891-02-18 |
Capt Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan |
1891-09-07 |
Captain Frederick Lugard's army reaches Kavalli, Equatoria |
1893-03-04 |
Francis Dhanis' army attacks the Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe |
1893-04-22 |
Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo |
1894-03-25 |
Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon, Ohio, for Washington DC |
1894-04-29 |
Commonwealth of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol |
1894-08-25 |
-26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed |
1896-09-21 |
General Kitchener's army occupies Dongola Sudan |
1897-01-26 |
Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army |
1897-05-12 |
Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece |
1897-05-15 |
The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War. |
1898-04-12 |
Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy |
1898-04-22 |
Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry |
1899-02-18 |
SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports |
1899-10-20 |
Battle at Talana Hill, Natal: British army vs Boers |
1899-10-21 |
Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army) |
1899-10-24 |
Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army |
1899-10-30 |
Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers beat lt-general White's army |
1899-11-22 |
-23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) |
1899-12-10 |
Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army |
1899-12-15 |
Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) |
1900-01-24 |
Battle of Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-06 |
The Battle of Vaal Krantz, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-22 |
Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-02-23 |
Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-03-10 |
Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
1900-05-27 |
Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa |
1900-06-01 |
British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa |
1900-06-25 |
Russia mobilizes its army in eastern Siberia preparatory to acting against the Chinese, but also in an attempt to diminish the influence of Japan on the Asian mainland |
1900-12-16 |
Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony |
1901-02-02 |
Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization |
1901-02-02 |
The US Congress passes the Army Reorganization Act, placing the minimum number of men under arms at 58,000 |
1901-11-27 |
Army War College forms in Washington DC |
1901-11-27 |
U.S. Army War College is established. |
1902-05-12 |
Some 140,000 miners of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania go out on a strike called by the United Mine Workers after the owners have refused to recognize the UMW, let alone negotiate or submit to arbitration; Roosevelt later threatens to have the army run the mine |
1902-10-13 |
President Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration |
1902-12-31 |
Boers & British army sign peace treaty |
1903-02-21 |
Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC |
1904-04-13 |
Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army |
1904-04-26 |
General Kuroko leads the Japanese Army against the large Russian force at the Yalu river during the Russo-Japanese War |
1904-05-26 |
In two days of bitter fighting, the Japanese Army soundly defeats the Russians at Kinchan and captures the forts at Nanshan |
1904-05-30 |
The Japanese Army capture the City of Dairen after landing troops along the south coast of Manchuria |
1905-03-10 |
Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang) |
1907-03-31 |
Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt |
1907-04-12 |
In Switzerland, parliament passes a new army bill reorganizing the nation's forces into a standing militia, with training required for all males |
1907-07-01 |
World's 1st air force established (US Army) |
1907-08-01 |
Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division |
1907-10-16 |
David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in NYC |
1909-04-13 |
In Constantinople, the primarily Albanian First Army Corps seizes the parliament building and telegraphs offices, forcing the Ottoman statesman Hilmi Pasha to resign |
1909-07-27 |
Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s |
1909-07-30 |
Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army |
1909-08-02 |
Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers |
1910-08-08 |
The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer. |
1910-11-10 |
The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910. |
1911-07-17 |
Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army |
1911-07-20 |
Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany |
1911-11-10 |
Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath) |
1912-04-04 |
Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia |
1912-06-07 |
US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane |
1913-06-30 |
To increase the peacetime strength of the German Army, the Reichstag pass the Army and Finance Bills, a massive defense buildup |
1913-11-01 |
Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively |
1913-11-23 |
Jim Larkin and James Connolly establish the Irish Citizens Army in order to protect strikers |
1914-03-18 |
White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China |
1914-07-18 |
US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps |
1914-08-03 |
Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army |
1914-08-04 |
WWI: German army shoots Belgian priests and burns down village of Battice |
1914-08-04 |
WWI: King Albert I becomes Supreme Commander of Belgian army after German declaration of war |
1914-08-07 |
German army occupies city of Liege, Belgium |
1914-08-13 |
-14] German army occupies forts at Liege |
1914-08-16 |
German army occupies last fort at Liege, Belgian general Leman caught |
1914-08-18 |
-20] Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp |
1914-08-19 |
German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad |
1914-08-20 |
German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp |
1914-08-25 |
Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven, Belgium |
1914-08-25 |
German troops march into France and push French army to the Sedan |
1914-08-26 |
-9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia |
1914-08-26 |
Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army |
1914-08-29 |
4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught |
1914-08-30 |
Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army ca. 170,000 killed or injured |
1914-09-01 |
Von Gluck's army meets up with British expeditionary army |
1914-09-03 |
British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attack the Marne |
1914-09-09 |
World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. |
1914-09-20 |
John Redmond urges Irish Volunteers to enlist in the British Army |
1914-11-06 |
The British land troops (mostly from the Indian Army) at the head of the Persian Gulf in Mesopotamia, and will begin to move westward in an attempt to draw Turkish troops from other fronts |
1914-11-21 |
British army conquerors Bazra |
1914-11-23 |
The US Army retreats from Mexico. |
1914-12-02 |
Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia |
1914-12-03 |
Dutch army opens fire on interned Belgian soldiers: 8 killed |
1915-02-03 |
Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal |
1915-02-07 |
2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army |
1915-02-21 |
20th Russian Army corps surrenders |
1915-03-10 |
British Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle |
1915-04-24 |
German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper |
1915-08-23 |
Tsar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army |
1915-09-29 |
British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia |
1916-01-10 |
In retaliation for President Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pacho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 American mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood |
1916-01-11 |
French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu |
1916-07-01 |
First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI) |
1916-11-24 |
Mexican and US representatives sign a protocol at Atlantic City, under which Pershing's troops will withdraw and each nation's army will guard the border. President Carranza of Mexico will refuse to accept it |
1916-12-06 |
German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest |
1917-02-26 |
[NS Mar 11] Russian February Revolution: Tsar Nicolas II orders army to quell civil unrest in Petrograd - army mutinies |
1917-10-24 |
Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army |
1917-11-08 |
Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants |
1918-02-09 |
Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va |
1918-02-15 |
US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany off Ireland |
1918-02-23 |
First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory. |
1918-03-07 |
Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal |
1918-03-13 |
Trotsky gains control of the Red Army |
1918-05-26 |
Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat. |
1918-08-27 |
Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army |
1918-10-18 |
Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) |
1918-11-06 |
Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns |
1918-12-13 |
US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany |
1919-01-30 |
Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army |
1919-03-30 |
Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf |
1919-04-05 |
Polish Army executes 35 young Jews |
1919-04-13 |
Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India |
1919-04-20 |
Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army |
1919-04-28 |
1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin) |
1919-06-09 |
Red Army captures Ufa |
1919-08-10 |
Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine |
1919-08-31 |
Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group |
1919-08-31 |
Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev |
1919-11-14 |
Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia |
1920-06-06 |
Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army |
1920-07-16 |
Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief |
1921-03-07 |
Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt |
1922-02-11 |
US intervention army leaves Honduras |
1922-11-16 |
Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help |
1923-04-13 |
Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships |
1923-09-13 |
With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera |
1923-10-02 |
British occuping army leaves Constantinople |
1923-10-29 |
Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon |
1923-11-23 |
German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD |
1923-12-17 |
Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic |
1924-08-26 |
(August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor. |
1924-09-28 |
2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops |
1924-10-18 |
Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, NY Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen) |
1925-03-09 |
Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins. |
1925-04-11 |
Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco |
1925-04-28 |
Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army |
1925-05-08 |
French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco |
1925-10-19 |
Italian army takes Somalia |
1926-07-02 |
US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized |
1926-11-27 |
110,000 watch US Army & Navy play a 21-all tie |
1926-12-03 |
Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together) |
1926-12-17 |
German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army |
1927-02-12 |
British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai |
1927-03-21 |
Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee |
1927-05-17 |
U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania |
1928-04-01 |
Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse |
1931-12-09 |
Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol |
1932-01-23 |
El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers |
1932-05-29 |
The Bonus Army of World War I veterans begins to assemble in Washington, DC in to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945. |
1932-06-17 |
Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits. |
1932-07-29 |
Great Depression: in Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans. |
1933-03-21 |
Hitler, Guring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning & top army meet in Berlin |
1934-02-19 |
US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months |
1934-10-01 |
Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles |
1935-10-02 |
Mussolini's Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
1935-10-06 |
Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia |
1935-10-19 |
Mao Zedong's army reaches Shanxi |
1936-01-09 |
Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army |
1936-07-18 |
Spanish Civil War : General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leds uprising with army in Morocco |
1937-01-01 |
US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio |
1937-06-12 |
USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues |
1937-08-24 |
In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement. |
1937-11-09 |
Japanese army conquers Shanghai |
1938-02-04 |
Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts |
1939-03-01 |
Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94. |
1939-04-13 |
In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British. |
1939-08-30 |
General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army |
1939-08-31 |
Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia |
1939-09-01 |
Gen George Marshall sworn in as the United States Army Chief of Staff |
1939-09-01 |
Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization). |
1939-09-09 |
Nazi army reaches Warsaw |
1939-09-19 |
Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland |
1939-10-06 |
Last Polish army is defeated in World War II. |
1939-12-18 |
Finnish army recaptures Agläjärvi |
1940-05-20 |
German General Guderian's tanks reach the English Channel (British expeditionary army) |
1940-05-24 |
Dutch army demobilizes |
1940-06-15 |
Soviet Army occupies Lithuania |
1940-06-27 |
Soviet Army attacks Romania |
1940-10-16 |
Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army |
1940-10-25 |
Benjamin O Davis Sr. becomes 1st African American general in US Army |
1940-12-22 |
World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army. |
1941-01-10 |
World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. |
1941-01-16 |
War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets |
1941-02-06 |
Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed |
1941-03-22 |
Jimmy Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II |
1941-04-23 |
Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt |
1941-04-24 |
British army begins evacuation of Greece |
1941-05-09 |
British Army breaks German spy codes |
1941-05-16 |
Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia |
1941-05-18 |
Italian army in Ethiopia under general Aosta surrenders to Britain |
1941-05-28 |
British army begins evacuation of Crete |
1941-05-30 |
British Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government |
1941-07-19 |
1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala) |
1941-07-27 |
German army enters Ukraine |
1941-08-02 |
German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman |
1941-08-08 |
20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman |
1941-08-13 |
Red army evacuates Smolensk |
1941-09-19 |
German army conquerors Kiev |
1941-10-06 |
German army occupies Briansk, USSR |
1941-10-07 |
German army occupies Viarma, USSR |
1941-11-26 |
General Alan Cunningham relieved of command of British 8th Army in North Africa |
1941-11-27 |
British 13th Army Corps reaches Tobruk |
1941-12-05 |
Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army |
1941-12-08 |
Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo |
1941-12-12 |
German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews |
1941-12-12 |
Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk |
1941-12-19 |
Hitler takes complete command of German Army |
1942-01-16 |
William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army |
1942-01-23 |
Tank battle at Adzjedabia, Africa Korp vs British 8th army |
1942-03-08 |
KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies |
1942-03-13 |
Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army |
1942-04-16 |
Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship |
1942-05-10 |
World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign. |
1942-05-14 |
US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms |
1942-05-26 |
Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: Afrika Korps vs British army |
1942-05-27 |
Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim |
1942-06-11 |
German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa |
1942-06-22 |
Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms |
1942-06-30 |
Col-gen Von Paul's 6th Army enters Ukraine |
1942-07-06 |
Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj |
1942-07-20 |
1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training |
1942-07-22 |
4th Russian army forms with 80 tanks |
1942-07-24 |
Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army" premieres in NYC |
1942-08-02 |
Col-Gen Hoth' Panzer army reaches Kotelnikovo |
1942-08-08 |
"Monty" appointed commander of British 8th Army at Alamein |
1942-08-19 |
WWII: General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad |
1942-08-23 |
Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief |
1942-10-15 |
German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die |
1942-10-23 |
All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii"). |
1942-11-20 |
British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya |
1942-11-20 |
Soviet army offensive during WWII, 1 million Russians breach German lines |
1942-11-21 |
Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don) |
1942-11-23 |
3rd & 5th Romanian army corp surrenders |
1942-11-23 |
German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad |
1942-11-23 |
Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don |
1942-12-10 |
North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim |
1942-12-24 |
Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk |
1943-01-03 |
Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa |
1943-01-16 |
Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad |
1943-01-23 |
British 8th army marches into Tripoli |
1943-02-02 |
German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad, turning point in Europe during WW II |
1943-02-08 |
Red Army recaptures Kursk |
1943-02-10 |
British 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia |
1943-02-16 |
Red army conquers Kharkov |
1943-02-17 |
NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army |
1943-03-15 |
Red Army evacuates Kharkov |
1943-03-18 |
Red Army evacuates Belgorod |
1943-03-19 |
British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia |
1943-03-30 |
British 1st army recaptures Sejenane |
1943-05-06 |
British 1st army opens assault on Tunis |
1943-05-09 |
5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia |
1943-05-17 |
The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC. |
1943-08-07 |
Red Army recaptures Bogodukov |
1943-08-11 |
Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov |
1943-08-13 |
Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk |
1943-08-23 |
Red army recaptures Charkow during WWII |
1943-08-25 |
Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka |
1943-09-03 |
British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina) |
1943-09-04 |
British 8th Army lands at Taranto, South Italy |
1943-09-09 |
Red Army occupies Bachmatsj |
1943-09-10 |
British 8th army occupies Tarente |
1943-09-16 |
Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno |
1943-09-16 |
Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny |
1943-09-17 |
Red Army recaptures Brjansk |
1943-09-21 |
Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov |
1943-09-29 |
Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug |
1943-10-03 |
British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy |
1943-10-16 |
US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol |
1943-12-10 |
British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy |
1944-01-01 |
Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa |
1944-01-01 |
Gen Clark replaces Gen Patton as commander of 7th Army |
1944-01-14 |
Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow |
1944-02-25 |
US 1st Army completes invasion plan |
1944-04-02 |
Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania |
1944-05-18 |
Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy |
1944-06-04 |
5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies |
1944-06-22 |
British 14th Army frees Imphal Assam |
1944-06-22 |
Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre. |
1944-06-26 |
2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line |
1944-06-29 |
US 7th army corps conquers Cherbourg |
1944-07-03 |
US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin |
1944-07-20 |
Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by Germany army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg. |
1944-07-23 |
Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland |
1944-07-27 |
Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp |
1944-07-28 |
US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France |
1944-08-01 |
General Montgomery takes command of 12th & 21st army |
1944-08-04 |
British 8th Army reaches suburbs of Florence, Italy |
1944-08-06 |
US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes |
1944-08-07 |
US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest, Brittany |
1944-08-08 |
US 15th Army corps occupies Le Mans |
1944-08-13 |
British 8th Army occupies Florence |
1944-08-15 |
US 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans |
1944-08-16 |
US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux |
1944-08-17 |
US 12 Army Corps occupies Orleans |
1944-08-18 |
Chartres freed by US 3rd Army forces during WWII |
1944-08-18 |
US 15th Army Corps reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris |
1944-08-18 |
US 20th Army Corps conquers Chartres |
1944-08-19 |
US 15th Army Corps occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris |
1944-08-20 |
US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap |
1944-08-21 |
US 12nd Army Corps occupies Sens |
1944-08-23 |
US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine |
1944-08-25 |
US 12nd Army Corps reaches Troyes |
1944-08-26 |
US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris |
1944-09-04 |
US 1st Army frees Namen |
1944-09-06 |
Gen Von Zangen's 15th army escape from Zealand |
1944-09-12 |
US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time |
1944-09-13 |
30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten |
1944-10-12 |
German army retreats from Athens |
1944-10-13 |
US 1st army begins battle of Aachen |
1944-10-20 |
US 1st army wins battle of Aachen |
1944-10-20 |
US 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines |
1944-10-23 |
Soviet army invades Hungary |
1944-11-01 |
World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands. |
1944-11-10 |
US 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery |
1944-11-16 |
US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen |
1944-11-23 |
US 7th army under Gen Patch conquers Straatsburg |
1944-12-03 |
Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London. |
1944-12-14 |
Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General) |
1944-12-17 |
US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast, detainees released. |
1944-12-26 |
Budapest surrounded by soviet army |
1944-12-31 |
Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab |
1945-01-15 |
Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp |
1945-01-16 |
US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise |
1945-01-18 |
Warsaw freed by Soviet army |
1945-02-01 |
US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie |
1945-02-06 |
Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder |
1945-02-21 |
British Army captures Goch |
1945-02-23 |
Operation Grenade: Gen Simpsons 9th Army crosses Ruhr |
1945-03-03 |
US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall |
1945-03-05 |
US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne |
1945-03-10 |
Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army |
1945-03-10 |
US Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. |
1945-03-22 |
US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein |
1945-03-25 |
US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen |
1945-03-26 |
US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms |
1945-03-27 |
US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden |
1945-04-01 |
Ruhrgebied sealed off by US 1st & 9th army |
1945-04-03 |
Hengelo freed from Nazi control by Canadian army |
1945-04-03 |
US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar |
1945-04-13 |
Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Neth from Nazis |
1945-04-13 |
Red Army occupies Vienna |
1945-04-14 |
WWII: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany |
1945-04-15 |
British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen |
1945-04-16 |
Red Army begins Battle of Berlin |
1945-04-18 |
Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops |
1945-04-20 |
US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg |
1945-04-21 |
Russian army arrives at outskirts of Berlin |
1945-04-21 |
US 7th Army reaches Nuremberg |
1945-04-25 |
Red army completely surrounds Berlin |
1945-04-27 |
US 5th army enters Genua |
1945-04-28 |
US 5th army reaches Swiss border |
1945-04-29 |
Japanese army evacuates Rangoon |
1945-04-30 |
Red Army occupies Demmin |
1945-04-30 |
Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin |
1945-04-30 |
Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp |
1945-05-01 |
About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army |
1945-05-01 |
Soviet army reaches Rostock |
1945-05-02 |
German Army in Italy surrenders |
1945-05-02 |
WWII: Battle of Berlin end as Russian army takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders |
1945-05-09 |
World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. |
1945-07-26 |
Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled |
1945-07-28 |
US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die |
1945-10-01 |
Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army |
1945-10-05 |
Indonesian army forms |
1945-11-10 |
College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0 |
1945-12-04 |
11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB) |
1946-01-10 |
US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ |
1946-12-03 |
12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB) |
1946-12-08 |
Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight |
1947-07-20 |
1st political action of Neth Army on Java & Sumatra |
1947-07-25 |
US Department of Army created |
1948-02-07 |
Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff |
1948-02-10 |
Greek Gen Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki |
1948-02-12 |
1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps |
1948-02-15 |
Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan |
1948-05-20 |
1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army |
1948-07-10 |
Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army |
1948-07-17 |
Israeli army captures Nazareth |
1948-09-12 |
Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. |
1948-10-15 |
China's Red army occupies Chinchov |
1948-10-18 |
Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army |
1948-10-21 |
Beersheba liberated by Israeli army |
1948-11-01 |
Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria |
1948-12-03 |
1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn in |
1949-01-15 |
Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin |
1949-04-23 |
Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing |
1949-05-25 |
Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai |
1949-10-14 |
Chinese Red army occupies Canton |
1950-01-23 |
Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung |
1950-07-26 |
KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites |
1950-08-25 |
US President Harry Truman orders army to take control of railroad to avert a strike |
1950-10-03 |
Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas |
1950-10-03 |
Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army |
1951-03-20 |
Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java |
1951-05-27 |
Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing |
1951-06-24 |
Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations |
1951-10-17 |
Egyptian army fires on British troops |
1952-01-20 |
British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone |
1952-07-12 |
East German SED decides to form German DR army |
1953-03-11 |
1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) |
1954-02-23 |
Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli |
1954-03-11 |
US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics |
1954-04-01 |
1st US Army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC |
1954-04-22 |
US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin |
1954-06-09 |
Joseph Welch asks US Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings |
1954-06-17 |
CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co) |
1954-06-17 |
Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends |
1954-09-03 |
The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy. |
1955-01-18 |
Battle of Yijiangshan Islands between Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the People's Liberation Army |
1955-03-24 |
British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years |
1956-01-18 |
German DR forms own army (National People's Army) |
1956-12-12 |
Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign. |
1957-01-01 |
An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest. |
1957-03-23 |
US army sells last homing pigeons |
1957-09-25 |
300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark |
1957-11-27 |
Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration |
1957-12-20 |
Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service |
1958-01-07 |
USSR reduces army to 300,000 |
1958-01-13 |
Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. |
1958-03-24 |
Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) |
1958-03-26 |
US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III" |
1958-05-13 |
French settlers riot against French army in Algeria |
1958-07-26 |
Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV |
1958-08-23 |
Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy. |
1958-12-02 |
24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB) |
1959-04-12 |
France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria |
1960-01-14 |
US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant |
1960-02-12 |
Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers |
1960-03-05 |
Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army |
1960-03-17 |
Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA |
1961-04-14 |
Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua |
1961-04-21 |
French army revolts in Algeria |
1962-03-02 |
In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup. |
1962-03-29 |
Argentine Pres Frondizi flees from the army |
1962-06-16 |
2 US army officers killed in Saigon |
1962-06-30 |
Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters |
1962-10-08 |
Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason. |
1962-10-20 |
Chinese army lands in India |
1962-11-21 |
The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War. |
1963-12-07 |
Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game. |
1964-09-10 |
Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms |
1965-03-23 |
Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed |
1965-05-05 |
1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam |
1965-09-11 |
The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam. |
1966-05-15 |
South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die |
1966-05-21 |
A loyalist group calling itself the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) issued a statement declaring war on the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
1966-12-07 |
A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people. |
1967-01-14 |
NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments |
1967-04-28 |
Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title |
1967-05-08 |
Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army |
1967-07-24 |
Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City |
1967-08-09 |
Biafran offensive against Nigerian army |
1968-11-04 |
Battles between Jordan army & Al Fatah-arm forces |
1969-03-29 |
Communist New People's Army found in Philippines |
1969-04-24 |
Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians |
1969-07-24 |
Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal |
1969-08-14 |
The British Army deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the beginning of Operation Banner |
1969-11-12 |
US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 |
1970-01-01 |
The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), an infantry regiment of the British Army, comes into existence |
1970-02-24 |
29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) |
1970-02-27 |
NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance |
1970-03-31 |
Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast; violence lasts for three days, and the British Army used CS gas for the first time in large quantities |
1970-04-01 |
Serious riots continue in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast between Catholic residents and the British Army |
1970-04-03 |
As part of a new 'get tough' policy in Northern Ireland, Ian Freeland of the British Army, warned that those throwing petrol bombs could be shot dead |
1970-05-14 |
The Red Army Faction is established in Germany. |
1970-05-28 |
Arms Trial Begins: several men are charged in a Dublin court with conspiracy to illegally import arms for use by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
1970-06-05 |
The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon |
1970-06-26 |
Two young girls die in a premature explosion in Derry after their father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was making an incendiary device, presumably for use against the British Army |
1970-07-02 |
Neil Blaney is found not guilty of illegal arms importation to the Irish Republican Army by a Dublin jury |
1970-07-03 |
The British Army imposed a curfew on the Falls Road area of Belfast as they search for weapons; during the operation they come under attack from the Official IRA (OIRA) and republican rioters |
1970-07-04 |
The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, continues throughout the day; a man is killed by the British Army. |
1970-07-06 |
Irish Minister for External Affairs Partick Hillery pays an unofficial visit to the Falls Road area of Belfast, an areas only just subject to a curfew by British Army |
1970-07-31 |
Daniel O'Hagan (19), a Catholic civilian, is shot dead by the British Army during a serious riot in the New Lodge Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland |
1970-08-11 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers are killed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) when they set off a booby trap bomb planted in a car near Crossmaglen, County Armagh |
1970-08-24 |
Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison |
1970-09-04 |
An Irish Republican Army (IRA) member, Michael Kane (35), is killed in the premature explosion of the bomb he was planting at an electricity transformer in Belfast |
1970-09-17 |
Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army |
1970-11-16 |
Two men are shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
1971-01-10 |
Members of the Irish Republican Army carry out a 'punishment attack' by tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Catholic areas of Belfast |
1971-02-03 |
There is a series of house searches by the British Army in Catholic areas of Belfast, resulting in serious rioting and gun battles |
1971-02-04 |
Lieutenant-General Vernon Erskine-Crum becomes General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland |
1971-02-06 |
Bernard Watt (28), a Catholic civilian, is shot and killed by the British Army (BA) during street disturbances in Ardoyne, Belfast |
1971-02-06 |
The Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner Robert Curtis, the first British soldier to die during the 'Troubles' |
1971-02-06 |
James Saunders (22), a member of the IRA, is shot and killed by the British Army during a gun battle near the Oldpark Road, Belfast |
1971-02-09 |
5 men are killed near a BBC transmitter on Brougher Mountain, County Tyrone, in a landmine attack carried out by the Irish Republican Army |
1971-02-15 |
A British soldier dies 7 days after being mortally wounded in an Irish Republican Army attack in North Ireland |
1971-02-26 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are shot and killed by the Irish Republican Army while on a mobile patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, North Ireland |
1971-03-08 |
Gun battle between Official Irish Republican Army and Provisional IRA leave 1 man was killed; the feud between the two wings of the IRA had been developing since the split in 1970 |
1971-03-09 |
Three off-duty Scottish soldiers are killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 4000 shipyard workers take to the streets to demand internment in response |
1971-03-10 |
Three members of the Royal Highland Fusiliers (a regiment of the British Army) are killed by members of the Irish Republican Army |
1971-03-12 |
Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army |
1971-03-12 |
Thousands of Belfast shipyard workers march demanding the introduction of Internment for members of the Irish Republican Army |
1971-04-10 |
The Republican commemorations is held in Belfast of the Easter Rising (in 1916 in Dublin), revealing conflicts between the two wings of the Irish Republican Army |
1971-05-15 |
Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast |
1971-05-22 |
A British soldier is killed by members of the Official Irish Republican Army in Belfast |
1971-05-25 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army throw a time bomb into Springfield Road British Army base in Belfast, killing British Army Sergeant Michael Willetts and wounding seven officers |
1971-06-08 |
General Officer Commanding the British Army Harry Tuzo, then claims that a permanent military solution to the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland could not be achieved |
1971-07-06 |
A member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland |
1971-07-11 |
The Irish Republican Army set off a number of bombs in the centre of Belfast injuring a number of people |
1971-07-23 |
The British Army carry out early morning raids across Northern Ireland and arrest 48 people |
1971-08-08 |
A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army in Belfast |
1971-08-11 |
4 people are shot dead in separate incidents in Belfast; three of them by the British Army, as violence continues following the introduction of Internment and Operation Demetrius |
1971-09-01 |
The Irish Republican Army set off a series of bombs across Northern Ireland injuring a number of people |
1971-09-02 |
There are further Irish Republican Army bombs set off across the region, including one in Belfast which wrecked the headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party |
1971-09-23 |
2 members of the Official Irish Republican Army are killed in a premature bomb explosion |
1971-10-07 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Brian Faulkner meets with British Prime Minister Edward Heath; they agree to send an additional 1,500 British Army troops to Northern Ireland |
1971-10-23 |
Two female members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are shot dead by the British Army in the Lower Falls area of Belfast |
1971-10-23 |
Three Catholic civilians are shot dead by the British Army during an attempted robbery in Newry, County Down |
1971-10-24 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is shot dead by undercover Royal Ulster Constabulary officers during a bomb attack in Belfast |
1971-10-25 |
A man dies two days after being shot during an Irish Republican Army attack on the British Army in Belfast |
1971-10-31 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explode a bomb at the Post Office Tower in London |
1971-11-18 |
A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast |
1971-11-21 |
Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur. |
1971-11-22 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh |
1971-11-24 |
A woman is killed after members of the Irish Republican Army carry out an attack on British soldiers in Strabane, County Tyrone |
1971-11-24 |
A British Army bomb-disposal specialist is killed by a bomb in Lurgan, County Armagh |
1971-11-27 |
Two Customs officials are shot by an Irish Republican Army sniper firinge upon a British Army patrol investigating a bomb attack on a Customs Post near Newry, County Armagh |
1971-12-06 |
A woman dies trying to salvage property from the Salvation Army Citadel in Belfast after bomb which started a large fire in an adjoining building |
1971-12-07 |
An off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment is shot dead by members of the Irish Republican Army in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
1971-12-16 |
India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders |
1971-12-18 |
Three members of the Irish Republican Army die when the bomb they were transporting explodes prematurely in King Street, Magherafelt, County Derry. |
1971-12-30 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry, Dublin. |
1972-01-03 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb in Callender Street, Belfast, which injures over 60 people |
1972-01-22 |
An anti-internment march is held at Magilligan strand, County Derry; as the march nears the internment camp it is stopped by members of the Green Jackets and the Parachute Regiment of the British Army, who used barbed wire to close off the beach |
1972-01-27 |
The British Army and the Irish Republican Army engage in gun battles near County Armagh; British troops fire over 1,000 rounds of amunition |
1972-01-30 |
'Bloody Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles' |
1972-01-31 |
British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling makes statement to the House of Commons on the events of 'Bloody Sunday' "The Army returned the fire directed at them with aimed shots and inflicted a number of casualties on those who were attacking them with firearms and with bombs" |
1972-02-01 |
The Ministry of Defence also issues a detailed account of the British Army's version of events during 'Bloody Sunday' |
1972-02-22 |
The Official Irish Republican Army explodes a bomb at Aldershot military barracks, the headquarters of the Parachute Regiment, killing seven people |
1972-02-25 |
Attempted assassination of Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility) |
1972-03-09 |
Four members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion at a house in Clonard Street, Lower Falls, Belfast |
1972-03-20 |
Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded |
1972-04-07 |
Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast |
1972-04-14 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland |
1972-04-15 |
A member of the Official Irish Republican Army is shot dead by British soldiers at Joy Street in the Markets area of Belfast close to his home |
1972-04-15 |
A member of the British Army is shot dead by the Official IRA in the Divis area of Belfast. |
1972-04-16 |
Two British soldiers are shot dead by the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) in separate incidents in Derry |
1972-04-22 |
An 11-year-old boy killed by a rubber bullet fired by the British Army in Belfast; he was the first to die from a rubber bullet impact |
1972-05-10 |
An Irish Republican Army bomb starts a fire that destroys the Belfast Co-operative store |
1972-05-13 |
Battle at Springmartin: following a loyalist car bombing of a Catholic-owned pub in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast, clashes erupte between the PIRA, UVF and British Army |
1972-05-17 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) fires on workers leaving the Mackies engineering works in west Belfast (Although the factory was sited in a Catholic area it had an almost entirely Protestant workforce) |
1972-05-21 |
The Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) kidnap and shoot dead William Best (19), a member of the Royal Irish Rangers |
1972-05-22 |
Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Official Sinn Féin in Derry, North Ireland, following the shooting of William Best by the Official Irish Republican Army |
1972-05-26 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) plant a bomb in Oxford Street, Belfast, killing a 64 year old woman |
1972-05-28 |
Four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and four civilians killed when a bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely at a house in Belfast |
1972-06-01 |
West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader |
1972-06-02 |
Two British Army soldiers die in a land mine attack by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) near Rosslea, County Fermanagh |
1972-06-13 |
The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law" |
1972-06-13 |
The Irish Republican Army invites Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law" |
1972-06-14 |
Members of the NI Social Democratic and Labour Party hold a meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army in Derry; the IRA representatives outline their conditions for talks with the British Government |
1972-06-18 |
3 members of the British Army are killed by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in a derelict house near Lurgan, County Down |
1972-06-19 |
A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast |
1972-06-22 |
The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces |
1972-06-24 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3 British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry |
1972-06-26 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) begin a "bi-lateral truce" as at midnight |
1972-06-26 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill two British Army soldiers in separate attacks during the day |
1972-07-03 |
The Ulster Defence Association and the British Army come into conflict about a 'no-go' area at Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast |
1972-07-09 |
The ceasefire between the Provisional IRA and the British Army comes to an end |
1972-07-13 |
A series of gun-battles and shootings erupt across Belfast between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and British Army soldiers |
1972-07-18 |
Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army |
1972-07-21 |
Bloody Friday: within the space of seventy-five minutes, the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-two bombs in Belfast; six civilians, two British Army soldiers and one UDA volunteer were killed, 130 injured |
1972-07-31 |
Operation Motorman: the British Army use 12,000 soldiers supported by tanks and bulldozers to re-take the "no-go areas" controlled by the Provisional Irish Republican Army |
1972-08-14 |
A Catholic civilian is shot dead during an IRA attack on a British Army patrol in Belfast |
1972-10-10 |
3 members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion in a house in Balkan Street, Lower Falls, Belfast |
1972-10-16 |
2 members of the Offical Irish Republican Army are shot dead by the British Army in County Tyrone |
1972-10-16 |
A Protestant youth member (15) of the Ulster Defence Association, and a UDA member (26) are run over by British Army vehicles during riots in east Belfast |
1972-10-17 |
The Ulster Defence Association open fire on the British Army in several areas of Belfast |
1972-10-30 |
Loyalist paramilitaries carry out a raid on Royal Ulster Constabulary station in County Derry, and steal 4 British Army Sterling sub-machine Guns |
1972-11-11 |
US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army |
1972-11-19 |
Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Seán MacStiofáin is arrested in Dublin |
1973-01-14 |
2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army |
1973-02-04 |
British Army snipers shoot dead a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and three civilians at the junction in Belfast during the 'Troubles' in N Ireland |
1973-03-08 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country |
1973-05-17 |
Five British Army soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby-trap bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone |
1973-06-12 |
Coleraine bombings: six Protestant civilians were killed and 33 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb in Coleraine, County Londonderry |
1973-10-26 |
Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army |
1973-10-31 |
Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter |
1974-02-04 |
Patricia Hearst (19), daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army |
1974-02-04 |
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus as it traveled along the M62 motorway in West Yorkshire, England carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members; nine British Army soldiers and three civilians are killed |
1974-02-17 |
Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter. |
1974-05-14 |
Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed |
1974-06-17 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb the Houses of Parliament in London, injuring 11 people and causing extensive damage |
1974-08-01 |
China's People's Liberation Army Navy, put into service ChangZheng 1, their first nuclear-powered submarine |
1974-08-14 |
Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus |
1974-10-10 |
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP)founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin |
1974-11-25 |
Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21 |
1974-12-04 |
Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison |
1974-12-22 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a Christmas ceasefire; before the ceasefire, they carry out a bomb attack on the home of former UK Prime Minister, Edward Heath |
1975-02-02 |
Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea |
1975-02-10 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven "incident centres" are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire and the response of the security forces |
1975-02-20 |
A feud begains between the Official Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army; the two groups assassinate a number of each other's volunteers until the feud ends in June 1975 |
1975-03-18 |
Kurds end fight against Iraqi army |
1975-06-10 |
Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, & another part is set afire |
1975-07-17 |
Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; the attack was the first major breach of a February truce |
1975-08-13 |
Bayardo Bar attack: Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers carry out a gun and bomb attack on a pub in Belfast frequented by Ulster Volunteer Force commanders; 4 Protestant civilians and 1 UVF member are killed |
1975-09-01 |
5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh |
1975-11-22 |
Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland |
1975-12-06 |
Balcombe Street Siege: for 6 days, four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers hold two hostages at an apartment in London, England |
1975-12-07 |
Indonesian army occupies East Timor |
1975-12-28 |
Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden |
1976-01-23 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army truce of February 1975 is officially brought to an end |
1976-02-11 |
Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black US Secretary of Army |
1976-05-15 |
The Ulster Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs in County Armagh, killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many more; a British Army soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks |
1976-05-15 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army kill 3 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers in County Fermanagh and 1 in County Down |
1976-08-10 |
A Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drove along a road in Belfast; his car then went out of control and killed 3 children, sparking a series of "peace rallies" throughout the month by a group that became known as 'Peace People' |
1976-11-15 |
Syrian army conquerors Beirut |
1977-04-07 |
German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. |
1977-07-05 |
Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power |
1977-08-27 |
Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry, Guineau |
1977-09-22 |
West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht |
1977-11-10 |
Amsterdam: Red Army Faction terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested |
1978-02-17 |
La Mon restaurant bombing: 11 civilians and 1 RUC officer are killed and 30 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army incendiary bomb at the La Mon Restaurant near Belfast |
1978-06-17 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army kill an RUC officer and kidnap another near Crossmaglen, County Armagh |
1978-06-21 |
The British Army shoot dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack |
1978-09-08 |
Iranian army fires on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed |
1978-09-09 |
Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army |
1978-09-14 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people |
1978-09-21 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode bombs at the RAF airfield near Eglinton, County Londonderry; the terminal building, two aircraft hangars and four planes aree destroyed |
1979-03-22 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinate Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in Den Haag |
1979-03-22 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode 24 bombs in various locations across Northern Ireland |
1979-03-30 |
Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. |
1979-04-17 |
Four Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb in Bessbrook, County Armagh; the bomb is believed to be the largest PIRA bomb used up to that point |
1979-08-23 |
Iranian army opens offensive against Kurds |
1979-08-27 |
Warrenpoint ambush: 18 British Army soldiers were killed when the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode two roadside bombs as a British convoy passed Narrow Water Castle near Warrenpoint |
1979-09-03 |
Iran army conquerors Mahabad |
1979-09-04 |
Iran army conquerors Baneh |
1979-09-05 |
Iran army occupies Piranshahr |
1979-12-16 |
4 British Army soldiers are killed by a PIRA landmine near Dungannon, County Tyrone. Another British Army soldier was killed by a PIRA landmine near Forkill, County Armagh |
1979-12-25 |
USSR airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan |
1979-12-27 |
Red Army beats NY Rangers 5-2 at Madison Square Garden |
1979-12-29 |
Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum |
1980-01-17 |
Dunmurry train explosion: a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb prematurely detonates on a passenger train near Belfast, killing three and injuring five (including the bombers) |
1980-05-27 |
The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more. |
1980-06-10 |
8 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners escape from Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast using handguns smuggled into prison |
1981-01-21 |
Norman Stronge and his son James (both former Ulster Unionist Members of Parliament) are assassinated by the Irish Republican Army at their home Tynan Abbey, which is then burnt down |
1981-04-02 |
Heavy battle between Christian militia & Syrian army in East Lebanon |
1981-05-19 |
5 British Army soldiers are killed when their armoured vehicle is ripped apart by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb near Bessbrook, County Armagh |
1981-07-17 |
Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another |
1981-12-10 |
-13] El Salvador army kills 900 |
1982-04-20 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode bombs in Belfast, Derry, Armagh, Ballymena, Bessbrook and Magherafelt; 2 civilians are killed and 12 injured |
1982-06-07 |
Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena |
1982-07-20 |
Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London |
1982-11-11 |
Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60 |
1982-12-06 |
Droppin Well bombing: 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians are killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) time bomb at the Droppin' Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry |
1982-12-07 |
Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building |
1982-12-08 |
Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents |
1983-05-16 |
Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government. |
1983-08-12 |
General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army |
1983-09-18 |
Lebanese & Syrian army battle |
1984-02-02 |
Lebanese army fight in Beirut |
1984-02-06 |
Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army |
1986-01-26 |
Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda |
1986-03-24 |
Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling |
1986-05-18 |
South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia |
1986-09-05 |
Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked US B-747, 19 killed |
1986-11-21 |
Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village |
1987-02-21 |
Syrian army marches into Beirut |
1988-02-10 |
3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) |
1988-08-08 |
-11] Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed |
1988-12-29 |
Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum |
1989-02-13 |
Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients |
1989-02-20 |
An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England |
1989-11-30 |
Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb. |
1990-01-20 |
Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku. |
1990-11-08 |
Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula |
1991-01-18 |
US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career |
1991-11-12 |
Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die |
1992-04-11 |
Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3 |
1992-05-02 |
Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian Pres Alija Izetbegovic |
1992-07-25 |
Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd |
1992-09-07 |
Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators |
1993-02-09 |
Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma |
1993-06-01 |
Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army |
1993-07-25 |
The St James' Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army |
1993-11-09 |
Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died |
1994-01-01 |
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas. |
1994-01-02 |
Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 |
1994-04-20 |
Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed |
1994-04-21 |
Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed |
1994-04-23 |
Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti |
1994-07-29 |
India army kills 27 Moslem militants |
1994-08-31 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire. |
1995-05-25 |
The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla. |
1996-01-30 |
Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit. |
1996-02-09 |
The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf. |
1996-07-15 |
A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. |
1997-05-06 |
Army Staff Sgt Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence for rape |
1997-11-28 |
First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia. |
1998-02-28 |
Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. |
1998-04-20 |
German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years. |
1999-07-06 |
U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams. |
2000-05-25 |
Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978. |
2001-10-23 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks. |
2004-05-26 |
The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. |
2004-11-08 |
War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. |
2005-04-25 |
The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937. |
2005-07-28 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland. |
2005-12-08 |
Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police. |
2006-02-16 |
The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. |
2006-04-22 |
Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War. |
2006-05-05 |
The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army |
2006-11-11 |
The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army. |
2007-04-27 |
Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia. |
2007-07-31 |
Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end. |
2007-09-18 |
Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president. |
2009-02-25 |
BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter. |
2009-11-05 |
US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation. |
2012-02-25 |
Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama |
2012-03-02 |
The Red Cross is denied access to provide relief to the Baba Amr district in Homs by the Syrian army |
2012-03-12 |
45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs |
2012-04-07 |
130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier |
2012-04-26 |
70 people are killed by rocket attacks by the Syrian Army on the city of Hama |
2012-05-25 |
Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs province |
2012-06-25 |
33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey |
2012-07-12 |
200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh |
2012-07-18 |
Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army |
2012-08-29 |
Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23 |
2012-09-11 |
50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army |
2012-09-20 |
50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa |
2012-09-26 |
Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus |
2012-10-11 |
A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army |
2012-12-29 |
200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs |
2013-01-15 |
19 Egyptian Army recruits are killed and 120 are injured in a train accident in Giza |
2013-01-17 |
106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs |
2013-01-25 |
Islamist forces are driven out of Hombori by the Malian army |
2013-02-01 |
The Nigerian Army bombs a Boko Haram camp, killing 18 people |
2013-02-02 |
23 people are killed and 8 are injured after militants attacked an army base in the Lakki Marwat District, Pakistan |
2013-02-22 |
29 people are killed and 150 are injured by by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo |
2013-03-16 |
24 Pakistani Army soldiers are killed after their bus falls down a ravine in Rawalpindi |
2013-03-31 |
14 Boko Haram suspects are killed in a Nigerian Army raid |
2013-04-11 |
57 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Daraa Governorate, Syria |
2013-05-02 |
100 people are killed by the Syrian Army in a raid on al-Bayda, Baniyas |
2013-05-04 |
77 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Baniyas |
2013-07-08 |
42 people have been killed and hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a sit in protest in Cairo |
2013-07-21 |
15 Egyptian Army soldiers are killed after their bus crashes into a truck on the Mediterranean Coast Highway |
2013-09-03 |
15 militants are killed by an Egyptian Army helicopter in Sinai Peninsula |
2013-09-20 |
46 soldiers are killed in army-base attacks in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen |
2013-09-29 |
16 people are killed by a Syrian Army air strike that hit a secondary school in Raqqa, Syria |
2014-11-04 |
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko orderes army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities in case of a new rebel offensive in the regions |
2015-10-27 |
Three Palestinians shot dead after knife attacks: Israeli army |
2016-02-11 |
North Korea army chief Ri Yong-gil said to be executed |
2016-03-14 |
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant PKK camps in northern Iraq: army |
2016-03-27 |
Syrian army recaptures Palmyra from Islamic State: state media |
2016-06-01 |
Turkish army kills 14 Islamic State militants near Aleppo |
2016-07-30 |
Father of fallen Muslim-American Army captain addresses Donald Trump in DNC speech |
2016-09-18 |
17 Soldiers Killed in Attack at Indian Army Base in Kashmir |
2016-09-23 |
Syrian army announces start of a new major offensive in Aleppo |
2016-10-18 |
Coalition warplanes kill 20 Islamic State militants in Syria: Turkish army |
2016-12-11 |
Army beats Navy 21-17 to end 14-year losing streak in series |
2017-01-09 |
Turkish army says 48 Islamic State militants killed in Syria on Sunday |
2017-04-23 |
More Than 100 Dead In Taliban Attack On Afghan Army Base |
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Army - Notable Birthdays
Army - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1602-01-06 |
Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader |
1666-12-26 |
Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism, founder and General of Khalsa Army, social reformist and poet(d. 1708) |
1721-04-14 |
William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader |
1727-01-02 |
James Wolfe, Westerham, Kent, England, British Army officer, defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec |
1730-09-17 |
Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prus/US inspector-gen of Washington's army |
1734-10-07 |
Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (Dutch Guyana) |
1735-06-10 |
John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army |
1738-03-11 |
Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792) |
1739-09-13 |
Grigory Potemkin, army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover, OS |
1744-06-04 |
Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer (d. 1780) |
1750-05-02 |
John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (d. 1780) |
1752-01-19 |
James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820) |
1754-09-19 |
John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821) |
1755-09-04 |
Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish Army officer, diplomat and statesman. (d. 1810) |
1759-01-05 |
Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader |
1769-10-06 |
Isaac Brock, St Peter Port, British Army officer (War of 1812) |
1773-04-22 |
Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader |
1786-06-13 |
Winfield Scott, army general (Union)/presidential candidate |
1788-04-17 |
Joseph Gilbert Totten, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1864 |
1794-10-24 |
Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant |
1794-12-10 |
James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1870 |
1795-07-25 |
James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army) |
1796-05-04 |
Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1864 |
1797-09-06 |
Wililam "Extra Billy" Smith, Confederacy (Confederate Army) |
1798-06-12 |
Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
1798-09-01 |
Richard Delafield, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873 |
1800-02-21 |
John Henry Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
1801-06-23 |
Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1802-02-21 |
George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882 |
1802-05-15 |
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
1803-02-02 |
Albert Sidney Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1803-06-04 |
Gabriel James Rains, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881 |
1804-02-17 |
Samuel Read Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883 |
1804-10-26 |
Lorenzo Thomas, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1875 |
1804-11-13 |
Theophilus Hunter Holmes, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
1805-06-14 |
Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871 |
1805-11-22 |
Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 |
1806-04-10 |
Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1806-05-12 |
Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877 |
1806-06-08 |
Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878 |
1806-09-13 |
Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1862 |
1806-10-18 |
John Breckinridge Grayson, Brig Genl (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
1806-12-03 |
Henry Alexander Wise, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
1806-12-12 |
Stand Watie, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871 |
1807-01-06 |
Joseph Holt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894 |
1807-01-11 |
Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1807-02-03 |
Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
1807-05-01 |
John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1807-12-20 |
Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1808-05-19 |
Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883 |
1808-08-24 |
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1808-08-24 |
Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
1808-11-27 |
Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 |
1809-01-18 |
Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
1809-02-25 |
George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892 |
1809-04-17 |
Philip St George Cocke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
1809-04-20 |
John Smith Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1881 |
1809-06-13 |
George Philip St Cooke, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895 |
1809-09-20 |
Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1809-12-26 |
William Nelson Pendleton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1883 |
1809-12-29 |
Albert Pike, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
1810-01-31 |
Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
1810-09-10 |
Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1810-10-28 |
Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1811-03-01 |
Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878 |
1811-03-15 |
Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886 |
1811-05-24 |
Charles Clark, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 |
1811-08-26 |
Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 |
1811-08-31 |
Goode Bryan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
1811-11-11 |
Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1812-01-13 |
Humphrey Marshall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1872 |
1812-03-20 |
George Bibb Crittenden, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
1812-04-09 |
Randolph Barnes Marcy, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887 |
1812-04-28 |
Daniel Henry Rucker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910 |
1812-05-19 |
Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1812-07-27 |
Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
1812-11-18 |
Jesse Johnson Finley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904 |
1813-01-05 |
Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 |
1813-02-16 |
Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1892 |
1813-03-26 |
Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 |
1813-04-17 |
Henry Washington Benham, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1884 |
1813-07-07 |
William Scott Ketchum, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871 |
1814-01-08 |
Thomas Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1814-01-11 |
Richard Griffith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1814-01-12 |
Jones Mitchell Withers, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1890 |
1814-04-02 |
Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning, Brigadier General (Confederate Army |
1814-08-01 |
Maxcy Gregg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1814-08-10 |
John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1881 |
1814-11-17 |
Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
1814-12-27 |
James Henry Carleton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873 |
1815-01-10 |
Alexander Brydie Dyer, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874 |
1815-01-16 |
Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck, Maj-General (Union Army) |
1815-01-18 |
James Chesnut Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
1815-02-25 |
Robert Hall Chilton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
1815-04-24 |
James Edward Harrison, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 |
1815-05-19 |
John Gross Barnard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1882 |
1815-06-03 |
Martin Edward Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1815-06-04 |
Paul Jones Semmes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1815-07-21 |
Stewart Van Vliet, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901 |
1815-08-19 |
John Porter McCown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
1815-09-05 |
Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
1815-09-06 |
John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1815-09-18 |
Henry Constantine Wayne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1815-10-12 |
William Joseph Hardee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1873 |
1815-11-01 |
Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
1815-11-24 |
James Trapier, N Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
1815-12-31 |
George Gordon Meade, Major General (Union Army), died in 1872 |
1816-01-19 |
Henry Gray, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
1816-01-26 |
Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1816-03-14 |
Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
1816-04-16 |
Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1816-04-21 |
Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army, died in 1874 |
1816-05-03 |
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892 |
1816-05-16 |
Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1886 |
1816-05-24 |
Robert Seaman Granger, (Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894) |
1816-07-31 |
George Henry Thomas, Major General (Union Army), died in 1870 |
1816-08-03 |
John Eugene Smith, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897 |
1816-09-06 |
Francis Stebbins Bartow, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
1816-10-16 |
William Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 |
1816-11-03 |
Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
1816-11-04 |
William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
1816-11-26 |
William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1816-12-06 |
Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
1816-12-18 |
Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1871 |
1817-01-08 |
John Selden Roane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867 |
1817-02-08 |
Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1872 |
1817-02-18 |
Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1817-02-18 |
Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
1817-03-19 |
Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1817-03-22 |
Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
1817-06-21 |
James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887 |
1817-07-19 |
Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union) |
1817-07-21 |
Joseph K Barnes, Major General (Union Army), died in 1883 |
1817-07-31 |
Philip Cook Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
1817-09-21 |
Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1817-10-07 |
Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
1817-11-08 |
Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
1817-11-21 |
Richard Brooke Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1817-12-19 |
James Jay Archer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1864 |
1818-01-31 |
William Raine Peck, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871 |
1818-03-11 |
John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
1818-03-13 |
Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897 |
1818-03-28 |
Wade Hampton, SC, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
1818-07-10 |
John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1818-08-18 |
William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 |
1818-08-23 |
Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893 |
1818-09-18 |
Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1818-11-04 |
Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
1818-11-22 |
Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
1818-12-04 |
William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army) |
1818-12-12 |
Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
1818-12-23 |
David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
1818-12-30 |
James Cantey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1874 |
1819-01-12 |
Zealous Bates Tower, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1900 |
1819-02-14 |
James Green Martin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878 |
1819-03-22 |
William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
1819-05-01 |
William Steele, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
1819-05-30 |
William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894) |
1819-09-09 |
Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 |
1819-09-14 |
Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889 |
1819-10-02 |
George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901 |
1819-10-09 |
Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
1819-10-10 |
Zebulon York, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 |
1819-10-25 |
Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882 |
1819-12-16 |
Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
1819-12-17 |
Samuel Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 |
1820-01-18 |
Abraham Buford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 |
1820-01-19 |
John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 |
1820-02-08 |
William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891 |
1820-03-13 |
Louis Herbert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1820-04-14 |
Harry Thompson Hays, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
1820-04-15 |
Evander McNair, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
1820-06-24 |
Henry Rootes Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
1820-07-26 |
John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1820-08-03 |
William Miller, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1909 |
1820-08-08 |
Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brigadier General (Confederate) |
1820-09-17 |
Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1820-09-21 |
Williams Carter Wickham, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1820-10-20 |
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1820-10-23 |
James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
1820-11-04 |
Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870 |
1820-11-28 |
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1820-12-10 |
David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1864 |
1821-01-07 |
Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General (Confed Army), died in 1891 |
1821-01-15 |
Lafayette McLaws, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
1821-02-10 |
William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brigadier General, died in 1864) |
1821-07-06 |
Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
1821-07-12 |
Daniel Harvey Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
1821-08-14 |
Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1821-08-21 |
William Barksdale, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1821-10-02 |
Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army) |
1821-10-07 |
Richard Heron Anderson, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
1821-12-02 |
Rufus Barringer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
1822-01-05 |
Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
1822-02-16 |
James Patton Anderson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1872 |
1822-02-28 |
Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
1822-03-11 |
Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1822-03-22 |
Seth Williams, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1866 |
1822-04-13 |
Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1822-04-13 |
William Stephen Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
1822-05-21 |
Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 |
1822-05-21 |
Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1865 |
1822-06-11 |
Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889 |
1822-06-23 |
Young Marshall Moody, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 |
1822-06-24 |
Birkett Davenport Fry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
1822-07-22 |
Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1897 |
1822-07-22 |
John George Walker, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 |
1822-10-20 |
Mansfield Lovell, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 |
1822-11-02 |
James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1822-12-28 |
William Booth Taliaferro, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
1823-01-29 |
Franklin Gardner, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1823-02-16 |
John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
1823-03-12 |
William Flank Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1823-03-14 |
Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 |
1823-03-20 |
John Echols, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
1823-03-25 |
William Thompson Martin, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
1823-04-01 |
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1914 |
1823-04-10 |
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1823-04-16 |
Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1907 |
1823-04-22 |
Alfred Gibbs, Major General (Union Army), died in 1868 |
1823-05-05 |
James Allen Hardie, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1876 |
1823-06-11 |
James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
1823-08-09 |
Daniel Marsh Frost, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 |
1823-11-09 |
William Henry Forney, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
1823-12-25 |
Preston Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1824-01-07 |
James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
1824-02-03 |
George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1824-02-08 |
Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861 |
1824-02-24 |
John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 |
1824-02-28 |
John Creed Moore, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
1824-03-10 |
Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905 |
1824-03-22 |
William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1824-04-20 |
Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
1824-05-09 |
William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1824-05-16 |
Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 |
1824-05-29 |
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1824-06-08 |
William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1824-06-20 |
John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
1824-06-28 |
William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 |
1824-07-23 |
Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1906 |
1824-08-14 |
William Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
1824-08-20 |
Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905 |
1824-09-24 |
Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1891 |
1824-10-26 |
Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1824-10-29 |
Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904 |
1825-01-10 |
Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
1825-01-12 |
Joseph Robert Davis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
1825-01-28 |
George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 |
1825-03-05 |
John Dunovant, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1825-03-20 |
William Nelson Rector Beall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1825-03-23 |
Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1898 |
1825-03-30 |
Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
1825-04-05 |
David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1825-06-13 |
Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
1825-07-28 |
William Duncan Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1825-07-31 |
Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1825-09-03 |
Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
1825-10-11 |
Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 |
1825-10-31 |
Raleigh Edward Colston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
1825-11-01 |
Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890 |
1825-11-09 |
Ambrose Powell Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate 3rd Army Corp), died in 1865 |
1825-12-16 |
Henry Heth, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
1825-12-20 |
Romeyn Beck Ayres, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 |
1826-01-22 |
[Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
1826-01-27 |
Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
1826-04-02 |
Philip Dale Roddey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
1826-08-02 |
William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902 |
1826-10-08 |
Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1904 |
1826-11-02 |
Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1826-12-01 |
William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895 |
1826-12-03 |
George McClellan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Union army major general, (d. 1885) |
1827-01-01 |
William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1827-01-06 |
John Calvin Brown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
1827-01-06 |
John Wesley Frazer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1906 |
1827-02-02 |
Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1827-02-19 |
Charles Robert Woods, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855 |
1827-02-22 |
James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894 |
1827-02-27 |
Richard W Johnson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897 |
1827-03-07 |
Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 |
1827-03-12 |
John Robert Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1827-03-12 |
William Richard Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
1827-05-29 |
Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890 |
1827-06-05 |
Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1827-07-07 |
William Montague Browne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1827-07-24 |
Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1912 |
1827-08-24 |
Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867 |
1827-09-30 |
Kenner Garrard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 |
1827-11-19 |
Isaac Munroe St John, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
1827-11-26 |
Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
1828-01-05 |
August Valentine Kautz, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895 |
1828-01-28 |
Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1868 |
1828-02-12 |
Robert Ransom Jr, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
1828-03-01 |
James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 |
1828-03-02 |
Jefferson Columbus Davis, Bvt Mjr General (Union Army), died in 1879 |
1828-03-04 |
Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1828-03-17 |
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1828-04-06 |
Charles William Field, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
1828-04-08 |
George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1828-04-24 |
Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
1828-05-28 |
Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
1828-06-04 |
Alexander William Campbell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1828-06-27 |
Junius Daniel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1828-07-03 |
John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
1828-07-04 |
James Johnston Pettigrew, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1828-07-19 |
Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 |
1828-07-29 |
Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1885 |
1828-08-24 |
George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1828-08-28 |
William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1900 |
1828-10-23 |
Turner Ashby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1828-11-02 |
Byron Grimes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880 |
1828-11-21 |
William McComb, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1918 |
1828-11-30 |
Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
1828-12-08 |
Robert Bullock, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905 |
1828-12-30 |
Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 |
1829-01-30 |
Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
1829-02-14 |
Alfred Iverson Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911 |
1829-02-18 |
Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1829-02-21 |
Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
1829-03-18 |
William Robertson Boggs, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911 |
1829-03-29 |
Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1829-04-10 |
William Booth, founder (Salvation Army) |
1829-06-06 |
John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 |
1829-08-12 |
John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
1829-09-01 |
James Conner, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883 |
1829-09-08 |
Seth Maxwell Barton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 |
1829-09-29 |
Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 |
1829-10-10 |
Dandridge McRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
1829-10-18 |
Charles Sidney Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1829-10-18 |
Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1829-11-08 |
Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892 |
1829-11-24 |
William Passmore Carlin, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903 |
1830-01-19 |
George Blake Cosby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1909 |
1830-01-27 |
William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1830-03-12 |
William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870 |
1830-03-20 |
Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910 |
1830-05-14 |
George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1830-05-15 |
Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
1830-06-17 |
Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1913 |
1830-07-02 |
John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1830-09-29 |
John Parker Hawkins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1914 |
1830-10-26 |
Stephen Elliott Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866 |
1830-10-30 |
John Stevens Bowen, Major General (Confederate Army) died in 1863 |
1830-11-03 |
Esten Cooke, John (Confederate Army), died in 1886 |
1830-11-10 |
Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1830-12-12 |
Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 |
1830-12-14 |
Allen Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
1831-01-11 |
James Ronald Chalmers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
1831-01-14 |
John Bullock Clark Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 |
1831-01-28 |
Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 |
1831-02-13 |
John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869 |
1831-03-01 |
Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1831-03-06 |
Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany NY, Major General (Union Army) |
1831-03-15 |
Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1831-04-04 |
Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 |
1831-04-12 |
George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1831-06-01 |
John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879 |
1831-06-03 |
Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1831-06-05 |
Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1922 |
1831-06-08 |
Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917) |
1831-10-01 |
Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1831-12-22 |
Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874 |
1832-01-12 |
Richard Waterhouse Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1876 |
1832-01-24 |
John Pegram, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
1832-02-06 |
John Brown Gordon, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1904 |
1832-02-16 |
Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Mjr General (Confederate Army) |
1832-03-11 |
William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 |
1832-05-30 |
George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1832-08-27 |
James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1832-09-10 |
Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
1832-09-16 |
George Washington Custis Lee, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1832-09-21 |
Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893 |
1832-10-10 |
Theodore Shelton Bowers, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1866 |
1832-10-15 |
Henry Harrison Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1912 |
1832-11-05 |
William Woods Averell, Major General (Union Army), died in 1900 |
1832-12-01 |
Archibald Gracie Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1832-12-14 |
Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
1833-01-23 |
John Randolph Chambliss Jr, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1833-02-13 |
William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1915 |
1833-02-18 |
James Deshler, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1833-02-25 |
Clement Anselm Evans, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911 |
1833-03-14 |
John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1833-04-10 |
James Edward Rains, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 |
1833-05-08 |
Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903 |
1833-06-09 |
John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891 |
1833-07-01 |
Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army) |
1833-07-10 |
Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
1833-07-19 |
John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1899 |
1833-07-28 |
James Henry Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) [or Jun 22 1814] |
1833-09-22 |
Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1908 |
1833-11-03 |
Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1833-11-09 |
Sally Louisa Tompkins, nurse and philanthropist, only woman commissioned in Confederate army during US Civil War, born Mathews City, Virginia (D. 1916) |
1833-12-06 |
John Singleton Mosby, Powhatan County, Virginia, lawyer/Col (Confederate Army), (d. 1916) |
1833-12-17 |
James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1893 |
1833-12-28 |
Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 |
1834-02-06 |
William Dorsey Pender, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1834-03-22 |
Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
1834-08-22 |
Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1834-09-09 |
William MacRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882 |
1834-10-01 |
Francis Marion Cockrell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1915 |
1834-10-28 |
Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883 |
1835-02-15 |
Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911 |
1835-05-26 |
Edward Porter Alexander, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1835-08-26 |
Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1835-09-03 |
William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1835-09-11 |
William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 |
1835-10-01 |
Robert Houston Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 |
1835-10-01 |
William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1835-10-11 |
Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director (Confederate Army), died in 1900 |
1835-10-31 |
Adelbert Ames, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1933 |
1835-11-04 |
Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1913 |
1835-11-19 |
Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905 |
1835-11-22 |
Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1835-12-01 |
Micah Jenkins, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1836-03-08 |
Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1836-05-08 |
Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1905 |
1836-05-14 |
James Patrick Major, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 |
1836-05-27 |
Edwin Gray Lee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1870 |
1836-08-07 |
Evander McIvor Law, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1920 |
1836-09-10 |
Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen (Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee) |
1836-09-13 |
John McCausland, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1927 |
1836-10-05 |
George Washington Gordon, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1911 |
1836-10-15 |
Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
1836-11-15 |
Pierce Manning Butler Young, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
1837-01-16 |
James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 |
1837-03-19 |
Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 |
1837-03-31 |
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1837-04-11 |
Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861 |
1837-04-15 |
Horace Porter, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921 |
1837-05-27 |
Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912 |
1837-05-31 |
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1837-05-31 |
William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army) |
1837-06-16 |
Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903 |
1837-06-26 |
Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1837-07-31 |
William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
1837-10-14 |
Ellison Capers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1908 |
1837-12-19 |
John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1838-01-01 |
William Hugh Young, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1838-02-20 |
James Barbour Terrill, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1838-02-23 |
Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 |
1838-02-24 |
Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1923 |
1838-04-12 |
John Shaw Billings, US, librarian/army physician |
1838-05-28 |
Basil Wilson Duke, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1916 |
1838-09-14 |
John Pelham, Major (Confederate Army), died in 1863 |
1839-03-09 |
Felix Huston Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1928 |
1839-06-21 |
John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867 |
1839-08-27 |
Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1881 |
1840-01-05 |
John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 |
1840-03-31 |
John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 |
1840-04-25 |
James Dearing, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
1840-06-10 |
Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 |
1840-09-28 |
Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, Lt-Col (Confederate Army) |
1841-07-11 |
William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910 |
1844-06-01 |
Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916 |
1845-02-15 |
Elihu Root, President Roosevelt at the Army-Navy Game |
1851-09-13 |
Walter Reed, US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever |
1856-03-08 |
Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929) |
1857-07-28 |
Ballington Booth, Brighouse, England, Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of Volunteers of America |
1861-06-17 |
Omar Bundy, U.S. army general and soldier (d. 1940) |
1862-09-11 |
Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935) |
1865-12-25 |
Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general (1904-34) |
1872-06-20 |
George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948) |
1872-08-09 |
Mary Foy, It's the Old Army Game |
1880-03-17 |
Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912) |
1881-08-07 |
Jean Darlan, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1883-01-07 |
Andrew Cunningham, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1884-02-02 |
Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army |
1885-02-16 |
Pepito Pérez, Army Girl |
1886-06-25 |
Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, US Army Air Force (WW II) |
1886-06-25 |
Henry H. Arnold, Army Air Forces - Pacific |
1886-09-04 |
Albert Orsborn, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967) |
1887-12-26 |
Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (d. 1966) |
1892-03-15 |
James Basevi Ord, US army officer (d. 1938) |
1893-02-12 |
Omar Bradley, General of Army WW II (GI General) |
1895-03-12 |
William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948) |
1896-01-07 |
Arnold Ridley, Dad's Army |
1896-06-11 |
Vernon Drake, Dad's Army |
1898-02-10 |
Joseph Kessel, French journalist/writer (Army of the Shadows) |
1899-09-21 |
Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986) |
1899-12-29 |
Nie Rongzhen, People's Liberation Army Chief of General Staff (d. 1992) |
1900-09-01 |
Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) |
1901-08-26 |
Gen Maxwell D Taylor, former US Army chief of staff |
1902-11-23 |
Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (d. 2004) |
1903-04-23 |
Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d 1974) |
1904-04-03 |
Eric Fawcett, The Army Game |
1904-07-06 |
Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996) |
1905-04-03 |
Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (d. 1965) |
1905-07-22 |
Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble) |
1905-12-13 |
Frank Hyers, At War with the Army |
1907-06-19 |
Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985) |
1907-09-10 |
Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989) |
1908-11-10 |
Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000) |
1909-06-30 |
Ralph Magelssen, This Is the Army |
1909-07-01 |
Madge Evans, Army Girl |
1909-10-03 |
Albert Michel, The Army of Shadows |
1910-01-02 |
Abner J. Greshler, At War with the Army |
1910-05-10 |
Margot Turner, matron-in-chief (Army Nursing Service) |
1910-12-11 |
George H. Sauer, 1948 Army-Navy Game |
1911-02-09 |
William Darby, American WWII Army officer (d. 1945) |
1911-03-21 |
Geno Erbisti, This Is the Army |
1911-05-04 |
James MacColl, This Is the Army |
1911-07-08 |
Gertrude Niesen, This Is the Army |
1911-9-20 |
Philip Truex, This Is the Army |
1912-01-05 |
Frank Pace Jr, US Secretary of Army (1950-53) |
1912-04-05 |
John Le Mesurier, Bedford England, actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army) |
1912-07-21 |
Robert Shanley, This Is the Army |
1913-02-06 |
John Lund, Rochester NY, actor (Wackiest Ship in the Army) |
1913-06-09 |
Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, lt-colonel of Dutch Salvation Army |
1913-06-12 |
Jean Victor Allard, Canadian army general (d. 1996) |
1913-12-08 |
Jean-Marie Robain, The Army of Shadows |
1913-12-10 |
Angelo Buono, This Is the Army |
1914-03-26 |
William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era) |
1914-09-15 |
Creighton Abrams, US, army general (Vietnam War) |
1914-10-06 |
Arthur Steiner, This Is the Army |
1914-11-24 |
Tilestone Perry, This Is the Army |
1915-09-22 |
Arthur Lowe, Hayfield England, actor (Captain Mainwaring-Dad's Army) |
1915-9-08 |
Duffy Daugherty, 1975 Army-Navy Game |
1917-04-05 |
Louis Bednarcik, This Is the Army |
1917-04-12 |
Belmonte Cristiani, This Is the Army |
1917-06-09 |
Milton Rosenstock, This Is the Army |
1917-07-25 |
Stephen Roberts, At War with the Army |
1917-9-10 |
Jean Ruth, At War with the Army |
1918-01-27 |
William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005) |
1918-08-28 |
Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician |
1918-11-24 |
Ty Perry, At War with the Army |
1919-01-13 |
Army Archerd, Hollywood columnist/TV host (Movie Game) |
1919-03-20 |
James B. Allardice, At War with the Army |
1919-04-07 |
Albert Szabo, Gideon's Army |
1919-06-15 |
Van Barfoot, Edinburg, Mississippi, Army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, (d. 2012) |
1919-06-20 |
James Cross, This Is the Army |
1919-07-14 |
Lino Ventura, The Army of Shadows |
1919-9-24 |
Larry Weeks, This Is the Army |
1920-01-09 |
Clive Dunn, Dad's Army |
1920-02-16 |
Anna Mae Hays, American army general |
1920-06-21 |
Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC) |
1920-07-14 |
Paul Crauchet, The Army of Shadows |
1920-10-08 |
Kenneth Forbes, At War with the Army |
1920-11-16 |
Jesse Stone, Carter's Army |
1921-02-01 |
Kenzo Okuzaki, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On |
1921-02-12 |
Peter Whitaker, Dad's Army |
1921-10-07 |
Tommy Farrell, At War with the Army |
1921-10-29 |
Bill Mauldin, cartoonist (WW II Army grunts) |
1922-01-13 |
Army Archerd, Entertainment Tonight |
1922-04-11 |
Geoffrey Perry, Churchill's German Army |
1923-04-03 |
Paul Livermore, At War with the Army |
1923-05-11 |
Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir (Army Nursing Services) |
1923-05-20 |
Richard Noyes, Junior Army |
1923-12-18 |
Steen Gregers, The Invisible Army |
1923-9-09 |
Jimmy Perry, Dad's Army |
1924-06-28 |
Christian Barbier, The Army of Shadows |
1924-11-24 |
Dick Scott, The Army-Navy Football Game of November 30, 1946 |
1925-01-04 |
Johnny Lujack, 1970 Army-Navy Game |
1926-01-29 |
Jacques Marbeuf, The Army of Shadows |
1926-03-15 |
Jeanne Mockford, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1926-04-15 |
Colin Bean, Dad's Army |
1926-07-21 |
Bill Pertwee, Amersham, England, actor (Dad's Army), (d. 2013) |
1926-07-21 |
Bill Pertwee, Dad's Army |
1926-9-03 |
Bill Flemming, 1975 Army-Navy Game |
1928-07-10 |
Charlie Campbell, Army of Darkness |
1928-12-30 |
Alain Mottet, The Army of Shadows |
1929-02-21 |
James Beck, Dad's Army |
1929-09-15 |
Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army |
1930-12-12 |
Zivko Kustic, The Yugoslav Army Is Helping Serbian Terrorism |
1931-08-18 |
Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general |
1932-08-25 |
Ricet Barrier, The Army Game |
1933-9-18 |
Scotty Bowman, Red Army |
1934-03-14 |
Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army |
1934-08-22 |
H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton NJ, 4-star Army general (Gulf War), (d. 2012) |
1934-10-07 |
Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member |
1934-10-19 |
Jakubu Gowon, army staff chief/president of Nigeria (1966-75) |
1934-9-11 |
Ian Abercrombie, Army of Darkness |
1935-02-05 |
John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South African army |
1936-01-26 |
Géza Oberfrank, Army of Crime |
1936-04-01 |
Kôji Wakamatsu, United Red Army |
1936-06-11 |
Norman Cohen, Dad's Army |
1936-07-02 |
Omar Suleiman, Qena, Egypt, army general and intelligence officer, (d. 2012) |
1937-11-22 |
Brad Bradbury, Army of Darkness |
1937-12-17 |
Calvin Waller, US Army general (d. 1996) |
1938-04-02 |
John Larsson, 17th General of The Salvation Army |
1938-04-18 |
Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander (S Afr army) |
1938-10-02 |
Éric Demarsan, The Army of Shadows |
1940-05-10 |
Wayne A. Downing, retired United States Army general |
1940-10-22 |
Claude Mann, The Army of Shadows |
1941-11-29 |
D'Army Bailey, The People vs. Larry Flynt |
1941-9-04 |
Ken Harrelson, Chapter One: Relationships (Arnie & His Army) |
1942-08-13 |
Robert Lee Stewart, Wash DC, Brig Gen US Army/astronaut (STS 41B, 51J) |
1943-04-04 |
Ian Robertson, British museum director (National Army Museum) |
1943-05-06 |
Andreas Baader, leader of the German organization Red Army Faction (d. 1977) |
1943-07-28 |
'Wild' Bill Mock, Army of Darkness |
1944-12-03 |
Michael Mehlmann, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1945-06-08 |
Kazuo Hara, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On |
1945-09-21 |
Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army |
1946-02-16 |
Ian Lavender, British actor (Stupid Boy in Dad's Army) |
1946-02-16 |
Ian Lavender, Dad's Army |
1946-06-11 |
Michael Wilkes, commander (UK Field Army) |
1946-12-14 |
Anthony Beevor, The British Army of the Rhine |
1947-01-10 |
Alain Dekok, The Army of Shadows |
1947-07-14 |
Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer |
1948-01-30 |
Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member |
1948-05-13 |
Serge Le Péron, Army of Crime |
1949-05-31 |
Barbara Lynn Block, She's in the Army Now |
1949-9-04 |
Tom Watson, Chapter One: Relationships (Arnie & His Army) |
1950-10-31 |
Antonio Taguba, US Army Major General |
1951-04-01 |
John Philip Abizaid, U.S. Army General, former CENTCOM commander |
1951-05-23 |
Anatoli Karpov, Red Army |
1951-11-11 |
Fuzzy Zoeller, Chapter One: Relationships (Arnie & His Army) |
1952-01-11 |
Ben Crenshaw, Chapter One: Relationships (Arnie & His Army) |
1952-03-10 |
Oupa J Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant (Ciskei) |
1952-06-17 |
Gary Boggess, Army of Darkness |
1952-10-13 |
Michael "Rich"ard Clifford, Cal, Army/Astronaut (STS 53, 59, 76) |
1953-07-21 |
Dick Fiddy, 'Dad's Army': Missing Presumed Wiped |
1954-02-06 |
Paul Hill, Soldiers in the Army of God |
1954-06-21 |
Mark Kimmitt, US Army general |
1954-12-17 |
Beau Smith, Maximo vs. Army of Zin |
1955-08-04 |
Charles D "Sam" Gemar, Yankton SD, army/astronaut (STS 38, 48, 62) |
1956-09-02 |
Angelo Fusco, Provisional Irish Republican Army member |
1956-9-20 |
Micheal Kenney, Army of Darkness |
1957-03-31 |
Patrick G Forrester, El Paso TX, Lt Col Army/astronaut |
1957-04-06 |
Don Campbell, Army of Darkness |
1957-9-04 |
Patricia Tallman, Army of Darkness |
1958-01-18 |
Jeffrey N Williams, Superior Wisc, Major Army/astronaut |
1958-06-22 |
Bruce Campbell, Birmingham, Michigan, American actor/producer/director (Army of Darkness, Evil Dead II) |
1958-06-22 |
Bruce Campbell, Army of Darkness |
1958-07-29 |
Marcus Gilbert, Army of Darkness |
1958-12-09 |
Nancy J Currie, Wilmington DE, Mjr Army/astronaut (STS 57, 70, sk: 88) |
1958-12-23 |
Denise McConnell, Zombie Army |
1959-03-26 |
Deke Anderson, Army of Darkness |
1959-10-14 |
Alexei Kasatonov, Red Army |
1960-01-29 |
Cho-Liang Lin, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1960-08-10 |
Todd David Hess, First USAF Member inducted into Army's Order of Military Medical Merit. |
1960-9-16 |
Mike Mignola, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1961-05-17 |
Bruce Thomas, Army of Darkness |
1963-03-26 |
Lennie Appelquist, Army of Darkness |
1963-9-29 |
Larry Goodwin, Army of Darkness |
1966-05-07 |
Robert Townson, Army of Darkness |
1966-11-12 |
David Pollison, Army of Darkness |
1967-04-04 |
Jack Levy, Army of Darkness |
1968-9-29 |
Luke Goss, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1969-03-16 |
Kevin O'Hara, Army of Darkness |
1969-04-14 |
Ivana Lokajová, Frankenstein's Army |
1970-05-17 |
Maki Sakai, United Red Army |
1970-11-08 |
Sergej Ivasovic, The Yugoslav Army Is Helping Serbian Terrorism |
1971-02-03 |
Judit Soltész, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1971-05-26 |
Andrew Hefler, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1972-04-26 |
Gabriella Csoma, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1972-06-23 |
Selma Blair, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1972-12-22 |
Iván Kamarás, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1973-02-01 |
Miklós Tóth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1973-06-03 |
Sarah Goodman, Army of One |
1973-07-23 |
Fran Healy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1973-11-12 |
Shiva Gordon, Army of Darkness |
1974-02-12 |
Elaine Hill, God's Army |
1974-06-03 |
Ferenc Elek, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1974-08-27 |
Nicolas Bouaziz, Army of Crime |
1974-09-09 |
Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army |
1974-11-28 |
Jayne Paterson, Army of Wayne |
1974-9-12 |
Péter Horkay, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1975-03-29 |
Kevin Mark Marghese, Army Daze |
1975-07-09 |
Robert Koenig, Returned: Child Soldiers of Nepal's Maoist Army |
1976-01-18 |
Harris Bierhoff, Returned: Child Soldiers of Nepal's Maoist Army |
1976-03-18 |
Ben Isaac, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1976-05-07 |
Gô Jibiki, United Red Army |
1976-11-20 |
Klemens Patijn, Frankenstein's Army |
1976-9-06 |
Jamie Wilson, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1978-03-26 |
Kati Magenheim, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1978-08-04 |
Oliver Simor, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1978-10-17 |
Akie Namiki, United Red Army |
1978-12-21 |
Ryan Marshall, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1978-12-30 |
Peter Jackson, God's Army |
1980-08-22 |
Philip Th. Pedersen, Eastern Army |
1980-11-25 |
Lucas Ross, Army of Frankensteins |
1980-12-18 |
Anna Walton, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1981-03-01 |
Robinson Stévenin, Army of Crime |
1981-9-30 |
Kriszta Dorogi, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1982-08-23 |
Balázs Rozgonyi, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1982-11-08 |
Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib |
1983-08-14 |
Tímea Baráth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
1983-08-20 |
Christo Davids, Ernest in the Army |
1987-03-12 |
Paul Morris, ID2: Shadwell Army |
1987-12-09 |
Joshua Sasse, Frankenstein's Army |
1993-07-17 |
Emily-Jane Jones, ID2: Shadwell Army |
Army - Notable Weddings
Army - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1845-09-25 |
Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi |
1855-06-16 |
Salvation Army founder William Booth marries Catherine Mumford |
1857-12-30 |
Confederate Army John Singleton Mosby (24) weds Pauline Clarke in Nashville |
1895-07-11 |
Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy Mata Hari (18) weds Dutch colonial army Captain Rudolph MacLeod in Amsterdam |
1968-07-06 |
US Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr (33) weds Brenda Halsinger |
1973-07-04 |
British Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles (33) weds Camilla Rosemary Shand (26) at Guards Chapel in Birdcage Walk in London, England |
Army - Notable Deaths
Army - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
303-04-23 |
Saint George, Greek officer in the Roman army, beheaded. Patron saint of many lands including England |
493-03-15 |
Odiaker (Odoacer), German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), murdered |
1424-10-11 |
Jan Zizka, Czech (army)leader (Hussieten), dies of plague at 46 |
1499-04-29 |
John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies |
1509-09-28 |
Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker) |
1528-11-30 |
Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded |
1547-01-19 |
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 |
1555-06-07 |
Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76 |
1573-07-10 |
Willem van Bronkhorst, Brattenburg/Stein/army leader, dies |
1589-08-10 |
Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49 |
1675-08-12 |
Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Neth baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73 |
1676-09-09 |
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612) |
1694-01-06 |
Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies |
1765-09-02 |
Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719) |
1775-12-31 |
Richard Montgomery, General in Continental Army during American Revolutionary War, dies in attack on Quebec |
1780-09-08 |
Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736) |
1792-06-16 |
Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738) |
1794-03-04 |
Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21 |
1794-11-28 |
Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/US inspector-general of Washingtons army, dies at 64 |
1796-08-01 |
Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720) |
1801-03-28 |
Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66 |
1824-07-19 |
Agustín de Iturbide [crowned Agustin I], Mexican army general, politician and the 1st emperor of Mexico is executed by firing squad at 40 |
1848-04-30 |
Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53 |
1850-06-12 |
Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77 |
1862-03-07 |
John Baillie McIntosh, US general-major (Union Army), dies at 32 |
1869-07-15 |
A J Haynes, US army captain and civil war veteren, assassinated by KKK |
1870-10-12 |
Robert E. Lee, US General of Confederate Army, dies at 63 |
1880-10-14 |
Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army |
1883-11-05 |
William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle |
1885-10-29 |
George McClellan, Union army major general, dies of a heart attack at 58 |
1890-07-13 |
John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813) |
1890-10-04 |
Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829) |
1901-08-25 |
Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever |
1906-03-04 |
John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831) |
1912-09-05 |
Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845) |
1912-12-14 |
Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887) |
1915-05-08 |
Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82 |
1915-05-19 |
John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892) |
1916-01-03 |
Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831) |
1916-07-26 |
Sally Louisa Tompkins, American nurse and philanthrophist, only commissioned woman in US Confederate Army dies aged 82 |
1917-08-15 |
Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (b. 1831) |
1922-07-07 |
Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874) |
1927-01-27 |
Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army |
1927-05-17 |
Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884) |
1928-01-21 |
George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858) |
1929-06-16 |
Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856) |
1935-06-06 |
Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862) |
1936-02-01 |
Georgios Kondylis, general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878) |
1936-11-19 |
Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle |
1937-02-07 |
Elihu Root, President Roosevelt at the Army-Navy Game |
1940-01-20 |
Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (b. 1861) |
1940-10-05 |
Ballington Booth, English Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of Volunteers of America |
1941-10-13 |
GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies |
1942-08-07 |
Richard Gott, Brit gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43 |
1942-12-24 |
Jean Darlan, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1944-07-20 |
Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds |
1944-10-02 |
Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries |
1945-03-19 |
Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed |
1945-06-18 |
Simon B Buckner, US lt-gen/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action |
1945-06-22 |
Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri |
1945-06-22 |
Mitsuri Ushijima, Jap lt-gen/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri |
1946-06-13 |
Charles Butterworth, This Is the Army |
1946-08-01 |
Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45 |
1947-12-14 |
Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864) |
1948-04-09 |
George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872) |
1950-01-15 |
Henry H. Arnold, Army Air Forces - Pacific |
1950-07-17 |
Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865) |
1952-12-27 |
Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76 |
1953-11-20 |
Jimmie Dundee, At War with the Army |
1956-04-18 |
James MacColl, This Is the Army |
1956-08-02 |
Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109 |
1959-10-16 |
George Marshall, US army general, dies at 78 |
1961-04-25 |
Stuart Thompson, At War with the Army |
1963-06-12 |
Andrew Cunningham, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1967-02-04 |
Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886) |
1967-03-20 |
A J F Moody, 1st US Army General to die in Vietnam |
1967-11-19 |
Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927) |
1968-01-17 |
Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83 |
1968-05-23 |
James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81 |
1969-03-09 |
Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies |
1973-08-03 |
Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (b. 1895) |
1974-05-28 |
Geno Erbisti, This Is the Army |
1974-09-04 |
Creighton W Abrams, US general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59 |
1976-05-08 |
Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies |
1977-12-15 |
Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893) |
1980-08-08 |
Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (b. 1910) |
1981-04-26 |
Madge Evans, Army Girl |
1981-07-06 |
Albert Michel, The Army of Shadows |
1981-09-01 |
Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76 |
1981-10-16 |
Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies |
1982-04-15 |
Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Capt Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66 |
1982-07-03 |
Richard Noyes, Junior Army |
1982-12-08 |
Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered |
1983-11-15 |
John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71 |
1984-04-17 |
Mark W. Clark, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1985-05-04 |
Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907) |
1985-12-05 |
Tilestone Perry, This Is the Army |
1986-02-06 |
Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899) |
1986-07-19 |
Percy D. Burt, This Is the Army |
1987-03-20 |
Vernon Drake, Dad's Army |
1987-09-25 |
Duffy Daugherty, 1975 Army-Navy Game |
1987-10-22 |
Lino Ventura, The Army of Shadows |
1988-01-08 |
Frank Pace Jr, US Secretary of Army (1950-53), dies at 76 |
1988-01-15 |
Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83 |
1989-05-06 |
Colonel Earl 'Red' Blaik, Columbia World of Sports: Army's All-American |
1989-07-21 |
Ralph Magelssen, This Is the Army |
1991-09-12 |
Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93 |
1992-05-03 |
George Murphy, This Is the Army |
1993-07-14 |
Jacques Marbeuf, The Army of Shadows |
1993-07-26 |
Matthew B Ridgway, US Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), dies at 98 |
1993-12-20 |
Abner J. Greshler, At War with the Army |
1994-02-05 |
George H. Sauer, 1948 Army-Navy Game |
1994-02-06 |
Albert Szabo, Gideon's Army |
1994-04-03 |
Tom Hamilton, The Army-Navy Football Game of November 30, 1946 |
1994-05-10 |
Charles L. Lootens, Army Girl |
1994-06-16 |
Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88 |
1996-01-13 |
Angelo Buono, This Is the Army |
1996-02-07 |
Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915) |
1996-07-05 |
Erik Wickberg, The Salvation Army general (b. 1904) |
1996-08-26 |
Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77 |
1997-02-10 |
Arthur Steiner, This Is the Army |
1997-07-27 |
Kenneth Forbes, At War with the Army |
1998-03-06 |
Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed |
1999-07-07 |
Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (September 9,1974) |
1999-10-26 |
Stephen Roberts, At War with the Army |
1999-12-03 |
Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918) |
2000-07-12 |
Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II (b. 1908) |
2001-09-18 |
'Wild' Bill Mock, Army of Darkness |
2002-05-02 |
Paul Livermore, At War with the Army |
2002-06-26 |
Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913) |
2002-11-24 |
Peter Whitaker, Dad's Army |
2003-06-26 |
Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (b. 1920) |
2003-09-03 |
Paul Hill, Soldiers in the Army of God |
2004-04-01 |
Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (b. 1902) |
2004-04-12 |
Jean-Marie Robain, The Army of Shadows |
2004-04-22 |
Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976) |
2004-05-09 |
Tommy Farrell, At War with the Army |
2004-09-18 |
Jean Ruth, At War with the Army |
2004-11-03 |
Charlie Campbell, Army of Darkness |
2005-05-04 |
David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930) |
2005-05-20 |
William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918) |
2005-06-16 |
Kenzo Okuzaki, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On |
2005-09-05 |
Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917) |
2006-12-03 |
Jesse Stone, Carter's Army |
2007-04-11 |
Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920) |
2007-07-20 |
Bill Flemming, 1975 Army-Navy Game |
2008-01-09 |
William Quinn, Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950) |
2008-06-21 |
Louis Bednarcik, This Is the Army |
2008-08-07 |
Philip Truex, This Is the Army |
2009-02-06 |
Belmonte Cristiani, This Is the Army |
2009-06-20 |
Colin Bean, Dad's Army |
2009-09-08 |
Army Archerd, Entertainment Tonight |
2009-11-03 |
Christian Barbier, The Army of Shadows |
2009-12-23 |
Robert L. Howard, highly decorated officer of the United States Army (b. 1939) |
2011-01-02 |
Richard D. Winters, American Army officer (b.1918) |
2011-01-08 |
Vang Pao, charismatic Laotian general who commanded a secret army of his mountain people in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents, dies at 81 |
2011-05-21 |
Ricet Barrier, The Army Game |
2012-01-20 |
John F Baker Jnr, United States Army Master Sergeant and Medal of Honour recipient dies at 66 |
2012-01-26 |
Ian Abercrombie, Army of Darkness |
2012-02-13 |
Mohamed Lamari, Chief of Staff of the Algerian Army, dies from a heart attack at 72 |
2012-03-02 |
Van Barfoot, American army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, dies at 92 |
2012-08-24 |
Steen Gregers, The Invisible Army |
2012-10-17 |
Kôji Wakamatsu, United Red Army |
2012-11-06 |
Clive Dunn, Dad's Army |
2012-12-19 |
Paul Crauchet, The Army of Shadows |
2012-12-27 |
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr, US Army General, dies from complications from pneumonia at 78 |
2013-05-27 |
Bill Pertwee, Dad's Army |
2014-09-14 |
Geoffrey Perry, Churchill's German Army |
2014-10-13 |
Larry Weeks, This Is the Army |
2015-01-12 |
Géza Oberfrank, Army of Crime |
2015-07-12 |
D'Army Bailey, The People vs. Larry Flynt |
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Michael Mehlmann, Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
