History Hop Tags - Campaign

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.

1311-04-24

Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India

1762-03-10

French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform

1765-03-09

After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.

1799-07-15

The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

1831-08-02

Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium

1861-04-18

Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, part of the Maryland Campaign (US Civil War)

1861-06-25

Western Virginia campaign

1861-07-16

Manassas Campaign [->JUL 22]

1862-01-03

Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester

1862-01-04

Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath

1862-01-07

Romney Campaign; Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV

1862-02-06

Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi

1862-03-23

Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign

1862-04-01

Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA

1862-04-04

US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War

1862-05-05

Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA

1862-05-08

Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va

1862-05-23

Valley Campaign: Stonewall Jackson takes Fort Royal, Virginia

1862-06-08

Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia

1862-07-20

Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866

1862-09-04

Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign)

1862-12-20

-Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign

1863-04-30

-5/1] Battle of Snyder's Bluff, Virginia (part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War): General Sherman beaten by Confederate forces

1863-05-16

Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign

1863-06-23

Tullahoma campaign, TN

1863-08-01

Battle of Little Rock, Arkansas; start of Chattanooga campaign

1863-08-01

Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign

1863-08-16

Chickamauga campaign GA

1863-10-14

Skirmish at Catlett's Station, Virginia (Bristoe Campaign)

1863-11-26

-Dec 2] Mine Run campaign, VA

1863-12-15

Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)

1864-01-21

The Tauranga Campaign of the New Zealand Wars begins

1864-02-13

Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi

1864-03-10

Red River campaign LA

1864-03-15

Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA

1864-05-01

-8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)

1864-05-01

Atlanta campaign, GA begins

1864-05-01

Wilderness campaign

1864-05-05

Atlanta Campaign: 5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge

1864-05-05

Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA

1864-05-08

Atlanta Campaign: Severe fighting near Dalton

1864-05-13

-16] Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca Georgia

1864-05-15

Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)

1864-05-16

Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)

1864-05-20

Spotsylvania campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured

1864-06-01

-Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign

1864-06-21

New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends

1864-06-25

Petersburg Campaign-Federals begin digging tunnels under Reb lines

1864-06-27

Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain GA

1864-07-20

Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign

1864-08-18

Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days

1864-08-25

Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station

1864-08-31

Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Jonesboro Georgia, 1900 casualties

1864-09-17

Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign

1864-09-18

Hood's Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin—Nashville Campaign), American Civil War

1864-10-09

Battle of Tom's Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by General Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions

1865-01-01

-Apr 26th] Carolinas' campaign

1865-03-29

-Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA, 7582 killed

1865-04-03

Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)

1865-04-05

Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign)

1880-06-07

War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).

1897-09-12

Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi

1900-09-01

Cumann na nGaedheal (Irish Council) founded by Arthur Griffith in order to promote a buy Irish campaign

1900-09-17

USA, Anthracite coal miners go out on strike for better wages until the October 25, by which time the owners are persuaded that their stand is harming President McKinley's campaign

1903-01-04

Topsy, an elephant, electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.

1903-02-11

US Congress adopts the Expedition Act, which authorizes the Attorney General to 'expedite' anti-trust cases through the courts, reflecting growing popular support for President Roosevelt's 'trust busting' campaign

1904-03-14

In a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the Supreme Court finds that the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; this is the first case that T. Roosevelt has undertaken in his 'trust-busting' campaign

1910-11-06

SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage

1921-12-16

The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) calls for a united front in a pass burning campaign on Dingaan's Day

1933-09-25

5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China

1934-04-07

In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience

1936-09-29

Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign

1939-07-09

A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa

1941-07-19

British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign

1942-05-10

World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.

1942-08-09

Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress

1944-12-16

Ardennes campaign ('Battle of the Bulge') begins in Belgium

1945-01-07

The last surface engagement between Allies and Japanese in the Pacific campaign, World War II

1951-01-18

Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"

1956-12-12

Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign.

1960-02-29

JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue

1961-11-22

Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star

1962-05-25

US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week

1963-06-08

American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes

1964-12-01

Martin Lurther King speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign

1966-01-17

Martin Luther King Jr. opens campaign in Chicago

1967-06-23

US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds

1968-03-04

Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign

1968-03-16

robert kennedy announces presidential campaign

1968-06-19

50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign

1968-10-19

Derry Citizen's Action Committee, formed on Oct 9, stage an illegal sit-down at Guildhall Square as part of large civil disobedience campaign

1968-12-25

42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.

1969-06-15

The Campaign for Social Justice publish a second edition of 'Northern Ireland The Plain Truth' which set out the allegations of discrimination against Catholics by Unionists in the region

1971-08-15

The Social Democratic and Labour Party announce a campaign of civil disobedience in response to the introduction of Internment in Northern Ireland

1971-10-17

It is estimated today that approximately 16,000 households were withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organised by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland

1973-02-07

Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities

1976-01-26

Belgium Catholic elite starts amnesty campaign for war criminals

1981-12-11

El Mozote massacre: Salvadoran armed forces kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the country's civil war.

1983-11-03

Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D)

1984-08-15

The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military

1986-06-10

In South Africa, the three-year-old 'State of Emergency' is renewed for another twelve months, followed by an organized campaign of civil disobedience against it.

1986-11-06

Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern

1988-06-06

George H W Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)

1989-07-16

South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid

1989-08-06

Twenty former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction orders, launch a campaign against apartheid laws

1994-10-06

-9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria

1994-12-10

European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins

1995-07-09

Former South Africa President F. W. de Klerk is implicated of knowing and condoning a 'dirty tricks' campaign that was waged against the ANC between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation

2002-06-28

In South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Treatment Action Campaign table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council

2002-12-18

2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

2005-07-28

The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

2007-11-30

Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.

2009-10-24

First International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign to address a claimed global warming crisis.

2013-04-06

22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba, Iraq

2014-09-18

Emma Watson delivers an address to a standing ovation at UN Headquarters in New York City, helping launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for gender equality

2016-05-04

Ted Cruz Ends His Campaign for President

2016-06-01

New York probing Trump's closing of Trump Tower atrium for campaign events

2016-06-23

Britain votes on EU membership after tight and bitter campaign

2016-10-28

Clinton Reaps $53 Million in Campaign Cash in 19 Days

2016-12-09

Figures show Trump spent $66 million of his own cash on election campaign

2017-05-18

Trump says Russia probe will reveal no collusion with his campaign

2018-02-23

Special counsel files 32-count indictment against former Trump campaign officials

2018-04-25

Rapper Meek Mill freed from US jail after months-long campaign

1795-02-15

Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign)

1797-02-28

W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral (10 day campaign)

1855-06-14

Robert LaFollette, Robert LaFollette Campaign Speech

1873-04-13

John W. Davis, John W. Davis Campaign Speech

1887-11-17

Bernard L Montgomery, British field marshall (WW II-African campaign)

1891-11-15

Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-African campaign)

1921-12-02

Rita Lynn, The Campaign of Billy Banjo

1925-07-16

Cal Tjader, The Campaign

1925-9-05

Justin Kaplan, The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

1927-07-07

Philip Minor, Campaign in the Neck

1928-9-11

Reubin Askew, Samantha Smith Goes to Washington: Campaign '84

1931-06-21

Everett Ensley, The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

1936-08-21

Booth Gardner, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner

1940-03-06

Willie Stargell, Catch the Fever Promotional Campaign

1943-10-16

Charles Frederick Turner, The Campaign

1944-01-18

Paul Keating, The Campaign

1954-01-22

Patrick Weathers, The Campaign

1956-06-29

Roy Cockrum, The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

1956-09-16

Mark Daniel Gearan, Gardner Mass, campaign manager (Al Gore)

1956-11-16

Rowan Joseph, The Campaign

1961-04-15

Perry Shields, Doctor Shocker's Monster Campaign Ads 2012

1964-02-24

Kyônosuke Hanai, Stop the Bitch Campaign

1964-03-23

Chris Henchy, The Campaign

1966-05-20

Dr. Gabe, Hot Health Headlines: Cancer Campaign Controversy/Crack Pipe Vending Machines/Airplane Assaults/Plastic Surgery Fraud

1966-12-01

Katherine LaNasa, The Campaign

1973-12-29

Theo Epstein, Five Years/The Gore Campaign/Stat Man

1978-12-19

A.J. Tesler, Campaign Trail

1980-08-18

Ayaka Makabe, Stop the Bitch Campaign

1982-03-19

Murat Kurnaz, Five Years/The Gore Campaign/Stat Man

1984-9-07

Kate Miner, The Campaign

1986-06-27

James Jackson Leach, City of Austin Bicycle Campaign

1986-10-29

Rio, Stop the Bitch Campaign

1991-01-19

Kayla Radomski, The Campaign

2000-01-01

Grant Goodman, The Campaign

2001-10-08

Kya Haywood, The Campaign

1993-11-26

Political strategist for President Clinton's campaign and political commentator James Carville (49) weds Republican political pundit Mary Matalin (40) in New Orleans, Louisiana

2012-08-18

"Melrose Place" actor Grant Show (50) weds "The Campaign" actress and former ballet dancer Katherine LaNasa (45) at The Oak Grove at Ribbit Tree & Plant Nursery in Topanga, California

2012-08-26

"The Campaign" actress Kate Lang Johnson (28) weds musician Justin Miner at La Venta Inn in Palos Verdes, California

1831-11-16

Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51

1925-06-18

Robert LaFollette, Robert LaFollette Campaign Speech

1950-04-22

Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54

1955-03-24

John W. Davis, John W. Davis Campaign Speech

1982-05-05

Cal Tjader, The Campaign

1986-03-09

Everett Ensley, The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

1991-04-15

Philip Minor, Campaign in the Neck

1996-01-21

Rita Lynn, The Campaign of Billy Banjo

1996-04-30

David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46

2001-04-09

Willie Stargell, Catch the Fever Promotional Campaign

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

2013-03-15

Booth Gardner, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner

2014-03-02

Justin Kaplan, The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

2014-03-13

Reubin Askew, Samantha Smith Goes to Washington: Campaign '84