History Hop Tags - Occupies

70-09-07

Roman army under General Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem

711-07-09

Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain

801-12-28

Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona

1081-04-04

Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne

1094-06-15

Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren

1118-12-18

Alfonso van Aragon occupies Saragossa on Almoraviden

1204-04-12

4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople

1291-07-31

Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine

1300-05-24

King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured

1395-08-14

Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden

1413-06-07

King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome

1442-06-12

King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples

1462-11-01

Archduke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna

1468-10-30

Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, occupies & plunders Liege

1478-01-18

Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod

1492-10-13

English admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock

1494-11-18

French King Charles VIII occupies Florence

1499-10-06

French King Louis XII occupies Milan

1502-12-31

Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino

1508-10-29

Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre

1515-05-03

Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz

1517-04-13

Osmaanse army occupies Cairo

1524-06-28

Duke of Bourbon occupies Province

1528-06-30

Burgundian army occupies Utrecht

1534-08-20

Turkish admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" occupies Tunis

1534-12-04

Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad

1541-08-26

Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda and annexes Hungary

1542-07-12

French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders

1543-08-22

Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren

1543-09-06

French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice

1549-07-12

Kett's uprising occupies Norwich, England

1551-08-14

Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli

1552-04-10

Henri II of France occupies Metz

1552-04-18

Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz

1558-11-07

French King Henri II occupies Calais

1560-03-13

Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli

1568-10-05

William of Oranges army occupies Brabant

1570-12-09

The Geuzen (a confederacy of Calvinist Dutch nobles) under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein

1572-06-09

Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland

1572-10-02

Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen

1576-10-20

Spanish troops occupies & plunder Maastricht

1578-10-10

Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen

1580-06-27

Duke of Alva's army occupies Portugal

1588-05-12

Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris

1591-08-19

French King Henri IV occupies Rouen

1591-11-12

Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza

1596-04-17

Archduke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais

1597-03-11

Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France

1597-10-09

Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort

1598-10-15

Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine

1600-07-01

Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Neth

1605-10-27

Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk

1606-10-01

Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch

1621-06-25

French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle

1628-11-01

French King Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle

1631-10-10

Saxon army occupies Prague

1632-08-22

Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht

1636-04-29

Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans

1637-10-07

Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda

1638-03-03

Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden

1645-09-11

Thomas Fairfax's 'New Model Army' occupies Bristol

1646-06-25

Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Oxford

1650-07-30

Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam

1655-10-09

Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow

1656-07-18

-20] Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir & occupies Warsaw

1660-01-01

Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York

1661-04-29

Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan

1667-06-21

Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England

1667-10-26

Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa)

1672-12-30

Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Neth

1673-09-12

Prince Willem III occupies Naarden

1674-10-26

Prince Willem III occupies Grave

1677-12-12

Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin

1688-09-20

French troops occupies Palts

1688-12-22

Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York

1688-12-31

Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham [OS=Dec 21]

1689-01-01

Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York

1691-10-03

English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland

1695-09-01

Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names

1696-07-18

Tsar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River

1705-10-15

English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona

1708-10-22

Great Alliance occupies Rijsel

1708-12-01

Great Alliance occupies Brussels

1708-12-29

Great Alliance occupies Gent

1710-10-16

British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia

1717-08-16

Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade

1722-03-08

Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia

1734-06-30

Russian army occupies Danzig

1739-03-20

Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

1741-11-26

French & Beiers army occupies Prague

1743-08-14

Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War

1745-06-16

British fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River

1745-11-29

Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle

1746-02-20

Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Inverness Castle

1746-03-03

Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Inverness Castle

1746-09-21

French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras

1756-08-29

Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War

1758-12-31

British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal

1759-05-01

British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West Indies, capturing it from France

1760-09-28

Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin

1761-06-08

British fleet occupies Belle Île off the Brittany Coast

1762-02-12

British fleet occupies Martinique

1762-08-14

English fleet occupies Havana

1774-07-12

Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan

1776-03-03

US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas

1777-09-27

British General William Howe occupies Philadelphia during American Revolution

1779-06-18

French fleet occupies St Vincent

1779-07-04

French fleet occupies Grenada

1781-04-29

French fleet occupies Tobago during American War of Independence

1781-08-01

British army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia

1782-02-13

French fleet occupies St Christopher

1788-12-17

Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov

1790-12-02

Austrian army occupies Brussels

1794-10-29

French troops occupies Venlo

1795-01-16

French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Neth

1806-01-19

Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope

1812-09-14

Napoleon occupies Moscow & fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)

1813-11-15

Allied troops occupies Groningen

1831-08-02

Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium

1846-09-25

US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico

1847-03-07

US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico

1854-10-25

Prince Menshikov of Crimea occupies British base at Balaclava

1857-09-30

US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is south of Hawaii

1860-05-26

Giuseppe Garibaldi occupies Palermo, Italy

1861-09-06

General Ulysses S. Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky

1862-01-04

Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath

1862-05-12

Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana

1862-09-06

Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland

1862-10-05

Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas

1862-12-20

Brig-gen Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky

1864-04-15

General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas

1865-01-19

Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC

1865-03-11

General William T. Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC

1882-09-15

British general Wolseley occupies Cairo

1885-11-13

Serbian army occupies Bulgaria

1892-01-30

Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out

1893-03-04

Francis Dhanis' army attacks the Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe

1893-04-22

Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo

1893-11-04

Dr Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland

1896-09-21

General Kitchener's army occupies Dongola Sudan

1897-08-31

General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum

1898-07-08

US battle fleet under Admiral Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila

1899-01-01

Cuba liberated from Spain by US (Natl Day) (US occupies till 1902)

1900-06-07

Boer general Christian de Law occupies British rail depot at Roodewal

1900-09-06

British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa

1903-02-03

Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa

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

1914-12-02

Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia

1915-01-17

Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine

1916-12-06

German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest

1918-12-09

French troops occupies Mainz

1919-03-30

Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf

1920-02-02

France occupies (German) Memel territory

1922-04-14

Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin

1924-10-24

Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing

1924-12-14

Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou

1928-04-19

Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland

1929-10-08

Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi

1931-06-10

Norway occupies East Greenland

1933-03-06

Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)

1935-10-06

Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia

1937-07-29

Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin

1937-10-21

Franco-troops occupies Gijon

1938-10-21

Japanese troops occupies Canton

1938-10-25

Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan

1939-03-15

Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independent

1939-03-16

Germany occupies Czechoslovakia

1940-05-17

Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France

1940-06-10

German 5th Armoured division occupies Rouen

1940-06-15

Soviet Army occupies Lithuania

1940-06-17

USSR occupies Estonia

1940-06-19

German 7th Armoured division under command of Rommel occupies Cherbourg

1940-10-08

German troops occupies Romania

1941-01-19

British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan

1941-05-21

German airforce occupies airport at Maleme, Crete

1941-06-01

Germany occupies Crete

1941-06-21

2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria

1941-06-22

Germany attacks the Soviet Union & occupies the Baltic states

1941-06-23

Germany occupies Telz, Lithuana

1941-10-06

German army occupies Briansk, USSR

1941-10-07

German army occupies Viarma, USSR

1941-12-20

Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon

1942-05-12

Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943

1942-10-15

German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die

1942-11-10

US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria

1942-12-24

Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk

1943-04-10

General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia

1943-04-28

US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia

1943-04-29

US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia

1943-05-03

US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia

1943-05-07

US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia

1943-05-07

US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia

1943-07-11

US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily

1943-07-23

US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini

1943-07-30

US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano

1943-08-06

US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily

1943-08-14

US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina

1943-09-09

Red Army occupies Bachmatsj

1943-09-10

British 8th army occupies Tarente

1943-12-10

British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy

1944-03-18

Nazi Germany occupies Hungary

1944-06-07

Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux

1944-07-26

US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles

1944-07-28

US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France

1944-08-01

US 90th division occupies St Hilaire-du-Harcourt

1944-08-06

US 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes

1944-08-08

US 15th Army corps occupies Le Mans

1944-08-13

British 8th Army occupies Florence

1944-08-16

2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise, Normandy

1944-08-17

US 12 Army Corps occupies Orleans

1944-08-17

US 320th regiment infantry occupies Châteaudun

1944-08-19

Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy

1944-08-19

US 15th Army Corps occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris

1944-08-21

US 12nd Army Corps occupies Sens

1944-09-14

US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid

1944-09-15

US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid

1944-11-03

US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald

1944-11-22

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen

1944-11-28

US 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen

1944-12-02

US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar

1944-12-03

US 5th Armoured division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald

1944-12-16

US 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid

1945-01-24

Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg

1945-01-25

West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma

1945-01-31

US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath

1945-02-22

Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland

1945-03-01

British 43rd Division under Gen Essame occupies Xanten

1945-03-01

Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi

1945-03-03

US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall

1945-03-06

Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio

1945-04-13

Red Army occupies Vienna

1945-04-28

British commandos attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg

1945-04-30

Red Army occupies Demmin

1945-05-03

1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen

1945-06-04

6th US Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa

1948-02-15

Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan

1948-10-15

China's Red army occupies Chinchov

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

1951-09-27

Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan

1952-01-20

British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone

1960-12-13

Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane

1962-12-28

UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga

1969-05-16

Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam

1971-12-16

India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders

1975-12-07

Indonesian army occupies East Timor

1978-03-13

Moluccan "suicide commandos" occupies Province house

1978-08-23

Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar

1979-06-12

Sanista occupies parts of Managua

1979-09-05

Iran army occupies Piranshahr

1979-11-20

Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed

1980-02-27

Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota

1980-10-24

Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar

1982-06-07

Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena

1986-05-18

South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia

1989-10-22

Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia

1990-08-02

Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia

1994-07-04

Rwandese Patriotic Front occupies Kigali

1890-12-19

Klaas Painter, vicar/antifascist (Occupies possession) [or 1880]