— about 55 years ago
Date | Event |
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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. |
31 |
Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. |
BC AD | |
30-04-07 |
Scholars' estimate of Jesus' crucifixion by Roman troops in Jerusalem |
69-12-20 |
General Vespasian's troops occupy Rome after defeating the Emperor Vitellius |
306-07-25 |
Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. |
350-06-30 |
Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome. |
363-06-26 |
Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield. |
711-04-30 |
Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). |
764-11-12 |
Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days. |
920-07-26 |
Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona. |
962-12-23 |
Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed the city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist. |
969-10-28 |
Byzantine troops occupy Antioch (in modern Syria) |
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 |
1066-09-27 |
William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England |
1248-11-23 |
Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile. |
1328-08-23 |
Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers |
1341-04-14 |
Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo. |
1347-08-04 |
English troops conquer Ft Calais |
1395-04-16 |
Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops. |
1420-06-07 |
Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independenceo f the Patriarchate of Aquileia. |
1453-07-17 |
1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops |
1468-11-03 |
Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops. |
1480-08-12 |
Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam. |
1497-02-25 |
Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France |
1500-01-05 |
Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan |
1504-04-23 |
King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria |
1508-10-29 |
Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre |
1511-08-10 |
Portugese troops occupy parts of Malacca |
1512-02-05 |
French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna |
1512-02-16 |
Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen |
1512-02-19 |
French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia |
1513-10-07 |
Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians. |
1521-08-28 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade |
1521-09-28 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade |
1521-09-29 |
Turkish troops occupy Belgrade |
1521-11-19 |
Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy Milan |
1522-05-30 |
French troops driven out of Genoa |
1522-12-25 |
Turkish troops occupy Rhodos |
1523-10-27 |
English troops occupy Montalidier France |
1524-08-19 |
Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille, Italy |
1524-10-26 |
Spanish troops give Milan to France |
1525-02-24 |
Battle of Pavia: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's troops beat the French. French King Francois I captured, 15,000 killed/wounded |
1527-05-06 |
Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance |
1535-06-24 |
Hessische troops occupy Munster |
1537-03-17 |
French troops invade Flanders |
1542-07-12 |
French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders |
1542-08-02 |
French troops leave Flanders |
1543-02-11 |
Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Muslim army |
1543-07-07 |
French troops invade Luxembourg |
1543-08-05 |
French & Turkish troops occupy Nice |
1544-04-14 |
Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss |
1544-05-01 |
Turkish troops occupy Hungary |
1544-09-18 |
English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne |
1545-07-21 |
The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs. |
1549-08-12 |
French troops occupy Ambleteuse England |
1552-07-17 |
Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun |
1552-10-15 |
Khanate of Kazan is conquered by troops of Ivan Grozny. |
1555-04-17 |
Siena surrenders for Spanish troops |
1558-01-08 |
French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais |
1563-02-15 |
Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania |
1567-03-13 |
Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger |
1567-06-15 |
Battle at Carberry, Scotland: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwell's army |
1568-07-21 |
Battle at Jemmingen: Alva's troops beat Dutch rebellion |
1570-04-24 |
Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman |
1571-03-19 |
Spanish troops occupy Manila |
1572-07-23 |
William of Orange's troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden |
1572-10-18 |
Spanish troops attack Maastricht |
1572-11-16 |
Troops under Don Frederik (the Spanish General Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo) occupy and plunder Zutphen, Nmetherlands |
1572-12-11 |
Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem |
1574-02-19 |
Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer & Jisp, Netherlands |
1575-06-28 |
Spanish troops conquer Buren |
1575-08-07 |
Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died |
1576-07-26 |
Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst |
1576-10-20 |
Spanish troops occupies & plunder Maastricht |
1577-12-16 |
Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istvan Bathory |
1580-06-17 |
Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels |
1580-11-09 |
Spanish troops lands in Ireland |
1583-07-17 |
Spanish & Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk |
1585-06-23 |
Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops |
1585-08-27 |
Duke of Parma's troops occupy Antwerp |
1586-01-15 |
Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army |
1587-08-05 |
Spanish troops conquer Lock |
1588-05-09 |
Duke Henri de Guise's troops occupy Paris |
1588-07-29 |
Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England |
1589-04-10 |
Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg |
1591-05-20 |
Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius |
1593-06-22 |
Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks. |
1597-03-12 |
England routes troops to Amiens |
1597-09-16 |
French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria |
1598-11-08 |
Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem |
1598-12-21 |
Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania". |
1606-10-01 |
Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch |
1612-11-01 |
(22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky |
1618-07-30 |
Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht |
1619-09-15 |
Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary |
1621-03-07 |
John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies |
1621-09-15 |
Swedish troops occupy Riga |
1625-06-05 |
Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda |
1630-03-23 |
French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont |
1630-06-26 |
Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde |
1630-07-06 |
Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde |
1630-07-18 |
Spanish troops occupy Mantua |
1636-08-14 |
Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens |
1638-12-17 |
French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine |
1639-07-19 |
French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan |
1642-09-19 |
Perpignan surrenders to French troops |
1644-05-28 |
Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby. (English Civil War) |
1644-09-17 |
French troops occupy Mainz |
1648-04-05 |
Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples |
1649-09-30 |
Last Swedish troops vacate Prague |
1651-10-27 |
English troops occupy Limerick, Ireland |
1652-05-19 |
Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen |
1652-09-16 |
Spanish troops occupy Dunkirk |
1654-01-26 |
Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife |
1654-08-05 |
French troops occupy Stenay |
1654-09-16 |
Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland |
1655-07-30 |
Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram |
1657-10-03 |
French troops occupy Mardyke |
1658-06-23 |
Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort at Jafnapatnam in Ceylon |
1658-12-09 |
Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India |
1667-05-24 |
French troops attack into Southern Netherlands |
1672-06-21 |
French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht |
1672-09-06 |
Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden from France |
1673-07-06 |
French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War |
1673-11-12 |
Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn |
1677-04-11 |
Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III |
1677-11-16 |
French troops occupy Freiburg |
1678-04-25 |
French troops conquer Ypres |
1678-07-30 |
English troops land in Flanders |
1678-11-05 |
Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden |
1679-12-27 |
Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java |
1681-10-23 |
French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg |
1683-07-16 |
Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna |
1683-09-03 |
Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna |
1688-09-20 |
French troops occupies Palts |
1688-12-20 |
Prince William of Orange's troops arrive in London |
1690-02-08 |
French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire |
1690-03-16 |
French King Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland |
1690-05-11 |
English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal, Nova Scotia |
1690-10-08 |
Turkish troops occupy Belgrade |
1691-04-09 |
French troops occupy Mons |
1693-10-04 |
Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French. |
1695-08-13 |
-15] French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels |
1702-05-14 |
Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw |
1702-07-19 |
Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Krakow |
1702-10-07 |
British/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond |
1702-10-13 |
Dutch/English troops occupy Luik |
1702-10-27 |
British troops plunder St Augustine, Florida |
1703-05-18 |
Dutch & English troops occupy Cologne |
1704-07-24 |
English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar |
1704-08-04 |
War of Spanish Succession, English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar |
1708-08-29 |
British troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia |
1708-10-21 |
Dutch & English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel) |
1710-10-13 |
English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia) |
1710-10-16 |
British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia |
1711-09-22 |
French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro |
1713-02-27 |
French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao |
1714-09-11 |
French & Spanish troops under Duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona |
1715-12-12 |
Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund [NS=12/23] |
1715-12-23 |
Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund |
1715-12-24 |
Swedish troops occupy Norway |
1716-04-04 |
Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar |
1716-04-15 |
Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar |
1716-10-13 |
Hungarian Emperor Karel VI's troops occupy Temesvar |
1717-08-22 |
Spanish troops lands on Sardinia |
1722-09-12 |
Russian troops occupy Baku & Derbent on Persia |
1734-06-17 |
French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine |
1735-03-10 |
An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku. |
1738-05-27 |
Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov |
1741-08-15 |
French troops attack the Rhine |
1743-06-27 |
War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch would command troops in the field. |
1744-05-31 |
French troops conquer Kortrijk |
1745-02-18 |
Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland |
1745-02-20 |
Jacobite troops occupy Fort Augustus, Scotland |
1745-11-18 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Carlisle |
1745-11-28 |
-29] French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY |
1746-01-08 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling [NS=Jan 19] |
1746-01-19 |
Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8] |
1746-02-22 |
French troops conquer Brussels |
1746-02-22 |
Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen |
1746-02-25 |
Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen |
1746-03-05 |
Jacobite troops leave Aberdeen |
1746-03-08 |
Duke of Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen |
1746-04-16 |
Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army. |
1746-06-01 |
French troops conquer Antwerp |
1747-04-17 |
French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands |
1747-09-16 |
French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom |
1748-05-07 |
French troops conquer Maastricht in the War of the Austrian Succession |
1751-08-31 |
British troops under Sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot, India |
1755-07-09 |
Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British |
1756-12-06 |
British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India |
1757-01-02 |
British troops occupy Calcutta India |
1757-08-09 |
English Fort William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops |
1757-10-16 |
Austrian troops occupy Berlin |
1758-01-11 |
Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East-Prussia [NS=Jan 22] |
1758-01-22 |
Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East Prussia [OS=Jan 11] |
1758-06-23 |
Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. |
1758-08-08 |
British troops occupy & plunder Cherbourg |
1759-04-08 |
British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India |
1759-07-26 |
French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY |
1759-09-14 |
Austrian troops occupy Dresden |
1760-01-22 |
Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French |
1760-07-26 |
Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie |
1762-10-06 |
British troops occupy Manila, Philippines |
1768-10-01 |
British troops under General Gauge land in Boston |
1770-03-05 |
Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Native African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die. Later held up as early black martyr. Galvanised anti-British feelings |
1774-03-05 |
John Hancock delivers the fourth annual Massacre Day oration, a commemoration of the Boston Massacre, and denounces the presence of British troops in Boston, enhancing Hancock's stature as a leading Patriot |
1775-03-23 |
Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war |
1775-07-22 |
George Washington takes command of US troops |
1776-03-02 |
Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston |
1776-07-09 |
Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY) |
1776-11-16 |
British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution |
1777-10-04 |
Battle of Germantown: Gen George Washington's troops attack and are defeated by the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania |
1777-12-19 |
Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter |
1778-06-19 |
Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge |
1778-12-29 |
English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia |
1779-07-15 |
American troops under Gen A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, NY |
1780-05-12 |
British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina (Revolutionary War) |
1780-05-29 |
Battle of Waxhaw Creek: alleged massacre of 113 of Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton's troops after the continentals raised a white flag |
1781-08-20 |
George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis |
1781-11-13 |
British troops occupy Negapatam, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) |
1786-09-04 |
-5] Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg |
1787-07-06 |
Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede |
1787-09-17 |
Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem |
1788-12-19 |
Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam |
1789-02-01 |
Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long |
1790-04-30 |
Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village |
1793-02-11 |
Prussian troops occupy Venlo, Netherlands |
1793-02-24 |
French troops conquer Breda |
1793-03-04 |
French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth |
1793-03-05 |
French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured. |
1793-09-20 |
British troops under Major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti |
1794-06-25 |
French troops occupy Charleroi |
1794-08-26 |
French troops occupy Lock |
1794-09-27 |
French troops conquer Crèvecoeur |
1794-10-09 |
French troops occupy Hertogenbosch |
1794-10-29 |
French troops occupies Venlo |
1794-11-03 |
French troops conquer Maastricht |
1794-11-07 |
French troops conquer Nijmegen |
1794-11-09 |
Russian troops occupy Warsaw |
1794-12-30 |
French troops conquer Grave Neth |
1796-05-15 |
French troops occupy Milan |
1796-06-01 |
Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US |
1798-08-22 |
French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion. |
1798-12-05 |
Dutch troops occupy Hasselt |
1800-09-05 |
Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops |
1805-11-11 |
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force. |
1807-06-28 |
British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina |
1807-11-27 |
The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops |
1810-07-04 |
French troops occupy Amsterdam |
1812-06-22 |
Upon learning of plans by the Americans to execute a surprise attack, Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn the British troops, which results in a British surprise victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams |
1812-08-12 |
Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid |
1813-11-03 |
US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala |
1813-11-12 |
Allied troops occupy Zwolle Neth |
1813-11-15 |
Allied troops occupies Groningen |
1814-01-01 |
Field marshal Blucher's troops cross the Rhine at Kaub |
1815-06-18 |
Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher |
1816-07-27 |
US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves |
1819-06-12 |
Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra |
1821-06-23 |
Dutch troops conquer Palembang |
1830-09-23 |
Dutch troops occupy Brussels |
1831-08-12 |
Dutch troops conquer Leuven |
1832-12-23 |
Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender |
1834-01-29 |
President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute |
1839-10-10 |
British troops under Gen Charles Napier occupy Beirut |
1842-01-06 |
4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India |
1842-03-05 |
Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. |
1846-05-18 |
US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros |
1846-06-08 |
Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu |
1846-09-25 |
US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico |
1847-02-22 |
Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army |
1847-03-29 |
12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico |
1849-06-21 |
Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels |
1860-01-20 |
Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes |
1860-09-21 |
In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao. |
1860-10-12 |
British & French troops capture Beijing |
1861-01-05 |
250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter |
1861-01-05 |
Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay |
1861-01-06 |
Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola |
1861-01-07 |
Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine (US Civil War) |
1861-01-10 |
Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by LA state troops (US Civil War) |
1861-01-12 |
Florida state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens (US Civil War) |
1861-01-19 |
Misssissippi troops take Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island (US Civil War) |
1861-01-24 |
Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens |
1861-02-12 |
State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK (US Civil War) |
1861-04-23 |
Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith |
1861-04-30 |
President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory (US Civil War) |
1861-05-01 |
Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry |
1861-05-05 |
Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city |
1861-05-10 |
Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, MI |
1861-05-24 |
Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops |
1861-07-04 |
In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops |
1861-07-08 |
CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in NM territory |
1861-07-10 |
Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia & says Union troops will not enter that state |
1861-07-14 |
Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops |
1861-07-25 |
Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops |
1861-07-27 |
Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico |
1861-08-14 |
79th NY troops mutinies |
1861-08-27 |
Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft Clark |
1862-03-05 |
Union troops under brig-gen Wright occupy Fernandina Florida |
1862-04-12 |
Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia |
1862-04-29 |
100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss |
1862-05-12 |
Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana |
1862-07-12 |
Federal troops occupy Helena Arkansas |
1862-08-17 |
Confederate troops under Kirby Smith enter Kentucky |
1862-09-04 |
General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops |
1862-09-14 |
Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates |
1862-09-14 |
Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates |
1862-09-14 |
Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia |
1862-10-12 |
Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi |
1862-10-22 |
Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee |
1863-01-10 |
General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark |
1863-04-19 |
Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia |
1863-05-22 |
War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops |
1863-06-07 |
Mexico City captured by French troops |
1863-07-09 |
Union troops enter Port Hudson |
1863-07-17 |
Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials |
1863-07-26 |
Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender |
1863-09-01 |
Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas |
1863-09-06 |
-7] After 59 day siege Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties) |
1863-09-08 |
-10] Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee |
1863-11-01 |
Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops |
1863-11-30 |
Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas |
1864-02-01 |
Austrian and Prussian troops occupy Schleswig-Holstein |
1864-02-07 |
Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida |
1864-03-14 |
Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana |
1864-03-29 |
Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas |
1864-04-09 |
Union surgeon Mary Edwards Walker is captured by Confederate troops and arrested as a spy during US Civil War. |
1864-04-15 |
General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas |
1864-04-29 |
Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga, leaving 31 British troops dead and 80 wounded. Maori losses were 25 killed and an unknown number wounded. |
1864-06-17 |
-18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia |
1864-07-29 |
American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC. |
1864-08-08 |
Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama |
1864-08-23 |
Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama |
1864-10-05 |
Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South |
1864-10-15 |
Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri |
1864-10-26 |
Union troops ambush & kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI |
1864-11-11 |
Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia |
1864-11-26 |
Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia |
1865-01-15 |
Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops |
1865-02-18 |
Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC |
1865-03-23 |
General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro NC |
1865-04-09 |
US Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant |
1867-03-12 |
Last French troops leave Mexico |
1867-11-03 |
Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Garibaldi |
1868-04-13 |
Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and Ethiopian Emperor commits suicide |
1871-05-21 |
-July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die |
1873-09-15 |
Last German troops leave France |
1873-09-16 |
German troops leave France |
1874-01-13 |
US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king |
1875-01-05 |
President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Miss |
1876-10-26 |
President sends federal troops to SC |
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. |
1877-04-10 |
Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, SC |
1877-04-24 |
Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans) |
1877-04-27 |
President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends |
1877-06-01 |
US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico |
1877-07-24 |
1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers |
1879-01-20 |
British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana |
1879-02-14 |
Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta |
1879-10-12 |
British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan |
1881-02-26 |
-27] Natal: British troops under Major General Colley occupy Majuba Hill |
1881-04-25 |
French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia |
1881-07-20 |
Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops |
1882-09-13 |
Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt |
1883-04-12 |
French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal |
1890-04-06 |
French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan |
1890-04-27 |
French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan |
1891-01-01 |
French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed |
1891-02-24 |
French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan |
1894-01-13 |
Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops |
1894-02-16 |
British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast |
1894-07-06 |
Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike |
1894-07-20 |
2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike |
1894-08-25 |
-26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed |
1894-11-16 |
French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki, West Africa |
1894-11-19 |
Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok |
1895-03-25 |
Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
1896-01-02 |
Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops) |
1896-01-18 |
British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa |
1897-01-26 |
Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army |
1897-01-27 |
British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) |
1897-08-14 |
The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar. |
1898-05-23 |
1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco |
1898-06-24 |
American troops drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba |
1898-07-03 |
American troops captured deserted Wake Island |
1898-07-25 |
1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay |
1898-07-28 |
Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender |
1898-09-01 |
Lord Kitchener's troops attack Omdurman, Sudan |
1898-09-29 |
French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught |
1899-09-08 |
British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa |
1899-09-17 |
1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa |
1899-10-09 |
1st British troops reaches Durban, South Africa |
1899-10-22 |
British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa |
1899-11-12 |
British troops reach Durban Natal |
1900-01-21 |
The second contingent of Canadian troops sails from Halifax to fight in South Africa against the Boers |
1900-02-05 |
British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal |
1900-02-07 |
British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal |
1900-02-15 |
British troops relieve Kimberly, South Africa, a city under siege by the Boers since October 1899, during the Boer War. |
1900-02-18 |
British troops occupy Monte Christo, Natal |
1900-02-19 |
British troops occupy Hlangwane, Natal |
1900-02-28 |
General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal |
1900-03-13 |
British troops occupy Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State |
1900-03-17 |
In South Africa, British troops relieve Mafeking, besieged by the Boers since 13 October, 1899. |
1900-03-31 |
At " Surprise of Sanna's Post" in the Second Boer War 150 troops under Brigadier General Robert Broadwood were killed. |
1900-05-12 |
Lord Roberts' troops occupy Crown city |
1900-05-17 |
British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) |
1900-05-26 |
British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa |
1900-05-31 |
British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg |
1900-05-31 |
US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion |
1900-06-11 |
-12] Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha |
1900-06-26 |
Japan mobolizes 20,000 troops to help put down the Boxer uprising - but also advance long-term interest in gaining land and power in mainland Asia |
1900-08-04 |
An allied expeditionary force, made up of Japanese, Russian, British, French and American troops, sets off from Tientsin for Peking, China, to put down Boxer rebellion |
1900-08-15 |
Russian troops advance further unto Manchuria |
1900-08-15 |
In China, the Empress and some of her family, the court, and retainers flee while foreign troops move through Peking in an attempt to put down the Boxer Rebellion |
1900-08-31 |
British troops over run Johannesburg |
1900-09-03 |
Russian troops now control both sides of the Amur River on the Russo-Manchurian boundary |
1900-09-14 |
There are now 62,000 foreign troops in Peking and nearby cities, still defeating Boxer Rebels. |
1900-11-09 |
China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration |
1900-12-24 |
Foreign powers present the Chinese Empress with their list of 'irrevocable conditions' before their nations will withdraw troops from China |
1901-02-02 |
Mexican government troops are ambushed by Yaqui Indians, 100 killed |
1901-02-03 |
Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra |
1901-03-02 |
The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. |
1901-06-12 |
In Cuba, the constitutional convention - knowing that the USA will not withdraw its troops until does so - adopts the Platt Amendment as part of its constitution |
1902-05-20 |
The United States withdraw its troops from Cuba as its first president, Tomas Estrada Palma, is installed |
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 |
1903-04-06 |
In Holland, railroad and dock workers go out on strike, but the government passes anti-strike bills, calls out troops, and promptly ends the strike on the 13th April |
1903-10-30 |
In violation of their promise to evacuate Manchuria, the Russian reoccupy Mukden and reinforce their troops in Manchuria |
1904-02-09 |
Japanese land troops at Chemulpo (Inchon), near Seoul, Korea; within the next three weeks they will have advanced to the Yalu River, border of Manchuria |
1904-03-28 |
Japanese troops advance in Korea, defeat the Russians at Chengiu, and capture the town |
1904-05-30 |
The Japanese Army capture the City of Dairen after landing troops along the south coast of Manchuria |
1904-06-14 |
Dutch troops occupy Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants |
1905-01-02 |
Japanese troops capture Port Arthur from Russia, a blow to national morale and causing further discontent within Russia |
1905-01-22 |
In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday' |
1906-09-28 |
US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909 |
1907-03-05 |
The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops. |
1907-07-18 |
French troops occupy Casablanca |
1907-07-30 |
Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners |
1910-12-09 |
French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir |
1911-03-07 |
US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border |
1911-05-02 |
French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco |
1911-10-05 |
Italian troops occupy Tripoli |
1912-09-29 |
French/British troops lands on Samoa |
1912-10-26 |
Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup) |
1912-11-05 |
Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water |
1913-04-22 |
Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania |
1913-07-20 |
Turkish troops take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria |
1913-09-23 |
Serbian troops march into Albania |
1914-02-21 |
White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China |
1914-07-26 |
Irish Volunteers unload a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition arrived from Germany aboard Erskine Childers' yacht the Asgard; British troops fire on jeering crowd on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, killing three citizens |
1914-07-29 |
Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary |
1914-07-30 |
French troops withdraw 10 km from German border |
1914-08-01 |
France & Germany mobilize their troops at outbreak of WWI |
1914-08-02 |
German troops overthrows Luxembourg |
1914-08-02 |
Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia |
1914-08-07 |
French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas |
1914-08-08 |
French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas |
1914-08-10 |
German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas |
1914-08-12 |
Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa |
1914-08-17 |
French troops under gen de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins |
1914-08-18 |
French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg |
1914-08-20 |
Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing thousands |
1914-08-20 |
Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny, France |
1914-08-21 |
Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines |
1914-08-22 |
Battle at Charleroi begins: Gen von Bulows troops beat French |
1914-08-22 |
1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium) |
1914-08-22 |
General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia |
1914-08-22 |
German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium |
1914-08-23 |
-24] German troops plunder Belgium |
1914-08-23 |
Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten |
1914-08-24 |
Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops |
1914-08-24 |
German troops occupy Namur, Belgium |
1914-08-25 |
German troops march into France and push French army to the Sedan |
1914-08-31 |
German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia |
1914-09-03 |
French troops vacate Rheims |
1914-09-14 |
German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches |
1914-09-18 |
South African troops land in German South West Africa |
1914-10-01 |
The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth |
1914-10-09 |
German troops take Antwerp in World War I |
1914-10-11 |
German troops occupy Gent |
1914-10-14 |
German troops occupy Brug |
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 |
1914-11-22 |
Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia |
1914-12-06 |
German troops over run Lodz |
1914-12-15 |
Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary |
1914-12-17 |
Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland |
1914-12-23 |
World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt. |
1914-12-25 |
Legendary "Christmas Truce" takes place on the battlefields of WWI b/w British & Germans troops - gifts exchanged and football played |
1915-01-04 |
Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops |
1915-04-27 |
Counterattack launched by Turkish forces under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk against allied troops |
1915-06-10 |
British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon |
1915-07-10 |
British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa |
1915-08-06 |
The British land more troops at Suvla Bay on the northern shore of Gallipoli in an effort to break the stalemate on the peninsula |
1915-08-17 |
German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana |
1915-08-25 |
The British decide to try capture Constantinople and force Turkey out of the war; 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli |
1915-08-26 |
German troops overrun Brest-Litovsk, Russia |
1915-10-05 |
Allies land troops at the northern Greek city of Salonika; Greece is nominally neutral but allows the landing |
1915-12-12 |
Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia |
1915-12-20 |
Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia |
1915-12-20 |
Final withdraw of all allied troops from Anzac Cove |
1916-01-07 |
German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun |
1916-01-09 |
The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated. |
1916-01-11 |
French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu |
1916-02-16 |
Russian troops conquer the Ottoman Empire city of Erzurum during WWI |
1916-02-25 |
German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun |
1916-02-26 |
Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia |
1916-03-15 |
Gen Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Villa into Mexico; they stay 10 for 10 months |
1916-04-02 |
German troops overtake Bois de Caillette |
1916-04-05 |
French troops occupy Bois de Caillette |
1916-04-19 |
Italians troops conquer Col di Lana at Merano |
1916-05-15 |
Asiago, Italy, falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front |
1916-05-22 |
French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun |
1916-06-02 |
German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux |
1916-06-17 |
US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico |
1916-06-21 |
Mexican troops beat US expeditionary force under Gen Pershing |
1916-06-21 |
President Carranza orders his troops to oppose American soldiers at Carrazil, Mexico; 18 American soldiers are killed or wounded |
1916-09-11 |
German troops conquer Kavalla Greece |
1916-09-19 |
Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa |
1916-10-24 |
Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont |
1916-11-15 |
William George Barker, flying very low over the Ancre River, spots a large concentration of German troops massing for a counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, and sends an emergency Zone Call brought to bear all available artillery fire in the area onto the specified target. The force of some 4,000 German infantry was effectively broken up, and Barker is awarded the Military Cross |
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 |
1916-12-13 |
Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol |
1917-01-08 |
Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy |
1917-02-05 |
The last of the American troops commanded by General John Pershing leave Mexico; President Carranza will be assassinated within the next year |
1917-04-09 |
Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops |
1917-08-05 |
British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium |
1917-09-03 |
German troops overrun Riga, Latvia |
1917-11-05 |
Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time |
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. |
1918-05-15 |
Greeks troops lands at Smyrna |
1918-07-20 |
World War I: German troops cross the Marne. |
1918-08-01 |
British troops enter Vladivostok |
1918-08-02 |
Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. |
1918-08-16 |
US troops overthrows Archangelsk |
1918-08-17 |
British troops attack Baku, Azerbaijan |
1918-08-17 |
Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus |
1918-09-01 |
US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 |
1918-09-04 |
US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months |
1918-12-09 |
French troops occupies Mainz |
1919-01-31 |
The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. Troops deployed against protesters for fear of a Bolshevik uprising. |
1919-08-13 |
British troops open fire on demonstrators in Amritsar, India; killing 350 |
1919-09-27 |
British troops withdraw from Archangelsk |
1920-04-24 |
Polish troops attack Ukraine |
1920-05-05 |
Polish troops occupy Kiev |
1921-02-12 |
Soviet troops invade Georgia |
1921-02-18 |
British troops occupy Dublin |
1922-02-28 |
Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain |
1922-09-09 |
Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens |
1922-09-16 |
Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia |
1922-12-17 |
Last British troops leave Irish Free State |
1923-01-10 |
Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany) |
1923-01-11 |
French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations |
1923-08-31 |
Mussolini's troops occupy Corfu |
1923-09-27 |
Italian troops leave occupied Korfu |
1924-06-26 |
After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic |
1924-08-18 |
France begins withdrawing troops from the Ruhr |
1924-11-30 |
Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied |
1924-11-30 |
French/Belgium troops completely withdrawn from the Rurh |
1925-07-31 |
Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied |
1925-08-03 |
Last US troops leave Nicaragua (there since 1912) |
1925-08-25 |
Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg |
1927-01-19 |
British government decides to send troops to China |
1927-12-14 |
Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain |
1928-04-19 |
Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland |
1929-09-17 |
British troops begin withdrawal from occupied Germany |
1929-11-18 |
Stalin routes troops to Manchuria |
1930-04-22 |
British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong in Bengal province, British India leaving 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries dead. |
1931-09-19 |
Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria |
1932-02-04 |
Japanese troops occupy Harbin, Manchuria |
1932-02-20 |
Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China |
1932-07-28 |
Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die |
1932-07-29 |
Great Depression: in Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans. |
1933-01-02 |
US troops leave Nicaragua |
1933-02-07 |
Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators |
1934-04-12 |
The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. |
1934-05-23 |
The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers. |
1934-08-06 |
US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 |
1934-10-16 |
Mao Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March |
1936-03-07 |
Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland |
1936-05-05 |
Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa |
1936-08-11 |
Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton |
1936-09-04 |
Franco's troops conquer Irun & Talavera de la Reina, Spain |
1936-09-27 |
Franco troops conquer Toledo |
1937-06-19 |
Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques |
1937-07-07 |
Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War |
1937-07-29 |
Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin |
1937-08-13 |
Japanese attack at the beinnging of the Battle of Shanghai during Second Sino-Japanese War. Involves nearly 1 million troops |
1937-08-26 |
Franco's troops conquer Santander |
1937-10-21 |
Franco-troops occupies Gijon |
1937-12-14 |
Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing |
1938-02-12 |
German troops entered Austria |
1938-03-11 |
Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country |
1938-10-21 |
Japanese troops occupies Canton |
1938-10-25 |
Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan |
1939-09-04 |
German troops move into Danzig |
1939-09-28 |
Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to USSR, last Polish troops surrender |
1939-10-04 |
Last Polish troops surrender |
1940-02-22 |
Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island |
1940-02-23 |
Russian troops conquer Lasi Island |
1940-04-14 |
Allied troops land in Norway |
1940-04-15 |
British troops land at Narvik, Norway |
1940-05-10 |
French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands |
1940-05-15 |
German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders |
1940-05-18 |
German troops conquer Brussels |
1940-05-25 |
German troops conquer Boulogne |
1940-05-27 |
World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. |
1940-05-28 |
British-French troops capture Narvik, Norway |
1940-06-04 |
British complete the "miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 300,000 allies troops from France |
1940-06-07 |
British/French troops evacuate Narvik |
1940-06-08 |
Last British troops leave Narvik Norway |
1940-06-15 |
France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris during WWII |
1940-06-30 |
German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands. |
1940-08-03 |
Italian troops invade British Somalia |
1940-09-12 |
Italian troops enter Egypt |
1940-09-13 |
Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt |
1940-09-18 |
Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani |
1940-09-26 |
Japanese troops attack French Indo-China |
1940-10-03 |
US forms parachute troops |
1940-10-08 |
German troops occupies Romania |
1940-12-12 |
British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani |
1940-12-17 |
British troops occupy Sollum, Egypt |
1941-01-05 |
British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia |
1941-01-19 |
British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan |
1941-01-21 |
Australian and British troops attack Tobruk, Libya |
1941-01-22 |
British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians |
1941-01-24 |
British troops march into Abyssinia |
1941-01-30 |
Australian troops conquer Derna, Libya |
1941-02-06 |
British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya |
1941-02-09 |
British troops conquer El Agheila |
1941-03-01 |
German troops invade Bulgaria |
1941-03-07 |
British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
1941-03-24 |
British troops defeat British Somalia |
1941-03-24 |
German troops occupy El Agheila Libya |
1941-04-04 |
German troops conquer Banghazi |
1941-04-10 |
German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica |
1941-04-19 |
Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia |
1941-04-27 |
German troops occupy Athens Greece |
1941-04-28 |
Last British troops in Greece surrender |
1941-05-22 |
British troops attack Baghdad |
1941-05-27 |
Allied troops begin evacuating Crete |
1941-05-31 |
British troops vacate Crete |
1941-06-01 |
British troops occupy Bagdad, Iraq |
1941-06-08 |
British & French troops overthrow pro-German Syria |
1941-06-21 |
2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria |
1941-06-28 |
German troops occupy Galicia, Poland |
1941-07-07 |
World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. |
1941-07-11 |
German troops attack Dnjepr |
1941-07-24 |
FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China |
1941-08-03 |
German troops conquer Roslavl USSR |
1941-08-22 |
Nazi troops reach Lenningrad |
1941-08-25 |
British & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran |
1941-08-25 |
German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad |
1941-08-30 |
Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II |
1941-09-16 |
German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine |
1941-11-02 |
German troops occupy Rostov |
1941-11-16 |
German troops conquer Kertsh (probably) |
1941-11-18 |
British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa |
1941-11-22 |
NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya |
1941-11-23 |
German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow |
1941-11-24 |
US troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine |
1941-11-26 |
British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda |
1941-11-28 |
German troops vacate Rostov |
1941-12-10 |
Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines |
1941-12-10 |
Japanese troops overrun Guam |
1941-12-17 |
Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese Timor |
1941-12-17 |
German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa |
1941-12-18 |
Japanse troops land on Hong Kong |
1941-12-20 |
Japanese troops lands on Mindanao |
1941-12-23 |
British troops overrun Benghazi Libya |
1942-01-02 |
German troops in Bardia surrender |
1942-01-02 |
Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines |
1942-01-12 |
British troops reconquer Sollum |
1942-01-12 |
Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender |
1942-01-14 |
Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo |
1942-01-23 |
Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain |
1942-01-28 |
Soviet troops under General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine |
1942-01-28 |
German troops occupy Benghazi Libya |
1942-01-29 |
German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi, Libya |
1942-01-30 |
Japanese troops land on Ambon |
1942-02-09 |
Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes |
1942-02-15 |
Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra |
1942-02-19 |
Japanese troops land on Timor |
1942-03-01 |
Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java |
1942-03-12 |
British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
1942-05-02 |
Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma |
1942-05-11 |
Japanese troops conquer Kalewa |
1942-06-07 |
Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands |
1942-06-20 |
German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa |
1942-07-01 |
German troops conquer Sebastopol |
1942-07-03 |
German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea |
1942-07-23 |
German troops conquer Rostow |
1942-07-25 |
German troops occupy Rostov |
1942-07-25 |
German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja |
1942-08-05 |
German troops cross Kuban River |
1942-08-26 |
Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay |
1942-09-01 |
German troops land on Taman peninsula |
1942-09-02 |
German troops enter Stalingrad |
1942-09-10 |
British troops lands on Madagascar |
1942-09-14 |
German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 |
1942-11-10 |
US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco |
1942-11-10 |
US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria |
1942-11-14 |
Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender |
1942-12-11 |
Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia |
1943-01-03 |
Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa |
1943-01-24 |
Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death |
1943-01-31 |
Gen Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad |
1943-02-09 |
Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic WWII battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific |
1943-02-20 |
Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia |
1943-02-23 |
German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia |
1943-03-12 |
Soviet troops liberate Wjasma |
1943-03-21 |
Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops. |
1943-04-05 |
Japanese troops conquer Indin |
1943-04-07 |
British/US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia |
1943-04-25 |
The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted. |
1943-05-02 |
German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia |
1943-05-12 |
German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender |
1943-05-16 |
German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw |
1943-05-30 |
US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians |
1943-06-21 |
Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead |
1943-08-22 |
Soviet troops free Karkov |
1943-09-09 |
US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) |
1943-09-10 |
German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City |
1943-09-11 |
US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea |
1943-09-25 |
Russian troops liberate Smolensk |
1943-10-02 |
Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island |
1943-11-01 |
US troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island |
1943-11-06 |
Soviet troops land on Kertsj peninsula |
1943-11-22 |
US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island |
1944-01-10 |
British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma |
1944-01-24 |
Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy |
1944-01-30 |
World War II: United States troops land on Majuro. |
1944-02-02 |
Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory |
1944-02-03 |
World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands. |
1944-02-11 |
German troops reconquer Aprilia, Italy |
1944-04-01 |
Japanese troops conquer Jessami, Eastern India |
1944-04-04 |
British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia |
1944-05-12 |
Crimea purged of Nazi troops |
1944-05-14 |
British troops occupy Kohima |
1944-05-23 |
British and Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo, Italy |
1944-05-29 |
British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy |
1944-06-06 |
Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad |
1944-06-10 |
World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops. |
1944-06-17 |
-19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba |
1944-06-19 |
French troops free Elba |
1944-06-19 |
Japanese troops conquer Changsha China |
1944-06-20 |
US troops occupy Biak |
1944-07-08 |
British troops march into Caen |
1944-07-09 |
In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell |
1944-07-17 |
Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland |
1944-07-18 |
British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy |
1944-07-18 |
Polish troops under Gen Anders occupy Ancona Italy |
1944-07-19 |
Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen |
1944-07-20 |
British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy |
1944-07-23 |
US troops occupy Pisa Italy |
1944-07-24 |
US troops land on Tinian |
1944-07-26 |
Russian troops arrive in Weichsel |
1944-07-27 |
US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy |
1944-07-31 |
US troops occupy Sansapor, New-Guinea |
1944-08-01 |
US troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir |
1944-08-03 |
Allied troops under Lt-Gen Joseph Stilwell take Myitkyina, Burma |
1944-08-05 |
US troops occupy Vannes, Brittany |
1944-08-08 |
Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan |
1944-08-12 |
Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema. |
1944-08-15 |
Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence |
1944-08-17 |
Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border |
1944-08-19 |
Last Japanese troops driven out of India |
1944-08-23 |
Allied troops capture Marseilles, France |
1944-08-23 |
General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris |
1944-08-24 |
General LeClerc's troops open assault on Paris |
1944-08-26 |
Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed |
1944-08-28 |
Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared |
1944-08-29 |
15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees |
1944-08-30 |
Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania |
1944-08-31 |
French troops liberate Bordeaux |
1944-08-31 |
Russian-Romanian troops march into Bucharest |
1944-09-03 |
Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France |
1944-09-03 |
French troops liberate Lyon |
1944-09-12 |
US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time |
1944-09-15 |
Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria |
1944-09-15 |
US troops lands on Palau & Morotai |
1944-09-22 |
US troops land on Ulithi |
1944-09-29 |
Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia |
1944-10-04 |
British troops land on Greek continent |
1944-10-14 |
Allied troops land in Corfu |
1944-10-14 |
British troops march into Athens |
1944-10-18 |
Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II |
1944-10-19 |
Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg |
1944-10-20 |
Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade |
1944-10-21 |
Canadian troops occupy Breskens |
1944-10-21 |
During WW II, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall |
1944-11-02 |
Canadian troops occupy Knokke |
1944-11-03 |
German troops in Vlissingen surrenders |
1944-11-04 |
German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
1944-11-05 |
Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren |
1944-11-05 |
Canadian & British troops liberate Dinteloord |
1944-11-05 |
German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die |
1944-11-08 |
Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders |
1944-11-09 |
Walcheren purged of nazi troops |
1944-12-02 |
German troops seize Betuwse dikes |
1944-12-05 |
German troops steal all the silver coin in Utrecht |
1944-12-15 |
US troops lands on Mindoro |
1944-12-22 |
Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium |
1945-01-21 |
British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma |
1945-01-31 |
Russian troops reach the Oder River, less that 50 miles from Berlin |
1945-02-05 |
US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla |
1945-02-22 |
British troops take Ramree Island, Burma |
1945-02-23 |
Canadian troops occupy Kalkar |
1945-03-10 |
US troops lands on Mindanao |
1945-04-01 |
Canadian troops free Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo & Eibergen |
1945-04-10 |
Canadian troops conquer Deventer |
1945-04-10 |
German troops attack Ijsselbrug |
1945-04-10 |
US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa |
1945-04-11 |
Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum |
1945-04-11 |
US troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen |
1945-04-12 |
Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands |
1945-04-15 |
US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz |
1945-04-16 |
German troops in Groningen surrender |
1945-04-16 |
US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II |
1945-04-16 |
US troops land on He Shima, Okinawa |
1945-04-16 |
Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Germany, is liberated by American troops. |
1945-04-17 |
US troops lands in Mindanao |
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 |
Soviet troops enter Berlin |
1945-04-21 |
Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory |
1945-04-23 |
US troops in Italy cross river Po |
1945-04-25 |
British troops reach Grebbe line Neth |
1945-04-30 |
US troops attack the Elbe |
1945-05-01 |
Australian & Dutch troops lands on Tarakan |
1945-05-02 |
Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste |
1945-05-04 |
German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender |
1945-05-05 |
Uprising against occupying SS troops in Prague |
1945-05-06 |
Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands |
1945-05-06 |
World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941). |
1945-05-07 |
WWII: British troops enter Utrecht, Netherlands |
1945-05-08 |
Canadian troops move into Amsterdam |
1945-05-10 |
Russian troops occupied Prague |
1945-05-13 |
US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa |
1945-06-09 |
-10] Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North-Borneo |
1945-08-16 |
Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops. |
1945-08-20 |
Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden |
1945-08-27 |
US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender |
1945-10-09 |
British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal |
1946-03-02 |
Dutch troops land on East Bali |
1946-03-09 |
Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang |
1946-12-31 |
French troops leave Lebanon |
1948-05-15 |
Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel |
1948-06-30 |
Last British troops leave Israel |
1949-06-29 |
US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II |
1949-06-30 |
Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta |
1950-01-01 |
Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China |
1950-05-21 |
Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia |
1950-06-30 |
US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops |
1950-07-17 |
Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka |
1950-09-15 |
UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south |
1950-09-26 |
UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul |
1950-10-01 |
South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea |
1950-10-04 |
French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam |
1950-10-26 |
South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary |
1950-11-04 |
Indonesian troops reconquer Ambonese capital Ambon |
1950-11-04 |
US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea |
1950-11-16 |
Egyptian King Faruk demands departure of all British troops |
1950-11-24 |
UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas |
1950-11-26 |
China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River |
1950-12-28 |
Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea |
1951-03-12 |
Communist troops driven out of Seoul |
1951-09-27 |
Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan |
1951-10-17 |
Egyptian army fires on British troops |
1951-11-01 |
First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico |
1951-11-18 |
British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt |
1952-12-08 |
French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die |
1954-10-10 |
Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops |
1954-10-19 |
Egypt & Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs |
1954-10-21 |
Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea |
1955-09-21 |
Last allied occupying troops leave Austria |
1955-10-26 |
British troops occupy Saudi Arabian oil field at Boeraimi |
1956-06-18 |
Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as British leave Suez Canal |
1956-08-29 |
French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis |
1956-10-24 |
Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary |
1956-11-04 |
200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Soviet movement in Budapest, Hungary |
1956-12-03 |
Bitain and France pull troops out of Egypt |
1956-12-22 |
Last British/French troops leave Egypt |
1957-01-05 |
Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East |
1957-02-02 |
UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt |
1957-03-08 |
Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships |
1957-09-24 |
President Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools |
1957-09-25 |
300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark |
1958-03-13 |
Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia |
1958-04-18 |
Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia |
1958-04-20 |
Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops |
1958-06-16 |
Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia |
1958-07-15 |
Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months |
1959-10-23 |
Chinese troops move into India, 17 die |
1960-07-10 |
Belgium sends troops to Congo |
1960-07-15 |
UN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis after Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé's declaration of independence for Katanga province |
1960-07-18 |
1st UN troops reach Congo |
1960-08-14 |
UN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo |
1961-08-23 |
Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi |
1961-08-30 |
Last Spanish troops leave Morocco |
1961-09-13 |
Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo |
1961-11-16 |
US President Kennedy decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops |
1962-05-11 |
US sends troops to Thailand |
1962-09-08 |
Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) |
1962-09-29 |
JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi |
1962-09-30 |
JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi |
1962-12-28 |
UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga |
1963-02-19 |
USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba |
1964-03-27 |
UN troops arrive in Cyprus |
1964-06-15 |
Last French troops leave Algeria |
1964-06-30 |
Last UN troops leave Congo |
1965-03-22 |
US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong |
1965-03-31 |
US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam |
1965-04-29 |
Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam |
1965-06-08 |
US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam |
1965-08-06 |
Indian troops invade Pakistan |
1965-09-07 |
China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border. |
1966-05-01 |
US troops shooting targets in Cambodia |
1967-01-06 |
United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. |
1967-02-22 |
25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assult since WWII |
1967-02-23 |
US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War |
1967-06-06 |
Israeli troops occupy Gaza |
1967-06-09 |
Israeli troops reach Suez Canal |
1967-11-05 |
US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam |
1967-11-29 |
British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen |
1968-02-24 |
US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam |
1968-05-06 |
Street battle between students & troops in Paris, 1000 injured |
1968-08-20 |
During the night 200,00 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops begin to invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring |
1968-09-04 |
Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra |
1969-04-21 |
The Ministry of Defence in London announces that British troops would be used in Northern Ireland to guard key public installations following a series of bombings |
1969-05-10 |
US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam |
1969-06-08 |
Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August |
1969-08-14 |
British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland |
1970-04-29 |
50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia |
1970-04-30 |
US troops invade Cambodia |
1970-11-16 |
South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky defends operations in Cambodia because communist forces could overrun South Vietnam "within 24 hours" if troops operating there were withdrawn |
1971-02-08 |
South Vietnamese troops invade Laos |
1971-02-13 |
12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos |
1971-03-14 |
South Vietnamese troops flee Laos |
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 |
1971-10-20 |
Senator in the US Congress Edward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland |
1971-11-21 |
Indian troops partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur. |
1971-12-16 |
India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders |
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 |
1972-03-30 |
North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam |
1972-05-01 |
North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee |
1972-08-12 |
Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam |
1972-09-17 |
Tanzania troops march in to Uganda |
1973-03-29 |
US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution |
1973-04-06 |
Indies troops invade Sikkim |
1973-10-22 |
Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon |
1975-04-02 |
Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops. |
1975-07-27 |
The British government closes its consulate in Angola following increasing fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and South African troops |
1975-09-19 |
Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor |
1975-10-23 |
Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola |
1975-11-05 |
British government sends troops to Belize |
1976-03-12 |
South African troops leave Angola |
1978-04-26 |
France sends troops to Chad |
1978-10-30 |
Uganda troops attack Tanzania |
1978-11-04 |
Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U |
1979-01-08 |
Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh |
1979-03-08 |
China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam |
1979-11-24 |
US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange |
1979-12-27 |
Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, Pres Hafizullah Amin overthrown |
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. |
1980-09-24 |
Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan |
1980-10-24 |
Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar |
1980-10-31 |
Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to Libyan threat |
1980-12-15 |
Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena |
1981-04-06 |
Yugoslav government sends troops to Kosovo |
1982-02-02 |
Government troops and Muslim fundamentalists battle in Hamah, Syria |
1982-04-02 |
Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands from Great Britain |
1982-05-21 |
British troops land on Falkland Islands |
1982-05-25 |
Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar |
1982-06-06 |
30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO |
1982-06-10 |
Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut |
1982-09-24 |
US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon |
1983-07-12 |
Chad government troops reconquer Abéché |
1984-04-11 |
Chinese troops invade Vietnam |
1985-11-07 |
Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice |
1987-01-02 |
Troops of Chad President Habré conquer Fada oasis |
1987-02-10 |
Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre |
1987-03-27 |
President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad |
1987-07-31 |
Battle between Iranian pilgrims & Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed |
1988-04-07 |
Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan |
1988-05-15 |
USSR begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan |
1988-08-08 |
Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war |
1989-05-11 |
President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama |
1989-06-03 |
Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing |
1989-06-04 |
Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000. |
1989-11-16 |
6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops |
1989-12-20 |
US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him |
1990-02-26 |
USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991 |
1990-03-24 |
Indian troops leave Sri Lanka |
1990-06-05 |
South African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home |
1990-07-24 |
US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait |
1990-08-02 |
US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia |
1990-08-07 |
Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia |
1990-08-11 |
Egypt & Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion |
1990-08-24 |
Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City |
1990-09-13 |
Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait |
1990-09-15 |
France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf |
1990-11-04 |
US Secretary of State James Baker visits American troops in Saudi Arabia |
1990-11-08 |
100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf |
1990-11-22 |
George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia |
1991-01-07 |
Saddam Hussein prepares his troops for what he says will be a long violent war against the US |
1991-02-24 |
US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops |
1991-02-27 |
Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is re-taken by the US |
1991-02-28 |
United Nations troops move into Kuwait City and Saddam Hussein orders troops out of Kuwait; Iraqi soldiers ignite Kuwaiti oil fields during their retreat |
1991-03-08 |
Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured |
1991-05-23 |
Last Cubans troops leave Angola |
1991-06-10 |
Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops |
1991-07-15 |
US troops leave northern Iraq |
1992-04-06 |
Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo |
1992-12-04 |
Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa. |
1993-09-17 |
Last Russian troops leave Poland. |
1993-10-04 |
Troops of pres Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament) |
1994-06-23 |
Some 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians, the first outside forces sent there since UN |
1994-07-07 |
North Yemenite troops occupy Aden |
1994-08-10 |
Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841) |
1994-08-21 |
The last French troops pull out of Rwanda, ending their highly controversial mission there |
1994-09-08 |
Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin |
1994-12-11 |
Russian troops enter Chechnya |
1996-01-12 |
Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with US) |
1997-05-17 |
Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. |
2000-05-24 |
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. |
2001-11-12 |
2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. |
2002-08-19 |
A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. |
2003-04-07 |
U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later. |
2003-04-14 |
U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985. |
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. |
2005-09-12 |
Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip. |
2008-06-10 |
The Gora Prai airstrike by the United States reportedly kills 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops. |
2012-11-10 |
20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara |
2013-09-09 |
18 people are killed in conflict between government and Boko Harem troops in Borno State, Nigeria |
2014-02-28 |
Russia moves troops into the Crimea to protect its interests against Ukraine |
2014-11-05 |
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key rules out sending troops to fight against Islamic State, but claims there are 40 NZers on 'terror watchlist' |
2014-11-08 |
US President Obama authorises deployment of 1500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants |
2015-12-19 |
Turkey to withdraw troops from Iraq |
2015-12-22 |
NY cop, female Air Force major among 6 US troops killed in Afghan attack |
2016-03-08 |
Drug in Sharapova doping case used by Soviet troops in 1980s |
2016-04-25 |
Syria conflict: Obama 'to send 250 more non-combat troops' |
2016-07-01 |
Pentagon lifts ban on transgender troops |
2016-07-14 |
Obama Sends 47 US Troops to South Sudan Amid Heavy Fighting |
2016-07-14 |
US sends 47 troops to South Sudan to protect Americans |
2016-09-18 |
Middle East|US Admits to Strike in Syria That Russia Says Killed 62 Syrian Troops |
2016-09-23 |
US confirms IS used chemical rocket in attack on troops in Iraq |
2017-03-26 |
Blasts Kill 3 as Bangladeshi Troops Raid Militant Hide-Out |
2018-04-16 |
France's Macron says he persuaded Trump to keep troops in Syria |
2018-05-02 |
South Korea says it wants US troops to stay regardless of any treaty with North Korea |
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Date | Event |
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1837-02-10 |
Harrison G. Otis, Gen. Otis with His Troops in the Philippines |
1855-04-18 |
Miles B. McSweeney, President Roosevelt Reviewing the Troops at Charleston Exposition |
1871-12-26 |
Mirra Principi, Estrellita; or The Invasion of the French Troops in Portugal |
1908-03-21 |
Martine de Breteuil, The Troops of St. Tropez |
1909-05-31 |
René Lefevre-Bel, The Troops in New York |
1914-01-07 |
Leroy Haynes, The Troops in New York |
1916-03-18 |
Winton Dean, Entertaining the Troops |
1921-08-05 |
Yves Vincent, The Troops get Married |
1922-01-28 |
Mavis Whyte, Entertaining the Troops |
1922-02-05 |
Sydney Bettex, The Troops & Aliens |
1923-01-23 |
Jacques Vilfrid, The Troops of St. Tropez |
1924-05-09 |
Jean Girault, The Troops of St. Tropez |
1925-06-11 |
Jean-Pierre Chabrol, Shock Troops |
1926-06-12 |
Fulbert Janin, The Troops & Aliens |
1929-02-08 |
Christian Marin, The Troops in New York |
1929-02-10 |
Richard Balducci, The Troops of St. Tropez |
1930-9-08 |
Gérard Beytout, The Troops & Aliens |
1931-9-13 |
Jean-Pierre Rambal, The Troops & Aliens |
1933-07-23 |
Jean Couturier, The Troops & Aliens |
1933-08-19 |
Guy Grosso, The Troops in New York |
1944-07-05 |
Geneviève Grad, The Troops of St. Tropez |
1962-02-21 |
Sophie Michaud, The Troops & Troop-ettes |
1967-01-17 |
David McDermott, Troops |
1978-03-27 |
Chris Thom, USO Special for the Troops |
1984-01-06 |
Jens J. Reinke, Al Jolson Entertaining American Troops |
1984-07-31 |
Matthew Ballard, Ron White's Comedy Salute to the Troops |
Date | Event |
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69-12-22 |
Aulus Vitellius, Roman Emperor for 8 months, executed by the troops of his successor Vespasian in Rome |
1909-09-29 |
Miles B. McSweeney, President Roosevelt Reviewing the Troops at Charleston Exposition |
1914-08-23 |
Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks |
1917-07-30 |
Harrison G. Otis, Gen. Otis with His Troops in the Philippines |
1937-07-09 |
Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899) |
1982-07-24 |
Jean Girault, The Troops of St. Tropez |
1988-01-21 |
Jacques Vilfrid, The Troops of St. Tropez |
1990-07-23 |
Gérard Beytout, The Troops & Aliens |
1999-01-10 |
René Lefevre-Bel, The Troops in New York |
2001-02-14 |
Guy Grosso, The Troops in New York |
2001-09-18 |
Jean-Pierre Rambal, The Troops & Aliens |
2001-12-01 |
Jean-Pierre Chabrol, Shock Troops |
2007-11-13 |
Martine de Breteuil, The Troops of St. Tropez |
2010-04-01 |
Jean Couturier, The Troops & Aliens |
2011-01-01 |
Fulbert Janin, The Troops & Aliens |
2012-09-05 |
Christian Marin, The Troops in New York |
2013-12-19 |
Winton Dean, Entertaining the Troops |
2014-06-23 |
Mavis Whyte, Entertaining the Troops |