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2009 At the 21st NATO Summit, new Secretary General, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is appointed
2004 Anna Lee, actress, General Hospital, dies at 90 2002 "General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr", Air Force General, first black general in the Air Force, dies at 89 1999 Elliot Richardson, honest U.S. attorney general, fired by Nixon after he refused to fire Archibald Cox, dies at 79 1999 James White, writer, Sector General books, dies at 71 1998 U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations 1998 New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman 1998 New York Giant General Manager George Young resigns to accept NFL position 1997 Georges Marchais, Sec General of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies 1997 Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies 1996 Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies 1996 Antonio de Spinola, general of Portugal, dies 1996 Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81 1996 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83 1996 Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83 1996 Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65 1995 Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson disease 1995 1st NBA game at General Motors Place, Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota Timberwolves 100-98 in OT 1995 Rosalind Cash, actress (General Hospital), dies of cancer at 56 1995 Edmond Jouhaud, general, dies at 90 1995 Erich Geiringer, general Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78 1995 Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65 1995 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby 1995 Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84 1994 General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro and Jack Wagner wed 1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments 1994 Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87 1994 Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69 1994 Manfred Worner, German general/Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59 1994 Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68 1994 General H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery 1994 Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered 1994 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke 1994 Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies 1993 Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100 1993 Guinee general Lansana re-elected president 1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered 1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered at 63 1993 General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president 1993 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers 1993 General Colin Powell retires at 56 1993 James H Doolittle, U.S. air force general (Tokyo 1942), dies at 96 1993 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered 1993 Leo Ferre, French singer/composer (Mon General), dies at 76 1993 Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General 1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires 1993 Asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies 1992 General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus 1992 Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies 1992 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test 1992 Gert Nastian, general and companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69 1992 James A Van Fleet, U.S. general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge), dies at 100 1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president 1992 Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner 1992 Algeria's general elections canceled after strong gains by Islamic Salvation Front in the 1st round 1991 Daniel R McCarthy elected New York Yankee managing general partner 1991 General Motors announces closing of 21 plants 1991 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion 1991 John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians 1991 Leigh Watson, U.S. aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93 1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide 1991 Nepalese Congress party wins general elections 1991 John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies 1991 Iraqi generals and General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire 1991 U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam 1990 Reggie Williams becomes 1st General Manager of WLAF's NY-New Jersey Knights 1990 William French Smith, attorney general (1980), dies at 73 of cancer 1990 Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83 1990 Deposed emir of Kuwait address United Nations General Assembly 1990 Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner 1990 Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson 1990 General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode 1990 Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with General Manager Bobby Cox 1990 General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC 1990 Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti 1990 Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general 1990 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asstistant General Manager (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office) 1990 Panama's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. authorities 1989 Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager and replaced by Harding Peterson 1989 Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed 1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK 1989 NHL's New York Rangers fire General Manager and coach Phil Esposito 1989 General Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin 1989 Marion Mack, actress (General), dies 1989 Hu Yaobang, general secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies 1988 Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures 1988 U.N. General Assembly (151-2) censures U.S. for refusing PLO's Arafat visa 1988 Justin Cooper actor, Liar, Liar, General Hospital 1988 Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees 1988 Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma 1988 Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General 1988 General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma 1988 Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon 1988 Haiti's general assembly dissolves 1988 Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K. 1988 Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG) 1988 Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin 1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden 1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by U.S. grand jury for drugs 1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles 1987 Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee General Manager, Lou Piniella is named General Manager and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time 1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka 1986 General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile 1986 1 day general strike in South Africa 1986 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda 1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC 1985 Philipine Chief staff General Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder 1985 New Jersey General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards 1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab 1985 Edwin Meese III becomes U.S. Attorney General 1985 U.S. Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general 1984 Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85 1984 General Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union 1984 Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69 1984 Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested 1983 Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "because food is free and that's easier than paying for it" 1983 Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council" 1983 General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army 1983 Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt was deposed as president of Guatemela 1983 Alfred M Gruenther, U.S. general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84 1983 Mark W. Clark, U.S. general (WW II), dies at 87 1982 Philip Ober, actor (General Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80 1982 Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered 1982 General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence 1982 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace 1982 Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant, dies at 86 1982 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina 1982 President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech 1982 General Efrain Rios Montt declares himself president of Guatemala 1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men 1982 Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees 1982 U.S. General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy 1981 Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president 1981 Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier General James L Dozier 1981 Argentine president/general Roberto Viola flees 1981 Luke marries Laura on General Hospital (16 million watch) 1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader 1981 Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66 1981 Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees 1981 General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash 1981 Omar Bradley, last U.S. 5-star general, (Normandy) dies in New York at 88 1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" 1981 Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors 1980 Astros owner John McMullen replaces General Manager Tal Smith with Al Rosen 1980 Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey 1980 Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president 1979 Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees 1979 Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees 1979 Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician, dies at 83 1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election 1979 Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps 1979 Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed 1979 Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/military governor of Teheran, executed 1978 Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government 1978 General Austin, born in Columbus, Georgia, rapper, Another Bad Creation 1978 On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become General Manager 1978 Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees 1978 General strike in Peru 1978 Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps 1978 Lucius D. Clay, general and Governor U.S. zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80 1978 Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., retired Air Force general, dies at 58 1977 Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition 1977 General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88) 1977 President Carter and General Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties 1977 Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote 1977 Pakistan's army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power 1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio 1976 Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining 1976 U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child 1976 U.N. General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General 1976 Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president 1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity 1976 U.N. General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa 1976 R. J. Williams, actor, General Hospital, Full House 1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president 1976 James A Farley, U.S. Postmaster General (1932-38), dies at 88 1976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell, dies in New York at 57 1976 Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88 1976 General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup 1975 Hendrik Kruls, Dutch general/chief military authority 1944 - 1946, dies at 73 1975 U.N. General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism 1975 Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired 1975 House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee 1975 South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30 1975 Chad military coup by General Odingar 1975 Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails 1975 Jason Marsden, actor, General Hospital, Eddie-Munsters Today 1974 U.N. General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty 1974 South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies 1974 U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series 1974 General Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds General Spinola as President of Portugal 1974 U.S. General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe 1974 Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., U.S. general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59 1974 General Pinochet becomes president of Chile 1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi 1974 1st general striking in Ethiopia 1973 Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president 1973 Solicitor General Bork, Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resigned 1973 Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal 1973 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942 1973 General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA 1973 Major General Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda 1973 General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA 1972 Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies 1972 George Wiess, General Manager (New York Yankees), dies at 78 1972 Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1972 General Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia 1972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager 1971 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1971 U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General 1971 U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General 1971 General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR 1971 Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death 1971 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria 1971 General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda 1971 Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada 1970 B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago 1970 U.N. General Assembly accepts membership of China PR 1970 Lieutenant General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup 1970 Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79 1970 Rene Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered 1970 Vinton Hayworth, actor (General Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63 1970 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78 1970 Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees 1969 Major General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali 1969 Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia 1969 General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar 1969 General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at 78 1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president 1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via miltary coup 1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins 1969 Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple 1969 Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency 1969 Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83 1969 Barton Maclane, actor (General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68 1968 Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees 1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia 1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83 1968 Ami Dolenz, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love 1967 General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo 1967 U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam 1967 A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam 1967 Stan Musial is named General Manager of Cards 1966 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89 1966 Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87 1966 General Suharto forms government in Indonesia 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out 1966 Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution 1966 Buster Keaton, Joseph Francis, U.S. comic (General), dies at 69 1965 Branch Rickey, American baseball player, manager, and general manager 1965 Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown 1965 General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR 1965 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka 1965 South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier 1965 Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies at 76 1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1965 South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh 1964 Bill Peterson, Smithfield, North Carolina, WLAF general manager for the Amsterdam Admirals 1964 U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns 1964 General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam 1964 Lydie Denier, born in St. Nazaire, France, actress, General Hospital 1964 Douglas MacArthur, U.S. general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84 1964 Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted 1964 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, dies at 93 1964 Laura Martinez-Herring, born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Miss USA 1985, on General Hospital 1964 Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam 1964 U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous 1963 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office 1963 John Stamos, born in Cypress, California, actor, General Hospital, Full House 1963 General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria 1963 Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV 1962 Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62 1962 Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts 1962 U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa 1962 Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69 1962 Genie Francis, Englewood, New Jersey, actress, General Hospital, Bare Essence 1962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life 1962 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1962 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea 1962 General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1962 U.N. General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola) 1961 Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization 1961 General Meeting of United Nations debates about New-Guinea 1961 Amy Gibson, actress, General Hospital 1961 General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general 1961 U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the U.N. 1961 Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56 1961 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75 1961 Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan/Challe in Algeria 1961 U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa's apartheid 1961 Chris Heyne, Offenbach Germ, WLAF General Manager for the Frankfurt Galaxy 1960 General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid 1960 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane 1960 George Weiss, at 66, resigns as General Manager of New York Yankees 1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly 1960 U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations) 1960 Scott Thompson Baker, born in Minneapolis, actor, General Hosp, All My Children 1960 Emma Samms, Samuels, London, actress, Colby's, General Hospital 1960 French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu 1959 George C Marshall, U.S. Army general, dies at 78 1959 Jack Wagner, rocker/actor, General Hospital, Melrose Place 1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by U.S. Court of Appeals in Mar 1960) 1958 David Wallace, Miami, actor, General Hospital, Babysitter, Humongus 1958 General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan 1958 General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq 1958 General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala 1957 U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer 1957 Ian Buchanan, Scotland, actor, General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show 1956 Pietro Badoglio, Italian general (1922-43), dies at 85 1956 Jose Moscardo Ituarte, Spanish general (Alcazar 1936), dies at 77 1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios 1955 Argentine General Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president 1955 Branch Rickey steps down as General Manager of the Pirates 1955 Leigh J McCloskey, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Dallas, Executive Suite, General Hosp 1955 Patricia J. Engfer, general manager, Hyatt Regency-Orlando 1955 Benny Alexander, secretary general, South Africa Pan-Africanist Movement 1955 Kate Ashbrook, general secretary, Open Spaces Society 1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba 1954 B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF 1954 Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N. 1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project 1954 Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay 1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu 1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia 1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired 1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize 1953 Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954 1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia 1953 U.S. General Omar Bradley's becomes chief of staff 1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president 1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia 1953 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish General/Minister of War, dies at 79 1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP 1953 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA 1953 Steve Bond, born in Haifa, Israel, actor, General Hospital, To Die For 1953 General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA 1953 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts 1953 Egyptian Premier General Naguib disbands all political parties 1952 Greek general Papagos wins elections 1952 Alexander Leibkind, Germany, judo, 1976 Olympics, WLAF, General Manager for the Rhein Fire 1952 General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier 1952 General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile 1952 General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium 1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day) 1952 General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate 1952 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette 1952 Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba 1952 Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator 1926, dies at 74 1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia 1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India 1952 Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, General (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61 1951 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands 1951 Robert G Aitken, U.S. astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86 1951 General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal 1951 U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea 1951 Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in New York City 1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career 1951 President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur 1951 German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison 1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander 1950 U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954) 1950 U.S. General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe 1950 Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as Vice President/General Manager of Pittsburgh Pirates 1950 Omar N. Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general 1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist 1950 General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea 1950 U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops 1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record) 1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1949 Rick Springfield, Australia, General Hospital, Jessie's Girl 1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname 1949 Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47 1949 Brigadier General Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1949 General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra 1948 Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged 1948 U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide 1948 Batavia lieutenant governor general Of Mook dismissed 1948 W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party 1948 U.S. expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin 1948 John J Pershing, Black Jack, U.S. general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87 1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki 1948 Johann Blaskowitz, German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64 1948 Herb Pennock, pitcher (New York Yankees)/General Manager (Phillies), dies 1948 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade effective 1947 Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies at 79 1947 Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78 1947 U.N. General Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs and Jews 1947 U.N. General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps 1947 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina gives golden award to general Eisenhower 1947 Larry MacPhail resigns as Yankees General Manager after final game of World Series 1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution 1947 Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA 1947 General Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews 1947 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1947 Jane Elliot, New York City, actress, Baby Boom, General Hospital, Knots Landing 1947 General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State 1946 U.S. General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty 1946 U.N. General Assembly votes to establish United Nations HQs in New York City 1946 U.N. General Assembly 2nd session convenes (1st New York City-Flushing Meadows) 1946 Alfred G Jodl, Colonel General/German staff chief weather authority, hanged 1946 Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general (China), dies 1946 Kwo-less-shrew selects General Chiang Kai-shek as president of China 1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45 1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA 1946 Craig Patrick, born in Detroit, Michigan, hockey player, coach, general manager of Pittsburgh Penguins 1989 - 2006 1946 Masaharu Homma, Lieutenant General (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed 1946 U.N. General Assembly meets for 1st time in London 1945 George S Patton, U.S. General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash at 60 1945 General George C. Marshall named special U.S. envoy to China 1945 General Motors workers go on strike 1945 Denise Alexander, New York City, actress, General Hospital, Another World 1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania 1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek 1945 General Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train) 1945 General MacArthur lands in Japan 1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan 1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM 1945 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office 1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa 1945 Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa 1945 D A S Pennefather, Major-General/Commandant, General Royal Marines 1945 General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov 1945 General J. Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands 1945 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders 1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms 1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland" 1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands 1945 Maurice Rose, 1st U.S. general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45 1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken 1945 General Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany 1945 British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten 1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila 1945 U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla 1945 General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China 1945 U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines 1945 Greek General Plastiras forms government 1944 General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles 1944 Battle of Bastogne - U.S. General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans 1944 General Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie 1944 U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star 1944 Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General) 1944 General Radescu forms Romanian government 1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece 1944 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow 1944 U.S. 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg 1944 U.S. forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines 1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms 1944 General Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand 1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame 1944 General De Gaulle returns to Paris/walks Champs Elysees Paris 1944 General LeClercs troops open assault on Paris 1944 General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris 1944 General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower 1944 Antonia Novello, 14th U.S. Surgeon General, 1990-92 1944 General de Gaulle returns to France 1944 General Bradley visits Montgomery 1944 U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes 1944 General Montgomery visits general Dempsey's headquarter 1944 General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army 1944 General Koiso becomes premier of Japan 1944 General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy 1944 Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed 1944 Korten, chef General of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion 1944 Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies 1944 General Bradley flies to England 1944 Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy 1944 U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle 1944 French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, D.C. 1944 U.S. General Patton lands in France 1944 Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt 1944 General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy 1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France 1944 General Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully 1944 General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6 1944 French general De Gaulle arrives in London 1944 General Montgomery/Patton/Bradley/Dempsey/Crerar meet in Portsmouth 1944 General George Norman Johnson, U.S. singer, Down at the Beach Club 1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th 1944 Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG 1944 General Rommel, Speidel and von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler 1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague 1944 General Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet 1944 General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan 1944 General Eisenhower postpones South France invasion until after Normandy 1944 General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London 1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England 1944 General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army 1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces 1943 General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day 1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny 1943 General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II 1943 General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily 1943 Red Army under General Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka 1943 Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide 1943 General Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies 1943 U.S. forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily 1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve 1943 General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel, island-hopping 1943 Argentina taken over by General Rawson and Col Juan Peron 1943 French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers 1943 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly from U.S. to North Africa 1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System 1943 General Alexander, Eisenhower, Anderson and Bradley discuss assault on Tunis 1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia 1943 Major General Bradley arrives in Dakar and Marrakesh 1943 German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia 1943 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front 1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa 1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe 1943 ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance 1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt 1943 General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad 1943 Sherian Grace Cadoria, brigadier general 1943 Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov 1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel General von Arnim 1942 Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender 1942 Branch Rickey named president/General Manager of Brooklyn Dodgers 1942 Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies 1942 U.S. General Clark and Lemnitzer and French General Mast meet secretly in Algeria 1942 Jerry Jones, owner/General Manager for the Dallas Cowboys 1942 Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle 1942 General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad 1942 Robert Lee Stewart, Washington D.C., Brigadier General U.S. Army/astronaut, STS-41B, 51J 1942 General B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa 1942 Churchill fires General Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant 1942 Colonel General Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad/welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev 1942 Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo 1942 Colonel General Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine 1942 Colonel General Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj 1942 General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe 1942 William Bradford Reynolds, U.S. asst attorney general 1942 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie 1942 German offensive in North-Africa under Colonel General Rommel 1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return" 1942 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander 1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia 1942 Phil Esposito, NHL center/General Manager, Bruins, Rangers 1942 Clinton Pierce becomes 1st U.S. general wounded in action in WW II 1942 General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine 1942 Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus 1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army 1942 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida 1941 L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle 1941 British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs 1941 Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide 1941 Czechoslovakian premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis 1941 GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies 1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London 1941 Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia 1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios 1941 British general Gambier-Parry caught in North Africa 1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger General Manager predicts all players will wear batting helmets 1941 Ian McGarry, general secretary, British Actors' Equity Association 1941 Jeremy Mackenzie, general 1941 Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff 1940 Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault 1940 Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle 1940 North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor 1940 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle - Jeep 1940 Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army 1940 Col Bo Davis attains rank of Brigadier General 1940 U.S. Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general 1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army 1940 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office 1940 General George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. army 1940 French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support General De Gaulle 1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death 1940 General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers 1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London 1940 General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux 1940 General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill 1940 General Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme 1940 General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense 1940 Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel" 1940 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) 1940 French counter attack at Peronne under General De Gaulle 1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders 1940 Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP) 1940 General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander 1939 Albrecht MAPJ, duke of Wurttemberg/general (WW II), dies at 73 1939 General Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw 1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army 1939 Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia 1939 Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service 1939 Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines 1939 [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at 71 1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary, Royal College of Midwives 1939 Colin Webb, general manager, Press Association 1938 Kemal Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, general/president Turkey, dies at 57 1938 Chris Robinson, Florida, actor, Stanley, General Hospital, Another World 1938 General Metaxas names himself premier of Greece 1938 Janet Reno, U.S. attorney general, 1993- 1938 Gene Michael, baseball shortstop/manager/general manger, New York Yankees 1938 Don Dolan, Staten Island, New York, actor, Guy Lewis- General Hospital 1938 Roy Thinnes, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Invaders, Falcon Crest, General Hospital 1938 Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian general/dictator, -1990 1937 Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72 1937 Bakr Sidqi, general/dictator of Iraq, dies 1937 John Cope, MP/Paymaster General 1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth 1937 Colin Powell, born in Bronx, New York, general and Secretary of State 1937 Roger Penske, born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, owner, Penske Racing, auto racing team, the Penske Corporation, corporate director, General Electric 1937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends 1936 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia, 1987- 1936 General Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt 1936 Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies 1936 Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising 1936 Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war 1936 John Shalikashvili, Polish/US general, NATO 1936 James Rand, British judge, Advocate General 1935 Juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies 1935 Coup under General Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy 1935 Gyula Gombos von Jakfa, general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35), dies 1935 Charles M. Duke, Jr., born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Brigadier General USAF and astronaut, Apollo 16 1935 Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador 1935 General Netherlands Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam 1935 Martin Garrod, Commandant General, Royal Marines 1935 Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake, New York, soap opera writer, General Hospital 1935 General Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters 1935 Ruth Clarke, Moderator, General Assembly of the United Reform Church 1935 Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as General Manager 1934 Yakubu Gowon, born in Kanke, Nigeria, politician, General, Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria 1966 - 1975 1934 Manfred Worner, German General/Secretary-General, NATO, 1988-94 1934 Norman Schwarzkopf, born in Trenton, New Jersey, nicknamed, Stormin' Norman, The Bear, Commander, Coalition Forces in the Gulf War, 1991, retired U.S. Army General 1934 General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico 1934 France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists 1933 Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71 1933 Jocelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General, -1994 1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike 1933 German Parliament disolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe 1932 General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany 1932 Jeremy Isaacs, general director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1932 Joe H. Engle, born in Abilene, Kansas, Brigadier General USAF/astronaut, STS-T-2, T-4, 2, 51I 1932 [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, U.S. Attorney General, 1988-93 1932 William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan 1932 Donald Hilton, Moderator, General Assembly of United Reformed Church 1931 Edwin Meese III, prude, U.S. attorney General, 1985-88 1931 Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage 1931 Roy Evans, general sect, British Iron and Steel Trade Confederation 1931 Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies 1931 John Chapple, British chief of General Staff 1931 James Weatherhead, moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland 1931 Mikhail Gorbachev, born in Privolnoye, U.S.S.R., Soviet Secretary General from 1985 - 1991 1931 Maxwell Thurman, U.S. General 1931 Spanish Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls 1930 Michael Collins, Rome, Major General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 10, Apollo 11 1930 Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism 1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee General Manager Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" 1930 Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66 1929 Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/attorney general on Aruba 1929 Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66 1929 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I), dies at 74 1929 James McDivitt, born in Chicago, Brigadier General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 4, Apollo 9 1929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government 1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel 1928 AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms 1928 Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated 1928 General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, New York) 1928 Gordon Downey, British Comptroller General/Reader Rep, Independent 1928 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49 1928 44-yr old New York Ranger General Manager Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, and beats Montreal Maroons 2-1 1928 Richard Trant, British general 1928 William R. Boggs, born in Georgia, Brigadier General and chief of engineers under Bragg 1927 Ramsey Clark, U.S. attorney General, 1967-69 1927 Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies 1927 General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai 1927 Chilean General Carlos Ibanez names himself president 1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai 1927 Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated 1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed 1927 Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal 1926 Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras 1926 Lester Patrick becomes 1st coach and General Manager of New York Rangers 1926 Emile Francis, NHL player/coach/General Manager, Rangers, Blues, Whalers 1926 Greek dictator General Pangulos driven out 1926 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC 1926 Failed assassination on General Primo de Rivera in Barcelona 1926 Coup under General Sinel de Cordes in Portugal 1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal 1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike 1926 British general strike ends 1926 General Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared 1926 General strike hits Britain 1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners 1926 Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain 1926 Belgian chief of staff General Maglinse quits 1926 Greek General Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator 1925 French General Sarrail bombs Damascus 1925 Greek premier Papanastasiou orders General Pangulos arrested 1925 General Pangulos disbands Greek parliament 1925 French General of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed 1925 George Cooper, general 1925 Roger Smith, CEO, General Motors 1925 Military putsch under General Theodorus Pangulos in Greece 1925 Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance 1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76 1925 Brent Scowcroft, born in Ogden, Utah, Lieutenant General, USAF, National Security Council 1925 General M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense 1924 Alexander Haig, Pennsylvania, U.S. Secretary of State, 1981 - 1982, General 1924 Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing 1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium 1924 French government names General Serrail Governor-General of Syria 1924 General Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico 1924 Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai 1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted 1924 R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67 1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago 1923 German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD 1923 Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author, Genetic General 1923 General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship 1923 Richard Kleindienst, attorney general, 1972 1923 Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90 1923 J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated 1923 Richard Worsley, quarter master General 1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere 1923 Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff 1923 Hugh Beach, British General 1923 General harbor strike begins in New York City 1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar 1923 Anne Jeffreys, North Carolina, actress, Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital 1922 Italian general strike broken by fascist terror 1922 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary, TUC 1922 Italy's general strike against fascist violence 1922 1st general election in Netherlands 1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1922 Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67 1922 Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67 1921 Peter Hansen, born in Oakland California, actor, Mr Parkson-Mr Novak, General Hospital 1921 Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russian baron/general, dies 1921 Suharto, general/president Indonesia, 1967- 1921 Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general, UNESCO 1920 Ed Barrow appointed General Manager of New York Yankees 1920 Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies 1920 Elliot L. Richardson, Attorney General, 1973, Secretary of Defense, 1973 1920 Jack Harman, British general 1920 General Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief 1920 General Wrangel opens offensive against red Army 1920 James Whyte, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland 1919 New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers 1919 Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation 1919 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa 1919 Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general, Ewell 1919 General steel strike in France 1919 General strike in Germany, crushed 1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike 1919 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike 1918 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs 1918 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns 1918 Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60 1918 Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell 1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem 1917 General Pershing and U.S. troops see action on Western Front for 1st time 1917 Chung Hee Park, general/president of S Korea, 1961-79, assassinated 1917 William French Smith, Attorney General, 1981-85 1917 General Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I 1917 Erich Geiringer, general practitioner campaigner 1916 German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest 1916 General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe 1916 Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage 1916 C Everett Koop, surgeon general, 1981-89 1916 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right 1916 General Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff 1916 General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits" 1916 Mexican troops beat U.S. expeditionary force under General Pershing 1916 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67 1916 U.S. troops under General Pershing march into Mexico 1916 Horatio H. Kitchener, British General of Sudan, drowns at 65 1916 Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack 1916 Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies 1916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented 1916 General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos 1916 General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed) 1915 Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity 1915 Augusto Pinochet, general/president, Chile 1915 General Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies 1915 Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law 1915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense 1915 Andrew J Goodpaster, U.S., general/supreme commander, NATO-Europe 1914 Edward J Day, U.S. Postmaster General, 1961 1914 General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 1914 Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War 1914 Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, Uncle Chose, Boer general, dies at 66 1914 General von Moltke ceases German advance in France 1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne 1914 General von Hausen and countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux 1914 General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris 1914 Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide 1914 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught 1914 Battle at St. Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac 1914 ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle 1914 Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten 1914 General von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium 1914 Battle at Charleroi: General von Bulows troops beat French 1914 General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia 1914 Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg 1914 French troops under General de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins 1914 James Grierson, British general 1914 German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught 1914 British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France 1914 French troops under General Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas 1914 French troops under General Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas 1914 Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization 1914 German chief of staff/General von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium 1914 Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq, 1958-63 1914 William Westmoreland, born in Saxon, South Carolina, army general, Vietnam era 1914 General Zamon becomes president of Haiti 1913 John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail 1913 Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands 1913 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general, ITA 1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights 1913 Mexican General V Huerta takes power with U.S. support 1912 General Zeledon, Nicaraguan opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed 1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital 1911 General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti 1911 Thanom Kittikachorn, general/premier Thailand, 1958..73 1911 Petrus A Cronje, Transvaal Boer general, dies 1911 Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75 1910 SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage 1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage 1910 Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa 1910 Baroness Phillips, president and general secretary, National Association of Women 1910 Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council 1910 Geoffrey Musson, British General 1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights 1910 Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal 1910 William H. Lewis appointed asst attorney general of U.S. 1909 Whit Bissel, New York City, actor, Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel 1909 Andrew Herron, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland 1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp 1908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc 1908 Redvers H Buller, English general, dies at 68 1908 Jacques Massu, French general, Algeria 1908 Maurice Stans, born in Shaokopee, Minnesota, Maurice Hubert Stans, President Richard Nixon's finance chairmen, acquitted in Watergate, U.S. Deputy Postmaster General 1955 - 57, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1969 - 1972 1908 Edward Lansdale, general/model, Quiet American, Ugly American 1908 General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts 1907 Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president, Pakistan 1907 James Gavin, U.S., 82nd Airborne Div General, Sicily/Normandy 1907 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal 1906 Johan A earl von Kielmansegg, German general/commandant NATO-Europe 1906 Curtis E Le May, air force general/Vice Presidential candidate 1906 Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations 1906 Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70 1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days 1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) 1905 Maximo Gomez, Cuban general, dies at 68 1905 Edmond Jouhaud, general 1904 General Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties 1904 German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa 1904 S J Paul Kruger, general/president South Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78 1904 Side-wheeler "General Slocum" burns in New York's East River (1,031 die) 1904 Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat/president, U.N. General Assembly 1904 James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82 1903 Douglas Packard, British Lt General 1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws) 1903 Frank Howley, Hampton, New York, Brigadier General, Answers for Americans 1903 Charles Foulkes, Canada, general 1902 Christian Castries, French general, Dien Bien Phu 1902 Hendrik J Kruls, Netherlands, general/chief military authority, 1944-46 1902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General 1902 ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle 1902 Philip Ober, born in Fort Payne, Alabama, actor, General Stone-I Dream of Jeannie 1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British 1902 Simon H. Spoor, Dutch gen/intelligence officer for General MacArthur 1901 Boer general Kritzinger captured 1901 Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal 1901 Battle at Blood River Port: Boer General Botha beats Major Goughs cavalry 1901 Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers 1901 Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony 1901 General Maxwell D Taylor, former U.S. Army chief of staff 1901 Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony 1901 SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber 1901 Dutch troops under General Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilie on Sumatra 1901 Boer general John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal 1901 Carlos P Romulo, Philippine general/diplomat/jurist 1900 General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia 1900 Barton Maclane, Columbia, South Carolina, actor, General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie 1900 Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony 1900 Ibrahim Abbud, general/premier Sudan, 1958-64 1900 General Redvers Buller returns to England 1900 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/president, 1964-67 1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa 1900 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general, Red Army, Wehrmacht 1900 Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha 1900 President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin 1900 Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns 1900 General Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy 1900 Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha 1900 Herman J. Friedericy, H J Merlijn, writer, Last general 1900 Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal 1900 Sarah Miriam Peale, U.S., portrait painter, General Lafayette-1825 1900 Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle 1900 British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet 1900 Brigadier General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands 1900 Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69 1900 General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal 1900 Boer General Cronje surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South Africa 1900 General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes 1900 British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal 1899 Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs. General Methuen 1899 Battle of Mud river (Boer General. Cronje beats British General Methuen) 1899 Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19 1899 Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers 1899 Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers 1899 Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general, WW II 1899 Alfred M. Gruenther, U.S., commanding general of NATO, 1953-56 1898 Edwin E. Dwinger, German writer, General Vlassov 1898 George Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer, Diary of Young Comic 1898 Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus 1897 Nathan F Twining, USAF general, Neither Liberty nor Safety 1897 General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum 1897 Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division 1897 Lucius du Bignon Clay, U.S., general, WW II, gov, West Germany 1896 James H Doolittle, USAF General, Raid on Tokyo 1942 1896 General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan 1896 Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander, Normandy 1896 Trygve Halvdan Lie, born in Norway, 1st United Nations secretary general, 1946-52 1896 Italians governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa 1896 ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies of injuries 1896 ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/president of Nicaragua, 1937-56 1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out 1895 Ludvik Svoboda, Czechoslovakian general/politician 1895 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general, WW II, head of CIA, 1950 - 1952 1895 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea 1895 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author, Le petit general 1895 Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. general in WW II, China, Nicaragua, Korea, NATO 1894 Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor 1894 Francisco H. Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese general and president, 1951-58 1893 Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors, 1953-8 1893 Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Governor General of Australia, 1959 - 1961 1893 John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday 1893 Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, 1962-63 1892 Francisco Franco, y Bahamonde, Spanish General/dictator, 1936 - 1975 1892 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general 1892 Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72 1892 General Electric Company, forms and is incorporated in New York 1892 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general, WW I, WW II 1891 Kenneth A. N. Anderson, British general, Dunkerk, North Africa 1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike 1891 William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies 1891 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71 1890 Dwight D Eisenhower, Denison, Texas, R, 34th President, 1953 - 1961, General, WW 2 1890 Charles Wilson, President of General Motors, 1940 - 1953, Secretary of Defense, 1953 - 1957 1890 General Federation of Womans' Clubs founded 1890 Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff 1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in U.S. 1888 Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter 1888 Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general, WW I/Italy/Netherland 1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/British general/director of Palestine, 1945-48 1886 Gyula Gombos von Jakfa, general/dictator of Hungary, 1932-35 1886 Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, U.S. Army Air Force, WW II 1886 U.S. general strike for 8 hour day, begins 1885 Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer, The General 1885 George S Patton, U.S. general, Sicily/Italy/Normandy, "Old Blood and Guts" 1885 George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58 1885 Dutch demonstrate for general voting right 1885 General Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies 1885 Umberto Nobile, Italian general 1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum 1884 General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi 1884 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum 1884 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army 1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum 1883 Johann Blaskowitz, German general 1883 Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general, China 1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt 1882 British general Wolseley occupies Cairo 1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo 1882 British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria 1882 Walter Lucht, German artillery general, WW I/WW II 1881 Ambrose Everett Burnside, U.S. Union general, dies at 57 1881 W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84 1881 Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland, WW II general 1881 Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general, dies at 76 1881 Enver Pasja, Turkish general and politician 1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley 1881 George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46 1880 Ludwig Beck, chef Germany general staff, "July 20th plot" 1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria 1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria 1880 Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico, 1920-24 1880 Douglas MacArthur, Little Rock, Arkansas, general, WW II, he did return! 1879 Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: General Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu 1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, U.S., poet, General William Booth enters Heaven 1879 John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48 1879 Henri-Honore Giraud, French general/member of parliament 1878 Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, China, WW II 1878 Jose Moscardo Ituarte, Spanish general, Alcazar 1936 1878 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general, White Armies, WW II 1878 Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator, 1926 1877 Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curaeao (Affair-S), dies 1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56 1877 General strike brings U.S. railroad to a stand still 1877 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War, 1931-34 1876 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940 1876 29th Postmaster General: James N. Tyner of Indiana takes office 1876 George A Custer, U.S. general (Little Bighorn), dies at 36 1876 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79 1876 General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps 1874 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office 1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia 1874 27th Postmaster General: James W. Marshall of New Jersey takes office 1874 General J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die 1873 Willem Roell, Dutch general/founder, Ordedienst 1873 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War 1873 Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president 1872 Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66 1872 Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general, Morocco 1871 General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht 1871 Pietro Badoglio, Italy, general/Libya Governor, 1928 - 1933, Prime Minister of Italy, 1943 - 1944 1871 Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches 1871 Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator, 1936-41 1871 Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76 1870 ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered 1870 Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63 1870 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Prussian general/politician, East Africa 1869 Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (triangulatie), dies at 64 1869 Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general, WW I, fascist 1868 Battle at Washita, General Custer defeats Cheyennes 1868 Franz X. Ritter von Epp, German general, China 1868 Major General E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC 1868 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02 1867 Wilhelm Groener, Germany, general 1867 General E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors 1867 Carl Gustaf baron Mannerheim, general/president of Finland, 1944-46 1867 Maxime Weygard, French general/Governor-General, Algeria 1866 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office 1866 U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army 1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms 1866 Hans von Seeckt, German general, Future of the Reich 1866 James B. Hertzog, South African general/premier, 1914 - 1939 1865 Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general, 1904-34 1865 At Ft. Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable Confederate army 1865 Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas 1865 General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia 1865 Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham North Carolina 1865 Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/general major, dies of injuries 1865 Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina 1865 At Appomattox, General Lee issues General Order #9, his last 1865 Erich Ludendorff, general, Germany 1865 Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39 1865 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg 1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400 1865 General Sherman/Cox' troops reach Goldsboro North Carolina 1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina 1865 General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough 1865 Robert E. Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief 1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins 1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies 1865 Confederate Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary 1865 General Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks) 1864 General Sherman conquers Savannah 1864 General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins 1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death 1864 Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War 1864 Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta 1864 Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price 1864 U.S. Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to general-major 1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia, General Early Retreats to Brown's Gap 1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta 1864 Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia 1864 Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers 1864 Battle of the Crater: General Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg 1864 CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood 1864 Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C. 1864 General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C. 1864 General John B Hood replaces General Johnston 1864 Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia 1864 Battle for Petersburg begins as General Grant assaults Confederate line 1864 Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt 1864 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: General Hobsons unit caught 1864 General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor 1864 General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia 1864 J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31 1864 General J E B Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern 1864 Battle of Wilderness, General Longstreet seriously injured 1864 General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia 1864 General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock 1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; General W R Scurry is killed 1864 General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas 1864 Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tennessee 1864 Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana Federals routed by General Richard Taylor 1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas 1864 General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN 1864 General Sherman begins his march to the South 1863 John Buchanan Floyd, U.S. Minister of War (1857-60), Confederate general, dies 1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg 1863 Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate Brigadier General Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46 1863 U.S. General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive 1863 Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31 1863 General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg 1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies 1863 Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee 1863 Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh 1863 General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac 1863 Union General Burnside's "Mud March" 1863 General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland 1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark 1862 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman 1862 Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis 1862 General U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee 1862 George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General, dies at 27 1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under General Braxton Bragg 1862 Charles Davis Jameson, U.S. Union Brigadier General (Fair Oaks), dies at 35 1862 Major General Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate troops in Missisippi 1862 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia 1862 General Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, Kentucky 1862 General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops 1862 Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves 1862 General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured 1862 General John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX 1862 Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt., however General Charles S. Winder is killed 1862 Nikolaj N Yudenitcch, Russian general/counter-revolutionary 1862 Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief 1862 General John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky 1862 U.S. Army of Virginia established under General John Pope 1862 General JEB Stuart completes his "ride around McClellan" 1862 General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed U.S. flag on display over New Orleans Mint 1862 Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33 1862 General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC 1862 General Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at 7 Pines 1862 Battle of Booneville, Mississippi - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth 1862 General Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores 1862 Yorktown, Virginia - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brigadier General Gabrial Rains 1862 James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia 1862 Albert Sidney Johnston, U.S. Confederate general, dies in battle at 59 1862 General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee 1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern 1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac, General Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief 1862 General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid 1862 Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender) 1862 General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee 1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order 1862 Felix Zollicoffer, General killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines 1861 William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine 1861 General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies 1861 General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky 1861 Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army 1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats 1861 Manassas, Virginia General Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, General Johnston is ordered to Manassas 1861 General McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia with 40,000 troops 1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels 1861 CS General Sibley is given command of rebel troops in New Mexico territory 1861 Battle of Carthage, Missouri - U.S. General Sigel attacks pro-secessionist 1861 Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general 1861 Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces 1861 General Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line 1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South 1861 Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war" 1861 General Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan 1859 Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator 1859 General Horsford defeats Begum of Oudh and Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny 1857 Michail V Aleksejev, Russian general, WW I-chief of staff 1855 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey, WW I 1854 ... Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann 1854 Christiaan R de Wet, South Africa, Boer General, Nicholsonsnek 1853 Joannes P. Roothaan, 1st Dutch Lieutenant Colonel - General of Jesuits, dies at 67 1852 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Connecticut takes office 1852 Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83 1852 Anne-Franeois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83 1852 Johan L. E. Dreyer, Danish astronomer, New general catalogue of nebulae 1851 Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War 1850 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office 1849 David H Chasse, baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84 1849 Joseph S. Gallieni, general, Battle of Marne, military governor, Paris 1848 General Zachary Taylor elected as president of US 1848 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff, WW I 1848 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War 1847 U.S. Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) 1847 American-Mexican war: U.S. General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City 1847 U.S. under General Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey 1847 U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico 1846 U.S. troops under General Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico 1846 General Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico 1846 General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War 1846 Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee 1845 Maria EJ Versfelt, mistress of general Moreau/marshal Ney, dies at 68 1844 Galusha Pennypacker, Major General Union Army 1844 Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote 1842 Pierre, earl the Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba), dies at 71 1842 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn 1841 Johann F Herbart, German philosopher (General Padagogik), dies at 65 1841 William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1841 [Eleanor] Agnes Lee, daughter of U.S. general Robert E Lee 1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Major General Union volunteers 1840 Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82 1840 Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 William Francis Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers 1840 James Dearing, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 Edmund Kirby, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1840 John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1839 Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal 1839 George Armstrong Custer, Major General Union volunteers 1839 British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut 1839 Emory Upton, Major General Union Army 1839 Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General Union volunteers 1839 John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1839 William Henry Seward, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1839 Cyrus Hamblin, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Francis Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers 1839 Seldon Connor, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1838 John Grant Mitchell, Major General Union volunteers 1838 Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1838 Basil Wilson Duke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 James Barbour Terrill, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 Charles Carroll Walcott, Major General Union volunteers 1838 Charles Stratton, General Tom Thumb, famous short person 1838 William Hugh Young, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 William Wells, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Ellison Capers, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Eli Long, Major General Union Army 1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army 1837 William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General Confederate Army 1837 Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General Confederate Army 1837 James Sanks Brisbin, Major General Union volunteers 1837 Horace Porter, Brigadier General Union Army 1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army 1837 Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Francis Jay Herron, Major General Union volunteers 1837 James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 John Thomas Croxton, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Maximo Gomez, Bana, general, Cuba 1836 Pierce Manning Butler Young, Major General Confederate Army 1836 Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Major General Confederate Army 1836 George Washington Gordon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 John McCausland, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Joseph Wheeler II, Major General, Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee 1836 Evander McIvor Law, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Henry Eugene Davies, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Edwin Gray Lee, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 James Patrick Major, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General, Confederate Army 1836 Benjamin Franklin Potts, Major General Union volunteers 1836 James Meech Warner, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1836 [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Major General Union volunteers 1835 George Dashiell Bayard, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Micah Jenkins, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Fitzhugh Lee, Major General Confederate Army 1835 Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Elliott Warren Rice, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General Confederate Army 1835 Godfrey Weitzel, Union volunteers Major general 1835 Adelbert Ames, Major General Union Army 1835 Robert Houston Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Joseph Hayes, Major General Union volunteers 1835 William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 James William Forsyth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Edward Porter Alexander, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Charles Ewing, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1835 Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army 1835 Oliver Edwards, Major General Union volunteers 1835 Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Wager Swayne, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Francis Marion Cockrell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 William MacRae, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Daniel McCook, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Wesley Merritt, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies 1834 William Rufus Terrill, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1834 Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 William Dorsey Pender, Major General Confederate Army 1834 Robert Sanford Foster, Major General Union volunteers 1834 Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Louis Douglass Watkins, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Cyrus Bussey, Major General Union volunteers 1833 James Deering Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Henry Alanson Barnum, Major General Union volunteers 1833 Stephen Dill Lee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1833 Charles Jackson Paine, Major General Union volunteers 1833 William Price Sanders, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1833 Powell Clayton, Brigadier General Union volunteers, Gov-R-Ark 1833 John Wesley Turner, Major General Union Army 1833 Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Major General Union Army 1833 Edward Moody McCook, Major General Union volunteers 1833 John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Frank Wheaton, Major General Union Army 1833 David McMurtrie Gregg, Major General Union volunteers 1833 James Edward Rains, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Thomas Howard Ruger, Major General Union volunteers 1833 John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General Confederate Army 1833 Clement Anselm Evans, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 James Deshler, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 William Whedbee Kirkland, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General Confederate Army 1833 Charles George Gordon, London, general, China, Khartoum 1833 John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Edward Hatch, Major General Union volunteers 1832 John Henry Ketcham, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Archibald Gracie, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 George Henry Chapman, Major General Union volunteers 1832 William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army 1832 George Crockett Strong, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Henry Harrison Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Theodore Shelton Bowers, Brigadier General Union Army 1832 Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Major General Union Army 1832 George Washington Custis Lee, Major General Confederate Army 1832 Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Thomas Ogden Osbord, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Edward Harland, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 James Hewett Ledlie, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Walter Quintin Gresham, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Major General Union volunteers 1832 William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 William Henry Penrose, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1832 Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General, Union volunteers 1832 Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Major General Confederate Army 1832 John Brown Gordon, Major General Confederate Army 1832 John Pegram, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Richard Waterhouse, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Adam Badeau, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Lucius Fairchild, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army 1831 Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 John Franklin Miller, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Daniel Butterfield, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 John McAlister Schofield, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91 1831 ? Gist, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Stephen Gano Burbridge, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 William Dwight, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1831 William Thomas Clark, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General, Confederate, Lincoln's brother-in-law 1831 John Bell Hood, General Confederate Army 1831 Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General Union volunteers 1831 George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 John Bratton, Old Reliable, U.S. physician/Confederate Brigadier General 1831 Philip Henry Sheridan, born in Albany, New York, Major General, Union Army 1831 Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 John Aaron Rawlins, Major General Union Army 1831 Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Pieter J Joubert, general, South Africa 1831 Edward Ferrero, Major General Union volunteers 1831 John Bullock Clark, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 James Ronald Chalmers, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 John Frederick Hartranft, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Allen Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Oliver Otis Howard, Major General Union volunteers 1830 John Stevens Bowen, Major General Confederate Army 1830 Stephen Elliott, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam 1830 Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 John Parker Hawkins, Major General Union Army 1830 William Babcock Hazen, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General Union volunteers 1830 William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Richard Henry Jackson, Major General Union volunteers 1830 John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Edward Winslow Hinks, Major General Union volunteers 1830 George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Davis Tillson, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Eugene Asa Carr, Major General Union Army 1830 William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/Minister of War, 1899-1900 1830 George Blake Cosby, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major General Union volunteers 1830 , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Major General Union volunteers 1829 James Clay Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Green Berry Raum, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 William Passmore Carlin, Major General Union Army 1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford, Major General Union Army 1829 Christopher Columbus Andres, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Charles Sidney Winder, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Dandridge McRae, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Giles Alexander Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1829 James St. Clair Morton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 William Worth Belknap, Major General Union volunteers 1829 George Crook, Major General Union volunteers 1829 Seth Maxwell Barton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 James Conner, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 John Horace Forney, Major General Confederate Army 1829 Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers 1829 Milo Smith Hascall, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Robert Brown Potter, Major General Union volunteers 1829 John Baillie McIntosh, Major General Union Army 1829 George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General Confederate Army 1829 William Robertson Boggs, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Carl Schurz, Major General Union volunteers and journalist 1829 Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53 1829 Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Alfred Iverson, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 William Anderson Pile, Major General Union volunteers 1829 John Potts Slough, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 John Beatty, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Clinton Bowen Fisk, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Robert Bullock, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 William McComb, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 James Birdseye MacPherson, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Byron Grimes, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Turner Ashby, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67 1828 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Major General Union volunteers 1828 George Leonard Andrews, Major General Union volunteers 1828 William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General Union Army 1828 George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Joseph Bradford Carr, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Cuvier Grover, Major General Union Army 1828 John Rutter Brooke, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 James Johnston Pettigrew, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 John Austin Wharton, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Junius Daniel, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Alexander William Campbell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 James William Reilly, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Adin Ballou Underwood, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Charles William Field, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General, Confederate Army 1828 Jefferson Columbus Davis, Major General Union Army 1828 James Fleming Fagan, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Robert Alexander Cameron, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Robert Ransom, Jr., Major General Confederate Army 1828 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Lewis Addison Grant, Major General Union volunteers 1828 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad) 1828 August Valentine Kautz, Major General Union Army 1827 Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General, Union 1827 Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Isaac Munroe St. John, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Isaac Wistar, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Alfred Howe Terry, Major General Union volunteers 1827 James Sidney Robinson, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Edmund Jackson Davis, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Kenner Garrard, Major General Union Army 1827 Henry Warner Slocum, Major General Union volunteers 1827 John Grubb Parke, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Michael Corcoran, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 John Morrison Oliver, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 William Montague Browne, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Francis Engle Patterson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Charles Edward Hovey, Major General Union volunteers 1827 William Hopkins Morris, Major General Union volunteers 1827 John Gibbon, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Lewis Wallace, Major General Union volunteers and author, Ben Hur 1827 Alexander Shaler, Major General Union volunteers 1827 John Robert Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 William Richard Terry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General Confederate Army 1827 Richard W. Johnson, Major General Union Army 1827 Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 James Barnet Fry, Major General Union Army 1827 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1827 Charles Robert Woods, Major General Union Army 1827 Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 John Calvin Brown, Major General Confederate Army 1827 John Wesley Frazer, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1906 1827 Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63 1827 William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General 1826 John Benjamin Sanborn, Major General Union volunteers 1826 George Brinton McClellan, Major General Union Army 1826 William Mahone, Major General Confederate Army 1826 George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 John McArthur, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Jasper Adalmorn Maltby, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Hugh Boyle Ewing, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 Thomas John Lucas, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1826 William Denison Whipple, Major General Union Army 1826 James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Robert Kingston Scott, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Green Clay Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Thomas Hewson Neill, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Philip Dale Roddey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama 1826 John Alexander Logan, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Halbert Eleazer Paine, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Richard Taylor, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1826 Charles Cruft, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Romeyn Beck Ayres, Major General Union Army 1825 Charles Griffin, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Henry Heth, Major General Confederate Army 1825 Edward Augustus Wild, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Ambrose Powell Hill, Lieutenant General, Confederate 3rd Army Corp 1825 Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Raleigh Edward Colston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 William Wallace Burns, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Henry Warner Birge, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 William Duncan Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1825 Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 John Cook, Major General Union volunteers 1825 John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General, Confederate cavalry commander 1825 David Bell Birney, Major General Union volunteers 1825 George Lafayette Beal, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Joseph Bailey, Major General Union volunteers 1825 James Winning McMillan, Major General Union volunteers 1825 David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General Confederate Army 1825 Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 William Nelson Rector Beall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 John Dunovant, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army 1825 Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General Union volunteers 1825 George Edward Pickett, Major General Confederate Army 1825 Joseph Robert Davis, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Augustus Louis Chetlain, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Manning Ferguson Force, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Franz Sigel, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Rufus Saxton, Major General Union volunteers 1824 William Nelson, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Truman Seymour, Major General Union Army 1824 Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Isaac Hardin Duval, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General Union volunteers 1824 John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Absalom Baird, Major General Union Army 1824 General Lafayette returns to U.S. 1824 William Terry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Simon Goodell Griffin, Major General Union volunteers 1824 William Burnham Woods, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Alexander Schimmelfennig, born in Prussia, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Alfred Pleasonton, Major General Union volunteers 1824 William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 William Montgomery Gardner, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Charles Kinnaird Graham, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General Confederate Army 1824 Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Edmund Kirby Smith, Florida, General Confederate Army 1824 Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Innis Newton Palmer, Major General Union volunteers 1824 William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General Confederate Army 1824 Thomas James Churchill, Major General Confederate Army 1824 Henry Beebee Carrington, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 John Creed Moore, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Lewis Cass Hunt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Winfield Scott Hancock, Major General Union volunteers 1824 Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brigadier General, Confederacy 1824 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lieutenant General 2nd Corps, ANV, Confederate 1824 James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Preston Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Joseph Alexander Cooper, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Nathan Kimball, Major General Union volunteers 1823 William Henry Forney, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers 1823 John Newton, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Orris Sanford Ferry, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Daniel Marsh Frost, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Thomas Francis Meagher, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 George Henry Gordon, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Leonard Fulton Ross, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 James Isham Gilbert, Major General Union volunteers 1823 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office 1823 Edward Elmer Potter, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Jesse Lee Reno, Major General Union volunteers 1823 John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 James Lawson Kemper, Major General Confederate Army 1823 John Gray Foster, Major General Union volunteers 1823 James Allen Hardie, Major General Union Army 1823 Alfred Gibbs, Major General Union Army 1823 Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Major General Union Army 1823 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Robert Byington Mitchell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1823 Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Major General Union volunteers 1823 William Thompson Martin, Major General Confederate Army 1823 John Echols, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 William Flank Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Ferdinand Van Derveer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 William Buel Franklin, Major General Union volunteers 1823 John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Franklin Gardner, Major General Confederate Army 1823 Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers 1822 William Booth Taliaferro, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Thomas Casimer Devin, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Charles Adam Heckman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers 1822 William Harrow, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Gordon Granger, Major General Union volunteers 1822 James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61 1822 Mansfield Lovell, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 George Sykes, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brigadier General, Union 1822 Brigadier General Eppa Hunton, fought in most ANV campaigns 1822 Joseph Rodman West, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Fitz John Porter, Major General Union volunteers 1822 General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico 1822 Schuyler Hamilton, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Darius Nash Couch, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 John George Walker, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Birkett Davenport Fry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Young Marshall Moody, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Samuel Davis Sturgis, Major General Union Army 1822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 William Stephen Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Gershom Mott, Major General Union volunteers 1822 James Nagle, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Seth Williams, Major General Union Army 1822 John Pope, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Allison Nelson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Charles Champion Gilbert, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 James Patton Anderson, Major General Confederate Army 1822 John Basil Turchin, Ivan Turchinoff, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Thomas Leiper Kane, Major General Union volunteers 1822 John Porter Hatch, volunteers Major General, Union 1822 Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Netherlands general, dies at 61 1821 Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Rufus Barringer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Richard Heron Anderson, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1821 Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1821 Alvin Peterson Hovey, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Henry Baxter, Major General Union volunteers 1821 William Barksdale, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South 1821 Daniel Harvey Hill, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1821 Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General Union volunteers 1821 William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Bartolome Mitre, Argentine general 1821 Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 John Dunlap Stevenson, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Alfred Sully, Major General Union volunteers 1821 [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 [George] Hector Tyndale, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 William Read Scurry, Confederate Army Brigadier General 1821 Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Lafayette McLaws, Major General Confederate Army 1821 James Longstreet, Confederate general, 1st Corps, ANV 1821 Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General, Confederate Army 1821 John James Peck, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Gustavus Adolphus Smith, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston 1820 David Allen Russell, Army Major General, Union 1820 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General Confederate Army 1820 George Jerrison Stannard, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Alfred Washington Ellet, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Thomas Kilby Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Williams Carter Wickham, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 John Fulton Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Earle Van Dorn, Major General Confederate Army 1820 Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brigadier General, Confederate 1820 William Miller, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Andrew Porter, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Henry Rootes Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Evander McNair, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Harry Thompson Hays, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general and MP, Komarom-castle 1820 Charles Devens, Jr., Major General, Union volunteers 1820 Patrick Edward Connor, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Louis Herbert, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81 1820 Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General, Union volunteers 1820 George Davis, Attorney General Confederacy 1820 Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General Union Army 1820 John Milton Thayer, Major General Union volunteers 1820 John Haskell King, Major General Union Army 1820 Abraham Buford, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 John White Geary, Major General Union volunteers 1819 James Clifford Veatch, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Samuel Jones, Major General Confederate Army 1819 Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Zebulon York, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 George Washington Getty, Major General Union Army 1819 Henry Jackson Hunt, Major General Union Army 1819 Gebhard Leberecht Furst von Blucher von Wahlstatt, General, dies at 76 1819 Martin Luther Smith, Major General Confederate Army 1819 William Starke Rosecrans, Major General Union volunteers 1819 James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Samuel Powhatan Carter, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Alexander Hays, Major General Union volunteers 1819 William Birney, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General Union volunteers 1819 William Steele, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 David Henry Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 James Green Martin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1819 Frederick Steele, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Zealous Bates Tower, Major General Union Army 1819 George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 James Cantey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Major General Confederate Army 1818 Samuel Gibbs French, Major General Confederate Army 1818 Benjamin Franklin Butler, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Irvin McDowell, Major General Union volunteers 1818 John Henninger Reagan, Attorney General, Confederacy 1818 Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Rufus Ingalls, Major General Union Army 1818 William Farquhar Barry, Major General Union Army 1818 Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1818 General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida 1818 Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General Union volunteers 1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks Florida from Seminole indians 1818 Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Wade Hampton, born in South Carolina, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1818 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Don Carlos Buell, Major General Union volunteers 1818 Albion Parris Howe, Major General Union Army 1818 John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 William Raine Peck, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 John Reese Kenly, Major General Union volunteers 1817 James Jay Archer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Richard Brooke Garnett, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brigadier General 1817 Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General Confederate Army 1817 Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General Confederate Army 1817 Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Philip Cook, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 James Blair Steedman, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Joseph K Barnes, Major General Union Army 1817 James Brewerton Ricketts, Major General Union Army 1817 James William Denver, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 John Wilson Sprague, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Herman Haupt, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Braxton Bragg, General Confederate Army 1817 Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 James Craig, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1817 Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Lewis Golding Arnold, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1817 John Selden Roane, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General Confederate Army 1816 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General Confederate Army 1816 Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General Confederate Army 1816 William Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Egbert Benson Brown, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Julius White, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 John Eugene Smith, Major General Union Army 1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army 1816 Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, General Union volunteers 1816 Robert Huston Milroy, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Major General, Union 1816 Robert Seaman Granger, Union Army Major general 1816 Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General Union Army 1816 Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General Confederate Army 1816 James Gallant Spears, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 David Stuart, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1816 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Henry Gray, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Fitz-Henry Warren, Major General Union volunteers 1816 Stephen Miller, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 George Gordon Meade, Major General Union Army 1815 Israel Bush Richardson, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, Major General Union volunteers 1815 James Hewward Trapier, General Confederate Army 1815 William Dennison, postmaster/general, Union 1815 Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 William Joseph Hardee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1815 Henry Constantine Wayne, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treasury, Union 1815 John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 John Porter McCown, Major General Confederate Army 1815 Thomas Jackson Rodman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Stewart Van Vliet, Major General Union Army 1815 Paul Jones Semmes, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Martin Edward Green, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Philip Kearny, Major General Union volunteers 1815 John Gross Barnard, Major General Union Army 1815 Abram Duryee, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1815 James Edward Harrison, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Robert Hall Chilton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 James Chesnut, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Henry Morris Naglee, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 William Henry French, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Alexander Brydie Dyer, Major General Union Army 1815 Thomas Williams, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 George Webb Morell, Major General Union volunteers 1815 Lawrence Pike Graham, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1815 Edward Pakenham, English general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle 1814 James Henry Carleton, Major General Union Army 1814 Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Michael Kelly Lawler, Major General Union volunteers, dies in 1882 1814 Joseph Hooker, Major General Union volunteers 1814 Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 John Clifford Pemberton, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1814 Maxcy Gregg, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87 1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians 1814 Rufus King, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1814 Jones Mitchell Withers, Major General Confederate Army 1814 Richard Griffith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Thomas Green, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1813 John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 U.S. troops under General Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala 1813 Tecumseh, U.S. Shawnee-chief/English General (Battle of Thames), dies 1813 John Sedgwick, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 William Scott Ketchum, Major General Union Army 1813 William Hugh Keim, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Mason Brayman, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed 1813 Henry Washington Benham, Major General Union Army 1813 Thomas West Sherman, Major General Union Army 1813 Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms 1813 Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1813 John McNeil, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Jacon Gartner Lauman, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 William Grose, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Elias Smith Dennis, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle 1812 Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle 1812 General Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan territory to England 1812 Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 U.S. forces led by General Hull invade Canada, War of 1812 1812 Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 John Alexander McClernand, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 Daniel Henry Rucker, Major General Union Army 1812 Randolph Barnes Marcy, Major General Union Army 1812 George Bibb Crittenden, Major General Confederate Army 1812 Henry Dwight Terry, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1812 James Speed, Attorney General Union 1812 Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Humphrey Marshall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Alexander Sandor Asboth, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe: General Jackson vs. indians 1811 Hugh Thompson Reid, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 William Hamsley Emory, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Goode Bryan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Joseph Dana Webster, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Gilman Marston, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Henry Prince, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1811 Charles Clark, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Robert Allen, Major General Union Army 1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Major General Union volunteers 1811 Robert Christie Buchanan, Major General Union Army 1811 [Catherine] Mildred Lee, daughter of U.S. general Robert E Lee 1811 Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General Union volunteers 1810 August Willich, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Benjamin Stone Roberts, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Thomas Bragg, Attorney General, Confederacy 1810 Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1810 Henry Bohlen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Alpheus Starkey Williams, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1810 Thomas Jefferson McKean, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Solomon Meredith, Major General Union volunteers 1810 James Shields, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 James Cooper, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1810 Daniel Ullmann, Major General Union volunteers 1810 Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Albert Pike, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 William Nelson Pendleton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1809 Thomas Alfred Davies, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General Confederate Army 1809 Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General Union volunteers 1809 George Philip St. Cooke, Major General Union Army 1809 John Smith Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Philip St. George Cocke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 George Washington Cullom, Major General Union Army 1809 Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1809 Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Holland Brigade under Brigadier General Chasse reaches Madrid 1808 Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 William Thomas Ward, Major General Union volunteers 1808 Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1808 James Bowen, Major General Union volunteers 1808 Jacob Ammen, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1807 James Samuel Wadsworth, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Silas Casey, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra 1807 John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General Confederate Army 1807 Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Lysander Cutler, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Joseph Eggleston Johnston, General Confederate Army 1807 William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1807 Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Major General Union volunteers 1807 Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1807 Joseph Holt, Major General Union Army 1806 Stand Watie, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Henry Alexander Wise, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 John Breckinridge Grayson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1862 1806 Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1806 Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Michael FB baron von Melas, Austrian general, dies at 77 1806 George C Cadwalader, Major General Union volunteers 1806 Amos Beebe Eaton, Major General Union Army 1806 Leonidas Polk, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1806 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81 1805 Benjamin Hugur, Major General Confederate Army 1805 Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General Union volunteers 1805 Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1805 Robert Anderson, Major General Union Army 1805 William Kerley Strong, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1804 Theophilus Hunter Holmes, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1804 Lorenzo Thomas, Major General Union Army 1804 Ludwig A. Benedek, Austrian general 1804 Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general, Triangulatie of Belgium 1804 Neal Dow, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1804 Samuel Read Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1803 Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Major General Union volunteers 1803 George Wright, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1803 Gabriel James Rains, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1803 Albert Sidney Johnston, General Confederate Army 1803 James Outram, Bulterley Hall Derbyshire, general 1802 Melancthon Smith Wade, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1802 Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies 1802 David Hunter, Major General Union volunteers 1802 Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General Confederate Army 1802 George Archibald McCall, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1802 George Douglas Ramsey, Major general Union Army 1801 James Barnes, Major General Union volunteers 1801 John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy 1801 Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General Confederate Army 1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London 1801 George Sears Greene, Major General Union volunteers 1800 Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general/architect, murdered at 47 1800 John Henry Winder, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1799 Daniel Tyler, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1799 W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25 1798 Richard Delafield, Major General Union Army 1798 Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General Confederate Army 1798 Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General Union volunteers 1798 Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1797 Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies 1797 W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, 10 day campaign 1797 Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General Union volunteers 1796 General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy 1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleaveland 1796 Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General Union Army 1795 James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general, British army 1795 Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, 10 day campaign 1795 Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French general Michaud 1794 James Wolfe Ripley, Major General Union Army 1794 General Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio 1793 Edward Bates, Attorney General, Union 1793 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies 1793 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies 1792 Robert Patterson, Major General Union volunteers 1791 Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St. Clair/killed 637 soldiers 1791 Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Netherlands, commits suicide at 58 1789 U.S. Attorney General Office is created 1789 Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department 1789 Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67 1788 Joseph Gilbert Totten, Major General Union Army 1786 Winfield Scott, army general, Union, presidential candidate 1785 Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits, 1829-53 1784 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet and General Advertiser) 1783 General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York City 1783 General Washington bids farewell to his army 1781 English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia 1779 Casimir Pulaski, General, dies 1779 U.S. troops under General A Wayne conquer Ft. Stony Point, New York 1779 General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx 1778 Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (General Washington beats Clinton) 1778 Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves 1777 British General Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4 1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY 1777 Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle 1777 General George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown, Pennsylvania 1777 English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia 1777 English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia 1777 British General Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans 1776 Brigadier General Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British 1776 Maria E J Versfelt, actress/mistress, General Moreau and Marshal Ney 1776 General George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag 1775 Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British 1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks 1775 Louis-Antoine the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulame/General of France 1775 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office 1775 Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general and Napoleon's wife Marie lover 1774 Heinrich A Fouque, Prussian general (7 year war), dies at 76 1772 Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount/general 1772 Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general, dies at 75 1770 Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general, Waterloo, Elba 1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established 1770 Alexander Carlyle, Moderator of General Assembly 1769 Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington 1768 English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston 1768 Anne-Franeois Mellinet, French/Belgian general, Maastricht 1768 Edouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister, 1834-35 1767 Andrew Jackson, General and 7th President, 1829-37 1765 David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general, fought Napoleon at Waterloo 1764 Jose Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay 1763 Josef Poniatovski, Polish general/marshal of France 1761 Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer and Brigadier General 1761 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War 1761 Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War 1761 Earl d'Andreossi, French general and member of parliament 1760 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Netherlands earl/general 1760 French army gives Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst 1760 Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg 1759 Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47 1759 James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32 1758 British battle fleet under General James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg 1756 Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Rep/Gov-Va, general 1755 Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh 1755 British General E. Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War 1753 Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general and architect, Mainz, Fleurus 1749 General fast because of drought in MA 1748 Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general 1747 Kasamir Pulaski, U.S. general in the Revolutionary War 1746 John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor/general/congressman 1745 Benjamin Rush, Byberry, Pennsylvania, physician, general and signer, Declaration of Independence 1745 "Mad" Anthony Wayne, general 1742 Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General 1741 Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, 2nd U.S. magazine begins publishing 1741 Benedict Arnold, general and traitor, U.S. revolution 1741 Benedict Arnold, U.S. general turn traitor, Revolutionary War 1740 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP 1738 Benjamin West, painter, Death of General Wolfe 1734 Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle 1729 Michael F B Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general, 7 Year Wars 1727 New York General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath 1726 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer 1724 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder, Society of It General 1722 John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72 1721 James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general, dies at 47 1718 Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48 1713 Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland 1712 Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, France, general 1712 L Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, French general in America 1710 Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1710 Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1709 Hamilton, Scottish general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1709 Oxenstiern, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1709 Spaar, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1698 Heinrich A. Fouque, Prussian general 1696 James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer, Georgia 1696 Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general 1694 Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies 1693 Antonio Caraffa, Italian general (Eperieser Bloedgericht), dies at 46? 1690 Hieronymus van Beverningk, Duitch general, dies at 76 1689 Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General MacKay 1688 General strategist John Churchill joins with Willem III 1688 General strategist John Churchill meets Willem III 1682 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester) 1675 Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, General (France), dies 1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland 1672 French army under General Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith 1671 Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59 1670 George Monck, English general(-to the-sea), dies at 61 1664 Miklos Zrinyi, Hungarian general/poet, killed by wild boar at 44 1660 General Moncks army reaches London 1660 General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London 1659 General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland 1659 Ferdinand W, prince of Wurttemberg-Neustadt/General Dutch infantry 1658 Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies at 59 1651 Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas" 1650 John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist 1650 James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged 1650 Scottish general Montrose defeated 1643 Battle at Tuttlingen: Beiers army under General Mercy beats France 1641 General court declares RI a democracy and adopts new constitution 1631 Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats General Tilly 1630 In Boston the 1st general court is held 1629 Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle 1629 Juan Jose, of Austria, Spanish general and governor of Netherlands 1622 Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist 1612 Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general 1611 Henry Ireton, English general/MP, Edgehill 1608 George Monck/Monk, English general and Governor of Scotland 1608 Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general 1605 Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk 1605 Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen 1598 Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine 1598 Hidejoshi, Hijoshi, Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies 1595 Philip III van Croij, prince of Chimay/general, dies at 69 1590 Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30 1583 Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general 1583 Dutch States General and Anjou sign treaty 1574 Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle 1569 Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies 1563 Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44 1563 Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mere shoots General Francois De Guise 1562 General Francois de Guise enters Paris 1562 Blood bath at Vassy: General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder 1547 Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians 1545 Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat 1524 Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80 1521 Francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general, Jarnac 1519 Francois de Guise, Balafre, French general strategist, Calais 1515 Gonzalo de Cordoba, Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies 1471 John Soreth, French general, dies 1456 Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian general strategist, dies at about 49 1399 Raymundus of Capua, Italian general, dies 1386 Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist//sciencist/general 1371 Vlkasin, Hungarian general/co-king of Serbia, dies 1311 General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India 1253 Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53 1237 Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns 1169 Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies 1141 Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed 1099 El Cid, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, Span general strategist, dies at 59 1002 Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba, dies 732 Abd ar-Rahman, Yemenite general strategist (Bordeaux occupier), dies 472 Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies 472 Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker 451 General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne 394 Arbogast, French general, commits suicide 350 General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans 303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians 284 General Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes emperor of Rome 69 General Vespasianus occupies Rome 40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general; conquered Wales, No England |
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