1994 Event Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali 1990 Event Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia 1989 Event Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia 1986 Event South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia 1985 Event M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia 1982 Event Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena 1980 Event Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar 1980 Event Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota 1979 Event Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed 1979 Event Iran army occupies Piranshahr 1979 Event Sanista occupies parts of Managua 1978 Event Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar 1978 Event Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house 1975 Event Indonesian army occupies East Timor 1971 Event India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders 1969 Event Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam 1962 Event U.N. troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga 1960 Event Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane 1952 Event British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone 1951 Event British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt 1951 Event Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan 1950 Event Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung 1949 Event Chinese Red army occupies Canton 1949 Event Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai 1948 Event China's Red army occupies Chinchov 1948 Event Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan 1945 Event 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa 1945 Event 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen 1945 Event Red Army occupies Demmin 1945 Event British commands attack Elbe and occupies Lauenburg 1945 Event U.S. 7th Army occupies Neurenberg 1945 Event Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio 1945 Event U.S. 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall 1945 Event British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten 1945 Event Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi 1945 Event Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland 1945 Event U.S. 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath 1945 Event West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma 1945 Event Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg 1944 Event U.S. 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid 1944 Event U.S. 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald 1944 Event U.S. 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar 1944 Event U.S. 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen 1944 Event Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen 1944 Event U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald 1944 Event U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid 1944 Event U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid 1944 Event U.S. 12nd Army corp occupies Sens 1944 Event Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy 1944 Event U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris 1944 Event U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans 1944 Event U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun 1944 Event 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy 1944 Event British 8th army occupies Florence 1944 Event U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans 1944 Event U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes 1944 Event U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt 1944 Event U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France 1944 Event U.S. offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St. Gilles 1944 Event Nazi Germany occupies Hungary 1943 Event British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy 1943 Event British 8th army occupies Tarente 1943 Event Red Army occupies Bachmatsj 1943 Event U.S. 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina 1943 Event U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily 1943 Event U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano 1943 Event U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini 1943 Event U.S. 45th Division occupies airport Comiso, Sicily 1943 Event British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia 1943 Event U.S. 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia 1943 Event U.S. 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia 1943 Event U.S. 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia 1943 Event U.S. 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia 1943 Event U.S. 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia 1943 Event General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia 1942 Event Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja and Morozowsk 1942 Event U.S. - British troops occupies Oran Algeria 1942 Event German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die 1942 Event Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943 1941 Event Free France under Admiral Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon 1941 Event German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R. 1941 Event German army occupies Briansk, U.S.S.R. 1941 Event Germany occupies Telz Lithuana 1941 Event Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states 1941 Event 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria 1941 Event Germany occupies Kreta 1941 Event German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta 1941 Event British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan 1940 Event British troops occupies Sollum 1940 Event German troops occupies Romania 1940 Event German 7th Armour division under General-Major Rommel occupies Cherbourg 1940 Event U.S.S.R. occupies Estonia 1940 Event Soviet Army occupies Lithuania 1940 Event German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen 1940 Event Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France 1939 Event Germany occupies Czechoslovakia 1939 Event Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ 1938 Event Japanese troops occupies Hankou and Wuhan 1938 Event Japanese troops occupies Canton 1937 Event Franco-troops occupies Gijon 1937 Event Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin 1935 Event Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia 1933 Event Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) 1932 Event Japan occupies Shanghai 1931 Event Norway occupies East-Greenland 1929 Event Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi 1928 Event Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland 1924 Event Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou 1924 Event Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing 1922 Event Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin 1920 Event France occupies (German) Memel territory 1919 Event Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf 1918 Event French troops occupies Mainz 1916 Event German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest 1915 Event Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine 1914 Event Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia 1914 Event German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught 1914 Event German army occupies forts at Luik 1914 Event German army occupies city of Liege Belgium 1904 Event Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants 1903 Event Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa 1903 Event Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa 1900 Event British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa 1900 Event Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria 1900 Event Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city 1899 Event Cuba liberated from Spain by U.S., known as National Day, U.S. occupies until 1902 1898 Event U.S. battle fleet under Admiral Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila 1897 Event General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum 1896 Event General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan 1893 Event Dr. Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland 1893 Event Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo 1893 Event Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe 1892 Event Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out 1885 Event Serbian army occupies Bulgaria 1882 Event British general Wolseley occupies Cairo 1867 Event U.S. occupies Midway Islands in Pacific 1865 Event General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina 1865 Event Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC 1864 Event General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas 1862 Event Brigadier-General Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky 1862 Event Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas 1862 Event Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland 1862 Event Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana 1862 Event Battle of New Orleans LA - U.S. Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans 1862 Event Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath 1861 Event General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky 1860 Event Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy 1857 Event U.S. occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is south of Hawaii 1854 Event Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava 1847 Event U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico 1846 Event U.S. troops under General Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico 1831 Event Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium 1813 Event Allied troops occupies Groningen 1812 Event Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th) 1806 Event Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope 1795 Event French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht, Netherlands 1794 Event French troops occupies Venlo 1790 Event Austrian army occupies Brussels 1788 Event Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov 1782 Event French fleet occupies St. Christopher 1781 Event English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia 1781 Event French fleet occupies Tobago 1779 Event French fleet occupies Grenada 1779 Event French fleet occupies St. Vincent 1777 Event English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia 1776 Event U.S. commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas 1774 Event Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan 1762 Event English fleet occupies Havana 1762 Event English fleet occupies Martinique 1761 Event Russian army occupies Kolberg 1761 Event British fleet occupies Belle Britain 1760 Event Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin 1760 Event Russian and Austrian army occupies Berlin 1759 Event British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France 1758 Event British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal 1756 Event Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War 1746 Event French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras 1746 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness 1746 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness 1745 Event English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St. Lawrence River 1743 Event Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War 1741 Event French and Beiers army occupies Prague 1734 Event Russian army occupies Danzig 1722 Event Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia 1717 Event Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade 1710 Event British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia 1708 Event Great Alliance occupies Gent 1708 Event Great Alliance occupies Brussels 1708 Event Great Alliance occupies Rijsel 1705 Event English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona 1696 Event Czar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River 1695 Event Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names 1691 Event English and Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland 1689 Event Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York 1688 Event Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham 1688 Event Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York 1688 Event Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham 1688 Event French troops occupies Palts 1677 Event Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin 1674 Event Prince Willem III occupies Grave 1673 Event Prince Willem III occupies Naarden 1672 Event Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden, Netherlands 1667 Event Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa) 1667 Event Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England 1661 Event Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan 1660 Event Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York 1656 Event Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir and occupies Warsaw 1655 Event Swedish King Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow 1655 Event Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow 1655 Event Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw 1655 Event Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw 1650 Event Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam 1646 Event Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford 1645 Event Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol 1638 Event Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden 1637 Event Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda 1636 Event Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans 1632 Event Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht 1631 Event Saxon army occupies Prague 1628 Event French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle 1621 Event French government army occupies Fort St. Jean d'Angely at La Rochelle 1606 Event Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch 1605 Event Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk 1600 Event Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders, Netherlands 1598 Event Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine 1597 Event Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort 1597 Event Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France 1596 Event Arch duke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais 1591 Event Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza 1591 Event French king Henri IV occupies Rouen 1588 Event Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris 1580 Event Duke van Alva's army occupies Portugal 1578 Event Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen 1576 Event Spanish troops occupies and plunder Maastricht 1572 Event Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen 1572 Event Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland 1570 Event Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein 1568 Event Willem of Oranges army occupies Brabant 1560 Event Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli 1558 Event French king Henri II occupies Calais 1552 Event Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz 1552 Event Henri II of France occupies Metz 1551 Event Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli 1549 Event English boer army occupies Norwich 1543 Event French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice 1543 Event Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren 1542 Event French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders 1541 Event Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary 1534 Event Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad 1534 Event Turkish Admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis 1528 Event Burgundy army occupies Utrecht 1524 Event Duke van Bourbon occupies Province 1517 Event Osmaanse army occupies Cairo 1515 Event Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz 1508 Event Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre 1502 Event Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino 1499 Event French king Louis XII occupies Milan 1494 Event French king Charles VIII occupies Florence 1492 Event English Admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock 1478 Event Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod 1468 Event Charles the Stout occupies and plunders Luik 1462 Event Arch duke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna 1442 Event King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples 1413 Event King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome 1395 Event Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden 1300 Event King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured 1291 Event Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine 1204 Event 4th Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople 1118 Event Alfonso van Aragon occupies Saragossa on Almoraviden 1094 Event Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren 1081 Event Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne 904 Event Saraceens hijacker Leo van Tripoli occupies and plunders Thessalonica 801 Event Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona 711 Event Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain 624 Event Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan 536 Event Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten 410 Event King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies and plunders Rome 70 Event Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem 69 Event General Vespasianus occupies Rome
