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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













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