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1994 Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali

1990 Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia

1989 Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia

1986 South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia

1985 M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia

1982 Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena

1980 Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar

1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota

1979 Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed

1979 Iran army occupies Piranshahr

1979 Sanista occupies parts of Managua

1978 Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar

1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house

1975 Indonesian army occupies East Timor

1971 India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders

1969 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam

1962 U.N. troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga

1960 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane

1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone

1951 British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt

1951 Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan

1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung

1949 Chinese Red army occupies Canton

1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai

1948 China's Red army occupies Chinchov

1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan

1945 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa

1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen

1945 Red Army occupies Demmin

1945 British commands attack Elbe and occupies Lauenburg

1945 U.S. 7th Army occupies Neurenberg

1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio

1945 U.S. 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall

1945 British 43rd Division under General Essame occupies Xanten

1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi

1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland

1945 U.S. 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath

1945 West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma

1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg

1944 U.S. 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid

1944 U.S. 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald

1944 U.S. 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar

1944 U.S. 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen

1944 Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen

1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald

1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid

1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid

1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp occupies Sens

1944 Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy

1944 U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris

1944 U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans

1944 U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun

1944 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy

1944 British 8th army occupies Florence

1944 U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans

1944 U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes

1944 U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt

1944 U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France

1944 U.S. offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St. Gilles

1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary

1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy

1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente

1943 Red Army occupies Bachmatsj

1943 U.S. 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina

1943 U.S. 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily

1943 U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano

1943 U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini

1943 U.S. 45th Division occupies airport Comiso, Sicily

1943 British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis Tunisia

1943 U.S. 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia

1943 U.S. 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia

1943 U.S. 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia

1943 U.S. 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia

1943 U.S. 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia

1943 General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia

1942 Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja and Morozowsk

1942 U.S. - British troops occupies Oran Algeria

1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die

1942 Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943

1941 Free France under Admiral Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon

1941 German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R.

1941 German army occupies Briansk, U.S.S.R.

1941 Germany occupies Telz Lithuana

1941 Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states

1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria

1941 Germany occupies Kreta

1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta

1941 British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan

1940 British troops occupies Sollum

1940 German troops occupies Romania

1940 German 7th Armour division under General-Major Rommel occupies Cherbourg

1940 U.S.S.R. occupies Estonia

1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania

1940 German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen

1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France

1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia

1939 Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ

1938 Japanese troops occupies Hankou and Wuhan

1938 Japanese troops occupies Canton

1937 Franco-troops occupies Gijon

1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin

1935 Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia

1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)

1932 Japan occupies Shanghai

1931 Norway occupies East-Greenland

1929 Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi

1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland

1924 Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou

1924 Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing

1922 Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin

1920 France occupies (German) Memel territory

1919 Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf

1918 French troops occupies Mainz

1916 German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest

1915 Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine

1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia

1914 German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught

1914 German army occupies forts at Luik

1914 German army occupies city of Liege Belgium

1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants

1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa

1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa

1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa

1900 Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria

1900 Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city

1899 Cuba liberated from Spain by U.S., known as National Day, U.S. occupies until 1902

1898 U.S. battle fleet under Admiral Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila

1897 General Kitchener occupies Berber, North of Khartoum

1896 General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan

1893 Dr. Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland

1893 Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo

1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe

1892 Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out

1885 Serbian army occupies Bulgaria

1882 British general Wolseley occupies Cairo

1867 U.S. occupies Midway Islands in Pacific

1865 General Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina

1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC

1864 General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas

1862 Brigadier-General Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky

1862 Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas

1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland

1862 Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge Louisiana

1862 Battle of New Orleans LA - U.S. Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans

1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath

1861 General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky

1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy

1857 U.S. occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Is south of Hawaii

1854 Prince Menshikov of Krim occupies British base at Balaclava

1847 U.S. General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico

1846 U.S. troops under General Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico

1831 Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium

1813 Allied troops occupies Groningen

1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)

1806 Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope

1795 French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht, Netherlands

1794 French troops occupies Venlo

1790 Austrian army occupies Brussels

1788 Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov

1782 French fleet occupies St. Christopher

1781 English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia

1781 French fleet occupies Tobago

1779 French fleet occupies Grenada

1779 French fleet occupies St. Vincent

1777 English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia

1776 U.S. commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas

1774 Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan

1762 English fleet occupies Havana

1762 English fleet occupies Martinique

1761 Russian army occupies Kolberg

1761 British fleet occupies Belle Britain

1760 Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin

1760 Russian and Austrian army occupies Berlin

1759 British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France

1758 British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal

1756 Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War

1746 French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness

1745 English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St. Lawrence River

1743 Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War

1741 French and Beiers army occupies Prague

1734 Russian army occupies Danzig

1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia

1717 Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade

1710 British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia

1708 Great Alliance occupies Gent

1708 Great Alliance occupies Brussels

1708 Great Alliance occupies Rijsel

1705 English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona

1696 Czar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River

1695 Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names

1691 English and Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland

1689 Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York

1688 Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham

1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York

1688 Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham

1688 French troops occupies Palts

1677 Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin

1674 Prince Willem III occupies Grave

1673 Prince Willem III occupies Naarden

1672 Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden, Netherlands

1667 Aru Palakka's occupies Makassar (Goa)

1667 Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England

1661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan

1660 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York

1656 Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir and occupies Warsaw

1655 Swedish King Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow

1655 Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow

1655 Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw

1655 Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw

1650 Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam

1646 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford

1645 Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol

1638 Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden

1637 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda

1636 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans

1632 Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht

1631 Saxon army occupies Prague

1628 French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle

1621 French government army occupies Fort St. Jean d'Angely at La Rochelle

1606 Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch

1605 Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk

1600 Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders, Netherlands

1598 Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine

1597 Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort

1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France

1596 Arch duke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais

1591 Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza

1591 French king Henri IV occupies Rouen

1588 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris

1580 Duke van Alva's army occupies Portugal

1578 Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen

1576 Spanish troops occupies and plunder Maastricht

1572 Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen

1572 Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland

1570 Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein

1568 Willem of Oranges army occupies Brabant

1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli

1558 French king Henri II occupies Calais

1552 Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz

1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz

1551 Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli

1549 English boer army occupies Norwich

1543 French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice

1543 Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren

1542 French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders

1541 Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary

1534 Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad

1534 Turkish Admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis

1528 Burgundy army occupies Utrecht

1524 Duke van Bourbon occupies Province

1517 Osmaanse army occupies Cairo

1515 Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz

1508 Gelderse troops occupies Kuinre

1502 Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino

1499 French king Louis XII occupies Milan

1494 French king Charles VIII occupies Florence

1492 English Admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock

1478 Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod

1468 Charles the Stout occupies and plunders Luik

1462 Arch duke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna

1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples

1413 King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome

1395 Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden

1300 King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured

1291 Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine

1204 4th Crusade occupies and plunders Constantinople

1118 Alfonso van Aragon occupies Saragossa on Almoraviden

1094 Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren

1081 Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne

904 Saraceens hijacker Leo van Tripoli occupies and plunders Thessalonica

801 Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona

711 Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain

624 Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan

536 Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten

410 King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies and plunders Rome

70 Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem

69 General Vespasianus occupies Rome


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