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 Gen Essame occupies Xanten
1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi
1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
1945 US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath
1945 West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
1945 Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
1944 US 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid
1944 US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald
1944 US 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 US 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 adm 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 gen-maj 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 Gen 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 Gen 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. (Natl Day) (U.S. occupies till 1902)
1898 U.S. battle fleet under adm 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 Capt 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 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina
1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC
1864 General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas
1862 Brig-gen Nathan B 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 US 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 US troops under Gen 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 Neth
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 US 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 Neth
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 Neth
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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