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1994 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
1993 Troops of President Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament) 1979 Christian Turks occupy St. Jansbasiliek 1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh 1978 Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua 1978 Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead 1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City 1975 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead 1975 Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases 1975 Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh 1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum 1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota 1972 North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee 1970 Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar 1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza 1955 British troops occupy Saudi-Arabic oil field at Boeraimi 1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet 1945 British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal 1945 Russian troops occupy Harbin and Mukden 1945 Allies occupy Wismar 1945 Yugoslav troops occupy Trieste 1945 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory 1945 U.S. troops occupy concentration camp Colditz 1945 Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna) 1945 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar 1944 Canadian troops occupy Knokke 1944 Canadian troops occupy Breskens 1944 Soviet forces occupy Estonia 1944 U.S. 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy 1944 Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan 1944 U.S. 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne 1944 U.S. troops occupy Vannes Bretagne 1944 Lieutenant-general Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma 1944 U.S. troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea 1944 U.S. troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy 1944 U.S. troops occupy Pisa, Italy 1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy 1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen 1944 British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range Normandy 1944 Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy 1944 U.S. troops occupy Biak 1944 Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy 1944 British troops occupy Aprilia, Italy 1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy 1944 British troops occupy Kohima 1944 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy 1943 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje 1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova 1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia 1942 U.S. troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey Morocco 1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 1942 German troops occupy Rostov 1942 Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad 1942 Africa Corps occupy Egypt 1942 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma 1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean 1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java 1942 German and Italian troops occupy Banghazi 1942 German troops occupy Benghazi Libya 1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain 1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca 1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines 1941 Japanese occupy Guam 1941 German troops occupy Rostov 1941 German troops occupy Galicia Poland 1941 British troops occupy Bagdad Iraq 1941 German troops occupy Athens Greece 1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya 1941 British tanks occupy Maus Libya 1940 France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris 1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders 1940 French mariners occupy St. Maarten 1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declared them German citizens 1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa 1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China 1932 Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria 1923 Mussolini's troops occupy Korfu 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker 1923 French and Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka 1922 Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin 1921 British troops occupy Dublin 1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev 1917 British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa 1917 British troops occupy Baghdad 1916 French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun 1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette 1915 U.S. military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934 1915 U.S. Marines occupy Haiti 1914 German troops occupy Brug 1914 German troops occupy Gent 1914 German troops occupy Namur Belgium 1914 General Martos' troops occupy Soldau/Neidenburg East Prussia 1914 Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines 1914 French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg 1914 French troops under General de Castelnau occupy Chateau Salins 1914 Russian troops take East-Prussia and occupy Marggrabowa 1914 French troops under General Bonneau occupy Mulhouse at Elzas 1914 French troops under General Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas 1914 U.S. Marines occupy Vera Cruz, Mexico, stay 6 months 1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes 1911 Italian troops occupy Tripoli 1911 French troops occupy Fes El Bali Morocco 1910 French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir 1907 French troops occupy Casablanca 1905 Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa 1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg 1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state 1900 British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal 1900 British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal 1900 British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal 1898 1st U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay 1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) 1896 British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa 1894 Dutch troops occupy and plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok 1894 British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast 1891 French troops under captain Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan 1891 French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed 1890 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan 1890 French troops under captain Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan 1883 French troops under Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal 1881 French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax 1881 French troops occupy Algeria and Tunisia 1881 Natal: British troops under General-major Colley occupy Majuba Hill 1879 British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan 1879 Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta 1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg 1864 Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri 1864 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama 1864 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama 1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana 1864 Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida 1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi 1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein 1863 Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia 1862 Federal troops occupy Helena, Arkansas 1862 Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia 1862 Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina Florida 1861 Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico 1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore 1839 British troops under General Charles Napier occupy Beirut 1830 Belgian rebels occupy Antwerp 1830 Dutch troops occupy Brussels 1821 Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw 1813 Kosacks occupy Utrecht 1813 Allied troops occupy Zwolle, Netherlands 1810 French troops occupy Amsterdam 1798 Government troops occupy Hasselt 1798 Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt 1796 French troops occupy Milan 1794 Russian troops occupy Warsaw 1794 French troops occupy Hertogenbosch 1794 French troops occupy Lock 1794 French troops occupy Charleroi 1793 Prussian troops occupy Venlo, Netherlands 1790 Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks 1790 Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village 1788 Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam 1787 Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede 1781 English troops occupy Negapatam Ceylon 1780 British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina 1778 English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia 1777 British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution 1762 English troops occupy Manila Philippines 1760 Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie 1759 Austrian troops occupy Dresden 1758 British troops occupy and plunder Cherbourg 1758 Russian troops occupy Konigsberg, East Prussia 1757 Austrian troops occupy Berlin 1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India 1756 British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India 1751 English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India 1748 French troops occupy Maastricht 1747 French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom 1747 French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands 1746 Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen 1746 Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester and occupy Carlisle 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Fort August, Scotland 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland 1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov 1734 French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine 1722 Russian troops occupy Baku and Derbent on Persia 1716 Hungarian Emperor Karel VI's troops occupy Temesvar 1716 Russian and Prussian troops occupy Wismar 1716 Russian and Prussian troops occupy Wismar 1715 Swedish troops occupy Norway 1715 Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund 1715 Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund 1714 French and Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona 1711 French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro 1710 English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia) 1708 Dutch and English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel) 1708 English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia 1704 War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar 1704 English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar 1704 English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar 1703 Dutch and English troops occupy Cologne 1702 Dutch/English troops occupy Luik 1702 Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch and English fleet destroy and occupy Spanish silver fleet and French squadron 1702 English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond 1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow 1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw 1691 French troops occupy Mons 1690 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade 1688 Prince Willem III accept invitation of English crown to occupy 1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade 1686 Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks 1681 French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Staatsburg 1678 Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden 1677 French troops occupy Freiburg 1673 Dutch troops under Willem III occupy Bonn 1672 French troops under king Louis XIV occupy Utrecht 1658 Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India 1658 Dutch troops occupy last Portugese Fort Jafnapatnam Ceylon 1657 French troops occupy Mardyke 1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram 1654 Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland 1654 French troops occupy Stenay 1652 Spanish troops occupy Dunkerk 1652 Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen 1651 English troops occupy Limerick Ireland 1644 French troops occupy Mainz 1639 French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan 1638 French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine 1636 Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens 1635 Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan 1630 Spanish troops occupy Mantua 1630 French troops occupy Pinerolo Piedmont 1621 Swedish troops occupy Riga 1619 Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary 1591 Mauritius and Willem van Nassau occupy Devente 1588 Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris 1585 Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp 1572 Don Frederiks troops occupy/plunder Zutphen 1572 Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden 1572 Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater 1572 Louis van Nassau and huguenots occupy Valenciennes 1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila 1563 Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania 1558 French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais 1549 French troops occupy Ambleteuse England 1544 English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne 1544 Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France 1544 Turkish troops occupy Hungary 1543 French and Turkish troops occupy Nice 1535 Hessische troops occupy Munster 1523 English troops occupy Montalidier France 1522 Turkish troops occupy Rhodos 1521 Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France and occupy Milan 1521 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade 1521 Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade 1521 Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade 1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia 1511 Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka 1511 Portugese troops occupy parts of Malakka 1506 Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna 1393 Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria 1240 Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev 1204 Crusaders occupy Constantinople 1085 King Alfonso VI of Castily/Leon occupy Toledo on Moren 1055 Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad 969 Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria 439 Vandalen under Genseric occupy Carthago |
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