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1992 Event - Serbian troops begin siege of Sarajevo

1987 Event - State of siege ends in Taiwan

1986 Event - Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege

1985 Event - Colombian troops end 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice

1981 Event - Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege

1980 Event - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building

1977 Event - Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11

1977 Event - Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington D.C., siege ended Mar 11th

1973 Event - Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2 years)

1971 Event - Turkey state of siege proclaimed

1964 Event - Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)

1963 Event - State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested

1955 Event - Argentine state of siege ends

1954 Event - French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu

1949 Event - Bolivian state of siege proclaimed

1948 Event - Albert Camus' "L'etat de Siege," premieres in Paris

1945 Event - Nazi occupiers begin state of siege

1943 Event - Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad

1942 Event - Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim

1942 Event - WW II siege of Bataan starts

1941 Event - State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia

1941 Event - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends

1941 Event - Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II

1940 Event - Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege

1940 Event - Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege

1932 Event - State of siege proclaimed in Honduras

1922 Event - State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa

1919 Event - Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege

1906 Event - State of siege proclaimed in Zululand

1906 Event - Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising

1899 Birthday - Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith

1899 Event - Boers begin siege of Ladysmith Natal

1893 Birthday - Kathleen Smoothy, housewife, last link to Siege of SIdney Street

1884 Event - Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins

1883 Event - French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar

1876 Birthday - Max Jacob, French writer, Concentration Camp, Le Siege de Jerusalem

1870 Event - Siege of Paris begins

1865 Event - Siege of Richmond, Virginia

1865 Event - Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals

1864 Event - General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins

1864 Event - Siege of Petersburg, VA

1864 Event - Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia

1863 Event - Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN

1863 Event - Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins

1863 Event - After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft. Wagner, SC

1863 Event - Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana

1863 Event - General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg

1863 Event - Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins

1863 Event - Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete

1863 Event - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi

1862 Event - Siege of Yorktown, Virginia

1862 Event - General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid

1849 Event - Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence

1848 Event - State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam

1816 Event - Lord Byron completes "Parisina" and "Siege of Corinth"

1809 Event - French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege

1806 Event - British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve

1804 Event - Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad

1781 Event - Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War

1781 Event - 9,000 American forces and 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown

1775 Event - British begin siege of Boston

1707 Event - Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon

1676 Death - Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies

1661 Event - Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa

1627 Event - Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle

1601 Event - Earl Mauritius ceases siege of De Bosch due to strict monarchy

1594 Event - Earl Mauritius and Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen

1585 Event - Antwerp surrenders after 8 months siege by duke of Parma

1574 Event - Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht

1573 Event - Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar

1572 Event - Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem

1572 Event - Duke of Alva's son Don Fredrik begins siege for Haarlem

1565 Event - Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese and Knights of St. John

1552 Event - Emperor Karel and Markgraaf Albecht strike siege for Metz

1536 Event - Earl of Nassau disbands siege of Peronne

1524 Event - Emperor Charles V's troops give siege of Marseille

1509 Death - Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker)

1476 Event - 400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy

1429 Event - English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc

1214 Event - English king John begins siege around Lille France

1099 Event - 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria

1098 Event - After 5-month siege in 1st Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch Turkey

626 Event - Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople

537 Event - Goths lay siege to Rome

13 Event - Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany













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