2006 Union of Islamic Courts takes over Mogadishu, Somalia
2005 New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days
2003 Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport
2003 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents)
2002 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil'
1996 Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement
1996 George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76
1996 Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45
1996 Kurt Schmucker, member (Union of Christian Democrats), dies
1995 Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union
1994 Norway votes against joining European Union
1994 Sweden agrees to join European Union
1993 Danny Blanchflower, North Ireland soccer/union coach, dies at 67
1993 Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83
1992 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
1991 Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union
1991 Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence
1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1991 Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union
1991 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
1991 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
1991 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
1990 Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
1990 Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies
1990 U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
1990 South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1990 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty
1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1989 Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1989 Polish labor union granted legal status
1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union
1988 Union Station reopens in Washington D.C.
1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
1987 United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp
1986 Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered
1986 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75
1986 Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies
1985 South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms
1985 Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed
1985 India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1984 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
1984 Morocco and Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty
1984 Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
1983 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years
1983 Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67
1983 August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79
1982 Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered
1982 U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
1982 Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide
1981 William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75
1980 Poland acknowledges Solidarity union
1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1980 George Meany, union President (AFL-CIO), dies at 86
1980 Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
1980 Poland's Solidarity labor union forms
1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1974 Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms
1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
1973 Alison "Ali" Malyn Shumate, Union City Tennessee, Miss America-Tenn 1996
1973 Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders
1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
1972 Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64
1972 Gabrielle Union, American Actress
1972 Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union
1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1971 Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its 1st appearance
1970 Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies
1970 Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms
1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
1968 Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
1968 Chad creates Union of Central African States
1968 Howard Lindsay, U.S. playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78
1967 Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1965 Steve Finley, Union City, Tennessee, outfielder for the San Diego Padres
1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
1965 Steve Finley, born in Union City, Tennessee, outfielder for the San Diego Padres
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address
1963 Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
1963 Ron Karkovice, born in Union, New Jersey, catcher, Chicago White Sox
1963 South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1963 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested
1962 Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51
1962 LeRoy B Shield, U.S. pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68
1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
1961 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
1960 Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader
1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
1959 Edward Liddie, born in Union, Georgia, Judo fighter 1984 Olympics bronze
1959 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
1958 Union Square, San Francisco becomes state historical landmark
1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1956 Leo Baeck, President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83
1956 Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union
1956 Albert Woolson, last veteran U.S. Union army, dies at 109
1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1956 Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union
1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
1955 West Europe Union established
1954 Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader
1954 Netherlands Indonesian Union breaks up
1954 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record)
1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union
1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
1953 John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
1953 James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU
1952 William Green, union chairman (AFL 1924-52), dies at 79
1952 M Cyril Ramaphosa, sec-gen of South African Mine Workers' Union
1952 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66
1951 Robert Wuhl, Union, New Jersey, actor, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam
1951 Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator
1951 John Dittrich, born in Union, New Jersey, country singer, Restless Heart-Wheels
1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
1950 European Payment Union forms in Paris
1949 Tripura accedes to Indian union
1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1949 Dennis Locorriere, Union City, New Jersey, rock guitarist, Dr. Hook
1949 Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand
1948 Moses J "Moss" Mayekiso, South African union/SACP-leader
1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel
1948 Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader
1947 United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
1947 U.S.S.R. joins International Amateur Athletic Union
1947 Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherland form Benelux Union
1947 Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan
1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms
1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1946 Paul Wheatbread, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl
1946 United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor
1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
1945 Dwight Bement, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl
1945 H Lindsay and R Crouse's "State of the Union," premieres in New York City
1945 Kerry Chater, rocker, Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl
1945 Dimitar Penev, born in Bulgaria, soccer player/union coach, Lokomotiv/CSKA
1945 General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms
1944 Christopher N Dlamini, South African union/SACP-leader
1944 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms
1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000 Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating with the Germans
1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
1943 Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74
1942 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61
1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1942 Gary Puckett, vocalist, & Union Gap-Woman Woman, Young Girl
1942 Netherland's government in exile, London, recognizes Soviet Union
1941 German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union
1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1941 Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union
1941 Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder, Simplistic Union
1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union
1941 Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states
1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1941 Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader
1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco
1941 Lord Vestey, British food magnate/billionaire, Union International
1940 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union
1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
1940 George Paul, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group
1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
1939 Franklin A Sonn, union leader, South African workers
1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
1939 Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1939 Reinier Lucassen, Dutch painter, Kuifje contra James Union
1939 U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
1937 Franz Vranitzky, Austria union chancellor, 1986-
1937 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
1936 Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR and Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union
1936 Ron Carey, union President, Teamsters
1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
1934 Simon Gournlay, president, British National Farmer's Union
1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions
1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
1934 International Telecommunication Union established
1933 Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
1933 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
1933 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands
1932 France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
1932 British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union
1932 Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists
1932 Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer
1932 Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader
1932 Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71
1932 Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71
1932 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
1931 Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47
1931 Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists)
1931 Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
1930 John Daly, British trade union leader
1930 Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre, COSATU
1929 Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison
1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros
1929 ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
1929 U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1928 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg
1928 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
1928 MG Falcon, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group
1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1926 British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1926 Duncan Watson, president, World Blind Union
1926 Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to NZ
1925 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms
1925 Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office
1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium
1924 Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
1924 Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union
1924 Henry M Fazzie, South Africa Union/UDF-leader
1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1923 Margaret Bondfield, 1st woman chairman, Trades Union Congress
1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
1922 Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR
1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.)
1922 Jack Boddy, British trade union leader
1922 Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader, NVV/VARA
1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1922 Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union, ACV 1968-87
1922 German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1922 Lane Kirkland, union president, AFL-CIO
1922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved
1921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
1921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union
1920 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1920 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
1920 George Ernest Leslie, trade union official
1920 William Simpson, British trade union leader
1920 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
1919 U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1919 Antoon J. Hubben, Dutch mayor and trade union leader
1917 Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members
1916 Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep
1916 Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73
1916 Lloyd McBride, union president, United Steelworkers
1915 Moe Biller, New York City, labor union officer, AFL-CIO, Postal Workers
1915 Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers
1915 Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
1914 Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights)
1912 Pan American Union forms
1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1911 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman, CNV, /trade union leader
1911 1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri
1910 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader
1910 Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms
1910 Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
1910 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
1910 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
1910 Union of South Africa declares independence from U.K.
1910 Frans Dohmen, union leader, Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union
1909 Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers
1909 1st credit union forms in US
1908 1st credit union in U.S. forms (Manchester NH)
1908 Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author, 50th Anniv of Soviet Union
1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1908 CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1907 Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader
1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball
1907 Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union
1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held
1906 Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins
1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht
1905 Union of Sweden and Norway ends
1905 Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands
1905 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
1905 Lila Lee, Union City, New Jersey, actress, Midnight Girl, Blood and Sand
1905 Norway dissolves union with Sweden, in effect since 1814
1903 August Cool, Belgian union leader/minister of state
1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms
1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
1900 Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt
1898 Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies
1898 Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
1898 Randolph Scott, actor, Last of the Mohicans, Western Union
1897 Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston
1896 AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City
1895 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union
1894 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
1894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
1893 Adriaan F. Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder, Union National Arubano
1893 John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday
1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1891 Canadian Rugby Union forms
1891 Julius Raab, Austrian union chancellor, 1953-61
1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1891 Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas
1891 William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies
1891 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71
1891 David Dixon Porter, U.S. rear Admiral (Union), dies at 77
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury
1890 Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City
1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF
1889 North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states
1889 William Lawther, union leader
1889 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, Railroad Porter's Union
1889 Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union
1889 Dakotas, Montana and Washington admitted to union
1887 Sidney Hillman, union leader, Sidney Hillman Foundation
1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1886 Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57
1885 George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58
1885 John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union
1885 Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union
1885 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader
1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
1884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union
1883 Arthur James Cook, England, union leader, coal miners
1883 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions
1883 Quebec Rugby Football Union forms
1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
1882 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
1881 Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms
1881 Ambrose Everett Burnside, U.S. Union general, dies at 57
1881 Emory Upton, U.S. Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42
1881 Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl
1879 Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer, IWW, /songwriter, Union Scab, /martyr
1879 Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
1875 Universal Postal Union established
1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1874 World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland
1873 Leo Baeck, rabbi/president, World Union for Progressive Judaism
1871 Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum
1871 British Rugby Union forms
1870 Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union
1869 James E Sullivan, founder, Amateur Athletic Union
1869 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves
1868 Henri Polak, union leader/politician, soc-dem
1866 Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-major, dies at 49
1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms
1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
1865 William H Revere Jr, U.S. Union brig-general, dies
1865 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, U.S. attorney/Union brig-general, dies at 35
1865 George Wright, U.S. Union brig-general, dies at 61
1865 Union Gen Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
1865 Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general, dies at about 29
1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
1865 Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up
1865 Francis Washburn, U.S. Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries
1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32
1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia and Petersberg
1865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina
1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft. Anderson, North Carolina
1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC
1865 Ft. Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union troops
1865 Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC
1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death
1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1864 Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
1864 Union troops ambush and kill 'Bloody' Bill Anderson in Richmond MI
1864 Union Gen Samuel R Curtis defeats Conf Gen Stirling Price
1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Conf attackers
1864 David Bell Birney, U.S. lawyer/Union general-major, dies at 39
1864 Alexander Gardiner, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South
1864 David Allen Russell, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 43
1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
1864 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
1864 Daniel Chaplin, U.S. Union brig-general, dies
1864 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, U.S. engineer/Union general-major, dies
1864 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Gaines, Alabama
1864 James Birdseye Mcpherson, U.S. Union gen-major, dies in battle at 35
1864 Samuel Allen Rice, U.S. Union brig-gen, dies of injuries at 36
1864 Friend Smith Rutherford, U.S. Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43?
1864 George Lincoln Prescott, U.S. Union brig-gen, dies of injuries
1864 Union Gen Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Virginia
1864 U.S. Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg
1864 James P McMahon, U.S. Union colonel (164th New York), dies in battle
1864 Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle
1864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
1864 William N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies
1864 U.S. Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general
1864 James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union brig-general, dies in battle at 34
1864 Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union brig-general, dies at about 27
1864 "Uncle" John Sedgwick, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 50
1864 Thomas Donnely Doubleday, U.S. Union Col, dies in an accident
1864 James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56
1864 Henry Livermore Abbott, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle
1864 Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
1864 Joseph Gilbert Totten, U.S. Union general-major, dies at 76
1864 General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden, Arkansas
1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas
1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1864 Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
1864 Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic"
1864 Stephen Gardner Champlin, brig-general (Union), dies at about 36
1863 Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general, dies at 36
1863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
1863 Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US brig-general (Union), dies at 51
1863 Grant is given command of Union forces in West
1863 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga
1863 Battle of Chickamauga Georgia (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat
1863 Thomas Welsh, U.S. Union brig-general (Antietam), dies at 39
1863 George Crockett Strong, U.S. Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1863 Edward Needle Kirk, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle at about 35
1863 Union troops enter Port Hudson
1863 Strong Vincent, U.S. Union brig-general, dies
1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1863 Paul Joseph Revere, U.S. grandson of Paul Revere/Union brig-gen, dies
1863 Alonzo Hersford Cushing, U.S. Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
1863 Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
1863 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
1863 John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42
1863 George A. Custer (23) appointed Union Brig-general
1863 Andrew Hull Foote, U.S. Union lt admiral, dies
1863 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia
1863 Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30
1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1863 Edward Payson Chapin, Union brig general, dies at 31
1863 Amiel Weeks Whipple, U.S. Union gen-major, dies of injuries at 46
1863 End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia
1863 Congress authorizes track width of 4'8" for Union Pacific Railroad
1863 Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March"
1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas
1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark
1862 President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union
1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC
1862 Joshua Woodrow Sill, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle at 31
1862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
1862 Union Gen Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
1862 George Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27
1862 Conrad Feger Jackson, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle at 49
1862 Sylvester Churchill, U.S. Union brig-general, dies
1862 Charles Davis Jameson, U.S. Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks), dies at 35
1862 William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
1862 Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1862 Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union brig-gen, dies of injury at about 40
1862 William "Bull" Nelson, Union general-major, murdered at 38
1862 R E V Miles, U.S. Union Colonel, killed at Harpers Ferry
1862 Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates
1862 Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates
1862 Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39
1862 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
1862 Philip "Phil" Kearny, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 48
1862 George William Taylor, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle
1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union
1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1862 Henry Bohlen, German/US brig-general (Union), dies in battle at 51
1862 Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack
1862 Thomas Williams, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1862 Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces
1862 Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular)
1862 William H Keim, U.S. Union brig-general, dies in battle at 48
1862 Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War
1862 Charles Ferguson Smith, U.S. Union Gen-Maj, dies of infection at 55
1862 Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia
1862 Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
1862 "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads
1862 John Baillie McIntosh, U.S. general-major (Union Army), dies at 32
1862 Union troops under brig-general Wright occupy Fernandina Florida
1862 Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces
1862 Frederick West Lander, U.S. Union brig-general/poet, dies at 40
1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
1862 Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines
1861 Gen George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
1861 Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi
1861 Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union
1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
1861 President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
1861 Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43
1861 Union Gen George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1861 Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
1861 Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53
1861 Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state
1861 Battle of Hoke's Run, West Virginia - small Union victory
1861 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
1861 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers
1861 John Garland, U.S. Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle
1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
1861 Union blockades New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile Alabama
1861 Union troops march on state militia in St. Louis, Missouri
1861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist and Union supporters in Knoxville TN
1861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army
1861 Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1861 Formal Union surrender of Ft. Sumter
1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1861 St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies
1860 Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement
1860 Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer
1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, born in England, found, Women's Social and Political Union
1852 Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
1851 John Lincoln Clem, Drummer Union volunteers, died in 1937
1847 Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
1845 Gustave Ador, union president of Austria, 1919
1844 Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1916
1843 Robert Todd Lincoln, Capt Union volunteers, died in 1926
1842 William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr Union Navy, died in 1874
1842 Ulric Dahlgren, Col Union volunteers, died in 1864
1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
1840 William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1840 Edmund Kirby, Jr., Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1840 Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr Union Navy, died in 1884
1839 George Armstrong Custer, Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1876
1839 Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union
1839 Emory Upton, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1881
1839 Nelson Appleton Miles, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1925
1839 William Henry Seward, Jr., Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1920
1839 Cyrus Hamblin, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1867
1839 Francis Fessenden, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1906
1839 Seldon Connor, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1917
1838 John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1894
1838 John Milton Hay, politician, Union, died in 1905
1838 Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1868
1838 Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1898
1837 William Wells, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1892
1837 Charles Garrison Harker, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1864
1837 James Lawlor Kiernan, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1869
1837 James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1925
1837 Elon John Farnsworth, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1837 Martin Davis Hardin II, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1923
1837 Eli Long, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1903
1837 James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1892
1837 Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General Union Army, died in 1921
1837 Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col Union Army, died in 1861
1837 Francis Jay Herron, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1902
1836 John Thomas Croxton, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1874
1836 Henry Eugene Davies, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1894
1836 Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1836 Benjamin Franklin Potts, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1887
1836 James Meech Warner, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1897
1836 [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1881
1835 George Dashiell Bayard, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1862
1835 Americus Vespucius Rice, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1904
1835 Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1887
1835 Godfrey Weitzel, Union volunteers Major general, died in 1884
1835 Adelbert Ames, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1933
1835 Joseph Hayes, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1912
1835 James William Forsyth, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1906
1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen Union volunteers
1835 Charles Ewing, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1883
1835 Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army, died in 1911
1835 Oliver Edwards, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1904
1835 Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Brig General Union volunteers
1834 Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1834 Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1893
1834 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1834 Wager Swayne, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1902
1834 Daniel McCook, Jr., Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1864
1834 Wesley Merritt, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1910
1834 William Rufus Terrill, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1862
1834 Robert Sanford Foster, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1834 Albert Lindley Lee, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1907
1833 Louis Douglass Watkins, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1868
1833 Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader
1833 Cyrus Bussey, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1915
1833 James Deering Fessenden, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 Henry Alanson Barnum, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 Charles Jackson Paine, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 William Price Sanders, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1833 Powell Clayton, Brig General Union volunteers /, Gov-R-Ark
1833 John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1899
1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General Union Army
1833 Edward Moody McCook, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1909
1833 Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1903
1833 David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 Thomas Howard Ruger, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1833 Norman Willis, union leader, Britain's Trades Union Congress
1832 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1865
1832 Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1889
1832 John Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1906
1832 George Henry Chapman, Bvt Maj Gen Union volunteers, died in 1882
1832 William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army, died in 1900
1832 George Crockett Strong, Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1832 Theodore Shelton Bowers, Bvt Brig General Union Army, died in 1866
1832 Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1893
1832 Alexander Chambers, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1888
1832 Thomas Ogden Osbord, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1832 Edward Harland, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1915
1832 James Hewett Ledlie, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1882
1832 Walter Quintin Gresham, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers
1832 William Henry Penrose, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1903
1832 Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brig General, Union volunteers, died in 1895
1831 Adam Badeau, Bvt Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1895
1831 Lucius Fairchild, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1896
1831 Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1874
1831 Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1862
1831 John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1886
1831 Daniel Butterfield, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1901
1831 John McAlister Schofield, Major General Union volunteers
1831 Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1831 Edward Payson Chapin, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1863
1831 William Dwight, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1888
1831 William Thomas Clark, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers, died in 1905
1831 Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General Union volunteers
1831 Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General Union volunteers
1831 Philip Henry Sheridan, born in Albany, New York, Major General, Union Army
1831 John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1869
1831 Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1910
1831 Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1899
1830 John Frederick Hartranft, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1889
1830 Patrick Henry Jones, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1900
1830 Oliver Otis Howard, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1909
1830 Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan, Brig Gen Union volunteers, died in 1890
1830 John Parker Hawkins, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1914
1830 William Babcock Hazen, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1887
1830 Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1875
1830 William Sooy Smith, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1916
1830 Richard Henry Jackson, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1830 Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1830 George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1874
1830 John Converse Starkweather, Brig General Union volunteers
1830 Davis Tillson, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1895
1830 Eugene Asa Carr, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1910
1830 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brig gen Union volunteers, died in 1865
1830 Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Major Gen Union volunteers, died in 1882
1830 , Samuel, Emerson Opdycke, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1829 James Clay Rice, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1864
1829 Green Berry Raum, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1909
1829 William Passmore Carlin, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1903
1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1892
1829 Roscoe Conkling, MC, Union, died in 1888
1829 Christopher Columbus Andres, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1829 Giles Alexander Smith, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1876
1829 James St. Clair Morton, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1864
1829 William Worth Belknap, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1829 George Crook, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890
1829 Thomas Ewing, Jr., Major General, Bvt Union volunteers, died in 1896
1829 Milo Smith Hascall, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1904
1829 Robert Brown Potter, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1887
1829 John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1888
1829 George Peabody Estey, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1881
1829 Carl Schurz, Major General Union volunteers and journalist
1829 William Anderson Pile, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1889
1829 John Potts Slough, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1867
1828 John Beatty, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1914
1828 Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1890
1828 James Birdseye MacPherson, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1864
1828 Jacob Dolson Cox, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1900
1828 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 George Leonard Andrews, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 William Alexander Hammond, Brig General Union Army, died in 1900
1828 Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 Edward Saloman, Gov, Union, died in 1909
1828 Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1885
1828 John Rutter Brooke, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 James William Reilly, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1905
1828 Adin Ballou Underwood, Bvt Major General Union volunteers
1828 Jefferson Columbus Davis, Bvt Mjr General Union Army, died in 1879
1828 Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1894
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