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2009 An arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur

2009 Former Serbian President Milan Mulutinovic is acquitted of war crimes during the Kosovo War

2009 Israel declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza War, effective January 18, as Hamas declares a ceasefire of its own

2008 Radovan Karadzic arrested on war crimes after a 12 year manhunt

2004 American military deaths in the Iraq War reach 1,000

2000 Leo Gordon, actor/writer, War and Remembrance, dies at 78

2000 Robert Cormier, writer, The Chocolate War, dies at 75

1998 Martha Gellhorn, war reporter (Reuthers), dies at 89

1998 Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondents, dies at 89

1997 Robert Mitchum, actor, Winds of War, dies at 79

1996 2 U.S. Marine helicopters collided during joint U.S. and British war games

1996 Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war

1996 Arleigh Burke, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War, dies at 94

1995 Colin Gray, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, dies at 80

1994 Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87

1994 John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73

1994 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington D.C.)

1994 John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71

1994 Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56

1994 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72

1994 Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia

1994 El Salvador's 1st President election following 12-year-old civil war

1994 Harold Schneider, U.S. producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55

1993 Wensley Pithey, actor (Oh What a Lovely War), dies at 79

1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war

1993 Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90

1992 John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51

1992 John Hancock, actor (Ike-Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51

1992 England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war

1992 George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies

1991 Victory parade held in Washington D.C., Persian Gulf War

1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war

1991 Angola's civil war ends

1991 U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution

1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"

1991 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated

1991 U.S. and allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops

1991 Bush and U.S. Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal

1991 U.S.S.R. announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War U.S. calls the plan unacceptable

1991 U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq

1990 Bush proposes U.S. - Iraq meeting to avoid war

1990 Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war"

1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (for U.S. - Iraq war)

1990 Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83

1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War

1990 Truce in Nicaragua's civil war

1990 Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85

1989 F Fischer, German war criminal (4, Two of Breda), dies

1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice

1989 Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73

1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland

1989 German war criminals Fischer and Aus der Funten freed

1988 Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war

1988 Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war

1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)

1988 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war

1988 Samuel L Mendel, oldest U.S. war veteran, dies at 104

1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war

1988 New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs

1988 Neil Ronald Jones, science fiction writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78

1987 Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal, dies at 88

1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot

1987 U.S. deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to U.S.S.R.

1986 Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62

1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary

1986 Netherlands and Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)

1985 International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize

1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"

1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter

1983 Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured

1983 Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli

1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war

1983 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act

1983 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65

1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia

1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C.

1982 King Vidor, director (War and Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment

1982 President Reagan proclaims war against drugs

1982 Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"

1982 Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war

1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor and Coventry were hit in Falkland war

1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men

1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war

1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)

1981 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial

1981 FC Terborgh, Reijnier Flaes, lawyer/writer (Turkish War), dies at 79

1980 Honduras and El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)

1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran

1980 Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins

1980 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years

1980 "Billy Bishop Goes to War" closes at Morosco New York City after 12 performances

1980 "Billy Bishop Goes to War" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 12 performances

1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds

1979 Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal (4 of Breda), dies at 71

1979 Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90

1979 War between North and South Yemen begins

1978 Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed

1978 War criminal Pieter Menten freed

1978 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past

1978 Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78

1978 High Council destroys judgment against war criminal Pieter Menten

1977 War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years

1977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)

1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

1976 Victor Stanitsin, actor (War and Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79

1976 War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich

1976 War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing

1976 Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals

1975 Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77

1975 Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war

1974 Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54

1974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters

1974 WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested

1974 Arganat Commission publishes report concerning Yom Kippur War

1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended

1974 "Monitor" (U.S. Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras North Carolina

1973 Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war

1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus

1973 Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War

1973 Jordan enters Yom Kippur war

1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel

1973 Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79

1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War

1973 U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft

1973 President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

1971 John and Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US

1971 John and Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in New York City

1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington

1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes

1970 Stefan Andres, post-World War II writer, novelist, 'Wir sind Utopia', dies at 64

1970 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War

1970 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria

1969 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John and Yoko" posters begin appearing

1969 John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War

1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War

1969 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war

1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins

1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)

1969 Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal

1969 U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970

1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die

1968 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West-Berlin

1967 Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war

1967 Michiyoshi Ohara, wrestler, WAR/NJPW

1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon

1967 Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade

1967 John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50

1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with United Nations help

1967 6 day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begin

1967 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1967 U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War

1967 In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time

1967 U.S. troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War

1966 Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68

1966 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89

1966 El Samurai, wrestler, WAR/NJPW

1966 U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1966 In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time

1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York City

1966 Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia

1966 Stephen Mailer, born in New York City, actor, Red Meat, League of Their Own, War and Love

1966 June Walker, actress (War Nurses), dies at 65

1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War

1965 15,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington D.C.

1965 Bernard M Baruch, President advisor (termed "Cold War"), dies at 94

1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution

1965 "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 125 performances

1964 "Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 125 performances

1964 Sandra Bullock, born in Washington D.C., actress, Speed, Net, Love and War

1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty

1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"

1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler

1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler

1962 Gilby Clarke, U.S. pop guitarist, Guns n' Roses-Civil War

1962 Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56

1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres

1962 Algerian War ends after 7 years (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees

1962 France and Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war

1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel

1961 SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel

1961 Israel begins Adolf Eichmann WW II war crimes trial

1961 Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel

1960 Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties

1959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117

1959 Dale Buisand and Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War

1959 John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111

1959 Tonga, Uliuli Fifita, wrestler, WCW/WAR/WWF, Ming, Haku, Islanders

1958 Shiro Koshinaka, wrestler, WAR/NJPW

1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington

1957 Indonesia proclaims end to state of war

1956 France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria

1956 Tatsutoshi Goto, wrestler, WAR/NJPW

1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed

1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking

1956 Kuniaki Kobayashi, wrestler, WAR/NJPW

1955 President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war

1955 Russia ends state of war with Germany

1955 U.S.S.R. ends state of war with German Federal Republic

1954 Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War

1953 Arthur Kent, newscaster [Scud Stud], NBC-Gulf War coverage

1953 Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom

1953 Ken Burns, epic documentary maker, Civil War, Baseball

1953 John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War

1953 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish General/Minister of War, dies at 79

1952 President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war

1952 Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death

1952 Chick Vennera, born in Herkimer, New York, actor, High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War

1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom

1951 President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany

1951 Orson Scott Card, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War

1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany

1951 President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany

1951 Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair and Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged

1951 During Korean War, U.S. / U.N. forces recapture Seoul

1951 Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed

1950 U.N. troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas

1950 Spanish dictator Franco ends war in Gibraltar

1950 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War

1950 In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place

1950 Henry Lewsis Stimson, U.S. minister of War/Governor-General, dies

1950 Victoria Tennant, born in London, England, All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War

1950 U.N. troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul

1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death

1950 Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st U.S. fatality in Korean War

1950 1st time U.S. and North Korean forces clash in Korean War

1950 Yvan Goll, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe', dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

1950 Anthony Lloyd, born in England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, gay rights supporter, voted against the Iraq War and against renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System

1950 U.S.S.R. demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes

1949 Greeks civil war ends

1949 Morris "B B" Dickerson, born in Torrence, California, bassist, War, Low Rider, Outlaw

1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends

1949 Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies

1949 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio

1948 Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship

1948 Hideki Tojo, Japan Prime Minister 1941 - 1944 and 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64

1948 Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged

1948 Lonnie Jordan, born in San Diego, California, rock keyboardist/vocalist, War

1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal

1948 Bernard M. Baruch introduces term "Cold War"

1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life

1948 Great Kabuki, Akihisa Yone Yoshi Mera, wrestler, NWA/NJPW/WAR/SWS

1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens

1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army

1947 Man O' War, racehorse, dies

1947 U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense

1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi

1946 1st trial against nazi war criminals in Neurenberg

1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials

1946 Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged

1946 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg

1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg

1946 Robert L Asprin, U.S., sci-fi writer, Thieves World, Cold Cash War

1946 International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals

1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals

1946 John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62

1946 Howard Scott, born in San Pedro, California, rock guitarist and vocalist, War, Cisco Kid

1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg

1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung

1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged

1945 U.S.S.R. declares war against Japan in WW II

1945 David Dukes, actor, Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War

1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured

1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa

1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany

1945 Egypt and Syria declares war on nazi-Germany

1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties

1945 Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany

1945 Eddie Slovik, 1st U.S. executed for desertion since Civil War at 25

1944 Johan van Doorn, Johnny the Selfkicker, Dutch poet, War and Porridge

1944 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany

1944 In World War II, U.S. troops secure Saipan as Japan fell

1944 Yankees, Dodgers and Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yankees-1 and Giants-0

1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war

1944 "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (New York City only)

1944 During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy

1943 Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38

1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany

1943 U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry

1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

1943 Hitler declares "Total War"

1943 William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces

1942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals

1942 In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began

1942 Jack Singer, U.S. war reporter (Wasp), dies

1942 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy

1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy

1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head

1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania

1942 Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany and Japan

1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S.

1942 Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort

1942 U.S. auto factories switch from commercial to war production

1942 Edwin Starr, U.S. singer, War

1942 Allied Conference for war trials

1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St. James Declaration

1942 National War Labor Board created

1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace

1941 Dutch government in London declares war on Italy

1941 Germany and Italy declare war on US

1941 China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy

1941 London: Dutch government declares Japan the war

1941 U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan, U.S. enters WW II

1941 Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet

1941 USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though U.S. is not in war

1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan

1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)

1941 Finland declares war on Soviet Union

1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II

1941 Ben Murphy, born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, actor, Name of the Game, Winds of War

1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets

1940 Phil Ochs, born in El Paso, Texas, anti-war folk singer, Joe Hill, War is Over

1940 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in U.S. history

1940 Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta

1940 Italy declares war on France and Britain during WW II

1940 Eric Burdon, rock singer, House of Rising Sun-Animals, War

1940 Richard Monaco, U.S., sci-fi author, Grail War, Final Quest

1940 Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable

1940 Anne Campbell, born in England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Cambridge, portrayed by Harriet Walter in 10 Days to War, a BBC drama on events leading up to the Iraq War

1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain

1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain

1939 Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany

1939 Canada declares war on Germany

1939 In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany

1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe

1939 South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany

1939 Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Netherlands in a State of War

1939 Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland

1939 Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada

1939 Charles Miller, rock flutist/saxophonist, War

1939 U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain

1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco

1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico

1938 Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds"

1938 Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"

1938 Japan declares war on China

1937 Hitler informs his military leader of his intentions of going to war

1937 George AA Alting van Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73

1937 China declares war on Japan

1937 69th Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6

1937 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4

1937 63rd Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 2:03.2

1937 Elihu Root, U.S. Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91

1936 Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan

1936 Spanish Civil War begins, General Francisco Franco led uprising

1936 Military uprising under General Franco/begins Spanish civil war

1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends

1935 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay

1935 M. Emmet Walsh, Ogdensburg, New York, actor, Wildcats, War Party

1934 Norman Schwarzkopf, born in Trenton, New Jersey, nicknamed, Stormin' Norman, The Bear, Commander, Coalition Forces in the Gulf War, 1991, retired U.S. Army General

1934 Heihatjiro Tojo, Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War), dies

1934 David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War

1934 Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor, Winds of War

1933 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war

1933 Paraguay declares war on Bolivia

1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die

1932 Milly Vitale, born in Rome, actress, 7 Little Foys, War and Peace, Juggler

1931 Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan)

1931 Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable

1931 Frederic Raphael, writer, After the War, California Time

1931 James Tolkan Calumet, born in Michigan, actor, Weekend War, Leap of Faith

1930 Barbara Ruick, born in Pasadena, California, actress, Apache War Smoke, Tu Para Mi

1930 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81

1930 Polly Bergen, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, actress, Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk

1929 President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war

1929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government

1928 Veijo Meri, born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia, writer, novelist, poet, focuses on absurdity of war, published biography of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war

1928 Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at 66

1928 Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, Boer war, WW I, dies at 66

1927 Augusto Sandino begins 5 -year war against U.S. occupation of Nicaragua

1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war

1926 Alison Lurie, U.S., novelist, War Between the Tates

1926 John R[obert] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, White Regiment, Lizard War

1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton

1926 Arthur Hockaday, director-Gen, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1926 Richard DeVos, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, World War II veteran, businessman, author, billionaire, co-founder Amway - now Alticor, owner Orlando Magic, wrote 'Hope from My Heart: Ten Lessons For Life'

1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords

1925 U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts

1925 Belgian and U.S. sign treaty about war debts

1925 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France

1925 John Keith Laumer, Anthony LeBaron, U.S., science fiction author, Retief's War

1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76

1925 Jihad-Saint war against Turkish government

1924 Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai

1923 Andrew Duggan, actor, Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War

1923 Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war

1923 Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families and prisoners of war

1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague

1922 Leo V Gordon, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War

1922 Norodom Sihanouk, king/president/prem Cambodia, My War with the CIA

1922 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot

1922 John Weidner, war hero

1922 John Farr, born in Nottingham, England, Sir John Arnold Farr, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Harborough 1959 - 1992, served with Royal Navy during World War II

1922 Vittorio Gassman, born in Genoa, Italy, actor, War and Peace

1922 Carl Amery, born in Munich, Germany, writer, used pen name Christian Anton Mayer, studied at University of Munich, participant in Gruppe 47, a post-World War II literary association

1921 Ian Percival, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Southport, served in World War II in North Africa and Burma, earned rank of Major

1920 Ma, the Benovelent, Chinese muslim rebel (holy war), dies

1920 Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies

1920 Man O'War's last race and win

1920 Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace

1920 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2

1920 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6

1920 Antony Duff, born in England, served Royal Navy during World War II, Deputy Governor of Southern Rhodesia, diplomat, Director-General of Military Intelligence, section 5, 1985 - 1988, the United Kingdom's internal security service

1919 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)

1919 Finland declares war on bolsheviks

1919 Richard Mason, born near Manchester, England, author, learned Japanese in World War II, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote 'The Wind Cannot Read', 'The Fever Tree', 'The World of Suzie Wong'

1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain

1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000

1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt

1918 Barry Morse, actor, Fugitive-Lt Philip Gerard, Winds of War

1918 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6

1918 President Hoover calls for "wheatless" and "meatless" days for war effort

1917 U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I

1917 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, U.S., sci-fi author, Earth War

1917 Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey

1917 China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I

1917 Robert Mitchum, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, actor, Winds of War, North and South

1917 Robert Cornthwaite, born in St. Helen, Oregon, actor, Thing, War of the Worlds

1917 U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1917 President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany

1917 Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465

1917 Paul Rogers, British actor, Looking Glass War, Billy Budd

1917 Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war

1916 David Lloyd George forms British war government

1916 Greece declares war on Germany

1916 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France

1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania

1916 Germany declares war on Romania

1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I

1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary

1916 Germany declares war against Portugal

1915 Aristide Briand forms French war government

1915 Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria

1915 Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria

1915 Italy declares war on Turkey

1915 Herman Wouk, New York City, novelist, Caine Mutiny, Winds of War

1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I

1915 John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp

1915 Orson Welles, Kenosha, Wisconsin, actor, Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds

1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war

1914 Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero courtier writer

1914 Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war

1914 Colin Gray, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, fought Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Channel Front

1914 Great Britain and France and Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 Russia declares Turkey the war

1914 Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey

1914 Russia declares war on Turkey

1914 German troops take Antwerp in World War I

1914 Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War

1914 U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven

1914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I

1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary, leading to WW I

1914 Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary

1914 France declares war on Austria-Hungary

1914 Montenegro declares war on Germany

1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia and Serbia

1914 Serbia declares war against Germany

1914 Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I

1914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany

1914 Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War

1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I

1914 Great Britain declares war on Germany

1914 Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)

1914 Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I

1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize

1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

1914 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia

1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum

1913 Hugo Pos, Suriname/Netherlands WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo

1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses

1913 Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War

1913 Romania declares war on Bulgaria

1913 Serbia and Greece declare war on Bulgaria

1913 2nd Balkan War begins

1913 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops

1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London

1913 Les Tremayne, London, actor, Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds

1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War

1912 Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war

1912 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming

1912 Beginning of 1st Balkan War

1912 Italo-Turkish war ends

1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declares war on Turkey

1912 1st Balkan War begins - Montenegro declares war on Turkey

1912 Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War

1912 War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania

1911 Italy declares war on Turkey

1911 Italy declares war on Turkey

1911 British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany

1911 Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany

1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War

1911 Patrick Maitland, born in England, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, journalist, World War II Special Correspondent, Member of Parliament for Lanark

1910 Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War and Peace), dies at 82

1910 Arthur Hazlerigg, born in England, Lord Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, awarded Military Cross, judge, Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire, soldier, served during World War II, life peer

1909 Ferdinand H Aus der Funten, German war criminal, Breda 4

1909 Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, French Minister of War (1899-1900), dies at 79

1909 Neil R[onald] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, Space War, Twin Worlds

1908 Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal, 4 of Breda

1908 John Mills, England, actor, Big Sleep, King Rat, War and Peace

1907 Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget

1906 Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations

1906 Stefan Andres, born in Germany, post-World War II writer, novelist

1905 Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent

1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War

1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South

1904 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)

1904 Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War and Peace), dies

1904 Japan and Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships

1904 Japan declares war on Russia

1904 Russo-Japanese War begins

1904 Russian-Japanese war began

1903 John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, official war painter

1903 Cornerstone laid for U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C.

1902 Henry Steele Commager, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, historian, Atlas of Civil War

1902 F R Boschvogel, French LJ Ramon, Flemish writer, War of Worlds

1902 Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal

1901 Army War College forms in Washington D.C.

1901 Arleigh Burke, born in Boulder, Colorado, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War

1901 Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier, KVP, 1959-63

1901 Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82

1900 Heinrich Himmler, head of Gestapo, war criminal

1900 June Walker, born in Illinois, actress, War Nurse, Unforgiven

1899 South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England

1899 South African Boers declare war on Great Britain

1899 Bruce Catton, U.S., historian and writer, Civil War

1899 Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal

1899 Treaty of Paris ratifies ends war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US

1899 Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate

1899 Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75

1898 Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam

1898 U.S. forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war

1898 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed

1898 U.S. flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)

1898 1st U.S. Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War

1898 U.S. Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War

1898 U.S. declares war on Spain over Cuba

1898 Spain declares war on U.S. rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba

1898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship

1898 Spanish-American War begins

1898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration

1897 Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer, Fascism is War!

1896 Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's minister of War

1896 Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic, Undertones of War

1896 England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)

1896 Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72

1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)

1895 John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man

1895 Cuban war for independence begins

1895 King Vidor, director, War and Peace, Stella Dallas

1894 Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist, War Against War!

1892 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor, 1930s, war criminal

1891 Yvan Goll, born in Saint-Die, France, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe'

1891 William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies

1891 William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71

1890 Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86

1889 Buck Jones, Charles F Gebhart, U.S. actor, War Horse

1889 Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany

1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war

1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War

1884 Naval War College forms in Newport RI

1884 Juan B Alberdi, Figarillo, Arg writer (Crime of War), dies at 74

1884 Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72

1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt

1881 Boers and Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war

1879 Dwight Filley Davis, U.S. Sect of War/donated tennis' Davis Cup

1879 British Zulu War begins: Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand

1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

1878 Greece declares war on Turkey

1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56

1877 Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War

1877 Crazy Horse, Tashunka Witko, last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27

1877 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War, 1931-34

1877 Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania

1876 Montenegro declares war on Turkey

1876 Serbia declares war on Turkey

1876 U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap

1873 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War

1872 Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War

1870 Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser, Cold War

1870 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins

1870 Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War

1870 Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War

1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War 1861 - 1865, dies at 55

1868 Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)

1868 John D. Rockefeller begins anti oil war

1867 Henry Lewis Stimson, U.S. minister of War, 1911-13

1867 President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

1866 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war

1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over

1866 Italy declares war on Austria

1866 President Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia

1865 S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed

1865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas

1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri

1865 Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War

1864 Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War

1864 General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor

1864 George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen, PTT, Dutch Minister of War, 1918-20

1864 Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida

1864 2nd German-Danish war begins

1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va

1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends

1863 John Buchanan Floyd, U.S. Minister of War (1857-60), Confederate general, dies

1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1863 War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops

1863 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies

1863 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army

1863 War Department authorizes Mass governor to recruit black troops

1863 Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia

1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns

1862 Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die

1862 Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)

1862 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia

1862 Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves

1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War

1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River

1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order

1861 Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War, 1922-24

1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla

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 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins

1861 Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought

1861 War Department decrees the KA and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers

1861 Samuel D. Riddle, horse owner, Man 'o War

1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV

1861 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Virginia

1861 British territorial waters and ports off-limits during Civil War

1861 Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"

1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War

1861 Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium

1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between U.S. and Confederacy

1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)

1861 Fort Sumter, South Carolina is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War

1861 Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform

1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC

1859 U.S. recognizes Liberal government in Mexico's War of Reform

1859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform

1858 War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz

1857 Felix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65

1856 Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925 - 1929, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929

1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War

1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War

1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease

1855 Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Mac-Mahon

1854 Crimean War: British and French defeat Russian force of 50,000

1854 Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die

1854 During the Crimean War, Britain and France declare war on Russia

1853 August Belmont, Jr., breeder, Man 'O War, founder, New York Jockey Club

1852 John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies

1851 Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War

1849 Friedrich von Bernhardi, Germany historian, Germany and the Next War

1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts

1848 Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo

1848 Mexico gives Texas to U.S., ending the war

1848 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War

1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; U.S. acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million

1847 Heihatjiro Tojo, Japan, Admiral, Russian-Japanese war

1847 American-Mexican war: U.S. General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

1846 General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War

1846 U.S. declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins

1846 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas

1846 Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India

1845 Mexican - U.S. war starts

1843 Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter, War and Peace

1842 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959

1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War

1842 Great Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war

1842 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma

1841 Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist

1839 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks

1839 Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800), dies at 89

1839 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies

1839 Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick

1838 Mexico declares war on France

1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter

1836 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru

1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola

1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates

1833 Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88

1832 Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, British Governor of Natal, Ireland-Boer war

1832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War

1832 Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist

1831 Julius Rodenberg, Levy, German writer, Kriegs-Songs of War and Peace

1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain

1830 Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French general/Minister of War, 1899-1900

1829 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war

1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,

1828 Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,

1828 Russia declares war on Turkey to support Greece's independence

1827 Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independ

1825 Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics

1824 U.S. War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs

1823 Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary War, Union

1823 Robert J Fruin, historian, 80 year war

1822 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61

1821 Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secretary War, Confederacy

1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South

1820 Florence Nightingale, Florence, Italy, nurse, Crimean War

1819 Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary War, Union

1818 Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier

1818 Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian Field Marshal/War Minister, dies

1818 George Wythe Randolph, Secretary War Confederacy

1818 Jeremy F Gilmer, Major Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept

1817 U.S. soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War

1817 1st Seminole War begins in Florida

1817 Leroy Pope Walker, U.S. lawyer/Confederate minister of War, 1861

1815 Anna Ella Carroll, U.S., civil war writer, Reconstruction

1815 James Alexander Seddon, Secretary War, Confederacy

1815 Austria declares war on realm of Naples

1815 U.S. declares war on Algiers for taking U.S. prisoners and demanding tribute

1814 Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed

1814 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, U.S. Secretary of War, 1861 - 1865

1814 Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812

1813 British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812

1813 British take Ft. Niagara in War of 1812

1813 British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus

1813 Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussian Minister of War (1807-10), dies in battle

1812 U.S. forces led by General Hull invade Canada, War of 1812

1812 War of 1812 begins as U.S. declares war against Britain

1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812

1811 John Archibald Campbell, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy

1811 Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War, Confederacy

1809 John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon

1809 Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy

1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war

1809 Franz I of Austria declares war on France

1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812

1806 John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War, Union

1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with U.S. after war over tribute

1803 Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy and Switzerland

1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends

1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London

1801 Tripoli declares war on U.S. for refusing tribute

1799 George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in hearts of his countrymen"

1799 Austria declares war on France

1799 Simon Cameron, Secretary War Union

1798 Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General Confederate Army

1796 Spain declares war on England

1795 Henry Havelock, British soldier, War in Afghanistan 1838-39

1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France

1793 France declares war on England and Netherlands

1792 France declares war on Prussia

1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia and Sardinia

1792 France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars

1791 Felix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance

1789 U.S. War Department established a regular army

1789 Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service

1789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses

1788 Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90

1788 Austria declares war on Russia

1787 Turkey declares war on Russia

1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris

1783 Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War)

1783 Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War

1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends

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

1781 James Lawrence, naval hero, War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!"

1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War

1780 England declares war on Netherlands

1780 Britain declares war on Holland

1780 Charleston, South Carolina falls to British (Revolutionary War)

1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain

1779 In support of the U.S., Spain declares war on England

1779 War of Bavarian Succession ends

1779 Stephen Decatur, U.S., naval hero, War of 1812

1778 Prussia declares war on Austria

1778 England declares war on France

1776 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France

1776 Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War

1776 British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War

1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured

1774 Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War)

1774 Heinrich A Fouque, Prussian general (7 year war), dies at 76

1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1772 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI

1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac

1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England

1763 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator

1762 England declares war on Spain and Naples

1761 Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Scot/Russian minister of War

1761 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War

1761 Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War

1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)

1757 Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French and Indian War)

1757 German Diet declares war on Prussia

1756 England and France meet in war

1756 Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War

1756 England declares war on France

1756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French and Indian War)

1755 Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War, 1807-10

1755 British General E. Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War

1755 E Braddock, British Gen, mortally wounded during French and Indian War

1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft. Necessity (7 Years' War)

1752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War

1750 Stephen Girard, bailed out U.S. bonds during War of 1812

1750 Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War, 1798-1800, 1803-06

1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Austrian Succession

1748 Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general

1747 Kasamir Pulaski, U.S. general in the Revolutionary War

1745 Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war

1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England

1743 Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War

1742 Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General

1741 Benedict Arnold, U.S. general turn traitor, Revolutionary War

1739 England declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear

1739 England declares war on Spain

1738 France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey

1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)

1738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter, lead the Green Mtn Boys

1733 France declares war on emperor Charles VI

1729 Jean de Neufville, Dutch / U.S. merchant, started 4th English war

1724 Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War

1721 Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War

1718 England declares war on Spain

1718 France declares war on Spain

1715 Prussia declares war on Sweden

1714 Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine

1713 King Frederik Willem declares war on Brandenburg-Prussia

1704 War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar

1702 Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne and Bavaria

1702 War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England and France

1702 England and Netherlands declares war on France and Spain

1700 Turkey declares war on Russia

1697 Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War

1697 Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)

1697 King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick

1689 France declares war on England

1689 English King Willem III declares war on France

1689 French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain

1689 German Parliament declares war on France

1688 French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands

1688 France declares war on German

1687 Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians

1676 1st war between American colonists and Indians ends in New England

1675 New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians

1674 German Parliament declares war on France

1672 France declares war on Netherlands

1672 England declares war on Netherlands

1668 1st peace of Aken: ends French-Spanish war in The Netherlands

1668 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution

1667 Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War

1667 Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland and Russia

1666 France declares war on England and Munster

1665 English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands

1663 Osman declares war on Austria

1658 Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought

1652 England declares war on Netherlands

1648 Treaty of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire

1648 Spain and Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending Tachtigjarige War

1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament

1639 Treaty of Berwick: End 1st Bishop war

1635 Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France

1635 France declares war on Spain

1624 England declares war on Spain

1622 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor, Lambs' War

1620 French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII

1618 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War

1616 Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War

1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war

1614 Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends

1613 Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark and Sweden

1608 Thomas Fuller, England, literary, History of the Holy War

1600 Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian, Matters of State and War

1595 French king Henri IV declares war on Spain

1589 Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, Lieutenant Colonel (80 year war), dies at about 49

1574 France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots

1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out

1567 War of Religion - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX

1557 England declares war on France

1549 France declares war on England

1538 Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V and King French I

1529 Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons

1528 England and France declare war on Emperor Charles V

1525 German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war

1524 Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest

1521 French king Francois I declares war on Spain

1509 France declares war on Venice

1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)

1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses

1455 Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St. Albans)

1453 2nd Battle at Castillon: France beats English, end of hundred year war

1450 French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War

1419 French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War

1409 Austrian civil war ends

1379 End of Gelderse war victory

1340 In the Hundred Years War, British fleet destroys French at Sluys

1303 Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War

1264 Baron's War fought in England

1190 Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies

1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time

585 War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse


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