918 results for “World War” (93 ms)
Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (died 1979)
Rasim Delić, Bosnian general and convicted war criminal (born 1949)
Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army.
French Revolutionary Wars: Severely outnumbered French forces repulsed an Ottoman attack at the Battle of Mount Tabor in present-day Israel.
The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
American Revolutionary War: Colbert's Raid: A Spanish garrison under Captain Jacobo du Breuil defeat British irregulars at Arkansas Post.
Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (died 1941)
The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single shot being fired and no casualties incurred.
The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of the Khmer Republic, ending the Cambodian Civil War and establishing the socialist state of Democratic Kampuchea.
George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars.
Napoleonic Wars: After a three-day chase, the French ship D'Hautpoul was captured off Puerto Rico by a British squadron under Alexander Cochrane.
French Revolutionary Wars: British forces commanded by Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby invaded the Spanish colonial port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.