2026 results for “World War” — type: events (220 ms)
World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
World War I: Siege of Tsingtao: A Japanese fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Sadakichi Kato imposes a blockade along the whole coastline of German Tsingtao, initiating the Siege of Tsingtao.
World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
World War II: The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
World War II: Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
World War II: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
World War II: Launch of Operation Ratweek, complicating German retreat.
World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
World War II: British and Canadian troops land on the Italian mainland. On the same day, Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano sign the Armistice of Cassibile, although it is not announced for a�
World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).