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#181 Posted : 15 July 2016 09:58:22

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13th Jul 1534

Tabriz in northwestern Persia is captured by the Ottoman armies.

13th Jul 1643

The Royalist troops under Lord Wilmot defeat the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller in the Battle of Roundway Down.

13th Jul 1878


The Balkans are divided amongst European powers by the Congress of Berlin.

13th Jul 1941


A mutual aid pact is signed by Britain and the Soviet Union giving the means for Britain to send war material to the Soviets.

13th Jul 1954

In Geneva, an accord on Indochina is reached dividing Vietnam into two countries, North and South along the 17th parallel.

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#182 Posted : 16 July 2016 09:44:30

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14th Jul 1456

The Ottomans are defeated by the Hungarians at the Battle of Belgrade.

14th Jul 1536

The Treaty of Lyons is signed by France and Portugal aligning themselves against Spain.

14th Jul 1940

German bombers attack Suez, Egypt, from bases in Crete.

14th Jul 1945

Japanese home islands are bombarded for the first time by American battleships and cruisers.

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#183 Posted : 17 July 2016 22:33:20

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15th Jul 1099

Jerusalem falls to the Crusaders.

15th Jul 1410

The Teutonic knights are defeated by the Poles and Lituanians at Tannenberg,
Prussia.

15th Jul 1813

Representatives of Napoleon Bonaparte meet with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms.

15th Jul 1958

5000 US Marines are sent to Lebanon to keep the peace.

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#184 Posted : 18 July 2016 09:36:04

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16th Jul 1774

The Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji is signed by Russia and the Ottoman Empire ending their six year war.

16th Jul 1918

The Bolsheviks murder Czar Nicholas and his family at Ekaterinburg, Russia.

16th Jul 1940

Preparations for the invasion of England is ordered by Hitler.

16th Jul 1944

Vilnius, Lithuania is occupied by Soviet troops in their drive towards Germany.

16th Jul 1945

The US detonates the first atomic bomb in a test.

16th Jul 1969

Apollo 11 blasts off heading for a landing on the moon.

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#185 Posted : 18 July 2016 10:05:48

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17th Jul 1453

At Castillon, France defeats England ending the Hundred Years War.

17th Jul 1799

Aboukir, Egypt is captured from the French by Ottoman forces supported by the British.

17th Jul 1815

Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the British at Rochefort, France.

17th Jul 1944

Rommel is wounded when his car is strafed by an allied fighter in France.

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#186 Posted : 19 July 2016 22:10:25

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18th Jul 1812

The Treaty of Orebro is signed by Britain, making peace with Russia and Sweden.

18th Jul 1936

The Spanish Civil War starts with General Franco of Spain’s revolt against the Republican government.

18th Jul 1942

The German ME262, the first jet propelled aircraft to fly in combat, makes its first flight.

18th Jul 1971

New Zealand and Australia announce their troops will be pulled out of Vietnam.

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#187 Posted : 19 July 2016 22:19:02

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19th Jul 1545

Mary Rose capsizes as it leaves to battle the French, watched by King Henry VIII.

19th Jul 1870

France delares war of Prussia.

19th Jul 1942

Due to American anti submarine countermeasures, German U-boats are withdrawn from positions off the US Atlantic coast.

19th Jul 1943

Rome is attacked fro the first time by more that 150 B17 and 112 B24 bombers.

19th Jul 1975

Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts dock in orbit.

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#188 Posted : 22 July 2016 22:28:35

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20th Jul 1402

The Ottoman Turks are defeated by Tamerlane’s Mongols at Angora

20th Jul 1588

Spanish Armada sets sail from Corunna

20th Jul 1944

An assassination attempt by German officers at Rastenburg fails, wounding Adolf Hilter.

20th Jul 1950

Superior North Korean forces push back The US Army’s Task Force Smith.

20th Jul 1969

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon.

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#189 Posted : 24 July 2016 10:19:55

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21st Jul 1667

The Second Anglo-Dutch War ends with the Peace of Breda, Dutch New Amsterdam ceded to the English.

21st Jul 1711

The Treaty of Pruth signed by Russia and Turkey, ending the Russo-Turkish War.

21st Jul 1718

The Treaty of Passarowitz is signed by Austria, Venice and the Ottoman Empire.

21st Jul 1798


The Arab Mameluke warriors are defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of the Pyramids.

21st Jul 1941

Japan demands military control of Indochina, France accepts.

21st Jul 1944


In the Marianas, US Army and Marine forces land on Guam.

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#190 Posted : 24 July 2016 10:30:03

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22nd Jul 1298

William Wallace is defeated by KIng Edward I at Falkirk.

22nd Jul 1812


Duke of Wellington defeats the French at Salamanca, Spain.

22nd Jul 1938

Jewish Germans are issued special identity cards by The Third Reich.

22nd Jul 1943

Palermo, Sicily surrenders to General George Patton‘s Seventh Army.

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#191 Posted : 25 July 2016 22:40:24

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23rd Jul 1793

French garrison at Mainz, Germany falls to the Prussians.

23rd Jul 1894

Korean imperial palace is taken over by Japanese troops.

23rd Jul 1944

The German army retreats as Soviet troops take Lublin, Poland.

23rd Jul 1962

The US are forbidden from invading eastern Laos by the Geneva Conference on Laos.

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#192 Posted : 28 July 2016 22:10:05

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24th Jul 1567

Mary Queen of Scots is imprisoned and forced to abdicate her throne to her 1 year old son James VI.

24th Jul 1704

Gibraltar is taken from the Spanish by Admiral George Rooke.

24th Jul 1941

Japanese actions in Indochina is denounced by the US Government.

24th Jul 1942

German troops capture the Soviet city of Rostov.

24th Jul 1950

US Fifth Air Force relocates from Japan to Korea.

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#193 Posted : 28 July 2016 22:13:29

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Thank you for keeping this going Alan, I do enjoy these posts.
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#194 Posted : 28 July 2016 22:22:16

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Nemesis wrote:
Thank you for keeping this going Alan, I do enjoy these posts.


Thanks Nem, I actually enjoy putting these snippets of information together, learning a lot in the process too...

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Alan
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#195 Posted : 28 July 2016 22:24:02

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25th Jul 1394

The general expulsion of Jews from France is decreed by Charles VI of France.

25th Jul 1564

Maximillian II becomes emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

25th Jul 1759

The French army at Fort Niagara in Canada is defeated by British forces.

25th Jul 1799

Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.

25th Jul 1894

The British steamer Kowshing, carrying Chinese reinforcements to Korea is sunk by Japanese forces.

25th Jul 1943

Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup.

25th Jul 1944

Allied forces begin the breakthrough of German lines in Normandy.

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#196 Posted : 31 July 2016 14:18:11

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26th Jul 1758

The French Fortress of Louisbourg is captured by British forces after a seven week siege.

26th Jul 1759


Fort Ticonderoga in New York is relinquished by the French to the British.

26th Jul 1794

The Austrian army is defeated by the French at the Battle of Fleurus, France.

26th Jul 1918

Edward Mannock, Britain’s top war ace is shot down by ground fire on the Western Front.

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#197 Posted : 31 July 2016 14:35:43

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27th Jul 1214

Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England at the Battle of Bouvines in France.

27th Jul 1586

Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England from Virgnia.

27th Jul 1689

The Scottish Jacobites experience a victory at the Battle of Killiecrankie.

27th Jul 1778

In the first Battle of Ushant, British and French fleets fight to a standoff.

27th Jul 1909

A world record for staying aloft in an airplane is set by Orville Wright, 1 hour 12 minutes and 40 seconds.

27th Jul 1914

Streets of Dublin are invaded by British troops to begin the process of disarming Irish rebels.

27th Jul 1944

The liberation of Guam is completed by US troops.

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Alan
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#198 Posted : 31 July 2016 23:36:30

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28th Jul 1540

Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard. Tomas Cromwell is beheaded on Tower Hill.

28th Jul 1914

War on Serbia is declared by Austria-Hungary, beginning WW1.

28th Jul 1941

Japanese army lands on the coast of Cochin, China.

28th Jul 1945

13 people are killed when a B25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building.

28th Jul 2005

An end to its 30 year armed campaign in Northern Ireland is announced by the IRA.

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#199 Posted : 02 August 2016 22:45:25

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29th Jul 1588

The Spanish Armada is sighted off the coast of England

29th Jul 1848

In Tipperary, Ireland, a rebellion against British rule is put down.

29th Jul 1921

Hitler becomes the president of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party. (Nazis).

29th Jul 1945

The USS Indianapolis is sunk by a Japanese submarine after delivering parts of the first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian. The survivors were adrift of two days before help arrives.

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#200 Posted : 02 August 2016 22:55:49

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30th Jul 1799

The French garrison at Mantua, Italy, surrenders to the Austrians.

30th Jul 1864

Union Troops explode a mine underneath Confederate trenches but fail to break through. The ensuing action is known as the Battle of the Crater.

30th Jul 1940

A lull in the bombing ends the first phase of the Battle of Britain.

30th Jul 2003

In Mexico, the last of the uniquely shaped old style VW Beetles rolls off the assembly line.

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