338 BC Battle of Chaeronea: Philip of Macedon defeats the principal Greek states [Est]

216 BC Battle of Cannae: Hannibal crushes a Roman Army

47 BC "Veni, Vidi, Vici"; Caesar defeats Pharnaces II of Pontus at Zela

1057 Federick of Lorraine elected Pope as Stephen X [IX] (1057-1058)

1247 HR Emperor Frederick II besieges Parma (lifted Feb 18, 1248)

1492 King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of the Spains order the expulsion of the Jews

1530 Battle of Gavinara: Spanish-Medician forces defeat the Florentines

1554 Battle of Marciano: Spanish-Medician forces defeat the Franco-Sienese near Florence

1740 First public performance of Thompson's & Arne's "Rule, Britannia!"

1770 Battle of the Pruth: Russians defeat the Turks, who lose 20,000

1776 Royal Navy lands 32,000 British & Hessians on Staten I, near New York City

1802 Napoleon Bonaparte declares himself "Consul for Life" of France

1819 First parachute jump in the US, from a balloon

1831 Dutch invade secessionist Belgium (withdraw Aug 12)

1832 Battle of the Bad Axe River: final action of the Black Hawk War, many Indians slain

1865 In the mid-Pacific, CSS 'Shenandoah' learns the Civil War ended four months earlier

1867 Wagon Box Fight: c. 30 army woodcutters defeat c. 1000 Sioux

1870 Battle of Saarbrucken: French troops capture Saarbrucken - the only victory of Napoleon III's Imperial Army in the Franco-Prussian War

1887 Rowell Hodge receives a patent for barbed wire

1903 Macedonians began an unsuccessful uprising against the Turks

1904 British capture Lhasa, Tibet

1911 President/Dictator of Haiti François C. Antoine Simon (1908-1911) flees in a US warship

1914 Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia

1914 Germany occupies Luxembourg, without a declaration of war.

1917 First deck landing on an underway warship: CDR E. H. Dunning, RNAS, in a Sopwith Pup aboard HMS 'Furious' at Scapa Flow

1928 Mussolini signs a peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1931 Albert Einstein urges scientists to refuse military work

1934 German Armed Forces swear a "Holy Oath" to the unholy Adolf Hitler

1941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia

1943 Blackett Str: JFK's 'PT-109' rammed & sunk by HIJMS 'Amagiri'.

1943 New Georgia: 27th RCT arrives to reinforce U.S. troops.

1943 Riot at Treblinka Concentration Camp

1944 Burma: Chinese troops heavily engaged at Teng-Chung.

1944 Turkey breaks diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany

1945 B-29s drop 6,600 tons of bombs on five Japanese cities.

1950 The 1st Marine Provisional Bde lands at Pusan

1964 Gulf of Tonkin: North Vietnamese patrol boats attack USS Maddox, escorting CIA gun runners

1990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, initiating the First Gulf War, "Desert Shield/Desert Storm"