43 BC BC - Phyrric senatorial victory over Marc Antony at Mutina (Modena)
1413 Venetians defeat the Hungarians in Friulia
1421 Dikes at Dort, Holland, break, 100,000 drown
1488 Caterina Sforza refuses to surrender Forli, despite threats against her children by the Orsi
1521 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther
1524 Giovanni da Verrazano enters New York Bay
1536 HRE Charles V challenges Francis I of France to personal combat, but is refused
1625 Franco-Piedmontese forces capture Gavi from the Spanish-Genoese
1793 Battle of Warsaw: Russians crush Polish insurgents
1796 Battle of Ceva ends: French defeat the Austro-Piedmontese (from 16th)
1797 British troops under Abercromby invade in Puerto Rico - will fail to capture San Juan
1808 Napoleon's Bayonne Decree authorizes seizure of American ships
1846 Battle of Cerro Gordo: Winfield Scott defeats the Mexican Army -- Learn More
1848 Battle of Visco: Austrians defeat Italian Nationalists
1861 Confederacy authorizes privateers
1861 U.S. steamer 'Star of West' captured by Confederates, Indianola, Texas
1861 Virginia is the 8th state to secede
1863 La Grange, Tn: Grierson's Raid begins, will end at Baton Rouge, LA
1864 Battle of Plymouth, NC
1864 Bread riot in Savannah, Georgia
1864 Grant suspends prisoner-of-war exchanges over Confederate refusal to treat black troops as soldiers
1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
1868 British burn and abandon Magdala, Abyssinia
1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki: Sino-Japanese War ends (1894-1895), China loses Formosa
1941 Iraq: British reinforcements arrive to defeat pro-fascist coup
1941 Yugoslavia surrenders to the Germans
1942 Burma: Anglo-Indians & Chinese are unable to hold the Japanese advance
1942 Germans begin to destroy the Sobibor Concentration Camp
1944 Chinese forces in northern Burma resume the offensive.
1944 Last Japanese offensive in China, to seize B-29 bases.
1945 Baltic: German SS 'Goya' (5,230 GRT) sunk, c. 6,000 killed
1945 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands
1945 Mussolini flees from Salo, heading for Milan
1945 U.S. forces land on Mindanao Island, Philippines.
1961 Bay of Pigs: 1,400 Cuban exiles land to overthrow Castro
1975 Khmer Rouge capture Phnom Penh, initiating a reign of terror
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