509 BC Expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome & establishment of the Republic

628 A coup deposes Persian Shah Khosrau II (590-638), who is shortly murdered and installs his son Kavadh II, who dies only weeks later

1208 Giovanni Francesco Bernardone, 22, a veteran & former P/W, receives his calling - St. Francis of Assisi

1303 Battle of Roslin: Scots defeat the English

1389 Battle at Falkoping: The Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden

1509 Pope Julius II issues a Bull against dueling.

1525 Battle of Pavia: Devastating Spanish defeat of King Francis I of France, who is captured

1527 Ferdinand of Austria crowned King of Bohemia (1526-1564), later also HRE, etc.

1582 Pope Gregory XIII initiates the reformed "Gregorian" calendar, which Catholics adopt, but Protestants take longer, & Orthodox even longer, messing up the chronology

1739 Battle of Karnal: Nadir Shah's Persians defeat Muhammad Shah's Moghuls

1779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes from the British

1787 Goethe visits Itri

1793 French capture Breda in the Netherlands

1797 Lord Cawdor accepts the surrender of c. 1,500 French troops & two ships near Fishguard, Wales, ending the last invasion of Britain

1813 USS 'Hornet', under Captain James Lawrence, takes HMS 'Peacock'

1848 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, French Second Republic established

1863 Bedford Forrest raids Brentwood, Tennessee

1865 The Confederate Senate votes down the bill to put “200,000 negroes in the army”

1894 Nicaraguans capture Tegucigalpa, Honduras

1895 Cuban War for Independence begins

1917 Britain gives the "Zimmermann Note" to the United States, revealing German efforts to get Mexico and Japan to go to war with the US

1920 Nazi Party founded in Munich, Hitler not joining until later

1924 Greece ousts King George II to become a republic (1924-1937)

1933 League of Nations tells the Japanese to pull out of Manchuria

1942 USS 'Enterprise' (CV-6) raids Wake Island

1942 Heavy fighting for the Sittang River bridgehead in Burma.

1942 The "Second Battle of Los Angeles"

1944 Juan Peron, Minister of War, stages coup in Argentina

1944 TF 58 completes strikes against Saipan, Tinian, Rota, & Guam

1945 Manila liberated, after heavy fighting and serious civilian casualties from shelling and Japanese massacres

1948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia

1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal Rocket reaches outer space at 400 km, White Sands

1966 Coup ousts President/Dictator Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1957-1966)

1968 US and Vietnamese troops complete liberation of Hue

1970 Avalanche in Reckingen kills 29 Swiss Army officers

1991 Ground Phase of Operation Desert Storm begins, resulting in the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation within 100 hours