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Ferdinands widow Leonora acts as Regent for his daughter Beatrix
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Ferdinands widow Leonora acts as Regent for his daughter Beatrix
Returns to England from Calais as the conqueror of both the French & the Scots
The Royalist council plans to secure Banbury and Oxford before advancing farther.
The Royalist council plans to secure Banbury and Oxford before advancing farther.
Essex receives reports locating the King's army before Edgehill.
Charles and his commanders plan the approach to Banbury and Oxford.
Charles and his commanders plan the approach to Banbury and Oxford.
Louis XIV claims that out of a Huguenot population of 800,000 to 900,000, only 1,000 to 1,500 had remained in France
Louis XIV orders the destruction of Huguenot churches, as well as the closing of Protestant schools
Makes official persecution enforced since the dragonnades created in 1681 by the King in order to intimidate Huguenots into converting to Catholicism
The Edict of Fontainebleau is issued by Louis XIV, also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
The Edict of Fontainebleau is issued by Louis XIV, also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Ernest Augustus supports the coalition of north German princes mobilizing against the French Rhineland campaign.
Frederick III joins the north German agreement at Magdeburg to mobilize forces against the French advance.
John George III joins the German princes coordinating military resistance to France at Magdeburg.
Dies when ships are wrecked after returning from operations.
Attends the Ecole Militaire, awarded a free place by Louis XVI as a "gentleman cadet"
Attempts to recover prizes after the battle.
Rereats from Burgos
Appointed Commander in Chief of the Allied army
Appointed Commander in Chief of the Allied army
Sworn in as President of Texas, the newly created Texan Republic
An alliance of the Emperors of Germany, Russia & Austria
An alliance of the Emperors of Germany, Russia & Austria
An alliance of the Emperors of Germany, Russia & Austria
An alliance of the Emperors of Germany, Russia & Austria
Joins the diplomatic understanding between the emperors of Russia, Germany, and Austria.
The office of Minister President of Prussia is temporarily separated from that of Chancellor, when Albrecht von Roon is appointed to the former office, but by the end of the year, Roon resigned due to ill health, and Bismarck becomes PM
Participates in the Three Emperors' diplomatic understanding with Germany and Austria.
Appointed President of Venezuela after the Liberal Restoration Revolution
Yule assumes command after Symons is wounded and begins withdrawing the Dundee force toward Ladysmith.
The First Otto Blehr Government ends in Oslo, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Norway.
Begins the Second Francis Hagerup Government in Oslo and serves as Prime Minister of Norway.
Warns Nicholas II that Russia is close to revolution.
Leads the Serbian Third Army into Pristina.
Withdraws Ottoman formations as Serbian forces enter Kosovo.
Writes to Asquith threatning to resign if Kitchener is not removed from the War Office
Tries to move unreliable troops away from Petrograd.
Declares military staff to be "Counter revolutionary"
Attempts to assert authority over the radicalised garrison.
Appointed Prime Minister of Poland
The Reichstag votes for equal suffrage
The Allies terminate their occupation of Turkey
The Allies terminate their occupation of Turkey
Kerensky continues political activity connected with anti-bolshevik activity.
Introduces a constitution strengthening royal power and limiting parliamentary representation.
The Jules Renkin Government ends in Brussels, concluding this period as Prime Minister of Belgium.
Begins the Second de Broqueville Government in Brussels and serves as Prime Minister of Belgium.
Commands the army of occupation in Poland with his HQ in Spala
Commands the army of occupation in Poland with his HQ in Spala
Benes goes into exile in Putney, London
Graf Spee sinks the British merchant Trevanion after the ship attempts to transmit a distress report.
Organizes deportation of Jews from Baden and Saarpfalz.
Laval meets Hitler & offers to collaborate
Laval meets Hitler & offers to collaborate
Mussolini decides to proceed with the planned invasion of Greece despite German reservations about widening the Balkan war.
Nearly seven thousand people are sent to unoccupied France.
Italian plans to kidnap Hitler are published by the Germans
Agrees with Roosevelt that Stalin's proposed Black Sea area can serve as the conference location.
Kurita leads the Center Force from Brunei toward the central Philippines and Leyte Gulf.
Communist-led provisional government appoints Hoxha Prime Minister
Appointed Prime Minister of Albania
Communist partisans establish a provisional government under Hoxha
Shima leads the Second Striking Force from the Pescadores toward the southern approaches to Leyte Gulf.
Malans Herenigde National Party & Havengas Afrikaner Party merge
Malans Herenigde National Party & Havengas Afrikaner Party merge
Iran breaks off relations with the UK after failing to agree the future of Irans oil
Iran revokes the Treaty of friendship mad with Britain in 1857
Laos obtains full independence from France while retaining association with the French Union
Meets Ben-Gurion to discuss the invasion of Egypt in order to overthrow Nasser
Meets the French Prime Minister to discuss the invasion of Egypt to oust Nasser
Challe supports the concept that an Israeli attack should provide the trigger for Anglo-French intervention.
Meets Ben-Gurion to discuss the invasion of Egypt in order to overthrow Nasser
Meets the French Prime Minister to discuss the invasion of Egypt to oust Nasser
Attends the Sevres talks as a senior French military planner in the Anglo-French-Israeli operation.
Participates in secret Sevres discussions before Patrick Dean signs the final protocol for Britain
Takes part in the secret Sevres negotiations with Britain and Israel over joint action against Egypt.
Dayan presents Israel's proposed military timetable and Sinai objectives during the secret Sevres discussions.
Travels to secret talks with French and Israeli representatives at Sevres
Directs Die Brucke, known in English as The Bridge.
Orders a weapons blockade of Cuba because of its Soviet missile sites
Kennedy orders naval interception of offensive weapons shipments to Cuba during the missile crisis.
Ball helped coordinate diplomatic communications with allies and international organizations as the quarantine was announced.
Bundy coordinated White House preparations for the President's address and the formal establishment of ExComm.
The US announce its discovery of missile sites, and implements a quarantine around Cuba that woul intercept and search vessels heading for Cuba.
Castro mobilized Cuban forces after Kennedy announced the quarantine and demanded removal of the Soviet offensive missiles.
Raul Castro placed Cuban armed forces on wartime readiness as the United States announced its quarantine and increased regional military preparations.
De Gaulle received an allied briefing and supported the United States assessment of the missile evidence.
Dobrynin received formal American communications after Kennedy publicly announced the missile evidence and naval quarantine.
Gromyko helped manage the Soviet diplomatic response after Kennedy revealed the missiles and announced the naval quarantine.
Kennedy informs the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases in Cuba, a mere 90 miles off the shores of Florida.
Kennedy orders Khrushchev to remove all the missile bases and their deadly contents. Kennedy orders a naval quarantine of Cuba in order to prevent Russian ships from bringing additional missiles and construction materials.
Kennedy addressed the nation and revealed the Soviet offensive missile deployment in Cuba.
Kennedy announced a naval quarantine intended to prevent further deliveries of offensive military equipment.
Kennedy briefed congressional leaders before publicly announcing the crisis.
Kennedy demanded dismantlement of the missile sites and removal of the offensive weapons from Cuba.
Kennedy warned that a nuclear missile launched from Cuba would require retaliation against the Soviet Union.
Kennedy formally established the Executive Committee of the National Security Council.
Malinovsky placed Soviet military commands on heightened alert after Kennedy announced the quarantine and demanded missile removal.
Pliyev placed Soviet forces in Cuba on increased readiness after Kennedy announced the quarantine and demanded missile withdrawal.
Sorensen assisted with final revisions to the President's address before Kennedy disclosed the crisis to the public.
Stevenson prepared the United States diplomatic case for presentation before the United Nations Security Council.
Orders a weapons blockade of Cuba because of its Soviet missile sites
McCone supplied intelligence judgments and photographic evidence supporting Kennedy's public disclosure of the Soviet missile deployment and the decision to impose a quarantine.
Sartre declines the Nobel Prize in Literature to preserve his independence from institutions.
Returns with the Apollo 7 crew after the first successful crewed test of Apollo spacecraft systems.
Signs the Gun Control Act of 1968 after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Serves in the government that passes divorce law reform.
Releases Led Zeppelin II during intensive touring.
Oversees operations as Israeli troops recapture the Mount Hermon outpost.
Supports ceasefire diplomacy after United Nations Security Council Resolution 338.
Responds cautiously to the United Nations ceasefire call as fighting continues on the Syrian front.
Directs Israeli military operations as the United Nations ceasefire resolution is accepted.
Accepts the United Nations ceasefire resolution after the Israeli canal crossing changes the battlefield.
Handles Syrian diplomatic response to the ceasefire resolution.
Loses the Mount Hermon outpost after Israeli forces recapture it late in the war.
Consolidates the Israeli bridgehead near Deversoir after the crossing of the Suez Canal.
His division holds the canal bridgehead and helps divide the Egyptian Second and Third Armies.
Cuts the Suez-Cairo road northeast of Suez during the Israeli encirclement of the Egyptian Third Army.
Supports ceasefire diplomacy as Resolution 338 is adopted.
Supports Resolution 338 calling for a ceasefire and peace negotiations.
Adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 338
Agrees to halt fighting after United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 calls for a ceasefire.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 calls for a ceasefire in the war.
Adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 338
Supports Arab diplomatic positions as the United Nations debates a ceasefire.
The achievement marks first images from venus as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Supports the planetary programme that lands Venera 9 on Venus.
Appears on the soundtrack album for The Song Remains the Same.
Negotiators for Egypt and Israel announce in Washington they had reached tentative agreement on the main points of a peace Treaty
The former Shah receives medical treatment in the United States for advanced cancer
Negotiators for Egypt and Israel announce in Washington they had reached tentative agreement on the main points of a peace Treaty
The Shah enters the United States for medical treatment, intensifying revolutionary anger in Iran
The former Shah enters the United States for medical treatment, intensifying revolutionary anger in Iran
The USS Independence is diverted from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean
Agrees that HMS Antrim should set sail from Colombia to the area of Grenada
The Act lowers rates, broadens the tax base and removes numerous preferences.
Thatcher refuses to join Commonwealth sanctions against South Africa
Thatcher refuses to join Commonwealth sanctions against South Africa
Releases Weld, a live album capturing his noisy early-1990s tour with Crazy Horse.
Birindwa's government introduces the new zaire during severe monetary instability.
Connection enters the UK singles chart and becomes one of Elastica's best-known Britpop-era songs.
Galileo magnetic data support the presence of an electrically conducting layer, consistent with a salty subsurface ocean.
UN Security Council establishes UNAMSIL peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone
Begins the Great American Songbook series with It Had to Be You.
Mylswamy Annadurai serves as project director when Chandrayaan-1 launches on India's first mission to the Moon.
Returns as head coach of the South Africa national football team
Reports to Parliament on European Council discussions about competitiveness, the eurozone and the EU budget.
Burnham calls for coordinated and properly resourced investigations following the panel's findings.
Kabariti participates in jerusalem policy connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.
Meets Recep Tayyip Erdogan to agree arrangements for northern Syria.
The Withdrawal Agreement Bill passes second reading but the timetable motion fails.
Debates Donald Trump in the final presidential debate.
Birth of Franz Liszt
Birth of Doris Lessing, in Iran
Birth of Bert Trautman
Death of Charles VI
Shovell dies when his fleet is wrecked off the Isles of Scilly after returning from the Mediterranean.
Death of Harlow Shapley
Lindsey resigns command after disagreeing with the battle plan proposed by Lord Forth.
Advises Charles I to mobilize at Edgehill the next morning & challenge his enemy
Breaks through Ottoman defences in Thessaly.
Retreats after Greek victory at Sarantaporo.
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