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Rule of Balkans
Defeats Licinius, his co-emperor, who loses most of the Balkans
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Defeats Licinius, his co-emperor, who loses most of the Balkans
Thomas a Becket defeats Henry IIs attempts to raise a land tax
Thomas a Becket defeats Henry IIs attempts to raise a land tax
Defends himself by use of the "benefit of clergy". Accused of embezzlement while Chancellor
Thomas Becket is accused of embezzlement & contempt of court
Becket flees to Louis VII of France
Agrees in principle to a future personal meeting with Francis I to reinforce the new Anglo-French friendship.
Appointed Master of the Rolls
Yorkshire rebels who call themselves the "pilgrimage of grace". The rebels demand the restoration of the Popes authority
Recaptures Belgrade
The Treaty of Commerce & Friendship is signed with Holland, negotiated by John Adams
Lafayette resigned command of the Paris National Guard after completion of the Constitution and withdrew from Paris politics.
Bavaria leaves the Rhine Confederation & joins the Alliance against France
William IV asks Grey not to resign but refuses to pass the Bill by creating new peers. The 2nd Reform Bill is defeated by the Lords by 41 votes. 1st Reform Bill is defeated by the Lords
The siege of Montevideo ends and the Guerra Grande settlement closes the long civil conflict.
Accepts the end of the siege of Montevideo and the settlement that closes the Guerra Grande
The French sets up a base at Kamiesch.
The first state to declare war is Montenegro, starting the First Balkan War. After issuing an ultimatum to the Porte on October 13, Bulgaria declares war on Turkey on October 17
The first state to declare war is Montenegro, starting the First Balkan War
The first state to declare war is Montenegro, starting the First Balkan War
After issuing an ultimatum to the Porte on October 13, Bulgaria declares war on Turkey on October 17
Montenegro declares war on Turkey
Faces Montenegro's declaration of war.
Declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
Declares war on the Ottoman Empire, opening the First Balkan War.
Prepares Serbia to join Montenegro and the other Balkan allies.
The Admiralty helps coordinate withdrawal as the Belgian position becomes untenable.
Royal Naval Air Service aircraft destroy a German Zeppelin in its shed during a successful raid on Dusseldorf.
By this time the Army Group of Flanders (GAF) comprised a total of 28 divisions from the Belgian, British and French Armies under the command of King Albert I of Belgium.
The Battle of Courtrai, also known as the Battle of Roulers or the Second Battle of Belgium (14th - 19th October 1918) followed on after a pause of a couple of weeks from the end of the Allied Flanders Advance.
The successful advance recaptured a number of Belgian towns including Menin, Courtrai, Roulers (Flemish name: Roeselare), Ostend, Bruges, Zeebrugge, and the French towns of Lille and Douai. Units of the advance reached the Dutch border by 19th October
The Second Battle of Cambrai (8th October - 10th October 1918) was a successful offensive by the British First, 3rd and 4th Armies with the support of tanks. The advance crossed three German lines of defence which were lightly manned, took Cambrai within two days and suffered very light casualties
All domestic trade is nationalized
Shops are closed & their inventory used for barter with the peasants. All domestic trade is nationalized
The last organized Polish troops surrender
Is appointed Prime Minister of Egypt after Nahas Pasha's dismissal.
Forms a government after King Farouk dismisses Mostafa el-Nahas.
Announces abrogation of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty and demands British evacuation from the Canal Zone.
Creates a compact electronic device supporting an abnormally slow heartbeat.
Designs the first implantable cardiac pacemaker used in a patient.
Almost doubles his majority to 8,633
The Conservatives win 49.4% of votes cast, 365 seats, Labour win 258 seats
1st elected Member of Parliament for Finchley during the election, has a constituency majority of 16,260
Retains Coventry East at the 1959 general election.
Retains Birmingham Stechford for Labour during another Conservative general election victory.
Oswald disembarked at Le Havre on October 8, 1959, and continued his journey toward northern Europe.
1st elected Member of Parliament for Finchley during the election, has a constituency majority of 16,260
Calls a meeting to discuss the case of Lei Chen and the Free China journal amid a wider crackdown on political dissent.
Arrested while organizing guerrilla resistance in Bolivia & executed
Prado's unit captures Che Guevara in the Bolivian guerrilla campaign
Acting on a tip, police stake out a Berlin apartment where they have been told that Baader, Ensslin, and Mahler will be meeting. Baader and Ensslin never show, but Mahler, Monika Berberich, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens are all captured
Acting on a tip, police stake out a Berlin apartment where they have been told that Baader, Ensslin, and Mahler will be meeting. Baader and Ensslin never show, but Mahler, Monika Berberich, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens are all captured
Upon his return from Jordan, Mahler is arrested with fellow RAF members Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk, and Irene Goergens
Acting on a tip, police stake out a Berlin apartment where they have been told that Baader, Ensslin, and Mahler will be meeting. Baader and Ensslin never show, but Mahler, Monika Berberich, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens are all captured
Upon his return from Jordan, Mahler is arrested with fellow RAF members Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk, and Irene Goergens. Acting on a tip, police stake out a Berlin apartment where they have been told that Baader, Ensslin, and Mahler will be meeting. Baader and Ensslin never show, but Mahler, Monika Berberich, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens are all captured
Upon his return from Jordan, Mahler is arrested with fellow RAF members Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk, and Irene Goergens
Upon his return from Jordan, Mahler is arrested with fellow RAF members Ingrid Schubert, Brigitte Asdonk, and Irene Goergens
Announces multiculturalism as official federal policy.
Leads a counterattack on the Sinai front that is initially repulsed with heavy losses.
Directs Israeli counterattacks in Sinai that suffer heavy losses against Egyptian anti-tank defenses.
Leads a counterattack against Egyptian forces on the Sinai front.
Appointed Chairman of the Central Committee
Complete Control enters the Official Singles Chart and becomes another early Clash Top Forty hit.
Discusses Middle Eastern security and Soviet-Syrian cooperation with Hafez al-Assad.
Signs a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
Israeli police kill Palestinian demonstrators during violence at the Temple Mount Haram al Sharif
The Temple Mount Haram al Sharif killings intensify anger during the First Intifada
The Temple Mount Haram al Sharif killings intensify anger during the First Intifada
Condemns the Temple Mount Haram al Sharif killings as the uprising intensifies.
Faces intensified unrest after Israeli police kill Palestinians at the Temple Mount Haram al Sharif.
Publicly defends ratification of the Maastricht Treaty and challenges Conservative Eurosceptic arguments against European integration.
Publishes an article in The European opposing British ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.
Israel and Jordan open the first road link between the two countries
Becomes general secretary of the Workers Party.
Appointed President of Estonia, 2nd term
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake devastates the Kashmir region, killing tens of thousands and prompting cross-border relief cooperation.
Musharraf appoints Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Vice Chief of Army Staff before transferring command.
Brown says British troop numbers in Basra will fall further by spring 2008.
Brown announces plans for a substantial reduction of British forces in southern Iraq.
Brown announces a staged reduction in British troop numbers in Iraq.
Darling announces capital support, liquidity assistance and guarantees for the banking system.
Brown outlines capital, liquidity and guarantee measures supporting the banking system.
The Federal Reserve joins other central banks in a coordinated reduction of policy rates.
The rescue plan includes guarantees intended to reopen medium-term bank funding.
Brown announces an emergency programme to recapitalise banks and guarantee funding.
Brown unveils capital injections, debt guarantees and expanded liquidity support.
Releases Single Ladies, one of her defining pop singles
Burnham becomes Shadow Education Secretary and Labour's election coordinator.
Vote Leave is launched to campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
Is appointed Liverpool manager, replacing Brendan Rodgers.
New Horizons compositional mapping identifies numerous exposed regions of water ice on Pluto's surface.
Color observations show that Pluto's high-altitude atmospheric haze appears blue when viewed in scattered sunlight.
Explosion damages the bridge linking Russia and occupied Crimea.
Appointed commander of Russian forces in Ukraine
Scores against Granada to become Barcelona's youngest league goalscorer.
Birth of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland
Birth of Friedrich Fromm
Birth of Paul Hogan
Death of Mikhail Vasilevich Alexeiev, heart attack
Death of Clement Richard Attlee
Death of Clement Attlee
Death of Willy Brandt
Defeats Austria after their invasion of Bavaria & cuts them off from the Russians
Commands a division at Ulm
Blucher defeats Bertrand
By this time the Army Group of Flanders (GAF) comprised a total of 28 divisions from the Belgian, British and French Armies under the command of King Albert I of Belgium.
The Battle of Courtrai, also known as the Battle of Roulers or the Second Battle of Belgium (14th - 19th October 1918) followed on after a pause of a couple of weeks from the end of the Allied Flanders Advance.
The successful advance recaptured a number of Belgian towns including Menin, Courtrai, Roulers (Flemish name: Roeselare), Ostend, Bruges, Zeebrugge, and the French towns of Lille and Douai. Units of the advance reached the Dutch border by 19th October
The Second Battle of Cambrai (8th October - 10th October 1918) was a successful offensive by the British First, 3rd and 4th Armies with the support of tanks. The advance crossed three German lines of defence which were lightly manned, took Cambrai within two days and suffered very light casualties
By this time the Army Group of Flanders (GAF) comprised a total of 28 divisions from the Belgian, British and French Armies under the command of King Albert I of Belgium.
The Battle of Courtrai, also known as the Battle of Roulers or the Second Battle of Belgium (14th - 19th October 1918) followed on after a pause of a couple of weeks from the end of the Allied Flanders Advance.
The successful advance recaptured a number of Belgian towns including Menin, Courtrai, Roulers (Flemish name: Roeselare), Ostend, Bruges, Zeebrugge, and the French towns of Lille and Douai. Units of the advance reached the Dutch border by 19th October
By this time the Army Group of Flanders (GAF) comprised a total of 28 divisions from the Belgian, British and French Armies under the command of King Albert I of Belgium.
The Battle of Courtrai, also known as the Battle of Roulers or the Second Battle of Belgium (14th - 19th October 1918) followed on after a pause of a couple of weeks from the end of the Allied Flanders Advance.
The successful advance recaptured a number of Belgian towns including Menin, Courtrai, Roulers (Flemish name: Roeselare), Ostend, Bruges, Zeebrugge, and the French towns of Lille and Douai. Units of the advance reached the Dutch border by 19th October
Dies after becoming one of the battle's highest-scoring Allied pilots.
Is killed when his Hurricane crashes near Ewell after a patrol.
Bolivian Special Forces are notified of the location of Guevaras guerrilla encampment by an informant, the encampment is encircled, and Guevara captured while leading a detachment with Simeon Cuba Sarabia in the Quebrada del Yuro
John & Isabel are crowned together at Westminster Abbey
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