Historical place archive

Dvinsk in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Dvinsk in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records3 event labels3 people1917–1941

Historical events in Dvinsk

1917

2 December 1917
Armistice
Leopold · World War, 1st

Pays host to the Russian Armistice Commission behind German lines at Dvinsk

1918

18 February 1918
Capture of Dvinsk
Maximilian Hoffman · World War, 1st

Lenin refuses the German armistice terms & Hoffman orders the capture of Dvinsk

1941

24 June 1941
Siege of Dvinsk
Fritz Erich von Manstein · World War, 2nd

Manstein captures the bridges at Dvinsk

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Germany and Dvinsk. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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