Military History Timeline

Dictionary of Wars

1305 – Catalan Company battle with the Alans (Turkey)

1524 – Battle of Sesia Romagnano (Italy)
1781 – Battle of Fort Royal ends (American Revolutionary War) (Naval)
1794 – Battle of Boulou (War of the Pyrenees)
1803 – Louisiana Purchase Treaty between the US and Napoleon signed
1848 –Skirmish of Pastrengo (First Italian War of Independence)
1849 – Battle in Rome (First Italian War of Independence
1860 – Second Battle of Fort Defiance (Navajo Wars)

1861 – Federals evacuate Fort Washita and the Indian Territory (US Civil War)
1863 – Stoneman cavalry raid begins (US Civil War); Battle at Camerone (Second Franco-Mexican War)
1865 – Confederates in Alabama and Mississippi agree to truce (US Civil War)
1904 – Battle of the Yalu River begins (Russo-Japanese War)
1942 – Destruction of Telavag (WWII)
1943 – Operation Husky corpse released near Spanish port (WWII)
1945 – Adolf Hitler commits suicide; Battle of Triest begins; Mar Ostrava taken (WWII)
1951 – CCF Offensive stopped north of Seoul (Korean War)
1952 – Wonsan Harbor Naval duel (Korean War)
1967 – Operation Francis Marion ends (Vietnam War)
1968 – Battle at Dai Do (Vietnam War)
1972 – North Vietnam invades South Vietnam (Vietnam War)

1975 – 1975 Spring Offensive ends; Operation Frequent Wind ends; Saigon taken (Vietnam War)