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Browsing by event type keeps events of the same kind grouped together.Military ConflictSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Military ConflictFilter Results170 entriesEraAllClassical Antiquity (17)Late Antiquity (2)The Achaemenid Persian Period (1)The African Independence Era (3)The Ancient Near East and Bronze Age World (2)The Cold War (9)The Contemporary Period (19)The Early Modern Period (18)The Gupta Golden Age (1)The Iron Age (3)The Late Modern Period (60)The Napoleonic Era (1)The Neo-Assyrian Period (1)The Pax Romana (1)The Post-Classical and Medieval Period (29)The Roman Republic Period (1)The Sassanid Persian Period (1)ParticipantsAllAbraham Lincoln (1)Adolf Hitler (1)Alexander the Great (1)Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1)Artemisia I of Caria (1)Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1)Ashurbanipal (1)Atahualpa (1)Benito Juárez (1)Benjamin Franklin (1)Boudica (1)Charles de Gaulle (3)Charles I of England (1)Charles V of France (1)Chun Doo-hwan (1)Cleopatra VII (1)Constantine XI Palaiologos (1)Crazy Horse (1)David Lloyd George (1)Dessalines (1)Douglas Haig (1)Edward Balliol (1)Edward I of England (3)Edward II of England (2)El Cid (2)Emperor Guangwu of Han (1)Emperor Wen of Sui (1)Emperor Wu of Han (2)Emperor Xuan of Han (2)Erich von Falkenhayn (1)Fidel Castro (2)Francisco Pizarro (1)Franklin D. Roosevelt (1)Gamal Abdel Nasser (2)Gavrilo Princip (2)George Armstrong Custer (1)George Washington (3)Georges Clemenceau (1)Geronimo (1)Giuseppe Garibaldi (1)Hannibal (1)Harold Godwinson (1)Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1)Hernan Cortes (1)Ho Chi Minh (1)Hong Xiuquan (1)Hulagu Khan (2)Isabella of France (1)Joan of Arc (1)John Balliol (1)John II of France (2)John Maynard Keynes (2)Jose Lopez Portillo (1)Joseph Stalin (2)José de San Martín (1)Julius Caesar (1)Kaiser Wilhelm II (2)Khalid ibn al-Walid (1)Kim Dae-jung (1)King John of England (1)Li Hongzhang (2)Lin Zexu (1)Mahmud II (1)Manuel I Komnenos (1)Mao Zedong (1)Maria Theresa (1)Mehmed II (1)Mikhail Gorbachev (1)Moctezuma II (1)Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (2)Napoleon Bonaparte (3)Nebuchadnezzar II (1)Nicholas II of Russia (2)Oliver Cromwell (2)Otto von Bismarck (2)Philippe Petain (1)Queen Victoria (1)Richard I of England (1)Robert the Bruce (1)Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1)Saladin (1)Scipio Africanus (1)Sennacherib (1)Simón Bolívar (1)Sitting Bull (1)Spartacus (1)Suleiman the Magnificent (1)Sun Yat-sen (1)Tang of Shang (1)Te Rauparaha (1)Theodosius II (1)Thomas Jefferson (1)Tokugawa Ieyasu (1)Toussaint Louverture (1)Umar (1)Valens (1)Wilhelm I of Prussia (1)William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1)William the Conqueror (1)William the Silent (1)William Wallace (1)Winston Churchill (3)Woodrow Wilson (1)Xerxes I (1)Yaa Asantewaa (1)Zeng Guofan (1)Zenobia (1)LocationAllAfghanistan (1)Andes (1)Ashanti, West Africa (present-day Ghana) (1)Athens, Sparta and their allies, Greece (1)Aztec Empire and the other tribal states (modern-day Mexico) (1)Baghdad (1)Bengal Province and Orissa Province, British India (1)Berlin, Germany (1)British Isles (Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland) (1)Brétigny, a village near Chartres (1)Cambodia (1)Chang'an (modern Xi'an), China (1)China (2)Coast of Northwest Africa (1)Constantinople (1)Cuba (1)Dersim Region (modern-day Tunceli Province, Turkey) (1)Eastern Cape, South Africa 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Westminster, England (1)Kent, Wales and northern England (1)Kenya (1)Korean Peninsula (2)Kronstadt, Kotlin Island, Russia (1)Lake Texcoco, Valley of Mexico (1)Levant, Sicily, Iberia, Balkans, and Anatolia (1)Lhasa, Tibet Area, China (1)Manchuria, Yellow Sea, Korea, Sea of Japan (1)Marathon, Greece (1)Meerut, India, 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Delhi (1)Meroe, Kingdom of Kush (1)Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East (1)Mexico (3)Middle East (1)Muye, in present-day central Henan (1)Near Adwa, Ethiopia (1)Near Poitiers, France (1)New Zealand (1)North China, Yellow Sea (1)Northeast China, Shandong Peninsula, Korea, and Yellow Sea (1)Ottoman Empire (territory of modern-day Turkey) (1)Ottoman Greece, present-day Greece (1)Panipat, present-day Haryana, India (1)Philippines (1)Portugal and Spain (1)Prague, Bohemia and Moravia (1)Present-day Saskatchewan and Alberta (1)Present-day South Africa (1)Qing dynasty China, chiefly the south and the Yangtze valley (1)Quinua, Huamanga, Peru (1)Red River Delta, Jiaozhi (northern Vietnam) (1)River Somme, Picardy, France (Western Front) (1)Roman Britain (1)Rome, in the portico of the basilica of Pompey the Great (1)Rome, Italy (1)Runnymede, near Windsor, England (1)Russia (1)Rwanda (1)Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) (1)Santiago, Chile (1)Scotland and the Anglo-Scottish border (1)South-eastern Nigeria (the former Republic of Biafra) (1)Southern Africa (1)Southern Italy (1)Southwestern United States (1)Soweto, South Africa (1)Spain (1)Taiwan and Penghu Islands (1)the Balkans (1)The Falkland Islands and South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean (1)The Kingdom of France (1)The Levant and Anatolia (1)The Low Countries (Habsburg Netherlands) (1)The Suez Canal Zone and the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt (1)Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain (1)Troy (1)United States, Atlantic Ocean (1)Valencia, Taifa of Valencia (1)Verdun and its fortifications, Meuse, France (Western Front) (1)Vicinity of Adrianople, Roman province of Thracia (1)Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (present-day Austria) (1)Vietnam (1)Wales (1)West Asia (1)Western Massachusetts, United States (1)Western Pennsylvania (1)Western Roman Empire, Italy (1)Westminster, England (2)Xuchang, China (1)Yarmouk River, Syria-Jordan border region (1)Yellow River valley, China (1)Event Era (Year)All3150 BCE (1)1766 BCE (1)1150 BCE (1)1046 BCE (1)911 BCE (1)814 BCE (1)587 BCE (1)510 BCE (1)499 BCE (1)490 BCE (1)431 BCE (1)336 BCE (1)320 BCE (1)264 BCE (1)261 BCE (1)202 BCE (1)73 BCE (1)44 BCE (1)31 BCE (1)40 (1)60 (1)66 (1)132 (1)220 (1)224 (1)272 (1)378 (1)451 (1)476 (1)535 (1)543 (1)589 (1)602 (1)636 (1)639 (1)676 (1)1066 (1)1092 (1)1095 (1)1096 (1)1147 (1)1189 (1)1206 (1)1215 (2)1258 (1)1275 (1)1277 (1)1295 (1)1296 (1)1321 (1)1327 (1)1337 (1)1345 (1)1347 (1)1356 (1)1360 (1)1453 (1)1519 (1)1526 (1)1529 (1)1532 (1)1562 (1)1568 (1)1600 (1)1618 (2)1639 (1)1641 (2)1642 (1)1740 (1)1765 (1)1775 (1)1779 (1)1786 (1)1791 (2)1803 (1)1804 (1)1805 (1)1806 (1)1808 (1)1810 (1)1821 (1)1824 (1)1837 (1)1839 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