Timeline

The timeline is a chronological list of important events that are related or discussed by OverSimplified.
Note: All dates, when provided, are written in the New Style.
== Ancient History ==
* c. 2100 BCE
** The Xia Dynasty, the first Chinese dynasty, was established.
* 551 BCE
** September 28: Confucius was born.
* 479 BCE
** April 11:Jaiman, Siddharth. "Confucius: The Philosopher-Teacher Who Taught Kings How To Govern." Pitara Kids Network, Impellio Media Company, 20 May 2020, https://www.pitara.com/non-fiction-for-kids/biographies-for-kids/confucius/. Confucius died at the age of 72.
* 192 A.D.
** May 22: Dong Zhuo died.
* 199 A.D.
** February 7: Lü Bu died.
== Early Middle Ages ==
* 747 A.D.
** April 2: Charlemagne was born.
* 800 A.D.
** December 25: Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor, creating the Holy Roman Empire.
* 814 A.D.
** January 28: Charlemagne dies.
* 1003
** Edward the Confessor was born.
* 1021
** October 20:Kuitems, Margot, et al. "Evidence for European Presence in the Americas in AD 1021." Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 20 Oct. 2021, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03972-8.Kuitems, M., Wallace, B.L., Lindsay, C. et al. Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021. Nature (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03972-8 The Vikings discovered the Americas.
*c. 1022
**Harold Godwinson was born.
* c. 1028
**William the Conqueror was born.
*1066
**January 5: Edward the Confessor dies.
**October 14:
***The Battle of Hastings occured.
*** Harold Godwinson died at the age of about 44.
** December 25: William the Conqueror becomes king of England.
*1087
**September 9: William the Conqueror dies.
== High Middle Ages ==
* TBA
== Late Middle Ages ==
*1325
**The War of the Bucket occurred.
* 1451
**April 22: Isabella I of Castile was born.
**Between August 25 and October 31: Christopher Columbus was born.
*1452
** March 10: Ferdinand II of Aragon was born.
*1455
**Wars of the Roses begins
* 1457
**January 28: Henry VII was born.
*1485
**Thomas Cromwell was born.
** December 16: Catherine of Aragon was born.
*1486
**Arthur, Prince of Wales, was born.
*1487
**Wars of the Roses ends.
*1491 
**June 28: Henry VIII was born.
*1492
**October 12: Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World.
*c. 1501
**Anne Boleyn was born.
*1502
**April 2: Arthur, Prince of Wales, dies.
*1504
**November 26: Isabella I of Castile dies at the age of 53.
* 1506
**May 20: Christopher Columbus died.
*c. 1508
**Jane Seymour was born.
*1509
**April 21: Henry VII dies.
**April 22: Henry VIII becomes King of England.
**June 11: Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon.
*1512
**Catherine Parr was born.
* 1515
**September 22: Anne of Cleves was born.
*1516
**January 23: Ferdinand II of Aragon died at the age of 63.
**February 18: Mary I was born.
*1521
**Catherine Howard was born.
*1533
**January 25: Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn.
** May 23: Henry VIII annulls his marriage with Catherine of Aragon.
**September 7: Elizabeth I was born.
*1536
**May 19: Anne Boleyn is convicted and executed.
**May 30: Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour.
*1537
**October 12: Edward VI was born.
**October 24: Jane Seymour dies from birth complications.
*1540
** January 6: Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves.
**July 9: Hery VIII's marriage with Anne of Cleves is annulled.
**July 28: Thomas Cromwell was executed. That same day, Henry VIII married Catherine Howard.
*1542
**February 13: Catherine Howard was beheaded due to adultery.
*1543
**July 12: Henry VIII married Catherine Parr.
*1544
** September 14: Henry VIII took the city of Boulogne from France.
*1547
** January 28: Henry VIII dies. Edward VI then becomes king.
*1548
**September 5: Catherine Parr dies.
*1557
**Anne of Cleves dies.
* 1558
**November 17: Mary I dies.
*1603
**March 24: Elizabeth I dies.
== Early Modern Period ==
*1706
**January 17: Benjamin Franklin was born.
*1710
**February 15: Louis XV was born.
*1715
**September 1: Louis XV became the king of France.
*1718/19DirkJandeGeer. "Thomas Gage." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Nov. 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gage.
**March 10: Thomas Gage was born.
*1721
** September 10: The Russian Empire replaced the Tsardom of Russia.
*1722
**September 27: Samuel Adams was born.
*1729
**August 10: William Howe was born.
*1732
**February 22: George Washington was born.
**November 13: John Dickinson was born.
*1735
**October 30: John Adams was born.
*1736
**May 29: Patrick Henry was born.
*1738
**January 21: Ethan Allen was born.
**June 4: George III was born.
*1741
**January 14: Benedict Arnold was born.
* 1743
**April 13: Thomas Jefferson was born.
*1745
**December 12: John Jay was born.
*1748
**May 3: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès was born.
*1751
**March 16: James Madison was born.
*1754
**August 23: Louis XVI was born.
*1755
**November 17: Louis XVIII was born.
* 1756
**May 17: The Seven Years' War began.
*1755 or 1757:
**January 11: Alexander Hamilton was born.
*1758
**May 6: Maximilien Robespierre was born.
**September 29: Horatio Nelson was born.
*1763 
**February 15: The Seven Years' War ended.
*1764
** April 5: Great Britain passed the Sugar Act.
**October 24: The Green Mountain Boys were established.
*1765
**March 22: Great Britain passed the Stamp Act.
*1766
**March 18:
***Great Britain forcibly repealed the Stamp Act.
***Great Britain passed the Declaratory Act.
*1767
**March 15: Andrew Jackson was born.
**June 5: Great Britain passed the first of the Townshend Acts.
*1768
** France invades Corsica.
**February 12: Francis II was born.
*1769
**August 15: Napoleon Bonaparte was born.
*1770
**March 5: The Boston Massacre occurred.
**August 3: Frederick William III was born.
*1773
**December 16: The Boston Tea Party occurred.
*1774
**May 10: Louis XV died.
**September 5: The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
*1775
**April 19: Someone fired the "shot heard 'round the world," starting the battles of Lexington and Concord; thus, the American Revolutionary War began.
** May 10: The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred.
** June 17: The Battle of Bunker Hill occurred.
** June 19: George Washington was made the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
*1776
** March 4: The Fortification of Dorchester Heights began.
** March 5: The Fortification of Dorchester Heights ended.
**July 4: The United States is created via the Declaration of Independence.
*1777
**September 19: The Battles of Saratoga started.
**October 7: The Battles of Saratoga ended.
**December 23: Alexander I was born.
*1778
**France entered the American Revolutionary War.
*1779
** Unknown date: The Green Mountain Boys were disbanded.
*1781
**October 19: The United States wins the Siege of Yorktown.
*1783
**September 3: The Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War.
* 1786
** June 13: Winfield Scott was born.
*1787
** April 2: Thomas Gage died at the age of 67 – 68.
* 1789
**February 12: Ethan Allen died at the age of 51.
**April 30: George Washington was sworn in as the 1st President of the United States.
**May 5: The French Revolution began.
**July 14: The Bastille was stormed.
*1790
**April 17: Benjamin Franklin died at the age of 84.
* 1791
** April 23: James Buchanan was born.
** December 12: Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma was born.
* 1792
**April 20: The War of the First Coalition began.
**July 5: Francis II became the Holy Roman Emperor.
**September 21: The French monarchy was abolished.
**September 22: The French First Republic was founded.
* 1793
**January 21: Louis XVI was beheaded.
**July 27: Maximilien Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety.
**September 5: The Reign of Terror began.
**October 16: Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
*1794
**July 28: Maximilien Robespierre (aged 36) was beheaded, ending the Reign of Terror.
*1797
**March 4: John Adams was sworn in as the 2nd President of the United States.
**October 17: The War of the First Coalition ended.
** November 16: Frederick William III became the king of Prussia.
*1798
**November 29: The War of the Second Coalition began.
*1799
**June 6: Patrick Henry died at the age of 63.
**June 18: The Coup of 30 Prairial VII, in which Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès overthrew the Jacobin government, occurred.
**November 9: Napoleon became the First Consul of France, ending the French Revolution.
**December 14: George Washington died at the age of 67.
== Late Modern Period ==
*1801
**January 1: The Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland united to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
** March 4: Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the 3rd President of the United States.
** March 23: Alexander I was crowned Emperor of Russia.
**June 14: Benedict Arnold died at the age of 60.
*1802
**March 25: The War of the Second Coalition ended.
* 1803
**May 18: The War of the Third Coalition began.
**July 4: The Louisiana Purchase occurred.
**October 2: Samuel Adams died at the age of 81.
*1804
**December 2: Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French.
**July 12: Alexander Hamilton died at the age of 47 or 49.
**August 11: Francis II declared himself Emperor Francis I of Austria.
*1805
** October 21: Horatio Nelson died at the age of 47.
*1806
**July 12: The Confederation of the Rhine was established.
**July 18: The War of the Third Coalition ended in a French victory.
**August 6: Francis I dissolved the Holy Roman Empire.
**October 9: The War of the Fourth Coalition began.
*1807
**July 9: The War of the Fourth Coalition ended in a French victory.
** October 27: The Peninsular War began.
*1808
**February 14: John Dickinson died at the age of 75.
* 1809
**February 12: Abraham Lincoln was born.
**March 4: James Madison was sworn in as the 4th President of the United States.
**April: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins.
**October: The War of the Fifth Coalition ends.
*1812
**June 24: Napoleon invaded Russia.
**December 14: Russia defeated Napoleon.
*1813
**March 3: The War of the Sixth Coalition began.
* 1814
**April 11: Napoleon abdicated the throne and was exiled to Elba.
**April 17: The Peninsular War ended.
**May 3: Louis XVIII was crowned king of France.
** May 30: The War of the Sixth Coalition ended.
**July 12: William Howe died at the age of 84.
*1815
** March 20: Napoleon returned to France and was crowned emperor.
***The War of the Seventh Coalition, or the Hundred Days War, began.
**July 8: The War of the Seventh Coalition, or the Hundred Days War, ended.
**October 15: Napoleon was exiled to Saint Helena.
*1817
**March 4: James Madison's term ended.
*1818
**April 29: Alexander II was born.
**May 5: Karl Marx was born.
* 1820
**January 29: George III died at the age of 81.
**March 2: The House of Representatives passed the Missouri Compromise.
**March 15: Maine was admitted as the 23rd state.
* 1821
**May 5: Napoleon died at the age of 51.
** August 10: Missouri was admitted as the 24th state.
*1822
** April 27: Ulysses S. Grant was born.
* 1824
**January 21: Stonewall Jackson was born.
**September 16: Louis XVIII died at the age of 68.
*1825
** January 16: George Pickett was born.
** December 1: Alexander I died at the age of 47.
*1826
** July 4:
*** John Adams died at the age of 90.
*** Thomas Jefferson died at the age of 83.
*1829
**March 4: Andrew Jackson was sworn in as the 7th President of the United States.
**May 17: John Jay died at the age of 83.
*1835
**March 2: Francis I at the age of 67.
*1836
**June 20: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès died at the age of 88.
**June 28: James Madison died at the age of 85.
* 1837
** March 4: Andrew Jackson's term ended.
**June 7: Alois Hitler was born.
*1838
**May 10: John Wilkes Booth was born.
*1840
**June 7: Frederick William III died at the age of 69.
*1845
** March 10: Alexander III was born.
**June 8: Andrew Jackson died at the age of 78.
**December 29: Texas was admitted as the 28th state.
* 1846
** April 25: The Mexican–American War began.
*1847
**November 26: Maria Feodorovna was born.
**December 17: Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma died at the age of 56.
*1848
** February 2: The Mexican–American War ended in an American victory.
** February 21: was published.
*1849
** June 29: Sergei Witte was born.
*1850
**September 9:
***California was admitted as the 31st state.
***The Utah and New Mexico Territories were added to the USA.
**September 18: Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
*1852
**November 3: Emperor Meiji was born.
*1854
**May 30: The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
*1855
**March 2: Alexander II was crowned Emperor of Russia.
*1856
** December 28: Woodrow Wilson was born.
* 1857
** March 4: James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th President of the United States.
* 1859
** June 15: The Pig War began.
** October: The Pig War ended.
*1860
**August 12: Klara Hitler was born.
* 1861
** March 4: Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th President of the United States.
** April 12: The American Civil War began.
*1862
**April 14: Pyotr Stolypin was born.
*1863
**May 10: Stonewall Jackson died at the age of 39.
**June 20: West Virginia was admitted as the 35th state.
**December 18: Franz Ferdinand was born.
* 1865
**April 9: The American Civil War ended.
** April 14: John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
**April 15: Abraham Lincoln died at the age of 56.
**April 26: John Wilkes Booth died at the age of 26.
**November 2: Warren G. Harding was born.
* 1866
** May 29: Winfield Scott died at the age of 79.
*1867
**February 3: Emperor Meiji became the 122nd Emperor of Japan.
* 1868
**May 18: Nicholas II was born.
** June 1: James Buchanan died at the age of 77.
* 1869
** January 21: Grigori Rasputin was born.
** March 4: Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as the 18th President of the United States.
** March 18: Neville Chamberlain was born.
* 1870
**February 17: Georgy Gapon was born.
**April 22: Vladimir Lenin was born.
**August 30: Lavr Kornilov was born.
*1874
** August 10: Herbert Hoover was born.
** November 30: Winston Churchill was born.
* 1875
** July 30: George Pickett died at the age of 50.
* 1877
** March 4: Ulysses S. Grant's term ended.
* 1878
**December 18: Joseph Stalin was born.
*1879
**November 7: Leon Trotsky was born.
*1880
**January 26: Douglas MacArthur was born.
* 1881
**March 13: Alexander II died at the age of 62.
**May 4: Alexander Kerensky was born.
*1882
** January 13: Alois Hitler, Jr. was born.
** January 30: Franklin D. Roosevelt was born.
*1883
** March 14: Karl Marx died at the age of 64.
** April 6: Alois Hitler's first wife died.
** May 27: Alexander III was crowned Emperor of Russia.
**July 29: Benito Mussolini was born.
*1884
**May 8: Harry S. Truman was born.
*1885
**January 7: Alois Hitler married Klara Pölzl.
**July 23: Ulysses S. Grant died at the age of 63.
*1889
** April 15: Nikita Khrushchev was born.
**April 20: Adolf Hitler was born.
* 1890
**October 14: Dwight D. Eisenhower was born.
*1891
**April 15: Nicholas II visited the Empire of Japan.
*1894
**March 24: Edmund Hitler was born.
**July 25: Gavrilo Princip was born.
**November 1: Alexander III died at the age of 49.
*1896
**May 26: Nicholas II was crowned Emperor of Russia.
**May 27: The Khodynka Tragedy occurred.
*1897
**February: Vladimir Lenin was exiled to Siberia.
* 1898
** July 2: Anthony McAuliffe was born.
* 1899
**January 17: Al Capone was born.
*1900
** February 2: Edmund Hitler died of measles.
*1903
**January 3: Alois Hitler died at the age of 65.
**August: The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks split.
* 1904
**February 8: The Russo-Japanese War began.
** August 12: Alexei Nikolaevich was born.
*1905
**January 22: Bloody Sunday occurred, starting the First Russian Revolution (AKA the 1905 Russian Revolution).
** September 5: The Russo-Japanese War ended in a Japanese victory.
** November 6: Sergei Witte became the 1st Prime Minister of Russia.
*1906
** April 10: Georgy Gapon died at the age of 36.
** April 27: The State Duma opened.
** May 5: Sergei Witte's term ended.
**July 21: Pyotr Stolypin became the 3rd Prime Minister of Russia.
**December 19: Leonid Brezhnev was born.
*1907
**June 16: The First Russian Revolution (AKA the 1905 Russian Revolution) ended.
**December 21: Klara Hitler died at the age of 47.
*1908
**August 27: Lyndon B. Johnson was born.
*1911
**February 6: Ronald Reagan was born.
**September 18: Pyotr Stolypin died at the age of 49.
**September 24: Konstantin Chernenko was born.
*1912
**July 30: Emperor Meiji died at the age of 59.
**October 8: The First Balkan War started.
* 1913
**January 9: Richard M. Nixon was born.
**March 4: Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as the 28th President of the United States.
**May 30: The First Balkan War ended.
**June 29: The Second Balkan War started.
** July 14: Gerald R. Ford was born.
** August 10: The Second Balkan War ended.
*1914
**June 15: Yuri Andropov was born.
**June 28: Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand (aged 50) and his wife.
**July 28: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, triggering WW1.
**August 1: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
**August 3: Germany declares war on the French Third Republic.
**August 4: Germany invades Belgium.
***The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland declares war on Germany.
**August 6: Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
**August 23: The Empire of Japan declares war on Germany.
**August 25: Austria-Hungary declares war on Japan.
**September 1: Russia renamed St. Petersberg to Petrograd.
**November 1: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
**November 5: France and Great Britain declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
*1915
**March 13: Sergei Witte died at the age of 65.
**May 23: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
**August 30: Nicholas II declared himself Commander in Chief.
**October 14: The Kingdom of Bulgaria declared war on Serbia.
*1916
** January 5: Austria-Hungary declared war on the Kingdom of Montenegro.
** February 21: The Battle of Verdun began when Germany invaded France.
** March 9: Germany declares war on Portugal.
** August 27: The Kingdom of Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary.
** December 18: The Battle of Verdun ended in a French victory.
** December 30: Grigori Rasputin died at the age of 47.
*1917 
**March 8: The February Revolution began—triggering the Russian Revolution—when hungry women protested on the streets.
**March 9: Men joined the protests. The number of protests totaled 250,000.
**March 15: Nicholas II abdicated the throne; the Provisional Government replaced the Russian Empire.
**March 16: The February Revolution ended.
**April 6: The United States entered WW1.
**April 16: Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia.
** May 18: Alexander Kerensky became the Minister of War and Navy.
**May 29: John F. Kennedy was born.
** July 2: The Kingdom of Greece declared war on the Central Powers.
** July 17: Vladimir Lenin fled to Finland in disguise.
** September 1: Alexander Kerensky imprisoned Lavr Kornilov.
**November 7: The October Revolution occurred, starting the Russian Civil War.
**November 8: Leon Trotsky was made Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
*1918
**March 3: Russia left WW1 as a result of Leon Trotsky's "no war, no peace" policy.
** March 12: Vladimir Lenin changed the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.
**April 13: Lavr Kornilov died at the age of 47.
** April 28: Gavrilo Princip died at the age of 23.
** July 17: A group of drunk Bolsheviks murdered Nicholas II and his entire family.
** August: A failed assassination attempt occurred on Vladimir Lenin.
**September 2: The Bolsheviks started the Red Terror.
**September 14: The Russian Republic replaced the Provisional Government.
** September 29: Bulgaria surrendered to the Allied Powers.
**October 30: The Ottoman Empire surrendered to the Allied Powers.
**November 3: Austria-Hungary surrendered to the Allied Powers.
**November 11, 11:00: Germany surrendered to the Allied Powers, ending WW1.
*1919
**January 16: The requisite number of states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, starting Prohibition in the United States.
*1921
** March 4: Warren G. Harding was sworn in as the 29th President of the United States.
** Spring: The Russian famine of 1921–1922 started.
*1922
**April 3: Vladimir Lenin made Joseph Stalin the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
**May 26: Vladimir Lenin suffered the first of three strokes.
**October 31: Benito Mussolini became the Prime Minister of Italy.
**December: Vladimir Lenin suffered the second of three strokes.
**December 30: The Soviet Union was established.
*1923
**March: Vladimir Lenin suffered the third of three strokes.
** June 16:
*** The Russian Civil War ended.
***The Russian Revolution ended.
**August 2: Warren G. Harding died at the age of 57.
*1924
**January 21: Vladimir Lenin died at the age of 53. Joseph Stalin succeeded him.
**February 3: Woodrow Wilson died at the age of 67.
**June 12: George H. W. Bush was born.
**October 1: Jimmy Carter is born.
* 1927
**August 1: The Chinese Civil War began.
*1928
**October 13: Maria Feodorovna died at the age of 80.
*1929
**February: Joseph Stalin banished Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Union.
**March 4: Herbert Hoover was sworn in as the 31st President of the United States.
**October 29 (Black Tuesday): The Great Depression began.
*1931
** February 1: Boris Yeltsin was born.
**March 2: Mikhail Gorbachev is born.
**October 17: Al Capone was imprisoned.
*1932
**November 2: The Emu War began.
**December 10: The Emu War ended in an emu victory.
*1933
**January 30: Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany, replacing the Weimar Republic with Nazi Germany.
**March 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as the 32nd President of the United States.
** March 9: The Great Depression ended.
**December 5: The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, ending Prohibition.
*1934
**March 9: Yuri Gagarin was born.
** August 2: Adolf Hitler became the Führer of Germany.
*1935
**October 3: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War began.
*1936
**May 5: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War ended in an Italian victory.
*1937
**July 7: The Second Sino-Japanese War began when the Empire of Japan invaded the Republic of China.
*1938
**March 12: Nazi Germany Anschlussed with Austria.
*1939
**March 15: Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia.
**April 7: Italy invaded Albania.
**April 12: The invasion resulted in an Italian victory.
**August 23: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression pact.
**September 1: Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering WW2.
**September 3:
***The UK and France declared war on Nazi Germany.
***The Phoney War started.
**September 17: The Soviet Union invaded Poland.
**October 6: Poland fell.
**October 18: Lee Harvey Oswald was born.
**November 30: The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland began.
*1940
**March 13: The Winter War ended.
**April 9: Operation Weserübung, in which Nazi Germany invaded Norway and Denmark, began.
**May 10:
***The Phoney War ended.
***The Battle of France began when Germany invaded France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
**June 10:
***Operation Weserübung ended in a German victory.
*** The Battle of France ended in a German victory.
***The Kingdom of Italy entered WW2.
***The North African campaign began.
**August 21: Leon Trotsky died at the age of 60.
** October 9: John Lennon was born.
**October 28: The Greco-Italian War began.
** November 9: Neville Chamberlain died at the age of 71.
**November 20: Hungary joined the Axis Powers.
** November 23: Romania joined the Axis Powers.
*1941
**March 1: Bulgaria joined the Axis Powers.
**April 6: The Axis Powers invaded Yugoslavia.
**April 23: The Greco-Italian War ended, resulting in an Italian victory.
** June 22: Operation Barbarossa began when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
**December 5: Operation Barbarossa ended in a Soviet victory.
** December 7: The Attack on Pearl Harbor occurred.
*1943
**The North African campaign ended.
**July 9: The Allied invasion of Sicily began.
**August 17: The Allied invasion of Sicily ended in an Allied victory.
*1944
**June 6: The Normandy landings, better known as D-Day, occurred.
**August 25: Paris was liberated.
**December 16: The Battle of the Bulge began when Nazi Germany counterattacked the Allies.
*1945
**January 25: The Battle of the Bulge ended in an Allied victory.
**February 19: The United States captured the island of Iwo Jima.
**April 12:
*** Franklin D. Roosevelt died at the age of 63.
*** Harry S. Truman was sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States.
** April 28: Benito Mussolini died at the age of 61.
**April 30: Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
**August 6: The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
**August 9: The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
**September 2: The Empire of Japan surrendered, ending WW2.
== Contemporary history ==
*1947
**January 25: Al Capone died at the age of 48.
**March 12: U.S. President Harry S. Truman issued the Truman Doctrine; many viewed this as the official declaration of the Cold War.
*1948
**June 24: The Berlin Blockade began.
*1949
**April 4: NATO is established.
**May 12: The Berlin Blockade ended.
**August 29: The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb.
**December 7: The Chinese Civil War ended.
*1950
**June 25: The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
*1953
**January 20: Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as the 34th President of the United States.
** March 5: Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74; therefore, Nikita Khrushchev became the next leader of the Soviet Union.
** July 27: The Korean War de facto ended in a stalemate.
*1955
**May 14: The Warsaw Pact was established.
** August 2: The Soviet Union tested a nuke.On This Day. "August 2, 1955." What Happened on August 2, 1955 - On This Day, On This Day, https://www.onthisday.com/date/1955/august/2.
**November 1: The Vietnam War began.
*1957
**October 4, 19:28: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1.
*1959
** United States Vice President Richard M. Nixon met Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition in Moscow.
* 1961
**January 20: John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States.
**April 12: Yuri Gagarin became the first person to enter space.
**July 19: The Nicaraguan Revolution began.
** August 13: The Berlin Wall was built.
*1962
**October 16: The Cuban Missile Crisis began.
**October 29: The Cuban Missile Crisis ended.
*1963
**November 22:
***12:30 CST: Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy.
*** 13:00 CST: John F. Kennedy died at the age of 46; Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
**November 24: Lee Harvey Oswald died at the age of 24.
*1964
** April 5: Douglas MacArthur died at the age of 84.
**October 14: The Soviet Union ousted Nikita Khrushchev and replaced him with Leonid Brezhnev.
**October 20: Herbert Hoover died at the age of 90.
* 1965
** January 24: Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.
*1967
**June 5: The Six-Day War began.
** June 10: The Six-Day War ended.
* 1968
**March 27: Yuri Gagarin died at the age of 34.
*1969
**January 20: Richard M. Nixon was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
**March 28: Dwight D. Eisenhower died at the age of 78.
**July 14: The Football War started.
** July 16: Apollo 11 launched.
** July 18: The Football War ended.
**July 24: Apollo 11 landed on the Moon; Neil Armstrong became the first person to step on the Moon.
*1970
**June 11: Alexander Kerensky died at the age of 89.
* 1971
**September 11: Nikita Khrushchev died at the age of 77.
*1972
**May 22: The Moscow Summit of 1972 began when Richard M. Nixon became the first President to visit Moscow.
**May 26: The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, or SALT, occurred.
**May 30: The Moscow Summit of 1972 ended.
**June 17: The Watergate scandal started.
**December 26: Harry S. Truman died at the age of 88.
* 1973
** January 22: Lyndon B. Johnson died at the age of 64.
** June 18: The Washington Summit began when Leonid Brezhnev visited the United States.
** June 25: The Washington Summit ended.
** October 6: The Yom Kippur War began.
** October 25: The Yom Kippur War ended.
*1974
**August 9: Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States, ending the Watergate scandal when Richard M. Nixon resigned.
*1975
**April 30: The Vietnam War ended.
** August 10: Anthony McAuliffe died at the age of 77.
**November 11: The Angolan Civil War began.
*1977
**January 20: Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.
**July 13: The Ogaden War began.
*1978
**March 23: The Ogaden War ended.
*1979
** December 24: The Soviet–Afghan War began when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
* 1980
** December 8: John Lennon died at the age of 40 after he was assassinated by Mark David Chapman.
*1981
**January 20: Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th President of the United States.
*1982
**April 2: The Falklands War began.
**June 14: The Falklands War ended.
**November 10: Leonid Brezhnev died at the age of 75.
*1984
**February 9: Yuri Andropov died at the age of 69.
*1985
**March 10: Konstantin Chernenko died at the age of 73 and was replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev.
*1987
** December 8, 13:45: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed.
*1988
**June 1: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty beame effective.
*1989
**January 20: George H. W. Bush was sworn in as the 41st President of the United States.
**February 15: The Soviet–Afghan War ended.
**November 9: The Berlin Wall is demolished.
*1990
** April 25: The Nicaraguan Revolution ended.
** October 3: West Germany and East Germany reunite to re-form Germany.
*1991
**July 1: The Warsaw Pact was dissolved.
** December 26: The Soviet Union was dissolved.
* 1993
**OverSimplified (or possibly Stuart) is born.
* 1994
** April 22: Richard M. Nixon died at the age of 81.
=== 3rd Millennium ===
* 2002
** April 4: The Angolan Civil War ended.
* 2003
** January 12: Leopoldo Galtieri died at the age of 76.
** February 28: Fidel Sánchez Hernández died at the age of 85.
* 2004
** June 5: Ronald Reagan died at the age of 93.
* 2006
** October 28: The OverSimplified channel is created.
** December 26: Gerald R. Ford died at the age of 93.
* 2007
** April 23: Boris Yeltsin died at the age of 76.
* 2010
** May 16: Oswaldo López Arellano died at the age of 88.
* 2013
** April 8: Margaret Thatcher died at the age of 87.
*2016
**October 21: The first videos, both parts of the WW1 series are uploaded.
**November 25: Fidel Castro died at the age of 90.
*2017
**April 18: Both parts of the Hitler series are uploaded.
** October 22: "The Falklands - MiniWars #1" is uploaded.
** November 6: "Football War - MiniWars #2" is uploaded.
* 2018
** March 15: Both parts of the WW2 series are uploaded.
** May 24: "The War that Changed the English Language - Mini-Wars #3" is uploaded.
** August 30: Both parts of The American Revolution series are uploaded.
** September 6: The OverSimplified Wiki is created.
** November 15: "Emu War (Mini-Wars #4)" is uploaded.
** November 30: George H. W. Bush died at the age of 94.
* 2019
** January 24: Both parts of The Cold War series are uploaded.
** April 11: The Three Kingdoms video is uploaded.
** June 28: Both parts of The French Revolution series are uploaded.
** September 21: The War of the Bucket video is uploaded.
** November 17: The COVID-19 pandemic begins.
* 2020
** January 16: Both parts of The American Civil War series are uploaded.
** May 4: The Henry VIII video is uploaded.
** August 17: Both parts of The Russian Revolution series are uploaded.
** December 16: The Prohibition video is uploaded.
* 2021
** May 28: Both parts of The Napoleonic Wars series are uploaded.
** December 6: The Pig War video is uploaded.
*2022
** August 30: Mikhail Gorbachev died at the age 91.
** September 2: Both parts of The First Punic War series are uploaded.
*2024
** January 19: The first two parts of The Second Punic War series, as well as a suplemental recap on the first, are uploaded.
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== References ==
Category:Other
Category:Lists
Category:Real World Articles
Category:Years
Category:OverSimplified
Category:Three Kingdoms
Category:Battle of Hastings
Category:Henry VIII (episode)
Category:American Revolution
Category:French Revolution
Category:American Civil War
Category:WWI
Category:WWII
Category:Russian Revolution
Category:Cold War
Category:Pig War
Category:Other
Category:Lists
Category:Real World Articles
Category:Years
Category:OverSimplified
Category:Three Kingdoms
Category:Battle of Hastings
Category:Henry VIII (episode)
Category:American Revolution
Category:French Revolution
Category:American Civil War
Category:WWI
Category:WWII
Category:Russian Revolution
Category:Cold War
Category:Pig War