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: 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: 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.

## 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.
* 1718/19
	+ 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: *The Communist Manifesto* 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 *Anschluss*ed 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.
	+ 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.

## References

1. ↑ 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/.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ 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
4. ↑ DirkJandeGeer. "Thomas Gage." *Wikipedia*, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Nov. 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas\_Gage.
5. ↑ 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.