Articles about wars & battles across every continent and era, oldest first.
Kaufman took Khiva on June 10, 1873. The khan knelt June 14, ended slavery June 24 and in August signed 18 articles ceding the right bank of the Amu Darya.
· 1873Article 1 of the treaty signed at Ganghwa on February 26, 1876 called Joseon an autonomous state. The Gojong Sillok prints all twelve articles.
· 1876The Draft History of Qing on the 1875 debate, Zuo Zongtang's march to Urumqi, Turfan and Kashgar, Yaqub Beg's death at Korla in 1877, and the Ili treaty of 1881.
· 1877On February 3, 1879, Chelmsford wrote that every record of No. 3 Column was lost. The Gazette printed the dead by name; the Commons divided 246 to 306.
· 1879The General Act signed in Berlin on February 26, 1885, drew no borders. It set trade and river rules; the partition came by treaty and war in the years to 1914.
· 1885On January 17, 1893, Queen Liliʻuokalani yielded Hawaiʻi under protest to US troops. Cleveland called it an act of war; Congress apologized in 1993.
· 1893Article 17 of Wuchale says Menelik "consents" to use Italy in foreign business. Rome told the powers it would conduct it. Adwa decided which word stood.
· 1896Rawson's ultimatum to Khalid bin Barghash ran out at nine on August 27, 1896. Lyne, a Zanzibar official, timed the bombardment at thirty-seven minutes.
· 1896Signed at Peking on September 7, 1901 by China and eleven powers, the Boxer Protocol set an indemnity of 450 million taels at 4 percent over 39 years.
· 1901The Hejaz Railway reached Medina on September 1, 1908, funded by subscription under Sultan Abdulhamid II, a 2010 study of Ottoman newspapers shows.
· 1908Rifleman William Eve's diary says soldiers 'played football' on December 25, 1914; the National Archives' review of unit war diaries records no such match.
· 1914The April 25, 1915 landing was the first major action of Australia's and New Zealand's own forces; 8,709 Australians and 2,779 New Zealanders died there.
· 1915Balfour's letter to Lord Rothschild, approved by the Cabinet and dated November 2, 1917, set beside the McMahon letter of 1915, the 1922 mandate and 2017.
· 1917Signed June 28, 1919, it took Germany's land and army and fixed its liability; Germany called it a Diktat, Keynes Carthaginian, the U.S. Senate refused it.
· 1919Sèvres (1920), signed by the sultan's ministers, partitioned Anatolia; Ankara drove Greece from Smyrna, ended the sultanate and won Lausanne in 1923.
· 1923The Covenant bound members to cut all trade with an aggressor. Against Italy they applied it in part, left oil and Suez open, and offered Rome a slice.
· 1935Groves's top-secret memorandum of July 18, 1945 put the Trinity blast at 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT; Los Alamos remeasured it as 22.1 kilotons in 2016.
· 1945The Enola Gay released Little Boy at 8:15:15 on August 6, 1945. The US Strategic Bombing Survey counted 70,000 dead; the City of Hiroshima counts 237,000.
· 1945An IAEA table printed in 1998 counts 456 Soviet nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk from August 29, 1949; the site closed in August 1991, a date the UN kept.
· 1949The armistice text says no nation is a signatory. Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. and Gen. Nam Il signed it at Panmunjom at 10 a.m. on July 27, 1953.
· 1953Dulles to Eisenhower, March 1, 1953; the embassy's "Mosadeq victor" cable of August 16; a decree dated August 13. What the 2017 FRUS volume prints.
· 1953A U-2 flight on October 14, 1962 brought back 928 photographs of missile sites in Cuba. Two Khrushchev letters, a lost U-2 and Radio Moscow followed.
· 1962On April 6, 1971, Archer Blood cabled that Washington was 'bending over backwards to placate' Pakistan. Niazi surrendered at Dhaka on December 16.
· 1971On July 6, 1986 the UN Secretary-General ruled France owed New Zealand an apology, US$7 million and three years on Hao for two agents. Both left early.
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