Historical Events Explorer

Act of Union creates the United Kingdom

Louis Daguerre is thought to photograph the Moon

Battle of Princeton boosts the American Revolution

Solomon Northup regains his freedom

Edward the Confessor dies

Harold Godwinson is crowned king of England

Galileo observes four major moons of Jupiter

Moscow bombings

Discovery of first exoplanets

First UN General Assembly session convenes

Surgeon General Warns of Smoking Dangers

Zanzibar Revolution

Ghanaian coup d'état

End of Nigerian Civil War

Elizabeth I is crowned queen of England

Hello, Dolly! opens on Broadway

Stockton schoolyard shooting

Police storm University of Tokyo

Rhode Island oil spill

Amanullah Asaduzzaman killed

First DMC DeLorean Production Car

Tanzanian forces attack Mutukula

Mosaic Web Browser Released

Shoichi Yokoi found

Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity lands on Mars

Gujarat Earthquake

Niger coup d'état

Rwandan coup d'état

Battle of Khafji

Hitler Appointed Chancellor

Doug Williams in Super Bowl XXII

Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

F-16 Fighting Falcon first flight

Karla Faye Tucker executed

Afghanistan earthquake

Massacre in Grozny

Washington Naval Treaty signed

Steve Jobs Returns to Apple

Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crash

Copernicium First Created

Spy Exchange

Anna Kournikova worm released

Abraham Lincoln born

Operation Pretense Corruption Indictments

Sri Temasek Declared National Monument

USS Maine Explodes

Ash Wednesday bushfires

Gabonese coup d'état

Sampit conflict

Publication of The Feminine Mystique

Nagorno-Karabakh votes to secede

Assassination of Kurt Eisner

Securitas depot robbery

General Đỗ Cao Trí Dies in Helicopter Crash

Battle of Huế

Suriname coup d'état

Barings Bank collapse

Final Performance of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Selby rail crash

Columbus uses lunar eclipse to influence Jamaican villagers

Hoover Dam completed

First Non-US/Soviet Cosmonaut in Space

First Nazi concentration camp opened

PlayStation 2 released in Japan

Che Guevara Photograph Taken

Muhammad Ali Name Change Announcement

Operation Truong Cong Dinh Begins

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Premiere

Demonstrations suppressed in Tbilisi

Uranus ring system discovered

The Daily Courant begins publication

Lord Ismay appointed NATO Secretary General

US warships enter Black Sea

John McCain Released from POW Camp

Iranian oil industry nationalized

Halabja Chemical Attack

Penmanshiel Tunnel collapse

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft

Jim Bakker Resigns from PTL Club

Zidovudine approved for HIV/AIDS

Dallas "Who Shot J.R.?" Episode Airs

Valeri Polyakov Returns from Mir

Lee Teng-hui Elected President of Taiwan

Prince Edward Island's Provincial Flag Act

Soviet deportations from Baltic states

Book of Mormon published

Netanya suicide bombing and Operation Defensive Shield

Callaghan Government Falls

Peking Man fossils discovered

Vietnam War: Easter Offensive Begins

USS Missouri Decommissioned

Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act signed

John Gotti convicted

US v. Microsoft Antitrust Ruling

NATO is founded

Fan Violence in Istanbul

Jalal Talabani elected President of Iraq

FedEx Flight 705 Hijacking Attempt

Execution of Otto and Elise Hampel

Niger's President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara assassinated

USS Thresher sinks

Australia vs. American Samoa football match

First Human in Space

Explosion at ammunition factory in Finland

Sydney Hailstorm

Abraham Lincoln dies

Organisation for European Economic Co-operation founded

George Lucas begins writing Star Wars treatment

Launch of Aryabhata Satellite

Advance Australia Fair Becomes National Anthem

Columbine High School massacre

Hutt River Province Declared Independent

Elián González raid

Death of Blair Peach

Hubble Space Telescope launch

Raid on gay bar near Chicago

Chernobyl disaster

Indonesian attack on Plaman Mapu repelled

The Dark Side of the Moon Enters Billboard Chart

Collision in Korea

Riverdance premiere

Sicilian separatist attack on May Day marchers

Chaitén volcano eruption

Erich Honecker Becomes First Secretary

First all-female team climbs Manaslu

Twenty-seventh Amendment ratified in the US

Final episode of Friends aired

Circus Wagons Overturn in Dungannon

Antoine Lavoisier is executed

Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse

Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa

David Cameron becomes UK Prime Minister

Mayaguez Incident

Introduction of Falun Gong

Israeli Declaration of Independence

Ryukyu Islands returned to Japan

South Korean Military Coup

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings

Ireland Wins Eurovision

Croatian Independence Referendum

National Diet of Japan opens

Suharto resigns as Indonesian president

Hindu–Muslim riots in Meerut

Toledo Auto-Lite strike violence

Caribbean floods

North Korea Conducts Nuclear and Missile Tests

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Released

Christopher Reeve's accident

Falklands War nuclear weapons decision

Marco Polo begins journey home

Curaçao Uprising

German bombs hit neutral Ireland

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ratified

Air Canada Flight 797 fire

Collision Between HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans

Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to spying

Republic of the Congo Civil War

Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden

Griswold v. Connecticut

Falklands War: Argentine Air Force attacks British ships

Secretariat Wins Belmont Stakes

South Korean Protests for Direct Presidential Elections

Timothy McVeigh Executed

Boeing 777 maiden flight

Shots Fired at Queen Elizabeth II

Falklands War surrender

Western Greece earthquake

First Woman in Space

Guatemalan Revolution Land Reform

First flight of F-117 Nighthawk

United States Grand Prix reduced to six cars

Journalist Bill Stewart Executed

Manchester Baby Runs First Program

Thích Trí Quang arrested

Dodgers infield record begins

Racial tensions lead to fatal shooting in England

Korean War begins

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Released

Deadly police operation in Rio de Janeiro favelas

Stonewall Inn raid

Jayne Mansfield Dies in Car Crash

Baltimore municipal workers strike

Sony Introduces the Walkman

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets published

Carter Authorizes Covert Aid to Mujahideen

United States Declaration of Independence

Indonesia Holds First Direct Presidential Elections

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Bus Attack

South Vietnamese Secret Police Attack Journalists

Sudan Airways Flight 139 Crash

Donkey Kong Released

USA wins FIFA Women's World Cup

Italy wins FIFA World Cup

Princess Mononoke released

Operation Tiger Concludes

Storming of the Bastille

Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 Crash

Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 Impacts Jupiter

Manchester Metrolink Opens

Murder of Rebecca Schaeffer

Via D'Amelio bombing

20 July plot to assassinate Hitler

Libyan raid on Sallum

Pulitzer Prize-winning photo 'Fire Escape Collapse' taken

Vanessa Williams Resigns as Miss America

Australian swimming team wins relay at Moscow Olympics

Air France Flight 4590 crashes

Trương Đình Dzu jailed

Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt

Rajneesh followers convicted of assassination plot

Essential Commodities Reserves Act

Assassination of Ian Gow

Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery Reopens

Discovery of Lindow Man

Einstein-Szilard letter

Plane Crash Near Agadir, Morocco

Death of Jeanne Calment

Magic: The Gathering released

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Hurricane Diane Forms

Taliban raid Iranian consulate

Jerusalem restaurant bombing

Heron Road Bridge collapse

Ford Pinto Fuel Leak Investigation

The Troubles Erupt in Derry

First Woman Enlists in US Marine Corps

Helios Airways Flight 522 Crash

Republic of Korea established

The Beatles replace drummer

Indonesian Independence Proclaimed

Hildegard Trabant killed at Berlin Wall

Mil Mi-26 helicopter crash in Chechnya

Marchioness disaster

San Quentin Prison Riot

British Airtours Flight 28M fire

Congo Crisis invasion

Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas commits suicide

Voyager 2 Confirms Neptune's Rings

The Beatles Release "Hey Jude"

South Vietnamese Power-Sharing Arrangement

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers 'I Have a Dream' speech

Rajneesh movement bioterror attack

Space Shuttle Discovery Maiden Voyage

Bob Dylan performs at Isle of Wight Festival

World War II Begins

Principality of Sealand Proclaimed

Łachwa Ghetto uprising against Nazis

Little Rock Nine integration

Jochen Rindt killed during Italian Grand Prix practice

Singapore Parliament relocates

Tupac Shakur shot

Tailhook scandal allegations

John Lennon's Imagine album released

Typhoon Ellen Dissipates

Chilean coup d'état

Hurricane Ismael

Super Mario Bros. released in Japan

Herzeg-Bosnia declared unconstitutional

16th Street Baptist Church bombing

Boris Yeltsin's Texas grocery store visit

Camp David Accords signed

Dag Hammarskjöld dies in plane crash

Mexico City earthquake

Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech

Defense of Marriage Act passed

Mobile, Alabama train derailment

Firefox Web Browser Released

Warren Commission report released

North Yemen Civil War Begins

Stanislav Petrov False Alarm

Iran breaks Iraqi siege of Abadan

Spaghetti House Siege

Lockheed YF-22 Prototype First Flight

ICANN incorporated

People's Republic of China proclaimed

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu re-elected President of South Vietnam

Nadine Gordimer wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Gregorian calendar is introduced in parts of Europe

Order of the Solar Temple mass murder-suicide

First exoplanet discovered

Croatian War of Independence

Operation Southern Move

Knowsley Hall Shootings

Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty takes effect

Typhoon Nora dissipates

Columbus reaches the Americas

Loyalist Ceasefire Announced

Battle of Hastings

Kiholo Bay Earthquake

China becomes a nuclear power

Lake Burley Griffin Inaugurated

First Cat in Space

Iran–Iraq War: U.S. destroys Iranian oil platforms

Aeroflot Flight 6502 Crash

Battle of Trafalgar

Nixon in China premiere

Grand Theft Auto III Released

Wall Street Crash

Heinrich Himmler orders crackdown on Edelweiss Pirates

Norway dissolves union with Sweden

Armenian Parliament Shooting

Gateway Arch completed

John Glenn Returns to Space

Madrid Conference

EgyptAir Flight 990 Crash

Formation of Indian States

Velma Barfield Executed

Godzilla film released in Japan

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Meir Kahane assassinated

Kelly Barnes Dam Collapse

Singapore MRT Line Opens

Enniskillen Bombing

Kristallnacht

Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa

Armistice of 11 November 1918

Mid-air collision near New Delhi

Amityville murders

Battle of the Dalmatian Channels Begins

Heinrich Himmler orders Romani to concentration camps

Luke and Laura wedding on General Hospital

The Little Mermaid released

Texas A&M Bonfire collapse

Luis Miguel's Romance album release

Windows 1.0 Released

God Defend New Zealand National Anthem

Mike Tyson becomes youngest heavyweight champion

Irpinia earthquake in Italy

D. B. Cooper hijacks airplane

Yukio Mishima commits ritual suicide

Southern Television Broadcast Interruption

Helen Clark becomes New Zealand Prime Minister

Burundi Republic Declared

Tellico Dam project completed

Meteorite Injury in Sylacauga, Alabama

End of Reforms in Socialist Republic of Croatia

Rosa Parks arrested

Mary Robinson becomes first female President of Ireland

Led Zeppelin disbands

Great Smog of London begins

Montreal Massacre

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Baghdad Bombings

Mumia Abu-Jamal arrested for murder

Raúl Alfonsín becomes President of Argentina

Mexican drug war begins

Tumaco earthquake and tsunami

IRA firefight in County Fermanagh

Kosovo War ambush

Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death

Bangladesh Liberation War ends

First successful airplane flight

On Her Majesty's Secret Service Premiere

Aeroflot Flight 101/435 hijacked

MV Doña Paz disaster

Antonov An-225 Mriya makes first flight

Hussein Farrah Aidid Relinquishes Title

Tokyo Tower Opens

Washington, D.C. Home Rule Granted

Washington crosses the Delaware

Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

Clonaid claims first human clone

Karachi suicide bombing

Richard Feynman's Nanotechnology Speech

MV Senopati Nusantara sinks

Euro Exchange Rates Frozen