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

First Human in Space

Abraham Lincoln dies

Chernobyl disaster

Antoine Lavoisier is executed

Nelson Mandela inaugurated as President of South Africa

Marco Polo begins journey home

Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden

Korean War begins

United States Declaration of Independence

Storming of the Bastille

20 July plot to assassinate Hitler

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima

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

World War II Begins

Chilean coup d'état

Camp David Accords signed

People's Republic of China proclaimed

Gregorian calendar is introduced in parts of Europe

Columbus reaches the Americas

Battle of Hastings

Battle of Trafalgar

Wall Street Crash

Norway dissolves union with Sweden

Kristallnacht

Armistice of 11 November 1918

Rosa Parks arrested

Attack on Pearl Harbor

First successful airplane flight

Washington crosses the Delaware