89 BC Social War: Sulla captures Stabiae from the Italiotes

58 BC Cicero sails into exile from Brindisium

711 Tariq ibn Ziyad lands a Moorish army at Gibraltar for the Conquest of Visigothic Spain, initiating a war that ends in 1492

1091 Battle of Monte Levunium: Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus defeats the Pechenegs

1289 Sultan Quala'un of Egypt captures Tripoli, Lebanon, from the Crusaders

1429 Joan of Arc breaks the English siege of Orleans

1524 Battle of Sesia Romagnano: Spanish defeat the French

1616 Naval Battle of Euboea: Tuscans defeat the Turks

1661 Chinese troops occupy Taiwan

1670 Emilio Altieri elected Pope as Clement X (1670-1676)

1814 USS 'Peacock' captures HMS 'Epervier'

1856 The Crimean War ends

1861 Maryland House of Delegates votes against secession

1863 Battle of Chancellorsville begins

1898 Cienfuegos, Cuba: US and Spanish warships exchange fire

1901 Anti-Semitic riots in Budapest

1916 The Irish "Easter Rebellion" ends (from the 24th)

1926 Franco-American accord on WW I war debts

1940 Norwegian King Haakon flees to England as the Nazis occupy his country

1942 Burma: Japanese capture Lashio

1942 Dutch and French Jews ordered to wear a yellow star

1943 Dietrich Bonhoffer is arrested by Nazis

1943 Teop, Solomon Is: USS 'Gato' (SS-212) lands coastwatchers & evacuates missionaries.

1945 Adolf Hitler makes an honest woman of Eva Braun

1945 Burma: Japanese army evacuates Rangoon

1945 RAF drops food to isolated areas in the Netherlands

1945 US liberates the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau

1946 Tokyo: 28 former Japanese leaders indicted as war criminals

1970 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia

1975 Last US personnel pull out of Vietnam

1991 Croatia declares independence from Yugoslavia