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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

international humanitarian movement

8 dated entries naming International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, drawn from 8 separate years between 1859 CE and 2001 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Red Crescent, Red Cross, Red Cross and Red Crescent in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1859June 24 – Austro-Sardinian War – Battle of Solferino: The Kingdom of Sardinia and the armies of Napoleon III of France defeat Franz Joseph I of Austria in northern Italy; the battle inspires Henri Dunant to found the Red Cross.source
  • 1864August 22 – The First Geneva Convention, for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, is signed in Geneva by 12 European states, under the auspices of the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded (predecessor of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement).source
  • 1875December 20 – The ICRM is renamed the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).source

20th century

  • 1928October 25 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) is formally established, with the adoption of the "Statutes of the International Red Cross"source
  • 1929July 27 – The Red Crescent is adopted as an additional emblem of the League of Red Cross Societies.source
  • 1965October 8 – The 7 Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent are adopted at the XX International Conference in Vienna, Austria.source
  • 1994April 21 – The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda.source

21st century

  • 2001October 16 – American planes misidentify and bomb a Red Cross facility in Afghanistan. A similar error occurs again on October 27.source

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