Conflict & Security

18,081 sourced entries filed under conflict & security, split by century. Each century below opens the full list for that stretch of time.

By century

A line from each of the last few centuries

  • 1558January 7 – French troops, led by François, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of the Kingdom of England, in the Siege of Calais.source
  • 1650December 25 – Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, is hanged as a Royalist rebel.source
  • 17588 July – French and Indian War: Battle of Carillon; French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.United Kingdomsource
  • 1851December 26–27 – A British Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos Island; Oba Kosoko is wounded, and flees to Epe.source
  • 195412 January – Vuelta a Colombia 1954:The 4th Vuelta a Colombia begins in Bogotá.Colombiasource
  • 2014June 5 – A Sunni militant group now calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) begins an offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.source