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Spanish American War (1898)

Boxer Rebellion (1898-1900)

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

“The Great War” (a.k.a., World War I) (1914-1918)

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The Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution (1917)

Chronology from the Wikipedia Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_revolution#More_detailed_but_still_brief_chronology_of_Revolution_of_1917 January Strikes and unrest in Petrograd February February Revolution 26th -- 50 demonstrators killed in Znamenskaya Square 27th -- Troops refuse to fire on demonstrators, desertions. Prison, courts, and police stations attacked and looted by angry crowds. Okhranka buildings set on fire. Garrison joins revolutionaries. Petrograd Soviet formed. March 1st -- Order No.1 of the Petrograd Soviet 2nd -- Nicholas II abdicates. Provisional Government formed under Prime Minister Prince Lvov April 3rd -- Return of Lenin to Russia. He publishes his April Theses. 20th -- Miliukov's note published. Provisional Government falls. May 5th -- New Provisional Government formed. Kerensky made minister of war and navy June 3rd -- First All-Russian Congress of Soviets in Petrograd. Closed on 24th. 16th -- Kerensky orders offensive against Austro-Hungarian forces. Initial success. July 2nd -- Russian offensive ends. Trotsky joins Bolsheviks. 4th -- Anti-government demonstrations in Petrograd 6th -- German and Austro-Hungarian counter-attack. Russians retreat in panic, sacking the town of Tarnopol. Arrest of Bolshevik leaders ordered. 7th -- Lvov resigns. Kerensky is new PM 22nd -- Trotsky and Lunacharskii arrested August 26th -- Second coalition government ends 27th -- General Lavr Kornilov failed coup. Kornilov arrested and imprisoned. September 1st -- Russia declared a republic 4th -- Trotsky and others freed. Trotsky becomes head of Petrograd Soviet. 25th -- Third coalition government formed October 10th -- Bolshevik Central Committee meeting approves armed uprising 11th -- Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region, until 13th 20th -- First meeting of the Military Revolutionary Committee of Petrograd 25th -- October Revolution is launched as MRC directs armed workers and soldiers to capture key buildings in Petrograd. Winter Palace attacked at 9.40pm. Kerensky flees Petrograd. 26th -- Second Congress of Soviets. Mensheviks and right SR delegates walk out in protest against the previous day's events. Decrees on peace and land reform. Soviet government declared - the Council of People's Commissars (Bolshevik dominated with Lenin as chairman).

Japanese Incursion into Manchuria (1931)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Detailed Chronology (from the Wikipedia Article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_civil_war#Detailed_chronology:_1936 ) 1936 February 16 Popular Front electoral victory July 17 Army uprising in Morocco. July 18 Uprising extends to Iberian Spain. July 19 Franco flies from the Canary Islands to Tetuán and takes command of the army in Africa. Santiago Casares Quiroga resigns as chief of the Republican government.
Diego Martínez Barrio tries to form a new government, but cannot obtain broad enough parliamentary support.
José Giral forms a government, which orders that arms be issued to the general populace. July 20 Start of the siege of the Alcázar de Toledo. July 21 The Nationalist insurgents have control of the Spanish zones of Morocco, the Canary Islands, the Balearics (except Minorca), the part of Spain north of the Sierra de Guadarrama and the Río Ebro (except Asturias, Santander, the north of the País Vasco (Basque Country), and Catalonia). Among the major cities, the insurgents hold Seville, but the Republicans retain Madrid and Barcelona. July 23 The Nationalists declare a government in the form of the Junta de Defensa Nacional, which meets for the first time in Burgos. July 24 Start of French aid to the Republican side. July 28 First arrival of German and Italian planes in aid of the Nationalist side. July-August The "spontaneous" social revolution, collectivizations. August 8 France closes its border with Spain. August 14 Nationalist forces under Colonel Yagüe take Badajoz, uniting the two parts of the Nationalist territory. September 4 The Socialists take over leadership of the Republican government under Francisco Largo Caballero. September 9 London Conference on non-intervention in Spain. September Comintern approves the creation of the International Brigades. October 1 Franco declares himself head of state and Generalísimo. The Republican government concedes autonomy to the Basque Country (in practice, Biscay and Guipúzcoa) as Euzkadi, with José Antonio Aguirre as its president. November 4 With the Nationalists at the gates of Madrid, the anarchist CNT joins the Largo Caballero govermnent. November 6 The defense of Madrid is organized under the newly created Junta de Defensa directed by General Jose Miaja. The Republican government moves to Valencia. November 8 Start of the battle of Madrid. Arrival of the first International Brigades. November 18 Italy and Germany recognize the Franco government. November 19 Anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti is gravely wounded during the fighting in Madrid. He dies the next day. November 20 José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera and founder of the Falange, is executed in a jail in Alicante, where he had been held prisoner since before the insurgency. November 23 Battle of Madrid ends; with both sides exhausted a front stabilizes. 1937 January 17 The Nationalists begin the battle to take Málaga. Three Nationalist columns converge on the city from Seville and Granada. February 6 The Republican troops arrive in Almería, after a badly organized retreat from Málaga under continuous bombardment by German artillery. The troops and between 60,000 and 100,000 civilians flee along the coast road, pounded by artillery fire from the vessels Canarias and Almirante Cervera. February 6-24 The Nationalist offensive of Jarama, by the forces under General Orgaz, attempts to isolate Madrid. In heavy combat, Republican forces under Generals Pozas and Miaja prevent them from achieving this objective. March 8-18 The Battle of Guadalajara, another attempt to isolate Madrid. After a rapid advance of Nationalist and Italian troops, the Republicans counterattack, aided by Soviet tanks and airplanes; the Italians suffer a serious defeat. March 31 Start of General Mola's Nationalist offensive to take Bilbao, defended by forces under the command of General Llano de la Encomienda. April 19 Decree of Unification: Franco declares the amalgamation of the Falange and the Carlists, creating the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (FET y de las JONS). April 26 Bombing of Guernica by the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion. May 3-8 Fighting breaks out among anti-Nationalist forces in Barcelona, with the Trotskyist POUM and anarchist CNT on one side and the socialist PSUC on the other. May 17 The government of Largo Caballero falls. Doctor Juan Negrín, socialist, becomes head of the government. May 31 German forces bomb Almería to repress Republican air attacks on the battleship Deutschland. June 3 Nationalist General Mola dies in an airplane accident. Fidel Dávila takes over as commander of his troops, attacking Bilbao. June 16 The POUM is outlawed and its leaders are arrested. June 17 The Jaime I, one of the Republican's best ships, is sunk in Cartagena. June 19 Bilbao is taken by the Nationalists, causing the collapse of the defensive system optimistically named the Cinturón de Hierro ("Belt of Iron"). June 21 Soviet agents assassinate the POUM leader Andreu Nin. July 7-26 The Battle of Brunete. Attempting to reduce the Nationalist pressure on Madrid, General Miaja orders an offensive directed by Generals Juan Modesto and Enrique Jurado. They take Brunete, moving the front some eight kilometers. The Nationalist counterattack directed by General José Enrique Varela almost completely wipes out this gain. August 26 The fall of Santander. September 4-5 Asturias is invaded from the East after the river Deva is crossed; Llanes falls. September 6-22 The battle of El Mazuco; fewer than 5,000 Asturians and Basques hold off more than 33,000 Nationalists and the Legión Cóndor in and around the Sierra del Cuera. September 22 The VI Brigade of Navarre overruns Peñas Blancas. The battle of Sella begins. September 27 Solchaga’s forces enter Ribadesella. October 1 Nationalist forces occupy Covadonga. October 10 The Navarrese Brigades enter Cangas de Onis. October 17 The Consejo Soberano decides to evacuate Asturias. October 21 The fall of Gijón. November 31 The Republican government abandons Valencia for Barcelona. December 15