The timeline is a chronological list of important events that are related or discussed by OverSimplified.

Note: All dates, when provided, are written in the New Style.

Ancient History

• c. 2100 BCE
  • The Xia Dynasty, the first Chinese dynasty, was established.
• 551 BCE
  • September 28: Confucius was born.
• 479 BCE
  • April 11:^[1] Confucius died at the age of 72.
• 192 A.D.
  • May 22: Dong Zhuo died.
• 199 A.D.
  • February 7: Lü Bu died.

Early Middle Ages

• 747 A.D.
  • April 2: Charlemagne was born.
• 800 A.D.
  • December 25: Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor, creating the Holy Roman Empire.
• 814 A.D.
  • January 28: Charlemagne dies.
• 1003
  • Edward the Confessor was born.
• 1021
  • October 20:^[2][3] The Vikings discovered the Americas.
• c. 1022
  • Harold Godwinson was born.
• c. 1028
  • William the Conqueror was born.
• 1066
  • January 5: Edward the Confessor dies.
  • October 14:
    • The Battle of Hastings occured.
    • Harold Godwinson died at the age of about 44.
  • December 25: William the Conqueror becomes king of England.
• 1087
  • September 9: William the Conqueror dies.

High Middle Ages

• TBA

Late Middle Ages

• 1325
  • The War of the Bucket occurred.
• 1451
  • April 22: Isabella I of Castile was born.
  • Between August 25 and October 31: Christopher Columbus was born.
• 1452
  • March 10: Ferdinand II of Aragon was born.
• 1455
  • Wars of the Roses begins
• 1457
  • January 28: Henry VII was born.
• 1485
  • Thomas Cromwell was born.
  • December 16: Catherine of Aragon was born.
• 1486
  • Arthur, Prince of Wales, was born.
• 1487
  • Wars of the Roses ends.
• 1491
  • June 28: Henry VIII was born.
• 1492
  • October 12: Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World.
• c. 1501
  • Anne Boleyn was born.
• 1502
  • April 2: Arthur, Prince of Wales, dies.
• 1504
  • November 26: Isabella I of Castile dies at the age of 53.
• 1506
  • May 20: Christopher Columbus died.
• c. 1508
  • Jane Seymour was born.
• 1509
  • April 21: Henry VII dies.
  • April 22: Henry VIII becomes King of England.
  • June 11: Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon.
• 1512
  • Catherine Parr was born.
• 1515
  • September 22: Anne of Cleves was born.
• 1516
  • January 23: Ferdinand II of Aragon died at the age of 63.
  • February 18: Mary I was born.
• 1521
  • Catherine Howard was born.
• 1533
  • January 25: Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn.
  • May 23: Henry VIII annulls his marriage with Catherine of Aragon.
  • September 7: Elizabeth I was born.
• 1536
  • May 19: Anne Boleyn is convicted and executed.
  • May 30: Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour.
• 1537
  • October 12: Edward VI was born.
  • October 24: Jane Seymour dies from birth complications.
• 1540
  • January 6: Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves.
  • July 9: Hery VIII's marriage with Anne of Cleves is annulled.
  • July 28: Thomas Cromwell was executed. That same day, Henry VIII married Catherine Howard.
• 1542
  • February 13: Catherine Howard was beheaded due to adultery.
• 1543
  • July 12: Henry VIII married Catherine Parr.
• 1544
  • September 14: Henry VIII took the city of Boulogne from France.
• 1547
  • January 28: Henry VIII dies. Edward VI then becomes king.
• 1548
  • September 5: Catherine Parr dies.
• 1557
  • Anne of Cleves dies.
• 1558
  • November 17: Mary I dies.
• 1603
  • March 24: Elizabeth I dies.

Early Modern Period

• 1706
  • January 17: Benjamin Franklin was born.
• 1710
  • February 15: Louis XV was born.
• 1715
  • September 1: Louis XV became the king of France.
• 1718/19^[4]
  • March 10: Thomas Gage was born.
• 1721
  • September 10: The Russian Empire replaced the Tsardom of Russia.
• 1722
  • September 27: Samuel Adams was born.
• 1729
  • August 10: William Howe was born.
• 1732
  • February 22: George Washington was born.
  • November 13: John Dickinson was born.
• 1735
  • October 30: John Adams was born.
• 1736
  • May 29: Patrick Henry was born.
• 1738
  • January 21: Ethan Allen was born.
  • June 4: George III was born.
• 1741
  • January 14: Benedict Arnold was born.
• 1743
  • April 13: Thomas Jefferson was born.
• 1745
  • December 12: John Jay was born.
• 1748
  • May 3: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès was born.
• 1751
  • March 16: James Madison was born.
• 1754
  • August 23: Louis XVI was born.
• 1755
  • November 17: Louis XVIII was born.
• 1756
  • May 17: The Seven Years' War began.
• 1755 or 1757:
  • January 11: Alexander Hamilton was born.
• 1758
  • May 6: Maximilien Robespierre was born.
  • September 29: Horatio Nelson was born.
• 1763
  • February 15: The Seven Years' War ended.
• 1764
  • April 5: Great Britain passed the Sugar Act.
  • October 24: The Green Mountain Boys were established.
• 1765
  • March 22: Great Britain passed the Stamp Act.
• 1766
  • March 18:
    • Great Britain forcibly repealed the Stamp Act.
    • Great Britain passed the Declaratory Act.
• 1767
  • March 15: Andrew Jackson was born.
  • June 5: Great Britain passed the first of the Townshend Acts.
• 1768
  • France invades Corsica.
  • February 12: Francis II was born.
• 1769
  • August 15: Napoleon Bonaparte was born.
• 1770
  • March 5: The Boston Massacre occurred.
  • August 3: Frederick William III was born.
• 1773
  • December 16: The Boston Tea Party occurred.
• 1774
  • May 10: Louis XV died.
  • September 5: The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1775
  • April 19: Someone fired the "shot heard 'round the world," starting the battles of Lexington and Concord; thus, the American Revolutionary War began.
  • May 10: The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred.
  • June 17: The Battle of Bunker Hill occurred.
  • June 19: George Washington was made the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
• 1776
  • March 4: The Fortification of Dorchester Heights began.
  • March 5: The Fortification of Dorchester Heights ended.
  • July 4: The United States is created via the Declaration of Independence.
• 1777
  • September 19: The Battles of Saratoga started.
  • October 7: The Battles of Saratoga ended.
  • December 23: Alexander I was born.
• 1778
  • France entered the American Revolutionary War.
• 1779
  • Unknown date: The Green Mountain Boys were disbanded.
• 1781
  • October 19: The United States wins the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1783
  • September 3: The Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War.
• 1786
  • June 13: Winfield Scott was born.
• 1787
  • April 2: Thomas Gage died at the age of 67 – 68.
• 1789
  • February 12: Ethan Allen died at the age of 51.
  • April 30: George Washington was sworn in as the 1st President of the United States.
  • May 5: The French Revolution began.
  • July 14: The Bastille was stormed.
• 1790
  • April 17: Benjamin Franklin died at the age of 84.
• 1791
  • April 23: James Buchanan was born.
  • December 12: Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma was born.
• 1792
  • April 20: The War of the First Coalition began.
  • July 5: Francis II became the Holy Roman Emperor.
  • September 21: The French monarchy was abolished.
  • September 22: The French First Republic was founded.
• 1793
  • January 21: Louis XVI was beheaded.
  • July 27: Maximilien Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety.
  • September 5: The Reign of Terror began.
  • October 16: Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
• 1794
  • July 28: Maximilien Robespierre (aged 36) was beheaded, ending the Reign of Terror.
• 1797
  • March 4: John Adams was sworn in as the 2nd President of the United States.
  • October 17: The War of the First Coalition ended.
  • November 16: Frederick William III became the king of Prussia.
• 1798
  • November 29: The War of the Second Coalition began.
• 1799
  • June 6: Patrick Henry died at the age of 63.
  • June 18: The Coup of 30 Prairial VII, in which Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès overthrew the Jacobin government, occurred.
  • November 9: Napoleon became the First Consul of France, ending the French Revolution.
  • December 14: George Washington died at the age of 67.

Late Modern Period

• 1801
  • January 1: The Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland united to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • March 4: Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the 3rd President of the United States.
  • March 23: Alexander I was crowned Emperor of Russia.
  • June 14: Benedict Arnold died at the age of 60.
• 1802
  • March 25: The War of the Second Coalition ended.
• 1803
  • May 18: The War of the Third Coalition began.
  • July 4: The Louisiana Purchase occurred.
  • October 2: Samuel Adams died at the age of 81.
• 1804
  • December 2: Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French.
  • July 12: Alexander Hamilton died at the age of 47 or 49.
  • August 11: Francis II declared himself Emperor Francis I of Austria.
• 1805
  • October 21: Horatio Nelson died at the age of 47.
• 1806
  • July 12: The Confederation of the Rhine was established.
  • July 18: The War of the Third Coalition ended in a French victory.
  • August 6: Francis I dissolved the Holy Roman Empire.
  • October 9: The War of the Fourth Coalition began.
• 1807
  • July 9: The War of the Fourth Coalition ended in a French victory.
  • October 27: The Peninsular War began.
• 1808
  • February 14: John Dickinson died at the age of 75.
• 1809
  • February 12: Abraham Lincoln was born.
  • March 4: James Madison was sworn in as the 4th President of the United States.
  • April: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins.
  • October: The War of the Fifth Coalition ends.
• 1812
  • June 24: Napoleon invaded Russia.
  • December 14: Russia defeated Napoleon.
• 1813
  • March 3: The War of the Sixth Coalition began.
• 1814
  • April 11: Napoleon abdicated the throne and was exiled to Elba.
  • April 17: The Peninsular War ended.
  • May 3: Louis XVIII was crowned king of France.
  • May 30: The War of the Sixth Coalition ended.
  • July 12: William Howe died at the age of 84.
• 1815
  • March 20: Napoleon returned to France and was crowned emperor.
    • The War of the Seventh Coalition, or the Hundred Days War, began.
  • July 8: The War of the Seventh Coalition, or the Hundred Days War, ended.
  • October 15: Napoleon was exiled to Saint Helena.
• 1817
  • March 4: James Madison's term ended.
• 1818
  • April 29: Alexander II was born.
  • May 5: Karl Marx was born.
• 1820
  • January 29: George III died at the age of 81.
  • March 2: The House of Representatives passed the Missouri Compromise.
  • March 15: Maine was admitted as the 23rd state.
• 1821
  • May 5: Napoleon died at the age of 51.
  • August 10: Missouri was admitted as the 24th state.
• 1822
  • April 27: Ulysses S. Grant was born.
• 1824
  • January 21: Stonewall Jackson was born.
  • September 16: Louis XVIII died at the age of 68.
• 1825
  • January 16: George Pickett was born.
  • December 1: Alexander I died at the age of 47.
• 1826
  • July 4:
    • John Adams died at the age of 90.
    • Thomas Jefferson died at the age of 83.
• 1829
  • March 4: Andrew Jackson was sworn in as the 7th President of the United States.
  • May 17: John Jay died at the age of 83.
• 1835
  • March 2: Francis I at the age of 67.
• 1836
  • June 20: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès died at the age of 88.
  • June 28: James Madison died at the age of 85.
• 1837
  • March 4: Andrew Jackson's term ended.
  • June 7: Alois Hitler was born.
• 1838
  • May 10: John Wilkes Booth was born.
• 1840
  • June 7: Frederick William III died at the age of 69.
• 1845
  • March 10: Alexander III was born.
  • June 8: Andrew Jackson died at the age of 78.
  • December 29: Texas was admitted as the 28th state.
• 1846
  • April 25: The Mexican–American War began.
• 1847
  • November 26: Maria Feodorovna was born.
  • December 17: Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma died at the age of 56.
• 1848
  • February 2: The Mexican–American War ended in an American victory.
  • February 21: The Communist Manifesto was published.
• 1849
  • June 29: Sergei Witte was born.
• 1850
  • September 9:
    • California was admitted as the 31st state.
    • The Utah and New Mexico Territories were added to the USA.
  • September 18: Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
• 1852
  • November 3: Emperor Meiji was born.
• 1854
  • May 30: The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
• 1855
  • March 2: Alexander II was crowned Emperor of Russia.
• 1856
  • December 28: Woodrow Wilson was born.
• 1857
  • March 4: James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th President of the United States.
• 1859
  • June 15: The Pig War began.
  • October: The Pig War ended.
• 1860
  • August 12: Klara Hitler was born.
• 1861
  • March 4: Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th President of the United States.
  • April 12: The American Civil War began.
• 1862
  • April 14: Pyotr Stolypin was born.
• 1863
  • May 10: Stonewall Jackson died at the age of 39.
  • June 20: West Virginia was admitted as the 35th state.
  • December 18: Franz Ferdinand was born.
• 1865
  • April 9: The American Civil War ended.
  • April 14: John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
  • April 15: Abraham Lincoln died at the age of 56.
  • April 26: John Wilkes Booth died at the age of 26.
  • November 2: Warren G. Harding was born.
• 1866
  • May 29: Winfield Scott died at the age of 79.
• 1867
  • February 3: Emperor Meiji became the 122nd Emperor of Japan.
• 1868
  • May 18: Nicholas II was born.
  • June 1: James Buchanan died at the age of 77.
• 1869
  • January 21: Grigori Rasputin was born.
  • March 4: Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as the 18th President of the United States.
  • March 18: Neville Chamberlain was born.
• 1870
  • February 17: Georgy Gapon was born.
  • April 22: Vladimir Lenin was born.
  • August 30: Lavr Kornilov was born.
• 1874
  • August 10: Herbert Hoover was born.
  • November 30: Winston Churchill was born.
• 1875
  • July 30: George Pickett died at the age of 50.
• 1877
  • March 4: Ulysses S. Grant's term ended.
• 1878
  • December 18: Joseph Stalin was born.
• 1879
  • November 7: Leon Trotsky was born.
• 1880
  • January 26: Douglas MacArthur was born.
• 1881
  • March 13: Alexander II died at the age of 62.
  • May 4: Alexander Kerensky was born.
• 1882
  • January 13: Alois Hitler, Jr. was born.
  • January 30: Franklin D. Roosevelt was born.
• 1883
  • March 14: Karl Marx died at the age of 64.
  • April 6: Alois Hitler's first wife died.
  • May 27: Alexander III was crowned Emperor of Russia.
  • July 29: Benito Mussolini was born.
• 1884
  • May 8: Harry S. Truman was born.
• 1885
  • January 7: Alois Hitler married Klara Pölzl.
  • July 23: Ulysses S. Grant died at the age of 63.
• 1889
  • April 15: Nikita Khrushchev was born.
  • April 20: Adolf Hitler was born.
• 1890
  • October 14: Dwight D. Eisenhower was born.
• 1891
  • April 15: Nicholas II visited the Empire of Japan.
• 1894
  • March 24: Edmund Hitler was born.
  • July 25: Gavrilo Princip was born.
  • November 1: Alexander III died at the age of 49.
• 1896
  • May 26: Nicholas II was crowned Emperor of Russia.
  • May 27: The Khodynka Tragedy occurred.
• 1897
  • February: Vladimir Lenin was exiled to Siberia.
• 1898
  • July 2: Anthony McAuliffe was born.
• 1899
  • January 17: Al Capone was born.
• 1900
  • February 2: Edmund Hitler died of measles.
• 1903
  • January 3: Alois Hitler died at the age of 65.
  • August: The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks split.
• 1904
  • February 8: The Russo-Japanese War began.
  • August 12: Alexei Nikolaevich was born.
• 1905
  • January 22: Bloody Sunday occurred, starting the First Russian Revolution (AKA the 1905 Russian Revolution).
  • September 5: The Russo-Japanese War ended in a Japanese victory.
  • November 6: Sergei Witte became the 1st Prime Minister of Russia.
• 1906
  • April 10: Georgy Gapon died at the age of 36.
  • April 27: The State Duma opened.
  • May 5: Sergei Witte's term ended.
  • July 21: Pyotr Stolypin became the 3rd Prime Minister of Russia.
  • December 19: Leonid Brezhnev was born.
• 1907
  • June 16: The First Russian Revolution (AKA the 1905 Russian Revolution) ended.
  • December 21: Klara Hitler died at the age of 47.
• 1908
  • August 27: Lyndon B. Johnson was born.
• 1911
  • February 6: Ronald Reagan was born.
  • September 18: Pyotr Stolypin died at the age of 49.
  • September 24: Konstantin Chernenko was born.
• 1912
  • July 30: Emperor Meiji died at the age of 59.
  • October 8: The First Balkan War started.
• 1913
  • January 9: Richard M. Nixon was born.
  • March 4: Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as the 28th President of the United States.
  • May 30: The First Balkan War ended.
  • June 29: The Second Balkan War started.
  • July 14: Gerald R. Ford was born.
  • August 10: The Second Balkan War ended.
• 1914
  • June 15: Yuri Andropov was born.
  • June 28: Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand (aged 50) and his wife.
  • July 28: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, triggering WW1.
  • August 1: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
  • August 3: Germany declares war on the French Third Republic.
  • August 4: Germany invades Belgium.
    • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland declares war on Germany.
  • August 6: Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
  • August 23: The Empire of Japan declares war on Germany.
  • August 25: Austria-Hungary declares war on Japan.
  • September 1: Russia renamed St. Petersberg to Petrograd.
  • November 1: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
  • November 5: France and Great Britain declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1915
  • March 13: Sergei Witte died at the age of 65.
  • May 23: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • August 30: Nicholas II declared himself Commander in Chief.
  • October 14: The Kingdom of Bulgaria declared war on Serbia.
• 1916
  • January 5: Austria-Hungary declared war on the Kingdom of Montenegro.
  • February 21: The Battle of Verdun began when Germany invaded France.
  • March 9: Germany declares war on Portugal.
  • August 27: The Kingdom of Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary.
  • December 18: The Battle of Verdun ended in a French victory.
  • December 30: Grigori Rasputin died at the age of 47.
• 1917
  • March 8: The February Revolution began—triggering the Russian Revolution—when hungry women protested on the streets.
  • March 9: Men joined the protests. The number of protests totaled 250,000.
  • March 15: Nicholas II abdicated the throne; the Provisional Government replaced the Russian Empire.
  • March 16: The February Revolution ended.
  • April 6: The United States entered WW1.
  • April 16: Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia.
  • May 18: Alexander Kerensky became the Minister of War and Navy.
  • May 29: John F. Kennedy was born.
  • July 2: The Kingdom of Greece declared war on the Central Powers.
  • July 17: Vladimir Lenin fled to Finland in disguise.
  • September 1: Alexander Kerensky imprisoned Lavr Kornilov.
  • November 7: The October Revolution occurred, starting the Russian Civil War.
  • November 8: Leon Trotsky was made Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
• 1918
  • March 3: Russia left WW1 as a result of Leon Trotsky's "no war, no peace" policy.
  • March 12: Vladimir Lenin changed the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.
  • April 13: Lavr Kornilov died at the age of 47.
  • April 28: Gavrilo Princip died at the age of 23.
  • July 17: A group of drunk Bolsheviks murdered Nicholas II and his entire family.
  • August: A failed assassination attempt occurred on Vladimir Lenin.
  • September 2: The Bolsheviks started the Red Terror.
  • September 14: The Russian Republic replaced the Provisional Government.
  • September 29: Bulgaria surrendered to the Allied Powers.
  • October 30: The Ottoman Empire surrendered to the Allied Powers.
  • November 3: Austria-Hungary surrendered to the Allied Powers.
  • November 11, 11:00: Germany surrendered to the Allied Powers, ending WW1.
• 1919
  • January 16: The requisite number of states ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, starting Prohibition in the United States.
• 1921
  • March 4: Warren G. Harding was sworn in as the 29th President of the United States.
  • Spring: The Russian famine of 1921–1922 started.
• 1922
  • April 3: Vladimir Lenin made Joseph Stalin the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • May 26: Vladimir Lenin suffered the first of three strokes.
  • October 31: Benito Mussolini became the Prime Minister of Italy.
  • December: Vladimir Lenin suffered the second of three strokes.
  • December 30: The Soviet Union was established.
• 1923
  • March: Vladimir Lenin suffered the third of three strokes.
  • June 16:
    • The Russian Civil War ended.
    • The Russian Revolution ended.
  • August 2: Warren G. Harding died at the age of 57.
• 1924
  • January 21: Vladimir Lenin died at the age of 53. Joseph Stalin succeeded him.
  • February 3: Woodrow Wilson died at the age of 67.
  • June 12: George H. W. Bush was born.
  • October 1: Jimmy Carter is born.
• 1927
  • August 1: The Chinese Civil War began.
• 1928
  • October 13: Maria Feodorovna died at the age of 80.
• 1929
  • February: Joseph Stalin banished Leon Trotsky from the Soviet Union.
  • March 4: Herbert Hoover was sworn in as the 31st President of the United States.
  • October 29 (Black Tuesday): The Great Depression began.
• 1931
  • February 1: Boris Yeltsin was born.
  • March 2: Mikhail Gorbachev is born.
  • October 17: Al Capone was imprisoned.
• 1932
  • November 2: The Emu War began.
  • December 10: The Emu War ended in an emu victory.
• 1933
  • January 30: Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany, replacing the Weimar Republic with Nazi Germany.
  • March 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as the 32nd President of the United States.
  • March 9: The Great Depression ended.
  • December 5: The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, ending Prohibition.
• 1934
  • March 9: Yuri Gagarin was born.
  • August 2: Adolf Hitler became the Führer of Germany.
• 1935
  • October 3: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War began.
• 1936
  • May 5: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War ended in an Italian victory.
• 1937
  • July 7: The Second Sino-Japanese War began when the Empire of Japan invaded the Republic of China.
• 1938
  • March 12: Nazi Germany Anschlussed with Austria.
• 1939
  • March 15: Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia.
  • April 7: Italy invaded Albania.
  • April 12: The invasion resulted in an Italian victory.
  • August 23: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression pact.
  • September 1: Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering WW2.
  • September 3:
    • The UK and France declared war on Nazi Germany.
    • The Phoney War started.
  • September 17: The Soviet Union invaded Poland.
  • October 6: Poland fell.
  • October 18: Lee Harvey Oswald was born.
  • November 30: The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland began.
• 1940
  • March 13: The Winter War ended.
  • April 9: Operation Weserübung, in which Nazi Germany invaded Norway and Denmark, began.
  • May 10:
    • The Phoney War ended.
    • The Battle of France began when Germany invaded France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
  • June 10:
    • Operation Weserübung ended in a German victory.
    • The Battle of France ended in a German victory.
    • The Kingdom of Italy entered WW2.
    • The North African campaign began.
  • August 21: Leon Trotsky died at the age of 60.
  • October 9: John Lennon was born.
  • October 28: The Greco-Italian War began.
  • November 9: Neville Chamberlain died at the age of 71.
  • November 20: Hungary joined the Axis Powers.
  • November 23: Romania joined the Axis Powers.
• 1941
  • March 1: Bulgaria joined the Axis Powers.
  • April 6: The Axis Powers invaded Yugoslavia.
  • April 23: The Greco-Italian War ended, resulting in an Italian victory.
  • June 22: Operation Barbarossa began when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
  • December 5: Operation Barbarossa ended in a Soviet victory.
  • December 7: The Attack on Pearl Harbor occurred.
• 1943
  • The North African campaign ended.
  • July 9: The Allied invasion of Sicily began.
  • August 17: The Allied invasion of Sicily ended in an Allied victory.
• 1944
  • June 6: The Normandy landings, better known as D-Day, occurred.
  • August 25: Paris was liberated.
  • December 16: The Battle of the Bulge began when Nazi Germany counterattacked the Allies.
• 1945
  • January 25: The Battle of the Bulge ended in an Allied victory.
  • February 19: The United States captured the island of Iwo Jima.
  • April 12:
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt died at the age of 63.
    • Harry S. Truman was sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States.
  • April 28: Benito Mussolini died at the age of 61.
  • April 30: Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
  • August 6: The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
  • August 9: The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
  • September 2: The Empire of Japan surrendered, ending WW2.

Contemporary history

• 1947
  • January 25: Al Capone died at the age of 48.
  • March 12: U.S. President Harry S. Truman issued the Truman Doctrine; many viewed this as the official declaration of the Cold War.
• 1948
  • June 24: The Berlin Blockade began.
• 1949
  • April 4: NATO is established.
  • May 12: The Berlin Blockade ended.
  • August 29: The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb.
  • December 7: The Chinese Civil War ended.
• 1950
  • June 25: The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
• 1953
  • January 20: Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in as the 34th President of the United States.
  • March 5: Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74; therefore, Nikita Khrushchev became the next leader of the Soviet Union.
  • July 27: The Korean War de facto ended in a stalemate.
• 1955
  • May 14: The Warsaw Pact was established.
  • August 2: The Soviet Union tested a nuke.^[5]
  • November 1: The Vietnam War began.
• 1957
  • October 4, 19:28: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1.
• 1959
  • United States Vice President Richard M. Nixon met Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition in Moscow.
• 1961
  • January 20: John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States.
  • April 12: Yuri Gagarin became the first person to enter space.
  • July 19: The Nicaraguan Revolution began.
  • August 13: The Berlin Wall was built.
• 1962
  • October 16: The Cuban Missile Crisis began.
  • October 29: The Cuban Missile Crisis ended.
• 1963
  • November 22:
    • 12:30 CST: Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy.
    • 13:00 CST: John F. Kennedy died at the age of 46; Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
  • November 24: Lee Harvey Oswald died at the age of 24.
• 1964
  • April 5: Douglas MacArthur died at the age of 84.
  • October 14: The Soviet Union ousted Nikita Khrushchev and replaced him with Leonid Brezhnev.
  • October 20: Herbert Hoover died at the age of 90.
• 1965
  • January 24: Winston Churchill died at the age of 90.
• 1967
  • June 5: The Six-Day War began.
  • June 10: The Six-Day War ended.
• 1968
  • March 27: Yuri Gagarin died at the age of 34.
• 1969
  • January 20: Richard M. Nixon was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
  • March 28: Dwight D. Eisenhower died at the age of 78.
  • July 14: The Football War started.
  • July 16: Apollo 11 launched.
  • July 18: The Football War ended.
  • July 24: Apollo 11 landed on the Moon; Neil Armstrong became the first person to step on the Moon.
• 1970
  • June 11: Alexander Kerensky died at the age of 89.
• 1971
  • September 11: Nikita Khrushchev died at the age of 77.
• 1972
  • May 22: The Moscow Summit of 1972 began when Richard M. Nixon became the first President to visit Moscow.
  • May 26: The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, or SALT, occurred.
  • May 30: The Moscow Summit of 1972 ended.
  • June 17: The Watergate scandal started.
  • December 26: Harry S. Truman died at the age of 88.
• 1973
  • January 22: Lyndon B. Johnson died at the age of 64.
  • June 18: The Washington Summit began when Leonid Brezhnev visited the United States.
  • June 25: The Washington Summit ended.
  • October 6: The Yom Kippur War began.
  • October 25: The Yom Kippur War ended.
• 1974
  • August 9: Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States, ending the Watergate scandal when Richard M. Nixon resigned.
• 1975
  • April 30: The Vietnam War ended.
  • August 10: Anthony McAuliffe died at the age of 77.
  • November 11: The Angolan Civil War began.
• 1977
  • January 20: Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.
  • July 13: The Ogaden War began.
• 1978
  • March 23: The Ogaden War ended.
• 1979
  • December 24: The Soviet–Afghan War began when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
• 1980
  • December 8: John Lennon died at the age of 40 after he was assassinated by Mark David Chapman.
• 1981
  • January 20: Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th President of the United States.
• 1982
  • April 2: The Falklands War began.
  • June 14: The Falklands War ended.
  • November 10: Leonid Brezhnev died at the age of 75.
• 1984
  • February 9: Yuri Andropov died at the age of 69.
• 1985
  • March 10: Konstantin Chernenko died at the age of 73 and was replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 1987
  • December 8, 13:45: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed.
• 1988
  • June 1: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty beame effective.
• 1989
  • January 20: George H. W. Bush was sworn in as the 41st President of the United States.
  • February 15: The Soviet–Afghan War ended.
  • November 9: The Berlin Wall is demolished.
• 1990
  • April 25: The Nicaraguan Revolution ended.
  • October 3: West Germany and East Germany reunite to re-form Germany.
• 1991
  • July 1: The Warsaw Pact was dissolved.
  • December 26: The Soviet Union was dissolved.
• 1993
  • OverSimplified (or possibly Stuart) is born.
• 1994
  • April 22: Richard M. Nixon died at the age of 81.

3rd Millennium

• 2002
  • April 4: The Angolan Civil War ended.
• 2003
  • January 12: Leopoldo Galtieri died at the age of 76.
  • February 28: Fidel Sánchez Hernández died at the age of 85.
• 2004
  • June 5: Ronald Reagan died at the age of 93.
• 2006
  • October 28: The OverSimplified channel is created.
  • December 26: Gerald R. Ford died at the age of 93.
• 2007
  • April 23: Boris Yeltsin died at the age of 76.
• 2010
  • May 16: Oswaldo López Arellano died at the age of 88.
• 2013
  • April 8: Margaret Thatcher died at the age of 87.
• 2016
  • October 21: The first videos, both parts of the WW1 series are uploaded.
  • November 25: Fidel Castro died at the age of 90.
• 2017
  • April 18: Both parts of the Hitler series are uploaded.
  • October 22: "The Falklands - MiniWars #1" is uploaded.
  • November 6: "Football War - MiniWars #2" is uploaded.
• 2018
  • March 15: Both parts of the WW2 series are uploaded.
  • May 24: "The War that Changed the English Language - Mini-Wars #3" is uploaded.
  • August 30: Both parts of The American Revolution series are uploaded.
  • September 6: The OverSimplified Wiki is created.
  • November 15: "Emu War (Mini-Wars #4)" is uploaded.
  • November 30: George H. W. Bush died at the age of 94.
• 2019
  • January 24: Both parts of The Cold War series are uploaded.
  • April 11: The Three Kingdoms video is uploaded.
  • June 28: Both parts of The French Revolution series are uploaded.
  • September 21: The War of the Bucket video is uploaded.
  • November 17: The COVID-19 pandemic begins.
• 2020
  • January 16: Both parts of The American Civil War series are uploaded.
  • May 4: The Henry VIII video is uploaded.
  • August 17: Both parts of The Russian Revolution series are uploaded.
  • December 16: The Prohibition video is uploaded.
• 2021
  • May 28: Both parts of The Napoleonic Wars series are uploaded.
  • December 6: The Pig War video is uploaded.
• 2022
  • August 30: Mikhail Gorbachev died at the age 91.
  • September 2: Both parts of The First Punic War series are uploaded.
• 2024
  • January 19: The first two parts of The Second Punic War series, as well as a suplemental recap on the first, are uploaded.

Timeline

References