- James Houser
365 Days of Military History: By Subject/Narrative
Updated: May 31, 2021
By Subject
Ancient Egypt
Greco-Persian Wars
Death of Cyrus the Great, 530 BC
Peloponnesian War (Six-Part Planned Series)
Beginning of the Peloponnesian War – 431 BC
Battles of Pylos & Sphacteria – 425 BC
Battle of Amphipolis & the Peace of Nicias – 421 BC
The Sicilian Expedition – 415 BC
Alcibiades takes Command – 411 BC
End of the Peloponnesian War – 404 BC
More Greek Wars
Anabasis of the Ten Thousand – 401 BC
Battle of Leuctra – July 6, 371 BC
Alexander and the Macedonians
Battle of the Granicus – 334 BC
Death of Alexander – June 10, 323 BC
Punic Wars
Battle of the Aegates Islands – March 10, 241 BC
Battle of Lake Trasimene – June 21, 217 BC
Battle of Cannae – August 2, 216 BC
Battle of the Metaurus –207 BC
Roman Civil Wars
Gaius Marius & Battle of Vercellae – 101 BC
Caesar's Invasion of Gaul – 58 BC
Battle of Carrhae & Death of Crassus – 53 BC
Caesar crosses the Rubicon – January 10, 49 BC
Battle of Actium – September 2, 31 BC
Rise of Augustus – January 16, 27 BC
Han Dynasty of China
Sun Tzu & Sun Bin, Artists of War – April 10, 1972
Liu Bang founds Han Dynasty – February 28, 202 BC
Overthrow of Wang Mang – 23 AD
Death of Dong Zhuo – May 23, 192
Battle of Red Cliff – November 18, 208
Roman Empire
Battle of the Teutoberg Forest – 9 AD
Assassination of Caligula – January 24, 41 AD
Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine the Great – October 28, 312 AD
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains & Attila the Hun – June 20, 451 AD
Tang & Ming Dynasties of China
Li Shi-min becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang – September 4, 626
Rise of Wu Zetian – October 16, 690
Zheng He begins his voyages – July 11, 1405
Byzantine Empire & Rise of Islam
Belisarius & Great Siege of Rome – March 2, 537
Byzantine-Persian War & Battle of Nineveh – December 12, 627
Muhammad enters Mecca – January 11, 630
Arab Conquests & Battle of Yarmouk – August 20, 636
Assassination of Ali and the Sunni-Shi'a Split – January 29, 661
Battle of Tours – October 11, 732
Early & High Medieval Europe
Vikings, Alfred the Great & Battle of Edington – May 878
Battle of Clontarf – April 23, 1014
Battle of Kleidion & Byzantine Empire – July 29, 1014
Battle of Hastings & the Norman Conquest – October 13, 1066
Battle of Manzikert – August 26, 1071
Submission at Canossa (Holy Roman Emperor kneels before Pope) – January 28, 1077
First Crusade enters Jerusalem – July 15, 1099
Death of Henry I & the English Anarchy – December 1, 1135
Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople – April 13, 1204
Frederick II “retakes” Jerusalem & the Sixth Crusade – February 18, 1229
Battle “on the Ice” of Lake Peipus – April 18, 1242
War of the Sicilian Vespers – March 30, 1282
Mongols
Rise of Chinggis Khan – 1206 AD
Mongol invasion of Europe, Battles of Legnica-Mohi – April 11, 1241
Mongol sack of Baghdad – February 10, 1258
Kublai Khan proclaims Yuan Dynasty – December 18, 1271
Mongol invasion of Japan – August 15, 1281
The Scottish Wars of Independence (and Edward I)
Battle of Evesham and Rise of Edward I – August 4, 1265
Battle of Stirling Bridge – September 11, 1297
Battle of Bannockburn & Robert the Bruce – June 24, 1314
Late Medieval Europe
Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc and Battle of Orleans – April 29, 1429
Ottomans capture Constantinople – May 29, 1453
Battle of Nancy & death of Charles the Bold – January 5, 1477
Wars of the Roses
Battle of Towton – March 29, 1461
Battle of Tewkesbury – May 4, 1471
Battle of Bosworth – August 22, 1485
Italian Wars & Rise of the Habsburgs
Battle of Cerignola & Italian Wars – April 28, 1503
Sack of Rome & Last Stand of the Swiss Guard – May 6, 1527
Defeat of the Spanish Armada – July 19, 1588
Spanish Conquest of the Americas
Battle of Tenochtitlan – August 13, 1521
“Battle” of Cajamarca – November 16, 1532
Japanese “Age of War” (Samurai) and invasion of Korea
Battle of Mikatagahara – January 25, 1573
Battle of Nagashino – June 28, 1575
Japanese invasion of Korea (Part 1) – July 20, 1592
Battle of Myeongnyang (Japanese invasion of Korea Part 2) – October 26, 1597
Revenge of the 47 Ronin – February 4, 1703
Random 1500-1800
Ethiopian Crusade and Battle of Wofla – August 28, 1542
Elephant Duel – January 18, 1593
Conquests of Nader Shah – March 22, 1739
Thirty Years’ War
Thirty Years’ War & Battle of Breitenfeld – September 7, 1631
Death of Albrecht von Wallenstein – February 25, 1634
End of Thirty Years’ War & Peace of Westphalia – October 24, 1648
English Civil Wars
English Civil War & Battle of Naseby – June 14, 1645
Oliver Cromwell & Battle of Dunbar – September 3, 1650
Glorious Revolution – December 23, 1688
European Wars 1660-1756
Battle of Vienna – September 12, 1683
Battle of Narva (Carolus Rex Part 1) – November 30, 1700
Battle of Poltava (Carolus Rex Part 2) – July 8,1709
Warfare in the Age of Enlightenment & Battle of Fontenoy – May 11, 1745
The ’45 and the Battle of Culloden – April 16, 1746
Seven Years’ War/French and Indian War
Battle of the Monongahela – July 9, 1755
Execution of Admiral John Byng – March 14, 1757
Frederick the Great & Battle of Rossbach – November 5, 1757
Seven Years' War, William Pitt, and the Battle of Louisbourg – July 26, 1758
Battle of Quebec/the Plains of Abraham – September 13, 1759
American Revolution
Battles of Lexington & Concord – April 19, 1775
Battle of Bunker Hill – June 17, 1775
Washington Crosses the Delaware; Battle of Trenton – December 26, 1776
Battle of Princeton – January 3, 1777
Battle of Saratoga – October 7, 1777
French-American Alliance – February 6, 1778
Warfare in the American Revolution & Battle of Stony Point – July 16, 1779
Benedict Arnold’s Betrayal – September 21, 1780
Battle of Cowpens – January 17, 1781
Cornwallis v. Greene in the Southern Campaign – March 17, 1781
Battle of Yorktown – October 17, 1781
Deborah Sampson, the female Revolutionary Soldier – March 11, 1805
Newburgh Conspiracy – March 15, 1783
French Revolution & Revolutionary Wars
French Revolution & Fall of the Bastille – July 14, 1789
Polish War of Independence/Kosciuszko Uprising – March 24, 1794
Capture of Dutch fleet at Den Helder – January 23, 1795
Napoleon’s Italian Campaign & Battle of Arcole – November 17, 1796
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (Lord Nelson Pt. 1) – February 14, 1797
Battle of the Nile (Lord Nelson Pt. 2) – August 1, 1798
1798 Irish Rebellion & Battle of Castlebar – August 27, 1798
Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Trafalgar (Lord Nelson Pt. 3) – October 21, 1805
Battle of Austerlitz – December 2, 1805
Funeral of Nelson (Lord Nelson Pt. 4) - January 9, 1806
Napoleon v. Prussia, Battles of Jena & Auerstadt – October 14, 1806
Battle of Eylau – February 8, 1807
Battle of Aspern-Essling – May 21, 1809
The Tyrolean Revolt & Andreas Hofer – February 20, 1810
Peninsular War, Britain & Spain v. France; assault on Badajoz – April 6, 1812
The Duke of Wellington and the Battle of Salamanca – July 22, 1812
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia & the burning of Moscow – September 18, 1812
The Retreat from Moscow – December 14, 1812
Battle of Leipzig – October 18, 1813
Napoleon’s first downfall, surrender at Fontainebleau – April 4, 1814
Waterloo Part 1: Quatre Bras & Ligny – June 16, 1815
Waterloo Part 2: The Battle of Waterloo – June 18, 1815
Early American Wars
Northwest Indians; Battle of the Wabash (St. Clair’s Defeat) – November 4, 1791
Battle of Derna & Barbary Wars – April 27, 1805
Northwest Indians; Tecumseh and the Battle of Tippecanoe – November 7, 1811
Nat Turner’s Uprising & Slavery in America – October 30, 1831
War of 1812
War of 1812, Burning of Washington – August 24, 1814
Fort McHenry & the Star-Spangled Banner – September 14, 1814
Battle of New Orleans – January 8, 1815
Latin American Wars of Independence
Liberation of Argentina & Chile; Battle of Maipu – April 5, 1818
Liberation of Venezuela and Colombia; Battle of Boyaca – August 7, 1819
Age of Revolutions in 19th Century Europe
Greek War of Independence Begins – March 25, 1821
Students’ Revolution in France – June 5, 1832
Revolutions of 1848 Part 1 – September 29, 1848
Revolutions of 1848 Part 2 – September 30, 1848
Mexican-American Wars
Battle of the Alamo – March 6, 1836
Battle of San Jacinto – April 21, 1836
Mexican-American War & Battle of Buena Vista – February 23, 1847
Crimean War
Beginning of Crimean War – October 4, 1853
Battle of Balaclava – October 25, 1854
American Civil War
Battle of First Bull Run – July 21, 1861
Battle of Mill Springs – January 19, 1862
Battle of Fort Donelson – February 16, 1862
Battle of Hampton Roads/The Ironclads – March 9, 1862
Confederate invasion of New Mexico, Battle of Glorieta Pass – March 28, 1862
Battle of Shiloh – April 7, 1862
Battle of Antietam and the Civil War soldier’s experience – September 17, 1862
Battle of Fredericksburg – December 13, 1862
Battle of Chancellorsville – May 3, 1863
Harriet Tubman’s River Raid – June 2, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg – July 2, 1863
Fall of Vicksburg – July 4, 1863
Battle of Fort Wagner & 54th Massachusetts - July 18, 1863
Battle of Chickamauga – September 19, 1863
Battle of Chattanooga & Missionary Ridge – November 25, 1863
Battle of the Wilderness – May 7, 1864
Battle of Spotsylvania – May 12, 1864
Siege of Petersburg & Battle of the Crater – July 30, 1864
Battle of Cedar Creek – October 19, 1864
Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign & March to the Sea – November 15, 1864
Battle of Nashville – December 15, 1864
Sherman’s capture of Savannah & March through the Carolinas – December 21, 1864
Battle of Fort Fisher – January 15, 1865
Appomattox Court House – April 9, 1865
War of the Triple Alliance
War of the Triple Alliance begins – August 10, 1864
Battle of Acosta Nu, end of the War of the Triple Alliance – August 16, 1869
German & Italian Wars of Unification
Italian Wars of Unification, Battle of the Volturnus – October 1, 1860
Battle of Koniggratz – July 3, 1866 - need to rework for corrections
Franco-Prussian War and Battle of Sedan – September 1, 1870
Paris Commune – March 18, 1871
Modernization of Japan
Perry’s landing in Japan – March 31, 1854
Imperial Restoration, Samurai Rebellion and Battle of Shiroyama – September 24, 1877
Beginning of the Russo-Japanese War – February 9, 1904
Western Indian Wars
Battle of Little Bighorn – June 26, 1876
Nez Perce War and Joseph’s Surrender – October 5, 1877
Surrender of Geronimo – March 27, 1886
Wounded Knee Massacre – December 29, 1890
Age of European Imperialism
First Anglo-Afghan War; Elphinstone leaves Kabul – January 6, 1842
Birth of Hong Xiuquan, author of Taiping Rebellion – January 1, 1814
Sepoy Rebellion – May 10, 1857
French invasion of Mexico & Death of Emperor Maximilian – June 19, 1867
Zulu War & Battle of Isandlwana – January 22, 1879
Battle of Adwa – March 1, 1896
Boer Wars
First Boer War and Battle of Majuba Hill – February 27, 1881
Second Boer War and Battle of Magersfontein – December 11, 1899
Second Boer War, Siege and Relief of Mafeking – May 17, 1900
Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection
Spanish-American War and Root Reforms – December 10, 1898
Philippine-American War and capture of Emilio Aguinaldo – March 23, 1901
Random 1800-1914
War of the Pacific (Bolivia-Chile-Peru) and Battle of Tacna – May 26, 1880
Dreyfus Affair – January 13, 1898
Mexican Revolution begins – November 20, 1910
Road to the First World War
Death of Alfred von Schlieffen – January 4, 1913
The First and Second Balkan Wars – July 31, 1913
World War I
1914
World War I begins – July 28, 1914
Guns of August 1: German Attack on Belgium – August 5, 1914
Guns of August 2: Battle of the Frontiers – August 14, 1914
Guns of August 3: Battle of Mons – August 23, 1914
Guns of August 4: Galician Campaign – August 25, 1914
Guns of August 5: Battle of Tannenberg – August 29, 1914
Guns of August 6: First Battle of the Marne – September 6, 1914
First Battle of Ypres & the Impact of World War I – November 11, 1914
World War I Naval Struggle & the Battle of the Falklands – December 8, 1914
Christmas Truce – December 25, 1914
1915
Battle of Gallipoli – April 25, 1915
Serbia’s World War I – November 24, 1915
1916
Battle of Verdun – February 21, 1916
Brusilov Offensive – June 4, 1916
Battle of the Somme – July 1, 1916
Birth of the Tank – September 15, 1916
1917
Zimmerman Telegram – February 24, 1917
Russian Revolution Begins – March 8, 1917
Canada in World War I & the Battle of Vimy Ridge – April 12, 1917
Nivelle Offensive & French Army Mutiny – May 9, 1917
Women’s Battalion of Death & the Kerensky Offensive – July 23, 1917
Battle of Passchendaele/Third Ypres – November 6, 1917
Lenin’s October Revolution – November 8, 1917
Romania’s World War I & Capture of Bucharest – December 6, 1917
World War I in the Middle East, Allenby’s Capture of Jerusalem – December 9, 1917
Lawrence of Arabia (death) – May 19, 1935
1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia Leaves the War – March 3, 1918
Ludendorff Offensive – April 3, 1918
The Red Baron – April 20, 1918
Americans Arrive, the Marine Corps at Belleau Wood – June 1, 1918
Battle of Amiens and the Great War’s Military Revolution – August 8, 1918
America’s World War I; the Meuse-Argonne Offensive – September 26, 1918
Sergeant York – October 8, 1918
The Kiel Mutiny, Germany’s Collapse – October 29, 1918
Aftermath of World War I
Russian Revolution & Soviet Russia
Russian Revolution Begins – March 8, 1917
Lenin’s October Revolution – November 8, 1917
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk – March 3, 1918
Russian Civil War & the White Army Assault – April 22, 1919
The Red Army & Stalin’s Purges – June 11, 1937
Irish War of Independence
Easter Rising – April 24, 1916
Irish War of Independence Begins – January 21, 1919
Bloody Sunday & Irish War of Independence – November 21, 1920
Turkish War of Independence
Greeks land at Smyrna, beginning Turkish War of Independence – May 15, 1919
Battle of Dumlupinar – August 30, 1922
Polish-Soviet War & Battle of Warsaw – August 12, 1920
Tulsa Race Riot – May 31, 1921
Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch – November 9, 1923
Leadup to World War II
Chinese Civil War & Mao’s Long March – October 20, 1935
Birth of Strategic Bombing, Massacre at Guernica – April 26, 1937
Marco Polo Bridge Incident & Second Sino-Japanese War – July 7, 1937
World War II
1939-1941
Battle of Wizna (Polish Thermopylae) – September 8, 1939
Winter War Ends – February 29, 1940
The Dunkirk Evacuation Begins – May 30, 1940
Sinking of the Bismarck – May 27, 1941
Eastern Front 1941-1945
Operation Barbarossa - June 22, 1941
Battle of Moscow – December 5, 1941
The Night Witches – June 12, 1942
The Assault on Stalingrad – September 27, 1942
The Surrounding of Stalingrad – November 19, 1942
Surrender at Stalingrad – February 2, 1943
Battle of Kursk Part 1 – July 5, 1943
Battle of Kursk Part 2: Tank Battle at Prokhorovka - July 12, 1943
Operation Bagration – June 23, 1944
Vistula-Oder Offensive – January 12, 1945
War in the Pacific
Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941
Defense of the Philippines – January 7, 1942
Fall of Singapore – February 15, 1942
Battle of Midway – June 3, 1942
Guadalcanal Campaign Part 1, Battle of the Tenaru – August 21, 1942
Guadalcanal Campaign Part 2, Naval Battles of Guadalcanal – November 12, 1942
The Battle of Tarawa – November 23, 1943
Burmese Campaign & Battle of Kohima-Imphal – April 8, 1944
Life Magazine’s skull photo & race in the Pacific War – May 22, 1944
“Merrill’s Marauders,” the capture of Myitkyina – August 3, 1944
Battle of Leyte Gulf – October 23, 1944
MacArthur’s Return to the Philippines – February 3, 1945
Battle of Iwo Jima – March 26, 1945
Battle of Okinawa – April 1, 1945
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – August 6, 1945
War in the Mediterranean (Africa, Italy, Greece, Malta)
Rommel’s Desert Campaigns & Battle of Tobruk – April 14, 1941
German Assault on Crete – May 20, 1941
The Siege of Malta in World War II – April 15, 1942
Battle of El Alamein – November 1, 1942
General Patton & the Battle of Sicily – July 10, 1943
Battle of the Rapido River; Texas' Black Day of World War II – January 20, 1944
Battle of Anzio & U.S. Army Rangers at Cisterna – January 31, 1944
Polish Army in Exile, Wojtek & the Battle of Monte Cassino – May 18, 1944
African-American soldiers in WWII, Battle of the Serchio River – February 5, 1945
Nisei (Japanese-American) soldiers in WWII, final Italian Campaign – May 2, 1945
Western Europe 1944-1945
The Unsung Heroes of D-Day – June 6, 1944
Battle of Villers-Bocage & the Tanks of World War II – June 13, 1944
Fighting in Normandy & the capture of Cherbourg – June 30, 1944
Operation COBRA and the Normandy Breakout – July 25, 1944
The Falaise Pocket, end of the Battle of Normandy – August 19, 1944
Operation Market-Garden & Battle of Arnhem – September 25, 1944
Battle of the Hurtgen Forest – November 3, 1944
Battle of the Bulge Begins – December 16, 1944
Battle of the Bulge Part 2: Malmedy Massacre – December 17, 1944
Battle of the Bulge Part 3: The Allies strike back – December 19, 1944
Battle of the Bulge Part 4: Siege of Bastogne – December 22, 1944
Audie Murphy’s Medal of Honor Action – January 26, 1945
The Bridge at Remagen – March 7, 1945
Battle of Castle Itter – May 5, 1945
Occupied Europe & Nazi Germany
Reserve Police Battalion 101 & the Final Solution in Poland – July 13, 1942
Sophie Scholl & the White Rose – February 22, 1943
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – May 16, 1943
Exploits of Virginia Hall – March 21, 1944
Warsaw Uprising – October 2, 1944
Liberation of Auschwitz – January 27, 1945
Death of Adolf Hitler – April 30, 1945
Death of Witold Pilecki, the “Soldier of Auschwitz” (Inmate 4859) – May 25, 1946
The Air War
Founding of the Tuskegee Airmen – February 19, 1942
The Firebombing of Hamburg – July 24, 1943
Random 1941-1945
The Journey of Convoy PQ-17 & the Battle of the Atlantic – June 27, 1942
Casablanca Conference – January 14, 1943
Teheran Conference – November 23, 1943
Yalta Conference – February 11, 1945
Isaac Woodward and Black Veterans after World War II – February 12, 1946
The Cold War Era
Death of Stalin – March 5, 1953
Army-McCarthy Hearings – June 9, 1954
Battle of Santa Clara; Cuban Revolution & Che Guevara – December 28, 1959
The Bay of Pigs – April 17, 1961
Burning of the Draft Card; American Free Speech in Wartime – October 15, 1965
Cuban Missile Crisis – October 22, 1962
Algerian War of Independence – March 19, 1962
Indo-Pakistani Wars – December 3, 1971
Soviet War in Afghanistan – December 27, 1979
Middle Eastern Conflicts 1945-1991
Israeli War of Independence – May 14, 1948
Six-Day War: Israeli capture of Jerusalem – June 7, 1967
Six-Day War: USS Liberty incident – June 8, 1967
Yom Kippur War – October 6, 1973
Iranian Revolution – February 1, 1979
Iran-Iraq War – September 22, 1980
Desert Storm & Battle of 73 Easting – February 26, 1991
Korean War
Beginning of Korean War – June 25, 1950
Battle of Inchon – September 10, 1950
Chinese Counteroffensive – November 26, 1950
Battle of Chosin Reservoir – November 27, 1950
Battle of Chipyong-Ni – February 13, 1951
The Ruby Bradley Story – March 4, 1958
Vietnam Conflicts
Battle of Dien Bien Phu – March 13, 1954
Battle of Ap Bac – January 2, 1963
Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem – November 2, 1963
Operation Starlite and American tactics in Vietnam – August 18, 1965
Battle of Ia Drang – November 14, 1965
Robert McNamara Resigns; The Career of Bob McNamara – November 29, 1967
Tet Offensive – January 30, 1968
My Lai Massacre – March 16, 1968
Eugene Ashley’s Medal of Honor Action – February 7, 1968
Sino-Vietnamese War – February 17, 1979
The Falklands
Argentina invades the Falklands – April 2, 1982
Falklands War and the Battle of Goose Green – May 28, 1982
Modern Conflicts 1991-
Tailhook Scandal – September 5, 1991
Battle of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down) – October 3, 1993
Battle of Fallujah – November 2, 2004
Black Hearts Incident – March 12, 2006
Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester’s Silver Star – March 20, 2005