| Year | Month | Day | Event |
|---|
| 1582 |
Jan |
15 |
Russia Cedes Others To Commonwealth |
| 1806 |
Oct |
27 |
French Forces Enter Berlin |
| 1938 |
Mar |
12 |
German Occupation Austria, Anschluss |
| 1938 |
Dec |
13 |
Neuengamme Concentration Camp Opens In Hamburg |
| 1939 |
Mar |
15 |
Germany Dissolves The Czechoslovakian Nation |
| 1939 |
May |
22 |
Germany And Italy Sign Pact (WWII) |
| 1939 |
Jul |
06 |
Holocaust Forces Closure Of Jewish German Businesses |
| 1939 |
Sep |
01 |
Poland Invaded; World War II Enters Europe |
| 1939 |
Sep |
06 |
South Africa Declares War On Germany |
| 1939 |
Sep |
28 |
Germany And Soviet Union Divide Poland Post WW2 |
| 1939 |
Oct |
16 |
First German Air Attack On Brits |
| 1939 |
Nov |
23 |
The Germans Sink The HMS Rawalpindi |
| 1939 |
Dec |
18 |
Heligoland Bight Marks First WWII Air Battle |
| 1939 |
Dec |
24 |
Piux XII Makes Christmas Peace Appeal |
| 1940 |
Apr |
14 |
Royal Marines , Larger Force To Arrive |
| 1940 |
Apr |
15 |
Allies Begin Norwegian Attack In Narvik |
| 1940 |
May |
05 |
Norwegian Refugees Exiled In London Form Government |
| 1940 |
May |
09 |
U-9 Sinks Doris Near Den Helder |
| 1940 |
May |
10 |
Accidental Bombing In Freiburg, Germany WWII |
| 1940 |
May |
10 |
Germany Invades Belgium, Netherlands And Luxembourg |
| 1940 |
May |
10 |
UK Invades Iceland In World War II |
| 1940 |
May |
14 |
Netherland Battle Ends When It Surrenders To Germany |
| 1940 |
May |
26 |
Siege Of Calais Ends With The Surrender |
| 1940 |
Jun |
03 |
The Luftwaffe Bombs Paris |
| 1940 |
Jun |
10 |
Italy Declares War On France And Uk |
| 1940 |
Jun |
16 |
Petain Becomes Vichy France Chief Of State |
| 1940 |
Jun |
17 |
British 11th Army Defeats Italians In Libya |
| 1940 |
Jun |
20 |
WWII: Italians Unsuccessfully Attempt France Invasion |
| 1940 |
Jun |
22 |
France Forced Into Armistice With Germany |
| 1940 |
Jun |
23 |
WWII: Hitler Surveys Defeated Paris |
| 1940 |
Jun |
24 |
Operation Collar, British Commando Raid, Takes Place |
| 1940 |
Jun |
25 |
France Surrenders To Germany In World War II |
| 1940 |
Jul |
05 |
United Kingdom, France Break Off Diplomacy |
| 1940 |
Jul |
19 |
Army Order 112 Forms Intelligence Corps |
| 1940 |
Aug |
03 |
Italy Invades British Somaliland |
| 1940 |
Aug |
05 |
Soviet Union Annexes Latvia In World War II |
| 1940 |
Aug |
07 |
Third Reich Annexes Alsace-Lorraine |
| 1940 |
Aug |
08 |
Keitel Signs ""Aufbau Ost' |
| 1940 |
Sep |
16 |
Sidi Barrani Conquered In World War II |
| 1940 |
Nov |
02 |
Greece, Italy Clash In Elaia, Kalamas |
| 1940 |
Nov |
20 |
WWII: Hungary Officially Joins Axis Powers |
| 1940 |
Nov |
23 |
WWII: Romania Officially Joins Axis Powers |
| 1940 |
Dec |
22 |
During World War II Himarë Was Captured By Greek Army |
| 1941 |
Jan |
02 |
Llandaff Cathedral In Wales Damaged By German Bombings |
| 1941 |
Jan |
18 |
British Counter Italian East Africa |
| 1941 |
Mar |
27 |
Yugoslavians Topple Pro-Axis Government |
| 1941 |
Apr |
17 |
Yugoslavia Surrenders To Germany During WW2 |
| 1941 |
Apr |
27 |
German Troops Enter Athens |
| 1941 |
May |
08 |
Nottingham And Derby Bombed By Luftwaffe |
| 1941 |
May |
20 |
German Paratroops Invade Crete In WWII |
| 1941 |
May |
27 |
US Proclaims An 'unlimited National Emergency' |
| 1941 |
May |
30 |
Manolis Glezos, Apostolos Santas Tear Down Swastika |
| 1941 |
Jun |
01 |
Crete Capitulating Germany Ends Battle Of Crete |
| 1941 |
Jun |
05 |
Bombing Kills 4000 Chongqing Residents |
| 1941 |
Jun |
08 |
Allies Invade Syria And Lebanon |
| 1941 |
Jul |
07 |
Beirut Occupied By France And British Troops |
| 1941 |
Jul |
27 |
Japanese Troops Occupy French Indochina |
| 1941 |
Aug |
05 |
Germany Ends Battle And Captures Soviet Prisoners |
| 1941 |
Aug |
29 |
Germans Occupy Estonia's Tallinn From Russians |
| 1941 |
Sep |
04 |
WWII: German Sub Attacks USS Greer |
| 1941 |
Sep |
30 |
World War 2 In Kiev, Einsatzgruppe C Complete Babi Yar Massacre |
| 1941 |
Nov |
25 |
WWII: Germans Sink HMS Barham |
| 1941 |
Dec |
01 |
Emperor Hirohito, Japan, War Against USA |
| 1941 |
Dec |
05 |
Great Britain Fights Minor Axis States |
| 1941 |
Dec |
09 |
American 19th Bombardment Group Attacks Japanese Ships |
| 1941 |
Dec |
11 |
Poland Declares War On Japan |
| 1941 |
Dec |
13 |
In WWII Hungary And Romania Fight Against United States |
| 1941 |
Dec |
14 |
Japan Signs A Treaty With Thailand |
| 1941 |
Dec |
16 |
Japanese Occupy Miri, Sarawak |
| 1941 |
Dec |
23 |
Japanese Army Occupies Wake Island |
| 1942 |
Jan |
02 |
In World War II Japan Captures Manila, Phillipines |
| 1942 |
Jan |
13 |
First Aircraft Ejection Seat Used |
| 1942 |
Jan |
19 |
Japanese Invade Burma In WWII |
| 1942 |
Jan |
23 |
WWII: Battle Of Rabaul Begins |
| 1942 |
Jan |
26 |
WWII: US Forces Arrive In Ireland |
| 1942 |
Feb |
06 |
WW II: U.K Declares War On Thailand |
| 1942 |
Feb |
11 |
Bukit Timah Battle Fought In Singapore |
| 1942 |
Feb |
19 |
Japanese Planes Bomb Darwin, Australia |
| 1942 |
Feb |
20 |
O'Hare Becomes America's First WWII Flying Ace |
| 1942 |
Mar |
03 |
Japanese Warplanes Raid Australia |
| 1942 |
Mar |
08 |
Dutch Surrender To Japanese On Java |
| 1942 |
Apr |
03 |
Japan Attacks US And Philippines Attack Bataan Peninsula |
| 1942 |
Apr |
08 |
Soviet Forces Open Railway Link To Leningrad |
| 1942 |
May |
06 |
WW2 American Forces Surrend To Japanese At Corregidor |
| 1942 |
May |
15 |
WAAC Created In United States |
| 1942 |
May |
19 |
WWII Task Force Heads To Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 |
May |
22 |
Mexico Enters World War II |
| 1942 |
May |
22 |
Boston's Ted Williams Enlists In Marines |
| 1942 |
May |
26 |
Battle Of Gazala Takes Place |
| 1942 |
Jun |
05 |
U.S. Declares War On Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania |
| 1942 |
Jun |
08 |
WWII: Japanese Submarines Shell Sydney And Newcastle |
| 1942 |
Jun |
11 |
French Forces Retreat From Bir Hakeim |
| 1942 |
Jun |
22 |
Rommel Promoted After Tobruk Capture |
| 1942 |
Jun |
28 |
Nazi Germany Started Summer Offensive |
| 1942 |
Jul |
01 |
First Battle Of El Alamein |
| 1942 |
Jul |
25 |
Norwegian Manifesto: Nonviolent Resistance To Nazis |
| 1942 |
Aug |
23 |
Beginning Of The Battle Of Stalingrad |
| 1942 |
Aug |
25 |
Battle Of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea |
| 1942 |
Sep |
20 |
3,000 Jews Were Murdered In Ukraine |
| 1942 |
Oct |
23 |
Henderson Battle Begins During Guadalcanal Campaign |
| 1942 |
Nov |
06 |
Heinkel He 219 Test Flight Held |
| 1942 |
Nov |
08 |
US And UK Land In French North Africa |
| 1942 |
Nov |
11 |
Nazi Germany Occupies France |
| 1942 |
Nov |
15 |
Battle Of Guadalcanal Ends In Decisive Victory |
| 1942 |
Nov |
27 |
French Sink Ships To Dupe Nazis |
| 1942 |
Dec |
04 |
Carlon's War Patrol Ends At Guadalcanal |
| 1943 |
Jan |
15 |
Soviets Launch Offensive At Voronezh |
| 1943 |
Jan |
24 |
FDR And Churchill Ended A Casablancan Conference |
| 1943 |
Feb |
11 |
Eisenhower Selected To Command Allied Armies |
| 1943 |
Feb |
14 |
Rostov-on-Don Liberated From Germans |
| 1943 |
Feb |
18 |
Joseph Goebbels Delivers Sportpalast Speech |
| 1943 |
Feb |
19 |
Battle Begins At Kasserine Pass, Tunisia |
| 1943 |
Feb |
27 |
The Rosenstrasse Protest Begins In Berlin |
| 1943 |
Mar |
02 |
Americans And Australians Sink Japanese Ships |
| 1943 |
May |
13 |
World War II, German And Italians Surrendered |
| 1943 |
May |
16 |
End Of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising |
| 1943 |
Jul |
22 |
WWII: Allied Forces Capture Palermo |
| 1943 |
Aug |
02 |
Rebellion Happens In Nazi Camp Treblinka |
| 1943 |
Aug |
17 |
Loss Of 60 Bombers In World War II |
| 1943 |
Sep |
08 |
Dwight Announces Armistice With Italy During WWII |
| 1943 |
Sep |
09 |
The Allies Landed In Italy |
| 1943 |
Sep |
10 |
German Forces Begin Occupation Of Rome As WWII Continues |
| 1943 |
Sep |
11 |
Corsica And Kosovo-Metohija Occcupied By Germans |
| 1943 |
Sep |
18 |
WWII: Minsk Jews Massacred At Sobibor |
| 1943 |
Sep |
18 |
Hitler Orders Deportation Of Danish Jews |
| 1943 |
Oct |
04 |
US Captures Solomon Islands In World War II |
| 1943 |
Oct |
13 |
Italy Sides With Allies, Declares War On Germany |
| 1943 |
Oct |
26 |
Pfeil's Maiden Flight Occurs During WWII |
| 1943 |
Nov |
03 |
500 US Aircraft Devastate Wilhelmshaven |
| 1943 |
Nov |
05 |
Bombing Of The Vatican |
| 1943 |
Nov |
23 |
WWII: Tarawa And Makin Fall To US |
| 1943 |
Dec |
05 |
Allied Air Campaign Attacks Secret German Base |
| 1944 |
Jan |
29 |
Bologna Theatre Destroyed In Air Raid |
| 1944 |
Jan |
30 |
WWII: Battle Of Cisterna Begins In Italy |
| 1944 |
Jan |
30 |
Americans Arrive On The Marshall Islands |
| 1944 |
Jan |
31 |
American Forces Land On Kwajalein Atoll |
| 1944 |
Feb |
07 |
German Forces Launch A Counteroffensive |
| 1944 |
Feb |
14 |
Anti-Japanese Revolt On Java In World War II |
| 1944 |
Feb |
15 |
The Narva Offensive Begins |
| 1944 |
Feb |
15 |
Assault On Monte Cassino Begins |
| 1944 |
Mar |
05 |
WWII: Red Army Soviet Offensive In Western USSR |
| 1944 |
Mar |
19 |
Nazi Forces Occupy Hungary |
| 1944 |
Apr |
05 |
Germans Execute 270 In Kleisoura, Greece |
| 1944 |
Apr |
26 |
Kreipe Captured By Allied Commandos |
| 1944 |
May |
05 |
German Troops Execute 216 Civilians In Greece |
| 1944 |
Jun |
04 |
Rome: First Axis Capital To Fall |
| 1944 |
Jun |
19 |
First Day Of Battle Of Philippine Sea, WWII |
| 1944 |
Jun |
30 |
Battle Of Cherbourg Ends |
| 1944 |
Jul |
03 |
Operation Bagration: Soviets Liberate Minsk |
| 1944 |
Jul |
18 |
WWII: Hideki Tojo Resigns As Prime Minister Of Japan |
| 1944 |
Jul |
20 |
Claus Von Stauffenberg Fails To Assassinate Hitler |
| 1944 |
Aug |
02 |
WWII Trade Convoy Arrives In Western Approaches |
| 1944 |
Aug |
10 |
American Forces Defeat Last Japanese Troops |
| 1944 |
Aug |
12 |
Sant'Anna Di Stazzema: Waffen-SS Massacre 560 |
| 1944 |
Aug |
21 |
Canadian And Polish Units Capture Falaise |
| 1944 |
Aug |
22 |
Romania Captured By Soviet Union |
| 1944 |
Aug |
22 |
German Forces Massacre In Kedros, Crete |
| 1944 |
Aug |
23 |
Marseille Liberated By Allies |
| 1944 |
Aug |
24 |
Allied Troops Attack Paris In WWII |
| 1944 |
Aug |
26 |
De Gaulle Enters Paris During WW2 |
| 1944 |
Sep |
04 |
Finland Ends War With Soviet Union |
| 1944 |
Sep |
06 |
Soviet Forces Capture Tartu, Estonia |
| 1944 |
Sep |
08 |
London Is Hit By V-2 Rocket |
| 1944 |
Sep |
11 |
Allied Troops From US Army Crossed Western Germany In World War II |
| 1944 |
Sep |
14 |
Maastricht First Dutch City Liberated In Worldwar II |
| 1944 |
Sep |
18 |
HMS Tradewind Torpedoes Jun'yo Maru |
| 1944 |
Oct |
02 |
Greman Troops End Uprising At Warsaw |
| 1944 |
Oct |
12 |
World War II: Athens Liberation From Germans |
| 1944 |
Oct |
14 |
Rommel Linked Assassination Plot, Commits Suicide |
| 1944 |
Oct |
15 |
Arrow Cross Party Takes Over Hungary |
| 1944 |
Oct |
25 |
Romanian City Of Carei Liberated |
| 1944 |
Oct |
29 |
The Soviet Red Army Enters Hungary |
| 1944 |
Nov |
16 |
WWII: Allied Bombers Destroy Dueren, Germany |
| 1944 |
Dec |
22 |
The Vietnamese Resist Japanese Occupation |
| 1944 |
Dec |
31 |
Hungary Declared War On Germany |
| 1944 |
Dec |
31 |
Last German Offensive Operation Nordwind Begins |
| 1945 |
Jan |
01 |
30 SS Prisoners Massacred At Chenogne |
| 1945 |
Jan |
02 |
Nuremberg Bombed By Allied Forces |
| 1945 |
Jan |
09 |
World War II: US Invades Luzon, Philippines |
| 1945 |
Jan |
17 |
Soviets Capture Warsaw During World War |
| 1945 |
Jan |
18 |
Red Army Liberates Budapest Ghetto |
| 1945 |
Jan |
18 |
WWII: Red Army Liberates Krakow |
| 1945 |
Jan |
25 |
Battle Of The Bulge Ends In WWII |
| 1945 |
Jan |
28 |
Reopened Burma Road Supplies China |
| 1945 |
Feb |
05 |
General MacArthur Returns To Manila During WWII |
| 1945 |
Feb |
08 |
Rhine Occupied By U.K. And Canada In WWII |
| 1945 |
Feb |
09 |
Allies Attack Destroyer In Norway Unsuccessfully |
| 1945 |
Feb |
19 |
Iwo Jima: 30,000 US Marines Land |
| 1945 |
Feb |
21 |
Japanese Planes Strike US Navy Ships |
| 1945 |
Feb |
23 |
Filipino And American Forces Liberate Manila |
| 1945 |
Feb |
23 |
Soviet And Polish Forces Liberate Poznan |
| 1945 |
Feb |
23 |
379 British Bombers Annihilate Pforzheim |
| 1945 |
Mar |
06 |
WWII: Cologne Captured By American Troops |
| 1945 |
Mar |
09 |
Japanes Coup D'etat Removes French |
| 1945 |
Mar |
14 |
First Grand Slam Bomb Dropped On Germany |
| 1945 |
Mar |
16 |
Japanese Persist After Battle Of Iwo Jima |
| 1945 |
Mar |
21 |
British Troops Liberate Burman City |
| 1945 |
Mar |
26 |
Iwo Jima Officially Secured By Americans |
| 1945 |
Mar |
29 |
End Of WW2 Arial Attacks On England |
| 1945 |
Mar |
29 |
WWII: Soviet Red Army Destroy German 4th |
| 1945 |
Mar |
30 |
Danzig Is Liberated After Soviet Forces Invade Austria |
| 1945 |
Apr |
01 |
Iceberg: American Troops Land On Okinawa |
| 1945 |
Apr |
04 |
American Troops Capture Kassel |
| 1945 |
Apr |
06 |
WWII: Yugoslav Partisans Liberate Sarajevo |
| 1945 |
Apr |
09 |
WWII: Konigsberg Battle Ends |
| 1945 |
Apr |
13 |
The Germans Kill Prisoners In Gardelegen |
| 1945 |
Apr |
13 |
Soviet And Bulgarian Forces Capture Vienna |
| 1945 |
Apr |
14 |
Osijek, Croatia Liberated From Fascist Occupation |
| 1945 |
Apr |
18 |
Bombers Attack German Island |
| 1945 |
Apr |
20 |
Leipzig Given To USSR By US |
| 1945 |
Apr |
21 |
Soviets Attack German High Command |
| 1945 |
Apr |
22 |
Concentration Camp Revolt Leades To 520 Deaths |
| 1945 |
Apr |
27 |
WWII Germans Expelled From Finnish Lapland |
| 1945 |
Apr |
29 |
Start Of Operation Manna |
| 1945 |
Apr |
29 |
Dachau Liberated By United States Troops |
| 1945 |
May |
08 |
Germans Sign Unconditional Surrender In France |
| 1945 |
Aug |
11 |
One Dead In Krakow Anti-Jewish Violence |
| 1945 |
Sep |
03 |
3 Day Celebration In China |
| 1945 |
Oct |
15 |
French Premier Shot For Treason |
| 1946 |
Sep |
20 |
WWII Delayed The First Cannes Film Festival |
| 1949 |
Sep |
06 |
Allies Relinquish Control Of Former Nazi Assets |
| 1955 |
Jan |
25 |
The Soviet Union Ends War |
| 1972 |
Jan |
24 |
Yokoi Has Hid In Guam Jungle Since WWII |