History A-Z IV

[VoraciousValue]

Operation Fortitude (massive deception plan to confuse the Germans as to the true nature of the D-Day invasion)

 

[VoraciousValue]

United Kingdom officially established through the Act of Union, 1707.

 

[skirt_chaser]

Victory in Europe Day

 

[barefootgirl69]

Xavier de Maistre, 1763-1852

 

[VoraciousValue]

Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space, 1961.

 

[fsa52]

Arizona admitted to the Union, 2/14/1912

 

[CCorteeze]

Charlemagne

 

[fsa52]

Declaration of Independence

 

[CCorteeze]

Edward the Confessor

 

[OxfordJack]

Falaise Gap...WW2 battle

 

[CCorteeze]

Gulf War

 

[OxfordJack]

Hitler's suicide

 

[fsa52]

Ivan the Terrible

 

[OxfordJack]

Operation Overlord

 

[Writer_FM]

Queen Mary of Scotland - never ruled England, but all subsequent English monarchs trace their lineage to her.

 

[mulehead61]

Revolutionary War

 

[fsa52]

Texas Rangers

 

[Writer_FM]

Ulster Plantation

 

[barefootgirl69]

Whiskey Rebellion

 

[Apple_of_Eden]

Xerxes the Great

 

[VoraciousValue]

Yap Islands (small group in the north Pacific east of the Philippines) occupied by Japanese forces, 1914.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Azincourt, Northern France (Agincourt)
A battle won by England in The Hundred Year's War.
1417, I think.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Christopher Towneley 1604-74

He is known as an antiquary but also had an interest in scientific research, particularly astronomy, and mathematics. Uncle of Richard Towneley.

 

[Writer_FM]

Ellis Island

 

[TheMrBurns]

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke