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| 1741 | Balance of Power Walpole, Robert |  |
| London 1st to use the phrase "Balance of Power" to express the British foreign policy
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| 1817 | Battle of Chacabuco San Martin, Jose de |  |
| Chacabuco Defeats a Spanish force in Chile
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| 1653 | Battle of Portland Ruyter, Michael Adriaanszoon de |  |
| Portland Fights at the Battle of Portland
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| 1944 | Battle of Riga Model, Otto Moritz Walter |  |
| Riga Luga is liberated by the Russians
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| Riga The 16th & 18th Armies are ordered back to the Panther Line
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| 1903 | Birth Simenon, Georges |  |
| Birth of Georges Simenon, creator of Maigret
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| 1719 | Birth Rodney, George Brydges |  |
| Walton on Thames Birth of George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
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| 1938 | Birth Reed, Oliver |  |
| Birth of Oliver Reed
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| 1950 | Birth Gabriel, Peter Brian |  |
| Cobham Birth of Peter Brian Gabriel
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| 1974 | Birth Williams, Robert Peter "Robbie" |  |
| Stoke on Trent Birth of Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams
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| 1885 | Capture T'zu Hsi |  |
| Langson The French capture Langson
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| 1642 | Constitution Charles I |  |
| Assents to a Bill excluding Bishops from the House of Lords
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| 1542 | Death Henry VIII |  |
| Tower of London Henry's 5th wife, Catherine Howard, is executed on Tower Green for unfaithfulness
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| 1542 | Death Howard |  |
| Tower of London Death of Catherine Howard, executed
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| 1658 | Death Charles X Gustavus |  |
| Goteborg A regency of Swedish nobles is forced to sue for peace
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| 1741 | Diplomacy Walpole, Robert |  |
| London 1st to use the phrase "Balance of Power" to express the British foreign policy
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| 1984 | Diplomacy Thatcher, Margaret Hilda |  |
| Moscow Margaret Thatcher meets Konstantin Chernenko
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| 1903 | Diplomacy Nicholas II |  |
| Chateau d'Eau Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
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| 1984 | Diplomacy Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich |  |
| Moscow Calls for peaceful coexistence with the US
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| Moscow Margaret Thatcher meets Konstantin Chernenko
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| 1903 | Diplomacy Abdulhamid II |  |
| Chateau d'Eau Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
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| 1542 | Execution Henry VIII |  |
| Tower of London Henry's 5th wife, Catherine Howard, is executed on Tower Green for unfaithfulness
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| 1542 | Execution Howard |  |
| Tower of London Catherine Howard is executed for adultery
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| 1974 | Exile Solzhenitsyn, Alexander |  |
| Frankfurt Solzhenitsyn is deported from the Russia to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship, Solzhenitsyn lives in Heinrich B”ll's house
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| 2000 | FSB Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich |  |
| Putin signs a decree to re-establish the "special departments" (FSB) to seek out political disloyalty in the military
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| 1918 | Head Supply Commission Trotsky Trotsky, Leon |  |
| Appointed Head of the Extraordinary Commission for Supply
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| 1994 | Invasion of Chad Gaddafi, Muammar Abu Minyar al- |  |
| Libya withdraws troops from Chad due to a judgement of the International Court of Justice
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| 1971 | Invasion of Nixon, Richard Mulhouse |  |
| The Sth Vietnemese are driven out with heavy casualties
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| USAtroops support Sth Vietnam in their invasion of Laos
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| 1585 | Marriage Jahangir |  |
| Marries his cousin Man Bai, daughter of Bhagwan Das of Amber
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| 1564 | Marriage Stewart, Henry |  |
| Edinburgh Arrives in Edinburgh after overcoming Elizabeth I's objections
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| 1692 | Massacre William III |  |
| Glencoe After the defeat of the Jacobites highland resistance to William III is suppressed
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| Glencoe Orders 40 of the MacDonald clan to be massacred for not taking the oath of allegiance
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| 1960 | Nuclear Warfare Gaulle, Charles Andre Marie Joseph de |  |
| France explodes its first atomic bomb in the Sahara desert, it has a yield of 60-70 kilotons
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| 2007 | Nuclear Warfare Bush, George Walker |  |
| Beijing At a meeting with diplomats from the US, China, South Korea, Russia, and Japan, North Korea agrees to dismantle its Nuclear facilities and allow international inspectors to enter the country in exchange for about $400 million in oil and aid
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| 1973 | Popular Front Thieu, Nguyen van |  |
| Thieu announces a "Popular Front" for peace & self-determination
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| 1903 | Reform Franz Josef I |  |
| Chateau d'Eau Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
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| 1903 | Reform Witte |  |
| Chateau d'Eau Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
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| 1965 | Rolling Thunder Johnson, Lyndon Baines |  |
| President Johnson authorizes Operation Rolling Thunder
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| 1965 | Rolling Thunder Chi-Minh, Ho |  |
| President Johnson authorizes Operation Rolling Thunder
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| 1903 | Rule of Balkans Franz Josef I |  |
| Chateau d'Eau Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
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| 1903 | Rule of Balkans Witte |  |
| Chateau d'Eau Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
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| 1903 | Rule of Balkans Abdulhamid II |  |
| Chateau d'Eau Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
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| 1944 | Siege of Luga Model, Otto Moritz Walter |  |
| Luga Luga is liberated by the Russians after the battle of Riga
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| 1941 | Sunflower Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen |  |
| Sends 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion to find how close Wavell's army is to Tripoli
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| 1918 | Supply Commission Trotsky, Leon |  |
| Appointed Head of the Extraordinary Commission for Supply
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| Appointed Head of the Supply Commission, responsible for food for the cities
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