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1383–1385 Portuguese interregnumCrisis · War · 1383–1385The 1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum was a succession crisis and civil war in Portugal after the death of King Ferdinand I without a male heir.
14th Dalai LamaPersonThe 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in Amdo and recognised as the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, being enthroned in Lhasa in 1940.
1527 election in CetinEventThe election in Cetin was the assembly of Croatian nobles held at Cetin Castle on 1 January 1527, after King Louis II died at Mohács.
1693 Sicily earthquakeEventThe 1693 Sicily earthquake struck south-eastern Sicily on 11 January 1693, after a foreshock two days earlier, and is the most destructive in Italian history.
1755 Lisbon earthquakeEventThe 1755 Lisbon earthquake was a catastrophic earthquake, followed by a tsunami and fires, that destroyed much of the Portuguese capital in 1755.
1931 Constitution of EthiopiaWork / monumentThe 1931 Constitution of Ethiopia was the first written constitution of the Ethiopian Empire, promulgated by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1931.- 1936 Summer OlympicsEventThe 1936 Summer Olympics were held in Berlin in August 1936.
1954 Guatemalan coup d'étatEventThe 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état overthrew the elected president Jacobo Árbenz, whose land reform had expropriated unused land of the United Fruit Company.- 1988 Armenian earthquakeEventThe 1988 Armenian earthquake struck northern Soviet Armenia on 7 December 1988 with a magnitude of about 6.8, destroying the town of Spitak and heavily damaging…
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacreRevolt · 1989The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations in Beijing and other Chinese cities from April to June 1989, calling for political reform, freedom of…
1990 People's MovementRevolution · 1990The 1990 People's Movement, or Jana Andolan, was a campaign of mass protests and strikes in Nepal from February to April 1990, led by the banned Nepali Congress and an…- 1992 Summer OlympicsEventThe 1992 Summer Olympics were held in Barcelona, Spain, from 25 July to 9 August 1992.
19th Route ArmyPeople / groupThe 19th Route Army was a Chinese Nationalist army from Guangdong that won fame defending Shanghai against Japan in the January 28 Incident of 1932.
1st Czechoslovak Army CorpsPeople / groupThe 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps was a Czechoslovak formation that fought alongside the Red Army in the Second World War, formed in 1944 from the brigade raised in the…
1st Proletarian BrigadePeople / groupThe 1st Proletarian Brigade was the first regular brigade of the Yugoslav Partisans, formed on 21 December 1941 at Rudo in eastern Bosnia from units that had retreated…- 2000 Summer OlympicsEventThe 2000 Summer Olympics were held in Sydney, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000, with about 10,000 athletes from 199 national Olympic committees.
- 2004 Summer OlympicsEventThe 2004 Summer Olympics were held in Athens from 13 to 29 August 2004, bringing the Games back to the city of the first modern Olympics of 1896.
2006 People's MovementRevolution · 2006The 2006 People's Movement, also called Jana Andolan II, was a wave of general strikes and mass protests in Nepal in April 2006 against the direct rule of King Gyanendra.- 2008 Summer OlympicsEventThe 2008 Summer Olympics were held in Beijing from 8 to 24 August 2008, the first Olympic Games hosted by China.
2011 Christchurch earthquakeEventThe 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck Christchurch, New Zealand, on 22 February 2011.
2018 Armenian revolutionRevolution · 2018The 2018 Armenian revolution, also called the Velvet Revolution, was a wave of peaceful protests in Armenia in April and May 2018.- 26 Baku CommissarsPeople / groupThe 26 Baku Commissars were Bolshevik and Left Socialist Revolutionary leaders of the Baku Commune, among them Stepan Shaumian, who governed Baku in 1918.
- 27th Jäger BattalionPeople / groupThe 27th Jäger Battalion was a unit of Finnish volunteers trained in Germany during the First World War, when Finland was still a grand duchy of the Russian Empire.
2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha RiflesPeople / groupThe 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) was a Gurkha regiment of the British Indian Army, raised in 1815 at Nahan in Sirmur as the Sirmoor…
4.2-kiloyear eventEventThe 4.2-kiloyear event was a period of severe aridification and climatic disruption around 2200–2150 BCE that affected much of the Near East and other regions.
5th Dalai LamaPersonThe 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, was the first Dalai Lama to hold political power over all Tibet.