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• 1780 CE1780 Tabriz earthquakeThe 1780 Tabriz earthquake occurred at 01:15 local time on 8 January. It had an estimated magnitude of 7.4…
• 1783 CE1783 Calabrian earthquakesFive strong earthquakes hit Calabria, a region of the Kingdom of Naples, in 1783. The first two produced…
• 1786 CE1786 Kangding-Luding earthquakeAn earthquake occurred on 1 June 1786 in and around Kangding, in what is now China's Sichuan province. It had…
• 1787 CE1787 Mexico earthquakeThe 1787 New Spain earthquake, also known as the San Sixto earthquake, occurred on 28 March at 11:30 local…
• 1790 CE1790 Oran earthquakeThe 1790 Oran earthquake occurred on 10 October, striking near the coastal city of Oran in Algeria. The…
• 1792 CE1792 eruption of Mount UnzenThe 1792 Unzen landslide and tsunami was a volcanic megadisaster, occurring on 21 May 1792, during the Edo…
• 1793 CE1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemicThe Philadelphia 1793 yellow fever epidemic was an epidemic that took place in Philadelphia. During the…
• 1797 CE1797 Riobamba earthquake (Ecuador)The 1797 Riobamba earthquake occurred at 12:30 UTC on 4 February. It devastated the city of Riobamba and many…
• 1797 CE1797 Sumatra earthquakeThe 1797 Sumatra earthquake occurred at 22:00 local time on 10 February. It was the first in a series of…
• 1799 CE1799–1800 papal conclaveA papal conclave was held from 30 November 1799 to 14 March 1800 to elect a new pope to succeed Pius VI, who…
• 2007 CE17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist PartyThe 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held in Beijing, China, at the Great Hall of…
• 2007 CE18 April 2007 Baghdad bombingsThe 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings were a series of attacks that occurred when five car bombs exploded across…
• 2012 CE18 July 2012 Damascus bombingThe 18 July 2012 Damascus bombing, widely known as the "Crisis Cell" bombing, of the National Security…
• 1802 CE1802 Vrancea earthquakeThe 1802 Vrancea earthquake occurred in the Vrancea Mountains of today's Romania (then Moldavia) on 26…
• 1804 CE1804 Haitian massacreThe 1804 Haiti massacre was a genocide carried out by Afro-Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, under…
• 1805 CE1805 Molise earthquakeThe 1805 Molise earthquake occurred on 26 July at 21:01 UTC. It has an estimated magnitude of 6.6 on the…
• 1808 CE1808/1809 mystery eruptionThe 1808 mystery eruption is one or potentially multiple unidentified volcanic eruptions that resulted in a…
• 1810 CE1810 Crete earthquakeThe 1810 Crete earthquake occurred at 22:15 on 16 February. It caused great destruction in Heraklion and some…
• 1811 CE1811 Independence MovementThe 1811 Independence Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Independencia de 1811), known in El Salvador as the…
• 1812 CE1812 Caracas earthquakeThe 1812 Caracas earthquake took place in Venezuela on March 26 (on Maundy Thursday) at 4:37 p.m. It measured…
• 1811 CE1812 New Madrid earthquakeThe 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes were a series of intense intraplate earthquakes beginning with an…
• 1815 CE1815 eruption of Mount TamboraIn April 1815, Mount Tambora, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia (then part of the…
• 1822 CE1822 Aleppo earthquakeThe northern part of the Ottoman Empire (now northern Syria and the Hatay Province of Turkey) was struck by a…
• 1823 CE1823 papal conclaveA papal conclave was held from 2 to 28 September 1823 to elect a new pope to succeed Pius VII, who had died…
• 1828 CE1828 Sanjō earthquakeThe 1828 Sanjō earthquake (Japanese: 三条地震) occurred on December 18, 1828 at Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture (then…
• 1828 CE1828 Treaty of MontevideoThe Preliminary Peace Convention was a bilateral treaty signed on 27 August 1828 between the Empire of Brazil…
• 1829 CE1829 papal conclaveA papal conclave was held from 24 February to 31 March 1829 to elect a new pope to succeed Leo XII, who had…
• 1830 CE1830–31 conclaveA conclave was held from 14 December 1830 to 2 February 1831 to elect a new pope to succeed Pius VIII, who…
• 1833 CE1833 Sumatra earthquakeThe 1833 Sumatra earthquake occurred on November 25 at about 22:00 local time, with an estimated magnitude in…
• 1835 CE1834 Concepción earthquakeThe 1835 Concepción earthquake was an earthquake that occurred near the neighboring cities of Concepción and…
• 1834 CE1834 Philadelphia race riotA race riot took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in August 1834. The riot, in which a mob…
• 1834 CE1834 Safed Anti-Jewish pogromThe 1834 looting of Safed Hebrew: ביזת צפת בשנת תקצ"ד (also known as the 1834 Safed pogrom) was a month-long…
• 1835 CE1835 Washington Navy Yard labor strikeThe Washington Navy Yard labor strike of 1835 is considered the first strike of federal civilian employees.…
• 1837 CE1837 Expedition of the Col des Beni AïchaThe Expedition of the Col des Beni Aïcha, or the Expedition of Thénia, or simply Beni Aïcha Expedition, was…
• 1837 CE1837–1838 smallpox epidemicBetween 1836 and 1840, smallpox became widespread across the Great Plains. The epidemic reached its height…
• 1838 CE1838 Druze attack on SafedThe 1838 Druze attack on Safed began on July 5, 1838, during the Druze revolt against the rule of Ibrahim…
• 1841 CE1841 Kamchatka earthquakeThe 1841 Kamchatka earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean on May 17 at 08:00 local time. The earthquake had…
• 1842 CE1842 Cap-Haitien earthquakeThe 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake occurred at 17:00 local time (21:00 UTC) on 7 May. It had an estimated…
• 1842 CE1842 retreat from KabulThe Battle of Gandamak on 13 January 1842 was a defeat of British forces by Afghan tribesmen in the 1842…
• 1843 CE1843 and 1846 massacres in HakkariA series of massacres in Hakkari in the years 1843 and 1846 of Assyrian Christians were carried out by the…
• 1846 CE1846 Bhandarkhal massacreThe Bhandarkhal massacre (Nepali: भण्डारखाल पर्व) was a political massacre that occurred in Bhandarkhal…
• 1846 CE1846 conclaveA conclave was held from 14 to 16 June 1846 to elect a new pope to succeed Gregory XVI, who had died in 1…
• 1847 CE1847 Zenkōji earthquakeThe 1847 Zenkoji earthquake (善光寺地震, Zenkōji jishin) occurred at about 21:30 local time on 8 May at Nagano…
• 1848 CE1848 Marlborough earthquakeThe 1848 Marlborough earthquake was a Mw 7.5 earthquake that occurred at 1:40 a.m. on 16 October 1848 with an…
• 1854 CE1854 Ansei-Nankai earthquakeThe 1854 Nankai earthquake occurred at about 16:00 local time on 24 December. It had a magnitude of 8.4 and…
• 1854 CE1854 Ansei-Tōkai earthquakeThe 1854 Tōkai earthquake was the first of the Ansei great earthquakes (1854–1855). It occurred at about…
• 1854 CE1854 Broad Street cholera outbreakA severe outbreak of cholera occurred in 1854 near Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) and Golden Square in…
• 1854 CE1854 Iga-Ueno earthquakeThe 1854 Iga–Ueno earthquake (Japanese: 伊賀上野地震) occurred on July 9, 1854, and struck the Kansai region of…
• 1855 CE1855 Ansei Edo earthquakeThe 1855 Edo earthquake (安政江戸地震, Ansei Edo Jishin) was the third Ansei Great Earthquake, which occurred…
• 1855 CE1855 Catalan general strikeThe 1855 Catalan general strike was a general strike that took place in 1855 after the execution of Josep…
• 1856 CE1856 Heraklion earthquakeThe 1856 Heraklion earthquake, also known as the Crete earthquake or Rhodes earthquake, occurred on the…
• 1857 CE1857 Basilicata earthquakeThe 1857 Basilicata earthquake (also known as the Great Neapolitan earthquake) occurred on 16 December in the…
• 1857 CE1857 Bharuch riotThere was communal violence between Parsis and Bharuchi Sunni Vohra Muslims in May 1857 in Broach (now…
• 1857 CE1857 Fort Tejon earthquakeThe 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake occurred at about 8:20 a.m. (Pacific time) on January 9 in central and…
• 1858 CE1858 Hietsu earthquakeThe Hietsu earthquake (飛越地震, Hietsu jishin) was a doublet earthquake that took place on April 9, 1858…
• 1859 CE1859 Shamakhi earthquakeThe 1859 Shamakhi earthquake struck Shamakhi in the Baku Governorate (present-day Azerbaijan Republic) of the…
• 1860 CE1860 Wiyot MassacreThe Wiyot massacre refers to the atrocities on February 26, 1860, at Tuluwat (also known as Indian Island)…
• 1861 CE1861 Mendoza earthquakeThe 1861 Mendoza earthquake occurred in the province of Mendoza, Argentina on 20 March at 11:30 PM. It had an…
• 1862 CE1862 Brooklyn riotA riot occurred in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York (not yet a part of New York City)…
• 1862 CE1862 International ExhibitionThe International Exhibition of 1862, officially the London International Exhibition of Industry and Art…
• 1867 CE1867 Keelung earthquakeThe 1867 Keelung earthquake occurred off the northern coast of Taiwan on the morning of December 18 with a…
• 1867 CE1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquakeAn earthquake struck Riley County, Kansas, in the United States on April 24, 1867, at 20:22 UTC, or about…
• 1868 CE1868 Arica earthquakeThe 1868 Arica earthquake occurred on 13 August 1868, near Arica, then part of Peru, now part of Chile, at…
• 1868 CE1868 Hawaii earthquakeThe 1868 Hawaiʻi earthquake was the largest recorded in the history of Hawaiʻi island, with an estimated…
• 1870 CE1870 Barcelona yellow fever epidemicThe 1870 Barcelona yellow fever epidemic was an epidemic that took place in the Spanish city of Barcelona in…
• 1871 CE1871 Battle of the Col des Beni AïchaThe Battle of the Col des Beni Aïcha or Battle of Thenia, which broke out on 19 April 1871, was a battle of…
• 1872 CE1872 Hamada earthquakeThe 1872 Hamada earthquake (Japanese: 浜田地震) was an earthquake that occurred on March 14, 1872 (the sixth day…
• 1872 CE1872 Lone Pine earthquakeThe 1872 Owens Valley earthquake – also known as the Lone Pine earthquake – struck on March 26 at 2:30 a.m.…
• 1873 CE1873 Alpago earthquakeThe 1873 Alpago earthquake occurred near the Italian city of Belluno on 29 June in the geologically active…
• 1873 CE1873 Vienna World's FairThe 1873 Vienna World's Fair (German: Weltausstellung 1873 Wien) was a large world exposition that was held…
• 1875 CE1875 Cúcuta earthquakeThe 1875 Cúcuta earthquake (also known as earthquake of the Andes) occurred on 18 May at 11:15 AM. It…
• 1877 CE1877 Iquique earthquakeThe 1877 Iquique earthquake occurred at 21:16 local time on 9 May (10 May UTC). It had a magnitude of 8.5 on…
• 1878 CE1878 Paris World's FairThe 1878 Universal Exposition (French: Exposition Universelle, [ɛkspozisjɔ̃ ynivɛʁsɛl]), also known as the…
• 1878 CE1878 Wallingford tornadoThe Wallingford tornado was a violent tornado that struck the town of Wallingford, Connecticut, on Friday…
• 1878 CE1878 papal conclaveA conclave was held from 18 to 20 February 1878 to elect a new pope to succeed Pius IX, who had died on 7…
• 1879 CE1879 Irish FamineThe Irish famine of 1879 was the last main famine in Ireland. Unlike the earlier Great Famines of 1740–1741…
• 1880 CE1880 Zagreb earthquakeThe 1880 earthquake which struck Zagreb, and is also known as The Great Zagreb earthquake, occurred with a…
• 1881 CE1881 Chios earthquakeThe 1881 Chios earthquake occurred at 13:40 local time (11:30 UTC) on 3 April. It caused severe damage on the…
• 1882 CE1882 Panama earthquakeThe 1882 Panama earthquake occurred on September 7 at around 03:50 (UTC-5). The earthquake measured a…
• 1883 CE1883 eruption of KrakatoaBetween 19 May and 21 October 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa (located in the Sunda Strait, then part…
• 1886 CE1886 Charleston earthquakeAn earthquake struck Charleston, South Carolina, and surrounding areas about 9:50 p.m. local time on August…
• 1886 CE1886 eruption of Mount TaraweraA violent volcanic eruption occurred in the early hours of 10 June 1886 at Mount Tarawera, near Rotorua on…
• 1887 CE1887 Diano Marina earthquakeThe 1887 Liguria earthquake struck off the coast of Imperia, Italy on the early morning of 23 February 1887…
• 1887 CE1887 Nanaimo mine explosionThe Nanaimo mine explosion occurred on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, killing 150 miners.…
• 1887 CE1887 Verny earthquakeThe 1887 Verny earthquake occurred on June 8 at 04:35 local time in Russian Turkestan (in present-day…
• 1887 CE1887 Yellow River floodThe 1887 Yellow River flood in the Qing Dynasty was a flood in China that began in late September 1887 and…
• 1888 CE1888 North Canterbury earthquakeThe 1888 North Canterbury earthquake occurred at 4:10 am on 1 September following a sequence of foreshocks…
• 1888 CE1888 Río de la Plata earthquakeThe 1888 Río de la Plata earthquake occurred on 5 June measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, and shook the…
• 1888 CE1888 eruption of Mount BandaiThe 1888 eruption of Mount Bandai was a major volcanic eruption which occurred during the Meiji period of the…
• 1889 CE1889 Kumamoto earthquakeThe 1889 Kumamoto earthquake occurred at 23:40 JST (14:40 UTC) on 28 July in the western part of Kumamoto…
• 1891 CE1891 Nōbi earthquakeThe 1891 Mino–Owari earthquake (美濃・尾張地震, Mino-Owari Jishin) struck the Japanese provinces of Mino and Owari…
• 1894 CE1894 Shōnai earthquakeThe 1894 Shōnai earthquake (Japanese: 庄内地震) is an earthquake occurred on October 22, 1894 at Sakata, Yamagata…
• 1894 CE1894 Tokyo earthquakeThe 1894 Tokyo earthquake (明治東京地震, Meiji-Tokyo jishin) occurred in Tokyo, Japan at 14:04 PM on June 20. It…
• 1895 CE1895 Ljubljana earthquakeOn 14 April 1895, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Carniola, a…
• 1896 CE1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombingThe 1896 Barcelona Corpus Christi procession bombing was an attack carried out on the Feast of Corpus Christi…
• 1896 CE1896 Rikuu earthquakeThe 1896 Rikuu earthquake (Japanese: 陸羽地震) is an inland earthquake that occurred on August 31, 1896, near the…
• 1896 CE1896 Sanriku earthquakeAn 8.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at 19:32 (local time) on June 15, 1896, on the Sanriku coast in Honshu…
• 1897 CE1897 Assam earthquakeAn earthquake occurred on 12 June, in Assam, British India at 11:06 UTC, and had an estimated moment…
• 2012 CE18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist PartyThe 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing…
• 2018 CE19 August 2018 Lombok earthquakeOn 19 August 2018 a major earthquake struck with high intensity on the northeast corner of Lombok (Sambelia…
• 1900 CE1900 San Narciso earthquakeAn earthquake occurred in Venezuela on 29 October 1900 (feast of Saint Narcissus of Girona) between 4:30 and…
• 1901 CE1901 Black Sea earthquakeThe 1901 Black Sea earthquake (also known in Bulgaria as the Balchik earthquake) was a 7.2 magnitude…
• 1901 CE1901 Cheviot earthquakeThe 1901 Cheviot earthquake occurred at 07:47 NZT on 16 November 1901 (20:15 15 November UTC) with an…
• 1902 CE1902 Andijan earthquakeThe 1902 Andijan earthquake occurred on December 16 with a surface-wave magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum…
• 1902 CE1902 Guatemala earthquakeThe 1902 Guatemala earthquake occurred on April 18 at 8:23 pm with a moment magnitude of 7.5 and a maximum…
• 1902 CE1902 Shamakhi earthquakeThe 1902 Shamakhi earthquake occurred on 13 February with a moment magnitude of 7.4 and maximum Modified…
• 1902 CE1902 eruption of Mount PeléeThe 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée was a volcanic eruption on the island of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles…
• 1902 CE1902 eruption of Santa MaríaThe 1902 eruption of Santa María was one of the largest eruptions of the 20th century, measuring a six on the…
• 1903 CE1903 conclaveA conclave was held from 31 July to 4 August 1903 to elect a new pope to succeed Leo XIII, who had died on 20…
• 1905 CE1905 Calabria earthquakeStriking southern Italy on 8 September, the 1905 Calabria earthquake had a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a…
• 1905 CE1905 Kangra earthquakeThe 1905 Kangra earthquake occurred in the Kangra Valley and the Kangra district of the Himachal Pradesh, in…
• 1905 CE1905 Rue de Rohan bombingThe Rohan bombing, sometimes referred to as the Louvre attack, was an anarchist attack that occurred on 31…
• 1906 CE1906 Ecuador-Colombia earthquakThe 1906 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake occurred at 10:36:10 (UTC+5) on Wednesday, January 31, 1906, off the…
• 1906 CE1906 Helsinki bank robbery1906 Helsinki bank robbery was an armed robbery on 26 February 1906 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland. A…
• 1906 CE1906 Meishan earthquakeThe 1906 Meishan earthquake (Chinese: 1906年梅山地震; pinyin: 1906 nián Měishān Dìzhèn) was centered on Moe'akhe…
• 1906 CE1906 San Francisco earthquakeA magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 05:12 am Pacific Standard Time on…
• 1906 CE1906 Valparaíso earthquakeThe 1906 Valparaíso earthquake occurred on August 16 at 19:55 local time. Its epicenter was offshore of the…
• 1907 CE1907 Calabria earthquakeOn 23 October 1907 a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Calabria, at a depth of 33.0 km. in the area of…
• 1907 CE1907 Kingston earthquakeThe 1907 Kingston earthquake which shook the capital of the island of Jamaica with a magnitude of 6.2 on the…
• 1907 CE1907 Qaratog earthquakeThe 1907 Qaratog earthquake occurred at 04:23 UTC on 21 October near Qaratog (Karatag) in the border area…
• 1907 CE1907 Sumatra EarthquakeThe 1907 Sumatra earthquake occurred on 4 January at 05:19:12 UTC. The re-estimated moment magnitude (Mw) is…
• 1907 CE1907 Tiflis bank robberyThe 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, also known as the Erivansky Square expropriation, was an armed robbery on 26…
• 1908 CE1908 Messina earthquakeA devastating earthquake occurred on 28 December 1908 in Sicily and Calabria, southern Italy, with a moment…
• 1909 CE1909 Anegawa earthquakeThe 1909 Anegawa earthquake affected Shiga and Gifu prefectures in Japan on August 14. The epicenter of the…
• 1909 CE1909 Borujerd earthquakeThe 1909 Borujerd earthquake also known as Silakhor earthquake occurred in Silakhor plain (in the south of…
• 1909 CE1909 Cherry Mine disasterThe Cherry Mine disaster was a fire which occurred at the Cherry Mine, a coal mine outside Cherry, Illinois…
• 1909 CE1909 Lambesc earthquakeThe 1909 Provence earthquake occurred on June 11 in Provence. Measuring 6.2 on the surface-wave magnitude…
• 1910 CE1910 Great Flood of ParisThe 1910 Great Flood of Paris (French: Crue de la Seine de 1910) was a catastrophe in which the Seine River…
• 1910 CE1910 Rogers Pass avalancheThe 1910 Rogers Pass Avalanche killed 58 men clearing a railroad line just outside of Revelstoke in Rogers…
• 1911 CE1911 Curepipe riotsThe 1911 Curepipe riots refer to violent clashes which broke out in the historic town of Curepipe and then…
• 1911 CE1911 Kebin earthquakeThe 1911 Kebin earthquake, or Chon-Kemin earthquake, struck Russian Turkestan on 3 January. Registering at a…
• 1911 CE1911 Kikai Island earthquakeThe 1911 Kikai Island earthquake (喜界島地震, Kikai-jima Jishin) occurred on June 15 at 23:26 local time (14:26…
• 1911 CE1911 Michoacán earthquakeThe 1911 Michoacán earthquake occurred on June 7 at 04:26 local time (11:02 UTC). The epicenter was located…
• 1911 CE1911 Sarez earthquakeThe 1911 Sarez earthquake occurred at 18:41 UTC on 18 February (23:31 local time) in the central Pamir…
• 1911 CE1911 South Wales anti-Jewish riotsThe 1911 South Wales anti-Jewish riots were a series of antisemitic riots that occurred in South Wales in the…
• 1911 CE1911 Tripoli massacreA series of massacres were committed by Ottoman and Italian forces during the Italo-Turkish War. In October…
• 1912 CE1912 Maymyo earthquakeThe 1912 Maymyo earthquake or Burma earthquake struck Burma on the morning of May 23, with an epicentre near…
• 1913 CE1913 Asmara earthquakeThe 1913 Asmara earthquake took place outside Asmara, Eritrea on 27 February. The data as to the magnitude of…
• 1914 CE1914 Akita-Senboku earthquakeThe 1914 Senboku earthquake (Japanese: 1914年秋田仙北地震) occurred on March 15, 1914, at 04:59 or 05:00 local time…
• 1914 CE1914 conclaveA conclave was held from 31 August to 3 September 1914 to elect a new pope in succession to Pius X, who had…
• 1915 CE1915 Asmara earthquakeThe 1915 Asmara earthquake took place outside Asmara, Eritrea on September 23 with an Mw of 6.2 and a maximum…
• 1915 CE1915 Avezzano earthquakeThe 1915 Avezzano earthquake or 1915 Fucino earthquake occurred on 13 January in central Italy at 07:52:42…
• 2022 CE1915 Çanakkale Bridge builtThe 1915 Çanakkale Bridge (Turkish: 1915 Çanakkale Köprüsü) is a road suspension bridge in the province of…
• 1916 CE1916–17 Nantou earthquakesThe 1916–1917 Nantou earthquakes (Chinese: 1916年南投地震系列; pinyin: 1916 nián Nántóu dìzhèn xìliè) affected…
• 1917 CE1917 Bali earthquakeThe 1917 Bali earthquake occurred at 07:11 local time on 21 January (23:11 on 20 January UTC). It had an…
• 1917 CE1917 Ciurea rail disasterThe Ciurea rail disaster, known in Romania as the Ciurea catastrophe (Romanian: Catastrofa de la Ciurea)…
• 1917 CE1917 Guatemala earthquakeThe 1917 Guatemala earthquakes were a sequence of tremors that lasted from 17 November 1917 through 24…
• 1918 CE1918 Cloquet FireThe Cloquet Fire ( kloh-KAY) was an immense forest fire in northern Minnesota, United States, in October…
• 1918 CE1918 San Fermín earthquakeThe 1918 San Fermín earthquake, also known as the Puerto Rico earthquake of 1918, struck the island of Puerto…
• 1918 CE1918 Shantou earthquakeThe 1918 Shantou earthquake occurred in Shantou, Guangdong, Republic of China. Serious damage and high…
• 1918 CE1918 Vancouver general strikeThe 1918 Vancouver general strike was a general strike that took place in response to the death of Albert…
• 1918 CE1918 protest in ZagrebOn 5 December 1918, four days after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the…
• 1920 CE1919-1920 Arab riots in PalestineThe 1920 Nebi Musa riots or 1920 Jerusalem riots took place in the British-controlled part of Occupied Enemy…
• 1920 CE1920 Duluth lynchingsOn June 15, 1920, three African-American circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie…
• 1920 CE1920 Garfagnana earthquakeThe 1920 Garfagnana earthquake (also known as the Lunigiana earthquake) occurred on 7 September in Garfagnana…
• 1920 CE1920 Gori earthquakeThe 1920 Gori earthquake hit the Democratic Republic of Georgia on 20 February at 15:44 local time. The shock…
• 1920 CE1920 Haiyuan earthquakeThe 1920 Haiyuan earthquake (Chinese: 海原大地震; pinyin: Hǎiyuán dà dìzhèn) occurred in Haiyuan County, Ningxia…
• 1920 CE1920 Jabal al-Gharbi Civil WarThe 1920-22 Jabal al-Gharbi civil war was a conflict which occurred in the Nafusa Mountains and surrounding…
• 1920 CE1920 Xalapa earthquakeA moment magnitude 6.3–6.4 earthquake affected southeastern Mexico, in the states of Puebla and Veracruz, on…
• 1921 CE1921 Jaffa riotsThe Jaffa riots (commonly known in Hebrew: מאורעות תרפ"א, romanized: Me'oraot Tarpa) were a series of violent…
• 1921 CE1921 Massawa earthquakeThe 1921 Massawa earthquake took place off the coast of Massawa, Eritrea, on August 14 with a moment…
• 1922 CE1922 Dhabyani coup d'étatIn 1922 Sheikh Sultan Al Nahyan, with a coalition of his brothers Hazza and Saqr staged a palace coup in Abu…
• 1922 CE1922 Turin MassacreThe 1922 Turin massacre refers to the attack by Italian fascists against members of a local labour movement…
• 1922 CE1922 Vallenar earthquakeThe 1922 Vallenar earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 8.3-8.6 and a tsunami magnitude of 8.7 in…
• 1922 CE1922 conclaveA conclave was held from 2 to 6 February 1922 to elect a new pope to succeed Benedict XV, who had died on 22…
• 1923 CE1923 Great Kantō EarthquakeThe Great Kantō Earthquake (Japanese: 関東大地震, Kantō daijishin, or 関東大震災, Kantō daishinsai) was a megathrust…
• 1924 CE1924 Estonian coup d'état attemptThe 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt was a failed coup attempt in Estonia on 1 December 1924, conducted by…
• 1924 CE1924 Kirkuk massacreThe Kirkuk Massacre of 1924 was a massacre perpetrated against the Muslim people of Kirkuk by the Assyrian…
• 1924 CE1924 Nixon Nitration Works disasterThe 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster was an explosion and fire that claimed many lives and destroyed…
• 1924 CE1924 Pasinler earthquakeThe 1924 Pasinler earthquake occurred at 16:34 local time on 13 September in Pasinler, Erzurum, Eastern…
• 1925 CE1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquakeThe 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake struck northeastern North America on February 28, reaching 6.2 on…
• 1925 CE1925 Dali earthquakeThe 1925 Dali earthquake occurred at 14:42 UTC on 16 March. It had an estimated magnitude of 7.0 on the…
• 1925 CE1925 Hama uprisingThe 1925 Hama uprising was one of the major events of the Great Syrian Revolt. It involved a rebel assault…
• 1925 CE1925 North Tajima earthquakeThe 1925 North Tajima earthquake (Japanese: 北但馬地震) occurred on May 23, 1925 at Toyooka, Hyōgo in Japan.
• 1925 CE1925 Santa Barbara earthquakeThe 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake hit the area of Santa Barbara, California on June 29, with a moment…
• 1926 CE1926 Dhabyani coup d'étatIn 1926 Sheikh Saqr Al Nahyan, who had helped his brother, the then current emir of Abu Dhabi, Sultan Al…
• 1927 CE1927 Crimean earthquakesThe 1927 Crimean earthquakes occurred in the month of June and again in September in the waters of the Black…
• 1927 CE1927 Gulang earthquakeThe 1927 Gulang earthquake occurred at 06:32 a.m. on 23 May (22:32 UTC on 22 May). This 7.7 magnitude event…
• 1927 CE1927 Mendoza earthquakeThe 1927 Mendoza earthquake took place in Mendoza Province, in the Republic of Argentina, on 14 April at…
• 1927 CE1927 Nagpur riotsThe Nagpur riots of 1927 were part of series of riots taking place across various cities in British India…
• 1927 CE1927 North Tango earthquakeThe 1927 North Tango earthquake (Japanese: 北丹後地震) occurred in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan on 7 March with a…
• 1927 CE1927 earthquake in PalestineThe 1927 Jericho earthquake was a devastating event that shook Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan on July 11…
• 1928 CE1928 Chachapoyas earthquakeThe 1928 Chachapoyas earthquake occurred on May 14 at 17:14 local time. It had a magnitude of Mw 7.2, Ms 7.3…
• 1928 CE1928 Chirpan earthquakeThe 1928 Chirpan–Plovdiv earthquakes struck central Bulgaria, south of Sredna Gora on April 14 and 18…
• 1928 CE1928 Dhabyani coup d'étatIn 1928 the Al Nahyan council of elders, led by Khalifa Al Nahyan orchestrated a coup against his brother…
• 1928 CE1928 Thames floodThe 1928 Thames flood was a disastrous flood of the River Thames that affected much of riverside London on 7…
• 1929 CE1929 Arab riots in PalestineThe 1929 Palestine riots, also known as the Western Wall Riots, the Buraq Uprising (Arabic: ثورة البراق…
• 1929 CE1929 Arthur's Pass earthquakeThe 1929 Arthur's Pass earthquake occurred at 10:50 pm NZMT on 9 March. The sparsely settled region around…
• 1929 CE1929 Barcelona International ExpositionThe 1929 Barcelona International Exposition (also 1929 Barcelona Universal Exposition, or Expo 1929…
• 1929 CE1929 Grand Banks earthquakeThe 1929 Grand Banks earthquake (also called the Laurentian Slope earthquake and the South Shore Disaster)…
• 1929 CE1929 Hebron massacreSixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews were massacred on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, Mandatory Palestine. The event…
• 1929 CE1929 Koppeh Dagh earthquakeThe 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake (also called the 1929 Koppeh Dagh earthquake) took place at 15:37 UTC on 1 May…
• 1929 CE1929 Murchison earthquakeThe 1929 Murchison earthquake occurred at 10:17 am on 17 June. It struck the Murchison region of the South…
• 1930 CE1930 Bago earthquakeAn earthquake affected Myanmar on 5 May 1930 with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.4. The shock occurred 35 km…
• 1930 CE1930 Curuçá River eventThe 1930 Curuçá River event refers to the possible fall of objects on 13 August 1930 over the area of Curuçá…
• 1930 CE1930 Dhubri earthquakeThe 1930 Dhubri earthquake occurred on July 3 at 03:23 local time near Dhubri, India (then British India). It…
• 1930 CE1930 Irpinia earthquakeThe 1930 Irpinia earthquake occurred at 00:08 UTC on 23 July, chiefly in an area known as Irpinia. It had a…
• 1930 CE1930 Senigallia earthquakeThe 1930 Senigallia earthquake struck the city of Senigallia in central Italy on 30 October. It occurred just…
• 1931 CE1931 China floodsThe 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, were a series of devastating floods that…
• 1931 CE1931 Dogger Bank earthquakeThe Dogger Bank earthquake of 1931 is the strongest earthquake recorded in the United Kingdom since…