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• 1978 CEBlackfriars MassacreThe 1978 Blackfriars Massacre, also known as the Blackfriars murders, is an unsolved Irish mob and/or…
• 1798 CEBlacksburg foundedBlacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 44,826…
• 1937 CEBlackwater fire of 1937On August 18, 1937, a lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire in Shoshone National Forest, approximately…
• 1269 CEBlair Castle builtBlair Castle (in Scottish Gaelic: Caisteil Bhlàir) stands in its grounds near the village of Blair Atholl in…
• 1446 CEBlarney Castle builtBlarney Castle (Irish: Caisleán na Blarnan) is a medieval stronghold in Blarney, a town in Cork, Ireland.…
• 1300 CEBlatnica Castle settledBlatnica Castle (Slovak: Blatnický hrad) is a Gothic castle whose ruins are situated near the village of…
• 1705 CEBlenheim Palace foundedBlenheim Palace ( BLEN-im) is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Dukes…
• 1811 CEBlockade of AlmeidaIn the Blockade of Almeida (14 April – 10 May 1811) a French garrison under Antoine François Brenier de…
• 1808 CEBlockade of BarcelonaThe blockade of Barcelona was a failed attempt by Spanish troops to recapture the French occupied Barcelona…
• 1879 CEBlockade of IquiqueThe Blockade of Iquique was a military operation that occurred during the War of the Pacific. Once war was…
• 1621 CEBlockade of La RochelleThe Blockade of La Rochelle (French: Blocus de La Rochelle) took place in 1621-1622 during the repression of…
• 1726 CEBlockade of Porto BelloThe Blockade of Porto Bello was a failed British naval action against the Spanish port of Porto Bello in…
• 1757 CEBlockade of StralsundThe Blockade of Stralsund occurred during the Seven Years' War when a Prussian force invested the Swedish…
• 1951 CEBlockade of WonsanThe blockade of Wonsan, or the siege of Wonsan, from February 16, 1951, to July 27, 1953, during the Korean…
• 1846 CEBloemfontein foundedBloemfontein ( BLOOM-fon-tayn; Afrikaans: [ˈblumfɔntəin]), also known as Bloem, is the capital and the…
• 1839 CEBlood Hole MassacreThe Blood Hole massacre was a massacre of Aboriginal people in the Port Phillip District (later the colony of…
• 1771 CEBloody Falls MassacreThe Bloody Falls massacre took place during Hudson's Bay Company employee Samuel Hearne's exploration of the…
• 1850 CEBloody Island MassacreThe Bloody Island Massacre was a mass killing of indigenous Californians by U.S. Dragoons that occurred on…
• 1977 CEBloody May DayThe Bloody May Day (Turkish: Kanlı 1 Mayıs, lit. 'Bloody 1 May' or 1 Mayıs Katliamı, '1 May Massacre') was an…
• 1855 CEBloody MondayBloody Monday was a series of riots on August 6, 1855, in Louisville, Kentucky, an election day, when…
• 1757 CEBloody Springs massacreThe Bloody Springs massacre was an attack by Lenape warriors on homesteads in what is now Berks County…
• 1900 CEBloody SundayBloody Sunday of February 18, 1900, was a day of high Imperial casualties in the Second Boer War.
• 1939 CEBloody SundayBloody Sunday (German: Bromberger Blutsonntag; Polish: Krwawa niedziela) was a sequence of violent events…
• 1969 CEBloody SundayBloody Sunday (Turkish: Kanlı Pazar) refers to a violent confrontation on 16 February 1969 in Istanbul…
• 1972 CEBloody SundayBloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, occurred on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed…
• 1968 CEBloody Sunday (1968)Bloody Sunday was a massacre on 25 August 1968 when Soviet soldiers shot three unarmed civilians in Prostějov…
• 1889 CEBlue Fields MassacreThe Jim Jumper massacre, or Bluefields massacre, was an incident in early 1889 at a Seminole Indian camp…
• 1991 CEBlue House (palace) builtCheong Wa Dae (Korean: 청와대), also known as the Blue House, is the executive office and residence of the…
• 1465 CEBlue Mosque builtThe Blue Mosque (Persian: مسجد کبود, romanized: Masjed-e Kabūd), also known as the Masjed-e Moẓaffariya and…
• 1481 CEBlue Mosque builtThe Mausoleum of Ali (Dari: مقام علی, romanized: Maqām ʿAlī), also known as the Shrine of Hazrat Ali and the…
• 1768 CEBlue Mosque builtThe Blue Mosque (Armenian: Կապույտ մզկիթ, romanized: Kapuyt mzkit’; Persian: مسجد کبود, romanized: Masjed-e…
• 2002 CEBlue speed Internet cafe eventsAt around 2:40 am on June 16, 2002, a fire broke out at a two-story internet cafe in Haidian district…
• 1990 CEBluegrass Balloon FestivalThe Bluegrass Balloon Festival, formerly called the Adam Matthews Balloon Festival, was the fifth largest hot…
• 1982 CEBluff Cove Air AttacksOn 8 June 1982, during the Falklands War, British troop transport ships were bombed by Argentine Air Force…
• 601 CEBobbio Abbey builtBobbio Abbey (Italian: Abbazia di San Colombano) is a monastery founded by Irish Saint Columbanus in 614…
• 1349 CEBobovac (fortress) builtBobovac (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Бобовац) is a historic site and the former fortified royal capital city of…
• 1333 CEBocșa foundedBocșa (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈbokʃa]; Hungarian: Boksánbánya; German: Deutsch-Bokschan, Neuwerk) is a town…
• 801 CEBodbe Monastery builtThe Monastery of St. Nino at Bodbe (Georgian: ბოდბის წმინდა ნინოს მონასტერი, bodbis ts’minda Ninos monasteri)…
• 1908 CEBoden Fortress builtBoden Fortress (Swedish: Bodens fästning) is a modern fortress consisting of several major and minor forts…
• 1385 CEBodiam Castle builtBodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England. It was built in…
• 1522 CEBodrum Castle builtBodrum Castle (Turkish: Bodrum Kalesi) is a historical fortification located in southwest Turkey in the port…
• 901 CEBodrum Mosque builtBodrum Mosque (Turkish: Bodrum Camii, or Mesih Paşa Camii named after its converter) in Istanbul, Turkey, is…
• 1899 CEBoer WarsThe military history of South Africa chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of…
• 1158 CEBogolyubovo settledBogolyubovo (Russian: Боголю́бово) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Suzdalsky District of Vladimir…
• 2003 CEBogoro massacreThe Bogoro massacre, which occurred on February 24, 2003, was an attack on the village of Bogoro in the…
• 1948 CEBogotazoEl Bogotazo (from "Bogotá" and the -azo suffix of violent augmentation) was a massive outbreak of rioting…
• 1538 CEBogotá foundedBogotá (also UK:, US:, Spanish pronunciation: [boɣoˈta] ) is the capital and largest city of Colombia. The…
• 1308 CEBohus Fortress builtBohus Fortress lies in Kungälv, Bohuslän, Sweden, north east from Hisingen where the Göta river splits into…
• 1566 CEBohus explosionThe Bohus Bang (Swedish: Bohusiska Smällen), as it is traditionally called in Swedish historiography, was a…
• 1992 CEBoipatong massacreThe Boipatong massacre took place on the night of 17 June 1992 in the township of Boipatong, South Africa.
• 1791 CEBois CaïmanBois Caïman (French: Bois Caïman, lit. 'Gator Wood'; Bois 'Wood', Caïman 'Gator') was the site of the first…
• 1940 CEBois d'Eraine massacreThe Bois d'Eraine massacre was a war crime carried out by the German Wehrmacht in June 1940 during the German…
• 1863 CEBoise foundedBoise (locally also ) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the county seat…
• 2002 CEBojayá massacreThe Bojayá massacre (Spanish: La Masacre de Bojayá) was a massacre that occurred on May 2, 2002, in the town…
• 1113 CEBojnice foundedBojnice (German: Weinitz; Hungarian: Bajmóc) is a historical town in western Slovakia located on the Nitra…
• 2007 CEBokhundjara incidentThe 2007 Bokhundjara incident, in Georgia more commonly known as the special operation Kodori 2007, was a…
• 1220 CEBolingbroke Castle builtBolingbroke Castle is a ruined castle in Bolingbroke (now Old Bolingbroke) in Lincolnshire, England.
• 401 CEBolnisi Sioni (church building) builtBolnisi Sioni (Georgian: ბოლნისის სიონი) or Bolnisi Sioni Cathedral is a Georgian Orthodox basilica in the…
• 1980 CEBologna massacreThe Bologna massacre (Italian: strage di Bologna) was a terrorist bombing of the Bologna Centrale railway…
• 1379 CEBolton Castle builtBolton Castle is a 14th-century castle located in Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England (grid reference…
• 1644 CEBolton MassacreThe Storming of Bolton, sometimes referred to as the "Bolton massacre", was an event in the First English…
• 1944 CEBolu–Gerede earthquake of 1944The 1944 Bolu–Gerede earthquake occurred at 05:22 local time on 1 February. The earthquake had an estimated…
• 1772 CEBom Jesus do Monte (church building) builtThe Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte is a Portuguese Catholic shrine in Tenões, outside the city of Braga, in…
• 1915 CEBombardment of AnconaThe Bombardment of Ancona was a naval engagement of the Adriatic Campaign of World War I between the navies…
• 1863 CEBombardment of KagoshimaThe Bombardment of Kagoshima, also known as the Anglo-Satsuma War (薩英戦争, Satsu-Ei Sensō), was a military…
• 1914 CEBombardment of PapeeteThe Bombardment of Papeete occurred in French Polynesia when German warships attacked on 22 September 1914…
• 1851 CEBombardment of SaléThe Bombardment of Salé was a French naval attack against the Moroccan city of Salé that took place between…
• 1916 CEBombardment of Yarmouth and LowestoftThe Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft, often referred to as the Lowestoft Raid, was a naval battle fought…
• 1991 CEBombing of Banski dvoriThe bombing of the Banski Dvori (Croatian: bombardiranje Banskih dvora) was a Yugoslav Air Force strike on…
• 1941 CEBombing of Belgrade in 1941Operation Retribution (German: Unternehmen Strafgericht) or Operation Punishment was the April 1941 German…
• 2022 CEBombing of BorodiankaThe town of Borodianka was bombed extensively by the Russian Armed Forces during the Russian invasion of…
• 1942 CEBombing of DarwinOn 19 February 1942, 188 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, bombed the Australian town of Darwin…
• 1955 CEBombing of Plaza de MayoOn 16 June 1955, 30 aircraft from the Argentine Navy and Air Force bombed and strafed Plaza de Mayo, the main…
• 1399 CEBona crusadeThe Bona Crusade or the Annaba crusade was a military campaign initiated by the King of Aragon Martin the…
• 1928 CEBonfires of Saint John in AlicanteThe Bonfires of Saint John (Valencian: Fogueres de Sant Joan, Spanish: Hogueras de San Juan) are a…
• 2021 CEBongboto massacreOn 21 July 2021, 13 unarmed civilians were murdered in Bongboto village near Bossangoa in the Central African…
• 2015 CEBonin Islands 2015 earthquakeThe 2015 Ogasawara earthquake was a 7.9 magnitude earthquake which struck offshore Japan 189 km (117 mi) west…
• 1979 CEBonn ConventionThe Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, also known as the Convention on…
• 1932 CEBonus ArmyThe Bonus Army, a group of 43,000 demonstrators—17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their…
• 2021 CEBootleg FireThe Bootleg Fire, named after the nearby Bootleg Spring, was a large wildfire that started near Beatty…
• 2021 CEBora massacreThe Bora massacre was a mass extrajudicial killing that took place in Bora (Tigrinya: ቦራ) in the Tigray…
• 500 BCEBordeaux foundedBordeaux ( bor-DOH. French: [bɔʁdo]; Gascon Occitan: Bordèu [buɾˈðɛw]; Basque: Bordele) is a city on the…
• 1101 CEBorgund Stave Church builtBorgund Stave Church (Norwegian: Borgund stavkyrkje) is a former parish church initially of the Catholic…
• 2019 CEBornHackBornHack (a portmanteau of "Bornholm" and "hack") is an annual hacker camp on the Danish island of Funen…
• 1872 CEBornay Mosque builtThe Bornay Mosque (Cyrillic: Bornay məçete, Борнай мәчете; former The Third Cathedral Mosque), also spelled…
• 1658 CEBornholm uprisingThe Bornholm uprising (Danish: Den bornholmske opstand, Swedish: Upproret på Bornholm), also known as the…
• 2014 CEBorno MassacreThe Konduga massacre took place in Konduga, Borno State, Nigeria on 11 February 2014. The massacre was…
• 2024 CEBorno State floodingBorno State, Nigeria, faced flooding after the collapse of the Alau Dam on 10 September 2024. The Maiduguri…
• 800 CEBorobudur Temple builtBorobudur, also transcribed Barabudur (Indonesian: Candi Borobudur, Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦝꦶꦧꦫꦧꦸꦝꦸꦂ, romanized: Candhi…
• 1991 CEBorovo Naselje massacreThe Borovo Naselje massacre was the mass murder of 166 Croat and other non-Serb civilians and POWs by Serb…
• 2005 CEBorozdinovskaya operationThe Borozdinovskaya operation was a zachistka-type (Russian: зачистка) operation by Chechen forces in…
• 1939 CEBoryszew massacreThe Boryszew massacre, which took place on September 22, 1939, in the village of Boryszew (now a district of…
• 1353 CEBorșa foundedBorșa (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈborʃa]; Hungarian: Borsa, German: Borscha, Yiddish: בורשא, romanized: Borsa…
• 1992 CEBosanska Jagodina massacreThe Bosanska Jagodina Massacre refers to the execution of 17 Bosniak civilians from Višegrad, all of them…
• 1941 CEBosansko Grahovo massacreThe Bosansko Grahovo massacre was a massacre of Croat civilians was committed by local Chetnik rebels on 27…
• 2004 CEBoscastle flood of 2004, England, UKThe 2004 Boscastle flood occurred on Monday 16 August 2004 in the villages of Boscastle and Crackington Haven…
• 1973 CEBosphorus Bridge builtThe Bosphorus Bridge (Turkish: Boğaziçi Köprüsü), known officially as the 15 July Martyrs Bridge (Turkish: 15…
• 2014 CEBossemptélé massacreOn 18 January 2014 more than 100 people were killed by Anti-balaka militias in Bossemptélé in the Ouham-Pendé…
• 1991 CEBoston Chinatown massacreThe Boston Chinatown massacre or Tyler Street Massacre was a gang-related shooting in which five men were…
• 2013 CEBoston Marathon bombingsThe Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic…
• 1770 CEBoston MassacreThe Boston Massacre, known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5…
• 1773 CEBoston Tea PartyThe Boston Tea Party was an act of protest on December 16, 1773, during the American Revolution. Initiated by…
• 1869 CEBoston University foundedBoston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was…
• 1630 CEBoston foundedBoston ( BAW-stən, ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as a…
• 2016 CEBotroseya Church bombingOn 11 December 2016, a suicide bomber killed 29 people and injured 47 others at St. Peter and St. Paul's…
• 1943 CEBougainville CampaignThe Bougainville campaign was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II…
• 1988 CEBougainville conflictThe Bougainville conflict, also known as the Bougainvillean Civil War, the Solomon Civil War or the Civil War…
• 580 BCEBouleuterion of Ancient Olympia settledThe Bouleuterion (Council House) of Ancient Olympia was a building inside the archaeological site of Olympia.…
• 1195 CEBourges Cathedral builtBourges Cathedral or the Cathedral of Saint Stephen of Bourges (French: Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges)…
• 1963 CEBourguiba Mausoleum builtThe Bourguiba mausoleum (Arabic: ضريح بورقيبة, romanized: Ḍarīḥ Būrqībah) is a monumental grave in Monastir…
• 1810 CEBournemouth foundedBournemouth ( BORN-məth) is a coastal resort town and civil parish in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole…
• 1593 CEBourtange Fortress builtFort Bourtange (Dutch: Vesting Bourtange) is a fort in the village of Bourtange, Groningen, Netherlands. It…
• 1300 CEBouzov Castle builtBouzov Castle (Czech: Hrad Bouzov) is a castle in Bouzov in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It is…
• 1357 CEBoyacı Mosque builtBoyacı Camii (Turkish for "Painter's Mosque"), also called Boyacıoğlu Camii or Kadı Kemalettin Camii is a…
• 980 CEBoyana Church builtThe Boyana Church (Bulgarian: Боянска църква, romanized: Boyanska tsărkva) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox…
• 1809 CEBoyd massacreThe Boyd massacre occurred in December 1809 when Māori of Ngāti Pou from Whangaroa Harbour in northern New…
• 1755 CEBraddock ExpeditionThe Braddock Expedition, also known as Braddock's Campaign or Braddock's Defeat, was a British military…
• 1985 CEBradford City stadium fireThe Bradford City stadium fire occurred during a Football League Third Division match on Saturday 11 May 1985…
• 1992 CEBradina massacreThe Bradina massacre was the mass murder of at least 48 Bosnian Serb civilians by joint Bosniak and Bosnian…
• 1628 CEBraemar Castle builtBraemar Castle is situated near the village of Braemar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is a possession of the…
• 1650 CEBrahehus settledThe ruins of Brahehus Castle are located 3 km (2 mi) outside of Gränna in Jönköping County in the province of…
• 2017 CEBrak El-Shati airbase raidOn 18 May 2017, an attack was launched by militiamen of the town of Misrata and Benghazi Defense Brigades…
• 1070 CEBramber Castle settledBramber Castle is the ruins of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, formerly the caput of the large feudal…
• 1289 CEBran Castle builtBran Castle (Romanian: Castelul Bran; German: Schloss Bran or Die Törzburg; Hungarian: Törcsvári kastély) is…
• 1791 CEBrandenburg Gate (monument) builtThe Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor [ˈbʁandn̩ˌbʊʁɡɐ ˈtoːɐ̯] ) is an 18th-century neoclassical…
• 1960 CEBrasília foundedBrasília ( brə-ZIL-ee-ə; Brazilian Portuguese: [bɾaˈziliɐ, bɾaˈziljɐ] ) is the capital city of Brazil and the…
• 1431 CEBratislava Castle builtBratislava Castle (Slovak: Bratislavský hrad, IPA: [ˈbracislawskiː ˈɦrat]; German: Pressburger Burg…
• 1919 CEBratislava Shooting (1919)The 1919 Bratislava shooting, also known as the Bloody Wednesday (Slovak: Krvavá streda), was an incident…
• 907 CEBratislava foundedBratislava (Hungarian: Pozsony; German: Pressburg) is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth…
• 1828 CEBraunes Haus (palace) builtThe Brown House (German: Braunes Haus) was the name given to the Munich mansion located between the…
• 2018 CEBray boxing club shootingThe Bray boxing club shooting happened in Bray, Ireland on 5 June 2018. Three men were shot, one of them…
• 1822 CEBrazilian War of IndependenceThe Brazilian War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência do Brasil) was an armed conflict that…
• 1880 CEBrazzaville foundedBrazzaville (French pronunciation: [bʁazavil]) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo.…
• 1234 CEBrașov foundedBrașov (UK:, US:, Romanian: [braˈʃov]; German: Kronstadt, also Brasau; Hungarian: Brassó [ˈbrɒʃːoː]; Latin…
• 1431 CEBreaza foundedBreaza (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈbre̯aza]) is a town in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania. The town center…
• 1859 CEBreckenridge foundedBreckenridge is the home rule town that is the county seat of Summit County, Colorado, United States. The…
• 1188 CEBredevoort foundedBredevoort (Low Saxon: Brevoort) is a small city with city privileges of about 1600 inhabitants in the…
• 1913 CEBremen school shootingThe Bremen school shooting was a school shooting that occurred on 20 June 1913 at St Mary's Catholic School…
• 1769 CEBrescia ExplosionThe Brescia explosion occurred in 1769 in Brescia (now part of Italy) when a large store of gunpowder…
• 1836 CEBrest Fortress builtBrest Fortress formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, Belarus. In…
• 1017 CEBrest foundedBrest, formerly Brest-Litovsk (1600s–1923) and Brest-on-the-Bug (1923–1939), is a city in south-western…
• 1944 CEBretton Woods systemThe Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among 44…
• 1971 CEBreuberg foundedBreuberg (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁɔʏˌbɛʁk] ) is a town in the Odenwaldkreis district of Hesse, Germany. It…
• 1265 CEBrezno foundedBrezno (Slovak: [ˈbreznɔ]; 1927–1948: Brezno nad Hronom; German: Bries or Briesen; Hungarian: Breznóbánya) is…
• 1262 CEBrezová pod Bradlom foundedBrezová pod Bradlom (German: Birkenhain; Hungarian: Berezó) is a town in the Myjava District, Trenčín Region…
• 1300 CEBridge of Grand-Arvou builtThe Bridge of Grand Arvou (Italian: Ponte acquedotto di Grand Arvou, French: Pont aqueduc du Grand Arvou) is…
• 1614 CEBridge of Sighs builtThe Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri, Venetian: Ponte de i Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, Italy.…
• 1962 CEBridge of the Americas builtThe Bridge of the Americas (Spanish: Puente de las Américas; originally known as the Thatcher Ferry Bridge)…
• 1281 CEBridge of the Holes builtThe Bridge of the Holes (French: Pont des Trous) is a Gothic style water gate, erected in the 13th century…
• 1972 CEBridge of the Slovak National Uprising builtMost SNP ("Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising"), commonly referred to as Most Slovenského národného…
• 1628 CEBridgetown foundedBridgetown (UN/LOCODE: BB BGI) is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Formerly The Town of Saint…
• 1101 CEBridgnorth foundedBridgnorth is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, named after a bridge over the River…
• 1984 CEBrighton hotel bombingOn 12 October 1984 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the…
• 1991 CEBrioni AgreementThe Brioni Agreement, also known as the Brioni Declaration (Croatian: Brijunska deklaracija, Serbian…
• 1824 CEBrisbane foundedBrisbane ( BRIZ-bən; Turrbal/Yagara: Meanjin) is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of…
• 1155 CEBristol foundedBristol is a city and ceremonial county in South West England. It is on the River Avon, and bordered by…
• 1850 CEBritannia Bridge builtBritannia Bridge (Welsh: Pont Britannia) is a bridge in Wales that crosses the Menai Strait between the Isle…
• 1907 CEBritish Antarctic Expedition (1907–1909)The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of…
• 1753 CEBritish Museum foundedThe British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury…
• 1941 CEBritish capture of TobrukThe British capture of Tobruk was a battle fought between 21 and 22 January 1941, as part of Operation…
• 1814 CEBritish expedition to MakassarThe British expedition to Makassar was a British military expedition held in June 1814 against the Bone…
• 1812 CEBritish expedition to PalembangThe British expedition to Palembang took place in April 1812, led by Colonel Robert Rollo Gillespie against…
• 1903 CEBritish expedition to TibetThe British expedition to Tibet, also known as the Younghusband expedition, began in December 1903 and lasted…
• 1243 CEBrno foundedBrno ( BUR-noh, Czech pronunciation: [ˈbr̩no]; German: Brünn [bʁʏn] ) is a city in the South Moravian Region…
• 1841 CEBroadway expeditionThe Broadway expedition was a British military expedition that explored the Broadway River (present-day Xi…
• 1715 CEBrod Fortress builtThe Fortress of Brod is a fortress in Slavonski Brod, Croatia with significant cultural heritage. The…
• 1768 CEBronze Horseman (monument) builtThe Bronze Horseman (Russian: Медный всадник, romanized: Medny vsadnik, lit. 'copper horseman') is an…
• 1638 CEBrookline foundedBrookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and part of the Boston metropolitan…
• 1994 CEBrooklyn Bridge shootingOn March 1, 1994, Lebanese-born Rashid Baz shot at a van of 15 Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students who…
• 1897 CEBrooklyn Museum foundedThe Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet (52,000…
• 1876 CEBrooklyn Theatre fireThe Brooklyn Theatre fire was a catastrophic theatre fire that broke out on the evening of December 5, 1876…
• 1883 CEBroome foundedBroome, also known as Rubibi by the Yawuru people, is a coastal pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley…
• 1765 CEBrown University foundedBrown University is a private Ivy League research university in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence…
• 1993 CEBrown's Chicken massacreThe Brown's Chicken massacre was a mass murder that occurred on January 8, 1993, in Palatine, Illinois, when…
• 2019 CEBrumadinho dam disasterThe Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore…
• 1896 CEBrunner Mine disasterOn 26 March 1896, an explosion deep in the Brunner Mine, New Zealand, killed all 65 miners below ground. The…
• 1879 CEBrunswick Monument builtThe Brunswick Monument is a mausoleum built in 1879 in the Jardin des Alpes in Geneva, Switzerland to…
• 861 CEBrunswick foundedBraunschweig (German: [ˈbʁaʊnʃvaɪk] ) or Brunswick (English: BRUN-zwik; from Low German Brunswiek, local…
• 1912 CEBrusilov ExpeditionThe Brusilov expedition (Russian: Экспедиция Брусилова) was a Russian maritime expedition to the Arctic led…
• 1889 CEBrussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889-90The Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889–1890 was held from 18 November 1889 to 2 July 1890 in Brussels…
• 1935 CEBrussels International ExpositionThe Brussels International Exposition (French: Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles; Dutch…
• 1897 CEBrussels International Exposition (1897)The Brussels International Exposition (French: Exposition internationale de Bruxelles; Dutch…
• 1910 CEBrussels International Exposition 1910The Brussels International Exposition (French: Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles; Dutch…
• 1795 CEBrussels foundedThe City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as…
• 1991 CEBruška massacreThe Bruška massacre took place on 21 December 1991 in Bruška, a small village near the Croatian town of…
• 2023 CEBryansk school shootingOn 7 December 2023, a mass shooting occurred at gymnasium in Bryansk, Russia. One student was killed and five…
• 1250 CEBrzeg Castle builtBrzeg Castle is located in Brzeg, Opole Voivodeship, Poland. Now a museum, the structures includes the Piast…
• 1590 CEBråborg Castle settledBråborg was a former Royal castle at Bråviken, Norrköping Municipality in Östergötland, Sweden. Today, a ruin…
• 1944 CEBrécourt Manor AssaultThe Brécourt Manor Assault (6 June 1944) during the US parachute assault of the Normandy Invasion of World…
• 3499 BCEBrú na Bóinne settledBrú na Bóinne (Irish: [ˈbˠɾˠuː n̪ˠə ˈbˠoːn̠ʲə], "mansion or palace of the Boyne"), also called the Boyne…
• 1992 CEBrčko bridge massacreThe Brčko bridge massacre was a massacre of approximately 100 civilians of Croat and Bosniak nationalities…
• 2022 CEBucha massacreThe Bucha massacre (Ukrainian: Бучанська різанина, romanised: Buchanska rizanyna; Russian: Резня в Буче…
• 1459 CEBucharest foundedBucharest (Romanian: București [bukuˈreʃtʲ] ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis…
• 1947 CEBuchenwald TrialThe Buchenwald trial or United States of America vs. Josias Prince of Waldeck et al. (also referred as Case…
• 1937 CEBuchenwald concentration camp foundedBuchenwald (German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; 'beech forest') was a German Nazi concentration camp…
• 1300 CEBuchlov (castle) builtBuchlov Castle (Czech: hrad Buchlov; German: Schloss Buchlau) is a royal castle in Buchlovice in the Zlín…
• 1703 CEBuckingham Palace builtBuckingham Palace (UK: ) is a royal residence and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the…
• 1873 CEBudapest foundedBudapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is Hungary's primate city with 1.7 million…
• 1300 CEBudatín Castle builtThe Budatín Castle (Slovak: Budatínsky zámok) is a castle in north-western Slovakia, near the city of Žilina…
• 1943 CEBudy Ossowskie massacreBudy Ossowskie massacre was a mass murder of ethnic Poles carried out on 29–30 August 1943 by a death squad…