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These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history. For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history. For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history.
1512: Romani recorded in Sweden. [6] 1526: Henry VIII expels the Romanies from England. Romanies caught entering England are to be punished with death. 1530: Egyptians Act 1530 passed in England. 1530: Muslim Roma got their own Sandjak in Rumelia of Ottoman Empire . 1536: Anti-Romani laws passed in Denmark .
The world powers in 1939, before the start of World War II. January 25 A uranium atom is split for the first time at Columbia University in the United States. January 27 Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of defeating the British Royal Navy by 1944.
Japanese invasion of Davao (December 20, 1941 to April 1942) Battle of the Philippines (1941–42) 8 December 1941 – 8 May 1942. Battle of Bataan 7 January – 9 April 1942. Battle of Corregidor 5–6 May 1942. Battle of Cebu 12 - 19 May 1942. Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941–1945) 8 May 1942 – 5 July 1945.
Bibliography. v. t. e. This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II . Germany 's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by ...
2 January: German bombers bomb Ireland for the second night in a row. 2–4 January: Bardia is bombed by British bombers and bombarded by naval vessels off shore. 3 January: RAF bombers attack Bremen and the Kiel Canal in Germany. The Kiel Canal Bridge suffers a direct hit and collapses on Finnish ship Yrsa.
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [a] was a partially- annexed [3] territory of Nazi Germany that was established on 16 March 1939 after the German occupation of the Czech lands. The protectorate's population was mostly ethnic Czech. After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, the Third Reich had annexed the German-majority Sudetenland ...
