1800 CE – 2026 CE

Dated moments of the modern era

384 dated moments dated inside this band, grouped by region and listed in order.

Europe · 87

Napoleonic Wars 1803 CE Battle of Austerlitz 1805 CE Battle of Trafalgar 1805 CE Peninsular War 1807 CE Finnish War 1808 CE Battle of Wagram 1809 CE Battle of Borodino 1812 CE Battle of Leipzig 1813 CE Battle of Waterloo 1815 CE Greek War of Independence 1821 CE Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829) 1828 CE Belgian Revolution 1830 CE French Conquest of Algeria 1830 CE Helsinki Cathedral 1830 CE Carlist Wars 1833 CE First Schleswig War 1848 CE Italian Wars of Unification 1848 CE Crimean War 1853 CE Sanctuary of Lourdes 1858 CE Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 CE Second Schleswig War 1864 CE Austro-Prussian War 1866 CE Battle of Sedan 1870 CE Franco-Prussian War 1870 CE Basilica of Our Lady of Africa 1872 CE Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 1877 CE Sagrada Família 1882 CE Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood 1883 CE Neuschwanstein Castle 1886 CE Ilinden Uprising (Macedonia) 1903 CE Balkan Wars 1912 CE Basilica of Sacré-Cœur 1914 CE Battle of Tannenberg 1914 CE Battle of the Marne 1914 CE World War I 1914 CE Gallipoli Campaign 1915 CE Battle of Jutland 1916 CE Battle of the Somme 1916 CE Battle of Verdun 1916 CE Battle of Passchendaele 1917 CE Russian Civil War 1917 CE Ukrainian War of Independence 1917 CE Estonian War of Independence 1918 CE Finnish Civil War 1918 CE Latvian War of Independence 1918 CE Polish-Ukrainian War 1918 CE Greco-Turkish War 1919 CE Irish War of Independence 1919 CE Polish–Soviet War 1919 CE Turkish War of Independence 1919 CE Rif War 1921 CE Irish Civil War 1922 CE Sheikh Said Rebellion 1925 CE Spanish Civil War 1936 CE Dersim Rebellion 1937 CE Winter War 1939 CE World War II 1939 CE Battle of Britain 1940 CE Continuation War 1941 CE Siege of Leningrad 1941 CE Yugoslav People's Liberation War 1941 CE Battle of Stalingrad 1942 CE Battle of Kursk 1943 CE Battle of Arnhem 1944 CE Battle of Monte Cassino 1944 CE Battle of the Bulge 1944 CE D-Day Normandy Landings 1944 CE Lapland War 1944 CE Battle of Berlin 1945 CE Greek Civil War 1946 CE Algerian War of Independence 1954 CE Hungarian Revolution 1956 CE The Troubles 1968 CE Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968 CE Turkish Invasion of Cyprus 1974 CE Blue Lagoon 1976 CE Kurdish–Turkish Conflict 1978 CE Croatian War of Independence 1991 CE Yugoslav Wars 1991 CE Algerian Civil War 1992 CE Bosnian War 1992 CE Siege of Sarajevo 1992 CE Kosovo War 1998 CE Russo-Georgian War 2008 CE Chechen Guerrilla Resistance 2009 CE War in Donbas 2014 CE Russia–Ukraine War 2022 CE

Middle East · 57

Russo-Persian Wars 1804 CE Suez Canal 1869 CE Ethiopian–Egyptian War 1874 CE Mahdist War 1881 CE Anglo-Egyptian War 1882 CE Nasir al-Mulk Mosque 1888 CE First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895 CE Battle of Adwa 1896 CE Our Lady of Lebanon 1908 CE Al-Muhdhar Mosque 1914 CE Arab Revolt (WWI) 1916 CE Franco-Syrian War 1920 CE Iraqi Revolt of 1920 1920 CE Great Syrian Revolt 1925 CE Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936 CE Anglo-Iraqi War 1941 CE Battle of El Alamein 1942 CE 1948 Arab-Israeli War 1948 CE Suez Crisis 1956 CE Eritrean War of Independence 1961 CE North Yemen Civil War 1962 CE Aden Emergency 1963 CE Dhofar Rebellion 1963 CE Six-Day War 1967 CE War of Attrition 1967 CE Black September (Jordanian Civil War) 1970 CE Darvaza Gas Crater 1971 CE Yom Kippur War 1973 CE Ethiopian Civil War 1974 CE Lebanese Civil War 1975 CE Iran-Iraq War 1980 CE 1982 Lebanon War 1982 CE Tanker War (Iran–Iraq War naval phase) 1984 CE Bahá'í Gardens 1987 CE First Intifada 1987 CE Nagorno-Karabakh Wars 1988 CE Gulf War 1990 CE First Chechen War 1994 CE Chechen Interwar Period 1996 CE Eritrean-Ethiopian Border War (Badme) 1998 CE Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998 CE Second Chechen War 1999 CE Second Intifada 2000 CE Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque 2001 CE Iraq War 2003 CE Battle of Fallujah 2004 CE Second Lebanon War 2006 CE Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque 2007 CE Houthi-Saudi Border Conflict 2009 CE Burj Khalifa 2010 CE Syrian Civil War 2011 CE Yemen Civil War & Houthi Campaign 2014 CE Second Nagorno-Karabakh War 2020 CE Tigray War 2020 CE Israel–Gaza War 2023 CE Sudan Civil War 2023 CE Israel–Lebanon War 2024 CE

South Asia · 27

First Anglo-Afghan War 1839 CE Sino-Sikh War (Dogra-Tibetan War) 1841 CE Anglo-Sikh Wars 1845 CE Indian Frontier Campaigns 1849 CE Indian Rebellion of 1857 1857 CE Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878 CE British Expedition to Tibet 1903 CE Third Anglo-Afghan War 1919 CE Waziristan Campaigns 1919 CE Moplah Revolt (Malabar Rebellion) 1921 CE First Kashmir War 1947 CE Indo-Pakistani Wars 1947 CE Tibetan Uprising 1959 CE Sino-Indian War 1962 CE Second Kashmir War 1965 CE Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency 1967 CE Bangladeshi War of Independence 1971 CE Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971 CE Sri Lankan Tamil Insurgency 1976 CE Soviet–Afghan War 1979 CE Sri Lankan Civil War 1983 CE Faisal Mosque 1986 CE Nepalese Civil War 1996 CE Kargil War 1999 CE War in Afghanistan 2001 CE Insurgency in Balochistan 2004 CE 2025 India–Pakistan Conflict 2025 CE

East Asia · 49

Anglo-Burmese Wars 1824 CE First Opium War 1839 CE Nien Rebellion 1851 CE Taiping Rebellion 1851 CE Panthay Rebellion 1856 CE Second Opium War 1856 CE Dungan Revolt 1862 CE Boshin War 1868 CE Dutch–Aceh War 1873 CE Satsuma Rebellion 1877 CE Sino-French War 1884 CE Batu Caves 1891 CE Donghak Peasant Revolution 1894 CE First Sino-Japanese War 1894 CE Philippine Revolution 1896 CE Boxer Rebellion 1899 CE Philippine-American War 1899 CE Boxer Protocol and Eight-Nation Alliance 1900 CE Russo-Japanese War 1904 CE Battle of Tsushima 1905 CE Xinhai Revolution 1911 CE Northern Expedition (China) 1926 CE Chinese Civil War 1927 CE Central Plains War (China) 1930 CE Japanese Invasion of Manchuria 1931 CE Second Sino-Japanese War 1937 CE Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939 CE Franco-Thai War 1940 CE Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima 1945 CE Battle of Iwo Jima 1945 CE Battle of Okinawa 1945 CE Soviet Invasion of Manchuria (Operation August Storm) 1945 CE First Indochina War 1946 CE Hukbalahap Rebellion 1946 CE Malayan Emergency 1948 CE Battle of Inchon 1950 CE Chinese Annexation of Tibet 1950 CE Korean War 1950 CE Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954 CE Vietnam War 1955 CE Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation (Konfrontasi) 1963 CE Cambodian Civil War 1967 CE Moro Conflict 1968 CE Tet Offensive 1968 CE Sino-Soviet Border Conflict 1969 CE Aceh Insurgency (GAM) 1976 CE Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1977 CE Sino-Vietnamese War 1979 CE Myanmar Civil War 2021 CE

Africa · 70

First Barbary War 1801 CE Fulani Jihad / Sokoto Caliphate 1804 CE Mfecane (The Crushing) 1815 CE Rise of the Zulu Kingdom (Mfecane) 1816 CE Anglo-Ashanti Wars 1824 CE St. George's Cathedral 1848 CE Anglo-Zulu War 1879 CE Battle of Isandlwana 1879 CE Battle of Rorke's Drift 1879 CE Christ Church, Zanzibar 1879 CE First Boer War 1880 CE Mandinka Wars (Samori Ture's Resistance) 1883 CE Franco-Dahomean Wars 1890 CE Matabele Wars 1893 CE Second Boer War 1899 CE Somaliland Campaign (Dervish War) 1899 CE Wadai War (French Conquest of Chad) 1899 CE Herero and Nama War 1904 CE Maji Maji Rebellion 1905 CE Bambatha Rebellion 1906 CE Italo-Senussi War 1911 CE Italo-Turkish War 1911 CE Cathedral Notre-Dame du Congo 1914 CE East African Campaign (WWI) 1914 CE Namugongo Martyrs' Shrine 1920 CE Italo-Abyssinian Border War (Walwal Incident) 1934 CE Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935 CE Malagasy Uprising 1947 CE Mau Mau Uprising 1952 CE First Sudanese Civil War 1955 CE Congo Crisis 1960 CE Angolan War of Independence 1961 CE Portuguese Colonial Wars 1961 CE Great Mosque of Touba 1963 CE Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963 CE Mozambican War of Independence 1964 CE Rhodesian Bush War 1964 CE Zanzibar Revolution 1964 CE South African Border War 1966 CE Nigerian Civil War (Biafra) 1967 CE Angolan Civil War 1975 CE Western Sahara War 1975 CE Mozambican Civil War 1977 CE Ogaden War 1977 CE Chad–Libya Conflict (Toyota War) 1978 CE US-Libya Confrontations 1981 CE Second Sudanese Civil War 1983 CE Basilica of Our Lady of Peace 1985 CE Hassan II Mosque 1986 CE Liberian Civil Wars 1989 CE Rwandan Civil War & Genocide 1990 CE Sierra Leone Civil War 1991 CE Somali Civil War 1991 CE US Intervention in Somalia (UNOSOM) 1992 CE Battle of Mogadishu 1993 CE Burundi Civil War 1993 CE First Congo War 1996 CE Second Congo War 1998 CE War in Darfur 2003 CE Somalia–Al-Shabaab War 2006 CE Boko Haram Insurgency 2009 CE First Libyan Civil War 2011 CE Libyan Civil Wars 2011 CE Central African Republic Civil War 2012 CE Northern Mali Conflict (Tuareg Rebellion) 2012 CE Sahel Jihadist Insurgency 2012 CE South Sudanese Civil War 2013 CE Insurgency in Cabo Delgado 2017 CE Eastern Congo War (M23) 2022 CE Ethiopia–Fano Insurgency 2023 CE

Americas · 79

South American Wars of Independence 1808 CE Argentine War of Independence 1810 CE Chilean War of Independence 1810 CE Colombian War of Independence 1810 CE Mexican War of Independence 1810 CE Venezuelan War of Independence 1810 CE War of 1812 1812 CE Argentine Civil Wars 1814 CE Cisplatine Province conflicts 1817 CE Seminole Wars 1817 CE Peruvian War of Independence 1820 CE Brazilian War of Independence 1822 CE Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal 1824 CE Argentine-Brazilian War 1825 CE Texan Revolution 1835 CE Battle of the Alamo 1836 CE War of the Confederation 1836 CE Uruguayan Civil War (Guerra Grande) 1839 CE Mexican–American War 1846 CE Apache Wars 1849 CE Apia 1850 CE Salt Lake Temple 1853 CE American Civil War 1861 CE Battle of Bull Run 1861 CE French Intervention in Mexico 1861 CE Battle of Antietam 1862 CE Battle of Fredericksburg 1862 CE Battle of Shiloh 1862 CE Battle of Gettysburg 1863 CE Battle of Vicksburg 1863 CE Siege of Petersburg 1864 CE War of the Triple Alliance 1864 CE Ten Years' War 1868 CE Red River Rebellion 1869 CE Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 CE Great Sioux War 1876 CE Conquest of the Desert 1878 CE War of the Pacific 1879 CE Northwest Rebellion 1885 CE Samoan Civil Wars 1886 CE Banana Wars 1898 CE Spanish-American War 1898 CE Thousand Days' War (Colombia) 1899 CE Washington National Cathedral 1907 CE Mexican Revolution 1910 CE Panama Canal 1914 CE U.S. Occupation of Haiti 1915 CE Las Lajas Sanctuary 1916 CE Cristero War 1926 CE Sandino Rebellion (Nicaragua) 1927 CE Christ the Redeemer 1931 CE Chaco War 1932 CE Golden Gate Bridge 1937 CE Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941 CE Ecuadorian-Peruvian War 1941 CE Battle of Midway 1942 CE Parícutin Volcano 1943 CE Paraguayan Civil War 1947 CE Costa Rican Civil War 1948 CE La Violencia (Colombia) 1948 CE Cuban Revolution 1953 CE Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá 1954 CE Cathedral of Brasília 1958 CE Guatemalan Civil War 1960 CE Colombian Armed Conflict 1964 CE Fly Geyser 1964 CE Dominican Civil War 1965 CE Football War 1969 CE Dirty War 1976 CE Nicaraguan Revolution & Contra War 1978 CE Salvadoran Civil War 1979 CE Shining Path Insurgency 1980 CE Falklands War 1982 CE US Invasion of Grenada 1983 CE US Invasion of Panama 1989 CE Cenepa War 1995 CE Mexican Drug War 2006 CE Haitian Gang War 2020 CE Ecuadorian Internal Conflict 2024 CE

Oceania · 10

Musket Wars 1807 CE New Zealand Musket Wars 1807 CE Auckland 1840 CE New Zealand Wars (Maori Wars) 1845 CE Old St Paul's 1866 CE St Mary's Cathedral 1868 CE Battle of Guadalcanal 1942 CE Sydney Opera House 1973 CE Indonesian Invasion of East Timor 1975 CE Bougainville Civil War 1988 CE

Elsewhere · 5

Russian Conquest of Central Asia 1839 CE Basmachi Movement 1916 CE Indonesian National Revolution 1945 CE Tajik Civil War 1992 CE Hazrat Sultan Mosque 2012 CE