Below is a list of some important events that happened throughout history, in each month of the year.
*This is a work in progress, more months will be added soon.
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Name Origin: May, originally named Maius in Latin, is named after the Greek goddess, Maia (Μαία).
May 1, 1707: The Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland unify to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
May 3rd, 1841: New Zealand seperates from New South Wales (now part of Australia) and declared a separate British colony.
May 5th, 1818: Karl Marx, the founder of Marxism, a branch of Communism, is born in Trier, Kingdom of Prussia (now Trier, Germany). Marx and Friedrich Engles wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1841, which outlined Marx’s ideals for a communist society.
May 5th, 1821: Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, dies on the island of St. Helena.
May 6th, 2023: Charles III, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is coronated at Westminster Abbey in London.
May 8th, 1945: Nazi Germany officially surrenders to the allies (U.S., U.K., France, U.S.S.R.) in Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.
May 10th, 1994: Nelson Mandela becomes the first African President of South Africa.
May 17th, 2009: Minecraft, a Swedish sandbox game created by Markus Alexej "Notch" Persson and developer Mojang Specifications, is released.
May 26th, 1940: Caught between the German Blitzkrieg (German for “Lighting War”) and the English Channel, British, French, and other allied soldiers begin evacuating from the beaches of the French city of Dunkirk by way of British civilian ships.
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Name Origin: September is named after the Latin word for seven, Septem.
September 1st, 1939: The Wehrmacht, the armed forces of the German Reich, under the command of Führer Adolf Hitler, invade Poland, starting World War II.
September 2nd, 1945: The Empire of Japan, after the nuking of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, and the Soviet Declaration of War, surrenders to the Allies onboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II after 6 years and one day of global war.
September 3rd, 1783: The Treaty of Paris is signed, formally ending the American Revolution. Great Britain would formally recognize the United States as independent.
September 4th, 1781: Los Angeles is founded by Felipe de Neve, the Spanish Governor of California.
September 7th, 1940: The Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, begins its bombing campaign of London, UK. Today, this is known as The London Blitz
September 8th, 2022: Queen Elizabeth II, The longest reigning monarch in British history, at 70 years on the throne, dies at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, age 96. Her son, Charles, becomes King.
September 9th, 1850: California becomes the 31st State of the United States following the Mexican-American War.
September 11th, 2001: Al Quada terrorists hijack 4 commercial airliners and crash them into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City, New York, The Pentagon in Alexandria, Virginia, and a field in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, killing 2,977 civilians.
September 13th, 1814: The Battle of Fort McHenry takes place in Baltimore, Maryland during the War of 1812. Onboard a British ship, American lawyer and slave owner, Francis Scott Key, observes the battle and sees that the American flag “was still there”. This inspired him to write The Star-Spangled Banner, which would become the national anthem in 1931.
September 29-30, 1941: The Schutzstaffel (SS), a German paramilitary organization, kills approximately 33,771 Jews via machine-gun fire during the Babi Yar massacre near Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kyiv, Ukraine.) This is one of many massacres that occurred at the site as part of the Holocaust.
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Name Origin: November is named after the Latin word for eight, Novem.
November 1st, 1776: Mission San Juan Capistrano, the seventh mission in the California Mission System, is founded.
November 1st, 1993: The European Union is formed due to the Maastricht Treaty, signed in Maastricht, The Netherlands, entering into effect. The European Union is a supranational political/economic union of 27 member states.
November 4, 1922: British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamun in Luxor, Egypt. Following the discovery, mysterious deaths of the people related to the finding began occurring, one after another, giving rise to the “pharaoh's curse” myth.
November 5th, 1917: The Bolsheviks, a Marxist revolutionary group led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrow the provisional government of Russia. From that day until December 1991, Russia would be under a communist government.
November 9th, 1918: Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia, abdicates the throne and heads for exile in the Netherlands, as the German Empire collapses and World War I enters its last days.
November 11th, 1918: At 11:00 a.m., after four years, three months, and two weeks of war, World War I comes to an end as the Armistice of Compiègne comes into force. In total, 15 to 22 million deaths occurred during “the war to end all wars.”
November 19th, 1863: Following the Battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the Soldiers' National Cemetery. Although those in attendance poorly received the address, it has since become a rich and treasured part of our country’s heritage.
November 22nd, 1963: While riding in a top-down, 1961 Lincoln Continental, SS-100-X, at 12:30 p.m., in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy is shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. At 1:00 p.m., Kennedy was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, at 2:38 p.m., took the oath of office aboard Air Force One, becoming the 36th President of the United States.
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Name Origin: August is named after Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.
August 1, 1944: Anne Frank, a Jewish girl in hiding in The Netherlands, pens her last entry in her diary “[I] keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like to be, and what I could be, if...there weren't any other people living in the world."
August 2nd, 1776: 55 of the 56 Signers sign the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
August 6th, 1945: The first Atomic Bomb, Little Boy, is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
August 9th, 1945: The second Atomic Bomb, Fat Man, is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
August 9th, 1974: Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, resigns following the Watergate scandal, becoming the only President to do so.
August 13th, 1961: The Berlin Wall is built, which divided Berlin between the American-backed West Germany and the Soviet-backed East Germany.
August 19th, 1991: Hardline communists, furious over Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberal reforms, stage a coup against him in Moscow, Russian SFSR. This was one day before the New Union Treaty, a treaty that would have completely reformed the Soviet Union into a decentralized, democratic state.
August 24th, 1991: Following the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt in Moscow, Ukraine declares independence from the USSR.
August 31, 1997: Princess Diana, the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) and mother of Prince William and Prince Harry, dies in a car crash at the Pont de l'Alma bridge tunnel in Paris, France, age 36.
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Name Origin: October is named after the Latin and Greek word for eight, Ôctō /οκτώ.
October 1st, 1908: The Ford Model T, the first mass-produced car by the Ford Motor Company, is released. By May 1927, 15 Million Model T’s were produced.
October 1st, 1949: The People’s Republic of China is established following the Communist “victory” in the Chinese Civil War. The Republic of China, the opposing side of the war, still exists today, on the island of Taiwan.
October 3rd, 1990: West Germany reunites with East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, creating modern-day Germany. While most Western leaders opposed German Reunification, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev supported German reunification.
October 6th, 1973: The Yom Kippur War starts as Egypt and Syria attack Israel in the East Bank of the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights, the disputed area between Israel and Syria.
October 7th, 2023: At a music festival in Re'im, Israel, Hamas militants from Gaza invade and massacre civilians, taking 251 people hostage in the process. In response, Israel invades Gaza and begins the ongoing Israel-Hamas War. Based on current reports, 101 hostages remain in captivity, 117 have been released/rescued, 97 remain unaccounted for, and a presumably large, unknown number have been killed.
October 13th, 1792: The cornerstone of the White House is laid by President George Washington. The White House was completed in November 1800.
October 13th, 1943: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on Germany, following the fall of Benito Mussolini’s fascist government and the Allied Invasion of Italy.
October 15th, 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, arrives on the island of St. Helena in exile following the Battle of Waterloo. He would remain on the island until his death on May 5th, 1821.
October 28, 1636: Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston.
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