January 1

1796:

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.

1825:

In St. Petersburg, the Decembrist Revolt begins

1862:

Battle of Puebla, Mexico. Mexican Army under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated the French Army under General Charles de Lorencez at Puebla, east of Mexico City.

1876:

Battle of the Little Big Horn occurred June 25 - June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in the eastern Montana Territory. Also kniwn as Custer's Last Stand or the Battle of the Greasy Grass, this was an armed engagement between a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army.

1887:

Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India

1907:

The Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps is authorized

1915:

Institution of the Military Cross announced

1916:

Canada Increases her overseas force to 500,000

1916:

First Battle of the Somme ends - In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.

1940:

German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.

1940:

Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.

1941:

Japan and Thailand sign a treaty of alliance

1941:

The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81.

1942:

Representatives of 26 Allied Nations sign Declaration of the United Nations

1944:

Melfa river: Royal Westminster Regiment

1945:

Auschwitz

1945:

Canadian troops from the 5th Armoured Division capture the northern Italian town of Conventello

1945:

In the spring of 1945, the RCD was the reconnaissance regiment leading the 2 nd Canadian Corps as they advanced through the Dutch province of Friesland. By April 15, after several cold and rainy days, the Dragoons had consolidated near the provincial capital, Leeuwarden. B Sqn, stretched out to the northeast in the area of Dokkum, discovered that the Germans had left Leeuwarden and quickly passed this information to the RHQ.

1945:

The Royal Canadian Dragoons (RCD) liberated the Dutch town of Leeuwarden, marking the start of a relationship between the Regiment and the town that continues to this day.

1947:

Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali

1951:

The Battle of Uijongbu, Korea

1965:

Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces

1967:

Start of the "Six Day War".

1967:

Start of the "Six Day War".

1995:

The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris

2000:

Canadian Forces Joint Signal Regiment - Ubique Quandocunque

655:

Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.