best dates of all time
January 4, Burma (now Myanmar) gains independence (1948)
January 13, Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Madrid, demarcating colonial boundaries (1750), Chinese Minister of Transport introduces the 7918 network of expressways from Beijing (2005)
January 21, Louis XIV is guillotined (1793)
February 8, beginning of the February Revolution (1917)
February 28, Egypt gains independenec (1922)
February 21, beginning of the Battle of Verdun (1916)
March 1, Napoleon returns to France (1815)
March 6, Ghana gains independence (1957)
March 23, Lahore resolution passed (1940)
March 25, Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in the British empire (1908)
April 11, J is born (2006), the Apple I computer was built by Steve Wozniak (1976), France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), the shogun Yoshinobu surrenders Edo castle, ending the Tokugawa shogunate (1868)
April 16, Lenin returns to Russia (1917)
April 25, Chernobyl (1986)
April 26, last Ming emperor commits suicide after Li Zicheng's peasant rebellion (1644)
May 12, James Rennell's 'A New Map of Hindoostan' is published (1794), Donner Party leaves Missouri for California (1846), S is born (2006), Sichuan earthquake (2008)
May 19, New England's Dark Day (1780), the Celsius temperature scale is established by Jean-Pierre Christin (1743)
May 25, the US Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia (1787), E is born
June 11, F is born (2006), James Cook hits the Great Barrier Reef on his first voyage (1770)
June 7, construction begins on the Shenyang-Dalian Expressway (1984)
June 11, F is born (2006), James Cook hits the Great Barrier Reef on his first voyage (1770)
June 26, the UN charter is signed at the San Francisco Conference (1945)
June 29, Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act (1956), formation of the interstate system
July 5, Urumqi riots in Xinjiang (2009)
July 12, Captain James Cook embarks on his third voyage (1776)
July 17, Rome Statue was adopted (1998)
July 24, Pioneer Day, or first entry of Brigham Young into Salt Lake Valley (1847), draft of the British Mandate of Palestine (1922)
July 26, July Revolution begins in France (1830)
August 6, Jamaica gains independence (1962)
August 15, Partition of India, Indian Independence Act (1947)
August 19, Afghanistan gains independence in the Anglo-AFghan Treaty (1919)
August 29, Shay's Rebellion (1786)
September 5, Great Fire of London (1666), Japan ends the Russo-Japanese War by signing the Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
September 6, Eswatini gains independence (1968)
October 1, establishment of the PRC (1949)
October 3, Iraq gains independence (1932)
October 19, General Cornwallis surrenders to Washington at Yorktown (1781)
November 11, plan for the US Numbered Highway System is approved by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (1926), S is born (2005)
December 10, the UN adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
December 12, Kenya gains independence (1963)
December 16, Bladee London concert (2025), R is born (2005)