| 141 | BC | Accesion of Emperor Liu Che (Wu) of Han (141-87 BC) |
| 49 | BC | Caesar besieges Brindisi, held by Pompey |
| 0 | | Feast of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, Roman soldiers of the Legio XII Fulminata |
| 1226 | | King Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu the Khwarazmian massacred tens of thousands of Georgian Christians at Tbilisi for refusing to convert to Islam |
| 1230 | | Battle of Klokotnitsa: Tsar Ivan Asen II of the Bulgars defeats Komnenos Doukas, Despot of Epirus |
| 1461 | | Revolt at Genoa expels a French garrison |
| 1496 | | Expulsion of the Jews of Carinthia, Austria |
| 1617 | | Peace of Stolbovo: ends the Russo-Swedish War (1611-1617) |
| 1741 | | British invest Cartagena de las Indias |
| 1796 | | Napoleone Buonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais, divorced in 1810 |
| 1798 | | Dr George Balfour is appointed the first surgeon in the USN |
| 1811 | | Battle of Tacuarí: Manuel Atanasio Cabañas' Royalist Paraguayan troops defeat Argentine Revolutionaries under Manuel Belgrano |
| 1814 | | Battle of Laon, Day 1: Napoleon v. the Russo-Prussians |
| 1839 | | the French abandoned Vera Cruz, ending the ‘Pastry War’ -- Learn More |
| 1847 | | Winfield Scott landed an army at Veracruz, Mexico, and began a 20 day siege. |
| 1861 | | Confederate Congress authorizes paper currency in bills of $50, $100, $500, & $1,000 |
| 1862 | | the USS 'Monitor' fought the CSS 'Virginia' to a draw, preserving the blockade, on the second day of the Battle of Hampton Roads |
| 1864 | | Ulysses S. Grant promoted to lieutenant general and commanding general |
| 1916 | | Germany declares war on Portugal |
| 1918 | | Jews of Seredino Buda, Ukraine, massacred |
| 1918 | | Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party |
| 1921 | | Armored cruiser 'Brooklyn' (CA 3) stricken from the Navy List. |
| 1924 | | Italy annexes Fiume |
| 1932 | | Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland's Executive Council (1932-1937) |
| 1942 | | Ernest J. King, COMMINCH U.S. Fleet, was also named CNO -- Learn More |
| 1943 | | New Guinea: Japanese aircraft conduct a major raid on Wau. |
| 1943 | | Salonika: Nazis deport the Jews to extermination camps |
| 1945 | | Indochina: Japanese attack French garrisons, massacring thousands. |
| 1945 | | US B-29s drop 1,665 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo, creating a firestorm; by dawn on the 10th c. 80,000-120,000 have died, the highest toll in a single air raid, exceeding even the atomic bombs |