December 11 in History

starts   2006

Mexican government fights war with drug cartels

starts   2006

Fatah and Hamas fight for control of Palestinian Authority

starts   1994

Russian attempt to crush Chechnya fails

starts   1949

PRC captures Chengdu, securing southwest China

  1946

South Africa rejects UN trusteeship over South West Africa

starts   1942

Australians withdraw from Portuguese Timor

  1941

Germany declares war on United States

  1939

Australian & NZ troops embark for Egypt

ends   1933

Paraguay destroys Bolivian army in Chaco

  1931

British Parliament passes Statute of Westminster

starts   1917

Bolsheviks denounce division of Persia

starts   1915

British defeat Senussi in Western Desert

ends   1915

Senussi advance across Western Desert into Egypt

ends   1824

British defeat Aborigines around Bathurst

  1813

Napoleon agrees to restore Ferdinand VII of Spain

ends   1807

British destroy Dutch navy in East Indies

  452

Britons recruit Anglo-Saxons as foederati*

ends   429

Vandals advance across northern Africa*

  359

New Rome (Constantinople) made capital comparable to Rome

starts   309

Licinius recovers Istria from Maxentius*

ends   258

Ingenuus in revolt in Pannonia*

ends   258

Persians invade Cappadocia and sack Trapezus*

  233

Tanukhids establish kingdom in Jordan region*

ends   6

Romans defeat Gaetulian attacks in Africa*