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Tonkin Campaign
The Tonkin Campaign was the French military campaign of 1883 to 1886 to occupy Tonkin, northern Vietnam, and establish a protectorate, merging into the Sino-French War in 1884.
Toplica Uprising
The Toplica Uprising (Serbian: Топлички устанак) was a mass Serbian rebellion against Bulgarian occupation of southern Serbia in early 1917, during the First World War.
Toranomon Incident
The Toranomon Incident (虎ノ門事件) was a failed assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito by anarchist Namba Daisuke in Tokyo on 27 December 1923; the cabinet resigned.
Toropets depot explosions
Toropets depot explosions: September 2024 Ukrainian drone strikes on the Russian 107th GRAU arsenal in Tver Oblast, destroying about 30,000 tons of ammunition and registering magnitude 2.8 seismic tremors.
Torture during the Algerian War
Torture during the Algerian War refers to the systematic use of torture by the French army and police against Algerian nationalist suspects between 1954 and 1962.
Torture during the Gaza war
Torture during the Gaza war covers torture and ill-treatment of detainees since October 7, 2023: Palestinians in Israeli custody, including at Sde Teiman, and abuses by Hamas and Palestinian authorities.
Toussaint Rouge
Toussaint Rouge, French for Red All Saints' Day, was a series of coordinated FLN attacks across Algeria on 1 November 1954 that began the eight-year Algerian War.
Tower 22 drone attack
Tower 22 drone attack: January 28, 2024 one-way drone strike by Islamic Resistance in Iraq on a US logistics base in northeastern Jordan, killing three Army Reserve soldiers and prompting US strikes on 85+ targets in Iraq and Syria.
Toyota War
Toyota War (Guerre des Toyota), 1987 final phase of the Chadian-Libyan conflict: Chadian FANT forces in about 400 MILAN-armed Toyota pickups routed Gaddafi's army at Fada, Ouadi Doum, and Maaten al-Sarra; ceasefire 11 September 1987; Aouzou Strip awarded to Chad by the ICJ in 1994.
Tragic Week (Argentina)
Tragic Week (Spanish: Semana Trágica) was a week of strikes and mass repression in Buenos Aires in January 1919, begun by a metalworks strike, with hundreds killed.
Trajan's Parthian campaign
Trajan's Parthian campaign (113–117 CE), Trajan's Parthian War, was Rome's war against Parthia over Armenia and Mesopotamia: Armenia annexed in 114, Ctesiphon taken and the Persian Gulf reached in 116, then revolts, Trajan's death in 117, and Hadrian's withdrawal.
Transition from Ming to Qing
Ming-Qing transition (1618–1683): the collapse of Ming China and the Manchu Qing conquest, from Li Zicheng's 1644 capture of Beijing through Southern Ming resistance, the Three Feudatories Rebellion, and the fall of Zheng Taiwan.
Transnistria War
The Transnistria War (War on the Dniester, 1 March to 21 July 1992) pitted Moldova against secessionists backed by Russia's 14th Army; it killed about 1,132 people and froze a de facto border under the Joint Control Commission.
Transylvanian Revolution of 1848
The Transylvanian Revolution of 1848 was the Transylvanian phase of the Europe-wide revolutions of 1848, which became a civil war between Romanians and Hungarians lasting until 1849.
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Treaty of Aachen), signed 18 October 1748, ended the War of the Austrian Succession and King George's War through general restitution of conquests, returning Louisbourg to France and Madras to Britain while guaranteeing Silesia to Prussia.
Treaty of Amiens
Treaty of Amiens (Peace of Amiens), signed 25 March 1802 by France, Spain, the Batavian Republic, and Britain; ended the French Revolutionary Wars, restored most colonies, returned Malta to the Order of St John, and collapsed when Britain declared war on 18 May 1803.
Treaty of Campo Formio
Treaty of Campo Formio (17 October 1797, Campoformio), Franco-Austrian peace ending Austria's part in the War of the First Coalition; France gained the Austrian Netherlands, Lombardy, and the Ionian Islands, Austria received Venice, ending 1,100 years of Venetian independence.
Treaty of Jeonju
The Treaty of Jeonju (전주화약) was an 1894 peace agreement between the Donghak peasant army and the Joseon government, under which the peasants withdrew from Jeonju in exchange for a promised reform program.
Treaty of Lunéville
Treaty of Lunéville (9 February 1801, 20 pluviôse an IX): peace between France and Emperor Francis II for the Holy Roman Empire, signed by Joseph Bonaparte and Count Cobenzl; renewed Campo Formio, ceded the Rhine's left bank, guaranteed the sister republics, and led to the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles: the 28 June 1919 peace treaty with Germany ending World War I, signed in the Hall of Mirrors. Key terms: Article 231 war guilt, 13% territorial loss, 100,000-man army cap, League of Nations Covenant, US Senate rejection.
Treaty of Washington (1871)
Treaty of Washington (May 8, 1871): U.S.-British agreement settling the Alabama claims by binding arbitration at Geneva, awarding $15.5 million, and covering fisheries and boundaries.
Treblinka extermination camp
Treblinka II, a Nazi Operation Reinhard killing center in occupied Poland operating July 1942 to fall 1943, murdered an estimated 925,000 Jews with diesel-exhaust gas chambers; prisoners revolted August 2, 1943.
Treblinka uprising
The Treblinka uprising was an armed revolt by Jewish prisoners at the Treblinka II extermination camp in occupied Poland on 2 August 1943, with about 300 escaping.
Trench fever
Trench fever, caused by Bartonella quintana (formerly Rickettsia quintana), is a human body louse-borne bacterial disease first described in WWI trenches, now mainly affecting people experiencing homelessness, with fever, shin pain, and endocarditis.
Trent Affair
The Trent Affair (1861): Union Captain Wilkes removed Confederate envoys Mason and Slidell from the British mail steamer RMS Trent, nearly causing war with Britain until Seward released them in January 1862.
Trial of Charles Taylor
The Trial of Charles Taylor ended on April 26, 2012, when the Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted the former Liberian president on all 11 counts of war crimes.
Trịnh–Mạc War (1533–1592)
The Trịnh–Mạc War of 1533–1592 was the main phase of Vietnam's Lê–Mạc civil war, ending when Trịnh Tùng captured Thăng Long and toppled the Mạc dynasty.
Tripartite Struggle
The Tripartite Struggle (Kannauj Wars, Kannauj Triangle) was the contest among the Pala, Gurjara-Pratihara, and Rashtrakuta dynasties for control of Kannauj from the late 8th to early 10th century CE, ending with the Pratiharas holding the city.
Tripolitanian civil war (1711)
The Tripolitanian civil war (Karamanli coup) of 1711 was the armed struggle for Tripolitania that ended when Ahmed Karamanli seized Tripoli and founded a dynasty lasting until 1835.
Trisakti shootings
The Trisakti shootings were the killing of four Trisakti University students by Indonesian security forces in Jakarta on 12 May 1998, during a demonstration demanding President Soeharto's resignation.