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Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Богдан Зиновій Михайлович Хмельницький)
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Богдан Хмельницький, c. 1595–1657), Cossack hetman who led the 1648–57 uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, founded the Cossack Hetmanate, signed the 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement with Muscovy, and is revered in Ukraine but blamed for Jewish massacres.
Bohemian-Polish War (1038–1039)
The Bohemian-Polish War of 1038–1039 was Duke Bretislav I of Bohemia's invasion of a Poland collapsed by dynastic strife, in which he seized Silesia and Kraków.
Bohemian–Hungarian War (1468–1478)
The Bohemian–Hungarian War (1468–1478) was fought between Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and George of Poděbrady of Bohemia over the Bohemian crown, ending with the Treaty of Olomouc.
Bohemond I of Antioch
Bohemond I of Antioch, also Bohemund of Taranto (c. 1058–1111), eldest son of Robert Guiscard, First Crusade leader who seized Antioch in 1098, founded its principality, and was made a Byzantine vassal by the 1108 Treaty of Devol.
Boko Haram
Boko Haram (Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad) is a jihadist insurgent group founded in 2002 in Maiduguri, Nigeria, by Mohammed Yusuf; its 2016 split produced JAS and ISWAP, and the insurgency since 2009 has killed tens of thousands around Lake Chad.
Boko Haram insurgency
Boko Haram insurgency: armed conflict begun in 2009 by the Nigerian jihadist group Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad and its ISWAP splinter against Lake Chad basin states, killing tens of thousands and displacing millions.
Boko Haram–ISWAP conflict
Boko Haram–ISWAP conflict: the 2016 split of Boko Haram into JAS (Shekau's faction) and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), their Lake Chad Basin turf war, rival governance strategies, and the regional MNJTF response.
Bolivia during the Chaco War
Bolivia during the Chaco War (1932–1935) fought Paraguay over the disputed Chaco Boreal, lost about 115,000 square miles, and suffered a crisis that reshaped the country.
Bolivian Civil War of 1898–1899
The Bolivian Civil War of 1898–1899, known in Bolivia as the Federal War (Guerra Federal), pitted La Paz Liberals led by José Manuel Pando against the Conservative government at Sucre, ending Conservative rule.
Bolivian Civil War of 1949
The Bolivian Civil War of 1949 (guerra civil de 1949) was an armed MNR insurrection against Bolivia's conservative government, suppressed by the army in September 1949.
Bolivian Gas War
The Bolivian Gas War (Guerra del Gas) was a wave of protest over gas exports through Chile that forced President Sánchez de Lozada's resignation in October 2003.
Bolivian Revolution of 1949
The Bolivian Revolution of 1949 was a nationwide armed uprising in Bolivia by the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), which even organized a rebel government in Santa Cruz.
Bolivian War of Independence
The Bolivian War of Independence (1809–1825) was the sixteen-year armed struggle by which Upper Peru, now Bolivia, separated from Spanish rule and became a republic.
Bologna massacre
Bologna massacre (strage di Bologna): 2 August 1980 neo-fascist time bombing at Bologna Centrale station, 10:25, killing 85 and wounding 200+. NAR members Fioravanti, Mambro, Ciavardini, Cavallini and fifth man Paolo Bellini convicted; P2-linked obstruction; commemorated yearly at 10:25.
Bomb shelter massacres on October 7, 2023
Bomb shelter massacres, October 7, 2023: killings of Nova festivalgoers and residents in roadside miklatim shelters along Route 232 near Re'im, Be'eri, and Alumim, where attackers fired and threw grenades into shelters.
Bombardment of Algiers (1816)
The Bombardment of Algiers was an 1816 naval attack by an Anglo-Dutch fleet under Admiral Lord Exmouth, forcing the Dey of Algiers to renounce Christian slavery.
Bombardment of Casablanca
The Bombardment of Casablanca was a French naval attack of 5 to 7 August 1907 that destroyed districts of the Moroccan port city and began its occupation.
Bombardment of Corinto
The bombardment of Corinto was the 1895 seizure of Corinto, Nicaragua, by a British squadron over arrested British subjects; the ships left after Nicaragua promised payment of a $75,000 indemnity.
Bombardment of Lagos
The Bombardment of Lagos, also called the Reduction of Lagos, was a pair of British naval attacks on Lagos in 1851 to suppress the slave trade.
Bombardment of San Juan
The Bombardment of San Juan was a US Navy attack on San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 12, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, causing civilian casualties but little military damage.
Bombay riots
Bombay riots: recurring Hindu–Muslim communal violence in Bombay (Mumbai), notably 1893, 1929–1938, and December 1992–January 1993, when over 1,000 died after the Babri Masjid demolition; investigated by the Srikrishna Commission.
Bombing of Darwin
The Bombing of Darwin: Japanese air attack on Darwin, Northern Territory, on 19 February 1942, the first on mainland Australia; 188 carrier and 54 land-based aircraft, about 250 killed, first of 64 Darwin raids ending 12 November 1943.
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
The bombing of Dresden, or Dresden firebombing, was a series of RAF and USAAF air raids on Dresden, Germany, from 13 to 15 February 1945, killing about 25,000 people.
Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
The bombing of Hamburg in World War II culminated in Operation Gomorrah of July 1943, a British and American air campaign that created the war's first large firestorm.
Bombing of Kure
The bombing of Kure was a series of 1945 Allied air attacks that destroyed the Imperial Japanese Navy's surviving warships at its Kure Naval Base near Hiroshima.
Bombing of Nagoya
The bombing of Nagoya (名古屋空襲) is the collective name for 63 American air raids on Nagoya, Japan, from 1942 to 1945, killing nearly 8,000 people.
Bombing of North Korea
The bombing of North Korea was a sustained US and UN air campaign during the Korean War, 1950 to 1953, that destroyed most North Korean cities and industry.
Bombing of Osaka
The bombing of Osaka (大阪大空襲), the great Osaka air raids, was the American strategic bombing campaign against Osaka, Japan's leading industrial center after Tokyo, in 1945.
Bombing of Plaza de Mayo
The bombing of Plaza de Mayo (Bombardeo de la Plaza de Mayo) was a 1955 air attack on Buenos Aires that killed more than 300 people in an attempt to overthrow President Perón.
Bombing of Pyongyang
The bombing of Pyongyang was the sustained US and UN air campaign against North Korea's capital during the Korean War (1950–1953), starting with B-29 strikes on June 29, 1950.