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Charlottesville car attack
Charlottesville car attack: on August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. drove into counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens; he received life sentences in state and federal hate crime cases.
Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation
The Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation is an Algerian declaration of principles, approved by referendum in 2005 to end the aftermath of the 1990s civil war.
Chauri Chaura incident (चौरी चौरा कांड)
Chauri Chaura incident (चौरी चौरा कांड), 4 February 1922, Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh: Non-Cooperation Movement crowd burned a police station, killing 22–23 policemen; Gandhi suspended the movement; 19 protesters were hanged in 1923.
Che Guevara
Che Guevara (Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, 1928–1967), Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Castro's second in command in the Cuban Revolution; author of foco guerrilla theory, Cuban minister, failed Congo and Bolivia campaigns, executed in Bolivia October 9, 1967.
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (Нохчийн Республик Ичкери, ChRI), unrecognized secessionist state declared in 1991 under Dzhokhar Dudayev; de facto independent 1996–1999 after the Khasavyurt Accord, reconquered by Russia in the 1999–2000 war, now a government in exile under Akhmed Zakayev.
Chechen–Russian conflict
The Chechen–Russian conflict comprises two wars between Russia and Chechen separatists: the first (1994–1996) ended with de facto independence, the second (1999–2009) restored Russian control under Ramzan Kadyrov, with roughly 100,000 deaths and major terrorist attacks in Russia.
Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie was the best-known Allied border checkpoint between East and West Berlin during the Cold War, at Friedrichstrasse and Zimmerstrasse, site of the 1961 tank standoff.
Cher Ami
Cher Ami ("dear friend") was a WWI U.S. Army Signal Corps homing pigeon, band NURP 18 EAD 615, that delivered the Lost Battalion's October 4, 1918 message halting friendly artillery fire; wounded, Croix de Guerre recipient, died June 13, 1919; 2021 DNA confirmed male; mounted at the Smithsonian.
Chernobyl Mi-8 helicopter crash
Chernobyl Mi-8 helicopter crash: 2 October 1986 accident in which a Soviet Mi-8 cleanup helicopter, spraying adhesive on reactor roofs, struck a crane cable and killed its four-man crew, not a radiation loss as the HBO series implies.
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant drone strike
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant drone strike: on 14 February 2025 a Shahed-type drone hit the New Safe Confinement at Chornobyl, causing cladding breaches, fires, and loss of containment functions, with no radiation release.
Cherokee–American wars
The Cherokee–American wars, also called the Chickamauga Wars, were conflicts fought in the Old Southwest from 1776 to 1794 between the Cherokee and American settlers.
Cherokee–Creek wars
The Cherokee–Creek wars were intermittent conflicts between the Cherokee and the Muscogee (Creek) peoples of the American Southeast from about 1715 to 1753 or 1755, fought over hunting grounds and the deerskin trade.
Cherry Valley Massacre
The Cherry Valley Massacre was a November 1778 attack by British-allied Iroquois and Loyalist rangers on Cherry Valley, New York, killing about 30 civilians and taking 70 captive.
Chesapeake campaign
The Chesapeake campaign (April 23, 1813 – September 14, 1814) was the War of 1812's British raiding and amphibious offensive in Chesapeake Bay, culminating in the burning of Washington and the failed assault on Baltimore and Fort McHenry.
Chetniks (Четници)
Chetniks (Četnici): Serbian guerrilla fighters from Ottoman times, formed by Serbia in Macedonia, active in the Balkan Wars and WWI; best known as Mihailović's royalist Serb nationalist movement in WWII Yugoslavia, later Allied-recognized, then collaborating with the Axis, defeated by the Partisans.
Chiapas conflict
Chiapas conflict: armed and political confrontation between Mexico and the Zapatista EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) since the 1 January 1994 indigenous uprising; San Andrés Accords 1996, autonomy, and later cartel violence distinguish it.
Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping
The Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, also known as the Chibok kidnapping, was the 2014 abduction of 276 schoolgirls aged 12 to 17 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria.
Chichibu Incident
The Chichibu Incident, also called the Chichibu Peasant Uprising, was an 1884 armed uprising by farmers in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, demanding debt relief and tax reductions.
Chichijima incident (父島事件)
Chichijima incident (父島事件), also Ogasawara incident: 1944-45 killing and partial cannibalism of American POW airmen by Japanese troops on Chichijima, Bonin Islands; prosecuted at Guam war crimes trials under 'prevention of honorable burial'; Tachibana and others sentenced to death.
Chickasaw Wars
The Chickasaw Wars were conflicts between the Chickasaw and French Louisiana with Choctaw allies from the early 1720s to 1753, fought in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi.
Chilcotin War
The Chilcotin War, also called the Tŝilhqot'in War, was an 1864–1865 conflict in which the Tsilhqot'in Nation fought colonial forces in what is now British Columbia, Canada.
Children in the Holocaust
Children in the Holocaust, also called Holocaust children, were Jewish and non-Jewish minors persecuted and killed by Nazi Germany, including about 1.5 million Jewish children.
Children's Crusade
Children's Crusade: popular religious movement of 1212, also called peregrinatio puerorum, led by Stephen of Cloyes (France) and Nicholas of Cologne (Germany); unauthorized, dispersed at Genoa, composition debated.
Chilean Civil War of 1891
Chilean Civil War of 1891, or Revolution of 1891: armed conflict between Congress (backed by the navy) and President José Manuel Balmaceda (backed by the army) over budget and constitutional powers; Balmaceda's defeat at Concón and Placilla led to the Parliamentary Republic (1891–1925).
Chilean naval mutiny of 1931
The Chilean naval mutiny of 1931, known in Chile as the Sublevación de la Escuadra, was a seizure of the fleet by enlisted men protesting Depression-era salary cuts.
Chilean occupation of Lima
The Chilean occupation of Lima was the Chilean Army's occupation of Peru's capital from January 1881 to October 1883, during the War of the Pacific.
Chilean occupation of Peru
The Chilean occupation of Peru (1881–1884) was Chile's military occupation of Peruvian territory, including Lima, during the War of the Pacific, ended by the 1883 Treaty of Ancón.
Chilean Revolution of 1851
The Chilean Revolution of 1851, also called the Civil War of 1851, was an armed uprising against Chile's conservative government, crushed at the Battle of Loncomilla.
Chilean Revolution of 1859
The Chilean Revolution of 1859, or Constituent Revolution (Revolución Constituyente), was a liberal civil war against President Manuel Montt, led from Copiapó by Pedro León Gallo and defeated militarily.
Chilembwe uprising
The Chilembwe uprising was a January 1915 rebellion against British colonial rule in Nyasaland, now Malawi, led by the American-educated Baptist minister John Chilembwe and crushed within weeks.