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Conor Cruise O'Brien
Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917–2008), Irish diplomat, politician, historian, and writer; UN envoy in Katanga 1961, Irish Minister for Posts & Telegraphs 1973–77, author of Parnell and his party, States of Ireland, and The Great Melody.
Conor Lamb
Conor Lamb (born 1984) is a Democratic former U.S. representative from Pennsylvania's 17th District (2018-2023), a Marine veteran and former federal prosecutor who won a 2018 special election in Trump country by 627 votes and lost the 2022 Senate primary to John Fetterman.
Conor Woodman
Conor Woodman, British investigative journalist, author, and TV presenter, host of Channel 4's Around the World in 80 Trades and National Geographic's Scam City; author of The Adventure Capitalist, Unfair Trade, Sharks/The Scam Hunter, and Meth Road.
Conquest of Ahmadnagar
The Conquest of Ahmadnagar (अहमदनगर विजय) was the Mughal Empire's capture of the Nizam Shahi capital's fort in 1600, after the regent Chand Bibi was murdered and the defenses collapsed.
Conquest of Allada by Dahomey
The conquest of Allada (Alada) was the destruction of the Slave Coast kingdom of Allada by Dahomey under King Agaja in 1724, followed by Whydah in 1727.
Conquest of Au Lac by Zhao Tuo
The conquest of Au Lac by Zhao Tuo (Trieu Da) was the annexation of An Duong Vuong's kingdom in northern Vietnam by Nanyue, completed in 179 BC.
Conquest of Babylon (539 BC)
The Conquest of Babylon (فتح بابل) was the capture of Babylon by the Persian king Cyrus II in October 539 BC, ending the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nabonidus.
Conquest of Babylon by Cyrus
The conquest of Babylon by Cyrus (فتح بابل على يد كورش) was Cyrus II's capture of the Neo-Babylonian capital in October 539 BCE, after a battle at Opis.
Conquest of Bahrain by the Utub
The Conquest of Bahrain by the Utub (فتح البحرين) was the 1783 capture of the Bahrain islands by Utub tribes led by the Al Khalifa, ending Persian rule.
Conquest of Bednur
The Conquest of Bednur, also called Nagar, was the 1763 capture of the Keladi kingdom's capital in Mysore, India, by Hyder Ali, whose treasury it filled and whose position it established.
Conquest of Bengal by Bakhtiyar Khalji
The Conquest of Bengal by Bakhtiyar Khalji was the Turkic commander's seizure of Nadiya from the Sena dynasty around 1204, opening Muslim rule in Bengal.
Conquest of Ceuta (1415)
The Conquest of Ceuta (احتلال سبتة) was the seizure of the Moroccan port city of Ceuta by King João I of Portugal in August 1415, Portugal's first overseas conquest.
Conquest of Chile
The conquest of Chile was the Spanish military occupation of present-day Chile, begun by Diego de Almagro in 1535 and carried forward by Pedro de Valdivia from 1540.
Conquest of Chittor
The Conquest of Chittor (چھتور کی فتح) was the capture of Chittor fort in Mewar, Rajasthan, by the Delhi Sultanate under Alauddin Khalji after an eight-month siege in 1303.
Conquest of Colima
The Conquest of Colima was the Spanish subjugation of the western Mexican province of Colima in 1523, carried out by Gonzalo de Sandoval for Hernán Cortés.
Conquest of Constantinople
The Conquest of Constantinople (İstanbul'un Fethi) was the siege and capture of the Byzantine capital by Sultan Mehmed II's Ottoman army, which took the city on 29 May 1453 and ended the Byzantine Empire.
Conquest of Cyprus by Richard I
Richard I of England's May–June 1191 conquest of Byzantine Cyprus from Isaac Komnenos during the Third Crusade; island sold to the Templars, then the Lusignans, remaining under western rule until 1570–1.
Conquest of Dilmun and Magan by Sargon of Akkad
The conquest of Dilmun and Magan by Sargon of Akkad was an Akkadian extension into Persian Gulf trade in the 23rd century BC, when Naram-Sin conquered Magan and captured its ruler Manium.
Conquest of Eshnunna by Hammurabi
The conquest of Eshnunna by Hammurabi was the defeat of the Diyala-region kingdom by Babylon's Hammurabi in about 1762 BC, ending with the city destroyed by a flood.
Conquest of Fez (1549)
The Conquest of Fez (فتح فاس) was the 1549 capture of the Wattasid capital, Fez, by Saadian forces under Mohammed al-Shaykh, marking the start of Saadian rule.
Conquest of Fez by the Marinids
The conquest of Fez by the Marinids was the capture of Fez, Morocco, from the Almohad caliphate in 1248 by Marinid leader Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq.
Conquest of Funan by Chenla
The conquest of Funan by Chenla was the late-6th-century takeover of the Funan kingdom by its former vassal Chenla under princes Bhavavarman and Chitrasena, completed under Isanavarman, who made Isanapura his capital.
Conquest of Guatemala
The Conquest of Guatemala (Conquista de Guatemala) was the Spanish campaign begun in 1524, in which Pedro de Alvarado defeated the K'iche' and Kaqchikel kingdoms of the Guatemalan highlands.
Conquest of Gujarat
The Conquest of Gujarat (गुजरात विजय) was the 1572–73 campaign in which Mughal emperor Akbar defeated the Gujarat sultanate, winning the Battle of Sarnal and taking Surat.
Conquest of Ha'il
The Conquest of Ha'il (فتح حائل) was the 1921 capture of Ha'il by Ibn Saud's forces, ending Rashidi rule in Jabal Shammar after a 55-day siege.
Conquest of Herakleopolis by Mentuhotep II
The conquest of Herakleopolis by Mentuhotep II, around 2055 BC, was the final Theban campaign against the Herakleopolitan dynasty of northern Egypt, ending it and reunifying the country to open the Middle Kingdom.
Conquest of Junagadh
The Conquest of Junagadh (فتح جوناگڑھ) was the 1472 capture of Junagadh in Gujarat by Sultan Mahmud Begada, ending Chudasama rule and annexing the kingdom to the Gujarat Sultanate.
Conquest of Kaffa
The conquest of Kaffa was the 1897 campaign in which Emperor Menelik II's forces under Ras Wolde Giorgis defeated the Kingdom of Kaffa and annexed it to the Ethiopian Empire.
Conquest of Kandahar
The Conquest of Kandahar (कंधार विजय) was the 1595 transfer of the fortress city of Kandahar from Safavid Persian to Mughal control under Emperor Akbar.
Conquest of Kashmir (1819)
The Conquest of Kashmir (कश्मीर की विजय) was the 1819 campaign by which Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sikh Empire annexed the Kashmir Valley from its Afghan (Durrani) governor.