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| 1853 |
| | | Russia occupies two Ottoman principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, on the west coast of the Black Sea | |
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| 1862 |
| | | A two-day engagement at Shiloh is the first Civil War battle to bring massive casualties, with more than 23,000 dead, wounded or missing | |
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| 1864 |
| | | Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman become Lincoln's two leading generals in the final thrust of the Civil War | |
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| c. 1895 |
| | | General Alfred von Schlieffen devises plans for a potential two-pronged attack against France and Russia in a swift war | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Two thirds of the Russian fleet is sunk after being ambushed by Japanese warships in the Tsushima Strait | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I | |
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| 1914 |
| | | from August - Serbian forces repel two Austrian invasions of their territory | |
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| 1914 November 1 |
| | | Maximilian von Spee sinks two British cruisers off Coronel, on the Pacific coast of south America | |
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| 1914 November 16 |
| | | The German enclave of Qingdao, in China, falls to the Japanese after a two-month siege | |
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| 1915 January 30 |
| | | Two passenger liners are sunk by German U-boats | |
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