Events Starting With L

Land Run of 1893
Land Run of 1893
Events

The Land Run of 1893, also known as the Cherokee Strip Land Run, marked the opening of the Cherokee Outlet to the public. The run happened on September 16, 1893 at noon with more than...

Landing at Anzac Cove
Landing at Anzac Cove
Events

The landing at Anzac Cove was part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula by British and French forces on April 25, 1915. The landing, north of Gaba Tepe on the Aegean coast...

Landing at Cape Helles
Landing at Cape Helles
Events

The landing at Cape Helles was part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula by British and French forces on April 25, 1915 during the First World War. Helles, at the foot of...

Late Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
Events

The Late Middle Ages is a term used by historians to describe European history in the period of the 14th and 15th centuries . The Late Middle Ages were preceded by the High Middle Ages...

Latvia
Latvia
Countries

Latvia ; Latvian: Latvija, officially the Republic of Latvia is a country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region. It is bordered to the north by...

Latvian War of Liberation
Latvian War of Liberation
Events

The Latvian War of Independence, sometimes called the Latvian War of Liberation (Latvian: Latvijas brīvības cīņas, literally, the "Struggles for Latvia's freedom," or Latvijas atbrīvošanas...

Lebanese Civil War
Lebanese Civil War
Events

The Lebanese Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية) was a multifaceted civil war in the nation of Lebanon in the Middle East. The war lasted from 1975 to 1990 and resulted in an...

Leona Lewis 2010 world tour
Leona Lewis 2010 world tour
Events, Musical Albums

The Labyrinth is the name of the debut concert tour by British pop singer Leona Lewis. Beginning on 28 May 2010, it showcased songs from her debut album, Spirit and her second album, Echo...

Let's Get to It Tour
Let's Get to It Tour
Musical Albums, Events

The Let's Get to It Tour was a Kylie Minogue concert tour that took place in the UK and Ireland in late 1991. At the request of British fans, the tour became a continuation of the previous...

Lewis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Events

The Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Expedition , headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. The Lewis and...

Lightning
Lightning
Events

Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity accompanied by thunder, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. In the...

Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858
Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858
Events

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, and the incumbent Stephen Douglas, a Democratic Party candidate, for a...

Lindbergh kidnapping
Lindbergh kidnapping
Events

The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was the abduction of the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The toddler was abducted from his family home in East...

Lochner era
Lochner era
Events

The Lochner era is a period in American legal history from roughly 1890 to 1937 in which the United States Supreme Court tended to strike down economic regulations mandating certain working...

Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
Events

The Louisiana Purchase was a land purchase transaction by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles of the French territory...

Ludlow massacre
Ludlow massacre
Events

The Ludlow massacre refers to the violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their...

Lý Dynasty
Lý Dynasty
Events

The Lý Dynasty , sometimes known as the Posterior Lý Dynasty , was a Vietnamese dynasty that began in 1009 when...

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