Events Starting With S

Sacrifice
Sacrifice
Movies

Sacrifice (2011) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, which took place on May 15, 2011 at the TNA Impact! Zone in...

Salem witch trials
Salem witch trials
Events

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk and Middlesex counties...

Salt Satyagraha
Salt Satyagraha
Events

The Salt Satyagraha was a campaign of non-violent protest against the British salt tax in colonial India which began with the Salt March to Dandi on March 12, 1930. It was the first act of...

El Salvador Civil War
El Salvador Civil War
Events

The Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992) was a conflict in El Salvador. It was between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a...

Sankey v Whitlam
Sankey v Whitlam
Events

Sankey v Whitlam was an important court case decided in the High Court of Australia on 9 November 1978. On 20 November 1975, in the middle of the election campaign which followed the...

Saratoga campaign
Saratoga campaign
Events

The Saratoga campaign was an attempt by Great Britain to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War. The primary...

Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Events

The Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, usually referred to in the Japanese media as the Subway Sarin Incident (地下鉄サリン事件, Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken), was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated...

Satsuma Rebellion
Satsuma Rebellion
Events

The Satsuma Rebellion (西南戦争, Seinan Sensō (Southwestern War)) was a revolt of Satsuma ex-samurai against the Meiji government from January 29 to September 24, 1877, 9 years into the Meiji...

Savannah, Immortal City Photography Exhibit
Savannah, Immortal City Photography Exhibit
Events

"Savannah, Immortal City" is the first of a four-part series titled Civil War Savannah. It offers a pictorial and textual history of all the important antebellum and Civil War sites in the...

Scanian War
Scanian War
Events

Scanian War (Danish: Skånske Krig, Swedish: Skånska kriget, German: Schonischer Krieg) was a part of the Northern Wars involving the union of Denmark-Norway, Brandenburg and Sweden. It was...

Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission
Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission
Cities, Events

See also main article: Second Raid on Schweinfurt The Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission was an air combat battle in World War II. A strategic bombing attack flown by B-17 Flying Fortresses of...

Scientific revolution
Scientific revolution
Events

The period which many historians of science call the Scientific Revolution can be roughly dated as having begun in 1543, the year in which Nicolaus Copernicus published his De revolutionibus...

Scopes Trial
Scopes Trial
Events

The Scopes Trial—formally known as The State of Tennessee v. Scopes and informally known as the Scopes Monkey Trial—was an American legal case in 1925 in which a high school biology teacher...

Scottish Civil War
Scottish Civil War
Events

Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms covers Scotland's involvement in the wider conflict known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms between 1644 and 1650. The Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

Second Battle of Bull Run
Second Battle of Bull Run
Events

The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas, as it was called by the Confederacy, was fought August 28–30, 1862, as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an...

Second Battle of Orleans
Second Battle of Orleans
Events

The Second Battle of Orléans was a battle of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. It took place on December 3 and 4, 1870 and was part of the Loire Campaign. The Germans recaptured Orléans...

Second Boer War
Second Boer War
Events

The Second Boer War (Dutch: Tweede Boerenoorlog, Afrikaans: Tweede Boereoorlog), commonly referred to as The Boer War and also known as the South African War (outside of South Africa), the...

Second Chechen War
Second Chechen War
Events

The Second Chechen War, in a later phase better known as the War in the North Caucasus was launched by the Russian Federation starting August 26, 1999, in response to the Invasion of...

Second Chinese domination
Second Chinese domination
Events

The Second Chinese domination of Vietnam saw China strengthen its control over the region. The area came under Chinese control in the late Han Dynasty in 43 and was ruled by Chinese...

Second Constitutional Era
Second Constitutional Era
Events

The Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire began shortly after Sultan Abdülhamid II restored the constitutional monarchy after the 1908 Young Turk...

Second English Civil War
Second English Civil War
Events

The Second English Civil War was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War which refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place...

Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
Events

The Second Intermediate Period marks a period when Ancient Egypt once again fell into disarray between the end of the Middle Kingdom, and the start of the New Kingdom. It is best known as...

Al-Aqsa Intifada
Al-Aqsa Intifada
Events

The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Arabic: انتفاضة الأقصى‎, Intifāḍat El Aqṣa; Hebrew: אינתיפאדת אל-אקצה‎, Intifādat El-Aqtzah) was the second Palestinian uprising, a...

Second Italo-Abyssinian War
Second Italo-Abyssinian War
Events

The Second Italo–Abyssinian War (also referred to as the Second Italo-Ethiopian War) was a brief colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between...

Second Liberian Civil War
Second Liberian Civil War
Events

The Second Liberian Civil War began in 1999 when a rebel group backed by the government of neighbouring Guinea, the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), emerged in...

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