Thermopylae, August 480 BC -- Rubicon, January 49 BC -- Bethlehem, 4 BC -- Teutoburg Forest, September AD 9 -- Jerusalem, AD 70 -- Rome, 24 August AD 410 -- Yarmuk, 16-20 August AD 636 -- Tours, 25 October AD 732 -- Rome, Christmas Day AD 800 -- Hastings, 14 October 1066 -- Ain Jalut, 3 September 1260 -- Constantinople, 29 May 1453 -- Bahamas, 12 October 1492 -- Tenochtitln, 13 August 1521 -- Plymouth Hoe, 29 July 1588 -- Jamestown, 14 May 1607 -- Culloden, 16 April 1746 -- Botany Bay, 29 April 1770 -- Philadelphia, 4 July 1776 -- The Bastille, 14 July 1789 -- Waterloo, 18 June 1815 -- Galapagos Islands, 16 September 1835 -- Gettysburg, 1-3 July 1863 -- Sarajevo, 28 June 1914 -- Dublin, 24 April 1916 -- The Somme, 1 July 1916 -- Petrograd, 7 November 1917 -- Guernica, 26 April 1937 -- Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 -- Stalingrad, 31 January 1943 -- Auschwitz, 27 January 1945 -- Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 -- Dallas, 22 November 1963 -- Chernobyl, 26 April 1986 -- Berlin, 9 November 1989 -- New York, 11 September 2001.