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836 BC Civil war breaks out in Egypt
.
192 Civil war again strikes Rome (192-193).
618 A civil war begins in Medina
.
831 Louis the Pious
reinstated following the end of the first Civil war of his reign
1215 King John rejects the Magna Carta
, leading to an English
civil war (the First Barons' War
).
1570 The assassination
of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland
into civil war.
1850 United States Senator
Daniel Webster
gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1865 American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch - In far south Texas
, more than a month after Confederate
General Lee
's surrender, the last land battle of the civil war ends with a Confederate victory.
1914 Demonstrations in Ulster
suggesting civil war.
1927 Civil war ends in Nicaragua
1944 Civil war breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece
, between Communists
and royalists.
1948 Civil war in Costa Rica
1949 Civil war ends in Greece
- communist troops surrender
1975 Angola
becomes independent from Portugal
; civil war soon erupts.
1983 Anti-Tamil riots break out in Sri Lanka
which leaves over 3,000 Tamils massacred and millions of dollars worth of their property destroyed. This genocide
is the beginning of a deadly civil war and ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka
.
1996 Guatemala
and the leaders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36-year civil war.
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