Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 · Event
First naval battle fought entirely between aircraft from carriers; checks Japanese advance toward Australia.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master, World War II, Japan
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
Around 1942
- Apartheid (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)