Wojtek the soldier bear
1942–1963 · Event
A Syrian brown bear cub bought from an Iranian boy grows up with the 22nd Artillery Supply Company, carries shells at Monte Cassino and dies in Edinburgh Zoo.
On these timelines: Eastern Europe & the Balkans, United Kingdom (combined), World War II, Master, Scotland
More from Eastern Europe & the Balkans
- Revolutions of 1989 (1989)
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569)
- Union of Lublin (1569)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Poland regains independence (1918)
- Ottoman Balkans (1354)
- Cyril and Methodius mission to the Slavs (863)
- Founding of Czechoslovakia (1918)
Around 1942
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)