Siege of Calais (1940)
1940 · Event
A British garrison ordered to fight to the last holds Calais for four days, delaying the panzers' drive on Dunkirk.
On these timelines: 1940: Britain's Darkest Hour, World War II, Master, France
More from 1940: Britain's Darkest Hour
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Churchill becomes Prime Minister (1940)
- Battle of Britain Day breaks the daylight assault (1940)
- France signs the armistice at Compiègne (1940)
- 'We shall fight on the beaches' (1940)
- The panzers cross the Meuse at Sedan (1940)
- 'Blood, toil, tears and sweat' (1940)
- Eagle Day opens the Luftwaffe's main assault (1940)
Around 1940
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- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)