What happened on 5 October?

14 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1968 The Troubles Three decades of ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland between mainly Catholic Irish republicans and mainly Protestant unionists, plus British security forces. Ended by th
2. 1968 The Troubles begin Conventional start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
3. 610 Reign of Heraclius Eastern emperor who crushes Sasanian Persia, recovers the True Cross, then loses Syria, Egypt and North Africa to early Islam.
4. 1925 Locarno Treaties Multilateral agreements stabilising Germany's western borders.
5. 1713 Born: Denis Diderot Editor of the Encyclopédie; philosopher and art critic central to the French Enlightenment.
6. 1789 Women's March on Versailles Crowds of Parisian women march to Versailles and force the royal family to move to Paris; royal authority effectively ends.
7. 2000 The fall of Milošević When Milošević refuses to accept an election he lost, half a million Serbs converge on Belgrade, a bulldozer leads the storming of parliament, and the police stand aside. Within a
8. 1988 Chilean national plebiscite Chileans vote 'No' to extending Pinochet's rule, opening a peaceful return to democracy after 15 years of dictatorship.
9. 2005 The 1918 virus is finally sequenced Using fragments from autopsy tissue and a victim buried in Alaskan permafrost, scientists publish the complete genome of the 1918 virus and resurrect it in a biosecure lab: an H1N1
10. 2011 Death of Steve Jobs Apple's co-founder, who reshaped computing, music, phones and animation, dies of cancer at 56.
11. 1795 Napoleon's whiff of grapeshot saves the Convention A royalist insurrection marches on the National Convention; an unemployed 26-year-old artillery general named Bonaparte turns cannon on the crowd in the Paris streets. The rising c
12. 1936 Jarrow March Crusade of unemployed men from Tyneside to London during the Depression.
13. 2000 Fall of Slobodan Milošević After a stolen election, protesters with a bulldozer storm parliament and state TV; Milošević concedes within a day and is in The Hague within a year.
14. 1793 France adopts the revolutionary calendar The Republic abolishes the Christian calendar itself: twelve new months named for weather and harvest — Thermidor, Brumaire, Germinal — ten-day weeks, and years counted from the Re