D-Day & the Liberation of Europe
Explore D-Day & the Liberation of Europe on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- VE Day (1945)
- Battle of Normandy (1944)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- German Instrument of Surrender (1945)
- Liberation of Auschwitz (1945)
- Liberation of Paris (1944)
- Battle of Berlin (1945)
- Battle of the Bulge (1944)
- The landing at Omaha Beach (1944)
- Eisenhower's weather gamble launches Overlord (1944)
- The airborne night before D-Day (1944)
- The Falaise Pocket closes (1944)
- Yalta Conference (1945)
- Operation Cobra breaks out of Normandy (1944)
- Operation Market Garden (1944)
- British troops enter Bergen-Belsen (1945)
- East meets West at the Elbe (1945)
- The bridge at Remagen (1945)
- The grinding battle for Caen (1944)
- 20 July plot (1944)
- The phantom armies of Operation Fortitude (1944)
- Warsaw Uprising (1944)
- Mussolini executed (1945)
- Operation Dragoon lands in the south of France (1944)
- Bombing of Dresden (1945)
- The Mulberry harbours cross the Channel (1944)
- Juno Beach landing (1944)
- Antwerp falls but the Scheldt stays shut (1944)
- Allied occupation of Germany (1945)