Galba was the first of the generals that were fighting for the throne to reach Rome and had himself proclaimed emperor. He was an old man of 75 when he became emperor.He was famous for the mistake that he refused top pay the soldiers the bonus that emperors usually paid them. Otho, a friend Galba had dissapointed, turned his soldiers against Galba and on January 16 69 AD Galba was killed and he only reigned for barely 7 months.The next emperor Marcus Salvius Otho, as soon as he became emperor Otho faced a revolt of his own as the praetorian guard supported him but the Legions in Germany supported a man named Vitellius. As a result ,the German legions marched on Rome to put Vitellius on the throne and to depose Otho.when he heard of this revolt, Otho sent his troops to fight Vitellius. Otho had sent his troops to late and his army suffered a horrible defeat.
On October 31, 1968, President Johnson announced a complete halt to the bombing of North Vietnam. On November 5, Nixon is elected President with Gerald Ford as his vice-president. (Leone 138) On March 15, 1969, Nixon found out that the Vietcong were hiding in Cambodia, so he ordered the immediate bombing of these sanctuaries, but because he was bombing sanctuaries, it was never released to the American public. (Prados 193) In May of 1969, American soldier commitment was at its peak at 543,000, also during May, President Nixon announced his first major troop withdrawal and pledged to replace the Selective Service Act with a lottery. In June Nixon announced that twenty-five thousand U.S. troops would be withdrawn and replaced by South Vietnamese soldiers.
Octavian, the grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, had made himself a central military figure during the chaotic period following Caesar's assassination. In 43 BC at the age of twenty he became one of the three members of the Second Triumvirate, a political alliance with Marcus Lepidus and Mark Antony. [1] Octavian and Antony defeated the last of Caesar's assassins in 42 BC at the Battle of Philippi, although after this point, tensions began to rise between the two. The triumvirate ended in 32 BC, torn apart by the competing ambitions of its members: Lepidus was forced into exile and Antony, who had allied himself with his lover Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, committed suicide in 30 BC following his defeat at the Battle of Actium (31
This decade started with the invasion of Kuwait by Sadam Hussein and the Gulf War. On January 12, 1991 the United States authorized the use of force by military means to push Iraq out of the country of Kuwait. The votes in the Senate and House of Representatives were very close and had not been that close in margin since the War of 1812 (American History.com). In 1993 the United States was involved in war with the African country of Somalia in an attempt to overthrow General Adid. By September 1994, we were at war once again to overthrow another dictatorship in Haiti.
General Juan Alvarez launched a coup and after capturing the capital named himself president and made Juárez the Minister of Justice. He passed laws limiting the church’s power and in 1857 he became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. That same year a new constitution was passed. This new constitution created a war between the liberals and conservatives and in December, conservative general Felix Zuloaga overthrew the government. Juárez was arrested and when he was released from prison he went to Guanajuato, made himself president and declared war.
PEOPLE William Calley, Jr. • U.S. Army lieutenant during Vietnam War • Found guilty in 1971 of murder for ordering the killing of hundreds of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968, sentenced to life in prison • Appealed conviction and received reduced sentence; released in 1974 Bao Dai • Reigning emperor of Vietnam until 1945 • After French colonial rule ended in Vietnam in 1945, France reinstated Bao Dai as emperor but kept him powerless • Essentially a puppet of the French government • Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh forced him to surrender leadership months later Ngo Dinh Diem • President of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963 • Staunch anti-Communist, but unpopular and paranoid leader who expelled, imprisoned,
On September 11, 1973 a military coupe occurred. The heads of all the major branches of the Chilean military went against Allende. The only support he still had were the police, but since all phone lines were cut he assumed he still had some support from the military. At the sight of the military storming his stronghold he commited suicide and General Auguste Pinochet assumed power until
5, 1960, Upper Volta achieved full independence. The constitution of 1960 established a strong presidential government, and Maurice Yaméogo of the Voltaic Democratic Union (UDV) became the first president. New constitutions were written and approved in 1970, 1977, and again in 1991. In 1983 a man by the name of Captain Thomas Sankara, who was in charge of a military coup, came into office. Sankara cultivated ties with Libya and Ghana, adopting a policy of nonalignment with Western nations.
On Dec.12, 1974, Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for president of the United States. He won his party's nomination on the first ballot at the 1976 Democratic National Convention and was elected president on Nov. 2, 1976. He served as president from Jan. 20, 1977, to Jan. 20, 1981. During his presidency there were many critical moments when he tried to establish balance. On the domestic side, the administration struggled during the 1979 energy crisis which started when the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled the country amidst protests.
His next wife was Statilia Messalina, whose first husband Nero had executed. In 68 AD, the Gallic and Spanish legions, along with the Praetorian Guards, rose against Nero and he fled Rome. The senate declared him a public enemy and he committed suicide on 9 June 68 AD. Disputes over his succession led to civil war in Rome. Nero.