Skip to content- Florida Strait separates Cuba from Florida. It joins Atlantic Ocean with Gulf of Mexico.
- Dover strait separates England from France.
- Gibraltar Strait separates Spain and Africa and joins Mediterranean Sea with Atlantic Ocean.
- Torres Strait separates Australia and Papua New Guinea
- Bosporus Strait connects Black Sea with the Sea of Marmora.
- Dardanelles strait (Turkey) joins Marmora sea with Aegean Sea. • Malacca strait separates
- Sumatra from Malay Peninsula. It is longest strait in the world.
- Mozambique strait is the broadest strait in the world. It is b/w Mozambique and Madagascar.
- Sunda strait separates Sumatra from Java Island.
- Battle of Jhelum was fought b/w Alexandar the Great and Raja Porus in 326 B.C. The latter was defeated.
- Mahumud Ghaznavi invaded on Somnath in 1025 A.D.
- Battle of Tarain was fought b/w Mohd: Ghouri and Prithvi Raj in 1192 A.D. The former won the battle.
- First battle of Panipat was fought b/w Ibrahim Lodhi and Babur in 1526. Babur won the battle.
- Second battle of Panipat was fought in 1556. Akbar won the battle.
- The third battle of Panipat was fought b/w Ahmad Shah Abdali and Marahttas in 1760. Ahmed Shah defeated the latter.
- West Bank was occupied in 1967.
- Japan attacked Pearl Harbour located in Hawaii on 7 Dec: 1941.
- Israel occupied Golan Heights from Syria.
- West Bank is located b/w Isreal & Jordan.
- West Bank was occupied in 1967.
- Iran & UAE dispute over Persian Gulf islands, Greater & lesser Tunbs.
- Sakhalin Island is dispute b/w Russia & Japan.
- Iran & UAE dispute over Persian Gulf islands, Greater & lesser Tunbs.
- Sakhalin island is dispute b/w Russia & Japan.
- In Battle of Sabroan, English defeated Sikhs and captured Lahore.
- Nickname of Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was Little Boy and on Nagasaki=Fat Man.
- The hundred year war actually lasted for 114 years.
- Sir William Howard Russell was the first Great War correspondent.
- Hundred years war fought between France and Britain during 1338-1453.
- Cease fire between Iran and Iraq took place in 1988, by the intervention of U.N.
- The place named Normandy became worlds famous due to the D.Day landing during the
- Second World War on 6th June 1944. Normandy is located in France.
- Pearl Harbor incident took place on 7th Dec 1941.
- In 1982 the Falklands war was fought between Britain and Argentina.
- Civil War of USA lasted from 1861-1865.
- The famous British Naval commander, who defected the French Naval Fleet at Nile in 1788 and at Trafalgar in 1805 was Horatio Nelson.
- Doer war fought between South Africa and British.
- Fighting broke out between Greeks and the Turks in July 1974.
- At the end of Second World War in 1945, Germany was divided among 4 major powers.
- In Opium war Britain fought against China.
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