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Asia Pacific 1940: Japanese invasion of French Indochina

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1962

Outbreak of civil war in Yemen

starts 1826

Russian counter-offensive overruns northwest Persia

1815

Russia, Prussia, & Austria form Holy Alliance

starts 206

Sasanids seize power in Persis*

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