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Recent Event Highlights: Talks resume, Talks resume, Seoul falls, Inchon falls, Seoul captured, and 19 more...

Created by sahillen on Jul 19, 2010

Last updated: 07/30/10 at 03:31 PM

• Agreement signed
  Jul 27, 1953 2:00 pm

  Armistice agreement signed, all fighting stops 12 hours later

• Talks resume
  Apr 26, 1953 2:00 pm

  Armistice talks resume

• Halt to talks
  Oct 8, 1952 3:00 am

  U.N. delegation calls for indefinite halt to armistice talks

• Clark takes command
  May 12, 1952 2:00 pm

  Gen. Mark W. Clark assumes UNC command

• Talks resume
  Oct 25, 1951 3:00 am

  Armistice talks resume at Panmunjom

• Heartbreak Ridge taken
  Sep 12, 1951 2:00 am

  Second Infantry Division takes Heartbreak Ridge in battle that lasts to Oct. 13.

• Talks break off
  Aug 23, 1951 2:00 am

  Communist leaders break off negotiations

• Talks begin
  Jul 10, 1951 2:00 pm

  Armistice talks begin at Kaesong

• Soviets want talks
  Jun 23, 1951 2:00 pm

  Soviet Union pushes for armistice talks

• MacArthur relieved
  Apr 11, 1951 12:00 pm

  Gen. Douglas MacArthur is relived as United Nations Combined commander. Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway succeeds MacArthur.

• U.N. troops
  Mar 14, 1951 3:00 pm

  United Nations troops enter Seoul

• Operation Thunderbolt
  Jan 25, 1951 3:00 am

  Eighth Army counterattacks in Operation Thunderbolt

• Seoul falls
  Jan 4, 1951 3:00 am

  Seoul falls to CCF and NKPA; U.S. Eighth Army falls back 40 miles south of Seoul

• U.S. Second Infantry decimated
  Nov 29, 1950 3:00 am

  CCF decimates U.S. Second Infantry Division in battle lasting through Dec. 1

• U.S. battles CCF
  Nov 1, 1950

  First U.S. battle against CCF troops near Unsan.

• Unsan battle
  Nov 1, 1950 3:00 am

  First U.S. battle against CCF troops near Unsan for two days

• To Unsan
  Oct 25, 1950 3:00 am

  Communist Chines Forces (CCF) drive north to Unsan to fight ROK troops

• Pyongyang captured
  Oct 19, 1950 3:00 am

  First ROK Division and U.S. Army First Cavalry Division capture Pyongyang

• 38th Parallel crossed
  Oct 9, 1950 3:00 am

  U.S. Army crosses 38th Parallel north of Kaesong and head north toward Pyongyang, North Korean capital

• U.S. in Seoul
  Sep 27, 1950 3:00 am

  U.S. and ROK soldiers capture Seoul

• U.S. lands in Inchon
  Sep 15, 1950 2:00 am

  U.S. X Corps with First Marine Division land at Inchon

• Inchon falls
  Jul 3, 1950 2:00 pm

  Inchon falls to NKPA

• U.S. troops arrive
  Jul 1, 1950 2:00 pm

  First U.S. ground troops of 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Division, arrive in Korea.

• Seoul captured
  Jun 28, 1950 2:00 pm

  NKPA captures Seoul, capital of South Korea

• Armies mass
  Jun 25, 1950 2:00 pm

  North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) with 135,000 troops cross South Korean border to confront Republic of Korea (ROK) Army of 98,000; NKPA forces made up of seven division and five brigades, and air force of 100 to 150 Soviet-made aircraft; the NKPA crossed at 4 a.m. Korean Time; U.S. Ambassador John Muccio reports attack to U.S. State Department at 9:20 a.m. (EDT)