* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

* 1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

* 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid.

There is evidence it was used as early as the Roman Imperial period, and as recently as the American Civil War.

Brazilian Imperial Army soldiers during the Paraguayan War, 1864-70.

On 10 June, the Duke met for the first time the President of the Imperial War Council, Prince Eugene – accompanied by Count Wratislaw – at the village of Mundelsheim, half-way between the Danube and the Rhine.

Biological sabotage – in the form of anthrax and glanders — was undertaken on behalf of the Imperial German government during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), with indifferent results.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

Finally, in the German Imperial War Council of 8 December 1912 the consensus was that Germany would not be ready for war until at least mid-1914 and passed notes to that effect to the Habsburgs.

The British Army and their Imperial forces in Canada, Australia and New Zealand issued identification tags from the beginning of the First World War.

* 1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States.

* 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

* Never Again — international genocide prevention group ; organized 2004 Rwanda Forum at the Imperial War Museum in London.

* Chickering, Rodger, Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918.

* 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships and are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.

* 1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.

Eugene enhanced his standing during the War of the Spanish Succession where his partnership with the Duke of Marlborough secured victories against the French on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ); he gained further success in the war as Imperial commander in northern Italy, most notably at the Battle of Turin ( 1706 ).

Following the advice of the President of the Imperial War Council, Rüdiger Starhemberg, Eugene was offered supreme command of Imperial forces in April 1697.

At the end of June 1703 Gundaker Starhemberg replaced Gotthard Salaburg as President of the Treasury, and Prince Eugene succeeded Henry Mansfeld as the new President of the Imperial War Council ( Hofkriegsratspräsident ).

), Imperial College, Survey of London: volume 38: South Kensington Museums Area ( 1975 ), pp. 233 – 247.

He visited France, while in Paris he spent several days at the Musée du Louvre ; Italy, in Rome he sketched, antiquities sculptures and paintings at the Vatican Museums and other galleries, then on to Naples and Pompeii, Bari then to Corfu ; while in Italy Barry had met Charles Lock Eastlake, an architect Mr Kinnaird and a Mr Johnson ( later a professor at Haileybury and Imperial Service College ) with these gentlemen he visited Greece, where their itinerary covered Athens which they left on 25 June 1818, Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Aegina, then the Cyclades, including Delos to Smyrna and Turkey where Barry greatly admired the magnificence of Hagia Sophia, from Constantinople he visited the Troad, Assos, Pergamon and back to Smyrna.

The college's buildings are on Prince Consort Road, next to Imperial College, directly opposite the Royal Albert Hall, near the Royal College of Art and five minutes ' walk from the Science, Natural History and Victoria and Albert Museums.

In 2011 the museum rebranded itself as IWM, standing for ' Imperial War Museums '.

In October 2011 the museum rebranded itself as Imperial War Museums, the acronym IWM forming the basis of a new corporate logo.

The governance of the museum is the responsibility of a Board of Trustees, originally established by the Imperial War Museum Act 1920, later amended by the Imperial War Museum Act 1955 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 and other relevant legislation.

Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia ; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois ; Arts Council, England ; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England ; The British Museum, London, England ; City Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, England ; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio ; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine ; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; Imperial War Museum, London, England ; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin ; Iziko Museum of Cape Town, South Africa ; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York ; The Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman ; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England ; MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany ; Museum Neuhaus — Sammlung Liaunig, Austria ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois ; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York ; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C .; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York ; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C .; Portland Museum of Art, Maine ; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Gallery, Edinburgh ; Southampton City Art Gallery, England ; Tate Gallery, London, England ; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland ; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor ; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England ; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond ; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Other copies are shown on loops at the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester.

Earls Court is within easy walking distance of High Street Kensington, Holland Park, Kensington Gardens / Hyde Park, the Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College, the Natural History, Science and Victoria and Albert Museums.

* Imperial War Museums ' collection of photographs from RAF Elvington

AirSpace at Imperial War Museum Duxford | IWM Duxford. Imperial War Museum Duxford, near the village of Duxford in Cambridgeshire, is Britain's largest aviation museum.

IWM London ( Imperial War Museum ) is also near the South Bank, hosting exhibitions from the first world war to the present day.

Imperial War Museum North ( sometimes referred to as IWM North ) is a museum at in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.

The Imperial War Museum North ( IWM North ), located on Trafford Wharf Road in Trafford Park, overlooks the Manchester Ship Canal on the opposite bank to the Lowry and MediaCityUK.

His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London. Medal Collection at IWM

John Nash ( artist ) | John Nash-Over The Top ( Imperial War Museum | IWM )

Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

The acre is often used to express areas of land in the United States and in countries where the Imperial System is still in use.

** The Aquila Lander is a light shuttle used by the Imperial Navy

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

Arnulf spent his childhood on the Mosaburch or Mosapurc, which is widely believed to be Moosburg in Carinthia, only a few miles away from one of the Imperial residences, the Carolingian Kaiserpfalz at Karnburg, which before as Krnski grad had been the residence of the Carantanian princes.

He is buried in tomb 122 in the New Vault of the Imperial Crypt in Vienna.

The Imperial high council has lost the political initiative and is powerless to control the Jihad.

An Imperial Commission is then summoned who exhume and destroy the body of the vampire on behalf of the ruling Habsburg Monarchy, within whose domains Styria is situated.

This theory also claims there can be only one rightful sovereign ruling all under heaven at a time but throughout Chinese history there have been many contentious and long periods of disunity where the question of legitimacy is moot ; see also Imperial Seal of China.

Part of the Fremen / Atreides strategy is to wait until a sandstorm shorts out the force field shields of the Harkonnen / Imperial transport ships, disable them with projectile weapons, and then attack with a vast assault force, using giant sandworms under cover of the severe weather to break the enemy lines.

Rabban dies in the initial part of the battle ; the Harkonnen army is massacred to the last man and almost all the Imperial Sardaukar are killed.

In the Imperial propaganda from the period, recent history is perverted and minimized in the service of the theme of the Tetrarchs as " restorers ".

The Diet of Nuremberg is often called the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg.

He is a ceremonial figurehead under a form of constitutional monarchy and is head of the Japanese Imperial Family with functions as head of state.

The Imperial House of Japan is the oldest continuing hereditary monarchy in the world.

The current Emperor is His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Akihito, who has been on the Chrysanthemum Throne since his father the Showa Emperor ( Hirohito ) died in 1989.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

Kammu is traditionally venerated at his tomb ; the Imperial Household Agency designates, in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, as the location of Kammu's mausoleum.

Although there were seven other reigning empresses, their successors were most often selected from amongst the males of the paternal Imperial bloodline, which is why some conservative scholars argue that the women's reigns were temporary and that male-only succession tradition must be maintained in the 21st century.

Although there were seven other reigning empresses, their successors were most often selected from amongst the males of the paternal Imperial bloodline, which is why some conservative scholars argue that the women's reigns were temporary and that male-only succession tradition must be maintained in the 21st century.