User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/December 31

December 31:

 * 406 - Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.
 * 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Quebec.
 * 1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two); meanwhile, the Battle of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
 * 1944 - World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany.