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Duration of historical events
Day count does not include the day the event ends (unless otherwise specified)
Time in hours and minutes is calculated by multiplying the integer number of days by 24 and 1440
- Hundred Years' War (1337...1453) 116 years, 4 months, 25 days = 42'517 days = 36'120 hours = 61'224'480 minutes (war between England and France; England started the war, France won; there were breaks in the war)
- American Civil War (1861...1865) 4 years, 1 month, 14 days = 1505 days = 36'120 hours = 2'167'200 minutes
- Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896-08-27) no more than 45 minutes (shortest military conflict recorded in history; Britain has won) = 0.03125 of one day
- World War I (1914...1918) 4 years, 4 months, 14 days = 1584 days = 38'016 hours = 2'280'960 minutes
- World War II (1939...1945) 5 years, 8 months, 7 days = 2076 days = 49'824 hours = 2'989'440 minutes
- FDR's power in the United States (1933...1945) 12 years, 1 month, 8 days = 4422 days = 106'128 hours = 6'367'680 minutes
- First human space flight (1961-04-12) 108 minutes (orbit time: ~89 minutes)
- Brezhnev's power in the USSR (1964...1982) 18 years, 27 days = 6601 days = 158'424 hours = 9'505'440 minutes
- First manned flight to the Moon (1969-07) 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes, 35 seconds
- Khmer Rouge power in Cambodia (1975...1979) 3 years, 8 months, 21 days = 1361 days = 32'664 hours = 1'959'840 minutes
- Cold War between USA and USSR (1947...1991) 44 years, 9 months, 14 days = 16'360 days = 392'640 hours = 23'558'400 minutes (in 1991 the USSR ceased to exist)
- Berlin Wall's existence (1961...1989) 28 years, 2 months, 27 days = 10'315 days = 247'560 hours = 14'853'600 minutes
- USSR existence (1922...1991) 68 years, 11 months, 8 days = 25'180 days = 604'320 hours = 36'259'200 minutes
- A320 crash landing on the Hudson River (2009-01-15) time between the collision of the airplane with a flock of birds and landing on the surface of the river: 208 seconds
- COVID-19 pandemic (2020...2023) 3 years, 1 month, 22 days = 1148 days = 27'552 hours = 1'653'120 minutes
- 2024 Summer Olympics (Paris, France) 16 days (between when the Olympic flame was lit and when it was extinguished) = 384 hours = 23'040 minutes
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