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 | 1939-12-13 | 1939-12-17 | Battle of the River Plate | The British cruisers, Exeter, Achilles and Graf Spree. The heavy German armament damages two of the British cruisers putting into the neutral port of Montevideo for repairs. British forces concentrate. Captain Langsdorrf scuttles the Graf Spree. | Read about 'Battle of the River Plate' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of the River Plate' |
| 1939-12-12 | Salmon | German cruisers Leipzig and Nurnberg are damaged by the British submarine Salmon in the North Sea. | Read about 'Salmon' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Salmon' | |
| 1939-12-04 | U-36 | The German submarine U-36 was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea by the British submarine HMS Salmon | Read about 'U-36' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'U-36' | |
| 1939-11-23 | Rawalpindi | Despite being hopelessly outgunned, 60-year old Captain Edward Coverley Kennedy RN of Rawalpindi decided to fight, rather than surrender. He was heard to say "Well fight them both, theyll sink us, and that will be that. Good-bye". | Read about 'Rawalpindi' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Rawalpindi' | |
| 1939-11-21 | 1939-11-27 | Scharnhost and Gneisenau | German battlecruisers cruise the North Atlantic on commerce raiding mission for the first time. Scharnhorst's first wartime operation was a sortie into the Iceland-Faroes passage | Read about 'Scharnhost and Gneisenau' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Scharnhost and Gneisenau' |
| 1939-11-17 | Prague Demonstrations | Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps. | Read about 'Prague Demonstrations' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Prague Demonstrations' | |
| 1939-11-08 | Munich Assasination Attempt | An attempt to assisinate Hitler in Munich fails. | Read about 'Munich Assasination Attempt' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Munich Assasination Attempt' | |
| 1939-11-06 | Sonderaktion Krakau | Polish professors are seized and later sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and Dachau. This was part of a Nazi plan to exterminate the Polish intellectual elite | Read about 'Sonderaktion Krakau' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Sonderaktion Krakau' | |
| 1939-10-16 | Firth of Forth | German air campaign against Britain begins. During a raid on Firth of Forth, the cruisers Southampton and Edinburgh are damaged. | Read about 'Firth of Forth' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Firth of Forth' | |
| 1939-10-14 | Scapa Flow | The battleship Royal Oak is sunk by U-47 in the supposedly secure anchorage of Scapa Flow. 833 crew are lost. | Read about 'Scapa Flow' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Scapa Flow' |
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