Events
Every event in the record for both wars: what happened, where at town or district level, its status under the one verification rule, and its sources.
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Cite it
The War Record, "Events" (dataset), 2026-10-31. https://thewarrecord.com/data/events/. Licence CC BY 4.0.
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, with credit and a link. Figures from third parties keep their own source, named in each record.
The CSV columns.
The JSON and JSONL files carry the full records, as described by the JSON Schema.
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| id | Permanent id. Never reused. |
| conflict | The war (conflict id). |
| theatre | The theatre id. |
| date | Date it occurred (UTC). |
| title | Our neutral one-line description. |
| status | confirmed, reported or disputed. |
| status_basis | Why it has that status. |
| distinct_origins | Distinct first-hand origins among the evidence. |
| unaffiliated_origins | Of those, origins tied to no party. |
| kind | What kind of event. |
| military | true for military events (published at least 6 hours after they occur). |
| place | Place id. |
| place_name | Place name. |
| country | ISO country code of the place. |
| initiator | Actor ids said to have acted. |
| target | Actor ids acted against. |
| attribution | How firmly the act is attributed. |
| sources | Source ids cited (semicolon separated). |
| revision | Goes up each time a graded field changes. |
| provenance | daily, backfilled, leiden or monthly_summary. |
| record_state | active, merged or withdrawn. |
| published_at | When it entered the public record. |
| url | Its permanent page. |