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2013 Event - Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', faces a court battle in a lawsuit claiming a literary agent tricket her into giving up the copyright to her world-famous book 2013 Event - For the first time since the Battle of Mogadishu, the U.S. announces it will officially recognize, and open diplomatic relations with, the new government of Somalia 2011 Event - In Sweden, divers find the wreckage of the Svardet, a warship sunk in 1676 during the Battle of Oland 2011 Event - In the Battle of Az Zawiyah, rebels successfully overcome pro-Gaddafi forces trying to push into the city 2010 Event - After a weeklong battle with 43 people killed, Somalia's al-Shabaab rebel group called for reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu 2010 Event - Roza Otunbayeva, interim leader of Kyrgyzstan, estimates the death toll from the country's worst ethnic battle in decades could be as many as 2,000 people 2009 Event - A gun battle between U.S. agents and suspected people smugglers shuts down San Ysidro U.S. Mexico border crossing 1995 Event - Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle 1995 Death - Daniela Rocca, actress (Battle of Austerlitz), dies at 57 1995 Death - Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle 1993 Event - Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed 1993 Death - Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38 1993 Death - Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33 1992 Death - James A Van Fleet, U.S. general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge), dies at 100 1992 Event - Great British postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill 1992 Death - Kate A ter Horst-Arriens, Dutch nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies at 85 1991 Death - Donald Houston, actor (Battle Hell, Study in Terror), dies at 67 1991 Event - John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney 1991 Death - Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer 1990 Event - New York court of appeals ends 2 year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case 1990 Event - 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa 1987 Event - Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed 1983 Event - Musical "Tap Dance Kid" with H Battle premieres in New York City 1983 Event - Lebanese and Syrian army battle 1982 Event - Battle of Mount Longdon, Falkland Islands 1982 Event - Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured 1982 Event - Government troops and Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria 1981 Event - Battle between Moslems and Christians in Cairo, 14 killed 1981 Event - Heavy battle between Christian militia and Syrian army in East Lebanon 1981 Event - Police and Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia 1980 Event - Battle between police and demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed 1980 Event - Police and youthful rebels battle in Zurich 1977 Death - Willis Bouchey, actor (Battle Cry, From Here to Eternity), dies at 34 1976 Event - Battle East Sussex: Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman 1976 Birthday - Terry Battle, running back, Detroit Lions 1975 Event - Battle between Cuba and South Africa troops in Angola 1972 Birthday - Howard Battle, born in Biloxi, Mississippi, infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies 1972 Death - Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66 1971 Event - WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting 1969 Death - Raymond A Spruance, U.S. Admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83 1969 Death - Carlos Marighela, Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle 1969 Event - Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians 1969 Event - Jimi Hendrix and Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars 1968 Death - Robert Ayres, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth), dies at 54 1968 Event - Students and police battle in Paris, 100s injured 1968 Event - Battle between students and troops in Paris, 1000 injured 1966 Death - Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68 1966 Event - 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam 1966 Death - Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64 1966 Event - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die 1964 Birthday - Nolan Jay Henke, Battle Creek, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1990 BC Open 1964 Birthday - Greg Battle, CFL linebacker for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1963 Birthday - Jason Newsted, born in Battle Creek, Michigan, bassist, Metallica, heavy metal band member, founder of Chophouse Records studio 1961 Event - Battle of Paris - police kill 210 Algerians 1960 Event - Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer 1960 Event - South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle 1959 Event - Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon" 1956 Event - Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300 1955 Event - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open 1951 Birthday - John Battle, born in Bradford, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Leeds West, attended University of Leeds 1950 Event - 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War 1950 Event - In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place 1948 Birthday - Kathleen Battle, born in Portsmouth, Ohio, soprano, Shephard-Tannhauser 1948 Event - 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated 1948 Birthday - Kathleen Battle, U.S. soprano, Tannhauser 1946 Event - U.S. court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau 1945 Death - Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle 1945 Death - Major Courtney, U.S. medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf 1945 Death - John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25 1945 Event - Red Army begins Battle of Berlin 1945 Event - Massive kamikaze-attack on U.S. battle fleet near Okinawa 1945 Event - Kamikazes attack U.S. battle fleet near Kerama Retto 1945 Event - Battle of U.S. 94 Infantry 1945 Death - Aubrey Cousins, Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle 1945 Event - U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die 1945 Death - Dennis Donnini, British rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19 1945 Event - German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge 1945 Event - U.S. Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea 1944 Event - Battle of Bastogne - U.S. General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans 1944 Event - Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!) 1944 Event - Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium 1944 Death - Bernard Ray, U.S. lieutenant, dies in Battle at Hurtgenwald 1944 Event - Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink 1944 Event - Battle at Samar-island 1944 Event - Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed 1944 Event - Gulf of Leyte battle begin 1944 Event - U.S. 1st army wins battle of Aachen 1944 Event - U.S. 1st army begins battle of Aachen 1944 Event - Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands 1944 Death - "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek 1944 Death - John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Death - David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle 1944 Death - John AC Fitch, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Death - Paul Grabner, German SS-captain, dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Death - Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Death - Robert Cole, U.S. Lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best 1944 Death - ... Kussin, German General-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle 1944 Death - Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle 1944 Event - Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down 1944 Death - Robert H Iseley, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle 1944 Event - British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz 1944 Event - Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; U.S. victory on Feb 22 1943 Event - British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst 1943 Event - Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins 1943 Death - Edward H "Butch" O'hare, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle 1943 Event - Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island 1943 Event - 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: U.S. assault on Marcus Island 1943 Death - Gustav Schmidt, German Lieutenant-General, dies in battle 1943 Event - Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks) 1943 Event - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany 1943 Event - Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula) 1943 Event - Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die 1943 Event - 7th day of battle at Kursk 1943 Event - 6th day of battle at Kursk 1943 Event - 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje 1943 Event - 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve 1943 Event - 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova 1943 Event - 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed 1943 Event - Battle of Gulf of Kula 1943 Event - Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. begins (6,000 tanks) 1943 Event - RAF bombs Mohne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr) 1943 Event - Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean 1943 Event - Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack 1943 Event - U.S. defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea 1943 Event - Sea battle in Bismarck Sea finishes, U.S. and Australia win 1943 Event - Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle 1943 Event - Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army 1943 Event - Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach 1942 Event - Battle in Barents Sea 1942 Event - Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad 1942 Event - Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal 1942 Death - Douglas H Fox, U.S. captain of destroyer Barton, dies in battle 1942 Event - In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began 1942 Event - 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afr corps draws back out Fuka-posing 1942 Event - 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault 1942 Event - 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir 1942 Event - Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G) in battle of Alamein Egypt (WW II) 1942 Event - 10th day of battle at El Alamein 1942 Event - 9th day in battle at El Alamein 1942 Event - 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault 1942 Event - 7th day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault 1942 Event - 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery 1942 Event - 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance 1942 Event - 2nd day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal 1942 Event - 4th day in battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough 1942 Event - Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes 1942 Event - 3rd day of battle at El Alamein: British offensive 1942 Event - Battle of Henderson Field Guadalcanal begins 1942 Event - 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry 1942 Event - U.S. Navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance 1942 Event - Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal 1942 Event - Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal 1942 Event - Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal 1942 Event - German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle 1942 Event - Battle at Alam Halfa ends 1942 Event - Battle at Alam Halfa: German and Italians assault 1942 Death - Von Bismarck, German major general, (Africa Corps), dies in battle 1942 Death - George EAE, English prince/earl of St. Andrews, dies in battle at 39 1942 Event - Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands 1942 Event - Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) 1942 Death - Richard Gott, British gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43 1942 Death - Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle 1942 Event - Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan 1942 Event - Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway 1942 Event - Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II 1942 Event - Battle of Midway Island begins 1942 Event - Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army 1942 Event - Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion 1942 Event - Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air) 1942 Event - Battle of Bataan, U.S. and Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan 1942 Event - 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, U.S. suffers a major naval defeat 1942 Event - Battle of Java Sea began 13 U.S. warships sunk - 2 Japanese 1942 Event - German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb 1942 Event - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany 1942 Event - Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army 1941 Death - L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle 1941 Death - Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28 1941 Event - Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive 1941 Death - Lancelot Holland, British Vice-Admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle 1941 Event - Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy 1941 Death - Joachim Schepke, German commandant (U-100), dies in battle 1941 Death - Gunther Prien, German commandant (U-47), dies in battle 1941 Event - Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed 1940 Death - Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle 1940 Event - Battle of Britain: Germany and Britair control of English Channel, ends 1940 Event - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe 1940 Event - 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain 1940 Event - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins) 1940 Event - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks 1940 Event - Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air, 114 days 1940 Event - British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die 1940 Death - Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29 1940 Event - Battle of France begins in WW II 1940 Event - 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed 1940 Event - Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious 1939 Event - Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee 1939 Event - Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw 1937 Event - Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain 1937 Birthday - Daniela Rocca, born in Sicily, actress, Battle of Austerlitz, Empty Canvas 1937 Event - Battle of Gijon in Spain begins 1937 Event - Battle of the Century: Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio 1936 Death - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle 1936 Event - Battle of Madrid begins 1936 Death - Bob Dellemijn, Lourdes-ganger/Franco-volunteer, dies in battle at 18 1933 Birthday - William Davis, author/broadcaster, Battle at Bull Run 1932 Event - Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die 1932 Birthday - Pier Angeli, born in Italy, Sodom and Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge 1931 Birthday - Richard Devon, born in Glendale California, actor, Battle of Blood Island 1931 Birthday - Tab Hunter, actor, Damn Yankees, Lust in the Dust, Battle Cry 1930 Event - Boqueron battle ends Paraguay border dispute 1928 Event - KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet 1927 Event - Sea battle at Navarino (Greece freed of Ottoman occupation) 1927 Event - U.S. and Mexico battle over oil interests 1924 Birthday - Leon Uris, born in Baltimore, novelist, Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry 1923 Birthday - Linda Christian, Tampico, Mexico, actress, Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone 1921 Event - Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece 1918 Event - Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I 1918 Event - Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts 1918 Event - Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans 1918 Event - In WW I 2nd battle of the Marne ends 1918 Event - 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I 1918 Birthday - Ben Johnson, born in Foraker, Oklahoma, actor, Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger 1918 Event - Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st U.S. victory of WW I 1918 Event - Battle of Zeebrugge ends 1918 Event - Battle of Somme, ends 1917 Event - 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines) 1917 Event - Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army 1917 Event - 3rd battle of Ypres begins 1917 Death - Christopher J. Forster, British RAF-pilot/captain, dies in battle 1917 Event - Battle of Arras begins 1916 Event - French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun 1916 Event - General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe 1916 Event - 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France 1916 Event - Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme) 1916 Event - Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun 1916 Birthday - George Montgomery, Brady Mont, actor, Battle of Bulge, Hallucination 1916 Death - Edward D Pain, English journalist (New York World), dies in battle at 36 1916 Death - Charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle at 36 1916 Event - Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines 1916 Event - Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead) 1916 Event - British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6 1916 Death - Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle 1916 Event - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast 1916 Event - Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun 1916 Event - Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties) 1915 Event - Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British and Germans killed 1915 Event - Battle of Kut-el-Amara: Brits defeat Turks in Mesopotamia 1915 Event - Battle at Loos: 8,246 British and 0 German casualties 1915 Death - Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle 1915 Event - 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins and ends with loss of 280,000 men 1915 Event - 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties 1915 Death - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle 1915 Event - German and French fight Battle of Artois 1915 Event - 2nd Battle of Ypres begins 1915 Event - British battle cruisers Inflexible and Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle 1915 Event - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army 1915 Event - German-British sea battle at Doggersbank and Helgoland 1914 Event - Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow 1914 Event - British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island 1914 Birthday - Colin Gray, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, fought Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Channel Front 1914 Event - German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile 1914 Death - Christopher "Kit" Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle 1914 Event - German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea 1914 Event - Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat 1914 Event - Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21) 1914 Event - 1st battle at Ypres, begins 1914 Death - Jean Bouin, French marathoner, Silver Medal 1912 Olympics, dies in battle 1914 Death - Alain-Fournier, French writer (Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27 1914 Event - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 1914 Event - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I 1914 Event - Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved) 1914 Event - Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris 1914 Event - Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians 1914 Death - Charles Peguy, French writer/publisher (Clio), dies in battle at 41 1914 Event - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die) 1914 Event - Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army 1914 Death - Adrian H. Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26 1914 Event - Battle at St. Quentin: French counter attack under General Lanrezac 1914 Death - ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle 1914 Event - 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles 1914 Event - Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed 1914 Event - 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau 1914 Event - Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army 1914 Event - Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops 1914 Event - Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten 1914 Event - Battle at Charleroi: General von Bulows troops beat French 1914 Event - Battle in Ardennen: Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny and Virton 1914 Death - Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 Death - Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle 1914 Event - Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre and Meuse, Mons 1914 Event - Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans 1914 Event - Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s 1914 Event - Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen") 1914 Event - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany 1914 Event - German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina 1913 Event - Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy 1912 Event - Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia 1911 Birthday - Albert Alberts, writer/journalist, French battle 1910 Death - Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91 1910 Birthday - Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer and actor, Battle of the Sexes 1910 Birthday - Charles Crichton, British director, Battle of Sexes 1909 Birthday - Dana Andrews, Collins Mississippi, actor, Battle of the Bulge, Laura 1906 Birthday - Kate A ter Horst-Arriens, Dutch nurse, Battle of Arnhem 1906 Event - Will Keith Kellogg found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. 1905 Event - Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South 1904 Event - Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian 1904 Event - Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army 1902 Event - Battle at Rooiwal, South Africa 1902 Death - ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle 1902 Event - Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British 1901 Event - Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack Brits 1901 Event - Battle at Bakenlaagte: Lt-colonel Bensons unit vs Boers 1901 Death - U Benson, British Lt-colonel (Magers' fountain), killed in battle 1901 Event - Battle at Blood River Port: Boer General Botha beats Major Goughs cavalry 1901 Event - Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers 1900 Event - Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten 1900 Event - Battle at Bothaville: general-major Charles Knox beats Boers 1900 Death - PWJ Le Gallais, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville 1900 Event - Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha 1900 Event - Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha 1900 Death - John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle 1900 Death - Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle 1900 Event - Battle at Driefontein, South Africa (Boers vs. British army) 1900 Event - Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees 1900 Event - Battle at Pietershoogte 1900 Event - Battle at Hart's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Event - Battle at Wynne's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Event - Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured 1900 Death - George Labram, U.S. mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle 1900 Event - Battle at Vaalkrans, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Event - Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1899 Death - Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of British field marshal, dies in battle 1899 Event - Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) 1899 Event - Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs. General Methuen 1899 Death - Andrew "Andy" Wauchope, British general-major, dies in battle 1899 Death - Lord Winchester, British marquis/major, dies in battle 1899 Event - Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army 1899 Event - Battle of Mud river (Boer General. Cronje beats British General Methuen) 1899 Death - Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle at 19 1899 Event - Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers 1899 Event - Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers 1899 Event - Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) 1899 Event - Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat Lieutenant-General Whites army 1899 Event - Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army 1899 Death - W Penn Symons, British General-Major, dies in battle 1899 Event - Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army) 1899 Event - Battle at Talana Hill Natal: British army vs Boers 1899 Death - Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle 1898 Event - Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain 1898 Event - Machine gun 1st used in battle 1898 Event - U.S. battle fleet under Admiral Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila 1898 Event - Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese 1898 Birthday - Robert Keith, Fowler, Indiana, actor, Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One 1897 Event - Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece 1897 Event - Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army 1896 Event - Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians 1896 Event - Battle of Adua: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians 1896 Death - ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Death - ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Death - ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Event - Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr. Jamesons troops) 1895 Event - Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out 1895 Event - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies 1895 Death - Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austrian (Battle at Custozza), dies at 77 1894 Event - Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang 1894 Death - PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok 1893 Death - Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle 1893 Event - Battle of Shangani, Matabeleland: Dr. Jameson beats Ndebeles 1893 Event - Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi 1893 Death - Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle and is eaten 1892 Event - Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed 1892 Birthday - Raoul Walsh, born in New York City, director, Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry 1892 Event - Battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries 1891 Death - Msiri, king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle 1891 Death - Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle 1891 Event - Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F Lugard stops Moslem rebellion, 300 killed 1889 Event - Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated 1889 Death - Yohannes IV, Kasa, Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle 1889 Event - Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV 1887 Death - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73 1887 Event - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians 1885 Event - Battle at Abu Klea Sudan, 800-1000 killed 1885 Death - Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle 1885 Event - British beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan 1883 Event - Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army 1883 Death - William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle 1883 Event - Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack 1882 Event - Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt 1882 Event - French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die 1881 Event - Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley 1881 Death - George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46 1881 Event - Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces 1881 Event - Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British 1880 Event - Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten 1880 Event - Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr. Watson is wounded, breaks out 1879 Event - Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: General Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu 1879 Event - Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz 1879 Event - Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus 1879 Death - E Louis JJ Napoleon Bonaparte, crown prince, dies in battle at 23 1879 Event - Battle of Iquiquw 1879 Death - Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle 1879 Death - George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle 1877 Death - Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle 1876 Death - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle 1876 Event - Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother 1876 Event - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians 1875 Event - Battle at Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians 1875 Birthday - John Buchan, Scotland, Governor-General of Canada/writer, Battle of Somme 1874 Event - Battle between jobless and police in New York City, 100s injuried 1872 Death - Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66 1870 Event - Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties 1870 Death - Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1870 Event - Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France 1868 Event - Battle at Washita, General Custer defeats Cheyennes 1868 Event - Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France 1868 Event - Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated 1867 Event - Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi 1867 Death - Pieter J Jong, Dutch Zouave, dies in battle 1867 Event - Battle of Moorefield, WV 1866 Event - Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy 1866 Event - 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army 1865 Death - Mosby Munroe Parsons, U.S. Confederate General-Major, dies in battle 1865 Event - Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi 1865 Event - Battle of Galveston, Texas, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith 1865 Event - Battle of Citronville, Alabama; Richard Taylor surrenders 1865 Event - Battle of Mobile, Alabama 1865 Event - Battle of Durham Station, North Carolina (Greensboro) 1865 Event - Battle of Ft. Tobacco, Virginia 1865 Event - Battle of Columbus and West Point, Georgia (Ft. Tyler) 1865 Death - Robert C Tyler, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1865 Event - Battle of Raleigh, North Carolina 1865 Event - Battle of Mobile, Alabama - evacuated by Confederates 1865 Event - Battle of Farmville, Virginia 1865 Event - Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off 1865 Death - Reuben B Boston, U.S. Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle 1865 Event - Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) 1865 Event - Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign) 1865 Event - Battle of Petersburg, Virginia (Ft. Gregg, Sutherland's Station) 1865 Event - Battle of Ft. Blakely AL and Selma AL 1865 Event - Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army 1865 Event - Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H) 1865 Event - Battle at 5 Forks Virginia 1865 Event - Battle of Quaker Road, VA 1865 Event - Battle of Bluff Spring, Florida 1865 Event - Battle of Fort Stedman, Virginia - in front of Petersburg 1865 Event - Battle of Mobile, Alabama (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely) 1865 Event - Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman 1865 Event - 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville North Carolina 1865 Event - Battle of Bentonville-Confederates retreat from Greenville NC 1865 Event - Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma, Alabama 1865 Event - Battle of Averasboro North Carolina (1,500 casualities) 1865 Event - Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina 1865 Event - Battle of Kingston, North Carolina (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks) 1865 Event - Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida 1865 Event - Battle of Wilmington, North Carolina (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals 1865 Event - Battle of Ft. Moultrie, South Carolina occupied by Federals 1865 Event - Battle of Charleston South Carolina 1865 Event - 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run) 1865 Death - John Pegram, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 1865 Event - Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) 1865 Event - Battle of Ft. Moultrie, SC 1865 Event - Battle of Beverly, WV 1864 Event - Battle of Egypt Station, MS 1864 Event - Battle of Gordonsville, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Franklin, TN 1864 Event - Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities 1864 Event - Battle of Nashville, TN 1864 Event - Battle of Ft. McAllister, GA 1864 Event - Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC 1864 Event - Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA 1864 Death - Archibald Gracie, Jr., Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31 1864 Event - Battle of Franklin, Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities 1864 Event - Battle of Honey Hill South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded 1864 Death - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 1864 Death - Otto French Strahl, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 1864 Death - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 1864 Event - Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee (Thomason's Station) 1864 Event - Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser's Raid, Ft. Kelly) 1864 Event - Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties) 1864 Event - Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties 1864 Event - Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid) 1864 Event - Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties 1864 Event - Battle of Wauhatchie, TN 1864 Event - Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Virginia (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad) 1864 Event - Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia near Richmont 1864 Event - Battle of Newtonia, MI 1864 Event - Battle of Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas (Mine Creek) 1864 Death - James Jay Archer, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 46 1864 Event - Battle of Westport, Missouri 1864 Event - Battle of Westport, MO (Kansas City) 1864 Event - Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers 1864 Death - Daniel Davidson Bidwell, magistrate/Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 45 1864 Event - Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties) 1864 Event - Battle of Dalton, Georgia - surrendered 1864 Event - Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (Mosby's Raid) 1864 Event - Battle of Tom's Brook-Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is wipped by Custer and Merrit's cavalry divisions 1864 Death - Alexander Gardiner, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Death - John Gregg, U.S. judge/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 36 1864 Event - Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South 1864 Death - John Dunovant, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Event - Battle of Preble's Farm Virginia (Poplar Springs Church) 1864 Event - Battle of Waynesboro and New Market Heights VA 1864 Death - Hiram Burnham, U.S. Union-colonel (Chancellorsville), dies in battle 1864 Event - Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft. Davidson), Missouri: 1700 killed/injured 1864 Event - Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia, General Early Retreats to Brown's Gap 1864 Event - 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester) 1864 Death - Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Death - David Allen Russell, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 43 1864 Death - Robert Emmet Rodes, U.S. Confederate General-major, dies in battle at 35 1864 Event - Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid) 1864 Event - 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties 1864 Event - Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties 1864 Event - Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY 1864 Event - Battle of Summit Point, VA 1864 Death - John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 24 1864 Event - 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia (about 3900 casualties) 1864 Death - John H Kelly, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 24 1864 Event - 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia 1864 Event - 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault 1864 Event - 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault 1864 Event - Battle of Front Royal Virginia (Guard Hill) 1864 Death - John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31 1864 Event - 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia: Federal assault 1864 Event - Battle of Deep Bottom Virginia (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA 1864 Event - Battle of Ft. Morgan AL 1864 Event - Battle of Mobile Bay Al-Farragut is given rank of Vice-Admiral 1864 Death - Griffin A Stedman, Union-Brigadier-General (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26 1864 Event - Battle of Petersburg, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of the Crater: General Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg 1864 Event - 3rd and last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid) 1864 Event - 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Atlanta Georgia (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642 1864 Death - Samuel Benton, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 44 1864 Event - Battle of Darbytown, Virginia (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains) 1864 Event - Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie] 1864 Event - Battle of Winchester, Virginia US1200 CS600 1864 Event - Battle of Woodstock, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 Confederate, 3641 U.S. die 1864 Death - James Birdseye Mcpherson, U.S. Union General-major, dies in battle at 35 1864 Death - William Henry Talbot Walker, Confederate general-major, dies in battle at 47 1864 Event - Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured 1864 Event - Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign 1864 Death - Victor JB Girardey, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 27 1864 Event - Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD) 1864 Event - Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400 1864 Event - Battle of Smith's Expedition, Mississippi (Tupelo, Harrisburg) 1864 Event - Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia 1864 Death - Charles Garrison Harker, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 26 1864 Event - Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia, Wilson's Raid 1864 Event - Battle of Kinston North Carolina and Battle of Abingdon, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Petersburgs Virginia - in trenches 1864 Death - Friend Smith Rutherford, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43? 1864 Event - Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle for Petersburg begins as General Grant assaults Confederate line 1864 Death - Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt 1864 Event - Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle 1864 Event - Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad 1864 Event - Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: General Hobsons unit caught 1864 Event - Battle of Laurel Hill, West Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, Central Railroad 1864 Event - Battle of Kellar's Bridge Kentucky, Licking River 1864 Event - Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Big Shanty, Georgia 1864 Event - Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Pine Mt, Pine Knob, Golgotha 1864 Event - Battle of Lake Chicot, AR, Dutch Bayou 1864 Event - Battle of Piedmont, Virginia, Augusta City 1864 Death - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1864 Event - General Lee wins his last victory of Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor 1864 Death - James P McMahon, U.S. Union colonel (164th New York), dies in battle 1864 Death - Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle 1864 Event - Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2 1864 Event - Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm) 1864 Event - Battle of Bethesda Church, Virginia 1864 Death - Henry H Giesy, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Event - Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia 1864 Event - Battle of Dallas, Georgia 1864 Event - Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting 1864 Event - Battle of N Anna River, Virginia (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown) 1864 Event - Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured 1864 Event - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, Virginia (Bermuda Hundred) 1864 Event - Battle of Yellow Bayou, Louisiana (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks) 1864 Event - Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat 1864 Event - Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA 1864 Event - Battle of New Market, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Reseca, Georgia -Atlanta- 1864 Event - Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (Ft. Darling) 1864 Event - Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Todd's Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid) 1864 Death - Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 37 1864 Event - Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge) 1864 Death - James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 34 1864 Event - Battle of Cloyd's Mt, and Swift Creek, Virginia (Drewery's Bluff, Ft. Darling) 1864 Event - Battle of Dalton, Geogia 1864 Event - Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark 1864 Death - "Uncle" John Sedgwick, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 50 1864 Event - Battle of Antietam, Virginia (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill) 1864 Death - James Samuel Wadsworth, general-major (Union), dies in battle at 56 1864 Event - Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500) 1864 Event - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, Virginia 1864 Event - Battle of Wilderness, General Longstreet seriously injured 1864 Death - Henry Livermore Abbott, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Event - Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke 1864 Event - Battle of Wilderness, Virginia (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern) 1864 Death - Alexander Hays, U.S. Union-general-major, dies in battle at 44 1864 Death - John Marshall Jones, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43 1864 Death - Leroy A Stafford, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 42 1864 Event - 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault 1864 Event - Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign) 1864 Event - Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; General W R Scurry is killed 1864 Event - Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition) 1864 Event - Battle of Cane River, Louisiana (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry) 1864 Event - Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition) 1864 Event - Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina 1864 Event - Battle of Blair's Landing Louisiana 1864 Death - Thomas Green, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 50 1864 Event - Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 2870 causalities 1864 Event - Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana Federals routed by General Richard Taylor 1864 Event - Battle of Paducah, Kentucky (Forrest's raid) 1864 Event - Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana 1864 Death - Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21 1864 Event - 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties) 1864 Event - Battle at Dalton Georgia 1864 Event - 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, Mississippi 1864 Event - Battle at Okolona, Mississippi 1864 Death - Jeffery Forrest, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Event - Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida 1864 Event - Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid) 1864 Event - Battle of New Bern, NC 1864 Event - Battle of Fair Gardens, TN 1864 Event - Battle of Cosby Creek, TN 1863 Event - Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tennessee 1863 Event - Battle of Ft. Sanders, Tennessee (Ft. Loudon), 8-900 casualities 1863 Event - Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas 1863 Event - Battle of Payne's Farm, VA 1863 Event - Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee 1863 Event - Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia and Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee 1863 Death - Claudius Charles Wilson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 32 1863 Event - Battle of Chattanooga and Orchard Knob, Tennessee begins 1863 Event - Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities 1863 Event - Battle of Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, VA 1863 Event - Battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana 1863 Event - Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured 1863 Event - Battle of Buckland Mills, VA 1863 Event - Battle of Charlestown, West Virginia 1863 Event - Battle at Bristoe Station Virginia (about 2000 casualties) 1863 Event - Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station) 1863 Event - Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas 1863 Event - Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends 1863 Event - Battle of Chickamauga Georgia (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat 1863 Death - Preston Smith, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1863 Event - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN 1863 Event - Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces 1863 Event - Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs) 1863 Event - Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign 1863 Death - Edward Needle Kirk, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 35 1863 Death - James Deshler, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 30 1863 Event - Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender 1863 Event - Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia 1863 Event - Battle of Buffington's Island (St. George Creek), Ohio 1863 Event - Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina - Second assault US1500 CS174 1863 Event - Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory 1863 Event - Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek) 1863 Event - Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana 1863 Event - Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4 1863 Event - Battle of Jackson, Mississippi and Battle of Birdsong Ferry, Mississippi 1863 Event - Battle of Gettysburg Pennsylvania ends, major victory for North 1863 Death - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, U.S. Union lt, dies in battle at about 22 1863 Death - Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate Brigadier General Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46 1863 Death - Richard Brooke Garnett, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 45 1863 Death - Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 40 1863 Event - Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day) 1863 Death - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28 1863 Event - Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia 1863 Event - Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee's northward advance halted 1863 Death - John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42 1863 Event - Battle at Westminster Maryland: Federal assault 1863 Event - Battle at Upperville Virginia, 389 casualities 1863 Event - Battle at Middleburg Virginia, 100+ casualties 1863 Event - Battle at Middleburg, Virginia 1863 Event - Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia 1863 Death - Isham W. Garrott, U.S. attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1863 Event - 2nd battle at Winchester Va, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualities 1863 Event - Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia 1863 Event - Battle of Winchester, Virginia 1863 Event - Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds 1863 Event - Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia, Fleetwood, Beverly Ford 1863 Death - Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30 1863 Event - Battle of Milliken's Bend, Louisiana - Jefferson Davis' home burnt 1863 Event - Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA and Williamsport, MD 1863 Event - Battle of Franklin's Crossing, Virginia, Deep Run 1863 Event - Battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi 1863 Event - Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign 1863 Death - Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1863 Event - Battle of Jackson, Mississippi 1863 Event - Battle of Raymond, Mississippi 1863 Event - Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi 1863 Event - Battle of Chancellorsville - action at Salem Church 1863 Event - Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 1863 Event - Battle of Fredricksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights) 1863 Event - Battle of Salem Church, Virginia 1863 Event - South defeats North in Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia 1863 Event - Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia (29,000 injured or died) 1863 Event - Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi 1863 Death - Edward Dorr Tracy, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 29 1863 Event - Battle of Streight's raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL 1863 Event - Battle of Irish Bend, Louisiana (Ft. Bisland) 1863 Event - Battle of Suffolk, Virginia (Norfleet House) 1863 Event - Battle of Charleston, South Carolina, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter 1863 Event - Battle of Grand Gulf MS and Dinwiddie Court House VA 1863 Event - Battle of Pensacola Florida - evacuated by Federals 1863 Event - Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities) 1863 Death - John Pelham, U.S. Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24 1863 Event - Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee 1863 Event - Battle at Bear River, Washington: U.S. Army vs indians 1863 Event - Battle of Kinston, NC 1863 Event - Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche Louisiana 1863 Event - Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends 1863 Death - Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 35 1863 Event - Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city 1863 Event - Battle of Helena, AK 1862 Event - Battle of Stone's River, Tennessee (Stone River, Monfreesboro) 1862 Event - Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee 1862 Death - James Edward Rains, lawyer/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 29 1862 Death - Joshua Woodrow Sill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31 1862 Event - Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman 1862 Event - Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou) 1862 Event - Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky 1862 Event - Battle of Dumfries, VA 1862 Event - Battle of Holly Spring, MS 1862 Event - Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid) 1862 Death - Conrad Feger Jackson, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 49 1862 Death - Maxcy Gregg, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 1862 Death - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1862 Event - Battle of Dumfries, VA 1862 Event - Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights) 1862 Event - Battle of Hartsville, TN 1862 Event - Battle of Prairie Grove, AR 1862 Event - Battle of Coffeeville, MS 1862 Event - Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties) 1862 Event - Battle of Hooly Spring, MS 1862 Death - Alexander Early Stone, Confederate, dies in battle 1862 Event - Battle of Holly Spring, MS 1862 Event - Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties 1862 Event - Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana 1862 Event - Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory 1862 Event - Battle of Leetown and Thoroughfare Gap, VA 1862 Event - Battle of Perryville, Kentucky-Confederate invasion halted 1862 Death - James Streshley Jackson, attorney and Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 1862 Death - William Rufus Terrill, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28 1862 Event - Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS 1862 Event - Battle of Corinth ends 1862 Event - Battle of Corinth, Mississippi 1862 Death - Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1862 Event - Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia 1862 Event - Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties) 1862 Death - [Lewis] Henry Little, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 45 1862 Event - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals 1862 Event - Battle of Mumfordville, Kentucky-U.S. Col J Wilder surrenders city 1862 Event - Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die 1862 Death - William Edwin Starke, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 48 1862 Event - Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md) 1862 Event - Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Event - Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates 1862 Event - Battle of Munfordsville, Kentucky 1862 Death - Samuel Garland, Jr., U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1862 Event - Battle of Harpers Ferry VA 1862 Event - Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties) 1862 Death - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 44 1862 Death - Philip "Phil" Kearny, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 48 1862 Death - George William Taylor, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1862 Event - 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union 1862 Event - Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, Kentucky 1862 Event - Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee 1862 Event - 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins 1862 Event - Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels 1862 Event - Battle of Bull Run, Virginia (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station) 1862 Event - Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA 1862 Event - Battle of Catlett's Station VA 1862 Death - Henry Bohlen, German/US Brigadier-General (Union), dies in battle at 51 1862 Event - Battle of Nueces River, Texas 1862 Event - Battle of Cedar Mountain Virginia (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain) 1862 Event - Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt., however General Charles S. Winder is killed 1862 Event - Battle of Baton Rouge, LA 1862 Death - Thomas Williams, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 1862 Event - Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces 1862 Event - Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150 1862 Event - Battle at Green River Kentucky (Morgan's Ohio Raid) 1862 Event - Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina (Port Royal Ferry) 1862 Death - William Barksdale, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 40 1862 Event - Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confederate superior power driven out 1862 Event - Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia (Harrison's Landing, Crew's Farm) 1862 Event - Battle of Holly Spring, MS 1862 Event - Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia 1862 Event - Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia: Confederate assault attack 1862 Death - Richard Griffith, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 1862 Event - Battle at Garnett's/Golding's Farms, Virginia 1862 Event - Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3 1862 Death - Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35 1862 Event - Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia 1862 Event - Battle of Oak Grove, Virginia (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days 1862 Event - Battle of Port Republic, last of 5 battles in Jacksons Valley camp 1862 Event - Battle of Memphis-city is surrendered 1862 Event - Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina, Port Royal Ferry 1862 Event - 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Virginia (11,165 casualties) 1862 Event - Battle of Seven Pines Virginia (Fair Oaks) 1862 Death - Robert Hatton, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 34 1862 Event - Battle of Booneville, Mississippi - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth 1862 Event - Battle of Front Royal, Virginia 1862 Event - Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station) 1862 Event - Battle of Winchester, Virginia 1862 Event - Battle at Front Royal, Virginia 1862 Death - William H Keim, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 1862 Event - Battle of Princeton, West Virginia, ends, about 128 casualities 1862 Event - Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft. Darling), Virginia 1862 Event - Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee (Plum Point Bend) 1862 Event - Battle of Farmington, Mississippi 1862 Event - Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va 1862 Event - Battle of West Point, Virginia (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville) 1862 Event - Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia 1862 Event - Battle of New Orleans LA - U.S. Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans 1862 Event - Battle of Ft. Jackson, Ft. St. Philip and New Orlean's, Louisiana 1862 Event - Battle of Ft. Pillow Tennessee 1862 Event - Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, Island #10 falls 1862 Event - Battle of Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee 1862 Death - Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 51 1862 Death - Albert Sidney Johnston, U.S. Confederate general, dies in battle at 59 1862 Event - Battle of Yorktown begins 1862 Event - Shenandoah Valley campaign, Jackson's Battle of Woodstock, VA 1862 Event - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch) 1862 Event - Battle of Kernstown VA-Jackson begins his Valley Campaign 1862 Event - Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles 1862 Event - Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern 1862 Event - "Monitor" (Union) and "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads 1862 Event - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal 1862 Event - Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Gens McCulloch and McIntosh killed 1862 Death - William Slack, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1862 Event - Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern) 1862 Event - Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces 1862 Event - Battle of Woodburn, Kentucky 1862 Event - Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico 1862 Event - Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound 1862 Event - Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic" 1862 Death - James McIntosh, U.S. confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 33 1862 Event - Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads) 1862 Event - Battle of Big Sandy River, Kentucky (Middle Creek) 1862 Event - Battle of Romney, WV 1862 Event - Battle of Manassas Junction, VA 1862 Event - Battle of Helena, AK 1862 Event - Battle of Ft. McRee, Florida Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina (Port Royal Ferry) 1861 Event - Battle of Dranesville, VA 1861 Event - Battle of Black Water 1861 Event - Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV 1861 Event - Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah) 1861 Event - Battle of Ft. McRee, FL 1861 Event - Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper 1861 Event - Battle of Mount Ivy, Kentucky 1861 Event - Battle of Belmont, MO 1861 Event - Battle of Port Royal Bay, South Carolina (Ft. Walker, Ft. Beauregard) 1861 Event - Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield) 1861 Event - Battle of Balls Bluff, Virginia (Leesburg, Harrison's Island) 1861 Death - Edward Dickinson Baker, U.S. attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50 1861 Event - Battle of Dumfries, Virginia (Quantico Creek) 1861 Event - Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union 1861 Event - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 1861 Event - Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia 1861 Event - Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities 1861 Event - Battle of Fort Hatteras NC 1861 Event - Battle of Cape Hatteras SC-Union troops take Ft. Clark 1861 Event - Battle of Wilson's Creek MO (Springfield, Oak Hills)-General Lyon killed 1861 Death - Nathaniel Lyon, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43 1861 Event - Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing 1861 Event - Battle of St. Augustine Springs, New Mexico Terr 1861 Event - 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins 1861 Death - Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44 1861 Event - Battle of Blackburn's Ford, Virginia US57 CS68 - Manassas - 1861 Event - Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought 1861 Event - Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53 1861 Event - Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels 1861 Event - Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender 1861 Event - Battle of Laurel Hill, Virginia 1861 Event - Battle of Carthage, Missouri - U.S. General Sigel attacks pro-secessionist 1861 Event - Battle of Hoke's Run, West Virginia - small Union victory 1861 Event - Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - U.S. attacks Confederate batteries 1861 Event - Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces 1861 Event - Battle of Vienna, Virginia and Secessionville, South Carolina, James Island 1861 Event - Battle of Big Bethel Virginia (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats 1861 Death - John Garland, U.S. Union colonel/Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1861 Death - John Q Marr, U.S. Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse 1861 Event - Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South 1861 Event - Battle of Lavaca, Texas 1861 Event - Battle of San Antonio, Texas 1861 Event - Battle of Norfolk, Virginia 1861 Event - Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia 1859 Event - Battle of Solferino, N-Italy: France/Sardinia-Austria 1858 Birthday - Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician 1857 Event - Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore 1857 Event - Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British) 1856 Event - Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders 1856 Event - Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans 1856 Event - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers and Indians 1855 Event - Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising 1854 Death - ... Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann 1854 Event - Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War), 409 die 1854 Event - Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died 1853 Death - Jan W. Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo), dies at 73 1849 Event - Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels 1849 Death - Andreas Michiels, Dutch military Governor of West Sumatra, dies in battle at 52 1849 Birthday - Joseph S. Gallieni, general, Battle of Marne, military governor, Paris 1849 Event - Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic) 1848 Event - 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian 1848 Event - Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts 1848 Event - Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte 1848 Event - 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians 1848 Event - Battle at Curtazone: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte 1848 Event - 1st battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians 1848 Event - Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru: Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro 1847 Event - U.S. under General Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey 1847 Event - U.S. defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento 1847 Event - Battle of Buena Vista Mexico; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans 1847 Event - Battle of Buena Vista: U.S. troops beat Mexican army 1846 Event - Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu 1846 Event - Battle of Resaca de la Palma-U.S. sends Mexico back to Rio Grande 1846 Event - 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas 1846 Event - Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India 1846 Event - British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India 1846 Event - Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) 1837 Event - Battle of Okeechobee-U.S. forces defeat Seminole Indians 1837 Death - Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle 1836 Event - Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico 1836 Death - Davy Crockett, U.S. pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49 1836 Event - Battle of Wetumka, Florida 1832 Event - Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin 1832 Event - Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois 1831 Event - Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army 1831 Event - Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow 1830 Death - Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37 1828 Event - Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay and Brazil 1827 Event - Battle at Navarino: Engl/Russian/French fleet beat Turk/Egyptian fleet 1824 Event - Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain 1824 Event - Battle at Junan - Simon Bolivars army beats Spanish 1822 Event - Battle of Pichincha, Bolivar secures independence of Quito from Spain 1821 Event - Battle of Carabobo; Bolivar defeats royalists outside of Caracas 1819 Event - Battle of Boyaca; Bolivar defeats Spanish in Colombia 1819 Birthday - Julia Ward Howe, U.S., author/lecturer, Battle Hymn of the Republic 1817 Birthday - Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austria, Battle at Custozza 1815 Event - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blucher 1815 Death - Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle 1815 Event - Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia 1815 Event - Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French 1815 Death - Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle 1815 Event - Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples 1815 Event - Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew 1815 Death - Edward Pakenham, English general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle 1814 Event - Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812 1814 Event - Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh 1814 Event - Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British 1814 Event - Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russians out of E Prussia 1814 Event - Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British 1814 Event - Battle at Horseshoe Bend Ala: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians 1814 Event - Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians 1813 Death - Josef Poniatovski, Polish gen/marshal of France, dies in battle 1813 Event - Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria and Russia) 1813 Event - Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British 1813 Death - Tecumseh, U.S. Shawnee-chief/English General (Battle of Thames), dies 1813 Event - Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie 1813 Event - Battle of Dresden-Napoleon defeats Austrians 1813 Birthday - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter, Battle of Guilder Tracks 1813 Event - Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French 1813 Death - Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussian Minister of War (1807-10), dies in battle 1813 Event - Battle of Beaver Dam-British and Indian forces defeat U.S. forces 1813 Death - Zebulon M Pike, U.S. explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34 1813 Event - 1st U.S. flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex 1812 Event - Battle of Queenstown Heights, British beats U.S. attempt to invade Canada 1812 Death - Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle 1812 Death - Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle 1812 Event - Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov 1812 Event - Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I 1812 Event - Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain 1812 Death - John W de Winter, Dutch Vice-Admiral, dies at battle at Kamperduin at 51 1811 Event - El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence 1811 Death - Samuel Story, Dutch rear Admiral (Battle of Kamperduin), dies at 58 1809 Event - Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army 1809 Death - Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle at 33 1809 Event - Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon 1809 Event - Battle at Eckmuhl - Napoleon beats Austria arch duke Karl 1809 Event - Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria 1809 Event - Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria 1808 Event - Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain 1808 Event - Battle of Buenos Aires 1808 Event - Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians 1807 Event - Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau 1806 Event - Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians 1805 Event - Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French 1805 Event - Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeats French and Spanish fleet and dies 1805 Death - Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar 1803 Event - Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French 1803 Event - Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army 1801 Event - Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish 1801 Event - Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British 1800 Event - Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria 1800 Event - Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi 1799 Event - Battle at Castricum: French and Bataafs army beats English/Russian army 1799 Event - French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir 1798 Event - British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St. George 1798 Event - Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English 1798 Event - British under Admiral Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile 1798 Event - Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet 1798 Event - Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt 1798 Event - British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara 1797 Event - Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse 1797 Event - Battle of Cape St. Vincent 1796 Event - Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy 1796 Event - Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians 1796 Event - Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge 1796 Event - Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi 1796 Event - Battle at Millesimo Italy: Napoleon beats Austrians 1795 Event - Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols 1794 Event - 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria 1794 Event - Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio 1794 Event - Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army 1794 Event - 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria) 1793 Death - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44 1793 Death - Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt Admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68 1793 Event - Battle of Warsaw 1793 Event - 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France 1792 Event - Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians 1791 Event - Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St. Clair/killed 637 soldiers 1782 Event - British-French sea battle at Negapatam (South-Indies) 1782 Event - Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French 1781 Event - Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War 1781 Event - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis 1781 Event - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War 1781 Event - Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet 1781 Event - Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina (British suffer heavy losses) 1781 Death - Willem Crul, Admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle at 59 1781 Event - Battle of Jersey (Island in UK) 1780 Death - Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36 1780 Event - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC 1780 Event - Battle at Cape St. Vincent: Admiral Rodney beats Spanish fleet 1779 Birthday - John W. Pieneman, historical painter, Battle at Waterloo 1779 Event - Battle of Stone Ferry 1778 Event - Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (General Washington beats Clinton) 1777 Event - Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga and Battle of Bemis Hts 1777 Death - Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle 1777 Event - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British 1777 Event - Battle of Germantown 1777 Event - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British 1777 Event - Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga 1777 Event - Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British 1777 Event - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt 1777 Birthday - Thomas Campbell, poet, Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic 1777 Event - Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits 1777 Event - Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey 1776 Event - Battle of Trenton-major British defeat 1776 Death - Johann Gottlieb Rall, Hessian colonel/mercenary, dies in battle 1776 Event - Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to New Jersey 1776 Event - Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover and Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx 1776 Event - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island 1775 Event - Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold 1775 Event - Battle of Bunker Hill, actually it was Breed's Hill 1775 Event - Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it is Breed's Hill) 1775 Event - 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (U.S.) captures Margaretta (Br) 1770 Event - Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish 1770 Event - Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) 1761 Birthday - John W de Winter, Dutch Vice-Admiral, Battle at Kamperduin 1761 Event - Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten 1760 Event - Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria 1760 Event - Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia 1760 Event - Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria and Russia 1760 Event - Battle of Landshut Silesia: Austria beats Prussia 1760 Event - Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French 1760 Event - Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat 1759 Event - Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians 1759 Event - Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French 1759 Event - Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British 1759 Death - James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32 1759 Event - 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France 1759 Event - Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians 1759 Event - Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France 1759 Event - French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen 1758 Event - Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia 1758 Event - Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russians: 1000s killed 1758 Event - British battle fleet under General James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg 1758 Event - Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine 1757 Event - Battle at Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians 1757 Event - Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French and Indian War) 1757 Event - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia 1757 Event - Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland 1757 Event - Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia 1757 Event - Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army 1755 Event - Battle at Lake George: English army beats France 1755 Death - Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh 1755 Event - Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British 1752 Birthday - Samuel Story, Dutch Admiral, Battle at Kamperduin 1747 Event - Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army 1746 Event - Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Netherlands armies 1746 Event - Battle at Piacenza: Austria and Sardinia beat Spanish and French army 1746 Event - Battle of Falkirk, Scotland-Edward I defeats and massacres Scots 1745 Event - Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen and Austria 1745 Event - Battle at Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army 1745 Event - Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Prussia beats Austria 1745 Event - Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war 1744 Event - Battle at Toulon: English-French and Spanish fleet 1744 Event - Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews) 1742 Event - Battle of Bloody Marsh-Spanish assault on Simons Island, Georgia 1737 Event - Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians 1736 Event - Battle of Ackia (La), British and Chickasaw Indians defeat French 1734 Death - Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle 1725 Death - John Lovewell, U.S. indian fighter, dies in battle 1724 Birthday - Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral, battle of Doggersbank 1718 Event - Battle at Frederikshall Norway 1718 Death - Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), killed in battle at 36 1718 Event - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish 1718 Event - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish 1716 Event - Battle at Peterwardein: Eugenius van Savoye beats Turks 1715 Event - Battle at Sheriffmuir: English army beats Scottish earl of Mar 1714 Event - Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet 1714 Event - Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet 1712 Event - Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army 1710 Event - Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers) 1710 Event - Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1710 Event - Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1709 Event - Battle at Malplaquet: England/Austria/Dutch Great Alliance beat France 1709 Death - Hamilton, Scottish general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1709 Death - Oxenstiern, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1709 Death - Spaar, German general (Malplaquet), dies in battle 1709 Event - Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes 1708 Event - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy 1708 Event - Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy 1708 Event - Battle at Trencsen: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army 1708 Event - Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France 1707 Event - Battle of Almansa-Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portuguese 1706 Event - Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French; 17,000 killed 1706 Event - Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen 1704 Event - Battle at Malaga: French vs English and Dutch fleet 1704 Event - Sea battle at Malaga 1704 Death - Istvan Gyongyosi, Hungarian poet (Janos Kemeny), dies in battle 1703 Death - Gillis Schey, Dutch Admiral (battle at Lowestoft), dies at 58 1703 Death - Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle 1703 Event - Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians 1702 Event - Battle in Bay of Vigo: Netherlands/English fleet destroy Spanish/French fleet 1702 Event - Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch and English fleet destroy and occupy Spanish silver fleet and French squadron 1702 Event - Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French 1700 Event - Battle at Narva: Swedish king Karel XII beats Russians 1697 Event - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen of Savoye beats Turks 1697 Event - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power 1693 Event - Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army 1693 Event - Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army 1693 Event - 1st sea battle of Lagos: England and Holland vs France 1692 Event - Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army 1692 Event - Battle at La Hogue: English and Dutch fleet beat France 1691 Event - Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks 1691 Death - Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle 1691 Event - Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France 1691 Event - Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II 1690 Event - Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye 1690 Event - Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II 1690 Event - Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Netherlands-England) beat Jacobus II (Ire) 1690 Death - Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75 1690 Event - Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet 1690 Event - Netherlands-French sea battle at Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen) 1690 Death - Jan van Brakel, Dutch vice Admiral (Chatham), dies in battle at 48 1690 Event - Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army 1690 Event - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland 1690 Event - Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Netherlands/English fleet 1689 Event - Battle at Charleroi: Spanish and English armies chase French 1689 Event - Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General MacKay 1689 Event - Battle of Bantry Bay, French and English naval battle 1687 Event - Ottoman invaders of Hungary routed at Battle of Mohacs 1685 Event - Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats duke of Monmouth 1679 Event - Battle at Bothwell Bridge on Clyde: Duke of Monmouth beats Scottish 1678 Event - Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange 1677 Death - Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch Admiral (Chatham), dies in battle 1677 Event - Battle at Catania: between French and Dutch fleet 1677 Event - Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III 1676 Event - Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen 1676 Event - Battle at land: Danish and Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden 1676 Event - Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet 1676 Death - John de Haen, Vice-Admiral (Kijkduin/Palermo), dies in battle at 45? 1676 Death - Creutz, Swedish Admiral (land), dies in battle 1676 Death - Uggla, Swedish Admiral (land), dies in battle 1676 Event - Battle of Etna - Netherlands/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded 1675 Event - Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden 1675 Event - Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden 1675 Event - Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg 1674 Event - 1st Battle of at Seneffe (Louis II Conde vs Willem III) 1673 Event - Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English and French fleet 1673 Death - John de Love I, Vice-Admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54 1673 Event - Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of New York City 1673 Death - John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle 1673 Event - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet 1672 Death - Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle 1672 Event - Battle by Solebay: Dutch Admiral M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet 1670 Event - Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers 1666 Death - Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 1666 Event - Sea battle between Netherlands and England 1666 Event - Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht) 1666 Death - Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss Vice-Admiral, dies in battle at 55 1666 Event - Battle at Duinkerk: English vs Dutch fleet 1665 Event - Battle at Viciosa: English and Portuguese army beat Spain 1665 Event - Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch 1665 Death - Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle at about 29 1665 Death - Egbert Meussen Kortenaer, Vice-Admiral, dies in battle at about 29 1665 Death - Jacob van Wassenaer, Foggy Obdam, lt-admiral, dies in battle at 55 1665 Event - Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese army beat Spain 1665 Event - Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English 1664 Event - Battle at St. Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Koprulu 1664 Event - Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army 1663 Event - Battle at Amegical: English and Portugese fleet beats Spanish 1660 Death - Gyorgy Rakoczi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle 1659 Event - Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish 1658 Event - Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch 1658 Death - Pieter Florisz, Dutch admiral, dies in battle at about 50 1658 Death - Witte de With, Dutch Vice-Admiral, dies in battle at 59 1658 Event - Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish 1658 Event - Battle at Dunes: English and French fleet beat Spanish 1658 Event - Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought 1657 Event - Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet 1656 Event - Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir and occupies Warsaw 1655 Event - Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates 1653 Event - Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch 1653 Death - Maarten Harpertsz Tromp, Bestevaer, Lieutenant-Admiral, dies in battle at 55 1653 Event - Battle at North Foreland: English fleet beats Dutch 1653 Death - Johan van Galen, Admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48 1652 Event - Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet 1652 Event - English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock 1652 Event - Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English 1652 Event - Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter 1652 Event - Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels 1651 Event - Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists 1650 Event - Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland 1648 Event - Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir 1648 Event - Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir 1648 Event - Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards 1648 Event - Battle at Preston, Lancashire: Henry Ireton beats Scottish 1648 Event - Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir 1648 Event - Battle at Zolty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir 1645 Event - Battle of Allersheim: French defeat Bavarians 1645 Event - Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists 1645 Event - Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax beats royalists 1645 Event - Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beats RC emperor Ferdinand III 1644 Event - 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies 1644 Event - Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Admiral Thijssen beats Denen 1644 Birthday - Gillis Schey, Dutch Admiral, battle at Lowestoft 1644 Event - Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders 1644 Event - Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists 1644 Event - Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win 1643 Event - Battle at Tuttlingen: Beiers army under General Mercy beats France 1643 Event - Battle at Wincebt: English New Model-army beats royalists 1643 Event - 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies 1643 Event - Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough 1643 Event - Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies 1643 Event - Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies 1643 Event - Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army 1643 Event - Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists 1642 Event - Battle at Turnham Green, London: King Charles I vs English parliament 1642 Event - 2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III 1642 Event - Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament 1641 Death - Matthijs H Quast, fleet guardian (Gold Islands), dies in battle 1641 Event - Battle at La Marfee Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army 1639 Event - Sea battle at Dunes: Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp beats Spanish Armada 1638 Death - Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54 1637 Event - 1st battle of Pequot at New Haven, Connecticut kills 500 indians 1636 Event - Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III 1634 Event - Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat 1634 Event - Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants 1634 Event - Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia 1634 Event - Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants 1634 Event - Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians 1634 Event - Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians 1632 Event - Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein 1632 Death - Gustavus II Adolphus, king of Sweden, dies in battle at 37 1632 Event - Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies 1632 Death - Gustavus II Adolphus, king of Sweden, dies in battle at 37 1632 Event - Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses 1632 Event - Battle at Nurnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden 1632 Event - Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses 1631 Event - Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats General Tilly 1630 Death - Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mt), dies 1629 Death - Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle 1629 Event - Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape 1629 Death - Piet Heyn, lt-admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies in battle at 51 1626 Event - Battle between king Bethlen Gabor and earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends 1626 Event - Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV 1626 Event - Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated 1626 Death - Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle 1626 Event - Battle at the Dessauer bridge: Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld 1621 Event - Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund II beats Turks 1621 Event - Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece 1620 Event - Battle of White Mountain, Prague 1620 Event - Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland 1620 Event - Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici 1617 Death - Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle 1612 Event - Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese 1610 Event - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian and Sweden 1610 Event - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia and Sweden 1608 Death - Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22 1608 Death - Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle 1607 Event - Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet 1607 Death - Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle 1607 Death - Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle 1604 Death - Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29 1603 Event - Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish 1602 Event - Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish 1600 Event - Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns) 1600 Event - Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army 1597 Death - Matthijs Heldt, dies in battle 1596 Event - Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary and Germany 1595 Event - Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks 1591 Death - Richard Grenville, Vice-Admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49 1591 Event - Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English 1591 Event - Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai 1590 Event - Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League 1590 Event - Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League 1590 Death - Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30 1589 Death - Adolf van Nieuwenaar and Meurs, viceroy of Utrecht, dies in battle 1589 Event - Battle at Arques: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League 1588 Event - Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada 1587 Event - Battle at Auneau: Henri de Guise wins 1587 Event - Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League 1586 Death - Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 1586 Event - Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army 1586 Event - Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army 1586 Event - Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army 1584 Death - Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle 1580 Event - Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal 1580 Event - Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels 1578 Event - Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed 1578 Death - 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle 1578 Death - Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24 1578 Event - Battle of Rijmenam 1578 Event - Battle of Gembloers 1575 Death - Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45 1574 Event - Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot) 1574 Event - Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau 1574 Death - Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle 1574 Death - Hendrik, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle 1574 Death - Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35 1574 Event - Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet 1573 Event - Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy 1573 Death - Antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle 1572 Event - Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries 1571 Event - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet 1571 Death - Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle 1570 Event - Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army 1569 Event - Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots 1569 Event - Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots 1569 Death - Louis Conde, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle 1568 Event - Battle at Jemmingen: Alva's troops beat Dutch rebellion 1568 Event - Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish 1568 Event - Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed 1568 Death - Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27 1568 Event - Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside 1568 Birthday - Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg, Battle of White Mountain 1567 Event - Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots 1567 Event - Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army 1567 Event - Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger 1565 Event - Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army 1564 Event - Battle on Gotland: Lubeck and Denmark beat Sweden 1562 Event - Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency and huguenots under Conde captured 1562 Death - Antoine of Bourbon, duke of Vendome/huguenot, dies in battle at 47 1558 Event - Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France 1557 Event - Battle at St. Quentin: Lamoraal of Egmont and Philibert beat France 1556 Event - Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu 1554 Event - Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated 1553 Event - Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades 1552 Event - Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle 1549 Event - Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army 1549 Event - Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels 1547 Event - Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots 1547 Event - Battle of Muhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave 1544 Death - Rene of Chalon [Renatus of Nassau], prince of Orange, slain in battle 1544 Death - Rene van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25 1544 Event - Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss 1543 Event - Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army 1543 Death - Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal, dies in battle 1542 Event - Battle at Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James 1538 Event - Battle at Preveza: Turkish fleet under Barbarossa beats Spanish 1536 Death - Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet/diplomat, dies in battle 1531 Event - Battle at Kappel: Swiss RC kantons beat protestant 1529 Event - Battle at Landriano: Leyva beats France 1529 Event - Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans and Bengals 1527 Event - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen 1526 Event - Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohacs 1526 Event - Battle at Panipat: Mogol Emperor Babur beats sultan Ibrahim Lodi 1525 Event - Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels 1525 Event - Battle at Boblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers 1525 Event - Battle at Pavia: Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king 1525 Event - Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia 1522 Event - Battle at La Bicocca: Emperor Karel V beats France 1522 Event - Battle at Bicacca: Charles I and Pope Adrianus VI beat France 1521 Event - Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France and occupy Milan 1521 Event - Battle at Villalar: Emperor Charles I beats Communards 1520 Event - Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernan Cortes and Tlascala's vs Aztecs 1519 Event - 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs 1519 Event - 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico 1516 Event - Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria 1515 Event - Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory 1515 Event - Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers and Pope Leo X 1514 Event - Battle at Ozra: Polish/Latvia army beats Russians 1513 Event - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland 1513 Death - James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40 1513 Event - Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian and Henry III beat France 1513 Event - Battle at Novara: Habsburgers vs Valois 1512 Event - Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France 1512 Event - Battle at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army 1512 Death - Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle 1512 Event - Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen 1510 Death - Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59 1509 Event - Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy 1507 Death - Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31 1503 Event - Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France 1503 Event - Battle at Garigliano, Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France 1503 Event - Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France 1500 Event - Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza 1499 Event - Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians 1499 Death - Neithart Fox, Jonker Fox, German passage leader, slain in battle 1495 Event - Battle at Fornovo, French king Charles VIII beats St. League 1489 Event - Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors 1488 Event - Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland 1488 Death - James III, king of Scotland, dies in battle 1487 Event - Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole and Lord Lovell 1485 Event - Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III 1485 Event - Battle of Bosworth Field - Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III 1485 Death - Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle at 32 1481 Event - Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht 1479 Event - Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI 1477 Death - Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies in battle at 39 1477 Event - Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7000+ killed 1476 Event - Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland 1471 Event - Battle of Brunkeberg Stockholm (Sten Sture beats Christian I) 1471 Event - Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha 1471 Event - Battle of Barnet-King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick 1467 Event - Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars 1467 Event - Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hungarian king Matyas Corvinus beats Bratrici 1465 Event - Battle at Montlhery 1461 Event - Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses) 1461 Event - Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England 1461 Event - 2nd battle of St. Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists 1459 Event - Battle at Ludfor: Richard of York defeated 1456 Death - Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle 1456 Event - Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II 1455 Event - Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St. Albans) 1453 Event - 2nd Battle at Castillon: France beats English, end of hundred year war 1453 Event - Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion 1453 Event - 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops 1450 Event - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War 1444 Event - Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders 1444 Death - Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk, king of Poland/Hungary, dies in battle at 20 1435 Event - Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Aragon captured by Genuezen 1434 Event - Battle at Lipany 1434 Death - Prokopius, Bohemia, leader of taboriets, dies in battle 1429 Event - Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans 1421 Event - Battle of Beauge-French beat British 1420 Event - Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia 1415 Event - Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeat armored knight 1415 Death - Philip of Nevers, French earl, dies in battle 1415 Death - Robert of Bar, French knight, dies in battle 1410 Event - Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland 1408 Event - Battle of Othee 1403 Event - Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV 1403 Death - Henry Percy, Harry Hotspur, killed in battle at 39 1402 Event - Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I 1402 Event - Battle of Angora, Ankara-Tatars defeat Turkish Army 1399 Event - Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers 1396 Event - Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies 1396 Death - Jean de Vienne, French admiral/crusader, dies in battle 1396 Death - Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle 1396 Death - Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle 1389 Event - Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs, Bosnians 1389 Death - Lazar I, Serbian prince, dies in battle 1389 Death - Murad I, Osmaans sultan, dies in battle 1389 Event - Battle at Falkoping: Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden 1388 Event - Battle of Nafels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army 1386 Event - Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria 1385 Event - Battle at Aljubarotta-Portugal defeats Castilie 1384 Death - Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), dies 1382 Event - Battle of Westrozebeke (French army beats Flemings-1,000s die) 1382 Death - Philip Van Artevelde, Flemish commander-in-chief, dies in battle at 42 1382 Event - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army 1382 Event - Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge 1380 Event - Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols 1376 Event - Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France 1371 Event - Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey 1370 Event - Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania 1367 Event - Battle at Najera Spain: Castilie and England beat Aragon and France 1364 Event - Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany 1362 Death - Jacques de Bourbon, count of Marche, killed in battle 1356 Event - English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers 1356 Death - Geoffroy de Charny, French nobleman, dies in battle 1356 Death - Jean de Clermont, French marshal, dies in battle 1351 Event - Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English 1347 Death - Stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle 1346 Event - Battle at Crecy-England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle 1346 Death - Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies in battle 1346 Death - Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle 1346 Death - Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle 1340 Event - Battle of Salado Spain: last Moor invasion driven back 1340 Event - Battle at Lock: English fleet beats France/Genuezen, 10-30,000 killed 1339 Birthday - Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples, Battle at Poitiers 1332 Event - Battle of Dupplin Moor; Scottish dynastic battle 1330 Death - Michael III, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies in battle 1330 Event - Battle of Velbuzd 1328 Event - Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers 1328 Death - Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle 1322 Event - Battle of Muhldorf 1315 Event - Battle at Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austrian 1314 Event - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England 1304 Event - Sea battle of Zierikzee 1304 Event - Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch and French fleet beat Flemish fleet 1302 Event - Battle of Kortrijk Belgium (France vs Flanders) 1302 Event - Guldensporen battle of Belgium 1301 Event - Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg 1301 Death - Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle 1298 Event - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk 1298 Event - Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf and Albrecht I 1298 Death - Adolf van Nassau, RC-German king (1292-98), dies in battle at about 43 1297 Event - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English 1297 Death - Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle 1288 Event - Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I 1288 Death - Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle 1278 Event - Battle of Marchfeld: Rudolf van Habsburg defeats Ottokar II 1278 Death - Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle 1267 Event - Battle at Marienholz: Henry III, Otto II van Gelre beat Keuls archbishop Engelbert III 1266 Event - Battle of Benevento 1265 Event - Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort 1265 Death - Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle 1264 Event - Battle at Lewes: Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III 1260 Event - Battle at Montaperti-Guelfen vs Ghibellijnen 1260 Event - Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army 1253 Event - Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre 1246 Event - Battle at Leitha: Hungary-Austrian 1246 Death - Frederik II "the Strijdbare", duke of Austria, dies in battle at 25 1242 Event - Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia 1241 Event - Battle at Theiss: Mongols beat Hungarian King Bela IV 1241 Event - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans 1237 Event - Battle of Cortenuova: Emperor Frederik II vs Lombardische steden 1217 Event - Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France 1217 Death - Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle 1214 Event - 1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV 1214 Death - Eustaes van Machelen, Flemish knight, dies in battle 1214 Death - Stefan van Longchamp, French knight, dies in battle 1214 Event - Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers) 1213 Event - Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont and Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant 1213 Event - Battle at Muret: Crusade of Simon de Montfort beat Pedro II of Aragon 1213 Death - Pedro II, el Catolico, king of Aragon, dies in battle 1212 Event - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain 1205 Event - Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople 1195 Event - Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia 1187 Event - Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Chatillon 1185 Event - Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family 1185 Event - Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet 1176 Event - Battle at Legnano: Lombardi League beats Frederik Barbarossa 1167 Event - Lombard League defeat Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano 1167 Event - Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks under Amalrik vs Syrians 1156 Event - Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet 1147 Event - Battle at Doryleum: Arabs beat Koenraad III's crusaders 1144 Death - Celestine II, Guido, Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle 1141 Event - Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams 1141 Event - Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured 1139 Event - Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors 1138 Event - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard 1128 Death - Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle 1128 Event - Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik 1119 Event - Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeat French Crusaders 1107 Death - Kilidj Arslan I, Seldjoeken-sultan, dies in battle 1106 Event - Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert 1099 Event - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon 1099 Event - Battle at Ascalon: Godfried of Broth beats Egyptians 1099 Event - Crusaders are victorious at Battle of Ascalon 1093 Death - Edward Macduncan, Scottish crown prince/son of Malcolm II, dies in battle 1093 Death - Malcolm III MacDuncan, king of Scotland, dies in battle 1091 Event - Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes 1090 Event - Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II 1090 Death - Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle 1086 Event - Battle of Zalaka: Alfonso VI vs Almoravids 1082 Event - Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr 1081 Event - Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine 1075 Event - Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen 1071 Event - Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King 1071 Event - Battle at Manzikert Armenia, Venetian Byzantine brings islam to Europe 1071 Event - Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I 1071 Death - Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle 1066 Event - Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England 1066 Event - Battle of Stampford Bridge King Harold Godwinson II of England, beaten by his brother King Harold Hardrada of Norway 1066 Death - Harald III Hardrada, king of Norway (1047-66), dies in battle at 51 1066 Event - Battle at Fulford: Norway king Harald III Hardrada beats British militia 1049 Death - Derrick IV, Count of Holland (1039-49), dies in battle 1030 Event - Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim) 1030 Death - Olaf Haraldsson, King of Norway, dies in battle of Stiklestad 1028 Death - Alfonso V, King of Leon/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle 1016 Event - Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (Ashingdon) 1015 Death - Lambert I with the Beard, count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65 1014 Event - Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies 1014 Event - King Brian Boru of Ireland beats Danes at Battle of Clontarf 1014 Death - Brian Boru, king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87 993 Death - Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle 989 Event - Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas 955 Event - Battle at Lech: German king Otto I beats Hungarians 955 Death - Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle 939 Event - Battle at Andernach: King Otto and Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France and Giselbert of Lutherans 939 Event - Battle at Simancas-Spain beats Moors 933 Event - Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren 923 Death - Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle 917 Event - Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines 900 Death - Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29 881 Event - Battle at Saucourt: French King Louis III beats the Vikings 876 Event - Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bare 871 Event - Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army 871 Event - Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex 871 Event - Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army 871 Event - Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army 858 Death - Aethelwolf, king of Wessex (Battle at Aclea), dies 841 Event - Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I 811 Event - Battle at Pliska: Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine 811 Death - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle 778 Event - Battle at Roncevalles: Basques beat Charles the Great 733 Event - Battle at Poitiers: Charles Martel beats Abd al-Rachmans Omajjaden 732 Event - Battle at Tours: France under Karel Martel beat Moors 685 Event - Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians 680 Event - Battle at Kerbela: Kalief Yazid beats pretender al-Hussein 656 Event - Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion 627 Event - Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen 626 Event - Battle at Constantinople: Slavic/Persians/Avarenvloot defeated 624 Death - Abu Sufjan ibn Harb, Kurashite chief, dies in battle 604 Event - Battle at Etampes (Stampae): Burgundy beat Neustriers 552 Death - Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle 524 Event - Battle at Vezerone: Burgundy beats France 406 Death - Godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle 406 Event - Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians 402 Event - Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten 394 Event - Battle of Frigidus North-Italy 394 Death - Eugenius, linguistic/anti emperor of Rome (392-94), dies in battle 388 Event - Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis 378 Event - Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army 378 Death - Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50 357 Event - Battle at Straatsburg: Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught 323 Event - Battle at Adrianopolis: Flavius Julius Crispus' beats emperor Licinius 314 Event - Battle at Cibalae: emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius 218 Death - Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54 197 Death - D Clodius Septimus Albinus, Roman bequest in England, dies in battle 69 Event - Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy |
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