Today in military history: July 16, 2014

Military history timeline 

1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (Reconquista)

 Alfonso VIII of Castile - Painting from 1892-1894 by Jose Maria Rodriguez de Losada

1465- Battle of Montlhery (War of the Public Weal) 

1761 – Battle of Villinghausen ends (Seven Years’ War) 

1779 – Battle of Stony Point (American Revolutionary War) 

1808 – Battle of Bailen begins (Peninsular War) 

1812 – Capture of the USS Nautilus (War of 1812) (Naval) 

1863 – Battle of Yokohama (Naval); Battle of Williamsport ends; Battle of Grimball’s Landing (US Civil War) 

1877 – Battle of Nikopol (Russo-Turkish War 1877-1878)

 Russo-Turkish War. 1877-1878. The Capture of the Fortress of Nikopol - Drawing from 1877 by K. Kryzhanovsky and A. Baldinger

1927 – Battle of Ocotal (Occupation of Nicaragua) 

1941 – Finnish forces take Sortavala (WWII) 

1943 – Canadians take Caltagirone, Sicily (WWII) 

1944 – Americans take Arezzo, Italy (WWII) 

1945 – First atomic weapons test at Alamogordo, New Mexico (WWII)

 Trinity Test - Alamogordo, NM - July 16, 1945. 

Atomic weapon mushroom cloud after 10 seconds

1953 – Dongshan Island campaign begins (Chinese Civil War)