Today in military history: July 22, 2014

Military history timeline 

838 - Battle of Anzen (Arab-Byzantine Wars) 

1209 –  Massacre at Beziers (Albigensian Crusade) 

1227 – Battle of Bornhoved (Danish-German War)

 13th century painting - Battle of Bornhoved

1298 – Battle of Falkirk (First War of Scottish Independence)

1456 – Siege of Belgrade ends (Ottoman wars in Europe)

 Mehmed II assaulting the fortress of Belgrade - Siege of Belgrade (1456)

 

1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair (also Kirtle) (Anglo-Scottish Wars) 

1499 - Battle of Dornach (Swabian War)

1832  lithograph by Maximilian Neustuck - Swiss warriors fighting near Dornach Castle

1841 illustration by Martin Disteli - The Confederates surprise attack on the Imperial troops' camp where they are enjoying sensual pleasures until they are attacked. 

  

1555- Battle of Sirind (India) 

1631 - Battle of Werben (Thirty Years’ War) 

1646 – Siege of Worcester ends (First English Civil War) 

1691 – Battle of Aughrim (Williamite War in Ireland) 

1739 – Battle of Grocka (Ottoman-Hapsburg Wars) 

1779 – Battle of Minisink ends (American Revolutionary War) 

1790 – Second Battle of Svensksund (also Rochensalm) ends (Russo-Swedish War of 1788-1790) (Naval) 

1795 – War of the Pyrenees ends (War of the First Coalition) 

1812 – Battle of Salamanca (Peninsular War) 

1864 – Battle of Atlanta; Siege of Atlanta begins (US Civil War) 

1918 – Battle of Soissons ends (WWI) 

1921 – Battle of Annual begins (Rif War) 

1943 – Americans take Palermo, Sicily (WWII) 

1944 – Belorussians take Chelm (WWII) 

1970 – Cambodian Campaign ends (Vietnam War)