1132 - Battle of
Nocera (Italy)
1261 – Recapture of
Constantinople begins (Byzantine Empire)
1411 – Battle of Harlaw (Scotland)
Example of knights of the period -
Poltalloch Stones; grave slabs from the Poltalloch Estate
Poltalloch Stones; grave slabs from the Poltalloch Estate
dating from the late 14th and 15th centuries.
Kilmartin Glen, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
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1505 – Capture of
Kilwa (Voyage of the 7th Portuguese India Armada) (partly Naval)
1702 – Revolt of
the Protestants begins (France)
Interview between Jean Cavalier, chief Camisard, and
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Marshall of France, Nimes, May 16, 1704.
(Regarding the Protestant Revolt)
1712 – Battle of Denain (War of the Spanish Succession)
Battle of Denain (with focus apparently on Claude Louis Hector de Villars)
- 19th century painting by Raymond Monvoisin
1779 - Penobscot Expedition begins (American revolutionary
War) (Naval)
1860 - Battle of Milazzo ends (Expedition of the Thousand)
1862 – Battle of Trinity (US Civil War)
1863 – Second Battle of Kernstown; Battle of Big Mound (US
Civil War)
1864 – Battle of Kernstown (US Civil War)
1915 – Battle of Nasiriyeh ends (WWI)
1943 – Raids on Hamburg begin (Air); Americans take Cefalu,
Sicily (WWII)
1944 – Battle of Tinian begins; First use of napalm during
Pacific War fighting; Soviets take Lublin and area of Majdanek Concentration
Camp (WWII)
1945 – US and British carrier forces resume attacks on Japan
(WWII) (Naval)
1953 – Attack on Boulder City begins (Korean War)
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