Today in military history: July 7, 2014

Military history timeline 

1124 – Siege of Tyre ends (Crusades) 

1191 - Battle of Rudiano (Italy) 

1345 – Battle of Peritheorion (Byzantine civil war of 1341-1347) 

1426 – Battle of Chirokitia (Cyprus) 

1460 - Battle of the Sarno (Italy)              

1647 – Masaniello’s Revolt (Naples) 

1770 –Battle of Chesma ends (Naval); Battle of Larga (Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774) 

1777 – Battle of Hubbardton (American Revolutionary War) 

1798 –  Quasi War officially begins (Naval) 

1830 – Invasion of Algiers ends (French conquest of Algeria)

 The Provence during the Invasion of Algiers in 1830 - By Louis Le Breton after 1830

  

1844 – Riot at St. Philip de Neri begins (Nativist Riots of 1844) 

1846 – Battle of Monterey (Mexican-American War) (partly Naval) 

1861 – Skirmish at Great Falls (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle at Cotton Plant (also Hill’s Plantation) (US Civil War)  

1863 – Carson’s Indian expedition in Arizona begins (US Civil War) 

1865 – Lincoln conspirators executed (US Civil War) 

1915 – First Battle of the Isonzo ends (WWI)

Bosnian troops of A.U Bosniak regiments on Isonzo front in Italy 

in 1915 with last emperor of Austria Charles I

  

1937 – Marco Polo Bridge Incident begins (Second Sino-Japanese War)

 1937 - Chinese soldiers march along the Great Wall after the July 7 Incident

1940 – Battle at Dakar Harbor begins (WWII) (Naval) 

1942 – Part of PQ-17 convoy reaches Russian ports (Naval); Germans take Voronezh (WWII) 

1944 – US takes Pignano, Italy; Battle of Makunsha Village (WWII)