Today in military history: September 20, 2014

Military history timeline

1066 – Battle of Fulford (Viking invasions of England) 

1187 – Siege of Jerusalem begins (Crusades) 

1565 – Capture of Fort Caroline (French colony in Florida) 

1600 - Battle of Moyry Pass begins (Nine Years' War) 

1643 – First Battle of Newbury (First English Civil War) 

1777 – Battle of Paoli (American Revolutionary War) 

1792 – Battle of Valmy (French Revolutionary War) 

1861 – Siege of Lexington ends (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle of Shepherdstown ends (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle of Chickamauga ends (US Civil War) 

1870 – Siege of Rome ends (Franco-Prussian War) 

1916 - Brusilov Offensive ends (WWI) 

1942 – Germans take Terek (WWII) 

1943 – Australians take Kaiapit, New Guinea; Soviets take Velizh and Kholm (WWII) 

1944 – Allies take Nijmegen; Americans take Chatel and Luneville (WWII) 

1951 - Operation STRANGLE ends (Korean War) (Air) 

1952 – Battle of Nanpeng Archipelago begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1968 – Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia ends (Cold War)