Today in military history: August 15, 2014

Military history timeline 

636 – Battle of Yarmouk begins (Arab-Byzantine Wars) 

717 – (possibly July 15) Siege of Constantinople begins (Arab-Byzantine Wars) 

718 – Siege of Constantinople ends (Arab-Byzantine Wars) 

778 - Battle of Roncevaux Pass (Charlemagne’s campaign in Iberia)

 15th century - Battle of Roncevaux Pass

14th century - Battle of Roncevaux Pass

1057 - Battle of Lumphanan (Scotland) 

1097 - Battle of Consuegra (Reconquista) 

1209 – Siege of Carcassonne ends (Albigensian Crusade) 

1281 – Battle of Koan (also Second Battle of Hakata Bay) (Mongol Invasions of China) (partly Naval) 

1551 – Siege of Tripoli ends (Ottoman-Hapsburg Wars) 

1597 – Siege of Namwon ends (Imjin War) 

1599 – Battle of Curlew Pass (Nine Years’ War) 

1645 – Battle of Kilsyth (Wars of the Three Kingdoms) 

1649 - Battle of Zboriv begins (Khmelnytsky Uprising) 

1678 – Battle of Saint-Denis ends (Franco-Dutch War) 

1702 – Battle of Luzzara (War of the Spanish Succession) 

1760 – Battle of Liegnitz (Seven Years’ War)

 19th century print by Adolph Menzel - Attack of the Prussian Regiment Anhalt-Bernburg (Nr.3) against Austrian Cavalry during the Battle of Liegnitz (15th August 1760).

Painting by Carl Röchling (1855-1920) - King Fredrick II of Prussia and the men of the Regiment Anhalt-Bernburg (Nr.3) after the Battle of Liegnitz (15th August 1760).  

  

1782 – Battle of Bryan Station begins (American Revolutionary War) 

1799 – Battle of Novi (War of the Second Coalition) 

1806 – Battle of Misar ends (First Serbian uprising) 

1812 – Battle of Fort Dearborn; Siege of Detroit begins (War of 1812) 

1814 – Assault on Fort Erie (War of 1812) 

1844 - Bombardment of Mogador begins (First Franco-Moroccan War)

1846 – Capture of Santa Fe (Mexican-American War)

1848 - Battle of Luino (First Italian War of Independence) 

1862 – Battle of Lone Jack begins (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Dalton ends (US Civil War) 

1900 – Battle of Peking ends (Boxer Rebellion) 

1914 – Battle of Cer begins (WWI) 

1915 – Landing at Suvla Bay ends (WWI) (partly Naval) 

1920 – Battle of Nasielsk ends (Polish-Bolshevik War) 

1943 - Aleutian Islands Campaign ends; Soviets take Karachev (WWII) 

1944 – Operation Dragoon begins (WWII) 

1945 – Battle of Baoying begins (Chinese Civil War) Japan surrenders; Battle of North Borneo ends; Battle of the Mindanao ends: Battle of Luzon ends (WWII) 

1968 – Heavy fighting near the DMZ (Vietnam War) 

2009 – Battle of Dahaneh ends (War in Afghanistan)