Today in military history: Unknown day in August

Military history timeline 

479 BC – Battle of Plataea (Greco-Persian Wars)

 The Battlefield of Plataea - Image extracted from page 141 of A tour in Greece, 1880. With illustrations by Lord Windsor, by FARRER, Richard Ridley.

  

70 - Siege of Jerusalem ends (First Jewish-Roman War)

 The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem - 1867 oil on canvas by Francesco Hayez

991 – Battle of Maldon (Viking invasions of England) 

1101 – Battle of Mersivan (Crusade of 1101) 

1246 – Battle of Nidda (Germany) 

1542 – Battle of the Hill of the Jews (Abyssinian-Adal War) 

1570 – Siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji begins (Japan) 

late 15th to early 16th century - Arrow maker "Ya-shi". From "Shokunin Zukusi-zu Byoubu" (Kita shrine collection).

1576 – First Battle of Kizugawaguchi (Japan) 

1580 – Siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji ends (Japan) 

1594 – Battle of the Ford of the Biscuit (Nine Years’ War) 

1647 – Battle of Dungan’s Hill (Irish Confederate Wars) 

1686 - Second Siege of Buda ends (Great Turkish War) 

1748 – Siege of Pondicherry ends (First Carnatic War) 

1810 – First Battle of Batin (Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812) 

1876 – Battle of Sumatovac (Serbian-Ottoman War of 1876-1877)

1918 – Siberian Intervention begins (Russian Civil War)