Today in military history: September 8, 2014

Military history timeline 

480 BC - (possibly occurred August 7) Battle of Artemisium begins (Greco-Persian Wars) (Naval) 

1298 – Battle of Curzola (Venetian-Genoese Wars) (Naval) 

1380 – Battle of Kulikovo (Mongol and Tatar raids against Rus)

 A 17th century miniature of the Battle of Kulikovo

1496 - Siege of Gaeta begins (Italy) 

1514 – Battle of Orsha (Fourth Muscovite-Lithuanian War) 

1566 – Siege of Szigetvar ends (Ottoman-Hapsburg wars) 

1664 – New Amsterdam surrendered to a British naval squadron (North America) (Naval) 

1755 – Battle of Lake George (French and Indian War) 

1760 – French surrender Montreal to Britain (French and Indian War) 

1781 – Battle of Eutaw Springs (American Revolutionary War) 

1796 – Battle of Bassano (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1798 – Battle of Ballinamuck (United Irishman Rebellion) 

1831 – Battle of Warsaw ends (Polish-Russian War 1830-1831) 

1847 – Battle of Molino del Rey (Mexican-American War) 

1863 – Second Battle of Sabine Pass (partly Naval); Second Battle of Fort Sumter ends (partly Naval) (US Civil War) 

1925 – Alhucemas Landing (Morocco) (partly Naval) 

1939 – Siege of Warsaw begins (WWII) 

1941 – Siege of Leningrad begins (WWII) 

1943 – Allies take Locri, Italy; Italian surrender announced; Soviets take Stalino, Yasinovataya and Krasnoarmeisk  (WWII) 

1944 – First German V2 rockets land in London (Air); Americans take Liege; Canadians take Nieuport and Ostend (WWII) 

1945 – Zhucheng Campaign ends; Taixing Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War); US occupies Korea south of the 38^th parallel while Soviets have taken the area north of the 38^th (post WWII) 

1946 – Dingtao Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1962 – China enters Indian territory (pre-Sino-Indian War) 

1975 – Battle of Tator Tot cassle begins (Vietnam War) 

1993 – Action of 8 September 1993 (Somalia) 

2011 – Battle of Bani Walid begins (Libyan civil war)