3810 results for “World War” (714 ms)
Venetian–Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon.
Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (died 1819)
Palestinian nationalist groups launched armed incursions into the Gaza envelope, starting the Gaza war.
Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski Dvori, the official residence of the president of Croatia in Zagreb.
Ōdate, the last castle of the Satake clan in Japan's Tōhoku region, was captured during the Boshin War.
American Revolutionary War: Patriots and Loyalist militias engaged each other at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The Battle of Lepanto was fought near the Gulf of Corinth, a significant setback for the Ottoman Empire and the last major naval battle fought entirely with galleys.
War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos.
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan twice deliberately targeted the Church of the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots of Shusha.
Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions.
War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.
American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident.
The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence.
The Spanish siege of Alkmaar ends with the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.
Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Yemen War: A funeral in Sanaa was hit by two consecutive airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition, leaving 143–155 civilians dead and more than 525 injured.
In the American Civil War, the Battle of Perryville was fought west of Perryville, Kentucky.
Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.
American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia during Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign.