2372 results for “World War” — type: events (277 ms)
American Civil War: In the Battle of Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill outside Atlanta.
Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape Finisterre: An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Fr�
Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
American Civil War: Henry Halleck becomes general-in-chief of the Union Army.
Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê.
The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War.
American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
War of the Spanish Succession: The French under Marshal Villars win a decisive victory over Eugene of Savoy at Denain.
Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.