2372 results for “World War” — type: events (242 ms)
The Battle of Castiglione in Napoleon's first Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars results in a French victory.
Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718):The Austrians defeat the Ottomans in the Battle of Petrovaradin. One-fifth of a Turkish army and the Grand Vizier are killed.
Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France.
First Scottish War of Independence: Sir John Stewart of Menteith, the pro-English Sheriff of Dumbarton, successfully manages to capture Sir William Wallace of Scotland, leading to Wallace's subsequent�
Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a German victory.
Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive German victory.
American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.
American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
The United States Department of War is established.
The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War.
Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628: Sassanid troops under general Shahrbaraz conquer the town of Zenobia.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.
The Warsaw radio mast, then the tallest construction ever built, collapses.