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Anglo-Spanish War: During the Action of Faial, an English attempt to capture a Portuguese carrack, reputedly one of the
Habsburg troops defeated a larger Ottoman force at the Battle of Sisak in the Kingdom of Croatia, triggering the Long Tu
Eighty Years' War: Dutch and English forces relieved the siege of Knodsenburg in the Spanish Netherlands, having…
Anglo–Spanish War: A convoy of English ships from the Levant Company repelled a fleet of Spanish and Maltese galleys…
Anglo–Spanish War: A convoy of English ships from the Levant Company repelled a fleet of Spanish and Maltese galleys…
Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Zutphen.* 1789 – The office of United…
French Wars of Religion: Catholic forces defeated an armed group of Huguenots attempting to capture Besançon, from which
Anglo-Scottish Wars: A dispute between Sir John Forster and Sir John Carmichael led to a Scottish raid on…
Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The Battle of Lepanto was fought near the Gulf of Corinth, a significant setback for the…
Ottoman–Venetian War: After a 40-day siege, the Cypriot city of Nicosia fell to the Ottomans, leading to a massacre of…
The Dutch Revolt broke out when rebels led by Louis of Nassau (pictured) invaded Friesland at the Battle of Heiligerlee
At San Juan de Ulúa (present-day Veracruz, Mexico), a Spanish naval fleet forced English privateers to halt their…
At San Juan de Ulúa (present-day Veracruz, Mexico), a Spanish naval fleet forced English privateers to halt their…
The siege of Inabayama Castle, the final battle in Oda Nobunaga's campaign to conquer Mino Province, began; it…
Ottoman–Habsburg wars: Although Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent captured the fortress of Szigetvár in…
Ottoman–Habsburg wars: Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent captured the fortress of Szigetvár in Hungary,…
St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the contiguous United…
The first recorded naval battle between Europeans and the Japanese occurred when a flotilla of samurai attacked two…
The first recorded naval battle between Europeans and the Japanese occurred when a flotilla of samurai attacked two…
The Scottish Reformation Parliament approved a Protestant confession of faith, initiating the Scottish Reformation and…