4109 results for “World War” (534 ms)
American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas, begins in Virginia. The battle ends on August 30 with another Union defeat.
American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalist Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks.
Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
Ottoman wars in Europe: The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
Warren M. Washington, American atmospheric scientist
Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.
Russo-Ukrainian war: Ukraine begins its southern counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, eventually culminating in the liberation of the city of Kherson.
Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
Korean War: British Commonwealth Forces Korea arrives to bolster the US presence.
American Civil War: The Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries gives Federal forces control of Pamlico Sound.
Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
American Revolutionary War: American forces battle and defeat the British and Iroquois forces at the Battle of Newtown.
American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War in Europe.
Warren Jabali, American basketball player (died 2012)
Henry Gage, Royalist officer in the English Civil War (died 1645)
Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (born 1890)