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Peninsular War: British and Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.
First World War: German forces captured Rossignol in Belgium, taking more than 3,800 French prisoners.
King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.
The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
The Battle of Cer ended with the first Allied victory of World War I.
World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
Under the Treaty of Nanking, an "unequal treaty" that ended the First Opium War, the Chinese island from which Hong Kong would grow was ceded to Britain.
Philippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte, the first real battle of the war, a Katipunan force temporarily captured a powder magazine before being beaten back by a Spanish garrison.
First Jewish–Roman War: Roman forces led by Titus set fire to the Second Temple during the siege of Jerusalem.
World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
First English Civil War: Royalist and Parliamentarian forces clashed in the Battle of Babylon Hill, after which both sides claimed victory.
World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
First World War: The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of Bita Paka.
First War of Scottish Independence: Scottish forces under Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated English troops at the Battle of Stirling Bridge on the River Forth.