USWorldWars

Before 1939

 * [|1904] [|Battle of Port Arthur] [|February 8] - Japanese defeat Russians; start of [|Russo-Japanese War]
 * [|1904] Battle of Mukden
 * [|1904] [|Battle of Yalu River] May - Japanese defeat Russians ([|Russo-Japanese War])
 * [|1904] [|Battle of Dairen] [|May 30] - Japanese defeat Russians ([|Russo-Japanese War])
 * [|1904] Battle of Liaoyang October - Japanese defeat Russians ([|Russo-Japanese War])
 * [|1905] [|Battle of Tsushima] [|May 27] - [|28] - Japanese win a decisive victory over Russian fleet in the Straits of Tshushima ([|Russo-Japanese War])
 * [|1908] Battle of Marakesh [|August 23] - Mulay Hafid successfully revolts against Morocco Sultan
 * [|1913] Adrianople - [|First Balkan War]
 * [|1913] Battle of Dul Madoba
 * [|1914] Battle of Vera Cruz [|April 21] - US occupies Mexican town
 * [|1914] Liège [|August 4] - [|17] - Germans invade of Belgium; start of [|World War I]
 * [|1914] Battle of the Frontiers [|August 7] - [|September 4] - Germans invade France:
 * Battle of Mulhouse [|August 7]
 * Battle of Lorraine [|August 14]
 * [|Battle of the Ardennes] [|August 21]
 * Battle of Charleroi [|August 21]
 * Battle of Mons [|August 23]
 * [|1914] [|Battle of Stalluponen] [|August 17] - First battle on the Eastern Front in [|World War I]
 * [|1914] Battle of Gumbinnen [|August 19] - [|20] - Russians defeat German Eighth Army, advance to river Vistula
 * [|1914] [|Tannenberg] [|August 26] - Samsonov's Russian Second Army encircled and destroyed by the German Eighth Army
 * [|1914] [|Battle of Heligoland Bight] [|August 28] - First major naval engagement of [|World War I] - heavy German losses
 * [|1914] Battle of First Marne [|September 5] - German invasion of France halted by Allies
 * [|1914] First Battle of the Masurian Lakes [|September 9] - [|14] - German Eighth Army defeats Rennenkampf's Russian First Army
 * [|1914] Battle of Antwerp [|September 28]
 * [|1914] First Ypres [|October 31] - [|November 22] - Early trench warfare; "Kindermord bei Ypern"
 * [|1914] [|Battle of Coronel] [|November 1] - [|Admiral Graf Spee] defeats Admiral Cradock
 * [|1914] [|Battle of Lodz] [|November 11] - Russians take city, lose it on [|December 6]
 * [|1914] Battle of Cracow [|November 16] - heavy casualties to Austria and Russia
 * [|1914] Battle of Lowicz [|November 30] - [|December 17] - Russians take city
 * [|1914] Battle of Kolubara [|December 3] - [|6] - Serbians drive out Austrians
 * [|1914] [|Battle of Falkland Islands] [|December 8] - British defeat [|Admiral Graf Spee]
 * [|1915] [|Battle of Dogger Bank] [|January 24] - Admiral [|Beatty] drives off Vice-Admiral Hipper's raiding force, sinks //Blucher//
 * [|1915] [|Battle of Gallipoli] - [|February 19] to [|January 8] [|1916]
 * Second Battle of Krithia [|May 8]
 * Third Battle of Krithia [|June 4]
 * Battle of Gully Ravine [|June 28]
 * Battle of Lone Pine [|August 6]
 * [|Battle of the Nek] [|August 7]
 * [|1915] Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar - Turkish assimilation of Armenians
 * [|1915] Second Ypres [|April 22] - [|May 25] Germans use [|poison gas]
 * [|1915] Battle of Loos [|September 25] - [|28]
 * [|1916] [|Battle of Verdun] [|February 21] - December Five-month battle kills 700,000
 * [|1916] [|Battle of Jutland] [|May 31] - last engagement of the German High Seas Fleet
 * [|1916] [|Brusilov offensive] June - Russia nearly collapses Austria but losses are staggering
 * [|1916] Battle of Mouquet Farm
 * [|1916] [|Battle of the Somme] July - Four month battle, bloodiest in history
 * [|1916] [|Battle of Romani] [|August 3] - in Egypt
 * [|1916] [|Battle of Magdhaba] [|December 23] - in Egypt
 * [|1917] [|Vimy Ridge] [|April 9] - Canada's finest hour
 * [|1917] [|Passchendaele] [|July 31] - also known as Third battle of Ypres. Three-month battle costs Britain 400,000
 * [|1917] Battle of Caporetto [|October 24] - Also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo - Italians defeated by Central Powers, driven back to Venice
 * [|1917] [|Battle of Cambrai] [|November 20] - [|December 7] - First successful use of tanks
 * [|1918] Battle of Tampere [|March 8] - [|April 6] in [|Finnish Civil War]
 * [|1918] Battle of Cantigny [|May 28] - US First Division wins in first independent action
 * [|1918] Battle of Bellau Wood [|June 25] - US Second Division Marines capture woods
 * [|1918] Battle of Second Marne [|July 17] - Allies halt four month German drive
 * [|1918] Battle of Amiens August - British force Germans to Hindenburg line
 * [|1918] Megiddo [|September 19] - Allenby's British crush Ottoman army
 * [|1918] Battle of Meuse Argonne Forest [|October 8] - Private Alvin York attacks German machine gun nest
 * [|1918] Battle of Vittoria Veneto
 * [|1918] Battle of Chateau Thierry
 * [|1920] [|Battle of Warsaw] - Poles defeat Red Army
 * [|1920] Battle of the Niemen river - Poles defeat the reserves of the [|Red Army]
 * [|1921] Afiun-Kara-Hissar - Second Greek-Turkish War
 * [|1921] Battle of Anual [|July 21] in Morocco, Spanish army loses to Rifi berbers of Abd el Krim.
 * [|1936] Battle of Guernica in the [|Spanish Civil War]
 * [|1937] Battle of Guadalajara in the [|Spanish Civil War]
 * [|1937] [|Battle of Lugou Bridge] [|July 7] - Japanese victory triggered outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War
 * [|1937] [|Battle of Nanjing] early November to [|December 13] - Japanese victory after 2 months siege of the capital of [|Republic of China].
 * [|1938] [|Battle of Tai er zhuang] [|March 27] - Chinese claim strategic and moral victory over Japanese

1939-1945

 * [|1939] [|Battle of Halhin Gol]
 * [|1939] [|Poland] [|September 1] - [|October 5] - Start of [|World War II] in Europe
 * Battle of the Bzura River
 * Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski
 * Battle of Kock
 * Battle of Warsaw (1939)
 * [|1939] [|Battle of the River Plate] [|December 13] - [|//Graf Spee//] chased into Montevideo harbour and scuttled
 * [|1939] [|Battle of Suomussalmi] [|December 8] - [|January 7] [|1940] - [|Winter War]
 * [|1939] [|Battle of Tolvaj�rvi] [|December 12] - [|Winter War]
 * [|1940] - [|1945] [|Battle of the Atlantic (1940)]- the name given to the conflicts in the Atlantic Ocean throughout World War II.
 * [|1940] [|Battle of Narvik] [|April 9] - [|June 10] - A minor Allied victory in the arctic.
 * [|1940] [|Battle of Dunkirk] [|May 27] - [|June 5] - Evacuation of defeated British Expeditonary Force
 * [|1940] [|Battle of Britain] [|July 9] - [|October 31] Germans try to bomb Britain into submission - RAF answers with fighters
 * [|1940] [|Battle of Taranto] [|November 11]-[|November 12] - British carrier based planes destroy Italian fleet in Taranto Harbor.
 * [|1940] [|Battle of Hundred Regiments] - Major engagement of the [|Red Army] against the Japanese Imperial Army in August and September.
 * [|1941] [|Battle of Cape Matapan] [|March 28] - British fleet defeats Italian fleet.
 * [|1941] Battle of Denmark Strait [|May 23] - [|//Bismarck//] sinks [|HMS //Hood//]
 * [|1941] [|Battle of Crete] [|May 20] - [|June 1] - Paratroops capture Crete, suffer many casualties
 * [|1941] [|Operation Barbarossa] [|June 22] - German invasion of Russia
 * [|1941] [|Battle of Pearl Harbor] [|December 7] - Japanese destroy US Fleet in surprise attack
 * [|1942] Battle of Macassar Strait January - US and Dutch forces attack Japanese convoy
 * [|1942] Dražgoše [|January 9] - First frontal engagement on Slovenian soil with the German occupier
 * [|1942] Battle of Java Sea February - Japanese wipe out Allied naval squadron
 * [|1942] Battle of Corregidor [|April 9] - General [|Wainwright]'s troops surrender, forced on Bataan Death March
 * [|1942] Battle of Nanos [|April 18] - 800 Italian soldiers lay siege to 50 Slovene partisans. Partisans break through, nine were killed and eleven were captured
 * [|1942] [|Battle of the Coral Sea] [|May 4] - US loses [|USS //Lexington//]; Japanese lose big
 * [|1942] [|Battle of Midway] [|June 3] - US loses [|USS //Yorktown//]; Japanese lose four aircraft carriers
 * [|1942] [|Convoy PQ-17] - 27 ships leave [|Iceland] on [|June 17] for [|Murmansk] – on [|July 5] 10 ships reach Murmansk
 * [|1942] [|First Battle of El Alamein] [|July 1] - British Eighth Army stops [|Rommel]'s Axis forces invading Egypt
 * [|1942] Battle of Sevastapol [|July 2] - Captured by Germans after eight month siege
 * [|1942] [|Battle of Changsha] - Chinese claim victory over Japanese
 * [|1942] [|Battle of Guadalcanal] [|August 8] - Beginning of Allied action in [|Solomon Islands]
 * [|1942] Battle of Savo Island [|August 9] - Japanese sink four US cruisers
 * [|1942] [|Battle of Dieppe] [|August 19] - "Operation Jubilee" was an Allied attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe in France.
 * [|1942] [|Battle of Stalingrad] [|August 22] - [|February 2] [|1943] - City besieged by [|Paulus]' German Sixth Army; from [|November 23] the Sixth Army is surrounded and destroyed by Russians
 * [|1942] [|Battle of the Eastern Solomons] [|August 24] - Japanese aircraft carrier //Ryuho// sunk
 * [|1942] [|Battle of Milne Bay], [|Papua New Guinea] [|August 25]
 * [|1942] Battle of Bloody Ridge [|September 12]
 * [|1942] Battle of Cape Esperance [|October 11] - near Guadalcanal
 * [|1942] [|Second Battle of El Alamein] [|October 23] - [|November 4] - [|Montgomery]'s Eighth Army forces [|Rommel] out of Egypt
 * [|1942] Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands [|October 25] - near Guadalcanal, [|USS //Hornet//] sunk, but Japanese withdraw
 * [|1942] [|Operation Torch] [|November 17] - Allied landings in [|North Africa]
 * [|1942] [|Naval Battle of Guadalcanal] [|November 12] - US defeats Japan
 * [|1942] Battle of Tassafaronga [|November 30] - off Guadalcanal
 * [|1943] Battle of Osankarica [|January 8] - Over 200 Germans massacred all 69 men and women of the Pohorje battalion. Germans lost 19 men and had 31 wounded
 * [|1943] [|Battle of Rennell Island] [|January 29]-[|30] - Japanese bombers sink a cruiser
 * [|1943] [|Battle of Guadalcanal] [|February 8] - Allies take the island
 * [|1943] [|Battle of the Kasserine Pass] [|February 14] - [|25] - Battle between US and German armored forces in [|Tunisia]
 * [|1943] Battle of Bismarck Sea [|March 2] - US sinks Japanese transports
 * [|1943] [|Warsaw Ghetto Uprising] [|April 18] - 5000 Jews and 5000 Germans die, Jews confined
 * [|1943] Battle of Castle Turjak [|September 19] - Slovene partisans took the castle guarded by the Slovene village sentries
 * [|1943] [|Battle of Kursk] July - Germans attack Kursk salient at Orel and Belgorod; Russians drive them back; arguably the largest battle ever fought
 * [|1944] [|Battle of Cisterna] [|January 29]- Part of [|Operation Shingle]- the 1st, 3rd, and 4th US [|Army] Ranger battalions attempted to capture the town of Cisterna.
 * [|1944] [|Battle of Monte Cassino] [|May 11] - [|18]
 * [|1944] [|Battle of Normandy] [|June 6] - [|August 25] - Allies invade northern France across the Normandy beaches ([|Operation Overlord]); hard fighting from Cherbourg to Caen; Germans surrounded and destroyed at Falaise
 * [|1944] Battle of Philippine Sea [|June 19] - Major carrier battle; US lose 27 planes and destroy 402 Japanese planes
 * [|1944] [|Marianas Campaign] - US invasions of [|Saipan], [|June 15], [|Guam] [|July 21], and [|Tinian] [|July 24]
 * [|1944] Battle of Fontenay [|June 25]
 * [|1944] Battles of Tali-Ihantala [|June 25] - [|July 10] - Finnish stop Soviet offensive
 * [|1944] [|Warsaw Uprising] [|August 1] - [|October 5] - 20.000 armed Poles against 55.000 [|Wehrmacht] and [|SS]. City destroyed in 90%, more than 250.000 casualties.
 * [|1944] [|Operation Dragoon] [|August 15] - Allied invasion of Southern France
 * [|1944] Operation Anvil [|August 16] - Second Allied invasion of Southern France
 * [|1944] [|Battle of Peleliu] [|September 17] - A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western [|Pacific].
 * [|1944] [|Battle of Arnhem] [|September 17] - [|26] - The major battle of [|Operation Market Garden]; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed
 * [|1944] Hürtgen Forest [|October 6] - Stubborn German defence
 * [|1944] [|Battle of Aachen]- October. Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion during WW II.
 * [|1944] [|Battle of Leyte Gulf] [|October 23] - [|26] - The largest air-sea battle in history.
 * [|1944] Operation Queen [|November 16]
 * [|1944] Battle of Monte Castello [|November 25] - [|February 12] [|1945] - Brazilian troops fight Germans in Italy
 * [|1944] [|Battle of the Bulge] [|December 16] - [|January 27] [|1945] - German counterattack in [|Ardennes]; General [|McAuliffe] says "NUTS" at Bastogne
 * [|1945] Operation Elephant [|January 26] - Allied offensive in [|Netherlands]
 * [|1945] Battle of Mindanao [|March 10] - US invasion of Philippines
 * [|1945] [|Battle of Iwo Jima] [|March 26] - After a month, US takes the island
 * [|1945] Operation Varsity [|March 17] - 134 Allied gliders land troops in Weisel
 * [|1945] [|Battle of Berlin] [|April 26] - [|May 2] - Hitler commits suicide
 * [|1945] Battle of Poljana - Last battle of [|World War II] in Europe
 * [|1945] [|Battle of Okinawa] [|June 21] - US takes Japanese Island in the Ryukyus; many casualties

After 1945

 * [|1948] [|Israeli War of Independence] - State of Israel established on [|May 14]; war with Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Egypt and Iraq; many Arab refugees
 * [|1950] Battle of Inchon [|September 14] - UN retakes South Korea, reaches Seoul in 12 days
 * [|1950] [|Battle of Chosin Reservoir] [|November 27]
 * [|1951] Battle of Heartbreak Ridge [|September 23] - After 37 days, heights fall to UN
 * [|1954] [|Battle of Dien Bien Phu] - [|France] loses [|Indochina] when besieged here, from [|1953] ([|First Indochina War])
 * [|1956] Battle of Suez - Britain, France, Israel attempt to retake canal, Ike says No
 * [|1961] [|Bay of Pigs Invasion] - US-backed attempt to capture Cuba
 * [|1962] Battle of Namka Chan - Chinese-Indian War
 * [|1967] [|Six Day War] [|June 5] - [|10] - Israel defeats Egypt, Jordan and Syria, occupies Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula
 * [|1968] [|Tet Offensive] [|January 30] - North Vietnam loses militarily but turns the tide of US opinion against the war
 * [|1969] [|Football War] [|July 14] - Between El Salvador and Honduras
 * [|1973] [|Yom Kippur War] [|October 6] - Israel, taken by surprise on Holy Day, defeats Egypt and Syria. See also [|Battle of Latakia]
 * [|1975] [|Indonesia] invades [|East Timor] [|December 7]
 * [|1982] [|Falklands War] [|April 2] - [|June 14] - Britain recaptures Falkland Islands from Argentina
 * [|1983] Battle of Grenada [|October 25] - US invasion
 * [|1991] [|Operation Desert Storm] February - Coalition forces eject Iraq from Kuwait
 * [|1993] [|Battle of Mogadishu] [|October 3] - Policing mission gone wrong, US soldiers trapped against militia in a populated city
 * [|1994] [|Afghanistan]'s [|Islamic State of Afghanistan] ([|United Front]) ousted by [|Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan] ([|Taliban]).