626 Avars & Persians invest Constantinople (retreat, 10 Aug 626)

922 Robert I proclaims himself King of France (June 29, 922-June 15, 923)

1149 Battle of Inab: Turks defeat the Prince of Antioch

1236 King Ferdinand III of Castilla-Leon liberates Cordoba from the Moors

1308 Battle of the River Dee: Edward Bruce defeats the English

1312 Coronation of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII (June 29, 1312-August 24, 1313)

1377 French naval raids on the English ports of Rye, Folkestone, Portsmouth, Weymouth, Plymouth, Dartmouth, and Lewes

1440 Battle of Anghiari: The Florentines defeat the Pisans

1529 Peace of Barcelona: Pope Clement VII confirms Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor

1575 Battle of Nagashino, Japan: the Tokugawa Clan defeats the Takeda.

1651 Battle of Berestechko, Day 2 of 3: Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky's c. 200,000 Ukrainian Cossacks & Crimean Tatars edge Casimir II's c. 150,00 Polish-Lithuanian forces

1734 War of the Polish Succession: Battle of Parma - Franco-Spanish forces defeat the Austrians

1756 A Franco-Spanish expedition captured Puerto Mahon, liberating Menorca from nearly 50 years' of British rule, and the French discovered mayonnaise

1767 British pass Townshend Acts, levying taxes on American colonies

1835 Battle of Anahuac: Texians capture Mexican garrison

1855 First Battle of Rivas: William Walker's filibusters & Nicaraguan collaborators defeat the Nicaraguan Army

1858 Treaty of Algun: China cedes Trans-Amur region to Russia

1862 Day 4 of the Seven Days: Battle of Savage's Station

1863 Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg

1864 Second Germano-Danish Schleswig-Holstein War: Successful Prussian amphibious assault on Alsen in the Baltic

1864 Wilson's Raid: Battle of Ream's Station, Va

1866 Seven Weeks' War: The Hanoverian Army surrenders to the Prussians

1880 France annexes Tahiti

1898 Rio San Juan, P.R: US landing party-driven off, 1 killed

1913 Bulgarian troops initiate hostilities with Serbia in Macedonia, triggering the Second Balkan War

1932 Military coup in Siam installs a constitutional monarchy

1932 USSR & China sign non-aggression pact

1940 US passes the Alien Registration Act

1944 Bobriusk: Soviets encircle portions of German Army Group Center

1945 Operation Olympic: President Truman set the invasion of Japan for Nov 1st

1945 Typhoon off Okinawa damages many U.S. ships

1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II

1952 USS 'Oriskany'(CV-34) becomes the first aircraft carrier to round Cape Horn

1965 USAF Capt Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15

1966 North Vietnam: US bombs fuel storage facilities

1967 Israel declares the reunification of Jerusalem

1970 US/ARVN end two month military offensive into Cambodia