| | 1176 | The Battle of Legnano marks the resurgence of infantry on the battlefield. |
| | 1453 | After 50 days of bombardment, Constantinople falls to the Jannisary infantrymen of the Ottoman Turks, thus ending the Byzantine empire. (Some believe this signalled the end of the Middle Ages.) |
| | 1813 | H.M.S. Shannon captured U.S.S. Chesapeake. |
| | 1900 | Battle of Senekal. Boers set vase brush fires through which British attacked and got burned. |