| | 1499 | Battle of Lepanto I. In the first major Turkish naval victory, Ottoman fleet defeated Venetian Navy forcing Venice to yield some of her Grecian trading posts. |
| | 1696 | Peter the Great captured fortress city of Azov only to lose it in 14 years later. |
| | 1809 | Battle of Talavera. The Spanish broke and fled leaving the British to defeat the French on their own. Wellington was too weak after the battle to pursue and retired to Portugal. |
| | 1914 | Austria invades Serbia. |
| | 1944 | Operation Cobra, the breakout from Normandy began. |