* 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.

The sword carried by the Republic in the Marseillaise relief broke off on the day, it is said, that the Battle of Verdun began in 1916.

* 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337, 000 casualties.

* 1916 – Germans captured Fort Douaumont during Battle of Verdun.

* 1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.

On the way to Battle of Verdun | Verdun.

Famous battles in France include Battle of Verdun ( spanning 10 months from 21 February to 18 December 1916 ), Battle of the Somme ( 1 July to 18 November 1916 ), and five separate conflicts called the Battle of Ypres

* 1895 – Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun ( d. 1999 )

The largest siege of the war, and the arguably the roughest, most gruesome battle in history, was the Battle of Verdun.

* February 21 – WWI: The Battle of Verdun begins in France.

On 22 September 1984 Kohl met the French president François Mitterrand at Verdun, where the Battle of Verdun between France and Germany had taken place during

Small operations took place in the Ypres salient in 1916, some being German initiatives to distract the Allies from the preparations for the offensive at Verdun and later to try to divert Allied attention from the Battle of the Somme.

The Second Offensive Battle of Verdun was delayed, partly due to the mutinies which had affected the French army after the failure of the Nivelle Offensive and also because a German attack at Verdun 28 – 29 June captured part of the ground intended as a jumping-off point for the French attack.

The French ' Second Offensive Battle of Verdun ' finally began on 20 August and by 9 September had taken 10, 000 prisoners.

** The Battle of Verdun during World War I

The Battle of Verdun (,,, ) was one of the major battles during the First World War on the Western Front.

Vivat ribbons | Vivat ribbon commemorating role of: en: William, German Crown Prince | German Crown Prince William in the early stages of the Battle of Verdun ( 10 September 1914 ).

In 1914, following the German invasion of France, the First Battle of the Marne ( 5 – 12 September ) and the capture of Saint-Mihiel ( on 24 September ) created a salient around Verdun.

In the meantime, while Souville was under assault, the opening of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July, had forced the Germans to withdraw some of their artillery from Verdun to counter the combined Anglo-French offensive to the north.

The French launched a major counter-offensive to recapture Douaumont in October 1916 ( the First Offensive Battle of Verdun ()).

* 259, Battle of Mediolanum — Emperor Gallienus defeats the Alemanni to rescue Rome

* 268, Battle of Lake Benacus — Romans under Emperor Claudius II defeat the Alemanni.

** Battle of Placentia — Emperor Aurelian is defeated by the Alemanni forces invading Italy

** Battle of Fano — Aurelian defeats the Alemanni, who begin to retreat from Italy

** Battle of Pavia — Aurelian destroys the retreating Alemanni army.

** Battle of Lingones — Caesar Constantius Chlorus defeats the Alemanni

** Battle of Vindonissa — Constantius again defeats the Alemanni

* 356, Battle of Reims — Caesar Julian is defeated by the Alemanni

* 357, Battle of Strasbourg — Julian expels the Alemanni from the Rhineland

* 367, Battle of Solicinium — Romans under Emperor Valentinian I defeat yet another Alemanni incursion.

* 378, Battle of Argentovaria — Western Emperor Gratianus is victorious over the Alemanni, yet again.

The second question is the meaning of the word avita: Gildas could have meant " ancestors ", or intended it to mean more specifically " grandfather " — thus indicating Ambrosius lived about a generation before the Battle of Mons Badonicus.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

The Allied fleet defeated the demoralized remnants of the Persian fleet in the Battle of Mycale — on the same day as Plataea, according to tradition.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

This is not the first instance of this tactic — the women of the Cimbri, in the Battle of Vercellae against Gaius Marius, were stationed in a line of wagons and acted as a last line of defence.

The border city of Vukovar underwent a three month siege – the Battle of Vukovar — during which most of the city was destroyed and a majority of the population was forced to flee.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

A series of coordinated attacks by these Egyptian Expeditionary Force infantry and mounted troops were also successful at the Battle of Mughar Ridge, during which the British infantry divisions and the Desert Mounted Corps drove two Ottoman armies back to the Jaffa — Jerusalem line.

At the Battle of Waterloo — Napoleon's final battle — the French army had many more artillery pieces than either the British or Prussians.

It included later mainstays such as " Frog and toad — the main road " and " Apples and pears — stairs " as well as many that later grew more obscure, e. g. " Battle of the Nile — a tile ( vulgar term for a hat )", " Duke of York — take a walk ", and " Top of Rome — home ".