After this, James attempted to retake the throne by force in the Williamite War, and was finally defeated by William at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

* 12th July ( Battle of the Boyne ) and ( Orangemen's Day ) in Northern Ireland.

* 1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne ( as reckoned under the Julian calendar ).

* 1690 – Battle of the Boyne ( Julian calendar ) – The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.

* July 11 – Battle of the Boyne, north of Dublin.

Following the Battle of the Boyne, Finglas was used as a camp for four days by William of Orange en route to Dublin city.

William's victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 is still commemorated by the Orange Order.

The Battle of the Boyne (, ) was fought in 1690 between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish, and Irish thronesthe Catholic King James and the Protestant King William ( who had deposed James in 1688 ) across the River Boyne near Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland.

Battle of the Boyne between James II and William III, 11 July 1690, Jan van Huchtenburg.

The battle was overshadowed in its time in England by the defeat of an Anglo-Dutch fleet by the French two days later at the Battle of Beachy Head, a far more serious event in the short term ; only on the continent was the Boyne treated as an important victory.

What was celebrated on " The Twelfth " was not William's " victory over Popery at the Battle of the Boyne ", but the extermination of the elite of the Catholic Irish at Aughrim, thereby ending the fear of having to surrender the planted lands.

But after the Orange Order was founded in 1795 amid sectarian violence in Armagh, the focus of parades on 12 July switched to the Battle of the Boyne.

Despite this, there are also smaller parades and demonstrations on 1 July, the date which maps the old style date of the Boyne to the new style in the usual manner and which also commemorate the heavy losses of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

The Battle of the Boyne remains a controversial topic today, especially in Northern Ireland, where some Protestants remember it as the great victory over Catholics that resulted in the sovereignty of Parliament and the Protestant monarchy.

The site of the Battle of the Boyne sprawls over a wide area west of the town of Drogheda.

* Padraig Lenihan, 1690 Battle of the Boyne, Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire 2003.

* Battle of the Boyne visitor centre at Oldbridge, plus battle information

* Boyne Valley Tourist Portal – Information on Battle of the Boyne

* Tourist Information on Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre

* Primary and secondary sources relating to the Battle of the Boyne ( From the National Library of Ireland's Sources database )

* Interview with historian Padraig Lenihan on the Battle of the Boyne

England's crushing defeat by France, the dominant naval power, in naval engagements culminating in the 1690 Battle of Beachy Head, became the catalyst for England's rebuilding itself as a global power.

During King William's War ( 1689 to 1697 ) military conflicts in Acadia included: Battle of Port Royal ( 1690 ); a naval battle in the Bay of Fundy ( Action of July 14, 1696 ); and the Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 ).

Maximilian Emanuel was again forced to flee the Netherlands after the Battle of Ramillies ( May 23, 1706 ) and found refuge at the French court in Versailles where his late sister Maria Anna ( 1660 – 1690 ) had been the wife of le Grand Dauphin.

In the Williamite war in Ireland ( 1689 – 91 ), the Jacobites also retreated behind the Shannon after their defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

But in 1736, the Massachusetts General Court granted a large section of the land to veterans of the 1690 Battle of Quebec.

It was granted by the Massachusetts General Court on June 15, 1771 to James Otis, Nathaniel Gorham and other descendants of Captain John Gorham and certain members of his company who had fought in the 1690 Battle of Quebec.

The land that became Warwick was one of four tracts of land established by Massachusetts in 1735 to compensate the descendants of the officers and soldiers who served during the " expedition to Canada " and the Battle of Quebec in 1690.

William III's victory at the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690 ( O. S.

In Northern Ireland, bonfires are lit on Halloween, October 31. and each 11 July, bonfires are lit by many Protestant communities to celebrate the victory of Williamite forces at the Battle of the Boyne, which took place on 12 July 1690.

( He was called William after William of Orange, who won the Battle of the Boyne on July 12, 1690.

Madockawando and others from Penobscot fought along side Hertel Portneuf and St. Castin at the Battle of Fort Loyal ( May 1690 ).

The Battle of Fleurus, fought on 1 July 1690, was a major engagement of the Nine Years ' War.

The Scottish Jacobites were heavily defeated at the Haughs of Cromdale on 1 May 1690, and James was defeated on 1 July 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.

* The Battle of Fleurus ( 1690 ) in the Nine Years ' War.

The Battle of Beachy Head in 1690 was a naval engagement during the Nine Years ' War.

Nevertheless he subsequently joined the forces of William of Orange, by whom he was made colonel of the Queen's Troop of Horse Guards on 20 April 1689, and commanded the Queen's Troop at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

* Battle of Abensberg occurred April 20, 1809.

* Battle of Landshut occurred April 21, 1809.

* Battle of Eckmühl occurred 21 – 22 April 1809.

Independence finally occurred on May 24, 1822 at the Battle of Pichincha.

The Battle of Mogadishu also occurred in Somalia in 1993.

The Battle of Abritus, also known as the Battle of Forum Terebronii, occurred in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior ( modern Razgrad, Bulgaria ) probably in July, 251, between the Roman Empire and a federation of Scythian tribesmen under the Goth king Cniva.

China and South Vietnam both occupied portions of the Paracel Islands until 1974, when the Battle of the Paracel Islands occurred ; China took over and has controlled all of the Paracel Islands since then.

The Gauls destroyed much of Rome's historical records when they sacked the city after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC ( Varronian, according to Polybius the battle occurred in 387 / 6 ) and what was left was eventually lost to time or theft.

One highly publicized legal battle occurred in 1960 involving the opening of a new theatre that was to be open to all races ; the proposed unsegregated restrooms at the newly-built Reps Theatre in 1959 caused an argument called " The Battle of the Toilets ".

The Siege of Apia, or the Battle of Apia, occurred during the Second Samoan Civil War in March 1899 at Apia.

From 1919-1921 three Silesian Uprisings occurred among the Polish-speaking populace of Upper Silesia ; the Battle of Annaberg was fought in the region in 1921.

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* 1205 — The Battle of Adrianople occurred on April 14, 1205 between Bulgarians under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, ( July 1172 – 1205 ), the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

* In 919, the first use of gunpowder in battle occurred with the Chinese Battle of Lang-shan Jiang ( Wolf Mountain River ), where the naval fleet of the Wen-Mu-King defeated Chien Yuan Kuan because Wen had used ' fire oil ' ( huo yóu, 火油 ) of gunpowder-fuse ignited flamethrowers to burn Chien's fleet.

The Battle of Fort Dearborn ( also known as the Fort Dearborn Massacre ) was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Indians that occurred on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, but was then part of the Illinois Territory.

The Battle of Hastings occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army under King Harold II.

Two major military battles occurred near the city: in 732, the Battle of Poitiers ( also known as the Battle of Tours ), in which the Franks commanded by Charles Martel halted the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate, and in 1356, the Battle of Poitiers, a key victory for English forces during the Hundred Years ' War.

During Queen Anne's War ( 1702 to 1713 ), the British Conquest of Acadia occurred in 1710, resulting in Nova Scotia, other than Cape Breton, being officially ceded to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht including Rupert's Land, that had been conquered by France in the late 17th century ( Battle of Hudson's Bay ).

A short period of resurgence occurred under the local noble Leonardo Alagon, marquess of Oristano, who managed to defeat the viceroyal army in the 1470s but was later crushed at the Battle of Macomer ( 1478 ), ending any further hope of independence for the island.