1187-09-20

(20 September) Salah al-Din began the siege of Jerusalem. After a 2-week-long siege, the city…

1857-09-20

(20 September) The British EIC forces captured the city of Delhi. With the fall of…

1716-08-05

(5 August) The Battle of Petrovaradin was fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Archduchy…

1148-07-29

(29 July) The Siege of Damascus ended in a decisive Crusader defeat. The siege was…

1715-07-20

(20 July) The Ottomans captured the city of Nauplia after an eight-day long siege. Nauplia…

0711-07-19

(19 July) The Umayyad commander Tariq bin Ziyad defeated the Visigothic king Roderic in the…

1526-04-21

(21 April) The Timurid forces under Babur defeated the armies of Ibrahim Lodi of the…

1453-04-06

(6 April) 21-year-old Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II began the siege of Constantinople.

1430-03-29

(29 March) The Ottoman Sultan Murad II reconquered Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. The…