12th August 1099 Battle at Ascalon won by Crusader army.
12th August 1121 Battle of Didgori.
12th August 1164 Battle of Harim.
12th August 1332 Battle of Dupplin Moor.
12th August 1480 Battle of Otranto.
12th August 1499 Start of the Battle of Zonchio.
12th August 1549 French troops conquer Ambleteuse.
12th August 1588 Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army
12th August 1665 English fleet beat Dutch fleet
12th August 1687 Battle of Mohacs, Ottoman invaders of Hungary.
12th August 1759 Battle of Kunersdorf Russiian\Austrian army V the Prussians
12th August 1812 Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid
12th August 1831 Dutch troops conquer Leuven.
12th August 1914 The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
12th August 1914 Battle of the Silver Helmets.
12th August 1914 German Artillery Fires on Liege Forts.
12th August 1918 Allies defeat Germans at the Battle of Amiens.
12th August 1920 Battle for Warsaw between Poland and Russia begins
12th August 1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations.
12th August 1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb.
12th August 1959 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile
12th August 2000 The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
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