January

8

Battle of New Orleans 1815

11

Fall of Kuala Lumpur 1942

15

Japanese Invasion of Burma 1942

16

Battle of Corunna 1809

17

Battle of Abu Klea 1885

18

Battle of Kumasi 1876

19

Capture of Ciuad Rodrigo 1812
Battle of Spion Kop 1900

21

Capture of Tobruk 1941

22

Battle of Rorke’s Drift 1879
Battle of Isandhlwana 1879

23

Capture of Tripoli 1943

26

Fall of Khartoum 1885

28

Battle of Laing’s Nek 1881

February

4

Battle of El Teb 1884

6

Accession of HM The Queen 1952

7

Capture of Benghazi 1941

10

Battle of Kirbekan 1885

15

Relief of Kimberley 1900
Fall of Singapore 1942

16

Capture of Medenine 1943

18

Battle of Paardeberg 1900

27

Battle of Majuba Hill 1881
Bruneval Raid 1942

28

Relief of Ladysmith 1900

March

4

Battle of Baghdad 1917
Lefoten Islands Raid 1941

9

Fall of Rangoon 1942

10

Battle of Neuve Chapelle 1915

13

Battle of Tamai 1884

20

Battle of Mareth 1943
Capture of Mandalay 1945

21

Battle of Alexandria 1801
Capture of Lucknow 1858 Second Battle of the Somme 1918

23

Rhine Crossings 1945

26

First Battle of Gaza 1917

27

Battle of Karen 1941

28

St Nazaire Raid 1942

29

Battle of El Teb 1884

April

3

Battle of Malakand Pass 1895

6

Capture of Badajoz 1812
Battle of Wadi Akarit 1943

7

Battle of Jellalabad 1842

8

Battle of Atbara 1898

9

Battle of Arras 1917

10

Battle of Kohima 1942

13

Battle of Nunshigum 1944

16

Second Battle of the Aisne 1917

18

Relief of Kohima 1944

22

Second Battle of Ypres 1915

23

Battle of Imjin River 1951

25

Gallipoli Landings 1915

29

Fall of Kut al Amara 1916

May

1

Fall of Mandalay 1942

2

Surrender of German forces in Italy 1945

3

Capture of Rangoon 1945

4

Capture of Seringapatam 1799

5

Battle of Fuentes d’Onoro 1811

8

VE Day 1945

11

Battle of Fontenoy 1745

12

Axis forces surrender in North Africa 1943

16

Battle of Albuhera 1811

17

Relief of Mafeking 1900

20

Battle of Crete 1941

23

Battle of Ramillies 1706

27

Third Battle of the Aisne 1918
Battle of Knightsbridge North Africa 1942

28

Capture of Narvik 1940

30

Capture of Baghdad 1941

June

6

D-Day Normandy Landings 1944

7

Battle of Messines Ridge 1917

11

Battle of Diamond Hill 1900

13

Boxer Rising 1900

14

Storming of Delhi 1857

17

Battle of Bunker’s Hill 1775
Battle of Quatre Bras 1815

18

Battle of Waterloo 1815

 21

Battle of Vittoria 1813
Fall of Tobruk 1942

22

Relief of Imphal 1944

23

Battle of Plassey 1757

25

Battle of Caen 1944

26

Battle of Mersa Matruh 1942

27

Battle of Dettingen 1743

July

1

Battle of the Somme 1916

4

Battle of Maida 1806
Battle of Ulundi 1879

8

Battle of Ticonderoga 1758

10

Sicily Landings 1943

11

Battle of Oudenarde 1708

20

Capture of Caen 1944

22

Battle of Salamanca 1812

23

Capture of Gibraltar 1704

27

Battle of Talavera 1809
Battle of Maiwand 1880

31

Third Battle of Ypres 1917

August

1

Battle of Minden 1759

3

Battle of Toski 1889

4

Britain entered 1st World War 1914

6

Suvla Bay Landings 1915

8

Battle of Amiens 1918

13

Battle of Blenheim 1704

14

Battle of Peking 1900

19

Dieppe Raid 1942

21

Storming of the Taku Forts 1860

 23

Battle of Mons 1914

25

Liberation of Paris 1944

26

Battle of Le Cateau 1914

30

Assault on the Gothic Line in Italy 1944

31

Battle of Alam Halfa 1942

September

1

Battle of Kandahar 1880

2

Battle of Omdurman 1898

3

Britain entered 2nd World War 1939
Liberation of Brussels 1944

4

Capture of Antwerp 1944

6

First Battle of the Marne 1914

7

London Blitz began 1940

8

Storming of the Redan, Sevastopol 1855

9

Salerno Landings 1943

11

Capture of Sevastopol 1855

13

Battle of Tel-el-Kebir 1882
First Battle of the Aisne 1914

14

Battle of Kabul 1842

17

Battle of Arnhem 1944

19

Battle of Bergen-op-Zoom 1799

20

Battle of the Alma 1854

23

Battle of Assaye 1803
Capture of the Alumbagh, Lucknow 1857
 

25

Battle of Loos 1915

27

Battle of Busaco 1810

28

Battle of Kut al Amara 1915

October

2

Battle of Egmont-Op-Zee 1799

5

Salonika Landings 1915

12

Capture of Peking 1860

13

Battle of Aachen 1944

17

Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga 1777

19

Surrender of Yorktown 1781
First Battle of Ypres 1914

21

Battle of Elandslaagte 1899

23

Battle of El Alamein 1942

25

Battle of Balaclava 1854

26

Formation of the Territorial Force 1907
Battle of Passchendaele 1917
 

27

Third Battle of Gaza 1917

31

Battle of Gheluvelt 1914

November

4

Port Said Landings 1956

5

Battle of Inkerman 1854

8

North Africa Landings 1942

10

Battle of Nivelle 1813

11

Armistice Day 1918

15

Crossing of the Sangro 1943

17

Battle of Nebi Samwil 1917

18

Battle of Sidi Rezergh 1941

20

Battle of Cambrai 1917

21

Battle of Ali Masjid 1878

27

End of Italian Resistance in Ethopia 1941

28

Battle of Modder River 1899

29

Relief of Tobruk 1941

December

2

Battle of Peirwar Kotal 1878

6

Battle of Cawnpore 1857

8

Japanese invasion of Malaya and Hong Kong 1941

9

Capture of Jerusalem 1917

11

Battle of Magersfontein 1899

15

Battle of Colenso 1899

25

Surrender of Hong Kong 1941
Vaagso Raid 1941