Battles on 16 August
19 battles fought (or begun) on 16 August, from 1632 to 2014, in date order. Dates are from Wikidata and are shown only for battles from 1600 onwards with a single exact date. Dates recorded in the Julian (Old Style) calendar are listed under their Julian day and marked.
Which battles happened on 16 August?
The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Battle of Mars-la-Tour (1870), Battle of Camden (1780), Battle of Cassano (1705) (1705).
- Battle of Wiesloch (1632) 16 August 1632Germany · Thirty Years' War
- Siege of Kronborg 16 August 1658 – 6 September 1658Denmark · Dano-Swedish War
- Battle of Cassano (1705) 16 August 1705Italy · War of the Spanish Succession
- Highbridge Skirmish 16 August 1745Scotland · Jacobite rising of 1745
- Battle of Bennington 16 August 1777United States · American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Camden 16 August 1780United States · American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Amsteg 16 August 1799Switzerland
- Raids on Boulogne 16 August 1801France · French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of the Chernaya 16 August 1855Ukraine · Crimean War
- Battle of Guard Hill 16 August 1864United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Mars-la-Tour 16 August 1870France · Franco-Prussian War
- Siege of Strasbourg 16 August 1870 – 28 September 1870France · Franco-Prussian War
- Siege of Toul 16 August 1870 – 23 September 1870France · Franco-Prussian War
- Battle of Antivari 16 August 1914Montenegro · World War I
- Battle of Mallorca 16 August 1936Spain · Spanish Civil War
- Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou 16 August 1944 – 24 November 1944China · Operation Ichi-Go
- Battle of Junik 16 August 1998Kosovo · Kosovo War
- Battle for Mosul Dam 16 August 2014 – 19 August 2014Iraq · Northern Iraq offensive
- Battle of Dama 16 August 2014 – 20 August 2014Syria · Syrian Civil War