Battles on 27 August
19 battles fought (or begun) on 27 August, from 1626 to 1950, 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 27 August?
The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Battle of Long Island (1776), Siege of Tsingtao (1914), Battle of Lutter (1626).
- Battle of Lutter 27 August 1626Germany · Thirty Years' War
- Siege of Leucate 27 August 1637 – 29 September 1637France · Franco-Spanish War
- Action of 27 August 1661 27 August 1661Greece · Cretan War of 1645-1669
- Battle of Valencia de Alcántara 27 August 1762Spain · Seven Years' War
- Battle of Long Island 27 August 1776United States · American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Pollilur (1781) 27 August 1781India · Second Anglo-Mysore War
- Battle of the Combahee River 27 August 1782United States · American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Castlebar 27 August 1798Ireland · Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Battle of Callantsoog 27 August 1799Netherlands · Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland
- Battle of Bayou Meto 27 August 1863United States · Little Rock Campaign
- Battle of Buzancy 27 August 1870France · Franco-Prussian War
- Battle of Bergendal 27 August 1900South Africa · Second Boer War
- Battle of Mufilo 27 August 1907Angola · Portuguese campaign against the Ovambo
- Rearguard Affair of Étreux 27 August 1914France · Great Retreat
- Siege of Tsingtao 27 August 1914 – 7 November 1914China · Asian and Pacific theater of World War I
- Rovno offensive 27 August 1915 – 15 October 1915Lithuania
- Battle of Ambos Nogales 27 August 1918United States · Mexican Border War
- Battle of Arundel Island 27 August 1943 – 21 September 1943Solomon Islands
- Battle of Kyongju 27 August 1950 – 12 September 1950South Korea · Korean War