Battles on 8 August
22 battles fought (or begun) on 8 August, from 1627 to 2008, 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 8 August?
The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Siege of Odessa (1941), Battle of Amiens (1918) (1918), Battle of Tskhinvali (2008).
- Battle of Dirschau 8 August 1627Poland · Polish–Swedish War of 1626–1629
- Battle of Scheveningen 8 August 1653 – 10 August 1653Netherlands · First Anglo-Dutch War
- Battle of Rügen (1715) 8 August 1715Germany · Great Northern War
- Battle of Piqua 8 August 1780United States · American Revolutionary War
- Hudson Bay expedition 8 August 1782Canada · American Revolutionary War
- Siege of Ahmednagar (1803) 8 August 1803 – 12 August 1803India · Second Anglo-Maratha War
- Battle of Arzobispo 8 August 1809Spain · Peninsular War
- Battle of Karpenisi 8 August 1823 (Julian calendar)Greece · Greek War of Independence
- Battle of Adrianople (1829) 8 August 1829Turkey · Ninth Russo-Turkish War
- Battle of Hasselt 8 August 1831Belgium · Ten Days' Campaign
- Battle of Żyrzyn 8 August 1863Poland · January Uprising
- Siege of Bitche 8 August 1870 – 26 March 1871France · Franco-Prussian War
- Battle of Fajardo 8 August 1898 – 9 August 1898Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico campaign
- Third Battle of Oituz 8 August 1917 – 20 August 1917Romania · Romania in World War I
- Battle of Amiens (1918) 8 August 1918 – 12 August 1918France · Western Front
- Siege of Odessa 8 August 1941 – 16 October 1941Ukraine · World War II
- Battle of Hengyang 8 August 1944China · Battle of Changsha–Hengyang
- Battle of Firebase Anaconda 8 August 2007Afghanistan · War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Battle of Ebrahimkhel 8 August 2008Afghanistan · War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Battle of Shewan 8 August 2008Afghanistan · War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Battle of Tskhinvali 8 August 2008 – 11 August 2008Georgia · Russo-Georgian War
- Beni Douala Operations (2008) 8 August 2008Algeria