Battles on 7 December
19 battles fought (or begun) on 7 December, from 1642 to 2017, 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 7 December?
The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Battle of Suomussalmi (1939), Siege of Kut (1915).
- Battle of Tadcaster 7 December 1642England
- Battle of Krosno 7 December 1655Poland · Second Northern War
- Siege of Breslau (1757) 7 December 1757 – 20 December 1757Poland · Third Silesian War
- Battle of Bois-de-Céné 7 December 1793France · War in the Vendée
- Battle of Villelongue 7 December 1793 – 18 December 1793France · War of the Pyrenees
- Battle of Bornhöved (1813) 7 December 1813Germany · War of the Sixth Coalition
- Battle of Montgomery's Tavern 7 December 1837Canada · Upper Canada Rebellion
- Battle of Hartsville 7 December 1862United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Prairie Grove 7 December 1862United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Amba Alagi (1895) 7 December 1895Ethiopia
- Siege of Kut 7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916Iraq · Mesopotamian campaign
- Battle of Kollaa 7 December 1939 – 13 March 1940Russia · Winter War
- Battle of Suomussalmi 7 December 1939 – 8 January 1940Finland · Winter War
- Attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941United States · South-East Asian theater of World War II
- Operation Tariq al-Quds 7 December 1981Iran · Iran–Iraq War
- Attack on Ballygawley barracks 7 December 1985Northern Ireland · The Troubles
- Fall of Kandahar 7 December 2001Afghanistan · War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Battle of Musa Qala 7 December 2007 – 12 December 2007Afghanistan · War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- 2017 Semuliki attack 7 December 2017Democratic Republic of the Congo · Kivu conflict