Battles on 21 July

21 battles fought (or begun) on 21 July, from 1637 to 2016, 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 21 July?

The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Battle of the Pyramids (1798), First Battle of Bull Run (1861), Battle of Burkersdorf (1762) (1762).

• Siege of Breda (1637) 21 July 1637 – 11 October 1637Netherlands · Eighty Years' War
• Battle of Cádiz (1640) 21 July 1640Spain · Franco-Spanish War
• Siege of Aalborghus 21 July 1644 – 4 August 1644Denmark · Torstenson War
• Siege of Santa Maura (1684) 21 July 1684 – 6 August 1684Greece · Morean War
• Battle of Burkersdorf (1762) 21 July 1762Poland · Seven Years' War
• Battle of Colson's Mill 21 July 1780United States · American Revolutionary War
• Action of 21 July 1781 21 July 1781Canada · American Revolutionary War
• Battle of Saldanha Bay (1781) 21 July 1781South Africa · Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
• Battle of Parkumäki 21 July 1789Finland · Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790
• Invasion of France (1795) 21 July 1795France · War of the First Coalition
• Battle of the Pyramids 21 July 1798Egypt · French Revolutionary Wars
• Battle of Castalla (1812) 21 July 1812Spain · Peninsular War
• Siege of Silistra (1828) 21 July 1828 – 8 November 1828Romania
• Battle of Wisconsin Heights 21 July 1832United States · Black Hawk War
• Battle of Chinkiang 21 July 1842China · First Opium War
• First Battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861United States · Eastern theater of the American Civil War
• Battle of Nipe Bay 21 July 1898Cuba · Spanish–American War
• Battle of Kresna Gorge 21 July 1913 – 31 July 1913Bulgaria · Second Balkan War
• Siege of the Loyola barracks 21 July 1936 – 27 July 1936Spain · Spanish coup of July 1936
• First Battle of Tikrit 21 July 2014Iraq · Iraqi Civil War of 2014–2017
• Battle of Kidal (2016) 21 July 2016 – 22 July 2016Mali