Battles on 3 July

15 battles fought (or begun) on 3 July, from 1754 to 2007, 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 3 July?

The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Battle of Königgrätz (1866), Attack on Mers-el-Kébir (1940), Battle of Wyoming (1778).

• Battle of Fort Necessity 3 July 1754United States · French and Indian War
• Le Havre raid 3 July 1759 – 5 July 1759France · Seven Years' War
• Battle of Wyoming 3 July 1778United States · American Revolutionary War
• Battle of Issy 3 July 1815France · Napoleonic Wars
• Battle of Shopian 3 July 1819India · Afghan–Sikh Wars
• Battle of Fairfield 3 July 1863United States · American Civil War
• Battle of Lundby 3 July 1864Denmark · Second Schleswig War
• Battle of Königgrätz 3 July 1866Czechia · Austro-Prussian War
• Battle of Cottonwood 3 July 1877 – 5 July 1877United States · Nez Perce War
• Battle of Santiago de Cuba 3 July 1898Cuba
• Attack on Mers-el-Kébir 3 July 1940Algeria · Operation Catapult
• Battle of Deir ez-Zor (1941) 3 July 1941Syria · Syria–Lebanon campaign
• Siege of Mogilev 3 July 1941 – 26 July 1941Belarus · Battle of Smolensk
• Battle of La Haye-du-Puits 3 July 1944 – 14 July 1944France · Operation Overlord
• Siege of Lal Masjid 3 July 2007 – 11 July 2007Pakistan · insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa