Battles on 20 May
21 battles fought (or begun) on 20 May, from 1622 to 1992, 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 20 May?
The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Battle of Crete (1941), Demyansk Pocket (1942), Battle of Bautzen (1813) (1813).
- Mughal–Safavid war (1622–1623) 20 May 1622 – 21 June 1622Afghanistan · Mughal–Safavid War
- Sack of Magdeburg 20 May 1631 – 24 May 1631Germany · Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Les Avins 20 May 1635Belgium · Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Nevis 20 May 1667Saint Kitts and Nevis · Second Anglo-Dutch War
- Battle of Minorca (1756) 20 May 1756Spain · Seven Years' War
- Battle of Barren Hill 20 May 1778United States · American Revolutionary War
- Siege of Mangalore 20 May 1783 – 30 January 1784India
- Battle of Erquelinnes 20 May 1794 – 24 May 1794Belgium · War of the First Coalition
- Battle of Tamatave 20 May 1811At sea · Mauritius campaign
- Battle of Bautzen (1813) 20 May 1813 – 21 May 1813Germany · War of the Sixth Coalition
- Siege of Varnakova 20 May 1826 – 26 May 1826Greece · Greek War of Independence
- Battle of Nigoiti 20 May 1854 – 27 May 1854Georgia · Caucasian campaign of the Crimean War
- Battle of Taku Forts (1858) 20 May 1858China · Second Opium War
- Capture of Tucson (1862) 20 May 1862United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Pogue's Run 20 May 1863United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Ware Bottom Church 20 May 1864United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Crete 20 May 1941 – 1 June 1941Greece · World War II in the Balkans
- Battle of Heraklion 20 May 1941Greece · World War II
- Battle of Rethymno 20 May 1941Greece · World War II
- Demyansk Pocket 20 May 1942Russia · Siege of Leningrad
- Doboj ethnic cleansing 20 May 1992 – 20 October 1992Bosnia and Herzegovina · War in Bosnia and Herzegovina