Battles on 12 October

16 battles fought (or begun) on 12 October, from 1625 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 12 October?

The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Action off Cape Passero (1940), Battle of Messines (1914) (1914), Battle of Tory Island (1798).

• Battle of Listenhoff 12 October 1625Latvia · Polish–Swedish War of 1621–25
• Battle of Woerden 12 October 1672Netherlands · Franco-Dutch War
• Battle of Havana (1748) 12 October 1748Cuba · War of Jenkins' Ear
• Battle of Fort Ligonier 12 October 1758United States · Seven Years' War
• First Battle of Noirmoutier 12 October 1793France · War in the Vendée
• Battle of Tory Island 12 October 1798At sea · French Revolutionary Wars
• Siege of Trieste (1813) 12 October 1813 – 31 October 1813Italy
• Battle of Sarandí 12 October 1825Uruguay · Cisplatine War
• Siege of Béxar 12 October 1835 – 11 December 1835United States · Texas Revolution
• Battle of the Head of Passes 12 October 1861United States · American Civil War
• Zeitun rebellion (1895–96) 12 October 1895 – 1 February 1896Turkey · Hamidian massacres
• Battle of Virden 12 October 1898United States
• Battle of Messines (1914) 12 October 1914 – 2 November 1914Belgium · World War I
• First Battle of Passchendaele 12 October 1917Belgium · Third Battle of Ypres
• Action off Cape Passero 12 October 1940At sea · Battle of the Mediterranean
• Intangom attack 12 October 2016Burkina Faso · Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso