Battles on 17 October
22 battles fought (or begun) on 17 October, from 1633 to 2019, 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 17 October?
The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Battle of Leyte (1944), Battle of Raqqa (2017) (2017), Battle of Kinburn (1855) (1855).
- Siege of Rheinfelden (1633) 17 October 1633Switzerland · Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Vlotho 17 October 1638Germany · Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Kings Norton 17 October 1642England · English Civil War
- Battle of Pälkäne 17 October 1713Finland · Great Northern War
- Second Battle of Cholet 17 October 1793France · War in the Vendée
- Battle of Neresheim (1805) 17 October 1805Germany
- Battle of Halle 17 October 1806Germany · War of the Fourth Coalition
- Battle of Loznica 17 October 1810 – 18 October 1810Serbia · First Serbian Uprising
- Siege of Dresden (1813) 17 October 1813 – 11 November 1813Germany
- Battle of El Roble 17 October 1815Chile · Chilean War of Independence
- Battle of Kotor 17 October 1848Croatia
- Battle of Letenye 17 October 1848Croatia
- Battle of Kinburn (1855) 17 October 1855Ukraine · Crimean War
- Battle off Texel 17 October 1914At sea · World War I
- Action off Lerwick 17 October 1917At sea · World War I
- Battle of Leyte 17 October 1944 – 26 December 1944Philippines · Philippines campaign of 1944–1945
- Battle of Sariwon 17 October 1950North Korea · Korean War
- Battle of Ong Thanh 17 October 1967Vietnam · Vietnam War
- Egyptian 25th Brigade ambush 17 October 1973Egypt · Yom Kippur War
- Battle of Touayel 17 October 2013 – 19 October 2013Tunisia · Islamic State insurgency in Tunisia
- Battle of Raqqa (2017) 17 October 2017Syria · Raqqa Campaign
- Battle of Culiacán 17 October 2019Mexico · Mexican drug war