Battles on 23 October
20 battles fought (or begun) on 23 October, from 1628 to 2017, 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 23 October?
The best-known battles on this day (by number of Wikipedia language editions) are Second Battle of El Alamein (1942), Battle of Leyte Gulf (1944), Siege of Marawi (2017).
- Battle of Ostróda 23 October 1628Poland · Polish–Swedish War of 1626–1629
- Battle of Breitenfeld (1642) 23 October 1642Germany · Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Edgehill 23 October 1642 (Julian calendar)England · First English Civil War
- Sieges of Ceuta (1694–1727) 23 October 1694 – 22 April 1727Spain · Campaigns of Ismail Ibn Sharif
- Battle of Vigo Bay 23 October 1702Spain · War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Nicopolis (1798) 23 October 1798Greece · War of the Second Coalition
- Battle of Venta del Pozo 23 October 1812Spain · Peninsular War
- Battle of Canton (1856) 23 October 1856 – 5 November 1856China · Second Opium War
- Battle of Cepeda (1859) 23 October 1859Argentina
- Battle of Westport 23 October 1864United States · American Civil War
- Battle and massacre at Shar al-Shatt 23 October 1911Libya
- Battle of Kumanovo 23 October 1912 – 24 October 1912North Macedonia · First Balkan War
- Battle of Pente Pigadia 23 October 1912Greece · First Balkan War
- Battle of La Malmaison 23 October 1917 – 27 October 1917France · Nivelle Offensive
- Battle for Henderson Field 23 October 1942 – 26 October 1942Solomon Islands · Pacific War
- Battle of Livno 23 October 1942Bosnia and Herzegovina · World War II in Yugoslavia
- Second Battle of El Alamein 23 October 1942 – 11 November 1942Egypt · Western Desert campaign
- Battle of Leyte Gulf 23 October 1944 – 26 October 1944At sea · World War II
- Battle of Sidi Ali Ben Aoun 23 October 2013Tunisia · Islamic State insurgency in Tunisia
- Siege of Marawi 23 October 2017Philippines · Moro conflict