479 BCE
Battle of Plataea
Battle · Europe
On this day
373 events in the atlas are dated to 27 August, from 479 BCE to 2026. The best known come first; below them is every one, age by age, the most significant first.
479 BCE
Battle · Europe
1283
War · Europe · 1283 – 1286
1776
Battle · North America
1896
War · Sub-Saharan Africa
1914
Siege · East Asia
2006
Accident · North America
Each event is listed under the date its sources give, as its page shows it. Before 1582, and in some countries later (Britain until 1752, Russia until 1918), that is a date of the Julian calendar, as on Wikipedia’s pages for each day.