User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/May 12

May 12

 * 1264 - The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.
 * 1588 - French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city.
 * 1689 - King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
 * 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
 * 1797 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
 * 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".