User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/May 29

May 29

 * 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is impossible to conquer it.
 * 1167 - Battle of Legnano, in which the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I ("Barbarossa").
 * 1453 - Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
 * 2004 - The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.