Historical Events on August 15

991 CE battle near Maldon, United Kingdom

1453 between Venice and Milan

1506 battle of the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars

Naval battle (1592) in southern Korea during the First Japanese Invasion of Korea

1702 battle of the War of the Spanish Succession

1760 Prussian victory over Austrian army in the Seven Years' War

1799 battle during the War of the Second Coalition

War of 1812 battle in modern-day Chicago

Unequal treaty in modern-day Thailand

1914 conflict between Anglo-French and Gerrman colonial forces

Battle in World War I

Naval engagement in the First World War

Part of the East African Campaign of the Second World War

Victory over Japan Day — day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II

Partition of India — 1947 Partition of British India

Partition of Bengal — partition of Bengal into West and East Bengal in 1947

Accord to decolonize Netherlands New Guinea

Civil unrest in Illinois, U.S.

Mass murder in Shell Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada

1971 Austrian Grand Prix — motor car race

Nixon Shock — 1971 decoupling of the US dollar from gold

Battle of the Bangladesh Liberation War

Wow! signal — 1977 narrowband radio signal from SETI

1984 battle during the Turkish-Kurdish conflicts

1987 riot by Aboriginal Australians in Brewarrina, NSW

1993 Hungarian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1993

1999 Hungarian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1999

2004 Hungarian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 2004

2007 Peru earthquake — Earthquake in Peru in August 2007

Feud within 'Ndrangheta

Crumb and Get It bakery incident

Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021

Powder factory explosion in Ryazan Oblast, Russia on 15 August 2025