Battle of Tsushima
naval battle · 1905 AD
Battle of Tsushima, a naval battle recorded 1905 AD: its site mapped, cited to 1 source, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
View Battle of Tsushima on the map →
At a glance
- Kind
- naval battle
- Date
- 27 May 1905 AD
- War
- Russo-Japanese War
- Side 1
- Imperial Japan — led by Tōgō Heihachirō
- Side 2
- Russia — led by Zinovy Rozhestvensky
- Result
- Japanese victory
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 AD | — | high confidence | no observation date recorded | — |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)