141 events with tag "battle"
1207 BC
ID: 3634
First Sea Peoples invasion of Egypt - Merneptah defeats coalition of Libyans with Sherden, Shekelesh, Lukka, Teresh, Ekwesh
ID: 3634
1046 BC
ID: 3616
Battle of Muye - Zhou defeats Shang, King Zhou burns himself alive, Mandate of Heaven proclaimed
ID: 3616
1007 BC
ID: 2742
Death of Saul at Mount Gilboa - Saul and sons killed fighting Philistines, David becomes king of Judah
ID: 2742
853 BC
ID: 2756
Battle of Qarqar - Ahab joins coalition against Shalmaneser III of Assyria (confirmed by Assyrian records)
ID: 2756
853 BC
ID: 3618
Battle of Qarqar - Shalmaneser III fights coalition of 12 kings including Ahab of Israel
ID: 3618
852 BC
ID: 2758
Death of Ahab - killed at Ramoth-gilead as Micaiah prophesied, dogs lick blood from chariot
ID: 2758
609 BC
ID: 2766
Death of Josiah at Megiddo - killed trying to stop Pharaoh Neco II, end of religious reform
ID: 2766
609 BC
ID: 4646
Battle of Harran - last Assyrian army under Ashur-uballit II defeated, final end of Assyria
ID: 4646
605 BC
ID: 2767
Battle of Carchemish - Nebuchadnezzar defeats Egypt, Babylon becomes dominant power (Babylonian Chronicle confirms)
ID: 2767
605 BC
ID: 4647
Battle of Carchemish - Nebuchadnezzar defeats remnant Assyrian-Egyptian forces, Babylon supreme
ID: 4647
585 BC
ID: 3695
May 28, 585 BC
Eclipse of Thales - solar eclipse stops battle between Lydians and Medes, Thales predicted it
ID: 3695
496 BC
ID: 2646
Battle of Lake Regillus - Rome defeats Latin League, Castor and Pollux allegedly appear to help Romans, independence secured
ID: 2646
490 BC
ID: 228
September 490 BC
Battle of Marathon - 10,000 Greeks defeat 25,000 Persians, Pheidippides runs to Athens with news
ID: 228
480 BC
ID: 231
August 480 BC
Battle of Thermopylae - 300 Spartans and Leonidas make last stand against Persian army
ID: 231
480 BC
ID: 232
September 480 BC
Battle of Salamis - Greek fleet destroys Persian navy in narrow straits, Xerxes watches from shore
ID: 232
479 BC
ID: 233
Battle of Plataea - combined Greek forces finally defeat Persian army, end of Persian invasion
ID: 233
334 BC
ID: 288
Battle of Granicus - Alexander personally leads cavalry charge, nearly dies, defeats Persian satraps
ID: 288
333 BC
ID: 290
Battle of Issus - Alexander defeats Darius III, captures Persian royal family, treats them with respect
ID: 290
331 BC
ID: 293
Battle of Gaugamela - Alexander defeats Darius's million-man army, becomes Lord of Asia
ID: 293
301 BC
ID: 311
Battle of Ipsus - war elephants decide battle, Antigonus dies, Hellenistic kingdoms stabilized
ID: 311
295 BC
ID: 2656
Battle of Sentinum - Rome defeats coalition of Samnites, Gauls, Etruscans, and Umbrians, dominance of Italy assured
ID: 2656
279 BC
ID: 2658
Battle of Asculum - Pyrrhus wins but loses best troops, 'one more such victory and I am lost' - origin of 'Pyrrhic victory'
ID: 2658
275 BC
ID: 2659
Battle of Beneventum - Romans defeat Pyrrhus using anti-elephant tactics, Greek intervention ends, Rome controls southern Italy
ID: 2659
207 BC
ID: 2667
Battle of Metaurus - Hasdrubal (Hannibal's brother) defeated and killed, his head thrown into Hannibal's camp
ID: 2667
202 BC
ID: 2668
Battle of Zama - Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal in Africa, Second Punic War ends, Rome dominant in Mediterranean
ID: 2668
190 BC
ID: 2670
Battle of Magnesia - Scipio defeats Seleucid Antiochus III, Rome becomes arbiter of Eastern Mediterranean
ID: 2670
168 BC
ID: 2671
Battle of Pydna - Roman legions defeat Macedonian phalanx, end of Macedonian kingdom, Greece under Roman control
ID: 2671
166 BC
ID: 2973
Battle of Beth Horon - Judah defeats and kills Apollonius, takes his sword, uses guerrilla tactics against larger force
ID: 2973
165 BC
ID: 2974
Battle of Emmaus - Judah's 3,000 defeat 40,000 through brilliant night tactics, enemy flees leaving rich camp
ID: 2974
164 BC
ID: 2975
Battle of Beth Zur - Judah defeats Lysias's army with war elephants, path to Jerusalem opens
ID: 2975
160 BC
ID: 2978
Death of Judah Maccabee at Elasa - fights against overwhelming odds rather than flee, dies heroically, brothers escape
ID: 2978
121 BC
ID: 5398
Battle of Vindalium - Rome defeats Arverni King Bituitus despite his war elephants, secures wine trade route through Provincia
ID: 5398
82 BC
ID: 2683
Battle of Colline Gate - Sulla defeats Samnites and Marians at Rome's gates, becomes dictator, proscription lists begin
ID: 2683
53 BC
ID: 4664
Battle of Carrhae - Parthian cavalry destroys Crassus's legions using horse archers
ID: 4664
52 BC
ID: 5393
Battle of Gergovia - Vercingetorix defeats Caesar, only major Gallic victory, 700 Romans killed including 46 centurions
ID: 5393
48 BC
ID: 2699
Battle of Dyrrhachium - Pompey defeats Caesar, doesn't pursue, Caesar: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had a commander who knew how to conquer'
ID: 2699
48 BC
ID: 2700
August 48 BC
Battle of Pharsalus - Caesar crushes Pompey despite being outnumbered, Pompey flees to Egypt
ID: 2700
47 BC
ID: 2703
Battle of Zela - Caesar defeats Pharnaces in five days, 'Veni, vidi, vici' - I came, I saw, I conquered
ID: 2703
46 BC
ID: 2704
Battle of Thapsus - Caesar defeats republicans in Africa, Cato commits suicide at Utica rather than live under Caesar
ID: 2704
45 BC
ID: 2705
Battle of Munda - Caesar's hardest fought victory, defeats Pompey's sons in Spain, civil war ends
ID: 2705
42 BC
ID: 2711
Battle of Philippi - Octavian and Antony defeat Brutus and Cassius, both commit suicide, Republic effectively dead
ID: 2711
31 BC
ID: 2714
September 2, 31 BC
Battle of Actium - Agrippa defeats Antony and Cleopatra's fleet, they flee to Egypt, Octavian master of Roman world
ID: 2714
61
ID: 2525
Battle of Watling Street - Suetonius Paulinus defeats Boudica's 230,000 with 10,000 Romans, 80,000 Britons killed, Boudica takes poison
ID: 2525
84
ID: 2527
Battle of Mons Graupius - Agricola defeats Caledonians in pitched battle, 'they make a desert and call it peace'
ID: 2527
217
ID: 4671
Battle of Nisibis - Parthians defeat Macrinus, Rome pays huge indemnity
ID: 4671
224
ID: 4672
Fall of Parthian Empire - Ardashir I defeats Artabanus IV at Hormozgan, founds Sassanid dynasty
ID: 4672
260
ID: 4675
Battle of Edessa - Shapur I captures Emperor Valerian alive, unprecedented humiliation for Rome
ID: 4675
378
ID: 5013
August 9, 378
Emperor Valens killed at Battle of Adrianople - Arian persecutor of Catholics dies fighting Goths, worst Roman defeat since Cannae
ID: 5013
451
ID: 4732
Battle of Catalaunian Plains - Aetius and Visigoths stop Attila's invasion of Gaul, last great Roman victory
ID: 4732
455
ID: 2538
Battle of Aylesford - Horsa killed but Saxons win, Hengist becomes first Saxon king of Kent
ID: 2538
486
ID: 2816
Battle of Soissons - Clovis defeats Syagrius, last Roman ruler in Gaul, 'Kingdom of Soissons' falls, Clovis controls northern Gaul
ID: 2816
496
ID: 2819
Battle of Tolbiac - Clovis facing defeat against Alamanni, vows to convert if Christian God gives victory, Alamanni flee
ID: 2819
500
ID: 2539
Battle of Mount Badon - Arthur (or Ambrosius) defeats Saxons, halts their advance for a generation
ID: 2539
507
ID: 2825
Battle of Vouillé - Clovis personally kills Alaric II in combat, Visigoths driven into Spain, Aquitaine becomes Frankish
ID: 2825
524
ID: 2831
Death of Chlodomer - killed fighting Burgundians, brothers Childebert and Chlothar murder his young sons to take his kingdom
ID: 2831
537
ID: 2540
Battle of Camlann - Arthur and Mordred kill each other (according to later tradition), end of British resistance
ID: 2540
627
ID: 4691
Battle of Nineveh - Heraclius defeats Persians decisively, Khosrow II overthrown
ID: 4691
634
ID: 2545
Battle of Heavenfield - Oswald defeats Cadwallon, becomes king of Northumbria, promotes Celtic Christianity
ID: 2545
636
ID: 4694
Battle of Qadisiyyah - Arabs defeat Sassanid army, Ctesiphon falls, beginning of end
ID: 4694
642
ID: 2546
Battle of Maserfield - Penda of Mercia kills Oswald of Northumbria, Oswald dismembered and becomes martyr
ID: 2546
642
ID: 4695
Battle of Nihavand - 'Victory of Victories', Arab final defeat of Sassanid army
ID: 4695
687
ID: 2859
Battle of Tertry - Pepin of Herstal defeats Neustrian mayor, becomes mayor of all Francia, Merovingians become 'do-nothing kings'
ID: 2859
716
ID: 2862
Battle of Amblève - Charles Martel defeated by Neustrians, learns from defeat, reforms Frankish military
ID: 2862
717
ID: 2863
Battle of Vincy - Charles Martel decisively defeats Neustrians, becomes undisputed mayor of palace
ID: 2863
732
ID: 2868
October 10, 732
Battle of Tours/Poitiers - Charles Martel defeats Abd al-Rahman (killed), stops Islamic conquest of Europe, earns name 'The Hammer'
ID: 2868
757
ID: 2621
Offa becomes King of Mercia - begins 39-year reign, most powerful English king before Wessex supremacy
ID: 2621
778
ID: 2895
August 15, 778
Battle of Roncesvalles Pass - Basques ambush Frankish rearguard, Roland killed, becomes legend of Song of Roland
ID: 2895
841
ID: 2933
June 25, 841
Battle of Fontenoy - Louis the German and Charles the Bald defeat Lothair, 40,000 dead, Frankish nobility decimated
ID: 2933
871
ID: 2552
January 8, 871
Battle of Ashdown - Alfred defeats Danish Great Army, first major Saxon victory over Vikings
ID: 2552
878
ID: 2555
May 878
Battle of Edington - Alfred decisively defeats Guthrum's Vikings, saves Wessex and Christianity in England
ID: 2555
937
ID: 2561
Battle of Brunanburh - Athelstan crushes coalition of Scots, Vikings, and Strathclyde, greatest Anglo-Saxon victory
ID: 2561
955
ID: 5544
Battle of Lechfeld - Otto I decisively defeats Magyars, ending their raids and forcing settlement
ID: 5544
980
ID: 3712
Battle of Tara - Irish High King Mael Sechnaill defeats Dublin Vikings, breaks Norse power in Ireland
ID: 3712
991
ID: 2632
August 10, 991
Battle of Maldon - Byrhtnoth allows Vikings to cross causeway for fair fight, heroic defeat immortalized in poem
ID: 2632
991
ID: 5804
August 10, 991
Battle of Maldon - Byrhtnoth's heroic defeat by Viking army, triggers England's Danegeld policy
ID: 5804
1000
ID: 3748
Battle of Svolder - Sweyn Forkbeard defeats Olaf Tryggvason, Denmark gains control of Norway
ID: 3748
1014
ID: 3719
April 23, 1014
Battle of Clontarf - Brian Boru defeats Viking-Leinster alliance, ends Viking power in Ireland but dies in victory
ID: 3719
1030
ID: 3721
July 29, 1030
Battle of Stiklestad - Olaf II killed trying to reclaim Norway, later becomes St. Olaf, patron saint of Norway
ID: 3721
1047
ID: 3737
Battle of Val-ès-Dunes - William with French King Henry I defeats Norman rebels, secures his duchy
ID: 3737
1054
ID: 3739
Battle of Mortemer - William defeats French invasion, King Henry I's brother captured
ID: 3739
1054
ID: 5183
Henry I defeated by William of Normandy at Mortemer - French royal power at nadir, confined to Île-de-France
ID: 5183
1057
ID: 3740
Battle of Varaville - William crushes French army at tidal crossing, ensures Norman independence
ID: 3740
1066
ID: 2582
September 25, 1066
Battle of Stamford Bridge - Harold defeats and kills Hardrada and Tostig, only 24 of 300 Viking ships return
ID: 2582
1066
ID: 2585
October 14, 1066
Battle of Hastings - all-day battle, Harold killed by arrow to eye (tradition), Norman Conquest begins
ID: 2585
1106
ID: 2599
September 28, 1106
Battle of Tinchebray - Henry defeats and captures brother Robert, Normandy and England reunited
ID: 2599
1119
ID: 5192
August 20, 1119
Battle of Brémule - Louis VI defeated by Henry I of England, narrow escape, legend of Montjoie war cry
ID: 5192
1141
ID: 2608
February 2, 1141
Battle of Lincoln - Stephen captured, Matilda proclaimed 'Lady of the English' but never crowned
ID: 2608
1187
ID: 200
July 4, 1187
Battle of Hattin - Saladin destroys Crusader army, captures True Cross, Jerusalem falls within months
ID: 200
1191
ID: 205
September 7, 1191
Battle of Arsuf - Richard Lionheart defeats Saladin, but cannot retake Jerusalem
ID: 205
1213
ID: 2
Battle of Muret - St. Dominic prays Rosary while Catholic forces defeat Albigensians
ID: 2
1213
ID: 163
Christina cries 'I see air filled with swords and blood!' - Battle of Steppes occurs same day with hundreds slain
ID: 163
1214
ID: 2391
July 27, 1214
Battle of Bouvines - John's coalition crushed by Philip Augustus, last hope of recovering French lands destroyed
ID: 2391
1214
ID: 5205
July 27, 1214
Battle of Bouvines - Philip Augustus defeats coalition of England, Flanders, and Empire, establishes France as major power
ID: 5205
1217
ID: 2395
Battle of Lincoln - William Marshal defeats rebel barons and French, young Henry III's throne secured
ID: 2395
1223
ID: 4738
Battle of Kalka River - Mongol reconnaissance force under Jebe and Subutai crushes Russian princes
ID: 4738
1241
ID: 4741
Battle of Legnica - Mongols defeat Polish-German army, collect nine sacks of ears
ID: 4741
1241
ID: 4742
Battle of Mohi - Mongols annihilate Hungarian army, use gunpowder weapons in Europe
ID: 4742
1241
ID: 45
April 9, 1241
Battle of Legnica - Mongols defeat Polish and German knights, Europe saved only by Ogedei Khan's death
ID: 45
1242
ID: 2398
Battle of Taillebourg - Henry III's attempt to recover Poitou ends in humiliating defeat by Louis IX
ID: 2398
1260
ID: 4745
Battle of Ain Jalut - Mamluks defeat Mongols for first time, Mongol expansion finally stopped
ID: 4745
1264
ID: 2402
May 14, 1264
Battle of Lewes - Simon de Montfort defeats and captures Henry III and Prince Edward, becomes de facto ruler of England
ID: 2402
1265
ID: 2404
August 4, 1265
Battle of Evesham - Prince Edward defeats and kills Simon de Montfort, body mutilated, head sent to wife
ID: 2404
1314
ID: 2424
June 24, 1314
Battle of Bannockburn - Robert the Bruce crushes Edward II's army, Scottish independence secured
ID: 2424
1322
ID: 2426
March 16, 1322
Battle of Boroughbridge - Edward II defeats Thomas of Lancaster, executions follow, Despenser rule supreme
ID: 2426
1333
ID: 2433
July 19, 1333
Battle of Halidon Hill - Edward III defeats Scots, new military tactics with longbowmen prove devastating
ID: 2433
1346
ID: 63
August 26, 1346
Battle of Crécy - English longbows decimate French chivalry
ID: 63
1346
ID: 96
August 26, 1346
English use early cannons at Crécy - though longbows do most damage, gunpowder enters European battlefield
ID: 96
1346
ID: 2437
August 26, 1346
Battle of Crécy - English longbows slaughter French knights, 16-year-old Black Prince wins his spurs
ID: 2437
1356
ID: 2442
September 19, 1356
Battle of Poitiers - Black Prince captures French King John II, height of English military success
ID: 2442
1364
ID: 4790
Battle of Cascina - Hawkwood's White Company defeats Florentines, demonstrates English longbow tactics
ID: 4790
1379
ID: 4794
Battle of Montecchio - Hawkwood's tactical retreat saves Florentine forces from destruction
ID: 4794
1387
ID: 4796
Battle of Castagnaro - Hawkwood's greatest victory for Padua against Verona, tactical masterpiece
ID: 4796
1387
ID: 2452
December 20, 1387
Battle of Radcot Bridge - Lords Appellant defeat royalist forces, Richard II humiliated
ID: 2452
1395
ID: 4750
Timur defeats Golden Horde - destroys Toqtamysh's army, breaks Mongol power in Russia
ID: 4750
1402
ID: 4753
Battle of Ankara - Timur captures Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, saves Constantinople for 50 years
ID: 4753
1403
ID: 2467
July 21, 1403
Battle of Shrewsbury - Henry IV defeats Percy rebellion, Harry Hotspur killed, Prince Hal (future Henry V) wounded
ID: 2467
1408
ID: 2469
Battle of Bramham Moor - Earl of Northumberland killed, Percy rebellions finally ended
ID: 2469
1415
ID: 71
October 25, 1415
Battle of Agincourt - English defeat French against overwhelming odds
ID: 71
1415
ID: 2475
October 25, 1415
Battle of Agincourt - Henry V's 6,000 defeats 25,000 French, longbows destroy flower of French nobility on St. Crispin's Day
ID: 2475
1429
ID: 27
May 8, 1429
St. Joan lifts siege of Orleans - arrow through shoulder, continues fighting
ID: 27
1444
ID: 76
November 10, 1444
Battle of Varna - Ottoman victory, last major crusade defeated
ID: 76
1453
ID: 2488
July 17, 1453
Battle of Castillon ends Hundred Years War - English lose all French territory except Calais
ID: 2488
1455
ID: 2491
May 22, 1455
First Battle of St. Albans - Wars of the Roses begin, York defeats royal army, Somerset killed in street fighting
ID: 2491
1456
ID: 115
St. John of Capistrano at 70 leads crusade at Belgrade - dying two months after victory
ID: 115
1456
ID: 79
July 22, 1456
Siege of Belgrade - Hunyadi defeats Ottomans, bells ring at noon in perpetuity
ID: 79
1459
ID: 2492
October 12, 1459
Rout of Ludford Bridge - Yorkist army melts away, York flees to Ireland, Warwick to Calais
ID: 2492
1460
ID: 2493
July 10, 1460
Battle of Northampton - Yorkists capture Henry VI, Queen Margaret flees to Scotland with prince
ID: 2493
1460
ID: 2495
December 30, 1460
Battle of Wakefield - Richard of York killed, head displayed with paper crown at York
ID: 2495
1461
ID: 2496
February 2, 1461
Battle of Mortimer's Cross - Edward of York sees parhelion (three suns), adopts sun in splendor badge
ID: 2496
1461
ID: 2497
March 29, 1461
Battle of Towton - bloodiest battle on English soil, 28,000 dead in snowstorm, Edward IV wins throne
ID: 2497
1471
ID: 2504
April 14, 1471
Battle of Barnet - Edward IV defeats Warwick in fog, Kingmaker killed, Oxford attacks own men
ID: 2504
1471
ID: 2505
May 4, 1471
Battle of Tewkesbury - Prince Edward killed, last Lancastrian heir dead, Margaret of Anjou captured
ID: 2505
1485
ID: 83
August 22, 1485
Battle of Bosworth Field - Richard III killed, Tudor dynasty begins
ID: 83
1485
ID: 2518
August 22, 1485
Battle of Bosworth Field - Richard III killed fighting, crown found in hawthorn bush, Henry VII proclaimed on battlefield
ID: 2518
1521
ID: 5623
April 27, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan killed in the Battle of Mactan by Lapu-Lapu's warriors, who resisted Spanish colonization
ID: 5623
1526
ID: 5557
August 29, 1526
Battle of Mohács - Ottomans annihilate Hungarian army, King Louis II drowns fleeing, kingdom partitioned
ID: 5557
1571
ID: 3499
October 7, 1571
Battle of Lepanto - St. Pius V calls for Rosary Crusade - Has vision of victory during battle - Our Lady of Victory feast established - 30,000 Christian galley slaves freed
ID: 3499
1600
ID: 5505
October 21, 1600
Battle of Sekigahara - Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats rivals, becomes de facto ruler of Japan
ID: 5505
1620
ID: 3469
November 8, 1620
Battle of White Mountain - Frederick's forces crushed in one hour - Protestant army flees - 'The Rosicrucian dream died on that field'
ID: 3469
1709
ID: 5990
July 8, 1709
Battle of Poltava - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden, Russia becomes European great power
ID: 5990
1866
ID: 5587
July 3, 1866
Battle of Koniggratz (Sadowa) - Moltke's converging armies crush Austrians using superior tactics, needle guns, and artillery concentration
ID: 5587