42 events with tag "defeat"
1050 BC
ID: 5795
Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant - defeat Israel at Battle of Aphek, take Ark to Dagon's temple in Ashdod
ID: 5795
671 BC
ID: 3688
Assyrians invade Egypt - Esarhaddon defeats Taharqa, Kushites retreat but maintain Nubia
ID: 3688
404 BC
ID: 259
Athens surrenders to Sparta - Long Walls demolished, Athenian Empire ends, Thirty Tyrants installed
ID: 259
321 BC
ID: 2654
Disaster at Caudine Forks - Roman army trapped in defile, forced to pass under yoke in humiliation, worst defeat yet
ID: 2654
121 BC
ID: 5398
Battle of Vindalium - Rome defeats Arverni King Bituitus despite his war elephants, secures wine trade route through Provincia
ID: 5398
105 BC
ID: 5378
Battle of Arausio disaster linked to Tolosa gold - Consul Caepio who stole temple gold loses 80,000 Romans to Cimbri, worst defeat since Cannae
ID: 5378
52 BC
ID: 3667
Siege of Alesia - Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar after epic siege, Gaul conquered
ID: 3667
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
36 BC
ID: 4666
Mark Antony's failed Parthian campaign - loses 30,000 men retreating through Armenia
ID: 4666
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
135
ID: 4134
Bar Kokhba revolt crushed - Jerusalem renamed Aelia Capitolina, Jews banned from city, Judea renamed Syria Palaestina
ID: 4134
135
ID: 4828
Bar Kokhba revolt crushed - Jerusalem renamed Aelia Capitolina, Jews banned, final Jewish-Christian split
ID: 4828
298
ID: 4677
Treaty of Nisibis - Rome gains five provinces from Persia after Galerius victories
ID: 4677
484
ID: 4683
Hephthalite defeat - Sassanids lose eastern territories, pay tribute to 'White Huns'
ID: 4683
627
ID: 4691
Battle of Nineveh - Heraclius defeats Persians decisively, Khosrow II overthrown
ID: 4691
636
ID: 4694
Battle of Qadisiyyah - Arabs defeat Sassanid army, Ctesiphon falls, beginning of end
ID: 4694
716
ID: 2862
Battle of Amblève - Charles Martel defeated by Neustrians, learns from defeat, reforms Frankish military
ID: 2862
721
ID: 2866
Battle of Toulouse - Duke Odo of Aquitaine defeats Muslim army, temporary halt to Islamic advance
ID: 2866
844
ID: 3701
Vikings raid Seville in Muslim Spain - first attack on Iberia, defeated by Abd al-Rahman II's forces
ID: 3701
941
ID: 3710
Igor of Kiev attacks Constantinople - Rus' fleet destroyed by Greek fire, major Viking defeat
ID: 3710
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
1054
ID: 5183
Henry I defeated by William of Normandy at Mortemer - French royal power at nadir, confined to Île-de-France
ID: 5183
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
1189
ID: 2380
July 6, 1189
Death of Henry II at Chinon - dies defeated by Richard and Philip Augustus, reportedly last words: 'Shame, shame on a conquered king'
ID: 2380
1204
ID: 2389
Loss of Normandy - Philip Augustus takes Château Gaillard and Rouen, John loses ancestral Angevin lands, earns nickname 'Lackland'
ID: 2389
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
1242
ID: 2398
Battle of Taillebourg - Henry III's attempt to recover Poitou ends in humiliating defeat by Louis IX
ID: 2398
1250
ID: 5217
April 1250
Louis IX captured at Mansourah - entire army destroyed, king ransomed for huge sum, stays in Holy Land 4 years
ID: 5217
1260
ID: 4745
Battle of Ain Jalut - Mamluks defeat Mongols for first time, Mongol expansion finally stopped
ID: 4745
1291
ID: 53
May 18, 1291
Fall of Acre - last Crusader stronghold lost, end of Crusader states
ID: 53
1314
ID: 2424
June 24, 1314
Battle of Bannockburn - Robert the Bruce crushes Edward II's army, Scottish independence secured
ID: 2424
1387
ID: 2452
December 20, 1387
Battle of Radcot Bridge - Lords Appellant defeat royalist forces, Richard II humiliated
ID: 2452
1453
ID: 2488
July 17, 1453
Battle of Castillon ends Hundred Years War - English lose all French territory except Calais
ID: 2488
1597
ID: 5534
Second Japanese invasion of Korea - ultimately repelled with Ming Chinese assistance
ID: 5534
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
1807
ID: 5574
Prussian Military Reform Commission established after devastating defeat at Jena-Auerstedt - Scharnhorst and Gneisenau begin revolutionary reforms
ID: 5574
1815
ID: 713
June 18, 1815
Battle of Waterloo decided by mathematical artillery calculations - superior British gunnery
ID: 713
1849
ID: 5566
August 13, 1849
Hungarian Revolution crushed by combined Austrian and Russian armies at Világos
ID: 5566