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Battles in History: Ancient Times - 1499

 

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Ancient Times - 1499

DATE

BATTLE

WAR

1457 BC

Battle of Megiddo

1275 BC
(or 1288 BC)

Battle of Kadesh

609 BC

Battle of Megiddo

495 BC

Battle of Lade

Ionian Revolt

September 490 B.C.

Battle of Marathon

Greco-Persian Wars

August 480 B.C.

Battle of Thermopylae

Greco-Persian Wars

August 480 B.C.

Battle of Artemisium

Greco-Persian Wars

September 21, 480 B.C.

Raid on Athens

Greco-Persian Wars

September 29, 480 BC

Battle of Salamis

Greco-Persian Wars

August 27, 479 B.C.

Battle of Plataea

Greco-Persian Wars

479 B.C.

Battle of Mycale

Greco-Persian Wars

466 B.C.

Battle of the Eurymedon

Greco-Persian Wars

446 BC

Battle of Coronea

 Boeotian Revolt

440/439 BC

Siege of Samos (by Athens)

 

435 BC

Battle of Leucimme

Corinthian-Corcyrian War

433 BC

Battle of Sybota

Corinthian-Corcyrian War

432-430 BC

Siege of Potidaea (by Athens)

426 BC

Battle of Olpae

 Peloponnesian War

425 BC

Battle of Spaectaria

 Peloponnesian War

418 BC

First Battle of Mantineia

  Peloponnesian War

415 - 413 BC

Siege of Syracuse

 Peloponnesian War

405 BC

Battle of Aegospotami

 Peloponnesian War

403 BC

Battle of Piraeus

 

401 B.C.

 Battle of Cunaxa

 

394 B.C.

Battle of Nemea

Corinthian War

376 B.C.

 Battle of Naxos

 Boeotian-Spartan War

375 BC

Battle of Tegyra

 Boeotian-Spartan War

371 BC

Battle of Leuctra

 Boeotian-Spartan War

362 BC

Second Battle of Mantineia

 

357 BC

Battle of Argentoratum

 

338 BC

Battle of Chaeronea

 

334 BC

Battle of the Granicus

Alexander's Conquest

333 BC

Battle of Issus

Alexander's Conquest

331 BC

Battle of Gaugamela

Alexander's Conquest

331 BC

Battle of Megalopolis

 

326 BC

Battle of the Hydaspes

Alexander's Conquest

321 BC

Battle of Caudine Forks

Great Samnite War

301 BC

Battle of Ipsus

 

295 BC

Battle of Sentinum

Third Samnite War

281 BC

Battle of Corupedium

 

280 BC

Battle of Heraclea

Pyrrhic War

279 BC

Battle of Asculum

Pyrrhic War

275 BC

Battle of Benevetum

Pyrrhic War

217 BC

Naval Battle of Tarraco

217 BC

Battle of Trasimene

Second Punic War

August 2, 216 BC

Battle of Cannae

Second Punic War

208 BC

Battle of Baecula
(Battle of Bailen)

207 BC

Battle of the Metaurus

Second Punic War

206 BC

Battle of Ilipa

Second Punic War

202 BC

Battle of Zama

Second Punic War

190 BC

Battle of Magnesia

168 BC

Battle of Pydna

Third Macedonian War

108 BC

Battle of the Muthul River

Jugurthine War

October 6, 105 BC

Battle of Arausio

86 BC

Battle of Chaeronea

82 BC

Battle of Colline Gate

62 BC

Battle of Pistoria

58 BC

Battle of Bibracte

Gallic Wars

September 58 BC

Battle of Mulhouse

57 BC

Battle of the Sambre

Gallic Wars

56 BC

Battle of Quiberon Bay

Gallic Wars

53 BC

Battle of Carrhae

52 BC

Battle of Gergovia

Gallic Wars

52 BC

Siege of Alesia

Gallic Wars

July 9, 48 BC

Battle of Dyrrachium

Roman Civil War

August 9, 48 BC

Battle of Pharsalus

Roman Civil War

47 BC

Battle of Zela

Roman Civil War

46 BC

Battle of Thapsus

Roman Civil War

45 BC

Battle of Munda

Roman Civil War

42 BC

Battle of Philippi

September 2, 31 BC

Battle of Actium

AD 9

Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

60 or 61

Massacre of the Ninth Legion

Roman Conquest of Britain

61

Boudica's Last Battle

Roman Conquest of Britain

84

Battle of Mons Graupius

208

Battle of the Red Cliff

312

Battle of the Milvian Bridge

September 28, 351

Battle of Mursa

August 9, 378

Battle of Adrianople

Fifth Roman-Gothic War

451

Battle of the Catalaunian Plains

455

Battle of Aylesford

507

Battle of Vouille (Vouill�)
also called
Battle of Campus Vogladensis

552

Battle of Taginae
also called  Battle Of Busta Gallorum

553

Battle of Mons Lactarius

December 656

Battle of Camel

May - July 657

Battle of Siffin

First Muslim Civil War

Early 680

 Battle of Lucofao

October 10, 680

Battle of Karbala

May 20, 685

Battle of Nechtansmere
also called
Battle of Dun Nechtain
or Battle of Dunnichen

687

 Battle of Tertry

October 732

 Battle of Tours
also called
Battle of Poitiers

841

Battle of Fontenoy

August 881

Battle of Saucourt

937

Battle of Brunanburgh

939

Battle of Andernach

August 955

Battle of the Lechfeld

991

Battle of Maldon

1047

Battle of Val-�s-Dunes

1054

Battle of Dunsinane

1054

Battle of Mortemer

1058

Battle of Varaville

September 25, 1066

Battle of Stamford Bridge

October 14, 1066

Battle of Hastings

Norman Conquest

1093

First Battle of Alnwick

September 28, 1106

Battle of Tinchebrai

1162

Battle of Ts'ai-shi

October 16, 1173

Battle of Fornham

Anglo-Norman Rebellion

July 12, 1174

Second Battle of Alnwick

Anglo-Norman Rebellion

1176

Battle of Legnano

 

September 7, 1191

Battle of Arsuf

Third Crusade

July 18, 1195

Battle of Alarcos

July 16, 1212

Battle of Navas de Tolosa

July 27, 1214

Battle of Bouvines

 May 20, 1217

Battle of Lincoln

First Barons' War

1237

Battle of Cortenuova

April 9, 1241

Battle of Liegnitz
also called
Battle of Legnica

May 1241

First Battle of Meloria

1277

Battle of Desio

1282

Sicilian Vespers

August 1284

Second Battle of Meloria

1298

Battle of Falkirk

Scottish Wars of Independence

July 11, 1302

Battle of the Golden Spurs

June 23-24, 1314

Battle of Bannockburn

Scottish Wars of Independence

November 15, 1315

Battle of Morgarten

1340

Battle of Sluys

 Hundred Years' War

1346

Battle of Cr�cy

 Hundred Years' War

September 19, 1356

 Battle of Poitiers  

 Hundred Years' War

 1371

Battle of the Maritsa River

 

 1372

Battle of La Rochelle

 Hundred Years' War

September 8, 1380

 Battle of Kulikovo

July 20, 1402

 Battle of Ankara

July 21, 1403

Battle of Shrewsbury

  July 15, 1410

Battle of Grunwald
also called
Battle of Tannenberg

Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War

October 25, 1415

 Battle of Agincourt

 Hundred Years' War

1424

Battle of Verneuil

 Hundred Years' War

October 12, 1428 -
May 8, 1429

 Siege of Orleans

 Hundred Years' War

February 12, 1429

Battle of Patay

 Hundred Years' War

June 18, 1429

Battle of the Herrings
(Battle of Rouvay)

 Hundred Years' War

1450

Battle of Formigny

 Hundred Years' War

July 17, 1453

Battle of Castillon

 Hundred Years' War

April 14, 1471

 Battle of Barnet

 Wars of the Roses

May 4, 1471

 Battle of Tewkesbury

 Wars of the Roses

June 22, 1476

Battle of Morat

 

 

 

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