List of battles 1401-1800 (original) (raw)

List of battles - List of battles 1400 BC-600 AD - List of battles 601-1400 - List of battles 1401-1800 - List of battles 1801-1900 - List of battles 1901-2000 - List of battles 2001-2100

Fifteenth Century

1402 July 28 Battle of Angora or Battle of Ankara Timur Lenk defeats and captures Ottoman sultan Bayezid I in Anatolia
1403 Battle of Shrewsbury
1410 Battle of Grunwald or (a.k.a. Battle of Tannenberg/Zalgiris) July 15 Poles and Lithuanians defeat Teutonic Knights
1415 Battle of Agincourt October 25 English longbowmen under Henry V defeat French under Charles d'Albert
1415 Battle of Ceuta captured by the Portuguese on August 14
1418 Siege of Rouen July 31 ? January 19 1419 Henry V of England gains a foothold in Normandy.
1420 Battle of Vitkov Hill
1420 Battle of Vysehrad
1421 Battle of Bauge. The French and Scottish forces of Charles VII commanded by the Earl of Buchan defeat the forces of Henry V commanded by the Duke of Clarence.
1421 Battle of Kutna Hora
1422 Battle of Nebovidy
1423 Siege of Salonika (Thessaloniki) Venice vs. the Ottoman Empire
1426 Battle of Usti nad Labem
1428 Battle of Orleans English forces commanded by the Earl of Salisbury with duke of Bedford besiege French city and are driven off with the loss of their siege engines by Joan.
1428 Battle of Patay The English flush a stag and Joan runs down all the English archers capturing the leaders; Earl of Shrewsbury (Talbot) and Fastolff
1431 Battle of Domazlice
1434 Battle of Lipany May 30
1439 Battle of Grotniki, Poland
1440 Battle of Anghiari Niccolo Piccinino overlord of Bologna defeats Milans Filipo Maria Visconti and is then opposed by Cosimo de Medici
1444 Battle of Varna November 10 Ottoman Murad II defeats Hungarians and Wallachians, king Władysław III killed
1449 Battle of Alfarrobeira May 20, Afonso V of Portugal defeats rebels of Pedro, Duke of Coimbra
1449 Battle of Tumu Fortress
1450 Battle of Formigny The Count of Clermont and the Earl of Richmond use cannon to break up archers and defeat the English under Kyriell
1453 Battle of Castillone The Valois use cannon to defeat the Lancastrians to end the Hundred Years War
1453 May 29 Battle of Constantinople Ottomans destroy Byzantine Empire
1454 Battle of Chojnice
1455 Battle of St Albans May 22 first battle of the Wars of the Roses
1460 Battle of Wakefield December 30 during the Wars of the Roses. Duke of York killed in combat
1461 Battle of Towton March 29 Edward IV of England defeats Lancastrian forces
1462 Battle of Swiecin a.k.a. Battle of Zarnowiec or Battle of Schwetz. September 7 during the Thirteen Years' War between the Poles and the Teutons (Poles won battle)
1470 Battle of Negropont Venetian fleet fails to relieve colony of Negropont under Turkish attack
1471 Battle of Brunkeberg
1471 Battle of Tewkesbury May 4 Edward IV of England final victory over Lancastrians
1476 Battle of Grandson March 2 A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians under Charles the Bold
1476 Battle of Morat June 2 The Swiss defeat Charles the Bold again.
1477 Battle of Nancy January 5 Swiss pikemen defeat cavalry of Burgundy's Charles the Bold, who was killed
1485 Battle of Bosworth Field Ends Wars of Roses fought since 1460, Henry VII becomes King.
1487 Battle of Stoke -- Henry VII of England finally defeats internal opposition
1499 Battle of Sapienza
1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt February 17

Sixteenth Century

1507 Battle of Vouilile
1509 Battle of Dui February 2 Portugal's India viceroy destroys Moslem fleet, controls spice trade
1509 Battle of Agnadello (a.k.a. Battle of Vaila) - [French Wars in Italy]
1513 Battle of Flodden Field September 9 Henry VIII's army under Earl of Surrey killed James IV of Scotland
1513 Battle of Guingate (of the Spurs) Henry VIII and HRE Maximillian crush French
1513 Battle of Novara June 6 Holy League defeats France
1515 Battle of Marignan September 13 Francis I defeats the Swiss.
1521 Battle of Villalar April 23 HRE Charles V ends Spanish resistances to Absolutism
1525 Battle of Pavia Spain and Germany defeat France, Francis I of France is captured
1526 First battle of Panipat April 21 Mongols under Babur defeat sultan Ibrahim Lodhi
1526 Battle of Mohacs August 29
1529 Battle of Vienna Ottoman reach limit of empire, can't capture Vienna and settle in Buda
1538 Battle of Preveza Ottoman fleet defeats Spanish-Venetian fleet
1543 Battle of Wayna Daga - February 11 Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
1547 Battle of M�hlberg April 24 HRE Charles V captures elector of Saxony and lays siege to Wittenberg in the Schmalkaldic War.
1547 Battle of Pinkie September 10 Earl of Hertford guardian of Edward VI crushes Scottish resistance
1556 Second battle of Panipat
1560 Battle of Djerba
1562 Battle of Dreux ? Catholics versus Huguenots in France.
1568 Battle of Langside Scotland
1568 Battle of Heiligerlee May 23 Dutch army defeats Spanish army
1568 Battle of Jemmingen July 21 Spanish army under the Duke of Alva defeats the Dutch army
1568 Battle of Jodoigne Spain defeats Dutch army
1571 Battle of Lepanto Spain and Venice's fleets defeat Ottoman fleet
1580 Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
1588 Battle of Spanish Armada's Destruction
1590 Battle of Ivry March 14 Henri IV of Navarre defeats Catholic League in War of the Three Henries
1596 Battle of Kerestes
1597 Battle of Turnhout January 24 Dutch troops defeat Spanish cavalry
1598 - Battle of Yellow Ford - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, destroy English force
1600 Battle of Sekigahara or Battle of Sekugahara - Japanese General Ieyasu defeats three regents of son of Hideyoshi - he later establishes Tokugawa Shogunate
1600 Battle of Nieuwpoort June 2 Battle between Dutch (led by Prince Maurits) and Spanish army, led by Albrecht, archduke of Austria.

Seventeenth Century

1605 Battle of Kircholm September 27, polish cavalry defeated numerically superior Swedes
1610 Battle of Kluszyn July 4, during Time of Troubles in Russia.
1619 Battle of Sablat June 10, called Battle of Z�blat� in Czech, during the Thirty Years' War.
1619 Battle of Sarhū the Manchus defeat Ming
1619 Battle of Wisternitz
1620 Battle of the White Mountain November 8 Battle deciding fate of Prague in Thirty Years' War
1622 Battle of Wiesloch April 25 Protestants under Count Mansfield defeat Catholics under Count von Tilly in Thirty Years' War
1622 Battle of Wimpfen (May 6)
1622 Battle of H�chst (June 20)
1627 Battle of La Rochelle
1631 Battle of Breitenfeld Leipzig September 17 Saxons and Swedes defeat Catholics under Tilly
1632 Battle of L�tzen Swedes defeat Catholics but Gustavus II Adolphus is killed
1634 Battle of Nordlingen
1642 Battle of Edgehill October 23 first battle of English Civil War, a draw
1642 Battle of Brentford November 12 Royalist cavalry defeats Roundheads, but have to retreat later
1642 Battle of Lostwithiel (1642)
1643 Battle of Rocroi May 19 French under Duc d'Enghien destroy Spanish army and its military supremacy in Europe.
1643 Battle of Adwalton Moor June 30 Royalists beat Roundheads near York
1643 Battle of Lansdowne July 5 Royalists and Roundheads tie near Bath
1643 Battle of Roundway Down July 13 Royalists crush Roundheads in West country
1643 Battle of Newbury September 20 Roundheads save London from Royalists
1644 Battle of Marston Moor July 2 Oliver Cromwell Roundheads defeat king Charles I of England's Cavaliers securing the North for the Puritans
1644 Battle of Lostwithiel (1644) September 22 Royalists surround Roundheads west of Plymouth
1644 Battle of Newbury October 27 Roundheads block Charles' return to London
1645 Battle of Naseby June 14 Cromwell's Ironsides defeat Charles' Cavaliers
1645 Battle of Alford July 2 Covenanters defeated by Royalists under Montrose
1645 Battle of Kilsyth August 15 Montrose destroys Covenanters in decisive battle
1645 Battle of Philiphaugh September 13 Covenanters under General David Leslie surprise Montrose in camp, Montrose runs away
1647 Battle of Dangan Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces
1648 Battle of Preston August 17 Cromwell defeats William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
1650 Battle of Dunbar
1651 Battle of Worcester September 3 Cromwell defeats Royalists, Charles King of Scots escapes disguised as a servant
1651 Battle of Beresteczko
1652 Battle of Goodwin Sands (or Dover) First Anglo-Dutch War May 29 Blake's fire without DoW on Tromp's fleet initiates first Anglo-Dutch war
1652 Battle of Plymouth First Anglo-Dutch War August 26 De Ruyter's 36 MoW hold of Ayscue's 45 MoW, driving them away.
1652 Battle of the Kentish Knock (or Dover) First Anglo-Dutch War October 8 Blake beats back de Witt
1652 Battle of Dungeness First Anglo-Dutch War December 10 Tromp defeats Blake
1652 Battle of Blenau April 7 Great Conde commands Fronds against French under Marshall Turenne
1653 The Battle of Portland First Anglo-Dutch War February 28-March 2 Dutch admiral Tromp, outnumbered, loses a dozen man of war and 50 merchant man to Blake
1653 Battle of Livorno First Anglo-Dutch War March 13 Johan van Galen's ships defeat Bodley
1653 Battle of the Gabbard (or North Foreland) First Anglo-Dutch War June 12-June 13, English victory
1653 Battle of Scheveningen (or Texel) First Anglo-Dutch War August 8-August 10 English victory, Tromp killed
1656 Battle of Warsaw (1656) Charles X Gustavus of Sweden defeats Poland and is declared war upon by every country of significance in the Northern War
1658 Battle of the Dunes June 4 English and French defeat Spanish at Dunkirk
1673 Battle of Texel Dutch defeat English and French attempt at naval invasion
1675 Battle of Fehrbellin June 28 Swedes invade Brandenburg and lose
1676 Battle of Oland June 1 Danish-Dutch fleet defeats Swedish fleet in Baltic Sea.
1683 Battle of Vienna September 12 Jan Sobieski defeats Ottomans, lifts siege of Vienna
1685 Battle of Sedgemoor - the last battle on English soil.
1687 Second Battle of Mohacs August 12 Charles of Lorraine defeats Ottomans
1690 Battle of Beachy Head June 30 French defeat the English fleet under command of Admiral Arthur Herbert in War of League of Augsburg
1690 Battle of Fleurus Louis XIV's marshal Montmorency
1690 Battle of the Boyne William of Orange defeats James VII
1691 Battle of Szcelankeman August 19 Louis of Baden defeats Ottoman Turks
Battle of Quebec (1691) - British attack during King William's War
1692 Battle of La Hougue May 29 French lose 15 ships to England
1693 Battle of Lagos June 30 near Portugal Compte de Tourville avenges La Hougue
1693 Battle of Neerwinden July 29 duc de Luxembourg defeats English
1700 Battle of Narva Nov. 30 Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russians

Eighteenth Century

1704 Battle of Blenheim August 14 - Duke of Marlborough defeats French and Bavaria and Prussia (War of the Spanish Succession)
1706 Battle of Fraustadt February 3 - Sweden defeats Saxony
1706 Battle of Ramilles or Battle of Ramillies May 23 - Duke of Marlborough defeats the French in the War of Spanish Succession
1707 Battle of Almanza April 25 French forces defeat Portuguese
1708 Battle of Oudenarde July 11 Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat French and besiege Lille
1708 Battle of Lesnaya September 28
1709 Battle of Poltava June 28 - Peter the Great of Russia defeats Swedish army
1709 Battle of Malplaquet September 11 - Prince of Savoy and duke of Marlborough defeat French
Battle of Quebec (1711) - British attack during Queen Anne's War
1734 Battle of Bitonto May 25
1741 Battle of Milan April 20
1741 Battle of Mollwitz April 10 - Prussia under Frederick II fights Austria in Silesian War
1744 Battle of Toulon (1744) February 22 - draw between British and Franco-Spanish fleets
1745 Battle of Prestonpans September 21 - Jacobite Stuarts under Bonnie Prince Charlie defeat English
1746 Battle of Falkirk (1746) January 17 - Jacobites defeat English dragoons
1746 Battle of Culloden Moor (or Battle of Culloden) April 16 - Jacobites lose to English
1746 Battle of Rocoux - France liberates Netherlands from Austria
1750 Battle of Kathio - Chippewas defeat Sioux and gain control of Minnesota
1755 Battle of the Monongahela Valley - also called Braddock's defeat, British lose two thirds of their force to French and Indian allies in Virginia backcountry; both enemy generals die in the engagement
1756 Battle of Fort Oswego - French and Indian allies take the only British trading post on Lake Ontario, thus re-establishing French exclusivity on europeen products in Great Lakes commerce with native populations
1757 Battle of Fort William Henry August 4-9 - British defeated by French then Indians slaughter prisoners
1757 Battle of Kolin June 18 - Frederick the Great of Prussia loses to Austria in Seven Years' War
1757 Battle of Plassey June 23 - Robert Clive consolidates English rule over India
1757 Battle of Hastenbeck July 26 - French army defeats Hanoverian Army of Observation
1757 Battle of Gross-J�gersdorf 30 August - Russians under Stepan Fedorovich Apraksin defeat the Prussians
1757 Battle of Rossbach November 5 - Frederick crushes French, Louis XV says "After me, the Deluge"
1757 Battle of Leuthen December 5 - Frederick the Great crushes Austrians under Prince Charles of Lorraine
1758 Battle of Luisbourg June 8-July 26 - also Louisburg, British capture fort controlling entrance to St. Lawrence River
1758 Battle of Ticonderoga (1758) July 8 - also called Carillon, British badly routed after attacking French fort
1758 Battle of Crefield June 23 - Ferdinand son of duke of Brunswick drives French across the Rhine
1758 Battle of Zornsdorff August 25 - Frederick defeats Russians in Prussia
1758 Battle of Hochkirk October 14 - Austrians mildly defeat Prussians
1759 Battle of Ticonderoga (1759) - British capture French fort
1759 Battle of Brunswick April 13 - French defeat Ferdinand
1759 Battle of Beauport July 31 - French stop British attempt to land near Quebec city; notable naval bombardment with British ships and batteries firing 4000 rounds in 8 hours on French shoreline entrenchments
1759 Battle of Minden August 1 - Ferdinand defeats French
1759 Battle of Kunersdorf August - Austria and Russia defeat Prussia
1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Battle of Quebec (1759)September 13 - English defeat French outside Quebec
1760 Battle of Sainte-Foy April 28 - French defeat British but fail to re-take Quebec city; entrenched French forced to retreat when British naval re-enforcements arrive in May
1760 Battle of Landshut June 23 - in Bavaria, Austria captures a Prussian army
1760 Battle of Liegnitz August 15 - Frederick defeats Austrians
1760 Battle of Montreal - Three British armies converge on Montreal forcing general capitulation of Canadian portion of New France
1760 Battle of Wandewash
1761 Third Battle of Panipat January 14 - Afghans defeat Marathas helping English
1763 Battle of Bushy Run August 5-6 British defeat Indians in Pennsylvania backcountry
1770 Battle of Golden Hill January 19 - in New York the first bloodshed between the patriots Sons of Liberty and their colonial oppressors
1770 Battle of Chesme July 6 - Russian fleet with British officers defeats Ottoman fleet
1771 Battle of Alamance May 16 - Colonial oppressors crush North Carolina patriots Regulators
1774 Battle of Point Pleasant October 10- Frontiersmen defeat Shawnees
1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord April 19 - Patriots lose 8 and with guerrilla action kill British
1775 Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (1775) May 10 - Allen and Arnold capture fort
1775 Battle of Crown Point May 12 - Seth Warren captures garrison
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill June 17 - British win a pyrrhic victory, their casualties double patriots
1775 Battle of Quebec December 31 - Arnold and Richard Montgomery driven from city
1776 Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge NC February 27 - NC patriots defeat Scottish Loyalists
1776 Battle of Long Island August 27 - William Howe crushes George Washington
1776 Battle of Harlem Heights September 16 - Washington repels Howe
1776 Battle of Valcour Island October 11 - Benedict Arnold escapes the British fleet under Guy Carleton
1776 Battle of White Plains October 28 - Howe inflicts casualties on George Washington's army
1776 Battle of Fort Lee November 19 - Cornwallis forces Greene to evacuate
1776 Battle of Trenton December 26 - Washington surprises Hessian force
1777 Battle of Ticonderoga (1777) -Americans abandon fort to avoid British artillery
1777 Battle of Bennington August 16 - Stark eradicates detachment sent by Burgoyne
1777 Battle of Brandywine September 9 - Howe drives George Washington's troops to Philadelphia
1777 Battle of 1st Saratoga Freeman's Farm September 19 - Morgan defeats Burgoyne
1777 Battle of Germantown October 4 - Howe kills 700 patriots while losing 534
1777 Battle of 2nd Saratoga October 7 - Gates (Benedict Arnold) defeats Burgoyne
1777 Battle of Stillwater
1778 Battle of Monmouth June 27 - GW stands off Clinton, Clinton continues retreat to NY, Charles Lee order of retreat leads to court-martial
1779 Battle of Kettle Creek February 14 - Pickens defeats loyalist brigade
1779 Battle of Briar Creek March 3 - Ashe loses 350 men near Augusta to British
1779 Battle of Stony Point July 15 - Wayne takes 700 prisoners in bayonet attack with only 15 patriot casualties
1779 Battle of Paulus Hook August 19 - Henry Lee drives British from New Jersey
1780 Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) January 16 - British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney destroys a smaller Spanish fleet under Don Juan de L�ngara
1780 Battle of Charleston May 12 - Lincoln surrenders Charleston to Clinton
1780 Battle of Springfield June 23 - Greene defeats British
1780 Battle of Camden August 16 - Cornwallis crushes Gates, 900 patriots killed
1780 Battle of Fishing Creek August 18 - Tarleton defeats Sumter
1780 Battle of Kings Mountain October 7 - Patriots capture loyalists
1781 Battle of Cowpens January 17 - Morgan defeats Tarleton
1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse March 15 - Cornwallis achieves a Pyrrhic victory over Greene and Morgan
1781 Battle of the Chesapeake September 5 - French Admiral Comte de Grasse blocks British fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves, seals Cornwallis' fate
1781 Battle of Yorktown September 28 - American siege of Cornwallis begins
1781 Battle of Porto Praya April 16 - French admiral Suffren damages English naval squadron
1782 Battle of Sadras February 17 - French admiral Suffren (12 ships)) meets a British squadron of 9 ships under Admiral Sir Edward Hughes
1782 Battle of the Saintes April 12 - Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats the Comte de Grasse by breaking through the French line
1782 Battle of Providien April 12 - French and English squadrons clash in an indecisive engagement
1782 Battle of Negapatam July 6 - Indecisive engagment between British and French fleets
1782 Battle of Trincomalee September 3 - British fleet under Hughes damages French fleet under Suffren but withdraws
1782 Battle of Chillicothe November 10 - George Rogers Clark defeats Shawnees in last battle of war
1783 Battle of Cuddalore June 20 - French fleet drives British fleet off shore of Cuddalore. Last of the five battles between Suffren and Hughes
1789 Battle of Turnhout October 27 - Belgian rebels defeat Austrian army
1790 Battle of Kepaniwai - King Kamehameha I unites Hawaii
1790 Battle of Fort Wayne October 18 - Little Turtle and Miamis defeat federal generals Joseph Harmar and Saint-Clair
1791 Battle of Wabash River - Arthur St clair defeated by Indians.
1792 Battle of Verdun August 20 - Prussians defeat French Revolutionaries
1792 Battle of Valmy - September French win and proceed to declare war on Europe
1793 Battle of Toulon - Napoleon gains fame as the French defeat the English
1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers August 20 - Wayne defeats Indians, ends menace
1794 The Glorious First of June May 28-June 1 - British Admiral Lord Howe defeats a French squadron under Villaret
1794 Battle of Fleurus June 26 - Austro-German army under Saxe-Coburg relieves Charleoi ? French Revolutionary Wars
1796 Battle of the Bridge of Arcole - Napoleon's battle in Italy.
1796 Battle of Millesimo - Napoleon defeats Austrians in Italy
1796 Battle of Modovi - Napoleon defeats Piedmontese
1797 Battle of Rivoli January 14 - Napoleon's first decisive victory over Austria
1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) February 14 - British admiral Jervis defeats Spanish fleet
1797 Battle of Camperdown - British fleet under Admiral Duncan defeats a Dutch fleet
1798 Battle of the Pyramids July 21 - Napoleon defeats Mameluks in Egypt
1798 Battle of the Nile August 1 - French fleet in Abukir Bay destroyed by Horatio Nelson
1799 Battle of Abukir July 25 - Napoleon and Joachim Murat defeat Turks
1799 Battle of Novi August 15 - Joubert is defeated and killed
1799 Battle of Zurich June 4 - Russian defeat French, later driven out
1799 Battle of Bergen September 19 - French beat English and Russians
1800 Battle of Stockash May 3 - French victory over Austrians
1800 Battle of M�erskirch May 15 - General Moreau beats Austrians
1800 Battle of Marengo June 14 - Napoleon defeats Austrians under Baron von Melas
1800 Battle of Hochstadt June 19 - French victory under General Moreau against the Austrians
1800 Battle of Hohenlinden December 3 - General Moreau defeats archduke John
1800 Battle of Pozolo December 25 - French victory over Austrians