9,321 battles and sieges from antiquity to the present, each with a recorded location and an English Wikipedia article, on a 3D globe. Drag or flick to turn the globe, tap a battle for details, or press Spin the globe to land on a random battle. Every battle is always shown: nothing is clustered or hidden. Bigger markers with a picture or crossed swords are the best-known battles.
Colours show the era:
Ancient before 500 · 555
Medieval 500–1499 · 1,508
Early modern 1500–1799 · 2,499
19th century 1800–1913 · 2,245
World War I era 1914–1918 · 448
Interwar 1919–1938 · 152
World War II era 1939–1945 · 617
Post-1945 1946 onwards · 953
Date not recorded · 344
Battle data from Wikidata (CC0); short histories are the opening of each battle's English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0); images from Wikimedia Commons, credited in each card and on each battle page. Locations use modern borders.