All battles
9,321 battles and sieges, grouped by era. You can also browse by country or by war.
- Ancient before 500 555 battles
- Medieval 500–1499 1,508 battles
- Early modern 1500–1799 2,499 battles
- 19th century 1800–1913 2,245 battles
- World War I era 1914–1918 448 battles
- Interwar 1919–1938 152 battles
- World War II era 1939–1945 617 battles
- Post-1945 1946 onwards 953 battles
- Date not recorded no reliable year in Wikidata 344 battles
Most widely covered battles
Ranked by the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article.
- Battle of Stalingrad 1942Russia · Eastern Front
- Battle of Waterloo 1815Belgium · Waterloo Campaign
- Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941United States · South-East Asian theater of World War II
- Battle of Thermopylae 480 BCGreece · Second Persian invasion of Greece
- Battle of Badr 624Saudi Arabia · Muslim–Quraysh War
- Battle of Hastings 1066England · Norman conquest of England
- Fall of Constantinople 1453Turkey · Ottoman Wars in Europe
- Battle of Trafalgar 1805At sea · Trafalgar Campaign
- Battle of Marathon 490 BCGreece · First Persian invasion of Greece
- Battle of Austerlitz 1805Czechia · Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Kursk 1943Russia · World War II
- Normandy landings 1944France · Invasion of Normandy
- Battle of Berlin 1945Germany · Eastern Front
- Siege of Leningrad 1941Russia · Eastern Front
- Battle of Grunwald 1410Poland · Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
- Battle of Lepanto 1571At sea · Ottoman–Spanish War
- Battle of Verdun 1916France · World War I
- Battle of the Somme 1916France · Western Front
- Battle of Tours 732France · Umayyad invasion of Gaul
- Battle of Salamis 480 BCGreece · Second Persian invasion of Greece
- Battle of Cannae 216 BCItaly · Second Punic War
- Battle of Mohács 1526Hungary · Hungarian–Ottoman War
- Battle of Midway 1942At sea · Pacific War
- Battle of Actium 31 BCGreece · Final War of the Roman Republic
- Battle of the Teutoburg Forest AD 9Germany · Early Imperial campaigns in Germania
- Battle of Manzikert 1071Turkey · Byzantine–Seljuq Wars
- Battle of Vienna 1683Austria
- Battle of Leipzig 1813Germany · German campaign of 1813
- Battle of Moscow 1941Russia · Eastern Front
- Battle of Iwo Jima 1945Japan · Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign
- Battle of Gaugamela 331 BCIraq · Wars of Alexander the Great
- Battle of Uhud 625Saudi Arabia · Muslim–Quraysh War
- Battle of Borodino 1812Russia · French invasion of Russia
- Battle of Karbala 680Iraq · Second Fitna
- Battle of Hattin 1187Israel · Crusader battles between 1149 and 1189
- Battle of Agincourt 1415France · Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Poltava 1709Ukraine · Great Northern War
- Battle of the Yarmuk 636Syria · Muslim conquest of the Levant
- Battle of Kosovo 1389Kosovo · Ottoman Wars in Europe
- Battle of the Catalaunian Plains 451France · fall of the western Roman Empire
- First Battle of the Marne 1914France · Western Front
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954Vietnam · First Indochina War
- Battle of Plassey 1757India
- Battle of Gettysburg 1863United States · American Civil War
- Battle of Okinawa 1945Japan · World War II
- Battle of Zama 202 BCTunisia · Second Punic War
- Battle of Jutland 1916At sea · World War I
- Battle of Kadesh 1274 BCSyria
- Siege of Baghdad 1258Iraq · Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia
- Dunkirk evacuation 1940France · Battle of France
- Battle of the Trench 627Saudi Arabia · Muslim–Quraysh War
- Battle of Stamford Bridge 1066England · Viking activity in the British Isles
- Battle of Ankara 1402Turkey · Timurid invasion of the Ottoman Empire
- Great Siege of Malta 1565Malta · Ottoman–Habsburg Wars
- Battle of Issus 333 BCTurkey · Wars of Alexander the Great
- Battle of Kulikovo 1380Russia · Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'
- Battle of Plataea 479 BCGreece · Second Persian invasion of Greece
- Battle of Poitiers 1356France · Hundred Years' War
- Battle of the Alamo 2001United States · Texas Revolution
- Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) 338 BCGreece · Fourth Sacred War