Battles

Major World War II battle from 1942 to 1943

First crewed Moon landing (1969)

1457 battle of the Ottoman–Albanian wars

1815 battle of the Waterloo campaign

1941 Japanese attack on the U.S.

480 BC engagement of the Greco-Persian Wars

1453 Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine capital

First major battle in early Islam (624)

Battle between English and Normans in 1066

1805 battle of the Trafalgar campaign

1940 WWII air battle

1805 battle of the War of the Third Coalition

German invasion of France in 1940

Last major offensive of the European theatre of World War II

490 BC battle in the Greco-Persian Wars

1943 tank battle in the Soviet Union

Blockade by the Axis powers, 1941–1944

World War II landing operation in Europe

Battle on the Western Front during the First World War

1571 naval battle of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars

WWI battle pitting France and Britain against Germany

732 battle of the Umayyad invasion of Gaul

1526 battle of the Ottoman–Hungarian Wars

1410 battle between the Teutonic Order and Poland–Lithuania

1942 major naval battle in World War II

Naval battle between Octavian and Mark Antony/Cleopatra (31 BC)

1813 battle of the Napoleonic Wars

World War II campaign in Russia

Major World War II battle in the Pacific Theater

First human spaceflight in history

1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans

Roman defeat by Germanic tribes in 9 AD

480 BC naval battle of the Greco-Persian Wars

Largest battle of the Second Punic War (216 BC)

625 Muslim–Quraysh War battle

1812 battle of the French invasion of Russia

1071 Seljuk victory over the Byzantines

1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War

1187 Saladin victory over the Crusaders

680 battle in Iraq

1389 battle between Serbian-led forces and the Ottoman Empire

Major battle of the Wars of Alexander the Great (331 BC)

636 CE conflict between the Rashidun Caliphate and Byzantine Empire

1709 battle of the Great Northern War

First major battle of World War I, 1914

1954 battle in the First Indochina War

Part of the Hunnic invasion of the Roman province of Gaul

Major 1945 battle of the Pacific War

1863 battle of the American Civil War

1916 major naval battle during World War I

Final battle of the Second Punic War (202 BC)

1757 battle of the Seven Years' War

Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate (1258)

Evacuation of Allied forces in early 1940

1066 battle in England

Military campaign in early Muslim history, 627 CE

1274 BC Egyptian-Hittite battle

Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565

Attempt by Germany during World War II to cut supply lines to Britain

333 BC battle between Alexander the Great and Darius III

1402 Timurid–Ottoman battle

Major battle of the Texas Revolution

Land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece (479 BC)

Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan

1914 World War I battle

Battle between Eastern Roman Empire and Goths (378)

1356 battle of the Hundred Years' War

1940 battle between the Allies and Germany in France

Battle between Russian principalities and Mongol forces

1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence

1346 English victory during the Hundred Years' War

Violent 1990 crackdown on anti-government/anti-Armenian movements in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR

Part of the Gallic Wars

Part of the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great

Initial battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War

1260 battle between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Empire

1620 battle of the Thirty Years' War

Siege in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

1806 battle of the War of the Fourth Coalition

1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War

1944 Soviet ethnic cleansing and genocide

Battle during the expansion of Macedonia

1876 battle of the Great Sioux War

Part of the Roman–Parthian Wars

Major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II

Battle of World War II

Christian conquest of the First Crusade

Forced relocation and ethnic cleansing of the southeastern Native American tribes

1939 border clashes between Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union

Failed Siege of Vienna by the Ottoman empire in 1529

1396 battle during the Ottoman wars in Europe

Battle in the Crusade of Varna

1223 battle where the Mongols fought against Rus' princes and Cumans

Battle in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War

Battle fought between Alexander the Great and the Achaemenids

Part of the Reconquista in Spain (1212)

1600 battle in Japan

1917 battle on the Italian front of World War I

1798 battle of the French invasion of Egypt and Syria

Part of the War of the Second Coalition (1800)

1917 campaign of the First World War

751 battle between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Tang dynasty

Military battle during World War II on 19 August 1944

Battle of the Polish–Soviet War

1242 battle of the Northern Crusades on the frozen Lake Peipus

Siege during the Bosnian War (1992–1996)

Part of Caesar's Civil War (48 BC)

1485 battle during the Wars of the Roses

Largest naval battle of World War II and history

1526 battle during the Mughal conquest of the Delhi Sultanate

Axis invasion of Crete during World War II

Battle of World War II

717–718 siege of the Byzantine capital

1896 battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War

312 AD battle in the Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy

1086 battle of the Spanish Reconquista

1781 siege of the American Revolutionary War

Beginning of the 1990–1991 Gulf War

Armed conflict in Ethiopia (2020–2022)

629 AD battle in the Arab–Byzantine Wars

217 BC battle of the Second Punic War

Battle during the Ottoman-Hungarian Wars

World War II battle on north coast of France

1942 battle of World War II

1514 battle of the Ottoman–Persian wars

7th-century battle of the First Fitna

1827 naval battle during the Greek War of Independence

1807 battle of the War of the Fourth Coalition

World War II military campaign in 1940

1798 battle of the French invasion of Egypt and Syria

Battle of the First War of Scottish Independence

8th-century battle between the Visigothic Kingdom and the Umayyad Caliphate

1298 battle of the First War of Scottish Independence

1917 World War I battle

Part of the Muslim conquest of Persia (636 CE)

722 opening battle of the Reconquista of Spain

1942 battle in the Eastern Front of World War II

Major battle of the Great Northern War

1943 series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II

13th-century battle during the Mongol invasion of Poland

Battle on the Eastern Front of World War II

1963 Soviet crewed spaceflight

1807 battle of the War of the Fourth Coalition

1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition

1861 American Civil War battle

Conquest of Jerusalem by the Ayyubids

Campaign in the Russo-Ukrainian war

Battle in the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022 and 2023

1704 battle of the War of the Spanish Succession

Nazi German offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II

First crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

First major battle of the Second Punic War

Part of the Hungarian invasions of Europe, 955

Final battle of the Second Italian War of Independence

Battle on the Western Front of World War II

1991 Croatian War of Independence siege

1240 battle of the Swedish–Novgorodian Wars

628 military campaign in the early Muslim period

1971 Soviet spaceflight, first spaceflight to visit a space station, and fatal disaster

1746 battle of the Jacobite rising of 1745

Opening engagement of the German invasion of Belgium during WWI

First naval battle of the Second World War

657 battle of the First Fitna

1761 battle between the Durrani Empire and Marathas

1923 agreement between Greece and Turkey

1916 Russian offensive during World War I

Japanese naval operation in World War II

1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition

1302 battle of the Franco-Flemish War

1854 battle of the Crimean War

Major naval battle of World War II

1862 battle of the American Civil War

Part of the First Jewish–Roman War

Part of the Austro-Prussian War

1944–45 World War II battle

Naval battle of World War I

Battle on the Eastern Front of World War II

Space mission of USSR

Battle of the Roman civil war

Turning point in the Hundred Years' War

Thebes' victory against Sparta in 371 BC

End of the Vietnam War, 30 April 1975

Part of the Italian War (1521–1526)

1690 battle in the Kingdom of Ireland

World War II military campaign

1241 battle during the first Mongol invasion of Hungary

1340 naval battle

Battle of the First World War

1775 battle of the American Revolutionary War

1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States

Battle that decisively ended Xerxes's invasion of Greece (479 BC)

Battle between Egypt and Canaanite rebels

1863 American Civil War battle

1775 battle of the American Revolutionary War

Battle on the Yangtze River (208 AD)

Battle of the Thirty Years' War

1204 conquest during the Fourth Crusade

1861 American Civil War battle

Large-scale military campaign to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State

WWII battle

301 BC battle of the Wars of the Diadochi in Phrygia (modern Turkey)

1942 battle during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II

1515 battle of the War of the League of Cambrai

2003 first human spaceflight mission of China

Major conflict of the Arab–Byzantine wars

Military conflict during the Somali Civil War

First battle in the Invasion of Poland and beginning of the Second World War

1944 Soviet ethnic cleansing and genocide

Battle in World War I's Eastern Front

1097–98 invasion in the First Crusade

1995 military offensive and last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence

1177 battle between the Crusaders and Ayyubids

1914 battle of the First World War

14th-century battle of the Serbian–Ottoman Wars

1538 battle of the Third Ottoman–Venetian War

Part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

2022 battle of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Conflict between the early Muslims and Bedouins (630 AD)

Battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II

Battle between Russia and the Ottoman Empire

1937 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War

2008 Chinese crewed spaceflight

Part of the Crusades

Strategic operation conducted during Operation Barbarossa

197 BC Roman victory in the Second Macedonian War

1697 battle of the Great Turkish War

1940 British naval victory over Italy in WWII

World War II battle in the Pacific theater

1630s rebellion in Japan

1944 battle in Italy

Soviet crewed spaceflight; world's first space walk

394 AD battle between Theodosius and Eugenius

Decisive battle of the Texas Revolution

Part of the American Revolutionary War

Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

1879 battle of the Anglo-Zulu War

260 Sasanian victory over Rome

8th-century battle in France

Early battle during the First Crusade

Part of the Vietnam War (1968)