List of battles 601-1400
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-forward Table of contents 1 Seventh Century 2 Eighth Century 3 Ninth Century 4 Tenth Century 5 Eleventh Century 6 Twelfth Century 7 Thirteenth Century 8 Fourteenth Century Seventh Century 616 Battle of Chester[?] - Northumbrian King Aethelfrith defeats the army of Powys 627 Battle of Nineveh (627) - Romans beat Sassanid Persians 631 Battle of Wogastisburg[?] - King Samo[?] defeats Austrasian forces, led by Dagobert I, Merovingian king of the Franks 632 Battle of Akraba[?] 633 Battle of Hatfield Chase[?] - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Edwin of Northumbria 634 Battle of Heavenfield[?] - Oswald of Bernicia defeats and kills the Welsh Cadwallon[?] 636 Battle of Yarmak[?] - Islamic forces conquer Syria from Byzantines 642 Battle of Nehaward[?] - Arabs gain final victory over Persians, Sassanid dynasty ended 642 Battle of Maserfeld August 5 - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia 655 Battle of Winwaed - Northumbrian King Oswiu defeats and kills pagan Mercian king Penda 656 Battle of Jamal[?] or Battle of Camel[?] 677 Battle of Syllaeum[?] - Arab fleet destroyed by Byzantium, menace to Europe ended 680 Battle of Kerbela[?] October 10 - Husain[?] killed, becomes Shiite martyr 685 Battle of Nechtansmere - Picts defeat Northumbrians in Scotland 692 Battle of Sevastapol[?] - Arabs defeat Justinian II 698 Battle of Carthage (698)[?] - Moslem Conquest of North Africa[?] Eighth Century 709 Battle of Kabul (709)[?] - Moslem Conquest of the East[?] 718 Battle of Covadonga - Spanish Christians defeat Moors for the first time (date uncertain 718 - 725) 732 Battle of Tours October 11 - Moors lose to Charles Martel near Poitiers 757 Battle of Suiyang[?] 778 Battle of Roncesvalles[?] - Charlemagne's rear guard Roland devastated by Basques Ninth Century 811 Battle of Pliska[?] - Forces of Nicephorus I of Byzantium walk into trap of Bulgarian khan Krum[?] 878 Vikings defeat forces of St Cuthbert in West Sussex 891 Battle of Leuven[?] - Arnulf of Carinthia defeats Normans Tenth Century 917 Battle of Anchialus[?] August 20 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria[?] invades Thrace and drive Byzantines out 923 Battle of Soissons[?] June 15 - Rollo of Normandy killed by Charles III, but Charles is defeated and imprisoned by Rudolf duke of Burgundy who succeeded Robert 955 Battle of Lechfeld August 10 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ends invasion of West 972 Battle of Cedynia[?] 991 Battle of Maldon August 10 or 11 - Olaf Tryggvason's Vikings defeat English of Ealdorman Brihtnoth of Essex Eleventh Century 1014 Battle of Clontarf Irish King Brian Boru ends Norse rule of Ireland 1016 Battle of Neaje[?] Future Norwegian king Saint Olav Haraldsson laid foundation for his reign in this victory. 1018 Battle of Vlaardingen[?] Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Henry I, Holy Roman Emperor at Vlaardingen 1030 Battle of Stiklestad[?] Norwegian King Saint Olaf Haraldsson killed in the battle but it ensured Christianization of Norway 1053 Battle of Civitate Robert Guiscard's Normans destroy the army of Pope Leo IX. 1054 Battle of Dunsinane[?] Malcolm defeats Macbeth 1057 Battle of Lumphanan 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge September 25, Harold Godwinson of England defeated his brother Tostig Godwinson and Harald III of Norway 1066 Battle of Hastings October 14, William the Conqueror defeats Harold Godwinson 1071 Battle of Manzikert Byzantines lose Asia Minor, Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes leads Christians against Seljuk Turks 1071 Battle of Bari[?] Byzantines lose Italy to Norman Robert Guiscard 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum[?] July 1 first Christian victory of the First Crusade 1097 Battle of Nicaea[?] Moslems defeated by Byzantines and Crusaders 1098 Battle of Antioch[?] Crusaders take city after lengthy siege 1099 Battle of Jerusalem[?] Crusaders take city after lengthy siege and bloody street fighting Twelfth Century 1106 Battle of Tinchebrai Henry I defeats brother Robert of Normandy in northwestern France 1108 Battle of Ucles[?] May 1109 Battle of Naklo[?] Boleslav III[?] of Poland defeats Pomeranians 1109 Battle of Hundsfeld[?] Boleslav III[?] of Poland defeats German king Henry V 1119 Battle of Ager Sanguinis (the Field of Blood) (June 27) Crusaders defeatd by Ilghazi[?] 1138 Battle of the Standard[?] near Northallerton 1157 Battle of Grathe Heath[?] 1176 Battle of Legnano[?] May 29 Lombard League[?] defeats and wounds HRE Frederick Barbarossa 1176 Battle of Myriokephalon Seljuk Turks defeat army of Emperor Manuel I Comnenus of the Byzantine Empire in Phrygia 1185 Battle of Dan-no-ura[?] in Japan - Last battle of Taira-Minamoto War[?] 1187 Battle of Hattin July 4 Saladin defeats Crusaders. 1191 Battle of Arsuf September 7 Richard Lionheart's forces repel Saladin's attack. Thirteenth Century 1204 Battle of Constantinople[?] Byzantine Empire conquered by Fourth Crusade 1205 Battle of Adrianople (1205) - Fourth Crusade 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa July 16 Moors expelled from most of Iberia a joint army of the Christian kingdoms of Castile, Leon, Portugal, Navarre and Aragon. 1213 Battle of Damme[?] - English under William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury sink most of fleet of France's King Philip II in the harbor of Damme. 1214 Battle of Bouvines France conquers Flanders 1214 Battle of Tournai[?] France defeats Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and King John of England 1217 Battle of South Foreland[?] - Fleet of English Hubert and Burgh defeat French fleet of Eustace the Monk[?] off Dover 1223 Battle of Kalka River[?] Subutai[?] leads Mongols as they show force in Russia 1241 Battle of Liegnitz Mongols of Golden Horde defeat feudal nobility including Knights Templar in Silesia and then retire to Asia 1245 Battle of Evesham August 4 - (Baron's War[?]) 1242 Battle of Lake Peipus[?] Apr. 5 Alexander Nevsky defeats Teutonic Knights 1250 Battle of Fariskur[?] Apr. 6 Egyptians defeat 7th Crusade forces of Louis IX of France 1254 Battle of Adrianople (1254)[?] - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars[?] 1260 Battle of Kressenbrunn[?] - Premysl Ottokar II defeats Bela IV[?] 1260 Battle of Ain Jalut[?] September 3 - Mongol Wars[?] - Muslim army defeats Mongols north of Palestine 1263 Battle of Largs[?] 1266 Battle of Benevento 1268 Battle of Xiangyang First war ever involving the usage of firearms 1274 Battle of Hakata Bay[?] - Mongol Wars[?] - 1279 Battle of Yamen 1281 August 15 Typhoon wipes out the invading fleet of Kublai Khan in Japan ? Divine Wind. 1288 Battle of Worringen[?] -Germany 1296 Battle of Dunbar (1296) 1296 Battle of Curzota[?] Genoa defeats Venetian fleet including Marco Polo 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge - Scots of William Wallace defeat English of John de Warrenne[?] 1298 Battle of Falkirk[?] July 22 in Stirlingshire[?], English Archers defeat Scots led by William Wallace, longbow's first great victory Fourteenth Century 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs[?] July 11 in Flanders, Flemish burghers led by Count Guy de Dampierre defeat French knights 1314 Battle of Bannockburn Robert Bruce VIII[?] defeats Edward II, takes Stirling Castle and frees Scotland 1315 Battle of Morgarten Nov. 15 Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria[?] 1322 Battle of Muhldorf[?] Sep. 28 German Louis IV defeats Frederick of Austria[?] 1332 Battle of Plowce[?] Sep. 27 Poland's Ladislas IV Lokietek[?] defeats Teutonic Knights 1333 Battle of Halidon Hill July 19 Edward III of England avenges Bannockburn 1340 Battle of Rio Salado[?] Oct. 30 Alphonso XI of Castile defeats Moslems 1340 Battle of Sluys June 24 Edward III beats Franco-Genoese fleet of Philip VI of France off the coast of Flanders and gains control of English Channel 1346 Battle of Crecy Aug. 26 English longbowmen defeat French cavalry at Abbeville 1351 Battle of the Thirty[?] Thirty French Knights from Chateau Josselin[?] under Beaumanoir call out and defeat thirty English Knights under Pembroke and Brambaugh[?] 1354 Battle of Sapienza[?] Genoans destroy Venetian fleet 1356 Battle of Poitiers Edward the Black Prince captures King John II of France, France is in chaos 1362 Battle of Helsingborg[?] - Danish-German War[?] 1365 Battle of Adrianople (1365)[?] Capture by Ottoman Turks 1380 Battle of Kulikovo Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow stops Mongols 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota[?] Aug. 14 Portugal gains independence from Castile, Joao I establishes Avis dynasty 1386 Battle of Sempach[?] July 9 Swiss defeat Leopold III of Austria[?] 1389 Battle of Kosovo Polje Ottoman Murad I defeats Serbs, ends Serb empire under Prince Lazar