Year | War | Fought Between |
1600 BCE | Battle of Mingtiao | Xia dynasty and Shang dynasty |
1500 BCE | Battle of the Ten Kings | King Sudas and Ten Kings in the Punjab region (India) |
1184 BCE | Battle of Troy | Achaeans (Greeks) and Troy |
1046 BCE | Battle of Muye | Zhou Dynasty and Shang Dynasty |
925 BCE | Battle of Bitter Lakes | Shoshenq I of Egypt and Bedouin incursion |
707 BCE | Battle of Ruge | The Zheng general Zhu Dan and the king Huan of Zhou (China) |
693 BCE | Battle of Diyala River | The king Sennacherib of Assyria and the Elamites of Southern Iran |
616 BCE | Battle of Arrapha | The king Nabopolassar (of Babylonians) and Assyrians |
546 BCE | Battle of Thymbra | Cyrus the Great of Persia and Croesus of Lydia |
545 BCE | Battle of The 300 Champions | The Spartans and Argives |
539-38 BCE | Battle of Opis | Cyrus the Great and Nabonidus |
490 BCE | Battle of Marathon | Miltiades (of Athens) and Darius I of Persia and Artaphernes |
432 BCE | Battle of Potidaea | Athens and Sparta |
429 BCE | Battle of Spartolos | Chalcidians (with their allies) and Athens |
411 BCE | Battle of Eretria | Spartans and the Athenian fleet |
334 BCE | Battle of the Granicus | Alexander the Great and the Persian army |
331 BCE | Battle of Gaugamela | Alexander the Great and Darius III in Mesopotamia and conquered Persia |
326 BCE | Battle of the Hydaspes | Alexander the Great and the Indian King Porus |
281 BCE | Battle of Corupedium | Seleucus and Lysimachus |
101 BCE | Battle of Vercellae | Marius (the Roman) and the Cimbri |
67 BCE | Battle of Jushi | Han troops and the Xiongnu |
66 BCE | Battle of the Lycus | Pompey the Great and Mithridates VI |
58 BCE | Battle of the Arar | Caesar and the migrating Helvetii |
47 BCE | Battle of the Nile | Caesar and Ptolemy XIII (the Egyptian king) |
36 BCE | Battle of Zhizhi | Han forces and Xiongnu |
84 CE | Battle of Mons Graupius | Agricola (the Roman) and the Caledonians |
208 CE | Battle of Red Cliffs | War of Three Kingdoms (of China) |
312 CE | Battle of Milvian Bridge | Constantine and Maxentius and took control of Italy |
547 CE | Battle of Marta | Tripolitanian Moors and John Troglita |
630 CE | Conquest of Mecca | Muhammad conquered Mecca without any bloodshed |
838 CE | Battle of Anzen | Abbasids (modern Turkey) and Theophilus |
972 CE | Battle of Cedynia | Mieszko I (of Poland) and Hodon (of Germany) |
1054 CE | Battle of Dunsinane | Malcolm and MacBeth |
1057 CE | Battle of Lumphanan | Malcolm and MacBeth |
1179 CE | Battle of Jacob’s Ford | Saladin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem |
1215 CE | Battle of Zhongdu | Genghis Khan in cooperation with the Mongols and the Jin dynasty and seized Zhongdu (present day Beijing) |
1361 CE | Battle of Wisby | Denmark and Sweden |
1362-63 CE | Battle of Blue Waters | Pagan Lithuanians and the Islamic Tatar Forces |
1370 CE | Battle of Pontvallain | France and England |
1402 CE | Battle of Angora /Battle of Ankara | Timur and Ottoman sultan Bayezid I in Anatolia (Turkey) |
1448 CE | Battle of Kosovo | Turkish and Orthodox forces and Roman Catholic |
1533 CE | Battle of Cuzco | Spanish and the Inca Empire |
1597 CE | Battle of Chilchonryang | Japanese Navy and Korean Navy |
1597 CE | Battle of Myeongnyang | Korean Navy and Japanese Navy |
1607 CE | Battle of Gibraltar | Dutch and Spanish (fleet) |
1656 CE | First Battle of Warsaw | Poland seized its capital from Sweden |
1656 CE | Second Battle of Warsaw | Sweden and Poland |
1676 CE | Battle of Lund | Sweden and Denmark |
1694 CE | Battle of Torroella | The French Navy and Spain |
1710 CE | Battle of Prut | Ottoman Turks and Russia |
1729 CE | Battle of Damghan | Nader Shah and the Afghans |
1779 CE | Battle of Baton Rouge | Spanish captured the city Baton Rouge |
1796 CE | Battle of Lodi | General Napoleon Bonaparte (French Army) and Austria |
1797 CE | Battle of Rivoli | Napoleon Bonaparte and Austria |
1798 CE | Battle of the Pyramids | Napoleon and Mameluks (in Egypt) |
1798 CE | Battle of Ballinamuck | British forces and Ireland and France |
1799 | Battle of Abukir | Napoleon and Joachim Murat and Turks |
1805 CE | Battle of Austerlitz | Napoleon Bonaparte and Russian |
1813 CE | Battle of Leipzig | The coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, Sweden and Napoleon I (the Emperor of the French) |
1815 CE | Battle of Waterloo | Wellington, Prussians, Dutch, German (collectively) forces and Napoleon |
1904 CE | Battle of Yalu River | Japan and Russia |
1914 to 1918 CE | World War I | Allied Powers (France, UK, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, USA, etc.) and Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, etc.) |
1917 CE | Battle of Jerusalem | British forces and Ottoman Empire and seized Jerusalem |
1939 to 1945 CE | World War II | Allies Powers (France, UK, Russia, China, Poland, Canada, Australia, USA, etc.) and Axix Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, etc.) |
1947 CE | Indo-Pakistani War | The war ended with division of territory (Jammu & Kashmir) |
1965 CE | Second Indo-Pakistan War | The war resulted in a stalemate |
1990 CE | Gulf War | US – allied forces and Iraq |
1995 CE | First Battle of Grozny | Russian Army and Grozny |
1999 CE | Kargil War | Pakistani infiltrators returned to status quo ante bellum |
2001 CE | Battle of Kabul | US forces attacked Kabul and seized it from the Taliban |
2001 CE | Battle of Kandahar | US and allied forces seized the last remaining city from the Taliban |
2001 CE | Battle of Tora Bora | US and allied forces besieged AlQaida, but Osama bin Laden was escaped |
2003 CE | Battle of Baghdad (Gulf War II) | US forces captured the Iraqi capital from Saddam Hussein’s forces |
Jan 2011 CE | First Battle of Benghazi | Libyan rebel forces freed the city from Colonel Gaddafi’s rule |
March 2011 CE | Battle of Bin Jawad | Gaddafi forces recaptured the city |
August 2011 CE | Battle of Tripoli | Tripoli is seized by rebel forces and Gaddafi government collapsed |