| Date |
War |
Fought between |
| 1600 BCE |
Battle of Mingtiao |
Tang of Shang defeated Jie of Xia. Shang dynasty began in China |
| 1500 BCE |
Battle of the Ten Kings |
King Sudas defeated the Ten Kings in the Punjab region (India) |
| 1184 BCE |
Battle of Troy |
Troy descended after the ten-year Trojan War |
| 1046 BCE |
Battle of Muye |
Zhou Dynasty defeated the Shang Dynasty |
| 925 BCE |
Battle of Bitter Lakes |
Shoshenq I of Egypt defeated a Bedouin incursion |
| 707 BCE |
Battle of Ruge |
The Zheng general Zhu Dan defeated the king Huan of Zhou (China) |
| 693 BCE |
Battle of Diyala River |
The king Sennacherib of Assyria defeated the Elamites of Southern Iran |
| 616 BCE |
Battle of Arrapha |
The king Nabopolassar (of Babylonians) defeated the Assyrians |
| 546 BCE |
Battle of Thymbra |
Cyrus the Great of Persia defeated Croesus of Lydia |
| 545 BCE |
Battle of The 300 Champions |
The Spartans defeated the Argives |
| 539-38 BCE |
Battle of Opis |
Cyrus the Great defeated Nabonidus |
| 490 BCE |
Battle of Marathon |
Miltiades (of Athens) defeated Darius I of Persia and Artaphernes |
| 432 BCE |
Battle of Potidaea |
Athens defeated Sparta |
| 429 BCE |
Battle of Spartolos |
Chalcidians (with their allies) defeated Athens |
| 411 BCE |
Battle of Eretria |
Spartans defeated the Athenian fleet |
| 334 BCE |
Battle of the Granicus |
Alexander the Great defeated the Persian army |
| 331 BCE |
Battle of Gaugamela |
Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in Mesopotamia and conquered Persia |
| 326 BCE |
Battle of the Hydaspes |
Alexander the Great defeated the Indian King Porus |
| 281 BCE |
Battle of Corupedium |
Seleucus defeated and killed Lysimachus |
| 101 BCE |
Battle of Vercellae |
Marius (the Roman) defeated the Cimbri |
| 67 BCE |
Battle of Jushi |
Han troops defeated the Xiongnu |
| 66 BCE |
Battle of the Lycus |
Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates VI |
| 58 BCE |
Battle of the Arar |
Caesar defeated the migrating Helvetii |
| 47 BCE |
Battle of the Nile |
Caesar defeated Ptolemy XIII (the Egyptian king) |
| 36 BCE |
Battle of Zhizhi |
Han forces defeated Xiongnu |
| Common Era (CE) |
| 84 CE |
Battle of Mons Graupius |
Agricola (the Roman) defeated the Caledonians |
| 208 CE |
Battle of Red Cliffs |
War of Three Kingdoms (of China) |
| 312 CE |
Battle of Milvian Bridge |
Constantine defeated Maxentius and took control of Italy |
| 547 CE |
Battle of Marta |
Tripolitanian Moors defeated John Troglita |
| 630 CE |
Conquest of Mecca |
Muhammad conquered Mecca without any bloodshed |
| 838 CE |
Battle of Anzen |
Abbasids (modern Turkey) defeated Theophilus |
| 972 CE |
Battle of Cedynia |
Mieszko I (of Poland) defeated Hodon (of Germany) |
| 1054 CE |
Battle of Dunsinane |
Malcolm defeated MacBeth |
| 1057 CE |
Battle of Lumphanan |
Malcolm defeated MacBeth. In this battle MacBeth was killed |
| 1179 CE |
Battle of Jacob's Ford |
Saladin defeats the Kingdom of Jerusalem |
| 1215 CE |
Battle of Zhongdu |
Genghis Khan in cooperation with the Mongols defeated the Jin dynasty and seized Zhongdu (present day Beijing) |
| 1361 CE |
Battle of Wisby |
Denmark defeated Sweden |
| 1362-63 CE |
Battle of Blue Waters |
Pagan Lithuanians defeated the Islamic Tatar Forces |
| 1370 CE |
Battle of Pontvallain |
France defeated England |
| 1402 CE |
Battle of Angora / Battle of Ankara |
Timur defeated Ottoman sultan Bayezid I in Anatolia (Turkey) |
| 1448 CE |
Battle of Kosovo |
Turkish and Orthodox forces defeated Roman Catholic |
| 1533 CE |
Battle of Cuzco |
Spanish defeated the Inca Empire |
| 1597 CE |
Battle of Chilchonryang |
Japanese Navy defeaterd Korean Navy |
| 1597 CE |
Battle of Myeongnyang |
Korean Navy defeated Japanese Navy |
| 1607 CE |
Battle of Gibraltar |
Dutch defeated Spanish (fleet) |
| 1656 CE |
First Battle of Warsaw |
Poland seized its capital from Sweden |
| 1656 CE |
Second Battle of Warsaw |
Sweden defeated Poland |
| 1676 CE |
Battle of Lund |
Sweden defeat the Denmark |
| 1694 CE |
Battle of Torroella |
The French Navy defeated Spain |
| 1710 CE |
Battle of Prut |
Ottoman Turks defeated Russia |
| 1729 CE |
Battle of Damghan |
Nader Shah defeated the Afghans |
| 1779 CE |
Battle of Baton Rouge |
Spanish captured the city Baton Rouge |
| 1796 CE |
Battle of Lodi |
General Napoleon Bonaparte (French Army) defeated Austria |
| 1797 CE |
Battle of Rivoli |
Napoleon Bonaparte defeated Austria |
| 1798 CE |
Battle of the Pyramids |
Napoleon defeated Mameluks (in Egypt) |
| 1798 CE |
Battle of Ballinamuck |
British forces defeated Ireland and France |
| 1799 |
Battle of Abukir |
Napoleon and Joachim Murat defeated Turks |
| 1805 CE |
Battle of Austerlitz |
Napoléon Bonaparte defeated Russian |
| 1813 CE |
Battle of Leipzig |
The coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden defeated by Napoleon I (the Emperor of the French) |
| 1815 CE |
Battle of Waterloo |
Wellington, Prussians, Dutch, and German (collectively) forces defeated Napoleon |
| 1904 CE |
Battle of Yalu River |
Japan defeated Russia |
| 1914 to 1918 CE |
World War I |
Allied Powers (France, UK, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, USA, etc.) defeated Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, etc.) |
| 1917 CE |
Battle of Jerusalem |
British forces defeated Ottoman Empire and seized Jerusalem |
| 1939 to 1945 CE |
World War II |
Allies Powers (France, UK, Russia, China, Poland, Canada, Australia, USA, etc.) defeated 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 and allied forces defeated Iraq |
| 1995 CE |
First battle of Grozny |
Russian Army captured 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 |
