List of battles 1301–1600

Lists of battles

• Before 301
• 301–1300
• 1301–1600
• 1601–1800
• 1801–1900
• 1901–2000
• 2001–current
• Naval
• Sieges

• See also

Early 14th century (1301–1350)

Year	War	Battle	Loc.	Date(s)	Description
1302	Franco-Flemish War	Battle of the Golden Spurs		11 July	In Flanders, Flemish forces led by William of Jülich and Pieter de Coninck defeat French knights. [1]
	Byzantine–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Bapheus		27 July	The founder of the Ottoman dynasty Osman I defeats a Byzantine force. [2]
1303	First War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Roslin		24 Feb	Scottish forces led by John Comyn III ambush and defeat an English army at Roslin. [3]
	Wars between the Kingdom of Mewar and the Delhi Sultanate	Siege of Chittorgarh		28 Jan—26 Aug	The Delhi Sultanate defeats and conquers the Guhilas of Medapata.
	Franco-Flemish War	Battle of Arques		4 April	Flemish forces led by William of Jülich defeat a French army at Arques. [4]
	Mongol invasions of the Levant	Battle of Marj al-Saffar		20-22 April	Mamluk forces defeat the Ilkhanate and their Armenian allies, last Mongol invasion of Syria. [5]
	Liège-Brabant wars	Siege of Maastricht  [ nl ]		May	The Prince-Bishopric of Liège fails to conquer Maastricht from the Duchy of Brabant.
	Byzantine–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Dimbos			Ottoman forces defeat Byzantine governors.
	Introduction of Islam in Bangladesh	Conquest of Sylhet			Muslims led by Shamsuddin Firuz Shah conquer the Hindu Gour Kingdom led by Gour Govinda.
	Franco-Flemish War	Siege of Amsterdam  [ nl ]			William of Avesnes, commanding an army of the County of Holland captures Amsterdam from Jan I van Amstel, lord of Amstelland.
		Siege of Zierikzee		1303—1304	A Flemish army under Guy of Namur fails to capture Zierikzee.
1304	First War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Happrew		Feb	English forces defeat a small Scottish army.
		Second siege of Stirling Castle		April—24 July	King Edward I besieges the Scots successfully. The Warwolf siege engine is constructed and first used during this battle.
	Franco-Flemish War	Siege of Schoonhoven  [ nl ]		July	William of Avesnes, commanding the army of the County of Holland defeats rebel Schoonhoven.
		Battle of Zierikzee		10-11 Aug	A combined fleet from France, Genoa and Holland defeats a Flemish fleet.
		Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle		18 Aug	French forces under King Philip IV defeat the Flemish army at Mons-en-Pévèle. The battle is indecisive, which leads later to the Treaty of Athis-sur-Orge.
		Battle on the Manpad			Witte van Haemstede, commanding an army of the County of Holland defeats a Flemish army under Guy of Namur near Heemstede.
1305	Byzantine–Frankish conflicts	Battle of Apros		July	Byzantine forces under Co-Emperor Michael IX are defeated by the Catalan Company in Thrace.
	Mongol invasions of India	Battle of Amroha		20 Dec	The Delhi Sultanate defeats the invading Mongol forces of the Chagatai Khanate.
1306	First War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Methven		19 June	English forces under Aymer de Valence defeat the newly crowned Robert the Bruce and the Scottish army, during a surprise attack on his camp at Methven.
	Crusades	Hospitaller conquest of Rhodes		23 June 1306—15 Aug 1310	Rhodes is conquered by the Hospitallers.
	Wars of Scottish Independence	Battle of Dalrigh		July	Robert the Bruce is defeated by rival Scottish forces under John of Argyll of the Clan MacDougall at Dalrigh (also called "King's Field").
1307		Battle of Loch Ryan		Feb	Scottish forces under Thomas de Brus and Alexander de Brus are defeated by rival Scots at Loch Ryan.
		Battle of Glen Trool		April	Scottish forces under King Robert the Bruce ambush and defeat the English army at Glen Trool.
		Battle of Loudoun Hill		10 May	Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat the English army at Loudoun Hill.
		Battle of Lucka		31 May	Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen defeats king Albert I of Germany.
1308	Wars of Scottish Independence	Battle of Inverurie		23 May	Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat the rival Scots of the Clan Comyn at Oldmeldrum.
		Battle of the Pass of Brander		August	Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat the rival Scots of the Clan MacDougall at the Pass of Brander.
	Campaigns of Alauddin Khalji of Delhi Sultanate	Siege of Siwana			Delhi forces conquer Siwana fortress in Rajasthan (North India).
		Siege of Devagiri			Alauddin Khalji takes Yadava capital, annexing Yadava territories for the Delhi Sultanate.
1309	Reconquista	Siege of Algeciras		July 1309—Jan 1310	Castile forced to withdraw siege on Granada city.
		Siege of Almería		Aug—Dec	Aragonese forces under King James II besiege the Saracen garrison at Almería. After two months, James is forced to break off the siege.
		First siege of Gibraltar		12 Sep	Castilian forces under King Ferdinand IV besiege and capture the Moorish fortress at Gibraltar.
1310	Campaigns of Alauddin Khalji of Delhi Sultanate	Siege of Warangal		16-19 Feb	Delhi forces sack the capital of the Kakatiya dynasty, leading to their inevitable annexation in the coming years.
1311		Siege of Dwarasamudra		26-27 Feb	Hoysala Empire surrenders and agrees to pay tribute to Delhi Sultanate.
	Byzantine–Frankish conflicts	Battle of Halmyros		15 March	Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne of Athens and goes on to capture Athens and Thebes.
	Lithuanian Crusade	Battle of Wopławki		7 April	The Teutonic Knights under Heinrich von Plötzke defeat the Lithuanian forces near the village of Wopławki.
	Italienzug	Siege of Brescia  [ it ]		19 May—19 Sep	Henry VII, King of the Romans captures rebel Brescia.
1312	Charles I's wars for the centralized power	Battle of Rozgony		15 June	Hungarian forces under King Charles I defeat the rebel army of Palatine Amadeus Aba at Rozgony.
		Battle of Gallipoli			2,000 Turcopoles are annihilated by a combined Byzantine, Kingdom of Serbia, and Genoese force.
	Crusades	Battle of Amorgos			Knights Hospitaller destroy the fleet of Menteshe. [6]
1313	Conflict over Bavarian tutelage	Battle of Gammelsdorf		9 Nov	Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria.
1314	First War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Bannockburn		23-24 June	Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat King Edward II. Robert takes Stirling Castle and secures Scottish independence.
1315	Conflict between Louis IV of Bavaria and Frederick I of Habsburg	Battle of Holíč  [ sk ]		12 July	King John of Bohemia defeats Matthew III Csák.
	First War of Scottish Independence	Siege of Carlisle		22 July—1 Aug	Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce besiege unsuccessfully Carlisle Castle.
	Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines	Battle of Montecatini		29 Aug	Pisa defeats allied forces of Florence and the Kingdom of Naples.
	First War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Moiry Pass		Sep	Scottish-Irish forces under Edward Bruce defeat an Irish garrison at Moyry Pass.
	Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy	Battle of Morgarten		15 Nov	Swiss forces defeat Leopold I, Duke of Austria on the shore of the Ägerisee.
1316	Campaigns of Ferdinand of Majorca	Battle of Picotin		22 Feb	Ferdinand of Majorca defeats Matilda of Hainaut and the Achaean barons loyal to her.
	First War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Skaithmuir		Feb	Scottish forces under James Douglas defeat an English raiding party near Coldstream.
	Campaigns of Ferdinand of Majorca	Battle of Manolada		5 July	Louis of Burgundy defeats the Majorcans, Ferdinand of Majorca is slain.
	First War of Scottish Independence	Second Battle of Athenry		10 Aug	English forces defeat an Irish army under Felim O'Connor, king of Connacht.
	North German Margrave War	Battle of Gransee		Aug	A North German-Danish alliance led by Henry II of Mecklenburg defeat Waldemar the Great.
1317	Byzantine–Ottoman wars	Siege of Bursa		1317—6 April 1326	Ottoman forces led by Sultan Orhan capture the fortified city of Bursa.
1318	First War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Dysert O'Dea		10 May	Irish forces under Ó Deághaidh defeat the English Lordship.
		Battle of Faughart		14 Oct	English forces defeat a Scots–Irish army under Edward Bruce, who is slain.
	War of the Limburg Succession	Siege of Sittard  [ nl ]			John III, Duke of Brabant captures Sittard from Reinoud van Valkenburg.
1319		Battle of the Vega of Granada		25 Jun	Sultan Ismail I of Granada defeats Castile under the regents Peter of Castile, Lord of Cameros and John of Castile, Lord of Valencia de Campos.
		Battle of Chios		23 July	The Knights Hospitaller and the Genoese of the Lordship of Chios score victory over an Aydinid fleet.
		Battle of Wöhrden  [ de ]		7 Sep	The farmers of Dithmarschen defeat an army of knights from Holstein and Mecklenburg under Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg.
1320	Byzantine–Frankish conflicts	Battle of Saint George		9 Sep	Byzantine forces under Andronikos Asen ambush and defeat the army of the Principality of Achaea, securing possession of Arcadia.
		Battle of Rhodes			A Turkish invasion fleet is destroyed by the Knights Hospitaller and the Genoese, in an attempt to capture Rhodes.
		Battle of Marra Biete			Ethiopians defeat Sultanate of Ifat.
1322	Despenser War	Battle of Burton Bridge		7-10 March	English Royal forces defeat a rebel English army.
		Battle of Boroughbridge		16 March	English Royal forces defeat a rebel English army fighting for the Scots.
		Battle of Bliska		Aug—Sep	A coalition of Croatian noblemen defeat Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, Ban of Croatia.
		Battle of Mühldorf		28 Sep	Louis the Bavarian defeats and captures Frederick I of Austria.
1323		Siege of Warangal		13 March—9 Nov	Delhi Sultanate conquers Kakatiya Empire.
	Aragonese conquest of Sardinia	Siege of Villa di Chiesa		28 June 1323—7 Feb 1324	Aragonese capture Sardinian town from Pisa.
1324		Battle of Lucocisterna		29 Feb	Aragon conquers Sardinia from the Republic of Pisa.
1325	Savoy-Viennois wars	Battle of Varey		7 Aug	Vienne under Guigues de la Tour-du-Pin defeat the Savoyards.
	Guelphs and Ghibellines and War of the Bucket	Battle of Zappolino		15 Nov	Communal struggle between Bologna and Modena, Modena emerges victorious.
1326	Invasion of England	Siege of Bristol		18-26 Oct	Queen Isabella of France besieges and captures Bristol after an eight-day siege.
1327	Siege of Béjaïa	Battle of Temzezdekt			Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen defeats Hafsid dynasty.
	Campaigns of Alauddin Khalji of Delhi Sultanate	Sack of Halebidu			Delhi Sultanate sacks capital of the Hoysala Kingdom.
1328	Peasant revolt in Flanders	Battle of Cassel		23 Aug	French under Philip VI defeat a revolting Flemish peasant army, killing their leaders.
	Byzantine–Ottoman wars	Siege of Nicaea		1328—1331	The Byzantine city of Nicaea falls to Ottomans under Orhan.
1329	Lithuanian Crusade	Siege of Medvėgalis		1 Feb	Teutonic Order captures Lithuanian fortress.
	Byzantine–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Pelekanon		10 June	The second ruler of the Ottoman dynasty, Orhan I, defeats the Byzantines under Emperor Andronicus III. This completes the Ottoman conquest of Bithynia.
	Norman wars in Ireland	Battle of Ardnocher		10 Aug	Irish force led by William MacGeoghegan defeats English army under Thomas Butler, who is killed.
1330	Bulgarian–Serbian wars	Battle of Velbazhd		28 July	Serbia defeats Bulgaria and their Wallachian allies. Michael III of Bulgaria killed in battle.
	Hungarian-Wallachian Wars	Battle of Posada		9 Nov	Basarab I of Wallachia defeats Charles I of Hungary.
	Norman wars in Ireland	Battle of Fiodh-an-Átha			Ualgarg O'Rourke is defeated by the English.
1331	Polish-Teutonic War	Battle of Płowce		27 Sep	Kingdom of Poland defeats Teutonic Order.
1332		Battle of Das		3 July	Ethiopians led by their Emperor Amda Seyon defeat combined attack of Adal and Sultanate of Ifat in the Ethiopian mainland.
	Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars	Battle of Rusokastro		18 July	Bulgarians defeat Byzantines.
	Second War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Kinghorn		6 Aug	Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife defeated by smaller army supporting Edward Balliol, pretender to the Scottish throne.
		Battle of Dupplin Moor		11 Aug	English supporting Edward Balliol, Scottish pretender, defeat the Scots.
	Guelphs and Ghibellines	Battle of San Felice  [ it ]		25 Nov	The Holy Roman Empire under Charles of Luxembourg defeats the Signoria of Ferrara, the Signoria of Mantua, the Signoria of Milan and the Signoria of Verona under condottiere Giovi da Camposampiero.
	Wars of Scottish Independence	Battle of Annan		16 Dec	Bruce loyalists drive out the English-backed usurper to the Scottish throne Edward Balliol.
		Battle of Zeila			Ethiopians defeat and vassalize Sultanate of Ifat, sack their capital and imprison their Sultan Ali ibn Sabr ad-Din.
1333	Second War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Halidon Hill		19 July	Edward III of England avenges Bannockburn.
1334	Liège-Brabant wars	Siege of Maastricht  [ nl ]		March	After a short siege, Maastricht surrenders to bishop Adolph de la Marck of Liège.
1335	Second War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Boroughmuir		30 July	Scotland under John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray defeats an army of the County of Namur under Guy II, Marquis of Namur, fighting for England.
1336	Nanboku-chō Wars	Battle of Minatogawa		5 July	Kusunoki Masashige, obeying Emperor Go-Daigo's orders, leads an imperial army into defeat by the Ashikaga. Kusunoki commits suicide.
		Battle of Villanueva de Barcarrota			Castile defeats Portugal
1337	Nanboku-chō Wars	Siege of Kanegasaki		Jan—April	Ashikaga victory.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Cadzand		Nov	English defeat pro-French garrison of Cadsand in Flanders.
1338		Battle of Arnemuiden		23 Sep	French victory over the English fleet.
1339		Battle of Parabiago		21-22 Feb	Rebel Lodrisio Visconti is defeated by the Visconti of Milan's army.
	Hundred Years' War	Siege of Cambrai		Sep—Oct	King Edward III of England withdraws when a large French army was near and fails to capture Cambrai.
1340		Battle of Sluys		24 June	Edward III defeats the Franco-Genoese fleet of Philip VI of France off the coast of Flanders and gains control of the English Channel.
		Battle of Saint-Omer		26 July	Anglo-Flemish force driven back from the town by a French army.
		Siege of Tournai		23 July—25 Sep	King Edward III of England fails to capture Tournai from king Philip VI of France.
	Reconquista	Battle of Río Salado		30 Oct	Alfonso XI of Castile and Afonso IV of Portugal defeat the Marinid under Sultan Abul-Hassan and the Granadine under King Yusuf I.
1341	Breton War of Succession	Battle of Champtoceaux		13-16 Oct	Begins the Breton War of Succession.
1342		Battle of Guadalmesí		8 Apr	Castile and Portugal defeat the Marinid dynasty.
		Battle of Kannanur		March—8 Sep	Madurai Sultanate defeats and executes Veera Ballala III, ending the Hoysala Empire.
	Breton War of Succession	Battle of Brest		18 Aug	English fleet defeats Genoese mercenaries.
		Battle of Morlaix		30 Sep	Besieged by the English, a French relief army broke the siege of Morlaix. When the English retreated into a wood, the French withdrew.
1344	Byzantine civil war	Battle of Stephaniana		May	Turks from the Emirate of Aydin defeat a Serbian army in northern Greece.
1345	Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines	Battle of Gamenario		22 April	Ghibelline Asti and John II, Marquess of Montferrat defeat the Neapolitan Guelph League army.
	Friso-Hollandic Wars	Siege of Utrecht  [ nl ]		8 June—22 July	William II, Count of Hainaut and of Holland captures Utrecht and forces bishop John of Arkel to submission.
	Byzantine civil war	Battle of Peritheorion		7 July	A Byzantine-Turkish army under John VI Kantakouzenos and Umur Bey defeats and kills the renegade lord Momchil in the Rhodope.
	Polish–Bohemian War	Battle of Lelów  [ pl ]		July	Poland and Hungary defeat Bohemia.
		Battle of Pogoń  [ pl ]			Poland defeats Bohemia.
	Friso-Hollandic Wars	Battle of Warns		26 Sep	Frisians defeat Dutch invasion force led by William IV, Count of Holland.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Auberoche		21 Oct	English relief army lift a siege by the French.
	Genoese–Mongol Wars	Second Siege of Kaffa	/	1345—1347	The Golden Horde again lays siege to the Genoese city of Kaffa on the Black Sea, but withdraws due to the Black Death.
		Battle of Lough Neagh			Naval battle between Hugh O'Neill and the Clann Hugh Buidhe.
1346	Breton War of Succession and Hundred Years' War	Battle of St Pol de Léon		9 June	English defeat the French.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Caen		26 July	English force capture and sack the town.
		Battle of Blanchetaque		24 Aug	English under Edward III cross the Somme.
		Battle of Crécy		26 Aug	English longbowmen defeat French cavalry at Abbeville.
		Siege of Calais		4 Sep 1346—3 Aug 1347	English forces capture the city.
	Hundred Years' War and Second War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Neville's Cross		17 Oct	English defeat the Scots under King David Bruce.
		Battle of Calry Lough Gill			O'Rourke soundly defeated by the O'Connors.
1347	Cola di Rienzo conflict	Battle of Porta San Lorenzo  [ it ]		Nov	The people of Rome defeat the baronial troops of Stefano Colonna.
	War of the Breton Succession	Battle of La Roche-Derrien			English relief army lift a French siege.
1348	Lithuanian Crusade	Battle of Strėva		2 Feb	Teutonic Order defeats the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
		Battle of Épila		21 Jul	King Peter IV of Aragon defeats the anti-royalist Union of Aragon.
		Battle of Mislata		9 Dec	King Peter IV of Aragon defeats the anti-royalist Union of Valencia.
1349	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Lunalonge		May or June	Anglo-Gascons hold the upper hand during the day over the French but the Anglo-Gascons have to withdraw during the night.
		Battle of Llucmajor		25 Oct	James IV of Majorca defeated and killed by troops of Aragon.
	Rise of the Kano Sultanate	Battle of Santolo			Newly Islamic Sultanate of Kano defeats animist Hausa Kingdom of Santolo.
1350	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Calais		1 Jan	English force defeated a French army which was attempting to take the city.
	Hook and Cod wars	Battle of Naarden  [ nl ]		15 or 16 May	The army of Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut and of Holland defeats the army of her son, William I, Duke of Bavaria.
	Hundred Years' War	Les Espagnols sur Mer		29 Aug	English fleet defeats Castilian fleet.

Late 14th century (1351–1400)

Year	War	Battle	Loc.	Date(s)	Description
1351	Breton War of Succession	Combat of the Thirty		26 March	Thirty French knights from Chateau Josselin under Jean de Beaumanoir call out and defeat thirty English knights under Robert Bemborough.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Medemblik  [ nl ]		March—April	William I, Duke of Bavaria captures Medemblik.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Saintes		1 April	English relief army lifted a French siege.
		Battle of Ardres		6 June	French defeated the English.
	Hook and Cod wars	Battle of Veere		10 June	The fleet of Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut defeats the fleet of her son William I, Duke of Bavaria, after which Margaret captures Zeeland.
		Battle of Zwartewaal		3-5 July	The Cod fleet of William I defeats the Hook fleet of his mother Margaret II.
		Siege of Geertruidenberg		Oct 1351—18 Aug 1352	William I, Duke of Bavaria captures Geertruidenberg.
1352	Breton War of Succession	Battle of Mauron		14 Aug	Anglo-Bretons defeated the French.
1354	Byzantine–Ottoman wars	Fall of Gallipoli		March	Ottoman Turks under Sultan Orhan capture Gallipoli, giving them a bridgehead into Europe.
	War of the Straits	Battle of Sapienza		4 Nov	Genoans destroy Venetian fleet.
1356	Hook and Cod wars	Battle of Soest  [ nl ]		14 March	The army of Bavaria-Straubing and the County of Holland defeats the army of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht.
		Battle of Scheut  [ nl ]		17 Aug	The Flemish army defending the claim of Louis II, Count of Flanders as duke of Brabant defeats an army of Brabant, supporting Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg as the new duke.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Poitiers		25 Oct	Edward the Black Prince captures King John II of France, France plunges into chaos.
		Baile Loch Deacair			In southern Connacht.
1357	Majapahit–Sundanese conflicts	Battle of Bubat			Majapahit Prime Minister Gajah Mada has the Sunda royal family killed.
1358	Jacquerie	Battle of Mello		10 June	Army of French nobles crushes the peasant Jacquerie.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Heusden  [ nl ]		1 Sep 1358—20 Feb 1359	The army of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, count of Holland captures rebel Cod Heusden.
		Siege of Heemskerk  [ nl ]		4 Dec 1358—24 March 1359	The army of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, count of Holland captures rebel Cod Heemskerk.
1359		Siege of Delft  [ nl ]		11 March—29 May	Albert I of Bavaria and Holland captures rebel Cod controlled Delft.
	War of the Two Pedros	Battle of Barcelona		9-11 Jun	A fleet of Aragon defeats a fleet of Castile, Portugal and Granada.
		Battle of Achelous		Late Spring	Albanians under John Spata defeat Despotate of Epirus and form several Despotates in parts of their land.
		Battle of Campo delle Mosche		23 July	Florentines defeat Great Company.
	War of the Two Pedros	Battle of Araviana		22 Sep	Henry of Trastámara and Aragon defeat supporters of king Peter of Castile.
1361	Danish–Hanseatic War	Battle of Visby		27 July	Poorly armed farmers from the island of Gotland are defeated by a Danish army. The battle became notable after an excavation revealed numerous mass graves containing the dead from the battle, many still wearing their armour.
1362	Reconquista	Battle of Guadix		Jan	Granada defeats Castile.
	Lithuanian Crusade	Siege of Kaunas		13 March—17 April	Teutonic Order defeats Grand Duchy of Lithuania, captures and razes the Kaunas Castle.
		Battle of Brignais		6 April	Mercenary Free Companies defeat a French army.
	Great Troubles	Battle of Blue Waters		Autumn 1362 or 1363	The Pagan Lithuanians defeat Islamic Tatar Forces.
	Danish–Hanseatic War	Battle of Helsingborg		8 July	Danish fleet beat Hanseatic fleet.
1363	Red Turban Rebellion	Battle of Lake Poyang		30 Aug—4 Oct	Ming dynasty decisively defeats Yuan dynasty and kills their commander Chen Youliang.
1364	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Cocherel		16 May	French defeat Gascon-Navarrese-English.
		Battle of Cascina		28 July	Battle between the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence.
	War of the Breton Succession	Battle of Auray		29 Sep	End of Breton War of Succession, English defeat Franco-Bretons.
	Serbian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Sırpsındığı			Ottomans decisively defeat Serbs joined by crusader coalition of Bulgaria, Hungary and Wallachia. The Ottomans annexed Adrianople which became their second capital due to this battle and gained a foothold into the Balkans.
1365	Crusades	Sack of Alexandria		9-12 Oct	Peter I of Cyprus leads Cypriots to take and sack Alexandria for three days.
	Byzantine–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Adrianople			Capture by Ottoman Turks.
1367	Castilian Civil War	Battle of Nájera		3 April	English under the Black Prince and Don Pedro of Castile defeat the Franco-Castilians.
		Battle of Dinklar  [ de ]		3 Sep	Gerhard vom Berge, Bishop of Hildesheim, defeats Magnus I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Dietrich von Portitz, Archbishop of Magdeburg and Albert von Rickmersdorf, Bishop of Halberstadt.
		First Albanian Siege of Ioannina		1367—1370	Albanian and Aromanian troops attack Ioannina for three years, ending in a ceasefire.
1369	Castilian Civil War	Battle of Montiel		14 March	Franco-Castilians under King Henry II of Castile defeated Portuguese-Marinids-Grenadines-Jews under his half-brother Don Pedro of Castile, who is captured and executed.
	Reconquista	Siege of Algeciras		July	Granada retakes city from Castile.
		Battle of Poni			Majapahit Empire and Bruneian Empire defeat Sulu Sultanate.
1370	Northern Crusades	Battle of Rudau		Feb	Teutonic Knights defeat Lithuanians.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Pontvallain		4 Dec	French victory against English.
	Timurid conquests and invasions	Siege of Balkh			Timur defeats and has killed his brother-in-law Amir Husayn and gains control of the western Chagatai.
1371		Battle of Baesweiler		22 Aug	Edward, Duke of Guelders and William II, Duke of Jülich defeat Wenceslaus, Duke of Brabant.
	Serbian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Maritsa		26 Sep	Serbs under their ruler King Vukašin of Serbia who is killed in battle along with his brother, were defeated by an Ottoman force. Southern Serbia soon annexed by Ottomans.
1372	Hundred Years' War	Battle of La Rochelle		22-23 June	Castilian fleet defeats the English fleet. English sea dominance destroyed.
1373		Battle of Chiset		21 March	French defeat an English relief army trying to lift the siege of Chiset.
		Battle of Leveste  [ de ]		25 July	Otto I, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg defeats Magnus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Magnus dies in the battle.
	First War of the Guelderian Succession	Siege of Venlo			John II, Count of Blois besieges Venlo against his contender William II, Duke of Jülich.
1375	War of the Eight Saints	Cesena Bloodbath		1375—July 1378	2,500/5,000 inhabitants of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal troops led by John Hawkwood.
	Byzantine-Latin Wars	Battle of Gardiki			Achaean victory defeats Morean siege
	Great Troubles	Battle on Pyana River		2 Aug	The Russian troops are defeated, while their commander drowns in the river.
1378		Knights Hospitaller Invasion of Arta		April	Knights Hospitaller attempt to capture the Despotate of Arta but fail.
	Great Troubles	Battle of the Vozha River		11 Aug	Moscow defeats the Golden Horde.
1380		Battle of Kulikovo		8 Sep	Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow halts the Mongols.
		Battle of Dubravnica		Summer 1380 or Dec 1381	Moravian Serbia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
	Frisian War	Battle of Loppersum  [ fy ]		End 1380 or early 1381	Chieftain Ocko I tom Brok of Norderland and Emsigerland defeats chieftains Kampo Abdena of Hinte and Folkmar Allena of Osterhusen.
		Battle of Jinpo			A navy built by Goryeo defeats Japanese Wokou pirates. First historical battle involving gunpowder ships.
1381	Peasants' Revolt	Battle of North Walsham		25 or 26 June	Forces led by Henry le Despenser defeat the rebels of Norfolk at the end of the English Peasants' Revolt.
		Battle of Dubravnica		Summer 1380 or Dec 1381	Serbs defeat Ottomans under Murad I.
	Great Troubles	Second Battle of the Kalka River			Tokhtamysh defeats Mamai and gains control of the Blue Horde.
1382	Revolt of Ghent	Battle of Beverhoutsveld		3 May	Ghent rebels under Philip van Artevelde defeat the army of Louis II, Count of Flanders.
	Post-Great Troubles	Siege of Moscow		23-27 Aug	Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde takes back control of Moscow from the Principality of Moscow.
	Revolt of Ghent and Hundred Years' War	Battle of Roosebeke		27 Nov	French army under King Charles VI of France crush a large Flemish army of urban levies.
1383	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Dunkirk		May	Ghent rebels under Frans Ackerman and an English army under Henry le Despenser defeat the armies of Louis II, Count of Flanders and king Charles VI of France.
		Siege of Ypres		8 June—8 Aug	An English army under Henry le Despenser and Ghent rebels fail to take Ypres from Louis II, Count of Flanders.
		Trian Chongail			Hugh O Neill and Robin Savage kill each other in a cavalry charge.
1384	1383-1385 Crisis	Battle of Atoleiros		6 April	Nuno Álvares Pereira (Portuguese general) defeats Castile.
		Siege of Lisbon		29 May—3 Sep	Portugal successfully defends its capital from the Castilians.
		Battle of Tejo		July	The Portuguese win a naval battle in the Tagus river.
		Battle of Leça			The Castilian blockade to Porto is stopped.
1385		Battle of Trancoso		29 May	An army sent by John I of Castile is defeated by the Portuguese.
		Battle of Aljubarrota		14 Aug	Portugal maintains independence from Castile, John I establishes Avis dynasty.
	Thopia expansionist Wars	Battle of Savra		18 Sep	Zeta (Montenegro) forces under Balša II were defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha near Berat.
	1383-1385 Crisis	Battle of Valverde		14 Oct	The Portuguese defeat a Castilian army.
	Norman wars in Ireland	Battle of Tochar Cruachain-Bri-Ele			O Conchobhair, King of Uí Falighe, soundly defeats the English of Meath.
1386		Battle of the Vikhra River		29 April	Grand Duchy of Lithuania decisively defeats the Principality of Smolensk and make the principality agree to be their vassal.
	Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy	Battle of Sempach		9 July	Swiss defeat Leopold III of Austria.
	Timurid invasions of Georgia	Siege of Tbilisi			Timur decisively defeats the Kingdom of Georgia.
	Serbian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Pločnik			Serbian victory and first serious defeat for the Ottoman army in the Balkans.
1387		Battle of Castagnaro		11 March	Giovanni Ordelaffi and Ostasio da Polenta, for Verona, defeated by John Hawkwood and Francesco Novello Carraresi, for Padua.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Margate		24-25 March	An English fleet under Richard, Earl of Arundel defeats a Franco-Castilian-Flemish wine fleet under Sir Jean de Bucq in the area of the southern North Sea between Margate and Cadzand.
		Battle of Radcot Bridge		19 Dec	Rebellious Lords Appellant defeat a Royal army and briefly gain control of the government.
	Timurid Wars	Siege of Isfahan			Timur annexes Isfahan and nearby territories from the Muzaffarids.
1388	Wars of the Hongwu Emperor	Battle of Buir Lake	/	March	Ming Chinese army under general Lan Yu decisively defeated Mongol Northern Yuan dynasty, more than 100,000 Mongols killed or captured.
	Anglo-Scottish Wars	Battle of Otterburn		19 Aug	English under a young Henry "Hotspur" Percy defeated by Scots under James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas.
		Battle of Döffingen  [ de ]		23 Aug	The league of princes and the league of knights under Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg defeat the Swabian League of Cities under 'Städtehauptmann' or military commander Konrad Besserer of Ulm.
	Bosnian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Bileća		27 Aug	Bosnians and Serbians defeat the Ottomans.
1389	Serbian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Kosovo Polje		15 June	A Turkish army gathered by Murad I and a Serbian army under Knez Lazar beat each other into the ground. The battle was a draw, yet in the wake of it the Serbs were left with too few men to effectively defend their lands, while the Turks had many more troops in the east. Both Lazar and Murad lost their lives in the battle.
1391	Tokhtamysh–Timur war	Battle of the Kondurcha River		18 June	Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde.
	First Florentine–Milanese War	Battle of Alessandria		25 July	Mercenary army of Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan beat that of Jean III of Armagnac.
1393		Second Siege of Altena Castle		July	Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and count of Holland captures rebel Altena Castle.
1394	Norman wars in Ireland	Battle of Ros-mic-Triuin			King of Leinster attacks and defeats the English.
1395	Tokhtamysh–Timur war	Battle of the Terek River		14 April	Timur decisively defeats Tokhtamysh.
		Battle of Portomaggiore		16 April	Astorre I Manfredi for the Republic of Venice and Niccolò III d'Este beat Ferrarese rebel Azzo X d'Este.
	Ottoman-Wallachian wars	Battle of Rovine		17 May	Mircea cel Batrin the voievod of Wallachia defeated Bayezid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1396	Friso-Hollandic Wars	Battle of Schoterzijl  [ nl ]		29 Aug	Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and count of Holland defeats the Frisians.
	Clan Cameron-Clan Mackintosh feud	Battle of the North Inch		Late Sep	Scottish clan battle.
	Crusades	Battle of Nicopolis		25 Sep	A major French–Hungarian crusade is defeated by the Ottomans under Bayezid I.
1397		Battle of Kleverhamm  [ de ]		7 June	Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and Dietrich IX, Count of Mark defeat duke William II of Berg and duke William I of Guelders and Jülich.
1398	Timurid conquests and invasions	Sack of Delhi		17-20 Dec	Timur defeats the Sultanate of Delhi and sacks their capital, weakening Delhi for a century.
1399	Golden Horde conflicts	Battle of the Vorskla River		12 Aug	Vytautas the Great of Lithuania is defeated by generals of Tamerlane.
	Norman wars in Ireland	Battle of Tragh-Bhaile			The Anglo-Irish defeat the sons of Henry O Neill.

Early 15th century (1401–50)

Year	War	Battle	Loc.	Date(s)	Description
1400		Battle of Bergtheim  [ de ]		11 Jan	Gerhard von Schwarzburg, bishop of Würzburg, defeats rebel farmers and citizens of the cities.
	Timurid conquests and invasions	Battle of Aleppo		Oct—Nov	Timur decisively defeats the Mamluk Sultanate, destroying their forces attempting to defend Syria.
		Siege of Damascus		Dec 1400—March 1401	Timur defeats Mamluk Sultanate and annexes Damascus.
1401	Glyndŵr rebellion	Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen		Mid-June	Welsh rebels under Owain Glyndŵr defeat an army of English and Flemish soldiers near Aberystwyth.
		Battle of Tuthill		2 Nov	Inconclusive battle between English and Welsh near Caernarfon.
1402	Third Florentine–Milanese War	Battle of Casalecchio		26 Jan	Alberico da Barbiano for Milan defeats Bolognese–Florentine army under Muzio Attendolo.
	Glyndŵr rebellion	Battle of Bryn Glas		22 June	English army routed in mid-Wales; Owain Glyndŵr's revolt spreads.
	Anglo-Scottish Wars	Battle of Nesbit Moor			Clash between English and Scottish prior to the decisive Battle of Homildon Hill.
	Timurid conquests and invasions	Battle of Ankara		28 July	Timur defeats and captures Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I in Anatolia. Also called the Battle of Angora.
	Arkel War	Siege of Gorinchem  [ nl ]		29 June—18 Sep	Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and of Holland defeats John V, Lord of Arkel.
	Anglo-Scottish Wars	Battle of Homildon Hill		14 Sep	A strong Scottish raiding force is heavily defeated by English longbowmen.
	Timurid conquests and invasions	Siege of Smyrna		Dec	Timur defeats the Knights of Rhodes and razes Smyrna.
1403	Glyndŵr Rising	Battle of Shrewsbury		21 July	Henry IV defeats rebel army led by Henry "Hotspur" Percy, who is slain in the fighting.
	Timurid conquests and invasions	Siege of Birtvisi			Timur besieges fortress of the Georgian Kingdom.
		Battle of Ziela			Ethiopia under Dawit I defeats and kills Sultan Sa'ad ad-Din II, bringing a final conquest to the Ifat Sultanate.
1405	Glyndŵr Rising	Battle of Pwll Melyn		May	Owain Glyndŵr's rebels defeated near Usk.
1406	Norman wars in Ireland	Cluain Immorrais			The King of Uí Falighe defeats the Galls of Meath.
	Reconquista	Battle of Collejares			King Henry III of Castile defeats sultan Muhammad VII of Granada.
	Scottish clan wars	Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach			Scottish clan battle fought between the Clan MacLeod of Lewis against the Clan MacKay.
1407	Ming–Hồ War	Battle of Lạng Sơn		19 Jan	Ming Chinese forces defeated Đại Ngu forces.
		Siege of Maastricht  [ nl ]		24 Nov 1407—23 Sep 1408	Rebels from Liège fail to take Maastricht from supporters of bishop John of Bavaria of Liège.
	Ming–Hồ War	Battle of Sông Phú Lương			Chinese Ming dynasty decisively defeated the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty, led to the Ming conquest of Đại Ngu.
	Ming treasure voyages	Battle of Palembang			Ming dynasty defeats pirates in Sumatra and captures their leader Chen Zuyi.
1408	Percy Rebellion	Battle of Bramham Moor		19 Feb	The Percy Rebellion is finally crushed by King Henry IV of England.
	Wars of Liège	Battle of Othée		23 Sep	John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy defeats rebels from the city of Liège, which greatly enriches him and puts him in a strong position for the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
1409	Aragonese conquest of Sardinia	Battle of Sanluri		30 June	Aragon defeats the giudicato di Arborea, last independent kingdom of Sardinia.
	Wars of the Yongle Emperor	Battle of Kherlen		23 Sep	The Mongols under Öljei Temür Khan defeat Ming China.
1410	Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War	Battle of Grunwald		15 July	Polish and Lithuanian army under Władysław II Jagiełło break the spine of the Teutonic Knights under Ulrich von Jungingen. Also called the Battle of Tannenberg.
		Battle of Koronowo		10 Oct	Polish-Lithuania army defeat Teutonic Knights.
1411		Battle of Roccasecca		19 May	Louis II of Anjou defeats Ladislaus of Naples for the control of the Kingdom of Naples.
	Clan Donald and Stewart royal family wars	Battle of Harlaw		24 July	Highlanders versus Lowland Scots ends in draw.
	Byzantine–Ottoman wars and Ottoman Interregnum	Siege of Constantinople			Short and unsuccessful siege of Constantinople by Musa Çelebi.
1412	Count of Urgell's revolt	Battle of Morvedre			Ferdinand of Antequera defeats James II, Count of Urgell in a civil war in Aragon.
	Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War	Battle of Saint-Rémy-du-Val  [ fr ]		9 May	The Burgundians under Waleran III, Count of Ligny and Philippe d'Harcourt defeat the Armagnacs under John I, Duke of Alençon and Raoul de Gaucourt.
		Siege of Bourges  [ fr ]		11 June—12 July	After a month of siege, king Charles VI of France decides for a truce with the Armagnacs.
		Siege of Dreux  [ fr ]		10-15 July	Burgundians capture Dreux from the Armagnacs in a French civil war.
	Campaigns of Qara Yusuf	Battle of Chalagan		Dec	Kara Koyunlu Turkomans defeat the Georgian army under Constantine I of Georgia and Shirvanshah Ibrahim, their ally.
1413	Ottoman Interregnum	Battle of Çamurlu		5 July	Mehmed I defeats and executes Musa Çelebi, reuniting the Ottoman Empire.
1415	Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts	Conquest of Ceuta		21 Aug	Ceuta is captured by the Portuguese.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Agincourt		25 Oct	An outnumbered English force under Henry V defeats the French through the use of massed longbowmen behind sharpened stakes.
1416	Hook and Cod wars	First Siege of IJsselstein  [ nl ]		5-30 May	William II, Duke of Bavaria and count of Holland captures IJsselstein after a truce, which ends the rebellion of John II, Lord of Egmond.
	Ottoman–Venetian Wars	Battle of Gallipoli		29 May	A Venetian fleet under Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet.
1417	Hook and Cod wars	Second Siege of IJsselstein  [ nl ]		10-24 June	A Cod army besieged a Hook army in IJsselstein. A truce brokered by John III, Duke of Bavaria makes an end to the siege.
	Great Frisian War	Battle of Okswerderzijl		18 June	The Allies (Vetkopers and Bronckhorsts) under Keno II tom Brok, Focko Ukena and Sibet Papinga defeat the Schieringers under Sicko Sjaerda and Coppen Jarges.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Gorinchem  [ nl ]		23 or 24 Nov—1 Dec	A Hook army defeats a Cod army in the city of Gorinchem.
1418		Siege of Dordrecht  [ nl ]		28 June—10 Aug	An army under Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut and John IV, Duke of Brabant fails to capture Dordrecht from supporters of John III, Duke of Bavaria.
	Hundred Years' War	Siege of Rouen		29 July 1418—19 Jan 1419	Henry V of England gains a foothold in Normandy.
	Great Frisian War	Battle of Dokkum  [ nl ]			Allies under Focko Ukena defeat the Schieringers under Sicko Sjaerda.
1419	Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts	Siege of Ceuta		13-17 Aug	The Moors attempt to retake Ceuta but are easily repelled by the Portuguese.
	Hussite Wars	Battle of Vysehrad		16 Aug 1419—Nov 1420	Series of engagements between the Hussite forces and the Holy Roman Emperor's crusaders.
	Great Frisian War	Battle of Miedum  [ nl ]		19 or 20 Aug	Schieringers under Sicko Sjaerda defeat the allies.
	Hussite Wars	Battle of Živohoště		4 Nov	The Hussites defeat Bohemian Catholics commanded by Petr of Sternberg and Jan Ptáček of Pirkštejn
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of la Rochelle		30 Dec	A Castilian fleet defeats an English-Hanseatic coalition fleet.
	Lam Sơn uprising	Siege of Dong Quan		1419—1428	Ming city besieged every year of Lam Son uprising, eventually fell to Le Loi.
1420	Hussite Wars	Battle of Sudomer		25 March	Hussites led by Jan Žižka defeat Catholics.
	Great Frisian War	Battle on the Palesloot  [ nl ]		12 May	The Allies under Focko Ukena defeat the Schieringers.
	Hussite Wars	Battle of Vitkov Hill		12 June—14 July	Hussite victory over the Crusaders of the Holy Roman Emperor.
	Hundred Years' War	Siege of Montereau-Fault-Yonnefr  [ fr ]		16 June—1 July	An army under king Henry V of England and duke Philip the Good of Burgundy captures Montereau-Fault-Yonne from the French.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Leiden  [ nl ]		18 June—17 Aug	An army under John III, Duke of Bavaria captures Leiden from supporters of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut.
	Great Frisian War	Battle of Sloten  [ nl ]		11 July	An army of Schieringers under Sicko Sjaerda and Cods under Hendrik van Renesse defeats the allies (Vetkopers and Bronckhorsts) under Focko Ukena.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Geertruidenberg  [ nl ]		End Aug—11 Nov	Supporters of John III, Duke of Bavaria defeat supporters of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut.
1421	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Baugé		22 March	The French and Scottish forces of Charles VII of France commanded by the Earl of Buchan defeat an English army after a reckless cavalry charge by Henry V's younger brother, the Duke of Clarence, who is slain in the fighting.
	Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War	Battle of Mons-en-Vimeu  [ fr ]		30 Aug	The Burgundians under duke Philip the Good defeat the Armagnacs under Jaqcues d'Harcourt, Jean Poton de Xaintrailles and La Hire.
	Hundred Years' War	Siege of Meaux		6 Oct 1421—10 May 1422	English led by Henry V fight the French.
	Hussite Wars	Battle of Kutna Hora		21 Dec	Hussites escape Royalist forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund.
1422		Battle of Nebovidy		6 Jan	Jan Žižka leads the Hussites to victory over an Imperial army.
		Battle of Německý Brod		10 Jan	Hussites sack town.
	Byzantine–Ottoman wars	Siege of Constantinople		10 June—Sep	Large-scale but unsuccessful siege of Constantinople by the Ottomans.
	Transalpine campaigns	Battle of Arbedo		30 June	Milanese led by Francesco Bussone fight the Swiss.
	Byzantine–Ottoman wars and Ottoman–Venetian wars	Siege of Thessalonica		June 1422—29 March 1430	The city of Thessalonica, ruled by the Republic of Venice, is captured by the Ottoman Empire after a nearly 8 year siege.
	Bavarian War	Battle of Alling  [ de ]		19 Sep	Ernest, Duke of Bavaria-Munich and William III, Duke of Bavaria-Munich defeat Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
1423	Hussite Wars	Battle of Hořic		27 April	Taborites defeat Utraquists, ending the Hussite Civil War.
		Battle of L'Aquila		7 May 1423—5 June 1424	Jacopo Caldora and Micheletto Attendolo for the Kingdom of Naples defeat Braccio da Montone for Alfonso V of Aragon.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Cravant		31 July	English victory.
		Battle of La Brossinière		26 Sep	French victory over English.
1424	Wars in Lombardy	Battle of Zagonara		28 July	The Florentines defeated by Filippo Maria Visconti's Milanese army under Count of Carmagnola.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Verneuil		17 Aug	The English under the Duke of Bedford defeat a major Franco-Scottish army, clearing the way for further English conquests in Northern France.
1425	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Schoonhoven  [ nl ]		10 March—8 Oct	A Hook army under Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut managed to capture and hold Schoonhoven, from Cod armies, fighting for duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.
		Battle of Alphen aan den Rijn  [ nl ]		21 Oct	A Hook army under Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut defeats a Cod army under Jacob van Gaasbeek.
1426		Battle of Brouwershaven		13 Jan	Burgundian troops defeat combined Zeelander and English forces.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of St. James		6 March	An English force defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Haarlem  [ nl ]		4 April—8 May	The army of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut fails to take Haarlem from duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.
		Battle of Alphen aan den Rijn  [ nl ]		30 April	The army of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut defeats a Burgundian army.
	Hussite Wars	Battle of Usti nad Labem		16 June	Hussites defeat Imperial forces in the modern-day Czech Republic.
	Mamluk campaigns against Cyprus	Battle of Khirokitia		7 July	Mamelukes defeat intoxicated Cypriots.
	Hook and Cod wars	Battle of Hoorn  [ nl ]		22 Aug	An army under duke Philip the Good of Burgundy defeats a Hook army.
	Pre-East Frisian Liberation Wars	Battle of Detern		27 Sep	East Frisian rebels under chieftain Focko Ukena of Moormerland and Lengenerland and Chieftain Sibet Lubben of Rüstringen and Östringen defeat Chieftain Ocko II tom Brok of Brokmerland.
	Lam Sơn uprising	Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động		5-7 Nov	Le Loi decisively defeats Ming dynasty.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Zevenbergen  [ nl ]		Nov 1426—11 April 1427	The army of duke Philip the Good of Burgundy captures Zevenbergen.
1427	Dano-Hanseatic War	Battle of Øresund  [ da ]	/	11-15 July	The navy of the Kalmar Union and Pomerania-Wolgast-Barth defeats the Hanseatic League.
	Hundred Years' War	Siege of Montargis		15 July—5 Sep	French under Jean de Dunois defeat English.
	Hussite Wars	Battle of Tachov		3-4 Aug	Hussites defeat coalition forces.
	Lam Sơn uprising	Battle of Chi Lăng		18 Sep	Vietnam decisively defeats Ming Chinese. China agrees to Vietnam's independence soon after.
	Hook and Cod wars	Battle of Wieringen  [ nl ]		Sep	A Burgundian fleet defeats a Hook fleet.
	Wars in Lombardy	Battle of Maclodio		4 Oct
	East Frisian Liberation Wars	Battle of the Wild Fields  [ de ]		28 Oct	Chieftain Focko Ukena of Moormerland and Lengenerland defeats chieftain Ocko II tom Brok of Brokmerland and Auricherland.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Amersfoort  [ nl ]		1-8 Nov	Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy fails to take Amersfoort from the local citizens, fighting for bishop Rudolf van Diepholt of Utrecht.
	Byzantine-Latin Wars	Battle of the Echinades			Byzantines defeat Carlo I Tocco and recapture the Latin possessions in the Peloponnese.
	Vijayanagara–Gajapati wars	Battle of Kondavidu			Vijayanagara under Deva Raya II fights Eastern Gangas.
1428	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Gouda		May—July	Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut capitulates to duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.
	Hundred Years' War	Siege of Orléans		12 Oct 1428—8 May 1429	English forces commanded by the Earl of Suffolk besiege French city and are driven off by Joan of Arc.
1429		Battle of Jargeau		11-12 June	Joan of Arc captures a bridge held by English over the Loire River. Her helmet saves her from a projectile.
		Battle of Meung-sur-Loire			The forces of Joan of Arc capture a second Loire River bridge.
		Battle of Beaugency		16-17 June	Joan of Arc's forces capture a third Loire River bridge.
		Battle of Patay		18 June	Major French field victory over the English, recognized as the war's turning point.
1430		Siege of Compiègne		23 May—early Nov	French victory but Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundians.
1431	Wars in Lombardy	Battle of Soncino		17 May	Count of Carmagnola, for Venice, is defeated by the Visconti.
		Battle of Pavia		22 May	The Venetian fleet is destroyed by the Milanese.
	Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War and Hundred Years' War	Battle of Bulgnéville		2 July	Antoine, Count of Vaudémont, Burgundy and England defeat René of Anjou and the Armagnac party of France.
	Hussite Wars	Battle of Domažlice		14 Aug	Hussite army led by Prokop the Bald slaughters Crusaders.
	Scottish clan wars	Battle of Inverlochy		Sep	Royal English forces routed by Scottish Highlanders.
		Siege of Angkor			Thai Ayutthaya Kingdom ends Khmer Empire and sacks their capital.
1432	Wars in Lombardy	Battle of San Romano		1 June	Florence fought Siena.
		Battle of Delebio		18-19 Nov	Duchy of Milan and Valtellina fight the Republic of Venice.
1434	Hussite Wars	Battle of Lipany		30 May	Catholic Crusaders destroy Taborite army.
1435	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Gerbevoy		9 May	French troops, under the command of La Hire, defeat English.
	Aragonese conquest of Naples	Battle of Ponza		5 Aug	A Genoese fleet sent by Filippo Maria Visconti defeats the Aragonese of Alfonso V of Naples.
	Lithuanian Civil War	Battle of Wiłkomierz		1 Sep	The forces of Grand Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis of Lithuania with the help of Polish troops defeated Švitrigaila and his Livonian allies.
	Anglo-Scottish Border Wars	Battle of Piperdean		10 Sep	Scottish victory over the English on the Scottish Borders.
1437	Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Tangier		13 Sep - 19 Oct	Vizier Abu Zakariya Yahya al-Wattasi of Morocco defeats Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal.
	First Russo-Kazan war	Battle of Belyov		8 Dec	Tatars defeat Moscow.
1439	Post-Hussite Wars	Battle of Grotniki		4 or 6 May	Polish army defeats Hussite Protestants.
	Eric of Pomerania's War against Sweden	Siege of Älvsborg		Summer	Norwegian army is forced to retreat after a 10 week long siege by a Swedish relief force
1440	Wars in Lombardy	Battle of Anghiari		29 June	Niccolò Piccinino, overlord of Bologna, defeats Milanese Filippo Maria Visconti and is then opposed by Cosimo de Medici.
	Serbian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Novo Brdo		Oct 1440—27 June 1441	Ottoman forces captured Novo Brdo, an important fortified mining town of Serbia.
1443	Old Zürich War	Battle of Freienbach		22 May	Switzerland under Ital Reding the Elder, Landammann of Schwyz defeats a German Habsburg Imperial army, Zürich and Rapperswil under Habsburg commander Albrecht von Landenberg.
		Battle of Hirzel		24 May	Switzerland defeats Zürich and a German Habsburg Imperial army.
		Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl		22 July	Switzerland defeats Zürich and a German Habsburg Imperial army under Rudolf Stüssi, mayor of Zürich.
	Crusade of Varna	Battle of Niš		Early Nov	John Hunyadi defeated three Ottoman armies before retreating.
		Battle of Zlatica		12 Dec	Crusader advance stopped by the Ottoman army.
1444		Battle of Kunovica		2 or 5 Jan	Hungary, Poland, and Serbia defeated Ottoman forces.
	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Torvioll		29 June	Albanians under Skanderbeg defeat Ottomans.
		Siege of Rhodes		10 Aug—18 Sep	Knights Hospitaller defeats Mamluk Sultanate.
	Old Zürich War	Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs		26 Aug	French defeat Swiss.
	War of the Guelderian Succession	Battle of Linnich  [ de ]		3 Nov	The army of Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg defeats the army of Arnold, Duke of Guelders.
	Crusade of Varna	Battle of Varna		10 Nov	Ottoman Sultan Murad II defeats Hungarians, Poles, and Wallachians, King Władysław III of Poland killed.
1445	Castilian Civil War of 1437–1445	First Battle of Olmedo		19 May	King John II of Castile defeats Aragon, king John II of Navarre and Castilian rebels.
	Old Zürich War	Battle of Wolfhalden		11 June	The Swiss of Appenzell defeat king Frederick III of Germany.
	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Mokra		10 Oct	Albanians under Skanderbeg defeat Ottomans.
	Old Zürich War	Battle of Männedorf		29 Oct	The navy of Zürich under William, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg defeats the Swiss of Schwyz.
		Battle of Gomit		25 Dec	Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay of Adal.
1446	Old Zürich War	Battle of Ragaz		6 March	Switzerland under Landammann Jost Tschüdi the Elder of Glarus and Landammann Ital Reding the Younger of Schwyz defeat a German Imperial army under commander knight Hans von Rechberg.
	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Otonetë		22 Sep	Skanderbeg defeats Ottomans.
1447	Timurid Civil Wars	Battle of Damghan			Abdal-Latif Mirza captures Damghan.
1448	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Svetigrad		14 May—31 July	Ottomans under Murad II capture Albanian fortress.
	Wars in Lombardy and Milanese War of Succession	Battle of Caravaggio		15 Sep	Ambrosian Republic (Milan's short-lived republic) fights the Republic of Venice.
	Hungarian–Ottoman Wars and Ottoman–Wallachian wars	Battle of Kosovo		17-20 Oct	Roman Catholic coalition defeated by Ottoman Turkish forces.
	Anglo-Scottish Wars	Battle of Sark		23 Oct	Also known as Battle of Lochmabenstone – Anglo-Scottish conflicts.
	Reconquista	Battle of Hellín		Dec	Sultan Muhammad IX of Granada defeats Castile under Alfonso Téllez-Girón, 1st Count of Ureña.
1449		Battle of Alfarrobeira		20 May	Afonso V of Portugal defeats rebels of Pedro, Duke of Coimbra.
		Battle of Tumu Fortress		1 Sep	Conflict between the Mongols and the Chinese Ming dynasty. Mongol victory.
	War of the Cities	Battle of Waldstetten  [ de ]			Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg defeats the imperial free city of Schwäbisch Gmünd.
1450	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Formigny		15 April	Decisive French victory over English.
	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Krujë		14 May—23 Nov	Skanderbeg defends Albanian town from an army of around 100,000 men led by Murad I.
		Battle of the Five Forts			Māori Ngāti Hotu tribe decisively defeated by the Whanganui Māori tribe.

Late 15th century (1451–1500)

Year	War	Battle	Loc.	Date(s)	Description
1451	Navarrese Civil War (1451–1455)	Battle of Aibar		25 Oct	King John II of Navarre defeats Charles, Prince of Viana.
1452	Reconquista	Battle of Los Alporchones		17 Mar	King John II of Castile defeats sultan Muhammad IX of Granada.
	Ghent War	Battle of Nevele  [ nl ]		25 May	A Burgundian army under John of Burgundy defeats a rebel army of Ghent.
		Battle of Bazel		16 June	A Burgundian army under duke Philip the Good defeats a rebel army of Ghent under Wouter Leenknecht.
		Battle of Rafal Garcés		31 Aug	Aragon, under Francesc d'Erill i de Centelles defeats Forana rebels, commanded by Jaume Nicolau on the island of Majorca.
1453	Byzantine–Ottoman wars	Battle of Constantinople		6 April—29 May	Mehmet II of the Ottoman Turks captures Constantinople (Istanbul), ending the Byzantine Empire.
	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Polog		22 April	Skanderbeg defeats Ottomans.
	Hundred Years' War	Battle of Castillon		17 July	The Valois use cannon to defeat the Lancastrians, which ends the Hundred Years' War.
	Ghent War	Battle of Gavere		23 July	A Burgundian army under duke Philip the Good defeats a rebel army of Ghent.
1454	Münster Diocesan Feud	Battle of Varlar		18 July	The Archbishopric of Cologne, Bishopric of Utrecht, County of Bentheim-Steinfurt and the County of Lippe fighting for Walram von Moers defeat the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and allies fighting for Erich von Hoya in the Münster Diocesan Feud.
	Thirteen Years' War	Battle of Chojnice		18 Sep	Polish defeated by Teutonic Knights.
	Serbian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Leskovac		24 Sep	Serbs under command of Nikola Skobaljić defeat a larger Ottoman army.
		Battle of Kruševac		2 Oct	Serbian Despotate, allied with the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats invading Ottoman forces.
1455	Clan Douglas and Stewart royal family feud	Battle of Arkinholm		1 May	Scottish Royal-Black Douglas civil war.
	Wars of the Roses	First Battle of St Albans		22 May	First battle of the English Wars of the Roses, a victory for the pretender Richard of York.
	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Berat		July	Ottomans defeat Albanians under Skanderbeg.
1456	Hungarian–Ottoman Wars and Serbian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Belgrade		4-22 July	Hungarian forces lift Ottoman siege, Sultan Mehmet II wounded.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Deventer		14 Aug—15 Sep	Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy captures Deventer in order to make his son David of Burgundy bishop of Utrecht during the Utrecht war.
	Siamese invasions of Malacca	Battle of Batu Pahat			Naval battle where the Malacca Sultanate defeated the Ayutthaya Kingdom.
1457		Battle of Direptatea		April	Ştefan cel Mare, helped by Wallachian prince Vlad III the Impaler, defeated Petru Aron and became Voivod of Moldavia.
1459	Wars of the Roses	Battle of Blore Heath		23 Sep	Yorkist knights defeat Lancastrians.
		Battle of Ludford Bridge		12 Oct	King Henry routs Yorkists.
		Siege of Venlo			Adolf of Guelders surrenders to his father Arnold, Duke of Guelders, ending a rebellion.
1460	War of Roses	Battle of Sandwich		15 Jan	Yorkists land at Sandwich, rout Lancastrians.
	War of Neapolitan Succession	Battle of Nola		7 July	John of Anjou's victory over Ferdinand of Naples.
	War of Roses	Battle of Northampton		10 July	Warwick attacks royal camp and captures King Henry.
		Battle of Wakefield		30 Dec	Queen Margaret's Lancastrians defeat Duke of York, who is killed in the fight.
1461		Battle of Mortimer's Cross		2 Feb	Yorkists defeat Lancastrians in the west.
		Second Battle of St Albans		17 Feb	Lancastrians storm the town, chase out Yorkists.
		Battle of Ferrybridge		28 March	Lancastrians ambush the Earl of Warwick and kill his second-in-command.
		Battle of Towton		29 March	Edward IV of England defeats Lancastrian forces.
	Byzantine–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Trebizond		15 Aug	Ottoman Turks led by Mehmet II capture the capitol of the Empire of Trebizond, ending that empire.
1462	Ottoman–Wallachian wars	The Night Attack		17 June	Vlad III Dracula attacks Mehmet II.
	Bavarian War	Battle of Seckenheim		30 June	The Electoral Palatinate and the Electorate of Mainz defeat the Margraviate of Baden, the County of Württemberg, Palatine Zweibrücken and the Bishopric of Metz.
	Conspiracy of the Barons	Battle of Troia		18 Aug	King Ferdinand I of Naples defeats John II, Duke of Lorraine.
	Thirteen Years' War	Battle of Świecino		7 Sep	Poles defeat the Teutonic Order.
	Expansion of the Ottoman Empire	Siege of Mytilene		Sep	Ottoman Turks capture the capitol of Gattilusi Lesbos.
1463	Georgian civil war	Battle of Chikhori		Aug	George VIII of Georgia is decisively defeated by nobles led by his Royal kinsmen Bagrat.
	Thirteen Years' War	Battle of Zatoka Świeża		15 Sep	Polish navy defeats Teutonic navy.
	Donia War	Battle of Aalsum  [ nl ]		11 Oct	The army of Jancko Douwema defeats the army of the Donias. A feud in Frisia.
	Bosnian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Ključ			Pitched battle between Ottomans and Bosnians resulting in an Ottoman victory.
1464	Wars of the Roses	Battle of Hedgeley Moor		25 April	Lancastrian defeat Yorkist forces.
		Battle of Hexham		15 May	Yorkists under Montagu annihilate Lancastrians in a surprise attack.
	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Ohrid		15 Sep	Albanians and Venetians defeat Ottomans.
1465	Catalan Civil War	Battle of Calaf		28 Feb	King John II of Aragon defeats the Generalitat de Catalunya, commanded by Peter, Constable of Portugal.
	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Vaikal		April	Albanian rebels under Skanderbeg defeat Ottomans.
		Battle of Meçad		June	Skanderbeg defeats Ottomans under Ballaban Badera.
	War of the Public Weal	Battle of Montlhéry		16 July	Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of great nobles.
	First Liège War	Battle of Montenaken		20 Oct	The Burgundian army under Charles the Bold defeats the army of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
1466	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Krujë		June 1466—23 April 1467	Albanians under Skanderbeg repel siege by Sultan Mehmet II.
	First Liège War	Siege of Dinant		18-29 Aug	The Burgundian army under Charles the Bold captures and destroys Dinant.
1467		Battle of Molinella		25 July	Bartolomeo Colleoni for Venice is defeated.
		Second Battle of Olmedo		20 Aug	King Henry IV of Castile defeats Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
	Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Krujë		Summer	Skanderbeg repels another siege by Mehmet II.
	Second Liège War	Battle of Brustem		28 Oct	The Burgundian army under Charles the Bold defeats the army of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
		Battle of Baia		15 Dec	Ştefan cel Mare defeated Mathias Corvinus.
1468	War in Guelders	Battle of Straelen  [ de ]		26 June	An army of Adolf, Duke of Guelders defeats the army of John I, Duke of Cleves.
1469	Wars of the Roses	Battle of Edgecote Moor		26 July	Warwick the Kingmaker triumphs over Edward IV.
1470		Battle of Lose-coat Field		12 March	Yorkists chase disrobing Lancastrians from the field.
	First Ottoman–Venetian War	Siege of Negroponte		14 June—12 July	Ottomans besiege and capture the Venetian fortress of Negroponte.
		Battle of Lipnic		20 Aug	Ştefan cel Mare defeats the Tatars.
	Muisca Confederation wars	Battle of Pasca			Southern Muisca Confederation defeats alliance of the Sutagao and Panche.
1471	Champa–Đại Việt War	Siege of Vijaya		24 Feb—22 March	Đại Việt captures Vijaya, the capital of Champa.
	War of Roses	Battle of Ravenspur		14 March	Edward IV lands at Ravenspur and repulses token resistance.
		Battle of Barnet		14 April	Confusion in the fog, Earl of Warwick killed.
		Battle of Tewkesbury		4 May	Edward IV of England's final victory over the House of Lancaster.
	Muscovite-Novgorodian Wars	Battle of Shelon		14 July	Ivan the Great of Russia decisively defeats the Novgorod Republic, which is gradually absorbed by Muscovy.
	Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Asilah		24 Aug	Portugal conquers Asilah from the Wattasids.
	Dano-Swedish War	Battle of Brunkeberg		10 Oct	Denmark fights Sweden.
1472		Siege of Nesle  [ fr ]		14 June	The army of duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy captures Nesle from France. The population is massacred.
		Siege of Beauvais			The army of duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy fails to captures Beauvais from France.
1473	Campaigns of Uzun Hassa	Battle of Otlukbeli		11 Aug	Mehmet II of Ottoman Turks decisively defeats Uzun Hasan of Akkoyunlu Turkomans.
		Battle of Tlatelolco			Aztec Empire defeats Tlatelolco.
1474	Burgundian Wars	Siege of Neuss		29 July 1474—27 June 1475	Charles the Bold leads unsuccessful siege.
		Battle of Héricourt		13-14 Nov	Burgundy is defeated by the Swiss Confederation.
	First Ottoman–Venetian War	Siege of Shkodra		Spring—8 Aug	Venice and Zeta (Montenegro) defeat Ottoman besiegers.
1475	Moldavian–Ottoman Wars, Hungarian–Ottoman Wars and Polish-Ottoman Wars	Battle of Vaslui		10 Jan	Ştefan cel Mare defeats a huge Ottoman army.
	Burgundian Wars	Battle on the Planta		Nov	Switzerland defeats Savoy.
	War of the Castilian Succession	Siege of Burgos		1475—early 1476	Supporters of Joanna are driven out of the Castle of Burgos.
1476		Battle of Toro		1 March	Indecisive: Prince John of Portugal defeated the Castilian right wing and remained in possession of the battlefield while his father Afonso V is defeated by the Castilian left-centre led by the Duke of Alba and Cardinal Mendoza. Both sides claimed victory.
	Burgundian Wars	Battle of Grandson		2 March	A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians under Charles the Bold.
		Battle of Morat		22 June	The Swiss defeat Charles the Bold again.
	Moldavian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Valea Albă		26 July	Mehmed II defeats Ştefan cel Mare.
1477	War of the Burgundian Succession	Battle of Nancy		5 Jan	Swiss pikemen defeat cavalry of Burgundy's Charles the Bold, who is killed.
	Ottoman–Venetian War and Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Krujë		Spring 1477—June 1478	Ottomans under Mehmet II capture Krujë from the League of Lezhë.
	War of the Burgundian Succession	Battle of Émagny Bridge  [ fr ]		25 June	France under Georges II de La Trémoille defeats Burgundy under Hugues III de Chalon-Arlay in an attempt to control the County of Burgundy.
		Siege of Dole  [ fr ]		End of July—7 Oct	France fails to capture Dole from Burgundy. The French army is destroyed and has to leave the County of Burgundy.
1478	Aragonese conquest of Sardinia	Battle of Macomer		19 May	Sardinian rebels are defeated by the Aragonese.
	Ottoman–Venetian War and Albanian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Shkodra		May 1478—25 April 1479	Ottomans take Shkodër.
	War of the Castilian Succession	Battle of Guinea		Spring or summer	Castilian fleet is defeated and captured by the Portuguese.
	Islamization of Indonesia	Battle of Trowulan		1478—1527	Majapahit rebels backed by the Demak Sultanate are defeated by Girindrawardhana.
1479	War of the Burgundian Succession	Battle of Guinegate		7 Aug	French troops are defeated by the Burgundians led by Maximilian of Habsburg.
	Vietnamese-Laotian War	Battle of the Plain of Jars		Fall	Đại Việt decisively defeats Lan Xang.
	Hungarian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Breadfield		13 Oct	Pál Kinizsi, comite of Timișoara, defeated the Ottomans.
1480	Ottoman wars in Europe	Siege of Rhodes		May—28 July	Ottomans unsuccessfully besiege the Knights Hospitaller garrison on Rhodes.
	Hungarian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Otranto		28 July 1840—10 Sep 1841	Gedik Ahmed Pasha of the Ottoman Turks captures Otranto in the Italian peninsula.
	Golden Horde conflicts	Great Stand on the Ugra River		8 Oct—28 Nov	Ivan the Great makes army of the Golden Horde retreat without bloodshed. End of vassalage of the Russian states to Golden Horde.
	Scottish clan wars	Battle of Skibo and Strathfleet			Clan Sutherland and Murrays of Aberscross defeat Clan Donald.
	Clan MacDonald internal conflicts	Battle of Bloody Bay			A naval battle fought near Tobermory, Scotland, between John of Islay, Earl of Ross, the Lord of the Isles and chief of Clan Donald; and his son, Angus Óg Macdonald.
	MacDonald-Mackenzie feud	Battle of Lagabraad			Clan Donald defeats Clan Mackenzie.
	Vietnamese-Laotian War	Battle of Pāk Phūn			Lan Xang decisively defeats exhausted Viet army.
1481	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of Leiden  [ nl ]		30 March—14 April	The Burgundian army under duke Maximilian captures rebel Leiden.
		Battle of Yenişehir		22 June	The forces of Sultan Beyazit II of Ottoman Turks defeat the supporters of his brother and rival, Cem Sultan.
	Hook and Cod wars	Battle of Scherpenzeel  [ nl ]		22 or 23 Sep	An army of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht in coalition with Burgundy defeats a rebel army.
		Battle of Vreeswijk  [ nl ]		13 Oct	A rebel army under Jan III van Montfoort defeats an army of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht in coalition with Burgundy under governor Joost de Lalaing of Holland and Zeeland.
		Battle of Westbroek			An army of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht in coalition with Burgundy defeats a rebel army.
1482	War of Ferrara	Battle of Campomorto		21 Aug	Papal army under Roberto Malatesta defeats Neapolitan troops led by Alfonso, Duke of Calabria.
	Hook and Cod wars	Siege of IJsselstein  [ nl ]		26 Aug—16 Sep	A rebel army from the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht fails to capture Habsburg IJsselstein.
1483	Hook and Cod wars and Second Utrecht Civil War	Siege of Utrecht		23 June—31 Aug	A Habsburg army under regent Maximilian captures Utrecht.
	Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War	Battle of Una		29-30 Oct	Croatian army defeats forces of the invading Ottoman Empire.
1484	Clan Douglas and Stewart royal family feud	Battle of Lochmaben Fair		22 July	Scottish Royal-Black Douglas civil war.
1485	Austrian-Hungarian War	Siege of Vienna		29 Jan—1 June	Decisive victory for Hungary over the Holy Roman Empire in the Austrian–Hungarian War (1477–1488).
	Ottoman–Mamluk War	First Battle of Adana		9 Feb	Mamluks rout Ottoman army.
		Second Battle of Adana		15 March	Mamluks decisively defeat Ottomans, capturing their commander Hersek-Oglu.
	Wars of the Roses	Battle of Bosworth Field		22 Aug	Richard III defeated by Henry Tudor, who becomes Henry VII of England. This battle marked the end of the Wars of the Roses and the beginning of the Tudor period in England.
1487		Battle of Stoke		16 June	Henry VII of England finally defeats internal opposition.
	Scottish clan wars	Battle of Auldicharish		11 July	Scottish clan battle
	Polish–Ottoman War	Battle of Kopystrzyń		8 Sep	Polish under John I Albert decisively defeat the Tatars.
1488	Clan Cunningham – Clan Montgomery feud and Second rebellion against James III	Battle of Sauchieburn		11 June	King James III defeated by Scottish nobles.
	Mad War	Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier		28 July	French commander Louis II de la Trémoille defeats rebel Brittany under Jean IV de Rieux. Brittany was supported by Germany, England and Castile.
	First Ottoman–Mamluk War	Battle of Aga-Cayiri			Mamluks defeat Ottomans.
1489	Hook and Cod wars and Squire Francis War	Battle on the Lek  [ nl ]		4 June	A Habsburg fleet defeats a rebel fleet.
1490		Siege of Montfoort		2 May—8 Aug	A Habsburg army under Albert III, Duke of Saxony captures rebel Montfoort.
		Battle of Moordrecht  [ nl ]		18 June	A Habsburg army defeats a rebel army.
		Battle of Brouwershaven  [ nl ]		23 July	A Habsburg fleet defeats a rebel fleet.
	Muisca Confederation wars	Battle of Chocontá			The Southern Muisca defeat the Northern Muisca, though both leaders die in the battle.
1491	Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War	Battle of Vrpile		Early Sep	Forces of the Kingdom of Croatia defeat Ottoman Turks.
1492	Reconquista	Battle of Granada		2 Jan	Ferdinand II of Aragon defeats the last Muslim kingdom in al-Andalus, the Emirate of Granada of Sultan Boabdil.
1493		Battle of Anfao		12 April	Rebel General Muhammad Askia gains rulership of the Songhai Empire after defeating the forces of Sonni Baru, ending the Sonni dynasty.
	Hundred Years' Croatian-Ottoman War	Battle of Krbava field		9 Sep	Ottoman Turks defeat Croatians.
	Inca Empire wars of conquest	Battle of the Maule			Inca Empire under Emperor Túpac Yupanqui fights coalition led by the Mapuche with a disputed outcome.
1494	Spanish Conquest of the Canary Islands	First Battle of Acentejo		31 May	Guanches defeat Spaniards on island of Tenerife.
	First Italian War	Battle of Rapallo		5 Sep	France, Milan and Genoa defeat Naples.
	Spanish Conquest of the Canary Islands	Battle of Aguere		14-15 Nov	Spanish defeat Guanches.
		Second Battle of Acentejo		25 Dec	Spanish decisively defeat Guanches and annex the Canary Islands.
1495	First Italian War	Battle of Rapallo		2 May	Genoa defeats France.
		Battle of Seminara		28 June	France defeats Spain and Naples.
		Battle of Fornovo		6 July	Francesco II Gonzaga of the Italian Holy League fights against Charles VIII of France. French victory.
1497	Polish–Ottoman War	Battle of Codrii Cosminului		26 Oct	Ştefan cel Mare defeated John I of Poland.
	Timurid–Uzbek wars	Siege of Samarkand		May—Nov	Babur of the Timurids takes city from Muhammad Shaybani.
	Rebellion of Domhnall Dubh	Battle of Drumchatt			Scottish clan battle.
1499	Swabian War	Battle of Hard		20 Feb	Switzerland defeats king Maximilian I of Germany and the Swabian League.
		Battle of Schwaderloh		11 April	Switzerland defeats the Swabian League.
		Battle of Frastanz		20 April	Switzerland defeats king Maximilian I of Germany and the Swabian League.
		Battle of Calven		22 May	The Three Leagues defeat king Maximilian I of Germany and the Swabian League.
		Battle of Dornach		22 July	Switzerland defeats king Maximilian I of Germany and the Swabian League.
	Ottoman–Venetian War	Battle of Zonchio		25 Aug	the Ottoman fleet defeats the Venetian fleet. Also called the Battle of Sapienza or the First Battle of Lepanto.
1500		Battle of Hemmingstedt		17 Feb	A peasant rebellion defeats a much larger ducal army by opening dykes and drowning them.
	Second Italian War	Battle of Novara		8-10 April	France defeats Milan
	Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars	Battle of Vedrosha		14 July	Russians beat the Lithuanians.
	Ottoman–Venetian War	Battle of Lepanto			Ottoman fleet defeats Venetian fleet.

Early 16th century (1501–50)

Year	War	Battle	Loc.	Date(s)	Description
1501		Battle of Mers-el-Kébir		Late Jul	Sultan Abu Abdallah IV of the Kingdom of Tlemcen defeats Portugal under John of Meneses, 1st Count of Tarouca.
	First Luso-Malabarese War	First Battle of Cannanore		31 Dec 1501—2 Jan 1502	Portugal wins a naval battle against forces from Calicut.
	Campaigns of Babur	Siege of Samarkand			Babur loses Samarkand for the final time to the Uzbeks.
1503	First Luso-Malabarese War	Battle of Calicut		5-6 Jan	Portuguese under Vasco da Gama take city of Calicut.
	Second Italian War	Battle of Ruvo		23 Feb	Spain defeats France.
		Battle of Cerignola		21 April
		Battle of Garigliano		27 Dec
1504	Portuguese colonial campaigns	Battle of Cochin		16 March—3 July	Portuguese fend off attack from larger army led by the Zamorin of Calicut.
	War of the Succession of Landshut	Battle of Wenzenbach  [ de ]		12 Sep	King Maximilian I of Germany defeats king Vladislaus II of Hungary and Bohemia.
	Campaigns of Babur	Siege of Kabul		Oct	Babur defeats Arghun dynasty.
		Battle of Pandarane		Autumn	The Portuguese navy under Lopo Soares de Albergaria defeats the Mamluk Sultanate.
1505	Portuguese colonial campaigns	Sack of Kilwa		24 July	With 8 ships and 500 soldiers, Portuguese conquer harbor capital of the Kilwa Sultanate.
		Battle of Mombasa		15 Aug	Portugal under Francisco de Almeida sacks Mombasa.
1506	First Luso-Malabarese War	Battle of Cannanore		March	The Portuguese defeat an Indian fleet.
		Battle of Mbanza Kongo			Catholic Kongolese King Afonso I defeats his animist half-brother Mpanzu a Kitima for control of his throne.
1507	Somali–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Barawa		April	Portuguese defeat Ajuran Sultanate, sack city but don't hold it.
	First Luso-Malabarese War	Siege of Cannanore		April—Aug	Portugal successfully defends Kannur.
	Portuguese–Safavid wars	Battle of Ormuz		Oct	Portugal captures Ormuz.
		Battle of Mers-el-Kébir			Sultan Abu Abdallah V of Tlemcen defeats Spain.
		Battle of Socotra			Portugal under Tristão da Cunha captures Suq from the Mahra Sultanate.
1508	Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts and Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Chaul		March	The Portuguese lose their first Indian Ocean naval battle against the Mamluks.
	Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Dabul		29 Dec	Viceroy Francisco de Almeida of Portuguese India defeats the Sultanate of Bijapur.
1509	Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts and Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Diu		3 Feb	Portuguese Viceroy destroys Moslem fleet off the coast of India, wrests control of spice trade.
	War of the League of Cambrai	Battle of Agnadello		14 May	French defeat Venetians. Also called the Battle of Vaila.
		Siege of Padua		15-30 Sep	Venice captures Padua.
		Battle of Polesella		22 Dec	A fleet of the Republic of Venice is destroyed on the Po River by the Ferrarese artillery.
1510	Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts and Bahmani–Vijayanagar War	Conquest of Goa		25 Nov	Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate.
1511	War of the League of Cambrai	Siege of Mirandola		Jan	City captured by Pope Julius II.
	Malay–Portuguese conflicts	Capture of Malacca		15 Aug	Portuguese under Afonso de Albuquerque conquer the Sultanate of Malacca.
	Timurid-Uzbek Wars	Battle of Ab Darrah Pass			Babur retakes Transoxiana from the Khanate of Bukhara.
	Taíno Rebellion of 1511	Battle of Yaguecas			Spanish under Juan Ponce de León put down rebellion by the Taino of Puerto Rico, their chief Agueybana II killed in battle.
1512	War of the League of Cambrai	Sack of Brescia		18 Feb	French troops overrun the Italian town of Brescia.
		Battle of Ravenna		11 April	Gaston de Foix, although killed in the battle, defeats the Spanish.
	Persian-Uzbek Wars and Timurid-Uzbek Wars	Battle of Ghazdewan		12 Nov	Khanate of Bukhara defeat Timurids and Safavids. Afterwards, Babur gives up on retaking Central Asia.
1513		Siege of Aden		26 March	Portuguese under Afonso de Albuquerque try to capture city from the Tahirid Sultanate but are defeated.
	War of the League of Cambrai	Battle of Novara		6 June	Holy League defeats France.
	Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War	Battle of Dubica		16 Aug	Croatian army defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire.
	War of the League of Cambrai	Battle of Guinegate			Henry VIII and Emperor Maximilian I crush French. Also called the Battle of the Spurs
	Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Azemmour		28-29 Aug	Portugal defeats Morocco's Wattasid dynasty.
	War of the League of Cambrai	Battle of Flodden Field		9 Sep	Henry VIII's army under the Earl of Surrey heavily defeats the Scots and kills James IV of Scotland.
		Siege of Dijon		8-13 Sep	Dijon was besieged by Switzerland and a Germany. France ends the siege by signing a treaty with the Swiss.
		Battle of La Motta		7 Oct	Spain defeats Venice.
1514		Battle of Hartwarder Landwehr  [ de ]		21 Jan	John V, Count of Oldenburg, Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Henry I, Duke of Brunswick and Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg defeat the last Free Frisians, from Butjadingen and Stadland, during the Saxon feud.
	Ottoman–Persian Wars	Battle of Chaldiran		23 Aug	Selim I of Ottoman Turks defeats Persian Safavids.
	Lithuanian–Muscovite War	Battle of Orsha		8 Sep	Polish–Lithuanian army defeated the army of the Grand Principality of Moscow.
1515	War of the League of Cambrai	Battle of Marignano		13-14 Sep	France defeats Milan.
	Frisian peasant rebellion	Arumer Zwarte Hoop		1515—1523	Army of peasant rebels in Friesland fights the Dutch authorities.
1516	Italian Wars	War of Urbino		Jan—Sep	Francesco Maria I della Rovere quickly reconquers Urbino.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan	Siege of Arai		11 July	The Hōjō Clan captures Arai castle.
	Ottoman–Mamluk War	Battle of Marj Dabiq		24 Aug	Selim I of Ottoman Turks defeats the Mamelukes and captures Syria.
		Battle of Yaunis Khan		28 Oct	Ottoman Empire defeats the Mamelukes.
1517		Battle of Ridaniya		22 Jan	Ottoman Turks under Selim I defeat Mamelukes and capture Egypt.
	Somali–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Zeila		Jul	Portugal captures Zeila from the Adal Sultanate.
	Portuguese–Mamluk naval war and Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations	Siege of Jeddah		16 Dec	Ottomans finish the conquest of Mamelukes by annexing a city in the Hejaz, then defeat Portuguese fleets going across the Red Sea to attempt to take advantage of the conflict.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Catoche			Spanish expedition under Francisco Hernández de Córdoba beats back Mayan ambush long enough to retreat by sea.
1518		Battle of Kondavidu Fort			Vijayanagara Empire defeats Golconda Sultanate.
1519	Campaigns of Babur	Battle of Bajaur		6-7 Jan	Babur defeats the tribes of the Bajaur region and massacres 3,000 Bajauris.
		Battle of Pianosa		25 April	The Genoese admiral Andrew Doria defeats the flotilla of the Barbary corsair Kaid Ali in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
	Hildesheim Diocesan Feud	Battle of Soltau		28 June	Henry I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and John IV of Saxe-Lauenburg, bishop of Hildesheim defeat Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, duke of Brunswick Wolffenbüttel and Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, duke of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Centla		25 March	After arriving in the New World, Hernán Cortés defeats the Mayan state of Tabasco in battle.
1520		Battle of Cempoala		27 May	Hernán Cortés defeats Pánfilo de Narváez.
	Deccani–Vijayanagar wars	Battle of Raichur		May	Vijayanagara Empire defeats Sultanate of Bijapur.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of the Night of Sorrows		30 June—1 July	The Aztec Empire defeats the Spanish troops of Hernán Cortés.
	Revolt of the Comuneros	Siege of Segovia  [ es ]		June—Aug	The Spanish royalist army under Rodrigo Ronquillo, fighting for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, fails to capture Segovia from the rebel Comuneros.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Otumba		7 July	Spain under Hernán Cortés and Tlaxcala defeat the Aztecs.
	Revolt of the Comuneros	Battle of Tordesillas		5 Dec	The Spanish royalist army defeats the Comuneros.
	Malay–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Pago			Portugal defeats the Sultanate of Bintan.
1521	Battle of El Romeral  [ es ]		12 March	A royalist army defeats the Comuneros.
			Battle of Miñano Mayor  [ es ]	19 April	The royalist army defeats the Comuneros.
			Battle of Villalar	23 April	The royalist army defeats the Comuneros.
	Magellan expedition	Battle of Mactan		27 April	Mactan chieftain Lapulapu overwhelms and decisively defeats Magellan's expedition and allied natives, killing Ferdinand Magellan.
	War of the League of Cambrai	Battle of Pampeluna		20 May	French take city from Spanish, Ignatius of Loyola wounded.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Siege of Tenochtitlan		26 May—13 Aug	Fall of the Aztec Empire.
	Italian War of 1521–1526	Siege of Logroño  [ es ]		4 or 6—10 June	France fails to capture Logroño from Spain.
		Battle of Noáin		30 June	Spanish defeat the Franco-Navarrese army.
	Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Aceh		Jun	The Aceh Sultanate defeats Portugal.
	Hungarian–Ottoman Wars	Siege of Belgrade		July—Aug	Suleiman I of the Ottoman Turks captures Belgrade.
	Ming–European conflicts	Battle of Tunmen		Aug—Sep	Ming Chinese Navy defeated Portuguese Navy.
	Italian War of 1521–1526	Battle of Vaprio d'Adda		13-14 Nov	The Holy Roman Empire defeats France.
		Siege of Tournai		Nov	The Holy Roman Empire captures Tournai from France.
		Siege of Mézières			The Holy Roman Empire fails to capture Mézières from France.
1522		Siege of Genoa		20-30 March	Spain captures Genoa for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor from France.
		Siege of Pavia  [ it ]		March—23 April	France and Venice lifts the siege of Pavia after the advance of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire and the Papal States.
		Battle of Bicocca		27 April	Spanish victory during the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
	Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War	Siege of Knin		May	Ottomans defeat Croatia and annex the city of Knin.
	Ottoman wars in Europe	Siege of Rhodes		26 June—22 Dec	The Ottoman Empire expels the Knights of Rhodes.
	Post-War of the League of Cambrai	Battle of San Marcial		30 June	Spain defeats France and Navarre.
	Ming–European conflicts	Battle of Xicaowan		7-20 Aug	Ming Chinese Navy defeated Portuguese Navy.
1523		Battle of Ash-Shihr		28 Feb - 2 Mar	Portugal captures Al-Shihr from Kathiri.
	Malay–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Muar River		Apr	A fleet of the Sultanate of Bintan and the Pahang Sultanate defeats Portugal.
	Italian War of 1521–1526	Siege of Fuenterrabía		1523—27 Feb 1524	Spain recaptures Hondarribia from France.
1524	Campaigns of Babur	Sack of Lahore		15 Jan	Babur burns Lahore for two days.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan	Siege of Edo		Jan	Edo Castle falls from Uesugi control to Hōjō control.
	Guelders Wars	Siege of Zwolle  [ nl ]		5-29 April	Charles II, Duke of Guelders fails to conquer Zwolle of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht.
	Italian War of 1521–1526	Battle of the Sesia		30 April	Spanish and Holy Roman Empire forces beat French.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Acajutla		8 June	Spanish led by Pedro de Alvarado defeat the army of the Pipils of Cuzcatlan. Pedro de Alvarado wounded.
	Italian War of 1521–1526	Siege of Marseille		Aug—Sep	The Holy Roman Empire fails to take Marseille from France.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Tacuzcalco		1524—1539	Spanish again defeat Pipils.
1525		Battle of Punta Quemada		Jan	Pizarro defeats the Quitians, but is wounded seven times.
	Italian War of 1521–1526	Battle of Pavia		24 Feb	Spain and Holy Roman Empire defeat France; Francis I of France is captured.
	German Peasants' War	Battle of Frankenhausen		14-15 May	End of the German Peasants' War.
		Battle of Meiningen  [ de ]		3 June	German nobles defeat the Bildhäuser Haufen farmers.
		Battle of Pfeddersheim		23/24 June	Louis V, Elector Palatine defeats the rebel farmers of the Palatinate.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Siege of Zaculeu		Oct	Spanish capture Mayan city of Zaculeu.
	Malay–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Lingga			A Portuguese fleet defeats the Sultanate of Bintan and the Sultanate of Indragiri.
1526	Campaigns of Babur	First battle of Panipat		21 April	The Mughal king Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodhi.
	War of the League of Cognac	Battle of Camollia  [ it ]		25 July	Siena defeats Florence.
	Hungarian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Mohács		29 Aug	Suleiman I of Ottoman Turks defeats the kingdom of Hungary; King Louis II killed.
	War of the League of Cognac	Battle of Governolo  [ it ]		25 Nov	The Holy Roman Empire defeats Venice and France.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan	Siege of Kamakura		Dec	Uesugi clan defeats Hōjō clan, inflicting a major psychological blow.
1527		Battle of Khanwa		16 March	Babur consolidates Mughal rule in northern India by defeating a united rajput coalition led by Rana Sanga of Mewar.
	Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary	Battle of Szőlős		1 May	Serbia defeats Hungary.
	War of the League of Cognac	Sack of Rome		6 May	Unpaid Spanish and Imperial troops attack the city in protest.
	Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary	Battle of Sződfalva		25 July	Hungary defeats Serbia.
	War of the League of Cognac	Siege of Pavia		1-5 Oct	France captures Pavia from the Holy Roman Empire.
		Battle of Sunda Kelepa			Demak Sultanate takes port and defeats the Portuguese and Sunda.
1528	Campaigns of Babur	Battle of Chanderi		20 Jan	Babur defeats and conquers the Malwa.
	Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary	Battle of Szina		20 March	Habsburgs secure Hungary from claimant to the Hungarian throne John Zápolya.
	War of the League of Cognac	Siege of Melfi  [ it ]		22-23 March	France captures Melfi from the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
		Siege of Cantazaro  [ it ]		March—8 Aug	France fails to capture Catanzaro from the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
		Battle of Capo d'Orso		28-29 April	French navy defeats Spanish navy trying to break blockade.
		Siege of Naples		April—Aug	Spanish beat back French siege of Italian city.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Cinactan			Spanish put down native rebellion.
		Battle of Mombasa			Portugal and the Malindi Kingdom defeat the Sultanate of Mombasa.
1529	Ethiopian–Adal War	Battle of Shimbra Kure		7 or 9 March	Imam Ahmad Gragn withstands the assault of the numerically superior army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia.
	War of the League of Cognac	Siege of Monopoli  [ it ]		15 March—28 May	The Holy Roman Empire fails to take Monopoli from Venice
	Campaigns of Babur	Battle of Ghaghra		6 May	Babur annexes Bihar for the Mughal Empire and defeats the combined forces of the Eastern Afghan Confederates and the Sultanate of Bengal.
	Spanish–Ottoman wars	Capture of Peñón of Algiers		29 May	The Ottoman Empire captures Peñón of Algiers from Spain.
	War of the League of Cognac	Battle of Landriano		21 June	Spanish and Holy Roman Empire troops defeat French.
	Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary	Siege of Vienna		27 Sep—15 Oct	Ottomans reach limit of empire, can't capture Vienna and settle in Buda.
		Battle of Formentera		28 Oct	The Ottoman Empire defeated Spain.
	War of the League of Cognac	Siege of Florence		24 Oct 1529—10 Aug 1530	Spanish and Holy Roman Empire troops capture Florence.
1530		Battle of Gavinana		3 Aug	Florence crushed by the Holy Roman Empire.
	Little War in Hungary	Siege of Buda		31 Oct—20 Dec	The Holy Roman Empire fails to capture Buda from the Ottoman Empire.
	Inca Civil War	Battle of Chillopampa		1529, 1530 or 1531	Huáscarans defeat the Atahualpans. Atahualpa is taken prisoner.
		Battle of Mullihambato			Atahualpans defeat the Huáscarans.
1531	Ethiopian–Adal War	Battle of Antukyah		Feb or March	The Ethiopian army panics and flees before Imam Ahmad Gragn's seven cannons and matchlockmen.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Puná		April	Pizarro's forces defeat much larger forces of natives on the island of Puná.
	Moldavian–Polish War	Battle of Obertyn		22 Aug	Polish army defeats the Moldavians.
	European wars of religion	Battle of Kappel		11 Oct	Victory of Swiss Catholics over the followers of Zwingli.
	Ethiopian–Adal War	Battle of Amba Sel		28 Oct	Imam Ahmad Gragn again defeats Emperor Lebna Dengel, and crosses the Walaqa River unchecked into Bet Amhara.
1532	Inca Civil War	Battle of Huanucopampa		Early 1532	Inconclusive battle between the Atahualpans and the Huáscarans.
		Battle of Quipaipan		April	Decisive battle with Atahualpa defeating his brother and Huáscar.
		Battle of Chimborazo		Spring	Among the first confrontations in the Inca Civil War, with Atahualpa defeating his brother Huáscar.
	Little War in Hungary	Siege of Güns		5-30 Aug	The Ottoman Empire fails to take Kőszeg from the Holy Roman Empire.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Cajamarca		16 Nov	Pizarro captures king Atahuallpa during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
1533	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	Siege of Coron		Spring 1533—1 April 1534	The Ottoman Empire captures Koroni from the Holy Roman Empire.
	Guelders Wars	Battle of Jemgum  [ de ]		14 Oct	The army of Guelders defeats the army of East Frisia. Lord Balthasar Oomkens von Esens of Harlingerland becomes a vasal of Guelders.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Cuzco		Shortly before 15 Nov	Capital of the Inca Empire taken by the Spanish.
1534		Battle at Bae de Bic		Spring	Iroquois defeat Miꞌkmaq.
		Battle at Bouabouscache River			Mi'kmaq with aid from the Maliseet win a skirmish against the Iroquois, then kill many wounded and retreating on the battlefield the next day.
		Battle at Riviere Trois Pistoles			Mi'kmaq and Maliseet ambush the remaining Iroquois that were searching for their hunting party they'd previously killed. Most Iroquois killed, the rest that were captured were killed later after being taken back to camp.
		Battle of Lauffen		13 May	Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse defeats an imperial German army under Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg and Dietrich Spät, in support of Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, who regains his duchy.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Maraycalla		May	Spain defeats the northern Inca Empire.
		Siege of Mediaș		27 Aug—29 Sep	The combined forces of John Zápolya and the Holy Roman Empire capture Mediaș from Alvise Gritti, who was killed during the siege.
1535	Spanish–Ottoman wars, Ottoman–Habsburg wars and Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts	Conquest of Tunis		1 June	The Spanish fleet of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, conquers Tunis from the Ottomans.
	Spanish–Ottoman wars	Sack of Mahón		1-4 Sep	The Ottoman Empire captures Mahón from Spain.
	Malay–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Ugentana			Portugal defeats the Johor Sultanate.
1536	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Sacsayhuamán  [ es ]		April—May	Spain defeats Manco Inca.
		Siege of Cuzco		6 May 1536—March 1537	Siege of the city of Cuzco by the army of Inca Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui, Manco Inca is defeated.
		Battle of Reynogüelén		Summer	Spanish defeat Mapuche tribes.
	Guelders Wars and Count's Feud	Battle of Heiligerlee		5 Aug	The Habsburg army under Georg Schenck van Toutenburg defeats the army of Guelders under Meindert van Ham. Groningen and Drenthe are annexed to the Habsburg imperial domain.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Siege of Lima  [ es ]		10-26 Aug	Manco Inca fails to capture Lima from Spain.
	Croatian–Ottoman wars and Ottoman–Habsburg wars	Siege of Klis		31 Aug 1536—12 March 1537	The Ottoman Empire captures Klis Fortress.
		Battle of Tidore		21 Dec	Portugal and Hairun defeat Dayal, the Sultanate of Tidore, the Sultanate of Bacan, the Sultanate of Jailolo, Vaigama, Vaigue, Quibibi and Mincibo.
	Malay–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Ugentana			A Portuguese fleet defeats the Johor Sultanate.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Battle of Un no Kuchi			Takeda family forces defeat Hiraga Genshin.
1537	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Ollantaytambo		Jan	The forces of the Inca emperor Manco Inca defeat the Spanish troops of Hernando Pizarro.
		Battle of Abancay		12 July	Diego de Almagro defeats and captures Alonso de Alvarado.
	Third Ottoman–Venetian War	Siege of Corfu		Aug—Sep	Venetians defeat Ottoman attempt to take island.
	Little War in Hungary and Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War	Battle of Gorjani		9 Oct	The Ottoman Empire defeats the Holy Roman Empire.
1538	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Las Salinas		26 April	Pizarro brothers defeat Diego de Almagro.
	Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations and Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts	Siege of Diu		26 June—6 Nov	Portuguese defeat Ottomans and Gujarat Sultanate who attempted to siege city.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Tocarema		19-20 Aug	With assistance from the Muisca, the Spanish defeat and partly subjugate the Panche.
	Third Ottoman–Venetian War	Battle of Preveza		28 Sep	Ottoman fleet defeats Spanish-Venetian fleet.
	Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War	Battle of Naungyo		Nov/Dec	Toungoo Kingdom led by their General and future King Bayinnaung decisively defeats a numerically larger force of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in Myanmar.
1539	Afghan-Mughal Wars	Battle of Chausa		26 June	Defeat for Afghan Mughal loyalists by Sur Empire.
	Third Ottoman–Venetian War	Siege of Castelnuovo		18 July—6 Aug	The Ottoman Empire captures Herceg Novi from the Holy Roman Empire.
1540		Battle of Kannauj		17 May	Defeat for Afghan Mughal loyalists. Also known as the Battle of Bilgram.
	Spanish–Ottoman wars	Battle of Girolata		15 June	Spain and Genoa defeat the Ottoman navy.
	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	Battle of Alborán		1 Oct	Spain defeats the Ottoman navy.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Mabila		18 Oct	Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortress town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
	Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War	Siege of Martaban		Nov 1540—May 1541	Toungoo under King Tabinshwehti conquers the last remnant of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom after taking the city of Martaban.
1541	Ethiopian–Adal war and Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Sahart		24 April	Ethiopian Emperor Gelawdewos defeats an attack by Garad Emar, a lieutenant of Imam Ahmad Gragn. However, the Emperor is forced south into Shewa and away from the advancing troops of Portuguese commander Christovão da Gama.
	Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560)	Battle of Suez		26 Apr	The Ottoman Empire defeats Portugal.
	Little War in Hungary	Siege of Buda		4 May—21 Aug	The Holy Roman Empire fails to take Buda from the Ottoman Empire.
1542	Ethiopian–Adal War and Somali-Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Baçente		2 Feb	Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Battle of Sezawa		9 March	Takeda Shingen defeats four enemy forces to begin his conquest Shinano Province.
	Ethiopian–Adal War, Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts and Somali–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Jarte		4-16 April	The Portuguese under Christovão da Gama encounter the army of Imam Ahmad Gragn in two successive victories.
	Toungoo–Ava War	Battle of Northern Prome		April	Toungoo led by Tabinshwehti and Bayinnaung defeats armies of Prome, Ava, and the Confederation of Shan States outside the city of Prome.
		Battle of Padaung Pass			Toungoo led by Bayinnaung trap and defeat the Arakan Kingdom of Mrauk U. Tabinshwehti is so pleased with this victory he appoints Bayinnaung his heir apparent. Prome eventually surrenders after this battle.
	Ethiopian–Adal War and Somali-Portuguese conflicts	Battle of the Hill of the Jews		Aug	During the rainy season, Christovão da Gama captures a strategic position and many badly needed horses.
	Anglo-Scottish Wars	Battle of Haddon Rig		24 Aug	Scottish victory over the English.
	Ethiopian–Adal War and Somali-Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Wofla		28 Aug	Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp. The Portuguese are scattered, Christovão da Gama captured and executed.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Chupas		16 Sep	Spanish in Peru defeat rogue army of Diego de Almagro II and execute him.
	Anglo-Scottish Wars	Battle of Solway Moss		25 Nov	English victory over Scotland.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobuhide	Battle of Azukizaka			Oda Nobuhide defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Uehara			Takeda Shingen captures Uehara Castle from Suwa Yorishige.
		Siege of Kuwabara			One day after Uehara, Shingen defeats Yorishige again. Yorishige then commits suicide.
		Siege of Fukuyo			Takeda Shingen captures Fukuyo fortress. Battle of Ankokuji follows, Takato Yoritsugu defeated.
	Scottish clan wars	Battle of Alltan-Beath			Scottish clan battle.
	Italian War of 1542–1546	Siege of Perpignan			French siege raised by Spanish army.
	Ottoman–Habsburg War of 1540–1547	Siege of Pest			The Holy Roman Empire fails to take Pest from the Ottoman Empire.
	Somali–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Benadir			Naval battle between Portuguese and Ajuran Sultanate.
1543	Ethiopian–Adal War, Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts and Somali–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Wayna Daga		11 Feb	Ethiopian/Portuguese troops decisively defeat their Muslim opponent; Imam Ahmad Gragn killed.
	Italian War of 1542–1546	Siege of Landrecies		May—Nov	The Holy Roman Empire fails to capture Landrecies from France.
		Battle of Muros Bay		25 July	Spanish fleet defeats French fleet.
	Ottoman–Habsburg War of 1540–1547	Siege of Esztergom		25 July—10 Aug	The Ottoman Empire captures Esztergom from the Holy Roman Empire.
	Italian War of 1542–1546	Siege of Nice		5-22 Aug	Ottomans and French sack Nice.
	Croatian–Ottoman wars and Ottoman–Habsburg wars	Battle of Otočac		24 Aug (?)	Croatian troops defeat Ottoman Turks.
	Toungoo-Ava War	Battle of Prome		7 Dec	Confederation unsuccessfully attempts to retake Prome from Toungoo.
Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Nagakubo			Shingen defeats Oi Sadataka
1544	Italian War of 1542–1546	Battle of Ceresole		11 April	French forces defeat Holy Roman Empire in Italy.
		Battle of Serravalle		2-4 June	Spanish and Holy Roman Empire defeat Italian mercenaries.
		Siege of Saint-Dizier		10 July—17 Aug	The Holy Roman Empire captures Saint-Dizier from France.
		First Siege of Boulogne		19 July—18 Sep	English forces capture Boulogne.
	Scottish clan wars	Battle of the Shirts		July	Scottish clan battle.
	Italian War of 1542–1546	Second Siege of Boulogne		Oct	French forces unsuccessfully besiege the town.
		Battle of Sammel			Victory for the Sur Empire against the Kingdom of Marwar.
	Toungoo–Ava War	Battle of Salin			Tabinshwehti and Bayinnaung take Confederation of Shan States city in three days deep into their territory.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Kojinyama			Takeda Shingen continues his conquest of Ima Valley, Shinano Province.
1545	War of the Rough Wooing	Battle of Ancrum Moor		27 Feb	Scottish victory over the English.
	Italian War of 1542–1546	Battle of the Solent		18-19 July	Indecisive naval battle between France and England, English flagship Mary Rose sinks.
		Battle of Bonchurch		July	French invade Isle of Wight and are repulsed.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan	Battle of Kawagoe		Oct 1545—19 May 1546	Hōjō forces defeat the Uesugi, foiling a siege.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Takatō			Takeda Shingen defeats Takatō Yoritsugu, taking his castle.
		Siege of Ryūgasaki			The Takeda family defeats Tozawa Yorichika.
1546	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Iñaquito		18 Jan	The army of Gonzalo Pizarro defeats the army of the hated viceroy Blasco Núñez Vela, who was killed.
	Arauco War	Battle of Quilacura		11 Feb	Spain defeats the Mapuche.
1547	Taungoo–Mrauk-U War	Battle of Mrauk U		23 Jan	Taongoo led by Tabinshwehti fail to take capital of the Kingdom of Mrauk U.
	Schmalkaldic War	Battle of Mühlberg		24 April	Emperor Charles V captures elector of Saxony and lays siege to Wittenberg.
		Battle of Drakenburg		23 May	The German Protestant Schmalkaldic League defeats the German imperial and German Roman Catholic forces.
	Rough Wooing	Battle of Pinkie		10 Sep	Earl of Hertford guardian of Edward VI crushes Scottish resistance.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Huarina		20 Oct	The army of Gonzalo Pizarro defeats the army of viceroy Diego Centeno, newly appointed by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
	Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Perlis River		6 Dec	A Portuguese fleet defeats the Aceh Sultanate.
	Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Bharuch			Portugal defeats the Gujarat Sultanate.
1548	Campaigns of the Takeda	Battle of Uedahara		14 Feb	Takeda Shingen defeats Murakami Yoshikiyo.
		Battle of al-Shihr		7 Apr	Portugal and the Mahra Sultanate defeat Kathiri.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Jaquijahuana		9 April	Loyalists sent by the Crown of Spain to depose Gonzalo Pizarro as governor of Peru defeat and capture him.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Battle of Shirojiritoge		22 Aug	Takeda Shingen surprises and defeats Ogasawara Nagatoki in a dawn attack.
1549	Kett's Rebellion	Battle of Dussindale		27 Aug	Final battle putting an end of Kett's Rebellion, took place outside Norwich.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Fukashi			Takeda Shingen captures several of Nagatoki's castles, forcing him to flee to Kyoto.
	Burmese–Siamese wars	Battle of Ayutthaya			Tabinshwehti withdraws from attack on the Siamese capital.
		Battle of Kamphaeng Phet			Tabinshwehti takes advantage of Siam's eagerness to crush Toungoo's retreat to trap and defeat the Siamese. Prince Ramesuan and Maha Thammaracha captured.
		Battle of Vedalai			The Vijayanagara Empire captures Vedalai from Portugal.
1550	Arauco War	Battle of Andalien		6 Feb	The Mapuche are defeated by the Spanish.
		Battle of Penco		12 March
	Spanish–Ottoman wars	Capture of Mahdia		28 June—Sep	Spain captures Mahdia.
	Protestant Reformation	Battle of Sauðafell		2 Oct	Jón Arason, the last Catholic Bishop of Iceland, is defeated and captured.

Late 16th century (1551–1600)

Year	War	Battle	Loc.	Date(s)	Description
1551	Italian War of 1551–1559	Siege of Mirandola		July 1551—March 1552	Pope Julius III besieges town then withdraws.
	Ottoman-Habsburg wars and Italian War of 1551–1559	Siege of Tripoli		15 Aug	The garrison of the Knights of Malta in the fortress of Tripoli surrender to Ottoman besiegers after a bombardment lasting six days.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Sieges of Toishi			Takeda Shingen takes the castle of Toishi after besieging it multiple times starting in 1550.
1552	Ottoman–Habsburg War	Siege of Temesvár		24 June—27 July	Ottoman Empire captures town
		Battle of Palást		5 Aug	The Ottoman Empire defeats the Holy Roman Empire.
	Italian War of 1551–1559	Battle of Ponza		10–11 Aug	Franco-Ottoman fleet defeats Genoese fleet.
	Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts	Capture of Muscat		Aug	Muscat captured from Portuguese by Ottoman fleet.
	Russo-Kazan Wars	Siege of Kazan		2 Sep—13 Oct	Ivan the Terrible defeats the Kazan Khanate.
	Ottoman–Habsburg War	Siege of Eger		9 Sep—17 Oct	Hungarian victory over Ottoman Turks.
	Italian War of 1551–1559	Siege of Metz		Oct 1552—Jan 1553	Unsuccessful siege by Holy Roman Empire.
1553	Campaigns of the Takeda and of Uesugi Kenshin	First Battle of Kawanakajima		June	indecisive battle between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin.
	Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560)	Battle of the Bay of Velez		5 Jul	A fleet of the Regency of Algiers defeats Portugal.
	Second Margrave War	Battle of Sievershausen		9 July	Maurice, Elector of Saxony and Duke Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg defeat Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
		Siege of Kulmbach and Plassenburg  [ de ]		22 Nov 1553—22 June 1554	A German imperial army captures Kulmbach on 26 November and massacres the population. The castle Plassenburg surrenders with Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
	Arauco War	Battle of Tucapel		25 Dec	Mapuche defeat Spanish conquistadors.
	Second Margrave War	Siege of Hof			A German imperial army captures Hof from Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Katsurao			Takeda Shingen captures fortress.
1554	Arauco War	Battle of Marihueñu		23 Feb	Mapuche defeat Spanish conquistador Francisco de Villagra.
	Second Margrave War	Battle of Schwarzach  [ de ]		13 June	A German imperial army defeats Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
	Italian War of 1551–1559	Battle of Marciano		2 Aug	Florence finally defeats Siena.
	Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of the Gulf of Oman		10-25 Aug	Portuguese destroy Ottoman fleet.
	Italian War of 1551–1559	Battle of Renty		12 Aug	Francis, Duke of Guise repels an Imperial invasion of Picardy.
	Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco	Battle of Tadla		Sep	Saadi dynasty defeat Wattasids.
	Campaigns of the Mōri clan	Battle of Oshikibata			Mōri clan defeat Sue Harukata.
1555	Russo-Swedish War	Battle of Kivinebb		11 March	Swedish victory over Russians
	Humayun Campaign	Battle at Machhiwara		15 May	Mughal Empire defeats Suri Empire
		Battle of Sirhind		22 June	Mughal Empire has decisive victory over the Suri Empire
	Campaigns of the Takeda and of Uesugi Kenshin	Second Battle of Kawanakajima		Aug—Nov	Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin
	Spanish–Ottoman wars	Capture of Bougie		16-28 Sep	Ottomans capture Béjaïa from Spain
	Campaigns of the Mōri clan	Battle of Miyajima		16 Oct	Mōri clan defeat Ōuchi clan on sacred island of Miyajima
	Scottish clan wars	Battle of Garbharry			Battle fought between Clan MacKay and Clan Sutherland
1556	Muromachi period	Battle of Nagara-gawa		April	Saitō Yoshitatsu defeats father Saitō Dōsan
	Arauco War	Battle of Peteroa		June—July	Spanish victory over Manuche
	Spanish–Ottoman wars	Siege of Oran		Aug	Ottoman troops besiege the Spanish garrison in Oran
	Humayun Campaign	Battle of Tughlaqabad		7 Oct	Hemu defeats Mughal forces and occupies Delhi
		Second battle of Panipat		5 Nov	Akbar the Great defeats Hemu
	Georgian-Safavid wars	Battle of Garisi			Georgia defeats Safavid Empire, King Luarsab I of Kartli falls in battle
1557	Campaigns of the Takeda and of Uesugi Kenshin	Third Battle of Kawanakajima			Takeda Shingen repelled by Uesugi Kenshin.
	Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco	Campaign of Tlemcen			Ottoman vassal the Regency of Algiers defeats the Moroccan Saadi dynasty.
	Italian War of 1551–1559	Battle of St. Quentin		10 Aug	Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy defeats Anne de Montmorency.
	Arauco War	Battle of Lagunillas		8 Nov	Spanish defeat Mapuche.
		Battle of Millarapue		30 Nov
	Sinhalese–Portuguese War	Siege of Kotte		Nov 1557—Nov 1558	Sitawaka besiege Portuguese. Portuguese break out.
1558	Italian War of 1551–1559	Siege of Calais		7 Jan	France capture the city from the English.
	Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco	Battle of Wadi al-Laban		March—April	Between Moroccos and Ottomans. Ottomans retreat.
	Italian War of 1551–1559	Siege of Thionville		27 April—23 June	France conquers Thionville from Spain.
	Livonian War	Siege of Narva		April—May	Russians besiege Narva.
	Italian War of 1551–1559	Battle of Gravelines		13 July	Spain defeats France.
		Ottoman invasion of the Balearic Islands		July	Ottomans capture Balearic Islands during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
	Spanish–Ottoman wars	Mostaganem Expedition		Aug—Sep	Spanish forces fail to capture Mostaganem from the Ottomans.
	Arauco War	Battle of Quiapo		13 Dec	Spanish defeat Mapuche.
		Battle of Rio de Janeiro			Portuguese destroy French settlement of Henriville.
1559	Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts	Siege of Bahrain		July—Nov	Portuguese successfully defend island from Ottoman siege.
		Battle of Spancel Hill			Sir Donnell O'Brien defeats Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond and his ally Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde in County Clare.
	Sinhalese–Portuguese War	Battle of Mulleriyawa			Kingdom of Sitawaka defeats Portuguese.
1560	The Reformation	Battle of Glasgow		18 March	Lords of the Congregation defeat French.
	Spanish–Ottoman wars	Battle of Djerba		9–14 May	Ottoman fleet defeats Holy League.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga and of Tokugawa Ieyasu	Battle of Okehazama		12 June	Oda Nobunaga's small forces ambush and slay warlord Imagawa Yoshimoto.
		Siege of Marune			Forces of Imagawa Yoshimoto defeat forces of Oda Nobunaga. Led to the Battle of Okehazama.
	Campaigns of Azai Nagamasa	Battle of Norada			In Japan, the Azai clan gains its independence from the Rokkaku.
	Livonian War	Battle of Ērģeme			Russian Tsardom defeats Livonian Confederacy so decisively that the Livonian Order was disbanded.
	Portuguese colonial campaigns	Invasion of Jaffna			Portuguese invade Kingdom of Jaffna.
1561	Campaigns of the Takeda and of Uesugi Kenshin	Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima		18 Oct	Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
	Campaigns of the Mōri clan	Siege of Moji			Mōri clan break siege by Ōtomo Sōrin and Portuguese traders.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan and of Uesugi Kenshin	Siege of Odawara			Hōjō clan resist siege by Uesugi Kenshin.
1562	Livonian War	Battle of Nevel		19 Aug	Tactical Polish victory over Russia.
	First French War of Religion	Battle of Vergt		9 Oct	French Royalists and Spain defeat French Huguenots.
	Mary, Queen of Scots Civil Wars	Battle of Corrichie		28 Oct	Victory for Queen Mary's forces.
	First French War of Religion	Battle of Dreux		19 Dec	Catholics versus Huguenots in France. Both leaders captured.
	Sinhalese–Portuguese War	Battle of Mulleriyawa			Sitawaka forces defeat Portuguese near Colombo.
1563		Battle of Lincoya Fortress		16 Jan	Mapuche capture Lincoya Fortress from Spain.
	First French War of Religion	Siege of Orléans		5-19 Feb	Catholics besiege Protestants.
	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir		April—June	Spanish victory.
	Northern Seven Years' War	Battle of Bornholm		30 May	Naval battle between Denmark and Sweden.
		Capture of Älvsborg		4 Sep	Danes capture Älvsborg.
		Battle of Öland		11 Sep	Naval battle between Denmark and Sweden.
		Battle of Mared		9 Nov	Danes beat Swedes.
	Campaigns of the Takeda and of the Hōjō clan	Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama			Combined Takeda clan-Hōjō clan army regain Musashi-Matsuyama castle
1564	Campaigns of Tokugawa Ieyasu	Battle of Azukizaka		15 Jan	Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the Ikkō-ikki.
	Livonian War	Battle of Ula		26 Jan	Lithuanians defeat Russians.
	Arauco War	Siege of Concepción		1 Feb—1 April	Mapuche besiege Spanish.
	Burmese–Siamese War	Siege of Ayutthaya		Feb	Toungoo dynasty under Bayinnaung decisively defeats Siam and their Portuguese mercenaries. Ayutthaya Kingdom becomes vassal state of Toungoo.
	Northern Seven Years' War	First battle of Öland		30-31 May	Danish fleet beat Swedish fleet.
	Arauco War	Battle of Angol		25 March	Spain defeats the Mapuche.
		Battle of Vescovato		5 July	Corsican rebels under Sampiero Corso defeat Genoa.
	Campaigns of the Takeda and of Uesugi Kenshin	Fifth Battle of Kawanakajima		Sep—Nov	Indecisive battle between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan	Battle of Kōnodai			Hōjō clan forces defeat the forces of Satomi Yoshihiro.
1565	Deccani–Vijayanagar wars	Battle of Talikota		26 Jan	Deccan sultanates defeat Vijayanagara Empire.
	Private war between Fitzgeralds and Butlers	Battle of Affane		Feb	Butlers beat the Geraldines.
	Irish Clan Wars	Battle of Glentaisie		2 May	O'Neills defeat Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg.
	Spanish–Ottoman wars and Ottoman–Habsburg wars	Siege of Malta		18 May—8 Sep	Knights of Malta defeat Turkish forces.
	Northern Seven Years' War	Battle of Rügen		21 May	Swedish Fleet beats Danish fleet.
	Portuguese colonial campaigns	Battle of Fukuda Bay		18 Oct	Two Portuguese trade vessels repel attack by forces of Matsura Takanobu.
	Northern Seven Years' War	Battle of Axtorna		20 Oct	Danes beat the Swedes.
1566	Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1565–1568	Battle of Szigetvár		6 Aug—8 Sep	2,300 Hungarian defenders are annihilated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the Ottoman Empire.
	Northern Seven Years' War	Battle of Brobacka		9 Aug	Swedish army ambushes and defeats Danish army.
	Eighty Years’ War	Siege of Valenciennes		14 Dec 1566—23 March 1567	Spain captures Valenciennes from Calvinist rebels.
		Battle of Wattrelos		27 Dec	Spain defeats rebel Calvinists.
		Battle of Lannoy		29 Dec
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Minowa			Takeda Shingen captures Minowa castle from Uesugi clan.
1567	Portuguese colonial campaigns	Battle of Rio de Janeiro		20 Jan	Portuguese finally defeat French colony.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Oosterweel		13 March	Traditionally seen as the beginning of the Eighty Years' War. Spain defeats Dutch rebels.
	Irish Clan Wars	Battle of Farsetmore		8 May	Part of the Clan war between the O'Neills and the O'Donnells.
	Marian civil war	Battle of Carberry Hill		15 June	Mary, Queen of Scots forces defeated by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton and James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga	Siege of Inabayama Castle		13-27 Sep	Oda Nobunaga defeats the Saito clan and takes control of Inabayama Castle and Mino province.
	Mughal-Rajput War	Siege of Chittorgarh		Oct	Mughal forces successfully besiege Rajputs in Chittor Fort.
	Second French War of Religion	Battle of Saint-Denis		10 Nov	16,000 Royalists defeat 5,000 Huguenots near Paris.
	Georgian–Safavid wars	Battle of Digomi			Georgian king Simon I of Kartli repulses Persian attack near Tbilisi.
	Spanish colonization of the Americas	Battle of Maracapana			Spanish defeat coalition of tribes led by Guaicaipuro.
1568	Second French War of Religion	Siege of Chartres		28 Feb—15 March	Huguenots besiege Royalists.
	Eighty Years War	Battle of Dahlen		25 April	Dutch attempt to conquer Roermond.
	Marian civil war	Battle of Langside		13 May	James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray defeats the forces of his half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, forcing her to flee to England.
	Eighty Years War	Battle of Heiligerlee		23 May	Dutch army ambushes Spanish army.
		Battle on the Ems  [ nl ]			A fleet of the Geuzen defeats Spain.
		Siege of Groningen  [ nl ]		June—15 July	Dutch army fails to take Groningen from Spain.
		Battle of Jemmingen		21 July	Spanish army under the Duke of Alva defeats the Dutch army.
	Second Anglo-Spanish trade war	Battle of San Juan de Ulúa		23 Sep	Spanish fleet defeats English privateers.
	Dutch Revolt	Battle of Jodoigne		20 Oct	Spain defeats Dutch army.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan and of the Takeda	Siege of Hachigata			Takeda Shingen is unable to take a Hōjō fortress.
	Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts	Siege of Malacca			Sultan of Aceh attacks Portuguese-held Malacca and is defeated.
1569	Arauco War	Battle of Catirai		7 Jan	Mapuche defeat Spanish.
	Mughal-Rajput War	Siege of Ranthambore		8 Feb—21 March	Mughal forces capture Ranthambore Fort.
	Second French War of Religion	Battle of Jarnac		13 March	French Catholic forces defeat French Huguenots.
		Battle of La Roche-l'Abeille		25 June	French Huguenots defeat French Catholic forces.
		Battle of Orthez		24 Aug	Huguenots defeat Royalist forces.
		Battle of Moncontour		3 Oct	French Catholic forces defeat French Huguenots decisively.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan and of Uesugi Kenshin	Siege of Odawara			Takeda Shingen's forces burn the Hōjō clan controlled town.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan and of the Takeda	Battle of Mimasetoge			Takeda Shingen escapes a trap set for him by the Hōjō clan.
		Siege of Kanbara			Takeda Katsuyori successfully besieges and captures Kanbara castle.
1570	Spanish colonization of the Philippines	Battle of Manila		24 May	Martin de Goiti decisively defeats the Rajahnate of Maynila and annexes the Philippines for the Spanish Empire.
	Campaigns of Azai Nagamasa, of Tokugawa Ieyasu, of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and of Oda Nobunaga	Battle of Anegawa		30 July	Nobunaga joins forces with Tokugawa Ieyasu to defeat the Asakura and Azai.
	Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War	Siege of Famagusta		17 Sep 1570—5 Aug 1571	Ottoman Turks besiege and capture Famagusta.
	Clan Cameron-Clan Mackintosh feud	Battle of Bun Garbhain			Clan Cameron decisively defeat the Clan Mackintosh.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga	Siege of Chōkō-ji			Unsuccessful attempt to retake a castle captured by Oda Nobunaga.
	Campaigns of Azai Nagamasa, of Tokugawa Ieyasu and of Oda Nobunaga	Siege of Kanegasaki			Forces of Oda Nobunaga capture Kanegasaki fortress.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Hanazawa			Takeda clan captures Hanazawa castle from Imagawa clan.
1571	Arauco War	Battle of Purén  [ es ]		28 Jan	The Mapuche defeat Spain.
	Russo-Crimean Wars and Russo-Turkish wars	Fire of Moscow		24 May	Crimean Tatars burn Moscow.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga	First siege of Nagashima		May	Unsuccessful attempt by Nobunaga to take the fortress.
	Spanish colonization of the Philippines	Battle of Bangkusay Channel		3 June	Spanish settler fleet defeats local Kapampangan fleet.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga and of Azai Nagamasa	Siege of Mount Hiei		30 Sep	Nobunaga defeats the Tendai Warrior Monks and razes their temple complex.
	Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War	Battle of Lepanto		7 Oct	Spain and Venice's fleets defeat the Ottoman fleet.
	Clan Gordon – Clan Forbes feud and Marian civil war	Battle of Tillieangus		10 Oct	Clan Gordon overcomes Clan Forbes.
		Battle of Craibstone		20 Nov	Clan Gordon overcomes Clan Forbes again.
	Campaigns of the Hōjō clan and of the Takeda	Siege of Fukazawa			Takeda Shingen captures Fukazawa from Hōjō clan.
	Campaigns of Uesugi Kenshin	Battle of Tonegawa			Unresolved conflict between Uesugi forces and Takeda forces.
1572	Eighty Years' War	Capture of Brielle		1 April	Marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years' War.
	Campaigns of the Shimazu clan	Battle of Kizaki		June	Forces of Shimazu Takahisa defeated the larger army of Itō Yoshisuke in Japan.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Mons		June—Sep	Successful Spanish siege of Dutch held town.
		Battle of Saint-Ghislain  [ nl ]			Spanish army defeats a Dutch army.
	Russo-Crimean Wars and Russo-Turkish wars	Battle of Molodi		29 July—2 Aug	The Crimean Tatars and Ottoman Janissaries are routed by Russians near Moscow.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Kampen  [ nl ]		9-11 Aug	Dutch rebels under Willem IV van den Bergh capture Kampen from Spain.
		Relief of Goes		20 Oct	Spanish raise the Dutch siege of Goes.
	Fourth French War of Religion	Siege of La Rochelle		Nov 1572—July 1573	Catholic troops besiege Protestant Huguenots. Negotiated settlement.
		Siege of Sancerre		Nov 1572—Aug 1573	Catholic forces besieged Protestant Huguenots. Siege abandoned.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Middelburg		Nov 1572—Feb 1574	Dutch rebel army successfully besieged Middelburg, held by Spanish forces under Cristóbal de Mondragón.
		Siege of Haarlem		11 Dec 1572—13 July 1573	Spanish successfully besiege Protestant garrison at Haarlem.
	Campaigns of the Takeda and of Tokugawa Ieyasu	Siege of Futamata			Takeda Shingen captures one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's fortresses.
1573	Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Iwamura		Early 1573	Takeda Shingen's forces led by Akiyama Nobutomo capture Iwamura castle
	Campaigns of Tokugawa Ieyasu and of Oda Nobunaga	Battle of Mikatagahara		25 Jan	Tokugawa Ieyasu is forced to retreat from Takeda Shingen.
	Livonian War	Battle of Lode		Jan	Swedes defeat Russians.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Flushing		17 April	Dutch rebels manage to capture 5 Spanish ships.
		Battle of Borsele		22 April	A Spanish fleet under Sancho d'Avila is forced to retreat by a Dutch fleet under Admiral Worst.
		Battle of Haarlemmermeer		26 May	The Dutch failed in an attempt to break the siege of Haarlem.
	Campaigns of the Takeda	Siege of Noda		May	Takeda Shingen is killed.
	Eighty Years' War	Capture of Geertruidenberg		28 Aug	English, French Huguenot and Fleming forces capture Geertruidenberg from Franco-Spanish Catholic garrison.
		Siege of Alkmaar		Aug—Oct	Dutch garrison fight off Spanish force under Don Fadrique.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga and of Azai Nagamasa	Siege of Ichijo ga dani		Sep	Nobunaga effectively destroys the Asakura.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle on the Zuiderzee		11 Oct	Dutch fleet destroyed a larger and better-equipped Spanish fleet on the Zuiderzee.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga, of Azai Nagamasa and of Toyotomi Hideyoshi	Siege of Odani		Oct	Nobunaga defeats Azai Nagamasa, effectively destroying the Azai family.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Delft		Oct	Anglo-Dutch force under Thomas Morgan repels Spanish force under Francisco de Valdez.
		Siege of Leiden		Oct 1573—3 Oct 1574	Spanish under Francisco de Valdez unsuccessfully besiege Leiden.
1574		Battle of Reimerswaal		29 Jan	Sancho d'Avila's attempt to resupply his troops ends up in the destruction of his fleet by Anglo-Dutch forces.
		Capture of Valkenburg		Feb	English troops surrender Valkenburg Castle in Holland to Spanish forces.
		Battle of Mookerheyde		14 April	Spanish army decisively beats the Dutch Army.
		Battle of Lillo		30 May	Lodewijk van Boisot with 64 Dutch ships destroys the Spanish fleet near Antwerp.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga	Second siege of Nagashima		July	Nobunaga's second attempt is foiled by a counter-attack.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Zaltbommel		July—14 Oct	Spain fails to capture Zaltbommel from the Dutch.
	Spanish–Ottoman wars	Conquest of Tunis		13 Sep	Ottoman Empire finally defeats Spanish Empire for control of North Africa.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Zoetermeer  [ nl ]		17 Sep	The Dutch defeat Spain.
	Spanish colonization of the Philippines	Battle of Manila		29 Nov	Spanish under Juan de Salcedo and Don Galo decisively defeat Chinese pirates.
	Campaigns of Tokugawa Ieyasu	Battle of Takatenjin			Takeda Katsuyori, son of Takeda Shingen, captures Tokugawa Ieyasu's fortress of Takatenjin.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga	Siege of Itami			Nobunaga defeats Araki Murashige who had rebelled.
1575	Mughal invasion of Bengal	Battle of Tukaroi		3 March	Mughals defeat Sultanate of Bengal.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Buren  [ nl ]		28 June	Spain captures Buren from the Dutch.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga, of Tokugawa Ieyasu and of the Takeda	Battle of Nagashino			Nobunaga repels the forces of Takeda Katsuyori.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Oudewater		19 July—7 Aug	Spain captures Oudewater from the Dutch.
		Siege of Schoonhoven		11-24 Aug	Spain captures Schoonhoven from the Dutch.
		Siege of Bommenede  [ nl ]			Spain captures Bommenede from the Dutch.
		Siege of Woerden  [ nl ]		8 Sep 1575—10 Sep 1576	Spain fails to capture Woerden from the Dutch.
	Fourth French War of Religion	Battle of Dormans		10 Oct	French Royalists defeat French Malcontents.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Zierikzee		Oct 1575—29 July 1576	Spain captures Zierikzee from the Dutch.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga	Third siege of Nagashima			Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress.
1576	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Krimpen aan de Lek  [ nl ]		30 Jan—21 Feb	The Dutch capture Krimpen aan de Lek from Spain.
		Siege of Muiden  [ nl ]		9 May	The Dutch fail to capture Muiden from Spain.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga	Siege of Mitsuji		May	Honganji forces defeat Nobunaga's army, killing Harada Naomasa.
	Mughal–Rajput wars	Battle of Haldighati		18 June	Mughals defeat Mewar.
	Mughal invasion of Bengal	Battle of Rajmahal		12 July	Mughals led by Akbar decisively defeat the Bengal Sultanate, capture and later execute their last sultan Daud Khan Karrani.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga and of the Mōri clan	First Battle of Kizugawaguchi		Aug	Unsuccessful naval blockade by Nobunaga.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Vissenaken  [ nl ]		14 Sep	Spain defeats a rebel army of the Netherlands.
		Siege of Spanjaardenkasteel  [ nl ]		15 Sep—11 Nov	The Netherlands capture Spanjaardenkasteel from Spain.
		Siege of Vredenburg Castle  [ nl ]		21 Dec 1576—11 Feb 1577	The Union of Brussels captures Vredenburg Castle from Spain.
1577	War of the Gdańsk Rebellion	Battle of Lubieszów		17 April	Polish army defeats Danzig Rebellion army
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Breda  [ nl ]		4 Aug—4 Oct	The Dutch capture Breda from Spain.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga, of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and of Uesugi Kenshin	Battle of Tedorigawa		3 Nov	Nobunaga launches an unsuccessful attack on the forces of Uesugi Kenshin
		Siege of Penukonda			Sultanate of Bijapur unsuccessfully attempts to take Vijayanagara capital of Penukonda.
1578	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Gembloux		31 Jan	Don John of Austria crushes Protestant army.
		Siege of Zhichem  [ nl ]		20-24 Feb	Spain captures Zichem from the Union of Brussels.
		Siege of Nivelles  [ nl ]		8-12 March	Spain captures Nivelles from the Union of Brussels.
		Siege of Limbourg  [ nl ]		10-15 June	Spain captures Limbourg from the Union of Brussels.
		Siege of Kampen  [ nl ]		25 June-20 July	The Union of Brussels captures Kampen from Spain.
		Battle of Rijmenam		31 July	The Spanish forces were dealt a strategic defeat by the Dutch.
	Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts	Battle of Alcazarquivir		4 Aug	Moors defeat Portuguese army, kill King Sebastian of Portugal.
	Ottoman–Safavid War	Battle of Çıldır		9 Aug	Ottoman Turks defeat Safavid Persia and conquer the Caucasus.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Deventer		3 Aug—19 Nov	The Union of Brussels captures Deventer from Spain.
		Siege of Binche  [ nl ]		22 Sep—7 Oct	The Union of Brussels captures Binche from Spain.
	Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi	Siege of Miki		1578—1580	Hideyoshi captures Miki castle from Nagaharu
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga and of the Mōri clan	Second Battle of Kizugawaguchi			Nobunaga defeats the naval forces of the Mōri clan.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and of the Mōri clan	Siege of Kozuki			Hideyoshi is defeated by the Mōri clan.
1579	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Kerpen  [ nl ]		7-15 Jan	Spain captures Kerpen from the Dutch.
		Battle of Borgerhout			Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht.
		Siege of Maastricht		12 March—1 July	20,000 Spanish troops under Farnese captures the city defended by 2,000 Dutch soldiers and civilians.
		Battle of Baasrode  [ nl ]		14 Aug	Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht. William of Orange is nearly captured.
	Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi	Siege of Itami			Hideyoshi captures Itami castle from Araki Murashige.
1580	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Groningen (1580)  [ nl ]		3 March—18 June	The Union of Utrecht fails to capture Groningen from Spain.
		Battle of Hardenbergerheide  [ nl ]		17 June	Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht.
	War of the Portuguese Succession	Battle of Alcântara		25 Aug	Spanish candidate to the Portuguese throne defeats national candidate
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga	Siege of Ishiyama Honganji		Aug	Kōsa surrenders to Nobunaga after a ten-year siege
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Cambrai  [ nl ]		Sep 1580—17 Aug 1581	Spain fails to capture Cambrai from the Union of Utrecht and France.
		Siege of Steenwijk		18 Oct 1580—23 Feb 1581	Spain fails to capture Steenwijk from the Union of Utrecht.
	War of the Portuguese Succession	Capture of Porto		24 Oct	Mainland Portugal is secured by the Spanish
	Second Desmond Rebellion	Siege of Smerwick		7-10 Nov	English forces defeat freelance Papal States army that captured the Irish village and massacre most of the soldiers afterwards.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga and of the Takeda	Siege of Takatenjin		1580—22 March 1581	Oda Nobunaga captures Takeda controlled castle
1581	Campaigns of Oda	Siege of Tottori		May	Hideyoshi captures Tottori Castle. The castle's lord commits suicide.
	War of the Portuguese Succession	Battle of Salga		25 July	The Azores successfully resist a personal union with Spain.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Breda		26-27 July	Spanish troops took the Dutch city by surprise.
		Battle of Goor  [ nl ]		23 July—1 Aug	The Union of Utrecht fails to capture Goor from Spain.
		Battle of Noordhorn		30 Sep	Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht and England.
		Siege of Niezijl		3-24 Oct	Spain fails to capture Niezijl from the Union of Utrecht.
		Siege of Tournai  [ fr ]		10 Oct—30 Nov	Spain captures Tournai from the Union of Utrecht.
		Battle of Jilkua			Taraf annexed by Twipra Kingdom assisted by the Baro-Bhuiyan confederation.
1582	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga, of Tokugawa Ieyasu and of the Takeda	Battle of Temmokuzan		11 March	Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga destroy the forces of Takeda Katsuyori, who commits suicide.
	Ghent War	Siege of Oudenaarde		19 April—5 July	Spain captures Oudenaarde from the Union of Utrecht.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga, of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and of the Mōri clan	Siege of Takamatsu		April—June	Hideyoshi captures Takamatsu Castle. The lord of this castle also commits suicide.
	Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga	Battle of Honnō-ji		21 June	Nobunaga is defeated by Akechi Mitsuhide, who forces him to commit suicide.
	Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi	Battle of Yamazaki		2 July	Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide, the murderer of his master Oda Nobunaga.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Lochem		22 July—15 Sep	Spain fails to capture Lochem from the Union of Utrecht.
	War of the Portuguese Succession	Battle of Ponta Delgada		26 July	Spain wins a naval battle in the War of the Portuguese Succession.
	Eighty Years' War	Keppel Castle		26-30 Sep	The Union of Utrecht captures Keppel Castle from Spain.
	Russian conquest of Siberia	Battle of Chuvash Cape		4 Nov	Russians decisively defeat and conquer the Khanate of Sibir in Siberia.
	Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi	Battle of Uchide-hama			Hideyoshi again defeats Nobunaga's murderer, Akechi Mitsuhide.
1583	Pre-Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of São Vicente		3 Feb	Skirmish where three English ships defeated three Spanish galleons.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Eindhoven		7 Feb—23 April	Spain captures Eindhoven from the Union of Utrecht.
	Ottoman–Safavid War	Battle of Torches		9-11 May	Ottoman Turks defeat Safavid Persians at the end of three days of battle.
	Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi	Battle of Shizugatake		May	Hideyoshi relieves one of his allies who was under siege.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Steenbergen		17 June	Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht.
	War of the Portuguese Succession	Conquest of the Azores		2 Aug	Spain integrates the Habsburg dynasty as the rulers of Portugal.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Ghent		Oct 1583—17 Sep 1584	Spain captures Ghent from the Union of Utrecht.
	Cologne War	Battle of Hüls  [ de ]		19 Nov	German Calvinists defeat German Catholics.
1584	Eighty Years' War and Cologne War	Battle of Terborg  [ nl ]		31 March	Spain defeats the Electorate of Cologne, ally of the Union of Utrecht.
		Siege of Zutphen  [ nl ]		May—July	The Union of Utrecht fails to capture Zutphen from Spain.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Antwerp		July 1584—17 Aug 1585	Spain captures Antwerp from the Union of Utrecht.
		Siege of Brussels  [ nl ]		Aug 1584—10 March 1585	Spain captures Brussels from the Union of Utrecht.
	Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War	Battle of Slunj		26 Oct	Croatian army defeats forces of the invading Ottoman Empire.
	Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and of Tokugawa Ieyasu	Battle of Komaki and Nagakute			Hideyoshi is defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu
1585	Eighty Years' War	Battle on the Kouwensteinsedijk  [ nl ]		May	The Union of Utrecht fails to relieve Antwerp, and end the siege by the Spanish army.
		Battle of Amerongen  [ nl ]		23 June	Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht.
	Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, of the Chōsokabe clan and of the Mōri clan	Invasion of Shikoku		June—Aug	Hideyoshi conquers the island
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of IJsseloord		6-15 Oct	Dutch and English defeat Spain.
1586	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Santo Domingo		1 Jan	English under Francis Drake defeat and raid Spanish colony.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Boksum		17 Jan	Spain defeats The Netherlands.
	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Cartagena de Indias		9-11 Feb	Francis Drake defeats Spanish and plunders city.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Grave		Early April—7 June	Spain captures Grave after a treaty with the English and Dutch troops.
	Anglo-Spanish War	Raid on St. Augustine		27-29 May	Francis Drake devastates Spanish colony.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Venlo		28 June	Spain captures Venlo from The Netherlands.
		Battle of Leitao Coast		June	Arab Niquilus defeat Portugal
	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Pantelleria		13 July	The English navy defeats Spain and Malta.
	Eighty Years' War and Cologne War	Siege of Rheinberg		13 Aug 1586—3 Feb 1590	Spain captures Rheinberg, a rebel protestant stronghold in the Electorate of Cologne defended by Dutch and English troops.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Zutphen		22 Sep	Spanish defeat Dutch rebels.
		Siege of Zutphen  [ nl ]		Sep—Oct	The Netherlands and England fail to capture Zutphen from Spain.
1587	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Sluis		12 June—4 Aug	Spain captures Sluis from The Netherlands.
	War of the Three Henrys	Battle of Coutras		20 Oct	Huguenot forces defeat the French Royal Army.
		Battle of Vimory		26 Oct	French Royalist forces defeat foreign Huguenot forces.
1588	War of the Polish Succession	Battle of Byczyna		24 Jan	A Polish faction defeats a Habsburg faction.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Medemblik  [ nl ]		27 Feb—29 April	The Netherlands capture Medemblik from rebel commander Diederik Sonoy and English soldiers.
	Cologne War	Siege of Bonn		March—24 Sep	Spain captures Bonn, capital of the Electorate of Cologne, for the Catholic archbishop Ernest of Bavaria from German Calvinists, supporting Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, the former archbishop, who had converted to Calvinism.
		Battle of Gravelines		29 July	Spanish Armada beaten decisively in battle against the English and Dutch fleet.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Bergen op Zoom		23 Sep—13 Nov	Spain fails to capture Bergen op Zoom from The Netherlands.
1589	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Heusden  [ nl ]		Summer—Oct	Spain fails to capture Heusden from The Netherlands.
	Succession of Henry IV of France and Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Arques		15-29 Sep	King Henry IV of France and England defeat the French Catholic League.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Zoutkamp  [ nl ]		5-9 Oct	The Netherlands capture Zoutkamp from Spain.
1590		Capture of Breda		4 March	The Netherlands and England capture Breda from Spain.
		Battle of Tondibi		13 March	Saadi dynasty of Morocco decisively defeats the Songhai Empire, leading to its collapse.
	Succession of Henry IV of France and Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Ivry		14 March	Henri IV of Navarre defeats Catholic League.
	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar		24 April	English secure passage of company ships after defeating Spain.
	Succession of Henry IV of France	Siege of Paris		7 May—30 Aug	King Henry IV of France, England and French Huguenots fail to capture Paris from the French Catholic League, aided by Spain. Paris was a staunch supporter of the Catholic cause.
	Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, of Tokugawa Ieyasu, of the Mōri clan, of the Chōsokabe clan, of the Shimazu clan and of the Hōjō clan	Siege of Odawara		May—4 Aug	the Go-Hōjō clan surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Japan was unified (1590).
	Campaigns of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, of the Mōri clan, of the Chōsokabe clan and of the Hōjō clan	Siege of Shimoda		May—Aug	Hideyoshi's forces successfully besiege Hōjō clan.
1591	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar		24 April	The English navy defeats Spain.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Zutphen		19-30 May	The Netherlands and England capture Zutphen from Spain.
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Deventer		1-10 June	The Netherlands and England capture Deventer from Spain.
	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of the Berlengas		15 July	The Spanish navy defeats England.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Knodsenburg		21-25 July	The Netherlands and England capture Knodsenburg from Spain.
	Mughal conquest of Gujarat	Battle of Bhuchar Mori		July	Mughal Empire defeated combined Kathiawar forces led by Nawanagar State
	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Flores		30 Aug—1 Sep	Spain defeats England.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of the Gulf of Almería		Late Aug	The Spanish navy defeats The Netherlands and England.
	War of the Three Henrys	Battle of Pontcharra  [ fr ]		17 Sep	France defeats Savoy
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Hulst		20-24 Sep	The Netherlands capture Hulst from Spain.
		Siege of Nijmegen		17-21 Oct	The Netherlands and England capture Nijmegen from Spain.
	Succession of Henry IV of France and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Rouen		11 Nov 1591—20 April 1592	King Henry IV of France, England and The Netherlands fail to capture Rouen from the French Catholic League. Spain helped defend the city.
1592	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Flores		20 May—13 Aug	The English navy defeats Spain.
	Succession of Henry IV of France and Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Craon		21-24 May	Spain and the French Catholic League defeat French royalists and England.
	Imjin War	Siege of Busan		24-25 May	Japanese defeat Koreans. Occurred 13-14 April on the Lunar Calendar.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Steenwijk		30 May—5 July	The Netherlands and England capture Steenwijk from Spain.
	Imjin War	Battle of Sangju		3 June	Konishi Yukinaga defeats the Koreans under Yi Il. Occurred 25 April on the Lunar calendar.
		Battle of Ch'ungju		7 June	Japanese forces decisively defeat the Koreans. Occurred 28 April on the Lunar calendar.
		Battle of Okpo		16 June	The Korean Navy defeats a Japanese convoy. Occurred 7 May on the Lunar calendar.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Coevorden		26 July—2 Sep	The Netherlands and England capture Coevorden from Spain.
	Imjin War	Battle of Hansan Island		14 Aug	Korean Navy defeats Japanese Navy.
		Battle of Busan		1 Nov	Korean Navy could not recapture Busan from Japan.
		Siege of Jinju		8-13 Nov	Siege of Jinju Fortress. Commander Kim Si-min repulses the Japanese commander Hosokawa Tadaoki, due to the arrival of a Korean relief force led by Gwak Jae-u.
	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of the Bay of Biscay		Nov	The Spanish navy defeats England.
1593	Imjin War	Battle of Byeokjegwan		27 Jan	battle between Japan and China in Seoul. The Japanese army led by Ukita Hideie and Kobayakawa Takakage defeated the Ming Chinese army under Li Rusong.
		Siege of Pyongyang		6-8 Feb	Ming Chinese general Li Rusong defeats Konishi Yukinaga. Japan is expelled from Pyongyang.
		Battle of Haengju		14 March	The Korean army under commander Gwon Yul defenders were successful in repelling the Japanese forces.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Geertruidenberg		27 March—24 June	The Netherlands and England capture Geertruidenberg from Spain.
	Anglo-Spanish War and Succession of Henry IV of France	Battle of Blaye		18 April	The Spanish navy defeats England and French royalists.
	Long Turkish War and Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War	Battle of Sisak		22 June	Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat forces of the Ottoman Empire.
	Imjin War	Siege of Jinju		20-27 July	Japanese defeat Koreans.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Coevorden		Oct 1593—7 May 1594	Spain fails to capture Coevorden from The Netherlands.
	Johnstone-Maxwell feud	Battle of Dryfe Sands		6 Dec	A clash between Clan Maxwell and Clan Johnstone.
	Burmese–Siamese War	Battle of Nong Sa Rai			Thai Ayutthaya Kingdom under Naresuan defeats final attempt to keep Siam subjugated by Nanda Bayin. Naresuan regains independence for the Ayutthaya Kingdom from Toungoo.
1594	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Groningen		19 May—22 July	The Netherlands and England capture Groningen from Spain.
	Sinhalese–Portuguese conflicts	Campaign of Danture		5 July—9 Oct	Kingdom of Kandy stops Portuguese incursion into Sri Lanka.
	Scottish clan feuds	Battle of Glenlivet		3 Oct	Religious clan battle.
	Anglo-Spanish War and Succession of Henry IV of France	Siege of Fort Crozon		13 Oct—19 Nov	England and France capture a Spanish fort, used as an outpost for naval attacks on England.
1595	Franco-Spanish War	Battle of Fontaine-Française		5 June	King Henry IV of France defeats Spain and the French Catholic League.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Groenlo		14-24 July	The Netherlands and England fail to capture Groenlo from Spain.
	Long Turkish War	Battle of Călugăreni		23 Aug	Wallachia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of the Lippe		3 Sep	Spain defeats The Netherlands and England.
	Long Turkish War	Battle of Giurgiu		27-30 Oct	Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldavia and the Holy Roman Empire defeat the Ottoman Empire.
	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Guadelupe Island		8 Nov	The Spanish navy defeats England.
		Battle of San Juan
1596		Battle of Pinos		11 March
	Franco-Spanish War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Calais		8-24 April	Spain captures Calais from France.
	Anglo-Spanish War	Capture of Cadiz		30 June—15 July	Anglo-Dutch forces seize the Spanish city of Cádiz.
	Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War	Battle of Brest, Croatia		19 Sep	Croatian army defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire forcing the latter to lift the siege of Petrinja.
	Long Turkish War	Battle of Keresztes		24-26 Oct	Ottoman Empire defeats Austria-Hungary and Germany.
1597	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of Turnhout		24 Jan	Dutch troops defeat Spanish cavalry
	Franco-Spanish War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Amiens		13 May—25 Sep	France and England defeat Spain.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Rheinberg		9-19 Aug	The Netherlands and England capture Rheinberg from Spain.
	Imjin War	Battle of Chilcheollyang		28 Aug	Japanese Navy decisively defeat Korean Navy
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Groenlo		11–28 Sep	The Netherlands and England capture Groenlo from Spain.
	Imjin War	Siege of Namwon		23-26 Sep	Japanese defeat Korean and Chinese alliance force
	Eighty Years' War	Siege of Bredevoort		1-10 Oct	The Netherlands and England capture Bredevoort from Spain.
	Imjin War	Battle of Myeongnyang		26 Oct	Korean Navy defeats Japanese navy
1598		Siege of Ulsan		29 Jan—19 Feb	Japanese defeat Korean and Chinese alliance force.
	Anglo-Spanish War	Battle of San Juan		15-30 June	England defeats Spain in Puerto Rico and takes their castle, they retreat 65 days later but burn San Juan to the ground.
	Nine Years' War	Battle of the Yellow Ford		14 Aug	Irish under Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, destroy English force.
	War against Sigismund	Battle of Stångebro		25 Sep	Sigismund loses the Swedish crown to his uncle, Duke Charles.
		Siege of Rheinberg		2-14 Oct	Spain captures Rheinberg from the Netherlands.
	Imjin War	Battle of Sacheon		6-11 Nov	Japanese army defeats Korean army.
		Battle of Noryang Point		16 Dec	Ming Chinese and Korean Navy decisively defeat the Japanese army.
	Arauco War	Battle of Curalaba		23 Dec	The Mapuche defeat Spain.
1599		Battle of Jenné		26 April	Saadi dynasty of Morocco decisively defeats the Mali Empire, leading to its collapse.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Schenckenschans		28 April—May	Spain fails to capture Schenkenschanz from The Netherlands.
		Siege of Zaltbommel		15 May—22 July	Spain fails to capture Zaltbommel from The Netherlands.
	Nine Years' War	Battle of Curlew Pass		15 Aug	Irish forces defeat the English.
	Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War	Siege of Rees		10-12 Sep	A Protestant German army and a Dutch army fail to capture Rees from Spain.
	Long Turkish War	Battle of Șelimbăr		18 Oct	Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the army of Andrew Báthory.
	Georgian–Ottoman Wars	Battle of Nakhiduri			An invading Ottoman army defeats and captures the King Simon I of Kartli.
1600	War of the Straits	Battle of Castro		May	Spain defeats The Netherlands and reconquers Chiloé Island.
	Eighty Years' War	Battle of Nieuwpoort		2 July	Battle between Dutch (led by Prince Maurits) and Spanish army, led by Albrecht, archduke of Austria. Dutch victory.
	Long Turkish War	Battle of Mirăslău		18 Sep	The Holy Roman Empire and Hungarian nobility defeat Wallachia.
	Sekigahara Campaign	Battle of Sekigahara		21 Oct	Japanese General Ieyasu defeats three regents of the son of Hideyoshi in the most important battle in Japanese history – he later establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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