List of battles 1301–1600

Early 14th century (1301-50)

Year	Battle	Description
1302	Battle of the Golden Spurs	11 July – In Flanders, Flemish burghers led by William of Jülich and Pieter de Coninck defeat French knights.
1302	Battle of Bapheus	27 July – The founder of the Ottoman Dynasty Osman I defeats a Byzantine force.
1303	Battle of Dimbos	Ottomans defeat Byzantine governors.
1304	Second Siege of Stirling Castle	April – July – Edward I besieges the Scots successfully. The Warwolf siege engine is constructed and first used during this battle.
1304	Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle	17 August – Lowland rebels defeat the French under King Philip IV. The French claim victory, as they remained in possession of the battlefield while suffering the heavier losses.
1306	Battle of Methven	Forces of the Earl of Pembroke defeat newly crowned Robert the Bruce and his small Scottish army.
1307	Battle of Loudon Hill	Scots under Robert Bruce defeat the greater English army.
1311	Battle of Halmyros	15 March – Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne of Athens and goes on to capture Athens and Thebes.
1312	Battle of Gallipoli	2000 Turcopoles are annihilated by a combined Byzantine, Kingdom of Serbia and Genoese forces
1312	Battle of Amorgos	Knights Hospitaller and destroy the fleet of Menteshe
1313	Battle of Gamelsdorf	9 November – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria.
1314	Battle of Bannockburn	Robert the Bruce defeats Edward II, takes Stirling Castle and secures Scottish independence.
1315	Battle of Montecatini	29 August – Pisa defeats allied forces of Florence and the Kingdom of Naples.
1315	Battle of Morgarten	15 November – Swiss defeat Leopold I, Archduke of Austria decisively.
1316	Battle of Picotin	22 February – Ferdinand of Majorca defeats Matilda of Hainaut and the Achaean barons loyal to her.
1316	Battle of Manolada	5 July – Louis of Burgundy defeats the Majorcans, Ferdinand of Majorca is slain.
1316	Second Battle of Athenry	10 August – English defeated the Irish under Felim O'Connor, King of Connacht.
1318	Battle of Dysert O'Dea	Irish under Ó Deághaidh defeat the English Lordship.
1318	Battle of Faughart	English defeated a Scots-Irish army under Edward Bruce, who is slain.
1319	Battle of Chios	The Knights Hospitaller and the Genoese of the Lordship of Chios score a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet.
1320	Battle of Saint George	The Byzantines under Andronikos Asen ambush and defeat the forces of the Principality of Achaea, securing possession of Arcadia.
1322	Battle of Bliska	A coalition of Croatian noblemen defeat Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, Ban of Croatia.
1322	Battle of Burton Bridge	English Royal forces defeat a rebel English army.
1322	Battle of Boroughbridge	English Royal forces defeat a rebel English army fighting for the Scots.
1322	Battle of Mühldorf	28 September – Louis the Bavarian defeats and captures Frederick I of Austria.
1325	Battle of Zappolino	Communal struggle between Bologna and Modena, which emerges victorious
1325	Battle of Varey	Vienne under Guigues de la Tour-du-Pin defeat the Savoyards.
1328	Battle of Cassel	French under Philip VI defeat a revolting Flemish peasant army, killing their leaders.
1329	Battle of Pelekanon	10 June – The second ruler of the Ottoman Dynasty, Orhan I, defeats the Byzantine emperor Andronicus III.
1329	Battle of Ardnocher	Irish force led by William MacGeoghegan defeats English army under Thomas Butler, who is killed.
1330	Battle of Posada	9 November – Basarab I of Wallachia defeats Charles I of Hungary.
1330	Battle of Fiodh an Atha	Ualgarg O'Rourke is defeated by the English.
1332	Battle of Dupplin Moor	English supporting Edward Balliol, Scottish pretender, defeated the Scots.
1332	Battle of Płowce	27 September- Poland's Ladislas IV Lokietek defeats Teutonic Knights.
1333	Battle of Halidon Hill	19 July – Edward III of England avenges Bannockburn.
1336	Battle of Minatogawa	Kusunoki Masashige, obeying Emperor Go-Daigo's orders, leads an imperial army into a disastrous defeat by the Ashikaga. Kusunoki commits suicide.
1337	Battle of Cadsand	English defeated pro-French garrison of Cadsand in Flanders.
1337	Siege of Kanagasaki	Ashikaga victory during Nanboku-cho Wars.
1338	naval battle of Arnemuiden	French victory over the English fleet.
1339	Battle of Parabiago	Rebel Lodrisio Visconti is defeated by the Visconti of Milan's army.
1340	Battle of Sluys	24 June – Edward III beats the Franco-Genoese fleet of Philip VI of France off the coast of Flanders and gains control of the English Channel.
1340	Battle of Saint-Omer	26 July – Anglo-Flemish force driven back from the town by a French army.
1340	Battle of Rio Salado	30 October – Alfonso XI of Castile and Alfonso IV of Portugal defeat the Marinid under Sultan Abul-Hassan and the Granadine under King Yusuf I.
1341	Battle of Champtoceaux	13 October −16 October – Begins Breton War of Succession.
1342	Battle of Brest	18 August – English fleets defeats Genoese mercenaries.
1342	Battle of Morlaix	Besieged by the English, a French relief army broke the siege of Morlaix. When the English retreated into a wood, the French withdrew.
1344	Battle of Stephaniana	May – Turks from the Emirate of Aydin defeat a Serbian army in northern Greece.
1345	Battle of Auberoche	English relief army lifted a siege by the French.
1345	Battle of Gamenario	Ghibelline Asti and John II of Montferrat defeat the Neapolitan Guelph League army.
1345	Battle of Lough Neagh	Naval battle between Hugh O'Neill and the Clann Hugh Buidhe.
1345	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.
1345	Battle of Warns	Frisians defeat Dutch invasion force led by William IV, Count of Holland.
1345	Siege of Kaffa (Second)	1345-46 The Golden Horde again lays siege to the Genoese city of Kaffa on the Black Sea, but withdraws due to the Black Death.
1346	Battle of Calry Lough Gill	O Rourke soundly defeated by the O Connors.
1346	Battle of St-Pol-de-Leon	English defeated the French.
1346	Battle of Caen	English force captured and sacked the town.
1346	Battle of Blanchetaque	English under Edward III crossed the Somme.
1346	Battle of Crécy	26 August – English longbowmen defeat French cavalry at Abbeville.
1346	Battle of Neville's Cross	English defeated the Scots under King David Bruce.
1347	Siege of Calais	4 September 1346 – 3 August 1347 – English forces capture the city.
1347	Battle of Porta San Lorenzo	(Rome) – November – The people of Rome defeat the baronial troops of Stefano Colonna.
1347	Battle of La Roche-Derrien	English relief army lifted a French siege.
1349	Battle of Lunalonge	Anglo-Gascons held the upper hand during the day over the French but the Anglo-Gascons had to withdraw during the night.
1349	Battle of Llucmajor	25 October – James IV of Majorca defeated and killed by troops of Aragon.
1350	Les Espagnols sur Mer	English fleet defeats Castilian fleet.

Late 14th century (1351–1400)

Year	Battle	Description
1351	Combat of the Thirty	Thirty French knights from Chateau Josselin under Jean de Beaumanoir call out and defeat thirty English knights under Robert Bemborough.
1351	Battle of Saintes	English relief army lifted a French siege.
1351	Battle of Ardres	French defeated the English.
1352	Battle of Mauron	Anglo-Bretons defeated the French.
1354	Battle of Sapienza	Genoans destroy Venetian fleet.
1354	Fall of Gallipoli	March – Ottoman Turks under Sultan Orhan capture Gallipoli, giving them a bridgehead into Europe.
1356	Baile Loch Deacair	In south Connacht
1356	Battle of Poitiers	25 October – Edward the Black Prince captures King John II of France, France plunges into chaos.
1358	Battle of Mello	Army of French nobles crushes the peasant Jacquerie.
1359	Battle of Campo delle Mosche	23 July - Florentines defeat Great Company
1361	Battle of Wisby	Danish defeated the Swedish.
1362	Battle of Helsingborg	Danish fleet beat Hanseatic fleet in Danish-German War
1362	Battle of Brignais	6 April – Free Companies defeat the French.
1362/1363	Battle of Blue Waters	The Pagan Lithuanians defeat Islamic Tatar Forces
1364	Battle of Cocherel	16 May – French defeat Gascon-Navarrese-English.
1364	Battle of Cascina	28 July – Battle between Republics of Pisa and Florence.
1364	Battle of Auray	29 September – End of Breton War of Succession English defeat Franco-Bretons.
1365	Battle of Adrianople	Capture by Ottoman Turks
1367	Battle of Nájera	English under the Black Prince and Don Pedro of Castile defeated the Franco-Castilians.
1369	Battle of Montiel	Franco-Castilians under King Henry II of Castile defeated Portuguese-Marinids-Grenadines-Jews under Don Pedro of Castile.
1370	Battle of Pontvallain	French victory against English
1371	Battle of Baesweiler	Edward, Duke of Guelders and William II, Duke of Jülich defeat Wenceslaus, Duke of Brabant.
1371	Battle of Maritsa	26 September – Serbs under their ruler, King Vukašin of Serbia were defeated by an Ottoman force.
1372	Battle of La Rochelle	Naval battle. Castilian fleet defeats the English fleet. English sea dominance destroyed.
1373	Battle of Chiset (Chizai)	French defeated an English relief army trying to lift the siege of Chiset.
1377	Cesena Bloodbath	2,500/5,000 inhabitants of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal troops led by John Hawkwood during the War of the Eight Saints.
1377	Battle on Pyana River	The Russian troops are defeated, while their commander drowns in the river.
1377	Battle of Dubravnica	Moravian Serbia defeated the Ottoman Empire.
1380	Battle of Kulikovo	Dmitri Donskoy of Moscow halts the Mongols.
1381	Battle of North Walsham	Forces led by Henry le Despenser defeat the rebels of Norfolk at the end of the English Peasants' Revolt.
1382	Battle of Roosebeke	French and Castilian forces under King Charles VI of France defeated Flemish and English forces.
1383	Trian Chongail	Hugh O Neill and Robin Savage kill each other in a cavalry charge.
1384	Battle of Atoleiros	6 April – Nuno Alvares Pereira (Portuguese general) defeats Castile.
1385	Tochar Cruachain-Bri-Ele	O Conchobhair, King of Uí Falighe, soundly defeats the English of Meath.
1385	Battle of Trancoso	An army sent by John I of Castile is defeated by the Portuguese.
1385	Battle of Aljubarrota	14 August – Portugal maintains independence from Castile, John I establishes Avis dynasty.
1385	Battle of Valverde	14 October – A Portuguese army defeated a Castilian army.
1385	Battle of Savra	Serbian forces under Balša II and Ivaniš Mrnjavčević were defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha near Berat.
1386	Battle of Sempach	9 July Swiss defeat Leopold III of Austria.
1386	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.
1388	Battle of Buyur Lake	March Ming Chinese army under general Lan Yu,decisively defeated Mongol Northern Yuan Dynasty,more than 100'000 Mongols killed or captured.
1388	Battle of Otterburn	19 August English defeated in Scottish/English border dispute.
1388	Battle of Bileća	27 August Bosnians and Serbians defeat the Ottomans.
1389	Battle of Kosovo Polje	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	Battle of Alessandria	Mercenary army of Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan beat that of Jean III of Armagnac
1394	Ros-mic-Triuin	King of Leinster attacks and defeats the English.
1394	Battle of Rovine	10 October – Mircea cel Batrin the voievod of Wallachia defeated Beyazid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1395	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.
1396	Battle of the North Inch	Scottish clan battle
1396	Battle of Nicopolis	25 September – French-Hungarian crusade defeated by the Ottoman Empire
1399	Battle of Tragh-Bhaile	The Anglo-Irish defeat the sons of Henry O Neill.
1399	Battle of the Vorskla River	Vytautas the Great of Lithuania is defeated by generals of Tamerlane.

Early 15th century (1401–50)

Year	Battle	Description
1401	Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen	mid-June – Welsh rebels under Owain Glyndŵr defeat an army of English and Flemish soldiers near Aberystwyth.
1401	Battle of Tuthill	November – inconclusive battle between English and Welsh near Caernarfon
1402	Battle of Casalecchio	26 January – Alberico da Barbiano for Milan defeats Bolognese–Florentine army under Muzio Attendolo
1402	Battle of Bryn Glas	22 June – English army routed in mid-Wales; Owain Glyndŵr's revolt spreads
1402	Battle of Angora or Battle of Ankara	20 July – Timur defeats and captures Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I in Anatolia
1402	Battle of Nesbit Moor	clash between English and Scottish prior to the Battle of Homildon Hill
1402	Battle of Homildon Hill	14 September - Scottish raiding force is defeated in Northern England
1403	Battle of Shrewsbury	21 July – Lancastrians defeat rebel army including Welsh soldiers led by Henry Percy, "Hotspur"
1405	Battle of Pwll Melyn	May – Owain Glyndŵr's rebels defeated near Usk
1406	Cluain Immorrais	The King of Uí Falighe defeats the Galls of Meath
1406	Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach	Scottish clan battle fought between the Clan MacLeod of Lewis against the Clan MacKay
1407	Battle of Lạng Sơn	19 January - Ming Chinese forces defeated Đại Ngu forces
1407	Battle of Sông Phú Lương	Chinese Ming Dynasty decisively defeated the Vietnamese Hồ Dynasty,led to the Ming conquest of Đại Ngu
1408	Battle of Bramham Moor	19 February - The Percy Rebellion is finally crushed by King Henry IV of England
1408	Battle of Othée	23 September - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy defeats rebels from the city of Liege
1409	Battle of Sanluri	30 June - Aragona defeats the giudicato di Arborea, last independent kingdom of Sardinia
1409	Battle of Kherlen	23 September - The Mongols under Öljei Temür Khan defeated Ming China on 23 September 1409
1410	Battle of Grunwald or Battle of Tannenberg	15 July - Polish and Lithuanian army under Władysław II Jagiełło break the spine of the Teutonic Knights under Ulrich von Jungingen
1410	Battle of Koronowo	10 October - Polish-Lithuania army defeat Teutonic Knights
1411	Battle of Harlaw	24 July – Highlanders versus Lowland Scots ends in draw
1412	Battle of Chalagan	December – Kara Koyunlu Turkomans defeat the Georgian army under Constantine I of Georgia and Shirvanshah Ibrahim, their ally
1415	Battle of Agincourt	25 October – English longbowmen under Henry V defeat French under Charles d'Albret
1415	Battle of Ceuta	14 August - Ceuta is captured by the Portuguese
1416	Battle of Gallipoli	A Venetian fleet under Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet
1418	Siege of Rouen	19 July January 1419 – Henry V of England gains a foothold in Normandy
1419	Battle of la Rochelle	A Castilian fleet defeats an English-Hanseatic coalition fleet
1420	Battle of Sudomer	25 March – Hussites led by Jan Žižka defeat Catholics
1420	Battle of Vitkov Hill	12 June – 14 July – Hussite victory over the Crusaders of the Holy Roman Emperor
1420	Battle of Vysehrad	Series of engagements between the Hussite forces and the Holy Roman Emperor's Crusaders
1421	Battle of Bauge	The French and Scottish forces of Charles VII commanded by the Earl of Buchan defeat the forces of Henry V commanded by the Duke of Clarence
1421	Battle of Kutna Hora	21 December – Hussites escape Royalist forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund
1422	Battle of Nebovidy	6 January – Jan Žižka leads the Hussites to victory over an Imperial army
1422	Battle of Německý Brod	10 January – Hussites sack town
1422	Battle of Arbedo	30 June – Milanese led by Francesco Bussone fight the Swiss
1422	Siege of Meaux	English led by Henry V fight the French
1423	Battle of Horic	27 April – Taborites defeat Utraquists, ending the Hussite Civil War
1423	Battle of Cravant	31 July – English victory during Hundred Years' War
1423	Battle of Verneuil	17 August – English defeat French, killing two French earls
1423	Battle of La Brossinière	French victory over English
1424	Battle of L'Aquila	Jacopo Caldora and Micheletto Attendolo for the Kingdom of Naples defeat Braccio da Montone for Alfonso V of Aragon
1424	Battle of Zagonara	The Florentines defeated by Filippo Maria Visconti's Milanese army under Count of Carmagnola
1426	Battle of Brouwershaven	13 January – Burgundian troops defeat combined Zeelander and English forces
1426	Battle of St. James	6 March – An English force defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont
1426	Battle of Usti nad Labem	16 June – Hussites defeat Imperial forces in the modern-day Czech Republic
1426	Battle of Khirokitia	7 July – Mamelukes defeat intoxicated Cypriots
1427	Battle of Maclodio	4 October – Part of the Wars in Lombardy
1428	Siege of Orléans	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
1429	Battle of Meung-sur-Loire	11–12 June The forces of Joan of Arc capture a second Loire River bridge
1429	Battle of Beaugency	16–17 June – Joan of Arc's forces capture a third Loire River bridge
1429	Battle of Patay	18 June – First major field victory of the French in the Hundred Years' War, recognized as the war's turning point
1430	Siege of Thessalonica	29 March – The city of Thessalonica, ruled by the Republic of Venice, is captured by the Ottoman Empire
1430	Siege of Compiègne	23 May – French victory but Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundians
1431	Battle of Soncino	17 May – Count of Carmagnola, for Venice, is defeated by the Visconti
1431	Battle of Pavia	22 May – The Venetian fleet is destroyed by the Milanese
1431	Battle of Domažlice	14 August - Hussite army led by Prokop the Bald slaughters Crusaders
1431	Battle of Inverlochy	Royal English forces routed by Scottish Highlanders
1432	Battle of Delebio	18/19 November – Duchy of Milan and Valtellina fight the Republic of Venice
1432	Battle of San Romano	Florence fought Siena
1434	Battle of Lipany	30 May – Catholic Crusaders destroy Taborite army
1435	Battle of Gerbevoy	French troops, under the command of La Hire, defeat English
1435	Battle of Ponza	a Genoese fleet sent by Filippo Maria Visconti defeats the Aragonese of Alfonso V of Naples
1435	Battle of Pabaiskas	the forces of Grand Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis of Lithiania with the help of the Polish troops defeated Švitrigaila and his Livonian allies
1436	Battle of Piperdean	Scottish victory over the English on the Scottish Borders
1439	Battle of Grotniki	Polish army defeats Hussite Protestants
1440	Battle of Anghiari	29 June – Niccolò Piccinino, overlord of Bologna, defeats Milanese Filippo Maria Visconti and is then opposed by Cosimo de Medici
1440	Siege of Novo Brdo (1440–41)	Ottoman forces captured Novo Brdo, an important fortified mining town of Serbia
1443	Battle of Zlatica	December – Crusader advance stopped by the Ottoman army
1444	Battle of Kunovica	2 or 5 January — Hungary, Poland and Serbia defeated Ottoman forces
1444	Battle of Varna	10 November - Ottoman Murad II defeats Hungarians, Poles and Wallachians, King Władysław III of Poland killed
1445	Battle of Gomit	Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay of Adal
1447	Battle of Damghan	Abdal-Latif Mirza captures Damghan
1448	Battle of Sark	23 October – also known as Battle of Lochmabenstone – Anglo-Scottish conflicts
1448	Battle of Caravaggio	15 September - Ambrosian Republic (Milan's short lived republic) fights the Republic of Venice
1448	Battle of Kosovo	17–20 October – Roman Catholic coalition defeated by Turkish and Orthodox forces
1449	Battle of Alfarrobeira	20 May - Afonso V of Portugal defeats rebels of Pedro, Duke of Coimbra
1449	Battle of Tumu Fortress	1 September - conflict between the Mongols and the Chinese Ming dynasty
1450	Battle of Formigny	15 April - decisive French victory over English during the Hundred years war

Late 15th century (1451–1500)

Year	Battle	Description
1453	Battle of Castillon	The Valois use cannon to defeat the Lancastrians, which ends the Hundred Years' War
1453	Battle of Constantinople	29 May – Mehmet II of the Ottoman Turks captures Constantinople (İstanbul), ending the Byzantine Empire
1454	Battle of Chojnice	18 September – Polish defeated by Teutonic Knights
1454	Battle of Leskovac	24 September - Serbs under command of Nikola Skobaljić defeat a larger Ottoman army
1454	Battle of Kruševac	Serbian Despotate, allied with the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats invading Ottoman forces
1455	Battle of Arkinholm	Scottish Royal-Black Douglas civil war
1455	First Battle of St Albans	22 May – first battle of the Wars of the Roses, England
1456	Siege of Belgrade	22 July Hungarian forces lift Ottoman siege, Sultan Mehmet II wounded
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	Battle of Blore Heath	23 September – Yorkist knights defeat Lancastrians in War of the Roses
1459	Battle of Ludford Bridge	12 October – King Henry routs Yorkists in War of the Roses
1460	Battle of Sandwich	Yorkists land at Sandwich, rout Lancastrians
1460	Battle of Nola	John of Anjou's victory over Ferdinand of Naples
1460	Battle of Northampton	10 July – Warwick attacks royal camp and captures King Henry
1460	Battle of Wakefield	30 December – Queen Margaret's Lancastrians defeat Duke of York, who is killed in the fight
1461	Battle of Mortimer's Cross	2 February – Yorkists defeat Lancastrians in the west
1461	Second Battle of St Albans	17 February – Lancastrians storm the town, chase out Yorkists
1461	Battle of Ferrybridge	28 March – Lancastrians ambush the Earl of Warwick and kill his second-in-command
1461	Battle of Towton	29 March – Edward IV of England defeats Lancastrian forces
1461	Siege of Trebizond	15 August – Ottoman Turks led by Mehmet II capture the capitol of the Empire of Trebizond, ending that empire
1462	The Night Attack	17 June – Vlad III Dracula attacks Mehmed II
1462	Battle of Świecino (or Schwetzin, or Żarnowiec)	7 September - during the Thirteen Years' War, Poles defeated the Teutonic Order
1462	Siege of Mytilene	Ottoman Turks capture the capitol of Gattilusi Lesbos
1463	Battle of Zatoka Świeża	15 September – Polish navy defeats Teutonic navy
1464	Battle of Hedgeley Moor	25 April – Lancastrian rebels defeated
1464	Battle of Hexham	15 May – Yorkists under Montagu annihilate Lancastrians in a surprise attack
1467	Battle of Molinella	25 July – Bartolomeo Colleoni for Venice is defeated
1467	Battle of Baia	15 December – Ştefan cel Mare defeated Mathias Corvinus
1467	Battle of Brustem	28 October
1469	Battle of Edgecote Moor (or Banbury)	26 July – Warwick the Kingmaker triumphs over Edward IV
1470	Battle of Lipnic	Ştefan cel Mare defeats the Tatars
1470	Siege of Negroponte	Ottomans besiege and capture the Venetian fortress of Negroponte
1470	Battle of Lose-coat Field	12 March – Yorkists chase disrobing Lancastrians from the field
1471	Battle of Ravenspur	14 March - Edward IV lands at Ravenspur and repulses token resistance
1471	Battle of Barnet	14 April – Confusion in the fog, Earl of Warwick killed
1471	Battle of Tewkesbury	4 May – Edward IV of England's final victory over the House of Lancaster
1471	Battle of Brunkeberg	10 October – Denmark fights Sweden
1473	Battle of Otlukbeli	Mehmed II of Ottoman Turks decisively defeats Uzun Hasan of Akkoyunlu Turkomans
1474	Siege of Neuss	Charles the Bold leads unsuccessful siege during Burgundy Wars
1474	Battle of Héricourt	Burgundy is defeated by the Swiss Cofederation
1474	Siege of Shkodra	Spring 1474 — 8 August 1474 — Venice and Zeta defeat Ottoman besiegers
1475	Battle of Vaslui	10 January – Ştefan cel Mare defeats a huge Ottoman army
1475	Battle on the Planta	(November) - Burgundy Wars
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
1476	Battle of Grandson	2 March – A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians under Charles the Bold
1476	Battle of Morat	22 June – The Swiss defeat Charles the Bold again
1476	Battle of Valea Albă	26 July – Mehmed II defeats Ştefan cel Mare
1477	Battle of Nancy	5 January – Swiss pikemen defeat cavalry of Burgundy's Charles the Bold, who is killed
1478	Battle of Macomer	Sardinian rebels are defeated by the Aragonese
1478	Battle of Trowulan	Majapahit rebels backed by the Demak Sultanate are defeated by Girindrawardhana
1479	Battle of Guinegate	7 August – French troops are defeated by the Burgundians led by Maximilian of Habsburg
1479	Battle of Breadfield	13 October – Pál Kinizsi, comite of Timişoara, defeated the Ottomans
1480	Siege of Rhodes	May until 28 July – Ottomans unsuccessfully besiege the Knights Hospitaller garrison on Rhodes
1480	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
1480/1481	Battle of Otranto	Gedik Ahmed Pasha of the Ottoman Turks captures Otranto in the Italian peninsula
1481	Battle of Yenişehir	22 June – The forces of Sultan Beyazit II of Ottoman Turks defeat the supporters of his brother and rival, Cem Sultan
1482	Battle of Campomorto	21 August – Papal army under Roberto Malatesta defeats Neapolitan troops led by Alfonso, Duke of Calabria
1484	Battle of Lochmaben Fair	Scottish Royal-Black Douglas civil war
1485	Battle of Bosworth Field	22 August – ends Wars of the Roses fought since 1460, Lacastrian Henry VII becomes King
1486	Battle of Auldicharish	Scottish clan battle
1487	Battle of Stoke	16 June – Henry VII of England finally defeats internal opposition
1488	Battle of Sauchieburn	11 June – King James III defeated by Scottish nobles
1491	Battle of Vrpile	Early September – Forces of the Kingdom of Croatia defeat Ottoman Turks
1492	Battle of Granada	2 January – Ferdinand II of Aragon defeats the last Muslim kingdom in al-Andalus, the emirate of Granada of Sultan Boabdil
1493	Battle of Krbava field	9 September – Hundred Years' Croatian-Ottoman War Ottoman Turks defeat Croatians
1495	Battle of Fornovo	6 July – Francesco II Gonzaga of the Italian Holy League defeats Charles VIII of France
1497	Battle of Codrii Cosminului	Ştefan cel Mare defeated John I of Poland
1497	Battle of Drumchatt	Scottish clan battle
1499	Battle of Zonchio (or Battle of Sapienza or First Battle of Lepanto)	25 August – the Ottoman fleet defeats the Venetian fleet
1500	Battle of Hemmingstedt	17 February – A peasant rebellion defeats a much larger ducal army by opening dykes and drowning them
1500	Battle of Lepanto	Ottoman fleet defeats Venetian fleet
1500	Battle of Vedrosha	14 July – Russians beat the Lithuanians

Early 16th century (1501–50)

Year	Battle	Description
1503	Battle of Ruvo	23 February - Spain defeats France during the Second Italian War
	Battle of Cerignola	21 April – Spain defeats France during the Second Italian War
	Battle of Garigliano	27 December – Spain defeats France during the Second Italian War.
1509	Battle of Diu	3 February – Portuguese Viceroy destroys Moslem fleet off the coast of India, wrests control of spice trade.
	Battle of Agnadello (Battle of Vaila)	14 May – French defeat Venetians during War of the League of Cambrai
	Siege of Padua	15–30 September Venice captures Padua during War of the League of Cambrai
	Battle of Polesella	22 December - A fleet of the Republic of Venice is destroyed on the Po River by the Ferrarese artillery during War of the League of Cambrai
1510	Siege of Mirandola	19 December 1510 – 20 January 1511 - City captured by Pope Julius II during the War of the League of Cambrai
1512	Sack of Brescia	18 February - French troops overrun the Italian town of Brescia during the War of the League of Cambrai.
1512	Battle of Ravenna	11 April – Gaston de Foix, although killed in the battle, defeats the Spanish during War of the League of Cambrai
1513	Battle of Novara	6 June – Holy League defeats France during War of the League of Cambrai
	Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs)	16 August – Henry VIII and Emperor Maximilian I crush French during War of the League of Cambrai
	Battle of Flodden Field	9 September - Henry VIII's army under Earl of Surrey killed James IV of Scotland.
	Battle of La Motta	7 October – Spain defeats Venice during War of the League of Cambrai
1514	Battle of Orsha	8 September – Polish–Lithuanian army defeated the army of Muscovy.
1514	Battle of Chaldiran	Selim I of Ottoman Turks defeats Persian Safavids.
1515	Battle of Marignano	13–14 September – France defeats Milan during War of the League of Cambrai
1515	Arumer Zwarte Hoop	Army of peasant rebels in Friesland fights the Dutch authorities
1516	War of Urbino	Francesco Maria I della Rovere shortly reconquers Urbino
	Siege of Arai	11 July – In Japan, the Hōjō Clan captures Arai castle.
	Battle of Marj Dabiq	24 August – Selim I of Ottoman Turks defeats the Mamelukes and captures Syria.
	Battle of Yaunis Khan	28 October – Ottoman Empire defeats the Mamelukes.
1517	Battle of Ridaniya	Ottoman Turks under Selim I defeat Mamelukes and capture Egypt.
1520	Battle of the Night of Sorrows	30 June – The Aztec Empire defeats the Spanish troops of Hernán Cortés
1521	Siege of Tenochtitlan	26 May – 13 August – Fall of the Aztec Empire
	Battle of Pampeluna	20 May - French take city from Spanish, Ignatius of Loyola wounded
	Battle of Noáin	30 June - Spanish defeat the Franco-Navarrese army
	Siege of Belgrade	July to August - Suleiman I of the Ottoman Turks captures Belgrade.
	Battle of Tunmen	August to September - Ming Chinese Navy defeated Portuguese Navy
1522	Battle of Bicocca	27 April – Spanish victory during Habsburg-Valois Wars
	Siege of Rhodes	The Ottoman Empire expels the Knights of Rhodes
	Battle of Xicaowan	Ming Chinese Navy defeated Portuguese Navy.
1524	Siege of Edo	Edo Castle falls from Uesugi control to Hōjō control
1524	Battle of the Sesia	30 April - Spanish and Holy Roman Empire forces beat French
1525	Battle of Punta Quemada	January – Pizarro defeats the Quitians, but is wounded seven times
	Battle of Frankenhausen	End of the German Peasants' War
	Battle of Pavia	24 February – Spain and Holy Roman Empire defeat France; Francis I of France is captured
1526	First battle of Panipat	21 April – The Mughal king Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodhi
	Battle of Mohács	29 August – Suleiman I of Ottoman Turks defeats the kingdom of Hungary; King Louis II killed
	Siege of Kamakura	Uesugi clan defeats Hōjō clan, inflicting a major psychological blow
1527	Sack of Rome	6 May – Unpaid Spanish and Imperial troops attack the city in protest during War of the League of Cognac
1529	Battle of Shimbra Kure	7 March or 9 – Imam Ahmad Gragn withstands the assault of the numerically superior army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia
	Battle of Chimborazo	Spring - among the first confrontations in the Inca Civil War, with Atahualpa defeating his brother Huáscar
	Battle of Landriano	21 June - Spanish and Holy Roman Empire troops defeat French during War of the League of Cognac
	Siege of Vienna	Ottomans reach limit of empire, can't capture Vienna and settle in Buda
	Siege of Florence	24 October 1529 – 10 August 1530 Spanish and Holy Roman Empire troops capture Florence during War of the League of Cognac
1530	Battle of Gavinana	3 August – Florence crushed by the Holy Roman Empire during War of the League of Cognac
1531	Battle of Antukyah	February or March – The Ethiopian army panics and flees before Imam Ahmad Gragn's seven cannons and matchlockmen.
	Battle of Puná	April – Pizarro's forces defeat much larger forces of natives on the island of Puná
	Battle of Obertyn	22 August - Polish army defeats the Moldavians
	Battle of Kappel	11 October – Victory of Swiss Catholics over the followers of Zwingli
	Battle of Amba Sel	28 October – Imam Ahmad Gragn again defeats Emperor Lebna Dengel, and crosses the Walaqa River unchecked into Bet Amhara
1532	Battle of Quipaipan	April - decisive battle of the Inca Civil War with Atahualpa defeating his brother and Huáscar
1532	Battle of Cajamarca	16 November - Pizarro captures king Atahuallpa during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
1533	Battle of Cuzco	Capital of the Inca empire taken by the Spanish
1536	Battle of Un no Kuchi	Takeda family forces defeat Hiraga Genshin
1536	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
1537	Battle of Ollantaytambo	January – The forces of the Inca emperor Manco Inca defeat the Spanish troops of Hernando Pizarro
1538	Battle of Las Salinas	Pizarro brothers defeat Diego de Almagro
1538	Battle of Preveza	Ottoman fleet defeats Spanish-Venetian fleet
1540	Battle of Mabila	18 October - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortress town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa
1541	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
1542	Battle of Baçente	2 February – Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia
	Battle of Sezawa	9 March – Takeda Shingen defeats four enemy forces to begin his conquest Shinano Province
	Battle of Jarte	4 April-16 The Portuguese under Christovão da Gama encounter the army of Imam Ahmad Gragn in two successive victories
	Battle of the Hill of the Jews	August – During the rainy season, Christovão da Gama captures a strategic position and many badly needed horses
	Battle of Haddon Rig	24 August – Scottish victory over the English
	Battle of Wofla	28 August – 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.
	Battle of Solway Moss	25 November – English victory over Scotland
	Battle of Azukizaka	Oda Nobuhide defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto
	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
	Battle of Alltan-Beath	Scottish clan battle
	Siege of Perpignan	French siege raised by Spanish army
1543	Battle of Wayna Daga	11 February – Ethiopian/Portuguese troops decisively defeat their Muslim opponent; Imam Ahmad Gragn killed.
	Siege of Nagakubo	Shingen defeats Oi Sadataka
	Battle of Muros Bay	25 July - Spanish fleet defeats French fleet
	Siege of Nice	5–22 August - Ottomans and French sack Nice
1544	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
	First Siege of Boulogne	19 July - 18 September - English forces capture Boulogne
	Second Siege of Boulogne	October - French forces unsuccessfully besiege the town
	Siege of Kojinyama	Takeda Shingen continues his conquest of Ima Valley, Shinano Province
	Battle of the Shirts	Scottish clan battle
1545	Battle of Ancrum Moor	27 February - Scottish victory over the English during the War of the Rough Wooing
	Siege of Takatō	Takeda Shingen defeats Takatō Yoritsugu, taking his castle
	Siege of Ryūgasaki	The Takeda family defeats Tozawa Yorichika
	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
	Battle of Kawagoe	Hōjō forces defeat the Uesugi, foiling a siege
1547	Battle of Mühlberg	24 April – Emperor Charles V captures elector of Saxony and lays siege to Wittenberg in the Schmalkaldic War
1547	Battle of Pinkie	10 September – Earl of Hertford guardian of Edward VI crushes Scottish resistance
1548	Battle of Uedahara	14 February – Takeda Shingen defeats Murakami Yoshikiyo
1548	Battle of Shirojiritoge	Takeda Shingen surprises and defeats Ogasawara Nagatoki in a dawn attack
1549	Siege of Fukashi	Takeda Shingen captures several of Nagatoki's castles, forcing him to flee to Kyoto.

Late 16th century (1551–1600)

Year	Battle	Description
1551	Siege of Tripoli	15 August – The garrison of the Knights of Malta in the fortress of Tripoli surrender to Ottoman besiegers after a bombardment lasting six days.
	Sieges of Toishi	Takeda Shingen takes the castle of Toishi after besieging it multiple times starting in 1550
	Siege of Mirandola	July 1551 to March 1552 - Pope Julius III besieges town then withdraws
1552	Siege of Eger	Hungarian victory over Ottoman Turks
	Capture of Muscat	August - Muscat captured from Portuguese by Ottoman fleet
	Battle of Ponza	5 August - Franco-Ottoman fleet defeats Genoese fleet
	Siege of Kazan	2 September- 13 October - Ivan the Terrible defeats the Kazan Khanate
	Siege of Metz	October 1552 to January 1553 - Unsuccessful siege by Holy Roman Empire
	Siege of Temesvár	Ottoman Empire captures town
1553	First Battle of Kawanakajima	June - indecisive battle between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin
	Siege of Katsurao	Takeda Shingen captures fortress
	Battle of Sievershausen	9 July - Maurice, Elector of Saxony and Duke Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg defeat Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
	Battle of Tucapel	25 December - Mapuche (Araucanian) Indians defeat Spanish conquistadors
1554	Battle of Marihueñu	23 February - Mapuche defeat Spanish conquistador Francisco de Villagra
	Battle of Marciano	2 August - Florence finally defeats Siena
	Battle of the Gulf of Oman	10–25 August - Portuguese destroy Ottoman fleet
	Battle of Renty	12 August – Francis, Duke of Guise repels an Imperial invasion of Picardy
	Battle of Tadla	September - Saadi dynasty defeat Wattasids
	Battle of Oshikibata	Mōri clan defeat Sue Harukata
1555	Second Battle of Kawanakajima	Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin
	Battle of Kivinebb	11 March - Swedish victory over Russians
	Battle of Sirhind	22 June - Mughal Empire has decisive victory over the Suri Empire
	Battle at Machhiwara	Mughal Empire defeats Suri Empire
	Capture of Bougie	Ottomans capture Béjaïa from Spain
	Battle of Garbharry	Battle fought between Clan MacKay and Clan Sutherland
	Battle of Miyajima	16 October - Mōri clan defeat Ōuchi clan on sacred island of Miyajima
1556	Battle of Nagara-gawa	April - Saitō Yoshitatsu defeats father Saitō Dōsan
	Battle of Peteroa	June to July - Spanish victory over Manuche
	Battle of Tughlaqabad	7 October - Hemu defeats Mughal forces and occupies Delhi
	Second battle of Panipat	5 November – Akbar the Great defeats Hemu
	Siege of Oran	Ottoman troops besiege the Spanish garrison in Oran
1557	Third Battle of Kawanakajima	Takeda Shingen repelled by Uesugi Kenshin
	Battle of St. Quentin	10 August – Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy defeats Anne de Montmorency during the Habsburg-Valois War
	Battle of Lagunillas	8 November - Spanish defeat Mapuche during Arauco War
	Siege of Kotte	November 1557 to November 1558 - Sitawaka besiege Portuguese. Portuguese break out.
1558	Siege of Calais	7 January – France capture the city from the English
	Battle of Wadi al-Laban	March–April - Between Moroccos and Ottomans. Ottomans retreat
	Siege of Narva	April to May - Russians besiege Narva during Livonian War
	Battle of Gravelines	13 July Spain defeats France
	Mostaganem Expedition	August to September - Spanish forces fail to capture Mostaganem from the Ottomans.
	Ottoman invasion of the Balearic Islands	Ottomans capture Balearic Islands during the Ottoman-Habsburg wars
	Battle of Rio de Janeiro	Portuguese destroy French settlement of Henriville
	Battle of Quiapo	13 December - Spanish defeat Mapuche
1559	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
1560	Battle of Glasgow	18 March - Lords of the Congregation defeat French
	Battle of Djerba	9–14 May – Ottoman fleet defeats Holy League
	Battle of Norada	In Japan, the Azai clan gains its independence from the Rokkaku
	Siege of Marune	Forces of Imagawa Yoshimoto defeat forces of Oda Nobunaga
	Battle of Okehazama	Oda Nobunaga's small forces ambush and slay warlord Imagawa Yoshimoto
	Battle of Ērģeme	Russian Tsardom defeats Livonian Confederacy so decisively that the Livonian Order was disbanded
	Invasion of Jaffna	Portuguese invade Kingdom of Jaffna
1561	Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima	10 September Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts
	Siege of Moji	Mōri clan break siege by Ōtomo Sōrin and Portuguese traders
	Siege of Odawara	Hōjō clan resist siege by Uesugi Kenshin
1562	Battle of Nevel	19 August - Tactical Polish victory over Russia during Livonian War
	Battle of Corrichie	28 October - Mary, Queen of Scots Civil Wars
	Battle of Dreux	19 December Catholics versus Huguenots in France. Both leaders captured.
	Battle of Mulleriyawa	Sitawaka forces defeat Portuguese near Colombo during Sinhalese–Portuguese War
1563	Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir	Spanish victory during Ottoman-Habsburg wars
	Siege of Orléans	Catholics besiege Protestants during War of Religion
	Battle of Bornholm	30 May - Naval battle between Denmark and Sweden during Northern Seven Years' War
	Battle of Mared	9 November - Danes beat Swedes during Northern Seven Years' War
	Capture of Älvsborg	Danes capture Älvsborg during Northern Seven Years' War
	Battle of Öland	11 September - Naval battle between Denmark and Sweden during Northern Seven Years' War
	Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama	Combined Takeda clan-Hōjō clan army regain Musashi-Matsuyama castle
1564	Battle of Ula	26 January - Lithuanians defeat Russians during Livonian War
	Siege of Concepción	1 February to 1 April - Mapuche besiege Spanish
	First battle of Öland	30 to 31 May - Danish fleet beat Swedish fleet during Northern Seven Years' War
	Fifth Battle of Kawanakajima	Indecisive battle between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin
	Battle of Kōnodai	Hōjō clan forces defeat the forces of Satomi Yoshihiro
	Battle of Azukizaka	Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the Ikkō-ikki
1565	Battle of Talikota	26 January - Deccan sultanates defeat Vijayanagara Empire
	Battle of Affane	February - Butlers beat the Geraldines
	Siege of Malta	Knights of Malta defeat Turkish forces
	Battle of Glentaisie	2 May - O'Neills defeat Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg.
	Battle of Rügen	21 May -Swedish Fleet beats Danish fleet during Northern Seven Years' War
	Battle of Axtorna	20 October - Danes beat the Swedes during Northern Seven Years' War
1566	Battle of Szigetvár	6 August to 8 September - 2,300 Hungarian defenders are annihilated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the Ottoman Empire
	Battle of Brobacka	9 August - Swedish army ambushes and defeats Danish army
	Siege of Minowa	Takeda Shingen captures Minowa castle from Uesugi clan
1567	Battle of Rio de Janeiro	20 January - Portuguese finally defeat French colony
	Battle of Oosterweel	13 March - Traditionally seen as the beginning[1] of the Eighty Years' War. Spain defeats Dutch rebels
	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
	Siege of Inabayama Castle	13 to 27 September - Oda Nobunaga defeats the Saito clan and takes control of Inabayama Castle and Mino province.
	Siege of Chittorgarh	October - Mughal forces successfully besiege Rajputs in Chittor Fort
	Battle of Saint-Denis	10 November - 16,000 Royalists defeat 5,000 Huguenots near Paris
	Battle of Digomi	Georgian king Simon I of Kartli repulses Persian attack near Tbilisi
	Battle of Farsetmore	Part of the Clan war between the O'Neills and the O'Donnells
1568	Siege of Chartres	28 February to 15 March - Huguenots besiege Royalists
	Battle of Dahlen	25 April - Dutch attempt to conquer Roermond during Eighty Years 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
	Battle of Heiligerlee	23 May - Dutch army ambushes Spanish army
	Battle of Jemmingen	21 July - Spanish army under the Duke of Alva defeats the Dutch army
	Battle of San Juan de Ulúa	23 September - Spanish fleet defeats English privateers
	Battle of Jodoigne	Spain defeats Dutch army
	Siege of Hachigata	Takeda Shingen is unable to take a Hōjō fortress
	Siege of Malacca	Sultan of Aceh attacks Portuguese-held Malacca
1569	Battle of Catirai	Mapuche defeat Spanish
	Siege of Odawara	Takeda Shingen's forces burn the Hōjō clan controlled town
	Battle of Mimasetoge	Takeda Shingen escapes a trap set for him by the Hōjō clan
	Siege of Ranthambore	Mughal forces capture Ranthambore Fort
	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 August - Huguenots defeat Royalist forces
	Battle of Moncontour	3 October - French Catholic forces defeat French Huguenots decisively
	Siege of Kanbara	Takeda Katsuyori successfully besieges and captures Kanbara castle
1570	Battle of Bun Garbhain	Clan Cameron decisively defeat the Clan Mackintosh
	Siege of Chōkō-ji	Unsuccessful attempt to retake a castle captured by Oda Nobunaga
	Siege of Kanegasaki	Forces of Oda Nobunaga capture Kanegasaki fortress
	Siege of Hanazawa	Takeda clan captures Hanazawa castle from Imagawa clan
	Battle of Anegawa	30 July - Nobunaga joins forces with Tokugawa Ieyasu to defeat the Asakura and Azai
	Siege of Famagusta	17 September 1570 - 5 August 1571 - Ottoman Turks besiege and capture Famagusta
1571	Siege of Mount Hiei	Nobunaga defeats the Tendai Warrior Monks and razes their temple complex
	Siege of Fukazawa	Takeda Shingen captures Fukazawa from Hōjō clan
	Battle of Tonegawa	Unresolved conflict between Uesugi forces and Takeda forces
	Battle of Bankusay Channel	3 June - Spanish settler fleet defeats local Kapampangan fleet
	Battle of Tillieangus	10 October - Clan Gordon overcomes Clan Forbes
	Battle of Craibstone	20 November - Clan Gordon overcomes Clan Forbes again
	Battle of Lepanto	7 October - Spain and Venice's fleets defeat the Ottoman fleet
	First Siege of Nagashima	Unsuccessful attempt by Nobunaga to take the fortress
1572	Battle of Molodi	The Crimean Tatars and Ottoman Janissaries are routed by Russians near Moscow
	Siege of Futamata	Takeda Shingen captures one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's fortresses
	Capture of Brielle	1 April – Marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years' War
	Battle of Kizaki	June - Forces of Shimazu Takahisa defeated the larger army of Itō Yoshisuke in Japan.
	Siege of Mons	June to September - Successful Spanish siege of Dutch held town.
	Relief of Goes	August - Spanish raise the Dutch siege of Goes
	Siege of Middelburg	November 1572 to February 1574 - Dutch rebel army successfully besieged Middelburg, held by Spanish forces under Cristóbal de Mondragón.
	Siege of La Rochelle	November 1572 to July 1573 - Catholic troops besiege Protestant Huguenots. Negotiated settlement.
	Siege of Sancerre	November 1572 to August 1573 - Catholic forces besieged Protestant Huguenots. Siege abandoned.
	Siege of Haarlem	11 December 1572 to 13 July 1573 – Spanish successfully besiege Protestant garrison at Haarlem
1573	Battle of Mikatagahara	Tokugawa Ieyasu is forced to retreat from Takeda Shingen
	Siege of Iwamura	Takeda Shingen's forces led by Akiyama Nobutomo capture Iwamura castle
	Siege of Odani	Nobunaga defeats Azai Nagamasa, effectively destroying the Azai family
	Siege of Ichijo ga dani	Nobunaga effectively destroys the Asakura
	Siege of Noda	Takeda Shingen is killed
	Battle of Lode	January - Swedes defeat Russians during Livonian 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
	Siege of Alkmaar	August to October - Dutch garrison fight off Spanish force under Don Fadrique
	Capture of Geertruidenberg	28 August - English, French Huguenot and Fleming forces capture Geertruidenberg from Franco-Spanish Catholic garrison
	Battle on the Zuiderzee	11 October - Dutch fleet destroyed a larger and better-equipped Spanish fleet on the Zuiderzee
	Siege of Leiden	October 1572 to October 1574 - Spanish under Francisco de Valdez unsuccessfully besiege Leiden.
	Battle of Delft	October - Anglo-Dutch force under Thomas Morgan repels Spanish force under Francisco de Valdez
1574	Battle of Reimerswaal	29 January – Sancho d'Avila's attempt to resupply his troops ends up in the destruction of his fleet by Anglo-Dutch forces.
	Capture of Valkenburg	February - English troops surrender Valkenburg Castle in Flanders to Spanish forces.
	Siege of Leiden	Dutch rebels victory over Spain
	Battle of Mookerheyde	14 April - A Dutch army crumbles at a Spanish army's presence
	Battle of Lillo	30 May – Lodewijk van Boisot with 64 Dutch ships destroys the Spanish fleet near Antwerp
	Conquest of Tunis	13 September - Ottoman Empire finally defeats Spanish Empire for control of North Africa
	Battle of Takatenjin	Takeda Katsuyori, son of Takeda Shingen, captures Tokugawa Ieyasu's fortress of Takatenjin
	Second Siege of Nagashima	Nobunaga's second attempt is foiled by a counter-attack
	Siege of Itami	Nobunaga defeats Araki Murashige who had rebelled
1575	Battle of Nagashino	28 June - Nobunaga repels the forces of Takeda Katsuyori
1575	Third Siege of Nagashima	Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress
1576	Siege of Mitsuji	May - Honganji forces defeat Nobunaga's army, killing Harada Naomasa
1576	First Battle of Kizugawaguchi	August - Unsuccessful naval blockade by Nobunaga
1577	Battle of Lubieszów	17 April - Polish army defeats Danzig Rebellion army
1577	Battle of Tedorigawa	Nobunaga launches an unsuccessful attack on the forces of Uesugi Kenshin
1578	Battle of Gembloux	31 January - Don John of Austria crushes Protestant army
	Battle of Alcazarquivir	4 August - Moors defeat Portuguese army, kill King Sebastian of Portugal
	Second Battle of Kizugawaguchi	Nobunaga defeats the naval forces of the Mori clan
	Battle of Rijmenam (1578)	The Spanish forces were dealt a strategic defeat by the Dutch
	Siege of Kozuki	Hideyoshi is defeated by the Mori clan
	Battle of Çıldır	Ottoman Turks defeat Safavid Persia and conquer the Caucasus
1579	Siege of Itami	Hideyoshi captures Itami castle from Araki Murashige
1579	Siege of Maastricht	20,000 Spanish troops under Farnese captures the city defended by 2,000 Dutch soldiers and civilians
1580	Battle of Alcântara	Spanish candidate to the Portuguese throne defeats national candidate
	Siege of Ishiyama Honganji	August - Kōsa surrenders to Nobunaga after a ten-year siege
	Siege of Miki	Hideyoshi captures Miki castle from Nagaharu
1581	Siege of Breda	Spanish troops took the Dutch city by surprise
	Siege of Takatenjin	Oda Nobunaga captures Takeda controlled castle
	Siege of Tottori	Hideyoshi captures Tottori Castle. The castle's lord commits suicide
1582	Battle of Temmokuzan	Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga destroy the forces of Takeda Katsuyori, who commits suicide
	Siege of Takamatsu	Hideyoshi captures Takamatsu Castle. The lord of this castle also commits suicide
	Battle of Honnō-ji	21 June - Nobunaga is defeated by Akechi Mitsuhide, who forces him to commit suicide
	Battle of Yamazaki	Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide, the murderer of his master Oda Nobunaga
	Battle of Uchide-hama	Hideyoshi again defeats Nobunaga's murderer, Akechi Mitsuhide
1583	Battle of Shizugatake	May - Hideyoshi relieves one of his allies who was under siege
1583	Battle of Torches	9–11 May - Ottoman Turks defeat Safavid Persians at the end of three days of battle
1584	Battle of Komaki and Nagakute	Hideyoshi is defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu
1585	Invasion of Shikoku	Hideyoshi conquers the island
1586	Battle of Zutphen	22 September - Spanish defeat Dutch rebels
1587	Battle of Coutras	20 October - Huguenot forces defeat the French Royal Army
1587	Battle of Vimory	26 October - French Royalist forces defeat foreign Huguenot forces
1588	Battle of Byczyna	24 January - A Polish faction defeats a Habsburg faction
1588	Battle of Gravelines	29 July - Spanish Armada beaten decisively in battle against the English and Dutch fleet
1590	Battle of Ivry	14 March Henri IV of Navarre defeats Catholic League in War of the Three Henries
	Siege of Odawara	4 May August - the Go-Hojo clan surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Japan was unified (1590)
	Siege of Shimoda	May to August - Hideyoshi's forces successfully besiege Hōjō clan
1591	Battle of Bhuchar Mori	July - Mughal Empire defeated combined Kathiawar forces led by Nawanagar State
1592	Battle of Sangju	24 April - Konishi Yukinaga defeats the Koreans under Yi Il
	Battle of Ch'ungju	28 April - Japanese forces decisively defeat the Koreans
	Battle of Okpo	7 May - The Korean Navy defeats a Japanese convoy
	Siege of Busan	24–25 May (13–14 April Lunar Calendar) Japanese defeat Koreans
	Battle of Hansan Island	14 August - Korean Navy defeats Japanese Navy
	Battle of Busan	1 November - Korean Navy could not recapture Busan from Japan
	Siege of Pyongyang	Chinese general Li Rusong defeats Konishi Yukinaga. Japan is expelled from Pyongyang
	Siege of Jinju (1592)	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
1593	Battle of Byeokjegwan	27 January - battle between Japan and China in Seoul. The Japanese army led by Ukita Hideie and Kobayakawa Takakage defeated the Chinese army under Li Rusong
	Battle of Haengju	The Korean army under commander Gwon Yul defenders were successful in repelling the Japanese forces
	Siege of Jinju	Japanese defeat Koreans
	Battle of Sisak	Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat forces of the Ottoman Empire
	Battle of Dryfe Sands	A clash between Clan Maxwell and Clan Johnstone
1594	Battle of Glenlivet	3 October - Religious clan battle
1596	Battle of Keresztes	24 to 26 October Ottoman Empire defeats Austria-Hungary and Germany
1596	Capture of Cadiz	Dutch United Provinces seize the Spanish city of Cádiz
1597	Battle of Turnhout	24 January - Dutch troops defeat Spanish cavalry
	Battle of Chilchonryang	28 August - Japanese Navy decisively defeat Korean Navy
	Siege of Namwon	August - Japanese defeat Korean and Chinese alliance force
	Siege of Ulsan	Japanese defeat Korean and Chinese alliance force
	Battle of Myeongnyang	26 October - Korean Navy defeats Japanese navy
1598	Battle of the Yellow Ford	Irish under Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, destroy English force
	Battle of Stångebro	25 September - Sigismund loses the Swedish crown to his uncle, Duke Charles
	Battle of Sacheon (1598)	October - Japanese army defeats Chinese army
	Battle of Noryang Point	16 December - Chinese and Korean Navy decisively defeat the Japanese army
1600	Battle of Sekigahara	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
1600	Battle of Nieuwpoort	2 July - Battle between Dutch (led by Prince Maurits) and Spanish army, led by Albrecht, archduke of Austria

External links

Poll – The Most Important Battles in History

List of battles: before 301 – 301–1300 – 1301–1600 – 1601–1800 – 1801–1900 – 1901–2000 – 2001–current

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