List of Norwegian battles
List of Norwegian battles is a list of battles fought in Norway or which a significant number of Norwegians participated.
Unification of Norway
- Battle of Hakadal (ca. 860)
- Battle of Orkdal (ca. 870)
- First battle of Solskjel (ca. 870)
- Second battle of Solskjel (ca. 870)
- Battle of Fjaler (ca. 870)
- Harald Fairhair's campaign in Götaland (870s)
- Battle of Hafrsfjord (ca. 872)
900–1030
Obelisk Memorial for Egil Ullserk and his men who died at the Battle of Rastarkalv
- Battle of Rastarkalv (955)
- Battle of Fitjar (961)
- Battle of Hjørungavåg (ca. 985)
- Battle of Maldon (991)
- Battle of Svolder (1000)
- Battle of Nesjar (1016)
- Battle of Helgeå (1026)
- Battle of Boknafjorden (1028)
- Battle of Stiklestad (1030)
The claim to Denmark (1040–1064)
- Battle of Lyrskov Heath (1043)
- Battle of Niså (1062)
The British Isles
Battle of Stamford Bridge
- Norwegian invasion of England (1066)
- Battle of Fulford (1066)
- Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
- Magnus Barefoot's First Irish Sea campaign (1098–1099)
- Battle of Anglesey Sound (1098)
Crusades
- Norwegian Crusade (1107–1111), in the aftermath of the First Crusade
- Siege of Sidon (1110)
Civil war era (1130–1240)
- Battle of Minne (1137)
- Battle of Holmengrå (1139)
- Battle of Hising (1161)
- Battle of Oslo (1161)
- Battle of Sekken (1162)
- Battle of Re (1163)
- Battle of Re (1177)
- Conquest of Jemtland
- Battle of Storsjön (1178)
- Battle of Kalvskinnet (1179)
- Battle of Illevollene (1180)
- Battle of Fimreite (1184)
- Battle of Florvåg (1194)
- Battle of Tunsberg (ca. 1200)
- Battle of Oslo (1218)
- Battle of Oslo (1239)
The Golden Age (1240-1319)
- Scottish–Norwegian War (1262–66)
- Battle of Largs (1263)
- Second Swedish brothers feud (1304–1310)
- Battle of Oslo (1308)
House of Bjelbo (1319–1387)
- Karelian raid
- Raid on Bjarkøy (1323)
Kalmar Union (1388/1397–1523)
- Vitalian Brotherhood
- Sacking of Bergen (1393)
- Conflict with Novgorod
- Raid on the White Sea (1419)
- Conflict with the Hanseatic League (Schleswig War)
- Battle of Bergen (1428)
- Battle of Bergen (1429)
- Conflict with Novgorod
- Raid on the White Sea (1449)
Denmark–Norway (1523/1537–1814)
Battle of Kringen
- Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein/Olav Engelbrektssons rebellion (1536-1537)
- Siege of Steinvikholm Castle (1537)
- Siege of Hamar (1537)
- Kalmar War (1611–13)
- Battle of Kringen (1612)
- Hannibal controversy (1643–45)
- Battle of Bysjön (1644)
- Battle of Frösöen (1644)
- Battle of Vänersborg (1644)
- Battle of Vänersborg (1645)
- Dano-Swedish Wars (1657–58, 1658–60)
- Battle of Frösöen (1657)
- Battle of Eda (1658)
- Battle of Trondheim (1658)
- Battle of Halden (1658–60)
- Battle of Borge (1660)
- Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–67)
- Battle of Vågen (1665)
- Scanian War (1675–79)
- Battle of Oviken (1677)
- Battle of Vänersborg (1677)
- Battle of Marstrand (1677)
- Battle of Køge Bay (1677)
- Battle of Ålen (1679)
- Great Northern War (1700–21)
- Battle of Høland (1716)
- Battle of Fredriksten (1716)
- Battle of Dynekilen (1716)
- Battle of Moss (1716)
- Battle of Nordkleiva (1716)
- Battle of Norderhov (1716)
- Battle of Harestuskogen (1716)
Napoleonic Wars (1807–1814)
HMS Tartar attacked by Dano-Norwegian gunboats in the Battle of Alvøen
- Gunboat War (1807–14)
- Battle of Kristiansund (1808)
- Battle of Alvøen (1808)
- Battle of Lista (1808)
- Battle of Lyngør (1808)
- Battle of Kjerringvik (1808)
- Battle of Hammerfest (1809)
- Battle of Silda (1810)
- Battle of Anholt (1811)
- Battle of Tromsø (1812)
- Battle of Lyngør (1812)
- Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)
- Battle of Lier (1814)
- Battle of Fredrikstad (1814)
World War II (1940–1945)
Blücher sinking in the Oslofjord
- Invasion of Norway (1940)
- Battle of Drøbak Sound (1940)
- Battle of Midtskogen (1940)
- Battle of Dombås (1940)
- Åndalsnes landings (1940)
- Namsos Campaign (1940)
- Battle of Vinjesvingen (1940)
- Battle of Hegra Fortress (1940)
- Battles of Narvik (1940)
- Battle of Gratangen (1940)
- Operation Juno (1940)
- Pacific War
- German attacks on Nauru (1940)
Commandos in action during the Måløy-raid
- Continuing the war in exile
- Operation Gauntlet (1941)
- Operation Kitbag (1941)
- Operation Anklet (1941)
- Operation Archery, aka Måløy raid (1941)
- Operation Musketoon (1942)
- Operation Fritham (1942–1943)
- Operation Cartoon (1943)
- Operation Zitronella (1943)
- Battle of the Atlantic (1940–1945)
- Battle of the North Cape (1943)
- Western Front
- Invasion of Normandy (1944)
- Normandy landings (1944)
- Battle of the Scheldt (1944)
- Invasion of Normandy (1944)
- The end of the war in Norway
- Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive (1944)
- Black Friday (1945)
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1978-1998)
- Lebanese Civil War (1978-1990)
- Battle of Kaukaba (1978)
War on Terror (2001–present)
Norwegian special forces soldiers (FSK) unload from a MH-47 Chinook during Operation Anaconda
- War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
- Operation Anaconda (2002)
- Operation Jacana (2002)
- Operation Mongoose (2003)
- Operation Pickaxe-Handle (2007)
- Operation Harekate Yolo (2007)
- Operation Karez (2008)
- Counterinsurgency in Northern Afghanistan (2009–2014)
Sources
- Norsk forsvarshistorie Bind 1, Geir Atle Ersland and Terje Holm, Eide Forlag (Norway)
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