List of battles 601-1400

Table of contents

1 Seventh Century 2 Eighth Century 3 Ninth Century 4 Tenth Century 5 Eleventh Century 6 Twelfth Century 7 Thirteenth Century 8 Fourteenth Century

Seventh Century

• 603 Battle of Degsastan - Northumbrian king Aethelfrith defeats Scots under Aedan of Dalriada
• 616 Battle of Chester - Aethelfrith defeats the army of Powys
• 627 Battle of Nineveh - Romans beat Sassanid Persians
• 631 Battle of Wogastisburg - King Samo defeats Austrasian forces, led by Dagobert I, Merovingian king of the Franks
• 632 Battle of Akraba
• 633 Battle of Hatfield Chase - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Edwin of Northumbria
• 634 Battle of Heavenfield - Oswald of Bernicia defeats and kills the Welsh Cadwallon
• 636 Battle of Yarmuk - Islamic forces conquer Syria from Byzantines
• 642 Battle of Nehaward - Arabs gain final victory over Persians, Sassanid dynasty ended
• 642 Battle of Maserfeld August 5 - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia
• 655 Battle of Winwaed - Northumbrian King Oswiu defeats and kills pagan Mercian king Penda
• 656 Battle of Jamal or Battle of Camel
• 677 Battle of Syllaeum - Arab fleet destroyed by Byzantium, menace to Europe ended
• 680 Battle of Kerbela October 10 - Husain killed, becomes Shiite martyr
• 685 Battle of Nechtansmere - Picts defeat Northumbrians in Scotland
• 689 Battle of Coronate - The army of Cunincpert, king of the Lombards, defeat the followers of the usurper Alahis on the Adda River.
• 692 Battle of Sevastapol - Arabs defeat Justinian II
• 698 Battle of Carthage - Moslem Conquest of North Africa

• 709 Battle of Kabul - Moslem Conquest of the East
• 718 Battle of Covadonga - Spanish Christians defeat Moors for the first time (date uncertain 718 - 725)
• 732 Battle of Tours October 11 - Moors lose to Charles Martel near Poitiers
• 757 Battle of Suiyang
• 778 Battle of Roncesvalles - Charlemagne's rear guard Roland devastated by Basques

• 811 Battle of Pliska - Forces of Nicephorus I of Byzantium walk into trap of Bulgarian khan Krum
• 878 Vikings defeat forces of St Cuthbert in West Sussex
• 891 Battle of Leuven - Arnulf of Carinthia defeats Normans

• 917 Battle of Anchialus August 20 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drive Byzantines out
• 923 Battle of Soissons June 15 - Rollo of Normandy killed by Charles III, but Charles is defeated and imprisoned by Rudolf duke of Burgundy who succeeded Robert
• 955 Battle of Lechfeld August 10 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Magyars, ends invasion of West
• 972 Battle of Cedynia
• 991 Battle of Maldon August 10 or 11 - Olaf Tryggvason's Vikings defeat English of Ealdorman Brihtnoth of Essex

• 1014 Battle of Clontarf Irish King Brian Boru ends Norse rule of Ireland
• 1014 Battle of Kleidion Byzantine Emperor Basil II conquers the Bulgarians
• 1016 Battle of Neaje Future Norwegian king Saint Olav Haraldsson laid foundation for his reign in this victory.
• 1018 Battle of Vlaardingen Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Henry I, Holy Roman Emperor at Vlaardingen
• 1030 Battle of Stiklestad Norwegian King Saint Olaf Haraldsson killed in the battle but it ensured Christianization of Norway
• 1053 Battle of Civitate Robert Guiscard's Normans destroy the army of Pope Leo IX.
• 1054 Battle of Dunsinane Malcolm defeats Macbeth
• 1057 Battle of Lumphanan
• 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge September 25, Harold Godwinson of England defeated his brother Tostig Godwinson and Harald III of Norway
• 1066 Battle of Hastings October 14, William the Conqueror defeats Harold Godwinson
• 1071 Battle of Manzikert Byzantines lose Asia Minor, Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes leads Christians against Seljuk Turks
• 1071 Byzantines lose Bari, their last possession in Italy, to the Norman Robert Guiscard
• 1097 Battle of Nicea April, Byzantines and Crusaders defeat Muslims at Nicaea
• 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum July 1, first Christian victory of the First Crusade
• 1098 Siege of Antioch June 3, Crusaders capture Antioch after a lengthy siege
• 1099 Siege of Jerusalem July 15, Crusaders capture Jerusalem after a lengthy siege and bloody street-fighting

• 1106 Battle of Tinchebray (28 September) Henry I defeats his brother Robert of Normandy in northwestern France
• 1108 Battle of Ucles May
• 1109 Battle of Naklo Boleslaus III of Poland defeats Pomeranians
• 1109 Battle of Hundsfeld Boleslaus III of Poland defeats German king Henry V
• 1119 Battle of Ager Sanguinis (the Field of Blood) (June 27) Ilghazi defeats Crusaders
• 1138 Battle of the Standard near Northallerton
• 1157 Battle of Grathe Heath
• 1176 Battle of Legnano May 29 Lombard League defeats and wounds HRE Frederick Barbarossa
• 1176 Battle of Myriokephalon Seljuk Turks defeat army of Emperor Manuel I Comnenus of the Byzantine Empire in Phrygia
• 1185 Battle of Dan-no-ura in Japan - Last battle of Taira-Minamoto War
• 1187 Battle of Hattin July 4 Saladin defeats Crusaders.
• 1191 Battle of Arsuf September 7 Richard Lionheart's forces repel Saladin's attack.

• 1204 the Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople
• 1205 Battle of Adrianople - Fourth Crusade
• 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa July 16 Moors expelled from most of Iberia a joint army of the Christian kingdoms of Castile, León, Portugal, Navarre and Aragon.
• 1213 Battle of Damme - English under William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, sink most of fleet of France's King Philip II in the harbor of Damme.
• 1214 Battle of Bouvines France conquers Flanders
• 1214 Battle of Tournai France defeats Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and King John of England
• 1214 Battle of Beijing - Gengis Khan and the Mongols capture Beijing
• 1217 Battle of South Foreland - Fleet of English Hubert and Burgh defeat French fleet of Eustace the Monk off Dover
• 1223 Battle of Kalka River Subutai leads Mongols as they show force in Russia
• 1241 Battle of Liegnitz Mongols of the Golden Horde defeat feudal nobility including Knights Templar in Silesia and then retire to Asia
• 1245 Battle of Evesham August 4 - (Baron's War)
• 1242 Battle of Lake Peipus April 5 Alexander Nevsky defeats Teutonic Knights
• 1250 Battle of Fariskur April 6 Egyptians defeat 7th Crusade forces of Louis IX of France
• 1254 Battle of Adrianople - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
• 1260 Battle of Kressenbrunn - Premysl Ottokar II defeats Bela IV
• 1260 Battle of Ain Jalut September 3 - Mongol Wars - Muslim army defeats Mongols north of Palestine
• 1263 Battle of Largs
• 1266 Battle of Benevento
• 1268 Battle of Xiangyang First war ever involving the usage of firearms
• 1274 Battle of Hakata Bay - Mongol Wars -
• 1279 Battle of Yamen
• 1281 August 15 Typhoon wipes out the invading fleet of Kublai Khan in Japan ? Divine Wind.
• 1288 Battle of Worringen -Germany
• 1296 Battle of Dunbar first battle of the Wars of Scottish Independence
• 1296 Battle of Curzota Genoa defeats Venetian fleet including Marco Polo
• 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge - Scots under William Wallace defeat English of John de Warrenne
• 1298 Battle of Falkirk (1298) July 22 in Stirlingshire, English Archers defeat Scots led by William Wallace, longbow's first great victory

• 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs July 11 in Flanders, Flemish burghers led by Count Guy de Dampierre defeat French knights
• 1306 Battle of Methven Forces of Earl of Pembroke defeat newly-crowned Bruce and his Scottish rebels
• 1314 Battle of Bannockburn Robert the Bruce defeats Edward II, takes Stirling Castle and frees Scotland
• 1315 Battle of Morgarten November 15 Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria
• 1322 Battle of Muhldorf September 28 German Louis IV defeats Frederick of Austria
• 1332 Battle of Plowce September 27 Poland's Ladislas IV Lokietek defeats Teutonic Knights
• 1333 Battle of Halidon Hill July 19 Edward III of England avenges Bannockburn
• 1340 Battle of Rio Salado October 30 Alphonso XI of Castile defeats Moslems
• 1340 Battle of Sluys June 24 Edward III beats Franco-Genoese fleet of Philip VI of France off the coast of Flanders and gains control of English Channel
• 1346 Battle of Crecy August 26 English longbowmen defeat French cavalry at Abbeville
• 1351 Battle of the Thirty Thirty French Knights from Chateau Josselin under Beaumanoir call out and defeat thirty English Knights under Pembroke and Brambaugh
• 1354 Battle of Sapienza Genoans destroy Venetian fleet
• 1356 Battle of Poitiers Edward the Black Prince captures King John II of France, France plunges into chaos
• 1362 Battle of Helsingborg - Danish-German War
• 1365 Battle of Adrianople Capture by Ottoman Turks
• 1380 Battle of Kulikovo Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow halts the Mongols
• 1384 Battle of Atoleiros April 6 Nuno Alvares Pereira (Portuguese general) defeats Castile
• 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota August 14 Portugal gains independence from Castile, John I establishes Avis dynasty
• 1386 Battle of Sempach July 9 Swiss defeat Leopold III of Austria
• 1389 Battle of Kosovo Polje Ottoman army gathered by Murad I defeats Serbs, ends Serb empire under Prince Lazar