The following table describes major wars of the world −
Date | War | Fought between |
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1600 BCE | Battle of Mingtiao | Tang of Shang defeated Jie of Xia. Shang dynasty began in China |
1500 BCE | Battle of the Ten Kings | King Sudas defeated the Ten Kings in the Punjab region (India) |
1184 BCE | Battle of Troy | Troy descended after the ten-year Trojan War |
1046 BCE | Battle of Muye | Zhou Dynasty defeated the Shang Dynasty |
925 BCE | Battle of Bitter Lakes | Shoshenq I of Egypt defeated a Bedouin incursion |
707 BCE | Battle of Ruge | The Zheng general Zhu Dan defeated the king Huan of Zhou (China) |
693 BCE | Battle of Diyala River | The king Sennacherib of Assyria defeated the Elamites of Southern Iran |
616 BCE | Battle of Arrapha | The king Nabopolassar (of Babylonians) defeated the Assyrians |
546 BCE | Battle of Thymbra | Cyrus the Great of Persia defeated Croesus of Lydia |
545 BCE | Battle of The 300 Champions | The Spartans defeated the Argives |
539-38 BCE | Battle of Opis | Cyrus the Great defeated Nabonidus |
490 BCE | Battle of Marathon | Miltiades (of Athens) defeated Darius I of Persia and Artaphernes |
432 BCE | Battle of Potidaea | Athens defeated Sparta |
429 BCE | Battle of Spartolos | Chalcidians (with their allies) defeated Athens |
411 BCE | Battle of Eretria | Spartans defeated the Athenian fleet |
334 BCE | Battle of the Granicus | Alexander the Great defeated the Persian army |
331 BCE | Battle of Gaugamela | Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in Mesopotamia and conquered Persia |
326 BCE | Battle of the Hydaspes | Alexander the Great defeated the Indian King Porus |
281 BCE | Battle of Corupedium | Seleucus defeated and killed Lysimachus |
101 BCE | Battle of Vercellae | Marius (the Roman) defeated the Cimbri |
67 BCE | Battle of Jushi | Han troops defeated the Xiongnu |
66 BCE | Battle of the Lycus | Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates VI |
58 BCE | Battle of the Arar | Caesar defeated the migrating Helvetii |
47 BCE | Battle of the Nile | Caesar defeated Ptolemy XIII (the Egyptian king) |
36 BCE | Battle of Zhizhi | Han forces defeated Xiongnu |
Common Era (CE) | ||
84 CE | Battle of Mons Graupius | Agricola (the Roman) defeated the Caledonians |
208 CE | Battle of Red Cliffs | War of Three Kingdoms (of China) |
312 CE | Battle of Milvian Bridge | Constantine defeated Maxentius and took control of Italy |
547 CE | Battle of Marta | Tripolitanian Moors defeated John Troglita |
630 CE | Conquest of Mecca | Muhammad conquered Mecca without any bloodshed |
838 CE | Battle of Anzen | Abbasids (modern Turkey) defeated Theophilus |
972 CE | Battle of Cedynia | Mieszko I (of Poland) defeated Hodon (of Germany) |
1054 CE | Battle of Dunsinane | Malcolm defeated MacBeth |
1057 CE | Battle of Lumphanan | Malcolm defeated MacBeth. In this battle MacBeth was killed |
1179 CE | Battle of Jacob’s Ford | Saladin defeats the Kingdom of Jerusalem |
1215 CE | Battle of Zhongdu | Genghis Khan in cooperation with the Mongols defeated the Jin dynasty and seized Zhongdu (present day Beijing) |
1361 CE | Battle of Wisby | Denmark defeated Sweden |
1362-63 CE | Battle of Blue Waters | Pagan Lithuanians defeated the Islamic Tatar Forces |
1370 CE | Battle of Pontvallain | France defeated England |
1402 CE | Battle of Angora / Battle of Ankara | Timur defeated Ottoman sultan Bayezid I in Anatolia (Turkey) |
1448 CE | Battle of Kosovo | Turkish and Orthodox forces defeated Roman Catholic |
1533 CE | Battle of Cuzco | Spanish defeated the Inca Empire |
1597 CE | Battle of Chilchonryang | Japanese Navy defeaterd Korean Navy |
1597 CE | Battle of Myeongnyang | Korean Navy defeated Japanese Navy |
1607 CE | Battle of Gibraltar | Dutch defeated Spanish (fleet) |
1656 CE | First Battle of Warsaw | Poland seized its capital from Sweden |
1656 CE | Second Battle of Warsaw | Sweden defeated Poland |
1676 CE | Battle of Lund | Sweden defeat the Denmark |
1694 CE | Battle of Torroella | The French Navy defeated Spain |
1710 CE | Battle of Prut | Ottoman Turks defeated Russia |
1729 CE | Battle of Damghan | Nader Shah defeated the Afghans |
1779 CE | Battle of Baton Rouge | Spanish captured the city Baton Rouge |
1796 CE | Battle of Lodi | General Napoleon Bonaparte (French Army) defeated Austria |
1797 CE | Battle of Rivoli | Napoleon Bonaparte defeated Austria |
1798 CE | Battle of the Pyramids | Napoleon defeated Mameluks (in Egypt) |
1798 CE | Battle of Ballinamuck | British forces defeated Ireland and France |
1799 | Battle of Abukir | Napoleon and Joachim Murat defeated Turks |
1805 CE | Battle of Austerlitz | Napoléon Bonaparte defeated Russian |
1813 CE | Battle of Leipzig | The coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sweden defeated by Napoleon I (the Emperor of the French) |
1815 CE | Battle of Waterloo | Wellington, Prussians, Dutch, and German (collectively) forces defeated Napoleon |
1904 CE | Battle of Yalu River | Japan defeated Russia |
1914 to 1918 CE | World War I | Allied Powers (France, UK, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, Italy, Japan, USA, etc.) defeated Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, etc.) |
1917 CE | Battle of Jerusalem | British forces defeated Ottoman Empire and seized Jerusalem |
1939 to 1945 CE | World War II | Allies Powers (France, UK, Russia, China, Poland, Canada, Australia, USA, etc.) defeated Axix Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, etc.) |
1947 CE | Indo-Pakistani War | The war ended with division of territory (Jammu & Kashmir) |
1965 CE | Second Indo-Pakistan War | The war resulted in a stalemate |
1990 CE | Gulf War | US and allied forces defeated Iraq |
1995 CE | First battle of Grozny | Russian Army captured Grozny |
1999 CE | Kargil War | Pakistani infiltrators returned to status quo ante bellum |
2001 CE | Battle of Kabul | US forces attacked Kabul and seized it from the Taliban |
2001 CE | Battle of Kandahar | US and allied forces seized the last remaining city from the Taliban |
2001 CE | Battle of Tora Bora | US and allied forces besieged AlQaida, but Osama bin Laden was escaped |
2003 CE | Battle of Baghdad (Gulf War II) | US forces captured the Iraqi capital from Saddam Hussein’s forces |
Jan 2011 CE | First Battle of Benghazi | Libyan rebel forces freed the city from Colonel Gaddafi’s rule |
March 2011 CE | Battle of Bin Jawad | Gaddafi forces recaptured the city |
August 2011 CE | Battle of Tripoli | Tripoli is seized by rebel forces and Gaddafi government collapsed |