List of battles 1301–1600 explained

Early 14th century (1301–1350)

YearBattleDescription
1302 11 July – In Flanders, Flemish forces led by William of Jülich and Pieter de Coninck defeat French knights.[1]
27 July – The founder of the Ottoman dynasty Osman I defeats a Byzantine force.[2]
1303Battle of Roslin24 February – Scottish forces led by John Comyn III ambush and defeat an English army at Roslin.[3]
Siege of Chittorgarh 28 January – 26 August – The Delhi Sultanate defeats and conquers the Guhilas of Medapata.
Battle of Arques4 April – Flemish forces led by William of Jülich defeat a French army at Arques.[4]
Battle of Marj al-Saffar20–22 April – Mamluk forces defeat the Ilkhanate and their Armenian allies, last Mongol invasion of Syria.[5]
Siege of Maastricht May – The Prince-Bishopric of Liège fails to conquer Maastricht from the Duchy of Brabant.
Battle of Dimbos Ottoman forces defeat Byzantine governors.
Conquest of Sylhet Muslims led by Shamsuddin Firuz Shah conquer the Hindu Gour Kingdom led by Gour Govinda.
Siege of Amsterdam William of Avesnes, commanding an army of the County of Holland captures Amsterdam from Jan I van Amstel, lord of Amstelland.
Siege of Zierikzee A Flemish army under Guy of Namur fails to capture Zierikzee.
1304 February – English forces defeat a small Scottish army.
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.
April–July – King Edward I besieges the Scots successfully. The Warwolf siege engine is constructed and first used during this battle.
Siege of Schoonhoven July – William of Avesnes, commanding the army of the County of Holland defeats rebel Schoonhoven.
10–11 August – A combined fleet from France, Genoa and Holland defeats a Flemish fleet.
18 August – 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.
1305 July – Byzantine forces under Co-Emperor Michael IX are defeated by the Catalan Company in Thrace.
20 December – The Delhi Sultanate defeats the invading Mongol forces of the Chagatai Khanate.
1306 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.
Hospitaller conquest of RhodesRhodes is conquered by the Hospitallers.
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 February – Scottish forces under Thomas de Brus and Alexander de Brus are defeated by rival Scots at Loch Ryan.
April – Scottish forces under King Robert the Bruce ambush and defeat the English army at Glen Trool.
10 May – Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat the English army at Loudoun Hill.
1308 23 May – Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat the rival Scots of the Clan Comyn at Oldmeldrum.
August – Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat the rival Scots of the Clan MacDougall at the Pass of Brander.
Delhi forces conquer Siwana fortress in Rajasthan (North India).
1309 August –December – Aragonese forces under King James II besiege the Saracen garrison at Almería. After two months, James is forced to break off the siege.
12 September – Castilian forces under King Ferdinand IV besiege and capture the Moorish fortress at Gibraltar.
1310 July 1309 – January 1310 – Castile forced to withdraw siege on Granada city.
Delhi forces sack the capital of the Kakatiya dynasty, leading to their inevitable annexation in the coming years.
1311 February - Hoysala Empire surrenders and agrees to pay tribute to Delhi Sultanate.
15 March – Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne of Athens and goes on to capture Athens and Thebes.
7 April – The Teutonic Knights under Heinrich von Plötzke defeat the Lithuanian forces near the village of Wopławki.
19 May - 19 September – Henry VII, King of the Romans captures rebel Brescia.
1312 15 June – Hungarian forces under King Charles I defeat the rebel army of Palatine Amadeus Aba at Rozgony.
2,000 Turcopoles are annihilated by a combined Byzantine, Kingdom of Serbia, and Genoese force.
Knights Hospitaller destroy the fleet of Menteshe.[6]
1313 9 November – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria.
1314 Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce defeat King Edward II. Robert takes Stirling Castle and secures Scottish independence.
1315 12 July – King John of Bohemia defeats Matthew III Csák.
22 July – 1 August – Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce besiege unsuccessfully Carlisle Castle.
29 August – Pisa defeats allied forces of Florence and the Kingdom of Naples.
September – Scottish-Irish forces under Edward Bruce defeat an Irish garrison at Moyry Pass.
15 November – Swiss forces defeat Leopold I, Duke of Austria on the shore of the Ägerisee.
1316 February – Scottish forces under James Douglas defeat an English raiding party near Coldstream.
22 February – Ferdinand of Majorca defeats Matilda of Hainaut and the Achaean barons loyal to her.
5 July – Louis of Burgundy defeats the Majorcans, Ferdinand of Majorca is slain.
August – A North German-Danish alliance led by Henry II of Mecklenburg defeat Waldemar the Great.
10 August – English forces defeat an Irish army under Felim O'Connor, king of Connacht.
1318 10 May – Irish forces under Ó Deághaidh defeat the English Lordship.
Siege of Sittard John III, Duke of Brabant captures Sittard from Reinoud van Valkenburg.
October 14 – English forces defeat a Scots–Irish army under Edward Bruce, who is slain.
1319 The Knights Hospitaller and the Genoese of the Lordship of Chios score victory over an Aydinid fleet.
1320 9 September – Byzantine forces under Andronikos Asen ambush and defeat the army of the Principality of Achaea, securing possession of Arcadia.
A Turkish invasion fleet is destroyed by the Knights Hospitaller and the Genoese, in an attempt to capture Rhodes.
Ethiopians defeat Sultanate of Ifat.
1322 A coalition of Croatian noblemen defeat Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, Ban of Croatia.
English Royal forces defeat a rebel English army.
English Royal forces defeat a rebel English army fighting for the Scots.
28 September – Louis the Bavarian defeats and captures Frederick I of Austria.
1323 Delhi Sultanate conquers Kakatiya Empire.
1324 Aragonese capture Sardinian town from Pisa.
Aragon conquers Sardinia from the Republic of Pisa.
1325 Communal struggle between Bologna and Modena, Modena emerges victorious.
Vienne under Guigues de la Tour-du-Pin defeat the Savoyards.
1326 6 April – Ottoman forces led by Sultan Orhan capture the fortified city of Bursa.
18–26 October – Queen Isabella of France besieges and captures Bristol after an eight-day siege.
1327 Zayyanid Kingdom of Tlemcen defeats Hafsid dynasty.
1328 French under Philip VI defeat a revolting Flemish peasant army, killing their leaders.
1329 1 February - Teutonic Order captures Lithuanian fortress.
1329 10 June – The second ruler of the Ottoman dynasty, Orhan, defeats the Byzantine emperor Andronicus III.
Irish force led by William MacGeoghegan defeats English army under Thomas Butler, who is killed.
1330 28 July - Serbia defeats Bulgaria and their Wallachian allies. Michael III of Bulgaria killed in battle.
9 November – Basarab I of Wallachia defeats Charles I of Hungary.
Ualgarg O'Rourke is defeated by the English.
1331 The Byzantine city of Nicaea falls to Ottomans under Orhan.
Battle of Płowce27 September - 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.
18 July - Bulgarians defeat Byzantines.
6 August - Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife defeated by smaller army supporting Edward Balliol, pretender to the Scottish throne.
11 August - English supporting Edward Balliol, Scottish pretender, defeat the Scots.
27 September- Poland's Ladislas IV Lokietek defeats Teutonic Knights.
Battle of San Felice 25 November - 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.
16 December - 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 19 July – Edward III of England avenges Bannockburn.
1334 Siege of Maastricht March – After a short siege, Maastricht surrenders to bishop Adolph de la Marck of Liège.
1335 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 Kusunoki Masashige, obeying Emperor Go-Daigo's orders, leads an imperial army into defeat by the Ashikaga. Kusunoki commits suicide.
1337 English defeat pro-French garrison of Cadsand in Flanders.
Ashikaga victory during Nanboku-cho Wars.
1338 French victory over the English fleet.
1339 21–22 February – Rebel Lodrisio Visconti is defeated by the Visconti of Milan's army.
September–October – King Edward III of England withdraws when a large French army was near and fails to capture Cambrai.
1340 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.
26 July – Anglo-Flemish force driven back from the town by a French army.
23 July – 25 September – King Edward III of England fails to capture Tournai from king Philip VI of France.
30 October – Alfonso XI of Castile and Afonso IV of Portugal defeat the Marinid under Sultan Abul-Hassan and the Granadine under King Yusuf I.
1341 13 October −16 October – Begins Breton War of Succession.
1342 18 August – English fleet defeats Genoese mercenaries.
Besieged by the English, a French relief army broke the siege of Morlaix. When the English retreated into a wood, the French withdrew.
1344 May – Turks from the Emirate of Aydin defeat a Serbian army in northern Greece.
1345 22 April – Ghibelline Asti and John II, Marquess of Montferrat defeat the Neapolitan Guelph League army.
Battle of Lough NeaghNaval battle between Hugh O'Neill and the Clann Hugh Buidhe.
7 July – A Byzantine-Turkish army under John VI Kantakouzenos and Umur Bey defeats and kills the renegade lord Momchil in the Rhodope.
July – Poland and Hungary defeat Bohemia.
July – Poland defeats Bohemia.
Siege of Utrecht 8 June - 22 July – William II, Count of Hainaut and of Holland captures Utrecht and forces bishop John of Arkel to submission.
26 September – Frisians defeat Dutch invasion force led by William IV, Count of Holland.
21 October – English relief army lift a siege by the French.
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.
English defeat the French.
English force capture and sack the town.
English under Edward III cross the Somme.
26 August – English longbowmen defeat French cavalry at Abbeville.
English defeat the Scots under King David Bruce.
1347 4 September 1346 – 3 August 1347 – English forces capture the city.
Battle of Porta San Lorenzo (Rome) – November – The people of Rome defeat the baronial troops of Stefano Colonna.
English relief army lift a French siege.
1348 Teutonic Order defeats the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1349 Anglo-Gascons hold the upper hand during the day over the French but the Anglo-Gascons have to withdraw during the night.
25 October – James IV of Majorca defeated and killed by troops of Aragon.
Newly Islamic Sultanate of Kano defeats animist Hausa Kingdom of Santolo.
1350 1 January 1350 - English force defeated a French army which was attempting to take the city.
Battle of Naarden 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.
29 August – English fleet defeats Castilian fleet.

Late 14th century (1351–1400)

YearBattleDescription
1351 26 March – Thirty French knights from Chateau Josselin under Jean de Beaumanoir call out and defeat thirty English knights under Robert Bemborough.
Siege of Medemblik March–April – William I, Duke of Bavaria captures Medemblik (Hook and Cod wars).
1 April – English relief army lifted a French siege.
6 June – French defeated the English.
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.
3–5 July – The Cod fleet of William I defeats the Hook fleet of his mother Margaret II.
1351-1352 Siege of Geertruidenberg October 1351 - 18 August 1352 – William I, Duke of Bavaria captures Geertruidenberg.
1352 Anglo-Bretons defeated the French.
1354 Genoans destroy Venetian fleet.
March – Ottoman Turks under Sultan Orhan capture Gallipoli, giving them a bridgehead into Europe.
1356 Baile Loch Deacair In southern Connacht.
Battle of Soest 14 March – The army of Bavaria-Straubing and the County of Holland defeats the army of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht.
Battle of Scheut 17 August – 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.
25 October – Edward the Black Prince captures King John II of France, France plunges into chaos.
1357 Majapahit Prime Minister Gajah Mada has the Sunda royal family killed.
1358 Army of French nobles crushes the peasant Jacquerie.
1358-1359 Siege of Heusden The army of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, count of Holland captures rebel Cod Heusden.
Siege of Heemskerk The army of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, count of Holland captures rebel Cod Heemskerk.
1359 Siege of Delft 11 March - 29 May – Albert I of Bavaria and Holland captures rebel Cod controlled Delft.
Late Spring – Albanians under John Spata defeat Despotate of Epirus and form several Despotates in parts of their land.
23 July – Florentines defeat Great Company.
1361 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 Danish fleet beat Hanseatic fleet in Danish–German War (aka First Danish War with the Hanseatic League).
6 April – Mercenary Free Companies defeat a French army.
Siege of Kaunas 13 March – 17 April – Teutonic Order defeats Grand Duchy of Lithuania, captures and razes the Kaunas Castle.
Granada defeats Castile.
1362/1363 The Pagan Lithuanians defeat Islamic Tatar Forces.
1363 Ming dynasty decisively defeats Yuan dynasty and kills their commander Chen Youliang.
1364 16 May – French defeat Gascon-Navarrese-English.
28 July – Battle between the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence.
29 September – End of Breton War of Succession, English defeat Franco-Bretons.
1365 Capture by Ottoman Turks.
1367 English under the Black Prince and Don Pedro of Castile defeat the Franco-Castilians.
1367First Albanian Siege of IoanninaAlbanian and Aromanian troops attack Ioannina for three years, ending in a ceasefire.
1369 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.
July – Granada retakes city from Castile.
Battle of PoniMajapahit Empire and Bruneian Empire defeat Sulu Sultanate.
1370 February – Teutonic Knights defeat Lithuanians.
French victory against English.
Timur defeats and has killed his brother-in-law Amir Husayn and gains control of the western Chagatai.
1371 Edward, Duke of Guelders and William II, Duke of Jülich defeat Wenceslaus, Duke of Brabant.
26 September – Serbs under their ruler, King Vukašin of Serbia, were defeated by an Ottoman force.
1372 22–23 June - Castilian fleet defeats the English fleet. English sea dominance destroyed.
1373 21 March - French defeat an English relief army trying to lift the siege of Chiset.
John II, Count of Blois besieges Venlo during the First War of the Guelderian Succession, against his contender William II, Duke of Jülich.
1375Battle of GardikiAchaean victory defeats Morean siege
1377 February - 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.
2 August - The Russian troops are defeated, while their commander drowns in the river.
Moravian Serbia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1378 Moscow defeats the Golden Horde.
1378Knights Hospitaller Invasion of ArtaKnights Hospitaller attempt to capture the Despotate of Arta but fail.
1380 Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow halts the Mongols.
1380 or 1381 Battle of Loppersum End 1380 or Early 1381 - Chieftain Ocko I tom Brok of Norderland and Emsigerland defeats cheaftains Kampo Abdena of Hinte and Folkmar Allena of Osterhusen.
1381 Second Battle of the Kalka RiverTokhtamysh defeats Mamai and gains control of the Blue Horde.
Forces led by Henry le Despenser defeat the rebels of Norfolk at the end of the English Peasants' Revolt.
1382 3 May - Ghent rebels under Philip van Artevelde defeat the army of Louis II, Count of Flanders.
23–27 August - Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde takes back control of Moscow from the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
27 November - French army under King Charles VI of France crush a large Flemish army of urban levies.
1383 Battle of DunkirkMay - 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.
May - An English army under Henry le Despenser and Ghent rebels fail to take Ypres from Louis II, Count of Flanders.
Trian ChongailHugh O Neill and Robin Savage kill each other in a cavalry charge.
1384 6 April – Nuno Álvares Pereira (Portuguese general) defeats Castile.
Portugal successfully defends its capital from the Castilians.
The Castilian blockade to Porto is stopped.
The Portuguese win a naval battle in the Tagus river.
1385 O Conchobhair, King of Uí Falighe, soundly defeats the English of Meath.
29 May – An army sent by John I of Castile is defeated by the Portuguese.
14 August – Portugal maintains independence from Castile, John I establishes Avis dynasty.
14 October – The Portuguese defeat a Castilian army.
Zeta (Montenegro) forces under Balša II were defeated by Ottoman commander Hayreddin Pasha near Berat.
1386 29 April – Grand Duchy of Lithuania decisively defeats the Principality of Smolensk and make the principality agree to be their vassal.
9 July – Swiss defeat Leopold III of Austria.
Serbian victory and first serious defeat for the Ottoman army in the Balkans.
Timur decisively defeats the Kingdom of Georgia.
1387 11 March – Giovanni Ordelaffi and Ostasio da Polenta, for Verona, defeated by John Hawkwood and Francesco Novello Carraresi, for Padua.
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.
Timur annexes Isfahan and nearby territories from the Muzaffarids.
19 December - Rebellious Lords Appellant defeat a Royal army and briefly gain control of the government.
1388 March Ming Chinese army under general Lan Yu decisively defeated Mongol Northern Yuan dynasty, more than 100,000 Mongols killed or captured.
19 August - English under a young Henry "Hotspur" Percy defeated by Scots under James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas.
23 August - 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.
27 August Bosnians and Serbians defeat the Ottomans.
1389 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 Mercenary army of Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan beat that of Jean III of Armagnac.
Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde.
1393 Siege of Altena Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and count of Holland captures rebel Altena Castle.
1394 Battle of Ros-mic-Triuin King of Leinster attacks and defeats the English.
10 October – Mircea cel Batrin the voievod of Wallachia defeated Bayezid I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1395 15 April – Timur decisively defeats Tokhtamysh.
16 April – Astorre I Manfredi for the Republic of Venice and Niccolò III d'Este beat Ferrarese rebel Azzo X d'Este.
1396 Scottish clan battle.
25 September – A major French–Hungarian crusade is defeated by the Ottomans under Bayezid I.
Battle of Schoterzijl Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and count of Holland defeats the Frisians.
1397 Battle of Kleverhamm 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 Siege of Delhi (1398) Timur defeats the Sultanate of Delhi and sacks their capital, weakening Delhi for a century.
1399 The Anglo-Irish defeat the sons of Henry O Neill.
Vytautas the Great of Lithuania is defeated by generals of Tamerlane.

Early 15th century (1401–50)

YearBattleDescription
1400Timur defeats Mamluk Sultanate and annexes Damascus.
1401mid-June – Welsh rebels under Owain Glyndŵr defeat an army of English and Flemish soldiers near Aberystwyth.
November – Inconclusive battle between English and Welsh near Caernarfon.
1402 26 January – Alberico da Barbiano for Milan defeats Bolognese–Florentine army under Muzio Attendolo.
22 June – English army routed in mid-Wales; Owain Glyndŵr's revolt spreads.
22 June – Clash between English and Scottish prior to the decisive Battle of Homildon Hill.
20 July – Timur defeats and captures Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I in Anatolia.
14 September – A strong Scottish raiding force is heavily defeated by English longbowmen.
Siege of Gorinchem 29 June - 18 September – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and of Holland defeats John V, Lord of Arkel.
December – Timur defeats the Knights of Rhodes and razes Smyrna.
140321 July – Henry IV defeats rebel army led by Henry "Hotspur" Percy, who is slain in the fighting.
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.
1405May – Owain Glyndŵr's rebels defeated near Usk.
1406 The King of Uí Falighe defeats the Galls of Meath.
Scottish clan battle fought between the Clan MacLeod of Lewis against the Clan MacKay.
140719 January – Ming Chinese forces defeated Đại Ngu forces.
Chinese Ming dynasty decisively defeated the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty, led to the Ming conquest of Đại Ngu.
Ming dynasty defeats pirates in Sumatra and captures their leader Chen Zuyi.
140819 February – The Percy Rebellion is finally crushed by King Henry IV of England.
Siege of Maastricht 24 November 1407 - 23 September 1408 – Rebels from Liège fail to take Maastricht from supporters of bishop John of Bavaria of Liège.
23 September – 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 30 June – Aragon defeats the giudicato di Arborea, last independent kingdom of Sardinia.
23 September – The Mongols under Öljei Temür Khan defeat Ming China.
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.
10 October – Polish-Lithuania army defeat Teutonic Knights.
141124 July – Highlanders versus Lowland Scots ends in draw.
1412Battle of Saint-Rémy-du-Val 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 11 June - 12 July – After a month of siege, king Charles VI of France decides for a truce with the Armagnacs.
Siege of Dreux 10–15 July – Burgundians capture Dreux from the Armagnacs in a French civil war.
December – Kara Koyunlu Turkomans defeat the Georgian army under Constantine I of Georgia and Shirvanshah Ibrahim, their ally.
1415 21 August – Ceuta is captured by the Portuguese.
25 October – An outnumbered English force under Henry V defeats the French through the use of massed longbowmen behind sharpened stakes.
1416 29 May – A Venetian fleet under Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet.
Siege of IJsselstein 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.
1417 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.
Siege of IJsselstein 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.
Siege of Gorinchem 23 or 24 November - 1 December – A Hook army defeats a Cod army in the city of Gorinchem.
1418 Siege of Dordrecht 28 June - 10 August – 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.
19 July - January 1419 – Henry V of England gains a foothold in Normandy.
Battle of Dokkum Allies under Focko Ukena defeat the Schieringers under Sicko Sjaerda.
1419 13–17 August – The Moors attempt to retake Ceuta but are easily repelled by the Portuguese.
Battle of Miedum 19 or 20 August – Schieringers under Sicko Sjaerda defeat the allies.
30 December – A Castilian fleet defeats an English-Hanseatic coalition fleet.
1419–1428 Ming city besieged every year of Lam Son uprising, eventually fell to Le Loi.
1420 Battle of Sudomer25 March – Hussites led by Jan Žižka defeat Catholics.
Battle on the Palesloot12 May – The Allies under Focko Ukena defeat the Schieringers.
Battle of Vitkov Hill12 June – 14 July – Hussite victory over the Crusaders of the Holy Roman Emperor.
Siege of Montereau-Fault-Yonne16 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.
Siege of Leiden18 June – 17 August – An army under John III, Duke of Bavaria captures Leiden from supporters of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut.
Battle of Sloten11 July – An army of Schieringers under Sicko Sjaerda and Cods under Hendrik van Renesse defeats the allies (Vetkopers and Bronckhorsts) under Focko Ukena.
Battle of VysehradSeries of engagements between the Hussite forces and the Holy Roman Emperor's crusaders.
Siege of GeertruidenbergEnd August – 11 November – Supporters of John III, Duke of Bavaria defeat supporters of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut.
1421 Battle of Baugé22 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.
Battle of Mons-en-Vimeu30 August - The Burgundians under duke Philip the Good defeat the Armagnacs under Jaqcues d'Harcourt, Jean Poton de Xaintrailles and La Hire.
Battle of Kutna Hora21 December – Hussites escape Royalist forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund.
1422 Battle of Nebovidy6 January – Jan Žižka leads the Hussites to victory over an Imperial army.
Battle of Německý Brod10 January – Hussites sack town.
Battle of Arbedo30 June – Milanese led by Francesco Bussone fight the Swiss.
Siege of MeauxEnglish led by Henry V fight the French.
1423 Battle of Horic27 April – Taborites defeat Utraquists, ending the Hussite Civil War.
Battle of Cravant31 July – English victory during Hundred Years' War.
Battle of La BrossinièreFrench victory over English.
1424 Battle of L'AquilaJacopo Caldora and Micheletto Attendolo for the Kingdom of Naples defeat Braccio da Montone for Alfonso V of Aragon.
Battle of Zagonara28 July - The Florentines defeated by Filippo Maria Visconti's Milanese army under Count of Carmagnola.
Battle of Verneuil17 August – The English under the Duke of Bedford defeat a major Franco-Scottish army, clearing the way for further English conquests in Northern France.
1425 Siege of Schoonhoven10 March - 8 October – 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 Rijn21 October – A Hook army under Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut defeats a Cod army under Jacob van Gaasbeek.
1426 Battle of Brouwershaven13 January – Burgundian troops defeat combined Zeelander and English forces.
Battle of St. James6 March – An English force defeats the French under Arthur de Richemont.
Siege of Haarlem4 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 Rijn30 April – The army of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut defeats a Burgundian army.
Battle of Usti nad Labem16 June – Hussites defeat Imperial forces in the modern-day Czech Republic.
Battle of Khirokitia7 July – Mamelukes defeat intoxicated Cypriots.
Battle of Hoorn22 August – An army under duke Philip the Good of Burgundy defeats a Hook army.
Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động5–7 November – Le Loi decisively defeats Ming dynasty.
1427 Siege of Zevenbergen November 1426 - 11 April 1427 - The army of duke Philip the Good of Burgundy captures Zevenbergen.
3-4 August - Hussites defeat coalition forces.
15 July-5 September - French under Jean de Dunois defeat English.
18 September - Vietnam decisively defeats Ming Chinese. China agrees to Vietnam's independence soon after.
Battle of Wieringen September – A Burgundian fleet defeats a Hook fleet.
4 October – Part of the Wars in Lombardy.
Siege of Amersfoort 1–8 November – Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy fails to take Amersfoort from the local citizens, fighting for bishop Rudolf van Diepholt of Utrecht.
Byzantines defeat Carlo I Tocco and recapture the Latin possessions in the Peloponnese.
1428 Siege of Gouda May 1428 – Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut capitulates to duke Philip the Good of Burgundy.
1429 12 October 1428 - 8 May 1429 - English forces commanded by the Earl of Suffolk besiege French city and are driven off by Joan of Arc.
11–12 June – Joan of Arc captures a bridge held by English over the Loire River. Her helmet saves her from a projectile.
11–12 June The forces of Joan of Arc capture a second Loire River bridge.
16–17 June – Joan of Arc's forces capture a third Loire River bridge.
18 June – Major French field victory over the English, recognized as the war's turning point.
1430 29 March – The city of Thessalonica, ruled by the Republic of Venice, is captured by the Ottoman Empire.
23 May – French victory but Joan of Arc is captured by Burgundians.
1431 17 May – Count of Carmagnola, for Venice, is defeated by the Visconti.
22 May – The Venetian fleet is destroyed by the Milanese.
14 August – Hussite army led by Prokop the Bald slaughters Crusaders.
Royal English forces routed by Scottish Highlanders.
Thai Ayutthaya Kingdom ends Khmer Empire and sacks their capital.
1432 18/19 November – Duchy of Milan and Valtellina fight the Republic of Venice.
Florence fought Siena.
1434 30 May – Catholic Crusaders destroy Taborite army.
1435 French troops, under the command of La Hire, defeat English.
A Genoese fleet sent by Filippo Maria Visconti defeats the Aragonese of Alfonso V of Naples.
The forces of Grand Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis of Lithuania with the help of Polish troops defeated Švitrigaila and his Livonian allies.
1436 Scottish victory over the English on the Scottish Borders.
1437 Tatars defeat Moscow.
1439 Polish army defeats Hussite Protestants.
1439 Norwegian army is forced to retreat after a 10 week long siege by a Swedish relief force
1440 29 June – Niccolò Piccinino, overlord of Bologna, defeats Milanese Filippo Maria Visconti and is then opposed by Cosimo de Medici.
Ottoman forces captured Novo Brdo, an important fortified mining town of Serbia.
1443 November - John Hunyadi defeated three Ottoman armies before retreating.
December – Crusader advance stopped by the Ottoman army.
1444 2 or 5 January — Hungary, Poland, and Serbia defeated Ottoman forces.
29 June - Albanians under Skanderbeg defeat Ottomans.
26 August - French defeat Swiss.
10 August - 18 September - Knights Hospitaller defeats Mamluk Sultanate.
Battle of Linnich 3 November – The army of Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg defeats the army of Arnold, Duke of Guelders.
10 November – Ottoman Murad II defeats Hungarians, Poles, and Wallachians, King Władysław III of Poland killed.
1445 Emperor Zara Yaqob of Ethiopia defeats and kills Sultan Arwe Badlay of Adal.
Albanians under Skanderbeg defeat Ottomans.
1446 Skanderbeg defeats Ottomans.
1447 Abdal-Latif Mirza captures Damghan.
1448 Ottomans under Murad II capture Albanian fortress.
15 September – Ambrosian Republic (Milan's short-lived republic) fights the Republic of Venice.
17–20 October – Roman Catholic coalition defeated by Turkish forces.
23 October – also known as Battle of Lochmabenstone – Anglo-Scottish conflicts.
1449 20 May – Afonso V of Portugal defeats rebels of Pedro, Duke of Coimbra.
1 September – conflict between the Mongols and the Chinese Ming dynasty.
1450 15 April – decisive French victory over English during the Hundred Years' War.
14 May - 23 November - Skanderbeg defends Albanian town from an army of around 100,000 men led by Murad I.
Māori Ngāti Hotu tribe decisively defeated by the Whanganui Māori tribe.

Late 15th century (1451–1500)

YearBattleDescription
1452 Battle of Nevele 25 May – A Burgundian army under John of Burgundy defeats a rebel army of Ghent.
16 June – A Burgundian army under duke Philip the Good defeats a rebel army of Ghent under Wouter Leenknecht.
1453 22 April – Skanderbeg defeats Ottomans.
29 May – Mehmet II of the Ottoman Turks captures Constantinople (Istanbul), ending the Byzantine Empire.
17 July – The Valois use cannon to defeat the Lancastrians, which ends the Hundred Years' War.
23 July – A Burgundian army under duke Philip the Good defeats a rebel army of Ghent.
1454 18 September – Polish defeated by Teutonic Knights.
24 September – Serbs under command of Nikola Skobaljić defeat a larger Ottoman army.
Serbian Despotate, allied with the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats invading Ottoman forces.
1455 Scottish Royal-Black Douglas civil war.
22 May – First battle of the English Wars of the Roses, a victory for the pretender Richard of York.
July - Ottomans defeat Albanians under Skanderbeg.
1456 14 August - 15 September - Hungarian forces lift Ottoman siege, Sultan Mehmet II wounded.
22 July - Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy captures Deventer in order to make his son David of Burgundy bishop of Utrecht during the Utrecht war (1456–1458).
1457 Battle of DireptateaApril – Ştefan cel Mare, helped by Wallachian prince Vlad III the Impaler, defeated Petru Aron and became Voivod of Moldavia.
1459 23 September – Yorkist knights defeat Lancastrians in War of the Roses.
12 October – King Henry routs Yorkists in War of the Roses.
Siege of Venlo Adolf of Guelders surrenders to his father Arnold, Duke of Guelders, ending a rebellion.
1460 Yorkists land at Sandwich, rout Lancastrians.
John of Anjou's victory over Ferdinand of Naples.
10 July – Warwick attacks royal camp and captures King Henry.
30 December – Queen Margaret's Lancastrians defeat Duke of York, who is killed in the fight.
1461 2 February – Yorkists defeat Lancastrians in the west.
17 February – Lancastrians storm the town, chase out Yorkists.
28 March – Lancastrians ambush the Earl of Warwick and kill his second-in-command.
29 March – Edward IV of England defeats Lancastrian forces.
15 August – Ottoman Turks led by Mehmet II capture the capitol of the Empire of Trebizond, ending that empire.
1462 17 June – Vlad III Dracula attacks Mehmet II.
7 September – During the Thirteen Years' War, Poles defeated the Teutonic Order.
Siege of Mytilene Ottoman Turks capture the capitol of Gattilusi Lesbos.
1463 George VIII of Georgia is decisevely defeated by nobles led by his Royal kinsmen Bagrat.
15 September – Polish navy defeats Teutonic navy.
Battle of Aalsum11 October – The army of Jancko Douwema defeats the army of the Donias. A feud in Frisia.
1464 25 April – Lancastrian defeat Yorkist forces.
15 May – Yorkists under Montagu annihilate Lancastrians in a surprise attack.
15 September - Albanians and Venetians defeat Ottomans.
1465 April - Albanian rebels under Skanderbeg defeat Ottomans.
June - Skanderbeg defeats Ottomans under Ballaban Badera.
16 July – Troops of King Louis XI of France fight inconclusively against an army of great nobles.
20 October – The Burgundian army under Charles the Bold defeats the army of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
1466 Siege of Dinant 18–29 August - The Burgundian army under Charles the Bold captures and destroys Dinant.
1467 25 July – Bartolomeo Colleoni for Venice is defeated.
Albanians under Skanderbeg repel siege by Sultan Mehmet II.
Skanderbeg repels another siege by Mehmet II.
28 October - The Burgundian army under Charles the Bold defeats the army of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
15 December – Ştefan cel Mare defeated Mathias Corvinus.
1468 Battle of Straelen 26 June – An army of Adolf, Duke of Guelders defeats the army of John I, Duke of Cleves.
1469 26 July – Warwick the Kingmaker triumphs over Edward IV.
1470 Ştefan cel Mare defeats the Tatars.
Ottomans besiege and capture the Venetian fortress of Negroponte.
12 March – Yorkists chase disrobing Lancastrians from the field.
Southern Muisca Confederation defeats alliance of the Sutagao and Panche.
1471 Battle of Ravenspur14 March – Edward IV lands at Ravenspur and repulses token resistance.
24 February-22 March- Đại Việt captures Vijaya, the capital of Champa.
14 April – Confusion in the fog, Earl of Warwick killed.
4 May – Edward IV of England's final victory over the House of Lancaster.
14 July – Ivan the Great of Russia decisively defeats the Novgorod Republic, which is gradually absorbed by Muscovy.
24 August – Portugal conquers Asilah from the Wattasids.
10 October – Denmark fights Sweden.
1472 Siege of Nesle 27 June - 22 July – The army of duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy captures Nesle from France. The population is massacred.
14 June – The army of duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy fails to captures Beauvais from France.
1473 Mehmed II of Ottoman Turks decisively defeats Uzun Hasan of Akkoyunlu Turkomans.
Aztec Empire defeats Tlatelolco.
1474 Charles the Bold leads unsuccessful siege during Burgundy Wars.
Burgundy is defeated by the Swiss Cofederation.
Spring–8 August – Venice and Zeta (Montenegro) defeat Ottoman besiegers.
1475 10 January – Ştefan cel Mare defeats a huge Ottoman army.
Supporters of Joanna are driven out of the Castle of Burgos.
(November) – Switzerland defeats Savoy.
1476 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.
2 March – A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians under Charles the Bold.
22 June – The Swiss defeat Charles the Bold again.
26 July – Mehmed II defeats Ştefan cel Mare.
1477 5 January – Swiss pikemen defeat cavalry of Burgundy's Charles the Bold, who is killed.
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.
End of July - 7 October – France fails to capture Dole from Burgundy. The French army is destroyed and has to leave the County of Burgundy.
1478 Battle of Macomer Sardinian rebels are defeated by the Aragonese.
Castilian fleet is defeated and captured by the Portuguese.
Majapahit rebels backed by the Demak Sultanate are defeated by Girindrawardhana.
Ottomans under Mehmet II capture Krujë from the League of Lezhë.
1479 Ottomans take Shkodër.
7 August – French troops are defeated by the Burgundians led by Maximilian of Habsburg.
Fall - Đại Việt decisively defeats Lan Xang.
13 October – Pál Kinizsi, comite of Timișoara, defeated the Ottomans.
1480 May–28 July – Ottomans unsuccessfully besiege the Knights Hospitaller garrison on Rhodes.
Lan Xang decisively defeats exhausted Viet army.
Clan Sutherland and Murrays of Aberscross defeat Clan Donald.
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.
Clan Donald defeats Clan Mackenzie.
Gedik Ahmed Pasha of the Ottoman Turks captures Otranto in the Italian peninsula.
8 October- 28 November – Ivan the Great makes army of the Golden Horde retreat without bloodshed. End of vassalage of the Russian states to Golden Horde.
1481 Siege of Leiden30 March - 14 April – The Burgundian army under duke Maximilian captures rebel Leiden.
Battle of Yenişehir22 June – The forces of Sultan Beyazit II of Ottoman Turks defeat the supporters of his brother and rival, Cem Sultan.
Battle of Scherpenzeel22 or 23 September – An army of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht in coalition with Burgundy defeats a rebel army.
Battle of Vreeswijk13 October – 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.
13 October – An army of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht in coalition with Burgundy defeats a rebel army.
1482 21 August – Papal army under Roberto Malatesta defeats Neapolitan troops led by Alfonso, Duke of Calabria.
Siege of IJsselstein26 August - 16 September – A rebel army from the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht fails to capture Habsburg IJsselstein.
1483 A Habsburg army under regent Maximilian captures Utrecht.
1483 Battle of Una29–30 October – Croatian army defeats forces of the invading Ottoman Empire.
1484 Scottish Royal-Black Douglas civil war.
1485 22 August – 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.
1486 Scottish clan battle
1487 16 June – Henry VII of England finally defeats internal opposition.
1488 11 June – King James III defeated by Scottish nobles.
1489 Battle on the Lek 4 June – A Habsburg fleet defeats a rebel fleet.
1490 Battle of Moordrecht 18 June – A Habsburg army defeats a rebel army.
Battle of Brouwershaven 23 July – A Habsburg fleet defeats a rebel fleet.
Siege of Montfoort 2 May - 8 August – A Habsburg army under Albert III, Duke of Saxony captures rebel Montfoort.
The Southern Muisca defeat the Northern Muisca, though both leaders die in the battle.
1491 Early September – Forces of the Kingdom of Croatia defeat Ottoman Turks.
1492 2 January – Ferdinand II of Aragon defeats the last Muslim kingdom in al-Andalus, the Emirate of Granada of Sultan Boabdil.
1493 12 April - Rebel General Muhammad Askia gains rulership of the Songhai Empire after defeating the forces of Sonni Baru, ending the Sonni dynasty.
9 September – Hundred Years' Croatian-Ottoman War Ottoman Turks defeat Croatians.
Inca Empire under Emperor Túpac Yupanqui fights coalition led by the Mapuche with a disputed outcome.
1494 Guanches defeat Spainairds on island of Tenerife.
Spanish defeat Guanches.
Spanish decisively defeat Guanches and annex the Canary Islands.
1495 6 July – Francesco II Gonzaga of the Italian Holy League fights against Charles VIII of France.
1497 Ştefan cel Mare defeated John I of Poland.
Scottish clan battle
Babur of the Timurids takes city from Muhammad Shaybani.
1499 Battle of Zonchio
(or Battle of Sapienza
or First Battle of Lepanto) 		25 August – the Ottoman fleet defeats the Venetian fleet.
1500 17 February – A peasant rebellion defeats a much larger ducal army by opening dykes and drowning them.
Battle of Lepanto Ottoman fleet defeats Venetian fleet.
14 July – Russians beat the Lithuanians.

Early 16th century (1501–50)

YearBattleDescription
1501 Babur loses Samarkand for the final time to the Uzbeks.
31 December – 2 January 1502 – Portugal wins a naval battle against forces from Calicut.
1503 5-6 January - Portuguese under Vasco da Gama take city of Calicut.
23 February – Spain defeats France during the Second Italian War.
21 April – Spain defeats France during the Second Italian War.
27 December – Spain defeats France during the Second Italian War.
1504 Portuguese fend off attack from larger army led by the Zamorin of Calicut.
October – Portugal captures Ormuz.
Babur defeats Arghun dynasty.
1505 Siege of KilwaJuly – With 8 ships and 500 soldiers, Portuguese conquer harbor capital of the Kilwa Sultanate.
1506 March – The Portuguese defeat an Indian fleet.
Catholic Kongolese King Afonso I defeats his animist half-brother Mpanzu a Kitima for control of his throne.
1507 April – Portuguese defeat Ajuran Sultanate, sack city but don't hold it.
1507 April–August – Portugal successfully defends Kannur.
1508 March – The Portuguese lose their first Indian Ocean naval battle against the Mamluks.
1509 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.
15–30 September – Venice captures Padua during War of the League of Cambrai.
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 Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate.
1511 January 1511 – City captured by Pope Julius II during the War of the League of Cambrai.
Portuguese under Afonso de Albuquerque conquer the Sultanate of Malacca.
Babur retakes Transoxiana from the Khanate of Bukhara.
Spanish under Juan Ponce de León put down rebellion by the Taino of Puerto Rico, their chief Agueybana II killed in battle.
1512 18 February – French troops overrun the Italian town of Brescia during the War of the League of Cambrai.
11 April – Gaston de Foix, although killed in the battle, defeats the Spanish during War of the League of Cambrai.
Khanate of Bukhara defeat Timurids and Safavids. Afterwards, Babur gives up on retaking Central Asia.
1513 6 June – Holy League defeats France during War of the League of Cambrai.
16 August - Croatian army defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire
Battle of Guinegate
(Battle of the Spurs) 		16 August – Henry VIII and Emperor Maximilian I crush French during War of the League of Cambrai.
28–29 August – Portugal defeats Morocco's Wattasid dynasty.
9 September – Henry VIII's army under the Earl of Surrey heavily defeats the Scots and kills James IV of Scotland.
8–13 September – Dijon was besieged by Switzerland and a Germany. France ends the siege by signing a treaty with the Swiss.
7 October – Spain defeats Venice during War of the League of Cambrai.
1514 8 September – Polish–Lithuanian army defeated the army of Muscovy.
Selim I of Ottoman Turks defeats Persian Safavids.
1515 13–14 September – France defeats Milan during War of the League of Cambrai.
Army of peasant rebels in Friesland fights the Dutch authorities.
1516 Francesco Maria I della Rovere quickly reconquers Urbino.
11 July – The Hōjō Clan captures Arai castle.
24 August – Selim I of Ottoman Turks defeats the Mamelukes and captures Syria.
28 October – Ottoman Empire defeats the Mamelukes.
1517 Ottoman Turks under Selim I defeat Mamelukes and capture Egypt.
Spanish expedition under Francisco Hernández de Córdoba beats back Mayan ambush long enough to retreat by sea.
16 December - 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.
1519 Babur defeats the tribes of the Bajaur region and massacres 3,000 Bajauris.
Battle of Centla After arriving in the New World, Hernán Cortés defeats the Mayan state of Tabasco in battle.
The Genoese admiral Andrew Doria defeats the flotilla of the Barbary corsair Kaid Ali in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
1520 May – Vijayanagara Empire defeats Sultanate of Bijapur.
27 May - Hernán Cortés defeats Pánfilo de Narváez.
30 June – The Aztec Empire defeats the Spanish troops of Hernán Cortés.
7 July – Spain under Hernán Cortés and Tlaxcala defeat the Aztecs.
Siege of Segovia June - August – The Spanish royalist army under Rodrigo Ronquillo, fighting for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, fails to capture Segovia from the rebel Comuneros.
5 December – The Spanish royalist army defeats the Comuneros.
1521 Battle of El Romeral 12 March – A royalist army defeats the Comuneros.
Battle of Miñano Mayor 19 April – The royalist army defeats the Comuneros.
23 April – The royalist army defeats the Comuneros.
27 April – Mactan chieftain Lapulapu overwhelms and decisively defeats Magellan's expedition and allied natives, killing Ferdinand Magellan.
20 May – French take city from Spanish, Ignatius of Loyola wounded.
26 May – 13 August – Fall of the Aztec Empire.
Siege of Logroño 4 or 6–10 June – France fails to capture Logroño from Spain.
30 June – Spanish defeat the Franco-Navarrese army.
July to August – Suleiman I of the Ottoman Turks captures Belgrade.
August to September – Ming Chinese Navy defeated Portuguese Navy.
Battle of Vaprio d'Adda 13–14 November – The Holy Roman Empire defeats France.
November – The Holy Roman Empire captures Tournai from France.
Siege of Mézières The Holy Roman Empire fails to capture Mézières from France.
1522 20–30 March – Spain captures Genoa for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor from France.
Siege of Pavia 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.
27 April – Spanish victory during Habsburg-Valois Wars.
May - Ottomans defeat Croatia and annex the city of Knin.
Battle of San Marcial 30 June - Spain defeats France and Navarre.
26 June - 22 December - The Ottoman Empire expels the Knights of Rhodes.
Ming Chinese Navy defeated Portuguese Navy.
1524 January – Edo Castle falls from Uesugi control to Hōjō control.
1523 - 27 February 1524 – Spain recaptures Hondarribia from France.
Siege of Zwolle 5–29 April – Charles II, Duke of Guelders fails to conquer Zwolle of the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht.
30 April – Spanish and Holy Roman Empire forces beat French.
Sack of Lahore Babur burns Lahore for two days.
8 June – Spanish led by Pedro de Alvarado defeat the army of the Pipils of Cuzcatlan. Pedro de Alvarado wounded.
August - September – The Holy Roman Empire fails to take Marseille from France.
Spanish again defeat Pipils.
1525 January – Pizarro defeats the Quitians, but is wounded seven times.
24 February – Spain and Holy Roman Empire defeat France; Francis I of France is captured.
14–15 May - End of the German Peasants' War.
Battle of Meiningen 3 June - German nobles defeat the Bildhäuser Haufen farmers.
23/24 June - Louis V, Elector Palatine defeats the rebel farmers of the Palatinate.
October - Spanish capture Mayan city of Zaculeu.
1526 21 April – The Mughal king Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodhi.
Battle of Camollia 25 July – Siena defeats Florence.
29 August – Suleiman I of Ottoman Turks defeats the kingdom of Hungary; King Louis II killed.
Battle of Governolo 25 November – The Holy Roman Empire defeats Venice and France.
December - Uesugi clan defeats Hōjō clan, inflicting a major psychological blow.
1527 Babur 16 March - consolidates Mughal rule in northern India by defeating a united rajput coalition led by Rana Sanga of Mewar.
1 May - Serbia defeats Hungary.
6 May – Unpaid Spanish and Imperial troops attack the city in protest during War of the League of Cognac.
25 July – Hungary defeats Serbia.
Siege of Pavia 1–5 October – France captures Pavia from the Holy Roman Empire.
Battle of Sunda Kelepa Demak Sultanate takes port and defeats the Portuguese and Sunda.
1528 20 January – Babur defeats and conquers the Malwa.
20 March - Habsburgs secure Hungary from claimant to the Hungarian throne John Zápolya.
Siege of Melfi 22 - 23 March - France captures Melfi from the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
28-29 April - French navy defeats Spanish navy trying to break blockade.
Siege of Catanzaro March - 8 August - France fails to capture Catanzaro from the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
April–August - Spanish beat back French siege of Italian city during the War of the League of Cognac.
Spanish put down native rebellion.
1529 7 March or 9 – Imam Ahmad Gragn withstands the assault of the numerically superior army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia.
Spring – Among the first confrontations in the Inca Civil War, with Atahualpa defeating his brother Huáscar.
6 May – Babur annexes Bihar for the Mughal Empire and defeats the combined forces of the Eastern Afghan Confederates and the Sultanate of Bengal.
Siege of Monopoli 15 March - 28 May – The Holy Roman Empire fails to take Monopoli from Venice
29 May – The Ottoman Empire captures Peñón of Algiers from Spain.
21 June – Spanish and Holy Roman Empire troops defeat French during War of the League of Cognac.
27 September - 15 October - Ottomans reach limit of empire, can't capture Vienna and settle in Buda.
28 October - The Ottoman Empire defeated Spain.
24 October – 10 August 1530 – Spanish and Holy Roman Empire troops capture Florence during War of the League of Cognac.
1530 3 August – Florence crushed by the Holy Roman Empire during War of the League of Cognac.
31 October - 20 December – The Holy Roman Empire fails to capture Buda from the Ottoman Empire.
1529, 1530 or 1531 – Huáscarans defeat the Atahualpans. Atahualpa is taken prisoner.
1529, 1530 or 1531 – Atahualpans defeat the Huáscarans.
1531 February or March – The Ethiopian army panics and flees before Imam Ahmad Gragn's seven cannons and matchlockmen.
April – Pizarro's forces defeat much larger forces of natives on the island of Puná.
22 August – Polish army defeats the Moldavians.
11 October – Victory of Swiss Catholics over the followers of Zwingli.
28 October – Imam Ahmad Gragn again defeats Emperor Lebna Dengel, and crosses the Walaqa River unchecked into Bet Amhara.
1532 1531 or early 1532 - Inconclusive battle between the Atahualpans and the Huáscarans.
April – Decisive battle of the Inca Civil War with Atahualpa defeating his brother and Huáscar.
5–30 August – The Ottoman Empire fails to take Kőszeg from the Holy Roman Empire.
16 November – Pizarro captures king Atahuallpa during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
1533 Battle of Jemgum 14 October – The army of Guelders defeats the army of East Frisia. Lord Balthasar Oomkens von Esens of Harlingerland becomes a vasal of Guelders.
Shortly before 15 November – Capital of the Inca Empire taken by the Spanish.
1534 Spring 1533 - 1 April 1534 - The Ottoman Empire captures Koroni from the Holy Roman Empire.
May - Spain defeats the northern Inca Empire.
Siege of Mediaș 27 August - 29 September - The combined forces of John Zápolya and the Holy Roman Empire capture Mediaș from Alvise Gritti, who was killed during the siege.
Iroquois defeat Miꞌkmaq.
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.
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.
1535 1 June - The Spanish fleet of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, conquers Tunis from the Ottomans.
1–4 September - The Ottoman Empire captures Mahón from Spain.
1536 Takeda family forces defeat Hiraga Genshin.
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 Sacsayhuamán 16 May 1536 – Spain defeats Manco Inca.
Spanish defeat Mapuche tribes.
5 August - 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.
Siege of Lima 10–26 August - Manco Inca fails to capture Lima from Spain.
1537 January – The forces of the Inca emperor Manco Inca defeat the Spanish troops of Hernando Pizarro.
31 August 1536 - 12 March 1537 – The Ottoman Empire captures Klis Fortress.
12 July - Diego de Almagro defeats and captures Alonso de Alvarado.
August - September - Venetians defeat Ottoman attempt to take island.
9 October - The Ottoman Empire defeats the Holy Roman Empire.
1538 Pizarro brothers defeat Diego de Almagro.
Ottoman fleet defeats Spanish-Venetian fleet.
Portuguese defeat Ottomans and Gujarat Sultanate who attempted to siege city.
19-20 August - With assistance from the Muisca, the Spanish defeat and partly subjugate the Panche.
November/December – Toungoo Kingdom led by their General and future King Bayinnaung decisively defeats a numerically larger force of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in Myanmar.
1539Battle of Chausa26 June - Defeat for Afghan Mughal loyalists by Sur Empire.
18 July - 6 August – The Ottoman Empire captures Herceg Novi from the Holy Roman Empire.
1540 15 June – Spain and Genoa defeat the Ottoman navy.
1 October – Spain defeats the Ottoman navy.
18 October – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortress town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
Battle of BilgramDefeat for Afghan Mughal loyalists
1541 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.
4 May - 21 August – The Holy Roman Empire fails to take Buda from the Ottoman Empire.
November 1540 – May 1541 – Toungoo under King Tabinshwehti conquers the last remnant of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom after taking the city of Martaban.
1542 2 February – Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia.
9 March – Takeda Shingen defeats four enemy forces to begin his conquest Shinano Province.
4 April-16 The Portuguese under Christovão da Gama encounter the army of Imam Ahmad Gragn in two successive victories.
April – Toungoo led by Tabinshwehti and Bayinnaung defeats armies of Prome, Ava, and the Confederation of Shan States outside the city of Prome.
April – 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.
August – During the rainy season, Christovão da Gama captures a strategic position and many badly needed horses.
Naval battle between Portuguese and Ajuran Sultanate.
24 August – Scottish victory over the English.
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.
16 September - Spanish in Peru defeat rogue army of Diego de Almagro II and execute him.
25 November – English victory over Scotland.
Oda Nobuhide defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
Takeda Shingen captures Uehara Castle from Suwa Yorishige.
One day after Uehara, Shingen defeats Yorishige again. Yorishige then commits suicide.
Takeda Shingen captures Fukuyo fortress. Battle of Ankokuji follows, Takato Yoritsugu defeated.
Scottish clan battle.
French siege raised by Spanish army.
the Holy Roman Empire fails to take Pest from the Ottoman Empire.
1543 11 February – Ethiopian/Portuguese troops decisively defeat their Muslim opponent; Imam Ahmad Gragn killed.
Shingen defeats Oi Sadataka
25 July – Spanish fleet defeats French fleet.
25 July – 10 August - The Ottoman Empire captures Esztergom from the Holy Roman Empire.
5–22 August – Ottomans and French sack Nice.
7 December – Confederation unsuccessfully attempts to retake Prome from Toungoo.
The Holy Roman Empire fails to capture Landrecies from France.
1544 11 April – French forces defeat Holy Roman Empire in Italy.
2–4 June – Spanish and Holy Roman Empire defeat Italian mercenaries.
July - Scottish clan battle.
10 July – 17 August – The Holy Roman Empire captures Saint-Dizier from France.
19 July – 18 September – English forces capture Boulogne.
October – French forces unsuccessfully besiege the town.
Battle of SammelVictory for the Sur Empire against the Kingdom of Marwar.
Tabinshwehti and Bayinnaung take Confederation of Shan States city in three days deep into their territory.
Takeda Shingen continues his conquest of Ima Valley, Shinano Province.
1545 27 February – Scottish victory over the English during the War of the Rough Wooing.
Takeda Shingen defeats Takatō Yoritsugu, taking his castle.
The Takeda family defeats Tozawa Yorichika.
18–19 July – Indecisive naval battle between France and England, English flagship Mary Rose sinks.
July – French invade Isle of Wight and are repulsed.
Hōjō forces defeat the Uesugi, foiling a siege.
1546 18 January – The army of Gonzalo Pizarro defeats the army of the hated viceroy Blasco Núñez Vela, who was killed.
11 February – Spain defeats the Mapuche.
1547 23 January – Taongoo led by Tabinshwehti fail to take capital of the Kingdom of Mrauk U.
24 April – Emperor Charles V captures elector of Saxony and lays siege to Wittenberg in the Schmalkaldic War.
23 May – The German Protestant Schmalkaldic League defeats the German imperial and German Roman Catholic forces.
10 September – Earl of Hertford guardian of Edward VI crushes Scottish resistance.
20 October – The army of Gonzalo Pizarro defeats the army of viceroy Diego Centeno, newly appointed by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
1548 14 February – Takeda Shingen defeats Murakami Yoshikiyo.
Takeda Shingen surprises and defeats Ogasawara Nagatoki in a dawn attack.
Loyalists sent by the Crown of Spain to depose Gonzalo Pizarro as governor of Peru defeat and capture him.
1549 Takeda Shingen captures several of Nagatoki's castles, forcing him to flee to Kyoto.
Tabinshwehti withdraws from attack on the Siamese capital.
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 DussindaleFinal battle putting an end of Kett's Rebellion, took place outside Norwich 27 August 1549.
1550 6 February – The Mapuche are defeated by the Spanish.
12 March – The Mapuche are defeated by the Spanish.
28 June - September – Spain captures Mahdia.
2 October – Jón Arason, the last Catholic Bishop of Iceland, is defeated and captured.

Late 16th century (1551–1600)

YearBattleDescription
1551 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
July 1551 to March 1552 – Pope Julius III besieges town then withdraws
1552 24 June - 27 July - Ottoman Empire captures town
August – Muscat captured from Portuguese by Ottoman fleet
10–11 August – Franco-Ottoman fleet defeats Genoese fleet
Battle of Plášťovce 5 August – The Ottoman Empire defeats the Holy Roman Empire.
2 September- 13 October – Ivan the Terrible defeats the Kazan Khanate
9 September - 17 October - Hungarian victory over Ottoman Turks
October 1552 to January 1553 – Unsuccessful siege by Holy Roman Empire
1553 June – indecisive battle between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin
Takeda Shingen captures fortress
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 22 November 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.
25 December – Mapuche defeat Spanish conquistadors
A German imperial army captures Hof from Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
1554 23 February – Mapuche defeat Spanish conquistador Francisco de Villagra.
Battle of Schwarzach 13 June – A German imperial army defeats Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
2 August – Florence finally defeats Siena
10–25 August – Portuguese destroy Ottoman fleet
12 August – Francis, Duke of Guise repels an Imperial invasion of Picardy
September – Saadi dynasty defeat Wattasids
Mōri clan defeat Sue Harukata
1555 11 March – Swedish victory over Russians
15 May - Mughal Empire defeats Suri Empire
22 June – Mughal Empire has decisive victory over the Suri Empire
16–28 September - Ottomans capture Béjaïa from Spain
16 October – Mōri clan defeat Ōuchi clan on sacred island of Miyajima
August - November - Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin
Battle fought between Clan MacKay and Clan Sutherland
1556 April – Saitō Yoshitatsu defeats father Saitō Dōsan
June to July – Spanish victory over Manuche
August - Ottoman troops besiege the Spanish garrison in Oran
7 October – Hemu defeats Mughal forces and occupies Delhi
5 November – Akbar the Great defeats Hemu
Georgia defeats Safavid Empire, King Luarsab I of Kartli falls in battle
1557 Takeda Shingen repelled by Uesugi Kenshin
Ottoman vassal the Regency of Algiers defeats the Moroccan Saadi dynasty.
10 August – Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy defeats Anne de Montmorency during the Habsburg-Valois War
8 November – Spanish defeat Mapuche during Arauco War
30 November - Spanish defeat Mapuche.
November 1557 to November 1558 – Sitawaka besiege Portuguese. Portuguese break out.
1558 7 January – France capture the city from the English
March–April – Between Moroccos and Ottomans. Ottomans retreat
Siege of Narva April to May – Russians besiege Narva during Livonian War
Siege of Thionville 27 April to 23 June – France conquers Thionville from Spain.
13 July Spain defeats France
August to September – Spanish forces fail to capture Mostaganem from the Ottomans.
Ottomans capture Balearic Islands during the Ottoman-Habsburg wars
Portuguese destroy French settlement of Henriville
13 December – Spanish defeat Mapuche
1559 Sir Donnell O'Brien defeats Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond and his ally Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde in County Clare
Kingdom of Sitawaka defeats Portuguese.
Portuguese successfully defend island from Ottoman siege.
1560 Battle of Glasgow18 March – Lords of the Congregation defeat French
9–14 May – Ottoman fleet defeats Holy League
In Japan, the Azai clan gains its independence from the Rokkaku
Forces of Imagawa Yoshimoto defeat forces of Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga's small forces ambush and slay warlord Imagawa Yoshimoto
Russian Tsardom defeats Livonian Confederacy so decisively that the Livonian Order was disbanded
Portuguese invade Kingdom of Jaffna
1561 10 September Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts
Mōri clan break siege by Ōtomo Sōrin and Portuguese traders
Hōjō clan resist siege by Uesugi Kenshin
1562 19 August – Tactical Polish victory over Russia during Livonian War
28 October – Mary, Queen of Scots Civil Wars
19 December Catholics versus Huguenots in France. Both leaders captured.
Sitawaka forces defeat Portuguese near Colombo during Sinhalese–Portuguese War
1563 Battle of Lincoya Fortress 16 January - Mapuche capture Lincoya Fortress from Spain.
5–19 February - Catholics besiege Protestants during War of Religion
Battle of Bornholm 30 May – Naval battle between Denmark and Sweden during Northern Seven Years' War
April - June - Spanish victory during Ottoman-Habsburg wars
4 September - Danes capture Älvsborg during Northern Seven Years' War
9 November – Danes beat Swedes during Northern Seven Years' War
11 September – Naval battle between Denmark and Sweden during Northern Seven Years' War
Combined Takeda clan-Hōjō clan army regain Musashi-Matsuyama castle
1564 15 January - Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the Ikkō-ikki
26 January – Lithuanians defeat Russians during Livonian War
1 February to 1 April – Mapuche besiege Spanish
February – Toungoo dynasty under Bayinnaung decisively defeats Siam and their Portuguese mercenaries. Ayutthaya Kingdom becomes vassal state of Toungoo.
25 March – Spain defeats the Mapuche.
30 to 31 May – Danish fleet beat Swedish fleet during Northern Seven Years' War
Indecisive battle between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin
Hōjō clan forces defeat the forces of Satomi Yoshihiro
1565 26 January – Deccan sultanates defeat Vijayanagara Empire
February – Butlers beat the Geraldines
Siege of Malta Knights of Malta defeat Turkish forces
2 May – O'Neills defeat Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg.
21 May -Swedish Fleet beats Danish fleet during Northern Seven Years' War
18 October – Two Portuguese trade vessels repel attack by forces of Matsura Takanobu.
Battle of Axtorna 20 October – Danes beat the Swedes during Northern Seven Years' War
1566 6 August to 8 September – 2,300 Hungarian defenders are annihilated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the Ottoman Empire
9 August – Swedish army ambushes and defeats Danish army
27 December – Spain defeats rebel Calvinists.
29 December – Spain defeats rebel Calvinists.
Takeda Shingen captures Minowa castle from Uesugi clan
1567 20 January – Portuguese finally defeat French colony
13 March – Traditionally seen as the beginning[1] of the Eighty Years' War. Spain defeats Dutch rebels
14 December 1566 - 23 March 1567 – Spain captures Valenciennes from Calvinist rebels.
8 May - Part of the Clan war between the O'Neills and the O'Donnells
15 June – Mary, Queen of Scots forces defeated by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton and James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
13 to 27 September – Oda Nobunaga defeats the Saito clan and takes control of Inabayama Castle and Mino province.
October – Mughal forces successfully besiege Rajputs in Chittor Fort
10 November – 16,000 Royalists defeat 5,000 Huguenots near Paris
Georgian king Simon I of Kartli repulses Persian attack near Tbilisi
Spanish defeat coalition of tribes led by Guaicaipuro.
1568 28 February to 15 March – Huguenots besiege Royalists
25 April – Dutch attempt to conquer Roermond during Eighty Years War
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
23 May – Dutch army ambushes Spanish army
Battle on the Ems 23 May – A fleet of the Geuzen defeats Spain.
Siege of Groningen June - 15 July – Dutch army fails to take Groningen from Spain.
21 July – Spanish army under the Duke of Alva defeats the Dutch army
23 September – Spanish fleet defeats English privateers
20 October - Spain defeats Dutch army
Takeda Shingen is unable to take a Hōjō fortress
Sultan of Aceh attacks Portuguese-held Malacca and is defeated.
1569 Mapuche defeat Spanish
Takeda Shingen's forces burn the Hōjō clan controlled town
Takeda Shingen escapes a trap set for him by the Hōjō clan
Mughal forces capture Ranthambore Fort
13 March – French Catholic forces defeat French Huguenots
25 June – French Huguenots defeat French Catholic forces
24 August – Huguenots defeat Royalist forces
3 October – French Catholic forces defeat French Huguenots decisively
Takeda Katsuyori successfully besieges and captures Kanbara castle
1570 Clan Cameron decisively defeat the Clan Mackintosh
Unsuccessful attempt to retake a castle captured by Oda Nobunaga
Forces of Oda Nobunaga capture Kanegasaki fortress
Takeda clan captures Hanazawa castle from Imagawa clan
Battle of Purén The Mapuche defeat Spain.
24 May – Martin de Goiti decisively defeats the Rajahnate of Maynila and annexes the Philippines for the Spanish Empire
30 July – Nobunaga joins forces with Tokugawa Ieyasu to defeat the Asakura and Azai
17 September 1570 – 5 August 1571 – Ottoman Turks besiege and capture Famagusta
1571 Nobunaga defeats the Tendai Warrior Monks and razes their temple complex
Takeda Shingen captures Fukazawa from Hōjō clan
Unresolved conflict between Uesugi forces and Takeda forces
3 June – Spanish settler fleet defeats local Kapampangan fleet
10 October – Clan Gordon overcomes Clan Forbes
20 November – Clan Gordon overcomes Clan Forbes again
7 October – Spain and Venice's fleets defeat the Ottoman fleet
Unsuccessful attempt by Nobunaga to take the fortress
1572 The Crimean Tatars and Ottoman Janissaries are routed by Russians near Moscow
Takeda Shingen captures one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's fortresses
1 April – Marked a turning point in the uprising of the Low Countries against Spain in the Eighty Years' War
June – Forces of Shimazu Takahisa defeated the larger army of Itō Yoshisuke in Japan.
June to September – Successful Spanish siege of Dutch held town.
Battle of Saint-Ghislain June to September – Spanish army defeats a Dutch army.
Siege of Kampen 9–11 August – Dutch rebels under Willem IV van den Bergh capture Kampen from Spain.
20 October – Spanish raise the Dutch siege of Goes
November 1572 to February 1574 – Dutch rebel army successfully besieged Middelburg, held by Spanish forces under Cristóbal de Mondragón.
November 1572 to July 1573 – Catholic troops besiege Protestant Huguenots. Negotiated settlement.
November 1572 to August 1573 – Catholic forces besieged Protestant Huguenots. Siege abandoned.
11 December 1572 to 13 July 1573 – Spanish successfully besiege Protestant garrison at Haarlem
1573 Tokugawa Ieyasu is forced to retreat from Takeda Shingen
Takeda Shingen's forces led by Akiyama Nobutomo capture Iwamura castle
Nobunaga defeats Azai Nagamasa, effectively destroying the Azai family
Nobunaga effectively destroys the Asakura
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.
22 April – A Spanish fleet under Sancho d'Avila is forced to retreat by a Dutch fleet under Admiral Worst
26 May – The Dutch failed in an attempt to break the siege of Haarlem
August to October – Dutch garrison fight off Spanish force under Don Fadrique
28 August – English, French Huguenot and Fleming forces capture Geertruidenberg from Franco-Spanish Catholic garrison
11 October – Dutch fleet destroyed a larger and better-equipped Spanish fleet on the Zuiderzee
October 1573 to October 1574 – Spanish under Francisco de Valdez unsuccessfully besiege Leiden.
October – Anglo-Dutch force under Thomas Morgan repels Spanish force under Francisco de Valdez
1574 29 January – Sancho d'Avila's attempt to resupply his troops ends up in the destruction of his fleet by Anglo-Dutch forces.
February – English troops surrender Valkenburg Castle in Holland to Spanish forces.
14 April – Spanish army decisively beats the Dutch Army.
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 Zoetermeer 17 September – The Dutch defeat Spain.
Siege of Zaltbommel July - 14 October – Spain fails to capture Zaltbommel from the Dutch.
29 November - Spanish under Juan de Salcedo and Don Galo decisively defeat Chinese pirates
Takeda Katsuyori, son of Takeda Shingen, captures Tokugawa Ieyasu's fortress of Takatenjin
Nobunaga's second attempt is foiled by a counter-attack
Nobunaga defeats Araki Murashige who had rebelled
1575 3 March – Mughals defeat Sultanate of Bengal
Siege of Buren 28 June – Spain captures Buren from the Dutch.
28 June – Nobunaga repels the forces of Takeda Katsuyori
19 July - 7 August – Spain captures Oudewater from the Dutch.
11–24 August – Spain captures Schoonhoven from the Dutch.
Siege of Bommenede 11–24 August – Spain captures Bommenede from the Dutch.
Nobunaga finally captures Nagashima fortress
1576 Siege of Krimpen aan de Lek 30 January - 21 February – The Dutch capture Krimpen aan de Lek from Spain.
May – Honganji forces defeat Nobunaga's army, killing Harada Naomasa
Siege of Muiden 9 May – The Dutch fail to capture Muiden from Spain.
18 June - Mughals defeat Mewar.
Battle of Rajmahal 12 July - Mughals led by Akbar decisively defeat the Bengal Sultanate, capture and later execute their last sultan Daud Khan Karrani.
Siege of Zierikzee October 1575 - 29 July 1576 - Spain captures Zierikzee from the Dutch.
First Battle of Kizugawaguchi August – Unsuccessful naval blockade by Nobunaga
Siege of Woerden 8 September 1575 - 10 September 1576 - Spain fails to capture Woerden from the Dutch.
Battle of Vissenaken 14 September - Spain defeats a rebel army of the Netherlands.
Siege of Spanjaardenkasteel 15 September - 11 November - The Netherlands capture Spanjaardenkasteel from Spain.
1577 Siege of Vredenburg Castle 21 December 1576 - 11 February 1577 – The Union of Brussels captures Vredenburg Castle from Spain.
17 April – Polish army defeats Danzig Rebellion army
Siege of Breda 4 August - 4 October – The Dutch capture Breda from Spain.
3 November - Nobunaga launches an unsuccessful attack on the forces of Uesugi Kenshin
1578 Battle of Gembloux 31 January – Don John of Austria crushes Protestant army
Siege of Zichem 20–24 February - Spain captures Zichem from the Union of Brussels.
Siege of Nivelles 8–12 March - Spain captures Nivelles from the Union of Brussels.
Siege of Limbourg 10–15 June - Spain captures Limbourg from the Union of Brussels.
Siege of Kampen 25 June - 20 July - The Union of Brussels captures Kampen from Spain.
31 July - The Spanish forces were dealt a strategic defeat by the Dutch
4 August – Moors defeat Portuguese army, kill King Sebastian of Portugal
9 August - Ottoman Turks defeat Safavid Persia and conquer the Caucasus
Siege of Binche 22 September - 7 October - The Union of Brussels captures Binche from Spain.
3 August - 19 November - The Union of Brussels captures Deventer from Spain.
Nobunaga defeats the naval forces of the Mori clan
Hideyoshi is defeated by the Mori clan
1579 Siege of Kerpen 7–15 January - Spain captures Kerpen from the Dutch.
7–15 January - Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht.
12 March - 1 July - 20,000 Spanish troops under Farnese captures the city defended by 2,000 Dutch soldiers and civilians
Battle of Baasrode 14 August - Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht. William of Orange is nearly captured.
Hideyoshi captures Itami castle from Araki Murashige
1580 Battle of Hardenbergerheide 17 June - Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht.
Siege of Groningen 3 March - 18 June - The Union of Utrecht fails to capture Groningen from Spain.
25 August - Spanish candidate to the Portuguese throne defeats national candidate
August – Kōsa surrenders to Nobunaga after a ten-year siege
24 October – Mainland Portugal is secured by the Spanish
7–10 November - English forces defeat freelance Papal States army that captured the Irish village and massacre most of the soldiers afterwards.
Hideyoshi captures Miki castle from Nagaharu
1581 18 October 1580 - 23 February 1581 - Spain fails to capture Steenwijk from the Union of Utrecht.
1580 - 22 March 1581 - Oda Nobunaga captures Takeda controlled castle
May - Hideyoshi captures Tottori Castle. The castle's lord commits suicide
25 July – The Azores successfully resist a personal union with Spain
26–27 July - Spanish troops took the Dutch city by surprise
Battle of Goor 23 July - 1 August - The Union of Utrecht fails to capture Goor from Spain.
Siege of Cambrai September 1580 - 17 August 1581 - Spain fails to capture Cambrai from the Union of Utrecht and France.
30 September - Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht and England.
3–24 October - Spain fails to capture Niezijl from the Union of Utrecht.
Siege of Tournai 10 October - 30 November - Spain captures Tournai from the Union of Utrecht.
Taraf annexed by Twipra Kingdom assisted by the Baro-Bhuiyan confederation.
1582 11 March - Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga destroy the forces of Takeda Katsuyori, who commits suicide
21 June – Nobunaga is defeated by Akechi Mitsuhide, who forces him to commit suicide
April - June - Hideyoshi captures Takamatsu Castle. The lord of this castle also commits suicide
2 July - Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide, the murderer of his master Oda Nobunaga
19 April - 5 July - Spain captures Oudenaarde from the Union of Utrecht.
26 July – Spain wins a naval battle in the War of the Portuguese Succession
22 July - 15 September – Spain fails to capture Lochem from the Union of Utrecht.
Siege of Keppel Castle 26–30 September – The Union of Utrecht captures Keppel Castle from Spain.
4 November - Russians decisively defeat and conquer the Khanate of Sibir in Siberia.
Hideyoshi again defeats Nobunaga's murderer, Akechi Mitsuhide
1583 3 February – Skirmish where three English ships defeated three Spanish galleons.
7 February - 23 April – Spain captures Eindhoven from the Union of Utrecht.
9–11 May – Ottoman Turks defeat Safavid Persians at the end of three days of battle
May – Hideyoshi relieves one of his allies who was under siege
17 June – Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht.
2 August – Spain integrates the Habsburg dynasty as the rulers of Portugal
19 November – German Calvinists defeat German Catholics in the Cologne War.
1584 Battle of Terborg 31 March - Spain defeats the Electorate of Cologne, ally of the Union of Utrecht.
Siege of Zutphen May - July - The Union of Utrecht fails to capture Zutphen from Spain.
October 1583 - 17 September 1584 - Spain captures Ghent from the Union of Utrecht.
26 October – Croatian army defeats forces of the invading Ottoman Empire.
Hideyoshi is defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu
1585 Siege of Brussels August 1584 - 10 March 1585 - Spain captures Brussels from the Union of Utrecht.
Battle on the Kouwesteinsedijk May - The Union of Utrecht fails to relieve Antwerp, and end the siege by the Spanish army.
Battle of Amerongen 23 June - Spain defeats the Union of Utrecht.
July 1584 - 17 August 1585 - Spain captures Antwerp from the Union of Utrecht.
June - August - Hideyoshi conquers the island
6–15 October – Dutch and English defeat Spain.
1586 1 January – English under Francis Drake defeat and raid Spanish colony.
17 January – Spain defeats The Netherlands.
9–11 February – Francis Drake defeats Spanish and plunders city.
27–29 May – Francis Drake devastates Spanish colony.
Early April - 7 June – Spain captures Grave after a treaty with the English and Dutch troops.
28 June – Spain captures Venlo from The Netherlands.
13 July - The English navy defeats Spain and Malta.
22 September – Spanish defeat Dutch rebels
Siege of Zutphen September - October – The Netherlands and England fail to capture Zutphen from Spain.
1587 12 June - 4 August – Spain captures Sluis from The Netherlands.
20 October – Huguenot forces defeat the French Royal Army
26 October – French Royalist forces defeat foreign Huguenot forces
1588 24 January – A Polish faction defeats a Habsburg faction
Siege of Medemblik 27 February - 29 April – The Netherlands capture Medemblik from rebel commander Diederik Sonoy and English soldiers.
29 July – Spanish Armada beaten decisively in battle against the English and Dutch fleet
March - 24 September – 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.
23 September - 13 November – Spain fails to capture Bergen op Zoom from The Netherlands.
1589 Battle of Arques 15-29 September - King Henry IV of France and England defeat the French Catholic League
Battle of Zoutkamp 5–9 October - The Netherlands capture Zoutkamp from Spain.
Siege of Heusden Summer - October - Spain fails to capture Heusden from The Netherlands.
1590 Siege of Rheinberg 13 August 1586 - 3 February 1590 - Spain captures Rheinberg, a rebel protestant stronghold in the Electorate of Cologne defended by Dutch and English troops.
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.
14 March – Henri IV of Navarre defeats Catholic League in War of the Three Henries
24 April – English secure passage of company ships after defeating Spain
7 May - 30 August – 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.
4 May August – the Go-Hōjō clan surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Japan was unified (1590)
May to August – Hideyoshi's forces successfully besiege Hōjō clan
1591 24 April – The English navy defeats Spain.
19–30 May – The Netherlands and England capture Zutphen from Spain.
1–10 June – The Netherlands and England capture Deventer from Spain.
15 July – The Spanish navy defeats England.
21–25 July – The Netherlands and England capture Knodsenburg from Spain.
July – Mughal Empire defeated combined Kathiawar forces led by Nawanagar State
Late August – The Spanish navy defeats The Netherlands and England.
30 August-1 September – Spain defeats England.
20–24 September – The Netherlands capture Hulst from Spain.
17–21 October – The Netherlands and England capture Nijmegen from Spain.
1592 11 November 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.
24 April – Konishi Yukinaga defeats the Koreans under Yi Il
28 April – Japanese forces decisively defeat the Koreans
7 May – The Korean Navy defeats a Japanese convoy
21-24 May – Spain and the French Catholic League defeat French royalists and England.
24–25 May (13–14 April Lunar Calendar) Japanese defeat Koreans
30 May - 5 July - The Netherlands and England capture Steenwijk from Spain.
20 May - 13 August – The English navy defeats Spain.
14 August – Korean Navy defeats Japanese Navy
26 July - 2 September – The Netherlands and England capture Coevorden from Spain.
1 November – Korean Navy could not recapture Busan from Japan
8–13 November - 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
November - The Spanish navy defeats England.
1593 27 January – 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
6–8 February - Ming Chinese general Li Rusong defeats Konishi Yukinaga. Japan is expelled from Pyongyang
14 March - The Korean army under commander Gwon Yul defenders were successful in repelling the Japanese forces
18 April - The Spanish navy defeats England and French royalists.
22 June - Forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat forces of the Ottoman Empire
27 March - 24 June - The Netherlands and England capture Geertruidenberg from Spain.
20–27 July - Japanese defeat Koreans
6 December - A clash between Clan Maxwell and Clan Johnstone
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 Siege of Coevorden October 1593 - 7 May 1594 – Spain fails to capture Coevorden from The Netherlands.
19 May - 22 July – The Netherlands and England capture Groningen from Spain.
5 July-9 October – Kingdom of Kandy stops Portuguese incursion into Sri Lanka.
3 October – Religious clan battle
13 October - 19 November – England and France capture a Spanish fort, used as an outpost for naval attacks on England.
1595 14–24 July - The Netherlands and England fail to capture Groenlo from Spain.
23 August - Wallachia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
3 September - Spain defeats The Netherlands and England.
27-30 October - Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldavia and the Holy Roman Empire defeat the Ottoman Empire.
8 November - The Spanish navy defeats England.
8 November - The Spanish navy defeats England.
1596 11 March - Spain defeats English fleet
8–24 April - Spain captures Calais from France.
30 June - 15 July - Anglo-Dutch forces seize the Spanish city of Cádiz
19 September - Croatian army defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire forcing the latter to lift the siege of Petrinja
24–26 October - Ottoman Empire defeats Austria-Hungary and Germany
1597 24 January – Dutch troops defeat Spanish cavalry
13 May-25 September – France and England defeat Spain.
9–19 August – The Netherlands and England capture Rheinberg from Spain.
Battle of Chilcheollyang28 August – Japanese Navy decisively defeat Korean Navy
23–26 September – Japanese defeat Korean and Chinese alliance force
11–28 September – The Netherlands and England capture Groenlo from Spain.
1–10 October – The Netherlands and England capture Bredevoort from Spain.
26 October – Korean Navy defeats Japanese navy
1598 29 January - 19 February - Japanese defeat Korean and Chinese alliance force
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.
14 August - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, destroy English force
25 September – Sigismund loses the Swedish crown to his uncle, Duke Charles
Siege of Rheinberg 2–14 October – Spain captures Rheinberg from The Netherlands.
6–11 November – Japanese army defeats Korean army
16 December – Ming Chinese and Korean Navy decisively defeat the Japanese army
23 December – The Mapuche defeat Spain.
1599 26 April - Saadi dynasty of Morocco decisively defeats the Mali Empire, leading to its collapse.
28 April - May - Spain fails to capture Schenkenschanz from The Netherlands.
15 May - 22 July - Spain fails to capture Zaltbommel from The Netherlands.
15 August – Irish forces defeat the English
10–12 September – A Protestant German army and a Dutch army fail to capture Rees from Spain.
18 October – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the army of Andrew Báthory
An invading Ottoman army defeats and captures the King Simon I of Kartli
1600 Battle of Castro May – Spain defeats The Netherlands and reconquers Chiloé Island.
2 July – Battle between Dutch (led by Prince Maurits) and Spanish army, led by Albrecht, archduke of Austria. Dutch victory.
18 September – The Holy Roman Empire and Hungarian nobility defeat Wallachia.
21 October – 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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Notes and References

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  3. Book: Traquair, Peter . Freedom's Sword . 1998 . HarperCollins . 978-0-00-472079-1 . 110–111 . en.
  4. Book: Verbruggen . Jan F. . The art of warfare in Western Europe during the Middle Ages: from the eighth century to 1340 . Verbruggen . Jan F. . 1998 . Boydell Press . 978-0-85115-630-9 . 2. ed, rev. and enlarged, repr. in paperback . Warfare in history . Woodbridge . 195–197.
  5. Book: Kadri, Sadakat . Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law . 2013 . Vintage . 978-0-09-952327-7 . London . 187.
  6. Book: Setton . Kenneth Meyer . A History of the Crusades . Hazard . Harry W. . 1975 . the University of Wisconsin press . University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pennsylvania state university . 978-0-299-06670-3 . Madison London . 283–287.

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