List of battles 301–1300
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Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Lists of battles Template:Use dmy dates This is a list of battles from 301 A.D. to 1300 A.D. Template:Dynamic list
4th century
| Year | War | Battle | Template:Tooltip | Date(s) | Description |
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| 301 | War of the Eight Princes | Battle of Yangdi–Huangqiao | Template:Flagicon | April—June | Sima Jiong, Sima Ying and Sima Yong defeats Sima Lun. |
| 303 | Siege of Luoyang | September 303—March 304 | Sima Yong and Sima Ying defeats Sima Ai. | ||
| 304 | Battle of Dangyin | 9 September | Sima Ying defeats Sima Yue and captures Emperor Hui of Jin. | ||
| Battle of Pingji | September | Wang Jun and Sima Teng defeats Sima Ying. | |||
| 306 | Sack of Chang'an | June | Sima Yue defeats Sima Yong and returns Emperor Hui of Jin to Luoyang. | ||
| 311 | Upheaval of the Five Barbarians | Battle of Ningping | May | Han-Zhao General Shi Le ambushes and annihilated the Jin army, Wang Yan executed. | |
| Fall of Luoyang | 13—14 July | Han-Zhao capture the Jin Dynasty's capital and capture Emperor Huai of Jin. | |||
| 312 | Civil wars of the Tetrarchy | Siege of Segusio | Template:Flagicon | Spring | The series of wars between Constantine and Maxentius starts. |
| Battle of Turin | Constantine defeats forces loyal to Maxentius. | ||||
| Battle of Brescia | Summer | Maxentius sends Ruricus to lead an attack against Constantine, only to fail. | |||
| Battle of Verona | Constantine defeats Maxentius once more in an attack, Ruricus dying whilst leading it. | ||||
| Battle of the Milvian Bridge | 28 Oct | Constantine takes control of Italy, executing Maxentius and his family after. | |||
| 313 | Battle of Tzirallum | Template:Flagicon | 30 April | In the eastern part of the Empire, the forces of Licinius defeat Maximinus Daia. | |
| 314 | Battle of Cibalae | Template:Flagicon | Constantine defeats Licinius. | ||
| 316 | Upheaval of the Five Barbarians | Fall of Chang'an | Template:Flagicon | Han forces receives the surrender of Emperor Min of Jin; end of the Western Jin. | |
| Civil wars of the Tetrarchy | Battle of Mardia | Template:Flagicon | Late 316 or early 317 | Constantine again defeats Licinius, who cedes Illyricum to Constantine. | |
| 324 | Battle of Adrianople | Template:Flagicon | 3 July | Constantine defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. | |
| Battle of the Hellespont | July | Flavius Julius Crispus, son of Constantine defeats the naval forces of Licinius. | |||
| Battle of Chrysopolis | 18 Sep | Constantine decisively defeats Licinius, establishing his sole control over the Empire. | |||
| 328 | Sixteen Kingdoms | Battle of Luoyang | Template:Flagicon | Aug/Sep 328—21 Jan 329 | Later Zhao defeats the Former Zhao and captures their emperor, Liu Yao. |
| c. 330 | Sack of Meroë | Template:Flagicon | Kingdom of Axum under King Ezana sack the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, leading to Kush's collapse. | ||
| 336 | Sixteen Kingdoms | Battle of Pingguo | Template:Flagicon | Feb | Murong Huang defeats and captures his brother, Murong Ren. |
| 337 | Perso-Roman wars of 337-361 | Siege of Nisibis | Template:Flagicon | Persians unsuccessfully siege Roman city. | |
| 338 | Sixteen Kingdoms | Battle of Jicheng | Template:Flagicon | 12–16 June | Former Yan repels a Later Zhao invasion. |
| Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 | Siege of Nisibis | Template:Flagicon | 15 June—14 or 24 Aug | Shapur II besieges Nisibis for 60 days before returning to Persia. | |
| 344 | Battle of Singara | Template:Flagicon | Emperor Constantius II fights an indecisive battle against the Persian King Shapur II. | ||
| 346 | Siege of Nisibis | Template:Flagicon | 346—347 | Persian King Shapur II again sieges the city and is repelled. | |
| 350 | Siege of Nisibis | King Shapur II sieges Nisibis for the third time, flooding the city but ultimately being unsuccessful and retreats. | |||
| 351 | Roman civil war of 350–353 | Battle of Mursa Major | Template:Flagicon | 28 Sep | Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius. |
| Sixteen Kingdoms | Battle of Xiangguo | Template:Flagicon | Nov/Dec 350—April/May 351 | Later Zhao and Former Yan defeats Ran Wei. However, the last ruler of Later Zhao, Shi Zhi, is soon assassinated. | |
| 352 | Battle of Liantai | 17 May | Former Yan defeats Ran Wei and captures Ran Min. | ||
| 353 | Roman civil war of 350–353 | Battle of Mons Seleucus | Template:Flagicon | Aug | Final defeat of Magnentius by Constantius II. |
| 356 | Roman–Alamanni conflict and Roman–Germanic Wars | Siege of Autun | The city of Autun, Burgundy, is besieged by Alamanni forces. Julian the Apostate of Rome relieves the city, ending the siege. | ||
| Battle of Durocortorum | Caesar Julian is defeated by the Alemanni. | ||||
| Battle of Brumath | Roman troops under Julian destroy a Germanic war band in open battle. | ||||
| Siege of Senonae | Germanic troops unsuccessfully besiege the city of Senonae, where Julian is staying for the winter. | ||||
| 357 | Battle of Strasbourg | Julian expels the Alamanni from the Rhineland. | |||
| 359 | Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 | Battle of Amida | Template:Flagicon | Sasanians capture Amida from the Romans. | |
| 360 | Siege of Singara | Template:Flagicon | Sasanians take Singara. | ||
| 363 | Julian's Persian expedition | Battle of Ctesiphon | 29 May | Emperor Julian defeats Shapur II outside the walls of the Persian capital, but is unable to take the city, leading to an ultimate disaster on the retreat back to Roman territory. | |
| Battle of Samarra | June | Julian fights the Sasanians and is subsequently killed in battle. Though indecisive, the battle leads to massive losses for the Roman Empire through a forced peace treaty. | |||
| 366 | Procopius' Rebellion | Battle of Thyatira | Template:Flagicon | The army of the Roman Emperor Valens defeats the usurper Procopius. | |
| 367 | Roman–Alamanni conflict and Roman–Germanic Wars | Battle of Solicinium | Template:Flagicon | Romans under Emperor Valentinian I defeat yet another Alemanni incursion. | |
| 369 | Huan Wen's Northern Expeditions | Battle of Fangtou | Template:Flagicon | March/April—9 Nov | Former Yan and Former Qin defeats Eastern Jin forces led by Huan Wen. |
| 370 | Conquest of Former Yan by Former Qin | Battle of Luchuan | Nov | Former Qin forces led by Wang Meng defeat Former Yan. | |
| 373 | Battle of the Tanais River | Template:Flagicon | The Huns defeat the Alans near the Don, beginning the great period of the Germanic migrations.Template:Citation needed | ||
| 377 | Gothic War and Roman–Germanic Wars | Battle of the Willows | Template:Flagicon | Roman troops fight an inconclusive battle against the Goths. | |
| Battle of Dibaltum | Goths, Alans and Huns defeat Romans. | ||||
| 378 | Battle of Adrianople | Template:Flagicon | 9 Aug | The Thervings under Fritigern defeat and kill the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens. | |
| Roman–Germanic Wars | Battle of Argentovaria | Template:Flagicon | The Western Emperor Gratianus is victorious over the Alamanni, yet again. | ||
| 380 | Gothic War and Roman–Germanic Wars | Battle of Thessalonica | Template:Flagicon | The Goths under Fritigern fight and defeat a Roman army under Emperor Theodosius I. | |
| 383 | Sixteen Kingdoms | Battle of Feishui | Template:Flagicon | 30 Nov | Fu Jiān is defeated by the Jin commander Xie An. The kingdom of the Former Qin collapses shortly thereafter. |
| 388 | Roman civil war | Battle of the Save | Template:Flagicon | Emperor Theodosius I defeats the usurper Magnus Maximus. Also known as the Battle of Poetovio. | |
| 394 | Battle of the Frigidus | Template:Flagicon | 5-6 Sep | The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the last Pagan-tolerant usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast. | |
| 395 | Sixteen Kingdoms | Battle of Canhe Slope | Template:Flagicon | 8 Dec | Part of the Later Yan campaign into Northern Wei territory; crushing defeat for the Later Yan forces. |
| 397 | Battle of Baisi | 23–24 March | Northern Wei defeats the Later Yan, driving them out of the Central Plains. |
5th century
| Year | War | Battle | Template:Tooltip | Date(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 402 | Gothic War and Roman–Germanic Wars | Battle of Pollentia | Template:Flagicon | 6 April | Romans under Flavius Stilicho win a small victory against the Visigoths under Alaric. |
| 403 | Battle of Verona | June | Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric, forcing them out of Italy. | ||
| 405 | War of Radagaisus | Siege of Florence | Stilcho defends city from the Goths, but Florence is nearly destroyed. | ||
| 406 | War of Radagaisus and Roman–Germanic Wars | Battle of Faesulae | Stilicho defeats Visigoths and Vandals under Radagaisus. | ||
| Vandal–Frankish war | Battle of Mainz | Template:Flagicon | An army of Vandals, Suevi, and Alans defeats the Frankish federation. | ||
| 409 | Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Ostia | Template:Flagicon | Visigoths under Alaric I defeat Romans. | |
| Liu Yu's Northern Expeditions | Battle of Linqu | Template:Flagicon | Eastern Jin decisively defeats Southern Yan. | ||
| Siege of Guanggu | Jin dynasty conquer Southern Yan | ||||
| 410 | Fall of the Roman Empire | Sack of Rome | Template:Flagicon | 24 Aug | The Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome. |
| 413 | Siege of Massilia | Template:Flagicon | Visigoths under Ataulf are defeated by Romans under Bonifacius while trying to siege Roman city. They make peace with Rome soon after. | ||
| 419 | Battle of the Nervasos Mountains | Template:Flagicon | Suebi under Hermeric allied with Romans in Hispania defeat coalition between the Vandals and Alans. | ||
| 422 | Battle of Tarraco | The Vandals defeat the Western Roman Empire. | |||
| 425 | Gothic revolt of Theodoric I | Siege of Arles | Template:Flagicon | The Roman general Aëtius defeats the Visigoths under Theodoric I. | |
| 428 | Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Mérida | Template:Flagicon | Vandals defeat Suebi. | |
| 430 | Siege of Hippo Regius | Template:Flagicon | June 430—Aug 431 | Vandals under Genseric establish a foothold in Africa, strategically defeating Rome. Saint Augustine dies during the siege. | |
| 431 | Battle of Helena | Template:Flagicon | Romans defeat Franks. | ||
| 432 | Battle of Rimini | Template:Flagicon | The Roman general Aëtius is defeated by his rival Count Boniface, who is killed. | ||
| 436 | Gothic War | Battle of Narbonne | Template:Flagicon | 436—437 | Aëtius again defeats the Visigoths under Theodoric I. |
| 439 | Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Carthage | Template:Flagicon | 19 Oct | Romans lose Carthage to the Vandals. |
| Battle of Toulouse | Template:Flagicon | Visigoths led by Theodoric I defeat Romans under General Litorius, who is killed. | |||
| 447 | Battle of the Utus | Template:Flagicon | Hunnic victory, led by Attila, over Roman forces in what is today Bulgaria. | ||
| 445 | Battle of Vicus Helena | Template:Flagicon | c. 445—450 | Romans under Aëtius defeated the Franks under Chlodio. | |
| 450 | Legends of the Germanic heroic age | Battle of Finnsburg | Template:Flagicon | Possibly mythical battle where Frisians allied with Jutes fight and are defeated by Danes in the Germanic heroic age. Frisian King Finn and Danish Prince Hnæf both supposedly died in combat. | |
| 451 | Battle of Avarayr | Template:Flagicon | 26 May | Forces of Yazdegerd II annihilate the Christian Armenian rebels led by Saint Vartan. | |
| Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Châlons | Template:Flagicon | 20 June | An alliance under Visigothic king Theodoric I and Romans under Aëtius repulse the attack of Attila the Hun and his allies. Theodoric is killed in the battle. | |
| 452 | Sack of Aquileia | Template:Flagicon | 18 July | Aquileia is razed to the ground by the forces of Attila the Hun. | |
| 454 | Germanic-Hunnic Wars | Battle of Nedao | A Germanic alliance under the leadership of the Ostrogoths and the Gepids breaks Hunnic power in Europe. | ||
| 455 | Roman–Germanic Wars | Sack of Rome | Template:Flagicon | 2–6 June | The Vandals sack Rome during their campaign against Emperor Petronius Maximus, looting the city for 14 days. |
| Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain | Battle of Aylesford | Template:Flagicon | Britons and Anglo-Saxons battle in Kent, victory is unclear. | ||
| 456 | Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Corsica | Template:Flagicon | Romans repel Vandal attempt to annex Corsica. | |
| Battle of Órbigo | Template:Flagicon | Theodoric II, king of the Visigoths defeats the Suevi, sacks their capital, and conquers Spain. | |||
| 457 | Battle of Garigliano | Template:Flagicon | Romans under Majorian defeat the Vandals. | ||
| Battle of Campi Cannini | Romans under Majorian defeats the Alemanni. | ||||
| 458 | Gothic War and Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Arelate | Template:Flagicon | Late 458 | The Roman Emperor Majorian, with the support of Aegidius and Nepotianus, defeats the Visigoths at Arlate. |
| Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Toulouse | The Roman Emperor Majorian defeats the Visigoths. | |||
| 461 | Battle of Cartagena | Template:Flagicon | A Vandal fleet surprises and destroys the Roman fleet. | ||
| 461 | Battle of Bergamo | Template:Flagicon | Romans under General Ricimer defeat Roman followers of emperor Majorian. | ||
| 463 | Roman–Germanic Wars | Battle of Orleans | Template:Flagicon | Kingdom of Soissons and Alans led by Aegidius defeat Visigoths under Theodoric II. | |
| 465 | Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain | Battle of Wippedesfleot | Template:Flagicon | The Saxons under Hengest battle the Britons, victory is undecided. | |
| 468 | Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Bolia | Template:Flagicon | Ostrogoths defeat a coalition of Gepids, Heruli, Rugii, Sarmatians, Sciri, Suebi and the Roman Empire. | |
| Vandal War and Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Cape Bon | Template:Flagicon | Vandals decisively defeat large joint effort by Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire to retake Carthage. | ||
| 469 | Fall of the Roman Empire | Battle of Déols | Template:Flagicon | Visigoths defeat Bretons. | |
| 471 | Battle of Arles | Visigoths defeat the Western Roman Empire. | |||
| 472 | Siege of Rome | Template:Flagicon | March—July | Ricimer, having fallen out with his choice for Roman Emperor, allies with the Burgundians and Germans under Odoacer, defeats and kills the Roman Emperor Anthemius. | |
| 476 | Battle of Ravenna | 2-4 Sep | The Germanic foederati led by Odoacer decisively defeat the Western Roman Empire and depose Emperor Romulus Augustulus. Western Roman Empire dissolved. | ||
| 484 | Hephthalite–Sasanian War of 484 | Battle of Herat | Template:Flagicon | Hephthalite Empire decisively defeats the Sasanian Empire and kills King Peroz I. | |
| 485 | Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain | Battle of Mercredesburne | Template:Flagicon | Saxons under Aelle defeat British defenders. | |
| 486 | Campaigns of Clovis I | Battle of Soissons | Template:Flagicon | Clovis I defeats Syagrius and gains the Domain of Soissons. | |
| 489 | Conquest of Italy by Theodoric the Great | Battle of Isonzo | Template:Flagicon | 28 Aug | Odoacer fights the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great, ending in the Italian troops' defeat. |
| Battle of Sirmium | Template:Flagicon | Aug | King Theodoric the Great of the Ostrogoths defeats king Thraustila of the Gepids. | ||
| Conquest of Italy by Theodoric the Great | Battle of Verona | Template:Flagicon | 30 Sep | Odoacer fights the Ostrogoths near Verona, and is defeated a second time. | |
| 490 | Siege of Ravenna | Late 490—5 March 493 | Odoacer holds out against Theodoric the Great until the Ostrogothic king is able to enforce a naval blockade on the city. Several days after a truce is negotiated to end the siege, Theodoric kills Odoacer with his own hands. | ||
| 492 | Isaurian War | Battle of Cotyaeum | Template:Flagicon | Byzantine army under John the Scythian defeats Isaurians under Longinus of Cardala. | |
| 496 | Campaigns of Clovis I | Battle of Tolbiac | Template:Flagicon | Franks under Clovis I defeat the Alamanni, killing their king. | |
| 497 | First Hunnic War | Sack of Kausambi | Template:Flagicon | Alchon Huns sack the central Indian city of Kosambi. | |
| 498 | First Battle of Eran | Alchon Huns decisively defeat the Gupta Empire and annex Malwa. |
6th century
| Year | War | Battle | Template:Tooltip | Date(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 502 | Anastasian War | Siege of Theodosiopolis | Template:Flagicon | Aug | Sasanians under Kavadh I take ungarrisoned Byzantine city. |
| Siege of Martyropolis | Sasanians take Byzantine city. | ||||
| Siege of Amida | Oct 502—Jan 503 | Byzantine city holds out for three months without reinforcements against Persian siege led by Kavadh I before they eventually take the city until the Byzantines ransom it back in a treaty two years later. | |||
| 505 | Basus War | Battle of zanaeb | Template:Flagicon | Taghlib victory in zanaeb valley in Najd. | |
| Battle darya | Taghlib victory in Darya near Al-Qassim Province. | ||||
| 506 | Campaigns of Clovis I | Battle of Strasbourg | Template:Flagicon | The Franks under Clovis I defeats the Alemanni. | |
| Battle of Zhongli | Template:Flagicon | 506-507 | Northern Wei invaded Liang Dynasty, but the attack failed. | ||
| 507 | Franco–Gothic War | Battle of Vouillé | Template:Flagicon | The Franks under Clovis I defeat the Visigoths under Alaric II decisively, gaining Gallia Aquitania. Clovis kills Alaric in single combat. | |
| 510 | First Hunnic War | Second Battle of Eran | Template:Flagicon | Alchon Huns defeat the Guptas and temporarily conquer the province of Malwa. | |
| 512 | War of the Visigothic Succession | Battle of Barcelona | Template:Flagicon |
The Ostrogothic Kingdom under Ibbas defeats Visigothic rebels under Gesalec. | |
| 518 | Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain | Battle of Mons Badonicus | Template:Flagicon | Or Battle of Mynydd Baddon. British forces defeat the Saxons decisively, ending their advance into British lands. Later connected to King Arthur. | |
| 520 | Second Hunnic War | Sack of Pataliputra | Template:Flagicon | Alchon Huns under Mihirakula sack and devastate the capital of the Gupta Empire, leading to the permanent decline of both the Gupta Empire and Pataliputra as a city. | |
| 522 | Basus War | Battle of the shaved heads | Template:Flagicon | Banu Bakr soldiers shave their heads so that they would know each others on the battlefield , Banu Bakr defeat Taghlib | |
| 524 | Invasion of Burgundy | Battle of Vézeronce | Template:Flagicon | 25 June | Burgundians and Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great defeat the Merovingian Franks. |
| 525 | Battle on the Rhine | Template:Flagicon | The army of king Theudebert I of Austrasia and a king in Frisia defeat an army of Danes. | ||
| Aksumite invasion of Himyar | siege of sanaa | Template:Flagicon | Kingdom of Aksum under Kaleb of Axum annexes the Himyarite Kingdom of Dhu Nuwas. | ||
| 528 | Iberian War | Battle of Thannuris | Template:Flagicon | Summer | Sasanians defeat Byzantines under Belisarius, but take heavy losses. |
| Second Hunnic War | Battle of Sondani | Template:Flagicon | Alliance of Indian rulers defeat the Alchon Huns, who retreat out of India. | ||
| 530 | Iberian War | Battle of Dara | Template:Flagicon | June | Byzantine commander Belisarius, in alliance with Heruli and the Huns, defeats Sasanian Persians in Turkey. |
| Battle of Satala | Summer | Byzantines under Sittas and Dorotheus defeat attacking Persians under Mermeroes. | |||
| Banu Asad Revolt against Hujr of kinda | Template:Flagicon | Banu Asad Revolt against Kingdom of Kinda and kill king Hujr . | |||
| Imru' al-Qais' attack on Asad tribe | Imru' al-Qais with the help of Taghlib tribe exacts revenge on Banu Asad for killing his father "Hujr" killing many of them , but he fails to regain control of the throne of his father | ||||
| Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern | Template:Flagicon | Between Eadgils and his uncle King Onela of Sweden with the help of Beowulf. This event appears in several Norse sagas and in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf. | |||
| 531 | Iberian War | Battle of Callinicum | Template:Flagicon | 19 April | A Sasanian army defeats a Byzantine force in Syria, but with heavy losses on both sides. |
| Siege of Martyropolis | Template:Flagicon | Autumn | Sasanians withdraw from attack on Byzantine city, last battle of the Iberian War. | ||
| Battle of the Unstrut River | Template:Flagicon | Frankish King Theuderic I defeats Thuringian King Hermanafrid and conquers Thuringia | |||
| 532 | Battle of Autun | Template:Flagicon | Frankish kings Childebert I and Chlothar I defeat the Burgundians and conquer their territory. | ||
| 533 | Vandalic War | Battle of Ad Decimum | Template:Flagicon | 13 Sep | Belisarius defeats the Vandals under Gelimer near Carthage. |
| Battle of Tricamarum | 15 Dec | Belisarius again defeats the Vandals near Carthage, ending Vandal rule in North Africa. | |||
| 534 | Byzantine–Moorish wars | Battle of Mammes | Byzantine general Solomon defeats the Moorish rebels and secures control of Byzacena. | ||
| 535 | Battle of Mount Bourgaon | Summer | |||
| 536 | Gothic War | Siege of Naples | Template:Flagicon | Oct—Nov | Byzantines under Belisarius take city from the Ostrogoths. |
| 537 | Matter of Britain | Battle of Camlann | Template:Flagicon | King Arthur killed, perhaps mythical, by Mordred. | |
| Byzantine–Moorish wars | Battle of Scalas Veteres | Template:Flagicon | Spring | Germanus defeats rebel African army. | |
| Battle of Shayuan | Template:Flagicon | Western Wei dynasty defeats the Eastern Wei dynasty | |||
| 538 | Gothic War | Siege of Rome | Template:Flagicon | Unsuccessful siege of Rome by the Ostrogoths, Byzantine defenders under Belisarius remain victorious. | |
| 540 | Byzantine–Moorish wars | Battle of Babosis | Template:Flagicon | Byzantine general Solomon defeats the Moorish rebels of the Aurès Mountains region and secures control of Numidia and Mauretania Sitifensis. | |
| Battle of Zerboule | |||||
| Siege of Banavasi | Template:Flagicon | Chalukyas under Kirttivarman I defeat Kadamba dynasty and annex their capital of Banavasi. | |||
| 541 | Lazic War | Siege of Petra | Template:Flagicon | Feb—June | Sasasians under Khosrow I capture Byzantine fortress. |
| Gothic War | Siege of Verona | Template:Flagicon | Winter | Ostrogoths under Totila defend city against larger Byzantine army. | |
| 542 | Battle of Faventia | Spring | Ostrogoths under Totila defeat Byzantine army. | ||
| Battle of Mucellium | Ostrogoths defeat Byzantine army. | ||||
| 543 | Lazic War | Battle of Anglon | Template:Flagicon | A Byzantine invasion of Sasanian Armenia is defeated by a small force under Nabedes. | |
| 544 | Siege of Edessa | Template:Flagicon | March—April | Sasanians under Khosrow I abandon siege of Byzantine city of Edessa, which pays them 5 centenaria of gold. | |
| Byzantine–Moorish wars | Battle of Cillium | Template:Flagicon | Byzantine General Solomon killed in battle by a coalition of Berber tribes. | ||
| 545 | Battle of Thacia | Autumn | Stotzas mortally wounded by Byzantine general John. | ||
| 546 | Battle of Sufetula | Late 546 or early 547 | Byzantine general John Troglita defeats the Moorish rebels under Antalas. | ||
| 547 | Battle of Marta | Late summer | John Troglita is defeated by a coalition of Tripolitanian Moors. | ||
| 548 | Battle of the Fields of Cato | Summer | John Troglita defeats the last Moorish coalition and suppresses the Moorish revolt. | ||
| 550 | Lazic War | Siege of Petra | Template:Flagicon | Summer 550—Spring 551 | Byzantines recapture city and dismantle its walls. |
| 551 | Gothic War | Battle of Sena Gallica | Template:Flagicon | Autumn | A Byzantine naval squadron defeats the Ostrogoth fleet decisively. |
| 552 | Battle of Taginae | July | Byzantines under Narses defeat Ostrogoths under Totila, who dies in battle. | ||
| Battle of Asfeld | Longobards under King Audoin defeat the Gepids under Thurisind, who is killed. | ||||
| 553 | Gothic War | Battle of Mons Lactarius | Template:Flagicon | Oct 552 or early 553 | Byzantines under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths under Teia, ending Ostrogoth resistance. |
| Lazic War | Battle of Telephis-Ollaria | Template:Flagicon | Sasanians defeat Byzantines. | ||
| 554 | Gothic War | Battle of the Volturnus | Template:Flagicon | Oct | Byzantines under Narses defeat the Franks and Alamanni decisively. |
| Yawm Halima ("Day of Halima") | Template:Flagicon | June | The Ghassanids under al-Harith ibn Jabalah defeat the Lakhmids under al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man, who is killed. | ||
| Lazic War | Siege of Onoguris | Template:Flagicon | 554 or 555 | Sasanians decisively defeat Byzantines and force them to retreat from the area and abandon Archaeopolis, which they subsequently raze. | |
| 555 | Siege of Phasis | July 555—June 556 | Byzantines defeat Sasanian siege of town. | ||
| 556 | Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain | Battle of Beran Byrig | Template:Flagicon | West Saxons under Cynric and his son Ceawlin defeat Britons. | |
| 559 | Byzantine-Kutrigurs war 558–559 | Battle of Melantias | Template:Flagicon | March | Byzantines under Belisarius defeat the Kutrigurs Template:Convert west of Constantinople. |
| 560 | Hephthalite–Sasanian Wars | Battle of Gol-Zarriun | Template:Flagicon | Sasanians under King Khosrow I allied with the Göktürks decisively defeat the Hephthalite Empire, which dissolved into smaller kingdoms in the aftermath. | |
| Expansion of the Uí Néill dynasty | Battle of Cúl Dreimhne | Template:Flagicon | Uí Néill defeat King Diarmait mac Cerbaill. | ||
| 568 | Battle of Wibbandun | Template:Flagicon | Ceawlin of Wessex and Cutha defeat Æthelberht of Kent. | ||
| Dahis and al-Ghabra | Tayy raid on Banu Abs | Template:Flagicon | Banu Abs repel the attack of Tayy tribe with the help of Antarah ibn Shaddad | ||
| 570 | Battle of 'Ayn Ubagh | Template:Flagicon | The Ghassanids under al-Mundhir III ibn al-Harith defeat the Lakhmids under Qabus ibn al-Mundhir. | ||
| Aksumite–Persian wars | Battle of Hadhramaut | Template:Flagicon | Sasanians defeat the Kingdom of Aksum and kill King Masruq ibn Abraha. | ||
| Siege of Sanaa | Sasanians take Yemen from Aksum. | ||||
| The day of the elephant | Template:Flagicon | the army of Abraha is defeated | |||
| 571 | Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain | Battle of Bedcanford | Template:Flagicon | Cuthwulf of Wessex defeated the Celtic Britons and took several towns. | |
| 573 | Battle of Arfderydd | Template:Flagicon | Welsh battle between Christian and non-Christian forces; Gwenddoleu dies. | ||
| 575 | Sack of al-Hirah | Template:Flagicon | The Ghassanids under al-Harith ibn Jabalah sack the Lakhmid capital, al-Hirah. | ||
| 576 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591 | Battle of Melitene (576) | Template:Flagicon | Byzantine victory | |
| 577 | Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain | Battle of Deorham | Template:Flagicon | West Saxons defeats the Briton Celts in Wiltshire, England. | |
| 580 | Battle of Shi'b Jabala | Template:Flagicon | Banu Amir victory ,evacuation of the last Kindite kings from Najd to South Arabia. | ||
| 584 | Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain | Battle of Fethan Leag | Template:Flagicon | Ceawlin of Wessex decisively defeats Celtic Britons in modern-day Stoke Lyne, although his son Cutha is killed. | |
| 585 | Fijar Wars | yawm Sharab battle | Template:Flagicon | Quraysh defeats Hawazin. | |
| yawm al-Ḥurayra battle | Hawazin defeats Quraysh, Peace was restored after a few further skirmishes. | ||||
| 586 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591 | Battle of Solachon | Template:Flagicon | Spring | Byzantine forces under Philippicus defeat a Sasanian army in Mesopotamia. |
| Siege of Mardin | Byzantines aided by the Salihids siege Sasanian-owned city. | ||||
| 587 | Soga–Mononobe conflict | Battle of Shigisan | Template:Flagicon | July | Buddhist Soga clan defeats Shinto Mononobe clan. Mononobe clan leader Mononobe no Moriya killed in battle. |
| 588 | Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591 | Battle of Martyropolis | Template:Flagicon | Summer | Byzantine forces defeat a Sasanian army at Martyropolis. |
| 590 | Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain | Battle of Alclud Ford | Template:Flagicon | Kingdom of Rheged defeats Bernicia | |
| 591 | Sasanian civil war of 589–591 and Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591 | Battle of Blarathon | Template:Flagicon | Aug | Combined Byzantine-Persian armies led by Byzantine generals John Mystacon and Narses and Persian king Khosrau II defeat the Persian rebel Bahram Chobin. |
| 592 | Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain | Battle of Woden's Burg | Template:Flagicon | Britons defeat Ceawlin of the West Saxons. | |
| 598 | Goguryeo-Sui Wars | Battle of Linyuguan | Template:Flagicon | Korean Goguryeo Kingdom repulses the Chinese Sui dynasty. | |
| 599 | Avar–Byzantine Wars | Battles of Viminacium | Template:Flagicon | Summer | Byzantines defeat the Avars. |
| Conquest of the Revati Island | Template:Flagicon | Chalukya King Mangalesha's navy conquers Revati Island. |
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| Year | War | Battle | Template:Tooltip | Date(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1201 | Danish Crusades | Battle of Stellau | Template:Flagicon | King Valdemar II of Denmark defeats count Adolf III of Holstein and Schauenburg, and captures Holstein from Germany. | |
| Rise of Genghis Khan | Battle of the Thirteen Sides | Template:Flagicon | Temujin and his coalition of Mongol tribes decisively defeat Jamukha, the Naimans, Tatars, Merkits, Taichuud, Jadarans, and smaller tribes not allied with his coalition. | ||
| Ghurid conquests | Battle of Nishapur | Template:Flagicon | Ghurids annex Greater Khorasan from the Khwarazmian Empire | ||
| 1202 | Anglo-French War | Battle of Mirebeau | Template:Flagicon | 1 Aug | Mercenary army led by John of England defeat a rebel army led by the House of Lusignan and Arthur of Brittany as well as a French army. |
| Fourth Crusade | Siege of Zadar | Template:Flagicon | 10-24 Nov | The crusaders besieged the fortified city of Zadar in Croatia according to an agreement with the Republic of Venice and
captured and sacked it, despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding such an action and threatening excommunication. | |
| Georgian–Seljuk wars | Battle of Basian | Template:Flagicon | Georgians under David Soslan decisively defeat Seljuk Turks. | ||
| Rise of Genghis Khan | Battle of Köyiten | Template:Flagicon | Temujin and Toghrul Khan make forces of Buyruq khan, Jamukha and the Oirats retreat but both armies are scattered. | ||
| 1203 | Fourth Crusade | Siege of Constantinople | Template:Flagicon | 11 July—1 Aug | Crusaders capture the Byzantine throne and install Alexios IV Angelos |
| Anglo-French War | Siege of Château Gaillard | Template:Flagicon | Aug 1203—6 March 1204 | French forces under Philip II of France defeat the English and Normans during a lengthy siege. English relief force is decisively defeated. Phillip gains control of Normandy from the Kingdom of England. | |
| Rise of Genghis Khan | Battle of Khalakhaljid Sands | Template:Flagicon | Forces led by Jamukha and Toghrul Khan defeat Temujin. Temujin's son Ogodei Khan is wounded. | ||
| Ghurid campaigns in India | Siege of Kalinjar | Template:Flagicon | Ghurids annex Kalinjar from Chandelas. | ||
| 1204 | Fourth Crusade | Sack of Constantinople | Template:Flagicon | 12–15 April | Crusaders and Venetians capture Constantinople. |
| Khwarazmian-Ghurid wars | Battle of Andkhud | Template:Flagicon | Khwarazmian Empire and Qara Khitai defeat Ghurid Empire, annexing back Khurasan. | ||
| Genghis Khan's campaigns | Battle of Chakirmaut | Template:Flagicon | Temujin decisively defeats the larger forces of the Naimans under Tayang Khan and his son Kuchlug, joined by Jamukha's forces. Tayang dies in battle, Jamukha is captured by Temujin and executed. As a result of this battle, Mongolia is unified under Temujin. | ||
| 1205 | Nicaean–Latin wars | Battle of Adramyttion | Template:Flagicon | 19 March | Latins defeat Nicaea. |
| Bulgarian–Latin wars | Battle of Adrianople | 14 April | The Bulgarian army defeats the Latin Empire and captures Baldwin I of Constantinople. | ||
| Battle of Serres | Template:Flagicon | June | The Bulgarian army defeats the captures Serres. | ||
| Feudal fragmentation of Poland | Battle of Zawichost | Template:Flagicon | 19 June or 14 Oct | Lesser Poland defeats Galicia-Volhynia. | |
| Fourth Crusade | Battle of the Olive Grove of Kountouras | Template:Flagicon | Summer | Franks defeat local Greek resistance to Frankish rule and solidify Crusader control over the Peloponnese. | |
| Sack of Madurai | Template:Flagicon | Cholas under Kulothunga III sack Pandya capital of Madurai. | |||
| 1206 | Bulgarian–Latin wars | Battle of Rusion | Template:Flagicon | 31 Jan | Bulgarians win major victory over the Latin Empire. |
| Battle of Rodosto | Feb | Bulgarians defeat Latin Empire. | |||
| Ghurid campaigns in India | Battle of Jhelum | Template:Flagicon | Feb—March | Ghurids defeat rebellion by Hindu Khokhars. | |
| 1207 | Byzantine–Seljuk wars | Siege of Antalya | Template:Flagicon | March | Turks capture Byzantine city. |
| Bulgarian–Latin wars | Battle of Messinopolis | Template:Flagicon | 4 Sep | Bulgarians defeat Latin Empire. Boniface of Montferrat killed. | |
| 1208 | Dano-Swedish wars | Battle of Lena | Template:Flagicon | 31 Jan | Swedish armed peasants defeat Danish army. |
| Age of the Sturlungs | Battle of Víðines | Template:Flagicon | The forces of Bishop Guðmundur Arason defeat forces under the Icelandic Gothi one of which Kolbeinn Tumason was killed in the conflict. | ||
| 1209 | Albigensian Crusade | Siege of Carcassonne | Template:Flagicon | 1 - 15 August | Crusaders led by Arnaud Amalric capture Carcassonne. |
| 1210 | Albigensian Crusade | Siege of Minerve | Template:Flagicon | Early June—22 July | Crusaders under Simon de Montfort capture Minerve from the Cathars under Guilhem de Minerve. |
| Siege of Termes | Early Aug—22 Nov | Crusaders under Simon de Montfort capture Termes from the Seigneurie of Termes. | |||
| Livonian Crusade | Battle of Ümera | Template:Flagicon | Aug or Sep | Estonian forces defeat the Livonian Order. | |
| Battle of Cēsis | Livonian Order defeats Estonians. | ||||
| 1211 | Albigensian Crusade | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | March—3 May | Crusaders under Simon de Montfort capture Lavaur from the Siegneurie of Lavaur. |
| Template:Ill | April | Raymond-Roger, Count of Foix defeats an army of Crusaders. | |||
| Livonian Crusade | Battle of Viljandi | Template:Flagicon | Spring | Livonians defeat Estonians. | |
| Byzantine–Seljuk wars | Battle of Antioch on the Meander | Template:Flagicon | 17 June | Nicaea defeats Sultanate of Rum. | |
| Livonian Crusade | Battle of Turaida | Template:Flagicon | Summer | Livonian Order defeats Oeselians and other Estonians. | |
| Mongol–Jin War | Battle of Yehuling | Template:Flagicon | Aug—Oct | Genghis Khan decisively defeats the Jin dynasty. | |
| Nicaean–Latin wars | Battle of the Rhyndacus | Template:Flagicon | 15 Oct | the Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Lascaris. | |
| First Battle of Ulrichen | Template:Flagicon | Canton of Valais defeats city of Bern. | |||
| 1212 | Reconquista and Almohad wars | Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa | Template:Flagicon | 16 July | Almohads expelled from most of Iberia by a joint army of the Christian kingdoms of Castile, León, Portugal, Navarre, and Aragon. |
| 1213 | Anglo-French War | Battle of Damme | Template:Flagicon | 30-31 May | English under William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, sink most of fleet of France's King Philip II in the harbor of Damme. |
| Albigensian Crusade | Battle of Muret | Template:Flagicon | 12 Sep | French crusaders under Simon de Montfort defeat forces of Aragon and Catalonia, killing King Peter II of Aragon. End of Aragonese intervention in Languedoc. | |
| Battle of Steppes | Template:Flagicon | 13 Oct | Brabantine defeat against Bishopric of Liège and County of Loon. | ||
| Georgian–Seljuk wars | Siege of Ganja | Template:Flagicon | After the Eldiguzid ruler of Ganja stopped paying tribute to George IV of Georgia, he attacked and captured the city. | ||
| 1214 | Anglo-French War | Battle of Bouvines | Template:Flagicon | 27 July | France under King Philip Augustus defeats England (under John Lackland) and Otto IV of Germany, conquering Flanders and Angevin territories in France, and bringing about the final decision in the German Staufen–Welf rivalry in favor of Frederick II. |
| Byzantine–Seljuq wars | Siege of Sinope | Template:Flagicon | 1 Nov | Seljuks capture Sinope from Byzantines. | |
| 1215 | Livonian Crusade | Battle of Lehola | Template:Flagicon | Spring | Livonians defeat Estonians. |
| Battle of Riga | Template:Flagicon | Late April or early May | Livonians defeat Oeselians and other Estonians. | ||
| Mongol–Jin War | Battle of Zhongdu | Template:Flagicon | Genghis Khan and the Mongols defeat the Jin dynasty and capture Zhongdu (now Beijing). | ||
| Siege of Firozkoh | Template:Flagicon | Sultanate of Firozkoh defeated and annexed by Muhammad II of Khwarazm. | |||
| 1216 | Ghurid campaigns in India | Third Battle of Tarain | Template:Flagicon | 31 Jan | Mamluk Delhi Sultanate led by their King Iltutmish defeat Ghurid remnants led by Taj al-Din Yildiz. |
| Vladimir-Suzdal war of succession | Battle of Lipitsa | Template:Flagicon | 22 April | Konstantin of Rostov defeats his younger brothers, Yuri and Yaroslav. | |
| Albigensian Crusade | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | 3 June—24 Aug | Crusaders under Simon de Montfort fail to capture Beaucaire. Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse was entrenched in Beaucaire with an army. | |
| 1217 | Livonian Crusade | Battle of Otepää | Template:Flagicon | Feb | Estonian and Russian victory over the Livonian Order. |
| First Barons' War | Battle of Lincoln | Template:Flagicon | 20 May | English forces under William, Earl of Pembroke defeat the French. | |
| Battle of Sandwich | 24 Aug | Fleet of English Hubert and Burgh defeat French fleet of Eustace the Monk off Dover. | |||
| Northern Crusades | Battle of St. Matthew's Day | Template:Flagicon | 21 Sep | The Livonian Order and its allies defeat Estonians. | |
| Albigensian Crusade | Siege of Toulouse | Template:Flagicon | 22 Sep 1217—25 July 1218 | Crusaders under Simon de Montfort fail to Capture Toulouse. | |
| Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai | Siege of Kashgar | Template:Flagicon | With little resistance from the city's population, Mongols conquer the Kara-Khitai. Kuchlug captured and executed soon after. | ||
| 1218 | Fifth Crusade | Siege of Damietta | Template:Flagicon | 29 May 1218—early Nov 1219 | The Crusaders successfully besiege and capture the city from the Ayyubids. |
| Albigensian Crusade | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | Oct 1218—June 1219 | King Louis VIII of France captures Marmande from the County of Toulouse. | |
| Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai | Siege of Balasagun | Template:Flagicon | Mongols under Genghis Khan defeat Kuchlug's army and take capital of the Kara Khitai. | ||
| 1219 | Northern Crusades | Battle of Lindanise | Template:Flagicon | 15 June | Danish forces under Valdemar II defeat the Estonians. |
| Albigensian Crusade | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | Spring | Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse and Raymond-Roger, Count of Foix defeat Crusaders under Foucault de Bercy, Alain de Roucy, Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster and Sicard VI de Lautrec. | |
| Template:Ill | 17 June—1 Aug | King Louis VIII of France fails to capture Toulouse. | |||
| Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire | Siege of Otrar | Template:Flagicon | Dec 1219—Feb 1220 | Mongol forces besiege and take the border town of Otrar in the Khwarazmian Empire. | |
| Mongol invasions of Korea | Siege of Kangdong | Template:Flagicon | Mongols allied with Goryeo take Kangdong, the last Khitan stronghold. | ||
| 1220 | Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire | Siege of Bukhara | Template:Flagicon | Feb | Mongols take lightly fortified Khwarezmian city and raze most of it to the ground. |
| Siege of Samarkand | March | Mongols take capital of the Khwarezmian Empire. | |||
| Livonian Crusade | Battle of Lihula | Template:Flagicon | 8 Aug | Invading Swedish forces are defeated by Estonians. | |
| 1221 | Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire | Siege of Merv | Template:Flagicon | April | Mongols under Tolui take Khwarazmian city. Mongols massacre almost entire population of city. |
| Jōkyū War | Battle of Uji | Template:Flagicon | May | Kamakura shogunate defeats loyalists of Emperor Go-Toba, who is exiled. | |
| Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire | Siege of Bamyan | Template:Flagicon | July | Mongols defeat Khwarezmian Empire. | |
| Crusades | Battle of Mansurah | Template:Flagicon | 26-28 Aug | The Ayybid army of sultan al-Kamil defeats the crusader army under papal legate Pelagio Galvani. | |
| Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire | Battle of Parwan | Template:Flagicon | Sep | Khwarezmian Empire defeats the Mongols. | |
| Battle of Indus | Template:Flagicon | 24 Nov | Mongols defeat and annex the Khwarezmian Empire. | ||
| Siege of Gurganj | Template:Flagicon | Mongols take city from the Khwarezmian Empire. | |||
| Livonian Crusade | Siege of Tallinn | Template:Flagicon | Estonians retreat from siege on Danish stronghold. | ||
| 1222 | Mongol invasions of Georgia | Battle of Khunan | Template:Flagicon | Sep | Mongols under Subotai decisively defeat the Kingdom of Georgia and march north. George IV of Georgia mortally wounded. |
| Byzantine–Seljuk wars | Siege of Trebizond | Template:Flagicon | 1222—1223 | Great Seljuq Empire attempt to conquer Trebizond, are defeated by Emperor Andronikos I Gidos. | |
| 1223 | Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' | Battle of Kalka River | Template:Flagicon | 31 May | The Mongols under Jebe and Subutai defeat an alliance of Kiev, Galicia-Volhynia, Chernigov, and the Cumans decisively. |
| Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria | Battle of Samara Bend | Template:Flagicon | Autumn | Volga Bulgaria wins tactical victory over the Mongols. | |
| Livonian Crusade | Battle of Viljandi | Template:Flagicon | 29 Jan | Estonians defeat Livonians. | |
| Mongol conquest of Persia and Mesopotamia | Siege of Firozkoh | Template:Flagicon | Mongols under Tolui take Firozkoh and raze the city. | ||
| 1224 | Nicaean-Latin Wars | Battle of Poimanenon | Template:Flagicon | Early 1224 | The Nicaean emperor John III Vatatzes defeats a joint army of the Latin Empire and of rebels under the brothers Isaac and Alexios Laskaris. |
| Livonian Crusade | Siege of Tartu | Template:Flagicon | 15 Aug | Livonians defeat Estonians and mercenaries from Novgorod and Pskov. | |
| 1225 | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | Jan | A coalition of German princes, Gerhard II (archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg), count Adolf IV of Holstein, Henry I, Count of Schwerin and Henry Borwin II, Lord of Mecklenburg defeat Denmark under Albrecht II of Holstein, and Otto. | |
| Jalal al-Din's invasions of Georgia | Battle of Garni | Template:Flagicon | Aug | Khwarezmid Empire under Jalal al-Din Mangburni, his realm conquered by the Mongols, defeats Kingdom of Georgia. | |
| 1226 | Siege of Tbilisi | Template:Flagicon | 9 March | After defeating Georgians in battle, Jalal al-Din Mangburni successfully besieges the capital city of Tbilisi. Queen Rusudan of Georgia fled to Kutaisi. | |
| Albigensian Crusades | Siege of Avignon | Template:Flagicon | 10 June—9 Sep | King Louis VIII of France besieges the town of Avignon. After a three-month siege, it surrenders on terms. | |
| 1227 | Livonian Crusade | Battle of Muhu | Template:Flagicon | Jan | Livonians decisively defeat Oeselians. |
| Dano–German War | Battle of Bornhöved | Template:Flagicon | 22 July | Holstein and Hanseatic forces defeat the Danish king Valdemar II who has to relinquish the Northern German territories he had occupied with the exception of Rügen. | |
| Battle of Ane | Template:Flagicon | 28 July | Otto II of Lippe, Bishop of Utrecht, is defeated by the Drenths near Ane (modern Netherlands). | ||
| Mongol conquest of Western Xia | Siege of Yinchuan | Template:Flagicon | Mongols eliminate the Western Xia and execute Emperor Mozhu. Genghis Khan dies during the siege under debated circumstances, but this is kept secret from the army until the siege's end. | ||
| 1228 | Jalal al-Din's invasions of Georgia | Battle of Bolnisi | Template:Flagicon | Khwarazmian Empire again defeats Kingdom of Georgia. | |
| 1229 | Ayyubid succession war | Siege of Damascus | Template:Flagicon | March—15 June | Sultan al-Kamil of Egypt conquers Damascus from emir an-Nasir Dawud. |
| Lombard League civil war | Battle of San Cesario | Template:Flagicon | Aug | Modena, Cremona and Parma defeat Bologna, Milan and Piacenza. | |
| Reconquista | Battle of Portopí | Template:Flagicon | 12 Sep | Catalan forces led by King James I defeat the Almohads at Serra de Na Burguesa (present Palma de Mallorca). | |
| 1230 | Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars | Battle of Klokotnitsa | Template:Flagicon | 9 March | Victory for the Second Bulgarian Empire over the Despotate of Epirus. |
| Battles involving Jalal al-Din | Battle of Yassıçemen | Template:Flagicon | 10-12 Aug | Seljuk Turks defeat forces of Jalal al-Din Mangburni of Khwarazm. | |
| Norman wars in Ireland | Siege of Dun Beal Gallimhe | Template:Flagicon | Week-long inconclusive battle between the Irish and Normans. | ||
| Reconquista | Battle of Alange | Template:Flagicon | Leon defeats Almohads under Ibn Hud. | ||
| 1231 | Battle of Jerez | April | Castile defeats Moorish forces of Ibn Hud. | ||
| Mongol invasions of Korea | Siege of Kuju | Template:Flagicon | Sep 1231—Jan 1232 | Goryeo defeats Mongol attack. | |
| 1232 | Mongol–Jin War | Battle of Sanfengshan | Template:Flagicon | 9 Feb | Mongols led by Subutai defeat last field army of Jin dynasty, leaving them prone to their upcoming conquest. |
| Siege of Kaifeng | 8 April 1232—29 May 1233 | Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty. | |||
| Mongol invasions of Korea | Battle of Cheoin | Template:Flagicon | 16 Dec | Goryeo decisively defeats Mongol attack. | |
| 1233 | Mongol–Jin War and Jin–Song Wars | Siege of Caizhou | Template:Flagicon | Dec 1233—9 Feb 1234 | Mongols under Ögedei Khan allied with the Song dynasty eliminate the Jin dynasty. |
| 1234 | Crusades | Battle of Altenesch | Template:Flagicon | 27 May | A crusader army (Stedinger Crusade) defeats the rebel peasants of Stedingen. |
| 1235 | Battle of Kirina | Template:Flagicon | Sundiata Keita decisively defeats Sumanguru Kante, conquering Sosso and forming the Mali Empire. | ||
| Nicaean–Latin wars and Bulgarian–Latin wars | Siege of Constantinople | Template:Flagicon | Niceans and Bulgarians fail to take Constantinople from the Latins. | ||
| 1236 | Livonian Crusade | Battle of Saule | Template:Flagicon | 22 Sep | Samogitians and Semigalians defeat Livonian Brothers of the Sword, whose remnants are incorporated into the Teutonic Knights. |
| Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria | Siege of Bilär | Template:Flagicon | Autumn | Mongols conquer Volga Bulgaria. | |
| Battle of Mahendramangalam | Template:Flagicon | Hoysalas defeat Pandyas in South India. | |||
| 1237 | Reconquista | Battle of the Puig | Template:Flagicon | 15 Aug | Aragonese forces defeat the Almohad army at El Puig. |
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Cortenuova | Template:Flagicon | 27 Nov | Emperor Frederick II defeats the Lombard League. | |
| Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' | Siege of Ryazan | Template:Flagicon | 16-21 Dec | Mongols burn Ryazan to the ground. First Russian city sieged by Batu Khan. | |
| Battle of Voronezh River | Dec | Mongols defeat Principality of Ryazan. | |||
| Siege of Kolomna | Dec 1237—Jan 1238 | Mongol victory. | |||
| 1238 | Siege of Moscow | 15-20 Jan | Mongols take city of Moscow and execute Prince Vladimir. | ||
| Siege of Vladimir | 3-8 Feb | Mongols take city of Vladimir. | |||
| Battle of the Sit River | 4 March | Mongols led by Batu Khan defeat Vladimir-Suzdal forces, Prince Yuri II killed. | |||
| Siege of Kozelsk | March—May | Mongols defeat Principality of Chernigov and raze Kozelsk. | |||
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Siege of Brescia | Template:Flagicon | 11 July—7 Oct | Long unsuccessful siege during the war between Emperor Frederick II and the Guelphs in Northern Italy. | |
| 1239 | Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' | Sack of Chernigov | Template:Flagicon | 18 Oct | The Mongols sack the city of Chernigov. |
| Barons' Crusade | Battle of Gaza | Template:Flagicon | 13 Nov | The Crusaders under Theobald I of Navarre are defeated by an Ayyubid army at Gaza. | |
| 1240 | Swedish–Novgorodian Wars | Battle of the Neva | Template:Flagicon | 15 July | Alexander Nevsky of the Novgorod Republic stops the Swedish invasion of Russia. |
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Siege of Faenza | Template:Flagicon | Aug 1240—14 April 1241 | Long successful siege during the war between Frederick II and the Guelphs in Northern Italy. | |
| Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' | Siege of Kiev | Template:Flagicon | 28 Nov—6 Dec | The Mongols under Batu Khan besiege and sack the city of Kiev. | |
| 1241 | First Mongol invasion of Poland | Sack of Sandomierz | Template:Flagicon | 13 Feb | The Mongols under Baidar Khan capture and devastate the city of Sandomierz. |
| Battle of Tursko | The Mongols under Baidar Khan defeat the Polish forces at Tursko Wielkie. | ||||
| Battle of Tarczek | The Mongols under Kadan defeat the Polish forces at Tarczek. | ||||
| Battle of Chmielnik | 18 March | The Mongols under Baidar Khan defeat the Polish forces at Chmielnik. | |||
| Battle of Racibórz | 20 March | The Polish forces under Mieszko II the Fat defeat the Mongols at Racibórz. | |||
| Sack of Kraków | 22 or 28 March | The Mongols under Subutai capture and devastate the city of Kraków, massacring most of the inhabitants. | |||
| Battle of Opole | Early April | The Mongols defeat the Polish forces from Silesia and Lesser Poland provinces at Opole. | |||
| Battle of Liegnitz | 9 April | Mongols of the Golden Horde defeat feudal nobility including Knights Templar in Silesia, killing King Henry II the Pious. | |||
| First Mongol invasion of Hungary | Battle of Mohi | Template:Flagicon | 11 April | The Mongol forces under Batu Khan and Subutai defeat the Hungarian army under King Béla IV at Mohi. | |
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines and Genoese-Pisan Wars | Battle of Giglio | Template:Flagicon | 3 May | The fleet of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, commanded by Enzo of Sardinia defeats the Genoese fleet. | |
| Nicaean-Latin Wars | Battle of Constantinople | Template:Flagicon | May—June | Venetian fleets capture Constantinople. | |
| 1242 | First Mongol invasion of Hungary | Siege of Esztergom | Template:Flagicon | Jan | Mongols destroy most of Hungarian city. |
| Northern Crusades | Battle on Lake Peipus | Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon | 5 April | Alexander Nevsky defeats the alliance of Teutonic Knights, the Livonian Order, Denmark, and Dorpat. | |
| Saintonge War | Battle of Taillebourg | Template:Flagicon | 21–22 July | Louis IX of France defeats Henry III of England. | |
| First Mongol invasion of Hungary | Battle of Grobnik Field | Template:Flagicon | Legendary battle where Croatia defeated invading Mongols. | ||
| 1243 | Albigensian Crusade | Siege of Montségur | Template:Flagicon | May 1243—16 March 1244 | French royal forces besiege and capture the Cathar-held Château de Montségur, after a nine-month siege. |
| Mongol invasions of Anatolia | Battle of Kösedağ | Template:Flagicon | 26 June | The Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks, making Anatolia and Trebizond vassal states of the Mongol Empire. | |
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Siege of Viterbo | Template:Flagicon | Frederick II of Sicily unsuccessfully besieges Viterbo. | ||
| 1244 | Crusades | Siege of Jerusalem | Template:Flagicon | 15 July | Jerusalem is razed by the Khwarazmiyya allied with the Ayyubids. |
| Battle of La Forbie | 17-18 Oct | Crusaders defeated by Ayyubids. | |||
| 1245 | Reconquista | Siege of Jaén | Template:Flagicon | 1245—28 Feb 1246 | Castilian forces under King Ferdinand III besiege Jaén during the winter. The city finally is handed over by Sultan Muhammad I of Granada. |
| 1246 | Age of the Sturlungs | Battle of Haugsnes | Template:Flagicon | 19 April | The largest and bloodiest battle in Icelandic history where the forces of Thordur Kakali defeat Gissur Thorvaldsson. |
| Battle of the Leitha River | Template:Flagicon/Template:Flagicon | 15 June | King Béla IV of Hungary defeated Duke Frederick II of Austria. Duke Frederick is killed, ending Austrian claims to the western counties of Hungary. | ||
| Crusade against the Staufer | Battle of Frankfurt | Template:Flagicon | 5 Aug | An army of anti-king Henry Raspe defeats the Imperialst army of king Conrad IV of Germany. | |
| 1247 | Reconquista and Almohad wars | Siege of Seville | Template:Flagicon | 1247—28 Nov 1248 | Castilian forces under Ferdinand III besiege the city of Seville. Due to a famine, the Almohad garrison capitulates after a 16-month siege. |
| Norman Invasion of Ireland | Sack of Dun Gallimhe | Template:Flagicon | Norman forces are defeated by the Irish. | ||
| Battle of Ballyshannon | Norman forces under Maurice FitzGerald are ambushed and defeated by the Gaelic army. | ||||
| 1248 | Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Parma | Template:Flagicon | 18 Feb | Frederick II of Sicily is defeated by the Lombard League. |
| German civil war | Siege of Aachen | Template:Flagicon | Late April or early May—Oct | Count William II of Holland captures Aachen and is crowned as king of Germany. | |
| Battle of Oujda | Template:Flagicon | Kingdom of Tlemcen beats back last-ditch invasion by Almohads and Marinids. | |||
| 1249 | Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Fossalta | Template:Flagicon | 26 May | King Enzio of Sardinia is captured by Bolognese in a clash between Guelphs and Ghibellines. |
| Seventh Crusade | Siege of Damietta | Template:Flagicon | 6 June | Crusaders gain strategic victory over the Ayyubids in the Seventh Crusade. | |
| Norman Invasion of Ireland | First Battle of Athenry | Template:Flagicon | 15 Aug | Gaels of Connacht siege town but are repelled by the Normans. | |
| 1250 | Seventh Crusade | Battle of Mansurah | Template:Flagicon | 8-11 Feb | The Seventh Crusade is defeated at Al-Mansurah. |
| Battle of Fariskur | 6 April | Ayyubid Egyptians defeat Seventh Crusade forces of Louis IX of France, taking him prisoner. | |||
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Cingoli | Template:Flagicon | Papal and Guelph army is crushed by an Imperial and Italian army. | ||
| 1253 | Battle of Olomouc | Template:Flagicon | 25 Jun | King Ottokar II of Bohemia defeats king Béla IV of Hungary. | |
| Battle of Westkapelle | Template:Flagicon | 4 July | A coalition army for king William of Germany, count of Holland defeats an army of Guy, Count of Flanders. | ||
| 1254 | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | 9 Oct | Konrad von Hochstaden, Archbishop of Cologne, defeats Bishop Simon I of Paderborn. | |
| Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars | Battle of Adrianople | Template:Flagicon | Nicaean forces under Theodore II Lascaris defeat the Bulgarians. | ||
| 1255 | Astigiani Wars and Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Montebruno | Template:Flagicon | 25 Feb | Astigiani defeats Thomas II of Savoy. |
| Struggle for Gwynedd | Battle of Bryn Derwin | Template:Flagicon | June | Llywelyn ap Gruffudd defeats his brother Owain ap Gruffudd and assumes control of Gwynedd. | |
| Battle between Obas of Benin and Ogiamien family | Battle of Ekiokpagha | Template:Flagicon | Ewedo defeats Ogiamien III for the kingship of the Benin Empire. | ||
| 1256 | Mongol conquest of Persia | Battle of Mount Siyalan | Template:Flagicon | 12 June | Mongol forces under Baiju Noyan are defeated by the Nizaris. |
| Siege of Firuzkuh | The Nizari garrison surrenders after a five or six-months siege to the Mongols.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | ||||
| Siege of Maymun-Diz | 8-23 Nov | Mongol forces under Hulagu Khan successfully besiege the mountain castle of Maymun-Diz. Imam Rukn al-Din Khurshah capitulates with most of the remaining garrison. | |||
| Siege of Alamut | Dec | Hulagu Khan sieges capital of the Nizari Ismaili state in the mountains of southern Iran, the garrison capitulates. | |||
| 1257 | Battle of Cadfan | Template:Flagicon | Decisive victory for the Welsh against the English. | ||
| Norman wars in Ireland | Battle of Creadran Cille | Template:Flagicon | Norman forces are driven out of Lower Connacht by Gofraid O'Donnell, Irish ruler of Tyrconnell. | ||
| Livonian Crusade | Battle of Memel | Template:Flagicon | Samogitians defeat Livonian Order. | ||
| 1258 | First Mongol–Vietnamese War | Battle of Bình Lệ Nguyên | Template:Flagicon | 17 Jan | Mongols defeat Vietnam's Trần dynasty. |
| Mongol conquest of Persia and Mesopotamia | Battle of Baghdad | Template:Flagicon | 29 Jan—10 Feb | Hulagu Khan of the Mongols defeats the Abbasid, executing the Caliph Al-Musta'sim and his family. | |
| War of the Euboeote Succession | Battle of Karydi | Template:Flagicon | May/June | William II of Villehardouin Prince of Achaea, defeats a coalition of princes led by the Duke of Athens, Guy I de la Roche and ends the War of the Euboeote Succession. | |
| War of Saint Sabas | Battle of Acre | Template:Flagicon | 25 June | Fleet of the Republic of Venice defeats fleet of the Republic of Genoa off Acre. Genoese abandon Acre. | |
| 1259 | Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty | Siege of Diaoyu Castle | Template:Flagicon | Feb—Aug | Song dynasty keeps fortress from Mongol invasion and kills Möngke Khan. |
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Cassano | Template:Flagicon | 16 Sep | Ezzelino III da Romano is defeated by the crusade army of the Guelphs. | |
| Nicaean–Latin wars and Epirote–Nicaean conflict | Battle of Pelagonia | Template:Flagicon | Sep | The Empire of Nicaea defeats Achaea, Epirus, and Sicily. | |
| Lithuanian Crusade | Battle of Skuodas | Template:Flagicon | The Samogitian army invades Courland and defeats the Livonian Order. | ||
| 1260 | Mongol invasions of the Levant | Siege of Aleppo | Template:Flagicon | 18-24 Jan | Mongols under Hulagu Khan allied with Crusaders and Armenians defeat Ayyubids in Syria. |
| Second Mongol invasion of Poland | Sack of Sandomierz | Template:Flagicon | 2 Feb | Mongols raze the Polish city Sandomierz to the ground. | |
| Livonian Crusade | Battle of Durbe | Template:Flagicon | 13 July | Teutonic Knights and its branch Livonian Order are defeated by Samogitians, what triggers the Great Prussian Insurrection. | |
| War of the Babenberg Succession | Battle of Kressenbrunn | Template:Flagicon | July | Bohemian and Austrian forces under Premysl Ottokar II defeat Béla IV of Hungary. | |
| Mongol invasions of the Levant | Battle of Ain Jalut | Template:Flagicon | 3 Sep | Egyptian Mamluk army defeats Mongols and Georgians north of Palestine. | |
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Montaperti | Template:Flagicon | 4 Sep | Sienese defeat Florentines (Guelphs and Ghibellines). | |
| Mongol invasions of the Levant | First Battle of Homs | Template:Flagicon | 10 Dec | Mamluks defeat Mongols. | |
| Nicaean–Latin wars | Siege of Constantinople | Template:Flagicon | Unsuccessful attack on the Constantinopolitan suburb of Galata by forces of the Empire of Nicaea. | ||
| 1261 | Struggle for Constantinople | Reconquest of Constantinople | 25 July | Re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynasty. | |
| Norman wars in Ireland | Battle of Callann | Template:Flagicon | Aug | Finghin Mac Carthy of the Kingdom of Desmond defeats Normans. | |
| 1262 | Battle of Hausbergen | Template:Flagicon | 8 March | The bourgeois of Strasbourg defeat the army of the bishop. | |
| Berke–Hulegu war | Battle of Terek River | Template:Flagicon | Nogai Khan of Golden Horde defeats Hulagu. First open conflict in the Mongol Empire. | ||
| 1263 | Scottish–Norwegian War | Battle of Largs | Template:Flagicon | 2 Oct | Scots versus Norwegians, no definitive victory for either. |
| War of Saint Sabas | Battle of Settepozzi | Template:Flagicon | First half of 1263 | A Venetian fleet of 38 ships defeats a joint Byzantine-Genoese fleet of 48 ships off the Peloponnese. | |
| Byzantine-Latin Wars | Battle of Prinitza | The forces of the Principality of Achaea defeat a far larger Byzantine army. | |||
| 1264 | Second Barons' War | Battle of Northampton | Template:Flagicon | 5 April | (Second Barons' War) English forces retake Northampton Castle and capture Simon de Montfort's son. |
| Battle of Lewes | 14 May | English rebels under Simon de Montfort defeat Henry III of England. | |||
| War of Saint Sabas | Battle of Saseno | Template:Flagicon | 14 Aug | A Genoese fleet tricks and captures a Venetian trade convoy near Saseno Island off the coast of Albania. | |
| Byzantine-Latin Wars | Battle of Makryplagi | Template:Flagicon | The forces of the Principality of Achaea defeat a Byzantine army, taking their commanders prisoner. | ||
| 1265 | Hungarian Civil War | Battle of Isaszeg | Template:Flagicon | Early March | The forces of younger king Stephen defeat the royal army of king Béla IV, which results the permanent division of Hungary |
| Crusades | Fall of Arsuf | Template:Flagicon | 21/22 March—29 April | The Mamluks of Cairo take Arsuf from the Knights Hospitaller. | |
| Second Barons' War | Battle of Evesham | Template:Flagicon | 4 Aug | English forces under Prince Edward defeat the rebels under Simon de Montfort, who is killed. | |
| 1266 | Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Benevento | Template:Flagicon | 26 Feb | Charles of Anjou defeats Manfred of Sicily and conquers his kingdom. |
| Second Barons' War | Battle of Chesterfield | Template:Flagicon | 15 May | English forces under Henry of Cornwall, nephew of King Henry III, defeat the rebels at Chesterfield. | |
| Crusades | Siege of Safed | Template:Flagicon | 13 June—23 July | Egyptian Mamluk forces under Baibars capture the castle of Safed (defended by the Knights Templar) after a 6-week siege. | |
| Second Barons' War | Siege of Kenilworth | Template:Flagicon | 21 June—13 Dec | English forces under Henry III capture Kenilworth Castle after a 6-month siege. | |
| War of Saint Sabas | Battle of Trapani | Template:Flagicon | 23 June | Venetian fleet captures Genoese fleet. | |
| Würzburg civil war | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | 8 Aug | A civil war in the Bishopric of Würzburg. The Cathedral chapter of Würzburg, the Hohenlohe family, and several Franconian knights, supporting Poppo III von Trimberg as the new bishop, commanded by cathedral dean Berthold von Sternberg, defeat Herman I, Count of Henneberg and the Castell family, supporting Berthold I von Henneberg. | |
| Wars of Cilician Armenia | Battle of Mari | Template:Flagicon | 24 Aug | Mamluks of Cairo under Baibars defeat Cilician Armenia in retaliation for their support of Mongols in past invasion. | |
| 1267 | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | 18 Oct | William IV, Count of Jülich defeats Engelbert II von Falkenburg, Archbishop of Cologne. | |
| Liège-Brabant wars | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | The armies of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and Guelders capture Maastricht. | ||
| 1268 | Northern Crusades | Battle of Rakvere | Template:Flagicon | 18 Feb | Russian victory over the Livonian Order. |
| Crusades | Siege of Antioch | Template:Flagicon | May | Mamluks under Baibars eliminate and annex the Crusader Principality of Antioch. | |
| Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty | Battle of Xiangyang | Template:Flagicon | 16 Oct 1268—14 March 1273 | Decisive Yuan Mongol victory over the Song dynasty. First war ever involving the usage of firearms. | |
| Crusade against the Hohenstaufen and Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Tagliacozzo | Template:Flagicon | 23 Aug | Charles of Anjou defeats Conradin. | |
| 1269 | Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Colle Val d'Elsa | 16 June | Guelph victory over Siena. | |
| 1270 | Livonian Crusade | Battle of Karuse | Template:Flagicon | 16 Feb | Lithuanian victory over the Livonian Order. |
| Norman invasion of Ireland | Battle of Áth an gCeap | Template:Flagicon | Normans heavily defeated by the Irish. | ||
| 1271 | Crusades | Fall of Krak des Chevaliers | Template:Flagicon | 3 March—8 April | The Mamluks under Sultan Baibars take the fortress from the Knights Hospitaller. |
| Sambyeolcho Rebellion | Battle of Jindo Island | Template:Flagicon | April—May | The Mongols put down Sambyeolcho rebellion in Goryeo. | |
| Lord Edward's Crusade | Siege of Tripoli | Template:Flagicon | The Crusader state of Tripoli survives assault by Sultan Baibars. | ||
| 1274 | Mongol invasions of Japan | Battle of Bun'ei | Template:Flagicon | 4-19 Nov | The Mongols invade Kamakura Japan but are defeated and forced to retreat. |
| 1275 | Reconquista | Battle of Écija | Template:Flagicon | 8 Sep | A Castilian army led by Nuño González de Lara is defeated by Marinid forces near the town of Écija. |
| Manx revolt of 1275 | Battle of Ronaldsway | Template:Flagicon | 8 Oct | Scottish forces under John de Vesci defeat the Manx and establish Scottish rule on the Isle of Man. | |
| Reconquista | Battle of Martos | Template:Flagicon | 21 Oct | A Castilian army led by Archbishop Sancho of Aragon is defeated by the Moors at Martos. | |
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Roccavione | Template:Flagicon | 12 Dec | Charles I of Anjou's Neapolitan army is defeated by the Piedmontese league led by Asti. | |
| Byzantine-Latin Wars | Battle of Neopatras | Template:Flagicon | The Byzantine army besieges Neopatras but is defeated by a far smaller force from the Duchy of Athens and Thessaly. | ||
| Battle of Demetrias | The Byzantine fleet defeats a coalition of Lombard and Venetian lords of Euboea and Crete. | ||||
| 1276 | Battle of Dongola | Template:Flagicon | Mamluk Sultunate under Baibars decisively defeats the Kingdom of Makuria under David of Makuria. Makuria soon after becomes a Mamluk vassal. | ||
| 1277 | Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Desio | Template:Flagicon | 21 Jan | A Visconti army under Ottone Visconti defeats the Della Torre family troops. |
| Mongol invasions of the Levant | Battle of Elbistan | Template:Flagicon | 15 April | The Mamluks under Baibars defeat the Mongols and their Georgian and Rum vassals. | |
| Wars of Michael VIII Palaiologos | Battle of Pharsalus | Template:Flagicon | Late 1277 | A Byzantine army is defeated by Greek forces led by John I Doukas in Thessaly. | |
| First Mongol invasion of Burma | Battle of Ngasaunggyan | Template:Flagicon | The Mongols repel the invasion of Yunnan by the Pagan Empire under Narathihapate. | ||
| 1278 | Battle of Frohse | Template:Flagicon | 10 Jan | Günther I of Schwalenberg, Archbishop of Magdeburg defeats Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal. Otto is taken prisoner. | |
| War of the Babenberg Succession | Battle of Marchfeld at Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen | Template:Flagicon | 26 Aug | Rudolf of Habsburg and Ladislaus IV of Hungary defeat Ottakar II Przemyśl. The battle marked the beginning of the ascendancy of the House of Habsburg in Austria and Central Europe. | |
| 1279 | Livonian Crusade | Battle of Aizkraukle | Template:Flagicon | 5 March | The Lithuanians defeat units of the Livonian Order. |
| Song-Yuan Wars | Battle of Yamen | Template:Flagicon | 19 March | The Yuan dynasty defeats the Song dynasty, young emperor Bing drowned. | |
| Uprising of Ivaylo and Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars | Battle of Devina | Template:Flagicon | 17 July | The Bulgarians led by Tsar Ivaylo ambush and defeat a Byzantine army in the Kotel Pass in the Balkan Mountains. | |
| 1280 | Battle of al-Jassora | Template:Flagicon | 18 June | Mamluks defeat rebelling forces of Sunqur al-Ashqar. | |
| Byzantine–Latin Wars | Siege of Berat | Template:Flagicon | 1280—1281 | Defeat of besieging Angevin army after its commander is captured by a Byzantine relief force. | |
| 1281 | Mongol invasions of Japan | Battle of Kōan | Template:Flagicon | 8 June—Aug 22 | A typhoon wipes out the invading fleet of Kublai Khan in Japan. |
| Mongol invasions of the Levant | Battle of Homs | Template:Flagicon | 29 Oct | The Mamluks defeat Mongols of the Ilkhanate. | |
| 1282 | Byzantine–Georgian wars | Siege of Trebizond | Template:Flagicon | April | An unsuccessful siege by David I of Imereti. |
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Forlì | Template:Flagicon | 1 May | French forces under Jean d'Eppe are ambushed and defeated by Guelphe and Ghibelline troops in Forlì. | |
| Welsh Rebellion of 1282 | Battle of Llandeilo Fawr | Template:Flagicon | 17 June | English forces are ambushed and defeated by Welsh troops at Llandeilo. English expansion into south Wales is halted. | |
| Feudal anarchy in Hungary | Battle of Lake Hód | Template:Flagicon | Sep/Oct | Hungarian forces led by King Ladislaus IV repel and defeat a Cuman invading army. | |
| Welsh Rebellion of 1282 | Battle of Moel-y-don | Template:Flagicon | 6 Nov | English forces are ambushed and defeated by Welsh troops, while crossing over a floating bridge to Anglesey. | |
| Battle of Orewin Bridge | 11 Dec | English forces under King Edward I defeat a Welsh army near Cilmeri. Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd is killed. | |||
| 1283 | Cham–Mongol War | Battle of Thị Nại Bay | Template:Flagicon | 13-14 Feb | The Mongols defeat Champa and march on their capital of Vijaya. |
| War of the Sicilian Vespers | Battle of Malta | Template:Flagicon | 8 July | An Aragonese fleet under Admiral Roger of Lauria attacks and defeats Angevin ships in the harbour of Malta. | |
| 1284 | Battle of the Gulf of Naples | Template:Flagicon | 5 June | An Aragonese-Sicilian fleet led by Roger of Lauria defeats the Neapolitan ships in the Gulf of Naples. | |
| Genoese-Pisan Wars | Battle of Meloria | 5-6 Aug | A Genoese fleet led by Oberto D'Oria defeats Pisan ships near the islet of Meloria in the Ligurian Sea. | ||
| Siege of Tudela | Template:Flagicon | Sep | King Peter III of Aragon defeats an army of Navarre, commanded by Eustache de Beaumarchais. | ||
| 1285 | Mongol invasions of India | Battle of Beas River | Template:Flagicon | 9 March | Mamluk Dynasty defeats Mongols of the Chagatai Khanate. |
| Aragonese Crusade | Siege of Elne | Template:Flagicon | 22-25 May | King Philip III of France captures Elne from Majorca. | |
| Siege of Salses | May | King Philip III of France captures Salses from Majorca. | |||
| Second Mongol–Vietnamese War | Battle of Chương Dương | Template:Flagicon | 24 June | Joint forces of Champa and Đại Việt defeat the Mongols and kill their local general Sogetu. | |
| Aragonese Crusade | Template:Ill | Template:Flagicon | 26 June—5 Sep | King Philip III of France captures Salses from Aragon. | |
| War of the Sicilian Vespers | Battle of Sant Feliu de Guíxols | 27–28 July | An Aragonese fleet defeats a French fleet. | ||
| Aragonese Crusade | Battle of Les Formigues | 4 Sep | An Aragonese-Sicilian fleet led by Roger of Lauria defeats French and Genoese ships near the Formigues Islands. | ||
| Battle of the Col de Panissars | 30 Sep—1 Oct | Aragonese forces led by King Peter III ambush and defeat a French expeditionary army in the Pyrenees. | |||
| War of the Sicilian Vespers | Battle of Besalú | Sep | Aragon defeats a French army. | ||
| Aragonese Crusade | Battle of Alaró Castle | 30 Dec | Aragon captures Alaró Castle and annexes Mallorca | ||
| Battle of Urhezen | Template:Flagicon | Oba Oguola of Benin decisively defeats the forces of Udo. | |||
| 1287 | Livonian Crusade | Battle of Garoza | Template:Flagicon | 26 March | The Semigallians defeat the Livonian Order. |
| War of the Sicilian Vespers | Battle of the Counts | Template:Flagicon | 23 June | An Aragonese-Sicilian fleet led by Roger of Lauria defeats the larger Angevin fleet at Naples. | |
| First Mongol invasion of Burma | Battle of Pagan | Template:Flagicon | Dec | The Mongols end the Pagan Empire. | |
| 1288 | Mongol invasions of Vietnam | Battle of Bạch Đẳng | Template:Flagicon | 9 April | Đại Việt defeats the invasion of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. |
| War of the Limburg Succession | Battle of Worringen | Template:Flagicon | 5 June | Battle for the Duchy of Limburg. Dutch forces defeat the coalition army of Cologne, Luxembourg, and Nassau. | |
| 1289 | Crusades | Fall of Tripoli | Template:Flagicon | March—April | Crusader state of Tripoli falls to the Mameluks. |
| Battle of Schosshalde | Template:Flagicon | 27 April | Rudolf II, Duke of Austria defeats Ulrich I von Bubenberg, commander of the army of the city of Bern. | ||
| Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines | Battle of Campaldino | Template:Flagicon | 11 June | Florence and their allies defeat the city-state Arezzo. | |
| War of the Outlaws | Siege of Copenhagen | Template:Flagicon | 7 July | Copenhagen withstands a siege of the Norwegian fleet under King Eric II (supported by Danish outlaws). | |
| Battle of Skanör | Template:Flagicon | 9 July | Skanör withstand the attack, Norwegian Chieftain Thord Krytter falls in battle. | ||
| 1291 | Crusades | Siege of Acre | Template:Flagicon | 4 April—18 May | Mameluks capture the last Crusader city. |
| 1295 | Welsh revolt of 1294–95 | Battle of Maes Moydog | Template:Flagicon | 5 March | One of Edward I's armies defeats Welsh rebels, hastening the end of Madog ap Llywelyn's revolt. |
| Reconquista | Battle of Iznalloz | Template:Flagicon | Sultan Muhammad II of Granada defeats Castile under Ruy Pérez Ponce de León. | ||
| 1296 | Battle of Coffrane | Template:Flagicon | 28 Feb | Rudolph IV, Count of Neuchâtel defeats counts John I and Thierry of Aarberg-Valengin and the Prince-Bishopric of Basel. | |
| First War of Scottish Independence | Sack of Berwick | Template:Flagicon | 30 March | English forces under Robert Clifford attack and sack the town of Berwick. | |
| Battle of Dunbar | Template:Flagicon | 27 April | English forces defeat the Scots and occupy much of Scotland. First battle of the Wars of Scottish Independence. | ||
| 1297 | Gascon War | Battle of Bonnegarde | Template:Flagicon | 2 Feb | France under Robert II, Count of Artois defeats England under Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln. |
| Franco-Flemish War | Template:Ill | 23 June—1 Sep | France captures Lille from Flanders. | ||
| Battle of Furnes | Template:Flagicon | 20 Aug | French under Robert II of Artois defeat the Flemish at Bulskamp, near Veurne (Furnes). | ||
| First War of Scottish Independence | Battle of Stirling Bridge | Template:Flagicon | 11 Sep | Scots under William Wallace defeat the English forces under John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey. | |
| 1298 | Mongol invasions of India | Battle of Jaran-Manjur | Template:Flagicon | 6 Feb | Delhi Sultanate repels Mongol invasion. |
| Livonian Civil War | Battle of Turaida | Template:Flagicon | 1 June | The Livonian Order is decisively defeated by the residents of Riga allied with Lithuania under command of Vytenis. | |
| Fight for rule over the Holy Roman Empire | Battle of Göllheim | Template:Flagicon | 2 July | Albert I of Habsburg defeated Adolf of Germany. After battle, Albert was elected King of the Romans. | |
| First War of Scottish Independence | Battle of Falkirk | Template:Flagicon | 22 July | In Stirlingshire, English forces under King Edward I defeat the rebellious Scots led by William Wallace. | |
| War of Curzola | Battle of Curzola | Template:Flagicon | 9 Sep | The Genoese fleet under Admiral Lamba Doria defeats the Venetian fleet (including capturing Marco Polo). | |
| Mongol invasions of India | Battle of Sivistan | Template:Flagicon | 1298—1299 | Delhi Sultanate again defeats invading Mongols. | |
| 1299 | War of the Sicilian Vespers | Battle of Cape Orlando | Template:Flagicon | 4 July | An Aragonese-Angevin fleet led by Roger of Lauria defeats the Sicilian fleet near Sicily. |
| Battle of Falconaria | 1 Dec | Sicilian forces under King Frederick II defeat the Neapolitans under Philip I of Taranto. | |||
| Mongol invasions of the Levant | Battle of Wadi al-Khaznadar | Template:Flagicon | 22-23 Dec | The Mongols defeat Mamluk forces. | |
| Mongol invasions of India | Battle of Kili | Template:Flagicon | Late 1299 | Delhi Sultanate expels another invasion by the Chagatai Khanate. | |
| First War of Scottish Independence | First Siege of Stirling Castle | Template:Flagicon | Scottish forces besiege constable John Sampson unsuccessfully. |