List of battles 1301–1600
List of battles - List of battles 1400 BC-1400 - List of battles 1401-1800 - List of battles 1801-1900 - List of battles 1901-forward
- 1402 Battle of Angora or Battle of Ankara July 28 Tamurlane captures Ottoman Bayazid I in Anatolia
- 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury
- 1410 Battle of Tannenberg (1410) or (a.k.a. Battle of Grunwald or Battle of Zalgiris)) July 15 Poles and Lithuanians defeat Teutonic Knights
- 1415 Battle of Agincourt English archers under Henry V defeat French under Charles d'Albert
- 1415 Battle of Ceuta captured by the Portuguese on August 14
- 1428 Battle of Orleans English forces with duke of Bedford besiege French city
- 1434 Battle of Lipany May 30
- 1440 Battle of Anghiari Niccolo Piccinino overlord of Bologna defeats Milans Filipo Maria Visconti and is then opposed by Cosimo de Medici
- 1444 Battle of Varna Nov. 10 Ottoman Murad II defeats Hungarians and Wallachians
- 1449 Battle of Alfarrobeira May 20
- 1449 Battle of Tumu Fortress
- 1453 Battle of Constantinople Ottomans end Byzantine Empire
- 1454 Battle of Chojnice
- 1462 Battle of Swiecin a.k.a. Battle of Zarnowiec or Battle of Schwetz. Sept. 7 during the Thirteen Years' War between the Poles and the Teutons (Poles won battle)
- 1468 Battle of Megiddo
- 1471 Battle of Brunkeberg
- 1477 Battle of Nancy Jan 5 Swiss pikemen defeat cavalry of Burgundy's Charles the Bold, who died
- 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field Ends War of Roses fought since 1460, Henry VII becomes King
- 1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt February 17
- 1507 Battle of Vouilile
- 1509 Battle of Dui Feb 2 Portugal's India viceroy destroys Moslem fleet, controls spice trade
- 1509 Battle of Agnadello (a.k.a. Battle of Vaila) - [French Wars in Italy]
- 1513 Battle of Flodden Field Sep. 9 Henry VIII's army under Earl of Surrey killed James IV of Scotland
- 1513 Battle of Guingate (of the Spurs) Henry VIII and HRE Maximillian crush French
- 1521 Battle of Villalar Apr. 23 HRE Charles V ends Spanish resistances to Absolutism
- 1525 Battle of Pavia Spain and Germany defeat France, Francois I is captured
- 1526 Battle of Mohacs August 29
- 1529 Battle of Vienna Ottoman reach limit of empire, can't capture Vienna and settle in Buda
- 1543 Battle of Wayna Daga - February 11 Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
- 1547 Battle of Muhlberg Apr. 24 HRE Charles V captures elector of Saxony and lays siege to Wittenberg in the Schmalkadic War.
- 1547 Battle of Pinkie Sep. 10 Earl of Hertford guardian of Edward VI crushes Scottish resistance
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto Spain and Venices fleets defeat Ottoman fleet
- 1580 Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1588 Battle of Spanish Armada's Destruction
- 1590 Battle of Ivry Mar. 14 Henri IV of Navarre defeats Catholic League in War of the Three Henries
- 1598 - Battle of Yellow Ford - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force
- 1600 Battle of Sekugahara or Battle of Sekigahara Japanese General Ieyasu defeats three regents of son of the dictator Hideyoshi, he moves the capital to Edo and uses the Englishman Will Adams as advisor (see Shogun)
- 1620 Battle of the White Mountain
- 1622 Battle of Weisloch Protestants under Count Mansfield defeat Catholics under Count von Tilly in Thirty Years' War
- 1627 Battle of La Rochelle
- 1631 Battle of Breitenfeld Leipzig Sep. 17 Saxons and Swedes defeat Catholics under Tilly
- 1632 Battle of Lützen (1632) Swedes defeat Catholics but Gustavus II Adolphus is killed
- 1634 Battle of Nordlingen
- 1642 Battle of Edge Hill English Civil War
- 1642 Battle of Lostwithiel (1642)
- 1643 Battle of Rocroi
- 1643 Battle of Adwalton Moor - English Civil War
- 1644 Battle of Lostwithiel (1644)
- 1644 Battle of Marston Moor Oliver Cromwell Roundheads defeat king Charles I of England's Cavaliers securing the North for the Puritans
- 1645 Battle of Naseby Cromwell's Ironsides defeat Charles' Cavaliers
- 1647 Battle of Dangan Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces
- 1648 Battle of Preston Aug 17 Cromwell defeats William Duke of Hamilton
- 1650 Battle of Dunbar (1650)
- 1651 Battle of Worcester Sep. 3 Cromwell defeats Royalists, Charles King of Scots escapes disguised as a servant
- 1651 Battle of Beresteczko
- 1652 Battle of Blenau Apr. 7 Great Conde commands Fronds against French under Marshall Turenne
- 1656 Battle of Warsaw Charles X Gustavus of Sweden defeats Poland and is declared war upon by every country of significance in the Northern War
- 1658 Battle of the Dunes June 4 English and French defeat Spanish at Dunkirk
- 1675 Battle of Fehrbellin June 28 Swedes invade Brandenburg and lose
- 1683 Battle of Vienna September 12 Jan Sobieski defeats Ottomans, lifts siege of Vienna
- 1687 Second Battle of Mohacs August 12 Charles of Lorraine defeats Ottomans
- 1690 Battle of Beachy Head June 30 French defeat the English fleet under command of Admiral Arthur Herbert in War of League of Augsburg
- 1690 Battle of Fleurus Louis XIV's marshall Montmorency
- 1690 Battle of the Boyne William III of Orange defeats James II of England
- 1691 Battle of Szcelankeman Aug. 19 Louis of Baden defeats Ottoman Turks
- 1692 Battle of La Hogue May 29 French lose 15 ship to England
- 1693 Battle of Lagos June 30 near Portugal Compte de Tourville avenges La Hogue
- 1693 Battle of Neerwinden July 29 duc de Luxembourg defeats English
- 1700 Battle of Narva Nov. 30 Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia
- 1704 Battle of Blenheim Aug. 14 Duke of Marlborough defeats French and Bavaria and Prussia
- 1706 Battle of Ramilles or Battle of Ramillies May 23 Duke of Marlborough defeats the French in the War of Spanish Succession
- 1707 Battle of Almanza Apr. 25 French forces defeat Portuguese
- 1708 Battle of Oudenarde July 11 Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat French and besiege Lille
- 1708 Battle of Lesnaya September 28
- 1709 Battle of Poltova July 8 Peter the Great of Russia defeats Sweden, become Northern Europe's dominant power
- 1709 Battle of Malplaquet Sep. 11 Prince of Savoy and duke of Marlborough defeat French
- 1734 Battle of Bitonto May 25
- 1741 Battle of Milan April 20
- 1741 Battle of Mollwitz Apr. 10 Prussia under Frederick II fights Austria in Silesian War
- 1745 Battle of Prestonpans Sep. 21 Jacobites Stuarts under Bonny Prince Charlie defeat English
- 1746 Battle of Falkirk Jan. 17 Jacobites defeat English dragoons
- 1746 Battle of Culloden Moor (or Battle of Culloden) Apr. 16 Jacobites lose to English
- 1746 Battle of Rocoux France liberates Netherlands from Austria
- 1750 Battle of Kathio Chippewas defeat Sioux and gain control of Minnesota
- 1755 Battle of the Wilderness (1755) also called Braddock's defeat, British lose two thirds of their force to French and Indian allies in Virginia backcountry
- 1757 Battle of Fort William Henry British defeated by French then Indians slaughter prisoners
- 1757 Battle of Kolin June 18 Frederick the Great loses to Austria but says "Schweinhunds, would you live forever" in Seven Years' War
- 1757 Battle of Plassey June 23 Robert Clive establishes English rule over India
- 1757 Battle of Rossbach Nov. 5 Frederick crushes French, Louis XV says "After me, the Deluge"
- 1757 Battle of Leuthen Dec. 5 Frederick crushes Austria
- 1758 Battle of Luisbourg also Louisburg, British capture fort controlling entrance to St. Lawrence River
- 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga (1758) also called Carillon, British badly routed after attacking French fort
- 1758 Battle of Crefield June 23 Ferdinand son of duke of Brunswick drives French across the Rhine
- 1758 Battle of Zornsdorff Aug. 25 Frederick defeats Russians in Prussia
- 1758 Battle of Hochkirk Oct. 14 Austrians mildly defeat Prussians
- 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga (1759) British capture French fort
- 1759 Battle of Brunswick Apr. 13 French defeat Ferdinand
- 1759 Battle of Minden Aug. 1 Ferdinand defeats French
- 1759 Battle of Kunersdorf Aug. 12 Austria and Russia defeat Prussia
- 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Battle of Quebec (1759) Sep. 13 English defeat French outside Quebec
- 1760 Battle of Landshut June 23 in Bavaria Austria captures a Prussian army
- 1760 Battle of Liegnitz Aug 15 Frederick defeats Austrians
- 1760 Battle of Wandewash
- 1761 Battle of Panipat Jan. 14 Afghans defeat Marathas helping English
- 1763 Battle of Bushy Run British defeat Indians in Pennsylvania backcountry
- 1770 Battle of Golden Hill Jan. 19 in New York the first bloodshed between the patriots Sons of Liberty and their colonial oppressors
- 1770 Battle of Chesme July 6 Russian fleet with British officers defeats Ottoman fleet
- 1771 Battle of Alamance May 16 Colonial oppressors crush North Carolina patriots Regulators
- 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant Oct. 10 Frontiersmen defeat Shawnees
- 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord Apr. 19 Patriots lose 8 and with guerrilla action kill British
- 1775 Battle of Ft. Ticonderoga (1775) May 10 Allen and Arnold capture fort
- 1775 Battle of Crown Point May 12 Seth Warren captures Garrison
- 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill June 17 British win a pyrrhic victory, their casualties double patriots
- 1775 Battle of Quebec Dec. 31 Arnold and Richard Montgomery driven from city
- 1776 Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge NC Feb. 27 NC patriots defeat Scottish Loyalists
- 1776 Battle of Long Island Aug. 27 William Howe crushes George Washington
- 1776 Battle of Harlem Heights Sep. 16 Washington repels Howe
- 1776 Battle of White Plains Oct. 28 Howe inflicts casualties on George Washington's army
- 1776 Battle of Fort Lee Nov. 19 Cornwallis forces Greene to evacuate
- 1777 Battle of Bennington Aug. 16 Stark eradicates detachment sent by Burgoyne
- 1777 Battle of Brandywine Sep. 9 Howe drives George Washington's troops to Philadelphia
- 1777 Battle of 1st Saratoga Freeman's Farm Sep. 19 Morgan defeats Burgoyne
- 1777 Battle of Germantown Oct. 4 Howe kills 700 patriots while losing 534
- 1777 Battle of 2nd Saratoga Oct.7 Gates defeats Burgoyne, Burgoyne surrenders
- 1778 Battle of Monmouth June 27 GW stands off Clinton, Clinton continues retreat to NY, Charles Lee order of retreat leads to court-martial
- 1779 Battle of Kettle Creek Feb. 14 Pickens defeats loyalist brigade
- 1779 Battle of Briar Creek Mar. 3 Ashe loses 350 men near Augusta to British
- 1779 Battle of Stony Point July 15 Wayne takes 700 prisoners in bayonet attack with only 15 patriot casualties
- 1779 Battle of Paulus Hook Aug. 19 Henry Lee drives British from NJ
- 1780 Battle of Charleston May 12 Lincoln surrenders Charleston to Clinton
- 1780 Battle of Springfield June 23 Greene defeats British
- 1780 Battle of Camden Aug. 16 Cornwallis crushes Gates, 900 patriots killed
- 1780 Battle of Fishing Creek Aug. 18 Tarleton defeats Sumter
- 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain Oct. 7 Patriots capture loyalists
- 1781 Battle of Cowpens Jan. 17 Morgan defeats Tarleton
- 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse Mar. 15 Cornwallis achieves a Pyrrhic victory over Greene and Morgan
- 1781 Battle of the Chesapeake - naval battle
- 1781 Battle of Yorktown Sep. 28 American siege of Cornwallis begins
- 1782 Iles des Saintes Apr. 12 - Rodney defeats de Grasse by breaking through the French line.
- 1782 Battle of Chillicothe Nov. 10 G.R. Clark defeats Shawnees in last battle of war
- 1790 Battle of Kepaniwai - united Hawaii under King Kamehameha I
- 1792 Battle of Verdun Aug. 20 Prussians defeat French Revolutionaries
- 1792 Battle of Valmy Sep. French win and proceed to declare war on Europe
- 1793 Battle of Toulon Napoleon gains fame as the French defeat the English
- 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers Aug. 20 Wayne defeats Indians, ends menace
- 1796 Battle of Millesimo Napoleon defeats Austrians in Italy
- 1796 Battle of Modovi Napoleon defeats Piedmontese
- 1797 Battle of Rivoli January 14 Napoleon's first decisive victory over Austria
- 1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent February 14
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids July 21 Napoleon defeats Marmalukes in Mediterranean Egyptian Campaign
- 1798 Battle of the Nile Abukir Bay French fleet destroyed by Nelson
- 1799 Battle of Abukir July 25 Napoleon and Joachim Murat defeat Turks
- 1799 Battle of Novi Aug. 15 Joubert is defeated and killed
- 1799 Battle of Zurich June 4 Russian defeat French, later driven out
- 1800 Battle of Marengo June 14 Napoleon defeats Austrians under Baroun von Melas
- 1800 Battle of Hohenlinden Dec. 3 Gen. Moreau defeats archduke John