Naval Battles Chronology

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1350 BC onwards	Piracy on the high seas	History of one of the oldest professions	.bc	1350
494bc on	Chronological List Of Naval Fleet Battles	This is a chronological list of naval fleet battles, major other naval events and significant single-ship actions	.bc	0494
494bc	Lade		.bc	0494
480 .bc	Salamis (1)	Greek V. Persian	.bc	0480	Greek Waters
480bc	Artemisium		.bc	0480
474 .bc	Cyme	Etruscan V. Syracusan	.bc	0474	Italian Waters
474 .bc	Cumae	Syrcusan V. Etrurian	.bc	0474	Italian Waters
460s BC	Eurymedon		.bc	0460
458 .bc	Cecryphalea	Athenian V. Peloponnesian	.bc	0458	Greek Waters
450s BC	Cypriot Salamis	Salamis Bay at eastern end of Cyprus	.bc	0450
435 .bc	Ambracian Gulf	Corinthian V. Corcyrean	.bc	0435	Greek Waters
433 BC	Sybota		.bc	0433
429 .bc	Corinth (1)	Athenian V. Peloponnesian	.bc	0429	Greece
429 .bc	Naupactus	Athenian V. Peloponnesian	.bc	0429	Greek Waters
429 BC	Naupactus	This may be the bay of Lepanto as later known	.bc	0429
425 BC	Pylos		.bc	0425
411 .bc	Cynoessema	Peloponnesian V. Athenian	.bc	0411	Greek Waters
411 BC	Cynossema		.bc	0411
407 .bc	Notium	Peloponnesian V. Athenian	.bc	0407	Greece
405 BC	Aegospotami		.bc	0405
394 .bc	Cnidus	Spartan V. Persian	.bc	0394	Greece
394 BC	Cnidus		.bc	0394
376 BC	Naxos		.bc	0376
352 .bc	Pagasaean Gulf	Phocian V. Macedonian	.bc	0352	Greek Waters
307 .bc	Salamis (2)	Macedonian V. Egyptian	.bc	0307	Mediterranean
306 BC	Cypriot Salamis	Demetrius I Poliorcetes defeats the fleet of Menelaeus brother of Ptolemy I of Egypt	.bc	0306
260 .bc	Mylae	Roman V. Carthaginian	.bc	0260	Italian Waters
260 BC	Lipara Islands		.bc	0260
260 BC	Mylae		.bc	0260
258 BC	Cos		.bc	0258
256 .bc	Ecnomus	Roman V. Carthaginian	.bc	0256	Mediterranean
256 BC	Cape Ecnomus		.bc	0256
249 .bc	Drepanaum	Roman V. Carthaginian	.bc	0249	Mediterranean
249 BC	Drepana		.bc	0249
241 BC	Aegates Islands	Roman victory over the Carthaginians, ending the First Punic War	.bc	0241
201 BC	Chios	Philip V of Macedon defeated by the Egyptians, Rhodians, and Pergamese	.bc	0201
191 .bc	Cyssus	Roman V. Antiochus	.bc	0191
190 .bc	Myonnesus	Roman V. Antiochus	.bc	0190	Mediterranean
190 BC	Eurymedon	Roman forces under Lucius Aemilius Regillus defeat a Seleucid fleet commanded by Hannibal	.bc	0190
74 .bc	Chalcedon	Roman V. Pontic	.bc	0074	Greek Waters
56 .bc	Brittany	Roman V. Veneti	.bc	0056	France
56 .bc	Morbihan Gulf	Roman V. Veneti	.bc	0056	French Waters
49 .bc	Illyria	Roman Civil War	.bc	0049	Adriatic
47 .bc	Tauris	Roman Civil War	.bc	0047
36 .bc	Mylex	Roman Civil War	.bc	0036
31 BC September 2	Actium	Octavian decisively defeats Antony and Cleopatra	.bc	0031
480 BC	Salamis	- Athenian navy defeats the Persians	.bc
468	Cape Bona	Roman V. Vandal	0468		.naval
551	Sinnigallia	Roman V. Goths	0551		.naval
0600 – present	History of the Russian Navy	excellent site which goes right back into previous centuries in some considerable detail.	0600 – present
677	Syllaeum		0677
0851-present	Naval battles around the British Isles		0851-present
1000 September 9	Swold	In the Northern seas	1000
	Naval history of the Baltic		1000 on
	Battles in Danish waters		1000 on
1064	Nisaa	Danes V. Norwegian	1064		Baltic
1185 April 25	Dan-no-ura	off present-day Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan	1185
30 Mar 1213	Damme	English V. French	1213		.naval
1213 May 30 and 31	Damme	English under William Longsword, sink most of fleet of France's King Philip II in the harbor of Damme	1213
1216-17	Dover (1)	English V. French	1216		English Waters
1217 August 24	South Foreland	Fleet of English Hubert and Burgh defeat French fleet of Eustace the Monk off Dover	1217
1281	Dazaifu	Chinese/Korean V. Japanese	1281		Fareastern Waters
2 Oct 1284	Messina (2)	Sicilian/Catalan V. French	1284		Italian Waters
1296	Curzota	Genoa defeats Venetian fleet including Marco Polo	1296
May 1299	Curzola	Genoese V. Venetian	1299		Italian Waters
Jun 1302	Ziezicksee	French/Genoese V. Flemish	1302		North Sea
24 Jun 1340	Sluys	English V. French	1340		French Waters
1347	Crotoys	English V. French	1347		.naval
29 Aug 1350	Winchelsea	English V. Spanish	1350		English Waters
1350 August 29 (Old Style)	L'Espagnols-sur-Mer	Edward III and the Black Prince defeat 40 Spanish ships	1350
1354	Sapienza	Genoese destroy Venetian fleet	1354
1362	Helsingborg	Danish V. German	1362		Baltic
1372	La Rochelle	Spain defeats England near La Rochelle	1372
30 May 1378	Antium	Venetian V. Genoese	1378		.naval
Oct 1379	Pulj	Genoese V. Venetian	1379		Mediterranean
	Sluys	Edward III of England beats Franco-Genoese fleet of Philip VI of France off the coast of Flanders and gains control of the English Channel	13xx
1405 to 1433	Chinese naval mastery in the Indian Ocean	Over fifty years before the first Portuguese caravels traversed the southern tip of Africa in 1488, fleets of hundreds of immense Chinese junks brought under the Chinese tributary system the vast periphery of the Indian Ocean, and may have sailed further. But a dramatic reversal of naval policy meant that, less than a century afterwards, it was a crime to even go to sea from China in a multi-masted ship.	1405 to 1433
15 Aug 1416	Seine Mouth	English V. French	1416		French Waters
1416	Harfleur	English defeat French near Harfleur	1416
1417		English defeat French and Genoese	1417
1419	Tsushima Strait (1)	Chinese/Korean V. Japanese	1419		Fareastern Waters
1421-1424	Zheng He’s junk galleon fleet	Ex- Royal Navy commander Gavin Menzies here makes the startling but not impossible assertion that the massive fleet of more than 100 junks, previously thought to have confined itself to the Indian Ocean, actually circumnavigated the globe during these years and established coastal outposts in the Americas and elsewhere, accounting for the proliferation of accurately detailed world maps at an early date. See also the site "Chinese seapower in the fifteenth century" which may corroborate some of Menzies' points.	1421-1424
April 20	Constantinople	Turks and Genoese fight near Istanbul	1453
1470-1554	Piri Reis Admiral of Turkey	Reis grew up on the Gallipoli peninsula and fought in many of the Ottoman campaigns in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. He was also a skilled cartographer, with a famous world map named after him.	1470-1554
1488 to 1827	Naval history of Great Britain	Includes intro from 1488 - 1793  Vol I 1793-1796 - Including the Battle of the 1st June 1793 and much else.  Vol II 1797-1800 - Including the French Expeditions to Ireland, The Mutiny at Spithead, etc., Sir John Jervis off Cape St.-Vincent, Battle of Camperdown, and the Battle of the Nile.  Vol III 1800-1805 - Inc. Battle of Copenhagen and much else  Vol IV 1805-1808 - Inc. Battle of Trafalgar and much more besides  Vol V 1808-1811 - Transcripts of Naval Actions from around the World  Vol VI 1811-1827 - Inc. War of 1812, Battles of Algiers (1816), and Navarin (1827), and Burmese War of 1824 Index of 4,800+ names; Index of Ships	1488 to 1827
	The Columbus Navigation Homepage	Landfall of Christopher Columbus. Not exactly a conflict, apart from that with the Carib Indians, but well, what the hell..	1492
1499 August	Zonchio (First Lepanto?)		1499
1500	Modon (Second Lepanto)		1500
1500s	Terceira	Spain defeats Britain and France	1500s
21 Feb 1509	Diu Island (1)	Portuguese V. Muslim	1509		Indian Waters
1509 February 3	Diu	Portugal's India viceroy destroys Muslim fleet off Western India, controls spice trade	1509
10 Aug 1512	Brest	English V. French	1512		French Waters
152x	Lake Texcoco	Following his initial expulsion from the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan [Mexico City], the Conquistador Hernan Cortez improvised a fleet of gunboats on the lake then surrounding the city, which then supported the assault over the causeways which regained the city.	152x
1535		20 Swedish/Danish/Prussian ships defeat 9 Lubeck ships	1535
Mar 1538	Preveza	Holy League V. Turks	1538		Mediterranean
1538 September 28	Preveza	Ottoman fleet under Barbarossa defeats Spanish-Venetian fleet	1538
1544 -1741	British attacks on Cartagena	Cartagena , NW Colombia, a port on the Bay of Cartagena in the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena was founded in 1533 and became the treasure city of the Spanish Main, where precious stones and minerals from the New World awaited transshipment to Spain. Although the harbor was guarded by 29 stone forts and the city was encircled by a high wall of coral, Cartagena suffered sackings and invasions in 1544, 1560, and in 1586 (by Sir Francis Drake). In 1741 it withstood a three-month British siege.	1544 -1741
1545 August 15	Portsmouth	English and French fight off Portsmouth	1545
1550	Jersey	English V. French	1550		French Waters
1558	Guinea	Portuguese fight British and French off the coast	1558
1558 July 13	Gravelines	English under Count Egmont defeat French under Marshal de Thermes off Gravelines	1558
1564 August 12 and 13	Oland	Denmark vs Sweden SE of Oeland in the Baltic	1564
1565 July 7		49 Swedish ships defeat 22 Danish and 14 Lubeck ships	1565
1571 October 7	Lepanto	Christian coalition decisively defeats Turkey in a large galley fight off western Greece	1571
11 Oct 1573	Zuider Zee	Spanish V. Dutch Rebels	1573		North Sea
29 Jan 1574	Rommerswael	Dutch V. Spanish	1574		North Sea
21-29 Jul 1588	Spanish Armada	English V. Spanish	1588		English Waters
1588	English Channel	defeat of the Spanish Armada off southern England; the remainder are wrecked on the Irish coast due to the unknown tides of the Gulf Stream.	1588
31 Aug 1591	Azores	English V. Spanish	1591		.naval
1591	Flores	English V. Spanish	1591		.naval
	Naval history of Sweden and Denmark		15xx on
	Latin American naval bibliography		15xx on
1600 December 14	Manila	Netherlands vs Spain	1600
1607 April	Gibraltar		1607
1610 August 21 & October 10^th	Tuscany?	Tuscany vs Turkey	1610
1611 August	Kalmar Sound	Minor action between Danes and Swedes in Kalmar Sound	1611
1612 October 29-31	Surat	British defeat Portuguese near Surat, India	1612
1613	Wisby	Swedish V. Danish	1613		Baltic
1615 January 20-? (Old Style)		British defeat Portuguese in mainly minor skirmishes	1615
1616 July 14-16	Fight of the Sea Beggars	Spain versus Netherlands; first regular action between galleys and sailing ships	1616
1617 November 19 and		Inconclusive battle between Spain and Venice	1617
1620 May 11	Adriatic?	Venice defeats Spanish under Ribera	1620
1622 October	La Rochelle	France vs ? near La Rochelle	1622
1625 June 26	Syracuse, Sicily	6 Bizertans defeat 5 Maltese galleys near Syracuse, Sicily	1625
1626 late	Dunkerque	8 Danes defeat 12 Dunkerque privateers	1626
November 28	Oliwa	Poland defeats Sweden	1627
1629 September 16	Wismar	Sweden defeats Holy Roman Empire near Wismar	1629
1630 September 4-8	River Elbe	Denmark forces a retreat of Hanseatic ships in Elbe River	1630
21 Oct 1639	Downs	Dutch V. Spanish	1639		English Waters
1639 October 31	The Downs	Dutch under Tromp defeat Spanish under Oquendo in the English Channel	1639
1644 May 16		9 Danes defeat 26 Dutch ships which have been hired to support Swedes	1644
1644 May 25		13 Danes get slightly the better of 33 hired Dutch ships	1644
1644 July 1	Colberger Heide (Colberg Heath)	Danish and Swedish fleets fight an inconclusive battle off NE Germany	1644
1644 August 10	Kjoge Bay, Denmark	Dutch fleet under Thijsen brushes past Danish fleet under King Christian IV in Kjoge Bay, on the west coast of the island of Zealand.	1644
1644, October 13	Femern, Germany	Combined Swedish/Dutch fleet badly defeats Danish fleet near Femern	1644
1645 September 28 or 29	Canea	Christians vs Turks between Suda and Canea, Crete	1645
1645 October 1	Canea, Crete	Christians vs Turks near Canea, Crete	1645
May 26	Dardanelles	Venice defeats Turkey at the Dardanelles mouth	1646
1646 August 14	Canea, Crete	Inconclusive fight between Christians and Turks near Canea, Crete	1646
1649 May 12	Focchies	19 Venetians defeat large Turkish fleet off Western Turkey	1649
July 8 and 10		Venetians under Mocenigo defeat Turks	1651
28 Sep 1652	Dover (2)	British V. Dutch	1652		English Waters
29-30 Nov 1652	Dungeness	British V. Dutch	1652		English Waters
19 May 1652	Goodwin Sands (1)	British V. Dutch	1652		English Waters
1652 May 29	Goodwin Sands	Off Dover, British under Blake fire on Tromp's fleet without declaring war and initiate the First Anglo-Dutch War	1652
1652 August 26	Plymouth	De Ruyter's 36 men-of-war hold off Ayscue's 45 men-of-war, driving them away.	1652
1652 September 7	Elba	English v. Dutch off the Italian coast	1652
October 8	Kentish Knock	Blake beats back de With	1652
1652 December 10	Dungeness	Tromp defeats Blake	1652
1652 - 1860	Seapower 1652 - 1860	a chronology of sea battles in the age of fighting sail; a good many listed but not many detailed yet as at Jan 2004.	1652 - 1860
2-3 Jun 1653	North Foreland (1)	English V. Dutch	1653		English Waters
18-20 Feb 1653	Portland	English V. Dutch	1653		English Waters
31 Jul 1653	Scheveningen	English V. Dutch	1653		North Sea
30-31 Jul 1653	Texel (1)	English V. Dutch	1653		North Sea
February 28-March 2	Portland (3 Days Battle)	Tromp, outnumbered, loses a dozen men-of-war and 50 merchantmen to Blake	1653
1653 March 13	Leghorn (Livorno)	Johan van Galen's ships defeat Badiley	1653
1653 June 12-13	Gabbard		1653
1653 August 8-10	Scheveningen (Ter Heide, Texel)		1653
April	Rhodes	4 Maltese defeat 13 Turks near Rhodes	1654
1654 May 16	Dardanelles	Turks under Murad defeat Venetians under Giuseppe Delfino in Dardanelles	1654
June 21	Dardanelles	Venetians defeat Turks	1655
1656 June 26 and 27	Dardanelles	Venetians and Maltese defeat Turks in Dardanelles	1656
20 Apr 1657	Santa Cruz De Tenerife	English V. Spanish	1657		African Waters
1657 July 17	Dardanelles	Venetians, Maltese and Papal forces defeat Turks in Dardanelles	1657
1657 September 12 and 13	Moen, Denmark	Denmark vs Sweden fight inconclusively near Moen, Denmark	1657
1658 October 29	Copenhagen	Dutch get the better of a Swedish fleet in a large battle near Copenhagen, in support of Denmark. Danish ships watch but are unable to participate	1658
1659 August 26 or 27		Contarini (Venice) vs Kapudan Pasha (Turkey)	1659
1661 August 27	Milos, Greece	Venice and Malta defeat Turkey near Milos, Greece	1661
1662 September 29	Defeat of the “Alexandria Caravan"	Venice defeats Turkish "Alexandria Caravan" between Kos and Kalymnos, Greece	1662
14 Aug 1665	Southwold Bay	English V. Dutch	1665		English Waters
1665 March	Barbary Coast	France defeats Algeria	1665
1665 June 13	Lowestoft		1665
1-4 Jun 1666	Dover Strait	English V. Dutch	1666		English Waters
25 Jul 1666	North Foreland (2)	English V. Dutch	1666		English Waters
1666 June 11-14	Four Days'		1666
1666 August 4-5	St James's Day (North Foreland)		1666
7 Jun 1667	Sheerness	Dutch V. English	1667		English Waters
10 May 1667	Saint Kitts	English V. Dutch/French	1667		Caribbean
1667 February 25 and 26	Crete	Venice defeats Turkey near Crete	1667
1667 May	Raid on the Medway	Dutch raid Medway River near London, and burn several ships	1667
1-4 Jul 1668	Goodwin Sands (2)	English V. Dutch	1668		English Waters
1668 February 8 and 9	Pelagia, Greece	Venice defeats Turkey near Pelagia, Greece	1668
1668 (late) -	Crete	Barbary "Turks" defeat Venice south of Crete	1668
166x	Battle of Bloody Bay	Bloody Bay is the last beach accessible on the northern Caribbean coast of Tobago. The name for this beautiful beach originates from a famous naval battle in the 1660's when an English fleet defeated a combined Dutch and French fleet. So bloody was the battle that the sea is said to have turned red!	166x
1670 August	Gibraltar	Gibraltar British/Dutch ships defeat an Algerine force near Gibraltar	1670
1671 May	Aegina, Greece	Privateers beat off a force of Turkish galleys near Aegina, Greece	1671
28 May 1672	Sole Bay	English/French V. Dutch	1672		English Waters
1672 June 7	Solebay		1672
20 Aug 1673	Texel (2)	English/French V. Dutch	1673		North Sea
1673 June 7	First Schooneveld		1673
1673 June 14	Second Schooneveld		1673
1673 August 21	Texel (Kijkduin)		1673
11 Jun 1676	Entholm	Danish V. Swedish	1676		Baltic
8 Jan 1676	Stromboli Island	Dutch V. French	1676		Italian Waters
Jun 1676	Bornholm	Dutch/Danish V. Swedish	1676		Baltic
25 Mar 1676	Messina (3)	French V. Spanish	1676		Italian Waters
25 May 1676	Jasmund	Swedish V. Danish	1676		Baltic
1676 January	Alicuri	France vs Netherlands and Spain	1676
1676	Palermo	French vs Netherlands and Spain	1676
1676 May 25 and 26	Rugen	Dutch/Danish fleet defeats Swedish fleet between Bornholm and Rugen in the Baltic Sea	1676
1676 June 1	Öland	Dutch/Danish fleet defeats Swedish fleet south of Oland	1676
Jun 1677	Rostock	Danish V. Swedish	1677		Baltic
30 Jun 1677	Koege Bight	Swedish V. Danish	1677		Baltic
1677 February?	Tobago	French vs Netherlands	1677
May 31 and June 1	Femern	Denmark defeats Sweden between Femern and Warnemunde	1677
July 1 and 2	Kjoge Bay	Denmark and Netherlands defeat Swedish fleet	1677
1678	Gibraltar Straits	French defeat Netherlands	1678
1681 September 30	Cape St Vincent	Spain defeats Brandenburg	1681
1682	Algiers	French attack on Algiers	1682
1686 July 12	Naxos	Venice attacks "Alexandria Caravan" with its Turkish and Tripolitan escort between Naxos and Nicaria	1686
1686 October 4	Mitylene, Greece	Venice vs Turkey near Mitylene, Greece	1686
Apr-May 1687	Puna	Buccaneer V. Spanish	1687		.naval
1688 June 15	Naxos, Greece	Venice attacks "Alexandria Caravan" with its Turkish and Algerian escort east of Naxos, Greece	1688
1689	Bantry Bay		1689
1689	Casquets		1689
30 Jun 1690	Beachy Head	English/Dutch V. French	1690		English Waters
1690 July 10	Beachy Head (Beveziers)		1690
1690	Madras/Chennai	France vs Britain and Netherlands near Madras	1690
1690 September 8	Mitylene, Greece	Venice fights the combined fleet of Turkey, Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis near Mitylene, Greece	1690
19/20 May 1692	Cape La Hogue	English/Dutch V. French	1692		.naval
1692 May 27 - June 3	Barfleur and La Hougue	Decisive defeat of France in the War of the Grand Alliance	1692
1697 July 6, September 1, September 20	Aegean Sea	Contarini (Venice) vs Turkey in a series of battles in the Aegean Sea	1697
1698 September 20	Samothrace, Greece	Venice vs Turkey, Tripoli and Tunis near Samothrace, Greece	1698
12 Oct 1702	Vigo Bay	English/Dutch V. French/Spanish	1702		Iberian Waters
1704 August 13 (Old Style)	Malaga	British/Dutch narrowly defeats French near Malaga	1704
1705 June 26	Kotlin	Swedish ships attack Russian base of Kotlin	1705
1713	Cheul	Portuguese defeat Indians near Cheul	1713
1716 July 8	Corfu	Corner (Venice) fights an inconclusive battle against Jannum Koggia (Turkey) east of Corfu	1716
1717 June 12, 13 and 16	Aegean	Venice vs Turkey in northern Aegean	1717
1717 July 19	Gulf of Laconia, Greece	Venice and its allies vs Turkey	1717
31 Jul 1718	Cape Passaro	British V. French	1718		.naval
1718	Karwar	Portuguese defeat Indians near Karwar	1718
1719 May 24	Osel Island	Russian battleships fight Swedish ships	1719
Sep 1721	Grangram	Russian V. Swedish	1721		Baltic
9 Mar - 9 Apr 1741	Carthagena	British V. ?	1741		Caribbean
21 Feb 1744	Toulon (2)	British V. French/Spanish	1744		French Waters
1744 February 22	Toulon	draw between British and Franco-Spanish fleets south of Toulon	1744
25 Jul 1746	Negapatam (1)	British V. French	1746		Indian Waters
3 May 1747	Cape Finisterre (1)	British V. French	1747		French Waters
14 Oct 1747	Cape Finisterre (2)	British V. French	1747		French Waters
12 Oct 1748	Havana (1)	British V. Spanish	1748		Caribbean
1749 April 29		Pocock (British) defeats d'Ache (French)	1749
1750 - 1840	Ships of the old Royal Navy	An anecdotal history of the vessels’ voyages, actions and people to about 1840 - the last eighty or ninety years of the sailing warship.	1750 - 1840
20 May 1756	Minorca (1)	British V. French	1756		Iberia
3 Aug 1758	Negapatam (2)	British V. French	1758		Indian Waters
10 Aug 1759	Trincomalee (1)	British V. French	1759		Indian Waters
20 Nov 1759	Belle Isle (1)	British V. French	1759		.naval
20 Nov 1759	Quiberon Bay	French V. British	1759		French Waters
1759 November 20	Quiberon Bay	British defeat French near St Nazaire	1759
7 Jun 1761	Belle Isle (2)	British V. French	1761		.naval
1762	Havana (2)	British V. Spanish	1762		Caribbean
Sep 1767	Trincomalee (2)	British/Indian V. Mysore/Hyderabad	1767		Indian Waters
5 Jul 1769	Scio	Russian V. Turks	1769		Black Sea
1770 June 4	Athens	Russia vs Turkey South of Athens	1770
1770 July 5-7	Chesma	Off western Turkey, Russian fleet defeats and burns Turkish fleet	1770
1772 November 6-8	Patrai, Greece	Russia defeats Turkey west of Patrai, Greece	1772
28 Feb 1776	Charleston (1)	British V. American Rebels	1776		Northam
11 Oct 1776	Valcour Island	British V. American Rebels	1776		Northam
1776 October 11	Valcour Island	Benedict Arnold escapes the British fleet under Guy Carleton	1776
27 Jul 1778	Onessant	British V. French	1778		French Waters
27 Jul 1778	Ushant (1)	British V. French	1778		French Waters
4 Jun 1778	Carenage Bay	British V. French	1778		.naval
July 27	First Ushant	Keppel (British) with 30 battleships fights an inconclusive action against d'Orvilliers (French) with 28	1778
23 Sep 1779	Flamborough Head	British V. American Rebels	1779		English Waters
14 Jul 1779	Penobscot Bay	British V. American Rebels	1779		North American Waters
1780 January 16	Cape St Vincent (Moonlight Battle)	Rodney (British) defeats de Langara (Spanish)	1780
5 Aug 1781	Dogger Bank (1)	British V. Dutch	1781		English Waters
16 Apr 1781	Porto Praya Bay	British V. French	1781		Caribbean
16 Mar 1781	Cape Henry	British V. French	1781		.naval
1781 September 5	Chesapeake Bay	De Grasse (French) drives off British	1781
1781 April 16	La Praya	Suffren (French) vs British, near Cape Verde Islands	1781
1781 December 12	Second Ushant	British capture French merchant ships	1781
26 Aug - 3 Sep 1782	Trincomalee (4)	British V. French	1782		Indian Waters
12 Apr 1782	Dominica	British V. French	1782		Caribbean
4 Oct 1782	Negapatam (4)	British V. French	1782		Indian Waters
12 Apr 1782	Trincomalee (3)	British V. French	1782		Indian Waters
12 Apr 1782	Saintes (2)	British V. French/Spanish	1782		Caribbean
1782 February 17	Sadras	First indecisive fight between Suffren (French) and Hughes (British) off SE India	1782
1782 April 12	Providien	Second indecisive fight between Suffren and Hughes off SE India	1782
1782 April 12	The Saintes	Rodney (British) with 36 battleships defeats De Grasse (French) with 34 in the West Indies	1782
1782 July 6	Negapatam	Third indecisive fight between Suffren and Hughes off SE India	1782
1782 September 3	Trincomalee	Hughes fleet damages Suffrens but withdraws	1782
20 Jun 1783	Pondicherry (4)	British V. French	1783		India
1783 June 20	Cuddalore	Suffren drives Hughes off shore of Cuddalore. Last of the five battles between Suffren and Hughes	1783
1788 July 14/25	Ochakov	Russia defeats Turkey in Black Sea near Fidonisi	1788
1788 July 17	Hogland	Bloody engagement between Swedish and Russian fleets. Both sides lose a ship, but Swedes withdraw.	1788
Apr 1789	Hogland	Russian V. Swedish	1789		Baltic
1789 June 2-4	Sinope	Russia vs Turkey at Sinope	1789
1789 October 11	First Rochensalm	Clash of Swedish and Russian galley fleets results in Russian victory. Swedish admiral Erensferd looses 5 rowing frigates, as well as some smaller craft and is forced to retreat	1789
1789-1900	British Royal Navy	“This site covers all aspects of the British Royal Navy 1789-1900, including Royal Marines & 19th Century Colonial Navies. Links including the Victorian Royal Navy, Naval Brigades, uniforms, Nile River gunboats in the Sudan, Colonial Campaigns (including India, China, Zululand, New Zealand, Egypt, Sudan, Anglo- Boer War, etc). Well over 250 illustrations, under Photos, of Ships, battles, Guns & other weapons, RN & Royal Marine uniforms, etc”	1789-1900
14 Jul 1790	Yenikale Gulf	Russian V. Turks	1790		Black Sea
9 Jul 1790	Svenskund	Swedish V. Russian	1790		Baltic
3 Jul 1790	Vyborg (1)	Swedish V. Russian	1790		Baltic
1790 July 19	Kerch Strait	Russia vs Turkey	1790
1790 September 8 and 9	Tendra	Russia vs Turkey	1790
1790 May 2	Revel	Swedish fleet of 22 battleships and 4 frigates under command of Admiral Duke Carl of Sondermanland attacks Russian fleet under admiral Chitchagov (9 battleships, 5 frigates) anchored off Revel. Attack proves unsuccessful, Swedes lose two ships of the line and withdraw.	1790
1790 May 4	Fredrikshamn	Swedish galley fleet (140 galleys, 4 transports) attacks Russian galley detachement of capt. Sjlissov (60 galleys, 3 large rowing frigates). Attack is a success, Russians withdraw after a fight, losing at least 20 galleys and all 3 frigates.	1790
1790 June 22	Vyborg Bay	Swedish fleet blockaded in the bay of Vyborg attempts a breakout. Swedes lose 7 ships of the line and three frigates, as well as smaller ships (4 ships and 2 frigates are taken by Russians), but succeed with the breakout and save the remainder of the fleet	1790
1790 June 28	Second Rochensalm	Decisive victory of the Swedish galley fleet	1790
11 Aug 1791	Kara Burur	Russian V. Turks	1791		Black Sea
1791 August 11	Cape Kaliakra	Russia gets slightly the better of Turkey in a largely inconclusive battle off Bulgaria	1791
June 1, 1794	First Of June	French V. British	1794
1 Jul 1794	Ushant (2)	French V. British	1794		French Waters
June 1	The Glorious First of June (Third Ushant)	British fleet defeats French fleet in North Atlantic but French grain convoy makes it through to Brest	1794
13 Mar 1795	Genoa (2)	British V. French	1795		Italian Waters
23 Jun 1795	Belle Isle (3)	British V. French	1795		.naval
1795 June 20		Hood (British) with 14 battleships defeats Villaret-Joyeuse (French) with 12 (?)	1795
17 Aug 1796	Saldanha Bay	British V. Dutch	1796		Latin American Waters?
14 Feb 1797	Cape Of St Vincent	British V. Spanish	1797		.naval
1797 February 14	Cape St Vincent	15 British battleships under Jervis defeat 27 Spanish off Cape St Vincent near Gibraltar	1797
1797 March 26		Austrian vessels, supported by Venetian battleship, fight off small French attack	1797
1797 May 16	Tripoli, Libya	Danish vessels get the better of Tripolitans near Tripoli, Libya	1797
1797 October 11	Camperdown (Kamperduin)	British fleet under Admiral Duncan defeats a Dutch fleet	1797
1 Aug 1798	Nile	British V. French	1798		Mediterranean
1798 August 1–3	The Nile (Aboukir Bay)	Nelson (British) defeats a moored French fleet under Brueys in Egypt	1798
middle of 1798	Battle of the Nile	Bonaparte ferried an army to Egypt to interrupt British Imperial communications with India. Nelson unsuccessfully sought Napoleon's troops on the open sea, but did learn that the French warships, which accompanied the troops and assured the supply line, were at anchor in Aboukir Bay at the mouth of the Nile. With night falling and facing a superior fleet, the tenacious Nelson gave the order to attack. What followed was one of the greatest naval battles of all time.	1798
1800-1917	The Tsarist Navy		1800-1917
2 Apr 1801	Copenhagen (1)	British V. Danish	1801		Danish Waters
1801 April 5	Algeciras	French defeat initial British assault, British counter-attack and defeat French-Spanish force.	1801
1803	Santo Domingo	Duckworth (British) defeats Rochambeau (French) near Santo Domingo	1803
1804 August 3, 7, 23/24 and 28 and September 2	Tripoli	5 raids on Tripoli	1804
22 Jul 1805	Cape Finisterre (3)	British V. French/Spanish	1805		French Waters
Oct. 21, 1805	Trafalgar	French/Spanish V. British	1805		Iberian Waters
1805 July 4		2 Russian ships defeat French gunboat force	1805
1805 July 22	Cape Finisterre	Calder (British) defeats Villeneuve (French) in minor action near Cape Finisterre	1805
1805 October 21	Trafalgar	Nelson defeats combined French/Spanish fleet off south western Spain, losing his life but gaining control of the oceans for Britain for the rest of the war	1805
1807 February 6	Santo Domingo	Duckworth defeats Leissegues (French) near Santo Domingo	1807
1807 February 19	Dardanelles	British battleships under Duckworth burn several Turkish ships in Dardanelles	1807
1807 May	Dardanelles	British vs Turks at mouth of Dardanelles	1807
1807 July 1	Athos (Lemnos)	Russian fleet under Admiral Alexei Seniavin defeats Turks in northern Aegean	1807
1807 September 2-7	Copenhagen	British land and sea forces under Admiral Gambier and General Cathcart capture the Danish fleet	1807
26 Apr 1810	Amanthea	British V. French	1810		.naval
1811 March 13	Lissa	British frigate fleet under Hoste defeats superior French/Venetian fleet under Dubordieu off Lissa (Vis) in the Adriatic Sea	1811
29 Dec 1812	Uss Constitution - Hms Java	Us V. British	1812
1812 July 19	Sacket's Harbor	US turns back British naval attack	1812
29 May 1813	Shannon - Chesapeake	British V. Us	1813		North Atlantic
10 Sep 1813	Erie, Lake	British V. Us	1813		Northam
1813 May 28-29	Sacket's Harbor	US General Jacob Brown turns back British under Sir John Prevost	1813
June 1	Boston Harbor	HMS Shannon captures USS Chesapeake (Lawrence). Lawrence says: "Don't give up the ship"	1813
1813 September 3	New England Coast	USS Enterprise captures HMS Boxer off New England Coast	1813
1813	Lake Erie		1813
11 Sep 1814	Champlain, Lake	British V. Us	1814		Northam
1814	Lake Champlain	Lake Champlain and Plattsburg (September 11) - US squadron under Thomas Macdonough defeats British under George Downie	1814
1816 August 27	Algiers	Bombardment of Algiers	1816
1820	Callao	Lord Cochrane	1820
	Battles of the Peruvian navy		1820 on
1821 March 4	Zakinthos	Greece vs Turkey north-west of Zakinthos	1821
1822 June 18-19	Chios	Greek rebel fleet under Constantine Kanaris defeats Turkish fleet of Kara Ali	1822
1823 September 27	Lemnos	Greece vs Turkey west of Lemnos	1823
1823 October 23	Pondikonisi	Greece vs Turkey near Pondikonisi	1823
1824 September	First Budrun (Bodrun?)	Greece vs Turkey and Egypt	1824
1824 September 9	Second Budrun (Bodrun?)		1824
September 22	Nikaria	Greece vs Egypt near Nikaria	1824
1824 November 12 and 13	Spinalonga	Greece vs Turkey and Egypt near Spinalonga	1824
1824	Callao	Off Latin America	1824
1824	Callao		1824
1825 June 1	Andros	Greece defeats Turkey between Euboea and Andros	1825
June 14 and 15	Suda Bay	Greece defeats Turkey and Egypt near Suda Bay	1825
1825 June 28 and 29	Cerigo	Greece vs Turkey and Egypt south of Cerigo	1825
1825 August 3	Missolonghi	Greece defeats Turkey near Missolonghi	1825
1825 November 15	Navarin	Greece vs Turkey (and allies?) near Navarin	1825
1825 November 25, 26, 29, 30 and December 6 and 7	Missolonghi	Greece vs Turkey (and allies?) near Missolonghi	1825
1826 July 27	Samos	Greece vs Turkey near Samos	1826
1826 September 10 and 11	Mitylene	Greece vs Turkey near Mitylene	1826
Oct. 20, 1827	Navarino	Egyptian/Turkish V. British/French/Russian	1827		Greek Waters
1827 September 29	Salona Bay	Greece vs Turkey in Salona Bay	1827
1827 October 20	Navarino	British/French/Russian squadrons, under Admirals Codrington, Rigny, and Geiden, destroy Turkish/Egyptian/Tunisian fleet of Tahir Pasha off south-west Greece	1827
1828	Punta Malpelo		1828
1833 July 5	Cape St Vincent	British fleet under Sir Charles Napier defeats fleet of Portuguese usurper Don Miguel	1833
January 12^th 1838	Islay	Off Latin America	1838
1839	Casma	Off Latin America	1839
1840	Acre	Bombardment of Acre	1840
10 Nov 1845	Obligado	British/French V. Argentine	1845		Latin American Waters
1847-1899	European intervention in Samoa		1847-1899
1849 May 3	Kiel	Schleswig-Holstein vs Denmark near Kiel	1849
1849 May 11	Bulk	Schleswig-Holstein vs Denmark near Bulk	1849
30 Nov 1853	Sinope	Russian V. Turks	1853		Black Sea
1853 October 30	Sinope, Turkey	Russian battleships defeat Turkish frigates at Sinope, Turkey	1853
1861 - 1865	The navies in the US Civil War 1861 - 1865		1861 - 1865
1861-1865	Ironclads and blockade runners of the American Civil War	Gunboat battles on the Mississipi River, Hampton Roads and elsewhere. Numerous links here to American Civil War and general naval sources.	1861-1865
1862 March 8 and 9	Hampton Roads	First battle between ironclad warships	1862
1864 February	Eckernfjorde	Danish ships defeated by Prussia	1864
1864 March 17	Jasmund	Prussia vs Denmark	1864
1864 May 9	Helgoland	Prussian/Austrian fleet defeats Danish fleet in North Sea	1864
1864 June 19	Cherbourg	USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama off Cherbourg	1864
11 Jun 1865	Riachuelo	Paraguayan V. Brazilian	1865		Latin American Waters
1865-1870	Riverboat ops during the Paraguayan War		1865-1870
1866 July 20	Lissa	Austrians under Admiral von Tegetthoff rams and drives off superior Italian fleet under Persano	1866
1866	2 de mayo	Off Peru	1866
1869 May 4-10	Hakodate		1869
1870	River Aquidaban	(Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Brasil),	1870
1870-1914	The Austro-Italian Naval Race	France had her North African colonies, while Italy was keen to acquire some. Austria-Hungary had her long Adriatic coastline for which to cater.	1870-1914
1870's and 1880’s	Chilean naval power	After Chile's independence, she quickly became the leading naval power in South America, But following a long period of peace this advantage was eroded. In 1865 Chile supported Peru in her war with Spain, but After the Spanish had Bombarded Valparaiso, It became evident that Chile needed a strong navy to protect her long Coastline. Her Navy was re organised and re built by the Time of her “War of the Pacific” with Peru. This war was mostly fought at sea, the first time that modern "Iron Clad " Battleships has been used. Some small naval ship to ship engagements took place, including the Capture of the Peruvian Battleship Huascar and  the destruction of the Independance. The War was a total success for Chile and proved her naval superiority in South America in the 1870's and 1880’s   But over the next 20 years her position weakened and by the turn of the century  Chile was only the third South American Country (after Argentina and Brazil) to enter the Dreadnought battleship race.	1870's and 1880’s
1877	Pacocha		1877
1879	Angamos	The Huáscar was captured by Chile during the War of the Pacific	1879
1879	Punta Chipana	Acción de corbetas Unión y Pilcomayo	1879
1879	Iquique		1879
1879	Pisagua		1879
1879	Iquique		1879
1879	Magallanes		1879
1879	Antofagasta		1879
1879	Angamos		1879
	Callao	Guerra del Pacífico	1880	1880
1880	Arica	Running the blockade; Spanish language site	1880
1882 July 11		Bombardment of Alexandria	1882
1884 August 23	Foochow	Small French squadron annihilates Chinese force at Foochow (Fuzhou)	1884
1885 February 13	Raid on Shipu	French attack Chinese ships	1885
1893	French Gunboat Diplomacy in Siam		1893
1893-94	Rio de Janeiro (Guanabara Bay)	Mutineers supported a rebel land campaign with ops around Rio. They suffered two major losses: the turret ship Javary was sunk in a duel with shore batteries; later, off the Southern coast of Brazil, the battleship Aquidaban was torpedoed by the torpedo gunboat Sampaio.	1893-94
17 Sep 1894	Yalu River (1)	Chinese V. Japanese	1894		Fareastern Waters
1894 July 25	Feng-tao	Japan defeats China	1894
1894 September 17	Yalu River	Japan defeats Chinese off Korea	1894
4-12 Feb 1895	Weihaiwei	Chinese V. Japanese	1895		Fareast
1896 – 8	Riverboat ops on the Nile		1896 - 8
3 Jul 1898	Santiago De Cuba	Us V. Spanish	1898		Caribbean
1898 May 1	Manila Bay	US Navy attacks the Spanish fleet at anchor	1898
1898 July 3	Santiago de Cuba		1898
1898	Spanish – American War		1898
	Copenhagen	Nelson destroys moored Danish ships off Koebenhavn to prevent France taking them over	18xx
18xx on	Warships of the World	a goodly number of subjects covered here, some suitably esoteric, eg. warships of the Spanish Civil War; but the site is mainly for technically-oriented naval aficionados	18xx on
18xx on	Warships on the web		18xx on
1900 to 1945	The Evolution Of Naval Technology	The linked site was closed for reconstruction as at 2/17/2005	1900 to 1945
1903	Antofagasta		1903
8 Feb 1904	Che-Mul-Pho	Japanese V. Russian	1904		Fareastern Waters
10 Aug 1904	Yellow Sea	Russian V. Japanese	1904		Fareastern Waters
1904	Yellow Sea	Japan defeats Russia	1904
1904-5	Port Arthur	Japanese bottle up the Russian fleet in this crowded harbour, bombarding the ships and attacking with torpedo boats	1904-5
27-28 May 1905	Tsushima Strait (2)	Russian V. Japanese	1905		Fareastern Waters
1905 May 27-28	Tsushima	The Russian Baltic fleet sails round the world to the Far Eastern theatre, its commanders riven with dissension, its crew with mutiny, and its ships covered with coal and monkeys, but is defeated by Tojo in the straits between Korea and Japan	1905
1911	la Pedrera		1911
1912	Dardanelles	During The Balkan And Italo-Turkish Wars	1912
1912 October	Lemnos	During The Balkan And Italo-Turkish Wars	1912
Nov 1st, 1914	Coronel	British V. German	1914		.naval
Nov 18th, 1914	Cape Sarych	Russian V. German/Turkish	1914		Black Sea
August 28 1914	Heligoland Bight		1914
1914 November 1	Coronel	German cruisers under von Spee defeat British force off Chile	1914
1914 December 8	Falkland Islands	British cruiser force all but wipes out von Spees squadron in South Atlantic	1914
	German naval history		1914-18
	The Austro-Hungarian Navy	The prime source of information on the "K.u.k. Kriegsmarine" and the Danube flotilla that fired the first shots of World War I. Currently emphasizes the First World War.	1914-18
1914-18	WW1 at sea		1914-18
1914-18	World War I in the Adriatic	Austria-Hungary had a navy consisting of four dreadnoughts, six 20 knot battleships, seven 2nd class battleships, four cruisers, four old cruisers (two armoured and two torpedo rams) with numerous destroyers and torpedo boats and eighteen submarines.	1914-18
1915 January 24	Dogger Bank	Blucher sunk by British battlecruisers in North Sea	1915
1915-18	The British Naval African Expedition	Lake Tanganyika, known as "the blue heart of Africa", occupied an important strategic position between the Belgian Congo and German Tanzania. The lake was dominated by the 1500 ton “Goetzen” and “Hedwig von Wissmann” and the tugboat Kingani. Two lightly armed 40ft launches were conveyed from the Thames via Capetown to dispute control of the lake. They first captured the Kingani which, having been refitted as flagship of the British flotilla, then sank the von Wissman. The Goetzen was attacked by aeroplanes in port, and scuttled. “the African Queen" by Forester was inspired by the expedition, as was Bogart's famous film of the same name.	1915-18
May 31-June 1, 1916	Jutland	British V. German	1916		North Sea
1916 May 31-June 1	Jutland	The German High Seas Fleet, trying to break the naval blockade of Germany, sallies into the North Sea, inflicts more casualties on the British Grand Fleet than it suffers itself, but is nevertheless driven back into port.	1916
29 August 1916	Tsunami attacks the Memphis	Off Dominica	1916
1917	Raid on the Otranto Barrage		1917
1917 November 17	Second Battle of Heligoland Bight		1917
1919	British raid on Kronstadt		1919
1921	Operations against the Kronstadt mutineers	The loyal units of the Red Army attacked the island fortress by land as well as water, since the Gulf of Finland was partially frozen over.	1921
13-17 Dec, 1939	River Plate	British V. German	1939		Latin American Waters
1939 December 13	River Plate		1939
1939-45	The U-boat war		1939-45
1940 November 27	Cape Spartivento (Cape Teulada)	using the Malta base, British fight back an Italian convoy interception	1940
10-13 Apr, 1940	Narvik	British V. German	1940		North Sea
Nov 11th, 1940	Taranto	British V. Italian	1940		Italy
3 Jul 1940	Oran (2)	British V. Vichy French	1940		Africa
1940 May 10 and 13	First and Second Battles of Narvik		1940
1940 July 3	Mers-el-Kebir	British fleet attacks French fleet in harbour in Algeria	1940
1940 July 9	Punta Stilo	British fleet attacks Italian fleet	1940
1940 September 23	Dakar	British fleet supports a landing at Dakar	1940
1940 November 1	Taranto	British fleet attacks Italians anchored at Taranto, inspiring the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor	1940
10 Dec 1941	Prince Of Wales And Repulse	British V. Japanese	1941		Oceania
1941 March 28	Cape Matapan	British fleet defeats Italian fleet	1941
1941 December 7	Pearl Harbor	The valuable ships [the aircraft carriers] were at sea when the strike went in – some say out of foreknowledge, and that the antiquated ships were left in harbour to provide a ready made massacre that would inflame public opinion!	1941
December 17	First Syrte	Indecisive British-Italian fight off Libya	1941
1941-45	The Imperial Japanese Navy		1941-45
1941-45	The Pacific War	The thirty-five most important battles of the Pacific War, complete with order of battle and losses, accessible through a map-driven interface. Be patient; the maps (especially the main Pacific map) are pretty graphics intensive (70-100k apiece)	1941-45
June 3-6, 1942	Midway	Us V. Japanese	1942		Oceania
11 Oct 1942	Cape Esperance	Us V. Japanese	1942		Oceania
25-26 Oct 1942	Santa Cruz Islands	Us V. Japanese	1942		Oceania
Feb 27th, 1942	Java Sea	Us/Dutch/British/Australian V. Japanese	1942		Oceania
May 4-8, 1942	Coral Sea	Us V. Japanese	1942		Oceania
1942 February 27	Java Sea	Japanese destroy ABDA fleet	1942
March 22	Second Syrte		1942
1942 May 8	Coral Sea		1942
1942 June 4-5	Midway	US fleet sinks four Japanese carriers in western Pacific Ocean	1942
1942 August 8	Savo Island	Japanese destroy a US cruiser force	1942
1942 August 24	Eastern Solomons	Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho sunk	1942
1942 October 12	Cape Esperance		1942
1942 October 26	Santa Cruz Islands	near Guadalcanal, USS Hornet sunk, but Japanese withdraw	1942
1942 November 30	Tassafaronga		1942
7 August 1942 - 6 March 1943	Guadalcanal	Very detailed site on this series of battles	1942 - 3
2-5 Mar 1943	Bismark Sea	Us/Australian V. Japanese	1943		Oceania
Nov 24th, 1943	Cape St George	Japanese V. Us	1943		Oceania
July 6th, 1943	Kula Gulf	Us V. Japanese	1943		Oceania
January 29	Rennell Island	USS Chicago lost	1943
1943 March 26	Komandorski Islands	US cruiser force turns back a Japanese fleet	1943
1943 November 2	Empress Augusta Bay		1943
1943 December 26	North Cape	British ships sink Scharnhorst off northern Norway	1943
June 19-20, 1944	Philippine Sea	Us V. Japanese	1944		Oceania
1944 June 19	Philippine Sea	US shoots down hundreds of Japanese aircraft in "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot"	1944
1944 October 23-26	Leyte Gulf	Gigantic battle consisting of actions in the Sibuyan Sea, the Surigao Straits, off Samar, and off Cape Engano	1944
1964	Gulf of Tonkin	An alleged attack by North Vietnamese vessels on US ships, probably manufactured to justify US intervention.	1964
1971 December 9		Pakistani submarine Hangor sinks Indian frigate Kukri (first submarine sinking since World War II)	1971
1982	Falklands War	The Argentines effectively used Exocet air to ship missiles against the British fleet moored between the two main islands of the archipelago; 4 ships were sunk. Meanwhile, a British nuclear sub controversially sank the cruiser Belgrano, steaming away from the Falklands, with the loss of about 650 crew.	1982
Boxing Day	Malacca Strait	The Straits are cleared of Pirates by the Indian Ocean Tsunami	2005
200x	Yemen	Al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in harbour	200x

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