Important Ancient Battles
- Battle of Megiddo, c. 1457 BC
- Battle of the Ten Kings, c. 1400 BC
- Battle of Kadesh, 1274 BC
- Battle of Muye, 1046 BC
- Battle of Megiddo, 609 BC
- Battle of Carchemish, 605 BC
- Battle of Pteria, 547 BC
- Battle of Thymbra, 546 BC
- Battle of Lade, 546 BC
- Battle of Marathon, 490 BC
- Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BC
- Battle of Artemisium, 480 BC
- Battle of Salamis, 480 BC
- Battle of Plataea, 479 BC
- Battle of Mycale, 479 BC
- Battle of Cunaxa, 401 BC
- Battle of the Allia, 387 BC
- Battle of Chaeronea, 338 BC
- Battle of Issus, 333 BC
- Battle of Gaugamela, 331 BC
- Battle of the Persian Gate, 330 BC
- Battle of the Hydaspes River, 326 BC
- Battle of Paraitacene, 317 BC
- Battle of Gabiene, 316 BC
- Battle of Ipsus, 301 BC
- Battle of Corupedium, 281 BC
- Siege of Saguntum, 218 BC
- Battle of Ticinus, 218 BC
- Battle of the Trebia, 218 BC
- Battle of Lake Trasimene, 217 BC
- Battle of Ager Falernus, 217 BC
- Battle of Raphia, 217 BC
- Battle of Geronium, 217 BC
- Battle of Cannae, 216 BC
- Battle of the Metaurus, 207 BC
- Battle of Tao River, 204 BC
- Battle of Wei River, 204 BC
- Battle of Gaixia, 202 BC
- Battle of Zama, 202 BC
- Battle of Pydna, 168 BC
- Battle of Cynoscephalae, 197 BC
- Battle of Magnesia, 190 BC
- Battle of Aquae Sextiae, 102 BC
- Battle of Vercellae, 101 BC
- Battle of Tigranocerta, 69 BC
- Battle of Vosges, 58 BC
- Battle of Carrhae, 53 BC
- Battle of Gergovia, 52 BC
- Battle of Alesia, 52 BC
- Battle of Pharsalus, 48 BC
- Battle of Munda, 45 BC
- Battle of Actium, 31 BC
- Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 9 AD
- Battle of Ikh Bayan, 89
- Battle of Red Cliffs, 208
- Battle of Edessa, 259
- Battle of Adrianople, 378
- Battle of Fei River, 383
- Battle of Chalons, 451
- Sack of Rome, 455
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