List of Naval Battles - Middle Ages

Middle Ages

• 456 - Romans under Flavius Ricimer defeat Vandals near Corsica
• 461 Cartagena - Vandals destroy a newly built West Roman fleet
• 468 Cape Bon - Vandals defeat East and West Romans under Basiliscus
• 551 Sena Gallica - The Byzantines defeat the Ostrogoths
• 655 Battle of the Masts - Arabs under Uthman defeat Byzantines under Constans II
• 663 August Baekgang - Tang Dynasty and Silla defeat Baekje and Japan
• 677 or 678 First Arab siege of Constantinople - Byzantines defeat Arabs (first use of "Greek fire")
• 697? - Greeks under John defeat Arabs
• 698 Carthage - Arabs defeat Greeks under John at Carthage
• 698 - Imperial Constantinopolitan fleet defeats Cibyrrhaeot rebels
• 717, September 3 Second Arab siege of Constantinople - Byzantines under Leo III the Isaurian defeat Arabs
• 718, Spring Second Arab siege of Constantinople - Byzantines under Leo III defeat Arabs
• 719, Dalriadan civil war resulted in a conflict between two opposing groups of curraghs, mentioned in the Senchus Fer n-Alban
• 727 - Byzantine central imperial fleet destroys provincial Helladic and Cyclades fleets
• 747 Ceramea - Byzantines destroy large Arab fleet
• 806? - Moors defeat Franks under Hadumar near Corsica
• 807 - Franks under Burchard defeat Moors at Sardinia
• 813 - Byzantines defeat Arabs
  • - Franks under Irmingar defeat Moors near Majorca
• 820 - Arabs defeat Franks? near Sardinia
• 821 - Byzantine central imperial fleet defeats rebel provincial fleets during the revolt of Thomas the Slav
• 829 - Battle of Thasos: Cretan Saracens defeat Byzantines
• 841 - Arabs defeat Venetian squadron near Taranto
• 849 Ostia - Italian city-states vs Muslims off southern Italy
• 853? - Byzantines defeat Syrians ?
• 868 - Byzantines under Niketas Oryphas destroy 2 Arab fleets near Thrace and in the Gulf of Corinth
• 880 Night Battle of Cephalonia - Byzantines under Nasar destroy Arab fleet
  • First Milazzo - Byzantines under Nasar destroy Arab fleet
• 885 - Frisians defeat Vikings
• 888 Second Milazzo - Arabs defeat Byzantines
• 908 Battle in the Aegean Sea - Byzantines under Himerios defeat Arabs
• 912 Chios - Syrian-Cilician fleet defeats Byzantine squadron under Himerios
• 932 Lang-shan Jiang
• 941 Rus'-Byzantine War - Byzantine fleet under Theophanes destroys Kievan Rus' fleet under Igor near Bosporus Strait
• 938 First Battle of Bach Dang River - Vietnamese defeat Southern Han fleet
• 956 - Tunisian fleet destroyed by Christians near Mazara
• 958 - Tunis vs Christians in Messina Strait
• 964 - Arab fleet destroys Byzantine fleet under Niketas near Calabria
• 975 - Song forces defeat Tang forces
• 981 Second Battle of Bach Dang - Vietnam defeats Chinese Song forces
• 998, February ? - Venetians under Orseolo defeat Narentan pirates
• 1000, September 9 Swold - Swedes and Danes defeat Norwegians
• 1004 - Venetians under Pietro Orseolo II defeat Arabs at Messina
• 1005 - Pisans defeat Arabs at Messina
• 1026 The Helgeå - Danes under Ulf Jarl defeat Swedes and Norwegians under Anund Jacob and Olaf II Haraldsson (Olaf the Stout) in southern Sweden
• 1032 - An joint Byzantine-Ragusan squadron defeats a Muslim corsair fleet in the Adriatic
• 1032 - A Novgorod fleet tries to reach Kolivan (modern Tallinn), but is defeated by Estonians in the Battle of the Iron Gate.
• 1035–1036 - Last Arab corsair raids against the Aegean islands are repulsed by the Byzantines
• 1043 Rus'-Byzantine War - Byzantines defeat Rus' squadron in the Bosporus
• 1062 Nissa - Norwegians under Harald Hardrada defeat Danes in Kattegat
• 1081 Dyrrhachium - Venetian-Byzantine fleet defeats Normans near Durazzo, Albania
• 1084 - Normans under Robert Guiscard (20 vessels?) defeat Venetians or Byzantines in a series of battles off Albania/Corfu