Every Major Battle in History

From Marathon to Midway — the clashes that changed civilisation.

Ancient

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Battle of Marathon

490 BC

Saved Greek civilization

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Battle of Thermopylae

480 BC

300 Spartans held back 100,000

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Battle of Gaugamela

331 BC

End of the Persian Empire

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Battle of Zama

202 BC

Rome becomes Mediterranean superpower

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Battle of Actium

31 BC

Birth of the Roman Empire

Medieval

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Battle of Tours

732 AD

Preserved Christian Europe

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Battle of Hastings

1066

Transformed English language & culture

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Battle of Manzikert

1071

Opened Anatolia to Turkic settlement

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Battle of Crécy

1346

End of armoured cavalry dominance

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Fall of Constantinople

1453

End of the Eastern Roman Empire

Early Modern

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Battle of Lepanto

1571

Checked Ottoman naval expansion

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Battle of the Spanish Armada

1588

England becomes naval power

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Battle of Vienna

1683

Turning point against Ottoman expansion

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Battle of Blenheim

1704

Halted French dominance in Europe

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Battle of Plassey

1757

Start of British rule in India

Revolutionary

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Battle of Saratoga

1777

Brought France into the Revolution

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Battle of Trafalgar

1805

Britain rules the seas for a century

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Battle of Austerlitz

1805

End of the Holy Roman Empire

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Battle of Waterloo

1815

End of the Napoleonic era

Modern

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Battle of Gettysburg

1863

Sealed the Confederacy's fate

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Battle of the Somme

1916

Defined the horror of WWI

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Battle of Verdun

1916

Longest battle of WWI

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Battle of Britain

1940

Prevented Nazi invasion of Britain

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Battle of Stalingrad

1942–43

Turning point of WWII in Europe

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Battle of Midway

1942

Turned the tide in the Pacific

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D-Day (Normandy)

1944

Began the liberation of Western Europe

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Battle of Inchon

1950

Reversed North Korean advance