List of battles - List of battles 1400 BC-1400 - List of battles 1401-1800 - List of battles 1801-1900 - List of battles 1901-forward
- 1904 Battle of Port Arthur Feb. 8 Japan defeats Russia in Russo
- 1904 Battle of Yalu River May Japan defeats Russia
- 1904 Battle of Dairen May 30 Japan defeats Russia
- 1904 Battle of Liaoyang Oct. Japan defeats Russia
- 1905 Battle of Tsushima
- 1908 Battle of Marakesh Aug. 23 Mulay Hafid successfully revolts against Morocco Sultan
- 1913 Battle of Adrianople (1913) - First Balkan War
- 1914 Battle of Vera Cruz Apr. 21 US occupies Mexican town
- 1914 Battle of Gumbinnen
- 1914 Battle of the Frontiers Aug. 14 French lose badly, news of this censored
- 1914 Battle of Tannenberg (1914) Aug. 26 Sarsanov's Russians lose badly to Hindenberg and Ludendorf
- 1914 Battle of First Marne Sep. 5 German advance ended by French
- 1914 Battle of Masurian Lakes Sep. 6 Germans under Maclenson defeat Russians
- 1914 Battle of Antwerp September 28
- 1914 Battle of First Ypres Oct. 30 Trench warfare lasting over a month
- 1914 Battle of Falkland Islands Dec. 8 British defeat Admiral Graf Spee
- 1914 Battle of Cracow Nov. 16 heavy casualties to Austria and Russia
- 1914 Battle of Lodz Nov. Russians take city, lose it Dec. 6
- 1914 Battle of Lowicz Nov. Russians take city
- 1914 Battle of Kolubara Dec. Serbs drive out Austrians
- 1915 Battle of Gallipoli Fisher proposes, Churchill takes blame, Kemal says to Turkish troops: "I do not order you to attack, I order you to die"
- 1915 Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1915) - World War I - Turkish Assimilation of Armenians
- 1915 Battle of Loos September 25-September 28
- 1915 Battle of Second Ypres Apr. 22 Germans use poison chlorine gas
- 1915 Battle of Sair Bair
- 1916 Battle of Verdun Feb. 21 Five month battle kills 700,000
- 1916 Battle of Jutland Skagerrak May 31 German fleet escapes British fleet
- 1916 Brusilov Offensive June 1916 Russia nearly collapses Austria but losses are staggering.
- 1916 Battle of Romani, Egypt August 3, 1916
- 1916 Battle of Mouquet Farm
- 1916 Battle of the Somme (1916) July Four month battle, bloodiest in history
- 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge Apr. 9 Canada's finest hour.
- 1917 Battle of Passchendaele July 31 Three month battle costs Britain 400,000
- 1917 Battle of Cambrai Nov. 20 First great tank attack helps Brits recover
- 1917 Battle of Caporetto or Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo Italians fight Austrians
- 1917 Battle of Third Ypres August 1 Australian soldiers in action at Menin Road, Glencorse Wood, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde Ridge and Passchendaele
- 1918 Battle of Cantigny May 28 US First Division wins in first independent action
- 1918 Battle of Bellau Wood June 25 US Second Division Marines capture woods
- 1918 Battle of Second Marne July 17 Allies halt four month German drive
- 1918 Battle of Amiens Aug. British force Germans to Hindenburg line
- 1918 Battle of Meuse Argonne Forest Oct. 8 Private Alvin York attacks German machine gun nest
- 1918 Battle of Vittoria Veneto
- 1918 Battle of Chateau Thierry
- 1921 Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1921) - Second Greek-Turkish War
- 1921 Battle of Anual July 21 in Morocco, Spanish army loses
- 1936 Battle of Guernica
- 1937 Battle of Lugou Bridge - July 7 World War II Japanese victory triggered outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War
- 1937 Battle of Nanjing - early November to December 13 - Japanese victory after 2 months siege of the capital of Republic of China.
- 1938 Battle of Tai er zhuang - March 27 World War II Chinese claim startegic and moral victory over Japanese
- 1939 Battle of River Plate Dec. 13
- 1940 Battle of Dunkirk May 27 - June 5 World War II
- 1940 Battle of Britain July 9 Germans try to bomb Britain into submission
- 1940 Battle of Hundred Regiments August - September
- 1941 - 1945 Battle of the Atlantic - World War II
- 1941 Battle of Crete World War II
- 1941 Operation Barbarossa German invasion of Russia, June 22
- 1941 Battle of Pearl Harbor December 7 Japanese temporarily destroy US Fleet
- 1942 Battle of Macasser Strait Jan. US and Dutch forces attack Japanese convoy
- 1942 Battle of Drazgose January 9 First frontal engagement on Slovene soil with the German occupier
- 1942 Battle of Java Sea Feb. Japanese wipe out allied squadron
- 1942 Battle of Corregidor April 9 Wainwright's troops surrender, forced on Bataan Death March
- 1942 Battle of Coral Sea May 4 US loses USS Lexington, Japanese lose big
- 1942 Battle of Midway June 3 US loses USS Yorktown, Japanese lose superiority
- 1942 Battle of El Alamein Field Marshall Montgomery stops axis at Egypt (First Battle of El Alamein, Second Battle of El Alamein)
- 1942 Battle of Sevastapol July 2 After eight month siege, city captured
- 1942 Battle of Changsha - World War II Chinese claim victory over Japanese
- 1942 Battle of Stalingrad August 22 siege begins
- 1942 Battle of the East Solomon Islands. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho is sunk.
- 1942 Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea (August 25)
- 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz October 25 USS Hornet sunk, Japanese lose near Guadalcanal
- 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Nov 12 US under Halsey
- 1942 Battle of Dieppe
- 1943 Battle of Osankarica January 8 Over 200 Germans massacred all 69 men and women of the Pohorje battalion. Germans lost 19 men and had 31 wounded
- 1943 Battle of Guadalcanal February 8 Allies take this Solomon Island
- 1943 Battle of Bismarck Sea March 2 US sinks Japanese transports
- 1943 Battle of Warsaw Ghetto April 18 from Passover 5000 Jews and 5000 Germans die, Jews confined
- 1943 Battle of Castle Turjak September 19 Slovene partisans took the castle guarded by the Slovene village sentries
- 1943 Battle of Kursk July Russians defeat Germans in battle with 6000 tanks, 4000 planes
- 1944 Battle of Peleliu - September 17
- 1944 Battle of Aachen - World War II
- 1944 Battle of Normandy June 6 176,000 allies land on 5 beaches Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword, Gold
- 1944 Battle of Philippine Sea June 19 - 402 Japanese planes lost, 27 US planes downed
- 1944 Battle of Fontenay June 25
- 1944 Battle of Arnhem September 17 World War II Operation Market Garden
- 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf - World War II October 23 - October 26
- 1944 Battle of the Bulge December 16 German counterattack in Ardennes: McAuliffe "NUTS"
- 1945 Battle of Mindanao March 10 US invasion of Philippines
- 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima March 16 After a month, US takes island
- 1945 Battle of Poljana The last battle of the World War II in Europe.
- 1945 Battle of Okinawa June 21 Island in Ryukyus taken
- 1948 Israel War of Independence War of independence drives many Arabs from country
- 1950 Battle of Inchon Sept. 14 UN retakes S. Korea, reach Seoul in 12 days
- 1950 Battle of Chosin Reservoir November 27
- 1951 Battle of Heartbreak Ridge September 23 After 37 days, heights fall to UN
- 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu France loses Indochina when besieged here, from 1953
- 1956 Battle of Suez Britain, France, Israel attempt to retake canal, Ike says No
- 1967 Six Day War June 5 Israel defeats combined Arab forces
- 1968 Tet Offensive Jan. 30 N. Vietnam loses militarily but turns the tide of American opinion against the war
- 1968 My Lai Massacre March 16 Lt. Calley killed innocents
- 1969 Football War July 14, El Salvador, Honduras
- 1973 Yom Kippur War Oct. 6 Israel, taken by surprise on Holy Day, defeats combined forces, Kissinger prevents their capturing of three Arab capitals
- 1982 Falkland Islands War Apr. 2 Britain waves the Rules, attacks retreating Argentine Ships, captures islands
- 1983 Battle of Grenada Oct. 25 US invades island