List of battles 1901–2000
List of battles - List of battles 1400 BC-600 AD - List of battles 601-1400 - List of battles 1401-1800 - List of battles 1801-1900 - List of battles 1901-forward
- 1900 Battle of Paardeberg February 17-27 British eventuall capture forces of Boer general Piet Cronje
- 1900 Battle of Spion Kop January 24 in Second Boer War
- 1904 Battle of Port Arthur February 8 Japanese defeat Russians
- 1904 Battle of Mukden
- 1904 Battle of Yalu River May Japanese defeat Russians
- 1904 Battle of Dairen May 30 Japanese defeat Russians
- 1904 Battle of Liaoyang October. Japanese defeat Russians
- 1905 Battle of Tsushima May 27-28 Japanese win a decisive victory over Russian fleet in the Straits of Tshushima
- 1908 Battle of Marakesh August 23 Mulay Hafid successfully revolts against Morocco Sultan
- 1913 Battle of Adrianople (1913) - First Balkan War
- 1913 Battle of Dul Madoba
- 1914 Battle of Vera Cruz April 21 US occupies Mexican town
- 1914 Battle of Gumbinnen
- 1914 Battle of the Frontiers August 14 French lose badly, news of this censored, consisting of:
- Battle of Mulhouse 7 August
- Battle of Lorraine 14 August
- Battle of the Ardennes 21 August
- Battle of Charleroi 21 August
- Battle of Mons 23 August
- 1914 Battle of Tannenberg (1914) August 26 Samsonov's Russians lose badly to Hindenburg and Ludendorf
- 1914 Battle of Heligoland Bight August 28 First naval engagement - heavy German losses
- 1914 Battle of First Marne September 5 German advance ended by French
- 1914 Battle of Masurian Lakes September 6 Germans under Maclenson defeat Russians
- 1914 Battle of Antwerp September 28
- 1914 Battle of First Ypres October 30 Trench warfare lasting over a month
- 1914 Battle of Coronel Nov. 1 Admiral Graf Spee defeats Admiral Cradock
- 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 Dogger Bank Jan. 24 Adm. Beatty drives off Hipper's raiding force with loss of SMS Blucher
- 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 - December Five-month battle kills 700,000
- 1916 Battle of Jutland in 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 Passchendaele also known as Third battle of Ypres Beginning July 31 Three-month battle costs Britain 400,000
- 1917 Battle of Caporetto or Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo Italians fight Austrians
- 1917 Battle of Cambrai November 20 - December 7 Begins as the first tank battle
- 1918 Battle of Tampere March 8 – April 6 in Finnish Civil War
- 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 Megiddo (WW1) September 19 Allenby's British crush Ottoman army
- 1918 Battle of Meuse Argonne Forest Oct. 8 Private Alvin York attacks German machine gun nest
- 1918 Battle of Passchendaele
- 1918 Battle of Vittoria Veneto
- 1918 Battle of Chateau Thierry
- 1920 Battle of Warsaw Poles defeat Red Army
- 1921 Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1921) - Second Greek-Turkish War
- 1921 Battle of Anual July 21 in Morocco, Spanish army loses to Rifi berbers of Abd el Krim.
- 1936 Battle of Guernica
- 1937 Battle of Guadalajara in the Spanish Civil War
- 1937 Battle of Lugou Bridge - July 7 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 strategic and moral victory over Japanese
- 1939 Battle of Halhin Gol
- 1939 Battle of the River Plate Dec. 13
- 1939 Battle of Suomussalmi December 8 - January 7 - Winter War.
- 1940 Battle of Dunkirk May 27 - June 5 World War II
- 1940 Battle of Britain July 9 - October 31 Germans try to bomb Britain into submission – RAF answers with fighters
- 1940 Battle of Hundred Regiments August - September
- 1941 - 1945 Battle of the Atlantic - World War II
- 1941 Battle of Denmark Strait May 23 – Bismarck sinks Hood
- 1941 Battle of Crete May 20 – June 1 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 Dražgoše 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 Nanos April 18 800 Italian soldiers lay siege 50 Slovene partisans. Partisans break through, nine were killed and eleven were captured
- 1942 Battle of the 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 June 17 Convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk – massive casualties from German onslaught during the trip. July 5 10 out of 27 ships reach Murmansk.
- 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 Guadalcanal August 8 beginning of Allied action in Solomon Islands
- 1942 Battle of Savo Island August 9 Japanese sink four cruisers
- 1942 Battle of Dieppe August 19
- 1942 Battle of Stalingrad August 22 siege begins
- 1942 Battle of the Eastern Solomons August 24 - Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho sunk
- 1942 Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea August 25
- 1942 Battle of Bloody Ridge September 12
- 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance October 11 - near Guadalcanal
- 1942 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands October 25 - near Guadalcanal, USS Hornet sunk, but Japanese withdraw
- 1942 Operation Torch November 17 - Allied landings in North Africa
- 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 12 US defeats Japan
- 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga November 30 - off Guadalcanal
- 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 the island
- 1943 Battle of the Kasserine Pass February 14-25 Battle between US and German armored forces in Tunisia
- 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 Cisterna January 29
- 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino May 11-18
- 1944 Marianas Campaign American invasions of Saipan, June 15, Guam July 21, and Tinian July 24
- 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, see Operation Overlord
- 1944 Battle of Villers-Bocage June 13 - one German tank surprises British tanks in French village.
- 1944 Battle of Philippine Sea June 19 - 402 Japanese planes lost, 27 US planes downed
- 1944 Battle of Fontenay June 25
- 1944 Battles of Tali-Ihantala June 25-July 10 Finnish stop Soviet offensive
- 1944 Operation Dragoon August 15 - Allied invasion in Southern France
- 1944 Operation Anvil August 16 - second Allied landing in Southern France.
- 1944 Battle of Arnhem September 17 - see Operation Market Garden
- 1944 Battle of the Hurtgen Forest Begins in October 6 – Volksturm and German tank unit repulses 8 US infantry regiments and two armored divisions in a 6-month battle. Private Eddie Slovik executed for cowardice.
- 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf October 23-October 26 - largest naval battle in history
- 1944 Operation Queen November 16
- 1944 Battle of Monte Castello November 25-February 12 1945 Brazilian troops fight Germans in Italy.
- 1944 Battle of the Bulge December 16 German counterattack in Ardennes: McAuliffe "NUTS"
- 1945 Operation Elephant January 26 Allied offensive in Netherlands
- 1945 Battle of Mindanao March 10 US invasion of Philippines
- 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima March 26 - After a month, US takes the island
- 1945 Operation Varsity March 17 - 134 Allied gliders land troops in Weisel
- 1945 Battle for Berlin April 27-May 2 - Hitler commits suicide
- 1945 Battle of Poljana - last battle of 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 September 14 UN retakes S. Korea, reaches 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
- 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
- 1962 Battle of Namka Chan in Chinese-Indian War
- 1967 Six Day War June 5 Israel defeats combined Arab forces
- 1968 Tet Offensive January 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 October 6 Israel, taken by surprise on Holy Day, defeats combined forces, Kissinger prevents their capturing of three Arab capitals
- 1982 Battle of Goose Green May 26 during Falklands War
- 1983 Battle of Grenada October 25 US invades island