Conflicts and resolutions of the 10th century
34 battles, sieges, wars, revolts, crises, treaties and peace settlements, in date order.
Battles 19
Battle of PressburgBattle · 907The Battle of Pressburg was fought on 4 July 907 near Pressburg, modern Bratislava, when a Hungarian army destroyed a large Bavarian force under Margrave Luitpold, who…
Battle of AchelousBattle · 917The Battle of Achelous was fought on 20 August 917 by the river Achelous, near Anchialus on the Black Sea coast of present-day Bulgaria.- Battle of KatasyrtaiBattle · 917The Battle of Katasyrtai was fought in 917 near Constantinople, shortly after Simeon I's victory at Achelous.
Battle of ValdejunqueraBattle · 920The Battle of Valdejunquera was fought on 26 July 920 in Navarre.
Battle of RiadeBattle · 933The Battle of Riade was fought in March 933, probably near the Unstrut river in Thuringia, between King Henry the Fowler of East Francia and a Magyar raiding army.- Battle of IllicheonBattle · 936The Battle of Illicheon was fought in 936 near Gumi in Korea, when Wang Geon, founder of Goryeo, defeated the army of Later Baekje led by Gyeon Singeom.
Battle of BrunanburhBattle · 937The Battle of Brunanburh was fought in 937 between Æthelstan, king of the English, and an alliance of Olaf Guthfrithson, king of Dublin, Constantine II of Scotland and…- Battle of AndernachBattle · 939The Battle of Andernach was fought on 2 October 939 on the Rhine near Andernach.
Battle of SimancasBattle · 939The Battle of Simancas was fought in August 939 near Simancas on the Pisuerga, close to the Douro, between Ramiro II of León and the army of Abd al-Rahman III, caliph…- Battle of TransBattle · 939The Battle of Trans was fought in 939 at Trans, near Dol in north-eastern Brittany, traditionally on 1 August.
- Battle of TakkolamBattle · 949The Battle of Takkolam was fought in 949 near Takkolam, north-west of Kanchipuram in present-day Tamil Nadu, between the Rashtrakuta emperor Krishna III, allied with…
- Battle of GaopingBattle · 954The Battle of Gaoping was fought in 954 in Shanxi, northern China, between the Later Zhou under Emperor Chai Rong and the Northern Han allied with the Khitan Liao.
Battle of LechfeldBattle · 955 CEThe Battle of Lechfeld was fought in 955 CE near Augsburg, where Otto I of Saxony decisively defeated the invading Magyars.- Battle of SulcoitBattle · 967The Battle of Sulcoit was fought in 967 near the town of Tipperary in Munster, Ireland.
- Battle of Gaoliang RiverBattle · 979The Battle of Gaoliang River was fought in 979 near modern Beijing between the Song emperor Taizong and the army of the Liao dynasty.
- Battle of TorrevicenteBattle · 981The Battle of Torrevicente was fought in 981 in the province of Soria, Spain, between the Córdoban general Almanzor and his father-in-law Ghalib, who had rebelled…
Battle of FýrisvellirBattle · c. 985The Battle of Fýrisvellir was fought in the 980s on the plains near Uppsala, where King Eric the Victorious of the Swedes defeated his nephew Styrbjörn the Strong, who…- Battle of ConquereuilBattle · 992The Battle of Conquereuil was fought in 992 near Conquereuil in eastern Brittany, north of Nantes, between Conan I of Rennes, who claimed the rule of all Brittany, and…
Battle of the SpercheiosBattle · 997The Battle of the Spercheios was fought in 997 on the river Spercheios in central Greece.
Sieges 3
Siege of DorostolonSiege · 971The Siege of Dorostolon took place from April to July 971 at Dorostolon, now Silistra, on the lower Danube.- Fatimid capture of DamascusSiege · 978The Fatimid capture of Damascus in 978 brought the city under the control of the Fatimid Caliphate after years of conflict with local forces and rivals.
- Capture of Awdaghast (992)Siege · 992 CEThe capture of Awdaghast in 992 CE was the conquest by the Ghana Empire of the oasis town of Awdaghast, previously held by Zanata Berbers.
Wars & campaigns 8
- Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927War · 913–927The Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927 was fought between the Bulgarian Empire under Simeon I and the Byzantine Empire.
- Sviatoslav's campaign against the KhazarsCampaign · 960sSviatoslav's campaign against the Khazars was a series of military expeditions by the prince of Kievan Rus in the 960s.
Byzantine conquest of BulgariaWar · 968–1018The Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria was the series of wars from 968 to 1018 in which the Byzantine Empire destroyed the First Bulgarian Empire.
Sviatoslav's invasion of BulgariaWar · 968–971Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria was the campaign of 968–971 in which Sviatoslav I of Kiev, first invited by the Byzantines, conquered much of the First Bulgarian…- Fatimid conquest of EgyptCampaign · 969 CEThe Fatimid conquest of Egypt in 969 CE was led by the general Jawhar al-Siqilli, who took the country with little resistance from the weakened Ikhshidid regime.
- Srivijayan invasion of MedangCampaign · 990 CEThe Srivijayan invasion of Medang was a military campaign by Srivijaya against the Javanese kingdom of Medang in 990 CE.
- Chola–Chalukya warsWar · c. 992–1120The Chola–Chalukya wars were a long series of conflicts in the 11th and early 12th centuries between the Chola dynasty of the Tamil country and the Western Chalukyas of…
Goryeo–Khitan WarWar · 993–1019The Goryeo–Khitan War was a series of invasions of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo by the Khitan Liao dynasty between 993 and 1019.
Revolts & revolutions 2
Chenqiao MutinyRevolution · 960 CEThe Chenqiao Mutiny was the coup of 960 CE in which troops of the Later Zhou commander Zhao Kuangyin draped him in the imperial yellow robe and proclaimed him emperor.
Great Slav RisingRevolt · 983The Great Slav Rising was a revolt of the Polabian Slavs, led by the Lutician tribes, against German rule east of the Elbe in 983.
