Conflicts and resolutions of the 11th century
57 battles, sieges, wars, revolts, crises, treaties and peace settlements, in date order.
Battles 43
Battle of SvolderBattle · 1000The Battle of Svolder was a naval battle fought in September 1000 in the western Baltic.
Battle of ClontarfBattle · 1014The Battle of Clontarf was fought on 23 April 1014 north of Dublin.
Battle of KleidionBattle · 1014The Battle of Kleidion was fought on 29 July 1014 in the Belasitsa mountains, where the Byzantine emperor Basil II outflanked and destroyed the army of Tsar Samuel of…
Battle of NesjarBattle · 1016The Battle of Nesjar was a naval battle fought in 1016 near the mouth of the Oslofjord.
Battle of CarhamBattle · c. 1018The Battle of Carham was fought around 1018 at Carham on the River Tweed, where Malcolm II of Scotland, with Owen the Bald of Strathclyde, defeated a Northumbrian army.
Battle of VlaardingenBattle · 1018The Battle of Vlaardingen was fought on 29 July 1018, when Count Dirk III of Holland defeated an imperial army under Duke Godfrey II of Lower Lorraine near his…- Battle of GwijuBattle · 1019The Battle of Gwiju was fought in 1019 near Gwiju, in modern North Pyongan province, when Goryeo forces under Gang Gam-chan destroyed a retreating Khitan army of the…
- Battle of MaskiBattle · c. 1020The Battle of Maski was fought around 1019–1020 at Maski, in present-day Raichur district of Karnataka, between the Chola king Rajendra I and the Western Chalukya king…
- Battle of ListvenBattle · 1024The Battle of Listven was fought in 1024 near Chernigov between Mstislav of Tmutarakan and his brother Yaroslav the Wise, prince of Kiev, who had hired Varangian troops.
- Battle of al-UqhuwanaBattle · 1029The Battle of al-Uqhuwana was fought in 1029 near Lake Tiberias in Palestine, where a Fatimid army under Anushtakin al-Dizbari defeated an alliance of the Jarrahids and…
Battle of StiklestadBattle · 1030The Battle of Stiklestad was fought on 29 July 1030 in Trøndelag, Norway, where King Olaf Haraldsson, returning from exile to reclaim his throne, was killed by an army…
Battle of TamarónBattle · 1037The Battle of Tamarón was fought on 4 September 1037 near Tamarón, west of Burgos, between Bermudo III of León and his brother-in-law Ferdinand, count of Castile, aided…- Battle of Rhyd-y-groesBattle · 1039The Battle of Rhyd-y-groes was fought in 1039 at a ford on the River Severn near Welshpool, where Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, newly king of Gwynedd and Powys, defeated a…
Battle of DandanaqanBattle · 1040The Battle of Dandanaqan was fought in 1040 near Merv between the Seljuk Turks and the Ghaznavid army of Sultan Mas'ud.
Battle of MénfőBattle · 1044The Battle of Ménfő was fought on 5 July 1044 near Győr, where Emperor Henry III defeated King Samuel Aba of Hungary.
Battle of Val-ès-DunesBattle · 1047The Battle of Val-ès-Dunes was fought in 1047 near Caen, where the young Duke William of Normandy and his overlord King Henry I of France defeated a coalition of rebel…- Battle of HaydaranBattle · 1052The Battle of Haydaran was fought in April 1052 in Ifriqiya between the army of the Zirid emir al-Mu'izz ibn Badis and the Arab Banu Hilal tribes, sent west after the…
- Battle of AtapuercaBattle · 1054The Battle of Atapuerca was fought on 1 September 1054 near Burgos between two sons of Sancho III of Navarre.
- Battle of KoppamBattle · 1054The Battle of Koppam was fought in 1054 between the Chola king Rajadhiraja I and the Western Chalukya king Someshvara I, probably near the Krishna or Tungabhadra river.
Battle of MortemerBattle · 1054The Battle of Mortemer was fought in February 1054 in upper Normandy, when forces of Duke William of Normandy surprised and destroyed one of two French armies that King…
Battle of VaravilleBattle · 1057The Battle of Varaville was fought in August 1057 near the mouth of the Dives in Normandy.- Battle of KudalasangamamBattle · 1060sThe Battle of Kudalasangamam was fought in the 1060s near the confluence of the Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers between the Chola king Virarajendra and the Western…
- Battle of GrausBattle · 1063The Battle of Graus was fought in 1063 at Graus, in the Pyrenean foothills of Aragon, where Ramiro I of Aragon was killed attacking the town, held by the taifa of…
Battle of HastingsBattle · 1066The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 near Hastings in Sussex, where Duke William of Normandy defeated and killed King Harold Godwinson of England.
Battle of Stamford BridgeBattle · 1066The Battle of Stamford Bridge was fought on 25 September 1066 near York, where King Harold II of England defeated an invading Norwegian army.
Battle on the Nemiga RiverBattle · 1067The Battle on the Nemiga River was fought on 3 March 1067 near Minsk between Prince Vseslav of Polotsk and the three sons of Yaroslav the Wise, Iziaslav, Sviatoslav and…- Battle of LlantadaBattle · 1068The Battle of Llantada was fought in July 1068 on the border between Castile and León, between Sancho II of Castile and his brother Alfonso VI of León.
- Battle of the Alta River (1068)Battle · 1068The Battle of the Alta River was fought in 1068 near Pereyaslavl, where the Cumans (Polovtsians) defeated the combined forces of three sons of Yaroslav the Wise…
Battle of Cassel (1071)Battle · 22 February 1071The Battle of Cassel was fought on 22 February 1071 near Cassel in Flanders over the succession to the county.- Battle of ManzikertBattle · 1071The Battle of Manzikert was fought in 1071 in eastern Anatolia between the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes and the Seljuk Turks under Sultan Alp…
Battle of GolpejeraBattle · 1072The Battle of Golpejera was fought in January 1072 near Carrión de los Condes between the brothers Sancho II of Castile and Alfonso VI of León.
Battle of Langensalza (1075)Battle · 1075The Battle of Langensalza, also called the Battle of Homburg on the Unstrut, was fought on 9 June 1075 in Thuringia during the Saxon rebellion against the Salian king…- Battle of Như Nguyệt RiverBattle · 1077The Battle of Như Nguyệt River was fought in 1077 on the Cầu river, then called Như Nguyệt, north of the Vietnamese capital Thăng Long.
- Battle of Mynydd CarnBattle · 1081The Battle of Mynydd Carn was fought in 1081 at an unidentified site in south-west Wales.
Battle of Almenar (1082)Battle · 1082The Battle of Almenar was fought in 1082 near Almenar, north of Lleida in Catalonia.
Battle of SagrajasBattle · 1086The Battle of Sagrajas, called Zallaca in Arabic, was fought on 23 October 1086 near Badajoz, where Yusuf ibn Tashfin's Almoravid army shattered the forces of Alfonso…
Battle of LevounionBattle · 1091The Battle of Levounion was fought on 29 April 1091 in Thrace, near the mouth of the Maritsa, between the Byzantine Empire and the Pechenegs.
Battle of CuarteBattle · 1094The Battle of Cuarte was fought in October 1094 outside Valencia, months after El Cid had captured the city.
Battle of AlcorazBattle · 1096The Battle of Alcoraz was fought in November 1096 near Huesca, where Peter I of Aragon and Navarre defeated the army of the taifa of Zaragoza, which had Castilian…
Battle of BairénBattle · 1097The Battle of Bairén was fought in January 1097 near Gandia, south of Valencia, between El Cid, supported by King Peter I of Aragon, and an Almoravid army.
Battle of Dorylaeum (1097)Battle · 1097The Battle of Dorylaeum was fought on 1 July 1097 near Dorylaeum in north-western Anatolia, during the First Crusade.
Battle of Gvozd MountainBattle · 1097The Battle of Gvozd Mountain was fought in 1097 in the Gvozd range of central Croatia, where the Croatian king Petar Snačić was defeated and killed by the Hungarian…
Battle of AscalonBattle · 12 August 1099The Battle of Ascalon was fought on 12 August 1099 near Ascalon on the coast of southern Palestine, soon after the capture of Jerusalem in the First Crusade.
Sieges 3
- Almoravid capture of AwdaghastSiege · 1054The Almoravid capture of Awdaghast was the seizure of the Saharan trading town of Awdaghast by the Almoravids in 1054.
- Sack of Koumbi SalehSiege · c. 1076The sack of Koumbi Saleh refers to the capture of the capital of the Ghana Empire around 1076, traditionally attributed to the Almoravids.
- Siege of Jerusalem (1099)Siege · 1099The Siege of Jerusalem in 1099 was the capture of Jerusalem by the armies of the First Crusade, followed by a massacre of many of its inhabitants.
Wars & campaigns 7
German–Polish War (1002–1018)War · 1002–1018The German–Polish War of 1002–1018 was a series of conflicts between the Polish duke Bolesław I the Brave and the German king and emperor Henry II over Lusatia, Meissen…
Fitna of al-AndalusWar · 1009–1031The Fitna of al-Andalus was the civil war that destroyed the Caliphate of Córdoba between 1009 and 1031.
Chola invasion of SrivijayaCampaign · 1025; 1068The Chola invasion of Srivijaya refers to naval raids launched by the Chola Empire of southern India against Srivijaya's ports in 1025, under Rajendra I, and again…
Byzantine–Seljuk warsWar · 1048–1308The Byzantine–Seljuk wars were the conflicts between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks, from Seljuk raids into Armenia in the mid-11th century to the end of the…
Norman ConquestWar · 1066The Norman Conquest was the invasion and occupation of England by William, Duke of Normandy, in 1066 and the following years.- Song–Đại Việt warWar · 1075–1077The Song–Đại Việt war was fought between the Song dynasty of China and the Lý dynasty of Đại Việt in 1075–1077.
First CrusadeCampaign · captured Jerusalem 1099The First Crusade was a military expedition by western European Christians that captured Jerusalem in 1099 and established the Crusader states.
Revolts & revolutions 1
Treaties 2
Chanyuan TreatyTreaty · Peace · 1005The Chanyuan Treaty was a peace agreement concluded in 1005 between the Song Dynasty and the Khitan Liao dynasty.
Peace of BautzenTreaty · Peace · 1018The Peace of Bautzen was signed on 30 January 1018 between Emperor Henry II and Duke Bolesław I the Brave of Poland, ending fifteen years of intermittent war.
