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A chronological list of sieges follows.


Military sieges

A military
siege A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition warfare, attrition, or a well-prepared assault. This derives from la, sedere, lit=to sit. Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity con ...
is a prolonged military assault and
blockade A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force. A blockade differs from an embargo or sanction, which are le ...
on a city or
fortress A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...
with the intent of conquering by force or
attrition Attrition may refer to *Attrition warfare, the military strategy of wearing down the enemy by continual losses in personnel and material **War of Attrition, fought between Egypt and Israel from 1968 to 1970 **War of attrition (game), a model of agg ...
.


Ancient


Before 1000 BC

* Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) *
Siege of Uruk Gilgamesh and Aga, sometimes referred to as incipit The envoys of Aga ( Sumerian: ''lu2 kin-gi4-a aka'') is an Old Babylonian poem written in Sumerian. The only one of the five poems of Gilgamesh that has no mythological aspects, it has been th ...
(c. 2580 BC) * Siege of Qabra (1780 BC) * Siege of Hiritum (1764 BC) * Siege of
Larsa Larsa ( Sumerian logogram: UD.UNUGKI, read ''Larsamki''), also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon (Gk. Λαραγχων) by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of ancient Sumer, the center of the cul ...
(1763 BC) * Siege of Avaris (c. 1550 BC) * Siege of Sharuhen (c. 1530 BC) * Siege of Megiddo (c. 1457 BC) * Siege of Jericho (c. 1400 BC) *
Siege of Dapur The siege of Dapur occurred as part of Pharaoh Ramesses II's campaign to suppress Galilee and conquer Syria in 1269 BC. He described his campaign on the wall of his mortuary temple, the Ramesseum in Thebes, Egypt. The inscriptions say that Dapur ...
(1269 BC) *
Siege of Troy In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Homer), Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris (mythology), Paris of Troy took Helen of Troy, Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of th ...
(c. 1200 BC)


10th century BC

* Siege of
Rabbah Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 as of 2021, Amman i ...
(10th century BC) (Bible Reference: II Samuel 11–12) * Siege of Abel-beth-maachah (10th century BC) (Bible Reference: II Samuel 20:15–22) * Siege of Gezer (10th century BC) *
Sack of Jerusalem (925 BC) Shishak, Shishaq or Susac (, Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: , ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, an Egyptian pharaoh who sacked Jerusalem in the 10th century BCE. He is usually identified with the pharaoh Shoshenq I.Troy Leiland Sagrillo. 2015.Sh ...
by Egyptian pharaoh
Shoshenq I Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq I (Egyptian ''ššnq''; reigned c. 943–922 BC)—also known as Shashank or Sheshonk or Sheshonq Ifor discussion of the spelling, see Shoshenq—was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Twenty-secon ...


9th century BC

* Siege of
Gath (city) Gath or Gat ( he, גַּת‎, translit=Gaṯ, lit=wine press; la, Geth, Philistine: 𐤂𐤕 *''Gīt''), often referred to as Gath of the Philistines, was a major Philistine city and one of the five Philistine city-states during the Iron Age. ...
(ca. 830 BC) (Bible Reference: II Kings 12:17/18) * Siege of
Samaria (ancient city) Samaria ( he, שֹׁמְרוֹן, translit=Šōmrōn; grc, Σαμάρεια, ''Samareia''; ar, السامرة, ''as-Samira'') was a city in the historical region of Samaria that served as the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel during ...
(9th century BC) (Bible Reference: II Kings 6:24 – 7:7)


8th century BC

* Siege of Tyre (724–720 BC) by the Assyrians under
Shalmaneser V Shalmaneser V (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , meaning "Salmānu is foremost"; Biblical Hebrew: ) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Tiglath-Pileser III in 727 BC to his deposition and death in 722 BC. Though Shalman ...
and
Sargon II Sargon II (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , meaning "the faithful king" or "the legitimate king") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 722 BC to his death in battle in 705. Probably the son of Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727), Sargon is general ...
* Siege of Gezer (c. 733 BC) *
Siege of Hermopolis A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or a well-prepared assault. This derives from la, sedere, lit=to sit. Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict characterize ...
(701 BC) *
Siege of Azekah The siege of Azekah was a battle between the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah. It preceded the Siege of Lachish, making it the first known clash between the two kingdoms during Sennacherib's campaign in Judah. The most important so ...
(701 BC) *
Siege of Lachish The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BCE. The siege is documented in several sources including the Hebrew Bible, Assyrian documents and in the Lachish relief, a well-preserved serie ...
(701 BC) * Siege of Jerusalem (701 BC) by the Assyrians under
Sennacherib Sennacherib (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: or , meaning " Sîn has replaced the brothers") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sargon II in 705BC to his own death in 681BC. The second king of the Sargonid dynast ...
* Siege of Tyre (701 BC) by the Assyrians under Sennacherib


7th century BC

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Siege of Babylon The siege of Babylon in 689 BC took place after King of Assyria, Assyrian king Sennacherib's victory over the Elamites at the Battle of River Diyala. Although the Assyrians had suffered heavy casualties at the river, they had beaten the Elamites s ...
(689 BC) * Siege of Tyre (671 BC) by the Assyrians under
Esarhaddon Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , also , meaning " Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ''ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn'') was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his ...
* Siege of Tyre (663 BC) by the Assyrians under
Ashurbanipal Ashurbanipal (Neo-Assyrian language, Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , meaning "Ashur (god), Ashur is the creator of the heir") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BCE to his death in 631. He is generally remembered as the last great king o ...
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Fall of Ashdod The Fall of Ashdod was the successful Egyptian assault on the city of Ashdod, one of the five cities of the famed Philistine pentapolis, located in southwestern Canaan, about 655 BC. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, pharaoh Psamtik I, b ...
(635 BC) *
Fall of Assur The Fall of Assur occurred when the first city and old capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire fell to Medes, Median, Babylonian and other rebellion led forces. The sack of the city that followed destroyed the city to some degree; however it recovered ...
(614 BC) *
Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) The Battle of Nineveh is conventionally dated between 613 and 611 BC, with 612 BC being the most supported date. Rebelling against the Assyrians, an allied army which combined the forces of Medes and the Babylonians, besieged Nineveh and sacked ...
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Fall of Harran The Fall of Harran refers to the siege and capture of the Assyrian city of Harran by the Median and Neo-Babylonian empires. Background From the year 639 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire had been suffering from a decline in their power, culminating in ...
(610 BC) * Siege of Harran (609 BC)


6th century BC

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Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC) The siege of Jerusalem (597 BC) was a military campaign carried out by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, in which he besieged Jerusalem, then capital of the Kingdom of Judah. The city surrendered, with king Jeconiah of Jud ...
by
Nebuchadnezzar II Nebuchadnezzar II (Babylonian cuneiform: ''Nabû-kudurri-uṣur'', meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"; Biblical Hebrew: ''Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar''), also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling ...
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Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC) The siege of Jerusalem (circa 589–587 BCE) was the final event of the Judahite revolts against Babylon, in which Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, besieged Jerusalem, the capital city of the Kingdom of Judah. Jerusalem ...
by Nebuchadnezzar II * Siege of Tyre (586–573 BC) by Nebuchadnezzar II *
Siege of Sardis (547 BC) The siege of Sardis (547/546 BC) was the last decisive conflict after the Battle of Thymbra, which was fought between the forces of Croesus of Lydia and Cyrus the Great, Cyrus followed Croesus to his city, laid siege to it for 14 days and captured ...
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Siege of Gaza The siege of Gaza took place in 332 BC, and was part of the Egyptian campaign of Alexander the Great, the ancient Greek king of Macedonia. It ended the Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt, which functioned as a satrapy of the Achaemenid Persian ...
(525 BC) * Siege of Memphis (525 BC) File:Assyrian siege-engine attacking the city wall of Lachish, part of the ascending assaulting wave. Detail of a wall relief dating back to the reign of Sennacherib, 700-692 BCE. From Nineveh, Iraq, currently housed in the British Museum.jpg, Depiction of the
siege of Lachish The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BCE. The siege is documented in several sources including the Hebrew Bible, Assyrian documents and in the Lachish relief, a well-preserved serie ...
from an Assyrian wall relief File:Ramses II besieging the Cheta people in Dapur.jpg, A
mural A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage. Word mural in art The word ''mural'' is a Spani ...
from the tomb of
Ramesses II Ramesses II ( egy, wikt:rꜥ-ms-sw, rꜥ-ms-sw ''Rīʿa-məsī-sū'', , meaning "Ra is the one who bore him"; ), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Along with Thutmose III he is oft ...
in Thebes depicting the
siege of Dapur The siege of Dapur occurred as part of Pharaoh Ramesses II's campaign to suppress Galilee and conquer Syria in 1269 BC. He described his campaign on the wall of his mortuary temple, the Ramesseum in Thebes, Egypt. The inscriptions say that Dapur ...
File:Nebuchadnezzar camp outside Jerusalem. Famine in the city.jpg, A Medieval depiction of the siege of Jerusalem in 587 BC.


5th century BC


4th century BC


3rd century BC

* Siege of Messene (295 BC) – Wars of the Diadochi * Siege of Thebes (292–291 BC) *
Siege of Athens (287 BC) The siege of Athens lasted through 287 BC when the city was put under siege by King Demetrius I of Macedon. Athens revolted in that year against Demetrius' rule and elected Olympiodorus as strategos. Olympiodorus raised a force among the Atheni ...
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Siege of Syracuse (278 BC) The siege of Syracuse in 278 BC was the last attempt of Carthage to conquer the city of Syracuse. Syracuse was weakened by a civil war between Thoenon and Sostratus. The Carthaginians used this opportunity to attack and besiege Syracuse bo ...
– Part of the
Pyrrhic War The Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC) was largely fought between the Roman Republic and Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, who had been asked by the people of the Greek city of Tarentum in southern Italy to help them in their war against the Romans. A ski ...
* Siege of Lilybaeum (278 BC) – Part of the Pyrrhic War *
Siege of Sparta The siege of Sparta took place in 272 BC and was a battle fought between Epirus, led by King Pyrrhus, ( 297–272 BC) and an alliance consisting of Sparta, under the command of King Areus I ( 309–265 BC) and his heir Acrotatus, and Macedon. ...
(272 BC) –
Pyrrhus' invasion of the Peloponnese Pyrrhus' invasion of the Peloponnese in 272 BC was an invasion of south Greece by Pyrrhus, King of Epirus. He was opposed by Macedon and a coalition of Greek city-states (''poleis''), most notably Sparta. The war ended in a joint victory by Mac ...
* Siege of Agrigentum (261 BC) – Part of the
First Punic War The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and grea ...
* Siege of Aspis (255 BC) – Part of the First Punic War * Siege of Lilybaeum (250 BC) – Part of the First Punic War *
Siege of Drepana The siege of Drepana took place from about 249 to 241 BC during the First Punic War. Background Drepana (today's Trapani) and Lilybaeum (today's Marsala) were two Carthaginian naval strongholds at the western end of Sicily that came under p ...
(249–241 BC) – Part of the First Punic War *
Battle of "The Saw" The Battle of the Saw was the culminating battle of a campaign fought between a Carthaginian army led by Hamilcar Barca and a rebel force led by Spendius in 238BC in what is now northern Tunisia. Carthage was fighting a coalition of mutinous so ...
(238 BC) – Part of the
Mercenary War The Mercenary War, also known as the Truceless War, was a mutiny by troops that were employed by Carthage at the end of the First Punic War (264241 BC), supported by uprisings of African settlements revolting against Carthaginian contro ...
* Siege of Tunis (238 BC) – Part of the Mercenary War *
Siege of Medion The siege of Medion was a siege carried out by the Aetolian League in 231 BC against the Ancient Greek city of Medion in Acarnania. The siege triggered an invasion by an Illyrian relief force and ended in the Battle of Medion with an Aetolian defe ...
(231 BC) –
First Illyrian War The Illyro-Roman Wars were a series of wars fought between the Roman Republic and the Ardiaei kingdom. In the ''First Illyrian War'', which lasted from 229 BC to 228 BC, Rome's concern was that the trade across the Adriatic Sea increased after the ...
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Siege of Issa The siege of Issa took place from 230 BC to 229 BC between the forces of the Ancient Greek colony of Issa, aided by the Roman Republic, and the Ardiaean Kingdom of Illyria. Prelude Earlier in 230 BC, Illyrian forces under Queen Teuta and Scer ...
(230–229 BC) – First Illyrian War * Siege of Epidamnus (229 BC) – First Illyrian War (1895) *
Siege of Saguntum The siege of Saguntum was a battle which took place in 219 BC between the Carthaginians and the Saguntines at the town of Saguntum, near the modern town of Sagunto in the province of Valencia, Spain. The battle is mainly remembered today because i ...
(219 BC) – ''casus belli'' for the
Second Punic War The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For 17 years the two states struggled for supremacy, primarily in Ital ...
* Siege of Casilinum (216–215 BC) – Second Punic War * Siege of Petelia (215 BC) – Second Punic War * Siege of Arpi (213 BC) – Second Punic War * Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) – the Roman siege *
Siege of Capua The siege of Capua was a military operation involving the states of medieval southern Italy, beginning in May 1098 and lasting forty days. It was an interesting siege historically for the assemblage of great persons it saw and militarily for th ...
(211 BC) – Second Punic War * Siege of Agrigentum (210 BC) – Second Punic War *
Battle of Cartagena (209 BC) The Battle of Cartagena in 209 BC was a successful Roman assault on the Carthaginian stronghold New Carthage ( Cartagena) in Iberia that took place in late January to early February of 209 BC. Geography New Carthage was a town situated on a p ...
– Second Punic War * Siege of Manduria (209 BC) – Second Punic War * Siege of Caulonia (209 BC) – Second Punic War *
Siege of Bactra The siege of Bactra was a siege of the Hellenistic period that lasted from 208 to 206 BC. It was a siege of the city of Bactra by the Seleucid Empire after they defeated the Greco-Bactrians at the Battle of the Arius. The Seleucids besieged the ...
(208–206 BC) *
Siege of Utica (204 BC) The siege of Utica was a siege during the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage in 204 BC. Roman general Scipio Africanus besieged Utica, intending to use it as a supply base for his campaign against Carthage in North Africa. ...
– Second Punic War * Siege of Abydos (200 BC) –
Cretan War (205–200 BC) The Cretan War (205–200 BC) was fought by King Philip V of Macedon, the Aetolian League, many Cretan cities (of which Olous and Hierapytna were the most important) and Spartan pirates against the forces of Rhodes and later Attalus I of Perga ...


2nd century BC

* Siege of Gythium (195 BC) –
War against Nabis The Laconian War of 195 BC was fought between the Greek city-state of Sparta and a coalition composed of Rome, the Achaean League, Pergamum, Rhodes, and Macedon. During the Second Macedonian War (200–196 BC), Macedon had given Sparta contr ...
* Siege of Eucratideia (169 BC) * Siege of Carthage (149–146 BC) by
Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus (185–129 BC), known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was a Roman general and statesman noted for his military exploits in the Third Punic War against Carthage and during the ...
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Siege of Numantia The Celtiberian oppidum of Numantia was attacked more than once by Roman forces, but the Siege of Numantia refers to the culminating and pacifying action of the long-running Numantine War between the forces of the Roman Republic and those of th ...
(134–133 BC) by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus *
Siege of Cirta The siege of Cirta was fought between the rival Numidia, Numidian kings Adherbal (king of Numidia), Adherbal and Jugurtha in 113BC. They were contesting the throne of Numidia after the death of King Micipsa. Jugurtha invaded Adherbal's territory, ...
(113 BC) –
Jugurthine War The Jugurthine War ( la, Bellum Iugurthinum; 112–106 BC) was an armed conflict between the Roman Republic and king Jugurtha of Numidia, a kingdom on the north African coast approximating to modern Algeria. Jugurtha was the nephew and adopted ...


1st century BC

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Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) The siege of Athens and Piraeus was a siege of the First Mithridatic War that took place from Autumn of 87 BC to the Spring and Summer of 86 BC. The battle was fought between the forces of the Roman Republic, commanded by Lucius Cornelius Su ...
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First Mithridatic War The First Mithridatic War (89–85 BC) was a war challenging the Roman Republic's expanding empire and rule over the Greek world. In this conflict, the Kingdom of Pontus and many Greek cities rebelling against Roman rule were led by Mithridates ...
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Siege of Mytilene (81 BC) The siege of Mytilene was a military investment of the city of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in 81 BC. Mytilene, the capital city of the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, revolted against Rome and was suspected of actively or tacitly aiding ...
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Siege of Cyzicus The siege of Cyzicus took place in 73 BC between the armies of Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman-allied citizens of Cyzicus in Mysia and Roman Republican forces under Lucius Licinius Lucullus. It was in fact a siege and a counter-siege. ...
(73 BC) –
Third Mithridatic War The Third Mithridatic War (73–63 BC), the last and longest of the three Mithridatic Wars, was fought between Mithridates VI of Pontus and the Roman Republic. Both sides were joined by a great number of allies dragging the entire east of the ...
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Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) The siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) occurred during Pompey the Great's campaigns in the East, shortly after his successful conclusion of the Third Mithridatic War. Pompey had been asked to intervene in a dispute over inheritance to the throne of th ...
by
Pompey the Great Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a leading Roman general and statesman. He played a significant role in the transformation of ...
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Siege of the Atuatuci The siege of the Atuatuci in September 57 BC was the final battle in the second year of Julius Caesar's campaign that ultimately resulted in the Gallic Wars, conquest of Gaul. In this siege, Julius Caesar Investment (military), circumvallated the ...
(57 BC) –
Gallic Wars The Gallic Wars were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland). Gallic, Germanic, and British tribes fought to defend their homela ...
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Siege of Avaricum Avaricum was an ''oppidum'' in ancient Gaul, near what is now the city of Bourges. Avaricum, situated in the lands of the Bituriges Cubi, was the largest and best-fortified town within their territory, situated on very fertile lands. The terrain ...
(52 BC) – Gallic Wars *
Siege of Alesia The Battle of Alesia or Siege of Alesia (September 52 BC) was a military engagement in the Gallic Wars around the Gallic ''oppidum'' (fortified settlement) of Alesia in modern France, a major centre of the Mandubii tribe. It was fought by ...
(52 BC) – Gallic Wars *
Siege of Uxellodunum The siege of Uxellodunum was one of the last battles of the Gallic Wars. It took place in 51 BC at Uxellodunum. It was the last major military confrontation of the Gallic Wars and marked the pacification of Gaul under Roman rule. The battle re ...
(51 BC) – Gallic Wars *
Siege of Massilia The siege of Massilia, including two naval engagements, was an episode of Caesar's Civil War, fought in 49 BC between forces loyal to the Optimates and a detachment of Caesar's army. The siege was conducted by Gaius Trebonius, one of Caesar's s ...
(49 BC) –
Caesar's Civil War Caesar's civil war (49–45 BC) was one of the last politico-military conflicts of the Roman Republic before its reorganization into the Roman Empire. It began as a series of political and military confrontations between Gaius Julius Caesar and ...
* Siege of Utica (49 BC) – Caesar's Civil War * Siege of Dyrrhachium (48 BC) – Caesar's Civil War * Siege of Alexandria (48–47 BC) – Caesar's Civil War *
Siege of Jerusalem (37 BC) Herod the Great's siege of Jerusalem (37 or 36 BC) was the final step in his campaign to secure the throne of Judea. Aided by Roman forces provided by Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), Herod was able to capture the city and depose Antigonus II M ...
by
Herod the Great Herod I (; ; grc-gre, ; c. 72 – 4 or 1 BCE), also known as Herod the Great, was a Roman Jewish client king of Judea, referred to as the Herodian kingdom. He is known for his colossal building projects throughout Judea, including his renov ...
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Siege of Aracillum The siege of Aracillum was a siege of the Cantabrian Wars that occurred in 25 BC. The battle took place between the forces of the Roman Empire, which consisted of five Roman legions commanded by Gaius Antistius Vetus and the forces of the Cantab ...
(25 BC) –
Cantabrian Wars The Cantabrian Wars (29–19 BC) (''Bellum Cantabricum''), sometimes also referred to as the Cantabrian and Asturian Wars (''Bellum Cantabricum et Asturicum''), were the final stage of the two-century long Roman conquest of Hispania, in what to ...


After A. D. until 6th century


1st century

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Siege of Uspe The siege of Uspe was a short siege during the brief Roman-Bosporan War between the Siraceni and the Aorsi The Aorsi, known in Greek sources as the Aorsoi (Ἄορσοι), were an ancient Iranian people of the Sarmatian group, who played a ma ...
(49) * Siege of Camulodunum (60–61) *
Siege of Yodfat The siege of Yodfat ( he, יוֹדְפַת, also Jotapata, Iotapata, Yodefat) was a 47-day siege by Roman forces of the Jewish town of Yodfat which took place in 67 CE, during the Great Revolt. Led by Roman General Vespasian and his son Titus, ...
(67) –
First Jewish–Roman War The First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), sometimes called the Great Jewish Revolt ( he, המרד הגדול '), or The Jewish War, was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews against the Roman Empire, fought in Roman-controlled ...
* Siege of Gush Halav (67) – First Jewish–Roman War *
Zealot Temple Siege The Zealot Temple Siege (68 AD) was a short siege of the Temple in Jerusalem fought between Jewish factions during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70 AD). According to the historian Josephus, the forces of Ananus ben Ananus, one of the heads ...
(68) – First Jewish–Roman War * Siege of Jerusalem (70) – the Roman siege by
Titus Titus Caesar Vespasianus ( ; 30 December 39 – 13 September 81 AD) was Roman emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death. Before becoming emperor, Titus gained renown as a mili ...
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Siege of Masada The siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 73 to 74 CE on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel. The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus, a Jewish rebel leade ...
(72–73 or 73–74) – First Jewish–Roman War


2nd century

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Battle of Sarmisegetusa The Battle of Sarmizegetusa (also spelled ''Sarmizegethuza'') was a siege of Sarmizegetusa, the capital of Dacia, fought in 106 between the army of the Roman Emperor Trajan, and the Dacians led by King Decebalus. Background Because of the thr ...
(106) –
Trajan's Dacian Wars The Dacian Wars (101–102, 105–106) were two military campaigns fought between the Roman Empire and Dacia during Emperor Trajan's rule. The conflicts were triggered by the constant Dacian threat on the Danubian province of Moesia and also by ...
* Siege of Hatra (117) –
Trajan's Parthian campaign Trajan's Parthian campaign was engaged by Roman Emperor Trajan in 115 against the Parthian Empire in Mesopotamia. The war was initially successful for the Romans, but a series of setbacks, including wide-scale rebellions in the Eastern Medit ...
* Siege of Hatra (193) – by
Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa (Roman province), Africa. As a young man he advanced thro ...
during
Roman–Parthian Wars The Roman–Parthian Wars (54 BC – 217 AD) were a series of conflicts between the Parthian Empire and the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. It was the first series of conflicts in what would be 682 years of Roman–Persian Wars. Battles ...
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Siege of Byzantium The following is a list of sieges of Constantinople, a historic city located in an area which is today part of Istanbul, Turkey. The city was built on the land that links Europe to Asia through Bosporus and connects the Sea of Marmara and the Bl ...
(194–196) by forces of
Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa (Roman province), Africa. As a young man he advanced thro ...
. * Siege of Hatra (197) – by
Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa (Roman province), Africa. As a young man he advanced thro ...
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Roman–Parthian Wars The Roman–Parthian Wars (54 BC – 217 AD) were a series of conflicts between the Parthian Empire and the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. It was the first series of conflicts in what would be 682 years of Roman–Persian Wars. Battles ...


3rd century

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Siege of Jicheng The siege of Jicheng was a part of the campaign Ma Chao initiated in an attempt to retake Liang Province after the coalition of Guanxi (west of Hangu Pass) was defeated at the Battle of Tong Pass in the winter of 211 in the late Eastern Han dy ...
(213) * Siege of
Hatra Hatra ( ar, الحضر; syr, ‎ܚܛܪܐ) was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia located in present-day eastern Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. The city lies northwest of Baghdad and southwest of Mosul. Hatra was a strongly fortified ...
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Siege of Chencang The siege of Chencang was a battle fought between the states of Shu Han and Cao Wei between December 228 to early 229 during the Three Kingdoms period in China. It was the second of the Northern Expeditions led by Shu-Han's chancellor-regent ...
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Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions were a series of five military campaigns launched by the state of Shu Han against the rival state of Cao Wei from 228 to 234 during the Three Kingdoms period in China. All five expeditions were led by Zhuge L ...
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Siege of Aquileia The Siege of Aquileia is a siege battle that took place in 238 in the town of Aquileia during the Year of the Six Emperors which resulted in the assassination of Maximinus Thrax. Battle Origins After the revolt of Gordian I and Gordian II and asc ...
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Year of the Six Emperors The Year of the Six Emperors was the year AD 238, during which six men made claims to be Roman Emperor, emperors of Rome. This was an early symptom of what historians now call the Crisis of the Third Century, also known as Military Anarchy or t ...
* Siege of Hatra (240-241) by Sasanians under Shapur I * Siege of Philippopolis (250) *
Siege of Thessalonica (254) The siege of Thessalonica in 254 was the successful defense of the city of Thessalonica by local Roman militia during an invasion of the Balkans by the Goths. Background In 254 the Goths invaded and plundered Thrace and Macedonia. In 1979, He ...
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Siege of Dura-Europos (256) The siege of Dura Europos took place when the Sasanians under Shapur I besieged the Roman city of Dura-Europos in 256 after capturing Antioch. Dura-Europos was an important trading center in Roman Syria. It may or may not be the same as the "Do ...
* Siege of Tyana (272) * Siege of Palmyra (272)


4th century

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Siege of Byzantium The following is a list of sieges of Constantinople, a historic city located in an area which is today part of Istanbul, Turkey. The city was built on the land that links Europe to Asia through Bosporus and connects the Sea of Marmara and the Bl ...
(324) –
Civil wars of the Tetrarchy The Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy were a series of conflicts between the co-emperors of the Roman Empire, starting in 306 AD with the usurpation of Maxentius and the defeat of Severus and ending with the defeat of Licinius at the hands of Cons ...
* Siege of Nisibis (337) – Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 *
Siege of Singara The Battle of Singara was fought in 344 between Roman and Sasanian Persian forces. The Romans were led in person by Emperor Constantius II, while the Persian army was led by King Shapur II of Persia. It is the only one of the nine pitched bat ...
(344) – Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 * Siege of Nisibis (347) – Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 * Siege of Nisibis (350) – Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 *
Siege of Autun The siege of Autun was a conflict fought between the Roman Empire and the invading barbarian Alemanni tribe, who were ravaging Gaul, in 356 AD. The Romans successfully defended the city, and the barbarians retreated on the approach of reinforce ...
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Siege of Senonae In 356, after leaving Cologne, Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate wintered in Senonae (possibly modern Sens) in Gaul. Following desertions from his German federated troops, hostile Germanic warbands learned that his force was under-strength and m ...
(356) * Siege of Amida (359) – Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 *
Siege of Singara (360) The siege of Singara took place in 360, when the Sasanian Empire, under Shapur II, besieged the town of Singara, held by the Roman Empire. The Sasanians successfully captured the town from the Romans. The wall was breached after some days by bat ...
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Siege of Aquileia The Siege of Aquileia is a siege battle that took place in 238 in the town of Aquileia during the Year of the Six Emperors which resulted in the assassination of Maximinus Thrax. Battle Origins After the revolt of Gordian I and Gordian II and asc ...
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Siege of Pirisabora The siege of Pirisabora took place when the Roman Emperor Julian besieged the fortified city of Pirisabora under Mamersides in April 363. After two days of fierce fighting, the Sasanians and the citizens abandoned the circuit walls and took up a ...
(363) –
Julian's Persian War Julian's Persian expedition was the last military undertaking of the Roman emperor Julian which began in March 363. It was a war against the Sasanian Empire which was ruled by Shapur II. Aiming for the Sasanian winter capital Ctesiphon, Julia ...
* Siege of Maiozamalcha (363) – Julian's Persian War *
Siege of Adrianople (378) The siege of Adrianople took place in 378 following the Gothic victory at the Battle of Adrianople The Battle of Adrianople (9 August 378), sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between an Eastern Roman army led by the ...
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Gothic War (376–382) Between 376 and 382 the Gothic War against the Eastern Roman Empire, and in particular the Battle of Adrianople, is commonly seen as a major turning point in the history of the Roman Empire, the first of a series of events over the next century ...


5th century

* Siege of Asti (402) *
Siege of Florence (405) The siege of Florence was a battle that occurred in either 405 or 406 AD, between the Goths and the Roman Empire at Florence. Background In 402 the Geougen, a nomadic Tartar people of northern Asia, who during the fourth century had gradua ...
* Siege of Rome (408–410) * Siege of Arles (411) * Siege of Valence (411) * Sack of Trier (413) *
Siege of Massilia (413) The siege of Massilia was made by the Visigoths against the Roman city of Massilia, Gallia Narbonensis in 413. Campaigning in southern Gaul, the Visigothic king Ataulf had taken Toulouse and Narbonne and laid siege of Massilia. The city was def ...
* Siege of Theodosiopolis (421) – Roman–Sasanian War (421–422) *
Siege of Arles (425) The Battle of Arles was fought between the Visigoths and a Roman- Hunnic alliance in 425. The Visigoths and the Romans had previously been in peace, but in 425 the Visigothic king Theodoric I broke the peace treaty and invaded Gaul, laying siege ...
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Siege of Hippo Regius The siege of Hippo Regius was a siege from June 430 to August 431, carried out by the Vandals under their king Genseric against Roman defenders under Boniface, Count of Africa. Having command of the sea, Boniface was able to keep the city well ...
(430–431) * Siege of Narbonne (436–437) * Siege of Noviodunum (437) * Siege of Viminacium (441) by
Attila Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th century AD. According to European traditio ...
* Siege of Naissus (442) by Attila * Siege of Sirmium (442) by Attila * Siege of Ratiaria (447) by Attila * Siege of Metz (451) by Attila * Siege of Aurelianum (451) by Attila *
Siege of Aquileia The Siege of Aquileia is a siege battle that took place in 238 in the town of Aquileia during the Year of the Six Emperors which resulted in the assassination of Maximinus Thrax. Battle Origins After the revolt of Gordian I and Gordian II and asc ...
(452) by Attila * Siege of Castrum Cainonense (463) * Siege of Singidunum (472) * Siege of Taragona (472) *
Siege of Rome (472) The siege of Rome was fought between supporters of the Suebian warrior Ricimer and the Western Roman emperor Anthemius. Ricimer had previously established Anthemius as emperor, but later fell out with his nominee and attacked Rome. With the help ...
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Ricimer Flavius Ricimer ( , ; – 18/19 August 472) was a Romanized Germanic general who effectively ruled the remaining territory of the Western Roman Empire from 461 until his death in 472, with a brief interlude in which he contested power with An ...
* Siege of Papyrius (484–488) * Siege of Ravenna (490–493) – Ostrogothic conquest of Italy * Siege of Nisibis (498)


Medieval


6th century


7th century


8th century

* Siege of Bergamo (701) * Siege of Taranton (702) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Tyana (707–708) by the
Umayyads Umayyads may refer to: *Umayyad dynasty, a Muslim ruling family of the Caliphate (661–750) and in Spain (756–1031) *Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) :*Emirate of Córdoba (756–929) :*Caliphate of Córdoba The Caliphate of Córdoba ( ar, خ ...
* Siege of Anchialus (708) – Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars * Siege of Turanda (712) – Arab–Byzantine Wars *
Siege of Constantinople (717–718) The second Arab siege of Constantinople in 717–718 was a combined land and sea offensive by the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople. The campaign marked the culmination of twen ...
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Umayyads Umayyads may refer to: *Umayyad dynasty, a Muslim ruling family of the Caliphate (661–750) and in Spain (756–1031) *Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) :*Emirate of Córdoba (756–929) :*Caliphate of Córdoba The Caliphate of Córdoba ( ar, خ ...
* Siege of Toulouse (721) –
Umayyad invasion of Gaul The Umayyad invasion of Gaul occurred in two phases in 719 and 732. Although the Umayyads secured control of Septimania, their incursions beyond this into the Loire and Rhône valleys failed. By 759 they had lost Septimania to the Christian F ...
* Siege of Angers (722) *
Siege of Nicaea (727) The siege of Nicaea of 727 was an unsuccessful attempt by the Umayyad Caliphate to capture the Byzantine city of Nicaea, the capital of the Opsician Theme. Ever since its failure to capture the Byzantine Empire's capital, Constantinople, in 71 ...
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Umayyads Umayyads may refer to: *Umayyad dynasty, a Muslim ruling family of the Caliphate (661–750) and in Spain (756–1031) *Umayyad Caliphate (661–750) :*Emirate of Córdoba (756–929) :*Caliphate of Córdoba The Caliphate of Córdoba ( ar, خ ...
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Siege of Kamarja The siege of Kamarja was fought in 729 between the Arab Muslims of the Umayyad Caliphate and the Türgesh Khaganate, along with its Soghdian allies. The Umayyad conquest of Transoxiana had been undone in the 720s by the uprisings of the local Sog ...
(729) by the Turgesh * Siege of Bordeaux (732) – Umayyad invasion of Gaul * Siege of Avignon (737) – Umayyad invasion of Gaul *
Siege of Narbonne (737) The siege of Narbonne was fought in 737 between the forces of Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, Umayyad governor of Narbonne, and a Frankish army led by Charles Martel. The city of Narbonne was captured by Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, governor ...
– Umayyad invasion of Gaul * Siege of Nîmes (737) – Umayyad invasion of Gaul * Siege of Synnada (740) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Laon (741) * Siege of Loches (742) * Third Fitna#Syria, Siege of Emesa (745) – Third Fitna * Siege of Wasit (749–750) – Abbasid Revolution * Siege of Melitene (750) * Siege of Narbonne (752–59) – Umayyad invasion of Gaul * Siege of Pavia (755) * Siege of Rome (756) * Siege of Pavia (756) * Siege of Suiyang (757) - known because of acts of cannibalism. * Siege of Sythen (758) * Siege of Bourbon (761) – Aquitanian War * Siege of Clermont (761) – Aquitanian War * Siege of Chantelle (761) – Aquitanian War * Siege of Bourges (762) – Aquitanian War * Siege of Thouars (762) – Aquitanian War * Siege of Kamacha (766) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Toulouse (767) – Aquitanian War * Siege of Syke (771) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Pavia (773–774) – Lombard kingdom conquered by Charlemagne * Siege of Syburg (775) – Saxon Wars * Siege of Syburg (776) – Saxon Wars * Siege of Barbād (776) * Battle of Roncevaux Pass#Background, Siege of Zaragoza (778) by Charlemagne * Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor (782)#Background, Siege of Germanikeia (778) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor (782)#Background, Siege of Semaluos (780) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor (782)#Campaign, Siege of Nakoleia (782) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Huesca (797) * Siege of Trsat (799)


9th century

* History of Barcelona#Barcelona in the Spanish March, Siege of Barcelona (800–801) by Louis the Pious * Siege of Lucera (802) * Canburg, Siege of Canburg (805) * Siege of Patras (805 or 807) by the Slavs of the Peloponnese * Battle of Krasos#Aftermath, Siege of Melitene (805) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor (806)#The campaign, Siege of Heraclea (806) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Tortosa (808–809), Siege of Tortosa (809) by Louis the Pious * Siege of Serdica (809) – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars * History of the Republic of Venice#Rise, Siege of Venice (810) * Siege of Debeltos (812) – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars * Siege of Baghdad (812–813) – Fourth Fitna * Battle of Versinikia#Background, Siege of Mesembria (812) – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars * Siege of Adrianople (813) – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars * Siege of Constantinople (821–822) * Siege of Arkadiopolis (823) * Siege of Kaysum (824) – Fourth Fitna * Siege of Syracuse (827–828) – Muslim conquest of Sicily * Sack of Amorium, Siege and sack of Amorium (838) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Paris (845) – Viking expansion * Arab raid against Rome, Siege of Rome (846) * Siege of Marand (848) * Capture of Faruriyyah (862) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Dowina (864) * Siege of Baghdad (865) – Abbasid civil war (865–866) * Siege of Ragusa (866–868) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Syracuse (868) – Muslim conquest of Sicily * Siege of Dumbarton (870) – Viking expansion * Siege of Melite (870) – Muslim conquest of Sicily * Siege of Bari (870–871) – Frankish conquest of the Emirate of Bari * Siege of Salerno (871–872) * Siege of Syracuse (877–878) – Muslim conquest of Sicily * Siege of al-Mukhtarah (881) – Zanj Rebellion * Siege of Asselt (882) – Viking expansion * Siege of Euripos (883) – Arab–Byzantine Wars * Siege of Rochester (885) * Siege of Paris (885–886) – Viking expansion * Battle of Buttington, Siege of Buttington (893) – Viking expansion * Siege of Bergamo (894) * Siege of Rome (896) * Siege of Spoleto (896) * Siege of Amida (899)


10th century


11th century


12th century

* Siege of Haifa (1100) – Crusades * Siege of Le Mans (1100) * First Siege of Arsuf#Second siege of Arsuf, Second siege of Arsuf (1101) – Crusades * Siege of Caesarea (1101) – Crusades * Siege of Latakia (1101–1103) * Siege of Acre (1102) – Crusades * Siege of Arundel (1102) * Siege of Bridgnorth (1102) * Siege of Jaffa (1102) – Crusades * Siege of Tripoli (1102–1109) – Crusades * Siege of Acre (1103) – Crusades * Siege of Al-Rahba (1103) * Siege of Acre (1104) – Crusades * Siege of Tikrit, Takrit (sometime between 1105 and 1107) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts * Siege of Alamut Castle, Alamut (sometime between 1106 and 1109) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts * Siege of Shahdez (1107) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts * Siege of Nuremberg (1105) * Siege of Cologne (1106) * Siege of Qalaat al-Madiq, Apamea (1106) – Crusades - conflicts with the Assassins * Siege of Apamea (September 1106) – Crusades - conflicts with the Assassins * Siege of Malatya (1106) * Siege of Castellum Arnaldi (1106) – Crusades * Siege of Al-Rahba (1107) * Siege of Hebron (1107) – Crusades * Siege of Douai (1107) * Siege of Dyrrhachium (1107–1108) – Byzantine–Norman wars * Battle of Uclés (1108), Siege of Uclés (1108) – Reconquista * Siege of Bratislava (1108) * Siege of Sidon (1108) – Crusades * Siege of Jableh (1109) – Crusades * Battle of Nakło, Siege of Nakło (1109) * Siege of Głogów (1109) * Siege of Baalbek (1110) * Siege of Beirut (1110), Siege of Beirut (1110) – Crusades * Siege of Novara (1110) * Siege of Sidon (1110) – Norwegian Crusade * Siege of Atarib (1110) – Crusades * Siege of Le Puiset (1111) * Siege of Vetula (1111) – Crusades * Siege of Tyre (1111–1112) – Crusades * Siege of Nicaea (1113) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars * Siege of Hornburg Castle (1113) * Siege of Mousson (1113) * Siege of Bar (1113) * Siege of Cologne (1114) * Siege of Kafartab (1115) – Crusades * Siege of Jaffa (1115) – Crusades * Siege of Marqab (1116) – Crusades * Siege of Alamut Castle, Alamut (1117–1118) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts * Siege of Lambsar Castle, Lambsar (1117–1118) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts * Siege of Laodicea (1119) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars * Siege of Sozopolis (1120) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars * Siege of Jerash (1121) – Crusades * Siege of Mainz (1121) * Siege of Tbilisi (1122), Siege of Tbilisi (1121–1122) – Georgian–Seljuk wars * Siege of Aschaffenburg Castle (1122) * Siege of Faulquemont Castle (1122) * Siege of Zardana (1122) – Crusades * Siege of Balis (1122) – Crusades * Siege of Kharput (1123) – Crusades * Siege of Jaffa (1123) – Crusades * Siege of Schulenburg Castle (1123) * Siege of Manbij (1124) * Siege of Azaz (1124) – Crusades * Venetian Crusade, Siege of Tyre (1124) – Crusades * Siege of Aleppo (1124), Siege of Aleppo (1124–1125) – Crusades * Siege of Raffaniya (1126) – Crusades * Siege of Al-Rahba (1127) * Siege of Bayonne (1130–31), Siege of Bayonne (1130–1131) * Siege of De'an (1132) – Jin–Song Wars * Siege of Kastamone (1132) * Siege of Kastamone (1133) * Siege of Savur (1134) – Crusades * Siege of Gangra (1135) * Siege of Montferrand (1137) – Crusades * Siege of Anazarbos (1137) – Crusades * Siege of Vahka (1137) – Crusades * Siege of Antioch (1137) – Crusades * Siege of Kafartab (1138) – Crusades * Siege of Aleppo (1138) – Crusades * Siege of Shaizar (1138) – Crusades * Siege of Buza'a (1138) – Crusades * Siege of Coria (1138) – Reconquista * Siege of Baalbek (1139) * Siege of Oreja (1139) – Reconquista * Siege of Neocaesarea (1139–1140) * Siege of Weinsberg (1140) * Siege of Banias (1140) – Crusades * Siege of Coria (1142) – Reconquista * Siege of Lisbon (1142) - Reconquista * Siege of Li Vaux Moise (1144) – Crusades * Siege of Edessa (1144) – Crusades * Siege of Al-Bira (1144) – Crusades * Siege of Edessa (1146) – Crusades * Siege of Almería (1147) – Reconquista * Siege of Lisbon (1147) – Reconquista * Siege of Tortosa (1148) – Reconquista * Siege of Damascus (1148) – Second Crusade * Siege of Turbessel (1150) – Crusades * Siege of Jerusalem (1152) – Crusades * Siege of Ascalon (1153) – Crusades * Siege of Braničevo (1154) * Siege of Tortona (1155) * Battle of Brindisi (1156), Siege of Brindisi (1155–1156) * Siege of Shirakawa-den (1156) * Siege of Baghdad (1157) * Siege of Banias (1157) – Crusades * Siege of Shaizar (1157) – Crusades * Siege of Casalia (1157–1158) – Crusades * Siege of Harim (1158) – Crusades * Siege of Milan (1158) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick I and the Northern Italy cities * Siege of Crema (1159–1160) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I and the Northern Italy cities * Siege of Sanjō Palace (1160) – the main action of the Heiji Rebellion took place in Kyoto * Siege of Ani (1161) – Georgian–Seljuk wars * Siege of Milan (1161–62) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I and the Northern Italy cities * Siege of Harim (1164) * Siege of Banias (1164) * Siege of Alexandria (1167) – Crusader invasions of Egypt * Siege of Wexford (1169) – the first major clash of the Norman invasion of Ireland * Siege of Damietta (1169) – Crusader invasions of Egypt * Siege of Kerak (1170) – Crusades * Siege of Sinjar (1170) * Siege of Kerak (1173) – Crusades * Siege of Derbent (1173) – Caspian expeditions of the Rus' * Siege of Alexandria (1174) * Siege of Alessandria (1174–1175) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I and the Northern Italy cities * Siege of Homs (1175) * Siege of Montferrand (1175) * Siege of Sinjar (1175) * Siege of Azaz (1176) * Siege of Masyaf (1176) * Siege of Harim (1177) – Crusades * Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict#House of Ascania vs House of Pomerania, Siege of Demmin (1177) – Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict * Siege of Claudiopolis (1179) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars * Siege of Jacob's Ford (1179) – Crusades * Siege of Nara (1180) – Genpei War * Siege of Beirut (1182) – Crusades * Siege of Mosul (1182 * Siege of Amida (1183) * Siege of Hiuchi (1183) – Genpei War * Siege of Fukuryūji (1183) – Genpei War * Siege of Tell Khalid (1183) * Siege of Kerak (1183) – Crusades * Siege of Hōjūjidono (1184) – Genpei War * Siege of Santarém (1184) * Siege of Kerak (1184) – Crusades * Sack of Thessalonica (1185) by the Normans * Siege of Mayyafariqin (1185) * Siege of Lovech (1187) * Siege of Kerak (1187) – Crusades * Siege of Tiberias (1187) – Crusades * Siege of Toron (1187) – Crusades * Siege of Ascalon (1187) – Crusades * Siege of Jerusalem (1187) – Crusades * Siege of Tyre (1187) – Crusades * Siege of Saone (1188) – Crusades * Siege of Shughr-Bakas (1188) – Crusades * Siege of Bourzey (1188) – Crusades * Siege of Trapessac (1188) – Crusades * Siege of Baghras (1188) – Crusades * Siege of Safed (1188) – Crusades * Siege of Belvoir (1188) – Crusades * Siege of Acre (1189–1191) – Third Crusade * Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor#Imperial coronation, Siege of Naples (1191) * Battle of Jaffa (1192)#Saladin takes Jaffa, Siege of Jaffa (1192) – Third Crusade * Siege of Verneuil (1194) * Siege of Loches (1195) * Siege of Aumâle (1196) * Siege of Jaffa (1197) – Crusades * Crusade of 1197#Campaign, Siege of Toron (1197–1198) – Crusade of 1197 * Siege of Châlus (1199) * Siege of Montferrand (1199)


13th century

* Siege of Varna (1201) – Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars * Siege of Zara, Siege of Zadar (1202) – Part of the Fourth Crusade * Siege of Constantinople (1203) – Part of the ''Fourth Crusade'' * Siege of Château Gaillard (1203–1204) – French invasion of Normandy (1202–1204) * Siege of Constantinople (1204) – Part of the ''Fourth Crusade'' * Siege of Trebizond (1205–1206) – Byzantine–Seljuk Wars * Siege of Cologne (1205–1206) – German throne dispute * Siege of Tripoli (1207) – Crusades * Siege of Antalya (1207) – Byzantine–Seljuk Wars * Siege of Beverin (1208) – Livonian Crusade * Albigensian Crusade#Fall of Carcassonne, Siege of Carcassonne (1209) – Albigensian Crusade * Albigensian Crusade#Lastours and the castle of Cabaret, Siege of Bram (1210) – Albigensian Crusade * Siege of Al-Dāmūs (1210) – Reconquista * Siege of Cēsis (1210) – Livonian Crusade * Siege of Minerve (1210) – Albigensian Crusade * Albigensian Crusade#Lastours and the castle of Cabaret, Siege of Termes (1210) – Albigensian Crusade * Albigensian Crusade#Lastours and the castle of Cabaret, Siege of Montferrand (1211) – Albigensian Crusade * Albigensian Crusade#Lastours and the castle of Cabaret, Siege of Toulouse (1211) – Albigensian Crusade * Albigensian Crusade#Lastours and the castle of Cabaret, Siege of Castelnaudary (1211) – Albigensian Crusade * Siege of Beverin (1211) – Livonian Crusade * Siege of Viljandi (1211) – Livonian Crusade * Siege of Weissensee (1212) – German throne dispute * Siege of Ganja (1213) * Siege of Sinope (1214) – Byzantine–Seljuk Wars * Battle of Zhongdu, Siege of Zhongdu (1215) – Genghis Khan conquers Zhongdu, now Beijing * Rochester Castle, Siege of Rochester castle (1215) – John, King of England, King John's Danish mercenaries attempt to take the castle of Rochester during the First First Barons' War, Baron's war. * Albigensian Crusade#Revolts and reverses 1216 to 1225, Siege of Beaucaire (1216) – Albigensian Crusade * Dover Castle, Siege of Dover Castle (1216) – First Barons' War * Windsor Castle, Siege of Windsor Castle (1216) – First Barons' War * Hertford Castle, Siege of Hertford (1216) – First Barons' War * Battle of Lincoln (1217), Siege of Lincoln Castle (1217) – First Barons' War * Siege of Toulouse (1217–18) – Albigensian Crusade * Siege of Mount Tabor (1218) – Crusades * Siege of Damietta (1218) – Fifth Crusade * Albigensian Crusade#Revolts and reverses 1216 to 1225, Siege of Marmande (1219) – Albigensian Crusade * Albigensian Crusade#Revolts and reverses 1216 to 1225, Siege of Toulouse (1219) – Albigensian Crusade * Siege of Caesarea (1220) – Crusades * Albigensian Crusade#Revolts and reverses 1216 to 1225, Siege of Castelnaudary (1220–1221) – Albigensian Crusade * Siege of Bamyan (1221) – Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia * Siege of Nishapur (1221) – Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia * Siege of Tallinn, Siege of Reval (1221) – Livonian Crusade * Siege of Trebizond (1222–1223) – Byzantine–Seljuk Wars * Siege of Reval (1223) – Livonian Crusade * Siege of Fellin (1223) – Livonian Crusade * Siege of Reval (1223) – Livonian Crusade * Siege of Lohu (1223–1224) – Livonian Crusade * Siege of La Rochelle (1224) * Siege of Tartu (1224) – Livonian Crusade * Siege of Jaén (1225) – Reconquista * Siege of Avignon (1226) – Albigensian Crusade * Albigensian Crusade#French royal intervention, Siege of Toulouse (1226) – Albigensian Crusade * Siege of Akhlat (1229) * Siege of Jaén (1230) – Reconquista * Siege of Beirut (1231–1232) * Siege of Amida (1232) * Mongol siege of Kaifeng, Siege of Kaifeng (1232–1233) – Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty * Siege of Burriana (1233) – Reconquista * Siege of Caizhou (1233–1234) – Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty * Siege of Constantinople (1235) – a joint Bulgarian-Nicaean siege on the capital of the Latin Empire. * Siege of Bilär (1236) – Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria * Siege of Córdoba (1236) – Reconquista * Siege of Ryazan (1237) – Mongol invasion of Rus' * Siege of Kolomna (1237–1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus' * Siege of Moscow (1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus' * Siege of Vladimir (1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus' * Siege of Kozelsk (1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus' * Siege of Brescia (1238) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II and the Lombard League *Siege of Mt. Tebulosmta (1238-1250) - Mongol invasions of Durdzuketia * Siege of Faenza (1239) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League * Siege of Jerusalem (1239) – Crusades * Siege of Kiev (1240) – Mongol invasion of Rus' * Siege of Esztergom (1241), Siege of Esztergom (1242) – First Mongol invasion of Hungary, Citadel of Esztergom,Turoc, Nyitra, Győr, Pannonhalma, Székesfehérvár, Segesd, Varasd, Kemlék, Csázma, Zágráb, Trogir, Veszprém, Tihany, Moson, Sopron, Vasvár, Zala, Léka, Pozsony, Komárom, Fülek and Abaújvár besieged but successfully resisted * Siege of Viterbo (1243) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League * Siege of Montségur (1243–1244) – Albigensian Crusade * Siege of Jerusalem (1244) by the Khwarazmian army between 1231 and 1246, Khwarezmians * Siege of Damascus (1245) * Siege of Jaén (1245–46) – Reconquista * Siege of Ascalon (1247) – Crusades * Siege of Parma (1247–1248) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League * Siege of Seville (1247–1248) – Reconquista * Siege of Aachen (1248) * Siege of Homs (1248–1249) * Siege of Damietta (1249) – Seventh Crusade * Siege of Naples (1252) * Siege of Cologne (1252) * Siege(s) of Gerdkuh (1253–1270) - Mongol campaign against the Nizaris * Siege of Mehrnegar Castle, Mehrin (1253) * Siege of Ferdows, Tun (1253) * Siege of Tun (1256) * Siege of Maymun-Diz (1256) * Siege of Alamut Castle, Alamut (1256) * Siege of Lambsar Castle, Lambsar (1256–1257) * Siege of Cologne (1257) * Siege of Baghdad (1258) * Siege of Mayyafariqin (1258–1259) * Siege of Diaoyu Castle (1259) – Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty * Siege of Al-Bira (1259) – Mongol invasions of the Levant * Siege of Aleppo (1260) * Siege of Constantinople (1260) – Nicaean–Latin wars * Siege of Cologne (1262) * Siege of Königsberg (1262–1265) – Prussian uprisings * Siege of Bartenstein (1264) – Prussian uprisings * Siege of al-Bira (1264–1265) – Mongol invasions of the Levant * Fall of Arsuf (1265) * Siege of Kenilworth (1266) – Second Barons' War * Siege of Safed (1266) * Battle of Xiangyang, Siege of Xiangyang (1267–1273) – Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty * Siege of Antioch (1268) * Fall of Krak des Chevaliers (1271) * Siege of Tripoli (1271) * Siege of Al-Bira (1272) – Mongol invasions of the Levant * Siege of Al-Rahba (1272) – Mongol invasions of the Levant * Siege of Al-Bira (1275) – Mongol invasions of the Levant * Siege of Algeciras (1278–79), Siege of Algeciras (1278–1279) – Reconquista * Siege of Berat (1280–1281) * Siege of Trebizond (1282) * Siege of Albarracín (1284) * Siege of Acre (1291) * Capture of Berwick (1296) – First War of Scottish Independence * Franco-Flemish War#First phase of the War, Siege of Lille (1297) – Franco-Flemish War * Siege of Damascus (1299–1300) – Mongol invasions of the Levant


14th century

* Fall of Ruad, Siege of Ruad (1302) *Siege of Buda by Charles I of Hungary, Charles I. (1302) * Sieges of Stirling Castle#Siege of 1304, Siege of Stirling Castle (1304) – First War of Scottish Independence * Hospitaller conquest of Rhodes, Siege of Rhodes (1306–1310) *Siege of Buda by Charles I. (1307) * Siege of Gibraltar (1309) – First siege of Gibraltar, by Juan Alfonso de Guzman ''el Bueno'' in the Reconquista * Siege of Algeciras (1309–10) – Reconquista * Siege of Almería (1309) – Reconquista * Siege of Warangal, 1310, Siege of Warangal (1310) * Siege of Florence (1312) * Siege of Al-Rahba (1312–1313) – Mongol invasions of the Levant * Capture of Roxburgh (1314), Siege of Roxburgh (1314) – First War of Scottish Independence * Second siege of Gibraltar (1315) – Second siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid caid Yahya in the ''Reconquista'' * Siege of Carlisle (1315) – First War of Scottish Independence * Siege of Christmemel (1315) – Lithuanian Crusade * Siege of Warangal, 1318, Siege of Warangal (1318) * Siege of Berwick (1318) – First War of Scottish Independence * Siege of Padua (1319–1320), by Cangrande I della Scala, lord of Verona * Siege of Bursa (1320–1326) – Byzantine-Ottoman Wars * Siege of Warangal, 1323, Siege of Warangal (1323) * Siege of Villa di Chiesa (1323–1324) * Siege of Bristol (1326), Siege of Bristol (1326) – Invasion of England (1326) * Siege of Nicaea (1328–1331) – Byzantine-Ottoman wars * Siege of Medvėgalis (1329) – Lithuanian Crusade * Siege of Kasagi (1331) – Genkō War * Siege of Akasaka (1331) – Genkō War * Third siege of Gibraltar – Third siege of Gibraltar (1333), by a Marinids army, led by Abd al-Malik in the ''Reconquista'' * Siege of Chihaya (1333) – Genkō War * Siege of Berwick (1333) * Fourth siege of Gibraltar – Rourth siege of Gibraltar (1333), by King Alfonso XI of Castile in the ''Reconquista'' * Siege of Kamakura (1333) – End of Ashikaga shogunate. * Siege of Nicomedia (1333–1337) – Byzantine-Ottoman Wars * Siege of Kanegasaki (1337) * Sieges of Kuromaru, Siege of Kuromaru (1339) * Siege of Tournai (1340) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Vannes (1342) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Hennebont (1342) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Algeciras (1342–1344) – Reconquista * Black Death, Siege of Caffa (1346) * Siege of Aiguillon (1346) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Calais (1346), Siege of Calais (1346–1347) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Calais (1349) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Gibraltar (1349–1350) – fifth siege of Gibraltar, by ''Alfonso XI'' in the ''Reconquista'' * Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély (1351) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Rennes (1356–57) – War of the Breton Succession * Black Monday (1360), Siege of Chartres (1360) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Kaunas (1362) – Lithuanian Crusade * Siege of León (1368) * Siege of Algeciras (1369) – Reconquista * Siege of Limoges (1370) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Gibraltar (1374) – sixth siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid dynasty, Nasrid in the ''Reconquista'' * Fall of Philadelphia, Siege of Philadelphia (1378–1390) – Byzantine-Ottoman Wars * Siege of Moscow (1382) * Siege of Sofia (1382 or 1385) * Siege of Ypres (1383) – Despenser's Crusade * Siege of Lisbon (1384) – 1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum * Siege of Tbilisi (1386) – Timur's invasions of Georgia * Siege of Isfahan (1387) * Siege of Tarnovo (1393) * Siege of Anjudan (1393) * Siege of Constantinople (1394–1402) – Byzantine-Ottoman Wars


15th century

* Siege of Sivas (1400) * Siege of Damascus (1400) * Siege of Smyrna (1402) * Siege of Birtvisi (1403) – Timur's invasions of Georgia * Siege of Mercq (1405) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Marienburg (1410) – in the aftermath of the Battle of Grunwald * Siege of Constantinople (1411)– Byzantine-Ottoman Wars, during the Ottoman Interregnum * Sixth Siege of Gibraltar (1411) * :fr:Siège de Bourges (1412), Siege of Bourges (1412) – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War * Siege of Harfleur (1415) – reopening of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Rouen (1418–1419), Siege of Rouen (1418–1419) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Đông Quan (1418–1428) – Lam Sơn uprising * Siege of Ceuta (1419) * Siege of Sarai (1420) * Siege of Meaux (1421–1422) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Constantinople (1422) – Byzantine-Ottoman Wars * Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430)– Byzantine-Ottoman and Ottoman-Venetian Wars * Siege of Golubac (1428) * Siege of Orléans (1428–1429) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Inverness (1429) * Siege of Paris (1429) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Malta (1429) * Siege of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War * Siege of La Charité (1429) – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War * Siege of Compiègne (1430) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Angkor (1431) * Siege of Pouancé (1432) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Pilsen (1433–34) – Hussite Wars * Siege of Gaeta (1435) * Siege of Saint-Denis (1435) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Calais (1436) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Seventh Siege of Gibraltar (1436) – seventh siege of Gibraltar, by the count of Niebla, Spain, Niebla in the ''Reconquista'' * Battle of Tangier (1437), Siege of Tangiers (1437) * Siege of Belgrade (1440) * Siege of Tartas (1440–1442) – Part of the Hundred Years' War * Siege of Novo Brdo (1440–41) * :fr:Siège de Metz (1444), Siege of Metz (1444) * Siege of Rhodes (1444) * Siege of Balkh (1447) * Siege of Herat (1448) * Siege of Svetigrad (1448) * Fifth Siege of Gibraltar (1449–1450) * Siege of Krujë (1450) * Fall of Constantinople, Siege of Constantinople (1453) – Byzantine-Ottoman Wars


Early modern


15th century

* Siege of Malbork (1454), Siege of Marienburg (1454) – Thirteen Years' War (1454–66) * Siege of Berat (1455) * Siege of Belgrade (1456) – Part of Ottoman wars in Europe * Siege of Deventer (1456) * Siege of Marienburg (1457), Siege of Marienburg (1457–1460) – Thirteen Years' War (1454–66) * Capture of Roxburgh (1460), Siege of Roxburgh (1460) * Siege of Trebizond (1461), Siege of Trebizond (1460–1461) * Siege of Harlech Castle (1461–68) – Part of Wars of the Roses. Longest siege in British history. * Siege of Shahrukhiya (1461–63) * Siege of Hostalric (1462) – Catalan Civil War * Eighth Siege of Gibraltar (1462), by a Castilian army in the ''Reconquista'' * Ottoman conquest of Lesbos, Siege of Mytilene (1462) * Catalan Civil War, Siege of Barcelona (1462) – Catalan Civil War * Siege of Jajce (1463) * Siege of Jajce (1464) * Siege of Barcelona (1465) – Catalan Civil War * Ninth Siege of Gibraltar (1466–1467), by the Duke of Medina Sidonia * Siege of Krujë (1466–67) * Siege of Krujë (1467) * Siege of Negroponte (1470) – Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479) * Siege of Barcelona (1472), during the Catalan Civil War * Siege of Shkodra (1474) * Siege of Neuss (1474–1475) – Burgundian Wars * Siege of Burgos (1475), Siege of Burgos (1475–1476) – War of the Castilian Succession * Siege of Neamț Citadel (1476) * Siege of Krujë (1478), Siege of Krujë (1477–1478) * Siege of Shkodra (1478–1479) * Siege of Gdov (1580) – Russian-Livonian War (1480–81) * Siege of Izborsk (1580) – Russian-Livonian War (1480–81) * Siege of Fellin (1580) – Russian-Livonian War (1480–81) * Siege of Izborsk (1580) – Russian-Livonian War (1480–81) * Siege of Pskov (1580) – Russian-Livonian War (1480–81) * Siege of Rhodes (1480) – First siege of Rhodes * Ottoman invasion of Otranto, Sieges of Otranto (1480–1481) * Siege of Hainburg (1482) – Austrian-Hungarian War (1477–1488) * Siege of Utrecht (1483) – Second Utrecht Civil War * Siege of Vienna (1485) – Austrian-Hungarian War (1477–1488) * Siege of Retz (1486) – Austrian-Hungarian War (1477–1488) * Siege of Wiener Neustadt (1487) – Austrian-Hungarian War (1477–1488) * Siege of Málaga (1487) – Granada War * Siege of Granada (1491–1492) * Siege of Boulogne (1492) * Siege of Samarkand (1494 / 1496), Siege of Samarkand (1494) * Siege of Samarkand (1497)


16th century

* Siege of the Castle of Saint George (1500) – Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503) * Siege of Tabriz (1501) * Siege of Samarkand (1501) * Siege of Smolensk (1502) – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars * Siege of Kabul (1504) * Tenth Siege of Gibraltar (1506) – by the Duke of Medina Sidonia * Siege of Anjadiva (1506) * Siege of Cannanore (1507) * Spanish conquest of Oran (1509) * Siege of Padua (1509) – War of the League of Cambrai * Siege of Gongenyama (1510) * Spanish conquest of Tripoli (1510) * Portuguese conquest of Goa (1510) * Siege of Mirandola (1511) – War of the League of Cambrai * Capture of Malacca (1511) * Siege of Aden (1513) * Siege of Dijon (1513) – War of the League of Cambrai * Siege of Smolensk (1514) – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars * Siege of Arai (1516) * Capture of Cairo (1517), Siege of Cairo (1517) * Siege of Opochka (1517) – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars * Siege of Polotsk (1518) – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars * Siege of Allenstein (1521) – Polish–Teutonic War (1519–21) * List of battles of the Italian Wars#Pampeluna, Siege of Pampeluna (1521) – Italian War of 1521–26 * Siege of Tenochtitlan (1521) – fall of the Aztec Empire. * List of battles of the Italian Wars#Mézières, Siege of Mézières (1521) – Italian War of 1521–26 * List of battles of the Italian Wars#Tournai, Siege of Tournai (1521) – Italian War of 1521–26 * Siege of Belgrade (1521) * Siege of Knin (1522) * List of battles of the Italian Wars#Genoa, Siege of Genoa (1522) – Italian War of 1521–26 * Siege of Rhodes (1522) – Second siege of Rhodes * List of battles of the Italian Wars#Marseille, Siege of Marseille (1522–1524) – Italian War of 1521–26 * Conquest of Kalmar (1523) * Conquest of Stockholm (1523) * Siege of Fuenterrabía (1523–1524) – Italian War of 1521–26 * Siege of Edo (1524) * Siege of Pavia (1524–25) – Italian War of 1521–26 * Siege of Sambhal (1526) * Fall of Calicut (1526), Siege of Calicut (1526) * Siege of Kamakura (1526) * Sack of Rome (1527) – War of the League of Cognac * Siege of Naples (1528) – War of the League of Cognac * Capture of Peñón of Algiers (1529) * Siege of Vienna (1529), Siege of Vienna (1529) – First siege of Vienna * Siege of Florence (1529–30), Siege of Florence (1529–1530) – War of the League of Cognac *:hu:Buda ostroma (1530), Siege of Buda (1530) by Wilhelm von Roggendorf and Bálint Török * Siege of Diu (1531) * Siege of Güns (1532) * Siege of Maribor (1532) * Siege of Coron (1532–1534) * Capture of Baghdad (1534), Siege of Baghdad (1534) – by Ottomans * Conquest of Tunis (1534), Siege of Tunis (1534) * Conquest of Tunis (1535) * Siege of Chittorgarh (1535) * Siege of Cusco (1536–1537) * Siege of Klis (1536–1537) * Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama (1537) * Siege of Corfu (1537) – Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540) * Siege of Diu (1538) * Siege of Castelnuovo (1539) – Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540) * Siege of Koriyama (1540–1541) *:hu:Buda ostroma (1540), Siege of Buda (1540) by Leonhard von Fels and Niklas Salm * Fall of Agadir (1541) * Siege of Buda (1541) – capture of the city of Buda by the Turkish Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, as he invaded central Hungary * Algiers expedition (1541) * Siege of Uehara (1541) * Siege of Fukuyo (1542) * Siege of Kuwabara (1542) * Siege of Pest (1542) – an attempt to recapture Buda from the Turks * Siege of Perpignan (1542) – Italian War of 1542–1546 * Siege of Toda Castle (1542–1543) * Siege of Nagakubo (1543) * Siege of Landrecies (1543) – Italian War of 1542–1546 * Siege of Esztergom (1543) * Siege of Nice (1543) – Italian War of 1542–1546 * Siege of Kojinyama (1544) * Siege of Kōriyama Castle (1544) * List of battles of the Italian Wars#St. Dizier, Siege of St. Dizier (1544) – Italian War of 1542–46 * Sieges of Boulogne (1544–46) – Italian War of 1542–46 * Siege of Ryūgasaki (1545) * Siege of Takatō (1545) * Siege of Kawagoe Castle (1545–1546) * Second siege of Diu (1546) * Siege of Uchiyama (1546) * Siege of Shika Castle (1546–1547) * Siege of Van (1548) – Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–55) * 1548 capture of Aden, Siege of Aden (1548) * Siege of Kajiki (1549) * Siege of Fukashi (1549) * Siege of Beijing (1550) * Capture of Mahdia (1550) * Sieges of Toishi (1550–51) * Invasion of Gozo (1551), Siege of Gozo (1551) * Siege of Mirandola (1551), Siege of Mirandola (1551–1552) – Italian War of 1551–1559 * Siege of Tripoli (1551) * Siege of Eger (1552) * Siege of Temesvár (1552) * Capture of Muscat (1552), Siege of Muscat (1552) * Siege of Metz (1552), Siege of Metz (1552–53) – Italian War of 1551–1559 * Siege of Kazan (1552) – Part of the Russo-Kazan wars * Ottoman campaign against Hormuz, Siege of Hormuz (1552–54) * Siege of Eger (1552) – Part of Ottoman–Habsburg wars * Siege of Katsurao (1553) * Siege of Iwatsurugi Castle (1554) * Siege of Kiso Fukushima (1554) * Siege of Kannomine (1554) * Siege of Matsuo (1554) * Siege of Siena (1554–55) – Italian War of 1551–1559 * Siege of Oran (1556) * Siege of Katsurayama (1557) * Siege of Kotte (1557–58) – Sinhalese–Portuguese War * Siege of Calais (1558) – Italian War of 1551–1559 * Siege of Narva (1558) – Livonian War * Siege of Thionville (1558) – Italian War of 1551–1559 * Siege of Bahrain (1559) * Siege of Dorpat (1558) – Livonian War * Siege of Weissenstein (1558) - Livonian War * Siege of Dorpat (1559) - Livonian War * Siege of Lais (1559) - Livonian War * Siege of Fellin (1560) – Livonian War * Siege of Weissenstein (1560) – Livonian War * Siege of Leith (1560) * Siege of Marune (1560) * Siege of Moji (1561) * Siege of Odawara (1561) * Siege of Kaminogō Castle (1562) * Siege of Inverness (1562) * Siege of Rouen (1562) – French Wars of Religion * Siege of Weissenstein (1562) - Livonian War * Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama (1563) * Siege of Orleans (1563) – French Wars of Religion * Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir (1563) * Capture of Älvsborg – Northern Seven Years' War * Siege of Concepción (1564) * Siege of Chauragarh (1564) * Siege of Kuragano (1565) * Great Siege of Malta (1565) * Siege of Minowa (1566) * Siege of Szigetvár (1566) – Ottoman Empire, Ottoman siege during which Suleiman the Magnificent died * Siege of Valenciennes (1567), Siege of Valenciennes (1566–67) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Inabayama Castle (1567) * Siege of Chittorgarh (1567–1568), Siege of Chittorgarh (1567–68) * Siege of Ranthambore (1568) * Siege of Chartres (1568) * Siege of Malacca (1568) * Siege of Hachigata (1568) * Siege of Odawara (1569) * Siege of Kanbara (1569) * Siege of Kakegawa (1569) * Siege of Tachibana (1569) * Siege of Varberg (1569) – Northern Seven Years' War * Siege of Ogucji Castle (1569) * Siege of Hanazawa (1570) * Siege of Chōkō-ji (1570) * Siege of Kanegasaki (1570) * Siege of Nicosia, Cyprus (1570) – Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War * Siege of Famagusta, Cyprus (1570–71) – Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War * Siege of Reval (1570–71) – Livonian War * Siege of Weissenstein (1570–71) - Livonian War * Siege of Ishiyama Honganji (1570–1580) – longest siege in Japanese history *Siege of Chale (1571) - War of the League of the Indies, War of the league of Indies * Siege of Fukazawa (1571) * Siege of Moscow (1571) – Part of Russo-Crimean Wars * Sieges of Nagashima (1571, 1573, 1574) * Siege of Mount Hiei (1571) * Siege of Futamata (1572) * Siege of Iwamura Castle (1572) * Siege of Mons (1572) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Middelburg (1572–74) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573), Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573), assault on the Huguenot city of La Rochelle during the French Wars of Religion. * Siege of Sancerre (1572–1573) – French Wars of Religion * Siege of Haarlem (1572–1573) – conducted by the Spanish against the Dutch during the Eighty Years' War * Siege of Weissenstein (1572–73) - Livonian War * Siege of Noda Castle (1573) * Siege of Odani Castle (1573) * Siege of Hikida Castle (1573) * Siege of Ichijōdani Castle (1573) * Siege of Alkmaar (1573) – turning point in the Eighty Years' War * Siege of Leiden (1573–1574) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Wesenberg (1574) – Livonian War * Siege of Itami (1574) * Siege of Takatenjin (1574) * Conquest of Tunis (1574), Siege of Tunis (1574) * Lim Hong (pirate), Siege of Limahong (1574) * Siege of Yoshida Castle (1575) * Siege of Nagashino (1575) * Siege of Schoonhoven (1575) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Zierikzee (1575–1576)) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Mitsuji (1576) * Siege of Takabaru (1576) * Sack of Antwerp, Siege of Antwerp (1576) – during the Eighty Years' War * Siege of Nanao (1577) * Siege of Shigisan (1577) * Siege of Reval (1577) – Livonian War * Siege of Danzig (1577) – Danzig rebellion * Siege of Gvozdansko (1577–1578) * Siege of Kōzuki Castle (1578) * Siege of Otate (1578) * Siege of Deventer (1578) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Miki (1578–1580) * Siege of Itami (1579) * Siege of Maastricht (1579) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Polotsk (1579) – Livonian War * Siege of Velikiye Luki – Livonian War * Siege of Carrigafoyle Castle (1580) – Second Desmond Rebellion * Siege of Steenwijk (1580–1581) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Smerwick (1580) – Second Desmond Rebellion * Siege of Takatenjin (1581), Siege of Takatenjin (1580–1581) * Siege of Hijiyama (1581) * Siege of Tottori (1581) * Siege of Minamata Castle (1581) * Siege of Narva (1581) – Livonian War * Siege of Weissenstein (1581) - Livonian War * Siege of Pskov (1581–1582) – Livonian War * Siege of Niezijl (1581) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Takamatsu (1582) * Siege of Takatō (1582) * Siege of Uozu (1582) * Siege of Lochem (1582) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Lier (1582) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Eindhoven (1583) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Godesberg (1583) * Siege of Kaganoi (1584) * Siege of Takehana (1584) * Siege of Kanie (1584) * Siege of Suemori (1584) * Siege of Ypres (1584) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Ghent (1583–1584), Siege of Ghent (1584) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Antwerp (1584–1585) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Bruges (1584) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Brussels (1584–85) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Toyama (1585) * Siege of Negoro-ji (1585) * Siege of Ōta Castle (1585) * Siege of IJsseloord (1585) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Iwaya Castle (1586) * Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1586), Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1586) during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), Anglo–Spanish War * Siege of Grave (1586) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Venlo (1586) – Eighty Years' War * Capture of Axel, Siege of Axel (1586) – Eighty Years' War * Destruction of Neuss, Second siege of Neuss (July 1586) * Siege of Rheinberg (1586–1590) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Ganjaku (1587) * Siege of Akizuki (1587) * Siege of Kagoshima (1587) * Siege of Sluis (1587) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Johor (1587) * Siege of Kraków (1587) – War of the Polish Succession (1587–88) * Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1588) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Kurokawa Castle (1589) * Siege of Hachigata (1590) * Siege of Paris (1590) – French Wars of Religion * Siege of Odawara (1590), Siege of Odawara Castle (1590) * Siege of Shimoda (1590) * Siege of Oshi (1590) * Siege of Zutphen (1591) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Deventer (1591) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Knodsenburg (1591) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Hulst (1591) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Nijmegen (1591) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Rouen (1591), Siege of Rouen (1591–1592) – French Wars of Religion * Siege of Caudebec (1592) – French Wars of Religion * Siege of Busanjin (1592) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Dongrae (1592) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Steenwijk (1592) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Bihać (1592) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Pyongyang (1592) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Coevorden (1592) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Jinju (1592) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Pyongyang (1593) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Haengju (1593) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Geertruidenberg (1593) – Eighty Years' War * Battle of Sisak, Siege of Sisak (1593) – Long Turkish War * Siege of Jinju (1593) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Coevorden (1593), Siege of Coevorden (1593–1594) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Groningen (1594) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Enniskillen (1594) – Tyrone's Rebellion * Siege of Morlaix (1594) – French Wars of Religion * Siege of Fort Crozon (1594) – Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) * Siege of Huy (1595) – Eighty Years' War * Preston Somers Expedition, Siege of Caracas (1595) during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), Anglo–Spanish War * Siege of Le Catelet (1595) – French Wars of Religion * Siege of Groenlo (1595) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Doullens – French Wars of Religion * Battle of San Juan (1595), Siege of San Juan (1595) during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), Anglo–Spanish War * Siege of Calais (1596) – French Wars of Religion * Siege of Hulst (1596) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Eger (1596) – Long Turkish War * Siege of Amiens (1597) – French Wars of Religion * Siege of Rheinberg (1597) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Meurs (1597) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Groenlo (1597) – during the Eighty Years' War * Siege of Namwon (1597) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Bredevoort (1597) – Eighty Years' War * Capture of Enschede (1597), Siege of Enschede (1597) – Eighty Years' War * Capture of Ootmarsum, Siege of Ootmarsum (1597) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Oldenzaal (1597) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Lingen (1597) – Eighty Years' War *:hu:Buda ostroma (1598), Siege of Buda (1598) * Siege of Ulsan (1598) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Second siege of Ulsan (1598) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Suncheon (1598) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Battle of Sacheon (1598), Siege of Sacheon (1598) – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98) * Siege of Schenckenschans (1599) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Zaltbommel (1599) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Cahir Castle (1599) – Nine Years' War (Ireland) * Siege of Rees (1599) – Eighty Years' War


17th century

* Siege of San Andreas (1600) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Ueda (1600) * Siege of Fushimi (1600) * Siege of Ōtsu (1600) * Siege of Shiroishi (1600) * Siege of Hataya (1600) * Siege of Kaminoyama (1600) * Siege of Hasedō (1600) * Siege of Tanabe (1600) * Siege of Udo (1600) * Siege of Yanagawa (1600) * Siege of Pernau (1600) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of Fellin (1600) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of Dorpat (1600) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of Rheinberg (1601) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Ostend (1601–04) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Nagykanizsa (1601) – Long Turkish War * Siege of Donegal (1601) – Nine Years' War (Ireland) * Siege of Kinsale (1601–02) – Nine Years' War (Ireland) * Siege of Wolmar (1601) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch (1601) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Fellin (1602) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of Weissenstein (1602) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of Dunboy (1602) – Nine Years' War (Ireland) * Siege of Grave (1602) – Eighty Years' War * :hu:Buda ostroma (1602), Siege of Buda (1602–1603) – Long Turkish War * Siege of Sluis (1604) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Weissenstein (1604) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of Kromy (1605) – Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18) * Siege of Lingen (1605) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Kandahar (1605–06) * Siege of Malacca (1606) – Dutch-Portuguese War * Siege of Ganja (1606) – Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–18) * Siege of Groenlo (1606) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Tory Island (1608) – O'Doherty's rebellion * Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1608–10) – Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) * Siege of Fellin (1600) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of Weissenstein (1608) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of Pärnu (1609) – Polish–Swedish War (1600–11) * Siege of Smolensk (1609–11) – Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) * Siege of Kalmar (1611) – Kalmar War * Storming of Kristianopel (1611) – Kalmar War * Battle of Moscow (1612), Siege of Moscow (1612) – Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) * Siege of Smolensk (1613–17) – Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) * Siege of Tikhvin (1613) – Ingrian War * Siege of Gdov (1614) – Ingrian War * Siege of Aachen (1614) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Osaka (1614–15) * Siege of Pskov (1615) – Ingrian War * Uskok War#First Siege of Gradisca, Siege of Gradisca (1616) – Uskok War * Uskok War#Second Siege of Gradisca, Siege of Gradisca (1617) – Uskok War * Siege of Pilsen (1618) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Moscow (1618) – Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) * Siege of Budweis (1619) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Kassa (1619) – Thirty Years' War * Battle of Humenné#Prelude, Siege of Vienna (1619) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Bad Kreuznach (1620) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Neuhäusel (1621) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély (1621) – Huguenot rebellions * Blockade of La Rochelle (1621–22) – Huguenot rebellions * Siege of Montauban (1621) – Huguenot rebellions * Siege of Pressburg (1621) – Thirty Years' War * Polish–Swedish War (1621–25)#First phase (1621–22), Siege of Riga (1621) – Polish–Swedish War (1621–25) * Siege of Jülich (1621–22) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Frankenthal (1621–1623) – Thirty Years' War * Capture of Ormuz (1622), Siege of Ormuz (1622) * Siege of Royan (1622) – Huguenot rebellions * Siege of Nègrepelisse (1622) – Huguenot rebellions * Siege of Montpellier (1622) – Huguenot rebellions * Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom (1622) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Heidelberg (1622) – Thirty Years' War * Capture of Mannheim (1622) – Thirty Years' War *:es:Castillo de Araya, Siege of Araya Castle (1622–1623) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Breda (1624), Siege of Breda (1624–1625) – Eighty Years' War * Relief of Genoa#Piedmontese theatre, Siege of Gavi (1625) * Relief of Genoa, Siege of Genoa (1625) * Recapture of Bahia (1625) – Eighty Years' War * Relief of Genoa#Piedmontese theatre, Siege of Verrua (1625) * Polish–Swedish War (1621–25)#Second phase (1625–26), Siege of Koknese (1625) – Polish–Swedish War (1621–25) * Polish–Swedish War (1621–25)#Second phase (1625–26), Siege of Dorpat (1625) – Polish–Swedish War (1621–25) * Battle of San Juan (1625), Siege of San Juan (1625) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (1625) * Siege of Oldenzaal (1626) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (1627) – Anglo-French War (1627–1629) * Siege of Wolfenbüttel (1627) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Nienburg (1627) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Groenlo (1627) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of La Rochelle (1627–1628) – Huguenot rebellions * Siege of Stralsund (1628) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Glückstadt (1628) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Batavia (1628–29) * Siege of Mantua (1629–30) * Siege of Casale Monferrato (1629–31) * Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch (1629) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Privas (1629) – Huguenot rebellions * Siege of Alès (1629) – Huguenot rebellions * Sack of Magdeburg (1631) – Thirty Years' War * Capture of Maastricht, Siege of Maastricht (1632) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Nuremberg (1632) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Dorogobuzh (1632) – Smolensk War * Siege of Smolensk (1632–33) – Smolensk War * Battle of Oldendorf#Prelude, Siege of Hameln (1633) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Hagenau (1633) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Konstanz (1633) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Rheinfelden (1633) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Regensburg (1633) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Belaya (1634) * Siege of Überlingen (1634) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Regensburg (1634) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Lüshun (1634) * Siege of Hildesheim (1634) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Nördlingen (1634) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Minden (1634) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Heidelberg (1634) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Leuven (1635) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Schenkenschans (1635–1636) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Mainz (1635) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Dôle (1636) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of La Capelle (1636) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Le Câtelet (1636) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Magdeburg (1636) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Corbie (1636) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Leipzig (1637) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Breda (1637) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Landrecies (1637) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Venlo (1637) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Leucate (1637) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Hara Castle (1637–1638) * Siege of Azov (1637–1642) – Part of Russo-Turkish Wars * Siege of Saint-Omer (1638) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Fuenterrabía (1638) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Battle of Breisach (1638) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Lemgo (1638) – Thirty Years' War * Capture of Baghdad (1638), Siege of Baghdad (1638) by Ottomans * Siege of Hesdin (1639) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Relief of Thionville (1639) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Salses (1639–1640) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Casale (1640) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Galle (1640) – Dutch-Portuguese War * Siege of Turin (1640) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Arras (1640) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Neunburg (1641) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Wolfenbüttel (1641) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of São Filipe (1641–1642) – Portuguese Restoration War * Siege of Dorsten (1641) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Göttingen (1641) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Perpignan (1642), Siege of Perpignan (1641–1642) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Glogau (1642) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Olmütz (1642) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Brieg (1642) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Leipzig (1642) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Hull (1642) – First English Civil War * Siege of Portsmouth (1642) – First English Civil War * Second siege of Glogau (1642) – Thirty Years' War * Sieges of Bradford (1642–1643) – First English Civil War * Siege of Reading (1642–1643) – First English Civil War * Siege of Chichester (1642) – First English Civil War * Battle of Rocroi#Prelude, Siege of Rocroi (1643) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Thionville (1643) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Worcester (1643) – First English Civil War * Siege of Lichfield (1643) – First English Civil War * Siege of Gloucester (1643) – First English Civil War * Siege of Sierck (1643) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Hull (1643) – First English Civil War * Siege of Newcastle (1644) – First English Civil War * Siege of Lathom House (1644) – First English Civil War * Siege of Überlingen (1644) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Lyme Regis (1644) – First English Civil War * Siege of York (1644) – First English Civil War * Siege of Lincoln (1644) – First English Civil War * Siege of Lleida (1644) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) *Siege of Gravelines (1644) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Oxford (1644–1646) – First English Civil War * Siege of Sas van Gent (1644) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Philippsburg (1644) – Thirty Years' War * Relief of Montgomery Castle, Siege of Montgomery Castle (1644) – First English Civil War * Sieges of Taunton (1644–1645) – First English Civil War * Siege of Duncannon (1645) – Irish Confederate Wars * Siege of Chester (1645) – First English Civil War * Great Siege of Scarborough Castle (1645) – First English Civil War * Siege of Carlisle (1644) – First English Civil War * Siege of Brünn (1645) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Mardyck (1645) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Bristol (1645) – First English Civil War * Siege of Béthune (1645) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Lillers (1645) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Saint-Venant (1645) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Hulst (1645) – Eighty Years' War * Siege of Worcester (1646) – First English Civil War * Siege of Mardyck (1646) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Dunkirk (1646) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Augsburg (1646) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Lindau (1647) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Armentières (1647) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Landrecies (1647) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Ypres (1647) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Memmingen (1647) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Candia (Crete) (1648–69) – claimed as the second-longest siege in history * Siege of Pembroke (1648) – Second English Civil War * Siege of Colchester (1648) – Second English Civil War * Battle of Prague (1648), Siege of Prague (1648) – Thirty Years' War * Siege of Inverness (1649) * Siege of Zbarazh (1649) – Khmelnytsky uprising * Siege of Dublin (1649) * Siege of Drogheda (1649) – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland * Siege of Wexford (1649) – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland * Siege of Waterford (1649–1650) – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland * Siege of Inverness (1650) * Siege of Kilkenny (1650) – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland * Siege of Clonmel (1650) – Irish Confederate Wars * Siege of Charlemont (1650) – Irish Confederate Wars * Siege of Limerick (1650–51), Cromwell's Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1651) – Irish Confederate Wars * Siege of Barcelona (1651), Siege of Barcelona (1651–1652), during the Reapers' War, Catalan Revolt * Siege of Galway (1651–1652) – Irish Confederate Wars * Battle of Arras (1654), Siege of Arras (1654) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Smolensk (1654) – Russo-Polish War (1654–67) * Siege of Landrecies (1655) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Santo Domingo (1655) – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60) * Siege of Kraków (1655) – Second Northern War * Siege of Danzig (1655–60) – Second Northern War * Siege of Jasna Góra (1655) – during Deluge (history), The Deluge * Battle of Valenciennes (1656), Siege of Valenciennes (1656) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Zamość (1656) – Second Northern War * Siege of Warsaw (1656) – Second Northern War * Siege of Nöteborg (1656) – Russo-Swedish War (1656–58) * Siege of Nyenschantz (1656) – Russo-Swedish War (1656–58) * Siege of Dyneburg (1656) – Russo-Swedish War (1656–58) * Siege of Riga (1656) – Russo-Swedish War (1656–58) * Siege of Dorpat (1656) – Russo-Swedish War (1656–58) * Siege of Bidar (1657) * Siege of Kraków (1657) – Second Northern War * Siege of Dorpat (1657) – Russo-Swedish War (1656–58) * Siege of Dunkirk (1658) – Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) * Siege of Toruń (1658) – Second Northern War * Siege of Badajoz (1658) – Portuguese Restoration War * Assault on Copenhagen (1659), Siege of Copenhagen (1658–1659) Second Northern War, Swedes defeated by Danish and Dutch defenders * Siege of Kolding (1658) – Second Northern War * Siege of Lyakhavichy (1660) – Russo-Polish War (1654–67) * Siege of Fort Zeelandia (1661–1662) – Sino-Dutch conflicts * Siege of Érsekújvár (1663) – Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664) * Siege of Hlukhiv (1664) – Russo-Polish War (1654–67) * Siege of Valência de Alcântara (1664) * Siege of Novi Zrin (1664), Siege of Novi Zrin Castle (1664) in northern Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Croatia – Austro-Turkish War (1663–64) * Siege of Léva (1664) – Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664) * Siege of Purandhar (1665) * War of Devolution#Campaign in the Spanish Netherlands, Siege of Charleroi (1667) – War of Devolution * War of Devolution#Campaign in the Spanish Netherlands, Siege of Tournai (1667) – War of Devolution * War of Devolution#Campaign in the Spanish Netherlands, Siege of Douai (1667) – War of Devolution * Siege of Lille (1667) – War of Devolution * War of Devolution#Campaign in the Franche-Comté, Siege of Dole (1668) – War of Devolution * Solovetsky Monastery uprising, Siege of Solovetsky Monastery (1668–76) – eight years * Siege of Groenlo (1672) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Groningen (1672) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Kamenets (1672) – Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76) * Siege of Maastricht (1673) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Bonn (1673) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Besançon (1674) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Ponda (1675) * Siege of Maastricht (1676) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Philippsburg (1676) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Valenciennes (1676–77) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Freiburg (1677) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Cambrai (1677) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Malmö (1677) – Scanian War * Siege of Ghent (1678) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Ypres (1678) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Puigcerdà (1678) – Franco-Dutch War * Siege of Stralsund (1678) – Scanian War * Battle of Vienna, Siege of Vienna (1683) – siege of Vienna during the Great Turkish War * Siege of Luxembourg (1684) – War of the Reunions * Bombardment of Genoa, Siege of Genoa (1684) – War of the Reunions * Siege of Buda (1684), Austrian army tried to take Buda from Ottoman Turkey * Siege of Santa Maura (1684) – Morean War * Morean War#Battles in Dalmatia, Siege of Sinj (1684) – Morean War * Morean War#Battles in Dalmatia, Siege of Sinj (1685) – Morean War * Siege of Bijapur (1685–86) * Morean War#Coron and Mani (1685), Siege of Cojor (1685) – Morean War * Siege of Érsekújvár (1685) – Great Turkish War * Morean War#Navarino, Modon, and Nauplia (1686), Siege of Kelefa (1686) – Morean War * Morean War#Navarino, Modon, and Nauplia (1686), Siege of Navarino (1686) – Morean War * Siege of Buda (1686) – Great Turkish War * Morean War#Navarino, Modon, and Nauplia (1686), Siege of Modon (1686) – Morean War * Morean War#Navarino, Modon, and Nauplia (1686), Siege of Nauplia (1686) – Morean War * Siege of Pécs (1686) – Great Turkish War * Siege of Golconda (1687) * Morean War#Battles in Dalmatia, Siege of Castelnuovo (1687) – Morean War * Morean War#Patras and the completion of the conquest (1687), Siege of Monemvasia (1687–1690) – Morean War * Morean War#Occupation of Athens (1687–88), Siege of the Acropolis (1687) – Morean War * Siege of Bangkok (1688) – Siamese revolution of 1688 * Siege of Negroponte (1688) – Great Turkish War * Siege of Belgrade (1688) – Great Turkish War * Morean War#Battles in Dalmatia, Siege of Knin (1688) – Morean War * Siege of Philippsburg (1688) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#Rhineland and the Empire, Siege of Mannheim (1688) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#Rhineland and the Empire, Siege of Frankenthal (1688) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Derry (1689) – Williamite War in Ireland * Nine Years' War#Rhineland and the Empire, Siege of Kaiserswerth (1689) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#Rhineland and the Empire, Siege of Mainz (1689) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Larache (1689) * Siege of Pemaquid (1689) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Carrickfergus (1689) – Williamite War in Ireland * Siege of Bonn (1689) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Gingee (1689–1698) * First siege of Athlone (1690), Williamite War in Ireland * Morean War#Capture of Valona and Kanina (1690), Siege of Kanina (1690) – Morean War * Siege of Belgrade (1690), Siege of Niš (1690) – Great Turkish War * Siege of Cork (1690) – Williamite War in Ireland * Siege of Belgrade (1690) – Great Turkish War * Battle of Quebec (1690), Siege of Québec City (1690) – First siege of Québec City * Siege of Jinji (1690–1698) * Siege of Limerick (1691), Williamite War in Ireland * Second siege of Athlone (1691), Williamite War in Ireland * Siege of Mons (1691) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Cuneo (1691) – Nine Years' War * Morean War#Attack on Candia (1692), Siege of Candia (1692) – Morean War * Siege of Namur (1692) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#Heavy fighting: 1692–93, Siege of Embrun (1692) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#Heavy fighting: 1692–93, Siege of Ebernburg (1692) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Belgrade (1693) – Great Turkish War * Nine Years' War#Heavy fighting: 1692–93, Siege of Huy (1693) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#Heavy fighting: 1692–93, Siege of Charleroi (1693) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#Heavy fighting: 1692–93, Siege of Pinerolo (1693) – Nine Years' War * Morean War#Final years of the war, Siege of Chios (1694) – Morean War * Nine Years' War#War and diplomacy: 1694–95, Siege of Palamos (1694) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#War and diplomacy: 1694–95, Siege of Gerona (1694) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#War and diplomacy: 1694–95, Siege of Huy (1694) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Ceuta (1694–1727) – claimed as the longest siege in history * Nine Years' War#War and diplomacy: 1694–95, Siege of Casale (1695) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Namur (1695) – Nine Years' War * Capitulation of Diksmuide (1695) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Fort Jesus (1696–1698) * Siege of Pemaquid (1696) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Fort Nashwaak (1696) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Ath (1697) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Barcelona (1697) – Nine Years' War * Nine Years' War#Road to Ryswick: 1696–97, Siege of Ebernburg (1697) – Nine Years' War * Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1697)


18th century

* Siege of Riga (1700) – Great Northern War * Siege of Tönning (1700) – Great Northern War * Siege of Riga (1700) – Great Northern War * Siege of Narva (1700) – Great Northern War * Siege of Kaiserswerth (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Saint Donas (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Castiglione (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Landau (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Borgoforte (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Guastalla (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Venlo (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Stevensweert (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Roermond (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Nöteborg (1702) – Great Northern War * Siege of Liége (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Rheinberg (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Hulst (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Trarbach (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of St. Augustine (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Andernach (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Governolo (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Neubourg (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Kehl (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Bonn (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Thorn (1703) – Great Northern War * Siege of Nago (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Arco (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Breisach (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Huy (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Limburg (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Landau (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Augsburg (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Guadeloupe (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Castello de Vide (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Wagingera (1704) * Landing at Barcelona (1704), Siege of Barcelona (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Susa (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Portalegre (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Vercelli (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Rain (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Narva (1704) – Great Northern War * Siege of Dorpat (1704) – Great Northern War * Siege of Villingen (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Susa (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Fort Isabella (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Capture of Gibraltar, Siege of Gibraltar (1704) – eleventh siege of Gibraltar, by Sir George Rooke's Anglo-Dutch fleet * Siege of Ulm (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar (1704–05) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Ivree (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Landau (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Verrua (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Trarbach (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Colonia del Sacramento (1704–1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of St. John's (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Valencia de Alcantara (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Albuquerque (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Huy (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Liège (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Second siege of Huy (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Chivasso (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Mirandola (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Nice (1705), Siege of Nice (1705–06) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Zoutleeuw (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Barcelona (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Hagenau (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Badajoz (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Zandvliet (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Diest (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of San Mateo (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Alcantara (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Barcelona (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Hagenau (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Turin (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Oostende (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Menin (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Alicante (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Dendermonde (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Ath (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Pavia (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Cuenca (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Pizzigetone (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Elche (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Cartagena (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Casale (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Milan (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Villena (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Xàtiva (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Port Royal (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Toulon (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Gaeta (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Pensacola (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Susa (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Lérida (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Morella (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Oran (1707–1708) – Conflicts between Spain and Algiers * Siege of Tortosa (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Exilles (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Lille (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Fenestrelles (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of San Felipe (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Leffinghe (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Denia (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Saint Ghislain (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Brussels (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Alicante (1708–09) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Ghent (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Veprik (1709) – Great Northern War * Siege of Tournai (1709) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Mons (1709) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Viborg (1710) – Great Northern War * Siege of Reval (1710) – Great Northern War * Siege of Douai (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Béthune (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Aire (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Saint Venant (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Port Royal (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Gerona (1710–1711) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Kassa (1711) – Rákóczi's War of Independence * Siege of Aren fort (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Bouchain (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Venasque (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Stralsund (1711–15) – Great Northern War * Siege of Castel-Leon (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Cardona (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Le Quesnoy (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Landrecies (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Marchiennes (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Douai (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession * Second siege of Le Quesnoy (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Bouchain (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Gerona (1712–1713) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Tönning#1713–1714, Siege of Tönning (1713–1714) – Great Northern War * Siege of Landau (1713) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Barcelona (1713–14), Siege of Barcelona (1713–14) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Freiburg (1713) – War of the Spanish Succession * Siege of Gurdaspur (1715) * Siege of Brahan (1715) – Jacobite rising of 1715 * Siege of Inverness (1715) – Jacobite rising of 1715 * Siege of Temeşvar (1716) – Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718) * Siege of Belgrade (1717) – Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718) * Siege of Fredriksten (1718) – Great Northern War * Siege of Isfahan (1722) * Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar (1727) – by a Spanish army * Spanish conquest of Oran (1732), Siege of Oran (1732) – Conflicts between Spain and Algiers * Siege of Kehl (1733) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Pizzighettone (1733) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Danzig (1734) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Gaeta (1734) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Trarbach (1734) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Capua (1734) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Philippsburg (1734) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Messina (1734–1735) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Ganja (1734), Siege of Ganja (1734–1735) – Ottoman–Persian War (1730–35) * Siege of Syracuse (1735) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Trapani (1735) – War of the Polish Succession * Siege of Perekop (1736) – Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739) * Siege of Azov (1736) – Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739) * Siege of Banja Luka (1737) – Austro-Turkish War (1737–1739) * Siege of Ochakov (1737) – Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739) * Siege of Kandahar (1737–1738) * Siege of Mehadia (1738) – Austro-Turkish War (1737–1739) * Siege of Orsova (1738) – Austro-Turkish War (1737–1739) * Capture of Belgrade (1739), Siege of Belgrade (1739) – Austro-Turkish War (1737–1739) * Battle of Portobello, Siege of Portobello (1739) – victory of British siege by Edward Vernon in the War of Jenkins' Ear * Siege of St. Augustine (1740) – War of Jenkins' Ear * Siege of Fort Mose (1740) – War of Jenkins' Ear * Siege of Trichinopoly (1741) * Battle of Cartagena de Indias, Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1741) – failed British siege by Edward Vernon in the War of Jenkins' Ear * Siege of Brieg (1741) – War of the Austrian Succession * Invasion of Cuba (1741), Siege of Santiago (1741) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Neisse (1741) * Siege of Glatz (1742) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Eger (1742) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Mirandola (1742) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Modena (1742) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Prague (1742) – War of the Austrian Succession * Battle of La Guaira, Siege of La Guaira (1743) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Eger (1743) – War of the Austrian Succession * Battle of Puerto Cabello, Siege of Puerto Cabello (1743) – War of the Austrian Succession * Blockade of Straubing (1743) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Trichinopoly (1743) * Siege of Ingolstadt (1743) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Mosul (1743) – Ottoman–Persian War (1743–46) * Siege of Menin (1744) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Ypres (1744) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Furnes (1744) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Annapolis Royal (1744) – War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War) * Siege of Prague (1744) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Cuneo (1744) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Freiburg (1744) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Tabor (1744) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Tournai (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Louisbourg (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War) * Siege of Port Toulouse (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War) * Siege of Annapolis Royal (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War) * Fall of Ghent (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Oudenarde (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Ostend (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Tortona (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Kosel (1745) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Ruthven Barracks (1745) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Culloden House (1745) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Carlisle (November 1745) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Carlisle (December 1745) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Fort Augustus (December 1745) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Stirling Castle (1746) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Brussels (1746) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Ruthven Barracks (1746) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Inverness (1746) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Fort Augustus (March 1746) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Blair Castle (1745) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Fort William (1745) – Jacobite rising of 1745 * Siege of Genoa (1746) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Mons (1746) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Namur (1746) – War of the Austrian Succession * Battle of Madras, Siege of Madras (1746) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Genoa (1747) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Hulst (1747) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1747) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Maastricht (1748) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Cuddalore (1748) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Pondicherry (1748) – War of the Austrian Succession * Siege of Arcot (1751) – Second Carnatic War * Siege of Trichinopoly (1751–52) – Second Carnatic War * Siege of Fort St Philip (1756) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Pirna (1756) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Prague (1757) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Fort William Henry (1757) – Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) * Siege of Schweidnitz (1757) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Breslau (1757) – Seven Years' War * Blockade of Liegnitz (1757) – Seven Years' War * Blockade of Stralsund (1757–1758) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Küstrin (1758) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Schweidnitz (1758) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Louisbourg (1758) – Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) * Siege of Olomouc, Siege of Olmütz (1758) – by the Prussian army of Frederick the Great during the Seven Years' War * Siege of Neisse (1758) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Madras (1758–1759) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Masulipatam (1759) – Seven Years' War * Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Siege of Québec (1759) – Second siege of Québec City, Québec, during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) * Siege of Münster (1759) – Seven Years' War * Second siege of Münster (1759) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Fort Loudoun (1760) – Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) * Siege of Glatz (1760) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Dresden (1760) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Breslau (1760) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Wittenberg (1760) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Pondicherry (1760), Siege of Pondicherry (1760–1761) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Cassel (1761) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Kolberg (Seven Years' War), Sieges of Kolberg (1759, 1760, and 1761) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Havana (1762) – Seven Years' War. British fleet headed by George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle lays siege to Spanish controlled Havana for a month. * Siege of Schweidnitz (1762) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Almeida (1762) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Cassel (1762) – Seven Years' War * Siege of Ambur (1767) – First Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Khotyn (1769) – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) * Siege of Bender (1770) – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) * Siege of Giurgevo (1771) – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) * Siege of Silistria (1773) – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) * Siege of Melilla (1774), during Hispano-Moroccan wars * Siege of Boston (1775–1776) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Fort St. Jean (1775) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Fort Stanwix (1777) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Fort Henry (1777) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Fort Mifflin (1777) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Pondicherry (1778) – Anglo-French War (1778–1783) * Siege of Fort Vincennes (1779) – American Revolutionary War * Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779–83) – fourteenth siege of Gibraltar, by a Spanish-French army in the American Revolutionary War * Siege of Savannah (1779) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Tellicherry (1779–82) – Second Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Charleston (1780) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Kastania (1780) * Siege of Vellore (1780–82) – Second Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Pensacola (1781) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Fort Watson (1781) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Fort Motte (1781) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Augusta (1781) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Ninety-Six (1781) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Yorktown (1781) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Negapatam (1781) – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War * Siege of Brimstone Hill (1782) – Anglo-French War (1778–1783) * Siege of Fort Henry (1782) – American Revolutionary War * Siege of Cuddalore (1783) – Second Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Mangalore (1783–1784) – Second Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Nargund (1785) – Maratha–Mysore War * Siege of Badami (1786) – Maratha–Mysore War * Siege of Bahadur Benda (1787) – Maratha–Mysore War * Siege of Ochakov (1788) – Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) * Siege of Khotin (1788) – Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791) * Siege of Belgrade (1789) – Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791) * Siege of Izmail (1789–1790) – Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) * Siege of Oran (1790–1792) – Conflicts between Spain and Algiers * Siege of Darwar (1790–1791) – Third Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Koppal (1790–1791) – Third Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Bangalore (1791) – Third Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Coimbatore (1791) – Third Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Goorumconda (1791) – Third Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Nundydroog (1791) – Third Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Savendroog (1791) – Third Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Seringapatam (1792) – Third Anglo-Mysore War * Siege of Thionville (1792) – War of the First Coalition * Battle of Verdun (1792) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Lille (1792) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Mainz (1792) – War of the First Coalition * Battle of Limburg (1792) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Maastricht (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Condé (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Mainz (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Bellegarde (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Valenciennes (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Pondicherry (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Lyon (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Landau (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Dunkirk (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Le Quesnoy (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Toulon (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Maubeuge (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Fort-Louis (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Angers (1793) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of San Fiorenzo (1794) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Bastia (1794) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Landrecies (1794) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Collioure (1794) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Ypres (1794) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Calvi (1794) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Luxembourg (1794–95) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Roses (1794–95) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Mannheim (1795) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Mantua (1796–97) – War of the First Coalition, French besieging * Siege of Kehl (1796–97) – War of the First Coalition * Siege of Hüningen (1796–97) – War of the First Coalition * Invasion of Trinidad (1797), Siege of Port of Spain (1797), during the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808), Anglo-Spanish War * Battle of San Juan (1797), Siege of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1797), during the Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808), Anglo-Spanish War * Siege of Malta (1798–1800), Siege of Malta (1798–1800), during the French Revolutionary Wars * Siege of Corfu (1798–99) – War of the Second Coalition * Siege of El Arish (1799) – French campaign in Egypt and Syria * Siege of Jaffa (1799) – French campaign in Egypt and Syria * Siege of Acre (1799) – French campaign in Egypt and Syria * Siege of Mantua (1799) – War of the Second Coalition * Siege of Seringapatam (1799) – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War


Modern military sieges


19th century

* Siege of Genoa (1800) – War of the Second Coalition * Siege of Fort Bard (1800) – War of the Second Coalition * Siege of Fort Julien (1801) – French campaign in Egypt and Syria * Siege of Porto Ferrajo (1801) – War of the Second Coalition * Siege of Alexandria (1801), Siege of Alexandria (1801) – French campaign in Egypt and Syria * Siege of Ahmednagar (1803) – Second Anglo-Maratha War * Siege of Aligarh (1803) – Second Anglo-Maratha War * Siege of Erivan (1804) – Russo-Persian War (1804–13) * Siege of Delhi (1804) – Second Anglo-Maratha War * Siege of Deeg (1804) – Second Anglo-Maratha War * Siege of Bharatpur (1805) – Second Anglo-Maratha War * Siege of Santo Domingo (1805) * Siege of Gaeta (1806) – Invasion of Naples (1806) * Siege of Magdeburg (1806) – War of the Fourth Coalition * Siege of Belgrade (1806) – First Serbian uprising * Siege of Hameln (1806) – War of the Fourth Coalition * Siege of Stralsund (1807) – War of the Fourth Coalition * Siege of Montevideo (1807) – during the British invasions of the River Plate * Siege of Kolberg (1807) – War of the Fourth Coalition * Siege of Danzig (1807) – War of the Fourth Coalition, French siege of Prussians and Russians * British invasions of the River Plate#2nd Battle of Buenos Aires, Siege of Buenos Aires (1807) – during the British invasions of the River Plate * Battle of Copenhagen (1807) – Bombarded by British fleet and by ground forces commanded by Arthur Wellesley * Siege of Sveaborg (1808) – Finnish War * Siege of Erivan (1808) – Russo-Persian War (1804–13) * First siege of Zaragoza (1808) – Peninsular War * Siege of Barcelona (1808) – Peninsular War * Battle of Valencia (1808) – Peninsular War * Second siege of Gerona (1808) – Peninsular War * Siege of Roses (1808) – Peninsular War * Second siege of Zaragoza (1808–1809) – Peninsular War * Siege of Chaves (1809) – Peninsular War * Third siege of Girona (1809) – Peninsular War * Siege of Cádiz (1810–1812) – Peninsular War * Siege of Santa Maura (1810) – Adriatic campaign * Siege of Astorga (1810) – Peninsular War * Siege of Lérida (1810) – Peninsular War * Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810), First siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810) – Peninsular War by the French Marshal Michel Ney * Siege of Mequinenza (1810) – Peninsular War * Siege of Almeida (1810) – Peninsular War * Siege of Tortosa (1810–11) – Peninsular War * Siege of Olivenza (1811) – Peninsular War * First siege of Badajoz (1811) – Peninsular War * Siege of Figueras (1811) – Peninsular War * Second siege of Badajoz (1811) – Peninsular War * Siege of Tarragona (1811) – Peninsular War * Siege of Valencia (Venezuela) (:es:Campaña de Valencia, es) (1811) – Spanish American wars of independence * First siege of Montevideo (1811) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Tarifa (1812), Siege of Tarifa (1811–1812) – Peninsular War * Siege of Valencia (1812), Siege of Valencia (1811–1812) – Peninsular War * Second siege of Montevideo (1812–14) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), Second siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812) – Peninsular War by Arthur Wellesley * Siege of Cuautla (1812) – Mexican War of Independence * Siege of Badajoz (1812) – Peninsular War * Siege of Huajuapan de León (1812) – Mexican War of Independence * Siege of the Salamanca Forts (1812) – Peninsular War * Siege of Astorga (1812) – Peninsular War * First siege of Puerto Cabello (:es:Asedio de Puerto Cabello (1812), es) (1812) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Riga (1812) – French invasion of Russia * Siege of Fort Mackinac (1812) – War of 1812 * Siege of Detroit (1812) – War of 1812 * Siege of Fort Harrison (1812) – War of 1812 * Siege of Fort Wayne (1812) – War of 1812 * Siege of Burgos (1812) – Peninsular War * Siege of Danzig (1813) – War of the Sixth Coalition * Siege of Acapulco (1813) – Mexican War of Independence * Siege of Fort Meigs (1813) – failed British siege of American garrison during the War of 1812 * Siege of Tarragona (1813) – Peninsular War * Siege of Pamplona (1813) – Peninsular War * Siege of San Sebastián (1813) – Peninsular War * Siege of Chillán (1813) – Chilean War of Independence * Second siege of Puerto Cabello (:es:Asedio de Puerto Cabello (1813), es) (1813) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Cattaro (1813–1814) – War of the Sixth Coalition * Siege of Mainz (1814), Siege of Mainz (1813–1814) – War of the Sixth Coalition * Siege of Zara (1813) – War of the Sixth Coalition * Siege of Maturin (:es:Batalla de Maturin, es) (1813–1814) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Hamburg (1813–1814) – War of the Sixth Coalition * Siege of Metz (1814) – War of the Sixth Coalition * Third siege of Puerto Cabello (:es:Asedio de Puerto Cabello (1814), es) (1814) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Antwerp (1814) – War of the Sixth Coalition * Siege of Ragusa (1814) – War of the Sixth Coalition * Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1814) – War of the Sixth Coalition * First siege of Valencia (Venezuela) (:es:Asedio de Valencia (Venezuela), es) (1814) – Spanish American wars of independence * Second siege of Valencia (Venezuela) (:es:Segundo Asedio de Valencia (Venezuela), es) (1814) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Prairie du Chien (1814) – War of 1812 * Siege of Fort Erie (1814) – War of 1812 * Siege of Aragua de Barcelona (:es: Batalla de Aragua de Barcelona, es) (1814) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Santa Fe de Bogotá (:es:Asedio de Santafé de Bogotá, es) (1814) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Fort St. Philip (1815) – War of 1812 * Siege of Ancona (1815) – Neapolitan War * Siege of Gaeta (1815) – Neapolitan War * Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1815), Siege of Cartagena de Indias (:es:Asedio de Cartagena de Indias, es) (1815) – List of wars 1800–99, Spanish American wars of independence * First siege of Angostura (:es:Batalla de Angostura, es) (1817) – Spanish American wars of independence * (1817) – Spanish American wars of independence * Second siege of Angostura (:es:Segunda Batalla de Angostura, es) (1817) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1820-21), Siege of Cartagena de Indias (:es:Asedio de Cartagena de Indias (1820–1821), es) (1820–21) – Spanish American wars of independence * First siege of El Callao (:es:Primer sitio del Callao, es) (1821) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Tripolitsa (1821) – by the Greeks against the Ottomans, during the Greek War of Independence * Siege of the Acropolis (1821–22) – by the Greeks against the Ottomans, during the Greek War of Independence * Fourth siege of Puerto Cabello (:es:Asedio de Puerto Cabello (1822), es) (1822) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Pasto (:es: Batalla de Bombona, es) (1822) – Spanish American wars of independence * San Felipe Castle, Fifth Siege of Puerto Cabello (1823) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of Pamplona (1823) – Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis, 1823 French invasion of Spain * Siege of Messolonghi (1825), First, second, and third sieges of Missolonghi (1822, 1823, 1825–1826) * Second siege of El Callao (:es:Segundo sitio del Callao, es) (1824–1826) – Spanish American wars of independence * Siege of the Acropolis (1826–27) – by the Ottomans against the Greeks, during the Greek War of Independence * Siege of Antwerp (1832) – conducted by French forces against a Dutch garrison after the Ten Days' Campaign. * Siege of Jerusalem (1834) Peasants' Revolt of 1834 (Palestine) * Siege of Puerto Cabello (:es:Asedio de Puerto Cabello (1835), es) (1835) – Reforms Revolution (Venezuela) * Battle of the Alamo, Siege of the Alamo (1836) – Texas Revolution * Siege of Herat (1838), Siege of Herat (1837–38) * Third siege of El Callao (:es:Tercer sitio del Callao, es) (1838) * Siege of Akhoulgo (1839) * Great Siege of Montevideo (1843–1851) * Siege of Fort Texas (1846) – Mexican–American War * Siege of Los Angeles (1846) – Mexican–American War * Siege of Pueblo de Taos (1847) – Mexican–American War * Siege of Puebla (1847) – Mexican–American War * Siege of Veracruz (1847) – Mexican–American War. First U.S. amphibious warfare, amphibious landing * Siege of San José del Cabo (1848) – Mexican–American War * Siege of Peschiera del Garda (1848) – Italian Risorgimento * Siege of Osoppo (1848) – Italian Risorgimento * Siege of Venice (1849) – Italian Risorgimento * Siege of Rome (1849) – Italian Risorgimento * Battle of Buda (1849), Siege of Buda (1849) – during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848–49 * Siege of La Serena (1851) – 1851 Chilean Revolution * Siege of Calafat (1854) – Crimean War * Siege of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (1854) * Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55) – Crimean War * Siege of Taganrog (1855) – Crimean War * Siege of Kars (1855) – Crimean War * Siege of Medina Fort (1857) – Toucouleur Empire, Toucouleurs besiege French Army, French for 97 days * Siege of Delhi (1857) – Indian Rebellion of 1857 * Siege of Cawnpore (1857) – Indian Rebellion of 1857 * Siege of Lucknow (1857) – Indian Rebellion of 1857 * Siege of Arrah (1857) – Indian Rebellion of 1857 * Central India Campaign (1858), Siege of Jhansi (1858) – Indian Rebellion of 1857 *Siege of Đà Nẵng (1858–1860) * Siege of Tourane (1858–1860) * Siege of Saigon (1859) * Siege of Ancona (1860) – Italian Risorgimento * Siege of Messina (1860–61) – Italian Risorgimento * Siege of Civitella del Tronto (1860–61) – Italian Risorgimento * Siege of Gaeta (1860–1861) – Italian Risorgimento *Battle of Fort Sumter, Siege of Fort Sumter (1861) – Union soldiers in Fort Sumter surrendered after a few days of bombardment by Confederate forces starting the American Civil War. * Siege of Tubac (1861) – Apache Wars * Capture of New Orleans, Siege of New Orleans (1862) – Union Army besieged a Confederate States of America, Confederate city in the American Civil War * Siege of Vicksburg (1863) – Union Army besieged a Confederate States of America, Confederate city in the American Civil War. * Siege of Port Hudson (1863) – Union Army surrounded Confederate river stronghold for 48 days. * Siege of Puebla (1863) – Second French intervention in Mexico * Siege of Petersburg (1864–1865) – American Civil War * Siege of Fort Ampola (1866) – Italian Risorgimento * Battle of Callao, Fourth siege of El Callao (1866) – naval battle between Spain and Peru (and her allies) * Siege of Querétaro (1867) – Second French intervention in Mexico * Siege of Mexico City (1867) – Second French intervention in Mexico * Battle of Hakodate, Siege of Hakodate (1869) * Capture of Rome (1870) – Italian Risorgimento * Siege of Strasbourg (1870) – Franco-Prussian War * Siege of Toul (1870) – Franco-Prussian War * Siege of Metz (1870) – Franco-Prussian War * Siege of Paris (1870–71), Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune (1870–71) * Siege of Belfort (1870–71) – Franco-Prussian War * Siege of Cartagena, Spain, Cartagena (1873–1874) * Siege of Pamplona (1874) – First Spanish Republic * Siege of Plevna (1877–1878) – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) * Battle of Bear Paw, Siege of the Bears Paw (1877) – final engagement of the Nez Perce War. * Siege of Eshowe (1879) – Anglo–Zulu War * Bombardment of Callao, Fifth siege of El Callao (1880) – Chilean naval
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and bombardment of El Callao (Peru), during the War of the Pacific * Battle of Miraflores, Siege of Miraflores (1880) – Chilean siege of Lima (Peru), during the War of the Pacific * Siege of Marabastad (1881) – First Boer War * Siege of Khartoum (1884–85) – Mahdist War * Siege of Tuyên Quang (1884–85) – Sino-French War *Siege of Lapa (1893) – Federalist Revolution * Battle of Mek'ele, Siege of Mek'elè (1896) – First Italo-Ethiopian War * Siege of Santiago (1898) – Spanish–American War *Bombardment of San Juan, First siege of San Juan (1898) – Spanish–American War *Second Battle of San Juan (1898), Second siege of San Juan (1898) – Spanish–American War *Spanish–American War, Siege of Manila (1898) – Spanish–American War * Siege of Baler (1898–99) – Philippine Revolution * Siege of Masbate (1898–99) – Philippine Revolution * Siege of Zamboanga (1898–99) – Philippine Revolution * Battle of Bucaramanga (1899), Siege of Bucaramanga (1899) – Thousand Days' War (Colombia) * Siege of Mafeking (1899–1900) – Second Boer War * Siege of Kimberley (1899–1900) – Second Boer War * Siege of Ladysmith (1899–1900) – Second Boer War


20th century

* Siege of the International Legations (1900) – Boxer Rebellion * Battle of San Cristobal, Siege of San Cristobal (1901) – Thousand Days' War (Venezuela) * :es:Batalla de La Victoria (1902), Siege of La Victoria (1902)- Revolución Libertadora (Venezuela) * Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03, Siege of Puerto Cabello (1902–1903)- Naval blockade of Venezuela * Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03, Siege of La Guaira (1902–1903)- Naval blockade of Venezuela * Bombardment of Fort San Carlos, Siege of Castle San Carlos (1903)- Naval blockade of Venezuela * :es:Batalla de Ciudad Bolivar (1903), Siege of Ciudad Bolivar (1903)- Revolución Libertadora (Venezuela) * Siege of Port Arthur (1904–05) Russo-Japanese War * Siege of Scutari (1912–13) – First Balkan War * Siege of Adrianople (1912–13), Siege of Adrianople (1912–13) – First Balkan War * Siege of Vidin (1913) – Second Balkan War * United States occupation of Veracruz, Siege of Veracruz (1914) * Battle of Liège (1914) – World War I * Siege of Namur (1914) – World War I * Siege of Maubeuge (1914) – World War I * Siege of Toma (1914) – World War I * Siege of Przemyśl (1914–15) – World War I * Siege of Antwerp (1914) – World War I * Siege of Tsingtao (1914) – World War I * Defense of Van (1915) – World War I * Siege of Novogeorgievsk (1915) – World War I * Siege of Kut (1915–16) – World War I * Siege of Medina (1916–19) – World War I * Battle of Jerusalem (1917) – World War I * Siege of Najaf (1918) – World War I * Siege of Aintab (1920–1921) – Franco-Turkish War * Siege of Perekop (1920) – Russian Civil War * Siege of Naco (1929) – Escobar Rebellion * Siege of Cuartel de la Montaña (1936) – Spanish Civil War * Siege of Cuartel de Loyola (1936) – Spanish Civil War * Siege of Gijón (1936) – Spanish Civil War * Siege of Oviedo (1936) – Spanish Civil War * Siege of the Alcázar (1936) – Second Spanish Republic militias besieged the Alcázar of Toledo in the Spanish Civil War * Siege of Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza (1936–1937) – Spanish Civil War * Siege of Madrid (1936–1939) – Spanish Civil War * Siege of Gandesa (1938) – Spanish Civil War * Siege of Warsaw (1939) – World War II * Battle of Hegra Fortress, Siege of Hegra Fortress (1940) – World War II * Siege of Calais (1940) – World War II * Siege of Lille (1940) – World War II * Siege of Malta (World War II), Siege of Malta (1940–1943)– World War II * Siege of Giarabub (1940–1941) – World War II * Siege of Saïo (1941) – World War II * Siege of Tobruk (1941) – World War II * Siege of Mogilev (1941) – World War II * Siege of Odessa (1941) – World War II * Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) – also known as the 900-Day Siege, probably the most gruesome in history, World War II. * Siege of Rogatica (1941) – World War II * Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) – World War II * Battle of Yenangyaung, Siege of Yenangyaung (1942) – World War II * Battle of Stalingrad, Siege of Stalingrad (1942–1943) – World War II * Siege of Turjak (1943) – World War II * Battle of Imphal, Siege of Imphal (1944) – World War II * Battle of Kohima, Siege of Kohima (1944) – World War II * Siege of Myitkyina (1944) – World War II * Battle of Mount Song, Siege of Mount Song (1944) – World War II * Defense of Hengyang, Siege of Hengyang (1944) – World War II * Allied siege of La Rochelle, Siege of La Rochelle (1944–1945) – World War II * Siege of Dunkirk (1944–45), Siege of Dunkirk (1944–1945) – World War II * Siege of Bastogne (1944) – World War II * Siege of Budapest (1944–1945)– World War II * Siege of Breslau (1945) – World War II * Battle of Berlin, Siege of Berlin (1945) – World War II * Siege of Jerusalem (1948), Siege of Jerusalem (1947–1948) – 1948 Arab–Israeli War – Palestinian Arabs laid siege to the Jewish quarters of Jerusalem, but were driven back. Siege was resumed in May by regular Jordanian and Egyptian forces. Ended in armistice. * Siege of Changchun (1948) – Chinese Civil War * Berlin Blockade (1948–49) – No military action, but the tactic to starve a city by cutting her supply lines is a feature of a siege. The famous Berlin Air Lift supplied the city with food, coal, medical supplies and other goods for nearly a year. * Blockade of Wonsan (1951–53) – Korean War * Siege of Dien Bien Phu (1954) – Vietnamese Viet Minh forces besieged French forces, effecting a final defeat on France's colonial occupation. * Ifni War#Siege of Sidi Ifni, Siege of Sidi Ifni (1957–58) – Ifni War * Siege of Jadotville (1961) – Congo Crisis * El Porteñazo, Siege of Puerto Cabello (1962) – Venezuelan political crisis * Siege of Erenköy (1964) – Turkish Cypriots holding out against attacking Greek and Greek Cypriot forces. Turkish invasion of Cyprus * Encirclement of Jerusalem (1967) – Six-Day War * Siege of Sana'a (1967), Siege of Sana'a (1967–68) – North Yemen Civil War * Battle of Khe Sanh, Siege of Khe Sanh (1968) – Vietnam War * Battle of Huế, Siege of Huế (1968) – Vietnam War * Hue-Da Nang Campaign, Siege of Da Nang (1968) – Vietnam War * Fall of Saigon, Siege of Saigon (1975) – Vietnam War * Siege of Tel al-Zaatar (1976) – Lebanese Civil War * Grand Mosque seizure (1979) * Siege of Khost (1980–91) – Soviet–Afghan War * Siege of Aleppo (1980) – Islamist uprising in Syria * Siege of Abadan (1980–81) – Iran–Iraq War * Siege of Beirut (1982) – 1982 Lebanon War * Siege of Urgun (1983–84) – Soviet–Afghan War * Badaber uprising (1985) – Soviet–Afghan War * War of the Camps (1985–88) – Lebanese Civil War * Siege of Basra (1987) – Iran–Iraq War * Operation Pawan, Siege of Jeffna (1987) – Sri Lankan Civil War * Battle of Kokavil (1990) – Sri Lankan Civil War * First Battle of Elephant Pass (1991) – Sri Lankan Civil War * Siege of Kijevo (1991) – Croatian War of Independence * Siege of Vukovar (1991) – Croatian War of Independence * Siege of Dubrovnik (1991–92) – Croatian War of Independence * Siege of Stepanakert (1991–92) – First Nagorno-Karabakh War * Siege of Sarajevo (1992–96) – Bosnian War * Siege of Mostar (1992–93,1993–94) – Bosnian War * Siege of Doboj (1992) – Bosnian War * Siege of Bihać (1992–95) – Bosnian War * Siege of Tkvarcheli (1992–93) – War in Abkhazia (1992–93) * Siege of Goražde (1992–95) – Bosnian War * Siege of Srebrenica (1993–1995) – Bosnian War * Battle of Jaffna (1995) – Sri Lankan Civil War * Battle of Junik, Siege of Junik (1998) – Kosovo War * Battle of Grozny (1999–2000), Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) – Second Chechen War


21st century

* Siege of Kunduz (2001) – War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) * Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (2002) – Second Intifada * Siege of Monrovia (2003) – Second Liberian Civil War * Siege of Sadr City (2004–2008) – Iraq War * Siege of Sangin (2006–2007) – War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) * Siege of Musa Qala (2006) – War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) * CIMIC-House, Siege of Al Amarah (2006) – Iraq War * Siege of UK bases in Basra (2007) – Iraq War * Siege of Nahr el-Bared (2007) – Lebanon * Blockade of the Gaza Strip (2007–present) – Gaza Strip * Siege of Lal Masjid (2007) – War in North-West Pakistan * Siege of Misrata (2011) – 2011 Libyan Civil War, Libyan Civil War * Siege of Daraa (2011) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Homs (2011–2014) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Baniyas (2011) – Syrian Civil War * May 2011 Talkalakh siege, Siege of Talkalakh (2011) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Rastan and Talbiseh (2011) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Hama (2011) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Latakia (2011) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Dammaj (2011–12, 2013–14) – Yemeni Revolution / Houthi insurgency in Yemen * Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016), Siege of Aleppo (2012–2016) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Nubl and Al-Zahraa (2012–2016) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Menagh Air Base (2012–2013) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Bani Walid (2012) – Factional violence in Libya (2011–14) * First siege of Wadi Deif (2012–2013) – Syrian Civil War * Zamboanga City crisis (2013) – Moro conflict * Ghouta, Siege of Eastern Ghouta (2013–2018) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of PK5 district (2013-2020) – Central African Republic Civil War (2012-present) * Siege of Wadi Barada (2013–2017) – Syrian Civil War * Second siege of Wadi Deif (2014) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Sloviansk (2014) – Russo-Ukrainian War * Siege of the Luhansk Border Base (2014) – Russo-Ukrainian War * Siege of Amirli (2014) – Iraqi civil war (2014–present), Iraqi Civil War * Siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–17), Siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–2017) – Syrian Civil War * Battle of Ilovaisk (2014) – Russo-Ukrainian War * Siege of Kobanî (2014–2015) – Syrian Civil War * Siege of Al-Fu'ah-Kafriya (2015), Siege of Al-Fu'ah-Kafriya (2015–2017) – Syrian Civil War * Cizre operation (2015) – Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) * Siege of Silvan (2015) – Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) * Siege of Sur (2016), Siege of Sur (2015–2016) – Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) * December 2015–February 2016 Cizre curfew, Siege of Cizre (2015–2016) Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) * Siege of Fallujah (2016) – Iraqi Civil War * Siege of Derna (2016–2018) – Libyan Civil War (2014–present) * Battle of Mosul (2016–17), Siege of Mosul (2016–2017) – Iraqi Civil War * Battle of Tabqa (2017), Siege of Tabqa (2017) – Syrian Civil War * 2014–17 Venezuelan protests, Siege of Miraflores (2017) – Venezuelan political and civil Crisis * Marawi crisis (2017) – Philippine war against insurgency * Battle of Benghazi (2014–2017)#Sidi Akribesh siege, Siege of Sidi Akribesh (2017) – Libyan Civil War (2014–present) * Battle of Baghuz Fawqani, Siege of Baghuz Fawqani – (2019) Syrian Civil War * Battle of the Jabara Valley, Siege of the Jabara Valley (2019) – Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), Yemeni Civil War * Battle of Ras al-Ayn (2019), Siege of Ras al-Ayn – (2019) Syrian Civil War * Siege of Qamishli and Al-Hasakah (2021) – Syrian Civil War * Panjshir conflict, Siege of Panjshir (2021) – Aftermath of the War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) * Siege of Chernihiv (2022) – Russo-Ukrainian War (2022) * Siege of Mariupol (2022) – Russo-Ukrainian War (2022)


Police sieges

A police siege is a standoff between law enforcement officers and armed criminals, suspects, or protesters. * Siege of Sidney Street (1911) England * Attica Prison riots, Attica Siege (1971) United States of America * Munich Olympic massacre (1972) Germany * Wounded Knee Incident (1973) United States of America * Norrmalmstorg robbery (1973) famous for the Stockholm syndrome Sweden * Huntsville Prison siege (1974) United States of America * Spaghetti House siege (1975) England * Balcombe Street Siege (1975) England * 1977 Washington, D.C. attack and hostage taking, Hanafi Siege (1977) United States of America * MOVE (Philadelphia organization), MOVE Siege (1978) United States of America * Iranian Embassy Siege (1980) England * Murder of Yvonne Fletcher#Siege: 18–27 April 1984, Siege of the Libyan Embassy in London (1984) United Kingdom * Palace of Justice siege (1985) Colombia * Oka Crisis (1990) Quebec, Canada * Ruby Ridge Siege (1992) United States of America * Waco Siege (1993) United States of America * Chiapas conflict (1994–present) Chiapas, Mexico * Gustafsen Lake Standoff (1995) British Columbia, Canada * Montana Freemen Siege (1996) United States of America * Japanese embassy hostage crisis (1996–1997) Peru * Republic of Texas (group), Republic of Texas Embassy Siege (1997) United States of America * Moscow theater hostage crisis (2002) Russia * Beslan hostage crisis (2004) Russia * Napier shootings (2009) New Zealand * Siege of Complexo do Alemão's slums, major urban conflict in Rio de Janeiro (2010) Brazil * 2011 Hectorville siege, Hectorville siege (2011) Australia * Wukan protests (2011) China * Siege of Eker (2012) Bahrain * 2014 Sydney hostage crisis, Sydney hostage crisis (2014) Australia * Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege (2015) France * 2016 Yerevan hostage crisis (2016) Armenia * 2017 Kidapawan jail siege, Kidapawan jail siege (2017) Philippines * 2017 Brighton siege, Brighton siege (2017) Australia * 2019 Chinese University of Hong Kong conflict, Siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019) * 2019 Hong Kong Polytechnic University conflict, Siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2019)


Other

* Gwangju uprising (1980) South Korea * Storming of the Legislative Council Complex (2019) Hong Kong


References

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