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A chronological list of sieges follows.


AncientEdit

Before 1000 BCEdit

10th century BCEdit

9th century BCEdit

8th century BCEdit

7th century BCEdit

6th century BCEdit

5th century BCEdit

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4th century BCEdit

File:A naval action during the siege of Tyre by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899).jpg
A naval action during the siege of Tyre (332 BC), by Andre Castaigne (1898–1899)
File:Attack of Rhodes.jpg
Siege of Rhodes (305 BC) (1882 illustration).

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3rd century BCEdit

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Archimedes Directing the Defenses of Syracuse (213-212 BC), by Thomas Ralph Spence

2nd century BCEdit

1st century BCEdit

1st century A.D. to 5th centuryEdit

1st centuryEdit

File:Roberts Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem.jpg
The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70 by David Roberts, 1850

2nd centuryEdit

3rd centuryEdit

4th centuryEdit

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The walls of Amida, besieged 359 AD

5th centuryEdit

MedievalEdit

6th centuryEdit

File:Totila fa dstruggere la città di Firenze.jpg
Totila razes the walls of Florence: 14th century illustration from Giovanni Villani's Nuova Cronica
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The capture of Pavia by the Lombard King, Alboin: Siege of Pavia, 572 AD

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7th centuryEdit

File:Siege of Constantinople fresco, Moldovița monastery, Vatra Moldoviței, 2017.jpg
The Siege of Constantinople by the combined Sassanid, Avar, and Slavic forces in 626. A 1537 depiction on the murals of the Moldovița Monastery, Romania

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8th centuryEdit

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Greek fire, used by the Byzantine navy to destroy the Arab fleets at the 717–718 Siege of Constantinople. Illustration from a 12th-century illuminated manuscript (Madrid Skylitzes)

9th centuryEdit

File:Siege of Paris (885–886).jpeg
Count Odo defends Paris against the Normans (885-886) by Jean-Victor Schnetz. Oil on canvas (1834–1836)

10th centuryEdit

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Fall of Antioch to the Byzantines under Michael Bourtzes on 28 October 969. Chronicle of John Skylitzes, 12th century illustration.

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11th centuryEdit

File:Siege of Valenciennes 1006.png
Siege of Valenciennes in 1006, illustration (1885).
File:The seizure of Edessa in Syria by the Byzantine army and the Arabic counterattack from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes.jpg
The Byzantine army of George Maniakes defends the towers of Edessa against an Arab counterattack (1031). Illustration from the chronicle of John Skylitzes
File:Counquest of Jeusalem (1099).jpg
Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, 15 July 1099 by Émile Signol. Oil on canvas, 1850.

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12th centuryEdit

  • Siege of Haifa (1100) – Crusades
  • Siege of Le Mans (1100)
  • 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 Takrit (sometime between 1105 and 1107) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts
  • Siege of 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 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
  • Siege of Uclés (1108) – Reconquista
  • Siege of Bratislava (1108)
  • Siege of Sidon (1108) – Crusades
  • Siege of Jableh (1109) – Crusades
  • Siege of Nakło (1109)
  • Siege of Głogów (1109)
  • Siege of Baalbek (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 (1117–1118) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts
  • Siege of 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 (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
  • Siege of Tyre (1124) – Crusades
  • Siege of Aleppo (1124–1125) – Crusades
  • Siege of Raffaniya (1126) – Crusades
  • Siege of Al-Rahba (1127)
  • 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

13th centuryEdit

File:Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix 012.jpg
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1204) Eugène Delacroix. Oil on canvas, 1840
File:Capturing Damiate.jpg
Crusaders attack the tower of Damietta (1218). A 1625 painting by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen.
File:Siège de Girdkûh.jpeg
The Mongols besieged the "fortified mountain" of Gerdkuh for 17 years.
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The Mongol army besieging Baghdad in 1258.
File:SiegeOfAcre1291.jpg
The Siege of Acre. The Hospitalier Master Mathieu de Clermont defending the walls in 1291 by Dominique Papety. 1840.

14th centuryEdit

File:Belagerung von Calais 1346-1347.JPG
Siege of Calais (1346–1347)

15th centuryEdit

File:Lenepveu, Jeanne d'Arc au siège d'Orléans.jpg
Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orléans (1429) by Jules Eugène Lenepveu, painted 1886–1890
File:Constantinople 1453.jpg
Fall of Constantinople (1453)

Early modernEdit

15th centuryEdit

File:Second Siege of Krujë 1466.png
Siege of Krujë in 1466. Woodcut by Jost Amman, from Philipp Lonicer, Chronicorum Turcicorum, Frankfurt 1578

16th centuryEdit

File:LastDaysofTenochtitlanB.jpg
The Last Days of Tenochtitlan—Conquest of Mexico (1521) by William de Leftwich Dodge, 1899.
File:Battle of Tunis 1535 Attack on Goletta.jpg
Battle of Tunis 1535 Attack on Goletta. Frans Hogenberg after Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, 16th century.
File:Capture of Tripoli by the Ottomans 1551.jpg
Attack on Tripoli by the Ottomans (1551)
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The siege of Malta—Arrival of the Turkish fleet (1565) by Matteo Pérez de Alesio, 16th century
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Spanish troops storming the city of Maastricht, 1579
File:Inname van Godesberg - Capture and destruction of Godesburg in 1583 (Frans Hogenberg).jpg
During the Cologne War (1583–89), Ferdinand of Bavaria successfully besieged the medieval fortress of Godesberg; during a month-long siege, his sappers dug tunnels under the feldspar of the mountain and laid gunpowder and a 1500-pound bomb. The result was a spectacular explosion that sent chunks of the ramparts, the walls, the gates, and drawbridges into the air. His 500 men still could not take the fortress until they scaled the interior latrine system and climbed the mountain to enter through a hole in the chapel roof.
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Joseon and Ming dynasty soldiers assault the Japanese-built fortress at Ulsan (1598)
File:Hugo-de-Groot-Nederlandtsche-jaerboeken MG 0192.tif
Siege of Zaltbommel by the Spanish in 1599 by Hugo Grotius

17th centuryEdit

File:Sitio de Ostende.jpg
Siege of Ostend (1601-4) by Peter Snayers, oil on canvas.
File:Miloradovichdefense.jpg
Monks successfully defended the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra against the Poles from September 1609 to January 1611.
File:The Siege of Osaka Castle.jpg
The Summer Battle of Osaka Castle (1614–15), 17th century Japanese painting
File:Siege of La Rochelle 1881 Henri Motte.png
Cardinal Richelieu at the Siege of La Rochelle (1627–1628) by Henri-Paul Motte, 1881.
File:1697 Pufendorf View of Krakow (Cracow), Poland - Geographicus - Krakow-pufendorf-1655.jpg
Siege of Kraków, 8 October 1655. View from 1697 by the German historian Samuel Pufendorf.
File:Stormen på København (Vertangen).jpg
The assault of Copenhagen on the night between 10 and 11 February 1659 by Daniel Vertangen, 1659.
File:Reprise château Buda 1686.jpg
Reoccupation of Buda Castle in 1686. Gyula Benczúr (1896), oil on canvas
File:Belgrad-1688-by Adlerschwung.jpg
Siege of Belgrade, 1688 by Adlerschwung

18th centuryEdit

File:Tapisserie Manufacture de Nancy.jpg
Tapestry depicting the 1702 victory of Archduke Joseph of Austria at Landau, woven for Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, between 1710 and 1718.
  • 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)
  • 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
File:Gibraltar 1704.jpg
View of Gibraltar in 1704
  • 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
  • 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 (1705–06) – 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
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Prussian infantry breaks the French lines during the relief of Turin in 1706
  • Siege of San Mateo (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
  • Siege of Tripoli (1705) - Tripolitanian-Tunisian War (1704-1709)
  • 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 Terki (1708) – Murat Kuchukov Movement
  • 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
File:Sitio-barcelona-11-septiembre-1714.jpg
Depiction of the siege of Barcelona: The assault on the main body of the Place (1714) by Jacques Rigaud
File:Belagerung belgrad 1717.jpg
Austrian land and naval bombardment puts Belgrade in flames during the siege of 1717.
File:Defensa de Cartagena de Indias por la escuadra de D. Blas de Lezo, año 1741.jpg
British attack on Cartagena de Indias (1741) by Luis Fernández Gordillo. Oil on canvas, Naval Museum of Madrid
File:Prise et pillage de Bergen op Zoom 1747.jpg
Conquest and pillage of Bergen-op-Zoom by the French in 1747.
File:Destruction du vaisseau le Prudent et capture du Bienfaisant a Louisbourg 1758.jpg
Siege of Louisbourg (1758): British burning of the warship Prudent and the capturing of the Bienfaisant.
File:Dominic Serres the Elder - The Capture of Havana, 1762, Storming of Morro Castle, 30 July.jpg
The Capture of Havana, 1762: Storming of Morro Castle, 30 July by Dominic Serres, oil on canvas (1770–1775)
File:Belagerung Belgrad 2.jpg
Siege of Belgrade in 1789 by the Habsburg army

Modern military siegesEdit

19th centuryEdit

File:Barricade Voltaire Lenoir Commune Paris 1871.jpg
A barricade on Rue Voltaire, after its capture by the regular army during the Bloody Week of Commune of Paris (1871)
File:Siege of Peking, Boxer Rebellion.jpg
American soldiers scale the walls of Beijing to relieve the Siege of the Legations, August 1900

20th centuryEdit

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1970-009-17, Maubeuge, Festung, zerstörte Kasematten.jpg
A casemate at Maubeuge, destroyed by German bombardment, 7 September 1914
File:Anti aircraft Leningrad 1941.JPG
Anti-aircraft fire near St. Isaac's Cathedral during the defense of Leningrad in 1941.
File:Sarajevo Grbavica.JPG
Damaged buildings following the siege of Sarajevo, 1996

21st centuryEdit

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Coalition airstrike targeting Islamic State positions during the Siege of Kobanî, October 2014

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Burning buildings during the Siege of Mariupol, 2022

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Police siegesEdit

A police siege is a standoff between law enforcement officers and armed criminals, suspects, or protesters.

OtherEdit

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