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==Ancient== {| class="wikitable" !Year !! Battle!!Winners!!Losers!!Notes |- | 1275–1205 BC || [[Battles of Alashiya]] |[[Hittite navy]]||[[Alashiya]]||Off the coast of [[Cyprus]] over 3 engagements.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Connolly |first1=Peter |last2=Gillingham |first2=John |last3=Lazenby |first3=John |title=The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=Cambridge, England |isbn=9781135936747 |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aLYoDAAAQBAJ&q=Battle+of+Alashiya&pg=PA9 |language=en}}</ref> |- | {{circa|1190}} BC || [[Battle of the Delta]] |[[Ramesses III]]||The "[[Sea Peoples]]"||In the [[Nile delta]] |- | 664 BC || |colspan=2 style="text-align:center;"| [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]] battles [[Corfu]]|| |- | 540–535 BC|| [[Battle of Alalia|Alalia]] |[[Carthage|Carthaginians]] and [[Etruscans]]||[[Greeks]]||Near Alalia (now [[Aléria]]), [[Corsica]] |- | 497 BC || |[[Ionians]]||[[Phoenicians]]||Near Cyprus |- | 494 BC || [[Battle of Lade|Lade]] |[[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]]||Ionians|| |- valign="top" |rowspan="2"| 480 BC | [[Battle of Artemisium|Artemisium]] | colspan=2 style="text-align:center;"| Stalemate between [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] and Greeks|| |- | [[Battle of Salamis|Salamis]] |The allied Greek navy||Persians|| |- | 474 BC || [[Battle of Cumae|Cumae]] |[[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]] and [[Cumae]]||Etruscans|| |- | 460s BC || [[Battle of the Eurymedon|Eurymedon]] |[[Delian League]]||Persians|| |- | 458 BC || [[Battle of Aegina|Aegina]] |[[Classical Athens|Athenians]]||[[Aegina]] and the [[Peloponnesian League|Peloponnesians]]|| |- | 450s BC || [[Battle of Salamis (in Cyprus)|Salamis-in-Cyprus]] |Delian League||Phoenicians and [[Cilicians]]|| |- | 433 BC || [[Battle of Sybota|Sybota]] |[[Corcyra]] and Athens||Corinthians|| |- | 429 BC || [[Battle of Naupactus (429 BC)|Battles of Naupactus]] |Athenians||[[Sparta]]ns and Corinthians|| |- | 425 BC || [[Battle of Pylos|Pylos]] |Athenians||Spartans|| |- valign="top" | 413 BC || [[Sicilian Expedition|Syracuse]] |Syracusans||Athenians|| |- valign="top" |rowspan="2"| 411 BC | [[Battle of Cynossema|Cynossema]] |Athenians||Spartans|| |- | [[Battle of Eretria|Eretria]] |Spartans||Athenians||In September |- | 410 BC || [[Battle of Cyzicus|Cyzicus]] |Athenians||Spartans and [[Peloponnesian League|Peloponnesians]]|| |- | 406 BC || [[Battle of Arginusae|Arginusae]] |Athenians||Peloponnesians|| |- | 405 BC || [[Battle of Notium|Notium (Ephesus)]] |Spartans under Lysander||Athenians under Antiochus|| |- | 405 BC || [[Battle of Aegospotami|Aegospotami]] |Spartans||Athens||Athenian navy destroyed |- | 394 BC || [[Battle of Cnidus|Cnidus]] |[[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]]||Spartans|| |- | 384–3 BC || [[Battle of Pharos|Pharos]] |Syracusans||[[Liburnians]]|| |- | 376 BC || [[Battle of Naxos|Naxos]] |Athenians||Spartans|| |- | 357 BC || | Chios||Athenians||During the [[Social War (357–355 BC)|Social War]] |- | 322 BC || [[Battle of Amorgos|Amorgos]] |Macedonians||Athenians|| |- | 306 BC || [[Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC)|Salamis (in Cyprus)]] |[[Demetrius I Poliorcetes]]||Menelaeus, brother of [[Ptolemy I of Egypt]] |- | 276 BC || [[Battle of the Strait of Messina|Strait of Messina]] |Carthaginians||[[Pyrrhus of Epirus]]|| |- | 261 BC || [[Battle of Cos|Cos]] |[[Antigonus II Gonatas]]||[[Ptolemy II]] |- valign="top" |rowspan="2"| 260 BC | [[Battle of the Lipara Islands|Lipara Islands]] |Carthaginians||[[Roman Republic]]|| |- | [[Battle of Mylae]] |Romans under [[Duilius]]||Carthaginians||Near [[Sicily]] |- |- valign="top" |rowspan="2"| 258 BC | [[Battle of Ephesus (ca. 258 BC)|Ephesus]] |Rhodians under [[Agathostratus]]||[[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemaic]] fleet under [[Chremonides]]|| |- | [[Battle of Sulci|Sulci]] |Romans under [[Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus]]||Carthaginians under [[Hannibal Gisco]]|| |- | 257 BC || [[Battle of Tyndaris|Tyndaris]] |Romans under [[Gaius Atilius Regulus (consul 257 BC)|Gaius Atilius Regulus]]||Carthaginians under [[Hamilcar (Drepanum)|Hamilcar]]|| |- | 256 BC || [[Battle of Cape Ecnomus|Cape Ecnomus]] |Romans||Carthaginians|| |- | 249 BC || [[Battle of Drepana|Drepana]] |Carthaginians||Romans|| |- | 246–245 BC || [[Battle of Andros (246 BC)|Andros]] |[[Ancient Macedonians|Macedonians]]||[[Egyptians]]||At [[Andros]] |- | 10 Mar 241 BC || [[Battle of the Aegates Islands|Aegates Islands]] |[[Roman Republic|Romans]]||Carthaginians||Ending the [[First Punic War]] |- | 229 BC || [[Battle of Paxos|Paxos]] |Illyrians|| Conquer island of Corcyra|| |- | 218 BC || [[Battle of Lilybaeum|Lilybaeum]] |Romans under Amellius||Carthaginians||Near Lilybaeum, Sicily |- | 217 BC || [[Battle of Ebro River|Ebro River]] |Romans under [[Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus|Cornelius Scipio]]||Carthaginians|| Near the mouth of the [[Ebro River]], Spain |- | 206 BC || [[Battle of Carteia|Carteia]] |Romans under [[Gaius Laelius]]||Carthaginians under [[Adherbal (Carthaginian Governor of Gades)|Adherbal]]|| |- |- valign="top" |rowspan="2"| 201 BC | [[Battle of Chios (201 BC)|Chios]] | Egyptians, [[Rhodians]], and [[Pergamese]]||[[Philip V of Macedon]]|| |- | [[Battle of Lade (201 BC)|2nd Battle of Lade]] |[[Philip V of Macedon]]||Rhodians under [[Cleonaeus]]|| |- valign="top" |rowspan="2"| 190 BC | [[Battle of the Eurymedon (190 BC)|Eurymedon]] |Roman forces under [[Lucius Aemilius Regillus]]|| [[Seleucid]] fleet commanded by [[Hannibal]]|| |- | [[Battle of Myonessus|Myonessus]] |Romans under Regillus and Rhodians under [[Eudoras]]||Seleucids under [[Polyxenidas]]|| |- | 147 BC || [[Battle of the Port of Carthage|Port of Carthage]] |Carthaginians under [[Hasdrubal the Boeotarch|Hasdrubal]]||Roman fleet of [[Lucius Hostilius Mancinus (consul 145 BC)|Lucius Hostilius Mancinus]]|| |- | 74 BC || [[Battle of Chalcedon (74 BC)|Chalcedon]] |Pontians under [[Mithridates VI of Pontus|Mithridates VI]]||Roman fleet of [[Marcus Aurelius Cotta]]|| |- | 73 BC || [[Battle of Tenedos|Tenedos]] |Romans under [[Lucullus|Lucius Licinius Lucullus]]||Pontian fleet|| |- | 67 BC || [[Battle of Korakesion|Korakesion]] |Romans under [[Pompey]]||[[Cilicia]]n pirates|| |- | 56 BC | [[Battle of Morbihan|Morbihan]] |Romans under [[Decius Brutus]]||[[Veneti (Gaul)|Veneti]]||Near [[Armorica]] |- valign="top" |rowspan="2"| 49 BC | [[Battle of Île du Levant|Île du Levant]] |Romans under Decius Brutus||?||At [[Levant Island|Île du Levant]] |- | |Romans under Decius Brutus||?||At [[Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer|Tauroentum]] |- | 42 BC || |Republican fleet||Reinforcements of the [[Second Triumvirate|triumvirs]]<br />led by [[Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus]]||Intercepted and destroyed |- | 3 Sep 36 BC || [[Battle of Naulochus|Naulochus]] |Agrippa||Sextus Pompeius|| |- | 2 Sep 31 BC || [[Battle of Actium|Actium]] |[[Caesar Augustus|Octavian]]||[[Mark Antony|Antony]] and [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra]]||Decisive victory |- | AD 70 || |colspan=2 style="text-align:center;"| Rome vs Batavi in the Maas || |- |AD 199 || [[Battle of Shaxian|Shaxian]] |[[Eastern Wu|Wu]] forces under [[Sun Ce]]||[[Liu Biao]] and [[Huang Zu]]|| |- | AD 208 || [[Battle of Red Cliffs|Red Cliffs]] |Combined forces of [[Liu Bei]] and [[Sun Quan]]||Fleet under [[Cao Cao]]|| |- | AD 221 || [[Battle of Yiling|Yiling]] |[[Sun Quan]]||Fleet under [[Liu Bei]]||And successfully defends [[Jingzhou]] |- | AD 222 || [[Battle of Dongkou|Dongkou]] |[[Eastern Wu]] general [[Lü Fan]]||[[Cao Xiu]]|| |- | AD 272 || [[Lu Kang (Three Kingdoms)#Battle of Xiling|Xiling]] |[[Lu Kang (Three Kingdoms)|Lu Kang]]||[[Jin dynasty (265-420)|Jin]] general [[Bu Chan]]||And retakes [[Hangzhou|Xiling]] |}
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