Editing List of battles before 301 (section)

==5th century BC==
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|align=top| 499 BC || [[Siege of Naxos (499 BC)|Siege of Naxos]] || [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] unsuccessfully besiege [[Naxos]].
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|rowspan=3 valign=top| 498 BC || [[Ionian Revolt|Siege of Sardis]] || Greek coalition takes [[Sardis]] which is subsequently destroyed.
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|| [[Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)|Battle of Ephesos]] || [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] defeat Greek coalition.
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|| [[Siege of Amathus]] ||Cypriots under [[Onesilus]] unsuccessfully besiege [[Amathus]].
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|valign=top| 496 BC || [[Battle of Lake Regillus]] || [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] defeat either the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]] or the [[Latins (Italic tribe)|Latins]].
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|rowspan=2 valign=top| 494 BC || [[Battle of Lade]] || [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] defeat Greek coalition.
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|| [[Battle of Sepeia]] || [[Spartan Army|Spartan]] forces of [[Cleomenes I]] defeat the [[Argives]], fully establishing Spartan dominance in the [[Peloponnese]].
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|valign=top| 493 BC || [[Battle of Corioli]] || Romans take town from the [[Volsci]].
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|rowspan=4 valign=top| 490 BC || [[First Persian invasion of Greece|Siege of Naxos]] || [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] take [[Naxos (city)|Naxos]] which is subsequently destroyed.
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|| [[Siege of Eretria]] || [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] take [[Eretria]].
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|| [[Battle of Marathon]] || Greek coalition under [[Miltiades]] defeats [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]].
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|[[Siege of Kāśī]] ||[[Ajatashatru]] annexes [[Kāśī (kingdom)|Kāśī]] and [[Kosala (Mahajanapada)|Kosala]] for [[Magadha]].
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|rowspan=4 valign=top| 480 BC || [[Battle of Thermopylae]] || Persians under [[Xerxes I|Xerxes]] defeat a coalition of Greek forces led by the [[Sparta]]ns commanded by King [[Leonidas]].
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                                       || [[Battle of Artemisium]] || Persian fleet fights an inconclusive battle with the Greek allied fleet.
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                                       || [[Battle of Salamis]] || [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] ships under [[Themistocles]] and [[Eurybiades]] of [[Sparta]] defeat Persian fleet in the [[Bay of Eleusis]].
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                                       || [[Battle of Himera (480 BC)|Battle of Himera]] || The Greeks of [[Sicily]], led by [[Gelo]] of [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]], defeat the Carthaginians under [[Hamilcar I of Carthage]], who dies in the battle.
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|rowspan=3 valign=top| 479 BC || [[Battle of Plataea]] || Ends the Persian invasion of Greece; [[Pausanias (general)|Pausanias]], the Spartan commander of the Greek army, routs the armies of [[Mardonius (general)|Mardonius]].
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                                       || [[Battle of Mycale]] || [[Greeks]] under [[Leotychidas]] sail to [[Asia Minor]], attack the Persian fleet, and defeat the 60,000 Persian troops.
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| [[Siege of Sestos]] || Athens take [[Sestos]] from Persians, capture and crucify their governor [[Artayctes]] the Persian general.
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|rowspan=2 valign=top| 478 BC || [[Siege of Byzantium (478 BC)|Siege of Byzantium]] || [[Byzantium]] lost by Persians.
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|| [[Battle of Lize]] || [[Yue (state)|Yue]] defeats [[Wu (state)|Wu]], gaining much territory, during the [[Warring States period]] of [[Chinese history]].
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|valign=top| 477 BC || [[Battle of the Cremera]] || The [[Etruscan cities|Etruscan]] city of [[Veii]] defeats the [[Roman Republic]] at [[Cremera]].
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|valign=top| 475 BC || [[Wars of the Delian League|Siege of Eion]] || The [[Delian League]] takes [[Eion]] from the [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]].
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|valign=top| 474 BC || [[Battle of Cumae]] || The Syracusans under [[Hiero I of Syracuse|Hiero I]] defeat the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]] and end Etruscan expansion in southern Italy.
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|valign=top| 473 BC || [[Iapygian-Tarentine Wars|Battle of Kailia]] || [[Iapygians]] defeat the Greek colonies of [[Taranto|Taras]] and [[Rhegion]] in [[Magna Graecia]] with heavy losses on both sides. According to [[Herodotus]] this was the greatest death count among Greeks in a singular battle to his memory.
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|valign=top| 466 BC || [[Battle of the Eurymedon]] || Athenians under [[Cimon]] defeat the Persians in a great naval battle.
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| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"| 458 BC || [[Battle of Mount Algidus]] || Romans under [[Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus|Cincinnatus]] defeat the [[Aequi]].
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|[[Battle of Aegina]]
|Athens defeats [[Aegina]]
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|valign=top| 460 BC || [[Battle of Hyria]] || [[History of Taranto|Taras]] defeats [[Messapians]] and [[Peucetians]].
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|valign=top| 459 BC || [[Battle of Papremis]] || Athenians and Egyptian rebels defeat Persians.
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|rowspan=2 valign=top| 457 BC || [[Battle of Tanagra (457 BC)|Battle of Tanagra]] || The Spartans defeat the Athenians near [[Thebes, Greece]].
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|| [[Battle of Oenophyta]] || The Athenians defeat the Thebans and take control of [[Boeotia]].
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"| 454 BC || [[Siege of Prosoptis]] || Persia re-establishes control over Egypt.
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|[[Wars of the Delian League|Battle of Mendesium]] || Fifty Athenian triremes try to relieve Prosoptis unaware it succumbed, most triremes sunk by Persians.
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|valign=top| 453 BC || [[Battle of Jinyang]] || Decisive battle leading to the partition of the state of [[Jin (Chinese state)|Jin]] into three smaller states of [[Zhao (state)|Zhao]], [[Han (Warring States)|Han]], and [[Wei (state)|Wei]], which became three of the seven [[warring states]] in China.
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 450 BC || [[Siege of Citium]] || Persia maintains control over Cyprus.
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                                       || [[Battle of Salamis (in Cyprus)|Battle of Salamis]] || Athenians under [[Cimon]] defeat the Persian fleet at [[Cyprus]].
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|[[Battle of Nomae]]
|[[Greeks]] defeat [[Sicels]] of [[Ducetius]] 
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|valign=top| 447 BC || [[Battle of Coronea (447 BC)|Battle of Coronea]] || The Athenians are driven from Boeotia.
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|valign=top| 446 BC || [[Battle of Corbio]] || Roman General Titus gains a victory over the Aequi tribes.
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|valign=top| 446 BC || [[Battle of the Himera River (446 BC)|Battle of the Himera]] || [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]] defeats [[Agrigento|Akragas]]
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|rowspan="3" valign="top"| 435 BC || [[Capture of Fidenae (435 BC)|Capture of Fidenae]] || Romans defeat the [[Veii]].
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|[[Battle of Leucimme|Battle of Leukimme]] || [[Corcyra]] defeats [[Corinth]].
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|[[Siege of Epidamnos (435 BC)|Siege of Epidamnos]]|| [[Corcyra]] takes their former colony of [[Epidamnus]].
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|valign=top| 433 BC || [[Battle of Sybota]] || Athenians and [[Corcyra|Corcyreans]] fight the [[Corinth]]ians.
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|valign=top| 432 BC || [[Battle of Potidaea]] || Athens defeats Sparta, leading to the [[Peloponnesian War]].
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|rowspan=3 valign=top| 429 BC || [[Battle of Spartolos]] || [[Chalcis|Chalcidians]] and their allies defeat Athens.
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                                       || [[Battle of Rhium]] || Naval defeat of the Peloponnesians by Athens.
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                                       || [[Battle of Naupactus (429 BC)|Battle of Naupactos]] || [[Phormio]]n defeats the Peloponnesian fleet.
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|rowspan=2 valign=top| 427 BC || [[Mytilenean revolt]] || Athens ends [[Mytilene|Mytilenian]] revolt.
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                                  || [[Siege of Plataea]] ||| Sparta besieges and destroys [[Plataea]].
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|rowspan=3 valign=top| 426 BC || [[Battle of Tanagra (426 BC)|Battle of Tanagra]] || Athenians under [[Nicias]] defeat [[Tanagra]] and [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]].
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                                       || [[Battle of Olpae]] || Athenians under [[Demosthenes (general)|Demosthenes]] defeat the Spartans in [[Aetolia]].
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                                       || [[Battle of Idomene]] || [[Demosthenes]] of [[Athens]] defeats [[Ambracia]].
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|rowspan=2 valign=top| 425 BC || [[Battle of Pylos]] || Athenians under [[Demosthenes (general)|Demosthenes]] again defeat the Spartans, this time capturing a Spartan fleet and leaving a Spartan contingent isolated on the island of [[Sphacteria]].
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                                       || [[Battle of Sphacteria|Battle of Sphakteria]] || [[Demosthenes (general)|Demosthenes]] and [[Cleon]] capture the Spartans on Sphacteria.
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|rowspan=2 valign=top| 424 BC || [[Battle of Megara]] || [[Athens]] encounters defeat at [[Megara]].
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                                       || [[Battle of Delium|Battle of Delion]] || |Another Athenian invasion of Boeotia is unsuccessful.
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|valign=top|423 BC || [[Battle of Lyncestis|Battle of Lynkestis]] || Illyrians and Lyncestians fight the Spartans and Macedonians during the [[Peloponnesian War|Peloponnessian War]].
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|valign=top|422 BC || [[Battle of Amphipolis]] || The Spartans under [[Brasidas]] defeat the Athenians under [[Cleon]]; both generals die.
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|valign=top| 418 BC || [[Battle of Mantinea (418 BC)|Battle of Mantinea]] || The Spartans under King [[Agis II]] defeat the [[Argives]], [[Mantineia|Mantineans]], and Athenians.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 417 BC || [[Battle of Hysiae (417 BC)|Battle of Hysiae]] || Spartans march against Argos with their allies, yet fail to take the city itself, instead capturing Hysiae
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|[[Battle of Orneae]] || [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argives]] and [[Athens|Athenians]] defeat [[Sparta]]n garrison
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| valign="top" | 415 BC || [[Battle of Melos]] || Athens invades [[Melos]].
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|413 BC
|[[Sicilian Expedition]] || The Athenian expedition in Sicily, under [[Nicias]] and [[Demosthenes (general)|Demosthenes]], is annihilated.
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| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"| 411 BC || [[Battle of Eretria]] || Spartans defeat the Athenian fleet.
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                                       || [[Battle of Syme]] || Spartans defeat Athenian fleet; Persia is drawn into the Peloponnesian War.
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                                       || [[Battle of Cynossema|Battle of Kynossema]] || The Athenians under [[Alcibiades]] defeat the Spartan fleet.
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| rowspan="2" |410 BC
||[[Battle of Abydos]]|| Athenian navy defeats Spartan fleet.
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|[[Battle of Cyzicus|Battle of Kyzikos]]|| The Athenian fleet, under the leadership of [[Alcibiades]], destroys the Spartan fleet.
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| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"| 409 BC || [[Battle of Selinus]] || Dorian Greek city [[Selinus]] destroyed by Carthage.
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                                       || [[Battle of Himera (409 BC)|Battle of Himera]] || Ionian Greek city [[Himera]] destroyed by Carthage.
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| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"| 406 BC || [[Battle of Notium|Battle of Notion]] || The Spartans under [[Lysander]] defeat a segment of the Athenian fleet under [[Antiochus (admiral)|Antiochus]].
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                                       || [[Battle of Mytilene (406 BC)|Battle of Mytilene]] || Sparta defeats Athens.
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                                       || [[Battle of Arginusae]] || The final [[Athens|Athenian]] victory of the [[Peloponnesian War]].
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                                       || [[Siege of Akragas (406 BC)|Siege of Akragas]] || Dorian Greek city [[Akragas]] sacked by Carthage.
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| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"| 405 BC || [[Battle of Gela (405 BC)|Battle of Gela]] || Dorian Greek city [[Gela]] sacked by Carthage.
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                                       || [[Battle of Aegospotami]] || The final battle of the [[Peloponnesian War]]; [[Lysander]] destroys the navy of [[Athens]] led by [[Conon]].
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                                       || [[Sack of Camarina (405 BC)|Sack of Camarina]] || Carthaginians sack Sicilian Greek city of Camarina.
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| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"| 404 or 403 BC || [[Battle of Phyle]] || The Athenian exiles, seeking to restore democracy in [[Athens]], defeat the Spartans.
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                                       || [[Battle of Munychia]] || The Athenian exiles, in their search for democracy in [[Athens]], defeat the oligarchic government of [[Athens]].
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|valign=top | 403 BC || [[Battle of Piraeus]] || The Athenian exiles, led by [[Thrasybulus]], are finally defeated by the Spartans of [[Pausanias of Sparta|Pausanias]], both sides suffering tremendous casualties. However, [[Piraeus]] and [[Athens]] are reunited and the democratic government of [[Athens]] is reestablished.
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|valign=top | 401 BC || [[Battle of Cunaxa]] || [[Artaxerxes II]] defeats [[Cyrus the Younger|Kyros the Younger]] who is killed in the fighting.
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