Editing List of naval battles (section)

==19th century==
===Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815)===

* 1803 May 23, 24 and 27 – 4 ships take on Tripolitan gunboat force ([[Action of 23 May 1803|details]])
** 31 May 1 June – ''Adams'' vs Tripolitan gunboats
** – Duckworth (British) defeats Rochambeau (French) near Santo Domingo
* 1804 February 15 [[Battle of Pulo Aura|Pulo Aura]] – French attack British convoy
**  3, 7, 23/24 August and 28 and 2–5 September raids on Tripoli ([[Action of 3 August 1804|details]])
* 1805 about February – French squadron raids British ([[Action of 1805|details]])
** 4 July? – French capture British East Indiaman ([[Action of July 1805|details]])
* 1805 July 4 – 2 Russian ships defeat French gunboat force ([[Action of 4 July 1805|details]])
** 18 July [[Battle of Blanc-Nez and Gris-Nez]] – Combined Dutch and French flottila repulses an attack by a superior British squadron
** 22 July [[Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805)|Cape Finisterre]] – Inconclusive action between British Admiral Calder and French Admiral Villeneuve
** 6 August – French attack British convoy ([[Action of 6 August 1805|details]])
** 21 October [[Battle of Trafalgar|Trafalgar]] – Nelson defeats combined Franco-Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve, losing his life but gaining control of the oceans for Britain for the rest of the war
** 4 November – British capture 4 French battleship survivors from Trafalgar
* 1806 February 6 [[Battle of San Domingo|San(to) Domingo]] – British under Duckworth defeat French under Leissegues (French) off Santo Domingo
** 4 July – Russians defeat French in Narenta Channel
** 26 July – British defeat Dutch ([[Action of 26 July 1806|details]])
** 25 September – British battleships defeat French frigate force ([[Action of 25 September 1806|details]])
* 1807 February 19 – British battleships under Duckworth burn several Turkish ships in Dardanelles ([[Action of 19 February 1807|details]])
** May – British vs Turks at mouth of Dardanelles ([[Action of May 1807|details]])
** 22 May 23 [[Battle of the Dardanelles (1807)|Dardanelles]] – Russians under [[Dmitry Senyavin|Admiral Seniavin]] defeat Turks near Cape Janizary
** 1 July [[Battle of Athos|Athos (Lemnos/Monte Sancto)]] – Russians under Seniavin defeats Turks in northern Aegean
** 23 and 31 August – Danes defeat British light forces near Copenhagen ([[Actions of August 1807|details]])
** 2–7 September [[Battle of Copenhagen (1807)|Copenhagen]] – British forces under Admiral Gambier and General Cathcart capture the Danish fleet
* 1808 9–14 June – [[Capture of Rosily Squadron]]
** 3 March Spain captures French battleship ''Atlas''.
* 1809 April 11–24 – British destroy French ships at [[Battle of the Basque Roads|Basque Roads]]
** 13–17 April – British capture French battleship near Porto Rico
** late May – [[HMS Melpomène|HMS ''Melpomène'']] vs Danish gunboats
** 25–27 June – British and Sicilians vs French near Pozzuoli Bay
** 26 and 31 October Cette and ? – Southern France
** 18 November – French frigates defeat British East Indiamen near Mauritius ([[Action of 18 November 1809|details]])
** 13 December – French frigates capture [[HMS Junon (1809)|HMS ''Junon'']] ([[Action of 13 December 1809|details]])
* 1810 July 3 – French frigate force defeats British East Indiamen in Mozambique Channel ([[Action of 3 July 1810|details]])
** 26 August [[battle of Grand Port|Grand Port]] – French defeat British at ''Vieux Grand Port'', [[Republic of Mauritius|Mauritius]]
** 31 August – British vs French near Toulon
* 1811 March 13 [[Battle of Lissa (1811)|Lissa]] – British frigates under Hoste defeat larger Franco-Venetian squadron under Dubordieu off Lissa (Vis) in the Adriatic
** 29 November – Britain captures French frigate ([[Action of 29 November 1811|details]])
* 1812 February 22 – Britain captures French battleship ''Rivoli'' ([[Action of 22 February 1812|details]])
** 12 July [[Battle of Lyngør|Lyngør]] – British sink last Danish frigate
* 1813 November 5 – Skirmish between British and French near Toulon ([[Action of 5 November 1813|details]])

===South American Independence wars===

* 1811 March 2 – Spanish defeat Argentines under Juan B. Azopardo [[Battle of San Nicolás|at San Nicolás on the Paraná River]]
* 1814 March 11 – Argentines under [[William Brown (admiral)|William Brown]] attack Spanish under [[Jacinto de Romarate]] in the [[Battle of Martín García]]
**  14, 16 and 17 May – Argentines under William Brown defeat Spanish off [[Montevideo]] ([[Action of 14 May 1814|details]])
* 1817 July 8 – Spanish defeat in [[Battle of Pagallos]]
* 1823 May 4 – Brazilians under Cochrane vs Portuguese ([[Action of 4 May 1823|details]])
**  2, 4 and 6 July – Brazilians under Cochrane vs Portuguese
** 24 July [[Battle of Lake Maracaibo|Lake Maracaibo]] – Republican naval forces of Venezuela vs Spanish Empire fleet in Lake Maracaibo that includes siege of Defensive Castles in Zapara, San Fernando and San Carlos islands

===War of 1812===

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* 1812 July 19 [[First Battle of Sacket's Harbor]] – US turns back British naval attack
* 1813 May 28–29 [[Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor]] – US General Jacob Brown turns back British under Sir George Prevost
** September 13 [[Battle of Lake Erie]] – US squadron under [[Oliver Hazard Perry]] defeats British under [[Robert Heriot Barclay]], gaining control of the lake
* 1814 September 11 [[Battle of Plattsburgh|Plattsburgh (Lake Champlain)]] – US squadron under [[Thomas Macdonough]] defeats British under [[George Downie]]

===Greek War of Independence===

* 1821 March 4 – Greeks vs Turks north-west of Zakynthos
** June 5, 6 and 8 – Greeks defeat Turks
** August 10 – c. 13 – Skirmishes
** October 1 – Skirmish
* 1822 March 4
** May 31
** June 18–19 – Greek fireships under [[Konstantinos Kanaris]] blow up the flagship of Ottoman admiral Kara Ali Pasha
* 1823 September 27 – Greeks vs Turks west of Lemnos
** October 23 – Greeks vs Turks near Pondikonisi
* 1824 August 11, 12, 13, 16, 17 and c. 26 – Various skirmishes between Greeks and Turks/Egyptians/Tunisians
** September 1 – First Budrum – Greeks vs Turks and Egyptians
** September 9 – [[Battle of Gerontas|Second Budrum]]
** September 22 – Greeks vs Egyptians near Nikaria
** September 29
** November 12 and 13 – Greeks vs Turks and Egyptians near Spinalonga
* 1825 April 29
** May 26
** June 1 – Greeks defeat Turks between Euboea and Andros
** June 14 and 15 – Greeks defeat Turks and Egyptians near Suda Bay
** June 28 and 29 – Greeks vs Turks and Egyptians south of Cerigo
** August 3 – Greeks defeat Turks near Missolonghi
** November 14 – Greeks under [[Andreas Vokos Miaoulis|Miaoulis]] vs Turks/Egyptians/Algerines/Tripolitans near Navarin
** November 25, 26, 29, 30 and December 6 and 7 – Greeks vs Turks (and allies?) near Missolonghi
* 1826 January 22 and 28 – Greeks vs Turks
** April 15
** July 27 and 28 – Greeks vs Turks near Samos
** September 10 and 11 – Greeks vs Turks near Mitylene
** October 7 (6?) – Greeks vs Turks in Aegean Sea (?)
* 1827 September 29 – "Greeks" ([[Frank Abney Hastings]]) vs Turks in [[Itea, Phocis|Salona Bay]]
** October 20 [[Battle of Navarino|Navarino]] – British/French/Russian squadrons, under Admirals Codrington, de Rigny, and Geiden, destroy Turkish/Egyptian/Tunisian fleet of [[Tahir Pasha (admiral)|Tahir Pasha]] off south-west Greece
* 1828 January 31 – British and French defeat Greek pirates at [[Gramvousa|Grambusa]]
** June 9 (May 26 OS) – Russians defeat Turks near Braila ([[Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829|Russo-Turkish War]])

===Cisplatine War===
* 1826 February 9 – Argentina vs Brazil
** [[Battle of Punta Colares|Punta Collares]]
** June 11 [[Battle of Los Pozos|Los Pozos (Quilmes)]] – 11 Argentine vessels under William Brown defeat 31 Brazilian vessels near Buenos Aires
* 1827 February 9 [[Battle of Juncal|Juncal]] – 15 Argentines ships under Brown defeat 17 Brazilians under Pereira
** February 24 – Argentines under Brown vs Brazilians near Quilmes
** April 6 and 7 [[Battle of Monte Santiago|Monte Santiago]] – Brazilian fleet defeat Argentine navy under William Brown south of Buenos Aires

===Mid 19th century===

====[[Liberal Wars]] (1828–1834)====
* 1831 July 11 [[Battle of the Tagus]] – French defeat Portuguese [[Miguelist]] fleet
* 1833 July 5 [[Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1833)|Cape St. Vincent]] – Portuguese fleet under British officer Sir [[Charles Napier (naval officer)|Charles Napier]] defeats and captures fleet of Portuguese usurper king [[Dom Miguel]]

====[[Uruguayan Civil War]] (1839–1851)====
* 1842 – Argentinians under William Brown defeat Uruguayans

====[[Texas-Mexican Wars]]====
* 1843 April 30 – [[Second Texas Navy|Texans]] under [[Edwin Ward Moore|Commodore Edwin Ward Moore]] draws with Mexicans under Thomas Marin near [[Naval Battle of Campeche|Campeche]]

====[[Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata]] (1845–1850)====
* 1845 November 20 [[Battle of Obligado|Obligado]] – British/French ships force passage of Parana River as part of the larger [[Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata]] on the [[Argentine Confederation]].

====[[First Schleswig War]] (1848–1851)====
* 1849 May 3 – Schleswig-Holstein vs Denmark near Kiel
* 1849 May 11 – Schleswig-Holstein vs Denmark near Bulk
* 1849 June 4 – [[Battle of Heligoland (1849)|Battle of Heligoland]] – [[German Confederation]] engages Denmark, ends in stalemate

====[[Crimean War]] (1853–1856)====
* 1853 October 30 [[Battle of Sinop|Sinop]] – Russian battleships defeat Turkish frigates at Sinope, Turkey
* 1854 August 3–16 [[Battle of Bomarsund]] – British and French fleet destroy Russian coastal defenses
** August and September – British-French attack on [[Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky|Petropavlovsk]] ([[Action of 1854|details]])
** October Allied (British, French and Turkish) fleet Bombardment of Sebastopol as part of [[Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)]] during the [[Crimean War]]
* 1855 October 17 [[Battle of Kinburn (1855)|Battle of Kinburn]] – British and French fleet destroy Russian coastal defenses

====[[Ningpo massacre]] (1857)====
* 1857 26 June – battle between Chinese pirates and Portugal during the Qing dynasty, Chinese victory

====[[American Civil War]] (1861–1865)====

* 1861
**April 12–13 [[Battle of Fort Sumter]] – First battle of the war
**May 7 [[Battle of Gloucester Point (1861)|Battle of Gloucester Point]]
**May 18–19 [[Battle of Sewell's Point]]
**May 29-June 1 [[Battle of Aquia Creek]] – First use of naval mines by Confederacy
**June 5 [[Battle of Pig Point]]
**June 27 [[Battle of Mathias Point]]
**July 28 [[Sinking of the Petrel|Sinking of the ''Petrel'']] – Last naval battle involving a privateer ship
**August 28–29 [[Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries]]
**October 5 [[Battle of Cockle Creek]]
**October 12 [[Battle of the Head of Passes]] – First deployment of an ironclad warship into battle
**November 7 [[Battle of Port Royal]] – First major clash between Union and Confederate fleets
* 1862
**January 3 [[Battle of Cockpit Point]]
**January 11 [[Battle of Lucas Bend]] – First deployment of Union ironclads
**February 6 [[Battle of Fort Henry]]
**February 10 [[Battle of Elizabeth City]]
**February 28-April 8 [[Battle of Island Number Ten]] – First Confederate defeat on the Mississippi River
**March 8 and 9 [[Battle of Hampton Roads|Hampton Roads]] – First battle between ironclad warships
**March 14  [[Battle of New Bern (1862)|New Bern]]
**April 16–28 [[Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip]] – Leads to Union capture of New Orleans
**May 15 [[Battle of Drewry's Bluff|Drewry's Bluff]]
**June 6 [[First Battle of Memphis]] – Destruction of Confederate river fleet by Union gunboats
**June 17 [[Battle of St. Charles]]
<nowiki>**</nowiki>April 10–11, 1862, Union forces on Tybee Island and naval operations conducted a 112-day siege, then captured the Confederate-held Fort Pulaski in Georgia 
**June 30-July 1 [[Battle of Tampa]]
**August 12–18 [[Battle of Corpus Christi]]
**September 24–25 [[First Battle of Sabine Pass]]
**October 3 [[Battle of Crumpler's Bluff]]
**October 4 [[Battle of Galveston Harbor (1862)|Galveston Harbor]]
* 1863
**January 9–11 [[Battle of Fort Hindman]] – Largest surrender of Confederate troops West of the Mississippi
**January 11 [[Action off Galveston Light]]
**March 3 [[Battle of Fort McAllister (1863)|Battle of Fort McAllister]]
**March 11 [[Yazoo Pass expedition]]
**April 7 [[First Battle of Charleston Harbor]]
**April 29 [[Battle of Grand Gulf]]
**June 17 [[Battle of Wassaw Sound]]
**June 27 [[Battle of Portland Harbor]]
**July 10–11 [[First Battle of Fort Wagner]]
**July 18 [[Second Battle of Fort Wagner]]
**August 17-September 8 [[Second Battle of Charleston Harbor]]
**September 8 [[Second Battle of Sabine Pass]] – Most one-sided Confederate victory of the war
**September 9 [[Second Battle of Fort Sumter]]
**October 5 [[Attack on USS New Ironsides|Attack on USS ''New Ironsides'']] – [[CSS David|CSS ''David'']] becomes first torpedo boat to make a successful attack on an enemy warship
**October 16–18 [[Battle of Fort Brooke]]
*1864
**February 17 [[Sinking of USS Housatonic|Sinking of USS ''Housatonic'']] – Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley]]'' becomes the first submarine to sink a warship in combat
**April 12 [[Battle of Fort Pillow]]
**April 17–20 [[Battle of Plymouth (1864)|Battle of Plymouth]]
**May 5 [[Battle of Albemarle Sound]]
**June 19 [[Battle of Cherbourg (1864)|Battle of Cherbourg]] – [[USS Kearsarge (1861)|USS ''Kearsarge'']] sinks [[CSS Alabama|CSS ''Alabama'']]
**August 2–23 [[Battle of Mobile Bay]] – Largest Union naval victory of the war
**October 7 [[Bahia incident]] – [[USS Wachusett (1861)|USS ''Wachusett'']] captures [[CSS Florida|CSS ''Florida'']] in Brazilian waters, sparking an international incident
**October 29–31 [[Capture of Plymouth]]
**December 9 [[Rainbow Bluff Expedition]]
*1865
**January 13–15 [[Second Battle of Fort Fisher]] – Largest amphibious assault of the war
**January 23–25 [[Battle of Trent's Reach]] – Final naval action of the war

===Late 19th century===

====[[Second Schleswig War]] (1864)====
* 1864 February [[Battle of Eckernfjorde|Eckernfjorde]] – Danish ships defeated by Prussia
** March 17 [[Battle of Jasmund (1864)|Jasmund]] – Prussians vs Danes
** May 9 [[Battle of Heligoland (1864)|Helgoland]] – Danish fleet defeats Prussian-Austrian fleet in the North Sea

====[[Paraguayan War]] (1864–1870)====
* 1865 June 11 [[Battle of Riachuelo|Riachuelo]] – Brazilian fleet defeats Paraguayan fleet in Paraná river

====[[Chincha Islands War]] (1865–1879)====
* 1866 February 7 [[Battle of Abtao|Abtao]] – Spain vs Peru/Chile
** May 2 [[Battle of Callao|Callao]]

====[[Third Italian War of Independence]] (1866)====
** June 25 – July 26 [[Naval operations on Lake Garda (1866)|Battle of Lake Garda]]
** July 20 [[Battle of Lissa (1866)|Battle of Lissa]] – Austrians under Admiral von Tegetthoff rams and drives off superior Italian fleet under Persano

====[[Boshin War]] (1868–1869)====
* 1869 May 4–10 [[Naval Battle of Hakodate|Hakodate]]

====Peruvian Coup attempt (1877)====
* 1877 May 29 [[Battle of Pacocha]] – Indecisive battle between {{HMS|Shah|1873|6}}, {{HMS|Amethyst|1871|6}} and ''[[Huáscar (ship)|Huascar]]''. Notable for seeing the first combat use of the [[torpedo]].

====[[War of the Pacific]] (1879–1883)====
* 1879 
** 12 April [[Battle of Chipana]] – Minor skirmish between Chilean and Peruvian ships, no casualties.
** 18 April [[Bombardment of Pisagua]] – Two Chilean ships open fire on Peruvian land positions with high civilian casualties, attempted amphibious landing repelled. 
** 21 May [[Naval Battle of Iquique]] – Peruvian ironclad ''Huáscar'' sinks Chilean corvette ''Esmeralda''.
** 21 May [[Battle of Punta Gruesa]] – Chilean schooner ''Covadonga'' sinks Peruvian ironclad ''Independencia''. 
** 26 May [[First Battle of Antofagasta]] – Peruvian ironclad ''Huáscar'' raids Chilean port of Antofagasta and engages the schooner ''Covadonga''.
** 10 July [[Second Battle of Iquique]] – Peruvian ironclad ''Huáscar'' engages Chilean ironclad ''Almirante Cochrane'' and corvette ''Magallanes''.
** 28 August [[Second Battle of Antofagasta]] – Peruvian ironclad ''Huáscar'' engages Chilean corvettes ''Abato'' and ''Magallanes''.
** 8 October [[Naval Battle of Angamos]] – Chilean ships capture Peruvian ironclad ''Huáscar''.
** 18 November [[Capture of the corvette Pilcomayo|Capture of the corvette ''Pilcomayo'']] – Chilean ironclad ''Blanco Encalada'' engages and captures Peruvian corvette ''Pilcomayo''
* 1880
** 27 February [[Naval Battle of Arica]] – Now Chilean ironclad ''Huáscar'' and corvette ''Magallanes'' engage Peruvian monitor ''Manco Capac''.
** 17 March [[Rupture of the Blockade of Arica]] – Pairs of Chilean and Peruvian ironclads engage each other off Arica.

====[[Sino-French War]] (1884–1885)====
* 1884 August 23 [[Battle of Foochow|Foochow]] – Small French squadron annihilates Chinese force at Foochow ([[Fuzhou]])
* 1885 February 14 [[Battle of Shipu]] – French attack Chinese ships
* 1885 March 1 [[Battle of Zhenhai]] – Chinese fleet and coastal defenses repel French squadron

====[[Chilean Civil War of 1891|Chilean Civil War]] (1891)====
* 1891 April 23 [[Battle of Caldera Bay]] – Chilean Balmacedist torpedo boats sink a Chilean Congressionalist frigate.

====[[Homestead Strike]] (1892)====
* 1892 July 6 – armed striking union members in boats engage two armed barges

====[[Franco-Siamese conflict]] (1893)====
* 1893 July 13 [[Paknam incident]] – French ships enter Siamese waters, Siamese fleet responds, French victory

====[[Argentine Revolution of 1893]] (1893)====
* 1893 September 27 [[Battle of El Espinillo]] – Rebel monitor [[ARA Los Andes|ARA ''Los Andes'']] engages the loyalist torpedo boat ARA ''Espora'' and coastal defense ship [[ARA Independencia (1891)|ARA ''Independencia'']]. ''Los Andes'' is damaged and forced to retreat, later surrenders.

====[[Revolta da Armada|Brazilian Naval Revolt]] (1893–1894)====
* 1893 December 16 [[Battle of Guanabara Bay]] - Brazilian Federalist battleship [[Brazilian battleship Aquidabã|''Aquidabã'']] engages the Loyalist Army coastal defenses around Rio de Janeiro and destroys most of them. 
* 1894 January 9–21 [[Rio de Janeiro Affair]] – American fleet engages Brazilian Federalist fleet, breaking the blockade of Rio de Janeiro
* 1894 April 16 [[Battle of Santa Cantarina]] - Brazilian Federalist battleship [[Brazilian battleship Aquidabã|''Aquidabã'']] is attacked by three Loyalist torpedo boats, and is sunk. She would later be raised and return to service.

====[[First Sino-Japanese War]] (1894–1895)====
* 1894 July 25 [[Battle of Pungdo|Feng-tao]] – [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] defeats [[Imperial Chinese Navy]]
** 17 September [[Battle of Yalu River (1894)|Yalu River]] – Japanese defeat Chinese off [[Korea]]
* 1895 January 20-February 12, [[Battle of Weihaiwei]] – Japan defeats China, results in destruction of the Imperial Chinese Navy, ends the [[First Sino-Japanese War]].

====[[Anglo-Zanzibar War]] (1896)====
*1896 27 August – Anglo-Zanzibar War itself lasted 38 minutes, making it the shortest military conflict in history. Zanzibar royal yacht, [[HHS Glasgow|HHS ''Glasgow'']] is sunk by five British warships.

====[[Spanish–American War]] (1898)====
* 1898
** 25 April [[Action of 25 April 1898]]
** 1 May [[Battle of Manila Bay]] – Complete destruction of the Spanish fleet in The Philippines
** 8 May [[First Battle of Cárdenas]]
** 11 May [[Battle of Cárdenas|Second Battle of Cárdenas]]
** 11 May [[Battle of Cienfuegos]]
** 12 May [[Bombardment of San Juan]]
** 6–10 June [[Battle of Guantánamo Bay]]
** 13 June [[Action of 13 June 1898]]
** 22 June [[Second Battle of San Juan (1898)|Second Battle of San Juan]]
** 28 June [[Third Battle of San Juan (1898)|Third Battle of San Juan]]
** 30 June [[First Battle of Manzanillo]]
** 30 June [[Battle of Tayacoba]]
** 1 July [[Second Battle of Manzanillo]]
** 1 July [[Battle of the Aguadores]]
** 3 July [[Battle of Santiago de Cuba]] – Complete destruction of the Spanish fleet in the Caribbean
** 18 July [[Third Battle of Manzanillo]]
** 21 July [[Battle of Nipe Bay]]