Siege of Gibraltar
Gibraltar has been besieged several times without success in the course of history:
- Siege of Gibraltar (1303) - by Juan Alfonso de Guzman el Bueno during the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar (1316) - by Nasrid caid Yahya during the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar I (1333) - by Abd al-Malik during the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar II (1333) - by King Alfonso XI. during the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar (1349-1350) - by King Alfonso XI. during the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar (1374) - by the Nasrids (Granada) during the Reconquista
- Siege of Gibraltar (1436) - by the Count of Niebla
- Siege of Gibraltar (1462) - by Castile
- Siege of Gibraltar (1467) - by the Duke of Medina Sidonia
- Siege of Gibraltar (1506) - by the Duke of Medina Sidonia
- Siege of Gibraltar (1704–1705) - by Georg von Hessen-Darmstadt, see Capture of Gibraltar
- Siege of Gibraltar (1727) - by a Spanish army
- Siege of Gibraltar (1779–1783) - by a Spanish-French army
The border with Spain remained closed from 1969 to 1985.
