List of sieges
This list of sieges includes historically significant sieges since ancient times .
See also: List of battles and naval battles .
Antiquity (800 BC to 284 AD)
| Period | designation | description |
|---|---|---|
| 429-427 BC Chr. | Siege of Plataiai | by the Spartans |
| 415-413 BC Chr. | Siege of Syracuse | by the Athenians |
| 408-406 BC Chr. | Siege of Andros | by the Athenians |
| 334 BC Chr. | Siege of Miletus | by the Macedonians |
| 332 BC Chr. | Siege of Tire (332 BC) | by Alexander the Great |
| 317 BC Chr. | Siege of Megalopolis | by Polyperchon |
| 314-313 BC Chr. | Siege of Tire (314–313 BC) | by Antigonus I. Monophthalmos |
| 305/304 BC Chr. | Siege of Rhodes (305-304 BC) | by Demetrios I. Poliorketes |
| 218 BC Chr. | Siege of Saguntum | by Hannibal |
| 214-212 BC Chr. | Siege of Syracuse | by the Romans |
| 149-146 BC Chr. | Siege of Carthage | by the Romans |
| 134/133 BC Chr. | Siege of Numantia | by the Romans |
| 87-86 BC Chr. | Siege of Athens | by the Romans |
| 52 BC Chr. | Siege of Alesia | by the Romans |
| 70 AD | Siege of Jerusalem | by the Romans |
| AD 72–73 | Siege of Masada | by the Romans |
Late Antiquity (284–641)
| Period | designation | description |
|---|---|---|
| 282 | Siege of Ctesiphon | by the Romans |
| 359 | Siege of Amida | by the Sassanids |
| 537-538 | Siege of Rome | by the Ostrogoths |
| 626 | Siege of Constantinople | by the Slavs, Avars and Sassanids |
Early Middle Ages (568 / 641–985)
| Period | designation | description |
|---|---|---|
| 668/669 | 1. Siege of Constantinople | by the Arabs |
| 674-678 | 2. Siege of Constantinople | by the Arabs |
| 717/718 | 3. Siege of Constantinople | by the Arabs |
| 773/774 | Siege of Pavia | through the Franks |
| 813 | Siege of Constantinople | by the Bulgarians |
| 860 | Siege of Constantinople | by the Vikings |
| 885/886 | Siege of Paris | by the Vikings |
| 941 | Siege of Constantinople | by the Vikings |
| 952 | Siege of Mainz | Otto besieged Liudolf and Konrad for two months |
High Middle Ages (985-1250)
| Period | designation | description |
|---|---|---|
| 1069-1071 | Siege of Bari | by the Normans |
| 1090 | Siege of Constantinople | by the Pechenegen |
| 1096 | Siege of Xerigordon | by the Seljuks |
| 1097 | Siege of Nicaea | by the crusaders |
| 1097-1098 | Siege of Antioch | by the crusaders |
| 1099 | Siege of Arqa | by the crusaders |
| 1099 | Siege of Jerusalem | by the crusaders |
| 1104 | Siege of Acre | by the crusaders |
| 1105-1109 | Siege of Tripoli | by the crusaders |
| 1112 | First siege of Tire | by the crusaders |
| 1124 | Second Siege of Tire | by the crusaders |
| 1144 | Siege of Edessa | through the Zengids |
| 1147 | Siege of Lisbon | by the crusaders |
| 1148 | Siege of Damascus | by the crusaders |
| 1153 | Siege of Ascalon | by the crusaders |
| 1160 | Siege of the Sanjō Palace in Kyoto | by Heiji rebellion |
| 1162 | Siege of Milan | by Friedrich I. Barbarossa |
| 1187 | Siege of Jerusalem | by the Ayyubids |
| 1189-1191 | Siege of Acre | by the crusaders |
| 1202 | Siege of Zara | through Venice and the crusaders |
| 1203/1204 | Siege of Constantinople | through Venice and the crusaders |
| 1203/1204 | Siege of Château-Gaillard | by the French |
| 1215 | Siege of Beijing | by the Mongols |
| 1218/1219 | Siege of Damiette | by the crusaders |
| 1236 | Siege of Bilar | by the Mongols |
| 1240 | Siege of Kiev (1240) | by the Mongols |
| 1243/1244 | Siege of Montségur | by the French |
Late Middle Ages (1250-1517)
| Period | designation | description |
|---|---|---|
| 1250 | Siege of Al-Mansura | by the crusaders |
| 1258 | Siege of Baghdad | by the Mongols |
| 1268 | Siege of Antioch | through the Mamluken |
| 1270 | Siege of Tunis | by the crusaders |
| 1290 | Siege of Vienna | through the Hungarians |
| 1291 | Siege of Acre | through the Mamluken |
| 1345-1346 | Siege of Zadar | by the Venetians |
| 1346/1347 | Siege of Calais | by the English |
| 1410 | Siege of the Marienburg | Order of Teutonic Knights repels Poles and Lithuanians |
| 1414 | Siege of Friesack | |
| 1428-1429 | Siege of Orléans | by the English |
| 1444 | Siege of Greifensee | by the confederates |
| 1444 | Siege of Rhodes | by the Mamluk Sultan Jakmak |
| 1453 | Siege of Constantinople | by the Ottomans |
| 1450 | First siege of Kruja | by the Ottomans |
| 1474/1475 | Siege of Neuss | through the Burgundy |
| 1475 | Siege of Linz on the Rhine | by imperial troops in the Neuss war |
| 1480 | Siege of Rhodes | by the Ottomans |
| 1491 | Siege of Granada | by the Christian Spaniards |
| 1485 | Siege of Vienna | through the Hungarians (under Matthias Corvinus ) |
Early modern period (1517–1799)
| Period | designation | description |
|---|---|---|
| 1521 | Siege of Tenochtitlán | by the Spaniards |
| 1522/1523 | Siege of Rhodes | by the Ottomans |
| 1524/1525 | Siege of Pavia | by the Habsburgs |
| 1529 | First siege of Vienna | by the Ottomans |
| 1532 | Siege of Kőszeg | by the Ottomans |
| 1534/35 | Siege of Munster | Siege by episcopal troops to destroy the Anabaptist Empire of Munster |
| 1543 | Siege of Nice | by the French and the Ottomans |
| 1550 | Siege of Braunschweig | by the troops of Duke Heinrich II of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel |
| 1553 | Siege of Braunschweig | by the troops of Duke Heinrich II of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel |
| 1553 | Siege of court | |
| 1553/1554 | Siege of Kulmbach and the Plassenburg | |
| 1558 | Siege of Thionville | |
| 1565 | Siege of Malta | by the Ottomans |
| 1566 | Siege of Szigetvár | by the Ottomans |
| 1571 | Siege of Famagusta | |
| 1573 | Siege of La Rochelle | by the French |
| 1584/1585 | Siege of Antwerp | |
| 1597 | Siege of Amiens | |
| 1597 | Siege of Groenlo | by the Dutch |
| 1601/1602 | Siege of Kinsale | by the English |
| 1601-1604 | Siege of Ostend | by the Spaniards |
| 1605 | Siege of Braunschweig | by troops of Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel |
| 1609-1611 | Siege of Smolensk | through Poland-Lithuania |
| 1615 | Siege of Braunschweig | by troops of Duke Friedrich Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel |
| 1621 | Siege of Montauban | by Louis XIII. |
| 1621 | Siege of Montpellier | by Louis XIII. |
| 1622 | Siege of Saint Antonin | by Louis XIII. |
| 1622 | Siege of Royan | by Louis XIII. |
| 1622 | Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély | by Louis XIII. |
| 1626 | Siege of Wolfenbüttel | by imperial troops |
| 1627/1628 | Siege of La Rochelle | by Louis XIII. |
| 1628 | Siege of Stralsund | by the Catholic League |
| 1631 | Siege of Magdeburg | by the Catholic League |
| 1631 | Siege of Rostock | through the Swedes |
| 1631 | Siege of Mainz | through the Swedes |
| 1634 | Siege of Nördlingen | by the Catholic League |
| 1638 | March to December, siege of the Breisach fortress on the Upper Rhine | |
| 1641 | Siege of Dorsten | by imperial troops |
| 1645-1669 | Siege of Candia (now Heraklion ) | Siege of the city on Crete by the Ottomans |
| 1647 | Siege of Hohentübingen | by the French |
| 1656 | Siege of Rapperswil | through the city of Zurich |
| 1671 | Siege of Braunschweig | by troops of Duke Rudolf August von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel |
| 1673 | Siege of Maastricht | |
| 1678 | Siege of Freiburg im Breisgau | |
| 1683 | Second siege of Vienna | by the Ottomans |
| 1689 | Siege of Londonderry | |
| 1689 | Siege of Mainz | by the Kaiser and the German princes |
| 1689 | Siege of Bonn | |
| 1702-1713 | Four times siege of Landau in the Palatinate | |
| 1704-1705 | Siege of Gibraltar | |
| 1708 | Siege of Lille | |
| 1717 | Siege of Belgrade by the Austrians under Prince Eugene | |
| 1744 | Siege of Freiburg im Breisgau | |
| 1759 | Siege of Quebec | by the British |
| 1762 | Siege of Schweidnitz | |
| 1775/1776 | Siege of Boston | by the Americans and French |
| 1779-1783 | Siege of Gibraltar | by the Spanish and French |
| 1781 | Siege of Yorktown | by the Americans and French |
| 1793 | Siege of Mainz | by coalition forces |
| 1795-1799 | Siege of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress four times | by the French |
| 1796-1797 | Siege of Mantua | by the French |
| 1799 | Siege of Acre | by the French |
Modern history (1800-1900)
| Period | designation | description |
|---|---|---|
| 1806 | Siege of Hameln | by the French |
| 1807 | Siege of Kolberg | by the French |
| 1807 | Siege of Danzig | by the French |
| 1808 | First siege of Zaragoza | by the French |
| 1809 | Siege of Graz | by the French |
| 1808/09 | Second siege of Zaragoza | by the French |
| 1809 | Third siege of Girona | by the French |
| 1810 | Siege of Almeida | by the French |
| 1810 | 1st Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo | by the French |
| 1812 | 2. Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo | by the British |
| 1812 | Siege of Badajoz | by the British |
| 1813 | Siege of Danzig | by the Russians and Prussians |
| 1813 | Siege of Erfurt | by Prussians, Austrians and Russians |
| 1813 | Siege of Torgau | by the Prussians |
| 1814 | Siege of Soissons | by Russians and Prussians |
| 1814 | Siege of Mainz | by Russians and Prussians |
| 1822/23 | 1. Siege of Messolongi | by the Ottomans |
| 1825/26 | 2. Siege of Messolongi | by the Ottomans |
| 1836 | Siege of the Alamo | by the Mexicans |
| 1841/42 | Siege of Jalalabad | by the Afghans |
| 1854-1856 | Siege of Sevastopol | by British, French and Piedmontese |
| 1861 | Siege of Fort Sumter | through the southern states |
| 1863 | Siege of Vicksburg | through the northern states |
| 1864/1865 | Siege of Petersburg | through the northern states |
| 1868/1869 | Siege of Hakodate | by the Japanese |
| 1870 | Siege of Metz | by the Prussians |
| 1870/1871 | Siege of Paris | by the Germans |
| 1877 | Siege of Pleven | by the Russians |
| 1884/85 | Siege of Khartoum | by the Mahdists |
| 1898/99 | Siege of Baler | by Filipino rebels |
| 1899/00 | Siege of Ladysmith | through the Boers |
| 1899/00 | Siege of Kimberley | through the Boers |
| 1899/00 | Siege of Mafeking | through the Boers |
20th century
| Period | designation | description
|
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing | by the Chinese / boxers |
| 1904/1905 | Siege of Port Arthur | by the Japanese |
| 1912/13 | Siege of Adrianople | by Bulgarians and Serbs |
| 1913 | Siege of Vidin | by the Serbs |
| 1914 | Siege of Liege | by the Germans |
| 1914 | Siege of Antwerp | by the Germans |
| 1914 | Siege of Maubeuge | by the Germans |
| 1914 | Siege of Tsingtau | by the British and Japanese |
| 1914/1915 | Siege of Przemyśl | by the Russians |
| 1915 | Siege of Novogeorgiewsk | by the Germans |
| 1936-1939 | Siege of Madrid | by the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War |
| 1940 | Siege of Liege | by the Germans |
| 1940-1943 | Siege of Malta | by the Italians and Germans |
| 1941-1944 | Leningrad blockade | by the Germans |
| 1942 | Siege of Sevastopol | by the Germans |
| 1942/1943 | Siege of Stalingrad | by the Red Army |
| 1945 | Siege of Wroclaw | by the Red Army |
| 1945 | Siege of Glogau | by the Red Army |
| 1953/1954 | Siege of Điện Biên Phủ | |
| 1968 | Siege of Khe Sanh | |
| 1991 | Siege of Vukovar | by the Serbs |
| 1991/1992 | Siege of Dubrovnik | by the Serbs |
| 1992-1996 | Siege of Sarajevo | by the Serbs |
| 1994/1995 | Siege of Grozny |
21st century
| Period | designation | description |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Siege of Misurata | by Libyan government troops |
| 2013 | Siege of al-Kuzair | by Syrian government forces |
| 2014 | Siege of Amerli | by terrorist organization Islamic State |
| 2014 | Siege of Kobanê | by terrorist organization Islamic State |
| 2016 | Siege of Fallujah | by Iraqi government forces |
| 2012-2018 | Siege of Eastern Ghouta | by Syrian government forces |
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