List of naval battles

Naval Battles A listing grouped by date and era of significant naval battles:

• Classical Era
  • Battle of Salamis (480 B.C)
  • Battle of Actium (31 B.C)

• Middle Ages
  • Battle of Sluys (1340)

• Renaissance
  • Battle of Lepanto (1571)
  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)

• 17th Century
  • Battle of Oliwa (1627) (battle of Danzig roadstead)
  • Battle of Portland (also called 'The Three Days') (1653)
  • Battle of Scheveningen (1653)
  • Four Day's Battle (1665)
  • Raid on the Medway (1667)
  • Battle of Sole Bay (1672)
  • Battle of Texel (1673)

• Age of Enlightenment
  • Battle of Chesma (1770)
  • Battle of the Saints (1782)
  • Battle of Ochakov (1788)

• Napoleonic Wars
  • Battle of the Nile (1798) (battle of Abukir Bay)
  • Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
  • Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

• War of 1812
  • Battle of Lake Erie (1813)

• 19th Century
  • Battle of Navarino (1827)
  • Battle of Sinop (1853)

• Ironclad/Old Battleship Era
  • Battle of Hampton Roads (1862)
  • Battle of Lissa (1866)

• Pre-Dreadnought Era
  • Battle of Foochow (1885)
  • Battle of the Yalu River (1894)
  • Battle of Manila Bay (1898)
  • Battle of Santiago de Cuba (1898))
  • Battle of the Yellow Sea (1904)
  • Battle of Tsushima (1905)

• World War I
  • Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)
  • Battle of Coronel (1914)
  • Battle of the Falkland Islands (1914)
  • Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)
  • Battle of Jutland (1916)
  • Raid on the Otranto Barrage (1917)

• World War II
  • Battle of the River Plate (1939)
  • Hunt for Bismarck (1941)
  • Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
  • Battle of the Coral Sea (May 8, 1942)
  • Battle of Midway (June 4, 1942)