List of sieges
A siege is a prolonged military assault and blockade on a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. What follows a chronological list of sieges.
Military sieges
Ancient
- Siege of Megiddo (c. 1457 BCE)
- Siege of Dapur (c. 1296 BCE)
- Siege of Troy (c. 1200 BCE)
- Siege of Hermopolis (c. 715 BCE)
- Siege of Jerusalem (701 BCE) - the Assyrian siege of Sennacherib
- Siege of Syracuse (415 BCE) - the Athenian siege
- Siege of Tyre (332 BCE) by Alexander the Great
- Siege of Rhodes (305 BCE) by Demetrius Poliorcetes
- Siege of Agrigentum (261 BCE) (First Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage)
- Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BCE) - the Roman siege
- Siege of Alesia (52 BCE)
- Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) - the Roman siege of Titus
- Siege of Masada (72 CE)
Medieval
- Siege of Paris (885-886)
- Siege of Graus (Spring 1063)
- Siege of Nicaea (1097) - part of the First Crusade
- Siege of Antioch (1097-98) - part of the First Crusade
- Siege of Jerusalem (1099) - part of the First Crusade
- Siege of Acre (1189)
- Siege of Constantinople (1204) - part of the Fourth Crusade
- Siege of Caffa (1346)
- Siege of Rouen(1418) - reopening of the Hundred Years War
- Siege of Orleans (1429)
- Siege of Constantinople (1453)
Early modern
- Siege of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Siege of Rhodes (1522)
- Siege of Vienna (1529)
- Siege of Leith (1560)
- Siege of Malta (1565)
- Sieges of Nagashima (1571, 1573, 1574)
- Siege of Haarlem (1572)
- Siege of Nagashino (1575)
- Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585)
- Siege of Odawara (1590)
- Siege of Kinsale (1601-1602)
- Siege of Ostend (1601-1604)
- Siege of Osaka (1614-1615)
- Siege of La Rochelle (1627-1628)
- Siege of Crete (Candida) (1648-1669) - possibly the longest siege in history
- Cromwell's Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1651)
- Siege of Copenhagen (1658-59)
- Siege of Maastricht (1673)
- Siege of Londonderry (1689)
- Williamite Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1690-1691)
- Siege of Gibraltar (1704)
- Siege of Lille (1708)
- Siege of Quebec City (1759)
- Siege of Boston (1775–1776)
- Siege of Yorktown (1781)
- Siege of Seringapatam (1799)
Modern
- Sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz (1812)
- Siege of the Alamo (1836)
- Siege of Sebastopol (1856)
- Siege of Vicksburg (1863) - Union army besieges Confederate city in the American Civil War.
- Siege of Port Hudson (1863) Union Army surrounds Confederate river stronghold for 48 days.
- Siege of Petersburg (1864–1865)
- Siege of Hakodate (1869)
- Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune (1870–1871)
- Siege of Khartoum (1884–1885)
- Siege of Mafeking (1899–1900)
- Siege of Antwerp (1914)
- Siege of Malta (1940–1943)
- Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
- Siege of Sarajevo (1992–1996)
Police sieges
- Sidney Street Siege (1911)
- Spaghetti House Siege (1975)
- Balcombe Street Siege (1975)
- MOVE Siege (1978)
- Iranian Embassy Siege (1980)
- Waco Siege (1993)
- Moscow Theatre Siege (2002)
- Beslan hostage crisis (2004)
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