Ancient
| Year | Battle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1210 BC | Hittites defeat Cypriots near Cyprus | |
| c.1190 BC | Battle of the Delta | Ramses III defeats the "Sea Peoples" in the Nile delta |
| 664 BC | Corinth battles Corfu | |
| c.535 BC to 540 BC |
Alalia | Carthaginians and Etruscans defeat Greeks near Alalia (now Aléria), Corsica |
| 497 BC | Ionians defeat Phoenicians near Cyprus | |
| 494 BC | Lade | Persians defeat Ionians |
| 480 BC | Artemisium | Persians defeat Greeks |
| Salamis | The Athenian navy defeats Persians | |
| 474 BC | Cumae | Syracuse and Cumae defeat Etruscans |
| 460s BC | Eurymedon | Delian League defeats Persians |
| 450s BC | Salamis (in Cyprus) | Delian League defeats Phoenicians and Cilicians |
| 433 BC | Sybota | Corcyra and Athens defeat Corinthians |
| 429 BC | Battles of Naupactus | Athenians defeat Spartans and Corinthians |
| 425 BC | Pylos | Athenians defeat Spartans |
| 413 BC | Sicily | Syracusans defeat Athenians |
| 411 BC | Cynossema | Athenians defeat Spartans |
| Eretria | Spartans defeat Athenians during September | |
| 410 BC | Cyzicus | Athenians defeat Spartans and Peloponnesians |
| 406 BC | Arginusae | Athenians defeat Peloponnesians |
| 405 BC | Aegospotami | Spartans destroy the Athenian navy |
| 394 BC | Cnidus | Persians defeat Spartans |
| 376 BC | Naxos | Athenians defeat Spartans |
| 357 BC | Chios defeats an Athenian fleet during the Social War | |
| 306 BC | Salamis (in Cyprus) | Demetrius I Poliorcetes defeats the fleet of Menelaeus, brother of Ptolemy I of Egypt |
| 276 BC | Battle of the Strait of Messina | Carthaginians defeat the fleet of Pyrrhus of Epirus |
| 260 BC | Lipara Islands | Carthaginians defeat Romans |
| Battle of Mylae | Romans under Duilius defeat Carthaginians near Sicily | |
| 258 BC | Cos | Antigonus II Gonatas defeats Ptolemy II |
| Sulci | Romans under Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus defeat Carthaginians under Hannibal Gisco | |
| 257 BC | Tyndaris | Romans under Gaius Atilius Regulus defeat Carthaginians under Hamilcar |
| 256 BC | Cape Ecnomus | Romans defeat Carthaginians |
| 249 BC | Drepana | Carthaginians defeat Romans |
| 245/246 BC | Ancient Macedonians defeat Egyptians at Andros | |
| 10 March 241 BC | Aegates Islands | Roman victory over the Carthaginians, ending the First Punic War |
| 218 BC | Lilybaeum | Romans under Amellius defeat Carthaginians near Lilybaeum, Sicily |
| 217 BC | Ebro River | Romans under Cornelius Scipio defeat Carthaginians near the mouth of the Ebro River (Italy) |
| 206 BC | Carteia | Romans under Gaius Laelius defeat Carthaginians Adherbal |
| 201 BC | Chios | Philip V of Macedon defeated by the Egyptians, Rhodians, and Pergamese |
| 2nd Battle of Lade | Philip V of Macedon defeats Rhodians under Cleonaeus | |
| 190 BC | Eurymedon | Roman forces under Lucius Aemilius Regillus defeat a Seleucid fleet commanded by Hannibal |
| Myonessus | Romans under Regillus and Rhodians under Eudoras defeat Seleucids under Polyxenidas | |
| 147 BC | Port of Carthage | Carthaginians under Hasdrubal defeat the Roman fleet of Lucius Hostilius Mancinus |
| 74 BC | Chalcedon | Pontians under Mithridates VI defeat the Roman fleet of Marcus Aurelius Cotta |
| 73 BC | Tenedos | Romans under Lucius Licinius Lucullus defeat a Pontian fleet |
| 67 BC | Korakesion | Romans under Pompey defeat pirates from Cilicia |
| 56 BC | Morbihan | Romans under Decius Brutus defeat Veneti near Armorica |
| 49 BC | Ile du Levant | Romans under Decius Brutus defeat |
| Romans under Decius Brutus defeat at Tauroentum | ||
| 42 BC | The Republican fleet intercepts and destroys reinforcements of the triumvirs led by Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus | |
| 3 September 36 BC | Naulochus | Agrippa defeats Sextus Pompeius |
| 2 September 31 BC | Actium | Octavian decisively defeats Antony and Cleopatra |
| 70 | Rome vs Batavi in the Maas | |
| 199 | Shaxian | Wu forces under Sun Ce defeat Liu Biao and Huang Zu |
| 208 | Red Cliffs | Combined forces of Liu Bei and Sun Quan defeat fleet under Cao Cao |
| 221 | Yiling | Sun Quan defeats the fleet under Liu Bei and successfully defends Jingzhou |
| 222 | Dongkou | Eastern Wu general Lü Fan manages to defeat Cao Xiu |
| 272 | Xiling | Lu Kang defeats Jin general Bu Chan and retakes Xiling |
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