# List of battles involving the Republic of Venice

The following is a list of battles fought by the Republic of Venice, from the traditional date of its founding in 697 until its dissolution in 1797, organized by date. The list includes both land and sea engagements, and is not exhaustive.

## 9th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome | Refs |
| 887, September 18 | Makro, Dalmatia | | Doge Pietro I Candiano | — | Narentine pirates | Venetian defeat, death of Candiano. | |

## 10th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome |
| 900, June 29 | Venice | Magyar raid on venice | Doge Pietro Tribuno | — | Hungarians | Venetian victory |
| 948 | Dalmatia | | Doge Pietro III Candiano | — | Narentine pirates | Venetian defeat, obligation for annual tribute to the Narentines |
| 998, Ascension Day | Dalmatia | | Doge Pietro Orseolo II | — | Narentine pirates | Venetian victory, cessation of the tribute |
| 1000 | Lastovo, Dalmatia | | Pietro Orseolo II | — | Citizens of Lastovo | Venetian victory, annexation of Lastovo |

## 11th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome | Refs |
| 1004 | Dalmatia | | Doge Pietro Orseolo II | — | Narentine pirates | Venetian victory, subjugation of the Narentines | |
| 1081 | Dyrrhachium | First Norman invasion of Byzantium | Doge Domenico Selvo | — | Italo-Norman fleet under Robert Guiscard | Venetian victory, destruction of the Norman fleet; Battle of Dyrrhachium | |

## 12th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome | Refs |
| 1110, October 19 – December 5 | Sidon | Norwegian Crusade | Doge Ordelafo Faliero | Kingdom of Jerusalem, Kingdom of Norway | Fatimid Caliphate garrison | Venetian–Crusader victory, capture of the city, creation of the Lordship of Sidon | |

## 13th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome |
| 1202, November 10–24 | Zara, Damlatia | Fourth Crusade | Doge Enrico Dandolo | Crusaders | Citizens of Zara (nominally Hungarian) | Venetian–Crusader victory, sack of the city |
| 1203, July 11 – August 1 | Constantinople | Fourth Crusade | Doge Enrico Dandolo | Crusaders | Byzantines under Alexios III Angelos | Venetian–Crusader victory, flight of Alexios III and coronation of Alexios IV Angelos |
| 1204, April 8–13 | Constantinople | Fourth Crusade | Doge Enrico Dandolo | Crusaders | Byzantines under Alexios V Doukas | Venetian–Crusader victory, sack of the city, dissolution of the Byzantine Empire |
| 1257–1258 | Negroponte, Greece | War of the Euboeote Succession | Marco Gradenigo | Duchy of Athens and the Lombard Triarchs of Negroponte | Achaean garrison | Venetian victory, recapture of Negroponte |
| 1258, June 25 | Acre | War of Saint Sabas | Lorenzo Tiepolo | — | Genoese fleet under Rosso della Turca | Venetian victory, Genoese abandon Acre |
| 1263 | Settepozzi, Greece | War of Saint Sabas and Byzantine–Venetian wars | Gilberto Dandolo | — | Genoese fleet | Venetian victory |
| 1264, August 14 | off Saseno, Albania | War of Saint Sabas | Michele Duaro | — | Genoese fleet under Simone Grillo | Genoese victory, capture of a Venetian trade convoy |
| 1264, September 2–? | Tyre | War of Saint Sabas | Andrea Barozzi | — | Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre | Siege aborted after a few days |
| 1266, June 23 | off Trapani, Sicily | War of Saint Sabas | Jacopo Dondulo | — | Genoese fleet under Lanfranco Borbonino | Crushing Venetian victory, Genoese fleet captured |
| 1298, September 9 | off Curzola, Dalmatia | War of Saint Sabas | Andrea Dandolo | — | Genoese fleet under Lamba Doria | Genoese victory |

## 14th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome |
| 1334, autumn | Gulf of Adramyttion | Naval League of 1332 | Unknown | Knights Hospitaller, Kingdom of Cyprus, Papal States | Beylik of Karasi | Naval League victory |
| 1344, May 13 | Pallene peninsula, Chalcidice | Smyrniote crusades | Unknown | Knights Hospitaller, Kingdom of Cyprus, Papal States | Turkish pirates | Christian victory |
| 1345, August 12 – 1346, December 21 | Zara, Dalmatia | Croatian-Venetian wars and Hungarian–Venetian wars | | — | Citizens of Zara, aided by the Kingdom of Hungary | Venetian victory, annexation of the city |
| 1347, April | Imbros island, Aegean Sea | Smyrniote crusades | Unknown | Knights Hospitaller | Turkish pirates (Beylik of Sarukhan/Beylik of Aydin?) | Christian victory |
| 1354, November 4 | Bay of Pylos | Third Venetian–Genoese War | Niccolò Pisani | — | Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria | Genoese victory |
| 1359 | Megara Gulf | Naval League of 1359 | Unknown | Knights Hospitaller | Turkish pirates | Christian victory |
| 1378 | Traù, Dalmatia | War of Chioggia | Vettor Pisani | — | Genoese fleet under Luciano Doria and citizens of Traù | Genoese victory |
| 1378, May 30 | off Anzio, Italy | War of Chioggia | Vettor Pisani | — | Genoese fleet under Luigi de' Fieschi | Venetian victory |
| 1379, May 7 | Pola, Istria | War of Chioggia | Vettor Pisani | — | Genoese fleet under Luciano Doria | Genoese victory |
| 1380, June 24 | Chioggia, Venetian Lagoon | War of Chioggia | Doge Andrea Contarini, Vettor Pisani, Carlo Zeno | — | Genoese fleet under Pietro Doria | Decisive Venetian victory, breaking of the siege of Venice |

## 15th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome | Refs |
| 1403, October 7 | off Modon, Greece | Venetian–Genoese wars | Carlo Zeno | — | Genoese fleet under the French Marshal Boucicaut | Venetian victory | |
| 1412, August 24 | Motta di Livenza, Veneto | Hungarian–Venetian wars | Carlo Malatesta | — | Hungarian forces of Sigismund of Luxembourg | Venetian victory, consolidation of Venetian rule over Dalmatia | |
| 1416, May 29 | northern entrance of the Dardanelles | Ottoman–Venetian Wars | Pietro Loredan | — | Ottoman fleet under Çali Bey | Venetian victory, death of Çali Bey | |
| 1423, September 14 – 1430, March 29 | Thessalonica and northern Aegean | Ottoman–Venetian Wars | Various commanders | — | Ottomans under Murad II and various commanders | Ottoman victory, capture of Thessalonica | |
| 1427, October 11 | Maclodio, Lombardy | Wars in Lombardy | Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola | Duchy of Mantua | Milanese army, under Carlo Malatesta | Venetian victory, Malatesta taken captive | |
| 1431, March | Soncino, Lombardy | Wars in Lombardy | Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola | — | Milanese army, under Francesco I Sforza | Milanese victory | |
| 1431, June 6 | Po River, near Cremona | Wars in Lombardy | Niccolò Trevisani | — | Milanese fleet, under Francesco I Sforza | Milanese victory | |
| 1432, November 18–19 | Delebio, Lombardy | Wars in Lombardy | Giorgio Corner, Cesare Martinengo, Taddeo d'Este | — | Milanese army under Niccolò Piccinino | Milanese victory | |
| 1440, June 29 | Anghiari, Tuscany | Wars in Lombardy | Micheletto Attendolo, under the overall command of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan | Republic of Florence, Papal States | Milanese army under Niccolò Piccinino | Allied victory | |
| 1448, September 15 | Caravaggio, Lombardy | Wars in Lombardy and Milanese War of Succession | Micheletto Attendolo | Republic of Florence, Papal States | Milanese army under Francesco Sforza | Milanese victory | |
| 1452, June 6 - 8 | Pontevico, Lombardy | Wars in Lombardy | | — | Milanese army under Francesco Sforza | Milanese victory | |
| 1453, May 25 - 29 | Pontevico, Lombardy | Wars in Lombardy | Jacopo Piccinino | — | Milanese army under Francesco Sforza | Venetian victory | |
| 1453, June 14 – November 27 | Orzinuovi, Lombardy | Wars in Lombardy | Bertoldo d'Este | — | Milanese-French army under Francesco Sforza and René of Anjou | Milanese victory, Venice loses Bassa Bresciana Occidentale | The French army joined the battle since the autumn. |
| 1453, August 15 | Ghedi, Lombardy | Wars in Lombardy and Milanese War of Succession | Jacopo Piccinino | — | Milanese–Mantuan army under Francesco Sforza | Milanese victory, Venice loses Bassa Bresciana Orientale | |
| 1453, October 16 - 19 | Pontevico, Lombardy | Wars in Lombardy | Jacopo Piccinino | — | Milanese-French army under Francesco Sforza and René of Anjou | Milanese victory, Venice loses Bassa Bresciana Centrale | |
| 1467, July 25 | Molinella, Emilia | | Bartolomeo Colleoni | Duchy of Ferrara, Pesaro and Forlì | Florentine army under Federico da Montefeltro | Indecisive | |
| 1470, July 10 – August 5 | Negroponte, Greece | First Ottoman–Venetian War | Paolo Erizzo (garrison), Nicolò Canal (fleet) | — | Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmed II | Ottoman victory, capture of the city and island of Negroponte | |
| 1478, May – 1479, April 25 | Scutari, Albania | First Ottoman–Venetian War | various commanders | Lordship of Zeta, local Albanian forces | Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmed II and other commanders | Ottoman victory, capture of the city and end of the war | |
| 1487, August 10 | Calliano, Trentino | War of Rovereto | Roberto Sanseverino d'Aragona | — | Armies of the Bishopric of Trent and the County of Tyrol | Decisive allied victory, death of Sanseverino | |
| 1495, July 6 | Fornovo, Emilia | Italian War of 1494–1498 | Francesco II Gonzaga | Duchy of Milan, Margravate of Mantua | French army under King Charles VIII | French victory | |
| 1499, August 12, 20, 22, and 25 | Bay of Pylos, Greece | Second Ottoman–Venetian War | Antonio Grimani | — | Ottoman fleet under Kemal Reis | Ottoman victory | |
| 1500, November 8 – December 24 | Castle of Saint George, Cephalonia | Second Ottoman–Venetian War | Benedetto Pesaro (fleet), under the overall command of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba | Spain | Ottoman garrison under Gisdar Aga | Allied victory, capture of the fortress | |

## 16th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome |
| 1509, December 22 | River Po at Polesella, Veneto | War of the League of Cambrai | Angelo Trevisan | — | Ferrarese fleet under Cardinal d'Este | Ferrarese victory |
| 1513, October 7 | Schio, Veneto | War of the League of Cambrai | Bartolomeo d'Alviano | — | Spanish–Imperial army under Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos | Decisive Spanish–Imperial victory |
| 1515, September 13–14 | Melegnano, Lombardy | War of the League of Cambrai | Bartolomeo d'Alviano, under the overall command of King Francis I of France | Kingdom of France | Swiss–Milanese army under Maximilian Sforza | Decisive French–Venetian victory |
| 1537, August – September | Corfu, Greece | Third Ottoman–Venetian War | | — | Ottoman army and fleet (plus a French contingent) under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent | Venetian victory |
| 1538, September 28 | off Preveza, Greece | Third Ottoman–Venetian War | Vincenzo Cappello, under the overall command of Andrea Doria | Holy League forces | Ottoman fleet under Hayreddin Barbarossa | Ottoman victory |
| 1570, July 22 – September 9 | Nicosia, Cyprus | Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War | Niccolò Dandolo | — | Ottoman army under Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha | Ottoman victory, sack of the city |
| 1570, September 17 – 1571, August 5 | Famagusta, Cyprus | Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War | Marco Antonio Bragadin | — | Ottoman army under Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha | Ottoman victory, sack of the city, end of Venetian resistance in Cyprus |
| 1571, October 7 | off Lepanto, Greece | Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War | Sebastiano Venier, under the overall command of John of Austria | Holy League forces | Ottoman fleet under Müezzinzade Ali Pasha | Holy League victory |

## 17th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome |
| 1618, June 24 | Strait of Gibraltar | | Melcior van den Kerchove | — | Spanish fleet | Venetian victory, breakthrough of the Venetian fleet |
| 1646, May 26 | off the Dardanelles Strait | Cretan War | Tommaso Alvise Mocenigo | — | Ottoman fleet | Venetian victory |
| 1648, May 1 – 1669, September 27 | Candia, Crete | Cretan War | Various commanders | Knights of Malta, Kingdom of France | Ottoman army under various commanders | Ottoman victory, surrender of Candia and end of the Cretan War |
| 1649, May 12 | off Foça | Cretan War | Giacomo da Riva | — | Ottoman fleet under Koca Dervish Mehmed Pasha | Venetian victory |
| 1651, July 10 | south of Naxos, Aegean Sea | Cretan War | Tommaso Alvise Mocenigo | — | Ottoman fleet | Venetian victory |
| 1654, May 15 | Perast | Cretan War | Krsto Vicković | — | Ottoman army of Herzegovina, Uljinj pirates | Venetian victory |
| 1654, May 16 | off the Dardanelles Strait | Cretan War | Giuseppe Delfino | Knights of Malta | Ottoman fleet under Kara Murat Pasha | Ottoman victory |
| 1655, June 21 | off the Dardanelles Strait | Cretan War | Lazzaro Mocenigo | Knights of Malta | Ottoman fleet under Kara Mustafa Pasha | Venetian victory |
| 1656, June 26 | off the Dardanelles Strait | Cretan War | Lorenzo Marcello | Knights of Malta | Ottoman fleet under Kenan Pasha | Venetian victory, Venetian occupation of Tenedos and Lemnos |
| 1657, May 3 | | Cretan War | Lazzaro Mocenigo | — | Ottoman Algerian fleet | Venetian victory |
| 1657, May 18 | | Cretan War | | — | Ottoman fleet | Venetian victory |
| 1657, July 17–19 | off the Dardanelles Strait | Cretan War | Lazzaro Mocenigo | Knights of Malta, Papal States | Ottoman fleet under Topal Mehmed Pasha | Ottoman victory, breaking of the Venetian blockade of the Dardanelles |
| 1661, August 27 | near Milos, Aegean Sea | Cretan War | Giorgio Morosini | Knights of Malta | Ottoman galley fleet | Venetian victory |
| 1662, September 29 | between Kos and Kalymnos, Aegean Sea | Cretan War | | — | Ottoman convoy from Alexandria | Venetian victory |
| 1684, July 21 – August 6 | Fortress of Santa Maura, Lefkada | Morean War | Francesco Morosini | — | Ottoman garrison of Santa Maura | Venetian victory, surrender of the fortress and island |
| 1686, June 2–14 | New Navarino fortress, Morea | Morean War | Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck | — | Ottoman garrison | Venetian victory, surrender of the fortress |
| 1686, July 30 – August 29 | Nauplia, Morea | Morean War | Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck | — | Ottoman garrison of Nauplia and relief army under Ismail Pasha | Venetian victory, surrender of the city |
| 1687, July 24 | Patras, Morea | Morean War | Francesco Morosini, Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck | — | Ottoman army under Mehmed Pasha | Venetian victory, surrender of Patras Castle and Rio Castle |
| 1687, September 23–29 | Acropolis of Athens | Morean War | Francesco Morosini | — | Ottoman garrison of the Acropolis | Venetian victory, surrender of the Acropolis |
| 1688, July 13 – October 21 | Negroponte, Central Greece | Morean War | Francesco Morosini | — | Ottoman garrison of Negroponte | Ottoman victory, raising of the siege |
| 1690, September 8 | off Lesbos, Aegean Sea | Morean War | Daniele Dolfin | — | Ottoman fleet | Inconclusive |
| 1695, February 9 & 19 | off the Oinousses islands, Aegean Sea | Morean War | Giovanni Antonio Zeno | — | Ottoman fleet under Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha | Ottoman victory |
| 1696, August 22 | off Andros, Aegean Sea | Morean War | Bartolomeo Contarini | Papal States | Ottoman fleet under Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha | Indecisive |
| 1698, September 20 | off Samothrace, northern Aegean Sea | Morean War | | — | Ottoman fleet | Inconclusive |

## 18th century

| Date | Location | Conflict | Commander | Allies | Opponents | Outcome |
| 1715, July 12–20 | Nauplia, Greece | Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War | Geronimo Dolfin, Alessandro Bon | — | Ottomans under Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha | Decisive Ottoman victory, fall of the Kingdom of the Morea |
| 1716, July 8 – August 21 | Corfu, Greece | Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War | Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Andrea Pisani | Knights of Malta, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Papal States, Spain | Ottomans under Canım Hoca Mehmed Pasha and Kara Mustafa Pasha | Venetian victory, Ottomans abandon Corfu |
| 1716, July 8 | Corfu Channel, Greece | Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War | Andrea Corner | — | Ottoman fleet under Canım Hoca Mehmed Pasha | Indecisive |
| 1717, June 12–16 | off Imbros, Aegean Sea | Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War | Lodovico Flangini | | Ottoman fleet under Hodja Ibrahim Pasha | Indecisive, death of Flangini |
| 1717, July 19 | off Cape Matapan, Greece | Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War | Marcantonio Diedo | Kingdom of Portugal, Knights of Malta, Papal States | Ottoman fleet under Eğribozlu Pasha | Indecisive |
| 1784 – 1788 | Porto Farina, Tunis, Sfax, Bizerte, Sousse, Tunisia | | Angelo Emo, Tommaso Condulmier | | Beylik of Tunis under Hammuda ibn Ali | Venetian victory |