# List of battles and sieges involving Norway

This is a list of battles and sieges involving Norway.

## Pre-Unification Viking Age (793–872)

* Halfdan the Mild's revolt (ca. 813)
* Battle of 839 (839)
* Siege of Paris (845)
* Viking raid on Nekor (ca. 859)
* Battle of York (867)
* Siege of Dumbarton (870)
* Battle of Basing (871)
* Battle of Meretun (871)

## Unification of Norway (860-872)

* Battle of Hakadal (ca. 860)
* Battle of Orkdal (ca. 870)
* First battle of Solskjel (ca. 870)
* Second battle of Solskjel (ca. 870)
* Battle of Fjaler (ca. 870)
* Harald Fairhair's campaign in Götaland (870s)
* Battle of Hafrsfjord (ca. 872)

## 872–1030

* Battle of Chippenham (878)
* Battle of Stamford (878)
* Battle of Corbridge (918)
* Battle of Brunanburh (937)
* Battle of Blodeheia (953)
* Battle of Rastarkalv (955)
* Battle of Fitjar (961)
* Battle of Hjörungavágr (ca. 985)
* Battle of Maldon (991)
* Battle of Svolder (1000)
* Battle of Thetford (1004)
* Battle of Ringmere (1010)
* Battle of Nesjar (1016)
* Battle of Helgeå (1026)
* Battle of Boknafjorden (1028)
* Battle of Stiklestad (1030)

## The claim to Denmark (1040–1064)

* Battle of Lyrskov Heath (1043)
* Battle of Rügen (1043)
* Battle of Aarhus (1043)
* Battle of Niså (1062)

## The British Isles (1066–1103)

* Norwegian invasion of England (1066)
** Battle of Fulford (1066)
** Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
* Magnus Barefoot's First Irish Sea campaign (1098–1099)
** Battle of Anglesey Sound (1098)

## Crusades (1107–1123)

* Norwegian Crusade (1107–1111), in the aftermath of the First Crusade
** Raid on Santiago de Compostela (1109)
** Raid on Sintra (1109)
** Siege of Lisbon (1109)
** Sack of Alkasse (1109)
** Battle of Gibraltar (1109)
** Battle of Formentera (1109)
** Battle of Menorca (1109)
** Raid on the Balearic Islands (1109)
** Siege of Sidon (1110)
* Kalmare ledung (1123)

## Civil war era (1130–1240)

* Battle of Fyrileiv (1134)
* Battle of Bergen (1135)
* Battle of Minne (1137)
* Battle of Holmengrå (1139)
* Battle of Hising (1161)
* Battle of Oslo (1161)
* Battle of Sekken (1162)
* Battle of Re (1163)
* Battle of Djurså (1165)
* Battle of Re (1177)
* Conquest of Jemtland
** Battle of Storsjön (1178)
* Battle of Kalvskinnet (1179)
* Battle of Ilevollene (1180)
* Battle of Fimreite (1184)
* Battle of Florvåg (1194)
* Battle of Tunsberg (ca. 1200)
* Battle of Oslo (1218)
* Battle of Oslo (1239)

## The Golden Age (1240-1319)

* Scottish–Norwegian War (1262–66)
** Battle of Largs (1263)
* War of the Outlaws (1289-1296)
** Siege of Copenhagen (1289)
** Battle of Skanör (1289)
* Second Swedish brothers feud (1304–1310)
** Battle of Oslo (1308)

## House of Bjälbo (1319–1387)

* Kalundborg War
** Siege of Kalundborg (1341)
* War against Albert of Mecklenberg
** Battle of Gataskogen (1365)
** Siege of Stockholm (1371)

## Kalmar Union (1389/1397–1523)

* Vitalian Brotherhood
** Sacking of Bergen (1393)
* Conflict with Novgorod
** Raid on the White Sea (1419)
* Conflict with the Hanseatic League (Schleswig War) (1426–1435)
** Battle of Bergen (1428)
** Battle of Bergen (1429)
* Conflict with Novgorod
** Raid on the White Sea (1449)
* Conflict with Sweden
** Assault on Karlsborg (1456)

## Denmark–Norway (1523/1537–1807)

* Olav Engelbrektssons rebellion (1536-1537)
** Siege of Steinvikholm Castle (1537)
** Siege of Hamar (1537)
* Kalmar War (1611–13)
** Battle of Kringen (1612)
* Hannibal controversy (1643–45)
** Battle of Bysjön (1644)
** Battle of Frösöen (1644)
** Battle of Vänersborg (1644)
** Battle of Vänersborg (1645)
* Dano-Swedish Wars (1657–58, 1658–60)
** Battle of Frösöen (1657)
** Battle of Eda (1658)
** Battle of Trondheim (1658)
** Battle of Halden (1658–60)
** Battle of Borge (1660)
* Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–67)
** Battle of Vågen (1665)
* Scanian War (1675–79)
** Battle of Oviken (1677)
** Battle of Vänersborg (1677)
** Battle of Marstrand (1677)
** Battle of Køge Bay (1677)
** Battle of Ålen (1679)
* Danish-Dutch conflict over Greenland (1739)
** Battle of Jakobshavn (1739)
* Great Northern War (1700–21)
** Battle of Køge Bay (1710)
** Battle of Høland (1716)
** Battle of Fredriksten (1716)
** Battle of Dynekilen (1716)
** Battle of Moss (1716)
** Battle of Nordkleiva (1716)
** Battle of Norderhov (1716)
** Battle of Harestuskogen (1716)
** Siege of Fredriksten (1718)
* Theatre War (1788-1789)
** Battle of Kvistrum (1788)
* French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
** Battle of Copenhagen (1801)

## Napoleonic Wars (1807–1814)

* Gunboat War (1807–14)
** Battle of Copenhagen (1807)
** Battle of Kristiansund (1808)
** Battle of Alvøen (1808)
** Battle of Lista (1808)
** Battle of Lyngør (1808)
** Battle of Kjerringvik (1808)
** Battle of Hammerfest (1809)
** Battle of Silda (1810)
** Battle of Anholt (1811)
** Battle of Grimstad Bay (1811)
** Battle of Tromsø (1812)
** Battle of Lyngør (1812)
* Dano-Swedish War (1808–1809)
** Battle of Lier (1808)
** Battle of Toverud (1808)
** Battle of Rødenes (1808)
** Battle of Trangen (1808)
** Battle of Furuholm (1808)
** Battle of Mobekk (1808)
** Battle of Prestebakke (1808)
** Battle of Berby (1808)
** Jämtland Campaigns of (1808–1809)
* Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)
** Battle of Tistedalen (1814)
** Battle of Lier (1814)
** Siege of Fredrikstad (1814)
** Battle of Matrand (1814)
** Battle of Rakkestad (1814)
** Battle of Langnes (1814)
** Battle of Kjølberg Bridge (1814)

## World War II (1940–1945)

* Invasion of Norway (1940)
** Battle of Drøbak Sound (1940)
** Battle of Midtskogen (1940)
** Battle of Dombås (1940)
** Åndalsnes landings (1940)
** Namsos Campaign (1940)
** Battle of Vinjesvingen (1940)
** Battle of Hegra Fortress (1940)
** Battles of Narvik (1940)
*** Battle of Gratangen (1940)
** Operation Juno (1940)
* Pacific War
** German attacks on Nauru (1940)
* Continuing the war in exile
** Operation Gauntlet (1941)
** Operation Kitbag (1941)
** Operation Anklet (1941)
** Operation Archery, aka Måløy raid (1941)
** Operation Musketoon (1942)
** Operation Fritham (1942–1943)
** Operation Cartoon (1943)
** Operation Zitronella (1943)
* Battle of the Atlantic (1940–1945)
** Battle of the North Cape (1943)
* Western Front
** Invasion of Normandy (1944)
*** Normandy landings (1944)
** Battle of the Scheldt (1944)
* The end of the war in Norway
** Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive (1944)
** Black Friday (1945)

## United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1978–1998)

* Lebanese Civil War (1978-1990)
** Battle of Kaukaba (1978)

## War on Terror (2001–present)

* War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
** Operation Anaconda (2002)
** Operation Jacana (2002)
** Operation Mongoose (2003)
** Operation Pickaxe-Handle (2007)
** Operation Harekate Yolo (2007)
** Operation Karez (2008)
** Counterinsurgency in Northern Afghanistan (2009–2014)

## Arab Spring (2010–2012)

* Libyan Civil War (2011)
** 2011 military intervention in Libya
*** Operation Odyssey Dawn (2011)
*** Operation Unified Protector (2011)

## Sources

* Norsk forsvarshistorie Bind 1, Geir Atle Ersland and Terje Holm, Eide Forlag (Norway)