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 HelgeÃ¥ (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 NisÃ¥ (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 HolmengrÃ¥ (1139)
• Battle of Hising (1161)
• Battle of Oslo (1161)
• Battle of Sekken (1162)
• Battle of Re (1163)
• Battle of DjursÃ¥ (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 FlorvÃ¥g (1194)
• Battle of Tunsberg (ca. 1200)
• Battle of Oslo (1218)
• Battle of bergen (1237)
• Siege of Rothesay Castle (1230) 1230
• Battle of Oslo (1239)

The Golden Age (1240-1319)

• Scottish–Norwegian War (1262–66)
• Battle of Largs (1263)
• Siege of Rothesay Castle (1263) (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)
• Battle of Dalaland (1308)
• Battle of Kalvsund (1309)

House of Bjälbo (1319–1387)

• First Norwegian Noble Rising
• Siege of Tunsberg (1332) (1332)
• 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 VÃ¥gen (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 Kragerø (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 DombÃ¥s (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 MÃ¥løy 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)

Balkans

• Bosnian war
• Kosovo war
• Operation Allied Force
• Operation Joint Guardian
• Incident at Pristina airport
• 2001 Macedonia conflict
• Operation Essential Harvest
• Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kashmir

• 1995 Kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir

War on terror (2001–2021)

• 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)
• Task Force K-Bar
• Operation Enduring Freedom
• Uzbin Valley ambush
• Release of hostage Christina Meier
• April 2012 Afghanistan attacks
• Hostage incident at Qargha Reservoir / Lake Qara june 2012
• May 2020 Afghanistan attacks
• Resolute Support Mission
• Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons
• Operation Active Endeavour
• 2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack
• Hostage situation at Hetal Hotel, Kabul May 2015
• 2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack
• American University of Afghanistan attack
• Operation Atalanta
• Operation Ocean Shield

Arab Spring (2010–2012)

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

Houthi-led attacks on shipping in the Red Sea

• Operation Prosperity Guardian

Russo-Ukrainian War (2022-

• Coalition of the willing (Russo-Ukrainian War)
• Operation Interflex

Sources

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