Back in time
Battles in history
More than 18,000 battles and sieges, each placed where it was fought and dated as closely as the record allows. Nearly all have a Wikipedia article, and more than 11,000 name the war they were part of.
Open the live mapWhat you see
- Battles and sieges alone, as red conflict marks; History’s panel can bring back the wars and massacres around them.
- Each battle’s name beside it from zoom 3.
- A battle’s page and popup give its date, the war it belonged to and its Wikipedia summary.
- Opened from this page, the map plays the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792 to 1815, over Europe.
Where the data comes from
- WikidataBattles and sieges with a date and coordinates, and the war each was part of where Wikidata says so.
- WikipediaAbout 300 battles of the First World War, from Wikipedia’s lists of them.
Taken from Wikidata when the set is imported; a battle added there since appears after the next import.
Good to know
- Coverage follows Wikipedia’s editors: France, the United States, Spain and Italy alone hold about a quarter of the battles.
- About a third are placed only at an area, not at the battlefield itself.
- Battles carry no casualty figures here, so the map draws them all at one size.
- Military operations, raids and air strikes have a page of their own.
The first recorded here in each century
- Battle of Badon500 · Battle
- Battle of Catraeth600 · Battle
- Battle of Tabarka700s · Battle
- Battle of Brávellier8th century · Battle
- Battle of Balkh900 · Battle
- Battle of Thessalonica10th century · Battle
- Battle of Melitene1100 · Battle
- Battle of Arrato1200 · Battle
- Chem River Battle13th century · Battle
- Battle of Drumnacoub14th century · Battle
- Tijarafe–Aceró battle15th century · Battle
- Battle of the Puante River16th century · Battle
- Battle of Anandpur1700 · Battle
- Battle of Walserfeld1800 · Battle
- Battle of Shanhaiguan1900 · Battle
- Battle for Argun9 Jan 2000 · Battle
Goes well with
Wars in historyWars, civil wars, rebellions and armed conflicts from 2600 BCE to today on one map, from Wikidata, the Correlates of War and the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.
Military operationsMore than 3,100 military operations, raids and air strikes recorded in Wikidata, most from the 20th and 21st centuries, each placed where it was fought.
The world in 1914The world in 1914 on an interactive map: the empires and borders on the eve of the First World War, then the war’s battles as they happened.
The world through historyAn interactive historical atlas: the world’s borders year by year from 3400 BCE, with wars, battles and other events from 7500 BCE, on a 3D globe.