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 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 Re (1177)
 * Conquest of Jemtland
 * Battle of Storsjön (1178)
 * Battle of Kalvskinnet (1179)
 * Battle of Ilevollene (1180)
 * Battle of Bjørgvin (1183)
 * Battle of Fimreite (1184)
 * Battle of Florvåg (1194)
 * Battle of Tunsberg (ca. 1200)
 * Battle of Bjørgvin (ca. 1202)
 * 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 Bjelbo (1319–1387)

 * Karelian raid
 * Raid on Bjarkøy (1323)
 * Siege of Kalundborg

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)

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)
 * 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 (1808–09)
 * 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)