List of sieges

Ancient

Siege of Sharuhen (c. 1530 BC)

Siege of Megiddo (c. 1457 BC)

Siege of Dapur (c. 1296 BC)

Siege of Troy (c. 1200 BC)

Siege of Rabbah (10th century BC) (Bible Reference: II Samuel 11–12)

Siege of Abel-beth-maachah (10th century BC) (Bible Reference: II Samuel 20:15–22)

Siege of Gezer (10th century BC)

Sack of Jerusalem (925 BC) by Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I

Siege of Samaria (9th century BC) (Bible Reference: II Kings 6:24 – 7:7)

Siege of Gezer (c.733 BC)

Siege of Hermopolis (701 BC)

Siege of Lachish (701 BC)

Siege of Jerusalem (701 BC) – the Assyrian siege of Sennacherib

Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC) by Nebuchadnezzar II

Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC) by Nebuchadnezzar II

Siege of Sardis (547 BC)

Siege of Naxos (499 BC) Part of the Ionian Revolt and the Greco-Persian Wars

Siege of Eretria (490 BC) – Part of the Persian invasion and the Greco-Persian Wars

Siege of Syracuse (415 BC) – the Athenian siege

Siege of Syracuse (397 BC)

Siege of Miletus (334 BC)

Siege of Halicarnassus (334 BC)

Siege of Tyre (332 BC) by Alexander the Great

Siege of Gaza (332 BC)

Siege of Cyropolis (329 BC)

Siege of the Sogdian Rock (327 BC)

Siege of Neapolis (c. 327 BC)

Siege of Rhodes (305 BC) by Demetrius Poliorcetes

Siege of Lilybaeum (278 BC) – Part of the Pyrrhic War

Siege of Agrigentum (261 BC) – Part of the First Punic War

Siege of Aspis (255 BC) – Part of the First Punic War

Siege of Drepana (249–241 BC) – Part of the First Punic War

Battle of "The Saw" (238 BC) – Part of the Mercenary War

Siege of Tunis (238 BC) – Part of the Mercenary War

Siege of Medion (231 BC)

Siege of Issa (230–229 BC)

Siege of Saguntum (218 BC) – casus belli for the Second Punic War

Siege of Syracuse (214–212 BC) – the Roman siege

Siege of Carthage (149–146 BC) by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus

Siege of Numantia (134–133 BC) by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus

Siege of Cyzicus (73 BC)

Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) by Pompey the Great

Siege of Alesia (52 BC)

Siege of Alexandria (47 BC)

Siege of Jerusalem (37 BC) by Herod the Great

Siege of Yodfat (67 AD)

Siege of Jerusalem (70 AD) – the Roman siege of Titus

Siege of Masada (72–73 or 73–74 AD)

Battle of Sarmisegetusa (106 AD)

Siege of Byzantium (193 AD–196 AD) by Septimius Severus forces.

Siege of Singara (344)

Siege of Autun (356)

Siege of Senonae (356)

Siege of Amida (359 AD)

Siege of Rome (410)

Siege of Aquileia (452) by Attila

Siege of Rome (455)

Medieval

Siege of Ravenna (490–493) – Ostrogothic conquest of Italy

Siege of Naples (536) – part of the Gothic War

Siege of Rome (537–538) – part of the Gothic War

Siege of Verona (541) – part of the Gothic War

Siege of Naples (542–543) – part of the Gothic War

Siege of Rome (546–547) – part of the Gothic War

Siege of Rome (549–550) – part of the Gothic War

Siege of Phasis (555–556) – part of the Lazic War

Siege of Pavia (569–572) – Lombard conquest of Italy

Siege of Sirmium (580–582) – Avar conquest of the city

Siege of Thessalonica (586 or 597) – Attack on the city by Slavs and Avars

Siege of Caesarea (614) by the Persians

Siege of Jerusalem (614) by the Persians under Shahrbaraz

Siege of Thessalonica (615) – Attack on the city by Slavs

Siege of Thessalonica (617) – Attack on the city by Slavs and Avars

Siege of Constantinople (626) by Avars and Sassanid Persians in 626

Siege of Derbent (627) during the Third Perso-Turkic War

Siege of Tbilisi (628) during the Third Perso-Turkic War

Siege of Exeter (c.630) – almost certainly fictional

Siege of Ta'if (630)

Siege of Damascus (634), Arab–Byzantine wars

Siege of Emesa (635)

Siege of Jerusalem (637) by Khalid ibn al-Walid (Rashidun general)

Siege of Ctesiphon (637)

Siege of Aleppo (637)

Siege of Marash (638)

Siege of Alexandria (641)

Siege of Herat (643 CE)

Siege of Ansi fortress (645)

First Arab Siege of Constantinople in 674–678

Siege of Thessalonica (676–678) – Attack on the city by Slavs

Siege of Mecca (683) by the Umayyads during the Second Fitna

Siege of Mecca (692) by the Umayyads during the Second Fitna

Siege of Tyana (707–708) by the Umayyads

Siege of Constantinople (717–718) by the Umayyads

Siege of Nicaea (727) by the Umayyads

Siege of Kamarja (729) by the Turgesh

Siege of Wasit (749–750) by the Abbasids

Siege of Kamacha (766) by the Abbasids

Siege of Pavia (773–774) – Lombard kingdom conquered by Charlemagne

Siege of Trsat (799)

Siege of Patras (805 or 807) by the Slavs of the Peloponnese

Siege of Serdica (809)

Siege of Baghdad (812–813)

Siege of Adrianople (813)

Siege of Syracuse (827–828) by the Aghlabids

Siege and sack of Amorium (838) by the Abbasids

Siege of Paris (845)

Siege of Syracuse (868) by the Aghlabids

Siege of Melite (870) by the Aghlabids

Siege of Syracuse (877–878) by the Aghlabids

Siege of Paris (885–886)

Siege of Taormina (902) by the Aghlabids

Siege of Thessalonica (904) by Saracen corsairs

Siege of Chartres (911)

Siege of Taormina (962) by the Fatimids

Siege of Kiev (968)

Siege of Dorostolon (971) by the Byzantines

Revolt of Tyre (996–998)

Siege of Zadar (998) by the emperor Samuil of Bulgarian Tsardom

Siege of Milan (1037) by the emperor Conrad II

Siege of Medina (1053–54) by the Byzantines

Siege of Graus (1063)

Siege of Valencia (1065), a siege during the reign of Ferdinand I of León and Castile

Siege of Bari (1068–1071) – Norman conquest of Southern Italy

Siege of Palermo (1071–1072) – Norman conquest of Southern Italy

Siege of Nicaea (1097) – part of the First Crusade

Siege of Antioch (1097–1098) – part of the First Crusade

Siege of Capua (1098)

Siege of Ma'arra (1098) – part of the First Crusade

Siege of Jerusalem (1099) – part of the First Crusade

Siege of Tripoli (1102–1109)

Siege of Weinsberg (1140)

Siege of Edessa (1144)

Siege of Lisbon (1147)

Siege of Damascus (1148)

Siege of Milan (1158) – part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I and the Northern Italy cities

Siege of Crema (1159–1160) – part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I and the Northern Italy cities

Siege of Sanjō Palace (1160) – the main action of the Heiji Rebellion took place in Kyoto

Siege of Milan (1161–62) – part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I and the Northern Italy cities

Siege of Wexford (1169) – the first major clash of the Norman invasion of Ireland

Siege of Alessandria (1174–1175) – part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I and the Lombard League

Siege of Nara (1180) – during Genpei War

Siege of Kerak (1183)

Sack of Thessalonica (1185) by the Normans

Siege of Lovech (1187)

Siege of Jerusalem (1187)

Siege of Tyre (1187)

Siege of Acre (1189–1191)

Siege of Varna (1201)

Siege of Zadar (1202) – part of the Fourth Crusade

Siege of Constantinople (1203) – part of the Fourth Crusade

Siege of Constantinople (1204) – part of the Fourth Crusade

Siege of Trebizond (1205–1206)

Siege of Antalya (1207)

Siege of Sinope (1214)

Siege of Rochester castle (1215) – King John's Danish mercenaries attempt to take the castle of Rochester during the First Baron's war.

Siege of Zhongdu (1215) – Genghis Khan conquers Zhongdu, now Beijing

Siege of Damietta (1218)

Siege of Trebizond (1222–1223)

Siege of La Rochelle (1224)

Siege of Constantinople (1235) – a joint Bulgarian-Nicaean siege on the capital of the Latin Empire.

Siege of Bilär (1236) – Batu Khan conquers the city of Bilär.

Siege of Kiev (1240) – Mongol conquest of Kiev.

Siege of Montségur (1243–1244)

Siege of Jerusalem (1244) by the Khwarezmians

Siege of Parma (1247–1248) – part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League

Siege of Damietta (1249)

Siege of Baghdad (1258)

Siege of Kenilworth (1266)

Siege of Xiangyang (1267–1273) – Mongol conquest of the city of Xiangyang in the invasion of the Southern Song.

Siege of Antioch (1268)

Siege of Algeciras (1278)

Siege of Trebizond (1282)

Siege of Ruad (1302–1303)

Siege of Rhodes (1306–1310)

Siege of Gibraltar (1309) – first siege of Gibraltar, by Juan Alfonso de Guzman el Bueno in the Reconquista

Siege of Algeciras (1309)

Siege of Florence (1312)

Siege of Gibraltar (1316) – second siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid caid Yahya in the Reconquista

Siege of Padua (1319–1320), by Cangrande I della Scala, lord of Verona

Siege of Bursa (1326) by Ottoman Turks

Siege of Nicaea (1328–1331) – part of the Byzantine-Ottoman wars

Siege of Kamakura (1333) – end of Ashikaga shogunate.

Third Siege of Gibraltar – third siege of Gibraltar (1333), by a Marinids army, led by Abd al-Malik in the Reconquista

Fourth Siege of Gibraltar (1333) – fourth siege of Gibraltar, by King Alfonso XI of Castile in the Reconquista

Siege of Algeciras (1342-1344)

Siege of Nicomedia (1337) – part of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars

Siege of Caffa (1346)

Siege of Calais (1346–1347) – part of the Hundred Years' War

Siege of Gibraltar (1349–1350) – fifth siege of Gibraltar, by Alfonso XI in the Reconquista

Siege of Moscow (1382)

Siege of Algeciras (1369)

Siege of Limoges (1370)

Siege of Gibraltar (1374) – sixth siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid in the Reconquista

Siege of Philadelphia (1378–1390)

Siege of Sofia (1382 or 1385)

Siege of Ypres (1383)

Siege of Lisbon (1384)

Siege of Tarnovo (1393)

Siege of Marienburg (1410) – in the aftermath of the Battle of Grunwald

Siege of Constantinople (1411), during the Ottoman Interregnum

Siege of Rouen (1418) – reopening of the Hundred Years' War

Siege of Sarai (1420)

Siege of Constantinople (1422) – first siege of Constantinople, by the Murad II

Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430)

Siege of Orléans (1429)

Siege of Malta (1429)

Siege of La Charité (1429)

Siege of Gaeta (1435)

Siege of Calais (1436)

Siege of Gibraltar (1436) – seventh siege of Gibraltar, by the count of Niebla in the Reconquista

Siege of Metz (1444)

Siege of Svetigrad (1448)

Siege of Constantinople (1453) – second siege of Constantinople by the Mehmed II

Early modern

Siege of Belgrade (1456) – part of Ottoman wars in Europe

Eighth Siege of Gibraltar (1462), by a Castilian army in the Reconquista

Siege of Harlech Castle (1461–68) – part of Wars of the Roses. Longest siege in British history.

Siege of Barcelona (1462), during the Catalan Civil War

Siege of Jajce (1463)

Siege of Barcelona (1465), during the Catalan Civil War

Ninth Siege of Gibraltar (1467), by the Duke of Medina Sidonia

Siege of Negroponte (1470)

Siege of Neuss (1474–1475)

Siege of Barcelona (1472), during the Catalan Civil War

Siege of Krujë (1478)

Siege of Rhodes (1480) – first siege of Rhodes

Siege of Otranto (1480–1481)

Siege of Hainburg (1482)

Siege of Utrecht (1483)

Siege of Vienna (1485)

Siege of Retz (1486)

Siege of Wiener Neustadt (1487)

Siege of Granada (1492)

Tenth Siege of Gibraltar (1506), by the Duke of Medina Sidonia

Siege of Padua (1509) - part of Italian Wars

Siege of Smolensk

Siege of Cairo (1517)

Siege of Tenochtitlan (1521) – fall of the Aztec Empire.

Siege of Rhodes (1522) – second siege of Rhodes

Siege of Pavia (1524–25) - part of Italian Wars

Siege of Kamakura (1526)

Siege of Algiers (1529)

Siege of Vienna (1529) – first siege of Vienna

Siege of Florence (1529–1530) - part of Italian Wars

Siege of Güns (1532)

Siege of Baghdad (1534) by Ottomans

Siege of Tunis (1534)

Siege of Chittor by Bahadurshah of Gujarat (1534)

Siege of Cuzco (1536–1537)

Siege of Klis (1536–1537)

Siege of Corfu (1537)

Siege of Diu (1538)

Siege of Castelnuovo (1539)

Siege of Buda (1541)

Siege of Nice (1543)

Siege of Esztergom (1543)

Siege of Kōriyama Castle (1544)

Siege of Van (1548)

Siege of Aden (1548)

Siege of Beijing (1550)

Siege of Tripoli (1551)

Siege of Muscat (1552)

Siege of Metz (1552), by the Spanish during the Italian War

Siege of Kazan (1552) – part of Russo-Kazan wars

Siege of Hormuz (1552–54)

Siege of Eger (1552) – part of Ottoman–Habsburg wars

Siege of Siena (1554–55) - part of Italian Wars

Siege of Oran (1556)

Siege of Leith (1560)

Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kébir (1563)

Siege of Chauragarh (1564)

Great Siege of Malta (1565)

Siege of Szigetvár (1566) – Ottoman siege during which Suleiman the Magnificent died

Siege of Inabayama Castle (1567)

Siege of Chittorgarh (1567–68)

Siege of Ranthambore (1568)

Siege of Chartres (1568)

Siege of Ogucji Castle (1569)

Siege of Nicosia, Cyprus (1570)

Siege of Famagusta, Cyprus (1570–71)

Siege of Ishiyama Honganji (1570–1580) – longest siege in Japanese history

Siege of Moscow (1571) – part of Russo-Crimean Wars

Sieges of Nagashima (1571, 1573, 1574)

Siege of Haarlem (1572) - conducted by Spanish against a Dutchs during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Iwamura Castle (1572)

Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573), assault on the Huguenot city of La Rochelle during the French Wars of Religion.

Siege of Tunis (1574)

Siege of Limahong (1574)

Siege of Nagashino (1575)

Siege of Antwerp (1576)- during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Gvozdansko (1578)

Siege of Maastricht (1579)- during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Minamata Castle (1581)

Siege of Pskov (1581–1582)

Siege of Godesberg (1583)

Siege of Ypres (1584)

Siege of Ghent (1584)- during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585) — during the Eighty Years' War.

Siege of Bruges (1584)-during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Brussels (1584–85)-during the Eighty Years' War

Second Siege of Neuss (July 1586)

Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1586) during the Anglo–Spanish War

Siege of Paris (1590)

Siege of Odawara Castle (1590)

Siege of Jinju (1592)

Siege of Groenlo (1595) - during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Caracas (1595) during the Anglo–Spanish War

Siege of San Juan (1595) during the Anglo–Spanish War

Siege of Amiens (1597)

Siege of Groenlo (1597) - during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Kinsale (1601–02)

Siege of Ostend (1601–04)-during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Groenlo (1606) - during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Smolensk (1609–11) – 20 months

Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1609–11) – 16 months

Siege of Moscow (1612)

Siege of Aachen (1614)- during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Osaka (1614–15)

Siege of Araya Castle (1622-1623)- during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Breda (1624)-during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of San Juan (1625)

Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (1625)

Siege of Groenlo (1627) - during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (1627)

Siege of La Rochelle (1627–1628)

Siege of Batavia (1628–29)

Siege of Mantua (1629–30)

Siege of Casale Monferrato (1629–31)

Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch (1629) - during the Eighty Years' War

Siege of Nuremberg (1632), Thirty Years' War

Siege of Hara Castle (1637–1638)

Siege of Azov (1637–1642) – part of Russo-Turkish Wars

Siege of Baghdad (1638) by Ottomans

Siege of Turin (1640)

Siege of Candia (Crete) (1648–69) –claimed as the second longest siege in history

Siege of Drogheda (1649) -Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

Siege of Wexford (1649)

Siege of Waterford (1649–1650)

Siege of Clonmel (1650) - Irish Confederate Wars

Siege of Charlemont (1650) - Irish Confederate Wars

Cromwell's Siege of Limerick City, Ireland (1651) - Irish Confederate Wars

Siege of Barcelona (1651), during the Catalan Revolt

Siege of Galway (1652) - Irish Confederate Wars

Siege of Jasna Góra (1656) – during The Deluge

Siege of Riga (1656) – in the Russo-Swedish War (1656–58)

Siege of Copenhagen (1658–1659) Second Northern War, Swedes defeated by Danish and Dutch defenders

Siege of Fort Zeelandia (1661–1662)

Siege of Valência de Alcântara (1664)

Siege of Novi Zrin Castle (1664) in northern Croatia – Austro-Turkish War (1663–64)

Siege of Lille (1667)

Siege of Solovetsky Monastery (1668–76) – eight years

Siege of Groningen (1672)

Siege of Kamenets (1672)

Siege of Maastricht (1673), during the French-Dutch War

Siege of Vienna (1683) – second siege of Vienna

Siege of Genoa (1684), during War of the Reunions

Siege of Negroponte (1688)

Siege of Derry (1689)

Siege of Québec City (1690) – first siege of Québec City

First Siege of Athlone (1690), Williamite War in Ireland

Siege of Limerick (1691), Williamite War in Ireland

Second Siege of Athlone (1691), Williamite War in Ireland

Siege of Cuneo (1691)

Siege of Ceuta (1694–1727) - claimed as the longest siege in history

Siege of Barcelona (1697), during the Nine Years' War

Siege of Gibraltar (1704) – eleventh siege of Gibraltar, by Sir George Rooke's Anglo-Dutch fleet

Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar (1704–05), by a Spanish-French army

Siege of Verrua Savoia (1704–05), during the War of the Spanish Succession

Siege of Barcelona (1705), during the War of the Spanish Succession

Siege of Turin (1706), during the War of the Spanish Succession

Siege of Barcelona (1706), during the War of the Spanish Succession

Siege of Toulon (1707), during the War of the Spanish Succession

Siege of Gaeta (1707), during the War of the Spanish Succession

Siege of Lille (1708), during the War of the Spanish Succession

Siege of Barcelona (1713–14), during the War of the Spanish Succession

Siege of Fredriksten (1718)

Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar (1727), by a Spanish army

Siege of Danzig (1734)

Siege of Gaeta (1734)

Siege of Belgrade (1739)

Siege of Portobello (1739) – victory of British siege by Edward Vernon in the War of Jenkins' Ear

Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1741) – failed British siege by Edward Vernon in the War of Jenkins' Ear

Siege of Santiago (1741), during the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of Prague (1742), during the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of La Guaira (1743), during the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of Puerto Cabello (1743), during the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of Cuneo (1744), during the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of Louisbourg (1745) , during the War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War)

Siege of Brussels (1746), during the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of Maastricht (1748), during the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of Prague (1757), during the Seven Years' War

Siege of Louisbourg (1758), during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)

Siege of Olmütz (1758) – by the Prussian army of Frederick the Great during the Seven Years' War

Siege of Québec City (1759) – second siege of Québec City, during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)

Siege of Dresden (1760)- during the Seven Years' War

Sieges of Kolberg (1759, 1760, and 1761), during the Seven Years' War

Siege of Havana (1762) British fleet headed by George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle lays siege to Spanish controlled Havana for a month.

Siege of Melilla (1774), during Hispano-Moroccan wars

Siege of Boston (1775–1776), during the American Revolutionary War

Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779–83) – fourteenth siege of Gibraltar, by a Spanish-French army in the American Revolutionary War

Siege of Charleston (1780), during the American Revolutionary War

Siege of Pensacola (1781), during the American Revolutionary War

Siege of Yorktown (1781), during the American Revolutionary War

Siege of Toulon (1793), during the War of the First Coalition

Siege of Maastricht (1793), during the War of the First Coalition

Siege of Dunkirk (1793), during the War of the First Coalition

Siege of Mantua (1796–97) – during the War of the First Coalition, French besieging

Siege of Port of Spain (1797), during the Anglo-Spanish War

Siege of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1797), during the Anglo-Spanish War

Siege of Mantua (1799) – Second Coalition, French defending

Siege of Seringapatam (1799)

Modern

Siege of Alexandria (1801) during the French Revolutionary Wars

Siege of Hameln (1806)

Siege of Danzig – War of the Fourth Coalition, French siege of Prussians and Russians

Siege of Montevideo during the British invasions of the River Plate (1807)

Siege of Copenhagen (1807) Bombarded by British fleet and by ground forces commanded by Arthur Wellesley

First and Second sieges of Zaragoza (1808–1809) – Peninsular War

Siege of Barcelona (1808), during the Peninsular War

Siege of Valencia (1808) – Peninsular War

Third Siege of Girona (1809) – Peninsular War

First Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810) – Peninsular War by the French Marshal Michel Ney

First Siege of Montevideo (1811)- Spanish American wars of independence

Second Siege of Montevideo (1812–14)- Spanish American wars of independence

Second Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812) – Peninsular War by Arthur Wellesley

Siege of Badajoz (1812) – Peninsular War

Siege of Valencia (1812) – Peninsular War

First siege of Puerto Cabello (1812) - Spanish American wars of independence

Second siege of Puerto Cabello (1813) - Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of San Sebastián (1813) - Peninsular War

Siege of Pamplona (1813) - Peninsular War

Siege of Fort Meigs (1813) - failed British siege of American garrison during the War of 1812

Siege of Ragusa (1814)

Siege of Metz (1814), during the War of the Sixth Coalition

Siege of Antwerp (1814) - during Napoleonic Wars.

Siege of Maturin (1813-1814)- Spanish American wars of independence

Third siege of Puerto Cabello (1814) - Spanish American wars of independence

First siege of Valencia (1814)- Spanish American wars of independence

Second siege of Valencia (1814)- Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of Aragua de Barcelona (1814)- Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of Santa Fe (1814)- Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1815) - Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of Angostura (1817)- Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of Barcelona (1817)- Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of Tripolitsa by the Greeks against the Ottomans, during the Greek War of Independence

Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1820–21) - Spanish American wars of independence

First siege of El Callao, 1821- Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of the Acropolis (1821–22) by the Greeks against the Ottomans, during the Greek War of Independence

Fourth siege of Puerto Cabello (1822) - Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of Pasto (1822)- Spanish American wars of independence

Fifth Siege of Puerto Cabello (1823) - Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of Pamplona (1823) - 1823 French invasion of Spain

First, Second and Third Sieges of Missolonghi (1822, 1823, 1825–1826)

Second siege of El Callao (1824 - 1826) - Spanish American wars of independence

Siege of the Acropolis (1826–27) by the Ottomans against the Greeks, during the Greek War of Independence

Siege of Antwerp (1832) — conducted by French forces against a Dutch garrison after the Ten Days' Campaign.

Siege of Jerusalem (1834) Peasants' Revolt of 1834 (Palestine)

Siege of Puerto Cabello (1835) - Reforms Revolution (Venezuela)

Siege of the Alamo (1836)

Third siege of El Callao, 1838

Great Siege of Montevideo (1843–1851)

Siege of Puebla (1847) - Mexican American war

Siege of Veracruz (1847) – First U.S. amphibious landing

Siege of Peschiera del Garda (1848) – Italian Risorgimento

Siege of Osoppo (1848) – Italian Risorgimento

Siege of Venice (1849) – Italian Risorgimento

Siege of Rome (1849) – Italian Risorgimento

Siege of La Serena (1851) - 1851 Chilean Revolution

Siege of Calafat (1854) - Crimean War

Siege of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (1854)

Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55) – Crimean War

Siege of Taganrog (1855) – Crimean War

Siege of Kars (1855) – Crimean War

Siege of Medina Fort (1857) – Toucouleurs besiege French for 97 days

Siege of Delhi (1857) - Indian Rebellion of 1857

Siege of Cawnpore (1857) – Indian Rebellion of 1857

Siege of Lucknow (1857) – Indian Rebellion of 1857

Siege of Arrah (1857) - Indian Rebellion of 1857

Siege of Jhansi (1858) – Indian Rebellion of 1857

Siege of Ancona (1860) – Italian Risorgimento

Siege of Messina (1860–61) – Italian Risorgimento

Siege of Civitella del Tronto (1860–61) – Italian Risorgimento

Siege of Gaeta (1860–1861) – Italian Risorgimento

Siege of Fort Sumter (1861) – Union soldiers in Fort Sumter surrendered after a few days of bombardment by Confederate forces starting the American Civil War.

Siege of Vicksburg (1863) — Union Army besieged a Confederate city in the American Civil War.

Siege of Port Hudson (1863) – Union Army surrounded Confederate river stronghold for 48 days.

Siege of Puebla (1863)- French Intervention in Mexico.

Siege of Petersburg (1864–1865)

Siege of Fort Ampola (1866) – Italian Risorgimento

Fourth siege of El Callao, 1866 naval battle between Spain and Peru (and her allies)

Siege of Hakodate (1869)

Capture of Rome (1870) – Italian Risorgimento

Siege of Metz (1870), during the Franco-Prussian War

Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune (1870–71)

Siege of Cartagena (1873–1874)

Siege of Pamplona (1874) - First Spanish Republic

Siege of Plevna (1877–1878) – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)

Fifth siege of El Callao, (1880) a chilean naval blockade and bombardment of El Callao (Peru), during the War of the Pacific

Siege of Miraflores, (1880) a chilean siege of Lima (Peru), during the War of the Pacific

Siege of Khartoum (1884–85)

Siege of Tuyên Quang (1884–85) Sino-French War (1884–1885)

Siege of Macallè (1895–96) – First Italo-Ethiopian War

Siege of Santiago (1898) – Spanish–American War

Siege of Baler (1898–99) – Philippine Revolution

Siege of Bucaramanga (1899)- Thousand Days' War (Colombia)

Siege of Mafeking (1899–1900) – Second Boer War

Siege of Kimberley (1899–1900) – Second Boer War

Siege of Ladysmith (1899–1900) – Second Boer War

Siege of the International Legations (1900) – Boxer Rebellion

Siege of San Cristobal (1901) - Thousand Days' War (Venezuela)

Siege of La Victoria (1902)- Revolución Libertadora (Venezuela)

Siege of Puerto Cabello (1902-1903)- Naval blockade of Venezuela

Siege of La Guaira (1902-1903)- Naval blockade of Venezuela

Siege of Ciudad Bolivar (1903)- Revolución Libertadora (Venezuela)

Siege of Port Arthur (1904–05) Russo-Japanese War

Siege of Adrianople (1912–13) – First Balkan War

Siege of Veracruz (1914)

Siege of Antwerp (1914) – World War I

Siege of Maubeuge (1914) – World War I

Siege of Przemyśl (1914–15) - World War I

Siege of Medina (1916–19) – World War I

Battle of Jerusalem (1917) – World War I

Siege of the Alcázar (1936) – Second Spanish Republic militias besieged the Alcázar of Toledo in the Spanish Civil War

Siege of Gijon (1936) – Spanish Civil War

Siege of Oviedo (1936) – Spanish Civil War

Siege of Madrid (1936–39) – Spanish Civil War

Siege Dunkirk (1940)– World War II

Siege of Malta (1940-1943)– World War II

Siege of Tobruk (1941) – World War II

Siege of Moscow (1941) – World War II

Siege of Odessa (1941) – World War II

Siege of Sevastopol (1941–42) – World War II

Siege of Leningrad (1941–44) – also known as the 900-Day Siege, probably the most gruesome in history, World War II.

Siege of Stalingrad (1942–1943) – World War II

Siege of Dunkirk (1944–1945) – World War II

Siege of Budapest (1944–1945)– World War II

Siege of Monte Cassino (1944)– World War II

Siege of Saint-Lô (1944)– World War II

Siege of Bastogne (1944) – World War II

Siege of La Rochelle (1944-1945)– World War II

Siege of Breslau (1945) – World War II

Siege of Berlin (1945)– World War II

Siege of Iwo Jima (1945)– World War II

Siege of Okinawa (1945)– World War II

Siege of Jerusalem (1947–1948) – 1948 Arab–Israeli War – Palestinian Arabs laid siege to the Jewish quarters of Jerusalem, but were driven back. Siege was resumed in May by regular Jordanian and Egyptian forces. Ended in armistice.

Siege of Changchun (1948) – Chinese Civil War

Berlin Blockade (1948–49) – No military action, but the tactic to starve a city by cutting her supply lines is a feature of a siege. The famous Berlin Air Lift supplied the city with food, coal, medical supplies and other goods for nearly a year.

Siege of Dien Bien Phu (1954) – Vietnamese Viet Minh forces besieged French forces, effecting a final defeat on France's colonial occupation.

Siege of Jadotville (1961) – Congo Crisis

Siege of Puerto Cabello (1962) - Venezuelan political crisis

Siege of Erenköy (1964) – Turkish Cypriots holding out against attacking Greek and Greek Cypriot forces. Turkish invasion of Cyprus

Encirclement of Jerusalem (1967) – Six-Day War

Siege of Aleppo (1980) – Islamist uprising in Syria

Siege of Abadan (1980–81) – Iran–Iraq War

Siege of Beirut (1982) - 1982 Lebanon War

Siege of Basra (1987) – Iran–Iraq War

Siege of Kijevo (1991) – Croatian War of Independence

Siege of Vukovar (1991) – Croatian War of Independence

Siege of Dubrovnik (1991–92) – Croatian War of Independence

Siege of Sarajevo (1992–96) – Bosnian War

Siege of Bihać (1992–95) – Bosnian War

Siege of Tkvarcheli (1992–93) – War in Abkhazia (1992–93)

Siege of Goražde (1992–95) – Bosnian War

Battle of Junik (1998) – Kosovo War

Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) – Second Chechen War

Siege of Kunduz (2001) – War in Afghanistan (2001–14)

Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (2002) – Second Intifada

Siege of Monrovia (2003) – Second Liberian Civil War

Siege of Sadr City (2004–2008) – Iraq War

CIMIC-House (2006) – Iraq War

Siege of Nahr el-Bared (2007) – Lebanon

Siege of the Gaza Strip (2007–present) – Gaza Strip

Siege of Misrata (2011) – Libyan Civil War

Siege of Daraa (2011) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Homs (2011–2014) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Baniyas (2011) – Syrian Civil War

May 2011 Talkalakh siege (2011) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Rastan and Talbiseh (2011) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Hama (2011) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Latakia (2011) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Aleppo (2012–2016) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Menagh Air Base (2012–2013) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Bani Walid (2012) – Factional violence in Libya (2011–14)

First Siege of Wadi Deif (2012–2013) – Syrian Civil War

Second Siege of Wadi Deif (2014) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Sloviansk (2014) - War in Donbass

Siege of the Luhansk Border Base (2014) - War in Donbass

Siege of Amirli (2014) – Iraqi Civil War

Battle of Ilovaisk (2014) – War in Donbass

Siege of Kobanî (2014–2015) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Al-Fu'ah-Kafriya (2015–2016) – Syrian Civil War

Siege of Fallujah (2016) – Iraqi Civil War

Siege of Mosul (2017)– Iraqi Civil War

Sieges in Syrian Civil War

Police sieges

Siege of Sidney Street (1911) England

Attica Siege (1971) United States of America

Munich Olympic Massacre (1972) Germany

Wounded Knee Incident (1973) United States of America

Norrmalmstorg robbery (1973) famous for the Stockholm syndrome Sweden

Spaghetti House siege (1975) England

Balcombe Street Siege (1975) England

MOVE Siege (1978) United States of America

Iranian Embassy Siege (1980) England

Gwangju Uprising (1980) South Korea

Palace of Justice siege (1985) Colombia

Oka Crisis (1990) Quebec, Canada

Ruby Ridge Siege (1992) United States of America

Waco Siege (1993) United States of America

Chiapas conflict (1994-present) Chiapas, Mexico

Gustafsen Lake Standoff (1995) British Columbia, Canada

Montana Freemen Siege (1996) United States of America

Japanese embassy hostage crisis (1996–1997) Peru

Republic of Texas Embassy Siege (1997) United States of America

Moscow theater hostage crisis (2002) Russia

Beslan hostage crisis (2004) Russia

Napier Siege (2009) New Zealand

Siege of Complexo do Alemão's slums, major urban conflict in Rio de Janeiro (2010) Brazil

Hectorville siege (2011) Australia

Wukan protests (2011) China

Siege of Eker (2012) Bahrain

Sydney hostage crisis (2014) Australia

2016 Yerevan hostage crisis (2016) Armenia

Dakota Access Pipeline protests (2016) United States of America