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15th-century illustration of the siege of a city

A siege is a prolonged military assault and blockade on a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition. What follows is a chronological list of sieges.

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Military 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 Paris (885-886)

• 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

Counquest of Jerusalem (1099)

• 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 (1204)

• 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 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)

• 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 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

Monks successfully defended the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra against the Poles from September 1609 to January 1611.

• 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 Granada (1492)

• 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)

Attack on Tripoli by the Ottomans (1551)

• 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

During the Cologne War (1583–89), Ferdinand of Bavaria successfully besieged the medieval fortress of Godesberg; during a month-long siege, his sappers dug tunnels under the feldspar of the mountain and laid gunpowder and a 1500-pound bomb. The result was a spectacular explosion that sent chunks of the ramparts, the walls, the gates, and drawbridges into the air. His 500 men still could not take the fortress until they scaled the interior latrine system and climbed the mountain to enter through a hole in the chapel roof.

• Sieges of Nagashima (1571, 1573, 1574)
• Siege of Haarlem (1572)
• 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)
• Siege of Minamata Castle (1581)
• Siege of Pskov (1581–1582)
• Siege of Godesberg (1583)
• Siege of Ypres (1584)
• Siege of Ghent (1584)
• Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585) — conducted by Spanish against a Dutchs during the Eighty Years' War.
• Siege of Bruges (1584)
• Siege of Brussels (1584–85)
• Second Siege of Neuss (July 1586)
• Siege of Cartagena de Indias (1586)
• Siege of Paris (1590)
• Siege of Odawara Castle (1590)
• Siege of Jinju (1592)
• Siege of Groenlo (1595)
• Siege of Caracas (1595)
• Siege of Amiens (1597)
• Siege of Groenlo (1597)
• Siege of Kinsale (1601–02)
• Siege of Ostend (1601–04)
• Siege of Groenlo (1606)
• Siege of Smolensk (1609–11) – 20 months
• Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1609–11) – 16 months
• Siege of Aachen (1614)
• Siege of Osaka (1614–15)
• Siege of Araya Castle (1622-1623)
• Siege of Breda (1624)
• Siege of San Juan (1625)
• Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (1625)
• Siege of Groenlo (1627)
• 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)
• 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 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

Batteries at the Siege of Québec (1690).

• 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 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

The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782

• 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 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 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

American soldiers scale the walls of Beijing to relieve the Siege of the Legations, August 1900

• 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 Gerona (1809) – Peninsular War
• First Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1810) – Peninsular War by the French Marshal Michel Ney
• Siege of Montevideo (1812–14)
• 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 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 Delhi (1857) - First war of Indian Independence
• Siege of Cawnpore (1857) – First war of Indian Independence
• Siege of Lucknow (1857) – First war of Indian Independence
• Siege of Medina Fort (1857) – Toucouleurs besiege French for 97 days
• Siege of Jhansi (1858) – First war of Indian Independence
• 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 the city of Callao, Peru
• Siege of Miraflores, (1880) a chilean siege of Lima, Peru
• 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)- Revolucion 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)- Revolucion Libertadora (Venezuela)
• Siege of Port Arthur (1904–05) Russo-Japanese War
• Siege of Adrianople (1912–13) – First Balkan War
• Siege of Veracruz (1914)

American ships at Veracruz.

• 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 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
• Dakota Access Pipeline protests (2016) United States of America