List of Norwegian battles

List of Norwegian battles is a list of battles fought in Norway or which a significant number of Norwegians participated.

Unification of Norway

 * 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)

900-1030

 * Battle of Rastarkalv (955)
 * Battle of Fitjar (961)
 * Battle of Hjørungavåg (ca. 985)
 * Battle of Maldon (991)
 * Battle of Svolder (1000)
 * Battle of Nesjar (1016)
 * Battle of the Helgeå (1026)
 * Battle of Boknafjorden (1028)
 * Battle of Stiklestad (1030)

The claim to Denmark (1040-1064)

 * Battle of Lyrskov Heath (1043)
 * Battle of Niså (1062)

The British Isles

 * 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)

The Crusades

 * Norwegian Crusade (1107–1111), in the aftermath of the First Crusade
 * Siege of Sidon (1110)

Civil war era (1130-1240)

 * 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 at the ice of Storsjön (1178)
 * Battle of Kalvskinnet (1179)
 * Battle of Illevollene (1180)
 * Battle of Fimreite (1184)
 * Battle of Florvåg (1194)
 * Battle of Tunsberg (ca. 1200)
 * Battle of Oslo (1218)
 * Battle of Oslo (1239)

The Golden Age (1240-1319)

 * Scottish–Norwegian War (1262–66)
 * Battle of Largs (1263)


 * Second Swedish brothers feud (1304–1310)
 * Battle of Oslo (1308)

House of Bjelbo (1319-1387)

 * Karelian raid
 * Raid on Bjarkøy (1323)

Kalmar Union (1388/1397-1523)

 * Vitalian Brotherhood
 * Battle of Bergen (1393)


 * Conflict with Novgorod
 * Raid on the White Sea (1419)


 * Conflict with the Hanseatic League (Schleswig War)
 * Battle of Bergen (1428)
 * Battle of Bergen (1429)


 * Conflict with Novgorod
 * Raid on the White Sea (1449)

Denmark–Norway (1523/1537–1814)

 * 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 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)

Napoleonic Wars (1807-1814)

 * Gunboat War (1807–14)
 * 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 Tromsø (1812)
 * Battle of Lyngør (1812)
 * Swedish-Norwegian War (1814)
 * Battle of Lier (1814)
 * Battle of Fredrikstad (1814)

World War II (1940-45)

 * Invasion of Norway (1940)
 * Battle of Drøbak Sound (1940)
 * Battle of Midtskogen (1940)
 * Battle of Dombås (1940)
 * Battle of Åndalsnes (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 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)

War on Terrorism (2001-present)

 * War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
 * Operation Anaconda (2002)
 * Operation Jacana (2002)
 * Operation Pickaxe-Handle (2007)
 * Operation Harekate Yolo (2007)
 * Operation Karez (2008)
 * Counterinsurgency in Northern Afghanistan (2009–present)

Arab Spring

 * Libyan civil war (2011)
 * 2011 military intervention in Libya
 * Operation Odyssey Dawn (2011)
 * Operation Unified Protector (2011)