A chronological list of sieges follows.
Before 1000 BC
4th century BC
A naval action during the siege of Tyre (332 BC), by Andre Castaigne (1898–1899)
Siege of Rhodes (305 BC) (1882 illustration).
3rd century BC
Archimedes Directing the Defenses of Syracuse (213-212 BC), by Thomas Ralph Spence
The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (149–146 BC) by J. M. W. Turner , oil on canvas (1817)
1st century A.D. to 5th century
1st century
The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70 by David Roberts , 1850
4th century
The walls of Amida, besieged 359 AD
6th century
Totila razes the walls of Florence: 14th century illustration from Giovanni Villani 's Nuova Cronica
The capture of Pavia by the Lombard King, Alboin : Siege of Pavia, 572 AD
7th century
The Siege of Constantinople by the combined Sassanid, Avar, and Slavic forces in 626. A 1537 depiction on the murals of the Moldovița Monastery , Romania
9th century
Count Odo defends Paris against the Normans (885-886) by Jean-Victor Schnetz . Oil on canvas (1834–1836)
11th century
Siege of Valenciennes in 1006, illustration (1885).
The Byzantine army of George Maniakes defends the towers of Edessa against an Arab counterattack (1031). Illustration from the chronicle of John Skylitzes
Prince Bohemond of Taranto scales the walls of Antioch in 1098. 19th century engraving by Gustave Doré .
Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, 15 July 1099 by Émile Signol . Oil on canvas, 1850.
12th century
Siege of Haifa (1100) – Crusades
Siege of Le Mans (1100)
Second siege of Arsuf (1101) – Crusades
Siege of Caesarea (1101) – Crusades
Siege of Latakia (1101–1103)
Siege of Acre (1102) – Crusades
Siege of Arundel (1102)
Siege of Bridgnorth (1102)
Siege of Jaffa (1102) – Crusades
Siege of Tripoli (1102–1109) – Crusades
Siege of Acre (1103) – Crusades
Siege of Al-Rahba (1103)
Siege of Acre (1104) – Crusades
Siege of Takrit (sometime between 1105 and 1107) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts
Siege of Alamut (sometime between 1106 and 1109) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts
Siege of Shahdez (1107) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts
Siege of Nuremberg (1105)
Siege of Cologne (1106)
Siege of Apamea (1106) – Crusades - conflicts with the Assassins
Siege of Apamea (September 1106) – Crusades - conflicts with the Assassins
Siege of Malatya (1106)
Siege of Castellum Arnaldi (1106) – Crusades
Siege of Al-Rahba (1107)
Siege of Hebron (1107) – Crusades
Siege of Douai (1107)
Siege of Dyrrhachium (1107–1108) – Byzantine–Norman wars
Siege of Uclés (1108) – Reconquista
Siege of Bratislava (1108)
Siege of Sidon (1108) – Crusades
Siege of Jableh (1109) – Crusades
Siege of Nakło (1109)
Siege of Głogów (1109)
Siege of Baalbek (1110)
Siege of Beirut (1110) – Crusades
Siege of Novara (1110)
Siege of Sidon (1110) – Norwegian Crusade
Siege of Atarib (1110) – Crusades
Siege of Le Puiset (1111)
Siege of Vetula (1111) – Crusades
Siege of Tyre (1111–1112) – Crusades
Siege of Nicaea (1113) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars
Siege of Hornburg Castle (1113)
Siege of Mousson (1113)
Siege of Bar (1113)
Siege of Cologne (1114)
Siege of Kafartab (1115) – Crusades
Siege of Jaffa (1115) – Crusades
Siege of Marqab (1116) – Crusades
Siege of Alamut (1117–1118) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts
Siege of Lambsar (1117–1118) – Nizari–Seljuk conflicts
Siege of Laodicea (1119) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars
Siege of Sozopolis (1120) – Byzantine–Seljuq wars
Siege of Jerash (1121) – Crusades
Siege of Mainz (1121)
Siege of Tbilisi (1121–1122) – Georgian–Seljuk wars
Siege of Aschaffenburg Castle (1122)
Siege of Faulquemont Castle (1122)
Siege of Zardana (1122) – Crusades
Siege of Balis (1122) – Crusades
Siege of Kharput (1123) – Crusades
Siege of Jaffa (1123) – Crusades
Siege of Schulenburg Castle (1123)
Siege of Manbij (1124)
Siege of Azaz (1124) – Crusades
Siege of Tyre (1124) – Crusades
Siege of Aleppo (1124–1125) – Crusades
Siege of Raffaniya (1126) – Crusades
Siege of Al-Rahba (1127)
Siege of Bayonne (1130–1131)
Siege of De'an (1132) – Jin–Song Wars
Siege of Kastamone (1132)
Siege of Kastamone (1133)
Siege of Savur (1134) – Crusades
Siege of Gangra (1135)
Siege of Montferrand (1137) – Crusades
Siege of Anazarbos (1137) – Crusades
Siege of Vahka (1137) – Crusades
Siege of Antioch (1137) – Crusades
Siege of Kafartab (1138) – Crusades
Siege of Aleppo (1138) – Crusades
Siege of Shaizar (1138) – Crusades
Siege of Buza'a (1138) – Crusades
Siege of Coria (1138) – Reconquista
Siege of Baalbek (1139)
Siege of Oreja (1139) – Reconquista
Siege of Neocaesarea (1139–1140)
Siege of Weinsberg (1140)
Siege of Banias (1140) – Crusades
Siege of Coria (1142) – Reconquista
Siege of Lisbon (1142) - Reconquista
Siege of Li Vaux Moise (1144) – Crusades
Siege of Lisbon (1147) by Alfredo Roque Gameiro (1917)
Siege of Naples in 1191 by the forces of Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI , Peter of Eboli , Liber ad honorem Augusti , Palermo, 1196
13th century
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1204) Eugène Delacroix . Oil on canvas, 1840
Crusaders attack the tower of Damietta (1218). A 1625 painting by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen .
Siege of Lincoln Castle (1217) – First Barons' War
Siege of Toulouse (1217–18) – Albigensian Crusade
Siege of Mount Tabor (1218) – Crusades
Siege of Damietta (1218) – Fifth Crusade
Siege of Marmande (1219) – Albigensian Crusade
Siege of Toulouse (1219) – Albigensian Crusade
Siege of Caesarea (1220) – Crusades
Siege of Castelnaudary (1220–1221) – Albigensian Crusade
Siege of Bamyan (1221) – Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia
Siege of Nishapur (1221) – Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia
Siege of Reval (1221) – Livonian Crusade
Siege of Trebizond (1222–1223) – Byzantine–Seljuk Wars
Siege of Reval (1223) – Livonian Crusade
Siege of Fellin (1223) – Livonian Crusade
Siege of Reval (1223) – Livonian Crusade
Siege of Lohu (1223–1224) – Livonian Crusade
Siege of La Rochelle (1224)
Siege of Tartu (1224) – Livonian Crusade
Siege of Jaén (1225) – Reconquista
Siege of Avignon (1226) – Albigensian Crusade
Siege of Toulouse (1226) – Albigensian Crusade
Siege of Akhlat (1229)
Siege of Jaén (1230) – Reconquista
Siege of Beirut (1231–1232)
Siege of Amida (1232)
Siege of Kaifeng (1232–1233) – Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty
Siege of Burriana (1233) – Reconquista
Siege of Caizhou (1233–1234) – Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty
16th century illustration of the Mongol siege of Kiev in 1240.
Siege of Constantinople (1235) – a joint Bulgarian-Nicaean siege on the capital of the Latin Empire.
Siege of Bilär (1236) – Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria
Siege of Córdoba (1236) – Reconquista
Siege of Ryazan (1237) – Mongol invasion of Rus'
Siege of Kolomna (1237–1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus'
Siege of Moscow (1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus'
Siege of Vladimir (1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus'
Siege of Kozelsk (1238) – Mongol invasion of Rus'
Siege of Brescia (1238) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League
Siege of Mt. Tebulosmta (1238-1250) - Mongol invasions of Durdzuketia
Siege of Faenza (1239) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League
Siege of Jerusalem (1239) – Crusades
Siege of Kiev (1240) – Mongol invasion of Rus'
Siege of Esztergom (1242) – First Mongol invasion of Hungary , Citadel of Esztergom,Turoc, Nyitra, Győr, Pannonhalma, Székesfehérvár, Segesd, Varasd, Kemlék, Csázma, Zágráb, Trogir, Veszprém, Tihany, Moson, Sopron, Vasvár, Zala, Léka, Pozsony, Komárom, Fülek and Abaújvár besieged but successfully resisted
Siege of Viterbo (1243) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League
Siege of Montségur (1243–1244) – Albigensian Crusade
Siege of Jerusalem (1244) by the Khwarezmians
Siege of Damascus (1245)
Siege of Jaén (1245–46) – Reconquista
Siege of Ascalon (1247) – Crusades
Siege of Parma (1247–1248) – Part of the wars between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Lombard League
Siege of Seville (1247–1248) – Reconquista
Siege of Aachen (1248)
Siege of Homs (1248–1249)
Siege of Damietta (1249) – Seventh Crusade
Siege of Naples (1252)
Siege of Cologne (1252)
The Mongols besieged the "fortified mountain" of Gerdkuh for 17 years.
The Mongol army besieging Baghdad in 1258.
The Siege of Acre. The Hospitalier Master Mathieu de Clermont defending the walls in 1291 by Dominique Papety . 1840.
14th century
Siege of Calais (1346–1347)
15th century
Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orléans (1429) by Jules Eugène Lenepveu , painted 1886–1890
Fall of Constantinople (1453)
15th century
Siege of Krujë in 1466. Woodcut by Jost Amman, from Philipp Lonicer, Chronicorum Turcicorum, Frankfurt 1578
The Surrender of Granada (1492)
16th century
The Last Days of Tenochtitlan—Conquest of Mexico (1521) by William de Leftwich Dodge , 1899.
Sack of Rome of 1527 by Johannes Lingelbach , 17th century.
Battle of Tunis 1535 Attack on Goletta . Frans Hogenberg after Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen , 16th century.
Ottoman depiction of the siege of Nice (1543) by Matrakçı Nasuh .
Attack on Tripoli by the Ottomans (1551)
The Siege of Calais, 9 January 1558, by François-Édouard Picot , 1838.
The siege of Malta—Arrival of the Turkish fleet (1565) by Matteo Pérez de Alesio, 16th century
Spanish troops storming the city of Maastricht, 1579
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.
Henry IV of France before Amiens (1597), Anonymous
Joseon and Ming dynasty soldiers assault the Japanese-built fortress at Ulsan (1598)
Siege of Zaltbommel by the Spanish in 1599 by Hugo Grotius
18th century
Tapestry depicting the 1702 victory of Archduke Joseph of Austria at Landau, woven for Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, between 1710 and 1718.
Siege of Tönning (1700) – Great Northern War
Siege of Riga (1700) – Great Northern War
Siege of Narva (1700) – Great Northern War
Siege of Kaiserswerth (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Saint Donas (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Castiglione (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Landau (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Borgoforte (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Guastalla (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Venlo (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Stevensweert (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Roermond (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Nöteborg (1702) – Great Northern War
Siege of Liége (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Rheinberg (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Hulst (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Trarbach (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of St. Augustine (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Andernach (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Governolo (1702) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Toruń in 1703.
Siege of Neubourg (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Kehl (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Bonn (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Thorn (1703) – Great Northern War
Siege of Nago (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Arco (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Breisach (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Huy (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Limburg (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Landau (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Augsburg (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Guadeloupe (1703) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Castello de Vide (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Wagingera (1704)
Siege of Barcelona (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Susa (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Portalegre (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Vercelli (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
View of Gibraltar in 1704
Siege of Rain (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Narva (1704) – Great Northern War
Siege of Dorpat (1704) – Great Northern War
Siege of Villingen (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Susa (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Fort Isabella (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Gibraltar (1704) – eleventh siege of Gibraltar , by Sir George Rooke 's Anglo-Dutch fleet
Siege of Ulm (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar (1704–05) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Ivree (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Landau (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Verrua (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Trarbach (1704) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Colonia del Sacramento (1704–1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of St. John's (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Valencia de Alcantara (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Albuquerque (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Huy (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Liège (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Second siege of Huy (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Chivasso (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Mirandola (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Nice (1705–06) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Zoutleeuw (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Barcelona (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Hagenau (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Badajoz (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Zandvliet (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Diest (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Prussian infantry breaks the French lines during the relief of Turin in 1706
Siege of San Mateo (1705) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Tripoli (1705) - Tripolitanian-Tunisian War (1704-1709)
Siege of Alcantara (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Barcelona (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Hagenau (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Turin (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Oostende (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Menin (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Alicante (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Dendermonde (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Ath (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Pavia (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Cuenca (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Pizzigetone (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Elche (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Cartagena (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Casale (1706) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Milan (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Villena (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Xàtiva (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Port Royal (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Toulon (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Gaeta (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Pensacola (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Lille in 1708
Siege of Susa (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Lérida (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Morella (1707) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Oran (1707–1708) – Conflicts between Spain and Algiers
Siege of Terki (1708) – Murat Kuchukov Movement
Siege of Tortosa (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Exilles (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Lille (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Fenestrelles (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of San Felipe (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Leffinghe (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Denia (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Saint Ghislain (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Brussels (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Alicante (1708–09) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Ghent (1708) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Veprik (1709) – Great Northern War
Siege of Tournai (1709) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Mons (1709) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Viborg (1710) – Great Northern War
Siege of Reval (1710) – Great Northern War
Siege of Douai (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Béthune (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Aire (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Saint Venant (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Port Royal (1710) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Gerona (1710–1711) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Kassa (1711) – Rákóczi's War of Independence
Siege of Aren fort (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Bouchain (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Venasque (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Stralsund (1711–15) – Great Northern War
Siege of Castel-Leon (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Cardona (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Le Quesnoy (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Landrecies (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Marchiennes (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Douai (1712) – War of the Spanish Succession
Depiction of the siege of Barcelona: The assault on the main body of the Place (1714) by Jacques Rigaud
Austrian land and naval bombardment puts Belgrade in flames during the siege of 1717.
British attack on Cartagena de Indias (1741) by Luis Fernández Gordillo.
Oil on canvas, Naval Museum of Madrid
Conquest and pillage of Bergen-op-Zoom by the French in 1747.
Siege of Louisbourg (1758): British burning of the warship Prudent and the capturing of the Bienfaisant .
The Capture of Havana, 1762: Storming of Morro Castle, 30 July by Dominic Serres , oil on canvas (1770–1775)
The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782
Spanish grenadiers pour into Fort George (Pensacola, Florida) (1781)
Siege of Belgrade in 1789 by the Habsburg army
Siege of Lille (1792) by Louis Joseph Watteau
The capitulation of Mantua on 2 February 1797, Hippolyte Lecomte , 1812
The Last Effort and Fall of Tipu Sultan (1799) by Henry Singleton
19th century
Siege of Gdańsk by French forces in 1807
Assault on the walls of Zaragoza by January Suchodolski
The Siege of Burgos (1812) by François Joseph Heim .
American troops landing in Veracruz (1847) during the Mexican–American War
Siege of Kars, 1839
A barricade on Rue Voltaire, after its capture by the regular army during the Bloody Week of Commune of Paris (1871)
American soldiers scale the walls of Beijing to relieve the Siege of the Legations, August 1900
20th century
A casemate at Maubeuge, destroyed by German bombardment, 7 September 1914
Anti-aircraft fire near St. Isaac's Cathedral during the defense of Leningrad in 1941.
Damaged buildings following the siege of Sarajevo , 1996
A police siege is a standoff between law enforcement officers and armed criminals , suspects , or protesters .
Daftary, Farhad (1992). The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines . Cambridge University Press. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-521-42974-0 .