This is a list of battles of the Great Northern War (1700–1721).
By 1700, the Swedish Empire was the dominant power in Northern Europe, controlling territory from Norway to modern-day Saint Petersburg. But in this war, it was attacked from all sides by several countries: Denmark–Norway to the west, the Tsardom of Russia in the east, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the southeast, and the Electorate of Saxony to the south. The countries formed a coalition against Sweden and surprise-attacked from all sides. By 1721, Sweden had been forced to sign a very disadvantageous peace,Ништадтский мирный договор между Россией и Швецией (Text in Russian) giving up several dominions in the Baltic and northern Germany, significantly reducing its power and effectively ending its status as an empire.Great Northern War, A History from Beginning to End, Ragsdale, Hugh; V. N. Ponomarev (1993). Imperial Russian foreign policy. Cambridge University Press. p. 42.
This list shows the list of the military engagements using the Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, and Swedish calendar.
Baltic and Finnish theatre
, alias : Swedish Livonia Swedish Estonia Swedish Ingria Finland under Swedish rule 1700–1707 (Narva campaign and Russian advances in Ingria)
Name O.S. date Swedish date N.S. date Front Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Siege of RigaEckardt Opitz: Vielerlei Ursachen, eindeutige Ergebnisse – Das Ringen um die Vormacht im Ostseeraum im Großen Nordischen Krieg 1700–1721. In: Bernd Wegner in Verbindung mit Ernst Willi Hansen, Kerstin Rehwinkel und Matthias Reiss (publishers): Wie Kriege entstehen. Zum historischen Hintergrund von Staatenkonflikten. Paderborn 2000, pp. 89–107, here: pp. 90–94. 11 February 1700 12 February 1700 22 February 1700 BalticLivonia Sweden Saxony 6 May 1700 7 May 1700 17 May 1700 BalticLivonia Sweden Commonwealth Battle of Varja 7 November 1700 Baltic Battle of Narva (1700) 30 November 1700 BalticIngria Battle of Rauge 15 September 1701 Baltic Battle of Erastfer 29 December 1701 30 December 1701 9 January 1702 Baltic Three actions onLake Peipus 31 May 1702;7 August 1703;17 May 1704 Baltic Sweden Russia Battle of Hummelshof 18 July 1702 19 July 1702 29 July 1702 Baltic Battle of Petschora 23 February 1701 BalticIngria Siege of Nöteborg (1702) 26 September –11 October 1702 27 September –12 October 1702 7 –22 October 1702 BalticIngria Battle of Systerbäck Baltic 25 April –1 May 1703 26 April –2 May 1703 6 May –12 May 1703 BalticIngria Sweden Russia 13 June 1704 –16 July 1705 BalticIngria Sweden Russia Battle of Wesenberg (1704) BalticEstonia Attack on Kronstadt (1704) BalticIngria Siege of Narva (1704) BalticIngria 27 November 1700 BalticEstonia 4 September 1701 5 September 1701 15 September 1701 BalticEstonia 26 April 1704 7 May 1704 BalticEstonia 4 June – 13 July 1704 BalticLivonia 1706 BalticIngria 23 July 1707 (O.S.?) BalticIngria
1708–1711 (Ingrian campaign 1708; Estonia and Livonia 1709–1711)
Name O.S. date Swedish date N.S. date Front Combatant 1 Combatant 2 6–7 July 1708? BalticFinland 5 August 1708 6 August 1708 16 August 1708 BalticEstonia Battle of the Neva 29 August 1708 30 August 1708 9 September 1708 BalticIngria Battle of Koporye 27 September 1708 28 September 1708 8 October 1708 BalticIngria Evacuation of Kolkanpää 16 October 1708 17 October 1708 27 October 1708 BalticIngria Siege of Riga 27 October 1709– 4 July 1710 28 October 1709– 5 July 1710 6 November 1709– 15 July 1710 BalticLivonia 22 July –14 August 1710 23 July –15 August 1710 2 –25 August 1710 BalticLivonia 15 August –29 September 1710? 18 August –30 September 1710? August – October 1710? BalticEstonia Capitulation of Estoniaand Livonia 1710 1710 1710 Baltic Expedition to Ösel (1711) 1711 1711 October –November 1711 BalticEstonia
Finnish campaign (1710–1714) and Great Wrath (1714–1721)
Name O.S. date Swedish date N.S. date Front Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Siege of Viborg March 1710 – 12 June 1710 March 1710 – 13 June 1710 March 1710 – 26 June 1710 Finland Swedish Empire Tsardom of Russia 8 July –8 September 1710? Finland Swedish Empire Tsardom of Russia Battle of Helsinki 8–11 May 1713? – Finland Swedish Empire Tsardom of Russia 22 August 1713? – Finland Swedish Empire Tsardom of Russia Battle of Pälkäne 6 October 1713 – 17 October 1713 Finland Swedish Empire Tsardom of Russia Battle of Napue(Isokyrö/Storkyro) – 2 March 1714 Finland Swedish Empire Tsardom of Russia Great Wrath: Russian occupation of Finland (1714–1721) Murder Friday 29 September 1714 (O.S.?) 1 January – 24 February 1716 (O.S.?)
German–Danish front Danish campaign 1700 Name O.S. date Swedish date N.S. date Front Combatant 1 Combatant 2 1st Siege of Tönning March–August 1700 March–August 1700 March–August 1700 Holstein-GottorpGermany Sweden Denmark-NorwayRussiaSaxony Battle of Reinbek 19 May 1700 20 May 1700 30 May 1700 Holstein-GottorpGermany Sweden Denmark–Norway Landing at Humlebæk 24 July 1700 25 July 1700 4 August 1700 Denmark Sweden Denmark–Norway Bombardment of Copenhagen. August 1700.
1711–1715 (Pomeranian theatre)
Swedish German dominions; Mecklenburg and Holstein-Gottorp. Name O.S. date Swedish date N.S. date Front Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Battle of Wismar 26 November 1711 27 November 1711 5 December 1711 StralsundGermany Sweden Denmark–Norway Siege of Stralsund September 1711 –13 December 1715 September 1711 – (abolished) September 1711 –24 December 1715 StralsundGermany Sweden Denmark–NorwaySaxonyRussia (1711–14)Prussia (1714–15) Pomeranian campaign 1711–1712 4 or 5 December 1711 (O.S./Sw.?) 7 August – 7 September 1712 Battle of Gadebusch 20 December 1712 (N.S.) Battle of Hollingstedt 24 January 1713 Beginning of August – 29 September 1713 Prussian occupation of Stettin (1713–1720) 2nd Siege of Tönning 1713–February 1714
Battles of Usedom 21–27 April and [Storming of Peenemünde] 31 July–22 August 1715 (O.S.?) 11 June 1715 – April 1716 (O.S.?) 17–25 September 1715 (N.S.?) Battle of Stresow 5 November 1715 O.S. 16 November 1715 (N.S.)
Polish–Lithuanian theatre (1700–1709)
Lithuanian Civil War (1697–1702) Battle of Valkininkai (1700) 18 November 1700 (N.S.?) Sapieha (proto-Warsaw) vs. anti-Sapieha coalition (Republicans/Confederates, proto-Sandomierz). 29 August – 10 October 1702 (O.S.?)
Swedish invasion of Poland (1701–1706)
July 1701 – June 1705
Name O.S. date Swedish date N.S. date Front Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Crossing of the Düna 8 July 1701 9 July 1701 19 July 1701 PolishLatvia Battle of Tryškiai 15 –16 December 1701 PolishLithuania Battle of Darsūniškis 24 March 1702 PolishLithuania Battle of Vilnius 16 April 1702 PolishLithuania Battle of Kliszów 8 July 1702 9 July 1702 19 July 1702 PolishPoland Battle of Saločiai 29 March 1703 PolishLithuania Battle of Pułtusk 1 May 1703 PolishPoland Siege of Thorn 26 May 1703 –14 October 1703 PolishPoland Battle of Jakobstadt 5 August 1704 PolishLatvia Battle of Poznań 19 August 1704 PolishPoland Storming of Lemberg 27 August 1704 28 August 1704 7 September 1704 PolishUkraine Battle of Poniec 7 November 1704 PolishPoland Battle of Palanga 13 February 1705 PolishLithuania 21 October 1701 (11 October Swedish calendar) 20 December 1701 (N.S.?) 20 June 1704 (N.S.?); pro-Swedish Sapieha defeat pro-Russian Ogińskis. 12 November 1704 N.S., 1 November 1704 O.S. Russian occupation of Minsk and Grodno (December 1704).
Campaign of Grodno (July 1705 – May 1706)
Name O.S. date Swedish date N.S. date Front Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Battle of Gemauerthof 26 July 1705 GrodnoLatvia Battle of Warsaw 31 July 1705 GrodnoPoland 14 August –4 September 1705 25 August –15 September 1705 GrodnoPoland Battle of Praga 25 October 1705 GrodnoPoland Battle of Kalisz 29 October 1706 GrodnoPoland Battle of Grodno 26 January 1706 GrodnoBelarus 29 January 1706 30 January 1706 9 February 1706 GrodnoPoland Battle of Fraustadt 13 February 1706 GrodnoPoland Battle of Valkininkai 6 March 1706 GrodnoLithuania 12 March 1706 13 March 1706 23 March 1706 GrodnoLithuania mid-March –1 May 1706 mid-March –2 May 1706 late March 1706– 12 May 1706 GrodnoBelarus Battle of Kletsk 30 April 1706 GrodnoBelarus
1707–1708
Battle of Koniecpol 21 November 1708
Northern War in Ukraine (1700–1713) Paliy uprising (1700–1704)
Map on Ukrainian Wikipedia. Name O.S. date N.S. date Front Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Paliy uprising 1700 1704 Right-bankUkraine Right-bank Hetmanate Paliy's Cossacks Samus' Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthLeft-bank Hetmanate (1704) Mazepa's Cossacks (1704) Battle of Fastiv (autumn 1700) Unrest in Kyiv, Bratslav an Volyn voivodeships (1701) Unrest in Bratslav, Podolia and Volyn (early 1702) Revolts in Bohuslav, Korsun and Lysianka (July 1702) Mutiny in the Pereiaslav Regiment on the Left Bank (August 1702) Battle of Berdychiv (October 1702) Battle of Medzhybizh (late 1702) Siege of Bila Tserkva (7 weeks; November 1702) Podolia campaign (January–February 1703) Battle of Verbka near Letychiv (4 February 1703) Bratslav campaign (1703) Battle of Nemyriv (1703) Battle of Ladyzhyn (1703) Mazepa's capture of Bila Tserkva (May 1704) Battle of Stara Syniava (July 1704) Capitulation of Bila Tserkva, Nemyriv, Fastiv, Korsun and Bohuslav (August 1704). Mazepa's Western Ukraine campaign (autumn 1705).
Bulavin Rebellion (1707–1708) Don Cossack rebellion in Donbas and Sloboda Ukraine, with epicentre in Bakhmut.
Poltava campaign (1708–1709)