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The 1453 Siege of Constantinople (painted 1499)

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 a chronological list of sieges.

Military sieges

Ancient

• Siege of Megiddo (c. 1457 BCE)
• Siege of Dapur (c. 1296 BCE)
• Siege of Troy (c. 1200 BCE)
• Siege of Hermopolis (c. 715 BCE)
• Siege of Jerusalem (701 BCE) - the Assyrian siege of Sennacherib
• Siege of Syracuse (415 BCE) - the Athenian siege
• Siege of Tyre (332 BCE) by Alexander the Great
• Siege of Rhodes (305 BCE) by Demetrius Poliorcetes
• Siege of Agrigentum (261 BCE) (First Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage)
• Siege of Saguntum (218 BCE) - 'casus belli' for the Second Punic War
• Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BCE) - the Roman siege
• Siege of Carthage (149–146 BCE) by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus
• Siege of Numantia (134–133 BCE) by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus
• Siege of Alesia (52 BCE)
• Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) - the Roman siege of Titus
• Siege of Masada (72 CE)

Medieval

• Siege of Rome (537–538)
• Siege of Constantinople (674–678)
• Siege of Constantinople (717–718)
• Siege of Pavia (773–774)
• Siege of Paris (885–886)
• Siege of Graus (Spring 1063)
• 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 Jerusalem (1099) - part of the First Crusade
• Siege of Edessa (1144)
• Siege of Lisbon (1147)
• Siege of Damascus (1148)
• Siege of Sanjo Palace (1160) - the main action of the Heiji Rebellion took place in Kyoto
• Siege of Nara (1180) - during Genpei War
• Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
• Siege of Acre (1189)
• Siege of Zara (1202) - part of the Fourth Crusade
• Siege of Constantinople (1204) - part of the Fourth Crusade
• Siege of Gibraltar (1309) - first siege of Gibraltar, by Juan Alfonso de Guzman el Bueno in the Reconquista
• Siege of Gibraltar (1316) - second siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid caid Yahya in the Reconquista
• Siege of Kamakura (1333) - end of Ashikaga shogunate.
• Siege of Gibraltar (1333) - third siege of Gibraltar, by a Marinids army, lead by Abd al-Malik in the Reconquista
• Siege of Gibraltar (1333) - fourth siege of Gibraltar, by King Alfonso XI of Castile in the Reconquista
• Siege of Caffa (1346)
• Siege of Calais (1346–1347) - Hundred Years' War
• Siege of Gibraltar (1349–1350) - fifth siege of Gibraltar, by Alfonso XI in the Reconquista
• Siege of Gibraltar (1374) - sixth siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid in the Reconquista
• Siege of Marienburg (1410) - in the aftermath of the Battle of Grunwald
• Siege of Rouen (1418) - reopening of the Hundred Years War
• Siege of Orleans (1429)
• Siege of Gibraltar (1436) - seventh siege of Gibraltar, by the count of Niebla in the Reconquista
• Siege of Constantinople (1453)

Early modern

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

• Siege of Gibraltar (1462) - eighth siege of Gibraltar, by a Castilian army in the Reconquista
• Siege of Gibraltar (1467) - ninth siege of Gibraltar, by the Duke of Medina Sidonia
• Siege of Gibraltar (1506) - tenth siege of Gibraltar, by the Duke of Medina Sidonia
• Siege of Smolensk (1514)
• Siege of Tenochtitlan (1521)
• Siege of Rhodes (1522)
• Siege of Vienna (1529)
• Siege of Kazan (1552)
• Siege of Leith (1560)
• Siege of Malta (1565)
• Turkish siege of Nicosia, Cyprus (1570)
• Turkish siege of Famagusta, Cyprus (1570–1571)
• Siege of Ishiyama Honganji (1570–1580) - longest siege in Japanese history
• Sieges of Nagashima (1571, 1573, 1574)
• Siege of Haarlem (1572)
• Siege of Nagashino (1575)
• Siege of Pskov (1581–1582)
• Siege of Ypres (1584)
• Siege of Ghent (1584)
• Siege of Bruges (1584)
• Siege of Brussels (1584)
• Siege of Antwerp (1584–1585)
• Siege of Odawara (1590)
• Siege of Kinsale (1601–1602)
• Siege of Ostend (1601–1604)
• Siege of Smolensk - (1609–1611) - 20 months
• Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1609-1611) - 16 months

Soldiers in the trenches of the siege at Petersburg