Battle of Skuodas
1258
The Battle of Skuodas or Schoden was fought in ca. 1259 near Skuodas in present-day Lithuania during the Lithuanian Crusade.
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Lithuania
1258 – 2024
Country in northeastern Europe
Battle of Medininkai
27 July 1320
The Battle of Medininkai took place on 27 July 1320 between the Teutonic Order and the Samogitian army near Medininkai (now Varniai).
Siege of Kaunas
13 March 1362 – 17 April 1362
The siege of Kaunas was laid by the Teutonic Order on the newly built Kaunas Castle in spring 1362. It was the first brick castle built by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Battle of Wilkomierz
1 September 1435
The Battle of Wiłkomierz (see other names) took place on September 1, 1435, near Ukmergė in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. With the help of military units from the Kingdom of Poland, the forces of Grand Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis soundly defeated Švitrigaila and his Livonian allies.
Union of Kraków and Vilna
6 May 1499
The Union of Kraków and Vilna, also known as Union of Vilnius, was one of the agreements of the Polish–Lithuanian union. It was signed in Kraków by the Polish nobility on 6 May 1499, and in Vilnius by the Lithuanian nobility on 24 July 1499.
Treaty of Vilnius
28 November 1561
The Treaty of Vilnius was concluded on 28 November 1561, during the Livonian War, between the Livonian Confederation and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Vilnius. With the treaty, the non-Danish and non-Swedish part of Livonia, with the exception of the Free imperial city of Riga, subjected itself to the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus with the Pacta subiectionis (Provisio ducalis).
Battle of Vilnius
29 July 1655 – 31 July 1655
The Battle of Vilnius was an attack by Russian and Cossack forces on Vilnius, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, that occurred on 8 August 1655 during the Russo-Polish War (1654–67). The Polish–Lithuanian forces under the leadership of Grand Hetman of Lithuania Janusz Radziwiłł were defeated by the Russian army of Alexis of Russia.
Truce of Vilna
24 October 1656
The Truce of Vilna, Treaty of Wilno or Truce or Treaty of Niemieża was a treaty signed at Niemieża (modern Nemėžis) near Vilnius (also known as Vilna or Wilno) on 3 November 1656 between the Tsardom of Russia and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, introducing a truce during the Russo-Polish War (1654–67) and an anti-Swedish alliance in the contemporaneous Second Northern War. In return for ceasing hostilities and fighting Sweden alongside Poland–Lithuania, the treaty promised tsar Alexis of Russia to succeed the Polish–Lithuanian throne as soon as John II Casimir Vasa would die.
Battle of Werki
24 September 1658 – 11 October 1658
Battle of Verkiai fought in autumn of 1658 between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia marked the resumption of hostilities in the Russo-Polish War (1654–67); it ended with Russian victory. Russians, close to signing a peace treaty with Sweden (truce of Valiersari ending the Russo–Swedish War (1656–58)) decided to resume the war with Poland in order to gain control over the disputed Ruthenian territories.
Battle of Olkieniki
18 November 1700
The Battle of Valkininkai (Lithuanian: Valkininkų mūšis, Polish: Bitwa pod Olkienikami) took place on November 18, 1700, during the Lithuanian Civil War, between forces of the Sapieha family, led by Michał Franciszek Sapieha, and an anti-Sapieha coalition of Wiśniowiecki, Ogiński, Radziwiłł and Pac families and their supporters (including a pospolite ruszenie of Lithuanian and Samogitian szlachta), led by Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki. The anti-Sapieha confederates were victorious.
Battle of Vilnius
1702
The Battle of Vilnius took place on 16 April 1702 (N.S.) in Vilnius, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, during the Great Northern War.
Battle of Saločiai (1794)
29 July 1794
Battle of Saločiai (Lithuanian: Saločių kautynės, Russian: Бой под Салатами, Polish: Bitwa pod Sałatami) was a battle fought during the Kościuszko Uprising on July 29, 1794, between the troops of Grand Duchy of Lithuania under the command of General Prince Romuald Giedroyć and the Russian troops of Prince Sergei Fedorovich Golitsyn.
Sventiany Offensive
26 August 1915 – 2 October 1915
The Battle of Vilnius (German: Schlacht bei Wilna) or the Vilnius operation (Russian: Виленская операция) took place in the autumn of 1915 between the cities of Vilnius and Daugavpils. It was strategic withdrawal by Russian forces on the Eastern Front of World War I, after a successful summer German offensive.
Act of Independence of Lithuania
16 February 1918
The Act of Independence of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Nepriklausomybės Aktas) or the Act of February 16th, also the Lithuanian Resolution on Independence (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Nepriklausomybės Nutarimas), was signed by the Council of Lithuania on February 16, 1918. It proclaimed independence from Russia and the restoration of an independent State of Lithuania, governed by democratic principles, with Vilnius as its capital.
Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919
18 November 1918 – March 1919
The Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919 was part of the campaign by Soviet Russia into areas abandoned by the Ober Ost garrisons that were being withdrawn to Germany following that country's defeat in World War I. The initially successful offensive against the Republic of Estonia ignited the Estonian War of Independence which ended with the Soviet recognition of Estonia. Similarly, the campaigns against the Republic of Latvia and Republic of Lithuania ultimately failed, resulting in the Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty and Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty respectively.
Lithuanian–Soviet War
December 1918 – August 1919
The Lithuanian–Soviet War or Lithuanian–Bolshevik War (Lithuanian: karas su bolševikais) was fought between newly independent Lithuania and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in the aftermath of World War I. It was part of the larger Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919. The offensive followed the retreat of German troops and sought to establish Soviet republics in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland, and to link up with the German Revolution.
Lithuanian Wars of Independence
December 1918 – August 1919
The Lithuanian Wars of Independence (Lithuanian: Lietuvos nepriklausomybės kovos), also known as the Freedom Struggles (Lithuanian: Laisvės kovos), refer to three wars Lithuania fought defending its independence at the end of World War I: with Bolshevik forces (December 1918 – August 1919), Bermontians (October 1919 – December 1919), and Poland (April 1919 – November 1920). The wars delayed international recognition of Lithuania's restored independence and the establishment of its civil institutions.
Battles for Vilnius
31 December 1918 – 5 January 1919
The Battle of Vilnius in January 1919 (Polish: Walki o Wilno, Russian: Сражения за Вильно) were a series of battles fought in Vilnius between the pro-Polish Self-Defence of Lithuania and Belarus who were initially against the Imperial German Army retreating from the city and the Bolshevik paramilitaries (December 31, 1918 – January 3, 1919) and then against the attacking Red Army (January 4–5, 1919). The fighting resulted in the temporary capture of most of the city of Vilnius by the Poles, who eventually had to retreat before the Red Army came.
Battle of Radviliškis
November 1919 – 22 November 1919
The Battle of Radviliškis (Lithuanian: Radviliškio kautynės) was fought between the Lithuanian Armed Forces and the Western Russian Volunteer Army, also known as Bermontians, a pro-German military formation, commanded by Pavel Bermondt-Avalov near the city of Radviliškis as part of the Lithuanian Wars of Independence. Fought on 21–22 November 1919, it saw the decisive defeat of the Bermontians and their subsequent retreat from the Baltic States.
Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty
12 July 1920
The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty, also known as the Moscow Peace Treaty, was signed between Lithuania and Soviet Russia on July 12, 1920. In exchange for Lithuania's neutrality and permission to move its troops in the territory that was recognised during its war against Poland, Soviet Russia recognized the sovereignty of Lithuania.