ranked list, by language editions

The most widely documented battles

The 100 engagements described in the most Wikipedia language editions, a measure of how widely a battle is known across the world rather than of its size.

The most widely documented battles

	Engagement	Editions	Date	Place	War
1	Battle of Stalingrad	108	23 August 1942	Volgograd, Russia	World War II
2	Trojan War	107	1258 BC	Troy, Turkey	Ancient Greek folklore
3	atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	102	1945	Hiroshima, Japan	Pacific War
4	Battle of Waterloo	95	18 June 1815	Waterloo Battlefield, Belgium	Napoleonic Wars
5	Operation Barbarossa	92	1941	Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lithuania	World War II
6	Attack on Pearl Harbor	88	7 December 1941	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States	Pacific War
7	Suez Crisis	87	1957	Sinai Peninsula, Egypt	Arab–Israeli conflict
8	Battle of Thermopylae	83	July 480 BC	Thermopylae, Greece	Greco-Persian Wars
9	Battle of Badr	81	12 March AD 624	Hejaz, Saudi Arabia	Muslim–Quraysh War
10	Battle of Hastings	81	14 October 1066	Battle, United Kingdom	Norman conquest of England
11	Fall of Constantinople	80	6 April 1453	Constantinople, Turkey	Byzantine–Ottoman wars
12	1939 Invasion of Poland	79	1939	Poland	World War II
13	French invasion of Russia	79	1812	Russian Empire, Russia	Napoleonic Wars
14	Battle of Trafalgar	78	21 October 1805	Cape Trafalgar, Spain	War of the Third Coalition
15	Battle of Britain	77	1940	United Kingdom	World War II
16	Gallipoli Campaign	76	1915	Gallipoli, Turkey	World War I
17	Battle of Marathon	76	12 September 490 BC	Marathon, Greece	Greco-Persian Wars
18	Battle of Austerlitz	75	2 December 1805	Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic	War of the Third Coalition
19	Battle of France	75	1940	France, Belgium	World War II
20	Battle of Kursk	74	1943	Kursk, Soviet Union	World War II
21	Battle of Berlin	74	16 April 1945	Berlin, Germany	World War II
22	Normandy landings	74	6 June 1944	Normandy, France	World War II
23	Siege of Leningrad	73	8 September 1941	Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union	World War II
24	Battle of Lepanto	72	7 October 1571	Gulf of Corinth, Greece	Ottoman–Spanish War
25	Battle of Grunwald	72	15 July 1410	Grunwald, Poland	Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
26	Battle of Verdun	71	21 February 1916	Verdun, France	World War I
27	Battle of the Somme	70	1 July 1916	River Somme, France	World War I
28	Battle of Tours	69	10 October AD 732	Poitiers, France	Muslim conquests
29	Battle of Cannae	68	2 August 216 BC	Cannae, Italy	Second Punic War
30	Battle of Midway	67	4 June 1942	Midway Atoll, United States	Pacific War
31	Battle of Mohács	67	29 August 1526	Sátorhely, Hungary	Hungarian–Ottoman War
32	Battle of Salamis	67	29 September 480 BC	Salamis Island, Greece	Greco-Persian Wars
33	Battle of Leipzig	65	16 October 1813	Leipzig, Germany	War of the Sixth Coalition
34	Battle of Moscow	65	the 1941s	Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union	World War II
35	Battle of Actium	65	2 September 31 BC	Ionian Sea, Greece	Final War of the Roman Republic
36	Battle of Iwo Jima	65	8 February 1945	Iwo Jima, Japan	Pacific War
37	Battle of Manzikert	65	26 August 1071	Malazgirt, Turkey	Byzantine–Seljuq Wars
38	Battle of Vienna	65	12 September 1683	Kahlenberg, Austria
39	Battle of the Teutoburg Forest	65	September AD 9	Osnabrück, Germany	Early Imperial campaigns in Germania
40	Battle of the Bulge	64	1944	Ardennes, France	World War II
41	Battle of Gaugamela	64	1 October 331 BC	Gaugamela, Iraq	Wars of Alexander the Great
42	Battle of Borodino	64	7 September 1812	Borodino, Russia	Napoleonic Wars
43	Battle of Uhud	64	23 March AD 625	Mount Uhud, Saudi Arabia	Muslim–Quraysh War
44	Battle of Karbala	63	10 October AD 680	Karbala, Iraq	Second Fitna
45	Operation Overlord	63	1944	Normandy, France	World War II
46	Battle of Poltava	62	27 June 1709	Poltava, Ukraine	Great Northern War
47	Battle of Agincourt	62	25 October 1415	Azincourt, France	Hundred Years' War
48	Battle of Hattin	62	3 July 1187	Horns of Hattin, Israel	Crusades
49	Storming of the Bastille	62	1789	Bastille, France	French Revolution
50	Battle of Kosovo	61	28 June 1389	Kosovo Field, Kosovo	Ottoman Wars in Europe
51	Battle of Yarmouk	61	15 August AD 636	Yarmuk, Syria	Muslim conquest of the Levant
52	Battle of the Maureaco Fields	59	20 June AD 451	Catalaunian Plains, France	fall of the western Roman Empire
53	First Battle of the Marne	59	8 September 1914	Aulnois, France	World War I
54	Battle of Dien Bien Phu	59	13 March 1954	Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam	First Indochina War
55	20 July plot	58	1944	Wolf's Lair, Poland	World War II
56	Battle of Okinawa	58	1945	Okinawa Islands, Japan	Pacific War
57	Battle of Plassey	58	23 June 1757	Palashi, India
58	Battle of Gettysburg	58	1 July 1863	Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States	American Civil War
59	Albigensian Crusade	58	1209	Occitania, France	Crusades
60	Battle of Jutland	57	31 May 1916	North Sea	World War I
61	Battle of Zama	57	19 October 202 BC	Zama Regia, Tunisia	Second Punic War
62	Battle of Kadesh	57	May 1274 BC	Kadesh, Syria
63	Siege of Baghdad	56	29 January 1258	Baghdad, Iraq	Mongol invasions and conquests
64	Dunkirk evacuation	56	4 June 1940	English Channel, France	World War II
65	Battle of Stamford Bridge	55	25 September 1066	Stamford Bridge, United Kingdom	human history
66	Battle of Ankara	55	20 July 1402	Çubuk Ovası, Turkey	Timurid conquests and invasions
67	Soviet invasion of Poland	55	1939	Poland	World War II
68	Siege of Malta	55	18 May 1565	Grand Harbour, Malta	Ottoman–Habsburg Wars
69	Battle of the Trench	55	AD 627	Medina, Saudi Arabia	Muslim–Quraysh War
70	Operation Bagration	54	1944	Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Belarus	World War II
71	Battle of Issus	54	5 November 333 BC	Issus, Turkey	Wars of Alexander the Great
72	Allied invasion of Sicily	54	1943	Sicily, Italy	World War II
73	Eighth Crusade	54	1270	Tunis, Tunisia	Barbary Crusades
74	Battle of the Atlantic	53	1939	Atlantic Ocean	World War II
75	Battle of Plataea	53	27 August 479 BC	Plataea, Greece	Greco-Persian Wars
76	Battle of Tsushima	53	1905	Tsushima Strait, Japan	Russo-Japanese War
77	Battle of Kulikovo	53	8 September 1380	Kulikovo Field, Russia	Mongol invasions and conquests
78	Battle of Adrianople	52	9 August AD 378	Edirne, Turkey	Gothic War of 376–382
79	Operation Torch	52	1942	French protectorate in Morocco, Algeria	World War II
80	Battle of Poitiers	52	19 September 1356	Nouaillé-Maupertuis, France	Hundred Years' War
81	Battle of the Alamo	52	23 February 1836	Alamo Mission, Texas, United States	Texas Revolution
82	Battle of White Mountain	52	8 November 1620	Bílá Hora, Czech Republic	Bohemian Revolt
83	Black January	52	20 January 1990	Baku, Azerbaijan	Revolutions of 1989
84	Operation Weserübung	51	1940	Norway	World War II
85	Battle of Tannenberg	51	23 August 1914	Olsztyn, Poland	World War I
86	Battle of Chaeronea	51	August 338 BC	Chaeronea, Greece	Fourth Sacred War
87	Battle of Dunkirk	51	26 May 1940	Dunkirk, France	World War II
88	North African campaign	51	1940	Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt	World War II
89	Battle of Bannockburn	51	23 June 1314	Battlefield of Bannockburn, United Kingdom	Wars of Scottish Independence
90	Battle of Ain Jalut	51	3 September 1260	Well of Harod, Israel	Mongol invasions of the Levant
91	Battle of Crécy	51	26 August 1346	Crécy-en-Ponthieu, France	Hundred Years' War
92	Battle of Alesia	50	July 52 BC	Alesia, France	Gallic War
93	Operation Market Garden	50	1944	Netherlands	World War II
94	Mongol invasions of Japan	50	1274	Northern Kyushu, Japan	Mongol invasions and conquests
95	Battle of the Hydaspes	50	May 326 BC	Jhelum River, Pakistan	Indo-Greek wars
96	Marco Polo Bridge incident	50	7 July 1937	Lugou Bridge, People's Republic of China	Second Sino-Japanese War
97	Turkish invasion of Cyprus	49	1974	Cyprus	Cyprus problem
98	Bombing of Dresden	49	1945	Dresden, Germany	World War II
99	Battle of Jena–Auerstedt	49	14 October 1806	Jena, Germany	Napoleonic Wars
100	Battle of Sedan	49	1 September 1870	arrondissement of Sedan, France	Franco-Prussian War

Sources and method

The count is the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article on the engagement, from Wikidata sitelinks at the time of the pull. It is the same measure that sets the tiers on the globe.