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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.

1 Military sieges

1.1 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 Sennacheribchariot Sennacherib (In akkadian Sin-ehhe-erib " Sin (the moon god) has taken the place of brothers to me") was the king of the Assyrian Empire ( 705 681 BC). His reign was tested several times by revolts each of which was brought down. Then in 701 BC an
• Siege of Syracuse ( 415 BCE) - the Athenian siege
• Siege of TyreHistory In 332 B. C, Alexander the Great set out to conquer Tyre, a strategic coastal base in the war between the Greeks and the Persians. Siege of Tyre Unable to storm the city, he blockaded Tyre for seven months. Again Tyre held on. But the conqueror us ( 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 Syracuse ( 213– 212 BCE) - the Roman siege
• Siege of Alesia ( 52 BCE)
• Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) - the Roman siege of Titus
• Siege of Masada (72 CE)

1.2 Medieval

• Siege of Paris (885-886)
• Siege of Graus (Spring 1063)
• Siege of Nicaea (1097) - part of the First Crusade
• Siege of Antioch (1097-98) - part of the First Crusade
• Siege of Jerusalem (1099) - part of the First Crusade
• Siege of Acre (1189)
• Siege of Constantinople (1204) - part of the Fourth Crusade
• Siege of Caffa (1346)
• Siege of Rouen(1418) - reopening of the Hundred Years War
• Siege of Orleans (1429)
• Siege of Constantinople (1453)