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	Eastern Front
2	Battle of Waterloo	95	18 June 1815	Waterloo Battlefield, Belgium	Napoleonic Wars
3	Attack on Pearl Harbor	88	7 December 1941	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States	South-East Asian theater of World War II
4	Battle of Thermopylae	83	July 480 BC	Thermopylae, Greece	Second Persian invasion of Greece
5	Battle of Badr	81	12 March AD 624	Hejaz, Saudi Arabia	Muslim–Quraysh War
6	Battle of Hastings	81	14 October 1066	Battle, United Kingdom	Norman conquest of England
7	Fall of Constantinople	80	6 April 1453	Constantinople, Turkey	Byzantine–Ottoman wars
8	Battle of Trafalgar	78	21 October 1805	Cape Trafalgar, Spain	War of the Third Coalition
9	Battle of Britain	77	1940	United Kingdom	World War II
10	Battle of Marathon	76	12 September 490 BC	Marathon, Greece	First Persian invasion of Greece
11	Battle of Austerlitz	75	2 December 1805	Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic	War of the Third Coalition
12	Battle of France	75	1940	France, Belgium	Western Front
13	Battle of Kursk	74	1943	Kursk, Soviet Union	Eastern Front
14	Battle of Berlin	74	16 April 1945	Berlin, Germany	Eastern Front
15	Normandy landings	74	6 June 1944	Normandy, France	Invasion of Normandy
16	Siege of Leningrad	73	8 September 1941	Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union	Eastern Front
17	Battle of Lepanto	72	7 October 1571	Gulf of Corinth, Greece	Ottoman–Spanish War
18	Battle of Grunwald	72	15 July 1410	Grunwald, Poland	Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
19	Battle of Verdun	71	21 February 1916	Verdun, France	Western Front
20	Battle of the Somme	70	1 July 1916	River Somme, France	Western Front
21	Battle of Tours	69	10 October AD 732	Poitiers, France	Umayyad invasion of Gaul
22	Battle of Cannae	68	2 August 216 BC	Cannae, Italy	Second Punic War
23	Battle of Midway	67	4 June 1942	Midway Atoll, United States	Pacific War
24	Battle of Mohács	67	29 August 1526	Sátorhely, Hungary	Hungarian–Ottoman War
25	Battle of Salamis	67	29 September 480 BC	Salamis Island, Greece	Second Persian invasion of Greece
26	Battle of Leipzig	65	16 October 1813	Leipzig, Germany	War of the Sixth Coalition
27	Battle of Moscow	65	the 1941s	Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union	Eastern Front
28	Battle of Actium	65	2 September 31 BC	Ionian Sea, Greece	Final War of the Roman Republic
29	Battle of Iwo Jima	65	8 February 1945	Iwo Jima, Japan	Q709352
30	Battle of Manzikert	65	26 August 1071	Q746811, Turkey	Byzantine–Seljuq Wars
31	Battle of Vienna	65	12 September 1683	Kahlenberg, Austria
32	Battle of the Teutoburg Forest	65	September AD 9	Osnabrück, Germany	Germanic Wars
33	Battle of Gaugamela	64	1 October 331 BC	Gaugamela, Iraq	Wars of Alexander the Great
34	Battle of Borodino	64	7 September 1812	Borodino, Russia	French invasion of Russia
35	Battle of Uhud	64	23 March AD 625	Mount Uhud, Saudi Arabia	Muslim–Quraysh War
36	Battle of Karbala	63	10 October AD 680	Karbala, Iraq	Second Fitna
37	Battle of Poltava	62	27 June 1709	Poltava, Ukraine	Great Northern War
38	Battle of Agincourt	62	25 October 1415	Azincourt, France	Hundred Years' War
39	Battle of Hattin	62	3 July 1187	Horns of Hattin, Israel	Crusades
40	Battle of Kosovo	61	28 June 1389	Kosovo Field, Kosovo	Ottoman Wars in Europe
41	Battle of Yarmouk	61	15 August AD 636	Yarmuk, Syria	Muslim conquest of the Levant
42	Battle of the Maureaco Fields	59	20 June AD 451	Catalaunian Plains, France	fall of the western Roman Empire
43	First Battle of the Marne	59	8 September 1914	Aulnois, France	Western Front
44	Battle of Dien Bien Phu	59	13 March 1954	Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam	First Indochina War
45	Battle of Okinawa	58	1945	Okinawa Islands, Japan	World War II
46	Battle of Plassey	58	23 June 1757	Palashi, India
47	Battle of Gettysburg	58	1 July 1863	Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States	American Civil War
48	Battle of Jutland	57	31 May 1916	North Sea	World War I
49	Battle of Zama	57	19 October 202 BC	Zama Regia, Tunisia	Second Punic War
50	Battle of Kadesh	57	May 1274 BC	Kadesh, Syria
51	Siege of Baghdad	56	29 January 1258	Baghdad, Iraq	Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia
52	Dunkirk evacuation	56	4 June 1940	English Channel, France	Western Front
53	Battle of Stamford Bridge	55	25 September 1066	Stamford Bridge, United Kingdom	Q1379246
54	Battle of Ankara	55	20 July 1402	Çubuk Ovası, Turkey	Timurid invasion of the Ottoman Empire
55	Siege of Malta	55	18 May 1565	Grand Harbour, Malta	Ottoman–Habsburg Wars
56	Battle of the Trench	55	AD 627	Medina, Saudi Arabia	Muslim–Quraysh War
57	Battle of Issus	54	5 November 333 BC	Issus, Turkey	Wars of Alexander the Great
58	Eighth Crusade	54	1270	Tunis, Tunisia	Q104664744
59	Battle of the Atlantic	53	1939	Atlantic Ocean	World War II
60	Battle of Plataea	53	27 August 479 BC	Plataea, Greece	Second Persian invasion of Greece
61	Battle of Kulikovo	53	8 September 1380	Kulikovo Field, Russia	Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'
62	Battle of Adrianople	52	9 August AD 378	Edirne, Turkey	Gothic War of 376–382
63	Battle of Poitiers	52	19 September 1356	Nouaillé-Maupertuis, France	Hundred Years' War
64	Battle of the Alamo	52	23 February 1836	Alamo Mission, Texas, United States	Texas Revolution
65	Battle of White Mountain	52	8 November 1620	Bílá Hora, Czech Republic	Bohemian Revolt
66	Black January	52	20 January 1990	Baku, Azerbaijan	Q382861
67	Battle of Tannenberg	51	23 August 1914	Olsztyn, Poland	World War I
68	Battle of Chaeronea	51	August 338 BC	Chaeronea, Greece	Fourth Sacred War
69	Battle of Dunkirk	51	26 May 1940	Dunkirk, France	Western Front
70	Battle of Bannockburn	51	23 June 1314	Battlefield of Bannockburn, United Kingdom	Wars of Scottish Independence
71	Battle of Ain Jalut	51	3 September 1260	Well of Harod, Israel	Mongol invasions and conquests
72	Battle of Crécy	51	26 August 1346	Crécy-en-Ponthieu, France	Hundred Years' War
73	Battle of Alesia	50	July 52 BC	Alesia, France	Gallic War
74	Battle of the Hydaspes	50	May 326 BC	Jhelum River, Pakistan	Q125881465
75	Marco Polo Bridge incident	50	7 July 1937	Lugou Bridge, People's Republic of China	Second Sino-Japanese War
76	Battle of Jena–Auerstedt	49	14 October 1806	Jena, Germany	Napoleonic Wars
77	Battle of Sedan	49	1 September 1870	arrondissement of Sedan, France	Franco-Prussian War
78	Battles of Khalkhin Gol	49	11 May 1939	Khalkhyn River, Mongolia	Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
79	Battle of the Little Bighorn	49	25 June 1876	Little Bighorn River, Montana, United States	Great Sioux War of 1876
80	Battle of Carrhae	49	9 June 53 BC	Harran, Turkey	Roman–Parthian Wars
81	Battle of the Coral Sea	49	4 May 1942	Coral Sea	South West Pacific theater of World War II
82	Battle of Monte Cassino	49	17 January 1944	Monte Cassino, Italy	World War II
83	Siege of Jerusalem	49	7 June 1099	Jerusalem, Israel	First Crusade
84	Battle of the Kalka River	49	31 May 1223	Kalchyk, Russia	Mongol invasions and conquests
85	Battle of the Ice	48	5 April 1242	Lake Peipus, Russia	Crusades
86	Battle of the Granicus	48	May 334 BC	Biga River, Turkey	Wars of Alexander the Great
87	First Turkish Siege of Vienna	48	27 September 1529	Vienna, Austria	Austro-Turkish Wars
88	Battle of Nicopolis	48	25 September 1396	Nikopol, Bulgaria	Hungarian–Ottoman War
89	Battle of Varna	48	10 November 1444	Varna, Bulgaria	Crusade of Varna
90	Liberation of Paris	48	19 August 1944	Paris, France	Operation Overlord
91	Second Battle of El Alamein	47	23 October 1942	El Alamein, Egypt	Battles of El Alamein
92	Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa	47	16 July 1212	Santa Elena, Spain	Almohad wars in the Iberian Peninsula
93	Battle of Sekigahara	47	21 October 1600	Sekigahara, Japan	Sekigahara Campaign
94	Battle of Caporetto	47	24 October 1917	Kobarid, Italy	World War I
95	Battle of the Nile	47	1 August 1798	Abu Qir Bay, Egypt	French invasion of Egypt and Syria
96	Battle of Marengo	47	14 June 1800	Q748210, Italy	Napoleonic Wars
97	Siege of Constantinople	47	15 July AD 717	Constantinople, Turkey	Arab–Byzantine wars
98	Third Battle of Ypres	47	31 July 1917	Ypres Salient, Belgium	Western Front
99	Battle of Talas	47	April AD 751	Taraz, Kazakhstan	Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
100	Battle of Panipat	47	1 May 1526	Panipat, India	Mughal Empire

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.