Sea Battles of the Late Roman Empire

During the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (up to 476 CE)

Rise of Vandal Naval Power (428-477 CE)

  • 428-477 CE, Geiseric (also known as Genseric), became King of the Vandals.
  • 429 CE, Procopius wrote that the Vandal Fleet transferred 80,000 Vandals from Gaul to North Africa.
  • 435 CE, establishment of the Vandal Kingdom with its Capital and Fleet based at Carthage.
  • 439 CE, The Vandal Fleet conquered Sicily, Malta, Sardinia and Corsica.
  • 455 CE, the Vandal Fleet arrived off the Italian coast, and embarked on the Second Sack of Rome.
  • 456 CE, A Roman Fleet under Flavius Ricimer, defeats a Vandal Fleet off Corsica.
  • 461 CE, Battle of Cartagena. The Vandal fleet destroys a West Roman Fleet.
  • 468 CE, Battle of Cape Bon. The Vandal fleet defeats a combine East and West Roman Fleet
  • 477 CE, Geiseric died, by which time the Vandal Fleets had become the Sea Power in the Mediterranean.

After the Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE)

  • 551 CE Battle of Sena Gallica. The Byzantines defeat the Ostrogoths
  • 655 CE Battle of the Masts or the Battle of Phoenix (Finike near Antalya, Turkey)
    • The Byzantine fleet under Constans II was defeated by an Arab Fleet.
  • 677-8 CE First Arab Siege of Constantinople, Capital of Byzantium.
  • 717-8 CE Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.
  • 747 CE Battle of Ceramea. A Byzantine fleet destroys an Arab Fleet
  • 813 CE Byzantine fleet destroys an Arab fleet
  • 829 CE Battle of Thasos. A Byzantine fleet destroyed by Cretan Saracen fleet

 

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