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Naval Battles A listing grouped by date and era of significant naval battles:

Classical Era[?]
- Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.[?])
- Battle of Actium (31 B.C.[?])

Renaissance
- Battle of Lepanto (1571)
- Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)

The 16th Century[?]
- Battle of Portland (also called 'The Three Days') (1653)
- Battle of Scheveningen (1653)
- Four Day's Battle[?] (1665)
- Raid on the Medway[?] (1667)
- Battle of Sole Bay[?] (1672)
- Battle of Texel (1673)

Age of Enlightenment
- Battle of the Saints[?] (1782)

Napoleonic Wars

War of 1812
- Battle of Lake Erie (1813)

Ironclad/Old Battleship Era[?]
- Battle of Hampton Roads (1862)
- Battle of Lissa[?] (1866)

Pre-Dreadnought Era[?]

World War I
- Battle of Jutland (1916)
- Raid on the Otranto Barrage[?] (1917)

World War II
- Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
- Battle of the Coral Sea May 8, 1942
- Battle of Midway (June 4, 1942)

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