The change in Athenian foreign policy, which was consequent upon the ostracism of Cimon in 461, led to what is sometimes called the First Peloponnesian War, in which the brunt of the fighting fell upon Corinth and Aegina.

Megara's defection from the Spartan dominated Peloponnesian League ( c. 460 BC ) was one of the causes of the First Peloponnesian War.

A fifteen year conflict, commonly known as the First Peloponnesian War, ensued, in which Athens fought intermittently against Sparta, Corinth, Aegina, and a number of other states.

A further source of provocation was an Athenian decree, issued in 433 / 2 BC, imposing stringent trade sanctions on Megarian citizens ( once more a Spartan ally after the conclusion of the First Peloponnesian War ).

* The First Peloponnesian War breaks out between the Delian League ( led by Athens ) and a Peloponnesian alliance ( led by Sparta ), caused in part by Athens ' alliance with Megara and Argos and the subsequent reaction of Sparta.

The treaty was a form of Common Peace, similar to the Thirty Years ' Peace which ended the First Peloponnesian War.

Examples of the latter are the Peloponnesian Christmas carol " Christoúgenna, Prōtoúgenna " (" Christmas, Firstmas "), the Constantinopolitan Christmas carol " Kalēn hespéran, árchontes " (" Good evening, my lords "), and the New Year's carol " Archimēniá ki archichroniá " (" First of the month, first of the year ").

In 446 BC he agreed with Pericles on the Thirty Years ' Peace between Athens and Sparta, bringing an end to the First Peloponnesian War, which had been raging since

Historians have noted the similarities between the events leading to the First Samnite War and events which according to Thucydides caused the Peloponnesian War, but there are differences as well.

The First Battle of Mantinea, in 418 BC, was the largest land battle of the Peloponnesian War.

The Athenian military commander Tolmides concluded an alliance with Zakynthus during the First Peloponnesian War sometime between 459 and 446 BC.

In Greece, the First Peloponnesian War between the power-blocs of Athens and Sparta, which had continued on / off since 460 BC, finally ended in 445 BC, with the agreement of a thirty-year truce.

*** The Athenian Cleon, speaking in the Assembly, encourages the Athenians to demand the return of the territories surrendered by Athens at the conclusion of the First Peloponnesian War.

The Battle of Tanagra took place in 457 BC between Athens and Sparta during the First Peloponnesian War.

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The Battle of Oenophyta took place between Athens and the Boeotian city-states in 457 BC during the First Peloponnesian War.

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The Battle of Coronea ( also known as the First Battle of Coronea ) took place between the Athenian-led Delian League and the Boeotian League in 447 BC during the First Peloponnesian War.

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There was an earlier battle at Tanagra during the First Peloponnesian War ; see Battle of Tanagra ( 457 BC ).

Pleistoanax was most anxious for peace during the so-called First Peloponnesian War.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

First deployed to disrupt the hunt of the Icelandic whaling fleet, the Rainbow Warrior would quickly become a mainstay of Greenpeace campaigns.

Despite mutual admiration, negotiations foundered due to Roman allegations of " Punic Faith ," referring to the breach of protocols that ended the First Punic War by the Carthaginian attack on Saguntum, and a Carthaginan attack on a stranded Roman fleet.

Major reforms of the British fleet were undertaken, particularly by Admiral Jackie Fisher as First Sea Lord from 1904 to 1909.

* 1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.

* 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.

First attested in English c. 1600, the word " navy " came via Old French navie, " fleet of ships ", from the Latin navigium, " a vessel, a ship, bark, boat ", from navis, " ship " and from Sanskrit " न ा व " ( Nav ), " ship ".

The main naval base for the British fleet Scapa Flow in both the First and Second World Wars was situated at Lyness in the south-east of the island.

A Pisan fleet of 120 ships also took part in the First Crusade and the Pisans were instrumental in the taking of Jerusalem in 1099.

* April 2 – First Battle of Copenhagen: The British fleet under Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, along with Admiral Horatio Nelson, attack Copenhagen ; the Armed Neutrality of the North is dissolved.

* August 26 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of Plymouth: A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacks an outward-bound convoy of the United Provinces, escorted by 23 men-of-war and 6 fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter.

* May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession – First battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy defeats a French fleet.

* June 12 – 13 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of the Gabbard: The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet, which loses 17 ships.

* August 8 – 10 – Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces off the Texel ; the English navy gains a tactical victory over the Dutch fleet.

* June 7 – First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch win with the fleet of the United Provinces ( commanded by Michiel de Ruyter ) against the allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

But the British attacked and captured or destroyed large portions of the Dano-Norwegian fleet in the First Battle of Copenhagen ( 2 April 1801 ), and again in the Second Battle of Copenhagen ( August – September 1807 ).

** Ad Herbal, admiral of the Carthaginian fleet who has battled for domination of the Mediterranean Sea for Carthage in the First Punic War against Rome

Orderic tells us that Edgar was the commander of an English fleet which operated off the coast of Syria in support of the First Crusade, whose crews eventually burned their dilapidated ships and joined the advance by land to Jerusalem.

The natural harbor at Taranto made it a logical home port for the Italian naval fleet before and during the First World War.

First Conon moved up to Caria with a small portion of the fleet, where he was for a time blockaded but then rescued by Pharnabazus and Tissaphernes.

* Ad Herbal, admiral of the Carthaginian fleet who has battled for domination of the Mediterranean Sea for Carthage in the First Punic War against Rome

In the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652 – 1653 Tromp commanded the Dutch fleet in the battles of Dover, Dungeness, Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen.