Battle of Hastings

Quality:

Battle of Hastings - battle which occurred on 14 October 1066. This event is the 239^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 178^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Hastings” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 252 references and 20 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8596^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 4671^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 178^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6329^th most popular in AI.

The 239^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 9503^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Hastings”, its content was written by 1170 registered users of English Wikipedia (4671^st place) and edited by 3219 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6329^th place).

Battle of Hastings is on the 178^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 239^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 671 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4471 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #81 in November 2009
• Global: #793 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1982 in October 2017
• Global: #2990 in September 2025

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Battle of Hastings		100
2	Chinese (zh) 黑斯廷斯之战		100
3	Turkish (tr) Hastings Muharebesi		100
4	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Hastings		100
5	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Hastings		98.6811
6	Spanish (es) Batalla de Hastings		93.8459
7	Japanese (ja) ヘイスティングズの戦い		93.757
8	Galician (gl) Batalla de Hastings		89.0244
9	Italian (it) Battaglia di Hastings		85.6796
10	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		79.5301

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Hastings		15 892 820
2	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		1 476 237
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Hastings		1 425 734
4	Russian (ru) Битва при Гастингсе		1 120 783
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Hastings		843 721
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Hastings		778 538
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Hastings		568 934
8	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Hastings		551 248
9	Swedish (sv) Slaget vid Hastings		417 222
10	Japanese (ja) ヘイスティングズの戦い		305 575

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Hastings		61 976
2	German (de) Schlacht bei Hastings		6 197
3	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		5 359
4	Spanish (es) Batalla de Hastings		3 625
5	Russian (ru) Битва при Гастингсе		3 618
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Hastings		2 510
7	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Hastings		1 724
8	Swedish (sv) Slaget vid Hastings		1 537
9	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Hastings		1 531
10	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Hastings		1 305

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Battle of Hastings		1 170
2	German (de) Schlacht bei Hastings		239
3	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		238
4	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Hastings		132
5	Italian (it) Battaglia di Hastings		123
6	Russian (ru) Битва при Гастингсе		116
7	Simple English (simple) Battle of Hastings		98
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Hastings		85
9	Hebrew (he) קרב הייסטינגס		75
10	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Hastings		67

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Hastings		2
2	Danish (da) Slaget ved Hastings		1
3	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		1
4	Lithuanian (lt) Heistingso mūšis		1
5	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Hastings		1
6	Russian (ru) Битва при Гастингсе		1
7	Arabic (ar) موقعة هاستنجز		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Hastinqs döyüşü		0
9	Belarusian (be) Бітва пры Гастынгсе		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Битка при Хейстингс		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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