Battle of Hastings

Quality:

Battle of Hastings - battle which occurred on 14 October 1066. This event is the 250^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 54^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Battle of Hastings” in Simple English Wikipedia has 59.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 50 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2617^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 716^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 54^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6232^nd most popular in AI.

The 250^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9578^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1739^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Battle of Hastings” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1739^th place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Battle of Hastings”, its content was written by 96 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (716^th place) and edited by 3194 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6232^nd place).

Battle of Hastings is on the 54^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 250^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 33 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4064 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #11 in November 2008
• Global: #793 in October 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #121 in November 2015
• Global: #3361 in October 2016

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, 2025 (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	Turkish (tr) Hastings Muharebesi		100
3	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Hastings		100
4	Portuguese (pt) Batalha de Hastings		99.0838
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Hastings		94.3326
6	Japanese (ja) ヘイスティングズの戦い		94.2567
7	Galician (gl) Batalla de Hastings		88.9791
8	Italian (it) Battaglia di Hastings		85.307
9	Hebrew (he) קרב הייסטינגס		81.2366
10	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		76.2477

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Battle of Hastings		14 728 117
2	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		1 347 261
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Hastings		1 335 545
4	Russian (ru) Битва при Гастингсе		999 975
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Hastings		778 234
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Hastings		736 104
7	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Hastings		539 909
8	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Hastings		519 838
9	Swedish (sv) Slaget vid Hastings		389 554
10	Japanese (ja) ヘイスティングズの戦い		288 150

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		55 519
2	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		6 249
3	German (de) Schlacht bei Hastings		5 239
4	Russian (ru) Битва при Гастингсе		3 328
5	Spanish (es) Batalla de Hastings		2 461
6	Italian (it) Battaglia di Hastings		2 349
7	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Hastings		1 655
8	Chinese (zh) 黑斯廷斯之战		1 235
9	Swedish (sv) Slaget vid Hastings		1 176
10	Polish (pl) Bitwa pod Hastings		1 138

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		1 155
2	German (de) Schlacht bei Hastings		239
3	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		233
4	Dutch (nl) Slag bij Hastings		129
5	Italian (it) Battaglia di Hastings		121
6	Russian (ru) Битва при Гастингсе		111
7	Simple English (simple) Battle of Hastings		96
8	Spanish (es) Batalla de Hastings		84
9	Hebrew (he) קרב הייסטינגס		73
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	French (fr) Bataille d'Hastings		2
2	Simple English (simple) Battle of Hastings		2
3	Belarusian (be) Бітва пры Гастынгсе		1
4	Catalan (ca) Batalla de Hastings		1
5	English (en) Battle of Hastings		1
6	Finnish (fi) Hastingsin taistelu		1
7	Galician (gl) Batalla de Hastings		1
8	Russian (ru) Битва при Гастингсе		1
9	Ukrainian (uk) Битва при Гастінгсі		1
10	Arabic (ar) موقعة هاستنجز		0

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

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