List of wars
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[edit] Wars in History
[edit] Era of Ancient Greece
- 1200 BC Trojan War (believed by many historians to be a mythical event)
- 499 - 479 BC Persian Wars
- 431 - 404 BC Peloponnesian War
- 334 - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
- 300s BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium
[edit] Era of the Roman Empire
- 264 - 241 BC First Punic War
- 218 - 202 BC Second Punic War
- 149 - 146 BC Third Punic War
- 215 BC 197 BC 168 BC Macedonian Wars
- 91 - 88 BC - Social War
- 82 - 81 BC - Sulla's civil war
- 73 - 71 BC - The Spartacist Rebellion
- 58 - 50 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
- 49 - 45 BC - Caesar's civil war
- 48 BC Battle of Pharsalus
- 43 BC - 31 BC Roman Civil War
- 31 BC Battle of Actium
- 43 Roman invasion of Britain
- 220 - 265 War of Three Kingdoms in China
- 291 - 306 War of the Eight Princes in China
- 533 - 534 Vandal Wars
[edit] Middle Ages
- 1066 Norman Conquest
- 1096 - 1291 Crusades
- 1096 - 1099 First Crusade
- 1101 Crusade of 1101
- 1147 - 1149 Second Crusade
- 1187 - 1191 Third Crusade
- 1202 - 1204 Fourth Crusade
- 1209 - 1229 Albigensian Crusade
- 1212 Children's Crusade (Often believed to be just a story)
- 1217 - 1221 Fifth Crusade
- 1228 Sixth Crusade
- 1248 - 1254 Seventh Crusade
- 1270 Eighth Crusade
- 1271 - 1291 Ninth Crusade
- 1293 - 1323 War between Sweden and Novgorod ended up with Treaty of Nöteborg
- 1296 - 1328 First War of Scottish Independence
- 1332 - 1333 Second War of Scottish Independence
- 1337 - 1453 Hundred Years' War
- 1341 - 1364 Breton War of Succession
- 1420 - 1436 Hussite Wars
- 1454 - 1466 Thirteen Years' War. Between Poland and Teutonic Knights, which finally broke the power of the latter.
- 1455 - 1485 Wars of the Roses
- 1474 - 1477 War between the Duchy of Burgundy and the Swiss Confederation
- 1478 - War between the Principality of Moscow and the Republic of Novgorod. The latter was conquered.
[edit] Pike and Shot era
- 1494 - 1559 Italian Wars
- 1494 - 1498 Charles VIII's Italian War
- 1499 - 1500 Louis XII's war with Milan
- 1500 - 1502 Franco-Spanish Conquest of Naples
- 1502 - 1505 Franco-Spanish War over Naples
- 1508 - 1510 War of the League of Cambrai
- 1510 - 1513 War of the Holy League
- 1515 - 1516 Francis I's first Italian war
- 1521 - 1525 First war of Francis and Charles V
- 1526 - 1529 War of the League of Cognac
- 1536 - 1538 Third War of Francis and Charles
- 1542 - 1544 Last War of Francis and Charles
- 1552 - 1559 Last Italian War
- 1495 - 1497 Russo-Swedish War
- 1499 - 1503 Turkish-Venetian War
- 1509 - 1513 Ottoman Civil War
- 1514 - 1516 Ottoman-Safavid War
- 1516 - 1517 Ottoman-Mamluk War
- 1521 - 1523 The Swedish War of Liberation
- 1521 - 1523 Uprising of the Comuneros in Castile
- 1521 - 1526 Ottoman-Hungarian War
- 1522 Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes
- 1522 The Knights' War in Germany
- 1524 - 1525 The Peasants' War in Germany
- 1526 - 1528 Hungarian Civil War
- 1526 - 1555 Ottoman-Safavid War
- 1528 - 1533 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
- 1531 Swiss Civil War between Zurich and the Catholic cantons
- 1532 - 1546 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
- 1533 - 1536 The Counts' War in Denmark
- 1537 - 1544 Renewed Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
- 1546 - 1547 Schmalkaldic War
- 1551 - 1562 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
- 1551 - 1581 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean (Battle of Lepanto (1571))
- 1552 - 1555 Charles V's war with Maurice of Saxony
- 1554 - 1557 Great Russian War
- 1557 - 1571 Livonian War
- 1559 - 1560 Scottish Rebellion against the French
- 1562 - 1598 Wars of Religion in France, also called War of the Three Henries or Huguenot Wars
- 1562 - 1568 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
- 1563 - 1570 Northern Seven Years' War also known as Dano-Swedish War
- 1566 (or 1568) - 1648 Eighty Years' War (war of Dutch independence)
- 1567 - 1573 Scottish Civil War
- 1568 - 1571 Morisco Revolt in Spain
- 1570 - 1595 Twenty-five Years' War between Sweden and Russia
- 1577 - 1582 Livonian War (Poland vs. Russia)
- 1577 - 1590 Turkish-Persian War
- 1580 - 1583 Portuguese Civil War
- 1585 - 1604 Anglo-Spanish War (Spanish Armada, 1588)
- 1590 - 1606 "Long War" between the Empire and the Turks
- 1594 - 1603 Tyrone Rebellion in Ireland
- 1596 - 1597 The Cudgel War in Finland
- 1600 - 1611 Polish-Swedish War
- 1602 - 1612 Turkish-Persian War
- 1609 - 1618 Russo-Polish War
- 1610 - 1617 Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia
- 1611 - 1613 War of Kalmar between Sweden and Denmark
- 1613 - 1617 Russo-Swedish War
- 1614 - 1621 Polish-Turkish War
- 1616 - 1618 Turkish-Persian War
- 1617 - 1629 Polish-Swedish War
- 1618 - 1648 Thirty Years' War across Europe, ends with the Peace of Westphalia.
- 1618 - 1625 Bohemian/Palatine Phase
- 1618 - 1629 Austro-Transylvanian War
- 1625 - 1629 Danish Phase
- 1625 - 1630 Anglo-Spanish War
- 1626 - 1630 Anglo-French War
- 1627 - 1631 War of the Mantuan Succession
- 1630 - 1635 Swedish Phase
- 1635 - 1648 French Phase
- 1635 - 1659 Franco-Spanish War (ending with the Treaty of the Pyrenees)
- 1645 Renewed Austro-Transylvanian War
- 1623 - 1638 Turkish-Persian War
- 1625 - 1629 Huguenot Uprising in France
- 1632 - 1634 Russo-Polish War
- 1634 Polish-Swedish War
- 1637 Pequot War
- 1639 - 1652 English Civil War
- 1640 - 1656 Catalan Revolt
- 1640 - 1668 Portuguese War of Independence
- 1645 - 1670 Turkish-Venetian War
- 1648 - 1653 The Fronde
- 1648 - 1660 The Deluge/Northern Wars, A series of wars involving Poland, Sweden, Brandenburg, Russia and Transylvania and Denmark
- 1652 - 1654 First Anglo-Dutch War
- 1656 - 1659 Anglo-Spanish War
- 1657 - 1662 Turkish-Transylvanian War
- 1662 - 1664 Austro-Turkish War
- 1665 - 1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War preceded by the capture of New Amsterdam, renamed New York City
- 1667 - 1668 War of Devolution
- 1671 - 1676 Polish-Turkish War
- 1672 - 1678 Dutch War
- 1675 - 1676 King Philip's War
- 1678 - 1681 Russo-Turkish War
- 1682 - 1699 War of the Holy League (Austria, Venice, and Poland vs. Ottomans
- 1685 Monmouth's Rebellion
- 1688 - 1697 War of the Grand Alliance
- 1695 - 1700 Russo-Turkish War
- 1700 - 1721 Great Northern War between a coalition of Denmark/Norway, Russia and Saxony/Poland on one side and Sweden on the other side
- 1701 - 1714 War of Spanish Succession
- 1714 - 1718 Turko-Venetian War
- 1715 - 1716 Jacobite Rebellion also known as "The Fifteen"
- 1716 - 1718 Austro-Turkish War
- 1718 - 1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance
- 1722 - 1723 Russo-Persian War 1722-1723
- 1722 - 1727 Turco-Persian War
- 1727 - 1729 largely bloodless Spanish war with England and France
- 1730 - 1736 Turco-Persian War
- 1733 - 1738 War of the Polish Succession
- 1740 - 1748 War of the Austrian Succession
- 1743 - 1747 Turco-Persian War
- 1749 - 1754 Second Carnatic War
- 1756 - 1763 Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the United States, and also 3rd Silesian War
- 1763 - 1766 Pontiac's Rebellion
- 1768 - 1774 Russo-Turkish War
- 1768 - 1776 War of the Confederation of Bar in Poland
- 1773 - 1774 Pugachev's Rebellion
- 1774 - 1783 First Anglo-Maratha War
- 1775 - 1783 American Revolutionary War
- 1777 - 1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
- 1785 - 1787 Dutch Civil War
- 1787 - 1791 Austro-Turkish War
- 1787 - 1792 Russo-Turkish War
- 1788 - 1790 Gustav III's Russian War also known as Russo-Swedish War
- 1791 - 1804 Haiti Revolutionary War
- 1792 War in defence of the constitution in Poland
- 1792 - 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
- 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising in Poland
- 1795 - 1798 United Irishmen Revolt
[edit] Age of Rifles
- 1801 War of the Oranges
- 1801 - 1805 First Barbary War
- 1803 - 1805 First Kandyan War
- 1803 - 1815 Napoleonic Wars
- 1805 War of the Third Coalition
- 1806 - 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition
- 1807 - 1814 Peninsular War
- 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition
- 1802 - 1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
- 1812 Franco-Russian War
- 1813 - 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition
- 1815 War of the Seventh Coalition also known as the Hundred Days War
- 1815 Neapolitan War
- 1804 - 1806 Serbian Revolt in Ottoman Empire
- 1804 - 1810 Fulani War in Nigeria
- 1804 - 1813 Russo-Persian War, 1804-13
- 1805 - 1811 Egyptian Revolution
- 1806 - 1807 Ashanti-Fante War
- 1806 - 1812 Russo-Turkish War, 1806-12
- 1808 - 1809 The Finnish War between Russia and Sweden wherein Sweden cedes Finland to Russia
- 1809 - 1825 Bolivian Independence War
- 1810 - 1816 Argentine War of Independence
- 1810 - 1811 Anglo-Dutch Java War
- 1810 - 1818 Tukulor War
- 1810 - 1821 Mexican War of Independence
- 1811 Tecumseh's War
- 1811 Ga-Fante War
- 1811 - 1818 Egyptian-Wahhabi War
- 1811 - 1825 Bolívar's War
- 1811 - 1812 Venezuelan War of Independence
- 1813 - 1814 Bolívar in Venezuela 1813-14
- 1815 - 1816 Spanish Invasion of New Granada
- 1816 - 1817 Bolívar in Venezuela 1816-18
- 1819 - 1820 Bolívar in New Granada
- 1821 Bolívar in Venezuela 1821
- 1822 Republican Campaign in Ecuador
- 1824 - 1825 Republican Campaign in Bolivia
- 1812 - 1814 War of 1812 fought between the United States and Britain, and part of the greater war between Britain and France
- 1813 - 1814 The Creek War
- 1814 - 1816 The Gurkha War
- 1814 - 1816 Ashanti Invasion of the Gold Coast
- 1814 - 1824 San Martin's War
- 1815 Second Kandyan War
- 1815 Second Barbary War
- 1817 - 1818 Chilean War of Independence
- 1817 - 1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War
- 1817 - 1818 Uva Rebellion
- 1817 - 1819 Zulu Civil War
- 1817 - 1858 Seminole Wars
- 1820 - 1823 Spanish Civil War, 1820-1823
- 1821 - 1829 Greek War of Independence
- 1821 - 1823 Turko-Persian War
- 1821 - 1825 Brazilian War of Independence
- 1821 - 1837 Padri War in Indonesia
- 1823 - 1826 First Anglo-Burmese War
- 1828 - 1829 Russo-Turkish War, 1828-29
- 1830 July Revolution in France
- 1830 - 1831 Polish-Russian war following November Uprising
- 1830 - 1839 Belgian War of Independence
- 1835 Toledo War between US territory of Michigan and the US state of Ohio
- 1835 - 1836 Texan War of Independence
- 1838 Pastry War between France and Mexico
- 1839 - 1842 First Anglo-Afghan War
- 1839 - 1842 First Opium War
- 1843 - 1872 Several Maori Land Wars in New Zealand
- 1843 Wairau Massacre
- 1845 - 1846 First Maori War also known as Flagstaff War
- 1846 Hutt Valley Campaign
- 1847 Wanganui Campaign
- 1860 - 1861 First Taranaki War
- 1863 - 1864 Invasion of the Waikato
- 1864 Tauranga Campaign
- 1864 - 1866 Second Taranaki War
- 1865 - 1868 East Cape War
- 1868 - 1869 Titokowaru's War
- 1868 - 1872 Te Kooti's War
- 1846 - 1848 Mexican-American War between the United States and Mexico
- 1848 - 1866 Italian Independence wars
- 1848 - 1849 Hungarian Revolt of 1848 waged by Hungary against Austria and later Russia
- 1848 - 1851 First war of Schleswig
- 1850 - 1865 Taiping Rebellion
- 1852 Second Anglo-Burmese War
- 1853 - 1856 Crimean War.
- 1856 - 1860 Second Opium War
- 1857 - 1858 Indian Mutiny also known as the First War Of Indian Independence
- 1857 - 1858 Utah War
- 1857 - 1901 Caste War of Yucatán
- 1861 - 1865 American Civil War in the United States
- 1864 Second war of Schleswig
- 1864 - 1870 War of the Triple Alliance; Paraguay against Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil
- 1866 Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War)
- 1866 - 1868 Red Cloud's War between the Lakota and the United States
- 1870 - 1871 Franco-Prussian War
- 1872 - 1873 Modoc War between the Modoc and the United States
- 1876 - 1877 Black Hills War between the Lakota and the United States
- 1877 - 1878 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78
- 1878 - 1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War
- 1879 Anglo-Zulu War
- 1879 - 1884 War of the Pacific between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru
- 1880 - 1881 First Boer War in South Africa
- 1885 - 1886 Third Anglo-Burmese War
- 1887 - 1889 First Italo-Abyssinian War
- 1890 Dog Tax War in New Zealand
- 1894 - 1895 First Sino-Japanese War
- 1895 - 1896 First Italo-Abyssinian War
- 1897 First Greco-Turkish War
- 1897 - 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China
- 1898 Spanish-American War
- 1899 - 1902 Second Boer War in South Africa
- 1899 - 1902 The war of thousand days in Colombia
- 1899 - 1913 Philippine-American War
[edit] World Wars era
- 1904 - 1905 Russo-Japanese War
- 1905 Revolution of 1905 in Russia
- 1911 - 1912 Turco-Italian War fought over Libya
- 1912 - 1913 Two Balkan Wars are fought for control of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire
- 1914 - 1918 World War I, initially in Europe, then worldwide
- 1916 Easter Rising rebellion in Ireland
- 1917 - 1918 Russian Revolution
- 1917 - 1920 Estonian Liberation War
- 1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Germany intervened on the side of the Whites.
- 1918 - 1922 Russian Civil War, fought between "the reds" (Communists) and "the whites" (tsarists) directly after the Bolshevist Revolution. US, France and Britain also intervened on the side of the whites.
- 1918 Polish-Czech war in Teschen Silesia
- 1918 Viena expedition
- 1918 - 1919 Poland and Lwow against Westukrainian Republic
- 1918 - 1919 Great Poland Uprising, Provinz Posen against Germany
- 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
- 1919 First Silesian Uprising
- 1919 Aunus expedition
- 1919 - 1921 Polish-Soviet war Poland and Ukrainian Peoples Republic against Soviets
- 1919 - 1921 Anglo-Irish War also known as the Irish War of Independence
- 1919 - 1922 "Turkish War of Independence"
- 1920 Second Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
- 1921 Third Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
- 1922 - 1923 Irish Civil War
- 1932 - 1935 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay
- 1934 - 1936 Northern Expedition by Kuomintang
- 1935 - 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War
- 1936 - 1939 Spanish Civil War
- 1937 - 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
- 1939 - 1945 World War II
- 1941 - 1942 Border war between Ecuador and Peru
[edit] Cold War era
- 1944 - 1949 Greek Civil War
- 1945 - 1949 Chinese Civil War
- 1946 - 1954 First Indochina War
- 1947 - 1949 First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
- 1948 - 1949 First Arab-Israeli War
- 1948 - 1960 Malayan Emergency
- 1950 - 1953 Korean War (UN-led coalition vs. North Korea)
- 1952 - 1960 Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya
- 1954 - 1962 Algerian War of Independence
- 1954 - 1964 Vietnamese Civil War
- 1955 - 1972 First Sudanese Civil War
- 1956 Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War)
- 1956 - 1959 Cuban Revolution
- 1960 - 1996 Guatemalan Civil War
- 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (CIA-sponsored invasion attempt by Cuban Nationals)
- 1961 - 1975 Angolan War of Independence
- 1962 - 1963 Sino-Indian War
- 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War between the U.S.-led coalition (including the government of South Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front (NLF), backed by North Vietnam
- 1964 - 1975 Mozambique's War of Independence
- 1965 Second Kashmir War (Second Indo-Pakistani War)
- 1965 - 1996 Chad Civil War
- 1966 - 1988 Namibian War of Independence
- 1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)
- 1967 - 1970 Biafra War in Nigeria
- 1967 - 1975 Cambodian Civil War
- 1969 Football War between Honduras and El Salvador.
- 1971 The Pakistani Civil War that becomes the Third Indo-Pakistani War
- 1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War)
- 1974 - 1991 Ethiopian Civil War
- 1975 - 1989 Angolan Civil War
- 1975 - 1991 Lebanese Civil War
- 1975 - 1998 War of Indepence in East Timor
- 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
- 1979 - 1992 El Salvador Civil War
- 1980 - 1988 Iran-Iraq War
- 1981 Border war between Ecuador and Peru
- 1982 Falklands War between United Kingdom and Argentina
- 1982 Lebanon War
- 1982 - 1984 Mozambique's Ciwil War
- 1983 Operation Urgent Fury, U.S.-sponsored invasion of Grenada
- 1983 - 2000 Civil War in Sri Lanka
[edit] Post-Cold War era
- 1988 - 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan
- 1989 - 1990 Operation Just Cause, United States invades Panama
- 1990 - 1991 Persian Gulf War between Iraq and UN-led coalition
- 1990 - 1992 Rwanda Civil War
- 1991 - 2001 Yugoslav Wars
- 1991 - 1993 Georgian civil wars
- 1991 - 1997 Sierra Leone Civil War
- 1993 - 1999 Burundi Civil War
- 1994 Yemen Civil War
- 1994 - 1996 First Chechen War
- 1995 Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador
- 1996 - 1997 Liberian Civil War
- 1998 - 2000 Border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea
- 1999 Kargil Conflict
- 1999 - 2003 Second Liberian Civil War
[edit] Ongoing wars
- 1966 - Colombian Civil War
- 1977 - Somalian Civil War
- 1978 - Afghanistan Civil War
- 1983 - Second Sudanese Civil War
- 1992 - Civil War in Algeria
- 1994 - Zapatista Revolution in Mexico
- 1995 - Second Ugandan Civil War
- 1996 - Civil War in Nepal
- 1999 - Second Chechen War
- 2001 - Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire
- 2003 - Invasion of Iraq1
- 2003 - Darfur conflict, Sudan
- 2004 - Haiti rebellion
- 2006 - Israeli Armed Forces enter Lebanon
[edit] Notes
About some disputed conflicts
- 1Coalition announced end of major combat operations on May 1 2003. Military operations and resistance have continued until present day. For more information, see U.S.-led occupation of Iraq
[edit] Related Articles
- Military History
- War
- List of treaties
- List of battles
Other:
- Wars between England and France
- List of Polish wars
- List of Swedish wars
