Wars in History


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


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


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 fictional event)
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.


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
1511 - 1514 Anglo-French War
1513 Anglo-Scottish War (Battle of Flodden)
1515 - 1516 Francis I's first Italian war
1521 - 1525 First war of Francis and Charles V
1521-1525 Anglo-French War
1526 - 1529 War of the League of Cognac
1536 - 1538 Third War of Francis and Charles
1542 - 1544 Last War of Francis and Charles
1542 - 1546 Anglo-French War
1542 - 1550 Anglo-Scottish War
1549 - 1550 Anglo-French War
1552 - 1559 Last Italian War
1557 - 1559 Anglo-French 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 - 1563 First War of Religion
1567 - 1568 Second War of Religion
1568 - 1570 Third War of Religion
1572 - 1573 Fourth War of Religion
1575 - 1576 Fifth War of Religion
1576 - 1577 Sixth War of Religion
1580 Seventh War of Religion (Lovers' War)
1585 - 1598 Eighth War of Religion
1589 - 1598 Franco-Spanish War
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)
1566(or 1568) - 1609 First Phase
1621 - 1648 Second Phase
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
1639 First Bishops' War
1640 Second Bishops' War
1641 - 1650 Irish War
1642 - 1646 First Civil War
1648 Second Civil War
1650 - 1652 Scottish Uprising
1640 - 1656 Catalan Revolt
1640 - 1668 Portuguese War of Independence
1645 - 1670 Turkish-Venetian War
1648 - 1653 The Fronde
1648 - 1649 First Fronde
1650 - 1653 Second Fronde
1648 - 1660 The Deluge/Northern Wars, A series of wars involving Poland, Sweden, Brandenburg, Russia and Transylvania and Denmark
1648 - 1654 Cossack Revolt against Poland
1654 - 1656 Russo-Polish War
1655 - 1656 Swedish-Brandenburg War
1655 - 1660 Polish-Swedish War
1656 - 1658 Russo-Swedish War
1656 - 1660 Danish-Swedish War
1657 - 1660 Dutch-Swedish War
1658 - 1667 Russo-Polish War
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
1672 - 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
1672 - 1679 War between Brandenburg and Sweden
1675 - 1679 Scanian War between Sweden and Denmark
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
1689 - 1691 Irish Jacobite Uprising
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
1710 - 1711 Russo-Turkish War, 1710-11, a part of the Great Northern War
1715 - 1717 Polish revolt against King Augustus II
1701 - 1714 War of Spanish Succession
1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War The North American part of the War of Spanish Succession
1703 - 1711 Hungarian Revolt
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
1736 - 1739 Russo-Turkish War
1737 - 1739 Austro-Turkish War
1740 - 1748 War of the Austrian Succession
1739 - 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear
1740 - 1742 1st Silesian War
1741 - 1743 Hats' Russian War betweeen Sweden and Russia
1744 - 1748 King George's War The North American part of the War of Austrian Succession
1744 - 1745 2nd Silesian War
1744 - 1748 First Carnatic War
1745 - 1746 "The Forty-five"
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
1761 - 1763 Spanish-Portuguese 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
1778 - 1783 Anglo-French War
1779 - 1783 Anglo-Spanish War
1780 - 1784 Anglo-Dutch 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
1792 - 1797 War of the First Coalition
1792 - 1795 Franco-Prussian War
1792 - 1797 Franco-Austrian War
1793 - 1795 Franco-Spanish War
1793 - 1795 Franco-Dutch War
1793 - 1802 Franco-British War
1798 - 1801 War of the Second Coalition
1798 - 1799 Franco-Russian War
1799 - 1801 Franco-Austrian War
1798 - 1801 Quasi War
1794 Kosciuszko Uprising in Poland
1795 - 1798 United Irishmen Revolt


Age of Rifles
1801 War of the Oranges
1801 - 1805 First Barbary 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
1812 [[Napol*1802 - 1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
1803 - 1804 Franco-Russian War
1813 - 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition
1815 War of the Seventh Coalition also known as the Hundred Days War
1815 Naepolitan 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 Barbary War
1817 - 1818 Chilean War of Independence
1817 - 1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War
1817 - 1819 Zulu Civil War
1817 - 1858 Seminole Wars
1817 - 1818 First Seminole War
1835 - 1842 Second Seminole War
1855 - 1858 Third Seminole War
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 First Italian Independence War, Kingdom of Sardinia allied with other Italian states against Austria
1859 Second Italian Independence War, Sardinia and France against Austria
1866 Third Italian Independence War, Unified Italy against Austria
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


World War 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 to "kill communism in the crib."
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 - 1922 Second Greco-Turkish War
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
1939 - 1940 Winter War; Part of WW II, Finland against Soviet Union
1941 - 1944 Continuation War; Part of WW II, Finland against Soviet Union
1944 - 1945 Lapland War; Part of WW II, Finland against Germany
1941 - 1942 Border war between Ecuador and Peru


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


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 Slovenian War
1991 - 1995 Croatian War
1992 - 1995 Bosnian War
1998 - 1999 Kosovo War
2001 Macedonian War
1991 - 1993 Georgian civil wars
1991 - 1992 South Ossetian war
1992 - 1994 Abkhazian War
1993 Georgian civil war, western Georgia
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


Ongoing wars
1966 - Colombian Civil War
1977 - Somalian Civil War
1978 - Afghanistan Civil War
1978 - Communist coup of 1978
1978 - 1992 Civil war between Mujahideen and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
1979 - 1989 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1992 - 1993 Civil War between different tribal military forces
1994 - 2001 Civil War between Taliban movement and Northern alliance
2001 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
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

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