List of wars

Wars in European History

Ancient Greek Wars

• 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

Ancient Roman Wars

• 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
• 58 BC - 50 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
• 49 - 45 BC - Caesar's civil war
  • 48 BC Battle of Pharsalus
• 31 BC Battle of Actium
• 533 - 534 Vandal Wars

Medieval European wars

• 1096 - 1291 Crusades
• 1337 - 1453 Hundred Years' War
• 1420 - 1436 Hussite Wars
• 1455 - 1485 Wars of the Roses
• 1454 - 1466 Thirteen Years' War. Between Poland and Teutonic Knights, which finally broke the power of the latter.

Pike and Shot

• 1568 - 1648 Eighty Years' War (war of Dutch independence)
• 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada
• 1618 - 1648 Thirty Years' War across Europe, ends with the Peace of Westphalia.
• 1639 - 1652 English Civil War
• 1648 - 1660 The Deluge/Northern War, A series of wars involving Poland, Sweden, Prussia, Russia and Transylvania and Denmark
• 1652 - 1654 First Anglo-Dutch War
• 1664 - 1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War including the capture of New Amsterdam, renamed New York City
• 1672 - 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
• 1672 - 1678 Franco-Dutch War
• 1680 - 1684 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
• 1689 - 1698 War of the Grand Alliance
• 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
• 1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War The North American part of the War of Spanish Succession
• 1701 - 1714 War of Spanish Succession
• 1736 - 1739 Russo-Turkish War, 1736-39
• 1739 - 1742 War of Jenkins' Ear
• 1740 - 1742 1st Silesian War
• 1740 - 1748 War of the Austrian Succession
• 1744 - 1748 King George's War The North American part of the War of Austrian Succession
• 1744 - 1745 2nd Silesian War
• 1756 - 1763 Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the United States, and also 3rd Silesian War
• 1754 - 1763 French and Indian War or the Seven Years' War
• 1768 - 1774 Russo-Turkish War, 1768-74
• 1775 - 1781 American Revolutionary War
• 1787 - 1792 Russo-Turkish War, 1787-92
• 1792 War in defence of the constitution
• 1789 - 1815 French Revolutionary Wars / Napoleonic Wars
  

Battle of Trafalgar 1805

Battle of Waterloo 1815

Age of Rifles

• 1806 - 1812 Russo-Turkish War, 1806-12
• 1808 - 1809 The Finnish War between Russia and Sweden wherein Sweden cedes Finland to Russia
• 1812 - 1814 War of 1812 fought between the United States and Great Britain, and part of the greater war between Great Britain and France
• 1821 - 1829 Greek War of Independence
• 1828 - 1829 Russo-Turkish War, 1828-29
• 1830 - 1831 Polish-Russian war following November Uprising
• 1835 Toledo War between US territory of Michigan and the US state of Ohio
• 1839 - 1842 First Anglo-Afghan War
• 1843 - 1872 Several Maori Land Wars in New Zealand
• 1846 - 1848 Mexican War between the United States and Mexico
• 1848 - 1849 Hungarian Revolt of 1848 waged by Hungary against Austria and later Russia
• 1848 - 1851 First war of Schleswig
• 1850 - 1865 Taiping Rebellion
• 1854 - 1856 Crimean War.
• 1857 - 1901 Caste War of Yucatán
• 1859 - 1860 Italian Independence War
• 1861 - 1865 American Civil War in the United States
• 1864 Second war of Schleswig
• 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
• 1839 - 1842 Second Anglo-Afghan War
• 1887 - 1889 Italo-Abyssinian War
• 1895 - 1896 First Italo-Abyssinian War
• 1894 - 1895 First Sino-Japanese War
• 1898 Spanish-American War
• 1899 - 1902 Boer War in South Africa

World War era

• 1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 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
• 1917 - 1918 Russian Revolution
• 1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolutions 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 Great Britain also intervened to "kill communism in the crib."
• 1918 - 1920 Estonian Liberation War, Estonia against Soviet Russia and the Germans.
• 1918 Polish-Czech war in Teschen Silesia
• 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 - 1921 Polish-Soviet war Poland and Ukrainian Peoples Republic against Soviets
• 1920 Second Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
• 1921 Third Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
• 1934 - 1936 Northern Expedition by Kuomintang
• 1935 - 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War
• 1936 - 1939 Spanish Civil War
• 1937 - 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
• 1939 - 1941 World War II: Poland,British Empire, France against Germany, Italy, Soviet Union
• 1941 - 1945 World War II: (British Empire, United States, Soviet Union and others against fascist Germany, Italy, and Japan).

Cold War era

• 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
• 1950 - 1953 Korean War (UN-led coalition Vs. North Korea)
• 1956 Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War)
• 1962 - 1963 Sino-Indian War
• 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War between US-led coalition including government of South Vietnam and coalition including Viet Cong and North Vietnam
• 1965 Second Kashmir War (Second Indo-Pakistani War)
• 1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)
• 1969 Football War between Honduras and El Salvador.
• 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence (Third Indo-Pakistani War)
• 1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War)
• 1974 - 1991 Ethiopian Civil War
• 1975 - 1991 Lebanese Civil War
• 1979 - 1989 Soviet-Afghan War
• 1980 - 1988 Iran-Iraq War
• 1982 Falklands War between United Kingdom and Argentina
• 1983 Operation_Urgent_Fury U.S. sponsored invasion of Grenada

Post-Cold War era

• 1989 - 1990 Operation Just Cause, United States invades Panama
• 1991 Gulf War between Iraq and UN-led coalition
• 1991 War in Slovenia
• 1991 - 1995 War in Croatia
• 1992 - 1995 War in Bosnia
• 1994 - 1996 First Chechen War
• 1998 - 1999 Kosovo War (NATO Vs. Yugoslavia)
• 1999 Kargil Conflict
• 1999 Second Chechen War
• 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan (campaign of Global War on Terror)
• 2003 Invasion of Iraq (campaign of Global War on Terror)

Wars in Asian History

China

• 291 - 306 War of the Eight Princes in China

Southern Asia, Persia, Modern-Day India, &c.

The Island Wars: Modern-Day Indonesia, Polynesia, &c.

The Ancient Middle East: Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, &c.

Central and Northern Asia: Huns, Mongols, &c.

Wars in African History

Ancient Egypt

Eastern, Western, Southern, and Northwestern Kingdoms...

Wars in American History

Northern Tribal Wars

Central Empires: Olmecs, Toltecs, Maya, Aztecs

Southern Empires: Chavins, Inca, &c.

European Conquest of the New World

Modern North America

• 1860 - 1865 American Civil War in the United States

Modern Central & South America

• Cenepa War in 1995 between Peru and Ecuador

See also

Other: Wars between England and France, List of Swedish wars

Referenced By