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Significant Wars in History
| Dates (some approximate) |
War |
| Ancient Greek Wars |
| c.1200 BC |
Trojan War |
| 499 - 479 BC |
Persian Wars
491 BC Battle of Marathon
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Thermopylae |
| 431 - 404 BC |
Peloponnesian War |
| 334 - 323 BC |
Wars of Alexander the Great |
| Ancient Roman Wars |
264 - 241 BC
218 - 202 BC
149 - 146 BC |
Punic Wars |
|
Julius Caesar's campaigns? |
| 48 BC |
Battle of Pharsalus |
| 31 BC |
Battle of Actium |
| Medieval European wars |
|
Battle of Poitiers |
| 955 |
Battle of Lechfeld |
| 1096 - 1291 |
Crusades |
| 1212 |
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa |
| 1314 |
Bannockburn |
| 1337 - 1453 |
Hundred Years War
1346 Crécy
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1429 Siege of Orleans |
| 1455 - 1485 |
Wars of the Roses
Battle of Tewkesbury
Battle of Bosworth Field |
| 1454 - 1466 |
Thirteen Years War. Between Poland and Teutonic Knights, which finally broke the power of the latter. |
| Pike & Shot |
| 1568 - 1648 |
Dutch Independence |
| 1588 |
Defeat of the Spanish Armada |
| 1618 - 1648 |
Thirty Years War. Ends with the Peace of Westphalia. |
| 1639 - 1652 |
English Civil War. |
| 1648 - 1656 |
The Deluge. Series of civil wars in Poland and wars
with Sweden, Prussia, Russia and Transylvania,
which ended its status as European power and which begun march of
Russia to power status. |
|
Anglo-Dutch Wars |
| 1700 - 1718 |
Great Scandinavian war between Denmark/Norway and
Sweden. In 1718, during fighting on the Norwegian border,
Swedish king Karl XII is shot dead, after having waged several
war campains on Russia in the previous decades. |
| 1700 - 1721 |
Great Northern War |
|
Queen Anne's War |
| 1701 - 1714 |
War of Spanish Succession |
|
King George's War |
|
War of Jenkin's Ear |
| 1740 - 1748 |
War of the Austrian Succession |
| 1754? - 1763 |
Seven Years War, known as the French and Indian War in
North America. |
| 1754 - 1763 |
French and Indian War |
| 1774? - 1781? |
American Revolutionary War with the United Kingdom. |
| 1789 - 1815 |
French Revolution & Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Trafalgar 1797?
Battle of Waterloo 1815 |
| Age of Rifles |
| 1809 |
The war between Russia and Sweden wherein Sweden cedes
Finland to Russia. |
| 1812 - 1814 |
War of 1812 fought between the United States and England, a
continuation of the American Revolutionary War |
| 1821 - 1829 |
Greek Independence |
| 1835 |
Toledo War between US territory of Michigan and the US
state of Ohio |
| 1846 - 1848 |
Mexican War between the United States and Mexico. |
| 1850 - 1865 |
Taiping Rebellion |
| 1854 - 1856 |
Crimean War. |
| 1861 - 1865 |
American Civil War in the United States of
America. |
| 1866 |
Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War) |
| 1870 - 1871 |
Franco-Prussian War |
| 1877 - 1878 |
Russo-Turkish War |
| 1894 - 1895 |
Chinese-Japanese War |
| 1898 |
Spanish-American War |
| 1899 - 1902 |
Boer War in South Africa |
| Early 20th century |
| 1905 |
Russo-Japanese War |
| 1912 - 1913 |
The first and second Balkan Wars are fought for control of
the European territories of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1914 - 1918 |
World War I, primarily between countries in
Europe. |
| 1917 - 1918 |
Russian Revolution |
| 1918 - 1922 |
Russian Civil War, fought between "the reds"
(communists) and "the whites" (tsarists) directly
after the Russian Revolution. France and Great Britain also
intervened to "kill communism in the crib" |
| 1926? - 1949 |
Chinese Revolution |
| 1936 - 1939 |
Spanish Civil War |
| 1939 - 1945 |
World War II. |
| Mid 20th century |
| 1948 - 1949 |
First Arab-Israeli War |
| 1950 - 1953 |
Korean War |
| 1956 |
Second Arab-Israeli War |
| 1964 - 1973 |
Vietnam War. War between US-led coalition including
government of South Vietnam and coalition including Viet Cong and North Vietnam. |
| Late 20th century |
| 1967 |
Six-Day War in Israel. |
| 1969 |
Foodball War between Honduras and El Salvador. |
| 1973 |
Yom Kippur War between Israel and Arab states |
| 1979 - 1989 |
Afghan Civil War |
| 1980 - 1988 |
Iran-Iraq War |
| 1982 |
Falklands War |
| 1989 - 1990 |
Operation Just Cause (aka The Invasion of Panama) |
| 1991 |
Second Gulf War between Iraq and US-led coalition |
| 1999 |
Kosovo War |
| Early 21st century |
| 2001 - |
US-led "War on Terrorism", including U.S. Attack on Afghanistan |
See also: List of Battles, Military History, War
