Lists of wars

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
• 31 BC Roman Civil War and 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
• 1296 - 1328 First War of Scottish Independence
• 1321 - 1322 Kexholms War between Sweden and Novgorod ended up with Treaty of Nöteborg in 1323
• 1332 - 1333 Second War of Scottish Independence
• 1337 - 1453 Hundred Years' War
• 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

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
• 1499 - 1503 Turkish-Venetian War
• 1509 - 1513 Ottoman Civil War
• 1514 - 1516 Ottoman-Safavid War
• 1516 - 1517 Ottoman-Mamluk War
• 1521 - 1526 Ottoman-Hungarian War
• 1521 - 1523 The Swedish War of Liberation
• 1521 - 1523 Uprising of the Comuneros in Castile
• 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
  • 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 (to 1589: War of the Three Henries)
    • 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
• 1596 - 1597 The Club War in Finland
• 1594 - 1603 Tyrone Rebellion in Ireland
• 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 War, 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 - 1660 Polish-Swedish War
  • 1655 - 1656 Swedish-Brandenburg War
  • 1656 - 1660 Danish-Swedish War
  • 1656 - 1658 Russo-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
• 1716 - 1718 Austro-Turkish War
• 1715 - 1716 "The Fifteen"
• 1718 - 1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance
• 1722 - 1723 Russo-Persian War
• 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
• 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 - 1792 Russo-Turkish War
• 1787 - 1791 Austro-Turkish War
• 1788 - 1790 Gustav III's Russian War also known as Russo-Swedish War
• 1792 War in defence of the constitution in Poland
• 1792 - 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
  • 1792 - 1797 War of the First Coalition
    • 1792 - 1797 Franco-Austrian War
    • 1792 - 1795 Franco-Prussian War
    • 1793 - 1802 Franco-British War
    • 1793 - 1795 Franco-Spanish War
    • 1793 - 1795 Franco-Dutch War
  • 1798 - 1801 War of the Second Coalition
    • 1798 - 1802 Franco-Turkish War
    • 1798 - 1799 Franco-Russian War
    • 1799 - 1801 Franco-Austrian War
• 1794 Kosciusko's Uprising in Poland
• 1795 - 1798 United Irishmen Revolt

Age of Rifles

• 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 Franco-Russian War
  • 1813 - 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition/War of Liberation
  • 1815 The Hundred Days
• 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 War of Independence
• 1810 - 1818 War of Independence in Chile
• 1810 - 1821 Mexican War of Independence
• 1810 - 1836 Texas Revolution
• 1811 - 1828 War of Independence in Uruguay
• 1812 - 1814 War of 1812 fought between the United States and Great Britain, and part of the greater war between Great Britain and France
• 1813 - 1819 Colombian War of Independence
• 1814 - 1817 War of Independence in Argentina
• 1815 Second Barbary War
• 1817 - 1858 Seminole Wars
  • 1817 - 1818 First Seminole War
  • 1835 - 1842 Second Seminole War
  • 1855 - 1858 Third Seminole War
• 1821 - 1824 War of Independence in Peru
• 1821 - 1829 Greek War of Independence
• 1823 - 1826 First 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
• 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 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 Burmese War
• 1853 - 1856 Crimean War.
• 1856 - 1860 Second Opium War
• 1857 - 1858 Indian Mutiny also known as the 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 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 Burmese War
• 1887 - 1889 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
• 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
• 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 Great Britain also intervened to "kill communism in the crib."
• 1918 - 1920 Estonian Liberation War, Estonia against Soviet Russia and Germany.
• 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
• 1919 - 1921 Anglo-Irish War also known as the Irish War of Independence
• 1920 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 - 1942 Border war between Ecuador and Peru
• 1941 - 1944 Continuation War: (Part of WW II); Finland against Soviet Union
• 1944 - 1945 Lapland War: (Part of WW II); Finland against Germany
• 1941 - 1945 World War II: (British Empire, United States, Soviet Union and others against fascist Germany, Italy, and Japan).

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 (CIA sponsered invasion attempt by Cuban Nationals)
• 1961 - 1975 Angolan War of Independence
• 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
• 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 - 1989 Soviet-Afghan 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 - 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 Gulf War between Iraq and UN-led coalition
• 1990 - 1992 Rwanda Civil War
• 1991 War in Slovenia
• 1991 - 1992 Georgian war in Ossetia
• 1991 - 1995 War in Croatia
• 1991 - 1997 Sierra Leone Civil War
• 1992 - 1994 Abkhazian War in Georgia
• 1992 - 1995 War in Bosnia
• 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 - 1999 Kosovo War (NATO Vs. Yugoslavia)
• 1998 - 2000 Border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea
• 1999 Kargil Conflict
• 1999 - 2003 Second Liberian Civil War
• 2001 Macedonian War

Ongoing Wars

• 1977 - Somalian Civil War
• 1981 - Ugandan Civil War
• 1983 - Second Sudanese Civil War
• 1983 - Zapatista Revolution in Mexico
• 1984 - Colombian Civil War
• 1994 - Civil War in Democratic Republic of Congo
• 1994 - Civil War in Algeria
• 1996 - Civil War in Nepal
• 1997 - Civil War in Republic of Congo
• 1999 - Second Chechen War
• 2001 - Invasion of Afghanistan
• 2001 - Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire
• 2003 - Invasion of Iraq
• 2004 - Haiti Civil War

See also

Military History: War, List of treaties, List of battles

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