List of wars

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Table of contents

1 Wars in History

1.1 Era of Ancient Greece
1.2 Era of Ancient Rome
1.3 Middle Ages
1.4 Pike and Shot era
1.5 Age of Rifles
1.6 World War era
1.7 Cold War era
1.8 Post-Cold War era

2 Ongoing wars
3 Fictional Wars
4 Related Articles
5 Notes

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
480 - 307 BC Sicilian Wars
- 480 BC First Sicilian War
- 410 - 340 BC Second Sicilian War
- 315 - 307 BC Third Sicilian War
431 - 404 BC Peloponnesian War
334 - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great

Era of Ancient Rome

343 - 290 BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium
- 343 - 341 BC First Samnite War
- 327 - 304 BC Second Samnite War
  - 327 - 321 BC First phase
  - 316 - 304 BC Second phase
- 298 - 290 BC Third Samnite War
264 - 146 BC Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage
- 264 - 241 BC First Punic War
- 218 - 202 BC Second Punic War
- 149 - 146 BC Third Punic War
215 - 168 Macedonian Wars
122 - 105 BC Jugurthine War
91 - 88 BC Social War
82 - 81 BC Roman Civil War of 82 BC, started by Sulla
73 - 71 BC The Spartacist Rebellion, started by Spartacus
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
66 - 70 The first Jewish-Roman War
115 - 117 Second Jewish-Roman War
132 - 135 Third Jewish-Roman War
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
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
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 Habsburgs 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
1779 1st Cape Frontier War
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
1793 2nd Cape Frontier War
1794 Kosciuszko Uprising in Poland
1795 - 1798 United Irishmen Revolt
1799 - 1801 3rd Cape Frontier War

Ongoing wars

1966 - Colombian Civil War
1977 - Somalian Civil War
1978 - Afghanistan Civil War
- 1978 - 1979 Mujahideen and tribal forces against Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
- 1979 - 1989 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- 1989 - 1993 Civil War between different tribal military forces
- 1994 - 2001 Civil War between Taliban movement and Northern alliance
- 2001 - 2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
- 2002 - Conflict between U.S.-supported central government and tribal and Taliban factions
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

Fictional Wars

The Artilect War - (Dr. Hugo de Garis)

Clone Wars - (Star Wars)
Dominion War - (Star Trek)
Earth-Minbari War (Babylon 5)
Eugenics War - (Star Trek)
Forever War, The - (Joe Haldeman)
Galactic Civil War - (Star Wars)
Great Hyperspace War, The - (Star Wars)
Great Sith War, The - (Star Wars)
Hundred-Year Darkness - (Star Wars)
Idiran-Culture War - (Iain M. Banks)
Klingon Civil War - (Star Trek)
Man-Kzin Wars - (Larry Niven)
Romulan Wars - (Star Trek)
Temporal Cold War - (Star Trek)
War of the Jewels - (The Silmarillion)
War of the Last Alliance - (The Silmarillion)
War of the Ring - (The Lord of the Rings)
World War III

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Notes

Information about disputed conflicts

Coalition announced end of major combat operations on May 1 2003. Insurgency and counter insurgency operations continue. For more information, see Iraq Coalition occupation