List of wars
Significant Wars in History
Ancient Greek Wars
499 - 494 BC Ionian Revolt
Ancient Roman Wars
Medieval European wars
- 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. 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,
- 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 Denmar/Norway, Russia and Saxon/Poland on one side and Sweden on the other side. In 1718, during a siege at the Norwegian border, Sweden's king Charles XII is shot dead.
- 1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War The North American phase of the War of Spanish Succession.
- 1701 - 1714 War of Spanish Succession
- 1739 - 1742 War of Jenkins' Ear
- 1744 - 1748 King George's War The North American phase of the War of Austrian Succession.
- 1740 - 1748 War of the Austrian Succession
- 1756 - 1763 Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the United States.
- 1754 - 1763 French and Indian War or the Seven Years' War
- 1775 - 1781 American Revolutionary War with the United Kingdom.
- 1789 - 1815 French Revolutionary Wars & Napoleonic Wars
Age of Rifles
- 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 Independence
- 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 - 1860Italian Independence War.
- 1861 - 1865 American Civil War in the United States of America.
- 1864 Second war of Schleswig
- 1866 Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War)
- 1870 - 1871 Franco-Prussian War
- 1877 - 1878 Russo-Turkish War
- 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 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 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."
- 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
- 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 (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. 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
- 1979 - 1989 Afghan Civil War
- 1980 - 1988 Iran-Iraq War
- 1982 Falklands War (United Kingdom Vs. Argentina)
Post-Cold War era
- 1989 - 1990 Operation Just Cause (United States Vs. Panama)
- 1991 Gulf War between Iraq and UN-led coalition
- 1991 Slovene War of Independence
- 1991 - 1995 Croatian War of Independence
- 1992 - 1995 Bosnian Civil War
- 1994 - 1996 First Chechen War
- 1998 - 1999 Kosovo War (NATO Vs. Yugoslavia)
- 1999 - now Second Chechen War
- 2001 - now Invasion of Afghanistan (campaign of War on Terrorism)
- 2003 - now Invasion of Iraq (campaign of War on Terrorism)
