List of Old wars - Definition

The following is a list of wars occuring before 1000 AD.

Wars in Ancient history

Ancient era BC

• 1600 BC - Hyksos conquest of Egypt
• 1200 BC - Trojan War
• 800 BC? - Messenians Wars
• 722 BC - 481 BC Wars of the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period
• 701 BC - Sennacherib's campaigns in the Near East
• 499 BC - 479 BC Persian Wars
• 480 BC - 307 BC Sicilian Wars
  • 480 BC First Sicilian War
  • 410 BC - 340 BC Second Sicilian War
  • 315 BC - 307 BC Third Sicilian War
• 475 BC circa - 221 BC Warring States Period in China
• 431 BC - 404 BC Peloponnesian War
• 395 BC - 387 BC Corinthian War
• 343 BC - 290 BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium
  • 343 BC - 341 BC First Samnite War
  • 327 BC - 304 BC Second Samnite War
  • 298 BC - 290 BC Third Samnite War
• 334 BC - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
• 323 BC - 322 BC Lamian War
• 323 BC - 280 BC Wars of the Diadochi
• 274 BC-200 BC Syrian Wars
  • 274 BC 271 BC First Syrian War
  • 260 BC 255 BC Second Syrian War
  • 245 BC 241 BC Third Syrian War
  • 219 BC 217 BC Fourth Syrian War
  • 202 BC 200 BC Fifth Syrian War
• 267 BC - 261 BC Chremonidean War
• 264 BC - 146 BC Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage
  • 264 BC - 241 BC First Punic War
  • 218 BC - 202 BC Second Punic War
  • 149 BC - 146 BC Third Punic War
• 215 BC - 168 BC Macedonian Wars
  • 215 BC - 205 BC First Macedonian War
  • 209 BC - 88 BC Parthian - Seleucid Wars
  • 200 BC - 196 BC Second Macedonian War
  • 171 BC - 168 BC Third Macedonian War
• Roman Servile Wars
  • 136 BC - 132 BC First Servile War
  • 104 BC - 100 BC Second Servile War
  • 73 BC - 71 BC Third Servile War or Spartacist Rebellion, started by Spartacus
• 122 BC - 105 BC Jugurthine War
• 91 BC - 88 BC Social War

89 BC - 85 BC - First Mithridatic War 83 BC - 82 BC - Second Mithridatic War

• 81 BC - 81 BC Roman Civil War of 82 BC, started by Sulla

74 BC - 63 BC - Third Mithridatic War

• 58 BC - 50 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
• 55 BC - 54 BC Julis Caesar's Roman invasion of Britain
• 53 BC - 51 BC - Parthian War of Marcus Licynius Crassus
• 49 BC - 45 BC Caesar's civil war
  • 48 BC Battle of Pharsalus
• 43 BC - 31 BC Roman Civil War
  • 42 BC Battle of Philippi
  • 31 BC Battle of Actium
• 40 BC - 37 BC - Parthian invasion on Syria and Asia Minor
• 36 BC - 33 BC - Marc Anthony' s invasion on Parthian Empire

Ancient era AD

• 43 Aulus Plautius' Roman invasion of Britain
• 51 - 63 - wars between Nero and the Parthians
• 66 - 70 The first Jewish-Roman War (aka the Great Jewish Revolt)
• 68 Year of the four emperors, Roman civil war
• 115 - 117 - Traian' s invasion on Parthian Empire
• 115 - 117 Second Jewish-Roman War
• 132 - 135 Third Jewish-Roman War (aka Bar Kokhba's revolt)
• 161 - 166 - Parthian war of Lucius Verus
• 193 - 199 - Parthian war of Septimius Severus
• 215 - 217 - Parthian war of Caracalla
• 220 - 265 War of Three Kingdoms in China
• 291 - 306 War of the Eight Princes in China

Middle Ages prior to 1000 AD

• 533 - 534 Vandal Wars
• 633 - 651 - Muslim Conqest of Sassanid Empire
• 718 - 1492 - Spanish Reconquista

also see

• List of wars