List of wars - Definition and Overview

This is a list of wars.

Ancient era & Middle Ages prior to 1000 AD

• List of wars before 1000

Middle Ages after 1000 AD

• 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
• 1180-1185 Gempei War
• 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
• 1453 Fall of Constantinople
• 1454 - 1466 Thirteen Years' War. Between Poland and Teutonic Knights, which finally broke the power of the latter.
• 1455-1485 Wars of the Roses
• 1467-1477 Onin War
• 1467-1603 Sengoku Period - Japan's Age of the Country at War
• 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

• List of wars in the pike and shot era

Age of Rifles

• 1800 War of the Castes in Haiti
• 1800 U.S. Slave Revolt
• 1801 War of the Oranges
• 1801-1805 First Barbary War
• 1801-1807 Temme War
• 1801-1825 Paul's Assasination
• 1802-1805 Second war of Haitian Independence
• 1802-1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
• 1803-1804 British Expedition to Ceylon
• 1803 Emmet's Insurrection
• 1803-1815 Napoleonic Wars
  • 1804-1830 Black War
  • 1804-1813 First Russo-Persian War
  • 1804-1806 Serbian Revolt
  • 1804-1810 Usman's Jihad
  • 1805 War of the Third Coalition
  • 1806-1807 War of the Fourth Coalition
  • 1807-1814 Peninsular War
  • 1807-1814 Gunboat War
  • 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition
  • 1812 Franco-Russian War
  • 1813 War of Liberation, 1813
  • 1813-1814 War of the Sixth Coalition
  • 1815 Neapolitan War
  • 1815 War of the Seventh Coalition (aka the Hundred Days War)
• 1804 Irish convict Rebellion|Castle hill Rebellion
• 1804-1810 Fulani War in Nigeria
• 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War, 1804-13
• 1804-1835 Black War
• 1805-1811 Egyptian Revolution
• 1805 Janissaries' Revolt
• 1805 Haitian Invasion of Santo Domingo
• 1806-1807 Ashanti-Fante War
• 1806-1812 Russo-Turkish War
• 1806-1811 Christophe's Secession
• 1806 Vellore battle of independence from British
• 1806 Second Convict Rebellion
• 1807-1808 Janissaries' Revolt
• 1807-1814 Spanish Rebellion
• 1807-1818 Mtetwa Empire Expansion
• 1808-1809 The Finnish War between Russia and Sweden wherein Sweden cedes Finland to Russia
• 1808-1814 Second Iberian Peninsular War
• 1808-1809 Santo Dominican Restoration
• 1808 Bantam Conquest
• 1808 Rum Rebellion
• 1809-1825 Bolivian Independence War
• 1809-1810 Tyrolean rebellion
• 1810-1816 Argentine War of Independence
• 1810-1818 Ahmadu's Jihad
• 1810-1811 Anglo-Dutch Java War
• 1810-1817
• 1810-1820 Punjab War
• 1810 Chilean Revolt
• 1810 Conquest of Hawaii
• 1810-1818 Tukulor War
• 1810 Lamu Expansion
• 1810-1821 Mexican War of Independence
• 1811 4th Cape Frontier War
• 1811 Ga-Fante War
• 1811 Banda Oriental Occupation
• 1811-1812 Cambodian Ursurpation
• 1811-1812 Korean Revolt
• 1811 Owu War
• 1811 Tecumseh's War
• 1811-1818 Egyptian-Wahhabi War
• 1811-1825 Bolívar's War
  • 1811-1812 Venezuelan War of Independence
  • 1813-1814 Bolívar in Venezuela 1813-14
  • 1815-1816 Spanish Invasion of New Granada
  • 1816-1817 Bolívar in Venezuela 1816-18
  • 1819-1820 Bolívar in New Granada
  • 1821 Bolívar in Venezuela 1821
  • 1822 Republican Campaign in Ecuador
  • 1824-1825 Republican Campaign in Bolivia
• 1812-1814 War of 1812 fought between the United States and Britain, and part of the greater war between Britain and France
• 1813-1814 The Creek War
• 1814-1816 The Gurkha War
• 1814-1816 Ashanti Invasion of the Gold Coast
• 1814-1824 San Martin's War
• 1815 Second Barbary War
• 1817-1818 Chilean War of Independence
• 1817-1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War
• 1817-1819 Zulu Civil War
• 1817-1858 Seminole Wars
  • 1817-1818 First Seminole War
  • 1835-1842 Second Seminole War
  • 1855-1858 Third Seminole War
• 1818-1819 5th Cape Frontier War
• 1820-1823 Spanish Civil War, 1820-1823
• 1821-1829 Greek War of Independence
• 1821-1823 Turko-Persian War
• 1821-1825 Brazilian War of Independence
• 1821-1837 Padri War in Indonesia
• 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 Revolution
• 1834-1836 6th Cape Frontier War
• 1835 Toledo War between US territory of Michigan and the US state of Ohio
• 1835-1836 Texas Revolution
• 1837-1838 Patriot War
• 1837-1838 Rebellions of 1837 in Canada
  • 1837-1838 Lower Canada Rebellion
  • 1837-1838 Upper Canada Rebellion
• 1838 Pastry War between France and Mexico
• 1838-1839 Aroostook War
• 1839 Honey War between US territory of Iowa and the US state of Missouri
• 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 (aka 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
• 1845-1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
• 1846 7th Cape Frontier War
• 1846-1848 Mexican-American 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 Second Anglo-Sikh War
• 1848-1849 Hungarian Revolt of 1848 waged by Hungary against Austria and later Russia
• 1848-1851 First war of Schleswig
• 1850-1865 Taiping Rebellion
• 1851-1853 8th Cape Frontier War
• 1852 Second Burmese War
• 1853-1856 Crimean War.
• 1856-1860 Second Opium War
• 1857-1858 Indian Mutiny (aka the First War Of Indian Independence)
• 1857-1858 Utah War
• 1857-1901 Caste War of Yucatán
• 1861-1865 American Civil War
• 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
• 1868-1869 Boshin War between the Tokugawa Shogunate and the pro-Imperial forces in Japan
• 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 9th Cape Frontier War
• 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78
• 1878-1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War
• 1879 Anglo-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
• 1881-1885 Franco-Chinese War
• 1885-1886 Third Anglo-Burmese War
• 1887-1889 First 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, (aka the Thirty Days' 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
• 1911-1912 Turco-Italian War fought over Libya
• 1912-1913 Two Balkan Wars are fought for control of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire
• 1914-1918 World War I (at the time usually "the Great War"), initially in Europe, then worldwide
• 1916 Easter Rising rebellion in Ireland
• 1917-1918 Russian Revolution
• 1917-1920 Estonian Liberation War
• 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 Britain also intervened to "kill communism in the crib."
• 1918 Viena expedition
• 1918-1919 Poland and Lwow against Westukrainian Republic
• 1918-1919 Great Poland Uprising, Greater Poland against Germany
• 1919-Czechoslovak-Polish war in Cieszyn Silesia
• 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
• 1919 First Silesian Uprising
• 1919 Aunus expedition
• 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet war Poland and Ukrainian People's Republic against Soviets
• 1919-1921 Anglo-Irish War (aka the Irish War of Independence)
• 1919-1922 "Turkish War of Independence"
  • 1920-1922 Second Greco-Turkish War (aka War in Asia Minor)
• 1920 Second Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
• 1921 Third Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
• 1922-1923 Irish Civil War
• 1926-1928 Northern Expedition in China
• 1927-1937 Agrarian Revolution in China
• 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
  • 1941-1944 Continuation War; Part of WW II, Finland against Soviet Union
  • 1944-1945 Lapland War; Part of WW II, Finland against Germany
• 1941-1942 Border war between Ecuador and Peru

Cold War era

• 1944-1949 Greek Civil War
• 1945-1949 Chinese Civil War
• 1946-1954 First Indochina War
• 1947-1949 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 between India and Pakistan
• 1948-1949 1948 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
• 1957-1958 Ifni War
• 1960-1965 Congo Crisis
• 1960-1996 Guatemalan Civil War
• 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored invasion attempt by Cuban Nationals)
• 1961-1975 Angolan War of Independence
• 1962-1963 Sino-Indian War
• 1962-1970 Yemen Civil War
• 1964-1975 Second Indochina War
  • 1959-1974 Laotian Civil War
  • 1964-1973 Vietnam War between the U.S.-led coalition (including South Vietnam) and the National Liberation Front (NLF), backed by North Vietnam
  • 1967-1975 Cambodian Civil War
  • 1973-1975 Fall of South Vietnam
• 1964-1975 Mozambique's War of Independence
• 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (Indo-Pakistani War of 1965)
• 1965-1996 Chad Civil War
• 1966-1988 Namibian War of Independence
• 1966-1979 Zimbabwean War of Independence (Rhodesian Bush War)
• 1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)
• 1967-1970 Biafra War in Nigeria
• 1968-1970 War of Attrition
• 1969 Football War between Honduras and El Salvador.
• 1971 The Bangladesh Liberation War that in turn initiated the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• 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
• 1977-1978 Ogaden War
• 1977-1991 Cambodian-Vietnamese War
• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese 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 Lebanon War
• 1982-1984 Mozambique's Civil War
• 1983-2000 Civil War in Sri Lanka
• 1983-2005 Second Sudanese Civil War

Post-Cold War era prior to 1990 AD

• 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Post-Cold War era after to 1990 AD

• (see List of recent wars)

Related articles

• Military History
• War
• World War
• List of treaties
• List of battles
• List of civil wars
• List of fictional wars

Other:

• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Palestinian Intifada
• List of conflicts in Europe
• Wars between England and France
• List of Finnish wars
• List of Polish wars
• List of Spanish wars
• List of Swedish wars
• World War Three

External links

Major Episodes of Political Violence, 1946-2002 (http://members.aol.com/CSPmgm/warlist.htm)

• Radford, Robert, Great Historical Battles / Les grandes batailles de l'histoire (http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/robertradford0/grandes_batailles.htm#bataille). An extensive list of important battles and leaders, between -490 BC and present times.

These two organisations have, among other things, lists of current armed conflicts: http://www.sipri.org (Lists current conflicts in a yearbook) http://www.ploughshares.ca (Lists current conflcits on a map)