Dates (some approximate) |
War |
Ancient Greek Wars |
c.1200 BC |
Trojan War |
499 - 479 BC |
Persian Wars[?]
491 BC Battle of Marathon
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Thermopylae |
431 - 404 BC |
Peloponnesian War |
334 - 323 BC |
Wars of Alexander the Great[?] |
Ancient Roman Wars |
264 - 241 BC
218 - 202 BC
149 - 146 BC |
Punic Wars |
215 BC -
197 BC -
168 BC - |
Macedonian Wars |
|
Julius Caesar's campaigns? |
48 BC |
Battle of Pharsalus |
31 BC |
Battle of Actium |
Medieval European wars |
955 |
Battle of Lechfeld |
1096 - 1291 |
Crusades |
1212 |
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa |
1314 |
Bannockburn |
1337 - 1453 |
Hundred Years' War
1346 Crécy
1356 Battle of Poitiers
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1429 Battle of Orleans |
1420 - 1436 |
Hussite Wars[?]
|
1455 - 1485 |
Wars of the Roses
Battle of Tewkesbury
Battle of Bosworth Field |
1454 - 1466 |
Thirteen Years' War. Between Poland and Teutonic Knights, which finally broke the power of the latter. |
pike & 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,
which ended its status as European power and which begun march of
Russia to power status. |
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 coaliton of Denmark/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 Jenkin's 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
Battle of Trafalgar 1805
Battle of Waterloo 1815 |
Age of Rifles |
1808-1809 |
The 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. |
1859 - 1860 |
Italian 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 |
Chinese-Japanese War |
1898 |
Spanish-American War |
1899 - 1902 |
Boer War in South Africa |
Early 20th century |
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" (rebellous 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 |
1939 - 1945 |
World War II (British Empire, United States, Soviet Union and others against fascist Germany, Italy, and Japan).
|
Mid 20th century |
1945 - 1949 |
Chinese Civil War. |
1948 - 1949 |
First Arab-Israeli War |
1950 - 1953 |
Korean War (UN-led coalition Vs. North Korea) |
1956 |
Second Arab-Israeli War |
1964 - 1973 |
Vietnam War. War between US-led coalition including
government of South Vietnam and coalition including Viet Cong and North Vietnam. |
Late 20th century |
1967 |
Six-Day War in Israel. |
1969 |
Football War between Honduras and El Salvador. |
1973 |
Yom Kippur War (Israel Vs. Arab states) |
1974 - 1991 |
Ethiopian Civil War |
1979 - 1989 |
Afghan Civil War[?] |
1980 - 1988 |
Iran-Iraq War |
1982 |
Falklands War (United Kingdom Vs. Argentina) |
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 |
1998 - 1999 |
Kosovo War (NATO Vs. Yugoslavia) |
21st century |
2001 - |
US-led War on Terrorism, including U.S. Attack on Afghanistan, 2003 Iraq war |