| 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 |
