ancient
to 410 AD |
- Wars of Ancient Egypt
- Megiddo 1469 BC
Kadesh 1294 BC
- Greek & Persian Wars 499-448 BC
Peloponesian War 432-404 BC
Persian Civil War/Anabasis 401-400 BC
Corinthian War 395-387 BC
- Coronea 394
- Fourth Sacred War 339-338 BC
- Chaeronea 338 BC
- Macedonian Consolidation of Greece 335 BC
Conquests of Alexander the Great 334-323 BC
Wars of the Diadochoi 323-281 BC
Punic Wars 264 -146 BC
Gallic Invasion of Italy 225-222 BC
Second Macedonian War 200-196 BC
- Seleucid War with Rome 192-188
- Magnesia 190 BC
- Third Macedonian War 172-167 BC
- Pydna 168 BC
- First Mithridatic War 89-84 BC
- First Parthian War 55-38 BC
- Carrhae Campaign 54-53 BC
- Conquest Of Gaul 58-51 BC
Great Roman Civil War 50-44 BC
- Pharsalus 48 BC
- Wars of the Second Triumvirate 43-34 BC
- War of Octavian Against Mark Antony 33-30 BC
- Actium 31 BC
- German Wars
- Teutoberg Forest 9
- Conquest of Britain 43-60
Jewish Revolt 66-73
Dacian Wars 101-107
- Hunnic Invasion of Europe 372-454
- Châlons 451
- Gothic Invasion of the Roman Empire
- Adrianople 378
- Sack of Rome 410
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mediaeval
411-1494 |
- Vandal Invasion of Africa 429-435
English Settlement c 450-600
Gothic War with Justinian 534-553
- Lombard Conquest of Northern Italy 568
- Campaign and Battle of Tours/Poitiers 732
- Viking activity and settlement c 800-1066
- Clontarf 1014
- Magyar Invasions 850-955
- Lechfield 955
- Norman Conquest of Britain 1066-1071
Wars of the Byzantine Empire
- Manzikert 1071
- Crusades 1096-1270
- Conquests of Ghengis Khan 1190-1227
- Anglo-Imperial Invasion of France 1213-1214
- Bouvines 1214
- Wars of Ghengis Khan's Successors 1227-1388
- English Conquest of Wales 1282-1284
- War of the Sicilian Vespers 1282-1302
- Anglo-Scottish Wars 1295-1307
- Falkirk 1298
- Campaign and Battle of Bannockburn 1314
- Hundred Years War 1337-1453
- Wars of the Ottoman Empire
- Kossovo 1389
Fall of Constantinople 1453
- Swiss Wars of Independence 1403-1499
- Wars of the Teutonic Knights
- Tannenberg 1410
- Hussite Wars 1419-1436
Wars of the Roses 1455-1485
- Onin War (Japan) 1467-1477
Swiss-Burgundian War 1474-1477
Final Christian-Moslem War in Spain 1481-1492
- Fall of Granada 1492
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1495-1600 |
- Italian Wars 1495-1559
English Invasion of France 1513-1514
French Wars of Religion 1562-1598
Eighty Years' War/Revolt of the Netherlands 1568-1648
Lepanto 1571
Spanish Armada 1588
- Tyrone Rebellion in Ireland 1594-1603
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1601-1700 |
- Thirty Years' War 1618-1648
Bishops' Wars 1639-1640
English Civil Wars 1642-1651
Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652-1674
- Franco-Spanish War 1653-1659
- Northern Wars 1655-1661
- Scanian War 1675-1679
- Great Turkish War 1683-1699
- Monmouth Rebellion 1685
War of the Grand Alliance/War of the League of Augsburg/War
of the Palatinate 1688-1697
Jacobite-Williamite War in Ireland 1689-1691
- Jacobite Rising in Scotland 1689
Great Northern War 1700-1721
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1701-1815 |
- War of Spanish Succession 1701-1714
Jacobite Risings in Scotland 1715, 1745-1746
War of Polish Succession 1733-1738
War of Jenkins' Ear 1739-1741
War of Austrian Succession 1740-1748
Seven Years War 1756-1763
Polish Struggle for National Independence 1768-1776
American War of Independence 1775-1783
Russo-Swedish War 1788-1790
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1792-1815
Latin American Wars of Independence 1807-1825
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1816-1900 |
- Greek War of Independence 1821-1828
Belgian and Polish Uprisings 1830-1831
Greek Civil War 1831-I832
Spanish Carlist Uprising 1834-1839
- First And Second Sikh Wars 1845-1846, 1848-1849
US-Mexican War 1846-1848
First Schleswig War 1848-1850
Italian War for Independence 1848-1849
Crimean War 1854-1856
- Indian Mutiny 1857-1858
Franco-Austrian War 1859
- Struggle for Italian Unification 1860 -1870
American Civil War 1861-1865
French Mexican Adventure 1863-1867
Second Schleswig War/German-Danish War 1864
Austro-Prussian War/Seven Weeks' War 1866
Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871
- Russo-Turkish War 1877-1878
- Zulu War 1879
First And Second Boer Wars 1880-1881, 1899-1902
- Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895
Italo-Abyssinian War 1895-1896
Spanish-American War 1898
Boxer Rebellion 1900
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1901-2000 |
Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
Balkan Wars 1912-1913
First World War 1914-1918
Graeco-Turkish War 1920-1922
Russo-Polish War 1920
Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945
Second World War 1939-1945
French Indochina War 1945-1954
India-Pakistan War 1947-1948
Cold War 1948-1991
First Arab-Israeli War 1948-1949
Korean War 1950-1953
Suez Crisis/Sinai War 1956
India-Pakistan War 1965
Vietnam War 1965 -1975
Six-Day War 1967
India-Pakistan War 1971
Yom Kippur War 1973
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979-1988
Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988
Falklands War 1982
First Gulf War (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) 1990-1991
War in Yugoslavia 1990-1999 |
2001- |
- US Invasion of Afghanistan 2001...
Second Gulf War (US/UK invasion of Iraq)
2003...
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| This page is provided
as a quick reference to major (or at least famous) wars. Its perspective,
at least in the earlier period, is admittedly Eurocentric if not
Anglocentric, but it is hoped to broaden this. A few battles have
been included where they are better known than the names of the
wars in which they occurred, or where the dates of the wars are
ill-defined, but there is no great consistency claimed in this.
Readers should also appreciate that long periods of fairly constant
conflict are not shown well, or even at all, by a catalogue of
'official' wars.
The dates are, however, accurate as far as I am aware, though
I would be very grateful to hear from any readers who have corrections
or suggestions. In general, I have tended to rely on Dupuy and
Dupuy's excellent Encyclopaedia of Miliatary History
which is highly recommended.
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