| Dates (some approximate) |
War |
| Ancient
Greek Wars |
| c.1200 BC |
Trojan
War |
| 499 - 479 BC |
Persian
Wars
491 BCBattle
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 |
| 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 fighting on the Norwegian border, Swedish
king Charles
XII is shot dead, after having defended his country in 18 years from
an coordinated attack by the coalition in 1700. |
| 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
Revolution & Napoleonic
Wars
Battle
of Trafalgar 1805
Battle
of Waterloo 1815 |
| Age of Rifles |
| 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 |
| 1846
- 1848 |
Mexican
War between the United
States and Mexico. |
| 1850
- 1865 |
Taiping
Rebellion |
| 1854
- 1856 |
Crimean
War. |
| 1859
- 1860 |
Italian
Independence War. |
| 1861 -
1865 |
American
Civil War in the United States of America. |
| 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 - 1922 |
Russian
Civil War, fought between "the reds" (communists) and "the whites"
(tsarists) directly after the Russian 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. |
| Mid 20th century |
| 1945 - 1949 |
Chinese
Civil War |
| 1948 - 1949 |
First
Arab-Israeli War |
| 1950 - 1953 |
Korean
War |
| 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 between Israel and Arab states |
| 1974 - 1991 |
Ethiopian
Civil War |
| 1979 - 1989 |
Afghan
Civil War |
| 1980 - 1988 |
Iran-Iraq
War |
| 1982 |
Falklands
War |
| 1989 - 1990 |
Operation
Just Cause (aka The Invasion of Panama) |
| 1991 |
Gulf
War between Iraq and US-led coalition |
| 1991 |
Slovene
War of Independence |
| 1991 - 1995 |
Croatian
War of Independence |
| 1992 - 1995 |
Bosnian
Civil War |
| 1998 - 1999 |
Kosovo
War |
| Early 21st century |
| 2001 - |
US-led "War
on Terrorism", including U.S.
Attack on Afghanistan, 2003
Iraq war |
