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List of wars

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Wars in History

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Era of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome

1200 BC Trojan War
800 BC? Messenians Wars
499 - 479 BC Persian Wars
480 - 307 BC Sicilian Wars
- 480 BC First Sicilian War
- 410 - 340 BC Second Sicilian War
- 315 - 307 BC Third Sicilian War
431 - 404 BC Peloponnesian War
395 - 387 BC Corinthian War
343 - 290 BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium
- 343 - 341 BC First Samnite War
- 327 - 304 BC Second Samnite War
- 298 - 290 BC Third Samnite War
334 - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
323 BC - 322 BC Lamian War
323 BC - 280 BC Wars of the Diadochi
274-200 BC Syrian Wars
- 274 271 BC First Syrian War
- 260 255 BC Second Syrian War
- 245 241 BC Third Syrian War
- 219 217 BC Fourth Syrian War
- 202 200 BC Fifth Syrian War
267 - 261 BC Chremonidean War
264 - 146 BC Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage
- 264 - 241 BC First Punic War
- 218 - 202 BC Second Punic War
- 149 - 146 BC Third Punic War
215 - 168 BC Macedonian Wars
Roman Servile Wars
- 136 - 132 BC First Servile War
- 104 - 100 BC Second Servile War
- 73 - 71 BC Third Servile War or Spartacist Rebellion, started by Spartacus
122 - 105 BC Jugurthine War
91 - 88 BC Social War

89 BC - 85 BC - First Mithridatic War 83 BC - 82 BC - Second Mithridatic War

82 - 81 BC Roman Civil War of 82 BC, started by Sulla

74 BC - 63 BC - Third Mithridatic War

58 - 50 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
53 BC - 51 BC - Parthian War of Marcus Licynius Crassus
49 - 45 BC Caesar's civil war
- 48 BC Battle of Pharsalus
43 BC - 31 BC Roman Civil War
- 42 BC Battle of Philippi
- 31 BC Battle of Actium
43 Roman invasion of Britain
40 BC - 37 BC - Parthian invasion on Syria and Asia Minor
36 - 33 BC - Marc Anthony' s invasion on Parthian Empire
66 - 70 The first Jewish-Roman War
51 - 63 - Parthian war of Nero
115 - 117 - Traian' s invasion on Parthian Empire
115 - 117 Second Jewish-Roman War
132 - 135 Third Jewish-Roman War
161 - 166 - Parthian war of Lucius Verus
193 - 199 - Parthian war of Septimius Severus
215 - 217 - Parthian war of Caracalla
220 - 265 War of Three Kingdoms in China
291 - 306 War of the Eight Princes in China
533 - 534 Vandal Wars

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Middle Ages

633 - 651 - Muslim Conqest of Persia
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
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
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.

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Pike and Shot era

1494 - 1559 Italian Wars
- 1494 - 1498 Charles VIII's Italian War
- 1499 - 1500 Louis XII's war with Milan
- 1500 - 1502 Franco-Spanish Conquest of Naples
- 1502 - 1505 Franco-Spanish War over Naples
- 1508 - 1510 War of the League of Cambrai
- 1510 - 1513 War of the Holy League
  - 1511 - 1514 Anglo-French War
    - 1513 Anglo-Scottish War (Battle of Flodden)
- 1515 - 1516 Francis I's first Italian war
- 1521 - 1525 First war of Francis and Charles V
  - 1521-1525 Anglo-French War
- 1526 - 1529 War of the League of Cognac
- 1536 - 1538 Third War of Francis and Charles
- 1542 - 1544 Last War of Francis and Charles
  - 1542 - 1546 Anglo-French War
    - 1542 - 1550 Anglo-Scottish War
      - 1549 - 1550 Anglo-French War
- 1552 - 1559 Last Italian War
  - 1557 - 1559 Anglo-French War
1495 - 1497 Russo-Swedish War
1499 - 1503 Turkish-Venetian War
1509 - 1513 Ottoman Civil War
1514 - 1516 Ottoman-Safavid War
1516 - 1517 Ottoman-Mamluk War
1521 - 1523 The Swedish War of Liberation
1521 - 1523 Uprising of the Comuneros in Castile
1521 - 1526 Ottoman-Hungarian War
1522 Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes
1522 The Knights' War in Germany
1524 - 1525 The Peasants' War in Germany
1526 - 1528 Hungarian Civil War
1526 - 1555 Ottoman-Safavid War
1528 - 1533 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
1531 Swiss Civil War between Zurich and the Catholic cantons
1532 - 1546 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
1533 - 1536 The Counts' War in Denmark
1537 - 1544 Renewed Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
1546 - 1547 Schmalkaldic War
1551 - 1562 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
1551 - 1581 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean (Battle of Lepanto (1571))
1552 - 1555 Charles V's war with Maurice of Saxony
1554 - 1557 Great Russian War
1557 - 1571 Livonian War
1559 - 1560 Scottish Rebellion against the French
1562 - 1598 Wars of Religion in France, also called War of the Three Henries or Huguenot Wars
- 1562 - 1563 First War of Religion
- 1567 - 1568 Second War of Religion
- 1568 - 1570 Third War of Religion
- 1572 - 1573 Fourth War of Religion
- 1575 - 1576 Fifth War of Religion
- 1576 - 1577 Sixth War of Religion
- 1580 Seventh War of Religion (Lovers' War)
- 1585 - 1598 Eighth War of Religion
  - 1589 - 1598 Franco-Spanish War
1562 - 1568 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
1563 - 1570 Northern Seven Years' War also known as Dano-Swedish War
1567 - 1573 Scottish Civil War
1568 - 1571 Morisco Revolt in Spain
1568 - 1648 Eighty Years' War (war of Dutch independence)
- 1568 - 1609 First Phase
- 1621 - 1648 Second Phase
1570 - 1595 Twenty-five Years' War between Sweden and Russia
1577 - 1582 Livonian War (Poland vs. Russia)
1577 - 1590 Turkish-Persian War
1580 - 1583 Portuguese Civil War
1585 - 1604 Anglo-Spanish War (Spanish Armada, 1588)
1590 - 1606 "Long War" between the Habsburgs and the Turks
1592 - 1598 Seven-Year War
1594 - 1603 Tyrone Rebellion in Ireland
1596 - 1597 Cudgel War in Finland
1600 - 1611 Polish-Swedish War
1602 - 1612 Turkish-Persian War
1609 - 1618 Russo-Polish War
1610 - 1617 Ingrian War between Sweden and Russia
1611 - 1613 War of Kalmar between Sweden and Denmark
1613 - 1617 Russo-Swedish War
1614 - 1621 Polish-Turkish War
1616 - 1618 Turkish-Persian War
1617 - 1629 Polish-Swedish War
1618 - 1648 Thirty Years' War across Europe, ends with the Peace of Westphalia.
- 1618 - 1625 Bohemian/Palatine Phase
- 1618 - 1629 Austro-Transylvanian War
- 1625 - 1629 Danish Phase
- 1625 - 1630 Anglo-Spanish War
- 1626 - 1630 Anglo-French War
- 1627 - 1631 War of the Mantuan Succession
- 1630 - 1635 Swedish Phase
- 1635 - 1648 French Phase
- 1635 - 1659 Franco-Spanish War (ending with the Treaty of the Pyrenees)
- 1645 Renewed Austro-Transylvanian War
1623 - 1638 Turkish-Persian War
1625 - 1629 Huguenot Uprising in France
1632 - 1634 Russo-Polish War
1634 Polish-Swedish War
1637 Pequot War
1639 - 1652 Wars of the Three Kingdoms also called the British Civil Wars
- 1639 First Bishops' War
- 1640 Second Bishops' War
- 1641 - 1650 Irish War
- 1642 - 1646 First English Civil War
- 1648 Second English Civil War
- 1650 - 1652 Scottish Uprising
1640 - 1656 Catalan Revolt
1640 - 1668 Portuguese War of Independence
1645 - 1670 Turkish-Venetian War
1648 - 1653 The Fronde
- 1648 - 1649 First Fronde
- 1650 - 1653 Second Fronde
1648 - 1660 The Deluge/Northern Wars, A series of wars involving Poland, Sweden, Brandenburg, Russia and Transylvania and Denmark
- 1648 - 1654 Cossack Revolt against Poland
- 1654 - 1656 Russo-Polish War
- 1655 - 1656 Swedish-Brandenburg War
- 1655 - 1660 Polish-Swedish War
- 1656 - 1658 Russo-Swedish War
- 1656 - 1660 Danish-Swedish War
- 1657 - 1660 Dutch-Swedish War
- 1658 - 1667 Russo-Polish War
1652 - 1654 First Anglo-Dutch War
1654 - 1659 Anglo-Spanish War
1657 - 1662 Turkish-Transylvanian War
1662 - 1664 Austro-Turkish War
1665 - 1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War preceded by the capture of New Amsterdam, renamed New York City
1667 - 1668 War of Devolution
1671 - 1676 Polish-Turkish War
1672 - 1678 Dutch War
- 1672 - 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
- 1672 - 1679 War between Brandenburg and Sweden
- 1675 - 1679 Scanian War between Sweden and Denmark
1675 - 1676 King Philip's War
1678 - 1681 Russo-Turkish War
1682 - 1699 War of the Holy League (Austria, Poland, and Venice vs. Ottomans)
1683 - 1684 War of the Reunions
1685 Monmouth's Rebellion
1688 - 1697 War of the Grand Alliance
- 1689 - 1691 Irish Jacobite Uprising
1695 - 1700 Russo-Turkish War
1700 - 1721 Great Northern War between a coalition of Denmark/Norway, Russia and Saxony/Poland on one side and Sweden on the other side
- 1710 - 1711 Russo-Turkish War, 1710-11, a part of the Great Northern War
- 1715 - 1717 Polish revolt against King Augustus II
1701 - 1714 War of Spanish Succession
- 1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War The North American part of the War of Spanish Succession
- 1703 - 1711 Hungarian Revolt
1714 - 1718 Turko-Venetian War
1715 - 1716 Jacobite Rebellion also known as "The Fifteen"
1716 - 1718 Austro-Turkish War
1718 - 1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance
1722 - 1723 Russo-Persian War 1722-1723
1722 - 1727 Turco-Persian War
1727 - 1729 largely bloodless Spanish war with England and France
1730 - 1736 Turco-Persian War
1733 - 1738 War of the Polish Succession
- 1736 - 1739 Russo-Turkish War
- 1737 - 1739 Austro-Turkish War
1740 - 1748 War of the Austrian Succession
- 1739 - 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear
- 1740 - 1742 1st Silesian War
- 1741 - 1743 Hats' Russian War betweeen Sweden and Russia
- 1744 - 1748 King George's War The North American part of the War of Austrian Succession
- 1744 - 1745 2nd Silesian War
- 1744 - 1748 First Carnatic War
- 1745 - 1746 "The Forty-five"
1743 - 1747 Turco-Persian War
1756 - 1763 Seven Years' War
- 1754 - 1763 French and Indian War (U.S. name for North American phase)
- 1749 - 1754 Second Carnatic War
- 1756 - 1763 3rd Silesian War
- 1761 - 1763 Spanish-Portuguese War
1763 - 1766 Pontiac's Rebellion
1768 - 1774 Russo-Turkish War
1768 - 1776 War of the Confederation of Bar in Poland
1773 - 1774 Pugachev's Rebellion
1774 - 1783 First Anglo-Maratha War
1775 - 1783 American Revolutionary War
- 1778 - 1783 Anglo-French War
- 1779 - 1783 Anglo-Spanish War
- 1780 - 1784 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
1777 - 1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
1779 1st Cape Frontier War
1785 - 1787 Dutch Civil War
1787 - 1791 Austro-Turkish War
1787 - 1792 Russo-Turkish War
1788 - 1790 Gustav III's Russian War also known as Russo-Swedish War
1791 - 1804 Haiti Revolutionary War
1792 War in defence of the constitution in Poland
1792 - 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
- 1792 - 1797 War of the First Coalition
  - 1792 - 1795 Franco-Prussian War
  - 1792 - 1797 Franco-Austrian War
  - 1793 - 1795 Franco-Spanish War
  - 1793 - 1795 Franco-Dutch War
  - 1793 - 1802 Franco-British War
- 1798 - 1801 War of the Second Coalition
  - 1798 - 1799 Franco-Russian War
  - 1799 - 1801 Franco-Austrian War
- 1798 - 1801 Quasi War
1793 2nd Cape Frontier War
1794 Kosciuszko Uprising in Poland
1795 - 1798 United Irishmen Revolt
1799 - 1801 3rd Cape Frontier War

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Age of Rifles

1800 War of the Castes in Haiti
1801 War of the Oranges
1801 - 1805 First Barbary War
1802 - 1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
1803 - 1804 British Expedition to Ceylon
1803 - 1815 Napoleonic Wars
- 1805 War of the Third Coalition
- 1806 - 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition
- 1807 - 1814 Peninsular War
- 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition
- 1812 Franco-Russian War
- 1813 War of Liberation, 1813
- 1813 - 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition
- 1815 Naepolitan War
- 1815 War of the Seventh Coalition also known as the Hundred Days War
1804 - 1806 Serbian Revolt in Ottoman Empire
1804 - 1810 Fulani War in Nigeria
1804 - 1813 Russo-Persian War, 1804-13
1804 - 1835 Black War
1805 - 1811 Egyptian Revolution
1806 - 1807 Ashanti-Fante War
1806 - 1812 Russo-Turkish War, 1806-12
1808 - 1809 The Finnish War between Russia and Sweden wherein Sweden cedes Finland to Russia
1809 - 1825 Bolivian Independence War
1810 - 1816 Argentine War of Independence
1810 - 1811 Anglo-Dutch Java War
1810 - 1818 Tukulor War
1810 - 1821 Mexican War of Independence
1811 4th Cape Frontier War
1811 Ga-Fante 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 -