List of Wars - Wars in History from Ancient Greece to Modern Era

List of wars - Wars in History

Table of contents
1.1 Ancient Greek Wars
1.2 Ancient Roman Wars
1.3 Medieval European wars
1.4 Pike and Shot
1.5 Age of Rifles
1.6 World War era
1.7 Cold War era
1.8 Post-Cold War era

Ancient Greek Wars
1200 BC Trojan War (believed by many historians to be a mythical event)
499 - 479 BC Persian Wars
431 - 404 BC Peloponnesian War
334 - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
300s BC - Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium
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Ancient Roman Wars

264 - 241 BC First Punic War
218 - 202 BC Second Punic War
149 - 146 BC Third Punic War
215 BC 197 BC 168 BC Macedonian Wars
91 - 88 BC - Social War
82 - 81 BC - Sulla's civil war
58 BC - 50 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
49 - 45 BC - Caesar's civil war
48 BC Battle of Pharsalus
31 BC Battle of Actium
291 - 306 War of the Eight Princes in China
533 - 534 Vandal Wars

Medieval European wars

1096 - 1291 Crusades
1337 - 1453 Hundred Years' War
1420 - 1436 Hussite Wars
1455 - 1485 Wars of the Roses
1454 - 1466 Thirteen Years' War. Between Poland and Teutonic Knights, which finally broke the power of the latter.

Pike and Shot

1568 - 1648 Eighty Years' War (war of Dutch independence)
1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1618 - 1648 Thirty Years' War across Europe, ends with the Peace of Westphalia.
1639 - 1652 English Civil War
1648 - 1660 The Deluge/Northern War, A series of wars involving Poland, Sweden, Prussia, Russia and Transylvania and Denmark
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 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
1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War The North American part of the War of Spanish Succession
1701 - 1714 War of Spanish Succession
1736 - 1739 Russo-Turkish War, 1736-39
1739 - 1742 War of Jenkins' Ear
1740 - 1742 1st Silesian War
1744 - 1748 King George's War The North American part of the War of Austrian Succession
1740 - 1748 War of the Austrian Succession
1744 - 1745 2nd Silesian War
1756 - 1763 Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the United States, and also 3rd Silesian War
1754 - 1763 French and Indian War or the Seven Years' War
1768 - 1774 Russo-Turkish War, 1768-74
1775 - 1781 American Revolutionary War
1787 - 1792 Russo-Turkish War, 1787-92
1792 War in defence of the constitution
1789 - 1815 French Revolutionary Wars / Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Trafalgar 1805
Battle of Waterloo 1815

Age of Rifles
1806 - 1812 Russo-Turkish War, 1806-12
1808 - 1809 The Finnish 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 War of Independence
1828 - 1829 Russo-Turkish War, 1828-29
1830 - 1831 Polish-Russian war following November Uprising
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.
1857 - 1901 Caste War of Yucatán
1859 - 1860 Italian Independence War
1861 - 1865 American Civil War in the United States
1864 Second war of Schleswig
1866 Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War)
1866 - 1868 Red Cloud's War between the Lakota and the United States
1870 - 1871 Franco-Prussian War
1872 - 1873 Modoc War between the Modoc and the United States
1876 - 1877 Black Hills War between the Lakota and the United States
1877 - 1878 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78
1839 - 1842 Second Anglo-Afghan War
1887 - 1889 Italo-Abyssinian War
1895 - 1896 First Italo-Abyssinian War
1894 - 1895 First Sino-Japanese War
1898 Spanish-American War
1899 - 1902 Boer War in South Africa

World War era
1905 Russo-Japanese War
1912 - 1913 Two Balkan Wars are fought for control of European territories of Ottoman Empire 1914 - 1918 World War I, initially in Europe, then worldwide
1917 - 1918 Russian Revolution
1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious 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."
1918 - 1920 Estonian Liberation War, Estonia against Soviet Russia and the Germans.
1918 Polish-Czech war in Teschen Silesia
1918 - 1919 Poland and Lwow against Westukrainian Republic
1918 - 1919 Great Poland Uprising, Provinz Posen against Germany
1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
1919 First Silesian Uprising
1919 - 1921 Polish-Soviet war Poland and Ukrainian Peoples Republic against Soviets
1920 Second Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
1921 Third Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
1934 - 1936 Northern Expedition by Kuomintang
1935 - 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War
1936 - 1939 Spanish Civil War
1937 - 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
1939 - 1941 World War II: Poland,British Empire, France against Germany, Italy, Soviet Union
1941 - 1945 World War II: (British Empire, United States, Soviet Union and others against fascist Germany, Italy, and Japan).

Cold War era
1945 - 1949 Chinese Civil War
1946 - 1954 First Indochina War
1947 - 1949 First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
1948 - 1949 First Arab-Israeli War
1950 - 1953 Korean War (UN-led coalition Vs. North Korea)
1956 Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War)
1962 - 1963 Sino-Indian War
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War between US-led coalition including government of South Vietnam and coalition including Viet Cong and North Vietnam
1965 Second Kashmir War (Second Indo-Pakistani War)
1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)
1969 Football War between Honduras and El Salvador.
1971 Bangladesh War of Independence (Third Indo-Pakistani War)
1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War)
1974 - 1991 Ethiopian Civil War
1975 - 1991 Lebanese Civil War
1979 - 1989 Soviet-Afghan War
1980 - 1988 Iran-Iraq War
1982 Falklands War between United Kingdom and Argentina

Post-Cold War era
1989 - 1990 Operation Just Cause, United States invades 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
1994 - 1996 First Chechen War
1998 - 1999 Kosovo War (NATO Vs. Yugoslavia)
1999 Second Chechen War
2001 Invasion of Afghanistan
2003 Invasion of Iraq

War is a reciprocated, armed conflict, between two or more non-congruous entities, aimed at achieving a subjectively designed, geo-politically desired result. In his book, On War, Prussian military theoretician Carl Von Clausewitz calls war the "continuation of political intercourse, carried on with other means."War is an interaction in which two or more militaries have a “struggle of wills”.

A civil war is a dispute between parties within the same nation. War is not considered to be the same as occupation, murder, or genocide because of the reciprocal nature of the violent struggle, and the organized nature of the units involved.

A proxy war is a war that results when two powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.

War is also a cultural entity, and its practice is not linked to any single type of political organization or society. Rather, as discussed by John Keegan in his “History Of Warfare”, war is a universal phenomenon whose form and scope is defined by the society that wages it. [4] The conduct of war extends along a continuum, from the almost universal tribal warfare that began well before recorded human history, to wars between city states, nations, or empires.

A group of combatants and their support is called an army on land, a navy at sea, and an air force in the air. Wars may be conducted simultaneously in one or more different theatres. Within each theatre, there may be one or more consecutive military campaigns.

List of Wars — Wars in History