List of wars
Wars in History
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
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
- 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
- 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