List of conflicts in Europe

"War in Europe" redirects here. For the board game, see War in Europe (game). For wars of succession specifically, see List of wars of succession in Europe.

This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European states, civil wars within European states, wars between a European state and a non-European state that took place within Europe, and global conflicts in which Europe was a theatre of war.

There are various definitions of Europe and in particular, there is a significant dispute about the eastern and southeastern boundaries, specifically about how to define the countries of the former Soviet Union. This list is based on a wide definition that includes much of the interface between Europe and Western Asia.

BC

Battle of Cape Ecnomus, 256 BC

Pre-500 BC

• c. 5000 BC Talheim Death Pit
• c. 5000 BC Massacre of Schletz
• c. 5000 BC Massacre at Kilianstädten
• c. 1300 BC Tollense valley battlefield
• c. 1104–900 BC Dorian invasion
• c. 753–351 BC Roman–Etruscan Wars
• c. 753–494 BC Roman–Sabine wars
• 743–724 BC First Messenian War
• 710–650 BC Lelantine War
• circa 700–601 BC Alban war with Rome
• 685–668 BC Second Messenian War
• 669–668 BC Sparta–Argos War
• 600–265 BC Greek–Punic Wars
• 595–585 BC First Sacred War
• 560 BC Second Arcadian War
• 540 BC Battle of Alalia
• 538–522 BC Polycrates wars

500–200 BC

• 509–396 BC Early Italian campaigns
• 500–499 BC Persian invasion of Naxos'
• 499–493 BC Ionian Revolt
• 492–490 BC First Persian invasion of Greece
• 482–479 BC Second Persian invasion of Greece
• 480–307 BC Sicilian Wars
• 460–445 BC First Peloponnesian War
• 449–448 BC Second Sacred War
• 440–439 BC Samian War
• 431–404 BC Second Peloponnesian War
• 404–403 BC Phyle Campaign
• 395–387 BC Corinthian War
• 390–387 BC Celtic invasion of Italia
• 378–371 BC Boeotian War
• 378–362 BC Theban-Spartan War
• 357–355 BC Social War
• 356–346 BC Third Sacred War
• 346-344 BC Foreign War
• 335 BC Alexander's Balkan campaign
• 323–322 BC Lamian War
• 280–275 BC Pyrrhic War
• 272 BC Pyrrhus' invasion of the Peloponnese
• 267–261 BC Chremonidean War
• 264–241 BC First Punic War
• 229– 222 BC Cleomenean War
• 229–228 BC First Illyrian War
• 220–216 BC Lyttian War
• 220–217 BC Social War
• 220–219 BC Second Illyrian War
• 218–201 BC Second Punic War
• 214–205 BC First Macedonian War

200 BC onwards

• 200–197 BC Second Macedonian War
• 195 BC Laconian War
• 191–189 BC Aetolian War
• 171–168 BC Third Macedonian War
• 146 BC Achaean War
• 135–132 BC First Servile War
• 113–101 BC Cimbrian War
• 113 BC – 476 AD Germanic Wars
• 104–100 BC Second Servile War
• 91–87 BC Social War
• 87 BC Bellum Octavianum
• 85 BC Colchis uprising against Pontus
• 80–72 BC Sertorian War
• 82–81 BC Sulla's civil war
• 77 BC Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
• 73–71 BC Third Servile War
• 73–63 BC Roman Expansion in Syria & Judea
• 65–63 BC Pompey's campaign in Caucasus
• 63–62 BC Second Catilinarian conspiracy
• 55–54 BC Caesar's invasions of Britain
• 58–51 BC Gallic Wars
• 49–45 BC Caesar's Civil War
• 42–36 BC Bellum Siculum
• 43 BC Battle of Mutina
• 43–42 BC Liberators' civil war
• 41–40 BC Perusine War
• 32–30 BC Final War of the Roman Republic
• 29–19 BC Cantabrian Wars
• 12 BC - 16 AD Early Germanic campaigns

1st–10th century AD

Revolt of the Batavi, 69

Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 312

Battle of the Hellespont, 324

• 6–9 Bellum Batonianum
• 21 Revolt of Sacrovir
• 49–96 Roman conquest of Britain
• 51 Armenian–Iberian war
• 60–61 Boudica's uprising
• 69 Year of the Four Emperors
• 69–70 Revolt of the Batavi
• 86–88 Domitian's Dacian War
• 101–106 Trajan's Dacian Wars
• 166–180 Marcomannic Wars
• 193 Year of the Five Emperors
• 208–210 Roman invasion of Caledonia
• 235–284 Crisis of the Third Century
• 238 Year of the Six Emperors
• 267–269 Gothic War (267–269)
• 274 Battle of Châlons
• 284–285 Roman civil war
• 306–324 Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
• 350–353 Roman civil war
• 356–378 Roman-Alamanni War
• 360–361 Roman civil war
• 367–368 Great Conspiracy
• 367–369 Gothic War (367–369)
• 376–382 Gothic War (376–382)
• 387–388 Roman civil war
• 394 Roman civil war (394)
• 395-398 Revolt of Alaric I
• 398 Stilicho's Pictish War
• 401–403 Gothic War (401–403)
• 405–406 War of Radagaisus
• 406–413 Roman civil war (Constantine III)
  • 409–411 Gerontian Revolt
  • 411–413 Revolt of Jovinus
  • 412-413 War of Heraclianus
• 409–418 Gothic War (409–418)
• 409–417: Bagaudae Revolt, uprising in the Loire valley and Brittany
• 416–418 Gothic War in Spain (416-418)
• 420 Battle of the Nervasos Mountains
• 422 Battle of Tarraco
• 424–425 Roman civil war (Joannes vs Galla Placidia)
• 425–426: Gothic revolt of Theodoric I
• 428: Frankish War (428)
• 430-431 Aetius campaign in the Alps
• 431-432: Frankish War (431–432)
• 432 Roman civil war of 432
• 435-436: Burgundian Revolt of Gunther - Flavius Aetius defects the Burgundians.
• 435–437: Bagaudae uprising under Tibatto in Gaul suppressed by Flavius Aetius.
• 436-439: Gothic War (436-439)
• 436–437 Hunnic-Burgundian War
• 439-443 Vandal War
• 441-453 Attila's invasion of the Roman Empire
• 455 Vandalic Sack of Rome
• 456 Gothic War in Spain (456)
• 457-458 Gothic War
• 461-468 Vandal War
• 461–476 Gothic War (461–476)
• 486 Battle of Soissons
• 492-508 Franco-Visigothic Wars
• 526–532 Iberian War
• 533-534 Vandalic War
• 535–554 Gothic War (535–554)
• 542–562 Lazic War
• 582–602 Maurice's Balkan campaigns
• c. 600–793 Frisian–Frankish wars
• 650–799 Arab–Khazar wars
• 680–1355 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars
  • 680 Battle of Ongal
• 695–717 Twenty Years' Anarchy
• 708 Byzantine–Bulgarian battle of Anchialus
• 711–718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania
• 715–718 Frankish Civil War (715–718)
• 717–718 Second Siege of Constantinople
• 722–1492 Reconquista
  • 719–759 Umayyad invasion of Gaul
• 735–737 Marwan ibn Muhammad's invasion of Georgia
• 759 Byzantine-Bulgarian battle of the Rishki Pass
• 772–804 Saxon Wars
• 792 Byzantine-Bulgarian battle of Marcellae
• c. 800/862–973 Hungarian invasions of Europe
• 809 Siege of Serdica (Sofia)
• 811 Byzantine-Bulgarian battle of Vărbitsa Pass (Battle of Pliska)
• 813 Byzantine-Bulgarian battle of Versinikia
• 830s Paphlagonian expedition of the Rus'
• 839–1330 Bulgarian–Serb Wars (medieval)
  • 839–842 Bulgarian–Serb War (839–842)
  • 853 Bulgarian–Serb War (853)
  • 917–924 Bulgarian–Serb wars of 917–924
• 854–1000 Croatian–Bulgarian wars
  • 854 Croatian–Bulgarian battle of 854
  • 926 Croatian–Bulgarian battle of 926
  • 998 Siege of Zadar
• 860 Rus'–Byzantine War (860)
• 865–878 Invasion of the Great Heathen Army
• 880–1380 Bulgarian–Hungarian wars
  • 896 Battle of Southern Buh
• 894–896 Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896
• 907 Rus'–Byzantine War (907)
• 913–927 Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927
  • 917 Battle of Achelous
• 914 Arab-Georgian War
• 939 Battle of Andernach
• 941 Rus'–Byzantine War (941)
• 955 Battle of Recknitz
• 963–967 Polish–Veletian War
• 967/968–971 Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria
• 980 Battle of Tara
• 982 Battle of Stilo
• 983 Great Slav Rising
• 986 Battle of the Gates of Trajan

11th century

Battle of Hastings (1066)

• 1002–1018 German–Polish War
• 1014–1208 Byzantine–Georgian wars
• 1014 Battle of Clontarf
• 1014 Battle of Kleidion
• 1015–1016 Pisan–Genoese expeditions to Sardinia
• 1015–1016 Cnut's invasion of England
• 1018 Battle of Vlaardingen
• 1018 Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria
• 1024 Battle of Listven
• 1024 Rus'–Byzantine War
• c. 1037–1047 Miecław's Rebellion
• 1040-1041 Bulgarian Uprising of Peter Delyan
• 1043 Rus'–Byzantine War
• 1044 Battle of Ménfő
• 1046 Vata pagan uprising
• 1048–1064 Invasion of Denmark
• 1050–1185 Byzantine–Norman wars
• 1051-1052 German-Hungarian War
• 1057 Battle of Petroe
• 1060 Battle of the Theben Pass
• 1063 German invasion of Hungary
• 1065–1067 War of the Three Sanchos
• 1066 Norwegian invasion of England
• 1066–1088 Norman conquest of England
• 1067–1194 Norman invasion of Wales
• 1067 Battle on the Nemiga River
• 1068 Pecheneg invasion of Hungary
• 1068 Battle of the Alta River
• 1072 Bulgarian Uprising of Georgi Voyteh
• 1073–1075 Saxon Rebellion
• 1074 Hungarian Civil War
• 1075 Revolt of the Earls
• 1077–1088 Great Saxon Revolt
• 1078 Battle of Kalavrye
• 1088 Rebellion of 1088
• 1091 Hungarian occupation of Croatia
• 1093 Battle of Schmilau
• 1093 Battle of the Stugna River
• 1097 Battle of Gvozd Mountain
• 1099–1204 Georgian–Seljuk wars

12th century

Monument of Didgori Battle, Georgia

• 1109 Battle of Głogów
• 1115 Battle of Welfesholz
• 1121 Battle of Didgori
• 1126 Battle of Chlumec
• 1125–1186 Guelphs and Ghibellines
• 1127–1129 Byzantine-Hungarian War
• 1130–1240 Civil war era in Norway
• 1135–1153 The Anarchy
• 1142–1445 Swedish–Novgorodian Wars
• 1144–1162 Baussenque Wars
• 1146 Battle of the Fischa
• 1159–1345 Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines
• 1164 Battle of Verchen
• 1167 Battle of Sirmium
• 1169–1175 Norman invasion of Ireland
• 1173–1174 Revolt of 1173–74
• 1185–1204 Uprising of Asen and Peter
• 1198 Battle of Gisors
• 1198–1290 Livonian Crusade
• 1198–1215 German throne dispute

13th century

Battle of Muret, 1213

• 1201 Battle of Stellau
• 1202 Siege of Zadar
• 1202–1214 Anglo-French War
• 1204–1261 Nicaean–Latin wars
• 1205 Battle of Serres (1205)
• 1205 Battle of Zawichost
• 1205 Battle of Adrianople (1205)
• 1206 Battle of Rodosto
• 1206 Battle of Rusion
• 1207 Battle of Messinopolis
• 1208 Battle of Beroia (1208)
• 1208 Battle of Philippopolis (1208)
• 1208–1227 Conquest of Estonia
• 1209–1229 Albigensian Crusade
• 1211 Welsh uprising of 1211
• 1215–1217 First Barons' War
• 1216–1392 Guelphs and Ghibellines
• 1216–1222 War of Succession of Champagne
• 1220–1264 Age of the Sturlungs
• 1223–1241 Mongol invasion of Europe
• 1223–1480 Tatar raids against Rus'
• 1224 Siege of La Rochelle
• 1227 Battle of Bornhöved
• 1228–1230 War of the Keys
• 1230 Battle of Klokotnitsa
• 1231–1233 Friso-Drentic War
• 1234–1238 Georgian-Mongol War
• 1235 Siege of Constantinople (1235)
• 1236–1238 First war against Swantopolk II
• 1239–1245 Teltow War
• 1241–1242 First Mongol invasion of Hungary
• 1242–1243 Mongol invasion of Bulgaria and Serbia
• 1242 Saintonge War
• 1242–1249 Prussian uprisings
• 1246–1282 War of the Babenberg Succession
• 1256–1258 War of the Euboeote Succession
• 1256–1381 Venetian–Genoese Wars
• 1256–1422 Friso-Hollandic Wars
• 1260 Battle of Kressenbrunn
• 1260–1274 Prussian uprisings
• 1262–1266 Scottish–Norwegian War
• 1264–1267 Second Barons' War
• 1264–1265 Hungarian Civil War
• 1269–1272 Civil war in Pomerelia
• 1275–1276 The war against Valdemar Birgersson
• 1276–1278 6000-mark war
• 1276 War of Navarra
• 1277–1280 Uprising of Ivaylo
• 1278 Battle on the Marchfeld
• 1282 Cumanic uprising in Hungary
• 1282–1302 War of the Sicilian Vespers
• 1283–1289 War of the Limburg Succession
• 1284–1285 Aragonese Crusade
• 1285–1286 Second Mongol invasion of Hungary
• 1288–1295 War of the Outlaws
• 1296–1357 Wars of Scottish Independence
• 1297–1305 Franco-Flemish War
• 1298 Battle of Göllheim

14th century

Battle of Sluys, 1340, from a manuscript

Battle of Nájera, 1367

• 1301–1308 Hungarian Interregnum
• 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs
• 1304 Battle of Skafida
• 1304–1310 The Swedish brother's feud
• 1307 Battle of Lucka
• 1310 – 1313 Henry VII's Italian campaign
• 1311 Battle of Halmyros
• 1311–1312 Rebellion of mayor Albert
• 1312 Battle of Rozgony
• 1313 Battle of Gammelsdorf
• 1321–1322 Despenser War
• 1321–1328 Byzantine civil war of 1321–28
• 1322 Battle of Bliska
• 1322 Battle of Mühldorf
• 1323–1328 Peasant revolt in Flanders
• 1324 War of Saint-Sardos
• 1326–1332 Polish–Teutonic War
• 1330 Hungarian-Wallachian War
• 1332 Battle of Rusokastro
• 1333–1338 Burke Civil War
• 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War
• 1340–1392 Galicia–Volhynia Wars
• 1341–1347 Byzantine civil war of 1341–47
• 1342–1350 Zealot's Rebellion
• 1343–1345 St. George's Night Uprising
• 1345–1396 Bulgarian–Ottoman wars
  • 1345 Battle of Peritheorion
  • 1355 Battle of Ihtiman
  • 1382/1385 Siege of Sofia
  • 1396 Battle of Nicopolis
• 1347–1352 Neapolitan campaigns of Louis the Great
• 1350–1498 Wars of the Vetkopers and Schieringers
• 1350–1490 Hook and Cod wars
• 1356–1358 Jacquerie
• 1356–1375 War of the Two Peters
• 1362 Battle of Helsingborg
• 1362–1457 War of the Bands
• 1366–1367 Savoyard crusade
• 1366–1369 Castilian Civil War
• 1366–1526 Hungarian-Ottoman Wars
• 1366–1367 Savoyard crusade
• 1369–1370 First Fernandine War
• 1371–1413 Serbian–Ottoman wars
  • 1371 Battle of Maritsa
  • 1385/1387 Battle of Pločnik
• 1371 Battle of Baesweiler
• 1371–1379 War of the Guelderian Succession
• 1371–1381 War of Chioggia
• 1372–1373 Second Fernandine War
• 1373–1377 Władysław the White's Rebellion
• 1373–1379 Byzantine civil war of 1373–79
• 1375 Gugler War
• 1375–1378 War of the Eight Saints
• 1381 Peasants' Revolt
• 1381–1382 Third Fernandine War
• 1381–1384 Lithuanian Civil War (1381–84)
• 1382 Harelle and Maillotins Revolt
• 1381–1404 Second Georgian–Mongol War
• 1383–1385 Invasion of Portugal by Castille – Battle of Aljubarrota, 14 August 1385
• 1387 Battle of Margate
• 1389 Battle of Kosovo
• 1389–1392 Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92)
• 1395 Battle of Rovine
• 1396 Battle of Nicopolis

15th century

Battle of Formigny, 1450

• 1400–1415 Glyndŵr Rising
• 1401–1429 Appenzell Wars
• 1407–1468 Georgian-Turkoman War
• 1409–1411 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
• 1410–1435 War of Slesvig
• 1414 Hunger War
• 1419–1434 Hussite Wars
• 1422 Gollub War
• 1422 Battle of Arbedo
• 1425–1454 Wars in Lombardy
• 1431–1435 Polish–Teutonic War
• 1434–1436 Engelbrekt rebellion
• 1437 Budai Nagy Antal revolt
• 1438–1556 Russo-Kazan Wars
• 1440–1446 Old Zürich War
• 1441 Battle of Samobor
• 1443–1444 Long campaign
• 1444 Battle of Varna
• 1445 First Battle of Olmedo
• 1447–1448 Albanian–Venetian War
• 1449–1450 First Margrave War
• 1449 Battle of Castione
• 1449–1453 Revolt of Ghent
• 1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion
• 1451–1455 Navarrese Civil War
• 1453 Fall of Constantinople
• 1453–1454 Morea revolt
• 1454–1466 Thirteen Years' War
• 1455–1485 Wars of the Roses
• 1462 Night attack at Târgoviște
• 1462–1485 Rebellion of the Remences
• 1462–1472 Catalan Civil War
• 1463–1479 Venetian-Ottoman War
• 1465 Battle of Montlhéry
• 1465–1468 Wars of Liège
• 1466–1469 Irmandiño Wars
• 1467 Second Battle of Olmedo
• 1467 Hungarian - Moldavian war
• 1467–1479 War of the Priests
• 1468 Waldshut War
• 1468–1478 Bohemian War
• 1470–1471 Dano-Swedish War
• 1470–1474 Anglo-Hanseatic War
• 1474–1477 Burgundian Wars
• 1475 Battle of Vaslui
• 1475–1479 War of the Castilian Succession
• 1476 Battle of Valea Alba
• 1477–1488 Austrian–Hungarian War (1477–88)
• 1478 Carinthian Peasant Revolt
• 1478 Battle of Giornico
• 1479 Battle of Guinegate
• 1482–1484 War of Ferrara
• 1484 Battle of Lochmaben Fair
• 1485–1488 Mad War
• 1487 Battle of Crevola
• 1487 War of Rovereto
• 1488 Battle of Sauchieburn
• 1490-91 War of the Hungarian Succession
• 1492–1583 Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars
• 1493 Battle of Krbava Field
• 1493–1593 Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War
• 1494–1498 Italian War of 1494–98
• 1495–1497 Russo-Swedish War
• 1497 Cornish Rebellion of 1497
• 1497 Battle of Rotebro
• 1499 Swabian War
• 1499–1504 Italian War of 1499–1504 – 20,000 killed in action

16th century

Battle of Pavia, 1525

Siege of Eger, 1552

St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, 1572

Battle of Haarlemmermeer, 1573

Battle of Gravelines, 1588

A Burned Village, during the Cudgel War, 1596

• c. 1500–1854 Lekianoba
• 1501–1512 Dano-Swedish War (1501–1512)
• 1502–1543 Guelders Wars
• 1503–1505 War of the Succession of Landshut
• 1508–1516 War of the League of Cambrai – 31,000 killed in action
• 1509–1510 Polish–Moldavian War
• 1514 Poor Conrad's Rebellion
• 1514 Dózsa rebellion
• 1514–1517 Saxon feud
• 1515 Slovene Peasant Revolt
• 1515–1523 Frisian peasant rebellion
• 1519–1521 Polish–Teutonic War
• 1520–1521 Revolt of the Comuneros
• 1521–1523 Revolt of the Brotherhoods
• 1521–1523 Swedish War of Liberation
• 1521–1526 Italian War of 1521–1526 – 30,000 killed in action
• 1521–1791 Habsburg-Ottoman Wars
• 1522–1523 Knights' War
• 1524–1525 German Peasants' War
• 1526 Battle of Mohács
• 1526 Revolt of Espadán
• 1526–1530 War of the League of Cognac – 18,000 killed in action
• 1526–1538 Hungarian Civil War
• 1526–1527 Jovan Nenad uprising
• 1529 First War of Kappel
• 1531 Second War of Kappel
• 1531–1532 War of Two Kings
• 1534 Silken Thomas Rebellion
• 1534–1535 Münster Rebellion
• 1534–1536 Count's Feud
• 1536–1537 Reformation in Norway
• 1536–1537 Pilgrimage of Grace
• 1540 Salt War
• 1542–1546 Italian War of 1542–1546 – 47,000 killed in action
• 1542–1543 Dacke War
• 1543 Siege of Esztergom
• 1543–1550 Rough Wooing
• 1546–1547 Schmalkaldic War
• 1549 Kett's Rebellion
• 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion
• 1550 Battle of Sauðafell
• 1551–1559 Italian War of 1551–1559 – 75,000 killed in action
• 1552–1555 Second Margrave War
• 1554 Wyatt's rebellion
• 1554–1557 Russo-Swedish War
• 1558–1583 Livonian War
• 1559–1564 Spanish-Ottoman War – 24,000 killed in action
• 1560 Siege of Leith
• 1562–1598 French Wars of Religion
• 1563–1570 Northern Seven Years' War
• 1565 Great Siege of Malta
• 1566 Siege of Szigetvár
• 1568–1570 Morisco Revolt
• 1568–1648 Eighty Years' War
• 1569–1580 Spanish-Ottoman War – 48,000 killed in action
• 1569–1570 Rising of the North
• 1569–1573 First Desmond Rebellion
• 1573 Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt
• 1578 Georgian-Ottoman War
• 1579–1583 Second Desmond Rebellion
• 1580–1583 War of the Portuguese Succession
• 1583–1588 Cologne War
• 1585–1604 English-Spanish War – 48,000 killed in action
• 1588–1654 Dutch–Portuguese War
• 1587–1588 War of the Polish Succession
• 1590–1595 Russo-Swedish War
• 1593 Battle of Sisak
• 1593–1606 Thirteen Years' War
• 1593–1617 Moldavian Magnate Wars
• 1594–1603 Nine Years' War (Ireland)
• 1595–1621 Moldavian Magnate Wars
• 1595 Battle of Călugăreni
• 1596–1597 Cudgel War
• 1598 First Tarnovo uprising
• 1598–1599 War against Sigismund
• 1599 Battle of Șelimbăr

17th century

Relief of Genoa, 1625

Battle of Rocroi, 1641

Morning after the Assault on Copenhagen, 1659

Four Days Battle, 1666

Louis XIV crosses the Rhine at Lobith, during the Franco-Dutch War, 1672

Siege of Buda, 1686

Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue, 1692

• 1600–1629 Polish–Swedish War
• 1601 Battle of Guruslău
• 1602 Savoyard escalade of Geneva
• 1604–1606 Bocskai Uprising
• 1605–1618 Polish–Muscovite War
• 1606–1607 Bolotnikov Rebellion
• 1606–1608 Zebrzydowski Rebellion
• 1610–1614 Spanish-Ottoman War – 15,000 killed in action
• 1610–1617 Ingrian War
• 1611–1613 Kalmar War
• 1615–1618 Uskok War
• 1615–1617 Spanish-Savoian War – 2,000 killed in action
• 1617–1621 Spanish-Venetian War – 5,000 killed in action
• 1618–1619 Spanish-Ottoman War – 6,000 killed in action
• 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
  • 1624–1625 Siege of Breda – Spain vs. Holland, England
  • 1635 Siege of Leuven – Spain vs. Holland, France
  • 1637 Battle off Lizard Point – Spain vs. Holland
  • 1638 Battle of Getaria – France vs. Spain
  • 1639 Battle of the Downs – Spain vs. Holland
  • 1643 Battle of Rocroi – France vs. Spain
  • 1648 Battle of Lens – France vs. Spain
• 1618–1639 Bündner Wirren
• 1620–1621 Polish–Ottoman War
• 1625 Zhmaylo Uprising
• 1627–1629 Anglo-French War
• 1628–1631 War of the Mantuan Succession
• 1630 Fedorovych Uprising
• 1632–1634 Smolensk War
• 1637 Pavlyuk Uprising
• 1638 Ostryanyn Uprising
• 1639–1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms
  • 1639–1640 Bishops' Wars
  • 1641–1653 Irish Confederate Wars
  • 1642–1651 English Civil War
    • 1642–1646 First English Civil War
    • 1648–1649 Second English Civil War
    • 1649–1651 Third English Civil War
  • 1649–1653 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
• 1640–1668 Spanish-Portuguese War – 80,000 killed in action
• 1648–1659 Franco-Spanish War – 108,000 killed in action
• 1648–1657 Khmelnytsky Uprising
• 1651 Kostka-Napierski Uprising
• 1651–1986 Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War
• 1652–1674 Anglo-Dutch Wars
• 1653 Swiss peasant war of 1653
• 1654 First Bremian War
• 1654–1667 Russo-Polish War
• 1654–1660 English-Spanish War – 15,000 killed in action
• 1655–1660 Second Northern War
• 1656 War of Villmergen
• 1666 Second Bremian War
• 1666–1671 Polish–Cossack–Tatar War
• 1667–1668 War of Devolution – 4,000 killed in action
• 1670–1671 Razin's Rebellion
• 1672 First Kuruc Uprising
• 1672-1676 Polish-Ottoman War (1672-1676)
• 1672–1678 Franco-Dutch War – 342,000 killed in action
• 1672–1673 Second Genoese–Savoyard War
• 1675–1679 Scanian War
• 1676–1681 Russo-Ottoman War
• 1678–1685 Thököly Uprising
• 1679 Covenanter Rebellion
• 1683–1684 War of the Reunions – 5,000 killed in action
• 1683–1699 War of the Holy League – 384,000 killed in action
• 1685 Monmouth Rebellion
• 1686 Second Tarnovo uprising
• 1688 Chiprovtsi uprising
• 1688–1697 Nine Years' War – 680,000 killed in action
  • 1688 Glorious Revolution
• 1689 Karposh's rebellion
• 1689–1692 First Jacobite Rising
• 1700 Lithuanian Civil War

18th century

Battle of Denain, 1712

Bringing Home the Body of King Charles XII of Sweden, after the Siege of Fredriksten, 1718

Battle of Hohenfriedberg, 1745

Battle of Fleurus, 1794

• 1700–1721 Great Northern War – 30,000 Russians killed in action
• 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession – 1,251,000 killed in action
• 1703–1711 Rákóczi's War of Independence
• 1707–1708 Bulavin Rebellion
• 1712 Toggenburg War
• 1714–1718 Venetian-Ottoman War
• 1715–1716 Jacobite rising of 1715
• 1718–1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance – 25,000 killed in action
• 1722–1723 Russo-Persian War
• 1727–1729 British-Spanish War – 15,000 killed in action
• 1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession – 88,000 killed in action
• 1735–1739 Russo-Ottoman War
• 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession – 359,000 killed in action
• 1740–1763 Silesian Wars
• 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War
• 1745–1746 Jacobite rising of 1745
• 1756–1763 Seven Years' War – 992,000 killed in action
• 1757 Battle of Khresili
• 1763–1864 Russo-Circassian War
• 1768–1772 War of the Bar Confederation
• 1768–1774 Russo-Ottoman War
• 1770 Battle of Aspindza
• 1770 Orlov Revolt
• 1774–1775 Pugachev's Rebellion
• 1775–1783 American Revolutionary War
• 1778–1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
• 1784 Kettle War
• 1784–1785 Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan
• 1785 Battle of the Sunja
• 1787 Dutch Patriot Revolt
• 1787–1792 Russo-Ottoman War
• 1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War
• 1789–1802 French Revolutionary Wars – 663,000 killed in action
• 1790 Saxon Peasants' Revolt
• 1792 Polish–Russian War of 1792
• 1794 Kościuszko Uprising
• 1795 Battle of Krtsanisi
• 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798
• 1798 Peasants' War

19th century

Napoleon crossing the Alps before the Battle of Marengo, 1800

Battle of Austerlitz, 1805

Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Battle of Malakoff, 1855

Prussian troops quarter just outside Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1871

• 1803 Irish Rebellion of 1803
• 1803 Souliote War
• 1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
• 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising
• 1804–1813 Russo-Persian War
• 1806–1812 Russo-Ottoman War
• 1808–1809 Finnish War
• 1809 Polish–Austrian War
• 1815–1817 Second Serbian Uprising
• 1817–1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
• 1821–1829 Greek War of Independence
• 1821 Wallachian uprising
• 1823 French invasion of Spain
• 1826–1828 Russo-Persian War
• 1827 War of the Malcontents
• 1828–1829 Russo-Ottoman War
• 1828–1834 Liberal Wars
• 1830 July Revolution
• 1830 Belgian Revolution
• 1831 Ten Days' Campaign
• 1830–1831 November Uprising
• 1831 Canut revolts
• 1831–1832 Bosnian Uprising
• 1831–1836 Tithe War
• 1832 War in the Vendée and Chouannerie of 1832
• 1832 June Rebellion
• 1832 Siege of Antwerp
• 1833–1839 First Carlist War
• 1833–1839 Albanian Revolts of 1833–39
• 1843–1844 Albanian Revolt of 1843–44
• 1846 Galician slaughter
• 1846 Revolution of Maria da Fonte
• 1846 Solís Uprising
• 1846–1849 Second Carlist War
• 1846–1847 Patuleia
• 1847 Albanian Revolt of 1847
• 1847 Sonderbund War
• 1848–1849 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
• 1848–1851 First Schleswig War
• 1848–1849 First Italian War of Independence
• 1852-1853 Montenegrin–Ottoman War
• 1853–1856 Crimean War
• 1854 Epirus Revolt of 1854
• 1858 Mahtra War
• 1859 Second Italian War of Independence
• 1861–1862 Montenegrin–Ottoman War
• 1863–1864 January Uprising
• 1864 Second Schleswig War
• 1866 Austro-Prussian War
• 1866–1869 Cretan Revolt
• 1866 Third Italian War of Independence
• 1867 Fenian Rising
• 1869 Krivošije uprising
• 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
• 1872–1876 Third Carlist War
• 1873–1874 Cantonal Revolution
• 1875–1877 Herzegovina uprising
• 1876–1878 Serbian–Ottoman War
• 1876 Bulgarian April Uprising
  • 1876 Razlovtsi insurrection
• 1876–1878 Montenegrin–Ottoman War
• 1877–1878 Russo-Ottoman War
• 1878–1879 Kresna–Razlog uprising
• 1878 Epirus Revolt of 1878
• 1885 Bulgarian unification
• 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
• 1897 Thirty Days' War

20th century

Explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine, 1 July 1916, marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.

Republican International Brigadiers on a Soviet T-26 tank at the Battle of Belchite, 1937

German Stuka dive bombers in the Eastern Front (World War II) 1941–45

A Soviet IS-2 tank in Leipzig during the 1953 East Germany Uprising

Icelandic patrol ship ICGV Odinn and British frigate HMS Scylla clash during the Second Cod War

A "Sniper at work" sign in Crossmaglen, a symbol of the IRA sniper campaign in South Armagh during the last stages of the Northern Ireland Troubles

UNPROFOR troops on their way up "Sniper Alley" in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War

A Russian helicopter downed by Chechen militants, during the First Chechen War

• 1903 Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
• 1904–1908 Macedonian Struggle
• 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 1905 Łódź insurrection
• 1905 Revolution of 1905
• 1906–1908 Theriso revolt
• 1907 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt
• 1910 Albanian Revolt of 1910
• 1910 5 October 1910 revolution
• 1911 Albanian Revolt of 1911
• 1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War
• 1912 Albanian Revolt of 1912
• 1912 Royalist attack on Chaves
• 1912–1913 Balkan Wars
  • 1912–1913 First Balkan War
  • 1913 Tikveš Uprising
  • 1913 Second Balkan War
• 1913 Ohrid–Debar Uprising
• 1914 Peasant Revolt in Albania
• 1914–1918 World War I - 19,174,335 deaths
  • 1914 Caucasus Campaign
  • 1916 Noemvriana
  • 1917 Toplica Uprising
  • 1918 Judenburg mutiny
  • 1918 Cattaro Mutiny
  • 1918 Aster Revolution
  • 1918 Radomir Rebellion
  • 1918 Finnish Civil War
• 1916 Easter Rising
• 1917 Russian Revolution
  • 1917 February Revolution
  • 1917 July Days
  • 1917 Polubotkivtsi uprising
  • 1917 Kornilov affair
  • 1917 October Revolution
    • 1917 Junker mutiny
  • 1917 Kerensky–Krasnov uprising
• 1917–1921 Russian Civil War
  • 1917–1918 Red Army invasion of Georgia
  • 1917–1921 Ukrainian War of Independence
    • 1917–1921 Ukrainian–Soviet War
    • 1918–1919 Polish–Ukrainian War
  • 1918–1924 Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks
    • 1918 Left SR uprising
    • 1921 Kronstadt rebellion
  • 1918–1922 Heimosodat
    • 1918 Viena expedition
    • 1918 Aunus expedition
    • 1918–1920 Petsamo expeditions
    • 1918–1920 National revolt of Ingrian Finns
    • 1921–1922 East Karelian Uprising
  • 1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence
  • 1918–1925 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
    • 1918–1920 North Russia Intervention
    • 1918–1922 Siberian Intervention
  • 1918 Georgian–Armenian War
  • 1918–1920 Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–20)
  • 1918–1919 Georgian-Russian conflict over Sochi
  • 1918–1920 Armenian–Azerbaijani War
  • 1918–1920 Latvian War of Independence
  • 1918–1920 Lithuanian Wars of Independence
    • 1918–1919 Lithuanian–Soviet War
    • 1919 Lithuanian War of Independence (War against the Bermontians)
    • 1920 Polish–Lithuanian War
  • 1919–1921 Polish–Soviet War
  • 1921 Georgian–Russian War
  • 1924 Georgian Uprising against Soviet Union
• 1919–1920 Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–20)
  • 1918–1919 Hungarian–Romanian War
  • 1918–1919 Hungarian–Czechoslovak War
  • 1918 Yugoslav occupation of Međimurje
  • 1919 Hutsul Uprising
• 1919 Monarchy of the North uprising
• 1919 Sejny Uprising
• 1919 Khotyn Uprising
• 1918–1919 Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia
• 1918–1958 Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts
  • 1919 Polish-Czech war for Teschen Silesia
• 1918–1919 German Revolution
• 1918–1919 Greater Poland Uprising
• 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
• 1918–1921 Franco-Turkish War
• 1920 Armenian-Turkish War
• 1919 Christmas Uprising
• 1919–1920 Unrest in Split
• 1919–1921 Silesian Uprisings
  • 1919 First Silesian Uprising
  • 1920 Second Silesian Uprising
  • 1921 Third Silesian Uprising
• 1919–1922 Irish War of Independence
• 1920 Husino rebellion
• 1920 Vlora War
• 1920 Kapp Putsch
• 1920 Ruhr Uprising
• 1920 Slutsk Defence Action
• 1920–1924 Biennio Rosso
• 1921 Uprising in West Hungary
• 1921 February Uprising
• 1921 Charles IV of Hungary's attempts to retake the throne
• 1922–1923 Irish Civil War
• 1923 Corfu incident
• 1923 September Uprising
• 1923 Klaipėda Revolt
• 1923 Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt
• 1924 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt
• 1924 August Uprising
• 1925 Incident at Petrich
• 1932 Mäntsälä rebellion
• 1933 Casas Viejas incident
• 1933 Anarchist uprising in Spain
• 1934 Asturian miners' strike
• 1934 Austrian Civil War
• 1934 July Putsch
• 1935 Greek coup d'état attempt
• 1936 – 1953 Turkish Straits crisis
• 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
• 1938 1938 Greek coup d'état attempt
• 1939 German occupation of Czechoslovakia
• 1939 Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine
• 1939 Italian invasion of Albania
• 1939 – 1965 Spanish Maquis
• 1939–1940 S-Plan
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1939 Nazi German invasion of Poland
  • 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland
  • 1939–1940 Winter War(Soviet invasion of Finland)
  • 1940 Phoney War
  • 1940 Operation Weserübung
  • 1940 Norwegian campaign
  • 1940 Occupation of Iceland
  • 1940 Invasion of Luxembourg
  • 1940 Battle of the Netherlands
  • 1940 Battle of Belgium
  • 1940 Battle of France
  • 1940 Italian invasion of France
  • 1940 Soviet invasion of the Baltic States
  • 1940 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
  • 1940 Battle of Britain
  • 1940–1941 Greco-Italian War
  • 1941–1945 Soviet–German War
  • 1941–1945 Yugoslav anti-fascist resistance movement
  • 1941–1944 Continuation War
  • 1941 Uprising in Montenegro
  • 1942 Case Blue
  • 1942–1944 Northern Campaign
  • 1942–1956 Ukrainian Insurgent Army
  • 1943 Italian Campaign
  • 1944 Operation Market Garden
  • 1944 Warsaw Uprising
  • 1944 Western Allied invasion of Germany
  • 1944–1945 Lapland War
  • 1944–1945 Slovak National Uprising
  • 1944–1945 Liberation of France
  • 1944–1945 Battle of the Bulge
  • 1945 Second Battle of the Alps
  • 1945 Battle of Berlin
• 1944 – 1953 Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953)
• 1944 – 1960 Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
• 1944 – 1956 Goryani movement
• 1944 – 1956 Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
  • 1944 – 1953 Lithuanian partisans
  • 1944 – 1953 Estonian partisans
• 1945 – 1950 Crusader insurgency
• 1946 – 1949 Greek Civil War
• 1946 Corfu Channel incident
• 1947 – 1962 Romanian anti-communist resistance movement
• 1948 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état
• 1948 – 1949 Berlin Blockade
• 1948 – 1954 Albanian–Yugoslav border conflict (1948–1954)
• 1948 Zhapokikë Uprising
• 1949 – 1955 Operation Jungle
• 1949 – 1956 Operation Valuable
• 1950 Cazin rebellion
• 1953 Air battle over Merklín
• 1953 1953 Plzeň uprising
• 1953 Norilsk uprising
• 1953 East German uprising of 1953
• 1953 Vorkuta uprising
• 1955 – 1959 Cyprus Emergency
• 1956 Poznań 1956 protests
• 1956 Hungarian Revolution of 1956
• 1956 – 1962 Operation Harvest
• 1957 Fatti di Rovereta
• 1957 1957 United States Air Force incursion into Albanian airspace
• 1958 – 1961 First Cod War
• 1958 May 1958 crisis
• 1959 – 1974 Cypriot intercommunal violence
• 1959 – 2011 Basque conflict
• 1961 Vlora incident
• 1961 Berlin Crisis of 1961
• 1967 1967 Greek coup d'état
• 1967 King Constantine's counter-coup attempt
• 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
• 1968 – 1998 The Troubles
• 1968 – 1988 Years of Lead (Italy)
• 1972 – 1973 Second Cod War
• 1973 1973 Greek coup d'état
• 1974 – 1977 First 'Ndrangheta war
• 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
• 1974 Carnation Revolution
• 1975 Aleria standoff
• 1975 Hot Summer of 1975
• 1975 – 1976 Third Cod War
• 1976 – present Corsican conflict
• 1977 German Autumn
• 1978 Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport
• 1980 Iranian Embassy siege
• 1981 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt
• 1981 – 1984 Second Mafia War
• 1981 – 1983 Martial law in Poland
• 1985 Crisis of Sigonella
• 1985 – 1991 Second 'Ndrangheta war
• 1986 Evros River incident
• 1988 – present Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 1988 – 1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War
• 1989 – present Abkhazia conflict
  • 1992 – 1993 War in Abkhazia (1992–93)
  • 1998 War in Abkhazia (1998)
• 1989 – 1995 Gagauzia conflict
• 1989 – present Georgian–Ossetian conflict
  • 1991 – 1992 1991–92 South Ossetia War
• 1989 Romanian Revolution
• 1990 Leopoldov prison uprising
• 1990 Log Revolution
• 1990 – 1991 Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts
• 1990 – present Transnistria conflict
  • 1990 – 1992 Transnistria War
• 1991 January Events (Lithuania)
• 1991 The Barricades
• 1991 – 1995 Croatian War of Independence
• 1991 Ten-Day War
• 1991 – 1993 Georgian Civil War
• 1991 1991 Soviet coup attempt
• 1992 Submarine incident off Kildin Island
• 1992 East Prigorodny Conflict
• 1992 – 1995 Bosnian War
  • 1992 1992 Yugoslav campaign in Bosnia
  • 1992 – 1994 Croat–Bosniak War
  • 1993 – 1995 Intra-Bosnian Muslim War
• 1993 Submarine incident off Kola Peninsula
• 1993 1993 Cherbourg incident
• 1993 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
• 1994 – 1997 Nordic Biker War
• 1994 Battle of Grozny (November 1994)
• 1994 – 1996 First Chechen War
• 1995 Insurgency in Kosovo (1995–1998)
• 1996 Imia/Kardak crisis
• 1997 – 2017 Insurgency in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia
• 1997 1997 Albanian civil unrest
• 1998 – present Dissident Irish Republican campaign
• 1999 – 2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
• 1999 Incident at Pristina airport
• 1999 Prizren incident (1999)
• 1999 – 2009 Second Chechen War
• 1999 War in Dagestan (1999)

21st century

The Russian Army's Vostok Battalion in South Ossetia

Damaged building during the Russo-Ukrainian war, in Lysychansk, Ukraine, 4 August 2014

Battle of Bakhmut, 2023

• 2000 2000 unrest in Kosovo
• 2001 2001 insurgency in Macedonia
• 2001 – 2003 Pankisi Gorge crisis
• 2001 – present Abkhazia conflict
  • 2001 2001 Kodori crisis
  • 2006 2006 Kodori crisis
  • 2007 Bokhundjara incident
• 2002 – present Crisis in the Preševo Valley
• 2003 2003 Tuzla Island conflict
• 2003 – 2004 2004 Adjara crisis
• 2004 – present Georgian–Ossetian conflict
  • 2004 2004 South Ossetian clashes
• 2007 – 2015 Insurgency in Ingushetia
• 2007 Operation Mountain Storm
• 2008 Russo-Georgian War
• 2008 – present Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2008 2008 Mardakert clashes
  • 2010 2010 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
  • 2010 2010 Mardakert clashes
  • 2012 2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes
  • 2014 2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2016 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2018 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
  • 2021 – present Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis (2021–present)
    • 2022 September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes
  • 2023 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
• 2009 – 2017 Insurgency in the North Caucasus
• 2010 Blace bunker raid
• 2010 Raduša shootout
• 2011 – 2013 North Kosovo crisis (2011–2013)
• 2012 Lopota incident
• 2013 – 2014 Euromaidan
  • 2014 Revolution of Dignity
• 2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
• 2014 – present Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2014 Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
  • 2014 – 2022 War in Donbass
  • 2021 – 2022 Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 – present Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • 2022 – present Belarusian and Russian partisan movement (2022–present)
    • 2023 Wagner Group rebellion
• 2015 Gošince attack
• 2015 2015 Kumanovo clashes
• 2017 2017 Isani flat siege
• 2017 – present Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
• 2022 – 2024 North Kosovo crisis (2022–2024)

Ongoing conflicts

Ongoing conflicts in Europe

Conflict	Includes	Date started	Duration	Casualties
Dissident Irish republican campaign		1996	27–28 years	-50 killed
Russo-Ukrainian War	2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation War in Donbas Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine Russian invasion of Ukraine Belarusian and Russian partisan movement (2022–present)	20 Feb 2014	10 years, 8 months and 4 weeks	250,000+ to 285,000 killed, 300,000 to 400,000 wounded, as of February, 2023

See also

• Outline of war § History of war – a complete global listing
• List of conflicts in North America
• List of conflicts in Central America
• List of conflicts in South America
• List of conflicts in Africa
• List of conflicts in Asia
• List of conflicts in the Near East
• List of conflicts in the Middle East
• List of wars involving Rome
• List of wars involving England and France
• List of wars in Great Britain and in Ireland
• List of wars involving Bulgaria
• List of wars of succession in Europe
• List of countries in Europe by military expenditures