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Note: This page is based on an earlier post, “America the Warmonger?“, due to continued and growing interest in the topic, I’ve decided to make it a static page. The Earlier post will no longer be updated, but rather will direct readers to this page. If you would like to link to this page, please ensure the proper URI, http://malagent.com/reference/war is used.

Below is the original content and updates.

Seems like someone is always trying to convince me that the United States is the cause of every single war or conflict throughout history. More specifically, that President Bush is the man personally responsible for everything even remotely related to war. Of course even attempting to refute any such claim results in a slew of insults and claims of Jingoism.

I’m no historian, however, it seems obvious (to me at least) that war predates the existence of President Bush and even the United States. The first instance of war that I know of is the Border War between Umma and Lagash in 2500 BC which was a few thousand years before American Revolutionary War from 1775-1783. This does not stop people from making such unqualified statements as “America is the most violent country in history” or “No nation has ever invaded as many countries or killed as many people as the U.S.” and of course no one can ever provide any evidence of this.

Every American has the right and (in my opinion) the responsibility to stand up for what they believe in. It is possible, and even very effective, to disagree with American foreign policy without inaccuracies, lies and misrepresentation.

After several weeks and dozens of hours of research, I have found that this is going to consume much more time than I anticipated. Therefore, this is and will remain for sometime, a work in progress. I’ve decided to go ahead and publish it while I’m working on it as the majority of what I have left is either aesthetic or just filling in the blanks. I’ve been as impartial and thorough as possible; If you find any errors or omissions of fact, leave a comment (with sources or references if possible) and I will research & correct it.

Casualty counts are often disputed, approximated and/or unknown. The most reliable statistics are listed where available. Ongoing conflicts will most likely end up in higher casualty counts, those posted are current as of October 2007.

Prehistory—1000BC

ca. 2500—2450 BC Border wars between Umma and Lagash
ca. 2330 conquest of Sumer by Lugalzagesi
2300 BC conquests of Sargon of Akkad
ca. 1720 BC Kassite attacks on Babylon
1650—1600 BC Conquests of Hattusili I and Mursili I
1600 BC Hyksos conquest of Egypt
1600 BC Xia-Shang War in China
1430—1350 BC Kaska invasions of Hatti
1100 BC Sea Peoples harrying the Mediterranean; Dorian invasion
1046 BC Shang—Zhou War in China

999 BC—1 BC

800 BC Messenians Wars
722 BC—481 BC Wars of the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period
701 BC Sennacherib’s campaigns in the Near East
8th century BC—7th century BC Lelantine War
499 BC—479 BC Persian Wars
480 BC—307 BC Sicilian Wars
- 480 BC First Sicilian War
- 410 BC—340 BC Second Sicilian War
- 315 BC—307 BC Third Sicilian War
475 BC—221 BC Wars of Warring States Period in China
431 BC—404 BC Peloponnesian War
395 BC—387 BC Corinthian War
343 BC—290 BC Samnite Wars (Rome vs. Samnium)
- 343 BC—341 BC First Samnite War
- 327 BC—304 BC Second Samnite War
- 298 BC—290 BC Third Samnite War
334 BC—323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
323 BC—322 BC Lamian War
323 BC—280 BC Wars of the Diadochi
274 BC—200 BC Syrian Wars
- 274 BC—271 BC First Syrian War
- 260 BC—255 BC Second Syrian War
- 245 BC—241 BC Third Syrian War
- 219 BC—217 BC Fourth Syrian War
- 202 BC—200 BC Fifth Syrian War
267 BC—261 BC Chremonidean War
265 BC—263 BC Kalinga War
264 BC—146 BC Punic Wars (between Rome & Carthage)
- 264 BC—241 BC First Punic War
- 218 BC—202 BC Second Punic War
- 149 BC—146 BC Third Punic War
215 BC—168 BC Macedonian Wars
- 215 BC—205 BC First Macedonian War
- 200 BC—196 BC Second Macedonian War
- 171 BC—168 BC Third Macedonian War
209 BC—88 BC Parthian—Seleucid Wars
206 BC—202 BC Chu-Han contention in China
191 BC—188 BC Roman-Syrian War
135 BC—71 BC Roman Servile Wars
- 135 BC—132 BC First Servile War
- 104 BC—100 BC Second Servile War
- 73 BC—71 BC Third Servile War (aka Spartacist Rebellion)
122 BC—105 BC Jugurthine War
91 BC—88 BC Social War (aka Italian War or the Marsic War)
88 BC—87 BC Sulla’s first civil war
89 BC—63 BC Mithridatic Wars
- 89 BC—85 BC First Mithridatic War
- 83 BC—82 BC Second Mithridatic War
- 74 BC—63 BC Third Mithridatic War
82 BC—81 BC Sulla’s second civil war
58 BC—50 BC Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars
55 BC—54 BC Julius Caesar’s Roman invasion of Britain
53 BC—51 BC Parthian War of Marcus Licinius Crassus
49 BC—45 BC Caesar’s civil war
44 BC—30 BC Roman Civil War
- 44 BC Post-Caesarian civil war
- 44 BC—42 BC The Liberators’ civil war
- 44 BC—36 BC Sicilian revolt
- 41 BC—40 BC Fulvia’s civil war
- 32 BC—30 BC Antony’s civil war
40 BC—37 BC Parthian invasion on Syria and Asia Minor
36 BC—33 BC Marc Anthony’ s invasion on Parthian Empire

AD 1—999

43 Aulus Plautius’ Roman invasion of Britain
51—63 Wars between Nero and the Parthians
66—70 The first Jewish-Roman War (aka the Great Jewish Revolt)
68 Year of the four emperors, Roman civil war
101—106 Dacian Wars
115—117 Trajan’ s invasion on Parthian Empire
115—117 Second Jewish-Roman War
132—135 Third Jewish-Roman War (aka Bar Kokhba’s revolt)
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
316—589 Civil Wars in China (triggered by Wu Hu Invasion)
533—534 Vandal Wars in North Africa
535—553 Gothic War in Italy
588 First Perso-Turkic War
598—614 Goguryeo-Sui Wars in Korea
619 Second Perso-Turkic War
627 Third Perso-Turkic War (Battle of Nineveh 627)
632—633 Ridda wars (aka Riddah wars & Wars of Apostasy)
632—677 Byzantine-Arab Wars (part of the Muslim Conquests)
633—651 Islamic Conquest of Sassanid Empire
639—641 Islamic conquest of Egypt
645—668 Goguryeo-Tang Wars in Korea
656—661 First Islamic civil war (Fitna)
650s—737 Khazar-Arab Wars
660—676 Civil Wars in Korea (for Unification by Silla involving Tang Dynasty)
680—1355 Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
711—718 Islamic conquest of Hispania
717—718 Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs (170,000+ dead)
756—763 An Shi Rebellion (China 36,000,000 Dead)
718—1492 Spanish Reconquista
732 Balhae Invasion of Tang China
721—737 Arab-Frankish Wars
751 Arab-Chinese War
772—804 Saxon Wars
793—1066 Viking raids across Europe
827—902 Arab conquest of Sicily
868—883 Zanj Rebellion in southern Iraq
892—936 Korean Civil War (Later Three Kingdoms)
894—970 Magyar raids (in Germany, France, Italy and Byzantine)
907—960 Chinese Civil War (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms)
927 Croatian-Bulgarian War
941 Siege of Constantinople by the Russians
977—978 War of the Three Henries
993 First Goryeo-Khitan War

1000—1099

1010 Second Goryeo-Khitan War
1014 The Battle of Clontarf, Ireland (expulsion of the Vikings by Irish forces)
1019 Toi invasion
1019 Third Goryeo-Khitan War
1021—1042 Byzantine-Georgian wars
1043—1044 Rus’-Byzantine War
1051—1063 Early Nine Years’ War
1064—1308 Byzantine-Seljuk wars
1066 Norman Conquest
1067—1068 War of the Three Sanchos
1081—1180 Restoration of the Byzantine Empire
1081—1492 Spanish Reconquista
1096—1291 Crusades
- 1096—1099 First Crusade

1100—1199

Crusades
- 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 a fictional event)
- 1217—1221 Fifth Crusade
- 1228 Sixth Crusade
- 1248—1254 Seventh Crusade
- 1270 Eighth Crusade
- 1271—1291 Ninth Crusade
1122—1127 Jurchen-Sung War
1159—1176 War of the Lombard League
1160—1184 Danish-Slavic Wars
May 1, 1169 The English backed Norman invasion of Ireland
1170—1203 Khmer-Cham War
1180—1185 Genpei War

1200—1299

1208—1227 Conquest of Estonia
1211—1276 Mongol invasion of China
1213—1214 Angevin-Flanders War
1215—1217 First Barons’ War
1218—1222 Mongol invasion of Central Asia
1223—1480 Mongol invasion of Rus
1223—1236 Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria
1231—1273 Mongol invasions of Korea
1240 Russo-Swedish War
1241—1242 Mongol invasion of Europe
1242 Teutonic-Novogorod War
1262—1267 Berke-Hulagu war
1264—1267 Second Barons’ War
1266—1268 French conquest of Sicily
1274—1281 Mongol invasion of Japan
1284—1302 War of the Sicilian Vespers
1287 Mongol invasion of Poland
1296—1328 First War of Scottish Independence

1300—1399

1301—1453 Byzantine-Ottoman wars
1302 French-Flemish War
1315 Swiss War of Independence
1315—1318 Irish War of Independence (led by self proclaimed High King of Ireland, Edward Bruce)
1321—1322 Kexholms War
1323—1328 Peasant revolt in Flanders
1332—1333 Second War of Scottish Independence
1336—1392 Nanboku—ch? period
1358 Jacquerie popular revolt
1385—1399 Tokhtamysh-Timur war
1337—1453 Hundred Years’ War
1341—1364 Breton War of Succession
1375—1378 War of the Eight Saints
1380 Muscovite-Mongol War
1383—1385 Crisis in Portugal
1386—1389 Ottoman-Serbian War

1400—1499

1400—1402 Ottoman-Timurid War
1405—1427 Chinese conquest of Vietnam
1409—1410 Teutonic-Polish War
1419 Oei Invasion
1420—1436 Hussite Wars
1422 Ottoman siege of Constantinople
1425—1454 Wars in Lombardy
1443—1468 Albanian resistance against the invading Ottomans
1453 Fall of Constantinople
1454—1466 Thirteen Years’ War
1455—1485 Wars of the Roses
1456 Ottoman siege of Belgrade
1460—1462 Ottoman-Wallachian War
1467—1477 ?nin War
1467—1603 Wars of Sengoku Period in Japan
1471 First Swedish-Danish War
1474—1477 Burgundian Wars between the Duchy of Burgundy and the Swiss Confederation
1478 War between the Principality of Moscow and the Republic of Novgorod
1480 Ottoman siege of Rhodes
1482—1484 War of Ferrara
1494—1559 Italian Wars
- 1494—1498 Charles VIII’s Italian War
- 1499—1500 Louis XII’s war with Milan
1496—1499 First Russo-Swedish War
1499 Swabian War
1499—1503 Ottoman-Venetian War

1500—1599

1499–1503 Third Turkish-Venetian War
1500–1504 Second Italian War
1506 Polish-Tatar War
1508–1516 War of the League of Cambrai
1509–1513 Ottoman Civil War
1514–1516 Ottoman-Safavid War
1515 Slovenian peasant revolt of 1515
1516–1517 Ottoman-Mamluk War
1520–1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico
1520–1522 Uprising of the Comuneros in Castile
1521–1526 Italian War of 1521
1521–1523 The Swedish War of Liberation
1521–1526 Ottoman-Hungarian War
1522 Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes
1522 The Knights’ War
1524–1525 The Peasants’ War
1524–1697 Spanish wars against the Mayas
1526–1528 Hungarian Civil War
1526–1555 Ottoman-Safavid War
1526–1555 Fourth Turkish-Venetian War
1526—1576 Mughal Conquest of India
1526–1530 War of the League of Cognac
1528—1540 campaigns of Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi
1531—1532 War of the two brothers
1528–1533 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
1531 Swiss Civil War
1532—1544 Spanish Conquest of Peru
1532–1546 Ottoman-Spanish Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
1533–1536 The Counts’ War in Denmark
1535–1538 Italian War of 1535
1542–1546 Italian War of 1542
1542—1543 Dacke War
1537–1544 Renewed Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
1540 Russo-Kazan War
1546–1547 Schmalkaldic War
1551–1559 Italian War of 1551
1551–1562 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
1551–1581 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
1552–1555 Charles V’s war with Maurice of Saxony
1552 Conquest of Kazan
1554–1557 Second Russo–Swedish War
1557–1571 Livonian War
1559–1560 Scottish Rebellion against the French
1562–1598 Wars of Religion (aka War of the Three Henries or Huguenot Wars) in France
- 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 (aka Dano-Swedish War)
1568–1571 Morisco Revolt in Spain
1568–1648 Eighty Years’ War (war of Dutch independence)
- o 1568–1609 First Phase
- o 1588–1654 Dutch-Portuguese War
- o 1621–1648 Second Phase
1570—1573 Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War
1570–1595 Twenty-five Years’ War
1570—1871 Native revolts against the Spanish empire in the Philippines
1571 Russo-Crimean War
1573 Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt
1577–1582 Livonian War
1577–1590 Turkish-Persian War
1580–1583 Portuguese Civil War
1585–1604 Anglo–Spanish War (Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588)
1590–1595 Fourth Russo-Swedish War
1592–1598 Japanese invasions of Korea (Japan vs. Korea and China)
1593–1606 “Long War” between the Habsburgs and the Turks
1593–1617 Moldavian Magnate Wars
1594–1603 Nine Years War in Ireland (Tyrone Rebellion)
1596–1597 Cudgel War in Finland

1600—1699

1600–1611 Polish-Swedish War
1602–1612 Turkish-Persian War
1609–1618 Russo-Polish War
1609 First Anglo-Powhatan War
1610–1617 Ingrian War
1611–1613 War of Kalmar
1614–1621 Polish-Turkish War
1616–1618 Turkish-Persian War
1617–1629 Polish-Swedish wars
1618–1648 Thirty Years’ War
- 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
- 1643–1645 The “Hannibal War” (aka Torstenssons War)
- 1645 Renewed Austro-Transylvanian War
1620—1645 Manchu Conquest of China
1622—1890 Indian Wars
1623–1638 Turkish—Persian War
1625–1629 Huguenot Uprising in France
1627—1636 Manchu invasion of Korea
1632–1634 Smolensk War
1633—1634 Polish—Turkish War
1634 Polish-Swedish War
1637 Pequot War
1639–1645 Kieft’s War
1639–1652 Wars of the Three Kingdoms (aka the British Civil Wars)
- 1639 First Bishops’ War
- 1640 Second Bishops’ War
- 1641–1650 Irish Confederate Wars
- 1642–1646 First English Civil War
  - 1644–1647 Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Scotland
- 1648 Second English Civil War
- 1649–1651 Third English Civil War
  - 1649–1651 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
  - 1650–1652 Cromwellian conquest of Scotland
1640–1656 Catalan Revolt
1640–1668 Portuguese War of Independence
1640–1701 French and Iroquois Wars (aka “Iroquois Wars” or the “Beaver Wars”)
1641–1649 Wars of Castro
1644 Second Anglo-Powhatan War
1644—1674 Mauritanian Thirty Years War
1645–1669 Sixth Turkish-Venetian War (Cretan 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—Norway
- 1648–1654 Khmelnytsky Rebellion
- 1654–1667 Russo-Polish War
- 1655–1656 Swedish-Brandenburg War
- 1656–1658 Russo-Swedish War
- 1656–1660 Danish-Swedish War
- 1657–1660 Dutch-Swedish War
1652–1654 First Anglo-Dutch War
1652–1686 Russian-Manchu border conflicts
1654–1659 Anglo-Spanish War
1655–1660 Peach Tree War
1657–1662 Turkish-Transylvanian War
1662–1664 Austro-Turkish War
1665–1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War
1667–1668 War of Devolution
1670–1671 Stenka Razin Rebellion
1671–1676 Polish-Turkish War
1672–1678 Franco-Dutch War
- 1672–1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
- 1672–1679 War between Brandenburg and Sweden
- 1675–1679 Scanian War between Sweden and Denmark–Norway
1673—1681 War of the Three Feudatories
1675–1677 King Philip’s War
1676–1681 Russo-Turkish War
1681—1707 War of 27 years between Mughals and the Maratha Empire
1682–1699 War of the Holy League
- 1684—1699 Seventh Turkish-Venetian War
1683–1684 War of the Reunions
1685 Monmouth’s Rebellion
1686–1700 Russo-Turkish War
- 1687–1689 Crimean campaigns
- 1695–1696 Azov campaigns
1688–1697 War of the Grand Alliance
- 1689–1697 King William’s War N. American part of the War of the Grand Alliance
- 1689–1691 Williamite war in Ireland
- 1689–1691 Jacobite Rising in Scotland
1696 Chinese-Mongolian War
1699–1700 Darién War

1700—1799

1700–1721 Great Northern War
- 1710–1711 Pruth Campaign
- 1715–1717 Polish revolt against King Augustus II
1702—1715 Camisard Rebellion
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
1707–1709 Astrakhan Rebellion
1711 Tuscarora War
1712–1714 First Fox War
1714–1718 Eighth Turkish-Venetian War
1715–1717 Yamasee War
1715–1716 Jacobite Rising known as “The ‘Fifteen”
1716–1718 Austro—Turkish War
1718–1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance
1722 Dummer’s War in Maine
1722–1723 Russo—Persian War, 1722–1723
1722–1727 Turco—Persian War, 1722–1727
1727–1729 Spanish war between England and France
1728–1737 Second Fox War
1730–1736 Turco—Persian War, 1730–1736
1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession
- 1736–1739 Russo-Turkish War, 1736–1739
- 1737–1739 Austro-Turkish War, 1737–1739
1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
- 1739–1748 War of Jenkins’ Ear
- 1740–1742 1st Silesian War
- 1741–1743 Hats’ Russian War
- 1744–1748 King George’s War (N. American part of the War of Austrian Succession)
- 1744–1745 2nd Silesian War
- 1744–1748 First Carnatic War
- 1745–1746 Jacobite Rising known as “The ‘Forty–five”
1743–1747 Turco-Persian War
1756–1763 Seven Years’ War
- 1749–1754 Second Carnatic War
- 1754–1763 French and Indian War (U.S. name for N. American phase)
- 1756–1763 3rd Silesian War
- 1759–1763 Anglo-Cherokee War
- 1761–1763 Spanish-Portuguese War
1763–1766 Pontiac’s Rebellion
1766–1799 Anglo-Mysore Wars
- 1766–1769 First Anglo-Mysore War
- 1780–1784 Second Anglo-Mysore War
- 1789–1792 Third Anglo-Mysore War
- 1798–1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
1768 Rebellion of 1768
1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War, 1768–1774
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 (aka American War of Independence)
- 1778–1783 Anglo-French War
- 1779–1783 Anglo-Spanish War
- 1780–1784 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
1777–1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
1779–1879 Cape Frontier Wars
- 1779 1st Cape Frontier War
- 1793 2nd Cape Frontier War
- 799–1801 3rd Cape Frontier War
- 1811 4th Cape Frontier War
- 1818–1819 5th Cape Frontier War
- 1834–1836 6th Cape Frontier War
- 1846 7th Cape Frontier War
- 1851–1853 8th Cape Frontier War
- 1877–1878 9th Cape Frontier War
1785–1787 Dutch Civil War
1787–1791 Austro-Turkish War, 1787–1791
1787–1792 Russo–Turkish War, 1787–1792
1788–1790 Gustav III’s Russian War (aka Russo-Swedish War)
1788 The Lingonberry War between Denmark-Norway and Sweden
1791–1804 Haitian Revolution
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
1793–1796 Revolt in the Vendée
1798–1801 War of the Second Coalition
- 1798–1799 Franco-Russian War
- 1799–1801 Franco-Austrian War
1798–1800 Quasi—War
1794 Kosciuszko Uprising in Poland
1795–1804 United Irishmen Revolt (Irish Rebellion of 1798, against British rule in Ireland)
1796 Persian Expedition of Catherine the Great

1800—1809

1800 War of the Castes in Haiti
1801 War of the Oranges
1801—1805 First Barbary War
1801—1807 Temme War
1802—1805 Second War of Haitian Independence
1802—1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
1803—1804 British Expedition to Ceylon
1803 Emmet’s Insurrection
1803—1815 Napoleonic Wars
- 1805 War of the Third Coalition
- 1806—1807 War of the Fourth Coalition
- 1806—1812 Russo—Turkish War
- 1807—1809 Anglo-Turkish War
- 1807—1814 Peninsular War
- 1807—1814 Gunboat War (aka Seven Years’ War)
  - 1807—1809 First Norwegian-Swedish War
  - 1814 Second Norwegian-Swedish War
- 1807—1812 Anglo-Russian War
- 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition
- 1812 Franco-Russian War
- 1813 War of Liberation, 1813
- 1813—1814 War of the Sixth Coalition
- 1815 Neapolitan War
- 1815 War of the Seventh Coalition (aka the Hundred Days War)
1804—1806 First Serbian Uprising
1804—1810 Fulani War in Nigeria
1804—1813 Russo-Persian War, 1804-1813
1804—1835 Black War
1805—1811 Egyptian Revolution
1805 Janissaries’ Revolt
1805 Haitian Invasion of Santo Domingo
1806—1807 British invasions of the Río de la Plata
1806—1807 Ashanti-Fante War
1806—1811 Christophe’s Secession
1806 Vellore Mutiny Vellore battle of independence from British
1806 Second Convict Rebellion
1807—1808 Janissaries’ Revolt
1807—1814 Spanish Rebellion
1807—1818 Mtetwa Empire Expansion
1808—1809 The Finnish War
1808—1809 Santo Dominican Restoration
1808 Bantam Conquest
1809—1825 Bolivian Independence War
1809—1810 Tyrolean rebellion
1810—1819 Colombian War of Independence
1810—1816 Argentine War of Independence
1810—1811 Anglo-Dutch Java War
1810—1817 Merina Conquest: Madagascar
1810—1820 Punjab War
1810 Chilean Revolt
1810 Conquest of Hawaii
1810—1818 Amadu’s Jihad
1929 Lamu Expansion
1810—1821 Mexican War of Independence
1811 4th Cape Frontier War
1811 Ga-Fante War
1811 Banda Oriental Occupation
2003—1812 Korean Revolt
1811 Owu War
1811 Tecumseh’s War
1811—1818 Ottoman-Saudi War
1811—1825 Bolívar’s War
- 1371—1812 Venezuelan War of Independence
- 1813—1814 Bolívar in Venezuela 1813—14
- 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—1815 War of 1812
1813—1814 The Creek War
1814—1816 The Gurkha War
1814—1816 Ashanti Invasion of the Gold Coast
1814—1824 San Martin’s War
1814—1826 Chilean War of Independence
1815 Second Barbary War
1815—1817 Second Serbian Uprising
1817—1864 Caucasian War
1817—1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War
1817—1819 Zulu Civil War
1817—1858 Seminole Wars
- 1817—1818 First Seminole War
- 1835—1842 Second Seminole War
- 1855—1858 Third Seminole War
1818—1819 5th Cape Frontier War* 1818—1828 Zulu Wars of Conquest
1820—1823 Spanish Civil War, 1820—1823
1821—1831 Greek War of Independence
1821—1823 Turko—Persian War
1821—1837 Padri War in Indonesia
1823—1826 First Burmese War
1824 Peruvian War of Independence
1825—1828 Russo-Persian War, 1825—1828
1825—1828 Argentina-Brazil War (Brazil vs. Argentina Confederation & Uruguayan partisans)
1825—1830 Java War
1828—1829 Gran Colombia-Peru War
1828—1834 Liberal Wars
1828—1829 Russo-Turkish War, 1828—1829
1830 July Revolution in France
1830—1831 Polish-Russian war (following November Uprising)
1830—1839 Belgian Revolution and the Ten days campaign
1832 Black Hawk War
1832—1841 Egyptian-Ottoman War
1833—1840 First Carlist War
1834—1836 6th Cape Frontier War
1835 Toledo War
1835—1836 Texas Revolution
1835—1845 War of Tatters
1836—1839 War of the Confederation
1837—1838 Patriot War
1837—1838 Rebellions of 1837 in Canada
- 1837—1838 Lower Canada Rebellion
- 1837—1838 Upper Canada Rebellion
1838 Zulu-Boer War
1838 Mormon War
1838 Pastry War
1838—1839 Aroostook War
1839 Honey War
1839—1842 First Anglo-Afghan War
1839—1842 First Opium War
1843—1872 Several Maori Land Wars in New Zealand
- 1843 Wairau Massacre
- 1845—1847 First Maori War
- 1845—1846 Flagstaff War (aka Northern War)
- 1846 Hutt Valley Campaign
- 1847 Wanganui Campaign
- 1860—1861 First Taranaki War
- 1863—1864 Invasion of the Waikato
- 1864 Tauranga Campaign
- 1864—1866 Second Taranaki War
- 1865—1868 East Cape War
- 1868—1869 Titokowaru’s War
- 1868—1872 Te Kooti’s War
1845—1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
1846 7th Cape Frontier War
1846—1848 Mexican-American War
1846—1849 Second Carlist War
1848—1866 Italian Independence wars
- 1848—1849 First Italian Independence War (Kingdom of Sardinia allied with other Italian states vs. Austria)
- 1859 Second Italian Independence War (Sardinia and France vs. Austria)
- 1866 Third Italian Independence War, Unified Italy against Austria
1848—1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War
1848—1849 Hungarian Revolt of 1848
1848—1851 First Schleswig War (aka First Danish-German War, aka Three Years’ War)
1850—1864 Taiping Rebellion
1851—1853 8th Cape Frontier War
1852 Brazil, Uruguay’s Colorado government and Entre Ríos and Corrientes (Argentinean provinces) vs. Argentinean government
1852 Second Burmese War
1854—1856 Crimean War
1856—1857 Campaign of 1856—1857
1856—1860 Second Opium War
1856—1857 Anglo-Persian War
1857—1858 Indian Mutiny
1857—1858 Utah War
1857—1901 Caste War of Yucatán
1859 Austro-Sardinian War
1859—1863 Federal War (Guerra Federal) in Venezuela
1860—1873 Russian Conquests of Central Asia
1860—1861 Second Maori War
1861—1865 American Civil War
1861—1867 Franco-Mexican War
1863—1865 January Uprising in Poland
1863—1868 Japanese Civil War
1863—1866 Third Maori War
1864 Second Schleswig War (aka Second Danish-German War)
1864—1868 Snake War
1864—1870 War of the Triple Alliance (aka Paraguay War)
1865—1866 Chincha Islands War (Spain vs. Chile and Peru)
1866 Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War)
1866—1868 Red Cloud’s War
1868—1869 Boshin War in Japan
1868—1878 Ten Years’ War
1870—1871 Franco-Prussian War
1872—1873 Modoc War
1873—1904 Aceh War, Netherlands colonial war in Aceh (aka Thirty Years War)
1873—1874 Second Ashanti War
1874—1875 Red River War
1876—1877 Black Hills War
1877 Satsuma Rebellion in Satsuma, Japan
1877—1878 9th Cape Frontier War
1877—1878 Russo-Turkish War, 1877—78
1878 Lincoln County War
1878—1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War
1879 Anglo—Zulu War
1879—1884 War of the Pacific
1880—1881 Gun War
1880—1881 First Boer War
1884—1885 Franco-Chinese War
1884—1899 the Mahdist War
1885 North-West Rebellion
1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
1885—1887 Third Anglo-Burmese War
1890 Dog Tax War in New Zealand
1891 Chilean Civil War
1893—1894 Rif War (1893)
1894—1895 First Sino-Japanese War
1895—1896 First Italo-Ethiopian War
1895—1898 Cuban War of Independence
1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War
1896—1898 Philippine Revolution
1897 First Greco-Turkish War, (aka the Thirty Days’ War)
1897—1900 Boxer Rebellion in China
1897—1898 Anglo-Pathan War
1898 Spanish-American War
1899—1902 Second Boer War
1899—1902 Thousand Days War (Guerra de los Mil Días)
1899—1913 Philippine-American War

1900—1919

1901—1902 Anglo-Aro War
1902—1905 First Saudi-Rashidi War
1904—1905 Russo-Japanese War
1904—1909 Black Patch War
1906—1909 Pig War
1907 1907 Romanian Peasants’ Revolt
1908—1909 Moroccan War
1908—1909 Persian Civil War
1909—1910 Second Rif War
1909—1911 Nicaraguan Civil War
1909—1911 Wadai War
1910—1921 Mexican Revolution
1911 Russo-Persian War
1911—1912 Second Franco—Moroccan War
1911—1912 Italo-Turkish War
1911—1914 Mexican Civil War
1912—1913 First Balkan War
1912—1916 Contestado War
1913 Second Balkan War
1914—1918 World War I
1915—1934 United States occupation of Haiti
1917—1922 Russian Civil War
1918 Finnish Civil War
1918 Georgian-Armenian War
1918—1919 German Revolution
1918—1919 Greater Poland Uprising
1918—1919 Polish-Ukrainian War
1918—1920 Georgian-Ossetian Conflict
1918—1920 Armenian-Azerbaijani War
1918—1920 Estonian War of Independence
1918—1920 Latvian War of Independence
1918—1920 Lithuanian War of Independence
1919 Czechoslovak-Polish conflict
1919 Hungarian-Romanian War
1919 Turkish War of Independence
1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
1919 Portuguese Monarchist Civil War
1919—1920 Italo-Yugoslav War
1919—1920 Polish-Soviet War
1919—1920 Czechoslovakia-Hungary War
1919—1921 Irish War of Independence
1919—1922 Greco-Turkish War
1919—1926 Third Rif War
1920 Polish-Lithuanian War
1920 Second Silesian Uprising
1920 Turkish-Armenian War
1920 Zhili-Anhui War
1920 French-Syrian War
1920—1921 Guangdong-Guangxi War
1921 Red Army invasion of Georgia
1921 Third Silesian Uprising
1921—1922 East Karelian Uprising
1922 First Zhili-Fengtian War
1922—1923 Irish Civil War
1924 August Uprising in Georgia
1924 Second Saudi—Sharif War
1924 Second Zhili-Fengtian War
1925 Petrich Incident
1926—1927 Northern Expedition in China
1927—1933 Nicaraguan Civil War
1927—1937 Chinese Civil War
1929 Afghan Civil War
1929 Soviet-Chinese War
1930 Central Plains War
1931—1932 Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
1932 Ecuadoran Civil War
1932 Shanghai War
1932—1935 Chaco War
1932—1933 Columbia-Peru War
1934 Saudi-Yemeni War
1935—1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War
1936—1939 Spanish Civil War
1937—1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
1938 Changkufeng Incident (1,242 dead)
* 1939 Hungarian Invasion of the Carpatho—Ukraine
1939 Slovak—Hungarian War
1939 Italian Invasion of Albania
1939 Soviet—Japanese Border War (1939)
1939—1945 World War II
1939—1940 Winter War
1940—1941 French—Thai War
1941 Ecuadorian—Peruvian War
1941 Anglo—Iraqi War
1941—1944 Continuation War
1944—1945 Lapland War
1944—1949 Latvian Partisan War
1944—1949 Lithuanian Partisan War
1945—1949 Chinese Civil War
1945—1949 Indonesian National Revolution
1946—1949 Greek Civil War
1946—1954 First Indochina War
1947 Paraguayan Civil War
1947—1948 Indo—Pakistani War of 1947
1947—1948 Palestinian Civil War
1947—1949 First Arab—Israeli War
1948 Costa Rican Civil War
1948—1960 Malayan Emergency
1950—1953 Korean War
1950—1951 Chinese Invasion of Tibet
1952—1955 Tunisian War of Independence
1952—1960 Mau Mau Uprising
1954—1975 Second Indochina War
- 1959—1975 Vietnam War
- 1962—1975 Laotian Civil War
- 1967—1975 Cambodian Civil War
1954—1962 Algerian War of Independence
1955—1972 First Sudanese Civil War
1956—1957 Suez War (Second Arab—Israeli War)
1956 Hungarian Uprising
1956—1959 Cuban Revolution
1957—1958 Ifni War
1958 Lebanon Crisis of 1958
1958—1987 Columbian Civil War
1959 1959 Tibetan Rebellion
1960—1965 “Congo Crisis”
1960—1996 Guatemalan Civil War
1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961—1991 Eritrean War of Independence
1961—1974 Portuguese Colonial War
- 1961—1974 Angolan War of Independence
- 1963—1974 Guinea—Bissauan War of Independence
- 1964—1974 Mozambican War of Independence
1961 Invasion of Goa
1962 Sino—Indian War
1962 Indonesian Annexation of Western New Guinea
1962—1966 Indonesia—Malaysia Confrontation
1962—1970 Yemen Civil War
1962—1975 Dhofar Rebellion
1963 Sand War
1963—1967 Shifta War
1964—Present Colombian Armed Conflict
1965 Dominican Civil War
1965 Indo—Pakistani War of 1965
1965—1993 Chadian Civil War
1965—1989 South African Border War
1966—1988 Namibian War of Independence
1966—1979 Second Chimurenga (Rhodesian Bush War, 30k civilians dead)
1967 Chola Incident
1967 Six Day War (Third Arab—Israeli War, 21,779 dead)
1967—1970 Nigerian Civil War (1.2 mil dead, many civilians)
1967—1989 Second Malayan Emergency
1967—[Ongoing] Communist Insurgency in the Philippines
1968 Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia
1968—1970 War of Attrition (~1,500 dead)
1969—[Ongoing] Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines
1969 Football War (1,900 dead)
1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict (858 dead)
1969—1994 “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland
1971 Bangladesh Liberation War (9,426 dead)
1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (23,843 dead)
1972 Libya-Sudan conflict
1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War, 11k – 17k dead)
1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
1975—1991 Ethiopian Civil War (250,000 dead)
1974—2002 Angolan Civil War (500k – 1 mil dead? mostly civilian)
1975—1991 Western Sahara conflict
1975—1991 Lebanese Civil War
1975—1978 Indonesian Inv. of East Timor (100-200k dead, mostly civilians)
1975—1998 East Timorese War of Independence
1975—2006 Independence War in Cabinda (52,000 dead)
1975—1989 Cambodian-Vietnamese War (60,000? dead)
1976—1983 Argentina’s “Dirty War” (up to 30,000 dead)
1977—2002 Mozambican Civil War (900,000 dead)
1977 Libyan-Egyptian War
1977—1978 Ogaden War (12,600 dead)
1978 South Lebanon conflict (230 – 330 dead)
1978—2005 The Aceh War
1978—1979 Uganda-Tanzania War
1978—1987 Chadian-Libyan conflict
1979 Sino-Vietnamese War (casualties disputed, 20-300,000)
1979—1982 First Chadian Civil War
1979—1989 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (1,226,000 dead)
1980—1992 Salvadoran Civil War (75k dead 18k missing)
1980—1988 Iran-Iraq War (aka Jang-e-tahm’l’, 875,000 dead)
1980—[Ongoing] Internal Conflict in Peru (70,000 dead)
1981 Paquisha War
1981—1986 Ugandan Bush War
1982 Falklands War (UK vs. Argentina, 907 dead)
1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon (10,473 dead)
1983 U.S. Invasion of Grenada (112 dead)
1983—[Ongoing] Sri Lankan Civil War (68,000+ dead)
1983—2005 Second Sudanese Civil War (1.9 mil dead, mostly civilians)
1984—[Ongoing] Kurdish Insurgency in Turkey
1984—[Ongoing] Free Papua Movement
1984 Siachin War
1985 Agacher Strip War (179 dead)
1988—[Ongoing] Somali Civil War
- 1986—1992 Somalian Revolution
- 1992—1994 Operation Restore Hope
- 1994—2006 War between Somali clans
- 2006 Rise of the Islamic Courts Union (450 dead)
- 2006—[Ongoing] War in Somalia (10,000+ dead)
- 2007—[Ongoing] Islamist insurgency in Somalia (1,100 civilians dead)
1987—1993 First Intifada (1,224 dead)
1987—[Ongoing] Second Ugandan Civil War
1988—[Ongoing] Casamance Conflict
1988—1994 Nagorno-Karabakh war (17,000 dead)
1989—1991 Mauritania-Senegal Border War
1989—1990 U.S. Invasion of Panama (Operation Just Cause, 74 dead)
1989—1992 Afghan Civil War (First Phase, 20,500 dead)
1989—1996 First Liberian Civil War (200,000 dead)
1989 Romanian Revolution (1,104 dead)
1984—[Ongoing] Kashmir conflict
1990—1998 First Tuareg Rebellion
1990—1991 Gulf War (20,240 – 100,000 dead)
1990—1993 Rwandan Civil War
1991—1992 Togolese Civil War
1991—1994 Djiboutian Civil War
1991—2002 Algerian Civil War (150-200,000 dead)
1991—2001 Yugoslav Wars
- 1991 Slovenian War (aka Ten Day War)
- 1991—1995 Croatian War of Independence (~13,000 dead)
- 1992—1995 Bosnian War (102,000 dead)
- 1996—1999 Kosovo War (~15,705 dead)
- 2000—2001 Preševo valley crisis
- 2001 Macedonia conflict (200 dead)
1991—1993 Georgian Civil War
- 1991—1992 South Ossetian War (2,800 dead)
- 1992—1993 War in Abkhazia
1991—2002 Sierra Leone Civil War
1991—1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict (652 dead)
1992—1997 Tajikistan Civil War (50-100,000 dead)
1992 War of Transnistria (~1,600 dead)
1992—1996 Afghan Civil War
1992—[Ongoing] Conflict in the Niger Delta
1993—1999 Burundi Civil War
1993—[Ongoing] Ethnic conflict in Nagaland, India
1993—[Ongoing] Brazilian gang violence
1994 1994 Yemeni Civil War
1994—1996 First Chechen War (~108,500 dead, mostly civilians)
1995 Hanish Islands Crisis (30 dead)
1995 1995 Iraqi Kurdistan War (616 dead)
1995 Cenepa War (~500 dead)
1996—1997 First Congo War (200,000 civilians dead)
1996—2001 Afghan Civil War
1996—2006 Nepal Civil War (12,700+ dead)
1997 Unrest in Albania (2,000 dead)
1997 1997 Iraqi Kurdistan War (2,099 dead)
1998 War in Abkhazia
1998—2000 Ethiopia-Eritrea War (53,000 – 190,000 dead)
1998 U.S. bombings of Afghanistan & Sudan (aka Operation Infinite Reach, 100 dead)
1998 U.S. bombing of Iraq (aka Operation Desert Fox, 600-2,000 dead)
1998—2003 Second Congo War (Civilians dead: 3,500,000-4,400,000)
- 1999—2006 Ituri Conflict (60,000 civilians dead)
1999 Kargil War ~4,527 dead)
1999 Dagestan War (~2,279 dead)
1999—[Ongoing] Second Chechen War (25,000-100,000 dead mostly civilians)
1999—2003 Second Liberian Civil War (150,000 dead)
2000—2006 Al-Aqsa Intifada (aka Second Intifada ~6,000 dead)
2000—[Ongoing] Conflict in Laos involving the Hmong (~3,000 dead)
2001 Indo-Bangladesh Border Conflict of 2001
2002—2007 Civil War in Côte d’Ivoire