List of wars before 1000
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[edit] Prehistory - 1000 BC
- Prehistoric warfare
- Mythological wars
- Battle of Zhuolu about 2500BC
- Kurukshetra War, based on warfare in the Kuru kingdom of ancient India, ca. 1200-900 BC
- Trojan War, based on events of ca. 1200 BC
- 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.
[edit] 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 between Rome and 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 and 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
- 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 or Spartacist Rebellion
- 122 BC - 105 BC Jugurthine War
- 91 BC - 88 BC Social 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
[edit] 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
- 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
- 256 Dacian Campaign
- 316 - 589 Civil Wars in China triggered by Wu Hu Invasion, lasted until 589 by Southern and Northern Dynasties
- 533 - 534 Vandal Wars in North Africa
- 535 - 553 Gothic War in Italy
- 598 - 614 Goguryeo-Sui Wars in Korea
- 632 - 633 Ridda wars
- 632 - 677 Byzantine-Arab Wars
- 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
- 660 - 676 Civil Wars in Korea for Unification by Silla involving Tang Dynasty
- 711 - 718 Islamic conquest of Hispania
- 718 - 1492 Spanish Reconquista
- 732 Balhae Invasion of Tang China
- 892 - 936 Korean Civil War (Later Three Kingdoms)
- 901 - 903 War of Carls Aggression
- 907 - 960 Chinese Civil War (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms)
- 977 - 978 War of the Three Henries
- 993 First Goryeo-Khitan War
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