List of conflicts in the United States
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List of conflicts in the United States is a timeline of events that includes wars, battles, skirmishes, major terrorist attacks, massacres, and other related items that have occurred in the United States's current geographical area, including overseas territories.
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[edit] Before the 16th Century
- 1325 Crow Creek Massacre in present-day South Dakota.
[edit] 16th Century
- 1565 Spanish massacre of French Huguenots at Fort Caroline in Florida. This is notable as it is the first conflict between European powers in what is today the United States.
[edit] 17th Century
- 1609 - 1613? First Anglo–Powhatan War
- 1622 Jamestown Massacre in which English settlers are attacked by Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in Jamestown Colony in Virginia.
- 1644 - 1646 Second Anglo–Powhatan War
- 1637 Pequot War
- 1675 - 1676 King Philip's War
- 1680 Pueblo Revolt
- 1689 - 1697 King William's War
[edit] 18th Century
- 1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War
- 1711 - 1715 Tuscarora War
- 1715 - 1717 Yamasee War
- 1744 - 1748 King George's War
- 1754 - 1763 French and Indian War
- 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion
- 1764 - 1771 War of the Regulation
- 1773 - 1774 Lord Dunmore's War
- 1775 - 1783 American Revolutionary War
- 1785 - 1795 Northwest Indian War
- 1786 - 1787 Shays' Rebellion
- 1791 - 1794 Whiskey Rebellion
[edit] 19th Century
- 1807 Capture of Saint Thomas and Saint Croix in the West Indies from the French by the British. This is notable as the only action fought during the Napoleonic Wars that took place on what is now U.S. soil (United States Virgin Islands).
- 1811 Tecumseh's War
- 1812 - 1815 War of 1812
- 1813 Battle of Lake Erie
The Battle of Lake Erie' - 1814 Battle of Bladensburg
- 1814 Burning of Washington
- 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain
- 1814 Battle of Fort McHenry
- 1815 Battle of New Orleans
- 1813 Battle of Lake Erie
- 1813 - 1814 Creek War
- 1817 - 1818 First Seminole War
- 1827 Winnebago War
- 1831 Nat Turner's Rebellion
- 1832 Black Hawk War
- 1835 - 1842 Second Seminole War
- 1835 - 1836 Toledo War (bloodless)
- 1835 - 1836 Texas Revolution
- 1838 Missouri War
- 1838 - 1839 Aroostook War
- 1839 Honey War (bloodless)
- 1846 - 1848 Mexican War
- 1848 - 1855 Cayuse War
- 1854 - 1858 Bleeding Kansas
- 1855 - 1858 Third Seminole War
- 1857 - 1858 Utah War
- 1859 Pig War
- 1861 - 1865 American Civil War
- 1861
- 1862
- Battle of Fort Donelson
- Battle of Pea Ridge
- Battle of Hampton Roads
- Battle of Shiloh
- Battle of Island Number 10
- Battle of Fair Oaks
- Battle of Memphis
- Battle of Cross Keys
- Battle of Port Republic
- Seven Days' Battles
- Battle of Cedar Mountain
- Second Battle of Bull Run
- Battle of Antietam
- Battle of Fredericksburg
- Battle of Stones River
- 1863
The Battle of Gettysburg - 1864
- 1865
- 1862 Dakota War
- 1863 - 1865 Colorado War
- 1864 - Sand Creek Massacre
- 1866 - 1868 Red Cloud's War
- 1867 - 1875 Comanche War
- 1872 - 1873 Modoc War
- 1874 - 1875 Black Hills War
- 1877 Nez Percé War
- 1890 - 1891 Ghost Dance War
- 1898 Spanish-American War - American conquest of Guam and Puerto Rico
[edit] 20th Century
- 1914 World War I - A Japanese fleet captured the Mariana Islands from Germany without any loss of life. This is notable as the only action fought during World War I that took place on what is now U.S. soil (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands).
- 1916 Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa leads a night raid on the New Mexico border town of Columbus.
- 1941 World War II - Japanese sneak attack on American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 1941 - 1945 World War II - Numerous American warships and merchant vessels sunk in American territorial waters by German U-boats.
- 1942 - 1943 World War II - Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
[edit] 21st Century
- 2001 - September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, VA and in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania near Shanksville. 2,993 people are killed in the attacks.
