List of wars involving Belgium

This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Belgium since its secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1831.

Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents (excluding Belgium) Outcome
Allies Enemies
1830 1831 The Belgian Revolution  United Kingdom of the Netherlands Treaty of London:
  • Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium
1861 1867 The French intervention in Mexico Belgian Foreign Legion

Second Mexican Empire
Second French Empire
and others

 United Mexican States
United States of America (entered in 1865)
French withdrawal, Republican victory
1914 1918 World War I Allies:

France
 British Empire
 Russia (1914–17)
 United States (1917–18)
and others

 Central Powers

 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria (1915–18)

 Allied victory
10 May 1940 28 May 1940 The Battle of Belgium

part of

 France

 British Empire
 Netherlands

  Nazi Germany Belgian surrender and German occupation of Belgium
1940 1945 World War II Allies Axis powers Allied victory
1950 1953 The Korean War  United Nations (UN Resolution 84)  North Korea

 China
 Soviet Union

 Ceasefire
18 May 1978 Battle of Kolwezi  Zaire

 France

 Front for the National Liberation of the Congo Franco-Belgian victory
1990 1991 The Gulf War Coalition forces  Iraq Coalition victory
1998 1999 The Kosovo War Kosovo Liberation Army

 Albania
 NATO forces

  Federal Republic of Yugoslavia NATO victory
2001 ongoing War in Afghanistan  Afghanistan

 United States

ISAF
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Fall of Taliban régime

Ongoing Taliban insurgency

See also

Lists of wars involving European countries
Sovereign
states
States with limited
recognition
  • Abkhazia
  • Kosovo
  • Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Northern Cyprus
  • South Ossetia
  • Transnistria
Dependencies
and other territories
  • Åland
  • Faroe Islands
  • Gibraltar
  • Guernsey
  • Jersey
  • Isle of Man
  • Svalbard
Other entities