List of conflicts in Europe

This is an attempt to list conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European nations, civil Wars within European nations, wars between a European nation and a non-European nation that took place within Europe and global conflicts, in which Europe was a theatre of war

Note there are various definitions of Europe and in particular there is significant dispute about the eastern and south-eastern boundaries, specifically about how to treat the countries of the former Soviet Union and break-away nations of the Russian Federation. This list is based on a wide definition that includes much of the interface between Europe and South-West Asia.

Contents

1 Antiquity
2 before 19th century
3 19th century
4 1900-1945
5 1945-1989
6 1989-2000
7 21st century
8 See also

Antiquity

BC 1193-1184 Trojan War
BC 1104-900 Dorian invasion
BC 743-724 First Messenian War
BC 710-650 Lelantine War
BC 685-668 Second Messenian War
BC 669-668 Sparta-Argos war
BC 595-585 First Sacred War
BC 560 Second Arcadian War
BC 540 Battle of Alalia
BC 538-522 Polycrates wars
BC 500-499 Persian invasion of Naxos
BC 492-490 First Persian War
BC 482-479 Second Persian War
BC 460-445 First Peloponnesian War
BC 449-448 Second Sacred War
BC 440-439 Samian War
BC 431-404 Second Peloponnesian War
BC 395-387 Corinthian War
BC 390 Gallic invasion of Rome
BC 323-322 Lamian War
BC 267-261 Chremonidean War
BC 264-241 First Punic War
BC 229-228 Illyrian Wars
BC 220-219 Illyrian Wars
BC 218-201 Second Punic War
BC 214-205 First Macedonian War
BC 200-197 Second Macedonian War
BC 191 - 189 Aetolian War
BC 171-168 Third Macedonian War
BC 135-132 First Servile War
BC 113-101 Cimbrian War
BC 104-100 Second Servile War
BC 91-88 Social War
BC 88-87 Sulla's first civil war
BC 83-72 Sertorian War
BC 82-81 Sulla's second civil war
BC 78 Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
BC 73-71 Third Servile War
BC 63-62 Catiline Conspiracy
BC 58-51 Gallic Wars
BC 49-45 Caesar's Civil War
BC 44-36 Sicilian revolt
BC 43 Battle of Mutina
BC 43-42 Liberators' civil war
BC 41-40 Perusine War
BC 32-30 Antony's civil war

before 19th century

69 Year of the Four Emperors
193 Year of the Five Emperors
238 Year of the Six Emperors
284-285 Roman civil war
306-324 Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy
350-351 Roman civil war
360-361 Roman civil war
387-388 Roman civil war
394 Roman civil war of 394 AD
535-554 Gothic War
582-602 Maurice's Balkan campaigns
~600-793 Frisian-Frankish Wars
680–1355 Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars
711-718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania
715-718 Frankish Civil War (715–718)
722-1492 Reconquista
772-804 Saxon Wars
839-1330 Bulgarian–Serbian Wars
862 - 970 Hungarian invasions of Europe
~997-1445 Swedish–Novgorodian Wars
1015-1016 Pisan–Genoese expeditions to Sardinia
1050-1185 Byzantine–Norman wars
1066-1088 Norman conquest of England
1169 Norman invasion of Ireland
1185-1204 Uprising of Asen and Peter
1208-1227 Conquest of Estonia
1209-1229 Albigensian Crusade
1220-1264 The Age of the Sturlungs
1223-1241 Mongol invasion of Europe
1256-1381 Venetian–Genoese Wars
1277-1280 Uprising of Ivaylo
1282-1302 War of the Sicilian Vespers
1296-1357 Wars of Scottish Independence
1321-1328 Byzantine civil war of 1321–1328
1323-1328 Peasant revolt in Flanders
1326-1332 Polish–Teutonic War
1337-1453 Hundred Years' War
1340-1392 Galicia–Volhynia Wars
1340-1396 Bulgarian–Ottoman Wars
1341-1347 Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347
1342-1350 Zealot's Rebellion
1343-1345 St. George's Night Uprising
1356-1358 Jacquerie
1356 - 1375 War of the Two Peters
1366-1369 Castilian Civil War
1366-1526 Ottoman–Hungarian Wars
1371-1381 War of Chioggia
1373-1379 Byzantine civil war of 1373–1379
1381 Peasants' Revolt
1382 Harelle and Maillotins Revolt
1389 Battle of Kosovo
1395 Battle of Nicopolis
1409-1411 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
1414 Hunger War
1419-1434 Hussite Wars
1422 Gollub War
1425-1454 Wars in Lombardy
1431-1435 Polish–Teutonic War
1437 Budai Nagy Antal Revolt
1438-1556 Russo-Kazan Wars
1440-1446 Old Zürich War
1443-1444 Long campaign
1447-1448 Albanian–Venetian War
1449-1450 First Margrave War
1451-1455 Navarrese Civil War
1454-1466 Thirteen Years' War
1455-1487 Wars of the Roses
1462-1485 Rebellion of the Remences
1462-1472 Catalonian Civil War
1466-1469 Irmandiño Wars
1467-1479 War of the Priests
1468 Waldshut War
1470-1471 Dano-Swedish War
1475-1479 War of the Castilian Succession
1478 Carinthian peasant revolt
1482-1484 War of Ferrara
1495-1497 Russo-Swedish War
1497 Cornish Rebellion of 1497
1499 Swabian War
1494-1498 Italian War of 1494–1498
1499-1504 Italian War of 1499–1504
1508-1516 War of the League of Cambrai
1514 Poor Conrad's Rebellion
1514 Dózsa rebellion
1515 Slovenian peasant revolt
1519-1521 Polish–Teutonic War
1520-1521 Revolt of the Comuneros
1521-1523 Revolt of the Brotherhoods
1521-1523 Swedish War of Liberation
1521 - 1718 Ottoman-Habsburg wars
1522-1523 Knights' Revolt
1522–1559 Habsburg-Valois Wars
1524-1525 Peasants' War
1529 First War of Kappel
1531 Second War of Kappel
1534-1536 Count's Feud
1536-1537 Pilgrimage of Grace
1540 Salt War
1542-1543 Dacke War
1543-1550 The Rough Wooing
1546-1547 Schmalkaldic War
1549 Kett's Rebellion
1549 Prayer Book Rebellion
1552-1555 Second Margrave War
1554 Wyatt's rebellion
1554-1557 Russo-Swedish War
1558-1583 Livonian War
1562-1598 French Wars of Religion
1563-1570 Northern Seven Years' War
1568-1570 Morisco Revolt
1568–1648 Eighty Years' War
1573 Croatian–Slovenian peasant revolt
1580-1583 War of the Portuguese Succession
1585-1604 Anglo-Spanish War (1585)
1587-1588 War of the Polish Succession
1590-1595 Russo-Swedish War
1593-1606 Long War
1593-1617 Moldavian Magnate Wars
1594-1603 Nine Years War (Ireland)
1596-1597 Cudgel War
1605-1618 Polish–Muscovite War
1606-1607 Bolotnikov Rebellion
1610-1617 Ingrian War
1611-1613 Kalmar War
1615-1618 Uskok War
1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
1620-1621 Polish–Ottoman War
1628 - 1631 War of the Mantuan Succession
1632-1634 Smolensk War
1638 Ostrzanin Uprising
1639-1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms
1640-1688 Portuguese Restoration War
1642–1651 English Civil War
1651 Kostka-Napierski Uprising
1652-1674 Anglo-Dutch Wars
1653 Swiss peasant war of 1653
1654-1667 Russo-Polish War
1655-1660 Second Northern War
1656 War of Villmergen
1663-1664 Austro-Turkish War
1667–1668 War of Devolution
1670-1671 Razin's Rebellion
1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War
1679 Covenanter Rebellion
1683–1699 Great Turkish War
1685 Monmouth Rebellion
1688-1697 War of the League of Augsburg
1700–1721 Great Northern War
1701–1713 War of the Spanish Succession
1703-1711 Rákóczi's War for Independence
1707-1708 Bulavin Rebellion
1712 Toggenburg war
1714-1718 Ottoman–Venetian War
1715-1716 Jacobite Rising of 1715
1716-1718 Austro-Turkish War
1718-1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance
1727-1729 Anglo-Spanish War
1733-1738 War of the Polish Succession
1735-1739 Russo-Turkish War
1737-1739 Austro-Turkish War
1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
1740 - 1763 Silesian Wars
1741-1743 Russo-Swedish War
1745-1746 Jacobite Rising of 1745
1756–1763 Seven Years' War
1763-1864 Russian–Circassian War
1768-1772 War of the Bar Confederation
1768-1774 Russo-Turkish War
1770 Orlov Revolt
1774-1775 Pugachev's Rebellion
1775-1782 American Revolutionary War (European theatre)
1778-1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
1784 Kettle War
1784 - 1785 Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan
1787-1791 Austro-Turkish War
1787-1792 Russo-Turkish War
1790 Saxon Peasants' Revolt
1792 Polish–Russian War of 1792
1792–1802 French Revolutionary Wars
1794 Kościuszko Uprising
1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798

19th century

1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
1804-1813 First Serbian Uprising
1809 Polish-Austrian War
1815-1817 Second Serbian Uprising
1817-1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
1821-1832 Greek War of Independence
1821 Wallachian uprising of 1821
1823 French invasion of Spain
1826-1828 Russo-Persian War
1828-1829 Russo-Turkish War
1828-1834 Liberal Wars
1830 Ten Days Campaign (following the Belgian Revolt)
1830-1831 November Uprising
1831-1832 Great Bosnian uprising
1833-1839 First Carlist War
1833-1839 Albanian Revolts of 1833–1839
1843-1844 Albanian Revolt of 1843–1844
1846 Galician slaughter
1846-1849 Second Carlist War
1847 Albanian Revolt of 1847
1847 Sonderbund War
1848-1849 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence
1848-1851 First Schleswig War
1848–1866 Wars of Italian Independence

1848–1849 First Italian Independence War
1859 Second Italian War of Independence
1866 Third Italian War of Independence

1900-1945

1910 Albanian Revolt of 1910
1911-1912 Italo-Turkish War
1912–1913 Balkan Wars
- 1912-1913 First Balkan War
- 1913 Second Balkan War
1914 Peasant Revolt in Albania
1914–1918 World War I
1916 Easter Rising
1917–1921 Russian Civil War
1918 Finnish Civil War
1918 Polish-Czech war for Teschen Silesia
1918–1919 Polish-Ukrainian War
1918–1919 Greater Poland Uprising
1918–1920 Estonian Liberation War
1918-1920 Latvian War of Independence
1919 Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919
1919-1922 Greco-Turkish War
1919-1923 Turkish War of Independence
1919–1920 Czechoslovakia-Hungary War
1919–1921 Silesian Uprisings
1919–1921 Polish-Soviet War
1919–1921 Anglo-Irish War
1920 Polish-Lithuanian War
1920 Vlora War
1921 Uprising in West Hungary
1922–1923 Irish Civil War
1934 Asturian miners' strike of 1934
1934 Austrian Civil War
1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
1939 Slovak-Hungarian War
1939 Occupation of Zakarpattia Oblast by Hungary
1939–1945 World War II
- 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland
- 1939-1940 Winter War
- 1940-1941Greco-Italian War
- 1941-1945 Soviet-German war
- 1941-1944 Continuation War
- 1944 Slovak National Uprising

1945-1989

1945-1949 Greek Civil War
1953 Uprising in East Germany
1956 Uprising in Poznań
1956 Hungarian Revolution
1959-2011 Basque Conflict
1961 Portuguese Colonial War
1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968-1998 The Troubles
1970-1984 Unrest in Italy
1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1978 Turkey–Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict
1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War

1989-2000

1989 Romanian Revolution
1991 Ten-Day War
1991-1992 South Ossetian War of Independence
1991-1993 Georgian Civil War
1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992 War of Transnistria
1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict
1992-1993 First War in Abkhazia
1992-1995 Bosnian War
1994-1996 First Chechen War
1997 Unrest in Albania
1998-1999 Kosovo War
1998-present Republican Dissidents Conflict
1998 Second War in Abkhazia
1999 Dagestan War
1999-2009 Second Chechen War
1999-2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley

21st century

2001 Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia
2002 Perejil Island crisis
2004 Unrest in Kosovo
2004 Adjara crisis
2007 Civil war in Ingushetia
2008 War in South Ossetia
2009-present Insurgency in the North Caucasus
2011-present Kosovo - Serbia border clashes

See also

List of Europe-related topics
Wars between England and France
List of English wars
List of Finnish wars
List of French wars
List of Polish wars
List of Spanish wars
List of Swedish wars
List of Danish wars
List of Roman wars
List of Roman Battles
List of battles involving France
Geography of Europe
History of Europe
Politics of Europe
List of wars — a complete global listing
Germanic Wars

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