List of conflicts in Egypt

Location of Egypt

Primeval Times

Prehistoric Egypt

• circa 12,376 B.C.E.^[1] Battle at Cemetery 117^[2]

Ancient Times

Early Dynastic Period of Egypt

• circa 3,100 B.C.E. Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt^[3]

The nomes of Ancient Egypt, in lower Egypt

The nomes of Ancient Egypt, in upper Egypt

Archaic Period of Egypt

• circa 3,050 B.C.E. Hor-Aha, the second pharaoh of Egypt, led a campaign against the Nubians.^[4]
• circa 2,890 B.C.E. After the death of Qa'a, the last pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt, a short war may have occurred for the throne of Egypt, ending with the accession of Hotepsekhemwy.^[5][6][7][8]
• circa 2,690 B.C.E. Khasekhemwy reunited Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt after a short period of political fragmentation.^[9][10]

Old Kingdom of Egypt

• circa 2,670 B.C.E. Djoser, the first pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Egypt, dispatched several military expeditions to the Sinai Peninsula, during which the local inhabitants were subdued

First Intermediate Period of Egypt

• circa 2,150 B.C.E. The 4.2 kiloyear event triggered famines, social disorder, and fragmentation.^[11]
• circa 2,140 B.C.E. During the reign of the pharaoh Neferkare III, the nomarch of Hieraconopolis Ankhtifi, led a coalition of his nome and Edfu against Thebes.
• circa 2,120 B.C.E. Mentuhotep I and Sehertawy Intef I, independent rulers at Thebes in the early eleventh dynasty of Egypt, had soldiers fighting the Coptite nomarch Tjauti, and the subsequent defeat of Tjauti ultimately put Koptos, Dendera and the three nomes of Hierakonpolis under Theban control, expanding the Theban kingdom 250 km northward with a border near Abydos.
• circa 2,075 B.C.E. The pharaoh Akhtoy Nebkaure sacked Thinis

Middle Kingdom of Egypt

• circa 2,061 B.C.E. — 2,010 B.C.E. Campaigns of Mentuhotep II
  • Reunification of Egypt
  • Military activities outside of Egypt
• circa 1,705 B.C.E. — 1,648 B.C.E. After the death of the sixth pharaoh of the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt Nehesy Aasehre, the 14th dynasty continued to rule in the Nile River Delta region of Lower Egypt with a number of ephemeral or short-lived rulers until 1,650 B.C.E. when the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt conquered the Delta.^[12]
  • circa 1,648 B.C.E. Salitis became the first king of the Hyksos to rule Lower Egypt.

Second Intermediate Period of Egypt

• circa 1,705 B.C.E. — 1,648 B.C.E. After the death of the sixth pharaoh of the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt Nehesy Aasehre, the 14th dynasty continued to rule in the Nile River Delta region of Lower Egypt with a number of ephemeral or short-lived rulers until 1,650 B.C.E. when the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt conquered the Delta.^[12]
• circa 1,649 B.C.E. the Hyksos conquer Memphis, putting an end to the 13th Dynasty.
  • circa 1,648 B.C.E. Salitis became the first king of the Hyksos to rule Lower Egypt.
• circa 1,649 B.C.E. — 1,600 B.C.E. the Hyksos progress south conquering Middle Egypt, then controlled by the Abydos Dynasty or the 16th Dynasty.
• circa 1,629 B.C.E. — 1,628 B.C.E. Neferhotep III got certainly embroiled in a defensive war against the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt, which would ultimately overrun the Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt state.
• circa 1,582 B.C.E. Final Theban offensive of Hyksos who conquer Thebes ending the 16th Dynasty.
  • circa 1,580 B.C.E. The Hyksos withdraw from Thebes abandoning it to the 17th Dynasty.
• circa 1,560 B.C.E. — 1,540 B.C.E. The 17th Dynasty at war with the Hyksos.
  • circa 1,560 B.C.E. — 1,558 B.C.E. Under Seqenenre Tao
  • circa 1,555 B.C.E. — 1,550 B.C.E. Under Kamose
    • Northern Campaign
    • First Nubian Campaign
  • circa 1,539 B.C.E. — 1,514 B.C.E. Under Ahmose
    • Campaigns of Ahmose I
      • Conquest of the Hyksos
      • Foreign campaigns

New Kingdom of Egypt

• circa 1,282 B.C.E. Seti's military campaigns

Egyptian Empire

• 1,206 B.C.E. — 1,150 B.C.E. Bronze Age collapse causes the collapse of the New Kingdom of Egypt and subsequent attacks from Libyans, with associated people of Ekwesh, Shekelesh, Lukka, Shardana and Tursha or Teresh possibly Troas. A second attack during the reign of Ramesses III involved Peleset, Tjeker, Shardana and Denyen.
  • circa 1,178 B.C.E. or 1,175 B.C.E. Egyptian-Sea People wars
    • circa 1,178 B.C.E. or 1,175 B.C.E. Battle of the Delta
    • circa 1,178 B.C.E. or 1,175 B.C.E. Battle of Djahy

Third Intermediate Period of Egypt

• 925 B.C.E. Battle of Bitter Lakes
• 752 B.C.E. — 721 B.C.E. Conquest of Egypt

Assyrian Egypt

• 681 B.C.E. — 661 B.C.E. Campaigns of King Esarhaddon of Assyria
  • 661 B.C.E. Egypt is conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire
• 530 B.C.E. — 522 B.C.E. Campaigns of King Cambyses II of Persia
  • 525 B.C.E. Battle of Pelusium

First Achaemenid Period of Egypt

• 530 B.C.E. — 522 B.C.E. Campaigns of King Cambyses II of Persia
  • 525 B.C.E. Battle of Pelusium

A possible depiction of the path of Cambyses II, Phanes of Halicarnassus, and Amasis II's forces sent after Phanes; Note: The itinerary paths depicted are supposed and by no means certain. Persian forces - black line, Phanes of Halicarnassus - blue line, and Egyptians - red line.

• 411 BC B.C.E. Amyrtaeus revolted against Darius II of the Achaemenid Empire, leading a guerrilla action in the western Nile Delta around his home city of Sais.

Twenty-eighth Dynasty of Egypt

• 411 BC B.C.E. Amyrtaeus revolted against Darius II of the Achaemenid Empire, leading a guerrilla action in the western Nile Delta around his home city of Sais.

Second Achaemenid Period of Egypt

• 369 B.C.E. Pelusium was attacked and taken by the Persians
• 335 B.C.E. — 323 B.C.E. Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 333 B.C.E. Pelusium opened its gates to Alexander the Great, who placed a garrison in it under the command of one of those officers entitled Companions of the King

Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt

• 335 B.C.E. — 323 B.C.E. Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 333 B.C.E. Pelusium opened its gates to Alexander the Great, who placed a garrison in it under the command of one of those officers entitled Companions of the King
• 173 B.C.E. Antiochus Epiphanes utterly defeated the troops of Ptolemy Philometor under the walls of Pelusium, which he took and retained after he had retired from the rest of Egypt
• 55 B.C.E. Again belonging to Egypt, Mark Antony, as cavalry general to the Roman proconsul Gabinius, defeated the Egyptian army, and made himself master of the city.
• January 10, 49 B.C.E. — March 17, 45 B.C.E. Caesar's Civil War
  • 48 B.C.E. — 47 B.C.E. Siege of Alexandria
  • 47 B.C.E. Battle of the Nile
• 32 B.C.E. — August 30 B.C.E. Final War of the Roman Republic
  • July 31, 30 B.C.E. — August 1, 30 B.C.E. Battle of Alexandria

Roman Province of Egypt

Expansion of the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Western Roman Empire, and the Eastern Roman Empire

• 32 B.C.E. — August 30 B.C.E. Final War of the Roman Republic
  • July 31, 30 B.C.E. — August 1, 30 B.C.E. Battle of Alexandria
• 115 C.E. — 117 C.E. Kitos War

Medieval Times

Byzantine Diocese of Egypt

• 618 C.E. — 621 C.E. Sassanid conquest of Egypt
  • 619 C.E. Siege of Alexandria

Sassanid Empire

• 618 C.E. — 621 C.E. Sassanid conquest of Egypt
  • 619 C.E. Siege of Alexandria

Rashidun Caliphate

Map detailing the route of the Muslims' invasion of Egypt.

• 639 C.E. — 642 C.E. Muslim conquest of Egypt
  • 639 C.E. Siege of Arish
  • 640 C.E. Siege of Pelusium
  • 640 C.E. Siege of Bilbies
  • 640 C.E. Siege of Babylon Fortress
  • 640 C.E. Battle of Lahun
  • 640 C.E. Battle of Fayoum
  • 640 C.E. Battle of Oxyrhynchus
  • July 6, 640 C.E. Battle of Heliopolis
  • 641 C.E. Battle of Tarnut
  • 641 C.E. Battle of Sulteis
  • 641 C.E. Battle of Kirayun
  • 641 C.E. Siege of Alexandria
  • 645 C.E. Battle of Alexandria
  • 646 C.E. Battle of Nikiou
  • 646 C.E. Battle of Alexandria
  • 654 C.E. Battle of Alexandria

Expansion of Rashidun Caliphate

Abbasid Caliphate

• 809 C.E. — 827 C.E. Great Abbasid Civil War

Fatimid Caliphate

• 969 C.E. The Fatimid general Jawhar conquered Egypt

Ayyubid dynasty

• 1,171 C.E. — 1,172 C.E. Ayyubids Conquest of North Africa and Nubia
  • 1,172 C.E. Aswan Siege
  • Ibrim coquest & Northern Nubia
• 1,095 C.E. — 1,272 C.E. The Crusades
  • 1,213 C.E. — 1,221 C.E. Fifth Crusade
    • 1,218 C.E. — 1,219 C.E. Siege of Damietta
  • 1,248 C.E. — 1,254 C.E. Seventh Crusade
    • June 6, 1249 C.E. Siege of Damietta
    • February 8, 1250 C.E. — February 11, 1250 C.E. Battle of Al Mansurah
    • April 6, 1250 C.E. Battle of Fariskur

Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt

• October 9, 1,365 C.E. — October 12, 1,365 C.E. Alexandrian Crusade

Modern Times

Eyalet of Egypt

• 1,538 C.E. — 1,557 C.E. Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts
• 1,609 C.E. — 1,610 C.E. Egypt Eyalet civil war
• 1,631 C.E. — 1,656 C.E. Ridwin Bey de facto authority
• April 20, 1,792 C.E. — March 25, 1,802 C.E. French Revolutionary Wars
  • May 1,798 C.E. — December 1,798 C.E. Mediterranean campaign
    • 1,798 C.E. — 1,801 C.E. French campaign in Egypt and Syria
      • July 13, 1,798 C.E. Battle of Shubra Khit
      • July 21, 1,798 C.E. Battle of the Pyramids
      • August 1, 1,798 C.E. — August 3, 1,798 C.E. Battle of the Nile
      • October 21, 1,798 C.E. Revolt of Cairo
      • July 25, 1,799 C.E. Battle of Abukir
      • February 19, 1,799 C.E. Siege of El Arish
      • March 20, 1,800 C.E. Battle of Heliopolis
      • March 8, 1,801 C.E. Battle of Abukir
      • March 13, 1,801 C.E. Battle of Mandora
      • March 21, 1,801 C.E. Battle of Alexandria
      • 1,801 C.E. Siege of Cairo
      • August 17, 1,801 C.E. — September 2, 1,801 C.E. Siege of Alexandria
• May 18, 1,803 C.E. — November 20, 1,815 C.E. Napoleonic Wars
  • 1,807 C.E. — 1,809 C.E. Anglo-Turkish War
    • 1,807 C.E. Alexandria expedition

Egypt under Muhammad Ali Dynasty

Khedivate of Egypt

• February 1,820 C.E. Siwa Oasis battle
• 1,824 C.E. Native rebellion broke out in Upper Egypt headed by Ahmed, an inhabitant of al-Salimiyyah, a village situated a few miles above Thebes. He proclaimed himself a prophet, and was soon followed by between 20,000 and 30,000 insurgents, mostly peasants, but some of them deserters from the Nizam Gedid, for that force was yet in a half-organized state. The insurrection was crushed by Muhammad Ali, and about one fourth of Ahmad's followers perished, but he himself escaped.
• 1,882 C.E. Anglo-Egyptian War
  • July 11, 1,882 C.E. — July 13, 1,882 C.E. Bombardment of Alexandria
  • June 1,882 C.E. — July 1,882 C.E. Egyptian Expedition
  • 1,882 C.E. Battle of Kassassin
  • 1,882 C.E. Battle of Kafr el-Dawwar
  • September 13, 1,882 C.E. Battle of Tel al-Kebir
• 1,881 C.E. — 1,899 C.E. Mahdist War
  • August 3, 1,889 C.E. Battle of Toski

Sultanate of Egypt

• July 28, 1,914 C.E. — November 11, 1,918 C.E. World War I
  • October 29, 1,914 C.E. — October 30, 1,918 C.E. Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • January 28, 1,915 C.E. — October 30, 1,918 C.E. Sinai and Palestine Campaign
      • January 26, 1,915 C.E. — February 4, 1,915 Raid on the Suez Canal
      • April 23, 1,916 C.E. Battle of Katia
      • August 3, 1,916 C.E. — August 5, 1,916 C.E. Battle of Romani
      • December 23, 1,916 C.E. Battle of Magdhaba
      • January 9, 1,917 C.E. Battle of Rafa
      • February 13, 1,917 C.E. — February 21, 1,917 C.E. Raid on Nekhl

Kingdom of Egypt

• September 1, 1,939 C.E. — September 2, 1,945 C.E. World War II
  • June 10, 1,940 C.E. — May 2, 1,945 C.E. Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 10, 1,940 C.E. — May 13, 1,943 C.E. North African Campaign
      • June 11, 1,940 C.E. — February 4, 1,943 C.E. Western Desert Campaign
        • September 9, 1,940 C.E. — September 16, 1,940 C.E. Italian invasion of Egypt
        • December 9, 1,940 C.E. — February 9, 1,941 C.E. Operation Compass
        • February 4, 1,942 C.E. Abdeen Palace Incident
        • July 1, 1,942 C.E. — July 27, 1,942 C.E. First Battle of El Alamein
        • August 30, 1,942 C.E. — September 5, 1,942 C.E. Battle of Alam Halfa
        • October 11, 1,942 C.E. — November 23, 1,942 C.E. Second Battle of El Alamein
• May 15, 1,948 C.E. — March 10, 1,949 C.E. Arab–Israeli War
  • December 1,948 C.E. — January 1,949 C.E. Battles of the Sinai

Republic of Egypt

• July 23, 1,952 C.E. Egyptian Revolution
• November 2, 1,955 C.E. — November 3, 1,955 C.E. Operation Volcano (Israeli raid)
• October 29, 1,956 C.E. — November 7, 1,956 C.E. Suez Crisis
  • October 1,956 C.E. Operation Musketeer
  • 1,956 C.E. Operation Telescope

United Arab Republic

• September 28, 1,961 C.E. Collapse of the United Arab Republic

Arab Republic of Egypt

• June 5, 1,967 C.E. — June 10, 1,967 C.E. Six Day War
  • June 5, 1,967 C.E. — June 6, 1,967 C.E. Battle of Abu-Ageila
  • June 8, 1,967 C.E. USS Liberty incident
• July 1, 1,967 C.E. — August 7, 1,970 C.E. War of Attrition
  • July 11, 1,967 C.E. Battle of Rumani Coast
  • July 19, 1,969 C.E. Operation Bulmus 6
  • July 20, 1,969 C.E. — July 28, 1,969 C.E. Operation Boxer
  • December 26, 1,969 C.E. — December 27, 1,969 C.E. Operation Rooster 53
  • January 7, 1,970 C.E. — April 13, 1,970 C.E. Operation Priha
  • January 22, 1,970 C.E. Operation Rhodes
  • July 30, 1,970 C.E. Operation Rimon 20
• October 6, 1,973 C.E. — October 25, 1,973 C.E. Yom Kippur War

• • October 6, 1,973 C.E. — October 8, 1,973 C.E. Operation Badr
  • October 6, 1,973 C.E. Battles of Fort Budapest
  • October 6, 1,973 C.E. Battle of Fort Lahtzanit
  • October 6, 1,973 C.E. Ofira Air Battle
  • October 7, 1,973 C.E. Romani ambush
  • October 7, 1,973 C.E. Battle of Marsa Talamat
  • October 7, 1,973 C.E. Operation Tagar
  • October 8, 1,973 C.E. — October 9, 1,973 C.E. Battle of Baltim
  • October 14, 1,973 C.E. Battle of the Sinai
  • October 14, 1,973 C.E. Air Battle of El Mansoura
  • October 15, 1,973 C.E. — October 17, 1,973 C.E. Battle of the Chinese Farm
  • October 16, 1,973 C.E. Raid on Egyptian missile bases
  • October 17, 1,973 C.E. Egyptian 25th Brigade ambush
  • October 18, 1,973 C.E. — October 22, 1,973 C.E. Battle of Ismailia
  • October 22, 1,973 C.E. Scud missile attack
  • October 24, 1,973 C.E. — October 25, 1,973 C.E. Battle of Suez
• July 21, 1,977 C.E. — July 24, 1,977 C.E. Libyan-Egyptian War
• January 25, 2,011 C.E. — ongoing 2011 Egyptian Revolution and Aftermath
  • January 25, 2,011 C.E. — February 11, 2,011 C.E. Egyptian Revolution
  • February 23, 2,011 C.E. — ongoing Sinai insurgency
  • November 22, 2,012 C.E. — July 3, 2,013 C.E. Egyptian protests
  • June 28,2,013 C.E. - July 3, 2,2013 C.E. June 2013 Egyptian protests
  • July 3, 2,013 C.E. — ongoing Political violence in Egypt

References

See also

• List of wars involving Egypt
• Military of ancient Egypt
• Egyptian Army
• Egyptian Navy
• Egyptian Air Force
• Egyptian Air Defense Forces
• Military history of Africa
• African military systems to 1,800 C.E.
• African military systems 1,800 C.E. — 1,900 C.E.
• African military systems after 1,900 C.E.