List of conflicts in Libya

Location of Libya

Ancient Times

Egyptian Empire

Egyptian Empire

• circa 1,279 B.C.E. — 1,213 B.C.E. Ramesses II's Campaigns in Libya

Carthaginian Empire

• 264 B.C.E. — 146 B.C.E. Punic Wars

Kingdom of Numidia

• 112 B.C.E. — 106 B.C.E. Jugurthine War

Roman Province of Africa

193 C.E. – 211 C.E. Military activity of Septimius Severus

• • 203 C.E. The Roman Emperor Septimius Severus launched a campaign deep into the Sahara, capturing the capital city of the Garamantian Empire Germa, but he abandoned it soon after.^[1]
• 439 C.E. The Vandals overran the Roman Province of Africa

Medieval Times

Vandal Kingdom

• June 533 C.E. — March 534 C.E. Vandalic War

Vandalic War

• • Diplomatic preparations and revolts in Tripolitania and Sardinia
    • Spring 533 C.E. Anti-Vandal revolt in Tripolitania; Byzantine troops from Cyrenaica occupy the province

Byzantine Praetorian prefecture of Africa

• The Moorish Wars
  • 534 C.E. First Moorish uprising
  • 536 C.E. Military mutiny
  • 544 C.E. Second Moorish uprising and the revolt of Guntharic
• 577 C.E. Conflict with Moorish kingdom of Garmul

Byzantine Exarchate of Africa

• 647 C.E. — 709 C.E. Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
  • 669 C.E. The city Germa was conquered by Uqba ibn Nafi.^[2]

Expansion of Rashidun Caliphate

Rashidun Caliphate

• 656 C.E. — 661 C.E. First Fitna

Umayyad Caliphate

• 680 C.E. — 692 C.E. Second Fitna
• 744 C.E. — 746 C.E. Third Fitna

Abbasid Caliphate

• 809 C.E. — 827 C.E. Fourth Fitna

Fatimid Caliphate

• 1,020 C.E. Fatimid Civil War

Ayyubid dynasty

• 1,171 C.E. — 1,172 C.E. Conquest of North Africa and Nubia

Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt

• 1,551 C.E. Ottoman conquest

Modern Times

Ottoman Eyalet of Tripolitania

• June 30, 1,793 C.E. — January 20, 1,795 C.E. Tripolitanian civil war
• May 10, 1,801 C.E. — June 10, 1,805 C.E. First Barbary War
  • April 27, 1,805 C.E. — May 13, 1,805 C.E. Battle of Derne
• February 1,820 C.E. — October 1,822 C.E. Invasion of Libya and Sudan

Ottoman Vilayet of Tripolitania

• September 29, 1,911 C.E. — October 18, 1,912 C.E. Italo-Turkish War
• 1,911 C.E. — 1,943 C.E. Libyan resistance movement

Italian Libya

• September 29, 1911 C.E. — October 18, 1912 C.E. Italo-Turkish War
• 1911 C.E. — 1943 C.E. Libyan resistance movement
  • 1915 C.E. Gasr Bu Hadi
• July 28, 1914 C.E. — November 11, 1918 C.E. World War I
  • 1914 C.E. — 1918 C.E. North African theatre
• September 1, 1939 C.E. — September 2, 1945 C.E. World War II
  • June 10, 1940 C.E. — May 2, 1945 C.E. Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • June 10, 1940 C.E. — May 13, 1943 C.E. North African Campaign
      • June 11, 1940 C.E. — February 4, 1943 C.E. Western Desert Campaign
        • January 3 — January 5, 1941 C.E. Battle of Bardia
        • January 31, 1941 C.E. — March 1, 1941 C.E. Battle of Kufra
        • May 26 — June 21, 1942 C.E. Battle of Gazala
        • May 26 — June 11, 1942 C.E. Battle of Bir Hakeim
        • December 11 — December 18, 1942 C.E. Battle of El Agheila

Allied occupation of Libya

• June 1,948 C.E. Anti-Jewish rioters in Libya killed 12 Jews and destroyed 280 Jewish homes

Kingdom of Libya

• September 1, 1,969 C.E. Libyan coup

Libyan Arab Republic

• September 1, 1,969 C.E. Libyan coup

Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

• 1,947 C.E. — 1,991 C.E. Cold War
  • August 19, 1,981 C.E. Gulf of Sidra incident
  • March, 1,986 C.E. Action in the Gulf of Sidra
  • April 15, 1,986 C.E. United States bombing of Libya
  • January 4, 1,989 C.E. Gulf of Sidra incident
  • July 21, 1,977 C.E. — July 24, 1,977 C.E. Libyan—Egyptian War
• 1,978 C.E. — 1,987 C.E. Chadian-Libyan conflict
  • 1,983 C.E. — 1,984 C.E. Operation Manta
  • February 13, 1,986 C.E. — ongoing Opération Épervier
  • December 16, 1,986 C.E. — September 11, 1,987 C.E. Toyota War

National Transitional Council of Libya

• December 18, 2,010 C.E. — ongoing Arab Spring
  • 2,011 C.E. — ongoing Libyan Crisis
    • February 15, 2,011 C.E. — October 23, 2,011 C.E. Libyan Civil War
      • February 15, 2,011 C.E. — February 20, 2,011 C.E. First Battle of Benghazi
      • February 17, 2,011 C.E. — February 25, 2,011 C.E. Tripoli protests and clashes
      • February 18, 2,011 C.E. — May 15, 2,011 C.E. Battle of Misrata
      • February 24, 2,011 C.E. — March 10, 2,011 C.E. First Battle of Zawiya
      • March 1, 2,011 C.E. — August 18, 2,011 C.E. Nafusa Mountains campaign
        • April 21, 2,011 C.E. Battle of Wazzin
        • August 13, 2,011 C.E. — August 18, 2,011 C.E. Battle of Gharyan
      • March 2, 2,011 C.E. First Battle of Brega
      • March 19, 2,011 C.E. — October 31, 2,011 C.E. Military intervention in Libya
        • March 19, 2,011 C.E. — October 31, 2,011 C.E. Operation Ellamy
        • March 19, 2,011 C.E. — March 31, 2,011 C.E. Opération Harmattan
        • March 19, 2,011 C.E. — November 1, 2,011 C.E. Operation Mobile
        • March 19, 2,011 C.E. — March 31, 2,011 C.E. Operation Odyssey Dawn
        • March 23, 2,011 C.E. — October 31, 2,011 C.E. Operation Unified Protector

State of Libya

• December 18, 2,010 C.E. — ongoing Arab Spring
  • 2,011 C.E. — ongoing Libyan Crisis
    • November 1, 2011 C.E. — May 16, 2014 C.E. Factional violence in Libya
      • January 23, 2,012 C.E. — January 25, 2,012 C.E. Bani Walid uprising
      • February 12, 2,012 C.E. — July 1, 2,012 C.E. Kufra conflict
      • March 25, 2,012 C.E. — March 31, 2,012 C.E. Sabha conflict
      • June 4, 2,012 C.E. Tripoli airport clashes
      • June 11, 2,012 C.E. — June 18, 2,012 C.E. Zintan clashes
      • September 9, 2,012 C.E. — October 26, 2,012 C.E. Siege of Bani Walid
      • September 11, 2,012 C.E. — September 12, 2,012 C.E. Benghazi attack
      • June 8, 2,013 C.E. — June 15, 2,013 C.E. Benghazi conflict
      • February 14, 2014 C.E. — May 2,014 C.E. Libyan coup d'état attempts
    • May 16, 2,014 C.E. — ongoing Second Libyan Civil War
      • May 16, 2,014 C.E. — ongoing Operation Dignity
      • July 13, 2,014 C.E. — August 23, 2,014 C.E. Battle of Tripoli Airport
      • October 5, 2,014 C.E. — ongoing ISIL takeover of Derna
      • January 27, 2,015 C.E. Corinthia Hotel attack
      • February 8, 2,015 C.E. — February 9, 2,015 C.E. Fall of Nofaliya
      • February 12, 2,015 C.E. Kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya
      • February 16, 2,015 C.E. — ongoing Egyptian military intervention in Libya

References

See also

• List of wars involving Libya
• Libyan Army (1951–2011)
• Libyan Air Force (1951–2011)
• Libyan Air Force (2011–present)
• Libyan National Army
• Libyan Navy
• Armed Forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
• 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.