General information =================== http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/ http://www.vacation.net.gr/p/history.html http://militaryhistory.about.com/homework/militaryhistory/mbody.htm [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/War_list.html (Lee, R. "The History Guy: The War List") The Art of War: http://vikingphoenix.com/public/SunTzu/stbiblio.htm Indian wars and conflicts: http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/CONFLICTS/ Japan: http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2126.html Mongolia: http://drlee.org/mongol/r00.html China: http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/Chinese.Military.History.htm http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/history.department.htm http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/ Wars in cronological order ========================== The Battle of Kadesh (ca 1275 BC) --------------------------------- Egypt, Pharaoh Ramesses II http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/7480/ The Persian Wars (500 - 449 BC) ------------------------------- http://www.vacation.net.gr/p/history6.html http://militaryhistory.about.com/homework/militaryhistory/msubpersian.htm Troyan war (ca 480 BC) ---------------------- http://www.temple.edu/classics/troyimages.html http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Ancient/Trojan_War/ First Pelopennesian War (431 - 421 BC) -------------------------------------- http://www.vacation.net.gr/p/history8.html http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Renault/last.chronology.html http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Ancient/Peloponnesian_War/ Second Pelopennesian War (413 - 404 BC) --------------------------------------- http://www.vacation.net.gr/p/history8.html http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Ancient/Peloponnesian_War/ First Punic War (264 - 241 BC) ------------------------------ http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Ancient/Punic_Wars/ Second Punic War (218 - 201 BC) ------------------------------- http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Ancient/Punic_Wars/ Third Punic War (202 - 146 BC) ------------------------------ http://www.fiu.edu/~eltonh/warfare/history.html http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Ancient/Punic_Wars/ Roman wars (Ceasar & friends) ----------------------------- http://www.fiu.edu/~eltonh/warfare/history.html http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/Ancient/Rome/Military/ Roman civil war --------------- http://www.fiu.edu/~eltonh/warfare/history.html Alamannic Wars (337 - 375) -------------------------- http://www.fiu.edu/~eltonh/warfare/history.html Tang Revolt (617 - 624) ----------------------- China http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/CMHG.Article.Graff1.htm First Song Taizong Revolt Attempt (979) --------------------------------------- China http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/CMHG.Article.Forage1.htm Second Song Taizong Revolt Attempt (986) ---------------------------------------- China http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/CMHG.Article.Forage1.htm The Early Nine Years War (1050 - 1059) -------------------------------------- http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2132.html Norman Conquest (1066) ---------------------- [WL] http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/Medieval/War_and_Weapons/Norman_Conquests/ The Later Three Years war (1083 - 1087) --------------------------------------- http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2132.html Anglo-French War (1109 - 1113) ------------------------------ [WL] THE LIAO STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL (1115 - 1122) -------------------------------------------- China http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/CMHG.Article.Forage1.htm THE SONG INVADE YANJING (1122) ------------------------------ China http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/CMHG.Article.Forage1.htm THE ZHANG JUE REBELLION (1123 - 1124?) -------------------------------------- China http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/CMHG.Article.Forage1.htm Anglo-French War (1116 - 1119) ------------------------------ [WL] Anglo-French War (1123 - 1135) ------------------------------ [WL] The Heiji War (1159 - 1160) --------------------------- http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0075/00955648_A.html Anglo-French War (1159 - 1189) ------------------------------ [WL] The Gempei War (1180 - 1185) ---------------------------- http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2132.html Anglo-French War (1202 - 1204) ------------------------------ [WL] Anglo-French War (1213 - 1214) ------------------------------ [WL] Anglo-French War (1242 - 1243) ------------------------------ [WL] The First Mongol invasion attempt (1274) ---------------------------------------- http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2133.html The Second Mongol invasion attempt (1281) ----------------------------------------- http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2133.html Anglo-French War (1294 - 1298) ------------------------------ [WL] Anglo-French War (1300 - 1303) ------------------------------ [WL] //100 Year's War (1339 - 1453) //---------------------------- //[WL] (1337 - 1453) The Hundred Years' War was actually a series of wars between England and France which lasted 116 years. Most historians break this conflict into four distinct wars. http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/Medieval/War_and_Weapons/Hundred_Years_War/ http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/topics/100yw/100yw.maps.html Anglo-French War (1337 - 1360) ------------------------------ [WL] Anglo-French War (1369 - 1373) ------------------------------ [WL] English Peasants' Revolt (1381) ------------------------------- http://www.felix2.f2s.com/english/balle.html http://www.ub.rug.nl/camelot/teams/richint.htm June - July Anglo-French War (1412 - 1420) ------------------------------ [WL] Anglo-French War (1423 - 1453) ------------------------------ [WL] The Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1487) ----------------------------------- http://www.warsoftheroses.com/ http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/Medieval/War_and_Weapons/The_Wars_of_the_Roses/ The Onin War (1467 - 1477) -------------------------- http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0075/00955648_A.html Anglo-French War (1475) ----------------------- [WL] Henry VII's invasion of Brittany (1488) --------------------------------------- [WL] Henry VII's second invasion of Brittany (1489 - 1492) ----------------------------------------------------- [WL] Naples-Fornovo (1492 - 1497) ---------------------------- [WL] French war in Italy. Milan (1499 - 1500) ------------------- [WL] French war in Italy. Naples-Gaeta (1500 - 1504) -------------------------- [WL] French war in Italy. Revenna-Novara (1508 - 1513) ---------------------------- [WL] French war in Italy. The War of the Holy League (1510 - 1513) ---------------------------------------- [WL] Marignano (1515 - 1516) ----------------------- [WL] French war in Italy. Anglo-French War (1521 - 1526) ------------------------------ [WL] After 1523, England did not participate much in the war. Anglo-French War (1542 - 1546) ------------------------------ [WL] Anglo-French War (1549 - 1550) ------------------------------ [WL] Anglo-French War (1557 - 1560) ------------------------------ [WL] Spanish Armada (1588) --------------------- http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/armadadis.html Anglo-French War (1589 - 1593) ------------------------------ [WL] Catholic-Protestant war First Japanese Invasion of Korea (1592 - 1593) ---------------------------------------------- http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0075/00955648_A.html Second Japanses Invasion of Korea (1597 - 1598) ----------------------------------------------- http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0075/00955648_A.html Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648) ------------------------------ http://members.home.net/jems1/ http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Seventeenth_Century/Thirty_Years_War/ Third Bearnese Revolt (1627 - 1628) ----------------------------------- [WL] Anglo-French war English Civil War (1642 - 1649) ------------------------------- http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Seventeenth_Century/English_Civil_War/ Anglo-Dutch War (1652 - 1654) ----------------------------- [WL] Anglo-Dutch War (1664 - 1667) ----------------------------- [WL] Anglo-French War (1666 - 1667) ------------------------------ [WL] Anglo-Dutch War (1672 - 1674) ----------------------------- [WL] The War of the League [The War of the Grand Alliance] (1689 - 1697) ------------------------------------------------------------------- [WL] Great Northern War [Second Northern War] (1700 - 1721) ------------------------------------------------------ http://militaryhistory.about.com/homework/militaryhistory/msubgreatnorthernwar.htm The War of the Spanish Succession [Queen Anne's War] [The First Carnatic War] (1702 - 1712) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [WL] This conflict also included the Second Abnaki War. Anglo-Spanish War (1739 - 1748) ------------------------------- [WL] The War of the Austrian Succession [King George's War] (1744 - 1748) -------------------------------------------------------------------- [WL] The Second Carnatic War (1749 - 1754) ------------------------------------- [WL] French and Indian War [Seven Year's War] (1754 - 1763) ----------------------------------- [WL] (1755 - 1763) http://militaryhistory.about.com/homework/militaryhistory/msubfrenchindian.htm http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Eighteenth_Century/French_and_Indian_War/ American Revolution (1775 - 1783) --------------------------------- [WL] (1779 - 1783) Also involved Spain, the United States and the Netherlands against Britain. Can also be considered as an Anglo-French War, an Anglo-Spanish War and an Anglo-Dutch War. http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Eighteenth_Century/American_Revolution/ French Revolution (1789 - 1799) ------------------------------- [WL] (1792 - 1802) http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/Eighteenth_Century/French_Revolution/ Austro-Prussian Invasion of France (1792) ----------------------------------------- [WL] part of French Revolution War of the First Coalition (1792 - 1798) ---------------------------------------- [WL] part of French Revolution War of the Second Coalition (1798 - 1801) ----------------------------------------- [WL] part of French Revolution The Swiss Revolt of 1798 (1798) ------------------------------- [WL] part of War of the Second Coalition? The Haitian Revolution (1790? - 1792?) -------------------------------------- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+ht0017) The Slave Rebellion (1791) Napoleonic Wars (1800 - 1815) ----------------------------- [WL] (1802 - 1815) http://www.napoleonicwars.com/ War of the Oranges (1801) ------------------------- [WL] part of War of the Second Coalition War of 1812 (1812 - 1814) ------------------------- The War of Independence (1821 - 1829) ------------------------------------- http://www.vacation.net.gr/p/history15.html Independence of Greece Decembrist Uprising (1825) -------------------------- [WL] Short-lived military revolt. Russo-Persian War (1826 - 1828) ------------------------------- [WL] Russia defeated Persia and acquired parts of Armenia. Russo-Turkish War (1828 - 1829) ------------------------------- [WL] Russia defeated the Ottoman Turks. Related to the Greek War of Independence. Polish Revolution (1830 - 1831) ------------------------------- [WL] Russian-ruled Poland rebelled and was crushed. Inspired by 1830 Paris Revolution. The Opium Wars (1839 - 1842) ---------------------------- http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Time_Period/19th_Century/Military_History/Opium_Wars/ Mexican-American War (1846 - 1848) ---------------------------------- Revolution of 1848 (1848 - 1849) -------------------------------- [WL] Austrian government and Russia against anti-monarchist rebels and Czech and Hungarian nationalist rebels. The revolutionary fervor also led to the Italian War of Independence (1848-1849). Italian War of Independence (1848 - 1849) ----------------------------------------- [WL] Italian revolutionaries in Venice, along with the Italian States of Piedmont, Naples and, briefly, Papal State fought against the Austrian Hapsburg Empire. The Italian forces were divided and defeated by August of 1849. The Crimean War (1853 - 1856) ----------------------------- [WL] Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire and Sardinia against Russia. http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/russia/lectures/19crimeanwar.html Franco-Austrian War (1858 - 1860) --------------------------------- [WL] France and Piedmont against the Austrian Hapsburg Empire. United States Civil War (1861 - 1865) ------------------------------------- Second Polish Revolution (1863 - 1864) -------------------------------------- [WL] Poland rebels waged a mostly guerrilla war. Rebellion defeated. Schleswig-Holstein War (1864) ----------------------------- [WL] Austria and Prussia crushed Denmark. The Seven Weeks' War (1866) --------------------------- [WL] Italy and Prussia against the Austrian Hapsburg Empire. Russo-Turkish War (1877 - 1878) ------------------------------- [WL] Caused by Turkish problems with Slavic Balkan states. Treaty of San Stefano guaranteed independence from Turkey for Serbia, Montenegro, Rumania and autonomy for Bulgaria. Russia received land in the Caucasus region. Annexation of Bosnia-Hercegovina (1878) --------------------------------------- [WL] Peaceful and internationally accepted occupation of Slavic region previously controlled by the Turks. Beginning of prolonged tension with Russia and Serbia. Leading factor in the outbreak of World War I. Boer Wars (1) (1880 - 1881) --------------------------- Provincial Revolt (1882) ------------------------ [WL] First Sino-Japanese War [Nisshin Senso] (1894 - 1895) ----------------------------------------------------- http://www.ualberta.ca/~chor/whw1895.htm http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2130.html Spanish-American War (1898) --------------------------- Boer Wars (2) (1899 - 1902) --------------------------- Phillipine-American War (1899 - 1902) ------------------------------------- Yaqui Indian War (1899 - 1904?) ------------------------------- [WL] One of the last of the long series of Mexican-Indian Wars, this conflict began when chiefs of the eight principal Yaqui Indian tribes demand Mexican withdrawal from the Sinaloa region. The Boxer Rebellion (1900) ---------------------- [WL] Involved Britain, France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Japan, Italy, and Austria-Hungary against "Boxer" rebels in China as well as against the Chinese government. Gave Russia an opportunity to occupy Manchuria, which led in part to the Russo-Japanese War. http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/fists.html Russo-Japanese War (1904 - 1905) -------------------------------- [WL] Russia soundly defeated by Japan. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2130.html Russian Revolution of 1905 (1905 - 1906) ---------------------------------------- [WL] Popular uprising against the Czarist government. Harshly suppressed by the army. Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1920) -------------------------------- http://history.acusd.edu/gen/projects/border/page01.html First Balkan War (1912) ----------------------- LysLysKOM 3060993 Second Balkan War (1913) ------------------------ LysLysKOM 3060993 World War 1 (1914 - 1918) ------------------------- http://www.worldwar1.com/tlindex.htm St. Petersburg, July 29, 1914, 1:00 A.M. - Czar Nicholas II to Kaiser Wilhelm II: "I foresee that very soon I shall be overwhelmed by the pressure forced upon me and be forced to take extreme measures which will lead to war. Nicky"... Berlin, July 30, 1914, 1:20 A.M. - Kaiser Wilhelm II to Czar Nicholas II: "The whole weight of the decision lies solely on your shoulders now, [you] have to bear the responsibility for Peace or War. Willy" October Revolution (1917 - 1918) -------------------------------- http://www.pitt.edu/~mmbst35/october.html Russian Revolution (1917 - 1921) -------------------------------- Kurdish revolts in Iraq (1922 - 1924) ------------------------------------- [WL] soon. Assyrian revolts in Iraq (1933) ------------------------------- [WL] soon. Italo-Ethiopian War (1935 - 1936) --------------------------------- Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939) ------------------------------- Nanjing Massacre (December, 1937 - February, 1938) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/njmassac/index.html World War 2 (1939 - 1945) ------------------------- Ecuador-Peru Border War (1941) ------------------------------ [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/Ecuador-Peru_War_of_1941.html The Greek Civil War (1946) -------------------------- [WL] soon. First Kashmir War (1947 - 1948) ------------------------------- [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/indo_pakistani-wars.html Also listed as "First Indo-Pakistan War (1948 - 1949)". Liberation of Hyderabad [Operation Polo] (1948) ----------------------------------------------- [WL] India Israeli War of Independence (1948 - 1949) ----------------------------------------- [WL] Korean war (1950 - 1953) ------------------------ http://www.koreanwar.org/html/maps.html Naga Rebellion (1954 - ongoing) ------------------------------- [WL] Indian internal conflict Suez War (1956) --------------- [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/suez_war_1956.html Also involved Britain and France. Lebanese Civil War (1958) ------------------------- [WL] Also involved the U.S. Liberation of Goa [Operation Vijay] (1961) ------------------------------------------ [WL] India-Portugal United Nations Offensive Operations in the Congo (1961 - 1964) -------------------------------------------------------------- [WL] UN against rebels in Congo Vietnam (1961 - 1975) --------------------- http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/bibliography.html/ Sino-Indian War (1962) ---------------------- [WL] China-India border war Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands War of Independence (1963 - 1974) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [WL] Fought against Portugal. Second Kashmir War [Second Indo-Pakistan War] (1965) ---------------------------------------------------- [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/indo_pakistani-wars.html North Yemen Civil War (1966 - 1968) ----------------------------------- [WL] Also involved Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Sino-Indian Skirmish [The Chola Incident] (1967) ------------------------------------------------ [WL] Six-Day War (1967) ------------------ [WL] Middle East Nigerian Civil War [Biafra War] (1967 - 1970) --------------------------------------------- [WL] Jordanian Civil War (1970) -------------------------- [WL] Also involved Syria and the PLO. "Mercenary" Invasion of Guinea (November, 1970) ----------------------------------------------- [WL] Bengali War of Independence [Third Indo-Pakistan War] (1971) ------------------------------------------------------------ [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/indo_pakistani-wars.html Bangladesh Yom Kippur War [Ramadan War] (1973) ----------------------------------- [WL] Middle East Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990) -------------------------------- [WL] Also involved Israel, Syria and the PLO. Saharan War (1975 - ongoing) ---------------------------- [WL] Morocco and Mauritania against the Polisario Front. Mauritania left the war in 1978. Yemeni War (1979) ----------------- [WL] Involved North and South Yemen. Assam-Nagaland border dispute (1979 - ongoing) ---------------------------------------------- [WL] Indian internal conflict Afghanistan - Soviet Occupation (1979 - 1989) --------------------------------------------- Iranian Revolution (1979 - 1999) -------------------------------- http://www.iranian.com/revolution.html Iran-Iraq War [First Persian Gulf War] (1980 - 1988) ---------------------------------------------------- [WL] Iran vs. Iraq-also involved U.S. and Kuwait. Ecuador-Peru Border War (1981) ------------------------------ [WL] Gambian Marxist Coup Attempt (1981) ----------------------------------- [WL] Falkland Islands War (1982) --------------------------- http://www.naval-history.net/NAVAL1982FALKLANDS.htm http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/falk.html Israeli Invasion of Lebanon (1982 - 1984) ----------------------------------------- [WL] Also involved Syria and the PLO. Grenada - American Invasion (1983) ---------------------------------- Punjab Insurgency (1984 - 1989) ------------------------------- [WL] Siachen Operations (1984 - ongoing) ----------------------------------- [WL] Related to Kashmir Revolt. Israeli-Lebanese Border War (1984 - ongoing) -------------------------------------------- [WL] Also involved Syria and the PLO. "The Tanker War" [Operation Earnest Will] (1987-1988) ----------------------------------------------------- [WL] part of First Persian Gulf War Indian Intervention in Sri Lankan Civil War (1987 - 1990) --------------------------------------------------------- [WL] See Sri Lankan Civil War. Indian Intervention in the Maldives (1988) ------------------------------------------ [WL] Against Sri Lankan rebels. Panama - American invasion (1989) --------------------------------- Southern Black Rebellion in Mauritania (1989 - 1991?) ----------------------------------------------------- [WL] Kashmir Border Conflict [Kashmir Revolt] (1990 - ongoing) --------------------------------------------------------- [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/kashmir_links.html Second Persian Gulf War (1991) ------------------------------ [WL] (1990 - 1991) http://www.historyguy.com/GulfWar.html On Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi military forces, on orders from President Saddam Hussein, invaded and occupied the small country of Kuwait. The Persian Gulf War of 1991 -- from January 16 to February 28 -- was fought to expel Iraq and restore Kuwaiti independence. U.S./British War with Iraq (1991 - ongoing) ------------------------------------------- [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/Iraq-U.S._Conflict.html Related to Second Persian Gulf War. Liberian Civil War (1991? - 1997?) ---------------------------------- [WL] also involved the Nigerian-led ECOMOG peacekeeping force. Bosnia, Balkans & Former Yugoslavia War (1992 - 1995) ------------------------------------------------------ http://militaryhistory.about.com/homework/militaryhistory/msubbosnia.htm Yemeni Civil War (1994) ----------------------- [WL] Ecuador-Peru Border War (January, 1995) --------------------------------------- [WL] Chechnya and Grozny (1995 - ) ----------------------------- http://militaryhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa012300a.htm Yemen-Eritrea Border Conflict (1996?) ------------------------------------- [WL] Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998 - 1999) ------------------------------------- [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/Guinea_Bissau_Civil_War.html Also involved Senegal and Guinea-Conakry. Yemeni Tribal Uprising (1998) ----------------------------- [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/Yemeni_Tribal_Uprising.html Saudi-Yemen Border Conflict (1998) ---------------------------------- [WL] http://www.historyguy.com/Saudi_Yemen_Conflict.html bin Laden's War (1998 - ongoing) -------------------------------- [WL] The violence has also involved Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan and Afghanistan. Liberian Border Battles (1999) ------------------------------ [WL] Rebels launched an invasion of Liberia from neighboring Guinea, a nation which may be directly involved. Various unsorted wars and conflicts =================================== Israel-Arab conflicts (ongoing) ------------------------------- Russian Conquest of Central Asia and the Far East (ongoing) ----------------------------------------------------------- Cuban Revolution ---------------- Dhofar Rebellion in Oman (1960's - 1970's) ------------------------------------------ [WL] Also involved Iran and Britain. Casamance Rebellion in Senegal (1980's - ongoing) ------------------------------------------------- [WL] Sierra Leone Civil War (1990's) ------------------------------- [WL] Tuareg Rebellion in Mali (? - 1991) ----------------------------------- [WL] The Somalian Civil War (1991 - ongoing?) ---------------------------------------- http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/multi/war/somalia.html Conquering people ================= Alexander the Great (356 BC - 323 BC) ------------------------------------- http://militaryhistory.about.com/homework/militaryhistory/msubalexanderbattles.htm http://www.pothos.co.uk/ http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/War/Ancient/Alexander_the_Great/ http://ethassite.freewebsites.com/alexanderhome.html Julius Ceasar (102 BC - March 15th 44 BC) ----------------------------------------- Some say 100 BC - 44 BC http://homepages.iol.ie/~coolmine/typ/romans/romans6.html http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/Ancient/Rome/People/Caesar,_Julius/ Attila the Hun (433 - 453) -------------------------- http://art1.candor.com/barbarian/attila.htm