778 wars, 11,761 engagements
Wars and campaigns
Every war or campaign with three or more placed engagements in the atlas, grouped by the era of its first dated engagement. Counts are placed engagements, not every action of the war.
Ancient 96 wars
- Second Punic War 62, 218 BC to 201 BC
- Peloponnesian War 29, 431 BC to 404 BC
- Caesar's Civil War 26, 49 BC to 45 BC
- Gallic War 26, 58 BC to 51 BC
- Wars of Alexander the Great 20, 336 BC to 323 BC
- First Jewish-Roman War 19, AD 66 to AD 74
- First Punic War 18, 264 BC to 241 BC
- Third Mithridatic War 17, 73 BC to 63 BC
- Germanic Wars 16
- Greco-Persian Wars 16, 499 BC to 449 BC
- list of Roman civil wars and revolts 14, 509 BC to AD 476
- Roman–Sasanian wars 14, AD 224 to AD 363
- Early Imperial China 12
- Pyrrhic War 11, 280 BC to 275 BC
- Roman–Gallic Wars 11, 401 BC to AD 84
- Sulla's Civil War 10, 83 BC to 81 BC
- fall of the western Roman Empire 10
- First Mithridatic War 10, 89 BC to 85 BC
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of England 10, AD 450 to AD 625
- Sertorian War 9, 80 BC to 72 BC
- Roman-Etruscan Wars 9
- Second Greco-Carthaginian War 9, 410 BC to 340 BC
- Roman conquest of Britain 8, AD 43 to AD 84
- Jugurthine War 8, 111 BC to 105 BC
- Roman–Seleucid War 8, 192 BC to 188 BC
- Wars of the Diadochi 7, 322 BC to 275 BC
- Ostrogothic conquest of Italy 7, AD 488 to AD 493
- Roman–Parthian Wars 7, 66 BC to AD 217
- Maccabean Revolt 7, 167 BC to 160 BC
- Second War of the Diadochi 7, 319 BC to 315 BC
- Gothic War of 376–382 7, AD 376 to AD 382
- Mercenary War 7, 240 BC to 238 BC
- Han–Xiongnu Wars 7, 139 BC to AD 89
- end of the Han dynasty 6, AD 189 to AD 220
- Second Macedonian War 6, 200 BC to 197 BC
- history, heritage and archaeology 6
- Campaigns of Aurelian 6
- Second Samnite War 6, 326 BC to 304 BC
- Corinthian War 6, 395 BC to 387 BC
- Third Punic War 6, 149 BC to 146 BC
- First Macedonian War 6, 214 BC to 205 BC
- Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire 6, 626 BC to 609 BC
- Wars of Augustus 5, 30 BC to AD 14
- Crisis of the Third Century 5, AD 235 to AD 284
- Third War of the Diadochi 5, 314 BC to 311 BC
- Julian's Persian expedition 5, AD 363
- Greco-Carthaginian War 5, 409 BC to 405 BC
- Gothic Wars 5, AD 248 to AD 700
- Lamian War 5, 323 BC to 322 BC
- Cimbrian War 5, 113 BC to 101 BC
- Boeotian War 5, 379 BC to 371 BC
- Third Servile War 5, 73 BC to 71 BC
- Sapor II's Syrian-Mesopotamian campaigns 5, AD 312 to AD 364
- Gothic War of 408–416 5, AD 408 to AD 416
- Social War of 220-217 BCE 5, 220 BC to 217 BC
- Babylonian War 5, 311 BC to 309 BC
- Seleucid–Parthian Wars 4, 238 BC to 129 BC
- Social War of 91-87 BCE 4, 91 BC to 88 BC
- Wars of the Delian League 4, 477 BC to 449 BC
- Cleomenean War 4, 229 BC to 222 BC
- Fourth War of the Diadochi 4, 308 BC to 301 BC
- Lusitanian War 4, 155 BC to 139 BC
- Third Macedonian War 4, 171 BC to 168 BC
- Roman–Parthian War of 161–166 4, AD 161 to AD 166
- Chu–Han Contention 4, 206 BC to 202 BC
- Gothic War of 248–253 4, AD 248 to AD 253
- Expansion of Macedonia under Philip II 4, 359 BC to 336 BC
- Third Samnite War 4, 298 BC to 290 BC
- Gothic War of 401–403 4, AD 401 to AD 403
- Sicilian Expedition 4, 415 BC to 413 BC
- Palmyrene War 4, AD 272 to AD 273
- Liberators' Civil War 4, 43 BC to 42 BC
- Roman-Volscian Wars 4
- Antigonus II Gonatas' struggle for the Macedonian throne 4, 285 BC to 272 BC
- Roman civil war of 350–353 3, AD 350 to AD 353
- Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy 3, AD 308 to AD 324
- Aetolian War 3, 191 BC to 189 BC
- Iberian revolt 3, 197 BC to 195 BC
- Ionian Revolt 3, 499 BC to 493 BC
- Vandal conquest of Roman Africa 3, AD 429 to AD 442
- Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 3, AD 337 to AD 361
- Revolt of the Batavi 3, AD 69 to AD 70
- Cyrus the Great 3
- Early Imperial campaigns in Germania 3, 12 BC to AD 16
- Alexandrian War 3, 48 BC
- First War of the Samnites 3, 343 BC to 341 BC
- Achaean War 3
- Spartan–Argive wars 3, 801 BC to 494 BC
- Agathocles' expedition to Africa 3, 311 BC to 306 BC
- Cretan War of 205-200 BCE 3, 205 BC to 200 BC
- Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions 3
- Armenian–Sasanian wars 3, AD 400 to AD 700
- Bosporan Wars of Expansion 3, 438 BC to 355 BC
- Decelean War 3, 413 BC to 404 BC
- Demetrius I's struggle for the Macedonian throne 3, 301 BC to 285 BC
- Hasmonean campaigns against the Hellenistic cities 3, 141 BC to 71 BC
Medieval 198 wars
- Reconquista 121, AD 722 to 1492
- Hundred Years' War 103, 1337 to 1453
- Crusades 97, 1095 to 1291
- Arab–Byzantine wars 86, AD 629 to 1050
- Hussite Wars 61, 1419 to 1434
- Norman Invasion of Wales 56, 1051 to 1204
- Mongol invasions and conquests 54, 1206 to 1337
- Gregorian Reform 50
- Albigensian Crusade 50, 1209 to 1229
- Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars 39, AD 680 to 1355
- Almoravid conquest of al-Andalus 36, 1086 to 1147
- Ottoman Wars in Europe 35, 1354 to 1683
- Genpei War 35, 1180 to 1185
- Byzantine–Seljuq Wars 32, 1048 to 1308
- human history 27
- Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts 27
- Muslim conquest of Persia 26, AD 633 to AD 654
- Gothic War of 535–554 25, AD 535 to AD 554
- Timurid conquests and invasions 25, 1369 to 1426
- Marinid–Zayyanid Wars 24, 1250 to 1411
- Wars of the Roses 22, 1455 to 1487
- Almohad wars in the Iberian Peninsula 22, 1172 to 1212
- First War of Scottish Independence 22, 1296 to 1328
- Byzantine–Ottoman wars 19, 1265 to 1479
- Muslim conquest of Sicily 19, AD 827 to AD 902
- Catalan Civil War 18, 1462 to 1472
- Muslim conquest of the Levant 17, AD 633 to AD 640
- Livonian Crusade 17, 1198
- Anglo-Scottish Wars 17
- War of the Two Peters 16, 1356 to 1375
- Wars in Lombardy 15, 1423 to 1454
- Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628 15, AD 602 to AD 628
- Carolingian conquest of the Spanish March 14, AD 759 to AD 851
- War of the Breton Succession 14, 1341 to 1365
- Hungarian invasions of Europe 14, AD 820 to AD 970
- Wars of Scottish Independence 14, 1296 to 1357
- Aragonese conquest of Valencia 13, 1225 to 1304
- Aragonese Crusade 13, 1283 to 1286
- Glyndŵr Rebellion 13, 1400 to 1415
- Muslim conquests 13, AD 622 to AD 750
- War of the Sicilian Vespers 12, 1282 to 1302
- First Crusade 12, 1096 to 1099
- Lazic War 12, AD 541 to AD 562
- Mongol invasions of the Levant 12, 1260 to 1323
- Timurid Wars of Succession 12, 1405 to 1507
- Georgian–Seljuk wars 11, 1064 to 1213
- Genkō War 11, 1331 to 1333
- First Ottoman–Venetian War 11, 1463 to 1479
- Second Crusade 11, 1147 to 1149
- Lithuanian Crusade 9, 1283 to 1410
- Second Fitna 9, AD 680 to AD 692
- Moorish Wars 9, AD 533 to AD 548
- Second Ottoman–Venetian War 9, 1499 to 1503
- Hook and Cod Wars 9, 1350 to 1490
- Byzantine–Latin wars 9, 1204 to 1453
- Byzantine–Norman Wars 9, 1039 to 1189
- Catalan campaign in Asia Minor 8, 1303 to 1307
- Byzantine–Sassanid War of 572–591 8, AD 572 to AD 591
- Aragonese conquest of Sardinia 8, 1323 to 1326
- Arab conquest of Egypt 8, AD 639 to AD 642
- Danish-Hanseatic War of 1361-1370 8, 1361 to 1370
- Muslim conquest of Transoxiana 8, AD 673 to AD 751
- War of the Castilian Succession 8, 1475 to 1479
- Byzantine–Lombard Wars 7, AD 568 to AD 751
- Fitna of al-Andalus 7, 1009 to 1031
- history of Japan 7
- Thirteen Years' War 7, 1454 to 1466
- Umayyad conquest of Hispania 7, AD 711 to AD 726
- Ridda Wars 7, AD 632 to AD 633
- Skanderbeg's rebellion 7, 1443 to 1468
- Granada War 7, 1492
- Norman conquest of southern Italy 7, 1100 to 1200
- viking expansion 7
- Count of Urgell's revolt 7, 1413 to 1414
- Burgundian Wars 7, 1474 to 1477
- Ottoman–Hungarian Wars 6, 1366 to 1526
- Danish Civil Wars 6, 1131 to 1157
- Northern Crusades 6
- Italian War of 1494–1495 6, 1494 to 1495
- Ōnin War 6, 1467 to 1477
- Berber (Amazigh) Revolt 6, AD 739 to AD 743
- Ghurid campaigns in India 6, 1175 to 1206
- Venetian–Genoese Wars 6, 1256 to 1381
- Muslim conquest of the Maghreb 6, AD 647 to AD 709
- taifa (first period) 6
- Ottoman conquest of the Morea 6, 1458 to 1460
- Swabian War 6, 1499
- The Anarchy 6, 1135 to 1154
- Franco-Flemish War 6, 1297 to 1305
- Third Crusade 6, 1189 to 1192
- Despenser War 6, 1321 to 1322
- Unification of Norway 6, AD 860 to 1020
- Norman conquest of England 5, 1066 to 1075
- Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty 5, 1235 to 1279
- Hilalian invasion of Ifriqiya 5
- Almoravid–Almohad Wars 5, 1121
- War of the Bands 5, 1362 to 1457
- Seljuk–Ghaznavid Wars 5
- Ottoman Wars in Asia 5
- Andalusi revolt against the Almoravids 5, 1144 to 1147
- Catalan Revenge 5, 1305 to 1307
- Yemeni revolt in the Wilayah of al-Andalus 5, AD 745 to AD 755
- Castilian Civil War 5, 1351 to 1369
- Avar–Byzantine Wars 5, AD 568 to AD 626
- Mongol conquest of Anatolia 5, 1241 to 1335
- Fifth Crusade 5, 1213 to 1221
- Iberian War 5, AD 526 to AD 532
- Second War of Scottish Independence 5, 1332 to 1357
- Conquest of the Principality of Achaia 5, 1314 to 1316
- Jurchen campaigns against the Song dynasty 5, 1125 to 1300
- Capetian-Plantagenet rivalry 5, 1159 to 1259
- Mongol invasions of India 5, 1221 to 1327
- Revolt of Ghent 5, 1449 to 1453
- Arab–Khazar Wars 5, AD 642 to AD 799
- Merovingian Brothers' War 5, AD 568 to AD 613
- War between Switzerland and the House of Habsburg 5, 1291 to 1499
- Conquest of Majorca 5, 1228 to 1231
- Scottish clan 5
- Austrian–Hungarian War 5, 1477 to 1488
- Middle Ages 5, AD 476 to 1500
- Bulgarian–Latin Wars 5
- Old Zürich War 5, 1440 to 1446
- Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty 4, 1211 to 1234
- conspiracy of the Barons 4
- Muslim invasions of Italy 4, AD 700 to 1100
- Civil war era in Norway 4, 1130 to 1240
- Abbasid Revolution 4, AD 746 to AD 750
- First Barons' War 4, 1215 to 1217
- Kannō disturbance 4, 1350 to 1352
- War of Saint Sabas 4, 1256 to 1270
- Norman conquest of Sicily 4, 1061 to 1091
- Serbian–Ottoman Wars 4, 1352 to 1913
- Ottoman conquest of the southern coast of Crimea 4, 1454 to 1475
- Mediterranean campaign of Alfonso V of Aragon 4, 1420 to 1424
- Franco-Visigothic Wars 4, AD 492 to AD 589
- Hammadid–Zirid War 4, 1014 to 1018
- Croatian-Venetian Wars 4, AD 700 to 1358
- Crusade of Varna 4
- Crusader invasions of Egypt 4, 1163 to 1169
- Second Barons' War 4, 1264 to 1267
- Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War 4, 1493 to 1593
- Nicaean–Latin wars 4, 1204 to 1261
- Crusader–Fatimid Wars 4, 1099 to 1169
- Caspian expeditions of the Rus' 4, AD 864 to 1041
- Transalpine campaigns of the Old Swiss Confederacy 4, 1403 to 1515
- Muslim conquest of Khorasan 4, AD 651 to AD 654
- Byzantine–Georgian Wars 4
- Crusade against the Hohenstaufen 4, 1240 to 1268
- Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria 4
- Aragonese conquest of Naples 4, 1435 to 1442
- Italian Wars 4, 1494 to 1559
- Byzantine–Bulgarian War of 913–927 4, AD 913 to AD 927
- Prussian uprisings 4, 1242 to 1295
- Moorish Gibraltar 4, AD 711 to 1462
- Polish–Teutonic War of 1327–1332 3, 1327 to 1332
- Hafsid–Zayyanid Wars 3
- Croatian–Bulgarian Wars 3
- Moravian Margrave Wars 3, 1381 to 1405
- Vandalic War 3, AD 533 to AD 534
- First Fitna 3, AD 656 to AD 661
- Crusade of 1101 3
- Kyōtoku Incident 3, 1454 to 1482
- Saxon Wars 3, AD 772 to AD 804
- Seventh Crusade 3, 1248 to 1254
- Ayxun revolt 3, AD 826 to AD 827
- Rus'-Cuman wars 3, 1054 to 1223
- Byzantine–Pecheneg wars 3, 1046 to 1122
- Byzantine Civil War of 1341–1347 3, 1341 to 1347
- Conquest of Tenerife 3, 1494 to 1496
- Achaean–Byzantine War 3, 1263 to 1266
- Ottoman–Mamluk War 3, 1485 to 1491
- First Fernandine War 3, 1369 to 1371
- Georgian–Shaddadid wars 3, 1012 to 1199
- Ghaznavid campaigns in India 3, 1000 to 1100
- Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War 3, 1407 to 1435
- Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent 3
- Kutama campaigns against the Aghlabids 3, AD 902 to AD 909
- Pecheneg revolt 3, 1049 to 1053
- Mongol invasions of Japan 3
- Ottoman–Wallachian wars 3, 1442 to 1476
- Ghaznavid–Hindu Shahi Wars 3, AD 977 to 1026
- Kublai Khan's Campaigns 3, 1266 to 1293
- Moldavian–Ottoman Wars 3, 1420 to 1538
- Anglo-French War of 1213–14 3, 1213 to 1214
- Anastasian War 3, AD 502 to AD 506
- Ottoman Interregnum 3, 1402 to 1413
- Saxon revolt of 1077–1088 3, 1077 to 1088
- Rus'-Pecheneg Wars 3, AD 875 to 1036
- Russo-Kazan Wars 3, 1438 to 1552
- Age of the Sturlungs 3
- Transition from Sui to Tang 3
- Arab conquest of Armenia 3, AD 642 to AD 744
- Bulgarian–Ottoman Wars 3, 1345 to 1393
- Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War 3, 1409 to 1411
- Muslim–Quraysh War 3, AD 624 to AD 630
- Armenian–Byzantine wars 3, 1000 to 1200
- Anglo-Saxon invasion of Wales 3, AD 600 to 1051
- People's Crusade 3, 1096
Early modern 209 wars
- American Revolutionary War 222, 1775 to 1783
- Eighty Years' War 170, 1568 to 1648
- Seven Years' War 127, 1756 to 1763
- Thirty Years' War 118, 1618 to 1648
- War of the Spanish Succession 93, 1701 to 1714
- Great Northern War 89, 1700 to 1721
- War of the Austrian Succession 47, 1740 to 1748
- First English Civil War 46, 1642 to 1646
- Franco-Spanish War 40, 1635 to 1659
- Nine Years' War 40, 1688 to 1697
- Franco-Dutch War 39, 1672 to 1678
- Japanese invasions of Korea 39, 1592 to 1598
- Reapers' War 37, 1640 to 1659
- Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire 36, 1532 to 1572
- French Wars of Religion 35, 1562 to 1598
- Anglo-Spanish War 33, 1585 to 1604
- Ottoman–Spanish War 32, 1515 to 1577
- Russo-Polish War 32, 1654 to 1667
- Cretan War of 1645-1669 28, 1645 to 1669
- Second Northern War 26, 1655 to 1660
- Dutch–Portuguese War 25, 1601 to 1661
- Long War 25, 1593 to 1606
- War of the League of Cambrai 25, 1508 to 1516
- Irish Confederate Wars 25, 1641 to 1653
- Scanian War 24, 1675 to 1679
- Khmelnytsky Uprising 23, 1648 to 1657
- Sixth Russo-Turkish War 23, 1768 to 1774
- English Civil War 23, 1642 to 1651
- Morean War 22, 1684 to 1699
- Great Turkish War 22, 1683 to 1699
- Caucasian War 22, 1763 to 1864
- Polish–Muscovite War 21, 1605 to 1618
- King William's War 20, 1688 to 1697
- Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790 20, 1788 to 1790
- Wars of the Three Kingdoms 20, 1638 to 1651
- battles involving the Maratha Empire 20
- Jacobite rising of 1745 20, 1745 to 1746
- Deluge 19, 1655 to 1660
- War of the Spanish Succession in Catalonia 19, 1701 to 1714
- Livonian War 19, 1558 to 1583
- Spanish–Moroccan conflicts 18
- Northern Seven Years' War 18, 1563 to 1570
- Ottoman–Habsburg Wars 18, 1526 to 1791
- Mughal–Sikh Wars 18, 1621 to 1788
- Queen Anne's War 17, 1702 to 1713
- Campaigns of Ismail Ibn Sharif 16, 1678 to 1727
- Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts of 1538–1560 16, 1538 to 1557
- Arauco War 16
- Seventh Russo-Turkish War 15, 1787 to 1792
- French and Indian War 15, 1754 to 1763
- Georgian–Ottoman conflicts 15
- American Indian Wars 15, 1609 to 1924
- Campaigns of Nader Shah 15, 1720 to 1747
- Polish–Swedish War of 1600–11 14, 1600 to 1611
- transition from Ming to Qing 14, 1616 to 1683
- Italian War of 1521–1526 14, 1521 to 1526
- Ottoman–Safavid War 14, 1623 to 1639
- War of Jenkins' Ear 14, 1739 to 1748
- Ottoman–Safavid War 14, 1578 to 1590
- Nine Years' War 14, 1593 to 1603
- Siege of Osaka 13, 1614 to 1615
- Polish–Ottoman War of 1683–99 13, 1683 to 1699
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire 13, 1519 to 1521
- Second Anglo-Dutch War 13, 1665 to 1667
- Polish–Ottoman War of 1672–1676 13, 1672 to 1676
- War of the Polish Succession 13, 1733 to 1735
- Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and the Sharifian dynasties 12, 1550 to 1795
- Golden Age of Piracy 12, 1650 to 1730
- War of the League of Cognac 12, 1526 to 1530
- Anglo-French War of 1778–1783 12, 1778 to 1783
- Williamite War in Ireland 12, 1689 to 1691
- Portuguese Restoration War 11, 1640 to 1668
- Spanish–Ottoman Wars 11, 1498 to 1792
- Revolt of the Comuneros 11, 1520 to 1522
- Torstenson War 10, 1643 to 1645
- War of the Quadruple Alliance 10, 1718 to 1720
- Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II 10, 1780 to 1783
- Ethiopian–Adal War 10, 1529 to 1543
- First Anglo-Dutch War 10, 1652 to 1654
- Huguenot rebellions 10, 1621 to 1629
- Polish–Swedish War of 1626–1629 9, 1626 to 1629
- Malay-Portuguese War 9, 1509 to 1641
- War of the Spanish Succession in the Kingdom of Valencia 9, 1705 to 1707
- Ottoman–Safavid War 9, 1603 to 1618
- Spanish–Algerian conflicts 9, 1516 to 1792
- Ishiyama Hongan-ji War 8, 1570 to 1580
- King George's War 8, 1744 to 1748
- Austro-Turkish War of 1663–1664 8, 1663 to 1664
- Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War 8, 1714 to 1718
- Fifth Russo-Turkish War 8, 1736 to 1739
- Bohemian Revolt 8, 1618 to 1620
- Anglo-Spanish War 8, 1779 to 1783
- Rákóczi’s War of Independence 8, 1703 to 1711
- Start of Sher Shah suri rule 8
- Italian War of 1542–46 Un penesote 8, 1542 to 1546
- Swedish War of Liberation 7, 1521 to 1523
- Euphrates-Tigris Expedition 7, 1515 to 1517
- Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–17 7, 1516 to 1517
- Fourth Anglo-Dutch War 7, 1780 to 1784
- Italian War of 1551–1559 7, 1551 to 1559
- Dano-Mughal War 7, 1642 to 1698
- Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars 7, 1487 to 1583
- Franco–Moroccan conflicts 7
- Campaigns of the South 7
- Apache–Mexico Wars 7
- Ingrian War 6, 1610 to 1617
- Kalmar War 6, 1611 to 1613
- Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre 6, 1512 to 1529
- Second English Civil War 6
- Ottoman–Persian War 6, 1775 to 1776
- Ottoman–Persian War of 1730–1735 6, 1730 to 1735
- Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts 6, 1506 to 1659
- Revolt of the Brotherhoods 6, 1519 to 1523
- German Peasants' War 6, 1524 to 1525
- War of the League of the Indies 6, 1570 to 1575
- Lekianoba 6, 1600 to 1900
- Georgian–Safavid Wars 6
- Second Anglo-Mysore War 6, 1780 to 1784
- Anglo-Spanish War 6, 1654 to 1660
- Jacobite risings 6, 1688 to 1746
- Mughal Empire 6
- Northwest Indian War 6, 1785 to 1795
- King Philip's War 6, 1675 to 1678
- San ei-Ketsu 6
- Polish–Swedish War of 1621–25 5, 1621 to 1625
- Chūgoku Campaign 5, 1577 to 1582
- Third Silesian War 5, 1756 to 1763
- Angolan Wars 5, 1579 to 1683
- Ottoman–Persian wars 5, 1505 to 1517
- Shimabara Rebellion 5, 1637 to 1638
- War of the Portuguese Succession 5, 1580 to 1583
- Moldavian Magnate Wars 5, 1593 to 1621
- Smolensk War 5, 1632 to 1634
- Ottoman–Persian Wars 5, 1514 to 1823
- Ottoman–Persian War (1722–1726) 5, 1722 to 1727
- War of the Reunions 5, 1683 to 1684
- Dakota-Ojibwe War 5, 1736 to 1858
- Pugachev's Rebellion 5, 1773 to 1775
- Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791 5, 1788 to 1791
- Mughal–Persian Wars 5, 1557 to 1739
- Zand campaigns in Kurdistan and Luristan 5, 1747 to 1794
- Anglo-Spanish War 5, 1762 to 1763
- Pomeranian War 5, 1757 to 1762
- Jacobite rising of 1715 5
- Second Carnatic War 5, 1749 to 1754
- Father Le Loutre's War 5, 1749 to 1755
- Operation Nishikami 4
- War of the Mantuan Succession 4, 1628 to 1631
- Dutch invasions of Brazil 4, 1624 to 1654
- Third Anglo-Dutch War 4, 1672 to 1674
- Ottoman–Venetian War of 1570–1573 4, 1570 to 1573
- Second conquest of Franche-Comté 4, 1673 to 1674
- Japanese–Portuguese conflicts 4
- Barbary–Portuguese conflicts 4, 1617 to 1819
- Polish–Cossack–Tatar War 4, 1666 to 1671
- Omani–Portuguese conflicts 4, 1650 to 1730
- Safavid–Aq Qoyunlu wars 4, 1456 to 1503
- Protestant Reformation 4, 1517 to 1648
- War of the Polish Succession 4, 1587 to 1588
- European colonies in Africa 4
- Deccan wars 4, 1681 to 1707
- Sinhalese–Portuguese conflicts 4, 1527 to 1658
- Third English Civil War 4, 1649 to 1651
- Russian conquest of Siberia 4, 1580 to 1700
- list of armed conflicts involving Poland against Russia 4
- War of Devolution 4, 1667 to 1668
- Guelders Wars 4, 1502 to 1543
- Inca Civil War 4, 1529 to 1532
- Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary 4, 1526 to 1568
- Cromwellian conquest of Ireland 4
- Battles of Kawanakajima 4, 1553 to 1564
- Sino-Dutch conflicts 3
- Zayyanid–Iberian conflicts 3, 1415 to 1543
- Three Surprise Attacks of Japan 3
- Time of Troubles 3, 1598 to 1613
- Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718 3, 1716 to 1718
- Brabant Revolution 3, 1789 to 1790
- War against Sigismund 3, 1598 to 1599
- Austro–Turkish War of 1737-1739 3, 1737 to 1739
- Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations 3, 1538 to 1718
- Ottoman-Safavid War 3, 1532 to 1555
- War of the Catalans 3, 1713 to 1714
- Palestine expedition 3, 1775
- Second War of Naples 3, 1501 to 1504
- Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts 3, 1519 to 1639
- Zaporozhian Cossacks' naval expeditions 3, 1600 to 1700
- Dano-Swedish War 3, 1657 to 1658
- Avar raids 3, 1000 to 1800
- Tunisian-Algerian War of 1705 3, 1705
- Burmese–Portuguese conflicts 3, 1539 to 1666
- Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe 3, 1441 to 1774
- Civil Wars between the conquerors of Peru 3, 1537 to 1554
- Spanish–Portuguese War of 1762–1763 3, 1762 to 1763
- Anglo-Portuguese rivalry in the Persian Gulf 3, 1615 to 1635
- Croatian-Ottoman Wars 3, 1443 to 1791
- Second Desmond Rebellion 3, 1579 to 1583
- Great Encomendero Uprising 3, 1544 to 1548
- Beaver Wars 3, 1609 to 1701
- Razin's Rebellion 3, 1667 to 1671
- Jacobite rising of 1719 3
- Cologne War 3, 1583 to 1588
- Father Rale's War 3, 1722 to 1725
- Trunajaya rebellion 3, 1674 to 1681
- Bourbon conquest of the Two Sicilies 3, 1734 to 1735
- Dzungar–Qing Wars 3, 1688 to 1759
- Marian civil war 3, 1568 to 1573
- Sino-Russian border conflicts 3, 1652 to 1689
- Unification of Hawaii 3, 1782 to 1810
- Ten Years’ War 3, 1634 to 1644
Revolutionary and napoleonic 48 wars
- Peninsular War 202, 1808 to 1814
- War in the Vendée 114, 1793 to 1796
- French Revolutionary Wars 111, 1792 to 1802
- War of the First Coalition 106, 1792 to 1797
- Napoleonic Wars 102, 1803 to 1815
- War of 1812 77, 1812 to 1815
- French Revolution 75, 1789 to 1799
- War of the Second Coalition 72, 1798 to 1802
- War of the Sixth Coalition 69, 1813 to 1814
- War of the Pyrenees 38, 1793 to 1795
- War of the Fifth Coalition 32, 1809
- Finnish War 31, 1808 to 1809
- Irish Rebellion of 1798 25, 1798
- War of the Third Coalition 24, 1805 to 1806
- Venezuelan War of Independence 23, 1810 to 1823
- Spanish American wars of independence 22, 1808 to 1833
- Mexican War of Independence 22, 1800 to 1821
- War of the Fourth Coalition 18, 1806 to 1807
- Argentine War of Independence 18, 1810 to 1816
- Chilean War of Independence 16, 1827
- Colombian War of Independence 16, 1810 to 1825
- Neapolitan War 14, 1815
- Second Anglo-Maratha War 14, 1803 to 1805
- First Serbian Uprising 13, 1804 to 1813
- Kościuszko Uprising 13, 1794
- Tyrolean Rebellion 11, 1809
- Haitian Revolution 11, 1791 to 1804
- Polish–Russian War of 1792 11, 1792
- Creek War 11, 1813 to 1814
- First Barbary War 9, 1801 to 1805
- Russo-Persian War of 1804–13 9, 1804 to 1813
- Peasants' War 8, 1798
- Third Anglo-Mysore War 8, 1790 to 1792
- Anglo-Spanish War 7, 1796 to 1808
- Afghan–Sikh Wars 6, 1748 to 1837
- Ottoman–Wahhabi war 6, 1811 to 1818
- Bolivian War of Independence 6, 1809 to 1825
- Gunboat War 6, 1807 to 1814
- Eighth Russo-Turkish War 5, 1806 to 1812
- Swedish-Norwegian War 1814 4, 1814
- British invasions of the River Plate 4, 1806 to 1807
- Coalition Wars 4, 1792 to 1815
- English Wars 4, 1801 to 1814
- Anglo-Nepalese War 3, 1814 to 1816
- Quasi-War 3, 1798 to 1800
- Campaigns of Prussia and Poland 3
- Corsican War 3, 1794 to 1796
- Polish–Austrian War 3
Nineteenth century 136 wars
- American Civil War 547, 1861 to 1865
- First Carlist War 84, 1833 to 1840
- Greek War of Independence 81, 1821 to 1829
- Franco-Prussian War 65, 1870 to 1871
- Russian Civil War 58, 1917 to 1922
- January Uprising 47, 1863 to 1864
- Austro-Prussian War 46, 1866
- Second Boer War 42, 1899 to 1902
- Mexican-American War 41, 1846 to 1848
- Philippine Revolution 36, 1896 to 1898
- Third Carlist War 33, 1872 to 1876
- First Balkan War 30, 1912 to 1913
- Hungarian Revolution of 1848 30, 1848 to 1849
- Boshin War 28, 1868 to 1869
- Philippine–American War 28, 1899 to 1902
- Crimean War 28, 1853 to 1856
- Tenth Russo-Turkish War 26, 1877 to 1878
- Paraguayan War 26, 1864 to 1870
- Second French intervention in Mexico 24, 1861 to 1867
- November Uprising 24, 1830 to 1831
- Tai Chao-chuen incident 22
- War of the Pacific 21, 1879 to 1884
- Argentine Civil Wars 21, 1814 to 1880
- French conquest of Algeria 20, 1830 to 1904
- Mahdist War 20, 1881 to 1899
- Mexican Revolution 19, 1910 to 1920
- Ten Years' War 19, 1868 to 1878
- First Opium War 18, 1839 to 1842
- Russo-Japanese War 18, 1904 to 1905
- Spanish–American War 17, 1898
- First Italian War of Independence 16, 1848 to 1849
- Texas Revolution 14, 1835 to 1836
- Italo-Turkish War 14, 1911 to 1912
- Indian Mutiny of 1857 14, 1857 to 1858
- Second Opium War 13, 1856 to 1860
- Taiping Rebellion 13, 1851 to 1864
- First Schleswig War 13, 1848 to 1851
- Apache Wars 12, 1849 to 1924
- Portuguese Conquest of the Banda Oriental 12, 1816 to 1820
- Boxer Rebellion 11, 1899 to 1901
- Second Italian War of Independence 11, 1859
- Great Sioux War of 1876 11, 1876 to 1877
- Cisplatine War 11, 1825 to 1828
- Banana Wars 11, 1898 to 1934
- Anglo-Zulu War 10, 1879
- Dominican Restoration War 9, 1863 to 1865
- First Boer War 9, 1880 to 1881
- Second Schleswig War 9, 1864
- Second Anglo-Afghan War 9, 1878 to 1880
- Sino-French War 9, 1884 to 1885
- Farroupilha Revolution 8, 1835 to 1845
- Ninth Russo-Turkish War 8, 1828 to 1829
- Brazilian War of Independence 8, 1822 to 1824
- Java War of 1825-1830 8, 1825 to 1830
- Sioux Wars 8, 1854 to 1891
- First Sino-Japanese War 8, 1894 to 1895
- Liberal Wars 8, 1828 to 1834
- North-West Rebellion 8, 1885
- Second Seminole War 8, 1835 to 1842
- Chincha Islands War 8, 1864 to 1866
- Third Italian War of Independence 8, 1866
- Peruvian War of Independence 8, 1821 to 1824
- Black Hawk War 8, 1832
- Portuguese campaigns of pacification and occupation 7, 1880 to 1920
- Japanese invasion of Taiwan 7, 1895
- Unification of Italy 7, 1815 to 1871
- Royal Expedition 7, 1837
- Second Balkan War 7, 1913
- Dakota War of 1862 7, 1862
- War of Dominican Independence 7, 1844 to 1856
- Lower Canada Rebellion 7, 1837 to 1838
- Nez Perce War 7, 1877
- Uruguayan Civil War 7, 1839 to 1851
- War of the Confederation 7, 1836 to 1839
- Royalist War 6, 1822 to 1823
- Hispano-Moroccan War 6, 1859 to 1860
- Greco-Turkish War of 1897 6, 1897
- Russo-Persian War of 1826–28 6, 1826 to 1828
- First Anglo-Sikh War 5, 1845 to 1846
- Menelik II's conquests 5, 1878 to 1904
- First Egyptian-Ottoman War 5, 1831 to 1833
- French conquest of Morocco 5, 1907 to 1937
- Cuban War of Independence 5, 1895 to 1898
- Great Trek 5
- Ecuadorian War of Independence 5, 1820 to 1823
- Baden Revolution 5
- Reform War 5, 1857 to 1861
- Saudi–Rashidi War 5, 1903 to 1907
- Modoc War 5, 1872 to 1873
- Tonkin Campaign 5, 1883 to 1886
- First Anglo-Afghan War 4, 1839 to 1842
- Second Egyptian-Ottoman War 4, 1839 to 1841
- Flagstaff War 4, 1845 to 1846
- Great Eastern Crisis 4
- Third Anglo-Maratha War 4, 1817 to 1818
- Belgian–Dutch War 4, 1830 to 1833
- Russian colonisation of Central Asia 4
- Ottoman–Persian War of 1821–23 4, 1821 to 1823
- Fenian Rising 4, 1867
- Second Anglo-Sikh war 4, 1848 to 1849
- Wars of Italian Independence 4
- Chilean Civil War of 1891 4, 1891
- French conquest of Vietnam 4, 1858 to 1885
- Taos Revolt 4
- Revolution of 1880 4
- Cantonal revolution 4, 1873 to 1874
- Battles for Plav and Gusinje 3, 1879 to 1880
- Borjes expedition 3, 1861
- Russian conquest of Bukhara 3, 1842 to 1868
- Red River War 3, 1874 to 1875
- Anglo-Egyptian War 3, 1882
- Comanche Wars 3, 1706 to 1875
- April Uprising of 1876 3
- Texas–Indian Wars 3, 1820 to 1882
- Scramble for Africa 3, 1885 to 1914
- Ethiopian-Mahdist War 3, 1885 to 1889
- Åland War 3, 1854 to 1855
- First Italo-Senussi War 3, 1913 to 1921
- Mfecane 3
- Red Cloud's War 3, 1866 to 1868
- Hungarian Independence War 3, 1848 to 1849
- Palatine Uprising 3, 1849
- Maryland in the American Civil War 3, 1861 to 1865
- Persian Constitutional Revolution 3, 1905 to 1911
- Bleeding Kansas 3, 1854 to 1861
- Russian-Kokand War 3, 1850 to 1868
- First Italo-Ethiopian War 3, 1894 to 1896
- Peasants' revolt in Palestine 3, 1834
- Repression of the Commune 3, 1871
- Upper Canada Rebellion 3
- Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889 3
- Uruguayan War 3, 1864 to 1865
- Xinhai Revolution 3, 1911 to 1912
- sea piracy 3
- Navajo Wars 3, 1500 to 1866
- Yavapai War 3, 1871 to 1875
First world war 13 wars
- World War I 525, 1914 to 1918
- Polish–Soviet War 47, 1919 to 1921
- Finnish Civil War 35, 1918
- Rif War 11, 1911 to 1927
- Estonian War of Independence 10, 1918 to 1920
- German Invasion in the Finnish Civil War 9
- Arab Revolt 7, 1916 to 1918
- Armenian Genocide 5, 1915 to 1923
- United States occupation of the Dominican Republic 4
- Polish–Ukrainian War 4, 1918 to 1919
- White War 3, 1915 to 1918
- Ukrainian–Soviet War 3, 1917 to 1921
- Mexican Border War 3, 1910 to 1919
Interwar and second world war 42 wars
- World War II 619, 1939 to 1945
- Pacific War 209, 1941 to 1945
- Spanish Civil War 62, 1936 to 1939
- Second Sino-Japanese War 59, 1937 to 1945
- Chinese Civil War 43, 1927 to 1950
- Winter War 16, 1939 to 1940
- Continuation War 15, 1941 to 1944
- Guerilla war in the Baltic states 13, 1940 to 1956
- Polish–Ukrainian conflict 11, 1939 to 1947
- Soviet–Japanese border conflicts 10, 1932 to 1939
- Cristero War 10, 1926 to 1929
- Basmachi movement 10, 1916 to 1934
- Uprising in West-Hungary 10, 1921
- Greco-Turkish War 10, 1919 to 1922
- resistance during World War II 9
- Chaco War 8, 1932 to 1935
- Indonesian National Revolution 7, 1945 to 1949
- Greco-Italian War 7, 1940 to 1941
- East African Campaign 7, 1940 to 1941
- Kumul Rebellion 7, 1931 to 1934
- German–Ukrainian conflict 6, 1941 to 1944
- Great Syrian Revolt 6, 1925 to 1927
- Central Plains War 5, 1930
- 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine 5, 1936 to 1939
- Lapland War 5, 1944 to 1945
- Turkish–Armenian War 5, 1920
- Second Italo-Ethiopian War 5, 1935 to 1937
- Liberation of France 4
- Japanese conquest of Burma 4, 1941 to 1942
- Black Sea Campaigns 4
- Ikhwan Revolt 3, 1927 to 1930
- Irish War of Independence 3, 1919 to 1921
- Ukrainian nationalists–Soviet partisans conflict 3, 1941 to 1944
- Irish Civil War 3, 1922 to 1923
- Uprising in Serbia 3, 1941
- Simko Shikak revolt 3, 1918 to 1922
- Soviet–Japanese War 3, 1945
- Battles of El Alamein 3
- Turkish War of Independence 3, 1919 to 1923
- Warsaw Uprising 3, 1944
- Franco-Turkish War 3, 1918 to 1921
- Franco-Syrian War 3, 1920
Cold war 35 wars
- Korean War 84, 1950 to 1953
- Vietnam War 82, 1955 to 1975
- Western Sahara War 33, 1975 to 1991
- Yom Kippur War 21, 1973
- 1948 Arab–Israeli War 20, 1948 to 1949
- Falklands War 20, 1982
- Iran–Iraq War 19, 1980 to 1988
- Gulf War 18, 1990 to 1991
- Croatian War of Independence 16, 1991 to 1995
- First Indochina War 14, 1946 to 1954
- Algerian War 13, 1954 to 1962
- Cuban Revolution 10, 1953
- Eritrean War of Independence 10, 1961 to 1991
- Somaliland War of Independence 7, 1981 to 1991
- Soviet-Afghan War 7, 1979 to 1989
- Six-Day War 7, 1967
- Lebanese Civil War 6, 1975 to 1990
- Sino-Indian War 6, 1962
- Cyprus problem 6, 1955 to 1974
- 1982 Lebanon War 6, 1982 to 1985
- Bangladesh Liberation War 6, 1971
- Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation 6, 1963 to 1966
- 1948 Palestine war 5, 1947 to 1949
- Sino-Vietnamese War 5, 1979
- decolonization 5
- Uganda–Tanzania War 5, 1978 to 1979
- Ogaden War 4, 1977 to 1978
- Tankers War 4, 1984 to 1988
- Greek Civil War 4, 1946 to 1949
- The Troubles 4, 1960 to 1998
- internal conflict in Peru 3, 1980
- war on drugs 3
- Ifni War 3, 1957 to 1958
- Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 3, 1965
- Cold War in Asia 3
Undated 1 wars
- Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising 4, 1903