List of conflicts in Europe Military conflicts in European history
This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European states , civil wars within European states, wars between a European state and a non-European state that took place within Europe, militarized interstate disputes , and global conflicts in which Europe was a theatre of war .
There are various definitions of Europe and in particular, there is a significant dispute about the eastern and southeastern boundaries, specifically about how to define the countries of the former Soviet Union . This list is based on a wide definition that includes much of the interface between Europe and Western Asia .
BC
Battle of Cape Ecnomus , 256 BC
Pre-500 BC
500–200 BC
200 BC onwards
1st–10th century AD
Revolt of the Batavi , 69
Battle of the Milvian Bridge , 312
Battle of the Hellespont , 324
11th century
Battle of Hastings (1066)
12th century
Monument of Didgori Battle , Georgia
13th century
Battle of Muret , 1213
14th century
Battle of Sluys , 1340, from a manuscript
Battle of Nájera , 1367
15th century
Battle of Formigny , 1450
16th century
Battle of Pavia , 1525
Siege of Eger , 1552
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre , 1572
Battle of Haarlemmermeer , 1573
Battle of Gravelines , 1588
A Burned Village, during the Cudgel War , 1596
17th century
Relief of Genoa , 1625
Battle of Rocroi , 1641
Morning after the Assault on Copenhagen, 1659
Four Days Battle , 1666
Louis XIV crosses the Rhine at Lobith , during the Franco-Dutch War , 1672
Siege of Buda , 1686
Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue , 1692
1600–1629 Polish–Swedish War
1601 Battle of Guruslău
1602 Savoyard escalade of Geneva
1604–1606 Bocskai Uprising
1605–1618 Polish–Muscovite War
1606–1607 Bolotnikov Rebellion
1606–1608 Zebrzydowski Rebellion
1610–1614 Spanish-Ottoman War – 15,000 killed in action[ 1]
1610–1617 Ingrian War
1611–1613 Kalmar War
1615–1618 Uskok War
1615–1617 Spanish-Savoian War – 2,000 killed in action[ 1]
1617–1621 Spanish-Venetian War – 5,000 killed in action[ 1]
1618–1619 Spanish-Ottoman War – 6,000 killed in action[ 1]
1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
1618–1639 Bündner Wirren
1620–1621 Polish–Ottoman War
1625 Zhmaylo Uprising
1627–1629 Anglo-French War
1628–1631 War of the Mantuan Succession
1630 Fedorovych Uprising
1632–1634 Smolensk War
1637 Pavlyuk Uprising
1638 Ostryanyn Uprising
1639–1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms
1640–1668 Spanish-Portuguese War – 80,000 killed in action[ 1]
1648–1659 Franco-Spanish War – 108,000 killed in action[ 1]
1648–1657 Khmelnytsky Uprising
1651 Kostka-Napierski Uprising
1651–1986 Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War
1652–1674 Anglo-Dutch Wars
1653 Swiss peasant war of 1653
1654 First Bremian War
1654–1667 Russo-Polish War
1654–1660 English-Spanish War – 15,000 killed in action[ 1]
1655–1660 Second Northern War
1656 War of Villmergen
1666 Second Bremian War
1666–1671 Polish–Cossack–Tatar War
1667–1668 War of Devolution – 4,000 killed in action[ 1]
1670–1671 Razin's Rebellion
1672 First Kuruc Uprising
1672-1676 Polish-Ottoman War (1672-1676)
1672–1678 Franco-Dutch War – 342,000 killed in action[ 1]
1672–1673 Second Genoese–Savoyard War
1675–1679 Scanian War
1676–1681 Russo-Ottoman War
1678–1685 Thököly Uprising
1679 Covenanter Rebellion
1683–1684 War of the Reunions – 5,000 killed in action[ 1]
1683–1699 War of the Holy League – 384,000 killed in action[ 1]
1685 Monmouth Rebellion
1686 Second Tarnovo uprising
1688 Chiprovtsi uprising
1688–1697 Nine Years' War – 680,000 killed in action[ 1]
1689 Karposh's rebellion
1689–1692 First Jacobite Rising
1700 Lithuanian Civil War
18th century
Battle of Denain , 1712
Bringing Home the Body of King Charles XII of Sweden , after the Siege of Fredriksten , 1718
Battle of Hohenfriedberg , 1745
Battle of Fleurus , 1794
1700–1721 Great Northern War – 30,000 Russians killed in action[ 2]
1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession – 1,251,000 killed in action[ 1]
1703–1711 Rákóczi's War of Independence
1707–1708 Bulavin Rebellion
1712 Toggenburg War
1714–1718 Ottoman–Venetian wars
1715–1716 Jacobite rising of 1715
1718–1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance – 25,000 killed in action[ 1]
1722–1723 Russo-Persian War
1727–1729 Anglo-Spanish War – 15,000 killed in action[ 1]
1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession – 88,000 killed in action[ 1]
1735–1739 Russo-Ottoman War
1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession – 359,000 killed in action[ 1]
1740–1763 Silesian Wars
1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War
1745–1746 Jacobite rising of 1745
1756–1763 Seven Years' War – 992,000 killed in action[ 1]
1757 Battle of Khresili
1763–1864 Russo-Circassian War
1768–1772 War of the Bar Confederation
1768–1774 Russo-Ottoman War
1770 Battle of Aspindza
1770 Orlov Revolt
1774–1775 Pugachev's Rebellion
1775–1783 American Revolutionary War
1778–1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
1784 Kettle War
1784–1785 Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan
1785 Battle of the Sunja
1787 Dutch Patriot Revolt
1787–1792 Russo-Ottoman War
1788–1790 Russo-Swedish War
1789–1802 French Revolutionary Wars – 663,000 killed in action[ 1]
1790 Saxon Peasants' Revolt
1792 Polish–Russian War of 1792
1794 Kościuszko Uprising
1795 Battle of Krtsanisi
1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798
1798 Peasants' War
19th century
Napoleon crossing the Alps before the Battle of Marengo , 1800
Battle of Austerlitz , 1805
Battle of Waterloo , 1815
Battle of Malakoff , 1855
Prussian troops quarter just outside Paris, Franco-Prussian War , 1871
20th century
Explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine , 1 July 1916, marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme .
Republican International Brigadiers on a Soviet T-26 tank at the Battle of Belchite , 1937
German Stuka dive bombers in the Eastern Front (World War II) 1941–45
A Soviet IS-2 tank in Leipzig during the 1953 East Germany Uprising
Icelandic patrol ship ICGV Odinn and British frigate HMS Scylla clash during the Second Cod War
A "Sniper at work" sign in Crossmaglen , a symbol of the IRA sniper campaign in South Armagh during the last stages of the Northern Ireland Troubles
UNPROFOR troops on their way up "Sniper Alley " in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War
A Russian helicopter downed by Chechen militants, during the First Chechen War
21st century
The Russian army's Vostok Battalion in South Ossetia during the Russo-Georgian War .
Damaged building during the Russo-Ukrainian War , in Lysychansk, Ukraine on 4 August 2014.
Battle of Bakhmut , 2023
Ongoing conflicts
Ongoing conflicts in Europe
Conflict
Includes
Date started
Duration
Casualties
Dissident Irish republican campaign
1996
28–29 years
-50 killed
Russo-Ukrainian War
20 Feb 2014
10 years, 11 months, 1 week and 4 days
250,000+ to 285,000 killed, 300,000 to 400,000 wounded, as of February, 2023
See also
References
Lists of wars involving European countries
Sovereign states States with limited recognition Dependencies and other entities
Theatres
Principal participants
Timeline
Pre-War conflicts Prelude 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 Co-belligerent conflicts Post-War conflicts
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