List of conflicts in Europe

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This is an attempt to list of conflicts in Europe, (arranged both alphabetically and chronologically), including;

• Wars between European nations
• Civil Wars within European nations
• Rebellions by a European nation seeking independence
• Wars between a European nation and a non-European nation that took place within Europe
• Global conflicts, in which Europe was a theatre of war

Contents 1 Alphabetically 2 Chronologically 2.1 before 19th century 2.2 19th century 2.3 20th century 2.4 21st century 3 See also

Alphabetically

• Anglo-Irish War or Irish War of Independence (1919-1921)
• Armenian-Azeri War
• Austro-Prussian War (1866–1866)
• Balkan Wars (1912–1913)

• Chechen Wars (1994–present)

• First Chechen War (1994–1996)
• Second Chechen War (1999–present)

• Cod Wars (1893–1976)

• The Cod War of 1893 (1893–1896)
• First Cod War (1958)
• Second Cod War (1972–1973)
• Third Cod War (1975–1976)

• Crimean War (1854–1856)
• Conquest of Estonia (1208-1227)
• Hungarian Revolutionary War (1918–1919)
• Easter Rising (1916)
• Eighty Years' War (1568–1648)
• English Civil War (1642–1651)
• Estonian Liberation War (1918–1920)
• Finnish Civil War (1918)
• Hungen-Rodheim War (1877-1881)
• First Greco-Turkish War (1897)
• First Schleswig War 1848-1851
• Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
• French Revolution (1789–1799)
• Great Turkish War (1667–1683)
• First Greco-Turkish War (1897)
• Irish Civil War (1922-1923)
• Italian Independence wars (1848–1866)

• First Italian Independence War (1848–1849)
• Second Italian Independence War (1859)
• Third Italian Independence War (1866)

• Livonian War (1558–1583)
• Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815)
• Northern Ireland Conflict (1969-2007)
• Great Northern War (1700–1721)

• Russian Civil War (1918–1920)
• Russian Revolution (1917)

• Russo–Swedish Wars (1496–1809)

• Swedish–Novgorodian Wars
• Russo–Swedish War (1496–1499)
• Russo–Swedish War (1554–1557)
• Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595)
• Ingrian War (1610–1617)
• Russo–Swedish War (1656–1658)
• Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743)
• Russo–Swedish War (1788–1790)
• Finnish War (1808–1809)

• Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

• Scottish Civil War (1639–1651)
• Second Schleswig War 1864
• Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885)
• Seven Years' War (1756–1763)
• Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
• Ten Days Campaign (1830)
• Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)
• Turkish War of Independence
• Turkish Invasion of Cyprus (1974)
• War of Austrian Succession (1740–1748)
• Wars of Castro (1641–1649)
• War of Devolution (1667–1668)
• War of the Polish Succession (1733–1738)
• War of the Portuguese Succession (1580-1583)
• War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720)
• War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1740)
• War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1713)
• Williamite War in Ireland (1688–1691)
• World War I (1914–1918)
• World War II (1939–1945)
  • Soviet-Japanese Border Wars (1938-1945)
  • Winter War (1939–1940)

Chronologically

before 19th century

Only some wars are listed

• 1208-1217 Conquest of Estonia
• 1209-1229 Albigensian Crusade
• 1282-1302 War of the Sicilian Vespers
• 1296-1357 Wars of Scottish Independence
• 1337-1453 Hundred Years' War
• 1419-1434 Hussite Wars
• 1455-1487 Wars of the Roses
• 1522–1559 Habsburg-Valois Wars
• 1558-1583 Livonian War
• 1562-1598 French Wars of Religion
• 1568–1648 Eighty Years' War
• 1580-1583 War of the Portuguese Succession
• 1585-1604 Anglo-Spanish War (1585)
• 1594-1603 Nine Years War (Ireland)
• 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
• 1640-1688 Portuguese Restoration War
• 1642–1651 English Civil War
• 1652-1674 Anglo-Dutch Wars
• 1667–1668 War of Devolution
• 1667–1683 Great Turkish War
• 1688-1697 War of the League of Augsburg
• 1700–1721 Great Northern War
• 1701–1713 War of the Spanish Succession
• 1718-1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance
• 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
• 1756–1763 Seven Years' War
• 1789–1799 French Revolution

19th century

• 1792–1815 Napoleonic Wars
• 1830 Ten Days Campaign (following the Belgian Revolt)
• 1830-1831 Polish-Russian war
• 1848-1851 First Schleswig War
• 1848–1866 Italian Independence wars

• 1848–1849 First Italian Independence War
• 1859 Second Italian Independence War
• 1866 Third Italian Independence War

• 1854–1856 Crimean War
• 1864 Second Schleswig War
• 1864 January Uprising
• 1866–1866 Austro-Prussian War
• 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
• 1877–1878 Russo–Turkish War
• 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
• 1893–1896 Cod War of 1893
• 1897 First Greco–Turkish War

20th century

(In general all wars are listed)

• 1911-1912 Italo-Turkish War
• 1912–1913 Balkan Wars
  • 1912-1913 First Balkan War
  • 1913 Second Balkan War
• 1914–1918 World War I
• 1916 Easter Rising
• 1917–1921 Russian Civil War
• 1918 Finnish Civil War
• 1918 Polish-Czech war for Teschen Silesia
• 1918–1919 Polish-Ukrainian War
• 1918–1919 Greater Poland Uprising
• 1918–1920 Estonian Liberation War
• 1918-1920 Latvian War of Independence
• 1919–1920 Czechoslovakia-Hungary War
• 1919–1921 Silesian Uprisings
• 1919–1921 Polish-Soviet War
• 1919–1921 Anglo-Irish War
• 1920 Polish-Lithuanian War
• 1922–1923 Irish Civil War
• 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1939-1940 Winter War
  • 1941-1944 Continuation War
  • 1944 Slovak National Uprising
• 1946-1949 Greek Civil War
• 1956 Uprising in Poznan
• 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary
• 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
• 1969-1998 The Troubles of Northern Ireland
• 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War
• 1991-1992 War in South Ossetia
• 1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence
• 1992 War of Transnistria
• 1992-1998 First War in Abkhazia
• 1992-1995 Bosnian War
• 1994–1996 First Chechen War
• 1996-1999 First and Second Kosovo Wars
• 1998 Second War of Abkhazia
• 1999-Ongoing Second Chechen War
• 1999-2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley

21st century

(In general all wars are listed)

• 2001 2001 Macedonia conflict
• 2002-2007 Operation Enduring Freedom - Pankisi Gorge
• 2004 2004 unrest in Kosovo
• 2004 Adjara crisis
• 2008 War in South Ossetia

See also

• Wars between England and France
• List of English wars
• List of Finnish wars
• List of French wars
• List of Polish wars
• List of Spanish wars
• List of Swedish wars
• List of Danish wars
• List of Roman wars
• List of Roman Battles
• Geography of Europe
• History of Europe
• Politics of Europe
• List of wars — a complete global listing
• Roman Republican civil wars