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This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
Bhutan War 1864–1865; Third Ashanti War 1873–1874; Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878–1880; Anglo-Zulu War 1879; First Boer War 1880–1881; Third Anglo-Burmese War 1885; Mahdist War 1881–1899; Fourth Ashanti War 1894; Anglo-Zanzibar War 1896 (The shortest war in recorded history, which only lasted approximately 38 minutes) Six-Day War 1899 ...
Inconclusive for Great Britain. Britain did not gain or lose anything from the war and had exited the war a year before it ended due to financial trouble. Russian–allied victory: Tsardom of Russia establishes itself as a new power in Europe. Decline of Swedish Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The War of the Spanish Succession
The list begins after the Adventus Saxonum in c. AD 446 (when the Anglo-Saxons are said to have arrived in Britain) to the late Middle Ages when England annexed the whole of Wales in 1535. The list is not exhaustive but seeks to note the significant campaigns and the major battles.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1800 AD until 1899 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles .
6 October – The War Office alerts the administrators of British Army Reserve to prepare for drafting of soldiers in preparation for war in South Africa. [13] 9 October – first motor bus in London. [14] 11 October – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free ...
Britain and her army, 1509-1970: a military, political and social survey (1970). Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels. Chandler, David G., and Ian Frederick William Beckett, eds.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom