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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.
Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America.
A French satirical cartoon map of Europe in 1870. The European Civil War is a concept meant to characterize a series of 19th- and early 20th-century conflicts in Europe as segments of an overarching civil war within a supposed European society. The timeframes associated with this European Civil War vary among historians.
Syrian civil war: 15 March 2011: Ongoing: 13 years, 10 months, 4 weeks and 1 day Napoleonic Wars: 18 May 1803: 20 November 1815: 12 years, 6 months and 2 days [31] Burundian Civil War: 21 October 1993: 15 April 2006: 12 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 4 days Haitian Revolution: 21 August 1791: 1 January 1804: 12 years, 4 months, 1 week and 4 days
21 March, Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold the last pitched battle of the First Civil War is a victory for the New Model Army; 13 April, Siege of Exeter ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison. 5 May, Charles surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire; 6 May, Newark fell to the Parliamentarians
Teutonic Order and mercenaries and various knights from the rest of Europe 1423 1424 War of L'Aquila: L'Aquila Duchy of Milan Kingdom of Naples Papal States: Braccio da Montone: 1425 1453 Muscovite Civil War: Party of Vasily the Blind: Party of Vasily Kosoy Party of Dmitry Shemyaka: 1425 1454 Wars in Lombardy: Duchy of Milan: Republic of Venice ...
1364: The defeat and death of Charles of Blois at the Battle of Auray marks the end of the Breton War of Succession. 1366: The Black Prince intervenes in the civil war in Castile between Pedro the Cruel and Henry of Trastamara. 1370: John Chandos, the English Seneschal of Poitou is defeated and slain at Chateau Lussac.
The 1937 World's Fair in Paris displays the growing political tensions in Europe. The pavilions of the rival countries of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union face each other. Germany at the time was internationally condemned for Luftwaffe (its air force) having performed a bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.