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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.
Rus'–Byzantine War (1043) Byzantine Empire: Kievan Rus' 1046 1046 Vata pagan uprising: Peter Orseolo: Hungarian pagans: 1046 1243 Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Great Seljuq Empire (1048–1092) Sultanate of Rum (1077–1308) Byzantine Empire, Empire of Nicaea (1204–1261) Empire of Trebizond (1204–1308) Crusader states: 1051 1063 Former Nine ...
Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity. 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 ...
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.
The First Carnatic War; Austria Great Britain Hanover Dutch Republic Saxony Sardinia Russia East India Company France Prussia Spain. Spanish Empire; Bavaria Saxony Naples and Sicily Genoa Sweden French East India Company. French–allied victory in Europe but British victory outside of Europe. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle: Civil War: Jacobite ...
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led by France and Austria, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia.
The Thirty Years' War, [j] from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from the effects of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of Germany reported population declines of over 50%. [19]
In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. [17] The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and Augustus II the Strong of Saxony – Poland ...