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Prehistoric and Classical period
Roman conquest of Britain (43)
Boudica's uprising (61)
Battle of
Watling Street
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Mediæval period
Battle of Aylesford (455) Anglo-Saxons
Battle of Ellandun
Viking invasions (
793β
1066)
Raid on
Lindisfarne (793)
Campaign of Alfred the Great (
871β899)
Battle of Edington (
878)
Battle of
Cannington (878)
Battle of Ashingdon (1016)
Battle of
Fulford (1066)
Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
Norman Conquest of England (1066)
The
Battle of Hastings 1066
Rebellion of 1088 - civil war
The Anarchy (1135β1154) - civil war
Revolt of 1173-1174 - civil war
Third Crusade (1189-1192)
Richard I's war in France
Welsh uprising of 1211
Battle of Bouvines (1214) - loss of Normandy
First Barons' War (1215β1217) - civil war
Henry
III's war in France
Second Barons' War (1264β1267) - civil war
Welsh Uprising (1282) - civil war
Edward I's war in France
The First War of
Scottish Independence (1296β1328)
Edward
II's war in France
The Second War of Scottish Independence (1332β1357)
Hundred Years' War (1337 to
1453) against France
War of Edward III (1337 to 1360) - victory
War of Charles the Wise (
1369 to 1396) - defeat
War of
Henry V (1415 to 1422) - victory
War of Charles the Victorious (1428 to 1453) - defeat
Wars of
the Roses (1455β1485) - Richard III was the last English king to die in combat - civil war
edit Early Modern period
Italian Wars (1494 β 1559)
War of the League of Cambrai (1511-1513)
Italian War of 1521 (1521-1525)
Italian War of
1542 (1542-1546)
Italian War of 1551 (1557-1559)
Cornish Rebellion (1497)
Anglo-Scottish Wars (1513; 1544-1551)
Loss of Calais (1558) - then England's last continental possession
Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604)
Nine Years War (1594β1603)
Eighty Years' War (1598β1648)
First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609β1613) - North America
Second Anglo-Powhatan War (1622) - North America
Anglo-Spanish War (1625-1630) (As a small part of the Thirty Years' War)
Anglo-French War (1626-1629)
Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639β1651) - civil war
First Bishops' War (1639)
Second Bishops' War (1640)
Irish Rebellion (1641)
The Confederateβs War (1642-1648)
English Civil War (1642β1651)
First English Civil War (1642β1646)
civil war in Scotland (1644β1647)
Second English Civil War (1648)
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
Third English Civil War (1650β1651)
Third Anglo-Powhatan War (1644) - North America
First Anglo-Dutch War (
1652β1654)
Anglo-Spanish War (1654β1660)
Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665β1667)
War of Devolution (1667β
1668)
Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672β1674)
King
Philip's War (1675β1676) - North America
Virginia Rebellion (1676)
Monmouth Rebellion (1685) - civil war
Nine Years War (1688β1697) - England, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Holland v France
King William's War (1688β1697) - North America
Jacobite Rebellions (1689-91; 1715-16; 1719; 1745-46) - Civil War
Williamite war in Ireland (1688β
1691)
Battle of the
Boyne (
1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
Clifton Moor Skirmish, near
Penrith (1745) - last battle on English soil
Battle of
Culloden (1746) - last battle in Great Britain
War of the Spanish Succession (1702β1713) - Great Britain, Germany, Portugal and Holland v France and Spain
Queen Anne's War (1702β1713)
War of the Quadruple Alliance (
1718β1720) - Great Britain, France, Austria and Holland v Italy and Spain
War of Jenkins' Ear (1739β1742) - Great Britain v Spain
War of the Austrian Succession (1742β1748) - Great Britain, Austria and Holland v France and Germany
King George's War (1744β1748)
Seven Years' War (1756β1763) - the first "world war"
French and Indian War (1754β1763) - Great Britain and Germany v Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, Spain and Portugal
Anglo-Cherokee War (1759β1763) - North America
Pontiac's Rebellion (1763β1766) - North America
First Anglo-Mysore War (1766β1769) - India
American War of Independence (1775β1783) - North America
First Anglo-Maratha War (1775β1782) - India
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (
1780β1784)
Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780β1784) - India
Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789β1792) - India
edit 19th Century
French Revolutionary Wars (1793β1802) - Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Russia, Germany v France
War of the First Coalition (1793β1797)
War of the Second Coalition (1798β1801)
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798β1799) - India
Irish Rebellion (1798)
Napoleonic Wars (1803β1815) - United Kingdom, Prussia, Austria, Sweden, Spain and Russia v France
South American War (1806β1807)
Anglo-Turkish War (1807β1809)
Anglo-Russian War (1807β
1812)
Gunboat War (1807β
1814)
Peninsular War (1808β1814)
Hundred Days (1815)
First Kandian War (1803β
1804) - India
Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803β
1805) - India
Vellore Mutiny (1806) - India
Anglo-Dutch Java War (1810β1811)
War of 1812 (1812β1815)
Anglo-Nepalese War (1814β
1816)
Second Kandian War (1815) - India
Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817β
1818) - India
First Anglo-Burmese War (1823β1826)
Upper Canada Rebellion (
1837)
Lower Canada Rebellion (1837)
First Anglo-Afghan War (
1839β1842)
Battle of Ghazni
First Opium War (1839β1842) - United Kingdom v China
First Anglo-Sikh War (1845β1846) - India
New Zealand Wars (1845β1872)
Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848β1849) - India
Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852)
Crimean War (1854β
1856) - United Kingdom, France, Turkey, and Piedmont-Sardinia v Russia
Second Opium War (1856β1860) - United Kingdom and France v China
Anglo-Persian War (1856β1857) - United Kingdom and Persia
Indian Rebellion (1857)
Pig War (1859) - United Kingdom v USA
Anglo-Bhutanese War (1865)
Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880)
Anglo-Zulu War (
1879)
First
Boer War (1880β1881)
Gun War (1880β1881)
Mahdist War (1881β1899)
Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885β1887)
Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896)
Second Boer War (1899β1902)
edit 20th Century
Boxer Rebellion (1900) - United Kingdom,
Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, USA, and China
Anglo-Aro war (1901-1902) - Nigeria
World War I (1914β1918) - United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Serbia, Italy, Russia, United States, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey
Easter Rising (1916) - Ireland
Russian Civil War (1918β1922)
Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)
Anglo-Irish War (1919β1921)
World War II (1939β1945)
The Pacific War (1937β1945) United Kingdom, USA and China v Japan
Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)
Greek Civil War (1941β1949)
Malayan Emergency (1948β1960)
Korean War (1950β1953)
Mau Mau Uprising (1952β1960)
Cyprus Emergency (1955β1959)
Suez Crisis (1956)
Brunei Revolt (1962)
Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation (1962β1966)
Aden Emergency (1963β1967)
Northern Ireland Troubles (1969-mid 1990s)
Cod War Confrontation (1975β1976)
Falklands War (1982)
The First Gulf War (1990β1991)
The Bosnian War (1995β1996)
The Kosovo War (1999)
edit 21st century
Sierra Leone Civil War (2000)
The Afghanistan War (2001βPresent)
Iraq War and Iraqi insurgency (2003βPresent)
edit List of Civil Wars
Rebellion of 1088 - in England and Normandy
The Anarchy (1135β1154) - in England
Revolt of 1173-1174 - in England, Normandy, and
Anjou
First Barons' War (1215β1217) - in England
Second Barons' War (1264β1267) - in England
Welsh Uprising (1282) - in England and Wales
Wars of the Roses (1455β1485) - in England and Wales; Richard III was the last English king to die in combat
Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639β1651) - in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
First Bishops' War (1639)
Second Bishops' War (1640)
Irish Rebellion (1641)
First English Civil War (1642β1646)
The Confederateβs War (1642-1648)
Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644β1647)
Second English Civil War (1648)
Third English Civil War (1650β1651)
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
Monmouth Rebellion (1685) - in England
Jacobite Rebellions (1689-91; 1715-16; 1719; 1745-46) - in England, Scotland and Ireland
Williamite war in Ireland (1688β1691)
Battle of the Boyne (1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
Clifton Moor, near Penrith (1745) - last land battle on English soil
Battle of Culloden (1746) - last land battle in Great Britain
American Revolutionary War (1775β1783) - Effectively Civil War with Loyalists fighting Revolutionaries