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The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh 1547 last engagement between English and Scottish national armies
English civil war, 1642-48
The (1571) destruction of the Ottoman fleet by combined forces of the Holy League
Wars of Religion in France ( commentary from Le Poulet Gauche )
The First War (1562-1563)
The Second War (1567-1568)
The Third War (1568-1570)
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572)
The Fourth War (1572-1573)
The Fifth War (1576)
The Sixth War (1577)
The Seventh War (1580)
The War of the Three Henries (1584-1589)
The Wars of the League (1589-1598)
Spanish Armada
Wars: 17th Century
The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) general European war fought mainly in "Germany". It was a struggle of German Protestant princes and foreign powers (France, Sweden, Denmark, England, the United Provinces [low countries]) against the unity and power of the Holy Roman Empire as represented by the Hapsburgs, allied with the Catholic princes, and against the Hapsburgs themselves.
The war began with the resistance and eventual revolt of Protestant nobles in Bohemia, which was under Hapsburg domination, against the Catholic king Ferdinand (later Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II). It spread through Europe because of the constitutional frailty of the Holy Roman Empire, the inability of the German states to act in concert, and the ambitions of other European powers.Dutch Wars with England (1652–54, 1664–67), mostly over the navigation acts
War of the Grand Alliance 1688-97 between France and a coalition of European powers, known as the League of Augsburg (and, after 1689, as the Grand Alliance)
Wars: 18th Century
Northern War 1700-1721
War of the Spanish Succession 1701-14, last of the general European wars caused by the efforts of King Louis XIV to extend French power
War of Jenkins's Ear 1739-41, struggle between England and Spain
War of the Austrian Succession 1740-48
The French and Indian War (1754-1763)
King William's War
King George's War
Queen Anne's War
French and Indian War Chronology
The American Revolution
Conflict and Revolution 1775 to 1776: a revolutionary war timeline
An Unlikely Victory 1777 to 1783: a revolutionary war timeline
Time Line, America During the Age of Revolution, 1764-1775
War of the Bavarian Succession (1778–79)
French Revolution
Wars: 19th Century
Tripolitan War, 1800-1815, conflict between the United States and the Barbary States
Napoleonic Wars
Peninsular War, 1808-14, fought by France against Great Britain, Portugal, Spanish regulars, and Spanish guerrillas
Black Hawk War, 1832 conflict between the Sac and Fox and the United States in 1832
The Opium War
Aroostook War, Feb.-May, 1839, border conflict between the United States and Canada.
Mexican War, 1846-48
The American Civil War
Ten Years War, 1868-78, struggle for Cuban independence from Spain.
War of the Triple Alliance 1865-70, fought between Paraguay on one side and an alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay on the other.
Franco-Prussian War, or Franco-German War, 1870-71
Anglo-Boer War - 1879-1902
The Boxer Rebellion (1895)
The Crimean War (1853-1856)
Austro-Prussian War, or Seven Weeks War, June 15-Aug. 23, 1866
War of the Pacific 1879-84, war between Chile and the allied nations, Peru and Bolivia; also called the Chile-Peruvian War
Sino-Japanese War, First, 1894-95, conflict between China and Japan for control of Korea
The Spanish-American War (1898)
Wars: 20th Century
World War I
Sino-Japanese War, Second, 1937-45
World War II
The Korean War
1948–49, 1956, 1967, 1973–74, and 1982
Vietnam War
The Soviet-Afghanistan War (1979-1988)
Persian Gulf War
Wars: 21st Century
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Kosovo
American Invasion of Afghanistan
American Invasion of Iraq