| Battle of
Megiddo |
608 BC |
Necho of Egypt and
Josiah of Judah; Egyptians victorious |
| Battle of
Marathon |
490 BC |
Athenians and Persians; King Darius of Persia defeated. |
| Battle of
Thermoplyae |
480 BC |
Spartans led by Leonidas
and Persians by Xerxes; Spartans were defeated. |
| Battle of
Salamis |
480 BC |
Athenian and Persian fleet in
the Bay of Salamis; Persian fleet defeated |
| Battle of
Platae |
479 BC |
Greek and Persian forces; Persian forces defeated |
| Battle of
Mycale |
479 BC |
Greek and Persian forces; Persian fleet defeated |
| Spartan
War I |
I 459 BC |
Sparta and Athens, also called 'Pelponesian
War'; it lasted for 30 years |
| Spartan
War II |
431–421 BC |
Sparta and
Athens; Spartans victorious |
| Battle of
Arabia |
331 BC |
Greek and Persian forces; Greeks victorious |
| Battle of
Magnesia |
190 BC |
Syrian and Roman forces; Syrian forces defeated
(north-west Lydia) |
| Hundred
Year War |
1338–1453 |
France and England |
| War of
Roses |
1455–1485 |
Civil War
in England between the two rival royal houses of
Lancaster and York; White and red rose were their
respective symbols |
|
Anglo-Spanish War |
1588 |
Spanish and English fleets fought in
the English Channel; Defeat of the Spanish fleet |
| Thirty Year War |
1618–1648 |
Started as religious-cum-political war between (Conto)
the Lutherans and Catholics in Germany and developed
into an international war |
| Civil War of
England |
1642–1649 |
Between Cavaliers (King Charles supporters) and forces
of the Parliament led by Oliver Cromwell; King Charles I
executed |
| Battle of Gibraltar Bay |
1607 |
The Dutch defeated the Spaniards and the Portuguese |
| Seven Year
War |
1756–1763 |
Britain and France against Austria and Prussia; British
alliance won |
| Battle of
Nile |
1798 |
British
and French fleets; Britain victorious |
| Battle of
Trafalgar |
1805 |
British
fleet defeated fleets of France and Spain; British
fleets commanded by Admiral Nelson, who was killed in
the battle |
| Battle of Austerlitz |
1805 |
Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia on one side and
France on the other; French on the other; French forces
victorious |
| Battle of
Borodino |
1812 |
France and Russia; the French forces were commanded by
Napoleon who was defeated |
| Battle of Leipzig |
1813 |
Germany and combined forces of Austria, Prussia and
Russia defeated Napoleon (French forces) |
| Battle of
Waterloo |
1815 |
British forces led by Duke of Wellington defeated French
forces led by Napoleon Bonaparte; it was Napoleon's last
battle; Napoleon was abdicated and was exiled to the
island of St Helena in South Atlantic where he died in
182l. |
| First China War |
1840 |
China and Britain; Chinese forces yielded. It was a
trade war and also known as the 'Opium War' |
| American
Civil War |
1861–1865 |
Northern Vs. Southern states of America for the
abolition of slavery; Abraham Lincoln defeated the
Southern states |
| Russo–Japan War |
1905 |
Russia and Japan in the Sea of Japan; Russia defeated;
also called the 'Battle of Port Arthur' or 'Battle of
Yalu' |
| Balkan War I |
1912 |
Turkey and Balkan
countries (Montenegro, Serbia,
Bulgaria and Greece); Turkey defeated |
| Balkan War II |
1913 |
Invasion of Serbia and Greece by Bulgaria; Bulgaria
defeated by combined forces of Serbia, Greece, Romania,
Montenegro, which stripped Turkey of most of its
European territories |
| World War
I |
1914–1919 |
Germany (with Austria, Hungary and Turkey) against
Britain (with France, US, Russia, Japan, Canada, Austria
and Belgium); Germany and its allies were defeated |
| Battle of
Jutland |
1916 |
During World War I–naval battle between Germany and
England in which Germany was defeated |
| World War
I |
1939–45 |
Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan) against the
Allies (Britain, USSR, US, France and several other
countries); Axis powers were defeated |
| Desert War |
1942 |
Italian Army from Libya invaded Egypt in order to attack
British forces |
| Korean War |
1954 |
South Korea invaded by
North Korea; North Korea was forced back by UN forces |
|
Israel-Arab War |
1967 |
Six-day war,
shortest war in history; Arab forces led by Egypt, Syria
and Jordan were defeated |
|
Pakistan-Bangladesh War |
1971 |
Mukti Bahini forces aided by India against the Pakistani
forces stationed in Bangladesh (former East Pakistan);
Pakistani forces surrendered and Bangladesh came into
being |
| Gulf War |
1991 |
US led multinational forces attacked Iraq to oust Iraqi
troops from Kuwait |
| Kargil War |
1999 |
India defeated Pakistani forces at Kargil |
|
US-Afghanistan War |
2001 |
US led coalition forces attack Afghanistan to bring down
the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in retaliation to the
September 11 terrorist attack in the USA |
| Gulf War
II |
2003 |
US led coalition forces dethroned the Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein |
