world war 1

a BRITISH tradition...not american! av it: Prehistoric and Classical period Roman conquest of Britain (43) Boudica's uprising (61) Battle of Watling Street edit Mediæval period Battle of Aylesford (455) Anglo-Saxons Battle of Ellandun Viking invasions (793–1066) Raid on Lindisfarne (793) Campaign of Alfred the Great (871–899) 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 (1135–1154) - 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 (1215–1217) - civil war Henry III's war in France Second Barons' War (1264–1267) - civil war Welsh Uprising (1282) - civil war Edward I's war in France The First War of Scottish Independence (1296–1328) Edward II's war in France The Second War of Scottish Independence (1332–1357) 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 (1455–1485) - Richard III was the last English king to die in combat - civil war edit Early Modern period Italian Wars (1494 – 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 (1594–1603) Eighty Years' War (1598–1648) First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1613) - 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 (1639–1651) - civil war First Bishops' War (1639) Second Bishops' War (1640) Irish Rebellion (1641) The Confederate’s War (1642-1648) English Civil War (1642–1651) First English Civil War (1642–1646) civil war in Scotland (1644–1647) Second English Civil War (1648) Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649) Third English Civil War (1650–1651) Third Anglo-Powhatan War (1644) - North America First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654) Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667) War of Devolution (1667–1668) Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) King Philip's War (1675–1676) - North America Virginia Rebellion (1676) Monmouth Rebellion (1685) - civil war Nine Years War (1688–1697) - England, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Holland v France King William's War (1688–1697) - North America Jacobite Rebellions (1689-91; 1715-16; 1719; 1745-46) - Civil War Williamite war in Ireland (1688–1691) 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 (1702–1713) - Great Britain, Germany, Portugal and Holland v France and Spain Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720) - Great Britain, France, Austria and Holland v Italy and Spain War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1742) - Great Britain v Spain War of the Austrian Succession (1742–1748) - Great Britain, Austria and Holland v France and Germany King George's War (1744–1748) Seven Years' War (1756–1763) - the first "world war" French and Indian War (1754–1763) - Great Britain and Germany v Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, Spain and Portugal Anglo-Cherokee War (1759–1763) - North America Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766) - North America First Anglo-Mysore War (1766–1769) - India American War of Independence (1775–1783) - North America First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) - India Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784) Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784) - India Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–1792) - India edit 19th Century French Revolutionary Wars (1793–1802) - Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Russia, Germany v France War of the First Coalition (1793–1797) War of the Second Coalition (1798–1801) Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799) - India Irish Rebellion (1798) Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) - United Kingdom, Prussia, Austria, Sweden, Spain and Russia v France South American War (1806–1807) Anglo-Turkish War (1807–1809) Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812) Gunboat War (1807–1814) Peninsular War (1808–1814) Hundred Days (1815) First Kandian War (1803–1804) - India Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805) - India Vellore Mutiny (1806) - India Anglo-Dutch Java War (1810–1811) War of 1812 (1812–1815) Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816) Second Kandian War (1815) - India Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818) - India First Anglo-Burmese War (1823–1826) Upper Canada Rebellion (1837) Lower Canada Rebellion (1837) First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) Battle of Ghazni First Opium War (1839–1842) - United Kingdom v China First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–1846) - India New Zealand Wars (1845–1872) Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) - India Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852) Crimean War (1854–1856) - United Kingdom, France, Turkey, and Piedmont-Sardinia v Russia Second Opium War (1856–1860) - United Kingdom and France v China Anglo-Persian War (1856–1857) - 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 (1880–1881) Gun War (1880–1881) Mahdist War (1881–1899) Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885–1887) Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) Second Boer War (1899–1902) 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 (1914–1918) - United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Serbia, Italy, Russia, United States, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey Easter Rising (1916) - Ireland Russian Civil War (1918–1922) Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) Anglo-Irish War (1919–1921) World War II (1939–1945) The Pacific War (1937–1945) United Kingdom, USA and China v Japan Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) Greek Civil War (1941–1949) Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) Korean War (1950–1953) Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960) Cyprus Emergency (1955–1959) Suez Crisis (1956) Brunei Revolt (1962) Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation (1962–1966) Aden Emergency (1963–1967) Northern Ireland Troubles (1969-mid 1990s) Cod War Confrontation (1975–1976) Falklands War (1982) The First Gulf War (1990–1991) The Bosnian War (1995–1996) The Kosovo War (1999) edit 21st century Sierra Leone Civil War (2000) The Afghanistan War (2001–Present) Iraq War and Iraqi insurgency (2003–Present) edit List of Civil Wars Rebellion of 1088 - in England and Normandy The Anarchy (1135–1154) - in England Revolt of 1173-1174 - in England, Normandy, and Anjou First Barons' War (1215–1217) - in England Second Barons' War (1264–1267) - in England Welsh Uprising (1282) - in England and Wales Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) - in England and Wales; Richard III was the last English king to die in combat Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) - in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland First Bishops' War (1639) Second Bishops' War (1640) Irish Rebellion (1641) First English Civil War (1642–1646) The Confederate’s War (1642-1648) Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644–1647) Second English Civil War (1648) Third English Civil War (1650–1651) 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 (1688–1691) 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 (1775–1783) - Effectively Civil War with Loyalists fighting Revolutionaries