1500 - 1599

• 1499–1503 Third Turkish-Venetian War
• 1500–1504 Second Italian War
• 1500-1537 Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars
• 1508–1516 War of the League of Cambrai
• 1509 First Portuguese-Turkish War
• 1509–1512 Ottoman Civil War
• 1514–1516 Ottoman-Safavid War
• 1515 Slovenian peasant revolt of 1515
• 1516–1517 Ottoman-Mamluk War
• 1519-1521 Polish-Teutonic War (1519–1521)
• 1520–1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico
• 1520–1522 Uprising of the Comuneros in Castile
• 1521–1526 Italian War of 1521
• 1521–1523 The Swedish War of Liberation
• 1521–1526 Ottoman-Hungarian War
• 1522 Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes
• 1522 The Knights' War
• 1524–1525 The Peasants' War
• 1524–1697 Spanish wars against the Mayas.
• 1526–1528 Hungarian Civil War
• 1526–1555 Ottoman-Safavid War
• 1526–1555 Fourth Turkish-Venetian War
• 1526-1576 Mughal Conquest of India
• 1526–1530 War of the League of Cognac
• 1528-1540 campaigns of Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi
• 1529 First war of Kappel
• 1529-1532 Inca Civil War
• 1528–1533 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
• 1531 Second war of Kappel
• 1532-1544 Spanish Conquest of Peru
• 1532–1546 Ottoman-Spanish Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
• 1533–1536 The Counts' War in Denmark
• 1535–1538 Italian War of 1535
• 1538-1557 Second Portuguese-Turkish War
• 1542–1546 Italian War of 1542
• 1542-1543 Dacke War
• 1537–1544 Renewed Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
• 1540 Russo-Kazan War
• 1546–1547 Schmalkaldic War
• 1551–1559 Italian War of 1551
• 1551–1562 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
• 1551–1581 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
• 1552–1555 Charles V's war with Maurice of Saxony
• 1552 Conquest of Kazan
• 1554–1557 Second Russo–Swedish War
• 1558–1583 Livonian War
• 1559–1560 Scottish Rebellion against the French
• 1562–1598 Wars of Religion (aka War of the Three Henries or Huguenot Wars) in France
  • 1562–1563 First War of Religion
  • 1567–1568 Second War of Religion
  • 1568–1570 Third War of Religion
  • 1572–1573 Fourth War of Religion
  • 1575–1576 Fifth War of Religion
  • 1576–1577 Sixth War of Religion
  • 1580 Seventh War of Religion (Lovers' War)
  • 1585–1598 Eighth War of Religion
    • 1589–1598 Franco-Spanish War

• 1562–1568 Ottoman-Habsburg War in Hungary
• 1563–1570 Northern Seven Years' War (aka Dano–Swedish War)
• 1568–1571 Morisco Revolt in Spain
• 1568-1570 Russo-Turkish War

• 1568–1648 Eighty Years' War (war of Dutch independence)
  • 1568–1609 First Phase
  • 1588–1654 Dutch-Portuguese War
  • 1621–1648 Second Phase

• 1570-1573 Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War
• 1570–1595 Twenty-five Years' War
• 1570-1871 Native revolts against the Spanish empire in the Philippines
• 1571 Russo-Crimean War (1571)
• 1573 Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt
• 1577–1582 Livonian War
• 1577–1590 Turkish-Persian War
• 1580–1583 Portuguese Civil War
• 1580-1589 Third Portuguese-Turkish War
• 1585–1604 Anglo–Spanish War (Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588)
• 1590–1595 Fourth Russo–Swedish War
• 1592–1598 Japanese invasions of Korea (Japan against Korea and China)
• 1593–1606 "Long War" between the Habsburgs and the Turks
• 1593–1617 Moldavian Magnate Wars
• 1594–1603 Nine Years War in Ireland (Tyrone Rebellion)
• 1596–1597 Cudgel War in Finland

1600 - 1699

• 1600–1611 Polish–Swedish War
• 1602–1612 Turkish-Persian War
• 1609–1618 Russo–Polish War
• 1609 First Anglo-Powhatan War
• 1610–1617 Ingrian War
• 1611–1613 War of Kalmar
• 1614–1621 Polish-Turkish War
• 1616–1618 Turkish-Persian War
• 1617–1629 Polish-Swedish wars

• 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
  • 1618–1625 Bohemian/Palatine Phase
  • 1618–1629 Austro-Transylvanian War
  • 1625–1629 Danish Phase
  • 1625–1630 Anglo–Spanish War
  • 1626–1630 Anglo-French War
  • 1627–1631 War of the Mantuan Succession
  • 1630–1635 Swedish Phase
  • 1635–1648 French Phase
  • 1635–1659 Franco-Spanish War
  • 1643–1645 The "Hannibal War" (aka Torstenssons War)
  • 1645 Renewed Austro-Transylvanian War

• 1620-1645 Manchu Conquest of China
• 1622-1890 Indian Wars
• 1623–1638 Turkish-Persian War
• 1625–1629 Huguenot Uprising in France
• 1627-1636 Manchu invasion of Korea
• 1632–1634 Smolensk War
• 1633-1634 Polish-Turkish War
• 1634 Polish-Swedish War
• 1637 Pequot War
• 1639–1645 Kieft's War

• 1639–1652 Wars of the Three Kingdoms (aka the British Civil Wars)
  • 1639 First Bishops' War
  • 1640 Second Bishops’ War
  • 1641–1650 Irish Confederate Wars
  • 1642–1646 First English Civil War
    • 1644–1647 Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Scotland
  • 1648 Second English Civil War
  • 1649–1651 Third English Civil War
    • 1649–1651 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
    • 1650–1652 Cromwellian conquest of Scotland

• 1640–1656 Catalan Revolt
• 1640–1668 Portuguese War of Independence
• 1640–1701 French and Iroquois Wars (aka "Iroquois Wars" or the "Beaver Wars")
• 1641–1649 Wars of Castro
• 1644 Second Anglo-Powhatan War
• 1644-1674 Mauritanian Thirty Years War
• 1645–1669 Sixth Turkish-Venetian War ("Cretan War")

• 1648–1653 The Fronde
  • 1648–1649 First Fronde
  • 1650–1653 Second Fronde

• 1648–1660 The Deluge/Northern Wars, a series of wars involving Poland, Sweden, Brandenburg, Russia and Transylvania and Denmark-Norway
  • 1648–1654 Khmelnytsky Rebellion
• 1651-1986 Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War Perhaps the world's longest war. Fought between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly
  • 1654–1667 Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)
  • 1655–1656 Swedish-Brandenburg War
  • 1656–1658 Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658)
  • 1656–1660 Danish-Swedish War
  • 1657–1660 Dutch-Swedish War

• 1652–1654 First Anglo-Dutch War
• 1652–1686 Russian-Manchu border conflicts
• 1654–1659 Anglo-Spanish War
• 1655–1660 Peach Tree War
• 1657–1662 Turkish-Transylvanian War
• 1662–1664 Austro-Turkish War
• 1665–1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War
• 1667–1668 War of Devolution
• 1670–1671 Stenka Razin Rebellion
• 1671–1676 Polish-Turkish War

• 1672–1678 Franco-Dutch War
  • 1672–1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
  • 1672–1679 War between Brandenburg and Sweden
  • 1675–1679 Scanian War between Sweden and Denmark–Norway
• 1673-1681 War of the Three Feudatories
• 1675–1677 King Philip's War
• 1676–1681 Russo-Turkish War
• 1681-1707 War of 27 years between Mughals and the Maratha Empire
• 1682–1699 War of the Holy League
  • 1684-1699 Seventh Turkish-Venetian War
• 1683–1684 War of the Reunions
• 1685 Monmouth's Rebellion

• 1686–1700 Russo-Turkish War
  • 1687–1689 Crimean campaigns
  • 1695–1696 Azov campaigns

• 1688–1697 War of the Grand Alliance
  • 1689–1697 King William's War North American part of the War of the Grand Alliance
  • 1689–1691 Williamite war in Ireland
  • 1689–1691 Jacobite Rising in Scotland

• 1696 Chinese-Mongolian War
• 1699–1700 Darién War

1700 - 1799

• 1700–1721 Great Northern War
  • 1710–1711 Pruth Campaign
  • 1715–1717 Polish revolt against King Augustus II
• 1702-1715 Camisard Rebellion
• 1701–1714 War of Spanish Succession
  • 1702–1713 Queen Anne's War The North American part of the War of Spanish Succession
  • 1703–1711 Hungarian Revolt

• 1707–1709 Astrakhan Rebellion
• 1711 Tuscarora War
• 1712–1714 First Fox War
• 1714–1718 Eighth Turkish-Venetian War
• 1715–1717 Yamasee War
• 1715–1716 Jacobite Rising known as "The 'Fifteen"
• 1716–1718 Austro-Turkish War
• 1718–1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance
• 1722 Dummer's War in Maine
• 1722–1723 Russo-Persian War, 1722–1723
• 1722–1727 Turco-Persian War, 1722–1727
• 1727–1729 Spanish war between England and France
• 1728–1737 Second Fox War
• 1730–1736 Turco-Persian War, 1730–1736

• 1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession
  • 1736–1739 Russo-Turkish War, 1736–1739
  • 1737–1739 Austro-Turkish War, 1737–1739

• 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
  • 1739–1748 War of Jenkins' Ear
  • 1740–1742 1st Silesian War
  • 1741–1743 Hats' Russian War
  • 1744–1748 King George's War The North American part of the War of Austrian Succession
  • 1744–1745 2nd Silesian War
  • 1744–1748 First Carnatic War
  • 1745–1746 Jacobite Rising known as "The 'Forty–five"

• 1740-1779 Revolt of the Comuneros (New Granada)

• 1743–1747 Turco–Persian War

• 1756–1763 Seven Years' War
  • 1749–1754 Second Carnatic War
  • 1754–1763 French and Indian War (U.S. name for North American phase)
  • 1756–1763 3rd Silesian War
  • 1759–1763 Anglo-Cherokee War
  • 1761–1763 Spanish-Portuguese War, 1761-1763

• 1763–1766 Pontiac's Rebellion

• 1766–1799 Anglo–Mysore Wars
  • 1766–1769 First Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1780–1784 Second Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1789–1792 Third Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1798–1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

• 1768 Rebellion of 1768
• 1768–1774 Russo–Turkish War, 1768–1774
• 1768–1776 War of the Confederation of Bar in Poland
• 1773–1774 Pugachev's Rebellion
• 1774–1783 First Anglo–Maratha War

• 1775–1783 American Revolutionary War or American War of Independence
  • 1778–1783 Anglo-French War
  • 1779–1783 Anglo–Spanish War
  • 1780–1784 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

• 1777–1779 War of the Bavarian Succession

• 1779–1879 Cape Frontier Wars
  • 1779 1st Cape Frontier War
  • 1793 2nd Cape Frontier War
  • 1799–1801 3rd Cape Frontier War
  • 1811 4th Cape Frontier War
  • 1818–1819 5th Cape Frontier War
  • 1834–1836 6th Cape Frontier War
  • 1846 7th Cape Frontier War
  • 1851–1853 8th Cape Frontier War
  • 1877–1878 9th Cape Frontier War

• 1785–1787 Dutch Civil War
• 1787–1791 Austro-Turkish War, 1787–1791
• 1787–1792 Russo–Turkish War, 1787–1792
• 1788–1790 Gustav III's Russian War (aka Russo-Swedish War)
• 1788 The Lingonberry War between Denmark-Norway and Sweden
• 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution
• 1792 War in defence of the constitution in Poland

• 1792–1802 French Revolutionary Wars
  • 1792–1797 War of the First Coalition
    • 1792–1795 Franco-Prussian War
    • 1792–1797 Franco-Austrian War
    • 1793–1795 Franco-Spanish War
    • 1793–1795 Franco-Dutch War
    • 1793–1802 Franco-British War

• • 1793–1796 Revolt in the Vendée

• • 1798–1801 War of the Second Coalition
    • 1798–1799 Franco-Russian War
    • 1799–1801 Franco-Austrian War

• • 1798–1800 Quasi-War

• 1794 Kościuszko Uprising in Poland
• 1795–1804 United Irishmen Revolt see Irish Rebellion of 1798, against British rule in Ireland.
• 1796 Persian Expedition of Catherine the Great