• Prehistoric warfare
• Mythological wars
  • Battle of Zhuolu about 2500 BC
  • Kurukshetra War, based on warfare in the Kuru kingdom of ancient India, ca. 1200-900 BC
  • Trojan War, based on events of ca. 1200 BC
• ca. 2530 BC - Battle of Magh Ithe in Ireland
• ca. 2500-2450 BC - Border wars between Umma and Lagash
• ca. 2492 BC - Battle between Haik and Nimrod
• ca. 2330 BC - conquest of Sumer by Lugalzagesi
• 2300 BC - conquests of Sargon of Akkad
• ca. 1720 BC - Kassite attacks on Babylon
• 1650-1600 BC - conquests of Hattusili I and Mursili I
• 1600 BC - Hyksos conquest of Egypt
• 1600 BC - Xia-Shang War in China
• 1430-1350 BC - Kaska invasions of Hatti
• 1100 BC - Sea Peoples harrying the Mediterranean; Dorian invasion
• 1046 BC - Shang-Zhou War in China.

999 BC - 1 BC

• 800 BC - Messenian Wars
• 722 BC - 481 BCE Wars of the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period
• 701 BC - Sennacherib's campaigns in the Near East
• 8th century BC - 7th century BCE - Lelantine War
• 499 BC - 479 BC Persian Wars
• 480 BC - 307 BC Sicilian Wars
  • 480 BC First Sicilian War
  • 410 BC - 340 BC Second Sicilian War
  • 315 BC - 307 BC Third Sicilian War
• 475 BC - 221 BC Wars of Warring States Period in China
• 431 BC - 404 BC Peloponnesian War
• 395 BC - 387 BC Corinthian War
• 343 BC - 290 BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium
  • 343 BC - 341 BC First Samnite War
  • 327 BC - 304 BC Second Samnite War
  • 298 BC - 290 BC Third Samnite War
• 334 BC - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
• 323 BC - 322 BC Lamian War
• 323 BC - 280 BC Wars of the Diadochi
• 274 BC - 200 BC Syrian Wars
  • 274 BC - 271 BC First Syrian War
  • 260 BC - 255 BC Second Syrian War
  • 245 BC - 241 BC Third Syrian War
  • 219 BC - 217 BC Fourth Syrian War
  • 202 BC - 200 BC Fifth Syrian War
• 267 BC - 261 BC Chremonidean War
• 265 BC - 263 BC Kalinga War
• 264 BC - 146 BC Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage
  • 264 BC - 241 BC First Punic War
  • 239 BC First Battle of Ballyboghill
  • 218 BC - 202 BC Second Punic War
  • 149 BC - 146 BC Third Punic War
• 215 BC - 168 BC Macedonian Wars
  • 215 BC - 205 BC First Macedonian War
  • 200 BC - 196 BC Second Macedonian War
  • 171 BC - 168 BC Third Macedonian War
• 209 BC - 88 BC Parthian–Seleucid Wars
• 206 BC - 202 BC Chu-Han contention in China
• 191 BC - 188 BC Roman-Syrian War
• 135 BC - 71 BC Roman Servile Wars
  • 135 BC - 132 BC First Servile War
  • 104 BC - 100 BC Second Servile War
  • 73 BC - 71 BC Third Servile War or Spartacist Rebellion
• 133 BC - 89 BC Sino-Xiongnu War
• 122 BC - 105 BC Jugurthine War
• 113 BC - 101 BC Cimbrian War
• 91 BC - 88 BC Social War
• 88 BC - 87 BC Sulla's first civil war
• 89 BC - 63 BC Mithridatic Wars
  • 89 BC - 85 BC First Mithridatic War
  • 83 BC - 82 BC Second Mithridatic War
  • 74 BC - 63 BC Third Mithridatic War
• 82 BC - 81 BC Sulla's second civil war
• 58 BC - 50 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
• 55 BC - 54 BC Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Britain
• 53 BC - 51 BC Parthian War of Marcus Licinius Crassus
• 49 BC - 45 BC Caesar's civil war
• 44 BC - 30 BC Roman Civil War
  • 44 BC Post-Caesarian civil war
  • 44 BC - 42 BC The Liberators' civil war
  • 44 BC - 36 BC Sicilian revolt
  • 41 BC - 40 BC Fulvia's civil war
  • 32 BC - 30 BC Antony's civil war
• 40 BC - 37 BC Parthian invasion on Syria and Asia Minor
• 36 BC - 33 BC Marc Anthony's invasion on Parthian Empire

AD 1 - 999

• 43 Aulus Plautius' Roman invasion of Britain
• 58 - 63 Roman-Parthian War over Armenia
• 60 - 61 Boudica's Uprising
• 66 - 70 The first Jewish-Roman War (aka the Great Jewish Revolt)
• 68 Year of the four emperors, Roman civil war
• 101 - 106 Trajan's Dacian Wars
• 115 - 117 Trajan' s invasion on Parthian Empire
• 115 - 117 Second Jewish-Roman War
• 132 - 135 Third Jewish-Roman War (aka Bar Kokhba's revolt)
• 161 - 166 Parthian war of Lucius Verus
• 166 - 180 Marcomannic Wars
• 184 - 205 Yellow Turban Rebellion in China
• 190 - 191 Campaign against Dong Zhuo in China - A War of the Three Kingdoms
• 193 - 199 Parthian war of Septimius Severus
• 194 - 199 Sun Ce's Conquest of Wu in China - A War of the Three Kingdoms
• 215 - 217 Parthian war of Caracalla
• 220 - 265 War of Three Kingdoms in China
• 228 - 234 Northern Expeditions of Zhuge Liang in China
• 247 - 262 Jiang Wei's Northern Expeditions in China- A War of the Three Kingdoms
• 272 - 274 Palmyrene War of Aurelian
• 291 - 306 War of the Eight Princes in China
• 316 - 589 Civil Wars in China triggered by Wu Hu Invasion, lasted until 589 by Southern and Northern Dynasties
• 376 - 382 Gothic War in the Balkans
• 502 - 506 Anastasian War against the Persians
• 526 - 532 Iberian War between East Romans and Persians over Caucasian Iberia
• 533 - 534 Vandalic War in North Africa
• 534 - 547 Wars against the Moors in North Africa
• 535 - 553 Gothic War in Italy
• 541 - 562 Lazic War between East Romans and Persians over Lazica
• 572 - 591 Roman-Persian War of 572–591
• 588 First Perso-Turkic War
• 598 - 614 Goguryeo-Sui Wars in Korea
• 619 Second Perso-Turkic War
• 627 Battle of Nineveh (627), Third Perso-Turkic War
• 632 - 633 Ridda wars
• 632 - 677 Byzantine-Arab Wars
• 633 - 651 Islamic Conquest of Sassanid Empire
• 639 - 641 Islamic conquest of Egypt
• 645 - 668 Goguryeo-Tang Wars in Korea
• 656 – 661 First Islamic civil war
• 650s-737 Khazar-Arab Wars
• 660 - 676 Silla-Tang Wars in Korea
• 680 - 1355 Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
• 711 - 718 Islamic conquest of Hispania
• 715 - 718 Frankish Civil War
• 717 - 718 Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs
• 718 - 1492 Spanish Reconquista
• 732 Balhae expedition to Tang China
• 721 - 737 Arab-Frankish Wars
• 751 Arab-Chinese War
• 756 - 763 An Shi Rebellion China
• 772 - 804 Saxon Wars
• 793 - 1066 Viking raids across Europe
• 827 - 902 Arab conquest of Sicily
• 868 - 883 Zanj Rebellion in southern Iraq
• 892 - 936 Later Three Kingdoms in Korea
• 894 - 970 Magyar raids in Germany, France, Italy and Byzantine
• 907 - 960 Chinese Civil War (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms)
• 927 Croatian-Bulgarian War
• 941 Siege of Constantinople by the Russians
• 977 - 978 War of the Three Henries
• 993 First Goryeo-Khitan War
• 995 Battle Of Mount Si High
• 999 Viking Civil War