YEAR // Early Modern
1656
22 wars active · 3 battles
Wars active
22 catalogued
1354-1683 · Year 303 of 330
Ottoman Wars in Europe
A series of military conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and various European states took place from the Late Middle Ages up through the early 20th century. The earliest…
1396-1718 · Year 261 of 323
Ottoman–Venetian Wars
The Turkish–Venetian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice from the 14th century to 18th century for control of the eastern…
1514-1823 · Year 143 of 310
Ottoman–Persian Wars
1524-1697 · Year 133 of 174
European Wars of Religion
The European wars of religion were waged in Europe during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. Fought after the Protestant Reformation began in 1517, the wars disrupted the…
1526-1791 · Year 131 of 266
Ottoman–Habsburg Wars
The Ottoman–Habsburg wars were fought from the 16th to the 18th centuries between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy, which was at times supported by the Kingdom of…
1538-1718 · Year 119 of 181
Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations
1568-1918 · Year 89 of 351
Russo-Turkish Wars
The Russo-Turkish wars or the Russo-Ottoman wars began in 1568 and continued intermittently until 1918. They consisted of twelve conflicts in total, making them one of the…
1580-1700 · Year 77 of 121
Colonization of Siberia
The Russian conquest of Siberia took place between 1581 and 1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being undermined by the…
1601-1661 · Year 56 of 61
Dutch–Portuguese War
1609-1924 · Year 48 of 316
American Indian Wars
1609-1701 · Year 48 of 93
Beaver Wars
1616-1683 · Year 41 of 68
transition from Ming to Qing
1635-1659 · Year 22 of 25
Franco-Spanish War
The Franco-Spanish War, from May 1635 to November 1659, was fought between France and Spain, each supported by various allies at different points. It consists of two distinct…
1640-1668 · Year 17 of 29
Portuguese Restoration War
1645-1669 · Year 12 of 25
Cretan War of 1645-1669
The Cretan War, also known as the War of Candia or the fifth Ottoman–Venetian war, was a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her allies against the Ottoman Empire and the…
1651-1828 · Year 6 of 178
Russo-Persian Wars
1652-1784 · Year 5 of 133
Anglo-Dutch Wars
The Anglo–Dutch wars were a series of four conflicts fought between the Dutch Republic and the states of England and Great Britain between 1652 and 1784. The first three wars…
1654-1660 · Year 3 of 7
Anglo-Spanish War
The Anglo-Spanish War of 1654–1660 was fought between the Commonwealth of England and Habsburg Spain. It was driven by the economic and religious rivalry between the two…
1654-1667 · Year 3 of 14
Russo-Polish War
The Polish–Russian War of 1654–1667 was a major conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Between 1655 and 1660, the Swedish invasion was…
1655-1660 · Year 2 of 6
Deluge
The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a stricter sense, the term refers to the Swedish invasion and occupation…
1655-1660 · Year 2 of 6
Second Northern War
The Northern War of 1655–1660 was fought between the Swedish Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, with participation at different times by Russia, Brandenburg-Prussia,…
1656-1658 · Opening year
Russo-Swedish War of 1656–58
The Russo-Swedish War of 1656–1658, known as the War of Rupture, was fought by Russia and Sweden as a theater of the Second Northern War. It took place during a pause in the…
Battles
3 recorded