1812

1514-1823 · Year 299 of 310

Ottoman–Persian Wars

1568-1918 · Year 245 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…

1609-1924 · Year 204 of 316

American Indian Wars

1651-1828 · Year 162 of 178

Russo-Persian Wars

1688-1815 · Year 125 of 128

Second Hundred Years' War

1763-1864 · Year 50 of 102

Caucasian War

The Caucasian War or the Caucasus War was a 19th-century military conflict between the Russian Empire and various peoples of the North Caucasus who resisted subjugation during…

1763-1864 · Year 50 of 102

Russian–Circassian War

The Russo-Circassian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Circassia, or termed by the Circassians as the Great War with the Tsar took place in the North Caucasus between…

1779-1879 · Year 34 of 101

Xhosa Wars

The Xhosa Wars were a series of nine wars between the Xhosa Kingdom and the British Empire as well as Trekboers from the Dutch colonial empire in what is now the Eastern Cape in…

1792-1815 · Year 21 of 24

Coalition Wars

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts between the French and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French…

1794-1899 · Year 19 of 106

Australian frontier wars

The Australian frontier wars were the violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians and mostly British settlers from the colonial period of Australia to at least 1928.

1800-1821 · Year 13 of 22

Mexican War of Independence

The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from the Spanish Empire. It was not a single, coherent event, but…

1801-1815 · Year 12 of 15

Barbary Wars

The Barbary Wars were a series of two wars fought by the United States, Sweden, and the Kingdom of Sicily against the Barbary states and Morocco of North Africa in the early 19th…

1801-1814 · Year 12 of 14

English Wars

The English Wars were a series of conflicts pitting the United Kingdom and Sweden against Denmark-Norway as part of the Napoleonic Wars. It is named after England, the common…

1803-1815 · Year 10 of 13

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a global series of conflicts fought by a fluctuating array of European coalitions against the French First Republic (1803–1804) under the…

1803-1837 · Year 10 of 35

Padri War

The Padri Wars was fought from 1803 until 1837 in West Sumatra, Indonesia between the Padri and the Adat. The Padri were Muslim clerics from Sumatra who wanted to impose Sharia…

1804-1813 · Year 9 of 10

Russo-Persian War of 1804–13

The Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813 was one of the many wars between the Persian Empire and Imperial Russia, and, like many of their other conflicts, began as a territorial…

1806-1812 · Closing year

Eighth Russo-Turkish War

The Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. In 1812, both sides made peace just as Napoleon's invasion of Russia was about to…

1807-1812 · Closing year

Anglo-Russian War

The Anglo-Russian War was fought between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. It began after Russia signed the Treaty of Tilsit with the First…

1807-1814 · Year 6 of 8

Gunboat War

The Gunboat War was a naval conflict between Denmark–Norway and Great Britain supported by Sweden during the Napoleonic Wars. The war's name is derived from the Danish tactic of…

1807-1842 · Year 6 of 36

Musket Wars

The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then…

1808-1814 · Year 5 of 7

Peninsular War

The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by the Iberian nations Spain and Portugal, along with the United Kingdom, against the invading and occupying…

1808-1833 · Year 5 of 26

Spanish American wars of independence

The Spanish American wars of independence were a series of conflicts that took place across the Spanish Empire during the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres…

1809-1825 · Year 4 of 17

Bolivian War of Independence

The Bolivian War of Independence began with the establishment of government juntas in Sucre and La Paz, after the Chuquisaca Revolution and La Paz revolution. These Juntas were…

1810-1812 · Closing year

Anglo-Swedish War

During the Napoleonic Wars until 1810, Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were allies in the war against Napoleon. As a result of Sweden's defeat in the…

1810-1816 · Year 3 of 7

Argentine War of Independence

The Argentine War of Independence was a set of military events from 1810 to 1825 which resulted in the consolidation of Argentina as an independent country from Spanish rule. The…

1810-1825 · Year 3 of 16

Colombian War of Independence

The Colombian War of Independence began on July 20, 1810 when the Junta de Santa Fe was formed in Santa Fe de Bogotá, the capital of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New…

1810-1813 · Year 3 of 4

Tecumseh's War

Tecumseh's War or Tecumseh's Rebellion was a conflict between the United States and Tecumseh's confederacy, led by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in the Indiana Territory. Although…

1810-1823 · Year 3 of 14

Venezuelan War of Independence

The Venezuelan War of Independence was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in South America fought a…

1811-1818 · Year 2 of 8

Egyptian–Wahhabi War

The Ottoman–Wahhabi war, or Wahhabi War, was fought from early 1811 until 1818 between the Ottoman Empire, its vassal the Eyalet of Egypt, and the Wahhabis' Emirate of Diriyah,…

1812 · Sole year

French invasion of Russia

The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of…

1812–1815 · Opening year

War of 1812

A conflict over maritime coercion, frontier power, and national legitimacy spread across borderlands, ports, and the Gulf Coast.