YEAR // Age of Nationalism
1856
24 wars active · 5 battles
Wars active
24 catalogued
1568-1918 · Year 289 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 248 of 316
American Indian Wars
1763-1864 · Year 94 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 94 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 78 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…
1794-1899 · Year 63 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.
1814-1880 · Year 43 of 67
Argentine Civil Wars
The Argentine Civil Wars were a series of civil conflicts of varying intensity that took place from 1814 to 1853 in the territories of Argentina. Beginning concurrently with the…
1816-1858 · Year 41 of 43
Seminole Wars
The Seminole Wars were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858. The Seminoles are…
1820-1882 · Year 37 of 63
Texas–Indian Wars
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the…
1823-1900 · Year 34 of 78
Anglo-Ashanti wars
The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold Coast—and the British…
1824-1886 · Year 33 of 63
Anglo-Burmese Wars
The Anglo-Burmese Wars, also known as the Indo-Burmese Wars, were an armed conflict between two expanding empires, the British Empire and the Konbaung dynasty, that became…
1833-1876 · Year 24 of 44
Carlist Wars
The Carlist Wars were a series of civil wars that took place in Spain during the 19th century. The contenders fought over claims to the throne, although some political…
1839-1860 · Year 18 of 22
Opium Wars
The Opium Wars were two conflicts waged between the Qing dynasty and the Western powers during the mid 19th century.
1844-1856 · Closing year
War of Dominican Independence
The Dominican War of Independence was a war of independence that began when the Dominican Republic declared independence from the Republic of Haiti on February 27, 1844 and ended…
1845-1872 · Year 12 of 28
New Zealand Wars
The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other.
1847-1901 · Year 10 of 55
Caste War of Yucatán
The Caste War of Yucatán or ba'atabil kichkelem Yúum (1847–1915) began with the revolt of Indigenous Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula against Hispanic populations, called…
1849-1924 · Year 8 of 76
Apache Wars
The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States Army and various Apache tribal confederations fought in the southwest between 1849 and 1886, though…
1851-1864 · Year 6 of 14
Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War, Revolution, or Movement, was a civil war in China between the Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The…
1853-1856 · Closing year
Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the…
1854-1891 · Year 3 of 38
Sioux Wars
The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people which occurred in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest…
1855-1856 · Closing year
Nepalese-Tibetan War
The Nepal–Tibet War of 1855–1856 was fought in Tibet between the forces of the Tibetan government and the invading Nepalese army, resulting in huge loss of money and manpower for…
1855-1858 · Year 2 of 4
Yakima War
The Yakima War (1855–1858), also referred to as the Plateau War or Yakima Indian War, was a conflict between the United States and the Yakama, a Sahaptian-speaking people of the…
1856-1857 · Opening year
Anglo-Persian War
The Anglo-Persian War, also known as the Anglo-Iranian War, was a war fought between the United Kingdom and Iran, which was ruled by the Qajar dynasty. In the war, the British…
1856-1860 · Opening year
Second Opium War
The Second Opium War, also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or Arrow War, was fought between the United Kingdom and France against the Qing dynasty of China between 1856 and…
Battles
5 recorded