All conflicts

180 wars across recorded history, scripture and world mythology — every arc on the globe, indexed.

Each entry below links to a page with dates, belligerents, and a summary, plus a direct link to open the interactive 3D globe on that conflict. Conflicts are grouped by the lens they appear in: recorded history, scripture, and the mythologies of ten world traditions.

World at War 127

• Sumerian City-State Wars 2700–2350 BC
• Akkadian Conquest of Sumer 2334–2279 BC
• Egyptian–Hyksos Wars 1650–1550 BC
• Egyptian–Hittite War 1274–1258 BC
• Bronze Age Collapse & Sea Peoples 1200–1150 BC
• Trojan War (Hisarlik Level VIIa) 1194–1184 BC
• Assyrian Empire Wars 911–609 BC
• Neo-Babylonian Wars 626–539 BC
• Achaemenid Persian Conquests 559–486 BC
• Greco-Persian Wars 499–449 BC
• Chinese Warring States 475–221 BC
• Peloponnesian War 431–404 BC
• Macedonian Conquests 336–323 BC
• Mauryan Conquest of India 322–185 BC
• Punic Wars 264–146 BC
• Qin Unification of China 230–221 BC
• Han–Xiongnu Wars 133 BC – 89 AD
• Roman–Germanic Wars 113 BC – 476 AD
• Roman–Persian Wars 92 BC – 628 AD
• Gallic Wars 58–50 BC
• Roman Civil Wars 49–30 BC
• First Jewish–Roman War 66–73 AD
• Three Kingdoms War (China) 184–280 AD
• Hunnic Invasions 370–469 AD
• Fall of the Western Roman Empire 376–476 AD
• Byzantine–Sassanid Wars 502–628 AD
• Arab–Muslim Conquests 632–750 AD
• Reconquista 718–1492
• An Lushan Rebellion 755–763 AD
• Viking Age Raids & Wars 793–1066
• Investiture Controversy & Italian Wars 1076–1122
• The Crusades 1096–1291
• Mongol Conquests 1206–1368
• Hundred Years' War 1337–1453
• Ming–Mongol Wars 1368–1644
• Timurid Conquests 1370–1405
• Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople 1453
• Wars of the Roses 1455–1487
• Sengoku Period 1467–1615
• Spanish Conquest of the Americas 1519–1572
• Mughal Wars 1526–1707
• Russo-Turkish Wars 1568–1878
• Imjin War — Japanese Invasions of Korea 1592–1598
• Thirty Years' War 1618–1648
• Ming–Qing Transition 1618–1683
• English Civil War 1642–1651
• Mughal–Maratha Wars 1680–1707
• War of the Spanish Succession 1701–1714
• Seven Years' War 1756–1763
• American Revolutionary War 1775–1783
• Haitian Revolution 1791–1804
• French Revolutionary Wars 1792–1802
• Napoleonic Wars 1803–1815
• War of 1812 1812–1815
• Opium Wars 1839–1860
• Mexican–American War 1846–1848
• Taiping Rebellion 1850–1864
• Crimean War 1853–1856
• American Civil War 1861–1865
• Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871
• Spanish–American War 1898
• Second Boer War 1899–1902
• Boxer Rebellion 1899–1901
• Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
• Mexican Revolution 1910–1920
• Balkan Wars 1912–1913
• World War I 1914–1918
• Russian Revolution & Civil War 1917–1922
• Irish War of Independence 1919–1921
• Chinese Civil War 1927–1949
• Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935–1937
• Spanish Civil War 1936–1939
• Second Sino-Japanese War 1937–1945
• World War II — European Theatre 1939–1945
• World War II — Pacific Theatre 1941–1945
• Indonesian National Revolution 1945–1949
• First Indochina War 1946–1954
• Partition of India 1947–1948
• First Indo-Pakistani War 1947–1948
• Korean War 1950–1953
• Cuban Revolution 1953–1959
• Algerian War of Independence 1954–1962
• Vietnam War 1955–1975
• Suez Crisis 1956
• Sino-Indian War 1962
• Colombia — ELN & Dissidents 1964 – ongoing
• Second Indo-Pakistani War 1965
• Six-Day War 1967
• Nigerian Civil War (Biafra) 1967–1970
• Cambodian Genocide & Civil War 1968–1979
• The Troubles 1968–1998
• Bangladesh Liberation War 1971
• Yom Kippur War 1973
• Lebanese Civil War 1975–1990
• Angolan Civil War 1975–2002
• Iranian Revolution 1978–1979
• Soviet–Afghan War 1979–1989
• Iran–Iraq War 1980–1988
• Falklands War 1982
• Sri Lankan Civil War 1983–2009
• Armenia–Azerbaijan 1988–2023
• Kashmir Conflict 1989 – ongoing
• Gulf War 1990–1991
• Yugoslav Wars 1991–2001
• Rwandan Genocide 1994
• Chechen Wars 1994–2009
• First Chechen War 1994–1996
• Eastern DRC Conflict 1996 – ongoing
• Second Congo War 1998–2003
• Kosovo War 1998–1999
• War in Afghanistan 2001–2021
• Global War on Terror 2001–2021
• Iraq War 2003–2011
• Darfur Genocide 2003–2020
• Somalia — Al-Shabaab 2006 – ongoing
• Mexican Drug War 2006 – ongoing
• Libyan Civil Wars 2011–2020
• Syria — Transition Violence 2011 – ongoing
• Sahel Insurgencies 2012 – ongoing
• Yemen Conflict 2014 – ongoing
• Tigray War 2020–2022
• Myanmar Civil War 2021 – ongoing
• Haiti Gang Conflict 2021 – ongoing
• Russia–Ukraine War 2022 – ongoing
• Israel–Hamas War 2023 – ongoing
• Sudan Civil War 2023 – ongoing
• Ethiopia — Amhara & Oromia 2023 – ongoing

Wars of Scripture 25

• War in Heaven 4004 BC
• Battle of the Vale of Siddim 1913 BC
• Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah 1898 BC
• Plagues of Egypt 1446 BC
• Battle of Rephidim 1446 BC
• Fall of Jericho 1406 BC
• Conquest of Canaan — Southern Campaign 1406–1400 BC
• Conquest of Canaan — Northern Campaign 1400–1399 BC
• Battle of Mount Tabor 1230 BC
• Gideon's Three Hundred 1191 BC
• Samson's Wars with the Philistines 1075–1055 BC
• Battle of Aphek 1050 BC
• David and Goliath — Battle of Elah 1024 BC
• Battle of Mount Gilboa 1010 BC
• Wars of King David 1003–970 BC
• Absalom's Revolt 979 BC
• Shishak's Invasion of Judah 925 BC
• Contest at Mount Carmel 860 BC
• Jehoshaphat's Deliverance 853 BC
• Fall of Samaria 724–722 BC
• Sennacherib's Siege of Jerusalem 701 BC
• Fall of Jerusalem & Babylonian Captivity 605–586 BC
• Maccabean Revolt 167–160 BC
• Destruction of the Second Temple 66–70 AD
• Battle of Armageddon 2026 – ongoing

Wars of the Olympians 5

• Titanomachy 3100–3090 BC
• Gigantomachy 3080–3079 BC
• Labours of Heracles 1280–1268 BC
• Seven Against Thebes 1213 BC
• Trojan War 1194–1184 BC

Wars of the Nine Worlds 4

• Æsir–Vanir War 2500–2480 BC
• Binding of Fenrir 2000 BC
• Death of Baldr 1500 BC
• Ragnarök 2026 – ongoing

Wars of the Yugas 4

• Samudra Manthan 5200 BC
• Battle of Lanka 5076 BC
• Tripurantaka — Burning of the Three Cities 5000 BC
• Kurukshetra War 3138 BC

Wars of the First Cities 3

• Marduk vs Tiamat 3000 BC
• Slaying of Anzû 2900 BC
• Gilgamesh & the Cedar Forest 2700 BC

Wars of the Two Lands 2

• Nightly War of Ra and Apep 3200 BC – 2030
• Contendings of Horus and Set 3050–2970 BC

Wars of the Yellow Emperor 2

• Battle of Banquan 2697 BC
• Battle of Zhuolu 2693 BC

Wars of the Tuatha 3

• First Battle of Mag Tuired 1900 BC
• Second Battle of Mag Tuired 1870 BC
• Táin Bó Cúailnge — Cattle Raid of Cooley 100 BC

Wars of the Five Suns 2

• War of the Five Suns 3600–1300 BC
• Battle of Coatepec 1100 BC

Wars of the Kami 2

• Withdrawal of Amaterasu 700 BC
• Susanoo & Yamata-no-Orochi 660 BC

Wars of the Kalevala 1

• Theft of the Sampo 700 BC