Chronological Timeline of World Warfare

Global History Chronology

Scroll through a synchronized horizontal history stream. Compare active wars side-by-side with the lifespan of historical empires to examine overlapping occurrences.

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1233 Years Gap2690 BC - 1457 BCClick to Expand

240 Years Gap1440 BC - 1200 BCClick to Expand

290 Years Gap1190 BC - 900 BCClick to Expand

391 Years Gap890 BC - 499 BCClick to Expand

64 Years Gap400 BC - 336 BCClick to Expand

36 Years Gap300 BC - 264 BCClick to Expand

43 Years Gap750 AD - 793 ADClick to Expand

Sumer-Elam War

Battle & Campaign of Megiddo

Trojan War

Kurukshetra War

Greco-Persian Wars

Peloponnesian War

Wars of Alexander the Great

Macedonian Empire

Punic Wars

Qin's Wars of Unification

Han Dynasty

Han-Xiongnu War

Gallic Wars

Roman-Persian Wars

Three Kingdoms War

Gothic War (376-382)

Attila's Invasions of Europe

Early Muslim Conquests

Viking Invasions & Anglo-Saxon Wars

Norman Conquest of England

The Crusades

Mongol Empire Conquests

Mongol Empire

Hundred Years' War

Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople

Ottoman Empire

Wars of the Roses

Sengoku Jidai (Warring States Period)

Spanish Empire

Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire

Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire

Imjin War (Japanese Invasions of Korea)

Thirty Years' War

Qing Conquest of the Ming Dynasty

English Civil War

British Empire

War of the Spanish Succession

Seven Years' War

American Revolutionary War

Australian Frontier Wars

French Revolutionary Wars

Napoleonic Wars

Latin American Wars of Independence

Opium Wars

Taiping Rebellion

Crimean War

American Civil War

War of the Triple Alliance (Paraguayan War)

Franco-Prussian War

Anglo-Zulu War

War of the Pacific

First Boer War

Second Boer War

Russo-Japanese War

World War I

Russian Civil War

Chinese Civil War

Spanish Civil War

World War II

Korean War

Vietnam War

Six-Day War

Soviet-Afghan War

Iran-Iraq War

Gulf War

Rwandan Civil War & Genocide

Bosnian War

First Congo War

Second Congo War

War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)

Iraq War

Syrian Civil War

Russo-Ukrainian War

Israel-Hamas War

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