- List of wars before 1000
*
Prehistoric warfare
*Mythological wars
**Battle of Zhuolu about 2500 BC
**Kurukshetra War , based on warfare in the Kuru kingdom of ancient India, ca. 1200-900 BC
**Trojan War , based on events of ca. 1200 BC
*ca. 2530 BC - Battle ofMagh Ithe inIreland
*ca. 2500-2450 BC - Border wars betweenUmma andLagash
*ca. 2492 BC - Battle betweenHaik andNimrod
*ca. 2330 BC - conquest ofSumer byLugalzagesi
*2300 BC - conquests ofSargon of Akkad
*ca. 1720 BC - Kassite attacks onBabylon
*1650-1600 BC - conquests ofHattusili I andMursili I
*1600 BC -Hyksos conquest ofEgypt
*1600 BC - Xia-Shang War inChina
*1430-1350 BC - Kaska invasions ofHatti
*1100 BC -Sea Peoples harrying the Mediterranean;Dorian invasion
*1046 BC - Shang-Zhou War in China.999 BC - 1 BC
*800 BC -
Messenian Wars
*722 BC - 481 BCE Wars of the ChineseSpring and Autumn Period
*701 BC -Sennacherib 's campaigns in the Near East
*8th century BC - 7th century BCE -Lelantine War
*499 BC - 479 BCPersian Wars
*480 BC - 307 BCSicilian Wars
**480 BCFirst Sicilian War
**410 BC - 340 BCSecond Sicilian War
**315 BC - 307 BCThird Sicilian War
*475 BC - 221 BC Wars ofWarring States Period in China
*431 BC - 404 BCPeloponnesian War
*395 BC - 387 BCCorinthian War
*343 BC - 290 BCSamnite Wars betweenRome andSamnium
** 343 BC - 341 BCFirst Samnite War
** 327 BC - 304 BCSecond Samnite War
** 298 BC - 290 BCThird Samnite War
* 334 BC - 323 BC Wars ofAlexander the Great
* 323 BC - 322 BCLamian War
* 323 BC - 280 BCWars of the Diadochi
*274 BC - 200 BCSyrian Wars
**274 BC - 271 BCFirst Syrian War
**260 BC - 255 BCSecond Syrian War
**245 BC - 241 BCThird Syrian War
**219 BC - 217 BCFourth Syrian War
**202 BC - 200 BCFifth Syrian War
* 267 BC - 261 BCChremonidean War
* 265 BC - 263 BCKalinga War
* 264 BC - 146 BCPunic Wars betweenRome andCarthage
** 264 BC - 241 BCFirst Punic War
** 239 BCFirst Battle of Ballyboghill
** 218 BC - 202 BCSecond Punic War
** 149 BC - 146 BCThird Punic War
* 215 BC - 168 BCMacedonian Wars
** 215 BC - 205 BCFirst Macedonian War
** 200 BC - 196 BCSecond Macedonian War
** 171 BC - 168 BCThird Macedonian War
* 209 BC - 88 BCParthian–Seleucid Wars
* 206 BC - 202 BCChu-Han contention in China
* 191 BC - 188 BCRoman-Syrian War
* 135 BC - 71 BCRoman Servile Wars
** 135 BC - 132 BCFirst Servile War
** 104 BC - 100 BCSecond Servile War
** 73 BC - 71 BCThird Servile War or Spartacist Rebellion
* 133 BC - 89 BCSino-Xiongnu War
* 122 BC - 105 BCJugurthine War
* 113 BC - 101 BCCimbrian War
* 91 BC - 88 BC Social War
* 88 BC - 87 BC Sulla's first civil war
* 89 BC - 63 BCMithridatic Wars
** 89 BC - 85 BCFirst Mithridatic War
** 83 BC - 82 BCSecond Mithridatic War
** 74 BC - 63 BCThird Mithridatic War
* 82 BC - 81 BC Sulla's second civil war
*58 BC - 50 BCJulius Caesar 'sGallic Wars
*55 BC - 54 BC Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Britain
*53 BC - 51 BC Parthian War ofMarcus Licinius Crassus
*49 BC - 45 BCCaesar's civil war
*44 BC - 30 BCRoman Civil War
**44 BC Post-Caesarian civil war
**44 BC - 42 BC The Liberators' civil war
**44 BC - 36 BC Sicilian revolt
**41 BC - 40 BC Fulvia's civil war
**32 BC - 30 BC Antony's civil war
*40 BC - 37 BCParthian invasion on Syria and Asia Minor
*36 BC - 33 BCMarc Anthony's invasion on Parthian Empire AD 1 - 999
* 43 Aulus Plautius' Roman invasion of Britain
* 58 - 63 Roman-Parthian War over Armenia
* 60 - 61Boudica 's Uprising
* 66 - 70The first Jewish-Roman War (aka the Great Jewish Revolt)
* 68Year of the four emperors , Roman civil war
* 101 - 106Trajan's Dacian Wars
* 115 - 117Trajan' s invasion on Parthian Empire
* 115 - 117Second Jewish-Roman War
* 132 - 135 Third Jewish-Roman War (aka Bar Kokhba's revolt)
* 161 - 166Parthian war of Lucius Verus
* 166 - 180Marcomannic Wars
* 184 - 205Yellow Turban Rebellion inChina
* 190 - 191Campaign against Dong Zhuo inChina - A War of the Three Kingdoms
* 193 - 199Parthian war of Septimius Severus
* 194 - 199Sun Ce's Conquest of Wu inChina - A War of the Three Kingdoms
* 215 - 217Parthian war of Caracalla
* 220 - 265 War of Three Kingdoms inChina
* 228 - 234Northern Expeditions of Zhuge Liang inChina
* 247 - 262Jiang Wei's Northern Expeditions in China- A War of the Three Kingdoms
* 272 - 274Palmyrene War of Aurelian
* 291 - 306War of the Eight Princes inChina
* 316 - 589 Civil Wars in China triggered byWu Hu Invasion, lasted until 589 bySouthern and Northern Dynasties
* 376 - 382 Gothic War in the Balkans
* 502 - 506Anastasian War against the Persians
* 526 - 532Iberian War between East Romans and Persians overCaucasian Iberia
* 533 - 534Vandalic War in North Africa
* 534 - 547 Wars against the Moors in North Africa
* 535 - 553 Gothic War in Italy
* 541 - 562Lazic War between East Romans and Persians overLazica
* 572 - 591Roman-Persian War of 572–591
* 588First Perso-Turkic War
* 598 - 614Goguryeo-Sui Wars inKorea
* 619Second Perso-Turkic War
* 627Battle of Nineveh (627) ,Third Perso-Turkic War
* 632 - 633Ridda wars
* 632 - 677Byzantine-Arab Wars
* 633 - 651 Islamic Conquest of Sassanid Empire
* 639 - 641Islamic conquest of Egypt
* 645 - 668Goguryeo-Tang Wars inKorea
* 656 – 661First Islamic civil war
* 650s-737Khazar-Arab Wars
* 660 - 676Silla -Tang Wars inKorea
* 680 - 1355Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
* 711 - 718 Islamic conquest of Hispania
* 715 - 718 Frankish Civil War
* 717 - 718 Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs
* 718 - 1492 SpanishReconquista
* 732Balhae expedition to TangChina
* 721 - 737 Arab-Frankish Wars
* 751 Arab-Chinese War
* 756 - 763An Shi Rebellion China
* 772 - 804Saxon Wars
* 793 - 1066Viking raids across Europe
* 827 - 902 Arab conquest of Sicily
* 868 - 883Zanj Rebellion in southernIraq
* 892 - 936Later Three Kingdoms inKorea
* 894 - 970 Magyar raids inGermany ,France ,Italy andByzantine
* 907 - 960 Chinese Civil War (Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms )
* 927 Croatian-Bulgarian War
* 941 Siege of Constantinople by the Russians
* 977 - 978 War of the Three Henries
* 993First Goryeo-Khitan War
* 995 Battle Of Mount Si High
* 999 Viking Civil War
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