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 of Magh Ithe in Ireland
*ca. 2500-2450 BC - Border wars between Umma and Lagash
*ca. 2492 BC - Battle between Haik and Nimrod
*ca. 2330 BC - conquest of Sumer by Lugalzagesi
*2300 BC - conquests of Sargon of Akkad
*ca. 1720 BC - Kassite attacks on Babylon
*1650-1600 BC - conquests of Hattusili I and Mursili I
*1600 BC - Hyksos conquest of Egypt
*1600 BC - Xia-Shang War in China
*1430-1350 BC - Kaska invasions of Hatti
*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 Chinese Spring and Autumn Period
*701 BC - Sennacherib's campaigns in the Near East
*8th century BC - 7th century BCE - Lelantine War
*499 BC - 479 BC Persian Wars
*480 BC - 307 BC Sicilian Wars
**480 BC First Sicilian War
**410 BC - 340 BC Second Sicilian War
**315 BC - 307 BC Third Sicilian War
*475 BC - 221 BC Wars of Warring States Period in China
*431 BC - 404 BC Peloponnesian War
*395 BC - 387 BC Corinthian War
*343 BC - 290 BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium
** 343 BC - 341 BC First Samnite War
** 327 BC - 304 BC Second Samnite War
** 298 BC - 290 BC Third Samnite War
* 334 BC - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
* 323 BC - 322 BC Lamian War
* 323 BC - 280 BC Wars of the Diadochi
*274 BC - 200 BC Syrian Wars
**274 BC - 271 BC First Syrian War
**260 BC - 255 BC Second Syrian War
**245 BC - 241 BC Third Syrian War
**219 BC - 217 BC Fourth Syrian War
**202 BC - 200 BC Fifth Syrian War
* 267 BC - 261 BC Chremonidean War
* 265 BC - 263 BC Kalinga War
* 264 BC - 146 BC Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage
** 264 BC - 241 BC First Punic War
** 239 BC First Battle of Ballyboghill
** 218 BC - 202 BC Second Punic War
** 149 BC - 146 BC Third Punic War
* 215 BC - 168 BC Macedonian Wars
** 215 BC - 205 BC First Macedonian War
** 200 BC - 196 BC Second Macedonian War
** 171 BC - 168 BC Third Macedonian War
* 209 BC - 88 BC Parthian–Seleucid Wars
* 206 BC - 202 BC Chu-Han contention in China
* 191 BC - 188 BC Roman-Syrian War
* 135 BC - 71 BC Roman Servile Wars
** 135 BC - 132 BC First Servile War
** 104 BC - 100 BC Second Servile War
** 73 BC - 71 BC Third Servile War or Spartacist Rebellion
* 133 BC - 89 BC Sino-Xiongnu War
* 122 BC - 105 BC Jugurthine War
* 113 BC - 101 BC Cimbrian War
* 91 BC - 88 BC Social War
* 88 BC - 87 BC Sulla's first civil war
* 89 BC - 63 BC Mithridatic Wars
** 89 BC - 85 BC First Mithridatic War
** 83 BC - 82 BC Second Mithridatic War
** 74 BC - 63 BC Third Mithridatic War
* 82 BC - 81 BC Sulla's second civil war
*58 BC - 50 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
*55 BC - 54 BC Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Britain
*53 BC - 51 BC Parthian War of Marcus Licinius Crassus
*49 BC - 45 BC Caesar's civil war
*44 BC - 30 BC Roman 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 BC Parthian invasion on Syria and Asia Minor
*36 BC - 33 BC Marc Anthony's invasion on Parthian Empire

AD 1 - 999

* 43 Aulus Plautius' Roman invasion of Britain
* 58 - 63 Roman-Parthian War over Armenia
* 60 - 61 Boudica's Uprising
* 66 - 70 The first Jewish-Roman War (aka the Great Jewish Revolt)
* 68 Year of the four emperors, Roman civil war
* 101 - 106 Trajan's Dacian Wars
* 115 - 117 Trajan' s invasion on Parthian Empire
* 115 - 117 Second Jewish-Roman War
* 132 - 135 Third Jewish-Roman War (aka Bar Kokhba's revolt)
* 161 - 166 Parthian war of Lucius Verus
* 166 - 180 Marcomannic Wars
* 184 - 205 Yellow Turban Rebellion in China
* 190 - 191 Campaign against Dong Zhuo in China - A War of the Three Kingdoms
* 193 - 199 Parthian war of Septimius Severus
* 194 - 199 Sun Ce's Conquest of Wu in China - A War of the Three Kingdoms
* 215 - 217 Parthian war of Caracalla
* 220 - 265 War of Three Kingdoms in China
* 228 - 234 Northern Expeditions of Zhuge Liang in China
* 247 - 262 Jiang Wei's Northern Expeditions in China- A War of the Three Kingdoms
* 272 - 274 Palmyrene War of Aurelian
* 291 - 306 War of the Eight Princes in China
* 316 - 589 Civil Wars in China triggered by Wu Hu Invasion, lasted until 589 by Southern and Northern Dynasties
* 376 - 382 Gothic War in the Balkans
* 502 - 506 Anastasian War against the Persians
* 526 - 532 Iberian War between East Romans and Persians over Caucasian Iberia
* 533 - 534 Vandalic War in North Africa
* 534 - 547 Wars against the Moors in North Africa
* 535 - 553 Gothic War in Italy
* 541 - 562 Lazic War between East Romans and Persians over Lazica
* 572 - 591 Roman-Persian War of 572–591
* 588 First Perso-Turkic War
* 598 - 614 Goguryeo-Sui Wars in Korea
* 619 Second Perso-Turkic War
* 627 Battle of Nineveh (627), Third Perso-Turkic War
* 632 - 633 Ridda wars
* 632 - 677 Byzantine-Arab Wars
* 633 - 651 Islamic Conquest of Sassanid Empire
* 639 - 641 Islamic conquest of Egypt
* 645 - 668 Goguryeo-Tang Wars in Korea
* 656 – 661 First Islamic civil war
* 650s-737 Khazar-Arab Wars
* 660 - 676 Silla-Tang Wars in Korea
* 680 - 1355 Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
* 711 - 718 Islamic conquest of Hispania
* 715 - 718 Frankish Civil War
* 717 - 718 Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs
* 718 - 1492 Spanish Reconquista
* 732 Balhae expedition to Tang China
* 721 - 737 Arab-Frankish Wars
* 751 Arab-Chinese War
* 756 - 763 An Shi Rebellion China
* 772 - 804 Saxon Wars
* 793 - 1066 Viking raids across Europe
* 827 - 902 Arab conquest of Sicily
* 868 - 883 Zanj Rebellion in southern Iraq
* 892 - 936 Later Three Kingdoms in Korea
* 894 - 970 Magyar raids in Germany, France, Italy and Byzantine
* 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
* 993 First Goryeo-Khitan War
* 995 Battle Of Mount Si High
* 999 Viking Civil War