List of wars involving England
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Contents
11th century
Beginning | End | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding England) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
937 | 1066 | Viking invasions of England | England | Denmark Norway | Viking power broken after Battle of Stamford Bridge |
1066 | 1088 | Norman Conquest of England | ![]() |
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Norman victory |
1096 | 1099 | First Crusade | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Great Seljuq Empire
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Crusader victory |
12th century
13th century
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding England) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1215 | 1217 | First Barons' War | ![]() |
Rebel Barons | Rebellion put down, French invasion repelled, followed by return to antebellum status quo. |
1242 | 1242 | Saintonge War | ![]() |
French victory | |
1264 | 1267 | Second Barons' War | Rebel barons | Monarchic victory | |
1271 | 1272 | Ninth Crusade | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Partial Crusader victory |
1296 | 1328 | First War of Scottish Independence | ![]() |
Scottish victory |
14th century
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding England) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1321 | 1322 | Despenser War | Marcher Lords | Royalist victory | |
1324 | 1324 | War of Saint-Sardos | ![]() |
French victory | |
1332 | 1357 | Second War of Scottish Independence | ![]() |
Scottish victory | |
1337 | 1453 | Hundred Years' War | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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English victory in the Edwardian War French victory in the Caroline War and the Lancastrian War |
1377 | 1575 | Anglo-Scottish Wars | ![]() |
Stalemate | |
1381 | 1382 | Third Ferdinand War | ![]() |
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Castillian victory |
1383 | 1385 | 1383–85 Crisis | ![]() ![]() |
22px Crown of Castile![]() ![]() |
Victory |
15th century
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding England) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1400 | 1415 | Glyndŵr Rising Part of the Hundred Years' War | ![]() ![]() |
Total English victory | |
1455 | 1485 | Wars of the Roses | ![]() |
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Lancastrian victory, founding of the House of Tudor |
1470 | 1474 | Anglo-Hanseatic War | Hanseatic League | Hanseatic victory | |
1496 | 1498 | Italian War of 1494–1498 (1494–1498) |
League of Venice:
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Victory
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1497 | 1497 | Cornish Rebellion of 1497 | Cornish rebels | English victory |
16th century
17th century
18th century
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding England) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1701 | 1714 | War of the Spanish Succession | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Victory
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List of civil wars
- Rebellion of 1088 – in England and Normandy
- The Anarchy (1135–54) – in England
- Revolt of 1173–74 – in England, Normandy, and Anjou
- First Barons' War (1215–17) – in England
- Second Barons' War (1264–67) – in England
- Welsh Uprising (1282) – in England and Wales
- Peasants' Revolt (1381) – in England
- Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) – in England and Wales; Richard III was the last English king to die in combat
- Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) – in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
- First Bishops' War (1639)
- Second Bishops' War (1640)
- Irish Rebellion of 1641
- First English Civil War (1642–46)
- The Confederates' War (1642–48)
- Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644–47)
- Second English Civil War (1648)
- Third English Civil War (1650–51)
- Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
- Monmouth Rebellion (1685) – in England
- Jacobite Rebellions (1689–91; 1715–16; 1719; 1745–46) – in England, Scotland and Ireland
- Williamite War in Ireland (1688–91)
- Battle of the Boyne (1690) – last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
See also
- List of wars in Great Britain
- Military history of England
- List of wars involving England and France
- List of wars involving the United Kingdom
References
- ↑ Geoffrey Parker p.73