List of conflicts in Europe

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This is an attempt to list conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European nations, civil Wars within European nations, wars between a European nation and a non-European nation that took place within Europe and global conflicts, in which Europe was a theatre of war

Note there are various definitions of Europe and in particular there is significant dispute about the eastern and south-eastern boundaries, specifically about how to treat the countries of the former Soviet Union and break-away nations of the Russian Federation. This list is based on a wide definition that includes much of the interface between Europe and South-West Asia.

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[edit] Antiquity

Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 312
Battle of the Hellespont, 324

[edit] Medieval era

The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
Battle of Sluys from a manuscript
Battle of Nájera, 1367
Battle of Formigny, 1450

[edit] before 19th century

Battle of Marignano, 1515
Siege of Narva, 1558
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, 1572
Siege of Breda, 1624
Action at La Hogue, 1692
Battle of Denain, 1712
Battle of Fontenoy. 1745
Great Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-83
Battle of Marengo, 1800

[edit] 19th century

Napoléon at the Battle of Austerlitz, by François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard
Battle of Akhalzic (1828), by January Suchodolski
Napoleon III at the Battle of Solferino by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier. Oil on canvas, 1863.
'The Sea Battle of Lissa by Carl Frederik Sørensen, 1868.

[edit] 1900-1945

Explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine, 1 July 1916, marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
Republican International Brigadiers at the Battle of Belchite
German Stuka dive bombers in the Eastern Front (World War II)
A Soviet IS-2 tank in Leipzig during the East Germany Uprising
UN troops on their way up "Sniper Alley" in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War
A Russian helicopter downed by Chechen militants, during the First Chechen War
The Russian Army's Vostok Battalion in South Ossetia.

[edit] 1945-1989

[edit] 1989-2000

[edit] 21st century

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