List of conflicts in North America
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Eleventh century [edit]
See also: Norse colonization of the Americas, Danish colonization of the Americas, and Scottish colonization of the Americas
Thirteenth century [edit]
- 1200–1650 Chiefly Warfare Cult
- ~1250–1325 Conflict between the city-states of Tizaapan and Culhuacán ending with the Mexica driven away from Tizaapan to form Tenochtitlan in Lake Texcoco in 1325
- ~1325–1426 Conflict between the alliance of Tenochtitlan and Azcapotzalco against the city-state of Texcoco, ending in victory for the Tepanec empire
Fifteenth century [edit]
- 1426 Tepanec Civil War
- 1428-1521 Following the Tepanec Civil War, formation of the Aztec Triple Alliance and its subsequent instigation of the Flower Wars
Sixteenth century [edit]
- 1519-1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
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- The Cholula Massacre of 1519
- Siege of Tenochtitlan (May 26 - August 13, 1521)
- 1533-1933 Mexican Indian Wars
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- 1533 Yaqui Wars
- 1540 Conquest of Cíbola
- 1540 Tiguex War
- 1540-1542 Mixtón War
- 1550-1590 Chichimeca War
- 1599 Acoma Massacre
- 1524-1697 Spanish conquest of Guatemala
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- The Battle of Xetulul between the Spanish and the K'iche' (February 8, 1524)
- 1527-1546 Spanish conquest of Yucatán
Seventeenth century [edit]
See also: British colonization of the Americas, Dutch colonization of the Americas, French colonization of the Americas, Couronian colonization of the Americas, and Swedish colonization of the Americas
- 1533–1933 Mexican Indian Wars
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- 1601 Acaxee Rebellion
- 1616 Tepehuán Revolt
- 1641–1924 Apache–Mexico Wars
- 1641–1864 Navajo Wars
- 1680 Pueblo Revolt
- 1609–1924 American Indian Wars
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- 1609 Beaver Wars
- 1610–1614 First Anglo-Powhatan War
- 1622–1632 Second Anglo-Powhatan War
- 1634–1638 Pequot War
- 1644–1646 Third Anglo-Powhatan War
- 1640 French and Iroquois Wars
- 1672–1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
- 1675–1678 King Philip's War
- 1689–1697 King William's War
Eighteenth century [edit]
- 1609–1924 American Indian Wars
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- 1702–1713 Queen Anne's War
- 1715–1717 Yamasee War
- 1744–1748 King George's War
- 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion
- 1774 Dunmore's War
- 1785–1795 Northwest Indian War
- 1533–1933 Mexican Indian Wars
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- 1751 Pima Revolt
- 1757 First Magdalena Massacre
- 1754–1763 The French and Indian War
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- Battle of Jumonville Glen (May 28, 1754)
- Battle of Fort Necessity, aka the Battle of Great Meadows (July 3, 1754)
- Battle of Fort Beauséjour (June 16, 1755)
- Braddock Expedition (Battle of the Monongahela aka Battle of the Wilderness) (July 9, 1755)
- Battle of Lake George (1755)
- Battle of Great Cacapon (April 18, 1756)
- Battle of Fort Oswego (1756) (August, 1756)
- Kittanning Expedition (climax about September 8, 1756)
- Battle on Snowshoes (January 21, 1757)
- Battle of Sabbath Day Point (July 26, 1757)
- Battle of Fort William Henry (August 9, 1757)
- Battle on Snowshoes (March 23, 1758)
- Battle of Louisburg (July 27, 1758)
- Battle of Fort Frontenac (August, 1758)
- Battle of Carillon (July 8, 1758)
- Battle of Fort Duquesne (September 14, 1758)
- Battle of Fort Ligonier (October 12, 1758)
- Forbes Expedition (climax on November 25, 1758 with the British occupation of the ruins of Fort Duquesne)
- Battle of Ticonderoga (1759)
- Battle of Fort Niagara (1759)
- Battle of Beauport (July 31, 1759)
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham (September 13, 1759)
- Battle of Sainte-Foy (April 28, 1760)
- Battle of Montreal (1760)
- Battle of Signal Hill (1762)
- 1764 – 1771 War of the Regulation
- 1775–1783 American Revolutionary War
- Major campaigns and expeditions of the war:
- 1774–1776 Boston campaign
- 1775–1776 Invasion of Canada
- 1776 New York Campaign
- 1777 Saratoga Campaign
- 1779 Sullivan Expedition
- Major battles:
- Battle of Lexington and Concord – April 19, 1775
- Siege of Boston – April 20, 1775 – March 17, 1776
- Capture of Fort Ticonderoga – May 10, 1775
- Battle of Machias – June 11 – June 12, 1775
- Battle of Bunker Hill – June 17, 1775
- Battle of Gloucester – August 8, 1775
- Siege of Fort St. Jean – August 23 – November 3, 1775
- Battle of Longue-Pointe – September 24, 1775
- Battle of Kemp's Landing – November 14, 1775
- Battle of Great Bridge – November 28 – December 9, 1775
- Battle of Quebec – December 31, 1775
- Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge – February 27, 1776
- Fortification of Dorchester Heights – March 2 – March 4, 1776
- Battle of the Rice Boats – March 2 – March 3, 1776
- Battle of the Cedars – May 15 – May 26, 1776
- Battle of Trois-Rivières – June 8, 1776
- Battle of Long Island – August 27, 1776 (or the Battle of Brooklyn)
- Landing at Kip's Bay – September 15, 1776
- Battle of Harlem Heights – September 16, 1776
- Battle of Valcour Bay – October 11, 1776
- Battle of White Plains – October 28, 1776
- Battle of Trenton – December 26, 1776
- Battle of Princeton – January 3, 1777
- Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) – July 5 – July 6, 1777
- Battle of Oriskany – August 6, 1777
- Battle of Bennington – August 16, 1777
- Battle of Brandywine – September 11, 1777
- Battle of Freeman's Farm – September 19, 1777 (or 1st Saratoga)
- Battle of Germantown – October 2, 1777
- Battle of Bemis Heights – October 7, 1777 (or 2nd Saratoga)
- Battle of Saratoga – October 17, 1777
- Battle of Freetown – May 25, 1778
- Battle of Monmouth – June 28, 1778
- Battle of Alligator Bridge – June 30, 1778
- First Battle of Ushant – July 27, 1778
- Battle of Rhode Island – August 29, 1778
- Battle of Vincennes – February 23 – February 25, 1779
- Battle of Stony Point – July 16, 1779
- Penobscot Expedition – July 24 – August 12, 1779
- Battle of Newtown – August 29, 1779
- Siege of Savannah – October 9, 1779
- Battle of Cape St. Vincent – January 16, 1780
- Siege of Charleston – March 29, 1780
- Battle of Piqua – August 8, 1780
- Battle of Camden – August 16, 1780
- Battle of King's Mountain – October 7, 1780
- Battle of Cowpens – January 17, 1781
- Battle of Guilford Court House – March 15, 1781
- Battle of Groton Heights – September 6, 1781
- Battle of Eutaw Springs – September 8, 1781
- Siege of Yorktown – September 28 – October 19, 1781
- Second Battle of Ushant – December 12, 1781
- Battle of Sadras – February 17, 1782
- Battle of the Saintes – April 9 – April 12, 1782
- Battle of Blue Licks – August 19, 1782
- 1791 – 1804 Haitian Revolution
- 1794 Whiskey Rebellion
Nineteenth century [edit]
- 1808–1833: Latin American wars of independence
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- 1810 – 1821 Mexican War of Independence
- 1811 1811 Independence Movement
- 1823 – 1838 Federal Republic of Central America Independence and annexation by the Mexican Empire
- 1896 – 1898 Greater Republic of Central America
- 1812 – 1814 War of 1812
- 1609 – 1924 American Indian Wars
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- 1813 – 1814 Creek War
- 1816 – 1858 Seminole Wars
- 1832 Black Hawk War
- 1835 – 1842 Second Seminole War
- 1850 – 1851 Mariposa War
- 1855 – 1856 Puget Sound War
- 1857 – 1858 Utah War
- 1859 – 1860 Mendocino War
- 1860 Paiute War
- 1862 Dakota War of 1862
- 1863 – 1865 Colorado War
- 1872 – 1873 Modoc War
- 1898 Battle of Sugar Point
- 1533 – 1933 Mexican Indian Wars
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- 1821 – 1870 Comanche–Mexico Wars
- 1847 – 1901 Caste War of Yucatán
- 1835 – 1836 Texas Revolution
- 1837 – 1838 Rebellions of 1837
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- 1837 – 1838 Lower Canada Rebellion
- 1837 – 1838 Upper Canada Rebellion
- 1838 Missouri Mormon War
- 1844 – 1846 Illinois Mormon War
- 1846 – 1848 Mexican-American War
- 1854 – 1858 Bleeding Kansas
- 1861 – 1865 American Civil War
Ten Major Battles of the American Civil War:
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Battle of Chickamauga
- Battle of Chancellorsville
- Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
- Battle of Antietam
- Battle of the Wilderness
- Second Battle of Bull Run
- Battle of Stones River
- Battle of Shiloh
- Battle of Fort Donelson
- 1865 – 1866 Fenian Raids
- 1868 Grito de Lares, Proclamation of Puerto Rico's independence from Spain
- 1868 Grito de Yara, Proclamation of Cuba's independence from Spain
- 1869 – 1870 Red River Rebellion
- 1885 Northwest Rebellion
- 1892 Homestead Strike
- Spanish American War
- 1898 – Battle for Santiago, Cuba
- 1898 – Bombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico
- 1898 – U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico through Guanica in the south of the island
Twentieth century [edit]
See also: List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States, List of rampage killers: Americas, and List of terrorist incidents
- 1898 – 1934 Banana Wars
- 1910 – 1921 Mexican Revolution
- 1910 – 1919 Border War (1910–19)
- 1849 – 1923 Ute Wars
- 1914 – 1918 World War I
- 1926 – 1929 Cristero War
- 1939 – 1945 World War II
Major attacks
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- Attack on Pearl Harbor (didn't become part of the USA until 1959, but technically not part of North America) – December 7, 1941
- Battle of the Aleutian Islands – June 3, 1942 – August 15, 1943
- 1953 – 1995 Castroite/Guevarist revolutionary wave
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- 1953 – 1959 Cuban Revolutionary War
- 1960 – 1996 Guatemalan Civil War
- 1961 – 1990 Nicaraguan Revolution
- 1973 – 1983 New Jewel Movement
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- 1983 Invasion of Grenada
- 1979 – 1992 Salvadoran Civil War
- 1994 – 1995 Zapatista Uprising
- 1965 – 1966 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66)
- 1973 Wounded Knee incident
- 1989 – 1990 United States invasion of Panama
- 1994 – 1995 Operation Uphold Democracy
- 1997 North Hollywood shootout
Twenty-first century [edit]
- 2001 – present[update] War on Terrorism
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- 2001 – September 11 attacks
- 2001 – Operation Yellow Ribbon
- 2006 – Ontario terrorism plot
- 2007 – Fort Dix attack plot
- 2008 – Operation Enduring Freedom – Caribbean and Central America
- 2010 – Fort Hood shooting
- 2013 – Boston bombing
- 1992 – present[update] War on Drugs
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- 2006 – present[update] Mexican Drug War
See also [edit]
- List of wars
- List of conflicts in Central America
- List of conflicts in South America
- Military history of Canada
- Military history of the United States
- Military history of Mexico
- British colonization of the Americas
- French colonization of the Americas
- Spanish colonization of the Americas
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