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The Thirty Years War of 1618–48 was fought between the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor and some of the German Protestant states and became a struggle for control of Europe. The Holy Roman Empire, France, Sweden, and Spain, were the major powers involved in the conflict. It was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia.
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The Battle of Lützen was one of the most crucial battles of the 30 Years War. The battle was fought between Sweden led by Gustavus Adolphus, and The Holy Roman Empire led by Albrecht von Wallenstein. The Battle ended in a Swedish victory.
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The English Civil War was fought between the royalists, and the parliament, and was for the most part a governmental war. It ended with the execution of Charles I.
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The Second Anglo-Dutch war was fought between The United Provinces, France, and Denmark vs. England, and Münster over trade routes. The war was fought between England and The United Provinces at sea, and Münster vs. France on land.
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The Great Northern War was a war in which a Russian led coalition headed by Peter The Great, successfully contested Swedish supremacy in central, eastern, and northern Europe.
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The War of Spanish Succession started with the dispute over whether French Philip Duke of Anjou was the rightful king of Spain. The war pitted The Dutch Republic, England, Austria, and Prussia vs. Naples, Sicily, France, and Bavaria. Philip eventually became king of France, but the conflict ended French expansion, and is considered a major turning point in history.
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This battle was a decisive victory in The War of Spanish Succession for the grand alliance of Britain, Austria, Saxony, and The Dutch Republic. The battle ensured the survival of The Grand Alliance, and also ensured the safety of Vienna thanks to the Anglo-Savoy army led by the Duke of Marlborough.
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The war was fought by almost all the major powers of Europe, but a great portion of the war was fought between Prussia led by Frederick The Great, and Austria over Maria Theresa's right to the throne of Austria.
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The Seven Years War was a world wide conflict fought between England, Prussia, Portugal and various German states, vs. France, Austria, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and various German States. The war ended in a Anglo-Prussian-Portuguese victory.
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The Haitian Revolution was a successful anti-colonial war fought between the people of st. Dominique (present day Haiti) and The French Empire.
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The War of the First Coalition was the name of the war that several European monarchies and one other republic: Austria, Prussia, Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire. It was started by the French Revolution. It led to the rise of Napoleon.
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The Battle of Lodi was the decisive battle of Napoleon's Italian campaign, in which he made a risky bridge crossing and defeated the unsuspecting Austrian Army.
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The War of The Second Coalition was the second war by the European powers against France to contain the revolution.
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In the battle of Marengo Napoleon launched a surprise attack which defeated a large Austrian Army, driving the Austrians out of Italy for the second time.
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In the War of The Third Coalition Napoleon once again defeated the combined armies of: Austria, Russia, and Great Britain, but failed to win a decisive victory against Britain.
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The First Serbian Revolution was the first of two wars to fight the Ottomans out of Serbia.
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The Battle of Trafalgar was a decisive naval battle fought on October 21,1805 off the cape of Trafalgar on the south coast of Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. The British fleet under Horatio Nelson defeated the combined fleets of France and Spain, and ended Napoleon's hopes for an invasion of Britain.
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The battle was fought near the town of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon defeated a large combined army of Austrians and Russians, and dissolved the Holy Roman Empire.
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Napoleon won against the fourth coalition against him.
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The battle of Jena was Napoleons decisive battle against the Prussians in The War of The Fourth Coalition.
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In The War of The Fifth Coalition, Napoleon defeated the fifth coalition against him.
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The Venezuelan War of Independence was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early 1800s, when independence movements in Latin America fought against rule by the Spanish were happening in multitude.
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In the War of the Sixth Coalition, a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and a number of German states finally defeated The French Empire, and sent Napoleon into exile on Elba.
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The Battle of Borodino was the largest battle of Napoleon's campaign in Russia in which he defeated the Russians, but failed to achieve the decisive victory that he needed.
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The battle of Leipzig was the largest battle in Europe up until The Great war, in which a coalition army decisively defeated Napoleon.
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In the Serbian Revolution of 1815, Serbia won independence from The Ottoman Empire.
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The One marked from Napoleons escape from Elba to the reinstatement of Louis XVIII as king of France.
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In the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was defeated one last time by an Anglo-Prussian-Dutch army in what is now Belgium.
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In Boliívar's campaign to liberate New Granada, Simon Boliívar's forces ousted the Spanish out of present day Colombia.
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In the Greek Revolution, Greek nationals with foreign help, managed to drive the Ottomans out of Greece.
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The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, saw the overthrow of King Charles X.
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In the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Belgium took independence from The Kingdom of The Netherlands.
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In the Italian Revolution of 1848, Italy failed to win independence from Austria.
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In the Austrian Revolution of 1848, Von Metternich, who had led Austria since the age of Napoleon was knocked from his position of power, but revolutionaries failed to make great gains
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The German Revolution of 1848 was a failed attempt to unify Germany.
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The 1848 Revolution in France, sometimes known as the February Revolution, was one of a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe. In France the revolutionary events ended the Orleans monarchy and led to the creation of the French Second Republic.
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The Crimean war was fought with religious roots between Great Britain, The French Second Empire, The Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia vs. Russia. The War was won by the Franco-British led coalition, and ended the Prussian-Austrian-Russian Alliance.
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The Battle of Balaclava was fought with Great Britain, The French Second Empire, and The Ottoman Empire vs. Russia. The battle was fought to capture Sevastopol which was Russia's main port on The Black Sea, and included the famous charge of the light brigade.
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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 Sepoy Mutiny was a large, but ultimately futile uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company.
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The Franco-Prussian war of 1870–71 between France led by under Napoleon III and Prussia led by Otto von Bismark, in which Prussia invaded France. The defeat of France marked the end of the French Second Empire. For Prussia, the creation of the new German Empire at Versailles was the finale of Bismarck's ambitions to unite Germany.
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The Battle of Sedan was the decisive battle of the Franco-Prussian war, in which a army of 130,000 soldiers was defeated, and Napoleon iii himself was captured.
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The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. It ended in a British Victory.
