The Wars & Conflicts of the 19th Century
(Waterloo to the First World War)
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1830-1
Europe
Spanish Civil or Carlist Wars
1830-9
Cape Frontier Wars
1834-1878
Africa
The Great Trek
1835-40
Texan War of Independence
1835-6
North America
2nd & 3rd Seminole War
1835-42/1856-8
Afghan Invasion of the Punjab
1837
India
1st Opium War
1839-42
China
Baluchistan
1839-41
1st Afghan War
Sikh Invasion of Tibet
1841-2
Annexation of Sind
1843
Annexation of Gwalior
1st & 2nd Sikh Wars
1845-6/1848-9
US/Mexican War
1846-8
Navajo Wars
1846-64
Cayuse Wars
1847
Samoa
1847-99
South Seas
1st War of Italian Unification
1848-9
Austro-Hungarian War
1st Schleswig-Holstein War
1848-50
Rogue River Wars
1851-6
Taipeng Rebellion
1851-65
2nd Burmese War
1852-3
Sioux Wars
1854-90
Crimean War
1853-5
Persian War
1855-7
Indian Mutiny
1857-8
The French in Annam
1858-62
South-East Asia
Peru & Ecuador
1859
South America
Franco-Austrian War (2nd War of Italian Unification)
Garibaldi’s Unification of Italy
1860
2nd China or Opium War (Arrow War)
Southern Plains War
1860-79
Apache Wars
1861-1900
American Civil War
1861-5
The Maximillian Adventure/French Intervention in Mexico
1862-7
2nd Schleswig-Holstein War
1864
Great Paraguayan War (War of the Triple Alliance)
1864-70
Austro-Prussian War
1866
3rd War of Italian Unification
1866/1867
British in Abyssinia
1868
Franco-Prussian War
1870-1
Modoc War
1872-3
1st & 2nd Ashanti Wars
1873-4/1900
Red River War
1874-5
Egyptians in Abyssinia
1875-6
Nez Perce War
1877
Russo-Turkish War
1877-8
2nd Afghan War
1878-80
Zulu War
1879
The Pacific War
1879-84
Rise of the Mahdists
1880-4
Transvaal or 1st Boer War
1880-1
Arabi’s Revolt
1882
Zulu Civil War
1883-4
Sino-French War
1883-5
Gordon Relief Expedition
1884-5
Serbian Invasion of Bulgaria
1885
Russian Invasion of Afghanistan
3rd Burma War
1885-6
Mahdist Invasion of Abyssinia
1887-9
Police Actions in Burma
1887-92
Mahdist Invasion of Egypt
1888-9
The French in Dahomeay
1890-2
Sino-Japanese War
1894
Korea/China
The Batetelan Uprisings
1895/1897-1900
Mozambican Revolts
1895-99
Italian Invasion of Abyssinia
1896
The Greco-Turkish War
1897-8
French Conquest of Chad
1897-1914
The Spanish-American War
1898-1902
Great (2nd) Boer War (South African War)
1899-1902
Fall of the Mahdists
1899-1900
Boxer Rebellion
1900
Mad Mullah
1901-4
Russo-Japanese War
1904-5