A thematic collection

War & Rupture

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged war and rupture — wars, invasions, conquests, battles and armed conflict. 899 of them, drawn from 179 nations, running from 1274 BCE to 2026. Indexed below by period; each period opens the full text, with the sources every entry was verified against and a link back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
899
Nations
179
Earliest
1274 BCE
Latest
2026
Densest period
The 1940s87 events
Europe
288
Asia
244
Africa
229
South America
61
North America
57
Oceania
20

Each period below opens a page holding those events in full — summary, era and citations. Every entry is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

2 events · 2 nations

The 2nd millennium BCE

Every theme in the 2nd millennium BCE →

  1. c. 1274 BCE

    Battle of Kadesh · Egypt

  2. c. 1274 BCE

    Battle of Kadesh and the Hittite–Egyptian treaty · Türkiye

All 2 events in the 2nd millennium BCE →

3 events · 3 nations

The 8th century BCE

Every theme in the 8th century BCE →

  1. 771 BCE

    Western Zhou collapses; Eastern Zhou begins · China

  2. c. 727 BCE

    Piye conquers Egypt — the 25th Dynasty · Sudan

  3. 8th–6th c. BCE

    Assyrian, Egyptian and Persian overlordship · Cyprus

All 3 events in the 8th century BCE →

2 events · 2 nations

The 7th century BCE

Every theme in the 7th century BCE →

  1. 671 BCE

    Assyrians expel the Kushites from Egypt · Sudan

  2. 612 BCE

    Fall of Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire · Iraq

All 2 events in the 7th century BCE →

2 events · 2 nations

The 6th century BCE

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  1. 586 BCE

    Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem · Palestine

  2. 539 BCE

    Cyrus the Great captures Babylon · Iraq

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3 events · 1 nation

The 5th century BCE

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  1. 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon · Greece

  2. 480 BCE

    Battle of Salamis · Greece

  3. 431–404 BCE

    The Peloponnesian War · Greece

All 3 events in the 5th century BCE →

12 events · 11 nations

The 4th century BCE

Every theme in the 4th century BCE →

  1. 338 BCE

    Battle of Chaeronea · Greece

  2. 336–323 BCE

    Conquests of Alexander the Great · North Macedonia

  3. 334 BCE

    Alexander invades the Persian Empire · Greece

  4. 332 BCE

    Alexander the Great conquers Egypt · Egypt

  5. 332 BCE

    Alexander the Great and the end of Persian rule · Jordan

  6. 332 BCE

    Alexander the Great takes Tyre · Lebanon

  7. 332 BCE

    Hellenistic conquest · Palestine

  8. 330 BCE

    Alexander conquers Persia and burns Persepolis · Iran

All 12 events in the 4th century BCE →4 more not shown here

5 events · 5 nations

The 3rd century BCE

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  1. 264–146 BCE

    The Punic Wars and Mediterranean supremacy · Italy

  2. 218 BCE

    Malta becomes Roman · Malta

  3. 218 BCE

    Rome enters Hispania · Spain

  4. 218 BCE

    Hannibal's war on Rome · Tunisia

  5. c. 214 BCE

    Frontier walls joined into the Great Wall · China

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7 events · 7 nations

The 2nd century BCE

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  1. 2nd c. BCE

    Roman conquest of Illyria · Albania

  2. 148 BCE

    Macedonia becomes a Roman province · North Macedonia

  3. 146 BCE

    Rome sacks Corinth and conquers Greece · Greece

  4. 146 BCE

    Rome destroys Carthage · Tunisia

  5. from 137 BCE

    Portus Herculis Monoeci under Rome · Monaco

  6. 112–105 BCE

    The Jugurthine War · Algeria

  7. 108 BCE

    Fall of Gojoseon to Han China · South Korea

All 7 events in the 2nd century BCE →

7 events · 7 nations

The 1st century BCE

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  1. 65 BCE

    Pompey campaigns in the Caucasus · Georgia

  2. 64 BCE

    Pompey annexes Syria to Rome · Syria

  3. 63 BCE

    Roman conquest · Palestine

  4. 57 BCE

    Caesar campaigns in the Low Countries · Netherlands

  5. 52 BCE

    Siege of Alesia · France

  6. c. 50 BCE

    Caesar uses the port · Monaco

  7. 1st c. BCE

    Rome annexes Dardania · Kosovo

All 7 events in the 1st century BCE →

5 events · 5 nations

The 1st century

Every theme in the 1st century →

  1. Battle of the Teutoburg Forest · Germany

  2. Revolt of the Trung sisters · Vietnam

  3. Roman conquest of Britain begins · United Kingdom

  4. Break-up of the Xiongnu empire · Mongolia

  5. The Batavian Revolt · Netherlands

All 5 events in the 1st century →

4 events · 3 nations

The 2nd century

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  1. Trajan's first Dacian war · Romania

  2. Rome annexes the Nabataean kingdom · Jordan

  3. Conquest of Dacia and the Roman province · Romania

  4. Rome annexes the Nabataean kingdom · Saudi Arabia

All 4 events in the 2nd century →

2 events · 2 nations

The 3rd century

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  1. Collapse of the Han and centuries of division · China

  2. Zenobia, Palmyra and the war with Rome · Syria

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2 events · 2 nations

The 5th century

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  1. Vandals take Carthage · Algeria

  2. Vandals take Carthage · Tunisia

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5 events · 5 nations

The 6th century

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  1. Aksumite intervention in Arabia · Ethiopia

  2. Aksumite conquest and the viceroy Abraha · Yemen

  3. Byzantine reconquest · Algeria

  4. Byzantine reconquest · Tunisia

  5. Caracol defeats Tikal · Belize

All 5 events in the 6th century →

17 events · 14 nations

The 7th century

Every theme in the 7th century →

  1. Exhausting wars with Byzantium · Iran

  2. The Battle of Dibba in the Ridda Wars · United Arab Emirates

  3. Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and the Arab conquest · Iraq

  4. The Battle of the Yarmuk · Jordan

  5. Arab Muslim conquest of the Levant · Lebanon

  6. The Muslim conquest of Syria · Syria

  7. Arab Muslim conquest of Jerusalem · Palestine

  8. Arab conquest of Egypt · Egypt

All 17 events in the 7th century →9 more not shown here

3 events · 3 nations

The 8th century

Every theme in the 8th century →

  1. Umayyad conquest and the Battle of Guadalete · Spain

  2. Battle of Talas · Uzbekistan

  3. First Viking raids on Ireland · Ireland

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3 events · 3 nations

The 9th century

Every theme in the 9th century →

  1. The Yenisei Kyrgyz destroy the Uyghur Khaganate · Kyrgyzstan

  2. Arab conquest of Malta · Malta

  3. Alfred defeats the Vikings at Edington · United Kingdom

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3 events · 3 nations

The 10th century

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  1. Fall of Great Moravia · Czechia

  2. Fall of Great Moravia to the Magyars · Slovakia

  3. Karakhanid conquest of Bukhara · Tajikistan

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17 events · 15 nations

The 11th century

Every theme in the 11th century →

  1. Battle of Clontarf · Ireland

  2. Battle of Kleidion and the fall of Samuel · North Macedonia

  3. Cnut the Great and the North Sea empire · Denmark

  4. Byzantine conquest of the First Empire · Bulgaria

  5. Chola naval raid weakens Srivijaya · Malaysia

  6. Death of Ibn Yasin; Abu Bakr leads the desert wing · Mauritania

  7. Harold defeats Harald Hardrada at Stamford Bridge · United Kingdom

  8. Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest · United Kingdom

All 17 events in the 11th century →9 more not shown here

9 events · 9 nations

The 12th century

Every theme in the 12th century →

  1. Battle of Didgori · Georgia

  2. Capture of Lisbon · Portugal

  3. The Ghurids sack Ghazni · Afghanistan

  4. Anglo-Norman landing in Ireland · Ireland

  5. Lombard League defeats Frederick Barbarossa at Legnano · Italy

  6. Genpei War · Japan

  7. Saladin retakes Jerusalem · Palestine

  8. Saladin recaptures Jerusalem · Syria

All 9 events in the 12th century →1 more not shown here

33 events · 27 nations

The 13th century

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  1. Turkish conquest ends Sena rule · Bangladesh

  2. Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople · Greece

  3. Normandy lost; the Channel Islands stay with the Crown · United Kingdom

  4. Western Xia made a vassal, then destroyed · Mongolia

  5. Mongol invasion of the Jin dynasty · Mongolia

  6. Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa · Morocco

  7. Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa · Spain

  8. Danish conquest and the founding of Tallinn · Estonia

All 33 events in the 13th century →25 more not shown here

19 events · 17 nations

The 14th century

Every theme in the 14th century →

  1. Battle of the Golden Spurs · Belgium

  2. Battle of Morgarten · Switzerland

  3. Ifat broken by Ethiopia; rise of Adal · Djibouti

  4. Hundred Years' War begins · France

  5. St George's Night Uprising · Estonia

  6. Death of John the Blind at Crecy · Luxembourg

  7. Fall of the Yuan and retreat to the steppe · Mongolia

  8. Ottoman conquest of the region · North Macedonia

All 19 events in the 14th century →11 more not shown here

32 events · 27 nations

The 15th century

Every theme in the 15th century →

  1. Battle of Ankara and the Interregnum · Türkiye

  2. Battle of Grunwald (Zalgiris) · Lithuania

  3. Battle of Grunwald · Poland

  4. Capture of Ceuta · Portugal

  5. The Hussite Wars · Czechia

  6. Joan of Arc at Orléans · France

  7. Thai capture of Angkor · Cambodia

  8. Skanderbeg's revolt and the return to Kruje · Albania

All 32 events in the 15th century →24 more not shown here

64 events · 52 nations

The 16th century

Every theme in the 16th century →

  1. Empire at its zenith · Brunei

  2. Songhai pushes into Aïr · Niger

  3. Battle of Marignano · Switzerland

  4. The Ottomans conquer the region · Jordan

  5. Ottoman conquest of Syria · Syria

  6. Ottoman conquest of Egypt · Egypt

  7. The Stockholm Bloodbath · Denmark

  8. The Stockholm Bloodbath · Sweden

All 64 events in the 16th century →56 more not shown here

36 events · 29 nations

The 17th century

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  1. Battle of Sekigahara · Japan

  2. The Nine Years' War and the Battle of Kinsale · Ireland

  3. Cartagena fortified · Colombia

  4. The Thirty Years' War and the Peace of Westphalia · Germany

  5. Battle of White Mountain · Czechia

  6. The Banda massacre · Indonesia

  7. Swedish conquest of Riga · Latvia

  8. Sweden enters the Thirty Years' War · Sweden

All 36 events in the 17th century →28 more not shown here

47 events · 37 nations

The 18th century

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  1. A haunt of pirates · Seychelles

  2. War of the Spanish Succession · Spain

  3. Anglo-Dutch capture of Gibraltar · Spain

  4. Nassau becomes a pirate haven · Bahamas

  5. Battle of Poltava · Sweden

  6. Russia takes Riga · Latvia

  7. Cassard's French raid destroys the city · Cape Verde

  8. A Chinese imperial army enters Bhutan · Bhutan

All 47 events in the 18th century →39 more not shown here

12 events · 9 nations

The 1800s

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  1. First Barbary War with the United States · Libya

  2. The Olivenca dispute · Portugal

  3. Treaty of Badajoz: Olivenza passes to Spain · Spain

  4. Napoleon's expedition; Toussaint deported · Haiti

  5. First Serbian Uprising · Serbia

  6. British invasions repelled · Argentina

  7. The bombardment of Copenhagen · Denmark

  8. Court flees to Brazil · Portugal

All 12 events in the 1800s →4 more not shown here

17 events · 16 nations

The 1810s

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  1. The difaqane convulses the region · Botswana

  2. British capture of the Isle de France · Mauritius

  3. Destruction of Al Zubarah · Qatar

  4. The Ottoman-Egyptian campaign against the Saudis · Saudi Arabia

  5. Partition of Moldavia at the Treaty of Bucharest · Moldova

  6. Napoleon's invasion and retreat from Moscow · Russia

  7. Treaty of Gulistan · Azerbaijan

  8. Treaty of Kiel: the loss of Norway · Denmark

All 17 events in the 1810s →9 more not shown here

16 events · 16 nations

The 1820s

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  1. Iturbide sent against Guerrero · Mexico

  2. The musket wars · New Zealand

  3. Turco-Egyptian conquest reaches Sudan · South Sudan

  4. Battle of Carabobo · Venezuela

  5. Dahomey breaks free of Oyo · Benin

  6. The Demerara rising · Guyana

  7. The frontier wars · Australia

  8. Battle of Ayacucho · Bolivia

All 16 events in the 1820s →8 more not shown here

10 events · 9 nations

The 1830s

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  1. The November Uprising · Poland

  2. USS Lexington raid on Port Louis · Falkland Islands

  3. The Baptist War · Jamaica

  4. Massacre of the Charrua at Salsipuedes · Uruguay

  5. Abd al-Qadir's resistance · Algeria

  6. Ndebele raids under Mzilikazi · Botswana

  7. Kenesary Kasymov's revolt · Kazakhstan

  8. Battle of Blood River · South Africa

All 10 events in the 1830s →2 more not shown here

5 events · 5 nations

The 1840s

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  1. Kololo conquest of the Lozi · Zambia

  2. Mexican-American War · Mexico

  3. The Sonderbund War · Switzerland

  4. Defeat of the war of independence · Hungary

  5. Garibaldi given refuge · San Marino

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10 events · 10 nations

The 1850s

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  1. End of the long war · Uruguay

  2. Battle of Caseros · Argentina

  3. Boer attack on the Bakwena · Botswana

  4. Second Anglo-Burmese War · Myanmar

  5. William Walker's filibuster · Nicaragua

  6. National War against William Walker · Costa Rica

  7. Southern Bessarabia briefly returned · Moldova

  8. Senekal's War with the Orange Free State · Lesotho

All 10 events in the 1850s →2 more not shown here

20 events · 17 nations

The 1860s

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  1. Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand · Italy

  2. Sectarian conflict in Mount Lebanon · Lebanon

  3. The New Zealand Wars · New Zealand

  4. American Civil War · United States

  5. War of Restoration · Dominican Republic

  6. The January Uprising · Poland

  7. The Duar War with British India · Bhutan

  8. War of the Triple Alliance · Brazil

All 20 events in the 1860s →12 more not shown here

12 events · 12 nations

The 1870s

Every theme in the 1870s →

  1. Death of Lopez at Cerro Cora · Paraguay

  2. The capture of Rome · Vatican City

  3. The Mokrani (Kabyle) revolt · Algeria

  4. British expedition burns Kumasi · Ghana

  5. Herzegovinian uprising and the Eastern Crisis · Bosnia and Herzegovina

  6. The April Uprising and the 'Bulgarian Horrors' · Bulgaria

  7. Second Anglo-Afghan War and the Treaty of Gandamak · Afghanistan

  8. The Conquest of the Desert · Argentina

All 12 events in the 1870s →4 more not shown here

8 events · 8 nations

The 1880s

Every theme in the 1880s →

  1. The Gun War · Lesotho

  2. Pacification of Araucania · Chile

  3. Capture of Kankan · Guinea

  4. Battle of Geok Tepe · Turkmenistan

  5. First Franco-Hova War · Madagascar

  6. North-West Resistance and the execution of Riel · Canada

  7. Mahdist revolt and the fall of Khartoum · South Sudan

  8. Fall of Khartoum; death of Gordon · Sudan

All 8 events in the 1880s →

29 events · 25 nations

The 1890s

Every theme in the 1890s →

  1. First Franco-Dahomean War · Benin

  2. Al-Zubayr installs al-Sanusi at Dar al-Kuti · Central African Republic

  3. The Al Rashid end the Second Saudi State · Saudi Arabia

  4. French conquest of Dahomey · Benin

  5. Rabih conquers Bornu · Chad

  6. Battle of Al Wajba · Qatar

  7. Franco-Siamese crisis and loss of Laos · Thailand

  8. First Matabele War · Zimbabwe

All 29 events in the 1890s →21 more not shown here

10 events · 8 nations

The 1900s

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  1. The War of the Golden Stool · Ghana

  2. Abdulaziz captures Riyadh · Saudi Arabia

  3. The Ilinden Uprising · North Macedonia

  4. Battle of the Cunene · Angola

  5. Russo-Japanese War · Japan

  6. The Herero uprising begins · Namibia

  7. Battle of Waterberg · Namibia

  8. Von Trotha's extermination order · Namibia

All 10 events in the 1900s →2 more not shown here

48 events · 39 nations

The 1910s

Every theme in the 1910s →

  1. Mexican Revolution · Mexico

  2. Death of al-Sanusi of Dar al-Kuti · Central African Republic

  3. First Balkan War · Bulgaria

  4. The Greek fleet takes the north-east Aegean islands · Greece

  5. Teixeira Pinto's pacification of the mainland · Guinea-Bissau

  6. Balkan Wars bring Kosovo into Serbia · Kosovo

  7. The Balkan Wars · Montenegro

  8. United States Marine occupation · Nicaragua

All 48 events in the 1910s →40 more not shown here

15 events · 14 nations

The 1920s

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  1. Soviet annexation · Azerbaijan

  2. Zeligowski's Mutiny and the seizure of Vilnius · Lithuania

  3. Battle of Warsaw · Poland

  4. RAF bombing ends the Dervish state · Somalia

  5. Treaty of Riga partitions Belarus · Belarus

  6. Red Army conquest · Georgia

  7. Battle of Annual and the Rif War · Morocco

  8. Defeat and Soviet incorporation · Ukraine

All 15 events in the 1920s →7 more not shown here

23 events · 22 nations

The 1930s

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  1. Execution of Omar al-Mukhtar · Libya

  2. The Chaco War with Paraguay · Bolivia

  3. Uprising and la matanza · El Salvador

  4. The Chaco War · Paraguay

  5. Conquest of Ethiopia launched from Eritrea · Eritrea

  6. Italian occupation and liberation · Ethiopia

  7. The Bijagós islands subdued · Guinea-Bissau

  8. Arab Revolt in Palestine · Palestine

All 23 events in the 1930s →15 more not shown here

87 events · 56 nations

The 1940s

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  1. Second German invasion · Belgium

  2. Surrender of King Leopold III · Belgium

  3. Brazzaville, capital of Free France · Congo

  4. German occupation of Denmark · Denmark

  5. Soviet occupation and annexation · Estonia

  6. Moscow Peace Treaty cedes Karelia · Finland

  7. British occupation of Iceland · Iceland

  8. Italy enters the Second World War · Italy

All 87 events in the 1940s →79 more not shown here

26 events · 14 nations

The 1950s

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  1. North Korea invades the South · North Korea

  2. The Pusan Perimeter · North Korea

  3. Inchon landing · North Korea

  4. US troops reach the Yalu · North Korea

  5. China enters the war · North Korea

  6. The Korean War · South Korea

  7. The Pusan Perimeter · South Korea

  8. Inchon landing · South Korea

All 26 events in the 1950s →18 more not shown here

33 events · 29 nations

The 1960s

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  1. Katanga secedes; the Congo Crisis · DR Congo

  2. Civil war and the Maya genocide · Guatemala

  3. Revolt breaks out · Angola

  4. Bay of Pigs invasion · Cuba

  5. Armed struggle begins at Mount Adal · Eritrea

  6. The Brunei revolt · Brunei

  7. Cuban Missile Crisis · Cuba

  8. Haile Selassie annexes Eritrea · Eritrea

All 33 events in the 1960s →25 more not shown here

33 events · 27 nations

The 1970s

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  1. Rise of the EPLF · Eritrea

  2. Black September · Jordan

  3. Frontline state for liberation · Zambia

  4. Iranian forces land on Abu Musa and the Tunbs a day before the federation is born · Iran

  5. Loss of East Pakistan and birth of Bangladesh · Pakistan

  6. The JVP insurrection · Sri Lanka

  7. Iranian forces land on Abu Musa and the Tunbs a day before the federation is born · United Arab Emirates

  8. Insurrection and the killing of Ntare V · Burundi

All 33 events in the 1970s →25 more not shown here

40 events · 34 nations

The 1980s

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  1. Cartels and paramilitaries · Colombia

  2. Assassination of Archbishop Romero · El Salvador

  3. The Iran–Iraq War · Iran

  4. The Iran–Iraq War · Iraq

  5. The Contra war · Nicaragua

  6. Shining Path launches its insurgency · Peru

  7. The Coconut War on Espiritu Santo · Vanuatu

  8. El Mozote massacre · El Salvador

All 40 events in the 1980s →32 more not shown here

50 events · 37 nations

The 1990s

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  1. Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait · Kuwait

  2. Samuel Doe captured and killed · Liberia

  3. First Tuareg rebellion · Niger

  4. RPF invasion begins the civil war · Rwanda

  5. The fall of Vukovar · Croatia

  6. Civil war with the FRUD rebellion · Djibouti

  7. Invasion of Kuwait and the Persian Gulf War · Iraq

  8. Operation Desert Storm liberates Kuwait · Kuwait

All 50 events in the 1990s →42 more not shown here

15 events · 14 nations

The 2000s

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  1. Second Intifada · Palestine

  2. British intervention and UNAMSIL · Sierra Leone

  3. The Malaita Eagle Force coup · Solomon Islands

  4. US-led intervention topples the Taliban · Afghanistan

  5. Death of Savimbi ends the war · Angola

  6. Civil war divides the country · Ivory Coast

  7. The civil war ends · Sierra Leone

  8. CNDD-FDD joins the peace process · Burundi

All 15 events in the 2000s →7 more not shown here

21 events · 16 nations

The 2010s

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  1. Post-election crisis · Ivory Coast

  2. Ethnic violence in the south · Kyrgyzstan

  3. Uprising, NATO intervention and Gaddafi's fall · Libya

  4. Uprising and the start of the civil war · Syria

  5. M23 rebellion seizes Goma · DR Congo

  6. Taylor convicted of war crimes · Liberia

  7. Tuareg rebellion, coup and jihadist seizure of the north · Mali

  8. Séléka captures Bangui · Central African Republic

All 21 events in the 2010s →13 more not shown here

15 events · 13 nations

The 2020s

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  1. Second Nagorno-Karabakh War · Armenia

  2. Second Nagorno-Karabakh war · Azerbaijan

  3. CPC offensive and Wagner · Central African Republic

  4. The Tigray War · Ethiopia

  5. Truth Commission report · Colombia

  6. Full-scale invasion of Ukraine · Russia

  7. Full-scale invasion; UN Resolution ES-11/1 · Ukraine

  8. Purported annexation of four oblasts; UN Resolution ES-11/4 · Ukraine

All 15 events in the 2020s →7 more not shown here