Real Life wars that have taken place throughout history.
- The Trojan War (circa 1194-1184 BC)
- Sabine Wars (before 509 BC)
- Greco-Persian Wars (499-450 BC)
- The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC)
- Macedonian Succession Wars (323-275 BC)
- Punic Wars (264-146 BC)
- Lusitanian Wars (194-139 BC)
- Celtiberian Wars (181-123 BC)
- The Maccabean Revolt (166-129 BC)
- Germanic Wars (113 BC-750 AD)
- Jewish Revolts (66-117)
- The Three Kingdoms (China) (220-280)
- Spanish Reconquista (circa 718-1492)
- The Crusades (Levantine Crusades 1095-1291, Baltic Crusades 1147-1410)
- Rise of the Ottoman Empire (circa 1299-1683)
- The Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Great Siege of Malta (1565)
- Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568–1571)
- Battle of Lepanto (1571)
- Siege of Vienna (1683)
- Wars of Scottish Independence (1296-1328 and 1332-1357)
- The Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
- Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
- Rise of the Spanish Empire (circa 1492 - 17th/18th century)
- Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519-1525)
- Spanish Conquest of the Maya (1524-1697)
- Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire (1532-1572)
- Spanish Conquest of the Philippines (1564-1642)
- Cagayan Battles (1582)
- Italian Wars (1494-1559)
- Conquest of Portuguese India (1497-1617)
- European Wars of Religion (circa 1517 - 17th/18th century)
- German Peasants' War (1524-1525)
- French Wars of Religion (1562-1598)
- The Eighty Years' War (1568-1648)
- The War of the Spanish Armada (1585-1604)
- Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1653, including the English Civil War of 1642-1651)
- The Dutch-Portuguese War (1602-1640)
- Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1781)
- Jacobite Rebellions (1688-1746)
- The Great Northern War (1700-1721)
- War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
- War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748)
- War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
- Seven Years' War (1754-1763)
- American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
- Coalition Wars (1792-1815)
- French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
- British Invasions of the Río de la Plata (1806-1807)
- Barbary Coast Wars (First War 1801-1805, Second War 1815)
- Spanish American Wars of Independence (1808-1833)
- War of 1812 (1812-1815)
- Argentine Civil Wars (1814-1880)
- Texas Revolution (1835-1836)
- War of the Confederation (1836-1839)
- The Opium Wars (First War 1839-1842, Second War 1856-1860)
- Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848-1849; included some minor wars and rebellions)
- Wars of Italian Independence (1848-1866)
- The Crimean War (1853-1856)
- Indian Rebellion (1857-1858)
- The American Civil War (1861-1865)
- The Chincha Islands War (1864-1866)
- Paraguayan War (1864-1870)
- Austro-Prussian War (1866)
- Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- War of the Pacific (1879-1883)
- The Boer Wars
- First Boer War (1880-1881)
- The Second Boer War (1899-1902)
- Mahdist War (1881-1899)
- First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
- Spanish-American War (1898)
- Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901)
- Philippine-American War (1899-1902)
- Moro Rebellion (1902-1913)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
- Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)
- Chinese Revolutions and Civil Wars
- Xinhai Revolution (1911-1912)
- Warlord Era (1916-1928)
- Chinese Civil War (First Civil War 1927-1936, Second Civil War 1946-1950)
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Irish Revolution (Easter Rising 1916, War of Independence 1919-1921, Civil War 1922-1923)
- Russian Revolution and Civil War (1917-1922)
- Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921)
- The Chaco War (1932-1935)
- Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Second Sino-Japanese War (Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-1932, full-scale war 1937-1945; the later stages are considered to be part of WWII)
- The (First) Cold War (circa 1945-1991; exact start and end dates disputednote )
- Korean conflict (South Korean rebellions 1946-1949, Korean War 1950-1953, post-armistice border clashes 1953-present)
- Indochina conflict (First Indochina War 1946-1954, Vietnam War 1955-1975, Third Indochina War 1975-1991)
- Cuban conflict (Cuban Revolution 1953-1959, Escambray Rebellion 1959-1965, Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961)
- Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)
- Central American crisis (Guatemalan Civil War 1960-1996, Nicaraguan Civil War 1979-1990, Salvadoran Civil War 1979-1992)
- Cold War in Central Africa
- The Congo Crisis (1960-65; insurgencies until 1996)
- Cold War in Southern Africa
- Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974)
- Rhodesian Bush War (1964-1979),
- South African Border War (1966-1990)
- Angolan Civil War (1975-2002) and
- Mozambican Civil War (1977-1992)
- Operation Condor / Dirty Wars in South America (1964-1989)
- Brazilian Dirty War (1964-1985)
- Argentine Dirty War (1976-1983)
- Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989)
- Invasion of Grenada (1983)
- Indo-Pakistani Wars (1947-present)
- Kashmir Conflict (major wars in 1947, 1965, 1971, 1999; recurring border clashes and ongoing insurgency since the 1980s)
- Sino-Indian border conflict (1962-present)
- Cold War and proxy conflicts in the Greater Middle East (circa 1948-present; including the Arab Cold War of 1952-1979)
- Arab–Israeli Conflict (ethnic conflict in British Palestine 1920-1948; wars between Israel, Palestinians and Arab states 1948-present)
- Iranian Revolution (1978-1983)
- Iran–Iraq War (1980-1988)
- The Gulf War (1990-1991)
- War on Terror (2001-2021; includes numerous major and minor conflicts throughout the Greater Middle East)
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Arab Spring/Winter (2011-present; includes numerous major and minor conflicts throughout the Greater Middle East)
- Syrian Civil War (2011-2024)
- Islamic State War in Iraq (2013-2017)
- The Troubles (1968-1998)
- The Football War (1969)
- The Falklands War (1982)
- Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009)
- The Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001)
- Algerian Civil War (1991-2002)
- The Chechnya Wars
- First War (1994-1996)
- Second War (1999-2009)
- Insurgency (2009-2017)
- The Congo Wars
- First War (1996-1997)
- Second War (1998-2003)
- Insurgency (2004-present)
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- War in Donbas (2014-2022), segued into...
- Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022-present)
- The War on Drugs (1971-present)