| Battle | Conflict | Year |
| Battle of Thymbra | War between Croesus of the Lydian Empire and Cyrus the Great. Lydia was conquered by the Persians. | 547 BC |
| Battle of Megiddo | Josiah of Judah and Necho of Egypt. Egyptian defeated Josiahs. | 508 BC |
| Battle of Marathon | Athenians fought against Persians. Athenians emerged victorious. | 490 BC |
| Battle of Thermopylae | Xerxes led Persians attacked Spartans led by Leonidas. Greeks were defeated. | 480 BC |
| Battle of Plataea | Greeks smother Persian forces. | 479 BC |
| Peloponesian War (Spartan War I) | Fought between Spartans and Athenians. The war lasted for 30 years. A peace treaty was signed between the two. | 459 BC |
| Spartan War II | Sparta and Athens engaged in a battle again in which Spartans emerged victorious. | 431-21 BC |
| Battle of Magnesia | concluding battle of the Roman–Syrian War. Romans won the battle resulting in Roman domination over the internal affairs of the Seleucid( Syrian) Empire. | 190 BC |
| The Hundred Years’ War | Series of conflicts between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France for control of the French throne. | 1337 -1453 |
| Wars of the Roses | Series of dynastic wars fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England. | At spasmodic intervals between 1455 and 1487 |
| Thirty Years’ War | Breakout of war is believed to be political cum religious. Series of wars were fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe. It was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history. | 1618–1648 |
| The English Civil War | Series of conflicts between Parliamentarians and Royalists (Cavaliers) in the Kingdom of England. The war ended with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. | 1642–1651 |
| The Eighty Years’ War (Dutch War of Independence) | Revolt of the Seventeen Provinces against Philip II of Spain, The war ended in 1648 when the Dutch Republic was recognized as an independent country. | 1568–1648 |
| Seven Years’ War | Series of war that took place between 1754 and 1763 with the main conflict being in the seven-year period. India also took part in the war (Third Carnatic War and against British in North America) | 1756–1763 |
| Battle of Austerlitz | War between France and Austria, Britain & Russia. It was Napoleon’s one of the biggest victories | 1805 |
| Battle of Leipzig (Battle of the Nations) | Russia, Prussia,Austria, and Sweden led by the Russian Czar Alexander I against the French army of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, at Leipzig, Napoleon was defeated for the first time in a battle. | 1813 |
| Battle of Waterloo | British forces led by Duke of Wellington along with Prussian army defeated Napoleon Bonaparte. It was Napoleon’s last battle and the defeat ended his rule as Emperor of the French, marking the end of his Hundred Days return from exile. | 1815 |
| The Boer Wars | Two wars fought during by the British Empire against the settlers of two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic. | 1880–1881 and 1899–1902 |
| World War I | Allies based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire took up arms against the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The four year war ended with the victory of allied forces. | 1914-1919 |
| World War II | Allied forces (Soviet Union, United States, United Kingdom, China, France) went to war against Axis forces (Germany, Japan, Hungary). The six year long war ended with the Allied force victory. | 1939-1945 |
| Gulf War I (Persian Gulf War) | United States along with other countries in an attempt to oust the military of Iraq attacked Iraq. They drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. | 1991 |
| Gulf War II | United States along with other countries dethroned Saddam Hussain , Iraqi President | 2003 |
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