List of wars in Great Britain
This is a list of wars and other armed conflicts that have taken place in Great Britain, which includes England, Scotland and Wales.
Year(s) | Conflict | Location (modern) |
Notes |
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55–54 B.C. | Caesar's invasions of Britain | England | |
49–96 [A.D.] | Roman conquest of Britain | Great Britain | |
208–10 | Severan invasion of Caledonia | Scotland | Part of the Roman occupation of Britain |
286–96 | Carausian Revolt | England | Part of the Roman occupation of Britain |
367–68 | Great Conspiracy | Great Britain | Part of the Roman occupation of Britain |
410–927 | Anglo-Saxon invasions and creation of England | Great Britain | |
865–78 | Invasion of the Great Heathen Army | England | Part of the Norse invasions of Britain |
1015–16 | Cnut's invasion of England | England | Part of the Norse invasions of Britain |
1066–71 | Norman conquest of England | England | |
1067–1194 | Norman invasion of Wales | Wales | |
1075 | Revolt of the Earls | England | Civil war |
1088 | Rebellion of 1088 | England | Civil war |
1135–54 | The Anarchy | England | Civil war |
1173–74 | Revolt of 1173–74 | England | Civil war |
1211 | Welsh uprising of 1211 | Wales | Part of the Anglo-Welsh Wars |
1215–17 | First Barons' War | England | Civil war |
1262–66 | Scottish–Norwegian War | Scotland | |
1264–67 | Second Barons' War | England | Civil war |
1277; 1282–83 | Edwardian conquest of Wales | Wales | Part of the Anglo-Welsh Wars |
1296–1328 | First War of Scottish Independence | Scotland; England; Ireland | Part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars |
1321–22 | Despenser War | Wales; England | Civil war |
1332–57 | Second War of Scottish Independence | Scotland | Part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars |
1381 | Peasants' Revolt | England | |
1400–15 | Glyndŵr Rising | Wales | Part of the Anglo-Welsh Wars |
1455–85 | Wars of the Roses | England; Wales | Civil war |
1497 | Cornish Rebellion of 1497 | Cornwall | |
1543–50 | War of the Rough Wooing | Scotland; England | Part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars |
1549 | Prayer Book Rebellion | England | |
1549 | Kett's Rebellion | England | |
1569–70 | Rising of the North | England | |
1639–53 | Wars of the Three Kingdoms | Great Britain | Civil war |
1685 | Monmouth Rebellion | England | |
1689–92 | First Jacobite Rising | Scotland | |
1715 | Jacobite rising of 1715 | Scotland; England | |
1745–46 | Jacobite rising of 1745 | Scotland; England |
See also
- List of wars in Ireland
- List of wars involving England
- List of battles involving the Kingdom of Scotland
- List of wars involving the United Kingdom
- Military history of England
- Military history of Scotland
- Military history of the United Kingdom
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