List_of_wars_1500–1799

List of wars: 1500–1799

List of wars: 1500–1799

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This is a list of wars that began between 1500 and 1799. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity. Major conflicts of this era include the Italian Wars and Thirty Years' War in Europe, the Kongo Civil War in Africa, the Qing conquest of the Ming in Asia, the Spanish conquest of Peru in South America, and the American Revolutionary War in North America.

See also: Early modern warfare
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1500 to 1799 from various sources.

Based on statistics from Our World in Data (starting in 1400), 1525 (the end of the German Peasants' War) was, at its time, the deadliest year in terms of conflict deaths with 160k deaths, until it was surpassed by 1618 which saw 316k deaths. As the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and the Manchu conquest of China (1618–1683) continued, 1618 was surpassed by 1619 (359k deaths), 1625 (443k deaths), 1627 (453k deaths), 1628 (456k deaths) and 1629 (456.8k deaths). 1629 was later surpassed by 1756 (457.5k deaths), at the start of the Seven Years' War.[1]

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    "Deaths in conflicts by source". Our World in Data. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
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    Holt, P.M.; Lambton, A.K.S.; Lewis, B. (1978). The Central Islamic Lands from Pre-islamic Times to the First World War. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 328. ISBN 9780521291354. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
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    The Ottoman Empire and early modern Europe by Daniel Goffman, p.111
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    Firearms of the Islamic world, p.38
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    The Cambridge History of Islam, p.328
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    E. Liptai: Magyarország hadtörténete (1), Zrínyi Katonai Kiadó 1984. ISBN 963-326-320-4; 208. p.
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    Csorba, Csaba; János Estók; Konrád Salamon (1998). Magyarország Képes Története. Budapest: Hungarian Book-Club. ISBN 963-548-961-7. 62.-64. p.
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    At war with Spain 1625–30 (and France 1627–29).
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    "into line with army of Gabriel Bethlen in 1620." Ágnes Várkonyi: Age of the Reforms, Magyar Könyvklub publisher, 1999. ISBN 963-547-070-3
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    • "The Imperial standard has, on a yellow ground, the black double-headed eagle, on the breast and wings of which are imposed shields bearing the arms of the provinces of the empire . The flag is bordered all round, the border being composed of equal-sided triangles with their apices alternately inwards and outwards, those with their apices pointing inwards being alternately yellow and white, the others alternately scarlet and black" (Swinburne 1911, p. 461)
    • "The imperial banner was a golden yellow cloth...bearing a black eagle...The double-headed eagle was finally established by Sigismund as regent..." (Smith 1975, pp. 114–119)
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    Ervin Liptai: Military history of Hungary, Zrínyi Military Publisher, 1985. ISBN 9633263379
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    Hussar (Huszár) hu.wikipedia
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    Denmark fought Sweden and the Dutch Republic in the Torstenson War
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    Lord Wentworth's Regiment served as part of the Spanish Army.
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    Hrushevsky (2003), pp. 327ff.
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    The Acts of Union of 1707 united the crowns of England and Scotland, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain. For much of the war, Scottish units were under Dutch pay and operated as part of the army of the Dutch Republic.
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    In 1707, the kingdoms of England and Scotland were unified as the Kingdom of Great Britain, sharing a single Parliament at Westminster under the Act of Union 1707. After this, Scottish troops joined their English counterparts in all colonial wars.
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    Cesáreo Fernández Duro, Armada española desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y de León, Est. tipográfico Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, Madrid, 1902, Vol. VI, p. 118
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    Lovejoy, Paul E. (2000-09-13). Identity in the Shadow of Slavery. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 94–96. ISBN 978-0-8264-4725-8.
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    Arrived in France following the abolition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Third Partition in 1795.
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    Nominally the Holy Roman Empire, of which the Austrian Netherlands and the Duchy of Milan were under direct Austrian rule. Also encompassed many other Italian states, as well as other Habsburg states such as the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
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    Virtually all of the Italian states, including the neutral Papal States and the Republic of Venice, were conquered following Napoleon's invasion in 1796 and became French satellite states.
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    Officially neutral but Danish fleet was attacked by Britain at the Battle of Copenhagen.
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    Abolished following the restoration of the neutral Papal States in 1799.
  25. [25]
    Short lived state that replaced the Kingdom of Naples in 1799.

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