List of conflicts in Europe

This is a list of conflicts in Europe ordered chronologically, including wars between European states, civil wars within European states, wars between a European state and a non-European state that took place within Europe, militarized interstate disputes, and global conflicts in which Europe was a theatre of war.

There are various definitions of Europe and in particular, there is a significant dispute about the eastern and southeastern boundaries, specifically about how to define the countries of the former Soviet Union.

This list is based on a wide definition that includes much of the interface between Europe and Western Asia.

A Burned Village, during the Cudgel War , 1596
Bringing Home the Body of King Charles XII of Sweden , after the Siege of Fredriksten , 1718
Napoleon crossing the Alps before the Battle of Marengo , 1800
Prussian troops quarter just outside Paris, Franco-Prussian War , 1871
Explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine , 1 July 1916, marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme .
Republican International Brigadiers on a Soviet T-26 tank at the Battle of Belchite , 1937
German Stuka dive bombers in the Eastern Front (World War II) 1941–45
Icelandic patrol ship ICGV Odinn and British frigate HMS Scylla clash during the Second Cod War
A "Sniper at work" sign in Crossmaglen , a symbol of the IRA sniper campaign in South Armagh during the last stages of the Northern Ireland Troubles
UNPROFOR troops on their way up " Sniper Alley " in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War
A Russian helicopter downed by Chechen militants, during the First Chechen War
The Russian army's Vostok Battalion in South Ossetia during the Russo-Georgian War .
Damaged building during the Russo-Ukrainian War , in Lysychansk, Ukraine on 4 August 2014.