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This is a list of conflicts in the United States. Conflicts are arranged chronologically from the late modern period to contemporary history. This list includes (but is not limited to) the following: Indian wars, skirmishes, wars of independence, liberation wars, colonial wars, undeclared wars, proxy wars, territorial disputes, and world wars. Also listed might be any battle that was itself only part of an operation of a campaign of a theater of a war. There may also be periods of violent civil unrest listed, such as: riots, shootouts, spree killings, massacres, terrorist attacks, and civil wars. The list might also contain episodes of: human sacrifice, mass suicide, genocides, and other related items that have occurred within the geographical area (including overseas territories) of what is today known as, the "United States of America".
Late modern period
18th century
The Battle of Lexington - 1775
- Battles of Lexington and Concord
- Siege of Boston
- Battle of Ticonderoga
- Battle off Fairhaven
- Battle of Machias
- Battle of Bunker Hill
- Battle of Great Bridge
- Battle of Great Cane Break
The Battle of Long Island
- 1776
- 1777
- 1778
- 1779
- 1780
- Battle of Young's House
- Siege of Charleston
- Battle of Monck's Corner
- Battle of Lenud's Ferry
- Battle of Connecticut Farms
- Battle of Mobley's Meeting House
- Battle of Camden
- Battle of Musgrove Mill
- Battle of Wahab's Plantation
- Battle of King's Mountain
- Battle of Tearcoat Swamp
- Battle of Fishdam Ford
- Battle of Blackstock's Farm
- 1781
- Battle of Cowpens
- Battle of Cowan's Ford
- Battle of Guilford Court House
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. - Battle of Groton Heights
- Siege of Yorktown
- 1775
- 1777–1794 Cherokee–American wars
- 1783–1788 Second Pennamite War between settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania in Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania
- 1785–1795 Northwest Indian War
- 1786–1787 Shays' Rebellion
- 1791–1794 Whiskey Rebellion
- 1798–1800 Quasi-War, an undeclared naval war with France
19th century
- 1804 Battle of Sitka Russian forces defeat the Tlingit in the last major armed conflict between Europeans and Alaska Natives.
- 1811 Tecumseh's War
- 1812–1815 War of 1812
- 1812
- 1813
- 1813
- 1814
- Battle of Longwoods
- Raid on Fort Oswego
- Siege of Prairie du Chien
- Battle of Big Sandy Creek
- Battle of Rock Island Rapids
- Battle of Mackinac Island
- Battle of Bladensburg
- Burning of Washington
- Raid on Alexandria
- Battle of Caulk's Field
- Battle of North Point
- Battle of Lake Champlain
- Battle of Baltimore
- Battle of Pensacola (1812)
- 1815
- 1813–1814 Creek War
- 1817–1818 First Seminole War
- 1823 Arikara War
- 1827 Winnebago War
- 1831 Nat Turner's Rebellion
- 1832 Black Hawk War
- 1833 Cutthroat Gap massacre
- 1835–1842 Second Seminole War
- 1835–1836 Toledo War (bloodless)
- 1835–1836 Texas Revolution
- October 2, 1835 Battle of Gonzales
- October 10, 1835 Battle of Goliad
- November 4, 1835 Battle of Lipantitlán
- October 28, 1835 Battle of Concepción
- November 26, 1835 Grass Fight
- October 12 – December 11, 1835 Siege of Béxar
- February 27, 1836 Battle of San Patricio
- March 2, 1836 Battle of Agua Dulce
- February 23 – March 6, 1836 Battle of the Alamo
- March 12–15, 1836 Battle of Refugio
The Battle of San Jacinto - March 19–20, 1836 Battle of Coleto
- April 21, 1836 Battle of San Jacinto
- 1838 Missouri Mormon War
- 1838–1839 Aroostook War
- 1839 Honey War (bloodless)
- 1841–1842 Dorr War
- 1845 Milwaukee Bridge War
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War
- 1848–1855 Cayuse War
- 1849–1855 Jicarilla War
- 1850–1853 Yuma War
- 1855-1856 Rogue River Wars
- 1854–1858 Bleeding Kansas
- 1856 Battle of Black Jack
- 1856 Battle of Fort Titus
- 1856 Battle of Osawatomie
- 1855–1858 Third Seminole War
- 1856 Tule River War
- 1857–1858 Utah War
- 1858–1864 Bald Hills War
- 1859 Pig War
- 1860 Pyramid Lake War
- 1861–1865 American Civil War
The bombardment of Fort Sumter - 1861
- Battle of Fort Sumter
- Battle of Philippi
- Battle of Big Bethel
- Battle of Cole Camp
- First Battle of Mesilla
- Battle of Rich Mountain
- First Battle of Bull Run
- Battle of Wilson's Creek
- Battle of Dry Wood Creek
- Battle of Barbourville
- Battle of Ball's Bluff
- Battle of Rowlett's Station
- Battle of Mount Zion Church
- 1862
- Battle of Roan's Tan Yard
- Battle of Mill Springs
- Battle of Roanoke Island
- Battle of Fort Donelson
- Battle of Pea Ridge
- Battle of Hampton Roads
The Battle of Shiloh - Battle of Island Number 10
- Battle of Valverde
- Battle of Glorieta Pass
- Battle of Albuquerque
- Battle of Peralta
- Battle of Fair Oaks
- Battle of Memphis
- Battle of Cross Keys
- Battle of Port Republic
- Seven Days' Battles
- Battle of Savage's Station
- Battle of Baton Rouge
- Battle of Cedar Mountain
- Second Battle of Bull Run
- Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam - Battle of Coffeeville
- Battle of Fredericksburg
- Battle of Kinston
- Battle of Chickasaw Bayou
- Battle of Stones River
- 1863
- Battle of Hartville
- Battle of Deserted House
- Skirmish at Threkeld's Ferry
- Battle of Kelly's Ford
- Battle of Vaught's Hill
- Battle of Brentwood
- Battle of Somerset
- Battle of Newton's Station
- Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Gettysburg - Battle of Port Gibson
- Siege of Vicksburg
- Battle of Portland Harbor
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Battle of Helena
- Battle of Honey Springs
- Battle of Buffington Island
- Battle of Chickamauga
- Battle of Chattanooga
- Battle of Knoxville
- 1864
- Battle of Loudoun Heights
- Battle of Dandridge
- Battle of Morton's Ford
- Battle of Olustee
- Battle of Okolona
- Battle of Rio Hill
- Battle of Walkerton
- Battle of Laredo
- Battle of Paducah
- Battle of the Wilderness
- Battle of Port Walthall Junction
- Siege of Atlanta
- Battle of Spotsylvania
- Battle of Resaca
- Battle of North Anna
The Battle of Cold Harbor. - Battle of Wilson's Wharf
- Battle of Cold Harbor
- Battle of Marietta
- Battle of Trevilian Station
- Siege of Petersburg
- Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
- Battle of Peachtree Creek
- Battle of Atlanta
The Battle of Mobile Bay - Battle of the Crater
- Battle of Mobile Bay
- Battle of Utoy Creek
- Battle of Jonesborough
- Battle of Vernon
- Battle of Griswoldville
- Battle of Buck Head Creek
- Battle of Franklin II
- Battle of Honey Hill
- Battle of Nashville
- Battle of Anthony's Hill
- 1865
- Battle of Dove Creek
- Battle of Natural Bridge
- Battle of Bentonville
- Battle of Lewis's Farm
- Battle of Dinwiddie Court House
- Battle of Five Forks
- Third Battle of Petersburg
- Battle of Namozine Church
- Battle of Amelia Springs
- Battle of Rice's Station
- Battle of Cumberland Church
Ulysses S. Grant accepting Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.
- 1861
- 1862 Dakota War of 1862
- 1863–1865 Colorado War
- 1864 Sand Creek Massacre
- 1865–1866 Fenian Raids
- 1866–1868 Red Cloud's War
- 1867–1875 Comanche War
- 1872–1873 Modoc War
- 1873–1888 Colfax County War
- 1874 Battle of Liberty Palace
- 1876–1877 Black Hills War
- 1876
- Battle of Powder River
- Battle of the Rosebud
A portrait of the Battle of Little Bighorn painted by Charles Marion Russell.
- 1877
- 1876
- 1877 Nez Percé War
- 1877 Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- 1878 Lincoln County War
- 1878–1900 Colorado Range War
- 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
- 1882 Pleasant Valley War
- 1884 Cincinnati Courthouse riots
- 1885 Rock Springs Massacre
- 1887 Thibodaux massacre
- 1887-1894 Hatfield-McCoy Feud
- 1889–1893 Johnson County War
- 1890–1891 Ghost Dance War
- 1891–1892 Coal Creek War
- 1891–1893 Garza Revolution
- 1892 Homestead Strike
- 1894 Pullman Strike
- 1897 Lattimer massacre
- 1898 Spanish–American War
- 1898 Battle of Yauco
- 1898 Battle of Guayama
- 1898 Battle of Coamo
Contemporary history
20th Century
This covers conflicts and terrorist attacks in the 1900s that occurred within the modern territory of the United States of America. This also includes attacks upon the United States from Eurasian powers.
1900–1950
- July 6–10, 1903 Evansville race riot
- April – July, 1905 Chicago teamsters' strike
- June 1, 1906 Cananea strike
- September 22–24 Atlanta Massacre of 1906
- 1910–1919 Border War
- April 20, 1914 Ludlow Massacre
- 1914–1918 World War I
- April 21, 1914 Ypiranga incident
- July 22, 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing
- July 30, 1916 2:08:00 AM (AST; GMT−4) Black Tom explosion
- January 11, 1917 Kingsland Explosion
- August 2–3, 1917 Green Corn Rebellion
- July 21, 1918 Attack on Orleans
- August 7, 1918 Battle of Ambos Nogales
- 1919 Red Summer
- July 19–24 Washington D.C. race riot
- July 27 – August 3 Chicago race riot
- August 30–31 Knoxville riot
- September 16, 1920 Wall Street bombing
- November 2–3, 1920 Ocoee massacre
- May 31 – June 1, 1921 Tulsa race riot
- 1912 – 1921 West Virginia coal wars
- September 10–21, 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain
- December 14–15, 1922 Perry race riot
- January 1–7, 1923 Rosewood massacre
- March 20–23, 1923 Posey War
- November 21, 1927 Columbine Mine massacre
- 1931 July Red River Bridge War
- 1931 July 28 Bonus Army protest
- 1937 March 21 Ponce massacre
- 1939 – 1945 World War II
- October 16, 1940 – May 21, 1941 Machita Incident
- December 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor
- February 23, 1942 Bombardment of Ellwood
- February 24–25, 1942 Battle of Los Angeles
- June 3, 1942 – August 15, 1943 Battle of the Aleutian Islands
- June 21, 1942 Bombardment of Fort Stevens
- July 27, 1942 Lordsburg Killings
- September 9–29, 1942 Lookout Air Raids
- May 30, 1943 Zoot Suit Riots
- August 14, 1944 Fort Lawton Riot
- March 12, 1945 Santa Fe Riot
- April 16, – September 17, 1945 Project Hula
- May 5–6, 1945 Battle of Point Judith
- July 8, 1945 Midnight Massacre
- 1933 Business Plot
- May 2–4, 1946 Battle of Alcatraz
- August 1–3, 1946 Battle of Athens
1950–2000
- October 30, 1950 – March 1, 1954 Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency
- July 24–26, 1964 Rochester race riot
- August 11–17, 1965 Watts Rebellion
- July 12–15, 1966 Chicago West Side riots
- July 18–23, 1966 Hough riots
- June 5, 1967 Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid
- Summer of 1967 Long, hot summer of 1967
- June 26 – July 1 Buffalo riot
- July 12–17 Newark riots
- July 14–16 Plainfield riots
- July 23–25 Toledo riot
- July 23–27 Detroit riot
- July 31 – August 3 Milwaukee riot
- April 4 – May 27, 1968 King-assassination riots
- April 4–5 New York City
- April 4–8 Washington, D.C.
- April 5–7 Chicago
- April 5–11 Pittsburgh
- April 6–14 Baltimore
- April 9 Kansas City
- April 9–10 Wilmington
- August 7–8, 1968 Miami riots
- August 8-9 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders
- August 23–28 1968 Democratic National Convention protests
- June 28 – July 3, 1969 Stonewall riots
- May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings
- May 11–12, 1970 Augusta riot
- August 24–27 1970 Memorial Park riot
- September 9, 1971 Attica Prison riot
- February 27 - May 8 1978 Wounded Knee Occupation
- February 2–3, 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary riot
- May 17–20, 1980 Miami riots
- May 13, 1985 Philadelphia MOVE bombing
- January 11–13, 1983 Shannon Street massacre
- April 29, 1992 Los Angeles riots
- February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing
- August 21–31, 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff
- February 28 – April 19, 1993 Waco siege
- January 6 – 7, 1995 Bojinka plot
- April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
- February 28, 1997 North Hollywood shootout
- March 19 – 20, 1997 Heaven's Gate mass suicide
- November 30 - December 3, 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
21st century
This includes domestic conflicts and terrorist attacks that took place within the United States. Note that actions of terrorism and domestic conflict are distinguished from one another.
- 2001–2021 War on Terror
- September 11, 2001, September 11 attacks
- May 8, 2007 Fort Dix attack plot
- November 5, 2009 Fort Hood shooting
- April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing
- April 2, 2014 Fort Hood shootings
- December 2, 2015 San Bernardino attack
- June 12, 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting
- October 31, 2017 New York City truck attack
- December 6, 2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting
- February 3–12, 2013, Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt
- April 5 – May 2014 Bundy standoff
- August 9 – December 2, 2014 Ferguson unrest
- April 18 – May 3, 2015, Baltimore protests
- June 17, 2015 Charleston church shooting
- January 1 – February 16, 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
- April 2016 – February 2017 Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
- June 26, 2016 Sacramento riot
- February – September 2017 Berkeley riots
- August 11–12, 2017 Unite the Right rally
- October 1, 2017 Las Vegas shooting
- November 5, 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting
- October 27, 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
- August 3, 2019 El Paso shooting
- September 17–21, 2019, Storm Area 51
- May 25, 2020–2023 United States racial unrest
- May 26, 2020 – June 20, 2021, George Floyd Square occupied protest
- August 26–31, 2020 Minneapolis false rumors riot
- January 6, 2021, United States Capitol attack
- October 25, 2023, Lewiston shootings
- January 11, 2024-present, Standoff at Eagle Pass
See also
- Indian Wars
- Indian massacre
- Second Happy Time
- List of attacks on U.S. territory
- American Theater (World War II)
- List of conflicts in British America
- List of wars involving the United States
- United States military casualties of war
- List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States
