List of wars involving Austria
This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Austria.
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- Another result
- Ongoing conflict
Margraviate of Austria (976–1156)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Austria, mentioned as a margraviate of the Duchy of Bavaria) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
976 | 978 | War of the Three Henries (976–978) | Holy Roman Empire | Duchy of Bavaria | Bavarian defeat
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1015 | 1015 | Bolesław I's first invasion of the Austria | Holy Roman Empire | Duchy of Poland | Victory
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1017 | 1017 | Bolesław I's second invasion of the Austria | Holy Roman Empire | Duchy of Poland | Victory
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1030 | 1031 | Conrad II's invasion of Hungary | Holy Roman Empire | Kingdom of Hungary | Defeat |
1040 | 1041 | Henry III's invasion of Bohemia | Holy Roman Empire | Duchy of Bohemia | Victory |
1042 | 1044 | Henry III's invasion of Hungary | Holy Roman Empire Peter Orseolo's Hungary | Samuel Aba's Hungary | Victory
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29 June 1073 | 27 October 1075 | Saxon Rebellion | Holy Roman Empire | Duchy of Saxony | Victory
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12 May 1082 | 12 May 1082 | Battle of Mailberg | Duchy of Bohemia | Defeat | |
11 September 1146 | 11 September 1146 | Battle of the Fischa | Duchy of Bavaria | Kingdom of Hungary | Defeat |
1147 | 1149 | Second Crusade | Crusaders: Holy Roman Empire | Seljuq Sultanate | Defeat |
Duchy of Austria (1156–1453)
Archduchy of Austria (1453–1804)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Austria, mentioned as a state of the Holy Roman Empire) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1458 | 1465 | Inner Austrian War | Albert VI, Archduke of Austria Kingdom of Bohemia | Victory | |
4 March 1459 | April 1462 | Austrian–Hungarian War (1459–62) | Kingdom of Hungary | Defeat | |
26 July 1468 | 27 August 1468 | Waldshuter war | Old Swiss Confederacy | Defeat | |
1 February 1469 | October 1469 | Baumkircher feud [de] | Supporters of Andreas Baumkircher [de] | Victory | |
1474 | 5 January 1477 | Burgundian Wars | Duchy of Lorraine Swiss Confederates | Duchy of Burgundy Duchy of Savoy | Victory |
19 August 1477 | 23 December 1482 | War of the Burgundian Succession | Burgundian Netherlands | Kingdom of France | Austrian military victory French diplomatic victory
|
1477 | 1488 | Austrian–Hungarian War (1477–88) | Holy Roman Empire | Kingdom of Hungary | Defeat |
2 February 1478 | 1478 | Carinthian Peasant Revolt | Carinthian Peasants' League | Victory
| |
5 June 1483 | June 1485 | Flemish revolt of 1483–1485 | Flemish rebels | Victory
| |
June 1486 | 22 July 1489 | Mad War | Rebellious Nobles Supported by: | Kingdom of France | Defeat
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1487 | 1487 | Battle of Calliano (1487) | Republic of Venice | Victory | |
November 1487 | 1492 | Flemish revolt of 1487–1492 | Victory | ||
1490 | 7 November 1491 | Austrian–Hungarian War (1490–91) | Holy Roman Empire | Kingdom of Hungary | Victory
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1491 | 1492 | Bread and Cheese Revolt | Bread and Cheese Folk | Victory | |
31 March 1495 | 1498 | Italian War of 1494–98 | League of Venice: Papal States | Kingdom of France | Victory |
20 January 1499 | 22 September 1499 | Swabian War | Swabian League Holy Roman Empire | Old Swiss Confederacy | Defeat |
1502 | 1543 | Guelders Wars | Holy Roman Empire | Duchy of Guelders | Victory |
1505 | 19 July 1506 | Austrian–Hungarian War (1505–06) | Holy Roman Empire | Kingdom of Hungary | Defeat
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February 1508 | 4 December 1516 | War of the League of Cambrai | 1508–1510: League of Cambrai: 1511–1513: Holy League: 1513–1516: | 1508–1510: 1513–1516: | Defeat |
1515 | 1515 | Slovene peasant revolt of 1515 | Slovenian rebels | Victory | |
1515 | 1523 | Arumer Zwarte Hoop | Spain | Guelders rebels | Victory |
1521 | 14 January 1526 | Italian War of 1521–26 | Holy Roman Empire | France | Victory
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16 April 1520 | 25 October 1521 | Revolt of the Comuneros | Spain | Comuneros rebels | Victory |
1524 | 1525 | German Peasants' War | Holy Roman Empire Swabian League | Peasant army | Victory
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22 May 1526 | 10 August 1530 | War of the League of Cognac | 1526–1528: Holy Roman Empire Spain Duchy of Ferrara 1528–1530: | Empire of Charles V: Kingdom of Navarre | Victory
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17 December 1526 | 22 July 1533 | Ottoman-Habsburg War (1526–1533) | Holy Roman Empire Spain Papal States | Ottoman Empire | Defeat
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June 1535 | June 1535 | Conquest of Tunis (1535) | Holy Roman Empire Spain | Kingdom of France Ottoman Empire | Victory |
March 1536 | 18 June 1538 | Italian War of 1536–38 | Holy Roman Empire Spain | Kingdom of France Ottoman Empire | Defeat
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May 1536 | 19 June 1547 | Ottoman-Habsburg War (1536–1547) | Holy Roman Empire Spain Papal States | Ottoman Empire France | Defeat
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October 1539 | November 1540 | Revolt of Ghent (1539–1540) | Holy Roman Empire | Ghent rebels | Victory |
October 1541 | November 1541 | Algiers expedition (1541) | Holy Roman Empire
| Ottoman Empire Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Defeat |
12 July 1542 | 18 September 1544 | Italian War of 1542–46 | Holy Roman Empire Spain Kingdom of England | France | Inconclusive
|
10 July 1546 | 23 May 1547 | Schmalkaldic War | Empire of Charles V: | Schmalkaldic League | Victory |
January 1547 | July 1547 | The Estates Revolt in Bohemia in 1547 | Empire of Charles V | Bohemian rebels | Victory |
1551 | 1559 | Italian War of 1551–1559 | Empire of Charles V: | France | Victory |
1551 | 27 November 1562 | Ottoman-Habsburg War (1551–1562) | Holy Roman Empire Spain Papal States | Ottoman Empire France | Defeat
|
1566 | 17 February 1568 | Ottoman-Habsburg War (1566–1568) | Holy Roman Empire Spain Papal States | Ottoman Empire | Defeat
|
23 May 1568 | 30 January 1648 | Eighty Years' War | Holy Roman Empire Spain | United Provinces Kingdom of France England | Defeat
|
1573 | 1573 | Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt | Kingdom of Croatia | Croatian and Slovenian rebels | Victory |
22 August 1587 | 9 March 1589 | War of the Polish Succession (1587–88) | Supporters of Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria | Supporters of Sigismund III Vasa | Defeat |
29 July 1593 | 11 November 1606 | Long Turkish War
| Holy Roman Empire Transylvania Wallachia Moldavia Zaporozhian Host Spain Serbian rebels Papal States Venice Saxony Tuscany Persia Knights of St. Stephen Bulgarian rebels Duchy of Ferrara Duchy of Mantua Duchy of Savoy | Ottoman Empire Nogai Khanate | Inconclusive |
10 June 1609 | 24 October 1610 | War of the Jülich Succession | Holy Roman Empire Principality of Strasbourg Prince-Bishopric of Liège Catholic League | Margraviate of Brandenburg Palatinate-Neuburg United Provinces Kingdom of France Protestant Union | Defeat |
July 1612 | September 1614 | Rappenkrieg | Peasant rebels | Victory
| |
January 1616 | 26 September 1617 | Uskok War | Holy Roman Empire | Republic of Venice | Defeat
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23 May 1618 | 24 October 1648 | Thirty Years' War
| Holy Roman Empire
Spain and its possessions | Sweden France | |
1620 | 1644 | Vlach uprisings in Moravia | Holy Roman Empire | Moravian Wallachia | Victory |
May 1626 | December 1626 | Upper Austrian peasant war of 1626 | Bavaria | Austrian Rebels | Victory
|
1626 | 1629 | Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) | Poland-Lithuania | Swedish Empire | Defeat |
27 May 1657 | 3 May 1660 | Second Northern War | Poland (Poland–Lithuania) Denmark–Norway Russia (1656–58) Crimean Khanate Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–56, 1657–60) Dutch Republic | Swedish Empire Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–57) Principality of Transylvania Ukrainian Cossacks (1657) Grand Duchy of Lithuania Wallachia Moldavia | Inconclusive |
12 April 1663 | 10 August 1664 | Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664) | Holy Roman Empire League of the Rhine | Ottoman Empire | Austrian military victory Ottoman diplomatic and commercial victory |
1665 | 1666 | Varaždin rebellion | Serbo-Croatian rebels from Slavonian Military Frontier | Victory
| |
1 July 1673 | 26 January 1679 | Franco-Dutch War | Dutch Republic Holy Roman Empire Spain | France England (1672–74) Sweden Münster Cologne | Defeat |
1680 | 1680 | Peasant Uprising | Czech Peasants | Victory
| |
1683 | 15 August 1684 | War of the Reunions | Holy Roman Empire Spain Republic of Genoa | Kingdom of France | Defeat |
14 July 1683 | 26 January 1699 | Great Turkish War | Holy Roman Empire Tsardom of Russia Cossack Hetmanate Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Republic of Venice Albanian rebels Serb rebels Greek rebels Spain | Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate | Victory |
27 September 1688 | 20 September 1697 | Nine Years' War | Grand Alliance: Dutch Republic England Holy Roman Empire Spain Piedmont-Savoy Sweden (until 1691) Scotland | France Irish Jacobites | Inconclusive |
9 July 1701 | 7 March 1714 | War of the Spanish Succession
| Spain loyal to Archduke Charles England Great Britain Dutch Republic Duchy of Savoy Prussia Kingdom of Portugal | Spain loyal to Philip V of Spain Kingdom of France Electorate of Bavaria Kurucs (Kingdom of Hungary) Principality of Transylvania | Phillip V confirmed as King of Spain Habsburg territorial gains Austria successfully crushes revolutions in Hungary and Bavaria |
13 April 1716 | 21 July 1718 | Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718 | Republic of Venice | Ottoman Empire | Victory |
2 August 1718 | 17 February 1720 | War of the Quadruple Alliance | Great Britain France Holy Roman Empire Dutch Republic Savoy | Spain | Victory
|
10 October 1733 | 3 October 1735 | War of the Polish Succession | Poland loyal to Augustus III | Poland loyal to Stanisław I | Augustus III confirmed as King of Poland
|
12 July 1737 | 18 September 1739 | Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739) | Russian Empire | Ottoman Empire | Defeat |
16 December 1740 | 18 October 1748 | War of the Austrian Succession
| Great Britain Hanover Dutch Republic Saxony (1743–45) Kingdom of Sardinia (1742-48) Russia (1741–43) (1748) | Kingdom of Prussia (1740–42) (1744–45) Kingdom of Spain (1740–1746) Kingdom of France Bavaria (1741–45) Saxony (1741–42) Naples and Sicily Republic of Genoa Sweden (1741–43) Kingdom of Sardinia (1741-42) | Mixed results Austrian defensive victory overall: Pragmatic Sanction recognized, Maria Theresia keeps the Austrian throne and a potential Austrian partition is avoided Austrian defeat in Silesian Wars against Prussia: Habsburg territorial losses
|
29 August 1756 | 15 February 1763 | Seven Years' War
| France Russia Spain Sweden Saxony | Prussia Great Britain Hanover Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Kingdom of Portugal Hesse-Kassel Schaumburg-Lippe Iroquois Confederacy | Military stalemate Status quo ante bellum in Europe |
1774 | 1774 | Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan | Romanian peasants | Victory
| |
July 1778 | 13 May 1779 | War of the Bavarian Succession | Kingdom of Prussia Electorate of Saxony Bavaria | Inconclusive | |
8 October 1784 | 8 October 1784 | Kettle War | Dutch Republic | Inconclusive | |
18 August 1789 | 12 January 1791 | Liège Revolution | Prince-Bishopric of Liège | Republic of Liège United Belgian States Kingdom of Prussia | Victory
|
24 October 1789 | 3 December 1790 | Brabant Revolution | United Belgian States Republic of Liège Kingdom of Prussia | Victory
| |
February 1788 | 4 August 1791 | Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791) | Russian Empire | Ottoman Empire | Victory |
20 April 1792 | 18 April 1797 | War of the First Coalition | Holy Roman Empire Prussia Great Britain French Royalists Spain (1793–95) Portugal Sardinia Naples and Sicily Other Italian states Ottoman Empire Dutch Republic | French Republic Spain (1796–97) | Defeat |
June 1794 | November 1794 | Kościuszko Uprising | Russian Empire Prussia | Polish forces | Victory |
26 June 1797 | July 1797 | Denisko uprising | Polish rebels | Victory
| |
12 March 1799 | 9 February 1801 | War of the Second Coalition | Russian Empire Great Britain | French Republic | Defeat |
Austrian Empire (1804–1867)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding the Austrian Empire) | Outcome | Emperor | Casualties | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||||
9 August 1805 | 26 December 1805 | War of the Third Coalition | United Kingdom Russian Empire Kingdom of Sicily Kingdom of Naples Portugal Sweden | First French Empire Spain | Defeat
| Francis I | 90,000 casualties |
3 April 1807 | 14 April 1807 | Tican's rebellion | Serbian rebels | Victory
| ? casualties | ||
12 July 1808 | 12 July 1808 | Kruščica rebellion | Serbian rebels Romanian rebels | Victory
| |||
10 April 1809 | 14 October 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition
| United Kingdom | First French Empire | Defeat | 170,000 casualties | |
24 June 1812 | 30 January 1813 | French invasion of Russia | First French Empire Prussia | Russia United Kingdom Sweden | Austria joins the Coalition | ? casualties | |
15 August 1813 | 11 April 1814 | War of the Sixth Coalition | Russia Prussia United Kingdom Sweden Spain Portugal Sicily Sardinia | First French Empire | Victory
| Unknown total casualties, 15,000 Austrian casualties at the Battle of Leipzig | |
20 March 1815 | 8 July 1815 | War of the Seventh Coalition
| Seventh Coalition: Russian Empire | First French Empire Naples | Victory
| 5,000 casualties | |
1820 | 1821 | Carbonari uprisings of 1820–1821
| Carbonari | Victory | ? casualties | ||
February 1821 | August 1821 | Wallachian uprising of 1821 | Ottoman Empire
Austrian Empire
| Wallachia (revolutionary)
Greek revolutionaries
| Stalemate
| ||
3 June 1829 | 2 February 1830 | Austrian expedition against Morocco (1829) | Morocco | Undecided • Austrian Target not achieved | 36 casualties | ||
1831 | 1831 | 1831 Italian insurrections | Duchy of Modena and Reggio | Victory | ? casualties | ||
1839 | 1841 | Second Egyptian-Ottoman War
| Ottoman Empire British Empire Russian Empire | Egypt Kingdom of the French | Victory
| Ferdinand I of Austria | ? casualties |
20 February 1846 | 4 March 1846 | Kraków uprising | Russian Empire | Polish independence movement | Victory | ? casualties | |
15 March 1848 | 13 August 1849 | Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
| Austrian Empire
| Revolutionaries
| Victory | Francis Joseph I | Heavy but unknown total casualties |
23 March 1848 | 22 August 1849 | First Italian War of Independence | Second French Republic (since 1849) Papal States (since 1849) | Kingdom of Sardinia Grand Duchy of Tuscany Briefly allied with: Papal States (until 1848) Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | Victory | 15,580 casualties | |
12 January 1848 | 27 October 1848 | Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states | Papal States Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | Kingdom of Sicily Provisional Government of Milan Roman Republic Supported by: Kingdom of Sardinia | Victory | ||
29 April 1859 | 11 July 1859 | Second Italian War of Independence | Kingdom of Sardinia | Defeat | 12,568 deaths, total casualties unknown | ||
8 December 1861 | 21 June 1867 | Second French intervention in Mexico |
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| Defeat
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1 February 1864 | 30 October 1864 | Second Schleswig War | Prussia | Denmark | Victory
| 1,000 casualties | |
14 June 1866 | 23 August 1866 | Austro-Prussian War
| German Confederation: Saxony | Prussia Italy | Defeat
| 106,796 casualties |
Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867–1918)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding the Austro-Hungarian Empire) | Outcome | Emperor | Casualties | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||||
19 June 1875 | 20 October 1878 | Great Eastern Crisis
| Russia
Supported by: | Ottoman Empire Supported by: | Victory
| 7,447 casualties | |
1879 | 1880 | Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah | Ottoman Empire | Kurdish tribes | Victory
| ||
14 November 1885 | 28 November 1885 | Serbo-Bulgarian War | Serbia Support: | Bulgaria | Defeat | Francis Joseph I (1867–1916), Charles I of Austria (1916–1918) | |
January 1897 | October 1898 | Cretan Revolt of 1897-1898 | Cretan revolutionaries Kingdom of Greece
| Ottoman Empire | Victory
| Unknown | |
2 November 1899 | 7 September 1901 | Boxer Rebellion | Eight-Nation Alliance: Japan | Righteous Harmony Society | Victory | Unknown but very light casualties | |
28 July 1914 | 3 November 1918 | World War I | Central Powers Germany | Allies: France | Defeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved.
| 1,200,000 to 1,494,200 deaths |
Republic of German-Austria (1918–1919)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding German-Austria) | Outcome | Chancellor | Casualties | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||||
23 November 1918 | 31 July 1919 | Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia | State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (before unification) Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (after unification) | Ceasefire
| Karl Renner | 1,000 casualties |
First Austrian Republic (1919–1934)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Austria) | Outcome | Chancellor | Casualties | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||||
28 August 1921 | 13 October 1921 | Uprising in West Hungary | Austria Hungary | Rongyos Gárda Lajtabánság Bosnian and Albanian Muslim volunteers | Victory, Sopron and its area remained in Hungary. | Johannes Schober | ? casualties |
12 February 1934 | 15 February 1934 | Austrian Civil War | Fatherland Front | SDAPÖ | Government victory
| Engelbert Dollfuß | Thousands of casualties |
Federal State of Austria (1934–1938)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Austria) | Outcome | Chancellor | Casualties | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||||
25 July 1934 | 30 July 1934 | July Putsch | VF | Schutzstaffel (SS) | Government Victory
| † Engelbert Dollfuß (assassinated), Kurt Schuschnigg after the assassination | 200+ killed on both sides (including Engelbert Dollfuß) |
Ostmark Reichsgau of Nazi Germany
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Austria) | Outcome | Chancellor | Casualties | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||||
12 March 1938 | 8 May 1945 | Austrian resistance | Nazi Germany | Austrian resistance Supported by: | Moscow Declarations seizured Austrian independence, but Otto von Habsburg didn't reign Austria. | Adolf Hitler | ? |
17 September 1938 | 16 March 1939 | Undeclared German–Czechoslovak War
| Nazi Germany Hungary | Czechoslovakia | Munich Agreement and First Vienna Award
| Adolf Hitler | 22 killed |
1 September 1939 | 8 May 1945 | World War II | Axis Fascist Italy Hungary Slovakia (until 1944) Romania (until 1944) Bulgaria (until 1944) | Allies United Kingdom | End of German Anschluss and Allied occupation of Austria. | Adolf Hitler | 70–85 million people death |
See also
- History of Austria
- Austrian Armed Forces
- Military history of Austria
- Category:Wars involving the Holy Roman Empire
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
- Adolf Hitler
References
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