Start |
Finish |
Name of Conflict |
Belligerents (excluding Belgium) |
Outcome |
Allies |
Enemies |
1789 |
1790 |
Brabant Revolution |
United Belgian States |
Habsburg Austria |
Austrian victory
|
1830 |
1839 |
Belgian Revolution
|
Belgian rebels
France |
United Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Treaty of London:
- Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium
|
1832 |
1834 |
Liberal Wars |
Portugal
United Kingdom
France
Spain
|
Miguelites
|
Liberal victory, Constitutional monarchy is restored |
1861 |
1867 |
French intervention in Mexico |
Mexican Empire
France
Austrian Empire Spain United Kingdom Egypt Eyalet Polish Revolutionaries |
United Mexican States
United States of America (entered in 1865) |
French withdrawal, Republican victory |
1881 |
1899 |
Mahdist War |
British Empire Kingdom of Italy Congo Free State Ethiopian Empire |
Mahdist Sudanese |
Anglo-Egyptian victory |
1891 |
1892 |
Stairs Expedition to Katanga |
Congo Free State supported by: Belgium |
Yeke state of Msiri |
Congo Free State victory
- Msiri killed, Mukanda-Bantu becomes vassal prince
- Belgium acquires the colony of Katanga
|
1892 |
1894 |
Belgo-Arab War |
Congo Free State |
Zanzibari slave traders |
Congo Free State victory |
1895 |
1895 |
Luba rebellion |
Congo Free State supported by: Belgium |
Luba rebels |
Congo Free State victory
- Many Luba men had to perform forced labour in the Katanga mines[1]
|
1895 |
1908 |
Batetela Rebellions |
Congo Free State
|
Batetela people
|
Congo Free State victory |
1905 |
1917 |
Kasongo Nyembo rebellion[1] |
Congo Free State (until 1908) Belgium
|
Luba rebels led by Kasongo Nyembo |
Belgian victory
- Kasongo Nyembo banished[1]
|
1914 |
1918 |
World War I |
Allies:
France
British Empire
Russian Empire (1914–17)
United States (1917–18)
and others |
Central Powers
German Empire
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Kingdom of Bulgaria (1915–18) |
Allied victory
|
1914 |
1918 |
East African campaign (part of World War I) |
Allies:
United Kingdom
Belgium
Portugal
|
Central Powers
German Empire
|
Allied victory
|
10 May 1940 |
28 May 1940 |
Battle of Belgium
(part of World War II) |
Belgium France
British Empire
Netherlands
Luxembourg |
Nazi Germany |
Belgian surrender and German occupation of Belgium |
1940 |
1945 |
World War II |
Allies |
Axis powers |
Allied victory |
1950 |
1953 |
Korean War |
United Nations (UN Resolution 84) |
North Korea
China
Soviet Union |
Ceasefire |
1959 |
1962 |
Rwandan Revolution |
|
|
Independence of the Republic of Rwanda Independence of the Kingdom of Burundi |
1960 |
1966 |
Congo Crisis |
Katanga
South Kasai |
Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)
United Nations (United Nations Operation in the Congo) |
Withdrawal of Belgian Armed Forces
|
1978 |
1978 |
Shaba II |
Zaire
France
United States |
Front for the National Liberation of the Congo |
Franco-Belgian victory |
1990 |
1991 |
Gulf War |
Coalition forces |
Ba'athist Iraq |
Coalition victory |
1991 |
2003 |
Iraqi no-fly zones |
United States United Kingdom France (1991–1998) Australia Netherlands Saudi Arabia Turkey Italy |
Ba'athist Iraq |
Coalition victory |
1992 |
1995 |
Somali Civil War |
United States United Kingdom Spain Saudi Arabia Malaysia Pakistan Italy India Greece Germany France Canada Botswana Australia |
United Somali Congress |
Victory
- UN humanitarian mandate fulfilled.
- About 100,000 lives were saved by outside resistance.
- Civil war is ongoing.
|
1998 |
1999 |
Kosovo War |
Kosovo Liberation Army
Albania
NATO force |
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
NATO victory
|
2001 |
2021 |
War in Afghanistan |
Afghanistan
United States
ISAF
|
Taliban |
Taliban victory |
2011 |
|
2011 military intervention in Libya |
National Transitional Council
NATO forces
|
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya |
Fall of Gaddafi régime |
2014 |
ongoing |
2014 military intervention against ISIS |
|
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
Ongoing |