This is a list of wars in which the Hungarian armed forces participated or that took place on the historical territory of Hungary.
For more comprehensive information on military conflicts, see:
The list includes the name, date, Hungarian allies and enemies, and the result of each conflict, using the following legend:
| Date | Conflict | Allies | Enemies | Result |
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| 811 | Byzantine–Bulgarian war | Hungarian Tribes Avar mercenaries | Decisive Bulgarian victory
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| ~830 | Hungarian – Khazar War | Hungarian Tribes | Khazars | Hungarian victory |
| 862–895 | Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin | Great Moravia | Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin
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| 894–896 | Bulgarian victory
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| 895 | Campaign ofKiev | Hungarian victory | ||
| 899–970 | Hungarian invasions of Europe
| Kingdom of Italy West Francia Middle Francia Great Moravia Al-Andalus Principality of Serbia | More than a century of raids and decisive wars
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| 917 | Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927 | Pechenegs | Bulgarian victory
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| 960 | Battle of Drina (Its existence is questionable) | Principality of Serbia | Serbian victory
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| 960 | Battle of Syrmia (Its existence is questionable) | Principality of Serbia | Hungarian victory
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| 984 | Hungarian – German border conflict atMelk | Hungarian defeat
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| 997 | Koppány's revolt | Koppány's Army | Koppány's defeat | |
| 1002 | KingStephen I's military campaign againstGyula of Transylvania | Gyula III of Transylvania | Successful campaign of KingSaint Stephen of Hungary
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| 1008 (?), 1029 (?) | KingStephen I's military campaign againstAjtony, a tribal leader in theBanat | Ajtony's Army | Successful campaign,Ajtony's defeat | |
| 1017–1018 | Hungarian – Polish war | Stalemate | ||
| ~1018 | Pecheneg attack against Hungary | Pecheneg tribes | Hungarian victory | |
| 1018 | Hungarian – Bulgarian War | Hungarian – Byzantine victory | ||
| 1018 | The intervention of Boleslaw the Brave, Duke of Poland in the Kievan succession crisis | Pechenegs | Temporary victory for Sviatopolk and Bolesław, Polish sack of Kiev | |
| 1030–1031 | Military campaign of EmperorConrad II's against Hungary | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1041 | Uprising against KingPeter Orseolo | Hungarian nobles | Suppression of KingPeter | |
| 1042–1043 | German – Hungarian wars | Hungarian defeat | ||
| 1044 | Henry III's military campaign against Hungary | Peter Orseolo and his allies | Defeat ofSamuel Aba, restoration ofPeter | |
| 1046 | War between KingPeter and PrinceAndrew | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1046 | Vata pagan uprising | Paganic rebels | PrinceAndrew's victory
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1051–1052
| EmperorHenry III's military campaigns against Hungary | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1052 | EmperorHenry III's fifth military campaign against Hungary | Hungarian victory
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| 1056–1058 | German – Hungarian border war | Stalemate, treaty ofMarchfeld | ||
| 1060 | Civil war between KingAndrew I and his brother, PrinceBéla
| PrinceBéla's victory | ||
| 1061 | Second paganic uprising | Paganic rebels | Uprising suppressed | |
| 1063 | German invasion of Hungary | Hungarian defeat | ||
| 1067 | Croatian campaign | Duchy of Carinthia | Hungarian victory
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| 1068 | Hungarian – Bohemian war | King Solomon of Hungary occupies Bohemia[8][9] | ||
| 1068 | Pecheneg attack against Hungary | Pechenegs Ouzes | Hungarian victory[citation needed] | |
| 1071–1072 | Hungarian – Byzantine war | Pechenegs | Hungarian victory
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| 1074 | Civil war between KingSolomon and his cousinsGéza andLadislaus | PrinceGéza andLadislaus defeat the armies of KingSolomon and EmperorHenry IV. KingSolomon was dethroned. | ||
| 1075 | Henry IV's military campaign against Hungary | Hungarian victory | ||
| The Campaigns of King Ladislaus I (1079–1095) | ||||
| 1079 | Henry IV's military campaign against KingSaint Ladislaus | Hungarian victory[11] | ||
| 1085 | Cuman attack against Hungary | Cuman tribes | Hungarian victory
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| 1091 | Hungarian conquest of Croatia | Hungarian victory
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| 1091 | Cuman attack against Hungary | Cuman tribes | Hungarian victory
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| 1092 | Ruthenian campaign by KingSaint Ladislaus | Hungarian victory
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| 1094 | KingLadislaus I's intervention in aPolish conflict | Hungarian victory
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| The Campaigns of King Coloman (1095–1116) | ||||
| 1095 | Campaign inApulia | Hungarian victory
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| 1096 | First Crusade
| French and German crusaders | Hungarian victories
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| 1096 | Occupation ofBiograd na Moru / Tengerfehérvár | Hungarian occupation ofBiograd na Moru
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| 1097 | War of the Croatian Succession | Decisive Hungarian victory
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| 1099 | KingColoman's war againstKievan Rus' | David Igorevich's army Cuman tribes | Hungarian defeat
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| 1105 | Siege ofZara and occupation ofDalmatia | Dalmatian cities | Hungarian victory | |
| 1107 | Campaign inApulia | Hungarian victory
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| 1108 | Hungarian war with the Holy Roman Empire | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1115–1119 | Hungarian – Venetian wars | Hungarian defeat | ||
| 1123 | Stephen II's intervention in Kievan Rus' internal conflict | Iaroslav from Vladimir | Hungarian retreat | |
| 1124–1125 | Hungarian – Venetian war | Hungarian defeat | ||
| 1127–1129 | Byzantine-Hungarian War (1127–29) | Grand Principality of Serbia | Stalemate, peace agreement | |
| 1132 | Hungarian – Polish war | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1136–1137 | Béla II's Balkan campaigns | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1146 | Battle of the Fischa | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1149–1152 | Géza II's intervention inPrincipality of Halych vsKievan Rus' | Kievan Rus' | Peace agreement | |
| 1149–1155 | Hungarian–Byzantine wars | Grand Principality of Serbia | Ceasefire | |
| 1154 | Siege of Braničevo | Cumans | Abandoned siege, Hungarian retreat | |
| 1162–1165 | Hungarian civil war:Stephen III vs unclesLadislaus &Stephen | Ladislaus & Stephen's army | Stephen III's victory | |
| 1167 | Battle of Sirmium | Banate of Bosnia | Serbian Grand Principality | Decisive Byzantine victory; Hungary lost Dalmatia |
| 1168 | Hungarian–Bohemian war | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1176 | Battle of Myriokephalon | Grand Principality of Serbia | Sultanate of Rum | Seljuk victory
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| 1180–1185 | Hungarian–Byzantine war | Grand Principality of Serbia (1183–1185) | Hungarian victory; Hungary reoccupied Dalmatia | |
| 1188–1189 | KingBéla III's campaign against Halych | Hungarian victory; occupation of Halych | ||
| 1190 | Third Crusade | Sultanate of Rum | Crusader victory; main Seljuk army routed
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| 1192-1193 | Attack of the HungarianKing Bela III on the Grand Principality of Serbia[15] | Grand Principality of Serbia | Defeat
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| 1198 | Attack ofAndrew II of Hungary onHum[16] | Grand Principality of Serbia | Inconclusive
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| 1197–1203 | Brothers' quarrel, civil war between KingEmeric and his brotherAndrew |
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| 1201–1205 | Emeric's balcanic wars | Grand Principality of Serbia Bosnia | Hungarian victories | |
| 1202 | Fourth Crusaide | Hungarian defeat
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| 1213–1214, 1219, 1233–1234 | King Andrew II's military campaigns against Halych | Hungarian defeat | ||
| 1217–1218 | King Andrew II's participation in theFifth Crusade
| Hungarian victories on the battlefields. Muslim forces retreated to their fortresses and towns. | ||
| 1225 | King Andrew II expels theTeutonic Knights from Transylvania, the order had to move to Poland | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1237–1241 | Bosnian Crusade The Hungarian successes were followed by quick Hungarian retreat because of the Mongol invasion of Hungary | "Heretics" within theBanate of Bosnia | Stalemate after the quick Hungarian retreat due to the Mongol attacks | |
| 1241–1242 | First Mongol invasion of Hungary | Mongols | Mongol victory at theBattle of Mohi. Mongols retreated within a year from Hungary due to the local Hungarian withstand. Both sides suffered a heavy casualties.[17] | |
| 1242 | KingBéla IV's punishing campaign againstFrederick II, Duke of Austria | Hungarian victory[18] | ||
| 1243 | Siege of Zara | Hungarian defeat | ||
| 1246–1282 | War of the Babenberg Succession |
| Hungarian defeat
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| 1250–1278 | Hungarian – Bohemian wars | Bohemian defeat | ||
| 1259 | Battle of Pelagonia | Empire of Nicaea Cuman cavalry Hungarian mounted archers Turkish cavalry Serbian horsemen German knights | Despotate of Epirus Triarchy of Negroponte | Decisive Nicaean victory |
| 1261–1262 | Occupation ofKonstantin Tih's Bulgarian Empire by King Béla IV. | Hungarian victory[19][20] | ||
| 1264–1265 | Internal conflict between KingBéla IV and his son,Stephen | Stephen's victory, he got eastern Hungary as a duchy | ||
| 1268 | Mačva War Béla IV 's army captures Stefan Uroš I. Their conflict was solved with dynastic marriage. | Béla IV of Hungary | Hungarian victory | |
| 1272–1279 | Feudal anarchy | Csák noble family | Kőszegi noble family Gutkeled noble family | Royal victory |
| 1277 | Stefan Dragutin – Stefan Uroš I conflict | Stefan Dragutin | Hungarian victory | |
| 1277 | Hungary's war withLitovoi inCumania | Litovoi's army | Hungarian victory | |
| 1282 | Cumanic uprising | Cumanic tribes | Hungarian victory | |
| 1285–1286 | Second Mongol invasion of Hungary | Decisive Hungarian victory | ||
| 1287–1288 | Third Mongol invasion of Poland | Polish – Hungarian victory | ||
| 1291 | German – Hungarian war | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1290–1301 | Croato–Hungarian war of succession after the death of kingLadislaus IV of Hungary and Croatia | Šubić family | Kőszegi family | Indecisive
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| 1298 | Battle of Göllheim | County of Nassau Electoral Palatinate | Habsburg victory | |
| Date | Conflict | Allies | Enemies | Result |
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| 1301–1308 | Árpád war of succession, after the extinction of theÁrpád dynasty | Matthew III Csák's army László Kán's army | Kőszegi Hungarian noble family | Angevin victory
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| 1310–1321 | KingCharles I's wars for the centralized power against the Hungarian aristocracy | Zipser Saxons | Matthew III Csák Aba dynasty Borsa family Apor family Kőszegi family | Royal victory
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| 1319 | Belgrade and Banate of Mačva | Victory for Charles I | ||
| 1322–1337 | Hungarian – Austrian War | Kőszegi family Babonić Croatian noble family | Hungarian victory
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| 1321–1324 | Hungarian–Serbian War | Bosnia Stephen Vladislav II of Syrmia | Hungarian defeat | |
| 1330 | Hungarian-Wallachian War | Hungarian defeat
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| 1344 | KingLouis the Great's invasion and occupation ofWallachia andMoldavia[21] | Hungarian victory, Wallachia and Moldavia became vassal states of KingLouis the Great[22] | ||
| 1345–1358 | Hungarian – Venetian War, Venice had to pay annual tribute to Louis. Venetians also had to raise the Angevin flag on Piazza San Marco. | Decisive Hungarian victoryTreaty of Zadar | ||
| 1345 | The campaign of KingLouis I against the rebellious Croatian nobles | Croatian nobles | Hungarian victory | |
| 1345 | Hungary's war with theGolden Horde | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1347–1349, 1350–1352 | Hungarian-Naples Wars | First campaign: temporary Hungarian victory Second campaign:status quo ante bellum | ||
| 1348 | Battle of Capua | Hungarian victory, occupation of the kingdom | ||
| 1356–1359 | Crusade against Francesco Ordelaffi | PopeInnocent VI | Francesco II Ordelaffi | Victory |
| 1360–1369 | Louis I's balcanic wars (against Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Bosnia) | Bosnia | Temporary Hungarian victories | |
| 1366–1367 | Hungarian – Ottoman War | Christian victory | ||
| 1369 | Wallachian campaign | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1372–1381 | War of Chioggia, Hungary defeated the Venetians in several times, and finally expelled Venetians from Dalmatia, however Genoa, Padoa and Austria lost the War. The war resulted in theTreaty of Turin (1381) | Hungarian victory, Venice had to pay annual tribute to King of Hungary | ||
| 1375–1377 | Hungarian–Ottoman War | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1377 | Hungarian – Lithuanian war | Hungarian victory, Louis I enters Vilnius[23] | ||
| 1384–1394 | Civil war between a part of the Hungarian nobility andMary, Queen of Hungary andSigismund king | Horváti family | Sigismund's victory | |
| 1389–1396 | Hungarian–Ottoman War | Crusader defeat
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| 1394–1395 | Wallachian campaign | Wallachia became a Hungarian vassal,Mircea I the Great accepted the lordship of KingSigismund without any fight. | ||
| 1394–1395 | Moldavian campaign | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1407–1408 | Bosnian campaign
| Hungarian victory
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| 1411–1433 | Hungarian – Venetian War
| Dalmatia became part of Venice | ||
| 1415–1419 | Hungarian – Ottoman War | Stalemate | ||
| 1419–1434 | Hussite Wars | Moderate Hussites (since 1423) | Hussites (mostly united until 1434)Radical Hussites (since 1434) | Victory of themoderate Hussites and Catholics over theradical Hussites.
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| 1420–1432 | War of the South Danube | Armistice | ||
| 1437 | Transylvanian peasant revolt of Budai Nagy Antal | Transylvanian aristocracy | Transylvanian peasants | Defeat of the rebels
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| 1437–1442 | Hungarian–Ottoman War | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1440–1441 | Civil war between KingVladislaus I and KingLadislaus V |
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| Peace agreement,Vladislaus is accepted as Hungarian king
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| 1443–1444 | Long campaign | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1444 | Battle of Varna | Crusader defeat
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| 1447 | Wallachian campaign | Hungarian victory
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| 1445–1448 | Hungarian–Ottoman War | Ottoman victory | ||
| 1449– 1456 | Hungarian–Ottoman War | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1458–1459 | Matthias I's war withJán Jiskra | Jiskra's soldiers | Royal victory | |
| 1458–1465 | War in Bosnia | Partial Bosnian territory occupied by the Ottoman Empire. | ||
| 1465–1471 | Hussite uprising in North-Hungary | Czech hussite rebels | Hungarian victory | |
| 1467 | Hungarian - Moldavian war | Both side claimed victory | ||
| 1468–1478 | Bohemian War (1468–1478) | Treaty of Olmütz, Matthias became king of Bohemia | ||
| 1471 | Hungarian – Polish war | Hungarian victory
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| 1471–1476 | Matthias's intervention in the Moldovian – Ottoman War | After initial Hungarian-moldavian victories Hungary stopped the advocating of Moldavia, soStephen III moldavian ruler became vasal of the Ottoman Empire. | ||
| 1476 | Siege ofŠabac / Szabács | KingMatthias besieged and seizedŠabac, an important Ottoman border fort | ||
| 1477–1488 | Austrian – Hungarian War | Decisive Hungarian victory
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| 1479 | Battle of Breadfield / Kenyérmező | Hungarian victory
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| 1480–1481 | Battle of Otranto | Christian victory | ||
| 1490–1491 | War of the Hungarian Succession | Treaty | ||
| 1490 | Battle of Bonefield | The supporters ofJohn Corvinus | The supporters ofBeatrice of Naples | The supporters ofBeatrice of Naples,Stephen Báthory andPaul Kinizsi defeatedJohn Corvinus. |
| 1491–1495 | Hungarian – Ottoman war | Stalemate | ||
| 1492–1493 | The Black Army's uprising | Black Army | Destruction of theBlack Army | |
| 1499–1504 | Hungarian – Ottoman war | Stalemate | ||
| 1512–1520 | Hungarian – Ottoman war | Successful defensive operations against the Ottomans | ||
| 1514 | Peasants revolt, led byGyörgy Dózsa | Peasants | Revolt suppressed | |
| 1521–1526 | Hungarian-Ottoman War | Hungarian defeat
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| Date | Conflict | Allies | Enemies | Result |
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| 1526–1538 | Hungarian Civil War | Inconclusive
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| 1526–1527 | Jovan Nenad uprising | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1529–1533 | Habsburg–Ottoman war | Ottoman victory | ||
| 1540–1547 | Habsburg–Ottoman war | Ottoman victory
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| 1550–1558 | Habsburg–Ottoman war | Ottoman victory | ||
| 1556–1567 | Hungarian war of succession[30] | Habsburg victory; Treaty of Szatmár (13 March 1565):
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| 1562 | First Székely uprising | Eastern Hungarian victory | ||
| 1565–1568 | Habsburg–Ottoman war | Ottoman victory
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| 1575 | Bekes uprising and thesecond Székely uprising | Transylvanian victory | ||
| 1575–1577 | Danzig rebellion | City ofGdańsk | Victory
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| 1577–1583 | Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory | Victory | ||
| 1588 | Battle of Szikszó | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1593–1606 | Fifteen Years' war | Inconclusive | ||
| 1596 | Third Székely uprising | Transylvanian victory | ||
| 1604–1606 | Bocskai's War of Independence | Hungarian victory
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| 1610–1611 | Transylvanian Civil War | Transylvanian Saxons | Transylvanian (Báthory) victory | |
| 1612–1613 | Ottoman–Transylvanian war | Ottoman victory
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| 1618–1648 | Thirty Years' War
| Inconclusive | ||
| 1632 | Peasants revolt, led byPéter Császár (in Transylvania and in the Royal Hungary) | Peasants | Revolt crushed | |
| 1636 | Transylvanian Civil War | Transylvanian (Rákóczi) Victory | ||
| 1652 | Battle of Vezekény | Hungarian victory | ||
| 1656–1657 | Deluge | Polish-Tatar Victory | ||
| 1657–1662 | Ottoman–Transylvanian war
| Ottoman victory
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| 1663–1664 | Austro-Turkish War
| Ottoman victory | ||
| 1678–1685 | Thököly Uprising | Habsburg victory | ||
| 1683–1699 | Great Turkish War | Holy League victory | ||
| 1697 | Hegyalja uprising | Habsburg victory
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| Conflict | Belligerents | Result | |||
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| Date | Name | Allies | Enemies | Outcome | |
| 15 June 1703 – 1 May 1711 | Rákóczi's War for Independence |
| Defeat
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| January 1716 – 21 July 1718 | Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718) |
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| Treaty of Passarowitz | |
| 27 April – 13 May 1735 | Pero Uprising | Hungarian peasant rebels Serb troops ofPera Segedinac | Habsburg victory[32]
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| 1735 – 1 September 1739 | Russo-Austro-Turkish War | Victory | |||
| 16 December 1740 – 18 October 1748 | War of the Austrian Succession |
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| 17 May 1756 – 15 February 1763 | Seven Years' War |
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| Status Quo Ante Bellum | |
| 31 October – 14 December 1784 | Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan | Transylvanian Romanian rebels | Victory | ||
| 20 April 1792 – 18 October 1797 | War of the First Coalition |
| Defeat | ||
| December 1798 – 25 March 1802 | War of the Second Coalition |
| Defeat | ||
| April 1805 – 21 July 1806 | War of the Third Coalition |
| Defeat
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| 10 April – 14 October 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | Defeat | |||
| 24 June – 14 December 1812 | French invasion of Russia | The Habsburg Monarchy joins the Coalition
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| 3 March 1813 – 30 May 1814 | War of the Sixth Coalition | Victory | |||
| 20 March – 8 July 1815 | War of the Seventh Coalition |
| Victory | ||
| July – August 1831 | Cholera Riots | Hungarian peasants | Defeat | ||
| 15 March 1848 – 4 October 1849 | Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849 | Defeat
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| 29 April – 11 July 1859 | Second Italian War of Independence | Defeat
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| 14 June – 26 July 1866 | Austro-Prussian War | Defeat
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| October 1869 – 11 January 1870 | Krivošije Uprising | Krivošije rebels | Stalemate
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| 29 July – 20 October 1878 | Occupation of Bosnia | Victory
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| 2 November 1899 – 7 September 1901 | Boxer Rebellion | Eight-Nation Alliance | Victory
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| Conflict | Belligerents | Result | |||
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| Date | Name | Allies | Enemies | Outcome | |
| 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 | World War I | Central Powers | Allied Powers Co-belligerents | Defeat
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| December 1918 – June 1919 | Hungarian–Czechoslovak War | Military VictoryPolitical Defeat
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| 13 November 1918 – 3 August 1919 | Hungarian–Romanian War | Defeat
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| 2–6 June 1919 | Hungarian invasion ofPrekmurje | Victory
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| 3 August – 13 October 1921 | Uprising in West Hungary | (disarmament of the rebels in 1921) | Victory
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| 20 - 23 October 1921 | Charles IV's second coup attempt | Habsburg Royalists | Victory
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| 15 – 18 March 1939 | Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine | Victory
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| 23 – 31 March 1939 | Slovak-Hungarian War | Victory
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| 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 Hungary entered: 27 June 1941 Hungary exited: 11 May 1945 | World War II | Axis powers Affiliate states Client States
Co-belligerents Active neutrality | Allied Powers In exile for part of the war Other important belligerents Co-belligerents | Defeat
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| 23 October – 10 November 1956 | Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | Defeat
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| 20 – 21 August 1968 | Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | Warsaw Pact supported by | Victory
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| Conflict | Belligerents | Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Name | Allies | Enemies | Outcome | Losses |
| March 2003 – 2009 | Iraq War |
| Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation For fighting between insurgent groups, seeCivil war in Iraq (2006–07). | Victory
| 1 soldier killed 12 wounded. |
| 7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021 | War in Afghanistan | Taliban Victory / US-allied defeat
| 7 soldiers killed 14 wounded. | ||
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