List of civil wars

This is a list of civil wars.

Past civil wars

• Roman Republican civil wars, List of Roman Republic and Empire Civil Wars

• Warring States Period (China), 475 bce-221 bce
• Peloponnesian War, ca 431 bce - 404 bce (Athens vs. Sparta)
• Punic Wars, ca 264 bce - 146 bce (Rome vs. Carthage)
• The Brothers' Civil War, 1067-1072 (The war between King Alfonso of Leon and King Sancho of Castille)
• The Anarchy, 1135-1153 (refers to the disorder during the reign of King Stephen of England)
• Genpei War (Japan), 1180-1185
• English Wars of the Roses, c. 1455-1485
• Onin War (Japan), 1467-1477
• Sengoku Period (Japan), 1467-1615
• French Wars of Religion, 1562-1598
• Rokosz of Zebrzydowski. 1606-1609 in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Wars of the Three Kingdoms (England, Ireland, Scotland) 1639-1651, can also refer to the Three Kingdoms (220-280) period of Chinese history which saw the empire divided between three states which were locked in almost continuous warfare
• English Civil War, 1642-1649
• Zulu Civil War, 1817-1819
• Taiping Civil War (China), 1851-1864
• American Civil War, 1861-1865
• Boshin War (Japan), 1868-1869
• Russian Civil War, 1917-1921
• Finnish Civil War, 1918
• Irish Civil War, 1922-1923
• Chinese Civil War, 1928-1937, 1945-1949
• Vietnamese War, 1930-1975
• Austrian Civil War, February 12 to February 16, 1934
• Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
• Greek Civil War, 1946-1949
• Paraguayan Civil War, 1947
• Korean Civil War, 1950-1953
• Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
• Pakistan (Bengal) Civil War 1972 equally known as the Bangladesh War of Independence
• Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1991
• Mozambique Civil War, see Rome General Peace Accords, 1975-1992
• Romania had a brief civil war in 1989, after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, between Communists and those against the former regime.

Contemporary civil wars

The following civil wars are ongoing or ended in the past decade, as of 2005. Some of them may be classified as insurrections, etc., rather than full civil wars, as they fade into the past.

• Afghanistan, 1992-2002
• Angola, 1974-1989, 1995-1997, 1998-2002
• Burundi, 1988-1991, 1993-2001
• Cambodia, 1978-1993, 1997-1998
• Colombia, 1964-present
• First Congo War, Zaire, 1996-1997
• Second Congo War, DRC, 1998-present
• Republic of the Congo, 1997, 1998
• Côte d'Ivoire, 1999-2000, 2002-present
• East Timor/Indonesia, 1975-1999
• El Salvador, 1979-1991
• Georgian Civil War, Abkhazia, South Ossetia in Georgia
• Guatemala, 1960-1996
• Kurdistan, Iraq, Kurdish Democratic Party, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, 1961-1970, 1988-2003
• Israel, 1967-present, see Palestinian territories etc
• Liberia, 1989-1996, 1999-present
• Chiapas, Mexico, 1994-present; see Zapatista Army of National Liberation
• Nepalese People's War, Nepal, 1996-present
• Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, The Troubles (late 1960s — mid-1990s), Northern Ireland peace process
• Philippines, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, 1972-1996, 2001-Present
• Rwanda, 1990-1997
• Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, 1983-2001
• Sierra Leone, 1991-2002
• Somalian Civil War, 1991-present
• Sudanese Civil War, Sudan, 1955-1972, 1983-present
• Tajikistan Civil War, Tajikistan, 1992-1997
• Uganda, 1987-present
• Yemen, 1979-1989, 1994, 2000s

See also

• list of fictional Civil Wars
• Wikipedia:List of successful coups d'état