List of wars involving England

This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of England prior to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain via the Acts of Union 1707.

16th century
War of the Portuguese Succession (1580–1583)

1585
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)

1602
Dutch-Portuguese War (1602–1661)

1625
Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630)

1627
Anglo-French War (1627–1629)

1639–1653
Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Bishops' Wars (1639–1640) (England v Scotland) Irish Confederate Wars (1641–1653)

1642
English Civil War (1642–1651)

1652
First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654)

1654
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)

1665
Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–1667)

1672
Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) Franco-Dutch War (1672–1678)

1672
Rampjaar (1672)

1688
Nine Years' War (1689–1697) (England/Scotland, Germany, Holland, Savoy, Spain, and Sweden v France)

1702
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) (Great Britain, Germany, Holland, Portugal, and Savoy v France, Spain, Mantua, and the electorates of Bavaria and Cologne)

List of civil wars

 * 1) Rebellion of 1088 – in England and Normandy
 * 2) The Anarchy (1135–54) – in England
 * 3) Revolt of 1173–74 – in England, Normandy, and Anjou
 * 4) First Barons' War (1215–17) – in England
 * 5) Second Barons' War (1264–67) – in England
 * 6) Welsh Uprising (1282) – in England and Wales
 * 7) Peasants' Revolt (1381) – in England
 * 8) Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) – in England and Wales; Richard III was the last English king to die in combat
 * 9) Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) – in  England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
 * 10) * First Bishops' War (1639)
 * 11) * Second Bishops' War (1640)
 * 12) * Irish Rebellion of 1641
 * 13) * First English Civil War (1642–46)
 * 14) * The Confederates' War (1642–48)
 * 15) * Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644–47)
 * 16) * Second English Civil War (1648)
 * 17) * Third English Civil War (1650–51)
 * 18) * Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
 * 19) Monmouth Rebellion (1685) – in England
 * 20) Jacobite Rebellions (1689–91; 1715–16; 1719; 1745–46) – in England, Scotland and Ireland
 * 21) * Williamite War in Ireland (1688–91)
 * 22) * Battle of the Boyne (1690) – last battle between two rival claimants for the throne