Military Wars and Actions

United States of America
Wars and Actions
1775 to Present

1775 American Revolutionary War begins 14 April 1775
1776
1777
1778
1779
1780
1781
1782
1783 American Revolutionary War ends 25 November 1783
1784
1785
1786 Shay's Rebellion begins 29 August 1786
1787 Shay's Rebellion ends 25 January 1787
1788
1789
1790
1791 Maimi Indian War begins 3 November 1791
1792
1793
1794 Whiskey Rebellion 1 August 1794 ** Miami Indian War ends 20 August 1794
1795
1796
1797
1798 French-American War (Undeclared) begins 17 October 1798
1799 Fries' Rebellion
1800
1801 French-American War (Undeclared) ends 2 March 1801 ** Barbary Coast War begins 1 August 1801
1802
1803
1804
1805 Barbary Coast War ends 27 April 1805
1806
1807 USS Chesapeake-British Naval Action
1808
1809
1810
1811 Shawnee Indian War begins 21 September and ends 18 November 1811
1812 War of 1812 begins 12 June 1812
1813 Creek Indian War begins 27 July 1813
1814 Creek Indian War ends 9 August 1814
1815 War of 1812 ends 8 January 1815
1816
1817 Seminole Indian War begins 20 November 1817
1818 Seminole Indian War ends 31 October 1818
1819 Invasion of Spanish Florida
1820
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830
1831 Turner Slave Rebellion begins 21 and ends 23 August 1831
1832 Black Hawk Indian War begins 26 April and ends 30 September 1832
1833 Argentina Action begins 31 October and ends 15 November 1833
1834
1835 Toledo War begins 31 March 1835 ** Peru Action begins 10 December 1835 **
           2nd Seminole Indian War begins 28 December 1835
1836 2nd Creek Indian War begins 28 Febuary 1836 ** Peru Action ends 7 December 1836
1837 Toledo War ends 26 January 1837 ** 2nd Creek Indian War ends 4 July 1837
1838 Sumatra Action begins 24 December 1838
1839 Sumatra Action ends 4 January 1839 ** Aroostook War (Undeclared) begins 1 Febuary and ends 21 March 1839
1840 Fiji Islands Action 24 July 1840
1841 Drummond Island Action ** Samoa Action 24 Febuary 1841 ** Dorr's Rebellion begins 4 July 1841
1842 Dorr's Rebellion ends 18 April 1842 ** 2nd Seminole Indian War ends 14 August 1842
1843 Canton, China Action begins 1 and ends 8 October 1843
1844
1845
1846 Mexican-American War begins 25 April 1846 ** Western Indian Wars begins 1 May 1846 **
          Navajo Indian War begins 1 May 1846
1847
1848 Mexican-American War ends 2 Febuary 1848
1849
1850
1851
1852 Argentina Action begins Febuary 1852
1853 Argentina Action ends April 1853 ** Nicaragua Action begins 11 and ends 13 March 1853
1854
1855 Yakima Indian War ** Uruguay Action begins 25 and ends 29 November 1855 **
          3rd Seminole Indian War begins 15 December 1855
1856 Panama Action begins 19 and ends 22 September 1856
1857
1858 Uruguay Action begins 2 and ends 27 January 1858 ** Fiji Islands Action begins 6 and ends 16 October 1858
1859 Paraguay Action begins 25 January and ends 17 Febuary 1859 ** Mexico Action begins 8 March and ends 23 November 1859 **
          Shanghai, China Action begins 31 July and ends 2 August 1859 **
          Harpers Ferry (John Brown's Raid) begins 16 and ends 18 October 1859
1860 Colombia Action begins 27 September and ends 8 October 1860
1861 Star of the West Action 9 January 1861 ** Apache Indian War begins 14 Febuary 1861 **
          American Civil War begins 12 April 1861
1862
1863 Shimonoseki, Japan Action 16 July 1863
1864 Japan Action 6 September 1864 ** Navajo Indian War ends 1 December 1864
1865 Panama Action begins 9 and ends 10 March 1865 ** American Civil War ends 9 April 1865
1866 Newchwang, China Action begins 20 June and ends 7 July 1866 ** Red Cloud's War begins 30 June 1866 **
          Mexico Action begins 1 and ends 30 November 1866
1867 Nicaragua Action ** Comanche Indian War begins 1 Febuary 1867 ** Formosa Action 13 June 1867
1868 Japan Action begins 4 Febuary and ends 13 June 1868 ** Uruguay Action begins 7 and ends 26 Febuary 1868 **
          Red Cloud's War ends 6 November 1868
1869
1870
1871
1872 Modoc Indian War begins 28 November 1872
1873 Colombia Action begins 7 May and ends 9 October 1873 ** Modoc Indian War ends 17 May 1873 **
          Mexico Action begins 18 May 1873
1874 Kiowa Indian War ** Hawaiian Islands Action begins 12 and ends 20 Febuary 1874 **
          Quanah Parsker's War begins 24 June 1874
1875
1876 Sioux Indian War ** Comanche Indian War ends 26 November 1876
1877 Quanah Parker's War ends ** Nez Perce Indian War begins 17 June and ends 30 November 1877
1878 Cheyenne Indian War begins 1 September 1878
1879 Ute Indian War begins 1 September 1879 ** Cheyenne Indian War ends 1 November 1879
1880 Ute Indian War ends November 1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886 Apache Indian War ends 30 March 1886
1887
1888 Korea Action begins 1 and ends 30 June 1888 ** Somoa Action begins 14 November 1888 **
          Haiti Action begins 20 December 1888
1889 Somoa Action ends 20 March 1889 ** Hawaiian Islands Action begins 30 and ends 31 July 1889
1890 2nd Sioux Indian War begins
1891 2nd Sioux Indian War ends ** Haiti Action begins 9 and ends 30 June 1891 **
         Chile Action begins 20 and ends 30 August 1891
1892
1893 Hawaii Action begins 16 January and ends 1 April 1893
1894 Brazil Action begins 18 and ends 20 January 1894 ** Nicaragua Acrion begins 6 July and ends August 1894 **
          Korea Action begins 24 July 1894 ** Sino-Japanese War (Observers) begins 1 August 1894
1895 Sino-Japanese War (Observers) ends 17 April 1895
1896 Korea Action ends 3 April 1896 ** Mexico Action ends 1 November 1896
1897
1898 Nicaragua Action begins 7 and ends 8 Febuary 1898 ** Spanish-American War begins 19 April 1898 **
          Western Indian Wars ends 5 October 1898 ** China Action begins 5 November 1898
1899 Samoa Action begins 1 Febuary and ends 15 May 1899 ** Philippine Insurrection begins 4 Febuary 1899 **
         Nicaragua Action begins 22 Febuary and ends 5 March 1899 **
          Spanish-American War ends 11 April 1899 ** China Action ends 15 March 1899
1900 Boxer Rebellion begins 24 May and ends 28 September 1900
1901 Banana Wars (Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean) begins 20 November 1901 **
          Colombia Action begins 20 November and ends 4 December 1901
1902 Colombia Action begins 16 and ends 23 April 1902 **
           Panama Action begins 17 September and ends 18 November 1902
1903 Honduras Acrion begins 23 and ends 31 March 1903 **
          Dominican Republic Action begins 30 March and ends 21 April 1903 ** Panama Action begins 4 November 1903
1904 Russo-Japanese War (Observers) begins ** Tangier Action **
          Dominican Republic Action begins 2 January and ends 11 Febuary 1904
1905 Russo-Japanese War (Observers) ends
1906 Cuba Action begins 29 September 1906
1907 Honduras Action begins 18 March and ends 8 June 1907
1908
1909 Cuba Action ends 23 January 1909
1910
1911 Honduras Action 26 January 1911 ** China Action begins 10 October and ends 30 November 1911
1912 Cuba Action begins 5 June and ends 5 August 1912 ** China Action begins 24 and ends 30 August 1912
1913 Mexico Action begins 5 and ends 7 September 1913
1914 Haiti Action begins 29 January and ends 19 October 1914 ** Mexican Punitive Action begins 6 April 1914 **
          Dominican Republic Action begins 26 June and ends July 1914 ** Panama Action ends 3 Auguast 1914
1915 Haiti Action begins 28 July 1915
1916 Dominican Republic Action begins 15 May 1916 ** Nanking, China Action begins 1 and ends 30 June 1916
1917 Chungking, China Action ** Mexican Punitive Action ends 5 Febuary 1917 ** World War I (U.S. enters the war) 6 April 1917
          ** Russian Civil War Intervention begins 11 December 1917
1918 Panama Action ** Mexico Action begins 1 August 1918 ** World War I ends 11 November 1918
1919 Dalmatia Action ** Mexico Action ends 5 January 1919 ** Honduras Action begins 8 and ends 12 September 1919
1920 Panama Action ends ** Guatemala Action begins 9 and ends 27 April 1920
1921
1922 Cuba Action ends 1 Febuary 1922 ** China Action begins April 1922 **
          Turkey Action begins September and ends October 1922 ** Russian Civil War Intervention ends 19 November 1922
1923 China Action ends November 1923
1924 Honduras Action begins 28 Febuary 1924 ** Dominican Republic Action ends September 1924 **
          Shanghi, China Action begins September 1924
1925 Shanghi, China Action ends September 1925
1926 Nicaragua Acstion begins 7 May 1926
1927 China Action Febuary 1927
1928
1929
1930
1931 Scond Sino-Japanese War Intervention begins 18 September 1931
1932 Bonus March begins 15 May and ends 29 July 1932
1933 Nicaragua Action ends January 1933
1934 Haiti Action ends 15 August 1934 ** Banana Wars ends 15 August 1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941 Second Sino-Japanese War Intervention ends 7 December 1941 ** World War II (U.S. enters the war) 7 December 1941
1942
1943
1944
1945 World War II ends 2 September 1945 ** Cold War begins 2 September 1945 ** China Action October 1945
1946 Trieste Action ** Yugoslav-American Aircraft Incident 12 August 1946
1947
1948 China Action begins ** Berlin Airlift begins 24 June 1948
1949 China Action ends ** Berlin Airlift ends May 1949
1950 Korean War begins 25 June 1950
1951
1952
1953 Korean War ends (cease fire only) 27 July 1953 ** Korean DMZ Patrol begins 28 July 1953
1954 Tachen Islands Action begins
1955 Tachen Islands Action ends
1956
1957
1958 Soviet-American Aircraft Incident ** Lebanon Action begins 19 June and ends 28 September 1958
1959
1960 Laotian Civil War Intervention begins
1961 Vietnam War begins 11 December 1961
1962 Thailand Action begins 17 May and ends 30 July 1962 **
          Cuban Missile Crisis begins 16 and ends 28 October 1962
1963
1964 East German-American Aircraft Incident
1965 Dominican Republic Action begins
1966 Dominican Republic Action ends
1967 Israeli-Arab War (Monitoring) begins 7 April and ends 10 June 1967
1968 King Riots begins 5 and ends 11 April 1968
1969
1970 Cambodian Civil War Intervention begins
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975 Laotian Civil War Intervention ends ** Cambodian Action ends 12 Apdril 1975 ** Vietnam War ends 30 April 1975
1976 Lebanon Action begins 22 and ends 23 July 1976
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1978
1979
1980 Iranian Hostage Crisis begins 4 November 1980 ** Operation Eagle Claw 24 April 1980
1981 Iranian Hostage Crisis ends 20 January 1981
1982 Lebanon Action begins 21 August 1982
1983 Chad Action ** Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada) begins 25 October and ends 15 December 1983 **
          Terrorist Actions begin 23 October 1983 ** U.S. Marine Barricks Bombing Beirut, Lebanon 23 October 1983 **
          U.S. Embassy Kuwait City, Kuwaidt 12 December 1983
1984 Lebanon Action ends ** U.S. Embassy Annex Aukar, Lebanon 20 September 1984 **
          U.S. Embassy Bogota, Colombia November 1984
1985 TWA Flight 847 ** San Salvador, El Salvador 19 June 1985 **
          Rhine-Main Air Force Base Frankfurt, West Germany 8 August 1985
1986 West Berlin, East Germany 5 April 1986 ** Libya Action begins 24 March and ends 16 April 1986
1987 Operation Earnest Will (Gulf Tanker War) ** U.S. Embassy Madrid, Spain 18 Febuary 1987 **
          U.S. Embassy La Paz, Bolivia 14 April 1987 ** U.S. Embassy Madrid, Spain 15 April 1987 **
          U.S. Embassy SanJose, Costa Rica 28 April 1987 ** U.S. Embassy Rome, Italy 9 June 1987 **
          U.S. Consulate Santiago, Chile 22 July 1987 ** U.S. Consulate Lima Peru 8 October 1987 **
          U.S. Consulate Barcelona, Spain 14 October 1987 ** U.S. Embassy Lima, Peru 19 November 1987 **
          U.S. Consulate Jerusalem 13 December 1987
1988 U.S. Consulate Alexandria, Egypt 8 January 1988 ** U.S. Embassy Residence Athens, Greece **
          U.S. Charge d'Affaire Residence Kabul, Afghanistan 31 January 1988 ** U.S. Consulate Jerusalem 20 Febuary 1988 **
          U.S. Embassy La Paz, Bolivia 18 March 1988 ** U.S. Embassy Quito, Ecuador 22 March 1988 **
          U.S. Embassy Bogota, Colombia 23 March 1988 ** U.S. Embassy Caracas, Venezuela 2 April 1988 **
          U.S. Embassy Annex Tegucigalpa, Honduras 7 April 1988 ** U.S. Embassy Consular Section Singapore 20 April 1988 **
          U.S. Embassy Sanaa, Yemen 10 May 1988 ** U.S. Embassy Seoul, South Korea 20 May 1988 **
          U.S. Ambassadore Residence Lima, Peru 9 June 1988 ** U.S. Embassy and Ambassadore Residence Madrid, Spain 3 July 1988
          ** U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines 4 July 1988 ** Operation Earnest Will (Gulf Tanker War) ends 18 July 1988 **
          U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines 5 August 1988 ** U.S. Embassy Commissary La Paz, Bolivia **
          U.S. Consulate Bucharest, Romania 23 September 1988 ** U.S. Consulate Jerusalem 30 November 1988
1989 U.S. Embassy Lima, Peru 27 Febuary 1989 ** U.S. Embassy La Paz, Bolivia 16 March 1989 **
          U.S. Consulate Sao Paulo, Brazil 28 March 1989 ** U.S. Embassy Warehouse Tegucigalpa, Honduras 16 April 1989 **
          U.S. Embassy Warehouse San Salvador, El Salvador 2 May 1989 ** U.S. Consulate Guayaquil, Ecuador 18 May 1989 **
          U.S. Embassy Warehouse San Salvador, El Salvador 12 June 1989 ** U.S. Consulate Istanbul, Turkey 11 September 1989 **
          U.S. Embassy Caracas, Venezuela 14 September 1989 ** U.S. Embassy Bogota, Colombia 17 September 1989 **
          U.S. Embassy Santiago, Chile 26 September 1989 ** U.S. Ambassadore Residence Seoul, South Korea 13 October 1989 **
         U.S. Marine Corps House Lima, Peru 25 October 1989 ** U.S. Embassy Quito, Ecuador 26 October 1989 **
          U.S. Ambassador Residence San Salvador, El Salvador 11 November 1989 **
          U.S. Embassy Annex Manila, Philippines 14 December 1989 ** Operation Just Cause (Panama) begins 20 December 1989 **
          U.S. Embassy La Paz, Bolivia 20 December 1989 ** U.S. Embassy and Residence Quito, Ecuador 31 December 1989
1990 U.S. Marine Corps House Lima, Peru 15 January 1990 ** Operation Just Cause (Panama) ends 31 January 1990 **
          U.S. Embassy Warehouse Lima, Peru 14 Febuary 1990 ** U.S. Embassy Annex Manila, Philippines 21 March 1990 **
          U.S. Embassy La Paz, Bolivia 1 May 1990 ** U.S. Consulate Santiago, Chile 14 May 1990 **
          U.S. Embassy Mogadishu, Somalia 28 May 1990 ** U.S. Consulate Jerusalem 6 June 1990 **
          U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine Corps House Panama City, Panama 29 June 1990 ** Liberia Action 6 August 1990 **
          Operation Desert Shield (Saudi Arabia) begins 7 August 1990 **
          U.S. Embassy Reception Center Pretoria, South Africa 3 October 1990 **
          U.S. Marine Corps House La Paz, Bolivia 10 October 1990 ** U.S. Embassy Seoul, South Korea 18 October 1990 **
          U.S. Embassy Lima, Peru 4 November 1990 **
          U.S. Ambassadore Residence Lima, Peru 7 November 1990 **
          U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines 10 November 1990 **
          U.S. Consulate General Residence Nishinomiya, Japan 1 November 1990 **
          U.S. Consulate Santiago, Chile 5 December 1990 **
          U.S. Embassy Lima, Peru 10 December 1990
1991 U.S. Embassy Panama City, Panama 15 January 1991 **
          U.S. Embassy Quito, Ecuador 15 January 1991 **
          Operation Desert Shield (Saudi Arabia) ends 16 January 1991 **
          U.S. Consulate Guayaquil, Ecuador 16 January 1991 **
          U.S. Consulate Jerusalem 16 January 1991 **
          Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War) begins 17 January and ends 3 March 1991 **
          U.S. Ambassadore Residence Jakarta, Indonesia 18 January 1991 **
          U.S. Embassy Reception Center Kampala, Uganda 24 January 1991 ** U.S. Embassy Lima, Peru 25 January 1991 **
          U.S. Consulate Istanbul, Turkey 26 January 1991 ** U.S. Embassy Warehouse Lima, Peru 30 January 1991 **
          U.S. Embassy Warehouse Lima, Peru 31 January 1991 ** U.S. Embassy Bonn, West Germany 13 Febuary 1991 **
          U.S. Marine Corps House Santiago, Chile 16 Febuary 1991 ** Iraq Boarder Patrol begins 4 March 1991 **
          U.S. Embassy Kuwait City, Kuwait 6 March 1991 ** U.S. Consulate Izmir, Turkey 26 March 1991 **
          U.S. Embassy Residence Lima, Peru 18 June 1991 ** U.S. Embassy Kuwait City, Kuwait 7 July 1991 **
          U.S. Consulate Kingston, Jamaica 8 August 1991 ** U.S. Embassy Amman, Jordan 30 September 1991 **
          U.S. Consulate Jerusalem 27 October 1991 ** U.S. Embassy Beirut, Lebanon 29 October 1991 **
          U.S. Embassy Panama City, Panama 20 December 1991 ** Cold War ends 26 December 1991
1992 U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa, Erhiopia 2 January 1992 ** U.S. Embassy Housing Tokyo, Japan 8 January 1992 **
          U.S. Consulate Brisbane, Australia 11 January 1992 ** U.S. Embassy Algiers, Algeria 30 January 1992 **
          U.S. Ambassador Residence Lima, Peru 11 Febuary 1992 ** U.S. Consulate Istanbul, Turkey 13 March 1992 **
          U.S. Consulate Istanbul, Turkey 16 April 1992 ** U.S. Consulate Istanbul, Turkey 1 July 1992 **
          U.S. Embassy Quito, Ecuador 23 September 1992 ** U.S. Embassy Sanaa, Yemen 23 September 1992 **
          U.S. Adambassador Residence Lima, Peru 11 October 1992 ** U.S. Embassy Sanaa, Yemen 9 November 1992 **
          U.S. Embassy Warehouse Lima, Peru 17 November 1992 ** U.S. Embassy Montevideo, Uruguay 18 November 1992 **
          Operation Restore Hope (Somalia) begins 10 December 1992 ** U.S. Embassy Ankara, Turkey 20 December 1992
1993 U.S. Consulate Hamburg, Germany 14 January 1993 ** U.S. Embassy Sanaa, Yemen 15 January 1993 **
          U.S. Embassy Sanaa, Yemen 25 January 1993 ** U.S. Embassy Belgrade, Serbia 3 March 1993 **
          U.S. Embassy Caracas, Venezuela 20 June 1993 ** U.S. Embassy Lima, Peru 27 July 1993 **
          U.S. Embassy Caracas, Venezuela 14 August 1993 ** U.S. Embassy Caracas, Venezuela 21 August 1993
1994 Occupation of Haiti begins ** U.S. Ambassador Residence Montevideo, Uruguay 30 March 1994 **
          Operation Restore Hope (Somalia) ends 10 May 1994
1995 U.S. Embassy Lima, Peru 28 Febuary 1995 ** U.S. Embassy Belgrade, Serbia 29 May 1995 **
          U.S. Embassy Residence Bujumbura, Burundi 4 August 1995 ** U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russia 13 September 1995 **
          U.S. Embassy Warehouse Algiers, Algeria 11 November 1995 **
          Operation Joint Endeavour (Balken States Peace Keeping) 14 December 1995
1996 U.S. Embassy Athens, Greece 15 Febuary 1996 ** U.S. Consulate Chengdu, China 22 March 1996 **
          U.S. Consulate Monterrey, Mexico 11 April 1996 ** U.S. Consulate Surabaya, Indonesia 27 August 1996
1997 U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines 25 March 1997 ** U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines 1 April 1997
1998 U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Kenya 7 August 1998 ** U.S. Embassy Dares Salaam, Tanzania 7 August 1998 **
          Operation Desert Fox (Iraq) begins 16 and ends 18 December 1998
1999 Kosovo Peace Keeping Operation begins March 1999
2000 USS Cole 31 October 2000
2001 New York / Pentagon Attack 11 September 2001 **
          Operation Infinate Justice (War on Terrorists) begins 19 and ends 25 September 2001 **
          Operation Enduring Freedom (name changed) begins 25 September 2001