Explore Civil Wars through the conflicts, campaigns, political shifts and turning points that changed nations and empires. This timeline explains each milestone in context, showing how power, resistance, ideology, diplomacy and social pressure shaped historical outcomes. It helps trace causes, consequences and long-term impacts across regions and generations.
The English Civil Wars , spanning from approximately 1642 to 1651, represented a transformative period of intense conflict throughout the British Isles. This series of wars pitted the Royalists , who supported the monarc...
View itemThe War in the Vendée was a significant counter-revolutionary uprising and civil war that erupted in western France in 1793 . Emerging during the height of the French Revolution , the conflict pitted royalist and Catholi...
View itemThe Taiping Rebellion was a devastating civil war that engulfed Qing China between approximately 1850 and 1864. Led by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom , a movement established by Hong Xiuquan , the conflict emerged from a c...
View itemThe American Civil War , which took place between approximately 1861 and 1865, was a defining conflict fought between the Union and the Confederacy . This intense struggle fundamentally altered the trajectory of the nati...
View itemThe Paris Commune emerged in the spring of 1871 as a direct consequence of the profound instability following France's defeat in the Franco-German War. On 18 March, a revolutionary government seized control of the capita...
View itemThe Mexican Revolution , which erupted on 20 November 1910, initiated a decade of intense civil conflict that fundamentally altered the trajectory of the nation. This period was defined by a volatile struggle for politic...
View itemFollowing the Russian Revolution , the country descended into a brutal and complex civil war that lasted from approximately 1918 until 1922. This conflict was primarily fought between the Bolsheviks , who sought to conso...
View itemThe Chinese Civil War was a protracted and transformative conflict fought between the Kuomintang , led by the Nationalist Party , and the Chinese Communist Party . Beginning in approximately 1927, the struggle for contro...
View itemThe Conflict and Its Consequences The Spanish Civil War emerged as a profound rupture in the fabric of the nation, pitting the Republicans against the Nationalists in a struggle that would define the late 1930s. Beginnin...
View itemThe Greek Civil War , which spanned from approximately 1946 to 1949, emerged in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. This intense internal conflict pitted the internationally recognised Greek government again...
View itemThe Cambodian Civil War , which began around 1967 and concluded on 17 April 1975, represents a period of profound instability and transformation for the nation. It emerged from a complex interplay of domestic insurgencie...
View itemThe Nigerian Civil War , frequently referred to as the Biafran War , stands as a defining moment in the post-colonial history of Nigeria . Beginning on 6 July 1967 and lasting until 15 January 1970, the conflict emerged...
View itemThe Lebanese Civil War was a protracted and complex multi-sided conflict that began in approximately 1975 and lasted until 1990. Characterised by intense sectarian divisions, the war involved a shifting array of domestic...
View itemThe dawn of Angolan independence on 11 November 1975 did not bring the anticipated peace to the nation. Instead, the withdrawal of colonial administration left a power vacuum that immediately ignited a protracted and dev...
View itemThe Outbreak of Conflict The Sri Lankan Civil War began on 23 July 1983, initiating a protracted period of internal strife that would define the nation’s political landscape for over two and a half decades. At its core,...
View itemThe Yugoslav civil wars , which took place between approximately 1991 and 2001, comprised a complex series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that accompanied the violent dis...
View itemThe Second Liberian Civil War emerged in 1999, plunging the nation into a period of intense instability that would last for four years. This conflict arose against a backdrop of fractured political authority, challenging...
View itemThe Syrian civil war , which emerged from the widespread protests of 2011, stands as a defining conflict of the early twenty-first century. What began as a series of demonstrations quickly spiralled into a complex, multi...
View itemThe conflict in Yemen , which began to escalate significantly around 2014, emerged from a complex web of internal political instability and deep-seated regional tensions. As the country transitioned from the promise of p...
View itemThe outbreak of hostilities in Sudan on 15 April 2023 represents a fundamental rupture in the country's governance and stability. This conflict, pitting rival military factions against one another, has rapidly evolved in...
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