American Civil Conflicts Timeline

(11th century) [battle]

Naval skirmish between King Kumuhonua of Oahu and his brothers over land successions

(13th century) [battle]
First Oahuan Revolution/Battle of Lihue Fortress

(14th century) [battle]
Battle of Waikakalaua

(14th century) [battle]
First Mauian Invasion of Oahu

(15th century) [war]
War of the Oahuan Succession
• Second Oahuan Revolution
• Ambush of Waikiki
• Waialua and Koolauloa's wars
• Conflicts under Kualii

(17th century) [battle]
Battle of Kawaluna

(17th century) [battle]
Raid of Hilo

(17th century) [battle]
Battle of Moomomi

(17th century) [battle]
First Oahuan Invasion of Molokai

(17th century) [war]
Beaver Wars
• Battle of Sorel
• Battle of Long Sault
• Battle of Wilton

(1610—1646) [battle]
Anglo–Powhatan Wars
• First Anglo–Powhatan War
• Second Anglo–Powhatan War
• Third Anglo–Powhatan War

(1636—1638)
Pequot War

(1644—1646)
Claiborne and Ingle's Rebellion

(1649—1692)
Coode's Rebellion

• Battle of The Severn

(1663)

Gloucester County Conspiracy

(1675—1678)
King Philip's War

(1676)
Bacon's Rebellion

(1677)
Culpeper's Rebellion

(1683)
Gove's Rebellion

(1689)
1689 Boston Revolt

(1689—1691)
Leisler's Rebellion

(18th Century)
Battle on The Big Island

(1701—1765)
New York—New Jersey Line War

(1710)
War of the Cherokee and Chickasaw with the Shawnee

(1711)
Cary's Rebellion

(1711—1715)
Tuscarora War

(1712)
New York Slave Revolt of 1712

(1715—1717)
Yamasee War

(1715—1755)
Cherokee–Muskogee-Creeks War

(1722—1725)
Father Rale's War

(1730)
First Oahuan Invasion of Molokai
• Battle of Kawela

(1730—1767)
Cresap's War

(1738)
Alapainui's Invasion of Oahu

(1739)
Stono Rebellion

(1740)
Second Oahuan Invasion of Molokai

(1741)
New York Conspiracy

(1763)
Cherokee–Chickasaw War

(1765—1771)
War of Regulation

(1769–1799)
Pennamite–Yankee War

(1773)
Third Oahuan Revolution

(1774)
Lord Dunmore's War

(1775—1783)

American War of Independence

• Siege of Savage's Old Fields

• Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge

• Battle of Long Island

• Saratoga Campaign

-Battle of Oriskany

-Battle of Bennington

-Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Cobleskill

• Battle of Wyoming

• Cherry Valley Massacre

• Battle of Crooked Billet

• Battle of Savannah

• Battle of Kettle Creek

• Siege of Savannah

• Siege of Charleston

• Battle of Waxhaws

• Battle of Ramsour's Mill

• Battle of Camden

• Battle of Monck's Corner

• Battle of Musgrove Mill

• Battle of Fishing Creek

• Battle of Kings Mountain

• Battle of Cowpens

• Pyle's Massacre

• Battle of Guilford Court House

• Battle of Hobkirk's Hill

• Siege of Ninety-Six

• Battle of Eutaw Springs 

• Battle of Lindley's Mill

• Long Run Massacre

• Siege of York Town

• Battle of Johnstown

• Gnadenhutten Massacre

• Battle of Little Mountain

• Crawford Expedition

• Siege of Bryan Station

• Battle of Blue Licks

• Siege of Fort Henry

(1776—1795)
Cherokee–American Wars
• Cherokee–American War of 1776
• Chickasaw–American War
• Georgia Indian War of 1782
• Cherokee War of 1786
• Cherokee–Franklin War of 1788
• Doublehead's War
• Bob Benge's War
• Southwest Indian War
• Nickajack Expedition

(1781)
Pennsylvania Line Mutiny

(1781)

Pompton Mutiny

(1782)
Second Mauian Invasion of Oahu
• Battle of Seven Warriors
• Battle of Kaheiki Stream
• The Waipi‘o-Kimopo

(1782—1810)
Unification of Hawaiʻi
• Battle of Keawawa
• Battle of Waikapu Commons
• Battle of Moku'ohai
• Olowalu Massacre
• Battle of Kepaniwai
• East HawaiÊ»i Battles of 1790
• Battle of Kawaihae
• Battle of Nu'uanu

(1783)
Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783

(1785—1795)
Northwest Indian War

(1786)
Shay's Rebellion
• Paper Money Riot

(1788)
Battle of Franklin

(1791—1794)
Whiskey Rebellion

(1799—1800)
Fries' Rebellion

(1800)

Gabriel's Rebellion

(1803— 1840s)

American River Piracy on Ohio and Mississippi Rivers

(1804—1818)
Walton War

(1805)
Slave Rebellion at Chatham Manor

(1808—1809)
Malta War

(1810—1813)
Tecumseh's War

(1811)
German Coast Uprising

(1813—1814)
Creek War

(1816—1819)
First Seminole War

(1817—1838)
Osage–Cherokee War

(1819)
Battle of Kuamoʻo

(1820—1875)
Texas–Indian Wars

(1822)
Denmark Vessey's Uprising

(1823)
Arikara War

(1824)
Humehume Rebellion

(1824—1852)
Hill–Evans Feud

(1826)
Grog Mutiny

(1827)
Winnebago War

(1829)
Big Neck War

(1831)
Nat Turner's Rebellion

(1832)
Black Hawk War

(1832—1837)
Nullification Crises

(1833)
Cutthroat Gap Massacre

(1835–1836)
Toledo War

(1835—1842)
Second Seminole War

(1836)
Second Creek War

(1837)
Osage Indian War

(1837—1838)
Patriot War

(1838)
Missouri–Mormon War
• Haun's Mill Massacre

(1838–1839)
Córdova Rebellion
• Killough Massacre

(1839)
Amistad Revolt

(1839)
Honey War

(1839–1844)
Regulator–Moderator War

(1839—1845)
Anti–Rent War

(1840)
Bellevue War

(1840—1842)
Slicker War

(1841)
Creole Case

(1841–1842)
Dorr Rebellion

(1842)
1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation

(1842)
Texas Archive War

(1842—1901)
Clay County War

(1844)
Philadelphia Nativist Riots

(1844—1846)
Illinois–Mormon War

(1844—1850)
Tutt–Everett War

(1845)
Milwaukee Bridge War

(1847)
Taos Revolt

(1847–1855)
Cayuse War

(1849)
Battle Creek Massacre

(1849)
Astor Place Riot

(1849–1855)
Jicarilla War

(1849—1866)
Navajo Wars

(1849—1923)
Ute Wars

(1849—1924)
Apache Wars

(1850)
Bloody Island Massacre

(1850)
Battle of Fort Utah

(1850—1851)
Mariposa War

(1850—1851)
El Dorado Indian War

(1850—1853)
Yuma War
• Garra Revolt

(1851)
Battle of Grand Coteau

(1851)
William McBride Massacre

(1851)
Porter Rockwell Massacre

(1851—1853)
Timber Rebellion

(1851—1856)
Beaver–Mackinac War

(1851—1864)
Chiricahua Wars

(1853–1854)
Walker War

(1853—1854)
Erie–Gauge War

(1854—1865)
Bleeding Kansas

(1854—1891)
Sioux Wars
• First Sioux War

(1855)
Klickitat War

(1855)
Klamath and Salmon River War

(1855—1856)
Rogue River Wars

(1855—1858)
Third Seminole War

(1855—1858)
Yakima War
• Puget Sound War
• Coeur d'Alene War

(1856)
Tule River War

(1856)
Tintic War

(1857)
New York City Police Riot

(1857)
Dead Rabbits Riot

(1857—1858)
Utah War
• Mountain Meadows Massacre
• Fort Lemhi Raid

(1858)
Mendocino War

(1858—1859)
Mohave War

(1858—1864)
Bald Hills War

(1858—1871)
Northwest California Indian Wars
• Bloody Island Massacre
• Bridge Gulch Massacre
• Yontoket Massacre
• Achulet Massacre
• Kaibai Creek Massacre
• Pit River Expeditions
• Workman Massacre
• Mill Creek Fight
• Silva Massacre
• Three Knolls Massacre
• Mojave Desert Indian Campaign
• Skirmish at Rainy Springs Canyon
• Camp Seco Massacre
• Kingsley Cave Massacre

(1859)
Pawnee War of 1859

(1859)
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

(1860)
Bitter Spring Expedition

(1860)
Paiute War

(1861)
Camp Jackson Affair

(1861—1865)
American Civil War

(1861—1875)
Yavapai Wars

(1862)
Morrisite War

(1862)
Dakota War of 1862

(1862—1865)
Owens Valley Indian War

(1862—1925)
Tong Wars

(1863)

Bloody Espinosas Reign of Terror

(1863)
Goshute War

(1863)
Sagebrush War

(1863—1864)
Colorado War

(1863—1865)
Jones County Rebellion

(1863—1869)
Early–Hasely Feud

(1864—1865)
Placer County Railroad War

(1864—1868)

Snake War

(1864—1868)

Arapaho–Cheyenne War

(1864—1874)
Lowry War

(1865)
Powder River War

(1865—1867)
French Intervention In Mexico

(1865—1869)
Early–Hasley Feud

(1865—1870)
Hualapai War

(1865—1881)
First Ku Klux Klan Insurgency
• Eutaw Riot

(1865—1872)
Black Hawk's War

(1865—1959)

Oyster Wars

(1866—1877)

River Piracy In New York City

(1866)
New Orleans Riot

(1866)
Memphis Massacre

(1866)
Circleville Massacre

(1866—1868)
Red Cloud's War

(1867)
Pulaski Riot

(1867—1869)
AR Suppression of the KKK

(1867—1871)
Lee–Peacock Feud

(1867—1875)
Comanche Campaign

(1868)
Woodruff County Militia War

(1868—1876)
Sutton–Taylor Feud

(1869—1871)
Jackson County War

(1870)
Barber–Mizell Feud

(1870)
Kirk–Holden War

(1870—1871)
Orange Riots

(1871)
Yavapai War

(1872)
Goingsnake Massacre

(1872)
Pope County Militia War

(1872—1873)
Modoc War

(1873)
1873 Barracks Revolt

(1873)
Colfax Massacre

(1873—1874)
Horrell–Higgins Feud

(1873—1888)
Colfax County War

(1874)
Election Riot of 1874

(1874)
Battle of Liberty Place

(1874)
Brooks–Baxter War

(1874—1875)
Red River War

(1875—1876)
Mason County War

(1875—1878)
Waldron War

(1876)
Hamburg Massacre

(1876—1877)
Great Sioux War of 1876

(1876—1877)
Buffalo Hunters' War

(1877)
Nez Pierce War

(1877)
El Paso Salt War

(1877)
Great Railroad Strike of 1877

(1877)
Horrell–Higgins Feud

(1877—1878)
San Elizario Salt War

(1878)
Bannock War

(1878—1879)
Cheyenne War

(1878—1879)
Colorado Railroad War

(1878—1879)
Strong–Little–Burnett Feud

(1878—1881)
Lincoln County War

(1879)
Sheepeater Indian War

(1879)
White River War

(1879—1881)
Victorio's War

(1880)
Variety Hall Shootout

(1880)
Calloway Affair of 1880

(1881)
Perry County War of 1881

(1881)
Four Dead In Five Seconds Shootout

(1881—1882)
Earp–Clanton Feud
• Gunfight at the O.K. Coral
• Earp Vendetta Ride

(1881—1887)
Geronimo's War

(1881—1894)
Hatfield–McCoy Feud

(1882—1884)
Smith–Nichols Feud

(1882—1892)
Pleasant Valley War

(1883)
Dodge City War

(1883—1895)
Ambrose–Terry Feud

(1884)
Frisco Shootout

(1884—1887)
Rowan County War

(1884—1894)
Howard–Turner Feud

(1884—1899)
Flynn–Doran Feud

• Hot Springs Gunfight

(1884)

1884 Honolulu Pirate Raid

(1885)
Rock Springs Massacre

(1886)
Big Fight at the Jenkins Saloon

(1886)
Haymarket Affair

(1887)
Rebellion of 1887

(1887)
Crow War

(1887)
Ute War

(1887—1893)
Gray County War

(1887—1894)
French–Eversole Feud

(1888)
Dominis Conspiracy

(1888)
Stevens County Seat War

(1888—1889)
Jaybird–Woodpecker War

(1888—1900)
Tucker County Seat War

(1889)
Wilcox Rebellion of 1889

(1889—1893)
Johnson County War

(1890—1891)
Ghost Dance War

(1890—1916)
Castaic Range War

(1891—1892)
Coal Creek War

(1891—1893)
Garza Revolution

(1892)
Burlesque Conspiracy

(1892)
Homestead Strike

(1892—1893)
Mitcham War

(1892—1899)
Coeur d'Alene Miners' Dispute
• Coeur d'Alene Idaho Labor Strike of 1892
• Coeur d'Alene Idaho Labor Strike of 1899

(1893)
Battle of Stone Corral

(1893)
Battle of Ingalls

(1893)
Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii

(1893)
Leper War on Kauaʻi

(1893—1894)
Black Week (Hawaii)

(1893—1894)
Enid–Pond Creek Railroad War

(1894)
Denver City Hall War

(1894)
Bituminous Coal Miners' Strike

(1894)

Pullman Strike

(1895)

Bannock War of 1895

(1895)
Gunfight at Morenci

(1895)
1895 Counter Revolution
• Battle of Diamond Head
• Battle of Mo'ili'ili
• Battle of Mānoa

(1895—1906)
Sheepshooter War

(1896)
Skeleton Canyon Shootout

(1896)
Deep Creek Murders

(1896—1902)
Brooks–McFarland Feud

(1896—1918)
Yaqui Wars
• Yaqui Uprising
• Battle of Bear Valley

(1898)
Shootout at Juneau Wharf

(1898)
Wilmington Insurrection

(1898)
Battle of Sugar Point

(1898—1900)
Illinois Coal Wars

(1898—1907)

Reese–Townsend Feud

(1898)

Puerto Rican Campaign

(1899)

Shootout at Wilson's Ranch

(1900)
Robert Charles Riots

(1902)
Coal Strike of 1902

(1903—1904)
Colorado Labor Wars

(1903—1904)
Carbon County Strike

(1903—1908)
Hargis–Marcum Feud

(1904—1909)
Black Patch Tobacco War

(1905)
Louisiana–Mississippii Quarantine War of 1905

(1906—1907)
Piney Woods Uprisings

(1907—1909)
McIntosh Country Seat War

(1908)
Nellie Johnson Mutiny

(1908—1912)
Deschutes Railroad War

(1909)
Spring Creek Raid

(1909)
Crazy Snake Rebellion

(1910—1911)
Boyce–Sneed Feud

(1910—1915)
Bandit War

(1911)
Battle of Kelley Creek

(1911—1912)
Louisiana–Texas Timber War
• Grabow Riot

(1911—1927)
Labor Sluggers
• Labor Slugger War
• Second Labor Sluggers War
• Third Labor Sluggers War
• Fourth Labor Sluggers War

(1912—1913)
Gianolla–Adamo War

(1912—1921)
West Virginia Coal Wars

(1913)
Beautiful Mountain Uprising

(1913—1914)
Colorado Coalfield War

(1914)
Butte Montana Labor Riots of 1914

(1914—1915)
Bluff War

(1915)
Colorado Paiute War

(1915—1917)
Mafia–Camorra War

(1915—1949)
Second Ku Klux Klan Insurgency
• Tulsa Race Riot

• KKK Inglewood Raid

• Morgan Plantation KKK Raid

(1916)
Everett Massacre

(1916—1921)
Alderman's Wars

(1917)
Bisbee Deportation

(1917)
Camp Logan Mutiny

(1917)
Green Corn Rebellion

(1917—1920)

First Red Scare

• Red Summer

(1918)
Power's Cabin Shootout

(1918—1919)
Gianolla–Vitale War

(1919)
Elaine Massacre

(1919)
Centralia Massacre

(1920—1921)
Alabama Coal Strike of 1920

(1920—1933)
Chicago Beer Wars
• Pinapple Primary
• Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

(1921—1922)
Morello Family War

(1922)
Herrin Massacre

(1923)
Posey War

(1924)

Hanapepe Massacre

(1930—1931)
Castellammarese War

(1931)
Red River Bridge War

(1931—1932)
Harlan County War

(1931—1935)
Iowa Cow War

(1932)

Brookline Shootout

(1932)
Bonus Army Conflict

(1932—1938)
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party 1930s Rebellion
• Río Piedras Massacre
• Ponce Massacre

(1933)
Kansas City Massacre

(1934)
Little Bohemia Lodge Gun Battle

(1934)
Battle of Barrington

(1938)
Hilo Massacre

(1941)
Niihau Incident

(1942)

Townsville Mutiny

(1944)

Battle of Saipan

(1946)
Battle of Athens

(1946—1954)
Democratic Revolution of 1954

(1947—1956) [war]
Battle of Sunset Strip

(1947—1957)
Second Red Scare

(1950—1954)
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s
• Peñuelas Incident
• Arecibo Incident
• Ponce Incident
• Mayagüez Incident
• Jayuya Uprising
• Utuado Uprising
• San Juan Nationalist Revolt
• Naranjito Incident
• Truman assassination attempt
• United States Capitol shooting incident of 1954

(1951—1981)
Third Ku Klux Klan Insurgency
• Battle of Hayes Pond
• Birmingham Riot of 1863
• Greensboro Massacre

(1960s — 1970s)
Irish Mob War

(1960—1963)
First Columbo War

(1961—1967)
Boston Irish Gang War

(1964—1968)
Bonana War

(1965—1985)

Black Power Movement revolution

• Watts Rebellion

• California State Capitol Building Takeover
• Glenville Shootout
• Gun Battle at UCLA
• Greensboro Uprising
• Days of Rage
• Marin County Courthouse Incident
• New Jersey Turnpike Shootout

• SLA Shootout

• Spaghetti House Siege

• MOVE Shootout
• Brink's Robbery
• MOVE Siege

(1966—1977)
Spillane–Coonan War

(1969—present)
Compton Gang War
• Bloods–Crips Rivalry

(1969—1975)
Red Power Movement revolution
• Occupation of Alcatraz
• Occupation of Mount Rushmore
• Occupation of Winter Dam
• Bureau of Indian Affairs Building Takeover
• Wounded Knee Incident
• Pine Ridge Shootout

(1970s)
Irish/Italian Mob War

(1970)
SS Columbia Eagle Incident

(1970)
Newhall Incident

(1971)
Attica Prison Riot

(1971—1975)

Second Columbo War

(1972)

Harlem Mosque Incident

(1972)
Fountain Valley Massacre

(1976—1986)
Rebellion in Paradise

(1976—present)
Sagebrush Rebellion
• 2011 Tucson Shooting
• Bundy Ranch Standoff
-Battle of Bunkerville
• 2014 Las Vegas Shooting
• Sugar Point Mine Standoff
• White Hope Mine Standoff
• Occupation of Malhuer Wildlife Refuge
-FBI ambush on U.S. Route 395

(1977)
1977 Hanafi Siege

(1977—present)
California Biker War
• River Run Riot

(1979— 1980s)
Miami Drug War

(1980)
Norco Shootout

(1980s — 1990s)
Philadelphia Mafia War

(1982)

Miracle Valley Shootout

(1983)

Medina Shootout

(1983)

Shannon Street Massacre

(1984—1985)

Mine War on Blackberry Creek

(1985)

1985 Farm Siege

(1986)

1986 Electrical Workers Protest

(1986)

1986 FBI Miami Shootout

(1988)

Singer–Swapp Standoff

(1989—1990)

1989 Pittston Coal Strike

(1989)

Ash Street Shootout

(1991)
1991 Sacramento Hostage Crises

(1991—1993)
Third Columbo War

(1992)
Los Angeles Uprising

(1992)
Ruby Ridge Standoff

(1993)

Waco Siege

(1994—1996)

Montana Freemen Standoff

(1995)

Oklahoma City Bombing

(1997)
Republic of Texas Standoff

(1997)

North Hollywood Shootout

(1999)

KKK shootout in Elgin, Texas

(2000—2014)
John Joe Gray Standoff

(2001)

Rainbow Farm Standoff

(2005)

Civil disturbances during Hurricane Katrina

• Algiers Point vigilante militia attacks on looters

(2008)
Occupation of Iolani Palace
• Sateday Takeover

(2010)

Old Orchard Beach Shootout

(2011)

Gunfight at John Ascuaga's Nugget Hotel and Casino

(2015)
Curtis Culwell Center Attack

(2015)
Observe Operation Jade Helm 15

(2015)

2015 Waco Shootout

(2015)

San Bernadino Attack

(2016)

National Western Complex Shootout

(2016)

Shootout at Shorty's Place in Warren Township

(2016)

2016 Sacramento Riot

(2017)
Suffolk County War

(2017)

Leesburg Bikefest Shootout

(2017)

Shootout in Back of the Yards, Chicago

(2017)

Charlottesville Attack

(2017)

Hurricane Harvey looting

• #harveylootcrew attack on Cajun Navy