List of wars involving Belgium

This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Belgium and its colonial empire.

Battle of Amblève - 716 - Frankish Civil War
Battle of Thimeon - 880 - Frankish–Viking battles
Battle of Leuven (891) - 891 - Frankish–Viking battles
Battle of Axspoele - 1128
Battle of Noville - 1194 - War of the Namen-Luxembourg Succession
Battle of Damme - 1213 - Anglo-French War (1213–1214)
Battle of Steppes - 1213
Battle of Furnes - 1297 - Franco-Flemish War
Battle of the Golden Spurs - 1302 - Franco-Flemish War
Battle of Arques (1303) - 1303 - Franco-Flemish War
Siege of Tournai (1340) - 1340 - Hundred Years' War
Battle of Scheut - 1365
Battle of Beverhoutsveld - 1382 - Revolt of Ghent (1379–1385)
Battle of Roosebeke - 1382 - Revolt of Ghent (1379–1385)
Siege of Ypres (1383) - 1383 - Hundred Years' War
Battle of Othée - 1408 - Wars of Liège
Battle of Nevele (1452) - 1452 - Ghent War (1449–1453)
Battle of Bazel - 1452 - Ghent War (1449–1453)
Battle of Gavere - 1453 - Ghent War (1449–1453)
Battle of Montenaken - 1465 - Wars of Liège
Siege of Dinant - 1466 - Wars of Liège
Battle of Brustem - 1467 - Wars of Liège
Siege of Tournai - 1521 - Italian War of 1521–1526
Battle of Oosterweel - 1567 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Jodoigne - 1568 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of Mons (1572) - 1572 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Saint-Ghislain - 1572 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Lillo - 1574 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Vissenaken - 1576 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of the Spaniards' Castle - 1576 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Gembloux (1578) - 1578 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of Zichem - 1578 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of Nivelles - 1578 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of Limburg - 1578 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Rijmenam - 1578 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of Binche - 1578 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Borgerhout - 1579 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Baasrode - 1579 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of Tournai (1581) - 1581 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of Oudenaarde - 1582 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of Ghent (1583–1584) - 1583 - Ghent War
Fall of Antwerp - 1584 - Eighty Years' War
Siege of Brussels (1584-1585) - 1584 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of the Kouwensteinsedijk - 1585 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Turnhout (1597) - 1597 - Eighty Years' War
Battle of Nieuwpoort - 1600 - Eighty Years' War

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Belgium)		Outcome
Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Outcome
1789	1790	Brabant Revolution	United Belgian States	Habsburg Austria	Austrian victory Revolution suppressed
1830	1839	Belgian Revolution Ten Days' Campaign	Belgian rebels France	United Kingdom of the Netherlands	Treaty of London: Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium
1832	1834	Liberal Wars	Portugal United Kingdom France Spain	Miguelites	Liberal victory, Constitutional monarchy is restored
1861	1867	French intervention in Mexico	Mexican Empire France Austrian Empire Spain United Kingdom Egypt Eyalet Polish Revolutionaries	United Mexican States United States of America (entered in 1865)	French withdrawal, Republican victory
1881	1899	Mahdist War	British Empire Kingdom of Italy Congo Free State Ethiopian Empire	Mahdist Sudanese	Anglo-Egyptian victory
1891	1892	Stairs Expedition to Katanga	Congo Free State supported by: Belgium	Yeke state of Msiri	Congo Free State victory Msiri killed, Mukanda-Bantu becomes vassal prince Belgium acquires the colony of Katanga
1892	1894	Belgo-Arab War	Congo Free State	Zanzibari slave traders	Congo Free State victory
1895	1895	Luba rebellion	Congo Free State supported by: Belgium	Luba rebels	Congo Free State victory Many Luba men had to perform forced labour in the Katanga mines^[1]
1895	1908	Batetela Rebellions	Congo Free State	Batetela people	Congo Free State victory
1905	1917	Kasongo Nyembo rebellion^[1]	Congo Free State (until 1908) Belgium Belgian Congo (from 1908)	Luba rebels led by Kasongo Nyembo	Belgian victory Kasongo Nyembo banished^[1]
1914	1918	World War I	Allies: France British Empire Russian Empire (1914–17) United States (1917–18) and others	Central Powers German Empire Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Bulgaria (1915–18)	Allied victory Belgium acquires Eupen-Malmedy from Germany
1914	1918	East African campaign (part of World War I)	Allies: United Kingdom South Africa India Rhodesia British East Africa Nyasaland Uganda Belgium Belgian Congo	Allied victory Allied conquest and partition of German East Africa Belgium acquires Ruanda-Urundi from German East Africa
10 May 1940	28 May 1940	Battle of Belgium (part of World War II)	Belgium France British Empire Netherlands Luxembourg	Nazi Germany	Belgian surrender and German occupation of Belgium
1940	1945	World War II	Allies	Axis powers	Allied victory
1950	1953	Korean War	United Nations (UN Resolution 84)	North Korea China Soviet Union	Ceasefire
1959	1962	Rwandan Revolution			Independence of the Republic of Rwanda Independence of the Kingdom of Burundi
1960	1966	Congo Crisis	Katanga South Kasai	Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) United Nations (United Nations Operation in the Congo)	Withdrawal of Belgian Armed Forces Debellation of the State of South Kasai in 1961 Debellation of the State of Katanga in 1963 New Belgian intervention Operation Dragon Rouge and Operation Dragon Noire in 1964
1978	1978	Shaba II	Zaire France United States	Front for the National Liberation of the Congo	Franco-Belgian victory
1979	1985	Violence in Belgium	Belgium	Provisional Irish Republican Army Communist Combatant Cells	Belgian victory
1990	1991	Gulf War	Coalition forces	Ba'athist Iraq	Coalition victory
1991	2003	Iraqi no-fly zones	United States United Kingdom France (1991–1998) Australia Netherlands Saudi Arabia Turkey Italy	Ba'athist Iraq	Coalition victory
1992	1995	Somali Civil War	United States United Kingdom Spain Saudi Arabia Malaysia Pakistan Italy India Greece Germany France Canada Botswana Australia	United Somali Congress	Victory UN humanitarian mandate fulfilled. About 100,000 lives were saved by outside resistance. Civil war is ongoing.
1998	1999	Kosovo War	Kosovo Liberation Army Albania NATO force	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	NATO victory United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
2001	2021	War in Afghanistan	Afghanistan United States ISAF	Taliban	Taliban victory
2011		2011 military intervention in Libya	National Transitional Council NATO forces	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	Fall of Gaddafi régime
2014	ongoing	2014 military intervention against ISIS		Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant	Ongoing

References

1 2 3 Appiah, Anthony; Henry Louis Gates (2005). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Volume 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 656. ISBN 9780195170559. Retrieved 5 August 2020.

[Africana-1] 1 2 3 Appiah, Anthony; Henry Louis Gates (2005). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Volume 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 656. ISBN 9780195170559. Retrieved 5 August 2020.

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States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Kosovo Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria
Dependencies and other entities	Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Svalbard

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