Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Belgium) | Outcome |
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Allies | Enemies |
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1789 | 1790 | Brabant Revolution | United Belgian States | Habsburg Austria | Austrian victory |
1830 | 1839 | Belgian Revolution | Belgian rebels France | United Kingdom of the Netherlands | Treaty of London: - Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium
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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
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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]
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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 | Luba rebels led by Kasongo Nyembo | Belgian victory |
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 |
1914 | 1918 | East African campaign (part of World War I) | Allies :
United Kingdom
Belgium
Portugal
| Central Powers German Empire
| Allied victory |
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 |
1978 | 1978 | Shaba II | Zaire
France
United States
| Front for the National Liberation of the Congo | Franco-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.
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1998 | 1999 | Kosovo War | Kosovo Liberation Army
Albania NATO force
| Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | NATO victory |
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 |
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