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Wars and conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include:
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| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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| 15 November 1315 | Battle of Morgarten part of |  Old Swiss Confederacy |  Archduchy of Austria |
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| 9 July 1386 | Battle of Sempach part of | Old Swiss Confederacy | Archduchy of Austria | Decisive Swiss victory | |
| 30 June 1422 | Battle of Arbedo | Old Swiss Confederacy |  Duchy of Milan | Defeat:
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| 2 November 1440 | 12 June 1446 | Old Zürich War | Old Swiss Confederacy | Swiss Confederation victory | |
| 1474 | 1477 | Burgundian Wars | Old Swiss Confederacy | Franco-Swiss victory | |
| January 1499 | September 1499 | Swabian War | Old Swiss Confederacy |  Holy Roman Empire | Swiss Confederation victory
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| 1511 | 1516 | War of the League of Cambrai | Defeat
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| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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| 1529 | First War of Kappel
| Protestant cantons | Catholic cantons | Unresolved, no actual battles fought | |
| 1531 | Musso war |
| Duchy of Milan | Victory
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| 1531 | Second War of Kappel
| Catholics: | Protestants: | Catholic cantons victory | |
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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| January 1653 | June 1653 | Swiss peasant war of 1653
| Peasant rebels | City governments troops | Military victory of the ruling city councils |
| 1656 and 1712 | The First War of Villmergen and the Toggenburg War (or Second War of Villmergen)
| Catholic victory in First war, Protestant victory in second. | |||
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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| Allies | Enemies | ||||
| 1798 | 1799 | French Revolutionary Wars | French victory
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| 1799 | 1802 | War of the Second Coalition |
| French Republican victory | |
| 1802 | Stecklikrieg
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| Collapse of the Helvetic Republic, French Act of Mediation and creation of the Swiss Confederation | ||
| 1806 | 1807 | War of the Fourth Coalition | French victory | ||
| 10 April 1809 | 14 October 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition |
| French victory | |
| 1813 | 1814 | War of the Sixth Coalition | Coalition Victory | ||
| 20 March 1815 | 8 July 1815 | War of the Seventh Coalition | Coalition victory | ||
| 6 December 1830 | 6 December 1830 | Freiämtersturm |  | Freiämtersturm | Freiämtersturm Victory |
| 3 November 1847 | 29 November 1847 | Sonderbund War
| Swiss Confederation | Sonderbund | Confederation victory |
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Outcome | |
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| Allies | Enemies | ||||
| 1940 | 1945 | Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II | Switzerland |
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| 2003 | 2008 | War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | Taliban victory | ||
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