List of wars named for their duration

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This list includes wars which have been named for their duration, either as the most common name or an alternative commonly used name. This table can be sorted by length or start-date.

NameNominal lengthDatesParticipantsComments
Four-Day War, April War, or 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict 4 days2016 Armenia and Republic of Artsakh v. Azerbaijan
100 Hour War or Football War 100 hours
(i.e. 4 days, 4 hours)
1969 El Salvador and Honduras
Six-Day War 6 days1967 Israel v. Egypt, Jordan, Syria
Six-Day War of Abkhazia or War in Abkhazia (1998) 6 days1998Insurgency in Abkhazia
Six-Day War 6 days2000 Rwanda v. Uganda, Second Congo War
Ten-Day War 10 days1991Civil war in Yugoslavia
Ten days' campaign 10 days1831 Dutch campaign in Belgium
Eleven Days' War or Operation Faustschlag 11 days1918 Central powers v. Russia in World War I
Thirty Days' War or Greco-Turkish War (1897) 30 days1897 Greece v. Ottoman Empire
Hundred Days' War 100 days1978Sub-conflict of Lebanese civil war
Hundred Days or War of the Seventh Coalition100 days1815 France and Naples v. Britain, Prussia, Austria, Russia and others
Thousand Days' War 1,000 days
(i.e. 2 years, 270 days)
1899–1902civil armed conflict in Colombia
Four Years' War or Italian War of 1521–1526 4 years1521–1526 France, Venice v. England, Holy Roman Empire, Papal States
Seven Years' War 7 years1756–1763France etc. v. Great Britain and others
Northern Seven Years' War 7 years1563–1570 Sweden v. Denmark–Norway, Lübeck and Poland
Nine Years' War 9 years1688–1697France v. Grand Alliance
Nine Years' War (Ireland) 9 years1594–1603 Ireland v. England
Ten Years' War 10 years1868–1878 Cuba v. Spain
Eleven Years' War or Irish Confederate Wars 11 years1641–1653Irish theatre of Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars in England, Ireland, Scotland
Thirteen Years' War or Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) 13 years1654–1667 Russia v. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466) 13 years1454–1466 Prussian Confederation, allied with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, and the State of the Teutonic Order
Thirteen Years' War or Long Turkish War (also known as the Fifteen Years' War)13 years1591/93-1606 Habsburg monarchy v. Ottoman Empire
Fifteen Years' War or Long Turkish War (also known as the Thirteen Years' War)15 years1591/93-1606Habsburg Monarchy v. Ottoman Empire
Thirty Years' War 30 years1618–1648"most of the great powers of Europe", except England
Second Thirty Years' War 30 years1914–1945Term used by some historians to encompass a series of European wars [lower-alpha 1]
Mauritanian Thirty Years' War or Char Bouba war 30 years1644–1674Berber and other tribes in Mauritania
Forty Years' War 40 years1385–1424 Ava v. Hanthawaddy Pegu, Burma
Sixty Years' War 60 years1754–1814Term used to encompass several conflicts in the Great Lakes region of North America
Eighty Years' War 80 years1568–1648 Seventeen Provinces v. SpainThere was a truce during the 80 years
Hundred Years' War 100 years1337–1453England v. FranceThe war lasted 116 years intermittently
Second Hundred Years' War 100 years1689–1815France v. Great BritainThe war lasted 126 years (with breaks)
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War 335 years1651–1986"alleged theoretical state of war" between Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly

Explanatory notes

  1. Use of this term can be found in many sources. Some examples include "Naming World Wars" at GlobalSecurity.org, Anthony Shaw's The World in Conflict, 1914–1945 (2000) ISBN   978-1-57958-212-8, and many other sources.

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