| Years | Event |
|---|
| 1602–1661 | Dutch-Portuguese War |
| 1625–1630 | Anglo-Spanish War |
| 1627–1629 | Anglo-French War |
| 1642-1651 | English Civil War |
| 1652-1654 | First Anglo-Dutch War |
| 1654–1660 | Anglo-Spanish War |
| 1665-1667 | Second Anglo-Dutch War |
| 1672-1674 | Third Anglo-Dutch War |
| 1672-1678 | Franco-Dutch War |
| 1685 | Monmouth Rebellion |
| 1688-1697 | Nine Years' War |
| 1701–1714 | The War of the Spanish Succession |
| 1715–1716 | Jacobite rising of 1715 |
| 1740–1748 | War of the Austrian Succession |
| 1741–1745 | Jacobite rising of 1745 |
| 1756–1763 | Seven Years' War |
| 1775–1783 | American War of Independence |
| 1798 | Irish Rebellion of 1798 |
| 1799–1815 | Napoleonic Wars |
| 1807–1809 | Anglo-Turkish War |
| 1807–1812 | Anglo-Russian War |
| 1807–1814 | Peninsular War |
| 1812–1815 | War of 1812 |
| 1839–1842 | First Anglo-Afghan War |
| 1839–1842 | First Opium War |
| 1839–1841 | Second Egyptian-Ottoman War |
| 1853–1856 | Crimean War |
| 1856–1860 | Second Opium War |
| 1856–1857 | Anglo-Persian War |
| 1857–1858 | Indian Mutiny |
| 1879 | Anglo-Zulu War |
| 1880–1881 | First Boer War |
| 1899–1901 | Boxer Rebellion |
| 1899–1902 | Second Boer War |
| 1914–1918 | World War I |
| 1919–1919 | Third Anglo-Afghan War |
| 1919–1920 | Irish War of Independence |
| 1939–1945 | World War II |
| 1950–1953 | Korean War |
| 1956–1957 | Suez Crisis |
| 1982 | Falklands War |
| 1991 | Gulf War |
| 1998 | Operation Desert Fox |
| 1998–1999 | Kosovo War |
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