History is not everyone's best subject. Military records are an interesting part of our genealogical research, but we may not always be sure which war is which, or exactly when (or where) it happened. Here is a chronology of some wars and battles of interest. Note that some dates are approximate, as different sources disagree over the true beginning and end of the longer wars.

DATE	NAME	WHERE	NOTES
1066	Battle of Hastings	Hastings, England	Part of the Norman Conquest
1095-1272	The Crusades	Palestine, Europe
1337-1453	Hundred Years' War	Europe
1455-1485	Wars of the Roses	England
1618-1648	Thirty Years' War	Europe
1675-1677	King Philip's War	North America
1690-1697	King William's War	North America
1702-1714	Queen Anne's War	North America
1744-1748	King George's War	North America	Sometimes called "The Old French War". Confusingly, that term is sometimes also applied to the French and Indian War.
1756-1763	Seven Years' War	Europe, North America	The North American portion is called the "French and Indian War".
1775-1781	Revolutionary War	North America	Also called the "American Revolution"
19 Apr 1775	Battle of Lexington and Concord	Massachusetts	The first battle of the Revolutionary War
June 1775	Battle of Bunker Hill	near Boston MA	First great battle of the Revolutionary War
1781	Battle of Yorktown	Virginia	The last battle of the Revolutionary War.
1789-1802	French Revolution	France	Includes the "Reign of Terror" 1793-1794
1812-1815	War of 1812	North America
1815	Battle of Waterloo	Belgium
1836	Battle of the Alamo	Texas
1846-1848	Mexican War
1853-1856	Crimean War	Crimean Peninsula
1861-1865	American Civil War	U.S.A.	Also called the "War Between the States", the "War of the Rebellion", and the "War of Southern Independence"
17 Sept 1862	Battle of Antietam	near Sharpsburg MD	Also called the "Battle of Sharpsburg"
July 1863	Battle of Gettysburg	Pennsylvania	The greatest battle of the American Civil War.
1876	Battle of the Little Bighorn	Montana
1880-1881, 1899-1902	Boer Wars	South Africa
1904-1905	Russo-Japanese War	China, Korea
1914-1918	World War I	Europe	Also called the "Great War". (The U.S. officially entered the war in 1917.)
1917-1918	Russian Revolution	Russia
1936-1939	Spanish Civil War	Spain
1939-1945	World War II	Europe, Africa, Asia, Etc.	The U.S. officially entered the war in 1941.
December 7, 1941	Attack on Pearl Harbor	Hawaii	Brought the U.S. into WWII.
June 1942	Battle of Midway Island	Pacific Ocean	Part of World War II
1950-1953	Korean War	Korea	Also called the "Korean Conflict"
1954-1975	Vietnam War	Vietnam (Indochina)
June 1967	Six-Day War	Israel, Egypt
1968	Tet Offensive	Vietnam	Part of the Vietnam War
1980-1988	Iran-Iraq War	Iran, Iraq	Also called the "First Persian Gulf War"
1982	Falklands War	Falkland Islands (South Atlantic Ocean)
1990-1991	Gulf War	Kuwait, Iraq	Also called the "Persian Gulf War", "Second Persion Gulf War" or "Desert Storm"