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List of conflicts in the United States is a timeline of events that includes Indian wars, battles, skirmishes, major terrorist attacks, massacres, and other related items that have occurred in the United States's current geographical area, including overseas territories.

1 Before the 16th Century
2 16th Century
3 17th Century
4 18th Century
5 19th Century
6 20th Century
7 21st Century
8 See also

Before the 16th Century

1325 Crow Creek Massacre in present-day South Dakota.

16th Century

1565 Spanish massacre of French Huguenots at Fort Caroline in Florida. This is notable as it is the first conflict between European powers in what is today the United States.

17th Century

1609 - 1613 First Anglo–Powhatan War
1622 Jamestown Massacre in which English settlers are attacked by Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in Jamestown Colony in Virginia.
1637 Pequot War in New England
1637 Kent Island Rebellion in Maryland
1641 - 1667 First Beaver War in the Great Lakes region
1643 - 1645 Kieft's War in New Netherlands
1644 - 1646 Claiborne's Rebellion in Maryland
1644 - 1646 Second Anglo–Powhatan War following Opechancanough's Massacre in Virginia
1646 - 1647 Ingle's Rebellion in Maryland
1655 Battle of the Severn in Maryland
1659 - 1660 First Esopus War in New Netherlands
1663 Second Esopus War in Netherlands
1664 Second Anglo-Dutch War in which the English conquer New Netherlands and rename it New York (The War lasts in Europe and elsewhere until 1667.)
1673 - 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War in which the Dutch re-capture New York, but return it to the English after the war
1675 - 1676 King Philip's War in New England
1676 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico
1681 Fendall's Rebellion in Maryland
1683 - 1701 Second Beaver War in the Great Lakes region
1689 - 1692 Glorious Revolution in New England in which Sir Edmund Andros and the Dominion of New England are overthrown
1689 - 1691 Leisler's Rebellion in New York
1689 - 1692 Coode's Rebellion in Maryland
1689 - 1697 King William's War

18th Century

1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War
1703 - 1719 Noncomformists Disturbances in Jamaica, New York
1703 Political factionalism riot in Charleston, South Carolina
1704 Riot of Young Gentry in Philadelphia
1705 Privateersman's riot in New York
1710 Food riot in Boston
1711 - 1715 Tuscarora War
1711 Cary's Rebellion in North Carolina
1711 Dutch Church Riot in Flatbush, New York
1711 Anti-impressment Riot in New York
1712 New York Slave Revolt of 1712
1715 - 1717 Yamasee War
1718 Riotous seizure of records in North Carolina
1719 Anti-customs riot in Newport, Rhode Island
1719 Overthrow of the proprietor in South Carolina
1720 Defeat of the Spanish Villasur expedition in Nebraska by Pawnee (with the possible assistance of the French)
1722 Jailbreak riot in Hartford, Connecticut
1722 - 1727 Dummer's War with the Abenaki Indians in Maine
1726 Philadelphia riot against pillory and stocks
1734 Riot against ship seizure in Hartford County, Connecticut
1734 Mast-Tree Riot in Exeter, New Hampshire
1737 Anti-prostitution riot in Boston
1737 Anti-markethouse riot in Boston
1737 Anti-Quitrent riot in North Carolina
1738 Fish Dam Riot on the Schuykill River, Pennsylvania
1739 Stono Rebellion, slave rebellion in South Carolina
1741 New York Conspiracy of 1741, a suspected slave revolt
1739 - 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear with Spain
- 1742 Battle of Gully Hole Creek
- 1742 Battle of Bloody Marsh
1742 Election riot in Philadelphia
1744 - 1748 King George's War
1745 - 1754 Horseneck Riots, land riots in New Jersey
1747 Impressment riot in Boston
1750 Election Riot in York, Pennsylvania
1751 - 1757 Anti-rent riot by tenants in New York
1754 Riot against the surveyor of the woods in Exeter, New Hampshire
1754 - 1763 French and Indian War
- 1754 Battle of Fort Necessity (Great Meadows)
- 1755 Braddock Expedition (Battle of the Monongahela)
- 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego
- 1757 Battle of Fort William Henry, including subsequent "massacre"
- 1758 Battle of Fort Duquesne
- 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga
- 1758 Battle of Fort Duquesne
- 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara
1757 Riot against the recruitment of troops in Brentwoods, New Hampshire
1757 Seizure of longboat of HMS Enterprise by mob in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
1758 - 1761 Cherokee War in Georgia
1759 Anti-land tax riot in North Carolina
1763 Pontiac's Rebellion
1763 - 1764 Paxton Boys' Rebellion in Pennsylvania
1763 Wyoming Valley Massacre against Connecticut settlers in Pennsylvania
1764 - 1771 War of the Regulation
- 1771 Battle of Alamance in North Carolina
1764 Pope Day Riot in Boston
1766 Quartering Act riot in New York
1765 Stamp Act riots in Boston, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland
1769 - 1771 First Pennamite War between settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania in Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania
1770 Boston Massacre
1772 Burning of the customs schooner HMS Gaspee in Naragansett Bay
1773 - 1774 Lord Dunmore's War
1775 - 1783 American Revolutionary War
- 1775
- 1776
- 1777
- 1778
  - Battle of Monmouth
  - Battle of Savannah
- 1779
  - Battle of Vincennes
- 1780
- 1781
  
  Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown
1777 - 1794 Chickamauga wars
1783 - 1788 Second Pennamite War between settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania in Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania
1785 - 1795 Northwest Indian War
1786 - 1787 Shays' Rebellion
1791 - 1794 Whiskey Rebellion
1798 - 1800 Quasi-War, an undeclared naval war with France

19th Century

1804 Battle of Sitka Russian forces defeat the Tlingit in the last major armed conflict between Europeans and Alaska Natives.
1807 Capture of Saint Thomas and Saint Croix in the West Indies from the French by the British. This is notable as the only action fought during the Napoleonic Wars that took place on what is now U.S. soil (United States Virgin Islands).
1811 Tecumseh's War
1812 - 1815 War of 1812
- 1812
- 1813
  - Battle of Frenchtown
  - Raid on Elizabethtown
  - Battle of Ogdensburg
  - Siege of Fort Meigs
  - Battle of Sackett's Harbor
  - Battle of Craney Island
  - Battle of Fort Stephenson
  - Battle of St. Michaels
  - Battle of Lake Erie
    
    The Battle of Lake Erie'
  - Capture of Fort Niagara
- 1814
- 1815
  - Battle of New Orleans
  - Battle of Fort Bowyer
1813 - 1814 Creek War
1817 - 1818 First Seminole War
1827 Winnebago War
1831 Nat Turner's Rebellion
1832 Black Hawk War
1835 - 1842 Second Seminole War
1835 - 1836 Toledo War (bloodless)
1835 - 1836 Texas Revolution
- 1836 Battle of the Alamo
- 1836 Battle of San Jacinto
1838 Missouri War
1838 - 1839 Aroostook War
1839 Honey War (bloodless)
1841 - 1842 Dorr War, a civil war in Rhode Island
1846 - 1848 Mexican–American War
- 1846 Battle of Palo Alto
- 1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma
- 1846 Occupation of Santa Fe
- 1846 Battle of San Pascual
1848 - 1855 Cayuse War
1854 - 1858 Bleeding Kansas
1855 - 1858 Third Seminole War
1857 - 1858 Utah War
1859 Pig War
1861 - 1865 American Civil War
- 1861
- 1862
- 1863
  
  The Battle of Gettysburg
- 1864
- 1865
1862 - Dakota War of 1862
1863 - 1865 Colorado War
1864 - Sand Creek Massacre
1866 - 1868 Red Cloud's War
1867 - 1875 Comanche War
1872 - 1873 Modoc War
1876 - 1877 Black Hills War
1877 Nez Percé War
1890 - 1891 Ghost Dance War
1898 Spanish-American War - American conquest of Guam and Puerto Rico

20th Century

1914 World War I - A Japanese fleet captured the Mariana Islands from Germany without any loss of life. This is notable as the only action fought during World War I that took place on what is now U.S. soil (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands).
1916 Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa leads a night raid on the New Mexico border town of Columbus.
1941 World War II - Japanese sneak attack on American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1941 - 1945 World War II - Numerous American warships and merchant vessels sunk in American territorial waters by German U-boats.
1942 - 1943 World War II - Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
1944 - 1945- Fire balloon bombing of the US by Japanese balloon bombs.

21st Century

2001 - September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon outside Washington, DC, and in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania near Shanksville. 2,993 people are killed in the attacks.

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