List of wars involving Austria

This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Austria.

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Margraviate of Austria (976–1156)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Austria, mentioned as a margraviate of the Duchy of Bavaria)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
29 June 1073	27 October 1075	Saxon Rebellion	Holy Roman Empire	Duchy of Saxony	Victory Rebellion suppressed
12 May 1082	12 May 1082	Battle of Mailberg		Duchy of Bohemia	Defeat
11 September 1146	11 September 1146	Battle of the Fischa	Duchy of Bavaria	Kingdom of Hungary	Defeat
1147	1149	Second Crusade	Crusaders: Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of France Kingdom of Jerusalem County of Tripoli Principality of Antioch Kingdom of England  Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire Kingdom of Sicily Papal States	Seljuq Sultanate Emirate of Zengids Abbasid Caliphate  Fatimid Caliphate	Defeat

Duchy of Austria (1156–1453)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Austria, mentioned as a state of the Holy Roman Empire)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
1190	1191	Third Crusade	Crusaders: Kingdom of Jerusalem Kingdom of England Kingdom of France Holy Roman Empire	Ayyubids Zengids Seljuk Empire  Byzantine Empire Kingdom of Sicily	Victory Treaty of Ramla
April 1197	July 1198	Crusade of 1197	Holy Roman Empire	Ayyubids	Victory
1217	1221	Fifth Crusade	Crusaders: Latin Empire of Constantinople Kingdom of Cyprus Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm Holy Roman Empire Knights Templar Teutonic Knights Knights Hospitaller Kingdom of Hungary County of Holland Kingdom of France Papal States	Egyptians: Ayyubids	Victory
15 June 1246	1 May 1254	Austrian-Hungarian War (1246–1254)		Kingdom of Hungary	Defeat
July 1260	31 March 1261	War of Styria	Kingdom of Bohemia	Kingdom of Hungary	Victory Peace of Vienna
1275	26 August 1278	Habsburg–Přemyslid War	Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Hungary (including Cumans and Szeklers) & mercenaries: Swabians, Styrians, Bavarians etc.	Kingdom of Bohemia & mercenaries: Brandenburgians, Meissens, Silesians, Poles etc.	Victory
2 July 1298	2 July 1298	Battle of Göllheim	Kingdom of Bohemia	County of Nassau Electoral Palatinate	Victory
31 May 1307	31 May 1307	Battle of Lucka	Holy Roman Empire	Margraviate of Meissen	Defeat
28 September 1322	28 September 1322	Battle of Mühldorf	Bishop of Passau Archbishopric of Salzburg	Duchy of (Upper) Bavaria Kingdom of Bohemia Burgraviate of Nuremberg	Defeat
1419	1434	Hussite Wars	Catholic Church Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Hungary Papal States Order of Malta Teutonic Order Kingdom of England Serbian Despotate Moderate Hussites (Utraquists)^(1423-1434)	Hussites^(1419-1423) Radical Hussites ^(1423-1434) Grand Duchy of Lithuania Supported by: Kingdom of Poland	Victory Compacts of Basel
2 November 1440	12 June 1446	Old Zürich War	Imperial City of Zurich France	Old Swiss Confederacy Vogteien of Appenzell	Victory Peace of Einsiedeln

Archduchy of Austria (1453–1804)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Austria, mentioned as a state of the Holy Roman Empire)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
1458	1465	Inner Austrian War		Albert VI, Archduke of Austria Kingdom of Bohemia	Victory
4 March 1459	April 1462	Austrian–Hungarian War (1459–62)		Kingdom of Hungary	Defeat
1 February 1469	October 1469	Baumkircher feud		Supporters of Andreas Baumkircher	Victory
1474	5 January 1477	Burgundian Wars	Duchy of Lorraine  Swiss Confederates	Duchy of Burgundy  Duchy of Savoy	Victory
19 August 1477	23 December 1482	War of the Burgundian Succession	Burgundian Netherlands	Kingdom of France	Treaty of Arras (1482)
1477	1488	Austrian–Hungarian War (1477–88)	Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary	Defeat
2 February 1478	1478	Carinthian Peasant Revolt		Carinthian Peasants' League	Victory Rebellion suppressed
5 June 1483	June 1485	Flemish revolt of 1483–1485		Flemish rebels	Victory Rebellion suppressed
June 1486	22 July 1489	Mad War	Rebellious Nobles Duchy of Lorraine Duchy of Brittany Lordship of Albret Principality of Orange County of Angoulême Supported by: Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of England Kingdom of Castile-Leon	Kingdom of France	Defeat Treaty of Frankfurt (1489)
November 1487	1492	Flemish revolt of 1487–1492		Flemish rebels	Victory Rebellion suppressed
1490	7 November 1491	Austrian–Hungarian War (1490–91)	Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary	Victory Peace of Pressburg (1491)
31 March 1495	1498	Italian War of 1494–98	League of Venice:  Papal States  Republic of Venice  Kingdom of Naples Kingdoms of Spain Duchy of Milan  Holy Roman Empire  Republic of Florence Duchy of Mantua  Kingdom of England (from 1496)	Kingdom of France	Victory
20 January 1499	22 September 1499	Swabian War	Swabian League Holy Roman Empire	Old Swiss Confederacy	Defeat
1505	19 July 1506	Austrian–Hungarian War (1505–06)	Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary	Defeat Treaty of Vienna (1506)
February 1508	4 December 1516	War of the League of Cambrai	1508–1510: League of Cambrai:  Papal States  France  Holy Roman Empire Spain Duchy of Ferrara 1511–1513: Holy League:  Papal States  Venice Spain  Holy Roman Empire  England Swiss mercenaries 1513–1516:  Papal States Spain  Holy Roman Empire  England Duchy of Milan Swiss mercenaries	1508–1510:  Venice 1513–1516:  Venice  France  Scotland Duchy of Ferrara	Defeat
1521	14 January 1526	Italian War of 1521–26	Holy Roman Empire Spain  England  Papal States	France  Republic of Venice	Victory Treaty of Madrid
1524	1525	German Peasants' War	Holy Roman Empire Swabian League	Peasant army	Victory Rebellion suppressed
22 May 1526	10 August 1530	War of the League of Cognac	1526-1528:  Holy Roman Empire Spain Duchy of Ferrara 1528-1530:  Holy Roman Empire Spain  Republic of Genoa Duchy of Ferrara Duchy of Mantua	1526-1528:  France  Papal States  Republic of Venice Republic of Florence  Kingdom of England Kingdom of Navarre  Republic of Genoa Duchy of Milan 1528-1530:  France  Papal States  Republic of Venice Republic of Florence Duchy of Milan Kingdom of Navarre	Victory Treaty of Cambrai
17 December 1526	22 July 1533	Ottoman-Habsburg War (1526–1533)	Holy Roman Empire  Spain  Papal States	Ottoman Empire	Defeat Treaty of Constantinople (1533)
March 1536	18 June 1538	Italian War of 1536–38	Holy Roman Empire Spain	Kingdom of France Ottoman Empire	Defeat Truce of Nice
May 1536	19 June 1547	Ottoman-Habsburg War (1536–1547)	Holy Roman Empire  Spain  Papal States	Ottoman Empire  France	Defeat Truce of Adrianople (1547)
12 July 1542	18 September 1544	Italian War of 1542–46	Holy Roman Empire Spain  Kingdom of England	France Ottoman Empire Jülich-Cleves-Berg	Inconclusive Treaty of Crépy
10 July 1546	23 May 1547	Schmalkaldic War	Empire of Charles V: Holy Roman Empire Spain	Schmalkaldic League	Victory Capitulation of Wittenberg
1551	27 November 1562	Ottoman-Habsburg War (1551–1562)	Holy Roman Empire  Spain  Papal States	Ottoman Empire  France	Defeat Treaty of Frankfurt (1562)
1566	17 February 1568	Ottoman-Habsburg War (1566–1568)	Holy Roman Empire  Spain  Papal States	Ottoman Empire	Defeat Treaty of Adrianople (1568)
22 August 1587	9 March 1589	War of the Polish Succession (1587–88)	Supporters of Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria	Supporters of Sigismund III Vasa	Defeat Treaty of Bytom and Będzin
29 July 1593	11 November 1606	Long Turkish War	Holy Roman Empire Transylvania  Wallachia  Moldavia Zaporozhian Host  Spain Serbian rebels  Papal States  Venice  Saxony Tuscany Persia Knights of St. Stephen Bulgarian rebels Duchy of Ferrara Duchy of Mantua  Duchy of Savoy	Ottoman Empire Nogai Khanate	Inconclusive Peace of Zsitvatorok
10 June 1609	24 October 1610	War of the Jülich Succession	Holy Roman Empire Principality of Strasbourg Prince-Bishopric of Liège Catholic League	Margraviate of Brandenburg Palatinate-Neuburg  United Provinces  Kingdom of France Protestant Union	Defeat Treaty of Xanten
July 1612	September 1614	Rappenkrieg		Peasant rebels	Victory Rebellion suppressed
January 1616	26 September 1617	Uskok War	Holy Roman Empire Spain	Republic of Venice  Dutch Republic  England	Defeat Treaty of Madrid (1617)
23 May 1618	24 October 1648	Thirty Years' War includes the War of the Mantuan Succession	Holy Roman Empire Catholic League Bavaria Spain and its possessions Denmark-Norway (1643-1645)	Sweden  France  Bohemia Denmark-Norway (1625-1629)  Saxony  United Provinces Electorate of the Palatinate Brunswick-Lüneburg  England  Scotland Brandenburg-Prussia Transylvania Hungarian Anti-Habsburg Rebels  Ottoman Empire	Peace of Westphalia
27 May 1657	3 May 1660	Second Northern War	Poland (Poland–Lithuania) Denmark–Norway Russia (1656–58) Crimean Khanate Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–56, 1657–60)  Dutch Republic	Swedish Empire Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–57) Principality of Transylvania Ukrainian Cossacks (1657) Grand Duchy of Lithuania  Wallachia  Moldavia	Inconclusive Treaty of Oliva
12 April 1663	10 August 1664	Austro-Turkish War (1663-1664)	Holy Roman Empire League of the Rhine	Ottoman Empire	Austrian military victory Ottoman diplomatic and commercial victory Peace of Vasvár
1 July 1673	26 January 1679	Franco-Dutch War	Dutch Republic  Holy Roman Empire Brandenburg-Prussia Spain Denmark-Norway  England (1678)	France  England (1672–74) Sweden Münster Cologne	Defeat Treaties of Nijmegen
1680		Peasant Uprising		Czech Peasants	Victory Rebellion suppressed
1683	15 August 1684	War of the Reunions	Holy Roman Empire  Spain  Republic of Genoa	Kingdom of France	Defeat Truce of Ratisbon
14 July 1683	26 January 1699	Great Turkish War	Holy Roman Empire Tsardom of Russia Cossack Hetmanate Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth  Republic of Venice Albanian rebels Serb rebels Greek rebels  Spain	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate	Victory Treaty of Karlowitz
27 September 1688	20 September 1697	Nine Years' War	Grand Alliance:  Dutch Republic  England  Holy Roman Empire  Spain  Piedmont-Savoy  Sweden (until 1691)  Scotland	France  Irish Jacobites	Inconclusive Treaty of Ryswick
9 July 1701	7 March 1714	War of the Spanish Succession	Spain loyal to Archduke Charles  England  Great Britain  Dutch Republic  Duchy of Savoy  Prussia Kingdom of Portugal	Spain loyal to Philip V of Spain  Kingdom of France Electorate of Bavaria Kurucs (Kingdom of Hungary) Principality of Transylvania	Phillip V confirmed as King of Spain Habsburg territorial gains Treaty of Rastatt
13 April 1716	21 July 1718	Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718	Republic of Venice	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Passarowitz
2 August 1718	17 February 1720	War of the Quadruple Alliance	Great Britain  France  Holy Roman Empire  Dutch Republic  Savoy	Spain	Victory Treaty of The Hague (1720)
10 October 1733	3 October 1735	War of the Polish Succession	Poland loyal to Augustus III  Russian Empire  Holy Roman Empire  Saxony  Prussia	Poland loyal to Stanisław I  France Spain  Kingdom of Sardinia  Duchy of Parma	Augustus III confirmed as King of Poland Treaty of Vienna Duchy of Lorraine ceded to Stanisław I Naples and Sicily ceded to Spain Compensated with gain of Duchy of Parma
12 July 1737	18 September 1739	Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739)	Russian Empire	Ottoman Empire	Defeat Treaty of Belgrade
16 December 1740	18 October 1748	War of the Austrian Succession includes the First Silesian War and the Second Silesian War.	Great Britain Hanover  Dutch Republic  Saxony (1743–45)  Kingdom of Sardinia  Russia (1741–43) (1748)	Kingdom of Prussia (1740–42) (1744–45) Kingdom of Spain (1740-1746)  Kingdom of France Bavaria (1741–45)  Saxony (1741–42) Naples and Sicily  Republic of Genoa Sweden (1741–43)	Pragmatic Sanction recognized Habsburg territorial losses Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
29 August 1756	15 February 1763	Seven Years' War includes the Third Silesian War.	France Russia  Spain  Sweden  Saxony	Prussia  Great Britain Hanover Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Kingdom of Portugal Hesse-Kassel Schaumburg-Lippe Iroquois Confederacy	Military stalemate Status quo ante bellum in Europe Treaty of Hubertusburg
July 1778	13 May 1779	War of the Bavarian Succession		Kingdom of Prussia  Electorate of Saxony	Inconclusive Treaty of Teschen
18 August 1789	12 January 1791	Liège Revolution	Prince-Bishopric of Liège	Republic of Liège United Belgian States  Kingdom of Prussia	Victory Revolution suppressed
24 October 1789	3 December 1790	Brabant Revolution		United Belgian States Republic of Liège  Kingdom of Prussia	Victory Revolution suppressed
February 1788	4 August 1791	Austro-Turkish War (1788-1791)	Russian Empire	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Sistova
20 April 1792	18 April 1797	War of the First Coalition	Holy Roman Empire  Prussia  Great Britain French Royalists  Spain (1793–95) Portugal  Sardinia Naples and Sicily Other Italian states  Ottoman Empire  Dutch Republic	French Republic  Spain (1796–97)	Defeat Treaty of Leoben Treaty of Campo Formio
June 1794	November 1794	Kościuszko Uprising	Russian Empire  Prussia	Polish forces	Victory Third Partition of Poland
26 June 1797	July 1797	Denisko uprising		Polish rebels	Victory Rebellion suppressed
12 March 1799	9 February 1801	War of the Second Coalition	Russian Empire  Great Britain French Royalists Portugal  Two Sicilies  Ottoman Empire	French Republic  Spain Denmark-Norway	Defeat Treaty of Lunéville

Austrian Empire (1804-1867)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding the Austrian Empire)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
9 August 1805	26 December 1805	War of the Third Coalition	United Kingdom  Russian Empire Kingdom of Sicily Kingdom of Naples Portugal  Sweden	First French Empire  Spain	Defeat Peace of Pressburg
10 April 1809	14 October 1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	United Kingdom Sicily  Sardinia Black Brunswickers	First French Empire French client states	Defeat Treaty of Schönbrunn
24 June 1812	30 January 1813	French invasion of Russia	First French Empire  Prussia	Russia  United Kingdom  Sweden	Austria joins the Coalition
15 August 1813	11 April 1814	War of the Sixth Coalition	Russia  Prussia  United Kingdom  Sweden Spain Portugal Sicily  Sardinia	First French Empire French client states	Victory Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)
20 March 1815	8 July 1815	War of the Seventh Coalition	Seventh Coalition:  Russian Empire  Prussia  United Kingdom Hanover Nassau Brunswick  Sweden  United Netherlands  Spain Portugal  Sardinia Sicily Tuscany Switzerland French Royalists	First French Empire Naples	Victory Treaty of Paris (1815)
1820	1821	Carbonari uprisings of 1820–1821		Carbonari	Victory
1839	1841	Second Egyptian-Ottoman War	Ottoman Empire British Empire Russian Empire	Egypt Kingdom of the French Spanish Empire	Victory
20 February 1846	4 March 1846	Kraków uprising		Polish independence movement	Victory
15 March 1848	13 August 1849	Hungarian Revolution of 1848	Russian Empire	Hungary	Victory Surrender at Világos
23 March 1848	24 March 1849	First Italian War of Independence		Kingdom of Sardinia Grand Duchy of Tuscany Briefly allied with: Papal States Kingdom of the Two Sicilies	Victory
29 April 1859	11 July 1859	Second Italian War of Independence		Kingdom of Sardinia Second French Empire	Defeat Armistice of Villafranca
1 February 1864	30 October 1864	Second Schleswig War	Prussia	Denmark	Victory
14 June 1866	23 August 1866	Austro-Prussian War Includes the Third Italian War of Independence	German Confederation:  Saxony  Bavaria  Baden  Württemberg  Hanover Hesse-Darmstadt Hesse-Kassel Reuss Elder Line Saxe-Meiningen Schaumburg-Lippe Nassau Free City of Frankfurt	Prussia  Italy Mecklenburg-Schwerin Mecklenburg-Strelitz Oldenburg Anhalt  Brunswick Saxe-Altenburg Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Lippe Schwarzburg Waldeck Bremen Hamburg Lübeck	Defeat Peace of Prague (1866)

Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867-1918)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding the Austro-Hungarian Empire)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies		Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina		Ottoman Empire	Victory
2 November 1899	7 September 1901	Boxer Rebellion	Eight-Nation Alliance:  Japan  Russia  United Kingdom France  United States  Germany  Italy	Righteous Harmony Society  Qing Empire	Victory
28 July 1914	3 November 1918	World War I	Central Powers  Germany  Ottoman Empire  Bulgaria (1915–18)	Allies: France  British Empire  Russia (1914–17)  Italy  United States (1917–18)  Serbia and others	Defeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved. Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)

Republic of German-Austria (1918-1919)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding German-Austria)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
23 November 1918	31 July 1919	Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia		State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (before unification)  Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (after unification)	Ceasefire In Carinthian plebiscite southeastern Carinthia votes in favour of joining Austria. Territorial changes are coordinated by Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Majority of southeastern Carinthia is ceded to Austria. Meža Valley and Jezersko are ceded to Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

First Austrian Republic (1919–1934)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Austria)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
28 August 1921	13 October 1921	Uprising in West Hungary	Austria Hungary	Rongyos Gárda Lajtabánság Bosnian and Albanian Muslim volunteers	Victory, Sopron and its area remained in Hungary.
12 February 1934	16 February 1934	Austrian Civil War	Fatherland Front Federal Army Police Gendarmerie Heimwehr Ostmärkische Sturmscharen	SDAPÖ Republikanischer Schutzbund KPÖ	Government victory Demise of multi-party system Consolidation of power by Patriotic Front Creation of the Federal State of Austria

Federal State of Austria (1934 - 1938)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Austria)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
25 July 1934	30 July 1934	July Putsch	VF Federal Army Police Gendarmerie Heimwehr	Schutzstaffel (SS) SS Standarte 89 Austrian Nazi Party	Government Victory Nazi coup d'etat failed Fatherland Front remains in power Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is killed

Modern Austria

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Austria)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
2001	ongoing	War in Afghanistan	Afghanistan  United States ISAF	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan	Fall of Taliban régime Ongoing Taliban insurgency

See also

• History of Austria
• Austrian Armed Forces
• Military history of Austria