Wars in the First Global Age (1450 to 1750) covers wars during an era - also called the early modern period - during which the nature of warfare changed profoundly.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• A
• Achinese sackings of Johore
• Acoma Revolt
• Afghan Rebellions
• Algonquian-Dutch War
• Anglo-Dutch War in West Africa
• Anglo-French War, 1475
• Anglo-French War, 1542–1546
• Anglo-French War, 1549–1550
• Anglo-French War, 1557–1560
• Anglo-French War, 1627–1628
• Anglo-Portuguese War
• Anglo-Scottish War, 1482
• Anglo-Scottish War, 1513
• Anglo-Scottish War, 1542–1549
• Anglo-Scottish War, 1559–1560
• Anglo-Siamese War
• Anglo-Spanish War, 1585–1604
• Anglo-Spanish War, 1655–1659
• Anglo-Spanish War, 1727–1729
• Anson's Cruise
• Arundel's Rebellion
• Austrian Netherlands Civil War
• Austro-Swiss War, 1460
• Austro-Swiss War, 1499
• Austro-Turkish War, 1529–1533
• Austro-Turkish War, 1537–1547
• Austro-Turkish War, 1551–1553
• Austro-Turkish War, 1566
• Austro-Turkish War, 1591–1606
• Austro-Turkish War, 1663–1664
• Austro-Turkish War, 1683–1699
• Austro-Turkish War, 1716–1718
• B
• Babur's conquest of Bihar and Bengal
• Babur's invasion of North India
• Babur's Lahore campaign
• Babur's raids on the Punjab
• Bacon's Rebellion
• Bahmani Civil War
• Bavarian War
• Beaver Wars
• Bengalese-British War, 1686
• Bengalese-Mogul War
• Bohemian Civil War, 1465–1471
• Bohemian-Hungarian War, 1468–1478
• Bohemian-Palatine War
• Bosnian-Turkish War
• Boyars' Revolt
• Buckingham's revolt
• Burgundian-Swiss War, 1474–1477
• Burmese-Chinese War, 1658–1661
• Burmese Civil War, 1507–1527
• Burmese Civil War, 1535–1546
• Burmese Civil War, 1551–1559
• Burmese Civil War, 1599
• Burmese Civil War, 1740–1752
• Burmese-Laotian War, 1558
• Burmese-Laotian War, 1564–1565
• Burmese-Laotian War, 1571–1575
• Burmese-Laotian War, 1581–1592
• Burmese-Manipuri War, 1714–1749
• Burmese-Portuguese War
• Byzantine–Ottoman Turk War, 1453–1461
• C
• Cade's Rebellion
• Camisards' Rebellion
• campaigns of Gaston of Foix
• Candian War
• Castilian Civil War, 1474–1479
• Catalan Revolt, 1461–1472
• Catalan Revolt, 1640–1659
• causes of the Civil War
• Chickasaw Resistance
• Chinese Civil War, 1621–1644
• Chinese Civil War, 1621–1644
• Chinese war with Koxinga
• Chmielnicki's Revolt
• Claiborne's Rebellion
• comuneros' revolt in Paraguay
• comuneros' revolt in Spain
• Corsican Revolts
• Count's War
• Covenanters' Rebellion, 1666
• Covenanters' Rebellion, 1679
• Covenanters' Rebellion, 1685
• Cromwell's Irish campaign
• Cromwell's Scottish campaign
• D
• Dacke's War
• Danish-Swedish War, 1497–1500
• Danish-Swedish War, 1501–1512
• Danish-Swedish War, 1563–1570
• Danish-Swedish War, 1643–1645
• Danish-Swedish War, 1675–1679
• Danish War
• Douglas Rebellion
• Dózsa's Rebellion
• Drake's Caribbean Raids
• Druse rebellions
• Dutch-Portuguese Wars in West Africa
• E
• Early Mogul Wars against the Sur Dynasty
• Eighth War of Religion
• Eighty Years' War
• Esopus War
• F
• Ferrarese War
• Ferrarese War against the Papal States
• Fifth War of Religion
• First Abenaki War
• First Béarnese Revolt
• First Bishops' War
• First Carnatic War
• First Dutch War
• First English Civil War
• First Italian War between Charles V and Francis I
• First Javanese War of Succession
• First Mogul War against Gujarat
• First Northern War
• First Pima Revolt
• First Polish-Swedish War for Livonia
• First Silesian War
• First Villmergen War
• First War of Religion
• Flammock's Rebellion
• Florentine war with the Papal States
• Fourth Italian War between Charles V and Francis I
• Fourth War of Religion
• Fox resistance
• Franco-Austrian War
• Franco–Barbary Pirates War
• Franco-Burgundian Wars
• Franco-Spanish War, 1648–1659
• French War
• G
• Glencoe massacre
• Glorious Revolution
• Great Irish Rebellion
• Guerre Folle
• Gui Wang's campaigns
• H
• Habsburg Brothers' War
• Habsburg-Ottoman War for Hungary
• Habsburg-Valois War
• Henry VII's first invasion of Brittany
• Henry VII's second invasion of Brittany
• Hungarian Civil War, 1526–1529
• Hungarian Civil War, 1540–1547
• Hungarian-Turkish War, 1463–1483
• Hungarian-Turkish War, 1492–1494
• Hungarian-Turkish War, 1521–1526
• Hungarian war with the Holy Roman Empire
• I
• Inca Revolt
• Irish War
• Iroquois-French Wars
• Iroquois-Huron War
• Italian War of Charles VIII
• Italian War of Louis XII
• J
• Jacobite Rebellion, 1689–1690
• Jacobite Rebellion, 1715–1716
• Jacobite Rebellion, 1745–1746
• Janissaries' Revolt, 1621–1622
• Janissaries' Revolt, 1703
• Janissaries' Revolt, 1730
• Japanese Civil Wars, 1450–1550
• Japanese Civil Wars, 1560–1584
• Japanese invasion of Korea
• Javanese-Chinese-Dutch War
• Javanese invasion of Malacca
• K
• Kalmar Civil War
• Kappel Wars
• Kett's Rebellion
• King George's War
• King Philip's War
• King William's War
• Knights' War
• L
• Later Mogul Wars against the Sur Dynasty
• Leisler's Rebellion
• Li Zicheng's rebellion and the fall of the Ming dynasty
• Livonian War
• Louis XIV's Rhenish Invasion
• Lovewell's War
• Lübeck's War
• Lubomirski's Rebellion
• M
• Mahabat Khan's Insurrection
• Mamluk-Ottoman War, 1485–1491
• Mamluk-Ottoman War, 1516–1517
• Manchu annexation of Taiwan
• Manchu conquest of Fujian
• Manchu conquest of Inner Mongolia
• Manchu conquest of Korea
• Manchu conquest of southwest China
• Manchu conquest of Tibet
• Manchu establish Qing Dynasty
• Manchu invasion of Korea
• Manchu-Ming war
• Manchu-Ming war for Yangtze Valley
• Manchu raids on North China
• Maratha-Mogul War, 1647–1665
• Maratha-Mogul War, 1670–1680
• Maratha-Mogul War, 1681–1705
• Maryland's Religious War
• Maryland's War with the Susquehannocks
• Masaniello's Insurrection
• Mayan Revolt
• Messinan Rebellion
• Mixton Rebellion
• Mogul-Afghan War
• Mogul Civil War, 1600–1605
• Mogul Civil War, 1607
• Mogul Civil War, 1657–1659
• Mogul Civil War, 1707–1708
• Mogul Civil War, 1712–1720
• Mogul conquest of Rajasthan
• Mogul-Persian War, 1622–1623
• Mogul-Persian War, 1638
• Mogul-Persian War, 1648–1653
• Mogul-Sikh War, 1675–1708
• Mogul-Sikh War, 1709–1716
• Mohawk-Mahican War
• Monmouth's Rebellion
• Morgan's raids on Panama
• Moroccan civil war
• Moroccan wars in West Africa
• Muscovite conquest of Novgorod
• N
• Nadir Shah's conquest of Bokhara and Khiva
• Natchez Revolt
• Neapolitan Revolt, 1485–1486
• Ninth War of Religion
• O
• Og's Rebellion
• Onin War
• Oruro revolt
• Ottoman Civil War, 1481–1482
• Ottoman Civil War, 1509–1513
• Ottoman Civil War, 1559
• Ottoman-Druse War, 1585
• Ottoman-Druse War, 1611–1613
• Ottoman-Druse War, 1631–1635
• P
• Paraguay's Jesuit-Indian war against Portuguese slave traders
• Peach War
• Peasants' War
• Penruddock's Revolt
• Pequot War
• Persian-Afghan War, 1726–1738
• Persian Civil War, 1500–1503
• Persian Civil War, 1725–1730
• Persian Civil War, 1747–1760
• Persian Invasion of Mogul India
• Persia's Georgian expedition
• Polish Civil War, 1573–1574
• Polish Rebellion, 1606–1607
• Polish Rebellion, 1715–1717
• Polish-Turkish War, 1484–1504
• Polish-Turkish War, 1614–1621
• Polish-Turkish War, 1671–1677
• Portuguese campaigns against Diu
• Portuguese Civil War, 1481–1483
• Portuguese conquests in India and the East Indies
• Portuguese-Dutch Wars in the East Indies
• Portuguese-Mogul War
• Portuguese-Moroccan War, 1458–1471
• Portuguese-Moroccan War, 1578
• Portuguese north Java wars
• Portuguese-Omani Wars in East Africa
• Portuguese Revolution
• Portuguese War against Ternate
• Pueblo Revolt
• Q
• Queen Anne's War
• R
• Rajput rebellion against Aurangzeb
• Razin's Revolt
• Revolt of the Moriscos
• Revolt of the Streltsy
• Revolt of the Three Feudatories
• Revolt of the Three Viceroys
• rise of the Ashanti
• Russian conquest of Central Asia, 1604–1689
• Russian-Manchu War, 1660
• Russian-Manchu War, 1683–1685
• Russian-Tatar War
• Russia's Time of Troubles
• Russo-Persian War, 1722–1723
• Russo-Polish War, 1499–1503
• Russo-Polish War, 1506–1508
• Russo-Polish War, 1512–1521
• Russo-Polish War, 1534–1537
• Russo-Polish War, 1609–1618
• Russo-Polish War, 1632–1634
• Russo-Polish War, 1654–1656
• Russo-Polish War, 1658–1667
• Russo-Swedish War, 1590–1595
• Russo-Swedish War, 1613–1617
• Russo-Swedish War, 1656–1658
• Russo-Swedish War, 1741–1743
• Russo-Turkish War, 1568–1569
• Russo-Turkish War, 1678–1681
• Russo-Turkish War, 1695–1700
• Russo-Turkish War, 1710–1711
• Russo-Turkish War, 1736–1739
• S
• sack of Novgorod
• Savoyard invasion of Switzerland
• Schmalkaldic War
• Scottish barons' revolt
• Scottish Uprising against Mary of Guise
• Scottish Uprising against Mary, Queen of Scots
• Second and Third Anglo-Powhatan Wars
• Second Béarnese Revolt
• Second Bishops' War
• Second Carnatic War
• Second Dutch War
• Second English Civil War
• Second Italian War between Charles V and Francis I
• Second Javanese War of Succession
• Second Mogul War against Gujarat
• Second Northern War
• Second Polish-Swedish War for Livonia
• Second Silesian War
• Second Villmergen War
• Second War of Religion
• Shah Jahan's Revolt
• Shimabara Rebellion
• Siamese-Burmese War, 1548
• Siamese-Burmese War, 1563–1569
• Siamese-Burmese War, 1584–1592
• Siamese-Burmese War, 1593–1600
• Siamese-Burmese War, 1607–1618
• Siamese-Cambodian War, 1587
• Siamese-Cambodian War, 1593–1594
• Siamese-Cambodian War, 1603
• Siamese-Cambodian War, 1622
• Siamese-Cambodian War, 1714–1717
• Siamese Civil War, 1610–1612
• Siamese Civil War, 1630–1636
• Siamese Civil War, 1733
• siege of Granada
• Siege of Malacca
• siege of Vienna
• Simnel's Rebellion
• Sixth and Seventh Wars of Religion
• Spanish Christian-Muslim War, 1481–1492
• Spanish Civil Wars in Peru
• Spanish conquest of Chile
• Spanish conquest of Cuba
• Spanish conquest of Mexico
• Spanish conquest of New Mexico
• Spanish conquest of Nicaragua
• Spanish conquest of Peru
• Spanish conquest of Puerto Rico
• Spanish conquest of the Pueblos
• Spanish conquest of the Southeast
• Spanish conquest of the Southwest
• Spanish conquest of Yucatán, 1527–1546
• Spanish conquests in North Africa
• Spanish-Portuguese Philippine wars
• Spanish-Portuguese War, 1580–1589
• Spanish-Portuguese War, 1641–1644
• Spanish-Portuguese War, 1657–1668
• Spanish-Portuguese War, 1735–1737
• Sugar War
• Susquehannock War
• Swedish Civil War, 1562–1568
• Swedish War
• Swiss-Milanese War
• T
• Thai War, 1451–1456
• Thai War, 1461–1464
• Thai War, 1474–1475
• Thai War, 1492
• Thai War, ca. 1500–1529
• Thai War, 1660–1662
• Third Abenaki War
• Third Béarnese Revolt
• Third Dutch War
• Third Italian War between Charles V and Francis I
• Third Javanese War of Succession
• Third War of Religion
• Thirteen Years' War
• Thirty Years' War
• Tibetan Civil War
• Transylvania-Habsburg War
• Transylvanian-Turkish War
• Turko-Persian War, 1514–1516
• Turko-Persian War, 1526–1555
• Turko-Persian War, 1578–1590
• Turko-Persian War, 1603–1612
• Turko-Persian War, 1616–1618
• Turko-Persian War, 1623–1638
• Turko-Persian War, 1730–1736
• Turko-Persian War, 1743–1747
• Tuscarora War
• Tyrone's rebellion
• V
• Venetian-Turkish War, 1463–1479
• Venetian-Turkish War, 1499–1503
• Venetian-Turkish War, 1537–1540
• Venetian-Turkish War, 1570–1573
• Venetian-Turkish War, 1685–1699
• Venetian-Turkish War, 1714–1718
• Venezuelan insurrection
• Vietnamese-Cambodian War
• Vijayanagar Wars
• W
• War of Devolution
• War of Jenkins' Ear
• War of Kalmar
• War of the Austrian Succession
• War of the Emboabas
• War of the Grand Alliance
• War of the Holy League
• War of the Jülich Succession
• War of the League of Cambrai
• War of the Mantuan Succession
• War of the Mascates
• War of the Monks
• War of the Polish Succession
• War of the Quadruple Alliance
• War of the Spanish Succession
• Warbeck's Rebellion
• Wars of Aurangzeb
• wars of the Fronde
• Wars of the Roses
• Warwick's Rebellion
• Winnebago-Illinois War
• Wyatt's Rebellion
• Y
• Yamasee War
• Support Materials
• Chronology
• Contributors and Reviewers
• Selected Bibliography