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List of wars named for their duration

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This list includes wars which have been named for their duration, either as the most common name or an alternative commonly used name. This table can be sorted by length or start-date.

Name Nominal length Dates Participants Comments
Four-Day War, April War, or 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict 4 days 2016 Armenia and Republic of Artsakh v. Azerbaijan
100 Hour War or Football War 100 hours
(i.e. 4 days, 4 hours)
1969 El Salvador and Honduras
Six-Day War 6 days 1967 Israel v. Egypt, Jordan, Syria
Six-Day War of Abkhazia or War in Abkhazia (1998) 6 days 1998 Insurgency in Abkhazia
Six-Day War 6 days 2000 Rwanda v. Uganda, Second Congo War
Ten-Day War 10 days 1991 Civil war in Yugoslavia
Ten days' campaign 10 days 1831 Dutch campaign in Belgium
Eleven Days' War or Operation Faustschlag 11 days 1918 Central powers v. Russia in World War I
Thirty Days' War or Greco-Turkish War (1897) 30 days 1897 Greece v. Ottoman Empire
Hundred Days' War 100 days 1978 Sub-conflict of Lebanese civil war
Hundred Days or War of the Seventh Coalition 100 days 1815 France and Naples v. Britain, Prussia, Austria, Russia and others
Thousand Days' War 1,000 days
(i.e. 2 years, 270 days)
1899–1902 civil armed conflict in Colombia
Four Years' War or Italian War of 1521–1526 4 years 1521–1526 France, Venice v. England, Holy Roman Empire, Papal States
Seven Years' War 7 years 1756–1763 France etc. v. Great Britain and others
Northern Seven Years' War 7 years 1563–1570 Sweden v. Denmark–Norway, Lübeck and Poland
Nine Years' War 9 years 1688–1697 France v. Grand Alliance
Nine Years' War (Ireland) 9 years 1594–1603 Ireland v. England
Ten Years' War 10 years 1868–1878 Cuba v. Spain
Eleven Years' War or Irish Confederate Wars 11 years 1641–1653 Irish theatre of Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars in England, Ireland, Scotland
Thirteen Years' War or Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) 13 years 1654–1667 Russia v. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Thirteen Years' War (1454–1466) 13 years 1454–1466 Prussian Confederation, allied with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, and the State of the Teutonic Order
Thirteen Years' War or Long Turkish War (also known as the Fifteen Years' War) 13 years 1591/93-1606 Habsburg monarchy v. Ottoman Empire
Fifteen Years' War or Long Turkish War (also known as the Thirteen Years' War) 15 years 1591/93-1606 Habsburg Monarchy v. Ottoman Empire
Thirty Years' War 30 years 1618–1648 "most of the great powers of Europe", except England
Second Thirty Years' War 30 years 1914–1945 Term used by some historians to encompass a series of European wars[lower-alpha 1]
Mauritanian Thirty Years' War or Char Bouba war 30 years 1644–1674 Berber and other tribes in Mauritania
Forty Years' War 40 years 1385–1424 Ava v. Hanthawaddy Pegu, Burma
Sixty Years' War 60 years 1754–1814 Term used to encompass several conflicts in the Great Lakes region of North America
Eighty Years' War 80 years 1568–1648 Seventeen Provinces v. Spain There was a truce during the 80 years
Hundred Years' War 100 years 1337–1453 England v. France The war lasted 116 years intermittently
Second Hundred Years' War 100 years 1689–1815 France v. Great Britain The war lasted 126 years (with breaks)
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War 335 years 1651–1986 "alleged theoretical state of war" between Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly

Explanatory notes[edit]

  1. Use of this term can be found in many sources. Some examples include "Naming World Wars" at GlobalSecurity.org, Anthony Shaw's The World in Conflict, 1914–1945 (2000) ISBN 978-1-57958-212-8 Search this book on ., and many other sources.

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