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
976	978	War of the Three Henries (976–978)	Holy Roman Empire	Duchy of Bavaria	Bavarian defeat Birth of Austria, Leopold I becomes Margrave of Austria
1015	1015	Bolesław I's first invasion of the Austria	Holy Roman Empire	Duchy of Poland	Victory Polish invasion of Austria fails
1017	1017	Bolesław I's second invasion of the Austria	Holy Roman Empire	Duchy of Poland	Victory Polish invasion of Austria fails
1030	1031	Conrad II's invasion of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary	Defeat
1040	1041	Henry III's invasion of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire	Duchy of Bohemia	Victory
1042	1044	Henry III's invasion of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire   Peter Orseolo's Hungary	Samuel Aba's Hungary	Victory Battle of Ménfő Peter Orseolo reinstated as king of Hungary
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
July 1209	April 12, 1229	Albigensian Crusade	*  Crusade   Papal States Episcopal Inquisition   Dominican Order   Militia of the Faith of Jesus Christ   Hospitallers of the Holy Spirit   Knights of Saint George   Kingdom of France   Duchy of Burgundy   Duchy of Brittany   County of Nevers   County of Auxerre   County of Saint-Pol   Viscounty of Donges   Viscounty of Torèna   English volunteers   Duchy of Berg   Electorate of Cologne   County of Aurenja   County of Provence-Forcalquier	*  Cathars   County of Toulouse   Viscounty of Béziers and Albi   County of Valentinois   Lordship of Séverac   Marquisate of Provence   Viscounty of Béarn   County of Astarac   Crown of Aragon   County of Foix   County of Comminges   Viscounty of Carcassonne   Lordship of Menèrba   Lordship of Tèrmes Lordship of Cabaret Lordship of Montsegúr Exiled knights	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	Defeat
1217	1284	Prussian Crusade	Teutonic Order Order of Dobrin Duchy of Masovia Kingdom of Poland Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Pomerania Duchy of Pomerelia Duchy of Gdańsk Duchy of Świecie and Lubiszewo Duchy of Lubiszewo Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Order of Calatrava	Prussians Yotvingians (Sudovians) Skalvians	Victory
1241	1242	Mongol incursions in the Holy Roman Empire	Holy Roman Empire	Golden Horde	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
9 November 1313	9 November 1313	Battle of Gammelsdorf		Duchy of (Upper) Bavaria	Defeat
15 November 1315	15 November 1315	Battle of Morgarten		Old Swiss Confederacy	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
9 July 1363	9 July 1369	Bavarian invasion of Tyrol (1363-1369) [de]	Archbishopric of Salzburg	Duchy of (Upper) Bavaria   Commune of Milan	Victory
9 July 1386	9 July 1386	Battle of Sempach		Old Swiss Confederacy	Defeat
9 April 1388	9 April 1388	Battle of Näfels		Old Swiss Confederacy	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 [de]		Supporters of Andreas Baumkircher [de]	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	Austrian military victory French diplomatic victory 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-León	Kingdom of France	Defeat Treaty of Frankfurt (1489)
1487	1487	Battle of Calliano (1487)		Republic of Venice	Victory
November 1487	1492	Flemish revolt of 1487–1492			Victory
1490	7 November 1491	Austrian–Hungarian War (1490–91)	Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary	Victory Peace of Pressburg (1491)
1491	1492	Bread and Cheese Revolt		Bread and Cheese Folk	Victory
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
1502	1543	Guelders Wars	Holy Roman Empire	Duchy of Guelders	Victory
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
1515	1515	Slovene peasant revolt of 1515		Slovenian rebels	Victory
1515	1523	Arumer Zwarte Hoop	Spain	Guelders rebels	Victory
1521	14 January 1526	Italian War of 1521–26	Holy Roman Empire   Spain   England   Papal States	France   Republic of Venice	Victory Treaty of Madrid
16 April 1520	25 October 1521	Revolt of the Comuneros	Spain	Comuneros rebels	Victory
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	Empire of Charles V:   Holy Roman Empire   Spain   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)
June 1535	June 1535	Conquest of Tunis (1535)	Holy Roman Empire   Spain	Kingdom of France   Ottoman Empire	Victory
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)
October 1539	November 1540	Revolt of Ghent (1539–1540)	Holy Roman Empire	Ghent rebels	Victory
October 1541	November 1541	Algiers expedition (1541)	Holy Roman Empire   Milan   Spanish Empire   Naples   Sicily   Republic of Genoa   Republic of Venice   Duchy of Savoy   Papal States	Ottoman Empire   Beylerbeylik of Algiers	Defeat
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
January 1547	July 1547	The Estates Revolt in Bohemia in 1547	Empire of Charles V	Bohemian rebels	Victory
1551	1559	Italian War of 1551–1559	Empire of Charles V:   Holy Roman Empire   Spain   England	France   Ottoman Empire	Victory
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)
1573	1573	Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt	Kingdom of Croatia	Croatian and Slovenian rebels	Victory
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, Bohemian Revolt and Palatinate campaign	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	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 includes the Rákóczi's War of Independence and Bavarian uprising of 1705–1706	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 Austria successfully crushes revolutions in Hungary and Bavaria
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 (1742-48)   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)   Kingdom of Sardinia (1741-42)	Mixed results Austrian defensive victory overall: Pragmatic Sanction recognized, Maria Theresia keeps the Austrian throne and a potential Austrian partition is avoided Austrian defeat in Silesian Wars against Prussia: 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
1774	1774	Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan		Romanian peasants	Victory Revolution suppressed
July 1778	13 May 1779	War of the Bavarian Succession		Kingdom of Prussia   Electorate of Saxony   Bavaria	Inconclusive Treaty of Teschen
8 October 1784	8 October 1784	Kettle War		Dutch Republic	Inconclusive
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	Emperor	Casualties
			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	Francis I	90,000 casualties
3 April 1807	14 April 1807	Tican's rebellion		Serbian rebels	Victory Rebellion suppressed		? casualties
10 April 1809	14 October 1809	War of the Fifth Coalition includes the Austro-Polish War, Tyrolean Rebellion and 1809 Gottscheer Rebellion	United Kingdom   Sicily   Sardinia   Black Brunswickers	First French Empire French client states	Defeat Treaty of Schönbrunn		170,000 casualties
24 June 1812	30 January 1813	French invasion of Russia	First French Empire   Prussia	Russia   United Kingdom   Sweden	Austria joins the Coalition Truce of Pläswitz		? casualties
15 August 1813	11 April 1814	War of the Sixth Coalition	Russia   Prussia   United Kingdom   Sweden   Spain   Portugal   Sicily   Sardinia