List of wars involving Hungary explained

This is a list of military conflicts in which Hungarian armed forces participated in or took place on the historical territory of Hungary.

The list gives the name, the date, the Hungarian allies and enemies, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:

Middle Ages

Wars between 1301 and 1526

Wars between 1700 and 1900

Conflict		Belligerents		Result
Date	Name	Allies	Enemies	Outcome
15 June 1703 – 1 May 1711	Rákóczi's War for Independence	Kuruc Sympathetic minority peoples and mercenaries	Austria Margraviate of Baden Serbs from the Military Frontier Transylvanian Saxons Kingdom of Croatia Royalists Danish Auxiliary Corps Mercenaries	Defeat Crushing of rebellion
January 1716 – 21 July 1718	Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718)	Royal Hungarian regiments	Kuruc renegades	Treaty of Passarowitz
1735 – 1 September 1739	Russo-Austro-Turkish War			Victory Treaty of Niš Treaty of Belgrade
16 December 1740 – 18 October 1748	War of the Austrian Succession	Kingdom of Hungary Hanover (1743–45) (1742–48) (1741–43, 1748)	(1740–42, 1744–45) Spain Bavaria (1741–45) (1741–42) (1741–42) Naples (1745–48) Sweden (1741–43)	Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle Maria Theresa retains the Austrian, Bohemian and Hungarian thrones Francis of Lorraine, Maria Theresa's husband, confirmed as Holy Roman Emperor
17 May 1756 – 15 February 1763	Seven Years' War	Holy Roman Empire: Austria Kingdom of Hungary Spain Sweden Mughal Empire Abenaki Confederacy	Portugal Hanover Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Hesse-Kassel Schaumburg-Lippe Iroquois Confederacy	Status Quo Ante Bellum Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762) Treaty of Hamburg (1762) Treaty of Paris (1763) Treaty of Hubertusburg (1763)
31 October – 14 December 1784	Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan	Kingdom of Hungary	Transylvanian Romanian rebels	Victory
20 April 1792 – 18 October 1797	War of the First Coalition	Habsburg monarchy (until 1795) Army of Condé Spain (until 1795)[42] (until 1795) Portugal (until 1796)	Kingdom of France (until 1792) French Republic (from 1792) Spain (from 1796) (from 1795) Sister republics Polish Legions (from 1797)	Defeat Peace of Basel Peace of Campo Formio
December 1798 – 25 March 1802	War of the Second Coalition	Hungary (until 1801) (from 1801) (until 1799) Grand Duchy of Tuscany Order of Saint John (1798) French Royalists	Spain Polish Legions Cisalpine Republic	Defeat Treaty of Lunéville
April 1805 – 21 July 1806	War of the Third Coalition	Hungary Kingdom of Sicily Sweden	Spain Württemberg Etruria	Defeat Treaty of Pressburg Consolidation of the French Empire Creation of the Confederation of the Rhine Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire Formation of the Fourth Coalition a few months later
10 April – 14 October 1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	Hungary Tyrol Spain Sicily Black Brunswickers	Confederation of the Rhine Saxony Polish Legions Naples Switzerland Holland	Defeat Treaty of Schönbrunn
24 June – 14 December 1812	French invasion of Russia	Duchy of Warsaw Kingdom of Italy Confederation of the Rhine Bavaria Berg Saxony Napoleonic Spain Denmark–Norway		The Habsburg Monarchy joins the Coalition Beginning of the War of the Sixth Coalition
3 March 1813 – 30 May 1814	War of the Sixth Coalition	Sweden Spain Portugal Sicily	Duchy of Warsaw	Victory Treaty of Paris Treaty of Fontainebleau Bourbon Restoration, exile of Napoleon Bonaparte Congress of Vienna
20 March – 8 July 1815	War of the Seventh Coalition	Hanover Nassau Brunswick Sweden Spain Portugal Sicily Tuscany Switzerland French Royalists	Naples	Victory Treaty of Paris
July – August 1831	Cholera Riots	Hungarian peasants		Defeat
15 March 1848 – 4 October 1849	Hungarian Revolution of 1848	Allied peoples and legions	Allied peoples and legions	Defeat Revolution suppressed by Austrian, Russian, and allied forces Reincorporation of Hungary into the Austrian Empire
19 September 1848 – 21 November 1849	Slovak Uprising of 1848–49		Slovak National Council	Indecisive settlement
29 April – 11 July 1859	Second Italian War of Independence	Habsburg Tuscany	supported by United Provinces of Central Italy	Defeat Sardinia annexed Lombardy from Austria Sardinia occupied and later annexed Habsburg-ruled Tuscany and Emilia France gains Savoy and Nice from Sardinia
14 June – 26 July 1866	Austro-Prussian War	and allied German states	and allied German states	Defeat Prussia annexes parts of Bavaria, Hanover, Hesse-Kassel, parts of Hesse-Darmstadt, Holstein, Schleswig, Nassau, and Frankfurt Italy annexes Venetia and part of Friuli Dissolution of the German Confederation Formation of the North German Confederation Exclusion of Austria from Germany Formation of Austria-Hungary
October 1869 – 11 January 1870	Krivošije Uprising	Austria-Hungary	Krivošije rebels	Stalemate Most rebel demands met
29 July – 20 October 1878	Occupation of Bosnia	Austria-Hungary	Bosnia Vilayet tacit support	Victory Bosnia placed under Austro-Hungarian occupation as a condominium Pacification of local resistance
2 November 1899 – 7 September 1901	Boxer Rebellion	Eight-Nation Alliance United States Austria-Hungary	Yihetuan	Victory Boxer Protocol signed

Wars in the 20th century

Conflict		Belligerents		Result
Date	Name	Allies	Enemies	Outcome
28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918	World War I	Central Powers Austria-Hungary		Defeat Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and creation of the First Hungarian Republic Beginning of Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920) Treaty of Trianon
December 1918 – June 1919	Hungarian–Czechoslovak War	Slovak Soviet Republic		Military Victory Political Defeat Hungarian advance into Czechoslovakia, then withdraw after negotiations Creation and dissolution of the Slovak Soviet Republic
13 November 1918 – 3 August 1919	Hungarian–Romanian War			Defeat Collapse of the Hungarian Soviet Republic Romanian occupation of Hungary proceeds
6 May 1919	Bruck an der Leitha raid	German-Austria	Antibolsevista Comité	Victory ABC raid defeated
2-6 June 1919	Hungarian invasion of Prekmurje		Republic of Prekmurje	Victory Soviet rule restored in Prekmurje
24 June 1919	Ludovika Uprising		White Hungarians	Victory Rebellion crushed
3 August – 13 October 1921	Uprising in West Hungary	Austria Hungary (disarmament of the rebels in 1921)	Rongyos Gárda Lajtabánság Bosnian and Albanian Muslim volunteers	Victory Sopron and its area remained in Hungary
20 - 23 October 1921	Charles IV's second coup attempt	Hungary	Habsburg Royalists	Victory Coup fails Habsburgs dethroned
14 – 18 March 1939	Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine	Hungary		Victory Occupation and annexation of Carpatho-Ukraine
23 – 31 March 1939	Slovak-Hungarian War	Hungary		Victory Annexation of a border strip between eastern Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia
1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945	World War II	Axis Powers Germany Affiliate states Hungary Thailand Client States Government of National Salvation Albania Co-belligerents Active neutrality	Allied Powers United States United Kingdom France In exile for part of the war Poland Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Greece Czechoslovakia Other important belligerents Canada Australia New Zealand Yugoslavia Brazil Mexico Colombia Cuba Philippines Mongolia Co-belligerents (1943–1945) (1944–1945) Finland (1944–1945) Bulgaria (1944–1945)	Defeat Soviet occupation of Hungary Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 First Vienna Award annulled (Czechoslovakia re-gained some of the territories lost to Hungary in 1938) Second Vienna Award annulled (Romania re-gained of Northern Transylvania, lost to Hungary in 1940) Hungarian withdrawal and loss of annexed territories to Yugoslavia Soviet annexation of Carpathian Ruthenia (fully became part of again Hungary in 1939) Sovietization of Hungary; installation of a communist puppet regime
23 October – 10 November 1956	Hungarian Revolution of 1956	Hungarian revolutionaries	People's Republic of Hungary	Defeat Revolution crushed by Soviet troops Re-imposition of Soviet-backed puppet regime until 1989 Soviet military presence in Hungary until 1991
20 – 21 August 1968	Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia	Warsaw Pact Soviet Union Bulgaria Poland Hungary supported by		Victory Prague Spring crushed Moscow Protocol Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia until 1991

Wars in the 21st century

Conflict		Belligerents		Result
Date	Name	Allies	Enemies	Outcome	Losses
March 2003 – 2009	Iraq War	Iraqi National Congress New Iraqi government Iraqi Armed Forces Awakening Council Peshmerga	Ba'athist Iraq Ansar al-Islam----Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation <	-- Deleted image removed: -->Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order----Sunni insurgents Islamic State of Iraq Islamic Army of Iraq Ansar al-Sunnah ----Shia insurgents Mahdi Army Special Groups Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Others ----For fighting between insurgent groups, see Civil war in Iraq (2006–07).	Victory Invasion and occupation of Iraq Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war Subsequent depletion of al-Qaeda in Iraq, improvements in public security, Iraqi insurgency persists Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement Escalation of sectarian insurgency after U.S. withdrawal and spillover with the Syrian Civil War Resurgence of Islamic State of Iraq, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq,
7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021	War in Afghanistan	ISAF RS	Taliban Al-Qaeda	Taliban Victory / US-allied defeat United States invasion of Afghanistan (2001) Destruction of al-Qaeda and Taliban militant training camps (2001) Fall of the Taliban government (2001) and Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Start of Taliban insurgency Osama bin Laden killed by DEVGRU operators in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011 "Afghanization" of Afghan conflict. Withdrawal of most US troops by 2014 End of Operation Enduring Freedom; start of 2015 phase of war, and Operation Freedom's Sentinel. End of US and ISAF led combat mission; beginning of NATO-led training and assistance mission. Doha Agreement and progressive withdrawal of remaining US troops after 2020[43] Renewed Taliban offensive in 2021 Taliban forces capture Kabul on 15 August 2021 and overthrow the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Re-establishment of the Taliban-run Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Panjshir Province held out against the Taliban for 3 weeks after Kabul was conquered but ended up also being conquered by the Taliban

See also

• Military history of Hungary

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Notes and References

1. Szabados . György . August 2005 . Vereség háttér nélkül? Augsburg, 955 . Defeat without background? Augsburg, 955 . Hitel – irodalmi, művészeti és társadalmi folyóirat [literary, artistic and social journal] . hu. 8.
2. Nagy Kálmán: A honfoglalás korának hadtörténete; Heraldika Kiadó, Budapest, 2007, p. 168
3. Book: Király, Péter. Gondolatok a kalandozásokról M. G. Kellner "Ungarneinfälle..." könyve kapcsán.
4. Baják László (2000). p. 15
5. Kristó Gyula: Levedi törzsszövetségétől Szent István államáig; Magvető Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1980 p. 248 From Miracula Sancti Georgii. Hungarian translation: "A nyugati népek, azaz a bolgárok, magyarok, szküthák, médek és türkök leghevesebb felkelése történt" English translation from the Hungarian: It was the most violent upraising of the Western nations: the Bulgarians, Hungarians, Scythians, Medians and Turks
6. Bóna István (2000). p. 54
7. Baják László (2000). p. 30–32
8. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . A 984. évi mölki összecsapás . The Clash at Melk in 984 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0003/135.html.
9. Book: Rónai Horváth, Jenő. Magyar hadi krónika - Első rész. - A honfoglalástól a mohácsi vészig. Hungarian Academy of Sciences / A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia hadtudományi bizottsága. 1895. Budapest. hu.
10. Book: Kosztolnyik, Z. J. . 1981. Five Eleventh Century Hungarian Kings: Their Policies and their Relations with Rome . 82. Boulder . 0-914710-73-7.
11. Book: Érszegi . Géza . Solymosi . László . Solymosi . László . Magyarország történeti kronológiája, I: a kezdetektől 1526-ig. Historical Chronology of Hungary, Volume I: From the Beginning to 1526 . Akadémiai Kiadó . 1981 . 89. Az Árpádok királysága, 1000–1301 . The Monarchy of the Árpáds, 1000–1301 . 963-05-2661-1. hu.
12. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . A belgrádi hadjárat 1071-ben és a nisi hadművelet 1072-ben . The Campaign of Belgrade in 1071 and the Campaign of Nis in 1072 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0003/182.html.
13. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . IV. Henrik hadjárata László ellen 1079-ben . Campaign of Henry IV Against Ladislaus in 1079 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0004/195.html.
14. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . László második hadjárata a kúnok ellen 1091-ben . The Second Campaign of Ladislaus Against the Cumans in 1091 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0004/201.html.
15. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . Az 1092. évi orosz hadjárat . The Russian Campaign of 1092 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0004/203.html.
16. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . Az 1094. évi lengyel hadjárat . The Polish Campaign of 1094 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0004/205.html.
17. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . Az 1095. évi horvátországi és apuliai hadjárat . The Croatian and Apulian Campaign of 1095 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0004/210.html.
18. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . A keresztes hadak átvonulása Magyarországon 1096-ban . The Crusaders March Through Hungary in 1096 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0004/212.html.
19. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . A dalmát kérdés. Bjelograd (Ó-Zára) meghódítása 1096-ban . The Dalmatian Question. Conquest of Biograd (Old Zadar) in 1096 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0004/214.html.
20. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . Az 1099. évi orosz hadjárat . The Russian Campaign of 1099 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0004/216.html.
21. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . Az 1107. évi apuliai hadjárat . The Apulian Campaign of 1107 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0004/220.html.
22. Book: Bierter Band. War and Technology. Heuber. 1821. 299–302.
23. Book: Obrusánszky, Borbála. A tatárok kivonulásának okai.
24. Book: Oxford University. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. 2010. 33. 9780195334036.
25. Ion Grumeza: The Roots of Balkanization: Eastern Europe C.E. 500–1500, University Press of America, 2010 https://books.google.com/books?id=QKhuxLdnYhMC&pg=PA91
26. Book: Robert Maddock. The 1,300 Years' War: Volume One. Xlibris Corporation. 2016. 449. 9781524533762.
27. Book: Liviu Pilat. Ovidiu Cristea. The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom During the 15th Century. Brill Publishers. 2017. 67. 9789004353800.
28. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . A szebeni csata 1442. március 25-én . The Battle of Szeben on 25 March 1442 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0010/745.html.
29. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . A vaskapui diadal 1442 július havában . The Triumph of the Iron Gate in July 1442 . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0010/747.html.
30. Book: Bury, J.B. . The Cambridge Medieval History volumes 1-5 . Plantagenet Publishing.
31. Book: Treadgold, W.T. . A History of the Byzantine State and Society . History e-book project. Stanford University Press. . 1997 . 978-0-8047-2630-6.
32. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme (The Military History of the Hungarian Nation) . 1928 . hu.
33. Book: Mesut Uyar Ph.D., Edward J. Erickson . A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Ataturk . 2009.
34. Book: Chalkokondyles, Laonikos . The Histories of Laonikos Chalkokondyldes, Volume I (Translated by Anthony Kaldellis, 2014) . 1464.
35. Britannica Dózsa Rebellion
36. Book: Bánlaky, József . A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme . Budapest . hu. The Military History of the Hungarian Nation . Az 1522–1524. évi hadiesemények. Bel- és külföldi rendelkezések a török veszély elhárítására. Az 1524. évi rákosi országgyűlés főbb határozatai. . Annual military events of 1522–1524. Domestic and foreign provisions to prevent the Turkish threat. The main decisions of the Diet of Rákos in 1524. . https://mek.oszk.hu/09400/09477/html/0012/927.html.
37. Lieber (1845), p. 345.
38. Dupuy (1970), p. 501.
39. Coppée (1864), pp. 562–565.
40. Nafziger & Walton (2003), p. 105
41. Book: Tóth, Ferenc . Saint-Gotthard 1664 : une bataille européenne . 2007 . Lavauzelle . 978-2-7025-1064-3 . Panazol . 173671328.
42. Left the war after signing the Peace of Basel with France.
43. News: U.S. troops in Afghanistan now down to 2,500, lowest since 2001: Pentagon . Idrees . Ali . 15 January 2021 . Reuters . 26 November 2021 .