List of wars and battles in the 17th century
Battles that cannot be clearly assigned to specific wars are highlighted in gray.
17th century
| 1598-1603 | Tyrone uprising | ||
| 1601-1602 | Siege of Kinsale , a Spanish expeditionary force is defeated by the English | ||
| 1600, October 21, | Battle of Sekigahara , Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated Toyotomi Hideyori's armed forces | ||
| 1607-1618 | Seventh Burmese-Siamese War | ||
| 1609-1614 | First English Powhatan War | ||
| 1609-1618 | First Polish-Russian War | ||
| 1609, autumn to 1611 | Siege of Smolensk , | ||
| 1610, July 4th | Battle of Kluschino , Polish troops defeat the Russians | ||
| 1610-1617 | Ingermanland War | ||
| 1611-1613 | Kalmar War | ||
| 1617-1629 | Polish-Swedish War | ||
| 1620-1621 | Polish-Turkish War | ||
| 1618-1648 | Thirty Years' War | ||
| 1618-1623 | Bohemian-Palatinate War | ||
| 1619, June 10th | Battle of Sablat (Bohemia), imperial troops defeat Ernst von Mansfeld | ||
| 1620, October 7th | Battle of Vražda (Bohemia), withdrawal of the imperial troops | ||
| 1620, November 8th | Battle of the White Mountains (Bohemia), Catholic League defeats Bohemia | ||
| 1622, April 27 | Battle of Mingolsheim (Baden / Palatinate), the combined armies of Peter Ernst II. Count von Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich von Baden-Durlach defeat the imperial under Tilly | ||
| 1622, May 6th | Battle of Wimpfen , Catholic League (Tilly and González Hernandez de Córdoba) defeat Palatine troops (Margrave Georg Friedrich von Baden-Durlach) | ||
| 1622, June 20 | Battle of Höchst (Holy Roman Empire), Catholic League defeats Protestant Union | ||
| 1622, August 29 | Battle of Fleurus | ||
| 1623, August 6th | Battle of Stadtlohn (Holy Roman Empire), Catholic League defeats Protestant Union | ||
| 1625-1629 | Danish-Lower Saxon War | ||
| 1626, April 25th | Battle of Dessau , imperial troops under Wallenstein defeat a Protestant army under Mansfeld | ||
| 1626, August 27 | Battle of Lutter , Catholic League defeats the Danes | ||
| 1628, September 2nd | Battle of Wolgast | ||
| 1630-1635 | Swedish war | ||
| 1631, August 7th | Battle of Advertise | ||
| 1631, September 17th | First battle near Breitenfeld | ||
| 1632, April 14th | Battle of Rain am Lech | ||
| 1632/1633, August 16 | Battle of Wiesloch | ||
| 1632, September | Battle of Nuremberg Trench warfare between Wallenstein and Gustav II Adolf | ||
| 1632, November 16 | Battle of Lützen (Holy Roman Empire), Sweden against the Empire | ||
| 1633, November 8th | Fighting for Regensburg (1632–1634) Siege and conquest of Regensburg by the Swedes against Catholic League and Bavaria | ||
| 1634, July 21 | Fighting for Regensburg (1632–1634) Siege and recapture of Regensburg by Imperial troops and troops of the Catholic League of the Swedes | ||
| 1634, September 6th | Battle of Nördlingen (Holy Roman Empire), A united imperial-Spanish-Bavarian army of the Catholic League defeats a Swedish army of the Protestant Union | ||
| 1635-1648 | Swedish-French War | ||
| 1636, October 4th | Battle of Wittstock , Sweden over Imperial and Saxons | ||
| 1638, February 28 | Battle of Rheinfelden , first part | ||
| 1638, March 3rd | Battle of Rheinfelden , part two | ||
| 1642, January 17th | Battle on the Kempen Heide , French-Weimar-Hessian troops under Guébriant and Eberstein defeat imperial-Electoral Cologne troops under Lamboy | ||
| 1642, November 2nd | Second battle near Breitenfeld | ||
| 1643, November 24th | Battle of Tuttlingen | ||
| 1644, August | Battle of Freiburg im Breisgau | ||
| 1645, March 6th | Battle of Jankau | ||
| 1645, August 3rd | Second battle near Nördlingen | ||
| 1646, May 22nd – 4th August | Siege of Korneuburg | ||
| 1648, May 17th | Battle of Zusmarshausen | ||
| 1648, August 20th | Battle of Lens | ||
| 1624-1654 | Dutch-Portuguese War | ||
| 1625-1630 | Anglo-Spanish War | ||
| 1626 | Upper Austrian Peasants' War | ||
| 1629-1631 | War of the Mantuan Succession | ||
| 1632-1634 | Second Polish-Russian War | ||
| 1635-1659 | Franco-Spanish War | ||
| 1643, May 19th | Battle of Rocroi | ||
| 1648, August 20th | Battle of Lens | ||
| 1658, June 14th | Battle in the dunes | ||
| 1641-1644 | Spanish-Portuguese War | ||
| 1641-1653 | War of the Three Kingdoms 1641–1653: | ||
| a) 1642-1649 | English Civil War | ||
| 1642, October 23 | Battle of Edgehill , royalists defeat the parliamentarians | ||
| 1643, October 11th | Battle of Winceby , MPs defeat the royalists | ||
| 1644, March 29 | Battle of Cheriton , parliamentarians defeat the royalists | ||
| 1644, June 29 | Battle of Cropredy Bridge , royalists defeat parliamentary troops | ||
| 1644, July 2nd | Battle of Marston Moor , MPs and Scots defeat the royalists | ||
| 1645, June 14th | Battle of Naseby , parliamentarians defeat the royalists | ||
| 1648, 17./18. January | Battle of Preston , Oliver Cromwell defeated the Scots | ||
| 1651, August 25th | Battle of Wigan Lane , Robert Lilburne (Parliament) defeated James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (Royalist) | ||
| 1651, September 3 | Battle of Worcester , Oliver Cromwell defeated Karl. II. | ||
| b) 1641-1653 | Irish Confederation Wars , English recapture of Ireland 1649–1653 | ||
| 1641, November | Battle of Julianstown , Irish rebels defeat English | ||
| 1646, June | Battle of Benburb , Irish Confederation (Ulster Army) defeat Scottish Covenanters and English and Scottish settlers | ||
| 1647, August | Battle of Dungans Hill , English MPs defeat Irish Confederation (Leinster Army) | ||
| 1647, November | Battle of Knocknanauss , English MPs defeat Irish Confederation (Munster Army) | ||
| 1649, August 2nd | Battle of Rathmines , English MPs defeat Irish Confederation and Royalists | ||
| 1649, September 11th | Siege of Drogheda , Oliver Cromwell / New Model Army takes Drogheda from the Irish and Royalists | ||
| 1649, 2nd - 11th October | Siege of Wexford , Oliver Cromwell captured Wexford from the Irish and Royalists | ||
| 1650, June 21 | Battle of Scarrifholis , Oliver Cromwell and English settlers defeat Irish (Ulster Army) | ||
| 1650, June – October | Siege of Limerick , Oliver Cromwell conquers Limerick from the Irish (Ulster Army) and royalists | ||
| 1651, August to 1652, May | Siege of Galway , Oliver Cromwell conquers Galway from the Irish | ||
| 1644-1646 | Second English Powhatan War | ||
| 1648-1657 | Khmelnytskyi Uprising | ||
| 1648, April 29 to May 16 | Battle of Schowti Vody , Cossacks and Crimean Tatars defeat Poland-Lithuania | ||
| 1648, May 26th | Battle of Korsun , Cossacks and Crimean Tatars defeat Poland-Lithuania | ||
| 1651, 28-30 June | Battle of Berestechko | ||
| 1652 | Battle of Batoh | ||
| 1653 | Battle of Schwanez | ||
| 1652-1654 | First Anglo-Dutch naval war | ||
| 1652, May 29th | Sea battle at Dover , a tie battle between England and the Netherlands | ||
| 1652, August 26th | Battle of Plymouth , Commander de Ruyter defeated the English fleet | ||
| 1652, September 8th | Sea battle near Elba | ||
| 1652, October 8th | Sea battle at Kentish Knock , English fleet defeats the Dutch | ||
| 1652, December | Sea battle at Dungeness , Dutch fleet defeats the English | ||
| 1653, March | Sea battle at Livorno , Dutch fleet defeats the English | ||
| 1653, March | Battle of Portland , English fleet defeats the Dutch | ||
| 1652, June | Sea battle at Gabbard , English fleet defeats the Dutch | ||
| 1652, August | Sea battle at Scheveningen , English fleet defeats the Dutch | ||
| 1654-1656 | Third Polish-Russian War | ||
| 1655-1660 , | Anglo-Spanish War | ||
| 1658, May | Siege of Dunkirk , Franco-English army conquers the city | ||
| 1658, June 14th | Battle of the dunes , Franco-English victory over the Spaniards | ||
| 1655-1660 | Swedish-Polish War | ||
| 1656-1658 | Russo-Swedish War | ||
| 1657-1668 , | Spanish-Portuguese War | ||
| 1659-1668 , | Restoration war | ||
| 1663, June 8th | Battle of Amaixial , Portuguese-British troops defeat the Spaniards | ||
| 1664, | Battle of Castelo Rodrigo , Portuguese-British troops defeat the Spaniards | ||
| 1665, June 17th | Battle of Montes Claros , Portuguese-British troops defeat the Spanish | ||
| 1660-1662 | Eighth Burmese-Siamese War | ||
| 1663-1664 , | Turkish War 1663/1664 | ||
| 1664, June 5th to July 7th | Siege of Neu-Zrin | ||
| 1664, August 1st | Battle of Mogersdorf | ||
| 1665-1667 , | Second Anglo-Dutch naval war | ||
| 1665, June 13 | Naval battle at Lowestoft , the Duke of York defeated the Dutch fleet | ||
| 1665, August 12 | Battle in the Bay of Bergen | ||
| 1666, 11-14th June | Four days battle , Dutch defeat the English fleet | ||
| 1666, August 4th | Sea battle at North Foreland , English defeat the Dutch fleet | ||
| 1667, June | Raid in the Medway , successful Dutch fire attack on the English fleet | ||
| 1667/68 , | War of devolution | ||
| 1672–1674 , | Third Anglo-Dutch naval war | ||
| 1672, June 7th | Naval Battle of Solebay | ||
| 1673, June 7th | First naval battle of Schooneveld | ||
| 1673, June 14th | Second naval battle of Schooneveld | ||
| 1673, August 21 | Sea battle off Texel | ||
| 1672–1676 , | Ottoman-Polish War 1672–1676 | ||
| 1673, November 11th | Battle of Chotyn (1673) | ||
| 1672-1679 , | Dutch War | ||
| 1673, June 13-26 | Siege of Maastricht | ||
| 1674, April 19 to May 22 | Besançon siege | ||
| 1674, June 16 | Battle of Sinzheim | ||
| 1674, August 11th | Battle of Seneffe | ||
| 1674, October 4th | Battle of Enzheim | ||
| 1675, January 5th | Battle of Türkheim | ||
| 1675, July 27th | Battle of Sasbach | ||
| 1675, August 11th | Battle of the Konzer Bridge | ||
| 1676, January 8th | Sea battle at Stromboli | ||
| 1676, April 22 | Sea battle near Augusta | ||
| 1676, June 2 | Sea battle in front of Palermo | ||
| 1676, November to 1677, March 17 | Siege of Valenciennes | ||
| 1677, April 11th | Battle of Cassel | ||
| 1678, 4th / 5th August | Battle of Saint-Denis (1678) | ||
| 1674-1679 | Scena war | ||
| 1676, June 1st | Sea battle at Öland , the Dutch-Danish fleet wins over the Swedish fleet | ||
| 1676, December 4th | Battle of Lund , Swedish victory over the Danes | ||
| 1677, July 14th | Battle of Landskrona , Swedish victory over the Danes | ||
| 1677, summer | Sea battle at Mön , Danish fleet wins over Swedish fleet | ||
| 1677, summer | Sea battle at Köge , the Danish fleet wins over the Swedish fleet | ||
| 1677, summer to August 1678 | Siege of Kristianstad , Swedish victory over the Danes | ||
| 1674-1679 | Swedish-Brandenburg War | ||
| 1675, June 15 | Battle of Rathenow , Brandenburg defeated Sweden | ||
| 1675, June 17th | Battle near Nauen , Brandenburg defeated Sweden | ||
| 1675, June 18 | Battle of Fehrbellin , Brandenburg defeated Sweden | ||
| 1683-1684 | Reunion War (1683–1684) | ||
| 1683-1699 | Great Turkish War | ||
| 1683, July 15 to September 12 | Second Turkish siege of Vienna | ||
| 1683, September 12th | Battle of the Kahlenberg | ||
| 1684, June 27th to October 30th | First siege of furnace | ||
| 1686, June to September 2 | Second siege from furnace | ||
| 1687, August 12th | Battle of Mohács | ||
| 1691, August 19th | Battle of Slankamen | ||
| 1697, September 11th | Battle of Zenta | ||
| 1685 | Franco-Siamese War | ||
| 1685-1687 | Fourth Polish-Russian War | ||
| 1687 | Anglo-Siamese War | ||
| 1688-1697 | War of the Palatinate Succession (Nine Years War) | ||
| 1689, August 25th | Battle of Walcourt | ||
| 1690, July 1st | Battle of Fleurus | ||
| 1690, July 10th | Battle of Beachy Head | ||
| 1690, August 18 | Battle of Staffarda | ||
| 1691, March 15th to April 10th | Siege of Mons | ||
| 1691, June 28 | Siege of Cuneo | ||
| 1691, September 18 | Battle of Leuze | ||
| 1692, May 25th to June 30th | Siege of Namur | ||
| 1692, May 29th to June 4th | Battle of Barfleur and La Hougue | ||
| 1692, August 3 | Battle of Steenkerke | ||
| 1693, June 27 | Battle of Lagos | ||
| 1693, July 29th | Battle of Neer winds | ||
| 1693, October 4th | Battle of Marsaglia | ||
| 1694, May 27 | Battle of Torroella | ||
| 1695, July 2nd to September 1st | Second siege of Namur | ||
| 1689-1697 | King William's War in North America | ||
| 1689-1691 | Irish war | ||
| 1690, June 1st | Battle of the Boyne , (Ireland), William III. of Orange defeated James II. | ||
| 1700-1721 | Great Northern War | ||
| 1700, November 20th | Battle of Narva Sweden defeats Russia | ||
| 1702, July 20 | Battle of Klissow Sweden defeats Saxony | ||
| 1705 | Blockade of Grodno , Sweden defeats Russia | ||
| 1706, February 13 | Battle of Fraustadt , Sweden defeated Saxony | ||
| 1709, July 8 | Battle of Poltava , Russia defeats Sweden | ||
| 1712, December 20th | Battle of Gadebusch , Sweden defeated Denmark |