A bloodless war is generally a small conflict, crisis, or dispute between rival groups that is resolved without human death or injury, although the threat of violence usually seems very likely at the time. Intentional property damage, however, may still occur. Typically, these events are recorded in history as wars even though the term "war" generally implies violence. Therefore, the term "bloodless war" is somewhat of an oxymoron. Nevertheless, there have been many conflicts throughout history labeled as such.
The following is a list of bloodless wars:
| Name | Location | Start | End | Belligerents | References | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huéscar | data-sort-value="1809-11-11" | 11 November 1809 | data-sort-value="1981-11-11" | 11 November 1981 | [1] | |||
| Yale, British Columbia | 1858 | American gold miners | ||||||
| River Scheldt | 8 October 1784 | |||||||
| Maine–New Brunswick border | 1838 | 1839 | ||||||
| Dodge City, Kansas, United States | June 1883 | Luke Short | Mayor Lawrence E. Deger | |||||
| Texas–Oklahoma border | 1931 | Texas | Oklahoma | |||||
| Waters of Pernambuco, Brazil | 1961 | 1963 | ||||||
| Iowa–Missouri border | 1839 | |||||||
| data-sort-value="1810-11-17" | 17 November 1810 | data-sort-value="1812-07-18" | 18 July 1812 | |||||
| data-sort-value="1651-03-30" | 30 March 1651 | data-sort-value="1986-04-17" | 17 April 1986 | |||||
| San Juan Islands, United States | data-sort-value="1859-06-15" | 15 June 1859 | data-sort-value="1859-10" | October 1859 | ||||
| 1986 | data-sort-value="1987-05" | May 1987 |  |  | ||||
| Grand Banks of Newfoundland | 1994 | 1996 |  |  | ||||
| Hans Island | 1973[2] | 2022 | | |||||
The following wars are often labelled incorrectly as bloodless wars: