This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Austria.
| 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 | ||
| 26 July 1468 | 27 August 1468 | Waldshuter war | Defeat | |||
| 1 February 1469 | October 1469 | Supporters of | Victory | |||
| 1474 | 5 January 1477 | Burgundian Wars | Duchy of Lorraine | Duchy of Burgundy | Victory | |
| 19 August 1477 | 23 December 1482 | War of the Burgundian Succession | Burgundian Netherlands | Kingdom of France | Austrian military victory French diplomatic victory | |
| 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
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| 5 June 1483 | June 1485 | Flemish revolt of 1483–1485 | Flemish rebels | Victory
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| June 1486 | 22 July 1489 | Mad War | Rebellious Nobles
Supported by: | Kingdom of France | Defeat | |
| 1487 | 1487 | Battle of Calliano (1487) | 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 | |
| 1491 | 1492 | Bread and Cheese Revolt | Bread and Cheese Folk | Victory | ||
| 31 March 1495 | 1498 | Italian War of 1494–98 | League of Venice: Kingdoms of Spain Duchy of Milan Duchy of Mantua (from 1496) | Victory | ||
| 20 January 1499 | 22 September 1499 | Swabian War | Swabian League Holy Roman Empire | Defeat | ||
| 1502 | 1543 | Guelders Wars | Duchy of Guelders | Victory | ||
| 1505 | 19 July 1506 | Austrian–Hungarian War (1505–06) | Holy Roman Empire | Kingdom of Hungary | Defeat
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| February 1508 | 4 December 1516 | War of the League of Cambrai | 1508–1510: League of Cambrai:1511–1513: Holy League:1513–1516: | 1508–1510: | 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 | Spain | Victory
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| 16 April 1520 | 25 October 1521 | Revolt of the Comuneros | Spain | Comuneros rebels | Victory | |
| 1524 | 1525 | German Peasants' War | Swabian League | Peasant army | Victory
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| 22 May 1526 | 10 August 1530 | War of the League of Cognac | 1526–1528: Spain Duchy of Ferrara 1528–1530: SpainDuchy of Ferrara Duchy of Mantua1526–1528: Republic of Florence | Empire of Charles V:
Kingdom of Navarre | Victory
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| 17 December 1526 | 22 July 1533 | Ottoman-Habsburg War (1526–1533) | Spain | Ottoman Empire | Defeat | |
| June 1535 | June 1535 | Conquest of Tunis (1535) | Spain | Ottoman Empire | Victory | |
| March 1536 | 18 June 1538 | Italian War of 1536–38 | Spain | Ottoman Empire | Defeat
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| May 1536 | 19 June 1547 | Ottoman-Habsburg War (1536–1547) | Spain | Ottoman Empire | Defeat | |
| October 1539 | November 1540 | Revolt of Ghent (1539–1540) | Ghent rebels | Victory | ||
| October 1541 | November 1541 | Algiers expedition (1541) |
| Ottoman Empire Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Defeat | |
| 12 July 1542 | 18 September 1544 | Italian War of 1542–46 | Spain | Ottoman Empire Jülich-Cleves-Berg | Inconclusive
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| 10 July 1546 | 23 May 1547 | Schmalkaldic War | Empire of Charles V: | Schmalkaldic League | Victory | |
| 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: | Ottoman Empire | Victory | |
| 1551 | 27 November 1562 | Ottoman-Habsburg War (1551–1562) | Spain | Ottoman Empire | Defeat
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| 1566 | 17 February 1568 | Ottoman-Habsburg War (1566–1568) | Spain | Ottoman Empire | Defeat | |
| 23 May 1568 | 30 January 1648 | Eighty Years' War | Spain | Defeat
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| 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 | |
| 29 July 1593 | 11 November 1606 | Long Turkish War
| Transylvania Zaporozhian Host Spain Serbian rebels Tuscany Persia Knights of St. Stephen Bulgarian rebels Duchy of Ferrara Duchy of Mantua | Nogai Khanate | Inconclusive | |
| 10 June 1609 | 24 October 1610 | War of the Jülich Succession | Margraviate of Brandenburg Palatinate-Neuburg Protestant Union | Defeat | ||
| July 1612 | September 1614 | Rappenkrieg | Peasant rebels | Victory
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| January 1616 | 26 September 1617 | Uskok War | Spain | Defeat | ||
| 23 May 1618 | 24 October 1648 | Thirty Years' War
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Spain and its possessions |  SwedenDenmark-Norway (1625–1629) Electorate of the Palatinate Brunswick-Lüneburg Brandenburg-Prussia Transylvania Hungarian Anti-Habsburg Rebels | ||
| 1620 | 1644 | Vlach uprisings in Moravia | Moravian Wallachia | Victory | ||
| May 1626 | December 1626 | Upper Austrian peasant war of 1626 | Bavaria | Austrian Rebels | Victory
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| 1626 | 1629 | Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) | Poland-Lithuania | Swedish Empire | Defeat | |
| 27 May 1657 | 3 May 1660 | Second Northern War | Poland (Poland–Lithuania)  Denmark–NorwayRussia (1656–58) Crimean Khanate Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–56, 1657–60) | Swedish Empire Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–57) Principality of Transylvania Ukrainian Cossacks (1657) Grand Duchy of Lithuania | Inconclusive | |
| 12 April 1663 | 10 August 1664 | Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664) | League of the Rhine | Austrian military victory Ottoman diplomatic and commercial victory | ||
| 1665 | 1666 | Varaždin rebellion | Serbo-Croatian rebels from Slavonian Military Frontier | Victory
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| 1 July 1673 | 26 January 1679 | Franco-Dutch War |
| (1672–74) Sweden Münster Cologne | Defeat | |
| 1680 | 1680 | Peasant Uprising | Czech Peasants | Victory
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| 1683 | 15 August 1684 | War of the Reunions | Spain | Defeat | ||
| 14 July 1683 | 26 January 1699 | Great Turkish War | Tsardom of Russia Cossack Hetmanate Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Albanian rebels Serb rebels Greek rebels Spain | Crimean Khanate | Victory | |
| 27 September 1688 | 20 September 1697 | Nine Years' War | Grand Alliance | Irish Jacobites | Inconclusive | |
| 9 July 1701 | 7 March 1714 | War of the Spanish Succession
| Spain loyal to Archduke Charles Kingdom of Portugal | Spain loyal to Philip V of Spain Electorate of Bavaria Kurucs (Kingdom of Hungary) Principality of Transylvania | Phillip V confirmed as King of Spain Habsburg territorial gains Austria successfully crushes revolutions in Hungary and Bavaria | |
| 13 April 1716 | 21 July 1718 | Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718 | Victory | |||
| 2 August 1718 | 17 February 1720 | War of the Quadruple Alliance | Spain | Victory | ||
| 10 October 1733 | 3 October 1735 | War of the Polish Succession | Poland loyal to Augustus III | Poland loyal to Stanisław I Spain | Augustus III confirmed as King of Poland
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| 12 July 1737 | 18 September 1739 | Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739) | Russian Empire | Defeat | ||
| 16 December 1740 | 18 October 1748 | War of the Austrian Succession
| Hanover (1743–45) (1742-48) (1741–43) (1748) | (1740–42) (1744–45) Kingdom of Spain (1740–1746)Bavaria (1741–45) (1741–42) Naples and Sicily Sweden (1741–43)(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 | |
| 29 August 1756 | 15 February 1763 | Seven Years' War
| Russia Spain Sweden | Hanover Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Kingdom of Portugal Hesse-Kassel Schaumburg-Lippe Iroquois Confederacy | Military stalemateStatus quo ante bellum in Europe | |
| 1774 | 1774 | Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan | Romanian peasants | Victory
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| July 1778 | 13 May 1779 | War of the Bavarian Succession | Bavaria | Inconclusive | ||
| 8 October 1784 | 8 October 1784 | Kettle War | Inconclusive | |||
| 18 August 1789 | 12 January 1791 | Liège Revolution | Prince-Bishopric of Liège | Republic of Liège United Belgian States | Victory
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| 24 October 1789 | 3 December 1790 | Brabant Revolution | United Belgian States Republic of Liège | Victory
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| February 1788 | 4 August 1791 | Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791) | Victory | |||
| 20 April 1792 | 18 April 1797 | War of the First Coalition | French Royalists Spain (1793–95)Portugal Naples and Sicily Other Italian states |  French Republic Spain (1796–97) | Defeat | |
| June 1794 | November 1794 | Kościuszko Uprising | Polish forces | Victory | ||
| 26 June 1797 | July 1797 | Denisko uprising | Polish rebels | Victory
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| 12 March 1799 | 9 February 1801 | War of the Second Coalition | French Royalists Portugal | French Republic Spain Denmark-Norway | Defeat | |
| Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding the Austro-Hungarian Empire) | Outcome | Emperor | Casualties | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allies | Enemies | ||||||
| 19 June 1875 | 20 October 1878 | Great Eastern Crisis |
Supported by: |
Supported by: | Victory | 7,447 casualties | |
| 1879 | 1880 | Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah | Kurdish tribes | Victory
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| 14 November 1885 | 28 November 1885 | Serbo-Bulgarian War | Support: | Defeat | Francis Joseph I (1867–1916), Charles I of Austria (1916–1918) | ||
| January 1897 | October 1898 | Cretan Revolt of 1897-1898 | Cretan revolutionaries Kingdom of Greece International Squadron | Victory
| Unknown | ||
| 2 November 1899 | 7 September 1901 | Boxer Rebellion | Eight-Nation Alliance
| Righteous Harmony Society | Victory | Unknown but very light casualties | |
| 28 July 1914 | 3 November 1918 | World War I | Central Powers (1915–18) | Allies
| Defeat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is dissolved. | 1,200,000 to 1,494,200 deaths | |
| Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Austria) | Outcome | Chancellor | Casualties | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allies | Enemies | |||||||
| 28 August 1921 | 13 October 1921 | Uprising in West Hungary | Austria Hungary | Rongyos Gárda Lajtabánság Bosnian and Albanian Muslim volunteers | Defeat, Sopron and its area remained in Hungary. | Johannes Schober | 12 killed | |
| 12 February 1934 | 15 February 1934 | Austrian Civil War | Fatherland Front | SDAPÖ | Government victory
| Engelbert Dollfuß | Thousands of casualties | |
| Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Austria) | Outcome | Chancellor | Casualties | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allies | Enemies | |||||||
| 12 March 1938 | 8 May 1945 | Austrian resistance | Nazi Germany | Austrian resistance
Supported by: | Moscow Declarations seizured Austrian independence, but Otto von Habsburg didn't reign Austria. | Adolf Hitler | ? | |
| 17 September 1938 | 16 March 1939 | Undeclared German–Czechoslovak War | Nazi Germany | Munich Agreement and First Vienna Award
| Adolf Hitler | 22 killed | ||
| 1 September 1939 | 8 May 1945 | World War II | Axis Nazi Germany
(until 1944) (until 1944) | Allies Poland Yugoslavia  Finland (since 1944)(since 1944) (since 1944) Austrian resistance | End of German Anschluss and Allied occupation of Austria. | Adolf Hitler | 70–85 million people death | |
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