This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Belgium and its colonial empire.
Battle of Amblève - 716 - Frankish Civil War Battle of Thimeon - 880 - Frankish–Viking battles Battle of Leuven (891) - 891 - Frankish–Viking battles Battle of Axspoele - 1128 Battle of Noville - 1194 - War of the Namen-Luxembourg Succession Battle of Damme - 1213 - Anglo-French War (1213–1214) Battle of Steppes - 1213 Battle of Furnes - 1297 - Franco-Flemish War Battle of the Golden Spurs - 1302 - Franco-Flemish War Battle of Arques (1303) - 1303 - Franco-Flemish War Siege of Tournai (1340) - 1340 - Hundred Years' War Battle of Scheut - 1365 Battle of Beverhoutsveld - 1382 - Revolt of Ghent (1379–1385) Battle of Roosebeke - 1382 - Revolt of Ghent (1379–1385) Siege of Ypres (1383) - 1383 - Hundred Years' War Battle of Othée - 1408 - Wars of Liège Battle of Nevele (1452) - 1452 - Ghent War (1449–1453) Battle of Bazel - 1452 - Ghent War (1449–1453) Battle of Gavere - 1453 - Ghent War (1449–1453) Battle of Montenaken - 1465 - Wars of Liège Siege of Dinant - 1466 - Wars of Liège Battle of Brustem - 1467 - Wars of Liège Siege of Tournai - 1521 - Italian War of 1521–1526 Battle of Oosterweel - 1567 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Jodoigne - 1568 - Eighty Years' War Siege of Mons (1572) - 1572 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Saint-Ghislain - 1572 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Lillo - 1574 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Vissenaken - 1576 - Eighty Years' War Siege of the Spaniards' Castle - 1576 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Gembloux (1578) - 1578 - Eighty Years' War Siege of Zichem - 1578 - Eighty Years' War Siege of Nivelles - 1578 - Eighty Years' War Siege of Limburg - 1578 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Rijmenam - 1578 - Eighty Years' War Siege of Binche - 1578 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Borgerhout - 1579 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Baasrode - 1579 - Eighty Years' War Siege of Tournai (1581) - 1581 - Eighty Years' War Siege of Oudenaarde - 1582 - Eighty Years' War Siege of Ghent (1583–1584) - 1583 - Ghent War Fall of Antwerp - 1584 - Eighty Years' War Siege of Brussels (1584-1585) - 1584 - Eighty Years' War Battle of the Kouwensteinsedijk - 1585 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Turnhout (1597) - 1597 - Eighty Years' War Battle of Nieuwpoort - 1600 - Eighty Years' War
Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents (excluding Belgium) Outcome Allies Enemies17891790Brabant Revolution United Belgian States Habsburg AustriaAustrian victory Revolution suppressed18301839Belgian Revolution Ten Days' Campaign Belgian rebels
FranceTreaty of London: Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium18321834Liberal Wars Portugal
France Spain MiguelitesLiberal victory, Constitutional monarchy is restored18611867French intervention in Mexico Mexican Empire France Egypt Eyalet Polish Revolutionaries United Mexican States United States of America (entered in 1865) French withdrawal, Republican victory18811899Mahdist War Congo Free State Ethiopian Empire Mahdist Sudanese Anglo-Egyptian victory 1891 1892 Stairs Expedition to Katanga Congo Free Statesupported by: Yeke state of Msiri Congo Free State victory Msiri killed, Mukanda-Bantu becomes vassal prince Belgium acquires the colony of Katanga18921894Belgo-Arab War Congo Free State Zanzibari slave tradersCongo Free State victory 1895 1895 Luba rebellion Congo Free Statesupported by: Luba rebels Congo Free State victory Many Luba men had to perform forced labour in the Katanga mines18951908Batetela Rebellions Congo Free StateBatetela peopleCongo Free State victory 1905 1917 Kasongo Nyembo rebellion Congo Free State (until 1908) (from 1908) Luba rebels led by Kasongo Nyembo Belgian victory Kasongo Nyembo banished19141918World War IAllies: France
(1914–17) (1917–18) and othersCentral Powers
(1915–18)Allied victory Belgium acquires Eupen-Malmedy from Germany19141918East African campaign (part of World War I)Allies:
Rhodesia British East Africa Nyasaland Uganda
Portuguese MozambiqueCentral Powers
German East AfricaAllied victory Allied conquest and partition of German East Africa Belgium acquires Ruanda-Urundi from German East Africa10 May194028 May1940Battle of Belgium (part of World War II) FranceBelgian surrender and German occupation of Belgium19401945World War IIAlliesAxis powersAllied victory19501953Korean War (UN Resolution 84)Ceasefire19591962Rwandan Revolution Independence of the Republic of RwandaIndependence of the Kingdom of Burundi19601966Congo Crisis Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) (United Nations Operation in the Congo)Withdrawal of Belgian Armed Forces Debellation of the State of South Kasai in 1961 Debellation of the State of Katanga in 1963 New Belgian intervention Operation Dragon Rouge and Operation Dragon Noire in 196419781978Shaba II Front for the National Liberation of the CongoFranco-Belgian victory19791985Violence in Belgium Provisional Irish Republican Army Communist Combatant CellsBelgian victory19901991Gulf WarCoalition forces Ba'athist IraqCoalition victory19912003Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–1998) Ba'athist IraqCoalition victory19921995Somali Civil War United Somali CongressVictory UN humanitarian mandate fulfilled. About 100,000 lives were saved by outside resistance. Civil war is ongoing.19981999Kosovo War Kosovo Liberation Army
NATO forceNATO victory United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo20012021War in Afghanistan ISAF TalibanTaliban victory20112011 military intervention in Libya National Transitional Council forces Libyan Arab JamahiriyaFall of Gaddafi régime2014ongoing2014 military intervention against ISISOngoing
See also List of wars in the Low Countries until 1560 – includes wars on the present territory of Belgium until 1560. List of wars in the southern Low Countries (1560–1829) – includes wars on the present territory of Belgium, including the Southern Netherlands (Spanish Netherlands & Austrian Netherlands), the Principality of Liège, the Princely Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the Prince-Bishopric of Cambrésis and the Imperial City of Cambray, the Duchy of Bouillon and smaller states. List of wars involving the Netherlands (1815–1839) – includes colonial wars in which the south participated as part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands History of Belgium Belgian Army
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