List of wars involving Hungary

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

Middle Ages

Wars under the Árpád-dynasty's rule

Date	Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Result
around 830	Hungarian–Khazar War	Hungarian tribes	Khazars	Hungarian victory
894	Byzantine-Bulgarian War (894)	Byzantine Empire Hungarian tribes	First Bulgarian Empire
around 895 – 902	Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin	Hungarian tribes	East Francia Great Moravia First Bulgarian Empire South Slavic tribes Vlachs	Hungarian occupation of the Carpathian Basin
(836) 862 – 970	Hungarian invasions of Europe	Hungarian tribes	Kingdom of Italy East Francia West Francia Middle Francia Great Moravia  Byzantine Empire Al-Andalus First Bulgarian Empire Principality of Serbia	mixed results
960	Hungarian-Serbian War (960)	Hungarian tribes	Principality of Serbia	Hungarian victory
997	Koppány's revolt	Principality of Hungary  Holy Roman Empire	Koppány's army	Koppány's defeat
1003	Stephen I's military campaign against Gyula transilvanian ruler	Hungarian royal army		Successful campaign
1008 (?)	Stephen I's military campaign against Ajtony, a tribal leader in the Banat	Hungarian army	Ajtony's army	Successful campaign, Ajtony's defeat
1017–1018	Hungarian – Polish war	Kingdom of Hungary	Duchy of Poland	Stalemate
around 1018	Pecheneg attack against Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	Pecheneg tribes	Hungarian victory
1018	Hungarian – Bulgarian war	Kingdom of Hungary  Byzantine Empire	First Bulgarian Empire	Hungarian-Byzantine victory
1030–1031	Conrad II's military campaign against Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire	Hungarian victory
1041	Uprising against Peter king	Hungarian Army	Hungarian nobles	Suppression of Peter king
1042–1043	German – Hungarian wars	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire	Hungarian defeat
1044	Henry III's military campaign against Hungary	Aba Sámuel kings army	Holy Roman Empire Peter king and his allies	Defeat of Aba Sámuel, restoration of Peter
1046	War between Peter king and prince Andrew	Peter king's army  Holy Roman Empire	Andrew I's army Kievan Rus	Andrew's victory
1046	Vata pagan uprising	Peter king, later Andrew I king	paganic rebels	Andrew's victory
1051–1052	Henry III's military campaigns against Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Bohemia	Hungarian victory
1056–1058	German – Hungarian border war	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire	Stalemate, treaty of Marchfeld
1060	Civil war between Andrew I king and his brother, Béla	Andrew I's army  Holy Roman Empire	Béla I's army Kingdom of Poland	Béla I's victory
1061	Second paganic uprising	Hungarian army	paganic rebels	Uprising suppressed
1068	Pecheneg attack against Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	pecheneg tribes	Hungarian victory
1071–1072	Hungarian – Byzantine war	Kingdom of Hungary	Byzantine Empire	Hungarian victory
1074	Civil war between Solomon king and his cousins Géza and Ladislaus	Solomon's army  Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Bohemia	Géza's army Kingdom of Poland	Solomon's suppression
1075	Henry IV's military campaign against Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire Solomon's army	Hungarian victory
1085	Pecheneg invasion of Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	pecheneg tribes Solomon's army	Hungarian victory
1091	Pecheneg attack against Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	pecheneg tribes	Hungarian victory
1091	Hungarian occupation of Croatia	Kingdom of Hungary	Kingdom of Croatia	Hungarian victory
1093–1097	Petar Svačić's Croatian uprising against the Hungarian rule	Kingdom of Hungary	Kingdom of Croatia	Hungarian victory
1094–1095	Ladislaus I's intervention in the polish and bohemish internal conflicts
1096	Coloman king's defensive operations against the different armys of the Peoples crusade	Kingdom of Hungary	crusaders	Hungarian victories
1098–1099	Coloman's war against the Kievan Rus'	Kingdom of Hungary Davyd Ihorevych's army	Mstyslav Sviatopolkovych's army pecheneg tribes	Hungarian defeat
1105	Siege of Zara and occupation of Dalmatia	Kingdom of Hungary	Dalmatian cities Venice	Hungarian victory
1108	Hungarian war with the Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire Duchy of Bohemia	Hungarian victory
1108–1126	Hungarian – Bohemian wars	Kingdom of Hungary	Duchy of Bohemia	Peace agreement
1115–1119	Hungarian – Venetian wars	Kingdom of Hungary	Republic of Venice	Hungarian defeat
1123	Stephen II's intervention in the Kievan Rus' internal conflict	Kingdom of Hungary Iaroslav from Vladimir	Kievan Rus'	Hungarian retreat
1124–1125	Hungarian – Venetian war	Kingdom of Hungary	Republic of Venice	Hungarian defeat
1127–1129	Byzantine-Hungarian War (1126–29)	Kingdom of Hungary Serbian Grand Principality	Byzantine Empire	Peace agreement
1132	Hungarian – Polish war	Kingdom of Hungary Duchy of Austria	Kingdom of Poland	Hungarian victory
1136–1137	Béla II's balcanic campaigns (against Venice and the Byzantine Empire)	Kingdom of Hungary	Byzantine Empire  Republic of Venice	Hungarian victory
1146	German – Hungarian war	Kingdom of Hungary	Duchy of Bavaria Duchy of Austria	Hungarian victory
1149–1152	Géza II's intervention in the conflict between the Principality of Halych and Kievan Rus'	Kingdom of Hungary Kievan Rus'	Principality of Halych	Peace agreement
1148–1155	Hungarian – Byzantine wars	Kingdom of Hungary Serbian Grand Principality	Byzantine Empire	ceasefire
1162–1165	Hungarian civil war between Stephen III and his uncles Ladislaus and Stephen	Kingdom of Hungary  Holy Roman Empire	Ladislaus and Stephen's army  Byzantine Empire	Stephen III's victory
1167	Battle of Sirmium	Kingdom of Hungary Banate of Bosnia	Byzantine Empire Serbian Grand Principality	Decisive Byzantine victory
1180–1184	Hungarian – Byzantine war	Kingdom of Hungary	Byzantine Empire	Hungarian victory
1188–1189	Béla III's military campaign against Halych	Kingdom of Hungary	Principality of Halych	Hungarian victory
1197–1199	Civil war between Emeric king and his brother Andrew	Emeric's army	Andrew's army	Emeric's victory
1201–1205	Emeric's balcanic wars	Kingdom of Hungary	Second Bulgarian Empire Grand Principality of Serbia Bosnia	Hungarian victories
1202	Siege of Zara	Kingdom of Hungary	soldiers of the fourth crusade  Republic of Venice	Hungarian defeat
1213–1214, 1219, 1233–1234	Andrew II's military campaigns against Halych	Kingdom of Hungary	Principality of Halych	Hungarian retreat
1217–1218	Andrew II's participation in the Fifth crusade	Kingdom of Hungary Archduchy of Austria Latin Empire of Constantinople	Ayyubids	Hungarian retreat
1237	Bosnian Crusade	Coloman of Galicia-Lodomeria	"heretics" within the Banate of Bosnia	Hungarian retreat
1241–1242	Mongol invasion of Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	mongols	decisive mongol victory
1243	Siege of Zara	Kingdom of Hungary	Republic of Venice	Hungarian defeat
1246	Battle of Leitha	Kingdom of Hungary	Archduchy of Austria	Austrian retreat
1250–1278	Hungarian – Bohemian wars	Kingdom of Hungary  Holy Roman Empire	Kingdom of Bohemia Duchy of Austria	Bohemian defeat
1264–1265	Internal conflict between Béla IV and his son, Stephen	Béla I's army	Stephen's army	Stephen's victory, he got eastern Hungary as a duchy
1268	Mačva War	Béla IV of Hungary	Kingdom of Serbia (medieval), Stefan Uroš I	Peace
1272–1279	Feudal anarchy	Ladislaus IV king Csák noble family	Kőszegi noble family Gutkeled noble family	Royal victory
1277	Stefan Dragutin-Stefan Uroš I conflict	Stefan Dragutin Kingdom of Hungary	Kingdom of Serbia (medieval) Stefan Uroš I	Stefan Dragutin
1277	Hungary's war with the vlach ruler, Litovoi	Kingdom of Hungary	Litovoi's army	Hungarian victory
1282	Cumanic uprising	Kingdom of Hungary	cumanic tribes	Hungarian victory
1285	Mongol attack against Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	Golden Horde	mongol retreat
1291	German – Hungarian war	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire	Hungarian victory
1292–1300	Andrew III's war with the Kőszegi Hungarian noble family	Kingdom of Hungary	Kőszegi family	Andrew's victory

Wars between 1301 and 1526

Date	Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Result
1301–1308	Hungarian interregnum, fightings for the country's throne	Charles of Anjou Duchy of Austria Máté Csák's army László Kán's army	Kingdom of Bohemia Duchy of Bavaria Kőszegi Hungarian noble family	Charles became Hungarian king
1310–1321	Charles I's wars for the centralized power against the Hungarian aristocracy	Kingdom of Hungary	Máté Csák Aba family Borsa family Apor family Kőszegi family	Royal victory, centralization of the Hungarian Kingdom
1317	Belgrade and Banate of Mačva	Charles I of Hungary	Kingdom of Serbia (medieval), Stefan Milutin	Charles I
1322–1337	Hungarian–Austrian War	Kingdom of Hungary	Duchy of Austria Holy Roman Empire Kőszegi family Babonić Croatian noble family	status quo ante bellum
1321–1324	Hungarian–Serbian War	Kingdom of Hungary Bosnia Stephen Vladislav II of Syrmia	Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)	Hungarian defeat
1330	Hungarian-Wallachian War	Kingdom of Hungary	Wallachia	Hungarian defeat in the battle of Posada
1347–1349, 1350–1352	Hungarian-Naples Wars	Kingdom of Hungary	Kingdom of Naples	First campaign: temporary Hungarian victory Second campaign: status quo ante bellum
1345–1358	Hungarian–Venetian War	Kingdom of Hungary	Republic of Venice	Treaty of Zadar
1345	Hungary's war with the Golden Horde	Kingdom of Hungary	Golden Horde	Hungarian victory, liberation of Moldavia under mongol rule
1360–1369	Louis I's balcanic wars (against Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Bosnia)	Kingdom of Hungary	Serbian Empire Second Bulgarian Empire Bosnia Wallachia	Temporary Hungarian victories
1366–1367	Hungarian–Osman War	Kingdom of Hungary  Duchy of Savoya  Padova Republic of Venice Kingdom of France  Byzantine Empire	Ottoman Empire Second Bulgarian Empire	Christian victory
1372–1381	War of Chioggia	Padua Hungarian Kingdom Republic of Genoa Duchy of Austria	Republic of Venice Milan  Ottoman Empire  Kingdom of Cyprus	Venetian victory
1375–1377	Hungarian–Osman War	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire  Second Bulgarian Empire Wallachia	Hungarian victory
1384–1394	Civil war between a part of the Hungarian nobility and Mary, Queen of Hungary and Sigismund king	Kingdom of Hungary	Horváti family Kingdom of Naples	Sigismund's victory
1391–1396	Hungarian–Osman War	Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of France[1] Kingdom of Hungary Wallachia Knights Hospitaller  Republic of Venice  Republic of Genoa Second Bulgarian Empire	Ottoman Empire Moravian Serbia	Christian defeat in the Battle of Nicopolis
1409-1411	Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War	Teutonic Knights Kingdom of Hungary	Kingdom of Poland Grand Duchy of Lithuania	Polish victory Peace of Thorn (1411)
1411–1433	Hungarian–Venetian War	Kingdom of Hungary Milan	Republic of Venice	Dalmatia became part of Venice
1415–1419	Hungarian–Osman War	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Stalemate
1419–1434	Hussite Wars	Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Hungary	hussites	defeat of radical hussites
1428–1432	War of the South Danube	Kingdom of Hungary Wallachia Grand Duchy of Lithuania	Ottoman Empire	Armistice
1437	Budai Nagy Antal revolt	Kingdom of Hungary	transilvanian peasants	Defeat of the rebels
1437–1442	Hungarian–Ottoman border conflicts, Ottoman raids in South-Hungary and Transylvania	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Hungarian victory
1440–1442	Civil war between Wladyslaw I and Ladislaus	Kingdom of Poland Hungarian nobles	Cillei family and other Hungarian nobles	Peace agreement, Wladyslaw is accepted as Hungarian king
1443–1444	Long campaign	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Hungarian retreat
1444–1448	Hungarian–Ottoman War (1444, Crusade of Varna)	Kingdom of Hungary Wallachia	Ottoman Empire Moravian Serbia	Hungarian retreat
1456	Siege of Belgrade	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Hungarian victory
1458–1459	Matthias I's war with Ján Jiskra	Kingdom of Hungary	Jiskra's soldiers	Royal victory
1458–1465	War in Bosnia	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	A part of Bosnia is occupied by the Ottoman Empire
1465–1471	Hussite uprising in North-Hungary	Kingdom of Hungary	Czech hussite rebels	Hungarian victory
1467	Hungarian - Moldavian war	Kingdom of Hungary	Moldavia	Hungarian defeat in the battle of Baia
1468–1478	Bohemian War (1468-1478)	Kingdom of Hungary	Kingdom of Bohemia	Treaty of Olmütz, Matthias became king of Bohemia
1471–1476	Matthias's intervention in the Moldovian – Osman War	Kingdom of Hungary Moldavia	Ottoman Empire	After initial Hungarian-moldavian victories Hungary stopped the advocating of Moldavia, so Stephen III moldavian ruler became vasal of the Ottoman Empire.
1479	Battle of Breadfield	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire Wallachia	Hungarian victory
1480–1481	Battle of Otranto	Kingdom of Naples Kingdom of Aragon Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Christian victory
1482–1488	Austrian-Hungarian War (1477-1488)	Kingdom of Hungary	Holy Roman Empire	Hungarian victory, capture of Wien in 1485
1490–1491	War of Hungarian succession	Kingdom of Bohemia	Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Poland (the two countries were not allies)	The bohemian king, Wladislaus won over the polish army and get the Hungarian throne, but is defeated by the Holy Roman Empire's army, which conquested back Wien and the other parts of Austria.
1491–1495	Hungarian – Osman war	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Stalemate
1492–1493	The Black Army's uprising	Kingdom of Hungary	Black Army	Destruction of the black army
1499–1504	Hungarian – Osman war	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Stalemate
1512–1520	Hungarian – Osman war	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Successful defensive operations against the ottomans
1514	Peasants revolt, led by György Dózsa	Kingdom of Hungary	Peasants	Revolt suppressed
1521–1526	Hungarian – Osman war (ended with the Battle of Mohács)	Kingdom of Hungary	Ottoman Empire	Hungarian defeat, destruction of the medieval Hungarian kingdom

Wars between 1526 and 1699

• 1526–1538 : Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528 (Hungarian Civil War)
• 1526–1527 : Jovan Nenad-uprising
• 1540–1547 : Habsburg – Osman war
• 1550–1558 : Habsburg – Osman war
• 1552 : Siege of Eger (1552)
• 1562 : First székely uprising
• 1565–1568 : Habsburg – Osman war
• 1572–1573 : Croatian–Slovenian peasant revolt
• 1575 : Bekes - uprising and the second székely uprising
• 1593–1606 : Fifteen Years' war
• 1610–1664 : Habsburg – Osman border conflicts
• 1596 : Third székely uprising
• 1611–1613 : Transylvanian Civil War and Osman military intervention
• 1618–1648 : Thirty Years' war
• 1632 : Peasants revolt, led by Péter Császár (in Transylvania and in the Royal Hungary)
• 1636 : Transylvanian – Osman war
• 1656–1657 : Transylvanian military campaign against Poland
• 1657–1662 : Osman – Transylvanian war
• 1663–1664 : Habsburg – Osman war
• 1663-1664 : Austro-Turkish War (1663–64)
• (1672) 1678 – 1685 : Thököly-uprising
• 1683–1699 : Great Turkish War
• 1697 : Uprising in Hegyalja

Wars between 1700 and 1900

• 1703–1711 : Rákóczi's War for Independence
• 1716–1718 : Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718
• 1735–1739 : Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39)
• 1735–1736 : Peasants revolt
• 1740–1748 : War of the Austrian Succession
• 1756–1763 : Seven Years' War
• 1784–1785 : Revolt of Horea, Cloșca and Crișan
• 1792–1802 : French Revolutionary Wars
• 1803–1815 : Napoleonic Wars
• 1831 : Cholera uprising
• 1848–1849 : Hungarian Revolution of 1848
• 1848–1849 : Slovak Uprising 1848-1849
• 1859 : Second Italian War of Independence
• 1866 : Austro-Prussian War
• 1869 : Uprising in Krivošije
• 1878 : Occupation of Bosnia
• 1899-1901 : Boxer Rebellion

Wars in the 20th century

Date	Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Result
1914-1918	World War I	Central Powers  Austria-Hungary  German Empire  Ottoman Empire  Bulgaria	Allied Powers  Russian Empire  France  British Empire  Kingdom of Serbia  Kingdom of Montenegro  Belgium  Japan  Italy  Portugal  Romania  United States  Hejaz  Greece  Brazil Siam	Allied Victory
1919	Hungarian–Romanian War	Hungarian Soviet Republic	Romania	Romanian Victory
1921	Uprising in West Hungary	Austria Hungary (disarmament of the rebels in 1921)	Rongyos Gárda Lajtabánság Bosnian and Albanian Muslim volunteers	Sopron and its area remained in Hungary
1939	Slovak-Hungarian War	Hungary	Slovakia	Hungarian Victory
1941	Invasion of Yugoslavia	Germany  Italy Hungary	Yugoslavia	Axis Victory
1941-1945	World War II	Axis Powers Germany  Italy  Empire of Japan  Romania Hungary  Slovakia  Bulgaria  Thailand  Croatia  Manchukuo  Mengjiang  Albania  Finland	Allied Powers  United Kingdom  Soviet Union  United States  France  China  Poland  Canada  India  Australia  Greece Yugoslavia  Netherlands  Belgium  New Zealand  South Africa Norway  Denmark Luxembourg Czechoslovakia  Ethiopia Brazil  Mexico  Colombia Cuba Philippines Mongolia	Allied Victory
1956	Hungarian Revolution of 1956	Hungarian revolutionaries	Soviet Union People's Republic of Hungary	Revolution crushed
1968	Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia	Warsaw Pact Soviet Union Bulgaria Poland  East Germany Hungary	Czechoslovakia	Prague Spring crushed

21st century

• 2003–2004  : Iraq War (1 soldier, 3 civilian killed, 12 soldier wounded)
• 1 August 2004 – today : Afghanistan War (7 killed, 14 wounded)

See also

• Military history of Hungary

References

1. Tuchman, 548

Sources

• Gyula Kristó; Ferenc Makk (1996). Az Árpád-ház uralkodói (in Hungarian). I.P.C. Könyvek. ISBN 978-963-7930-97-3.
• Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (1987). Magyarország története: Elozmenyek es Magyar tortenet 1242-IG. Akadémiai Kiadó.