List of wars involving Portugal

• Culmination of a Galician–Portuguese civil war in the Kingdom of León.

• García II of Galicia declaring himself King of Portugal.

• Afonso Henriques takes the leadership of the County of Portugal and paves the way for an independent Kingdom of Portugal.

• War of Portuguese independence.

• Afonso Henriques is acclaimed King of Portugal

• The Treaty of Zamora (1143) recognized Portuguese independence from the Kingdom of León.

• Afonso Henriques and his army arrived at Santarém, taking it within a day.

• The victory was a turning-point in Portugal's history.

• Pope Alexander III formally recognized Afonso I as rex Portugalensium

• Conquest of Alvor and siege of Silves.

• Part of the Reconquista.

• Turning point in the Reconquista

• This marked the end of the Portuguese Reconquista, with Lisbon becoming the capital city of the Kingdom of Portugal in 1255.

• Part of the Luso-Castillian War.

• Defeat of the Marinid invasion

• The city surrendered and was incorporated into the Crown of Castile in 1344.

• The war was prolonged because Peter of Castile lost his throne to Henry of Trastámara

• Consolidation of Portuguese independence.

• Portuguese consecrated the main mosque into the cities cathedral.

(1419)

• Pedro de Menezes led the Portuguese garrison in a sally against the Marinid siege camp and forced the lifting of the siege before the relief fleet even arrived

• Prince Henry the Navigator did not return to Lisbon to report to his brother, King Edward of Portugal, but rather sailed directly to Ceuta.

• The conquest was successful due to the superiority of the Portuguese artillery, and to the decision of Abd al-Haqq II to keep his army in Tangier upon being informed of the presence of the Portuguese fleet, while he was preparing an attack on Tlemcen.

• After a troubled disembarkation that resulted in the death of more than 200 men caused by strong winds and waves, Afonso's army reached the shore and laid siege to the city of Asilah, conquering it after a hard battle.

• Isabella is recognised as Queen of Castile
• Marriage of Isabella of Aragon and Afonso of Portugal
• Portugal gains hegemony in the Atlantic south of the Canary Islands
• Portugal recognizes Castile's claim to the Canary Islands

(1478)

• Part of the War of the Castilian Succession

Crown of Aragon

Kingdom of Sicily

Kingdom of Hungary

 Papal States

Kingdom of Portugal[1]

• Ottomans conquer Otranto and gain foothold in Southern Italy
• Ottoman garrison surrender the city after 13 months

• Portuguese retake Pate, Mombasa and Kilwa from Somali/Ottoman forces.[5][6]

• Conquest of Azemmour in Morocco

• Withdrawal of the Adal-Ottoman armies from the Ethiopian Highlands after the death of Ahmed ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi.[7]
• Conflict continues between the armies of the Imperial and Amiric successors; Galawdewos and Nur ibn Mujahid.[8]
• Weakening of the Abyssinians and Adalites, which opened the door for The Great Oromo Migrations.

• Portugal maintains control of the Persian Gulf.

• Ottoman fleet destroyed

 

 Kingdom of Kotte

• Decisive victory to Sinhalese army of Kingdom of Sitawaka

• Aceh fleet destroyed

Co-belligerents:

Princely states of the Kanara coast

Kalinyamat Sultanate

Sultanate of Ternate

Sultanate of Tidore

Sultanate of Golkonda

• 1580 Portuguese succession crisis
• Rise of the Moroccan Saadi Empire

• Iberian Union

• Portuguese control in the South East African coast restored and Mir Ali Bey captured

• Decisive victory to Sinhalese army of Kingdom of Kandy

• Ormuz (which was under Portuguese control since 1507) goes back to Persian control

• Aceh's forces destroyed (loses 236 ships, 19,000 soldiers)

• Sinhalese army Victory
• Portuguese didn't attack Kingdom of Kandy again

• Formation of the Dutch Empire
• Portuguese Restoration War
• Portuguese victory in Brazil, Angola, Goa and Macau
• Dutch victory in Ghana, Malacca, Sri Lanka and Indonesia
• Both sides claim victory in India

• Treaty of Lisbon
• Charles II of Spain recognizes the sovereignty of the House of Braganza over Portugal and its colonial possessions[10]

• Death of King António I of Kongo.

• Portuguese territory in India defended.

• Portuguese territory in India defended.

• Omani forces capture Fort Jesus

• Crown of Aragon

Austria
 Great Britain (1707–13)[11]

•  England (until 1707)
•  Scotland (until 1707)

 Dutch Republic
 Prussia
 Portugal
 Savoy
Hanover

• Crown of Castile
• Kingdom of Naples
• Kingdom of Sicily

 France
Bavaria (until 1704)
 Mantua

Treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt, and Baden:

• Austria, Great Britain and the Dutch Republic recognise Philip V as King of Spain but he renounces any claim to the throne of France.
• Spain cedes territories in Europe.

• The Spanish invasion of Portugal (1762) was defeated
• Spanish conquers Colonia del Sacramento and most of Rio Grande do Sul during the Fantastic War

• First Treaty of San Ildefonso
• Portugal remains neutral during the American Revolutionary War

• Treaty of Badajoz
• Question of Olivença
• Territory of Brazil expanded

• Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil

• Brazil

 United Kingdom

• Bourbon Restoration; Napoleon's exile to Elba
• Various territorial changes
• Beginning of the Congress of Vienna
• Hostilities resume with the return of Napoleon to power in 1815

• End of Napoleonic Wars
• Second exile of Napoleon and second Bourbon Restoration
• Beginning of the Concert of Europe

• Annexation of the Banda Oriental to the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.

• Brazilian independence
• Territorial unity of the Empire of Brazil
• Treaty of Rio de Janeiro
• Portuguese recognition of the Empire of Brazil
• End of Portuguese influence in the Americas

Supported by:
Portugal (until 1834)

Supported by:
France
United Kingdom
Portugal (from 1834)

• End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires
• Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East
• Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers
• Establishment of the League of Nations

 Soviet Union
 Mexico

• End of the Second Spanish Republic

• Incorporation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli into India.

• Ceasefire and independence after the Carnation revolution:

Alvor Agreement;

• Angolan independence in 1975, start of the Angolan Civil War.[12]

• Incorporation of Goa, Daman, and Diu into India.

• Independence of Guinea-Bissau.

• Independence of Mozambique

Herzeg-Bosnia
 Croatia

 United States
 Belgium
 Canada
 Denmark
 France
 Germany
 Italy
 Luxembourg
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Portugal
 Spain
 Turkey
 United Kingdom

• Dayton Accords
• Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Dayton Accords
• Deployment of NATO-led IFOR to oversee the peace agreement
• Massive civilian casualties for the Bosniak ethnic group

• Kumanovo Treaty
• Yugoslav security forces pull out of Kosovo
• KLA veterans join the UÇPMB, starting the Preševo insurgency

• Islamic Jihad Union
• Haqqani network

Allied groups

• HIG
• al-Qaeda
• IJU[25]
• IMU

Taliban splinter groups

• Fidai Mahaz

2001 invasion:
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

• Taliban

al-Qaeda

• 055 Brigade

• American-led coalition invasion and occupation of Afghanistan
• Destruction of al-Qaeda training camps
• Fall of the Taliban government
• Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan under the Karzai administration
• Start of Taliban insurgency
• Death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan
• Commencement of war's 2015–present phase

• Violence ends.