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This is a list of military conflicts in which Hungarian armed forces participated in or took place on the historical territory of Hungary.
The list gives the name, the date, the Hungarian allies and enemies, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:
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~800–970 | Hungarian invasions of Europe
Hungarian invasions of Europe in the 9–10th century
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Kingdom of Italy![]() West Francia Middle Francia Great Moravia ![]() Al-Andalus ![]() Principality of Serbia |
More than a century of raids and decisive wars
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811 | Battle of Pliska
The Battle of Pliska (Manasses Chronicle, 12th century)
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Decisive Bulgarian victory
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~830 | Hungarian – Khazar War | Hungarian Tribes | Khazars | Hungarian victory |
894 | Byzantine – Bulgarian War | ![]() ![]() |
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895 | Campaign of Kiev
The Hungarians at Kiev (painting by Pál Vágó, 1885)
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Hungarian victory |
~895–902 | Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin
Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (painting by Mihály Munkácsy, 1893)
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Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin |
899 | Battle of Brenta
Hungarian mounted archer shooting a knight who chases him (fresco in Basilica of Aquileia, 12th century)
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Kingdom of Italy | Hungarian victory
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901 | Carinthian campaign
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Hungarian victory |
907 | Battle of Pressburg / Pozsony
Battle of Pressburg (painting by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, 1850)
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Decisive Hungarian victory
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908 | Battle of Eisenach
Hungarian horse archers, a detail of the Arrival of the Hungarians (Feszty Panorama) (painting by Árpád Feszty, 1894)
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Hungarian victory
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910 | Battle of Lechfeld / Augsburg | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
910 | Battle of Rednitz | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
917 | Battle of Achelous
The Bulgarian victory at Anchialus (13th century)
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Bulgarian victory
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919 | Battle of Püchen | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
933 | Battle of Merseburg / Riade
Henry the Fowler fights against the Hungarians, (Sächsische Weltchronik, 1270)
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German victory |
934 | Battle of W.l.n.d.r | ![]() Pechenegs Muslim auxiliary troops |
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Decisive Hungarian – Pecheneg victory |
942 | Battle of Fraxinet | ![]() |
Muslims | Hungarian victory |
955 | Battle of Lechfeld / Augsburg
Miniature of the story of Lehel's Horn (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Hungarian defeat
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960 | Battle of Drina | ![]() |
Principality of Serbia | Serbian victory
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960 | Battle of Syrmia | ![]() |
Principality of Serbia | Hungarian victory
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970 | Battle of Arcadiopolis | ![]() ![]() ![]() Pechenegs |
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Byzantine victory
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984 | Hungarian – German border conflict at Melk
Leopold the Illustrious fighting the Hungarians and defending Melk (Babenberger Stammbaum, 1489–1492)
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Hungarian defeat
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997 | Koppány's revolt
The execution of Koppány (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Koppány's Army | Koppány's defeat |
1002 | King Stephen I's military campaign against Gyula of Transylvania
King Saint Stephen of Hungary captures his uncle Gyula, the ruler of Transylvania (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Gyula III of Transylvania | Successful campaign of King Saint Stephen of Hungary
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1029 (?) |
King Stephen I's military campaign against Ajtony, a tribal leader in the Banat | ![]() |
Ajtony's Army | Successful campaign, Ajtony's defeat |
1017–1018 | Hungarian – Polish war | ![]() |
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Stalemate |
~1018 | Pecheneg attack against Hungary | ![]() |
Pecheneg tribes | Hungarian victory |
1018 | Hungarian – Bulgarian War
King Saint Stephen of Hungary defeats Kean "Duke of the Bulgarians and Slavs" (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Hungarian – Byzantine victory |
1018 | The intervention of Boleslaw the Brave, Duke of Poland in the Kievan succession crisis | ![]() ![]() ![]() Pechenegs |
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Temporary victory for Sviatopolk and Bolesław, Polish sack of Kiev |
1030–1031 | Emperor Conrad II's military campaign against Hungary | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1041 | Uprising against King Peter Orseolo | ![]() |
Hungarian nobles | Suppression of King Peter |
1042–1043 | German – Hungarian wars | ![]() |
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Hungarian defeat |
1044 | Henry III's military campaign against Hungary
Battle of Ménfő, on the right side of the picture Emperor Henry III gives thanks for victory, on the left a soldier executes King Samuel Aba (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Defeat of Samuel Aba, restoration of Peter |
1046 | War between King Peter and Prince Andrew | ![]() ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1046 | Vata pagan uprising
Pagans slaughtering priests and the martyrdom of Bishop Gerard of Csanád (Anjou Legendarium, 1330)
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Paganic rebels | Prince Andrew's victory
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1051–1052
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Emperor Henry III's military campaigns against Hungary
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Hungarian victory |
1056–1058 | German – Hungarian border war | ![]() |
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Stalemate, treaty of Marchfeld |
1060 | Civil war between King Andrew I and his brother, Prince Béla
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Prince Béla's victory |
1061 | Second paganic uprising | ![]() |
Paganic rebels | Uprising suppressed |
1063 | German invasion of Hungary | ![]() |
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Hungarian defeat |
1067 | Croatian campaign | ![]() |
Duchy of Carinthia | Hungarian victory
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1068 | Hungarian – Bohemian war | ![]() |
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King Solomon of Hungary occupies Bohemia[12][13] |
1068 | Pecheneg attack against Hungary
Saint Ladislaus is fighting a duel with a Cuman warrior (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Pechenegs Ouzes |
Hungarian victory |
1071–1072 | Hungarian – Byzantine war |
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Hungarian victory
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1074 | Civil war between King Solomon and his cousins Géza and Ladislaus
Battle of Mogyoród (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Prince Géza and Ladislaus defeat the armies of King Solomon and Emperor Henry IV. King Solomon was dethroned. |
1075 | Henry IV's military campaign against Hungary | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1079 | Henry IV's military campaign against King Saint Ladislaus | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory[15] |
1085 | Cuman attack against Hungary | ![]() |
Cuman tribes![]() |
Hungarian victory
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1091 | Hungarian occupation of Croatia
King Saint Ladislaus of Hungary crosses the river Drava to conquer Croatia (painting by Bertalan Székely, 19th century)
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Hungarian victory
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1091 | Cuman attack against Hungary | ![]() |
Cuman tribes | Hungarian victory
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1091 | Battle near Severin / Szörényvár against the Cumans | ![]() |
Cuman tribes | Hungarian victory
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1092 | Ruthenian campaign by King Saint Ladislaus | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory
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1094 | King Ladislaus I's intervention in a conflict between Władysław I Herman, Duke of Poland, and the duke's illegitimate son, Zbigniew. | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1095 | Campaign in Apulia | ![]() ![]() |
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Hungarian victory
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1096 | King Coloman's defensive operations against the different armies of the crusaders
King Coloman's meeting with Godfrey of Bouillon (13th century)
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French and German crusaders | Hungarian victories
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1096 | Occupation of Biograd na Moru / Tengerfehérvár | ![]() |
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Hungarian occupation of Biograd na Moru
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1097 | Battle of Gvozd Mountain
Death of the Last Croatian King (painting by Oton Iveković, 1894)
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Decisive Hungarian victory
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1098–1099 | King Coloman's war against the Kievan Rus' | ![]() Davyd Ihorevych's army |
Mstyslav Sviatopolkovych's army Pecheneg tribes |
Hungarian defeat |
1105 | Siege of Zara and occupation of Dalmatia | ![]() |
Dalmatian cities ![]() |
Hungarian victory |
1107 | Campaign in Apulia | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Hungarian victory
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1108 | Hungarian war with the Holy Roman Empire | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1115–1119 | Hungarian – Venetian wars | ![]() |
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Hungarian defeat |
1123 | Stephen II's intervention in the Kievan Rus' internal conflict | ![]() Iaroslav from Vladimir |
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Hungarian retreat |
1124–1125 | Hungarian – Venetian war | ![]() |
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Hungarian defeat |
1127–1129 | Byzantine-Hungarian War (1127–29) | ![]() Grand Principality of Serbia |
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Stalemate, peace agreement |
1132 | Hungarian – Polish war[22] | ![]() ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1136–1137 | Béla II's balcanic campaigns (against Venice and the Byzantine Empire) | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1146 | Battle of the Fischa | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1149–1152 | Géza II's intervention in the conflict between the Principality of Halych and Kievan Rus' | ![]() Kievan Rus' |
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Peace agreement |
1148–1155 | Hungarian – Byzantine wars | ![]() Grand Principality of Serbia |
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Ceasefire |
1162–1165 | Hungarian civil war between Stephen III and his uncles Ladislaus and Stephen | ![]() ![]() |
Ladislaus and Stephen's army
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Stephen III's victory |
1167 | Battle of Sirmium | ![]() Banate of Bosnia |
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Decisive Byzantine victory, Hungary lost Dalmatia |
1168 | Hungarian – Bohemian war | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1176 | Battle of Myriokephalon | ![]() ![]() ![]() Grand Principality of Serbia |
Sultanate of Rum | Seljuk victory
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1180–1184 | Hungarian – Byzantine war | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory, Hungary reoccupied Dalmatia |
1188–1189 | King Béla III's military campaign against Halych | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory, occupation of Halych |
1190 | Battle of Iconium | ![]() ![]() |
Sultanate of Rum | Crusader victory
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1197–1199 | Civil war between King Emeric and his brother Andrew | ![]() |
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Emeric's victory |
1201–1205 | Emeric's balcanic wars | ![]() |
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Hungarian victories |
1202 | Siege of Zara
The crusaders conquering the City of Zara in 1202 (painting by Andrea Vicentino, 16th century)
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Hungarian defeat
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1213–1214, 1219,
1233–1234 |
King Andrew II's military campaigns against Halych | ![]() |
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Hungarian retreat |
1217–1218 | King Andrew II's participation in the Fifth crusade
King Andrew II at the head of his crusader army (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Hungarian victories on the battlefields. Muslim forces retreated to their fortresses and towns. |
1225 | King Andrew II expels the Teutonic Knights from Transylvania, the order had to move to Poland | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1237–1241 | Bosnian Crusade The Hungarian successes were followed by quick Hungarian retreat because of the Mongol invasion of Hungary | ![]() |
"Heretics" within the Banate of Bosnia | Stalemate after the quick Hungarian retreat due to the Mongol attacks |
1241 | Battle of Mohi | ![]() |
Mongols | Hungarian defeat |
1241–1242 | First Mongol invasion of Hungary | ![]() |
Mongols | Mongol victory at the Battle of Mohi. Mongols retreated within a year from Hungary due to the local Hungarian withstand. Both sides suffered a heavy casualties.[23] |
1242 | Battle of Grobnik Field | ![]() ![]() |
Mongols | Hungarian – Croatian victory[23] |
1242 | King Béla IV's punishing campaign against Frederick II, Duke of Austria | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory[24] |
1243 | Siege of Zara | ![]() |
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Hungarian defeat |
1246 | Battle of the Leitha River | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1250–1278 | Hungarian – Bohemian wars | ![]() ![]() |
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Bohemian defeat |
1259 | Battle of Pelagonia | Empire of Nicaea Cuman cavalry Hungarian mounted archers Turkish cavalry Serbian horsemen German knights |
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Decisive Nicaean victory |
1261–1262 | Occupation of Konstantin Tih's Bulgarian Empire by King Béla IV. | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory[25][26] |
1264–1265 | Internal conflict between King Béla IV and his son, Stephen | ![]() |
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Stephen's victory, he got eastern Hungary as a duchy |
1268 | Mačva War Béla IV 's army captures Stefan Uroš I. Their conflict was solved with dynastic marriage. | Béla IV of Hungary | ![]() |
Hungarian victory |
1272–1279 | Feudal anarchy | ![]() Csák noble family |
Kőszegi noble family Gutkeled noble family |
Royal victory |
1277 | Stefan Dragutin – Stefan Uroš I conflict | Stefan Dragutin![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1277 | Hungary's war with Litovoi in Cumania | ![]() |
Litovoi's army | Hungarian victory |
1278 | Battle on the Marchfeld, at Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen
Battle on the Marchfeld (painting by Anton Petter, 1858)
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Decisive Hungarian – German victory
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1282 | Cumanic uprising
Cumans arriving to Hungary (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Cumanic tribes | Hungarian victory |
1285–1286 | Second Mongol invasion of Hungary
Mongols in Hungary in 1285 (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Decisive Hungarian victory |
1291 | German – Hungarian war | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1290–1301 | Croato–Hungarian war of succession after the death of king Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Croatia | ![]() Šubić family |
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Indecisive
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1298 | Battle of Göllheim | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
County of Nassau Electoral Palatinate |
Habsburg victory |
Date | Conflict | Allies | Enemies | Result |
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1301–1308 | Árpád war of succession, after the extinction of the Árpád dynasty | ![]() ![]() Matthew III Csák's army László Kán's army |
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Angevin victory
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1310–1321 | King Charles I's wars for the centralized power against the Hungarian aristocracy | ![]() ![]() Zipser Saxons |
Matthew III Csák Aba dynasty Borsa family Apor family Kőszegi family |
Royal victory
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1312 | Battle of Rozgony
Battle of Rozgony (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Aba dynasty Matthew III Csák |
Decisive victory for King Charles I, weakening of the magnates |
1319 | Belgrade and Banate of Mačva | ![]() |
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Victory for Charles I |
1322–1337 | Hungarian – Austrian War, restoration of the western borders, defeat of Austria, Kőszegi and Babonić families | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1321–1324 | Hungarian–Serbian War | ![]() Bosnia Stephen Vladislav II of Syrmia |
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Hungarian defeat |
1330 | Battle of Posada
Battle of Posada (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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Hungarian defeat
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1344 | King Louis the Great's invasion and occupation of Wallachia and Moldavia[27] | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory, Wallachia and Moldavia became vassal states of King Louis the Great[28] |
1345–1358 | Hungarian – Venetian War, Venice had to pay annual tribute to Louis. Venetians also had to raise the Angevin flag on Piazza San Marco. | ![]() |
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Decisive Hungarian victory Treaty of Zadar |
1345 | Hungary's war with the Golden Horde | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1347–1349, 1350–1352 | Hungarian-Naples Wars | ![]() |
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First campaign: temporary Hungarian victory Second campaign: status quo ante bellum |
1348 | Battle of Capua | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory, occupation of the kingdom |
1360–1369 | Louis I's balcanic wars (against Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia and Bosnia) | ![]() |
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Temporary Hungarian victories |
1366–1367 | Hungarian – Ottoman War | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Christian victory |
1369 | Wallachian campaign | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1372–1381 | War of Chioggia, Hungary defeated the Venetians in several times, and finally expelled Venetians from Dalmatia, however Genoa, Padoa and Austria lost the War. The war resulted in the Treaty of Turin (1381) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Hungarian victory, Venice had to pay annual tribute to King of Hungary |
1375–1377 | Hungarian–Ottoman War
Victory of Louis the Great of Hungary against the Ottomans in Bulgaria
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Hungarian victory |
1377 | Hungarian – Lithuanian war | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory, Louis I enters Vilnius[29] |
1384–1394 | Civil war between a part of the Hungarian nobility and Mary, Queen of Hungary and Sigismund king | ![]() |
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Sigismund's victory |
1394–1395 | Wallachian campaign | ![]() |
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Wallachia became a Hungarian vassal, Mircea I the Great accepted the lordship of King Sigismund without any fight. |
1394–1395 | Moldavian campaign | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1396 | Battle of Nicopolis
Battle of Nicopolis (painting by Sébastien Mamerot, 1472–1475)
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Crusader defeat
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1407–1408 | Bosnian campaign
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Hungarian victory
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1411–1433 | Hungarian – Venetian War | ![]() ![]() |
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Dalmatia became part of Venice |
1415–1419 | Hungarian – Ottoman War | ![]() |
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Stalemate |
1419–1434 | Hussite Wars | ![]() ![]() |
Hussites | Eventual defeat for Radical Hussites, victory for Moderate Hussites |
1428–1432 | War of the South Danube | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Armistice |
1437 | Transylvanian peasant revolt of Budai Nagy Antal | ![]() |
Transilvanian peasants | Defeat of the rebels |
1437–1442 | Hungarian–Ottoman border conflicts, Ottoman raids in South-Hungary and Transylvania | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1440 | Siege of Belgrade | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1440–1442 | Civil war between Wladyslaw I and Ladislaus | ![]() Hungarian nobles |
Cillei family and other Hungarian nobles | Peace agreement, Wladyslaw is accepted as Hungarian king |
1442 | Battle of Hermannstadt / Szeben
John Hunyadi is fighting with the Turks (lithography by József Marastoni, 19th century)
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Hungarian victory
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1442 | Battle near the Iron Gate / Vaskapu | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory
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1443–1444 | Long campaign | ![]() |
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Temporary Hungarian victories. |
1443 | Battle of Nish | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Crusader Victory |
1443 | Battle of Zlatitsa | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Ottoman victory, halting of the Crusader advance |
1444 | Battle of Kunovica | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Crusader Victory |
1444 | Battle of Varna
King Władysław III of Poland / Vladislaus I of Hungary in the Battle of Varna (painting by Jan Matejko, 1879)
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Crusader defeat
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1447 | Wallachian campaign | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory
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1448 | Second Battle of Kosovo / Rigómező | ![]() ![]() |
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Ottoman victory |
1456 | Siege of Belgrade / Nándorfehérvár
The self-sacrifice of Titusz Dugovics (painting by Sándor Wagner, 1853)
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Hungarian victory
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1458–1459 | Matthias I's war with Ján Jiskra | ![]() |
Jiskra's soldiers | Royal victory |
1458–1465 | War in Bosnia | ![]() |
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Partial Bosnian territory occupied by the Ottoman Empire. |
1460 | Battle at Pojejena / Alsópozsgás | ![]() |
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Ottoman victory
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1464 | Siege of Jajce | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1465–1471 | Hussite uprising in North-Hungary | ![]() |
Czech hussite rebels | Hungarian victory |
1467 | Hungarian - Moldavian war | ![]() |
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Moldavian victory [35][36] |
1468–1478 | Bohemian War (1468-1478) | ![]() |
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Treaty of Olmütz, Matthias became king of Bohemia |
1471 | Hungarian – Polish war. King Matthias I forced King Casimir IV to withdraw from Hungary | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1471–1476 | Matthias's intervention in the Moldovian – Ottoman War | ![]() ![]() |
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After initial Hungarian-moldavian victories Hungary stopped the advocating of Moldavia, so Stephen III moldavian ruler became vasal of the Ottoman Empire. |
1474 | Siege of Wrocław / Breslau / Boroszló | ![]() |
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Between 1469 and 1490, Wrocław was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1474, the city was besieged by combined Polish–Czech forces. Kings Casimir IV of Poland, his son Vladislaus II of Bohemia, and Matthias Corvinus of Hungary met in the nearby village, and a ceasefire was signed according to which the city remained under Hungarian rule. |
1475 | Battle of Vaslui | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Moldavian–Hungarian–Polish victory |
1476 | Siege of Šabac / Szabács | ![]() |
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King Matthias besieged and seized Šabac, an important Ottoman border fort |
1479 | Battle of Breadfield / Kenyérmező
Battle of Breadfield (Colorized lithography from Eduard Gurk after Ion Osolsobie)
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Hungarian victory
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1480–1481 | Battle of Otranto | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Christian victory |
1482–1488 | Austrian – Hungarian War | ![]() |
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Decisive Hungarian victory
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1485 | Siege of Vienna / Bécs
The triumphant Matthias (painting by Gyula Benczúr, 1919)
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Hungarian victory
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1486 | Siege of Retz | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1486–1487 | Siege of Wiener Neustadt / Bécsújhely | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory
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1490–1491 | War of the Hungarian Succession | ![]() ![]() |
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Treaty |
1490 | Battle of Csontmező | The supporters of John Corvinus | The supporters of Beatrice of Naples | The supporters of Beatrice of Naples, Stephen Báthory and Paul Kinizsi defeated John Corvinus. |
1491–1495 | Hungarian – Ottoman war | ![]() |
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Stalemate |
1492–1493 | The Black Army's uprising | ![]() |
Black Army | Destruction of the Black Army |
1499–1504 | Hungarian – Ottoman war | ![]() |
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Stalemate |
1512–1520 | Hungarian – Ottoman war | ![]() |
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Successful defensive operations against the Ottomans |
1514 | Peasants revolt, led by György Dózsa
The execution of György Dózsa (Stephanus Taurinus: Stauromachia, id est, Cruciatorum servile bellum, 1519)
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Peasants | Revolt suppressed |
1521 | Siege of Belgrade | ![]() |
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Hungarian defeat |
1526 | Battle of Mohács
Discovering the Body of King Louis II of Hungary (painting by Bertalan Székely, 1860)
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Hungarian defeat
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1532 | Siege of Kőszeg / Güns
Siege of Güns (Edward Schön)
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Hungarian victory
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1532 | Battle of Leobersdorf | ![]() ![]() |
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Habsburg victory
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1543 | Siege of Esztergom
Siege of Esztergom, (painting by Sebastian Vrancks)
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Ottoman victory
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1552 | Siege of Eger
The Women of Eger (painting by Bertalan Székely, 1867)
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Hungarian victory
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1564–1565 | Hungarian war of succession[38] | ![]() ![]() |
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Habsburg victory; Treaty of Szatmár (13 March 1565):
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1566 | Siege of Szigetvár
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Ottoman victory
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1588 | Battle of Szikszó | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1595 | Battle of Călugăreni | ![]() ![]() |
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Wallachian victory |
1595 | Battle of Giurgiu / Gyurgyevó | ![]() ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1596 | Siege of Eger
Siege of Eger in 1596 (Abraham Ortelius, 16th century)
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Ottoman victory, Ottomans capture Eger |
1652 | Battle of Vezekény | ![]() |
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Hungarian victory |
1664 | Siege of Léva
Siege of Léva (17th century)
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Habsburg – Hungarian victory
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1686 | Siege of Buda
The recapture of Buda Castle in 1686 (painting by Gyula Benczúr, 1896)
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Holy League victory
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28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 | World War I | Central Powers ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Defeat
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December 1918 – June 1919 | Hungarian–Czechoslovak War | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Military VictoryPolitical Defeat
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13 November 1918 – 3 August 1919 | Hungarian–Romanian War | ![]() |
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Defeat
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3 August – 13 October 1921 | Uprising in West Hungary | ![]() ![]() (disarmament of the rebels in 1921) |
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Victory
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23 – 31 March 1939 | Slovak-Hungarian War | ![]() |
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Victory
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1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 Hungary entered: 27 June 1941 Hungary exited: 11 May 1945 |
World War II
Hungarian Arrow Cross militia and a German Tiger II tank in Budapest, October 1944
Hungarian Toldi I tank used during the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union
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Defeat
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23 October – 10 November 1956 | Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The flag, with a hole where the communist coat of arms had been cut out, became the symbol of the revolution.
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Defeat
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20 – 21 August 1968 | Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet tanks with invasion stripes in Czechoslovakia, 1968
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Victory
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March 2003 – 2009 | Iraq War |
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