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This is a list of conflicts in the United States . Conflicts are arranged chronologically from the late modern period to contemporary history . This list includes (but is not limited to) the following: Indian wars , skirmishes , wars of independence , liberation wars , colonial wars , undeclared wars , proxy wars , territorial disputes , and world wars . Also listed might be any battle that was itself only part of an operation of a campaign of a theater of a war . There may also be periods of violent civil unrest listed, such as: riots , shootouts , spree killings , massacres , terrorist attacks , and civil wars . The list might also contain episodes of: human sacrifice , mass suicide , genocides , and other related items that have occurred within the geographical area (including overseas territories) of what is today known as, the "United States of America ."
August 30, 1800 Gabriel's Rebellion
1804 Battle of Sitka
1810 – 1813 Tecumseh's War Battle of Tippecanoe
1811: 1811 German Coast uprising
1813 Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition (Mexican War of Independence ): Battle of Rosillo Creek , Battle of Alazan Creek , Battle of Medina
1812 – 1815 War of 1812 British troops enter Washington during the Burning of Washington .
1813 – 1814 Creek War Battle of Horseshoe Bend
1817 – 1818 First Seminole War
1820 – 1875 Texas-Indian wars Comanches of West Texas in war regalia.
1820 Tongue River Massacre
1823 Arikara War
1827 Winnebago War
1830 – 1847 Indian removal
August 21 – 23, 1831 Nat Turner's Rebellion
1832 Black Hawk War Battle of Stillman's Run
1833 Cutthroat Gap massacre
1835 – 1842 Second Seminole War United States Marines searching for the Indians during the Seminole War.
1835 – 1836 Toledo War
1835 – 1836 Texas Revolution Battle of the Alamo
1836 – 1875 Comanche Wars
1836 – 1837 Creek War of 1836
1838 – 1839 Aroostook War
1838 Mormon War (1838)
1838 – 1839 Córdova Rebellion
1839 Honey War
1839 – 1845 Anti-Rent War
1839 – 1844 Regulator–Moderator War
1840 Bellevue War
1841 – 1842 Dorr Rebellion
1842 Dawson Massacre
1842 – 1843 Mier expedition
1844 – 1850 Tutt–Everett War
May 6 – July 7, 1844 Philadelphia nativist riots
1844 – 1846 Battle of Nauvoo
1845 Milwaukee Bridge War
1846 – 1887 California Indian Wars
1846 – 1848 Mexican–American War Battle of Resaca de la Palma 1846
Texas Campaign : Thornton Affair , Siege of Fort Texas , Battle of Palo Alto , Battle of Resaca de la Palma Conquest of California : Battle of Olómpali , Battle of Monterey , Battle of Yerba Buena , Capture of Santa Fe , Siege of Los Angeles , Battle of Chino , Battle of Dominguez Rancho , Battle of Natividad , Battle of San Pasqual Battle of El Brazito Capture of Tucson
1847
1847 – 1855 Cayuse War
1849 – 1866 Navajo Wars Navajo people photographed during the Long Walk.
1849 – 1924 Apache Wars Drawing of an Apache warrior waiting for an ambush.
1849 – 1855 Jicarilla War
1850 – 1853 Yuma War
February 8 – 17, 1850 Battle at Fort Utah
1850 – 1851 Mariposa War
1853 – 1854 Walker War
1854 – 1858 Bleeding Kansas Aftermath of the Sacking of Lawrence.
1854 – 1855: First Sioux War
1855 – 1856: Rogue River Wars
1855 – 1858: Yakima War Seattleites evacuate to the town blockhouse.
1855 – 1856 Puget Sound War
1855 – 1858 Third Seminole War
1855 Klamath River Wars
1856 Tule River War
1856 Tintic War
1857 – 1858 Utah War
July 4 – 5, 1857 Dead Rabbits riot
1858 – 1859 Mohave War
1858 – 1864 Bald Hills War
1859 Pitt River Expedition
1859 – 1860 Mendocino War
1859 Pig War (1859)
1859 – 1861 Cortina Troubles
1859 John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
1860 Paiute War
1860 Bitter Spring Expedition
1861 – 1865 American Civil War General Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.
1861 – 1875 Yavapai Wars
1862 – 1867 Bitter Spring Expedition
1862 Morrisite War
1862 Dakota War of 1862 The Siege of New Ulm
1863 – 1891 Hatfield-McCoy Feud
1863 Bear River Massacre
July 13 – 16, 1863 New York City draft riots
1864 – 1868 Snake War
1864 – 1865 Colorado War Sand Creek massacre
1864 – 1874 Lowry War
1865 – 1959 Oyster Wars
1865 – 1870 Hualapai War
1865 – 1872 Black Hawk War (1865–1872)
1865 Powder River Expedition (1865)
1866 – 1868 Red Cloud's War
1866 – 1871 Fenian raids
May 1 – 3, 1866 Memphis massacre of 1866
July 30, 1866 New Orleans massacre of 1866
1867 – 1875 Comanche campaign
1868 – 1876 Sutton–Taylor feud
January 7, 1868 Pulaski riot
September 28, 1868 Opelousas massacre
1868 Battle of the Washita River
1870 Barber–Mizell feud
July – November 1870 Kirk–Holden war
1871 – 1875 Yavapai War
April 15, 1872 Goingsnake massacre
1872 – 1873 Modoc War Modocs defending their Stronghold.
March 1871 Meridian race riot of 1871
October 24, 1871 Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871
1873 – 1888 Colfax County War
1873 Yellowstone Expedition of 1873
1873: Colfax massacre
1874 – 1875 Red River War
1874 Brooks–Baxter War
1874 Battle of Liberty Place
November 3, 1874 Election Massacre of 1874
December 7, 1874 – January 5, 1875 Vicksburg massacre
1875 – 1876 Mason County War
1875 Las Cuevas War
1876 Hamburg massacre
1876 – 1877 Great Sioux War of 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn
1876 – 1877 Buffalo Hunters' War
1877 Nez Perce War Chief Joseph and his band in the spring of 1877.
July 14 – September 4, 1877 Great Railroad Strike of 1877
1878 Bannock War
1878 – 1890 Lincoln County War
1878 – 1879 Northern Cheyenne Exodus
1879 Sheepeater Indian War
1879 – 1880 Victorio's War
1879 Meeker Massacre
1881 – 1886 Geronimo's War
1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1882 – 1892 Pleasant Valley War
June 1883 Dodge City War
March 28 – 30, 1884 Cincinnati riots of 1884
September 2, 1885 Rock Springs massacre
May 4, 1886 Haymarket affair
May 5, 1886 Bay View massacre
1887 – 1893 Gray County War
1887 Crow War
May 27 – 28, 1887 Hells Canyon Massacre
1887 – 1924 Post-1887 Apache Wars period
1887 Reservoir war
1887 – 1895 Hawaiian rebellions (1887–1895)
November 22 – 25, 1887 Thibodaux massacre
1888 – 1889 Jaybird–Woodpecker War
1889 Wham Paymaster robbery
May 18 – 19, 1889 1889 Forrest City riot
July 20, 1889 – May 24, 1893 Johnson County War
1890 – 1916 Castaic Range War
1890 – 1891 Ghost Dance War Mass grave for the dead Lakota after the massacre at Wounded Knee .
February 10 – May 26, 1891 Morewood massacre
March 14, 1891 1891 New Orleans lynchings
April 1891 – August 1892 Coal Creek War
1891 – 1893 Garza Revolution
July 1 – November 20, 1892 Homestead Strike
1892 Battle of Coffeyville
1893 Battle of Ingalls
May 1, 1894 May Day riots of 1894
May 11 – July 20, 1894 Pullman Strike
1894 Bituminous coal miners' strike of 1894
1895 Bannock War of 1895
August 4 – 5, 1895 Spring Valley Race Riot of 1895
1896 Yaqui Uprising
September 10, 1897 Lattimer massacre
1898 Spanish–American War The bombardment of Castillo San Felipe del Morro .
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Contemporary history [ edit ] This covers conflicts and terrorist attacks in the 1900s that occurred within the modern territory of the United States of America. This also includes attacks upon the United States from Eurasian powers.
July 23 – 28, 1900 Robert Charles riots
May 12 – October 23, 1902 Anthracite coal strike of 1902
1903 – 1904 Colorado Labor Wars
July 6 – 10, 1903 Evansville race riot
April 7 – July 19, 1905 1905 Chicago teamsters' strike
1906 – 1916 Porum Range War
June 1, 1906 Cananea strike
August 12 – 13, 1906 Brownsville affair
September 22 – 24, 1906 Atlanta Massacre of 1906
August 14 – 16, 1908 Springfield race riot of 1908
1909 Crazy Snake Rebellion
February 10 – April 19, 1910 Philadelphia general strike (1910)
July 4, 1910 Johnson–Jeffries riots
October 1, 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing
1910 – 1919 Border War The ruins of Columbus, New Mexico after the battle.
1911 Battle of Kelley Creek
January 11 – March 12, 1912 1912 Lawrence textile strike
April 18, 1912 – July 1913 Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912
July 7, 1912 Grabow riot
February 25 – July 28, 1913 1913 Paterson silk strike
July 23, 1913 – April 13, 1914 Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914
August 3, 1913 Wheatland hop riot
September 23, 1913 – December 1914 Colorado Coalfield War
October 31 – November 7, 1913 Indianapolis streetcar strike of 1913
1914 – 1915 Bluff War
July 12, 1914 Hartford coal mine riot
1914 – 1918 World War I
July 22, 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing
November 5, 1916 Everett massacre
May 28 – July 3, 1917 East St. Louis massacre
July 1917 1917 Chester race riot
July 12, 1917 Bisbee Deportation
August 23, 1917 Houston riot of 1917
1918 – 1931 Osage Indian murders
1918 Battle of Bear Valley
February 6 – 11, 1919 Seattle General Strike
1919 Red Summer
April 10, 1919 Morgan County, West Virginia riot of 1919
April 13, 1919 Jenkins County, Georgia, riot of 1919
May 9 – July 31, 1919 Race riots in Philadelphia during the 1919 Red Summer
May 10, 1919 Charleston riot of 1919
May 27, 1919 Putnam County, Georgia, arson attack
June 27, 1919 Annapolis riot of 1919
June 27, 1919 Macon, Mississippi, race riot
June 29, 1919 New London riot of 1919
July 3, 1919 Bisbee Riot
July 6, 1919 Dublin, Georgia riot
July 8, 1919 1919 Coatesville call to arms
July 12, 1919 Longview race riot
July 14, 1919 Garfield Park riot of 1919
July 15, 1919 Port Arthur riot 1919
July 19 – 24, 1919 Washington race riot of 1919
July 20 – August 21, 1919 New York race riots of 1919
July 21, 1919 1919 Norfolk race riot
July 27 – August 3, 1919 Chicago race riot of 1919
July 31, 1919 Syracuse riot of 1919
August 1, 1919 Whatley, Alabama race riot of 1919
August 27 – 29, 1919 Laurens County, Georgia race riot of 1919
August 30 – 31, 1919 Knoxville riot of 1919
September 28 – 29, 1919 Omaha race riot of 1919
September 30 – October 2, 1919 Elaine massacre
October 1 – 2, 1919 Baltimore riots of 1919
October 31, 1919 Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919
November 11, 1919 Wilmington, Delaware race riot of 1919
November 22, 1919 Bogalusa sawmill killings
May 1, 1919 May Day riots of 1919
November 11, 1919 Centralia massacre (Washington)
May 19, 1920 Battle of Matewan
September 16, 1920 Wall Street bombing
November 2 – 3, 1920 Ocoee massacre
September 7, 1920 – February 1921 1920 Alabama coal strike
May 31 – June 1, 1921 Tulsa race riot
September 10 – 21, 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain
April 1 – September 11, 1922 UMW General coal strike (1922)
December 6 – 15, 1922 Perry massacre
January 1 – 7, 1923 Rosewood massacre
1923 Posey War
September 9, 1924 Hanapepe massacre
May 18, 1927 Bath School disaster
October 18, 1927 – May 1928 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike
February 4, 1929 Saint Valentine's Day massacre
April 1 – September 14, 1929 Loray Mill strike
February 1930 – April 15, 1931 Castellammarese War
1931 – 1939 Harlan County War
1931 Red River Bridge War
September 21 – 25, 1931 Iowa Cow War
March 7, 1932 Ford Hunger March
July 28, 1932 Bonus Army
June 17, 1933 Kansas City massacre
April 12, 1934 – June 3, 1934 Auto-Lite strike
May 16 - August 21, 1934 Minneapolis general strike of 1934
May 9 – July 31, 1934 1934 West Coast waterfront strike
March 19, 1935 Harlem riot of 1935
October 24, 1935 Río Piedras massacre
March 21, 1937 Ponce massacre
May 26, 1937 Battle of the Overpass
May 30, 1937 1937 Memorial Day massacre
1939 – 1945 World War II The Navy radio station at Dutch Harbor burning after the Japanese attack.
May 30, 1943 Zoot Suit Riots
June 15 – 17, 1943 Beaumont race riot of 1943
June 20–22, 1943 1943 Detroit race riot
August 1 – 2, 1943 Harlem riot of 1943 1946 Battle of Alcatraz
1946 Battle of Athens (1946)
June 21, 1949 Fairground Park riot
June 29, 1949 Anacostia Pool riot
August 27, 1949 Peekskill riots
November 8 – 12, 1949 Englewood race riot
1950 – 1954 Puerto Rican Nationalist Party insurgency
November 1, 1950 Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman
July 11 – 12, 1951 Cicero race riot of 1951
March 1, 1954 1954 United States Capitol shooting
January 18, 1958 Battle of Hayes Pond
May 14, 1961 Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks
September 30 – October 1, 1962 Ole Miss riot of 1962
April 3 – May 10, 1963 Birmingham campaign
July 16 – 22, 1964 Harlem riot of 1964
July 24 – 26, 1964 1964 Rochester race riot
August 15 – 17, 1964 Dixmoor race riot
August 28 – 30, 1964 1964 Philadelphia race riot
March 7 – 25, 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches
August 11 – 17, 1965 Watts riots
June 5 – June 26, 1966 March Against Fear
June 12 – 14, 1966 Division Street riots
July 12 – 15, 1966 1966 Chicago West Side riots
July 18 – 23, 1966 Hough riots
August 1, 1966 University of Texas tower shooting
September 1, 1966 1966 Dayton race riot
September 27 – October 1, 1966 Hunters Point social uprising
June 5, 1967 Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid
Summer of 1967 Long, hot summer of 1967
February 8, 1968 Orangeburg massacre
April 4 – May 27, 1968 King-assassination riots
July 23 – 26, 1968 Glenville shootout
August 7 – 8, 1968 1968 Miami riot
August 8 – 9, 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders
August 23 – 28, 1968 1968 Democratic National Convention protests
May 21 – 25, 1969 1969 Greensboro uprising
June 28 – July 3, 1969 Stonewall riots
July 1969 1969 York race riot
October 8 – 11, 1969 Days of Rage
November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971 Occupation of Alcatraz
May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings
May 11 – 12, 1970 1970 Augusta riot
August 7, 1970 Marin County Civic Center attacks
August 24 – 27, 1970 1970 Memorial Park riot
November 5 – 6, 1970 Newhall incident
1971 Attica Prison riot
August 30 – September 22, 1972 Occupation of Catalina Island
1973 Wounded Knee Occupation
May 17, 1974 SLA shootout
July 11 – 17, 1974 Baltimore police strike
1974 – 1976 Boston desegregation busing crisis
December 29, 1975 1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing
March 9 – 11, 1977 1977 Washington, D.C., attack and hostage taking
July 4 – 5, 1977 Humboldt Park riot
July 13 – 14, 1977 New York City blackout of 1977
1979 – 1980 Miami drug war
May 21, 1979 White Night riots
November 3, 1979 Greensboro massacre
February 2 – 3, 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary riot
May 8, 1980 Norco shootout
May 17 – 20, 1980 1980 Miami riots
January 12, 1981 1981 Muñiz Air National Guard Base attack
October 20, 1981 Brink's robbery (1981)
December 28 – 30, 1982 1982 Overtown riot
January 11 – 13, 1983 Shannon Street massacre
July 18, 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
May 13, 1985 1985 MOVE bombing
April 11, 1986 1986 FBI Miami shootout
November 13 – 23, 1987 Atlanta prison riots
August 6 – 7, 1988 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot
January 16 – 19, 1989 1989 Miami riot
September 23, 1989 Ash Street shootout
August 19 – 21, 1991 Crown Heights riot
April 29 – May 4, 1992 1992 Los Angeles riots
August 21–31, 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff
February 26, 1993 1993 World Trade Center bombing
February 28 – April 19, 1993 Waco siege
January 6 – 7, 1995 Bojinka plot
April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
July 27, 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing
October 25 – November 14, 1996 1996 riots in St. Petersburg, Florida
February 28, 1997 North Hollywood shootout
April 20, 1999 Columbine High School massacre
November 30 – December 3, 1999 1999 Seattle WTO protests 2001 – present War on Terror
April 9 – 13 2001 Cincinnati riots of 2001
2002 River Run riot
October 2 – 24, 2002 D.C. sniper attacks
October 15, 2005 2005 Toledo riot
April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech shooting
May 1, 2007 2007 MacArthur Park rallies
November 9, 2009 2009 Lakewood shooting
February 14 – June 16, 2011 2011 Wisconsin protests
October 10, 2011 Occupy Oakland
December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
February 3 – 12, 2013 Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt
September 16, 2013 Washington Navy Yard shooting
April 5 – May 2014 Bundy standoff
August 9 – December 2, 2014 Ferguson unrest
November 24 – December 10, 2014 2014 Oakland riots
April 18 – May 3, 2015 2015 Baltimore protests
May 17, 2015 2015 Waco shootout
June 17, 2015 Charleston church shooting
October 1, 2015 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting
January 1 – February 16, 2016 Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
January 13, 2016 National Western Complex shootout
April 2016 – February 2017 Dakota Access Pipeline protests
June 26, 2016 2016 Sacramento riot
August 13 – 15, 2016 2016 Milwaukee riots
September 20 – 23, 2016 2016 Charlotte protests and riots
February – September, 2017 2017 Berkeley protests
August 11 – 12, 2017 Unite the Right rally
September 15 – November 24, 2017 2017 St. Louis protests
October 1, 2017 2017 Las Vegas shooting
November 5, 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting
February 14, 2018 Parkland high school shooting
October 27, 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
August 3, 2019 2019 El Paso shooting
December 5, 2019 2019 Miramar shootout
May 25, 2020 – September 26, 2023 2020–2023 United States racial unrest
January 6, 2021 2021 United States Capitol attack
February 2, 2021 2021 Sunrise, Florida shootout
2021 – 2023 Stop Cop City
2021 Wakefield standoff
May 14, 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting
May 24, 2022 Uvalde school shooting
March 27, 2023 2023 Nashville school shooting
October 8, 2023 – present Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States
October 25, 2023 2023 Lewiston shootings
April 29, 2024 2024 Charlotte shootout
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