List of wars named for their duration

This list includes wars which have been named for their duration, either as the most common name or an alternative commonly used name. This table can be sorted by length or start-date.

Name	Nominal length	Dates	Participants	Comments
100 Hour War	4 days	1969	El Salvador and Honduras
Six-Day War	6 days	1967	Israel v. Egypt, Jordan, Syria
Six-Day War of Abkhazia or War in Abkhazia (1998)	6 days	1998	Insurgency in Abkhazia
Six-Day War	6 days	2000	Rwanda v. Uganda, Second Congo War
Ten-Day War	10 days	1991	Civil war in Yugoslavia
Ten Days' Campaign	10 days	1831	Dutch campaign in Belgium
Eleven Days' War or Operation Faustschlag	11 days	1918	Central powers v. Russia in World War I
Thirty Days' War or Greco-Turkish War (1897)	30 days	1897	Greece v. Ottoman Empire
Hundred Days' War	100 days	1978	Sub-conflict of Lebanese civil war
Hundred Days or War of the Seventh Coalition	110 days	1815	France and Naples v. Britain, Prussia, Austria, Russia and others
Thousand Days' War	1000 days (i.e. 2 years, 270 days)	1899–1902	civil armed conflict in Colombia
Four Years' War or Italian War of 1521–26	4 years	1521–26	France, Venice v. England, Holy Roman Empire, Papal States
Seven Years' War	7 years	1756–63	France etc. v. Great Britain and others
Northern Seven Years' War	7 years	1563–70	Sweden v. Denmark–Norway, Lübeck and Poland
Nine Years' War	9 years	1688–97	France v. Grand Alliance
Nine Years' War (Ireland)	9 years	1594–1603	Ireland v. England
Ten Years' War	10 years	1868–78	Cuba v. Spain
Eleven Years' War or Irish Confederate Wars	11 years	1641–53	Irish theatre of Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars in England, Ireland, Scotland
Thirteen Years' War or Russo-Polish War (1654–67)	13 years	1654–1667	Russia v. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Thirteen Years' War (1454–66)	13 years	1454–1466	Prussian Confederation, allied with the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, and the State of the Teutonic Order
Thirteen Years' War or Long Turkish War (also known as the Fifteen Years' War)	13 years	1591/93-1606	Habsburg Monarchy v. Ottoman Empire
Fifteen Years' War or Long Turkish War (also known as the Thirteen Years' War)	15 years	1591/93-1606	Habsburg Monarchy v. Ottoman Empire
Thirty Years' War	30 years	1618–48	"most of the great powers of Europe", except England
Second Thirty Years' War	30 years	1915–45	Term used by some historians to encompass a series of European wars[lower-alpha 1]
Mauritanian Thirty Years' War or Char Bouba war	30 years	1634–74	Berber and other tribes in Mauritania
Forty Years' War	40 years	1385–1424	Ava v. Hanthawaddy Pegu, Burma
Sixty Years' War	60 years	1754–1814	Term used to encompass several conflicts in the Great Lakes region of North America
Eighty Years' War	80 years	1568–1648	Seventeen Provinces v. Spain	There was a truce during the 80 years
Hundred Years' War	100 years	1337–1453	England v. France	The war lasted 116 years intermittently
Second Hundred Years' War	100 years	1689–1815	France v. Great Britain	The war lasted 126 years (with breaks)
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War	335 years	1651–1986	"alleged theoretical state of war" between Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly

Explanatory notes

1. Use of this term can be found in many sources. Some examples include "Naming World Wars" at GlobalSecurity.org, Anthony Shaw's The World in Conflict, 1914–1945 (2000) ISBN 978-1-57958-212-8, and many other sources.

See also

• Outline of war
  • includes lists of wars