List of wars involving Belgium

This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Belgium and its colonial empire since its secession and independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830–39.

Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents (excluding Belgium) Outcome
Allies Enemies
1830 1839 Belgian Revolution Belgian rebels

France

 United Kingdom of the Netherlands Treaty of London:
  • Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium
1839 1839 Cotton Riot Protesting cotton labourers
Orangists
Belgian Government Belgian Government victory
  • Riot suppressed by government soldiers
  • Some protectionist measures
1832 1834 Liberal Wars Portugal

 United Kingdom
France
Spain

Miguelites
Liberal victory, Constitutional monarchy is restored
1856 1857 Labour riots in Ghent and Tournai[1] Protesting labourers Belgian Government Belgian Government victory
  • Riots suppressed by government soldiers
1861 1867 French intervention in Mexico Mexican Empire

France
 Austrian Empire
 Spain
 United Kingdom
Egypt Eyalet
Polish Revolutionaries

United Mexican States

United States of America (entered in 1865)

French withdrawal, Republican victory
1881 1899 Mahdist War  British Empire
 Kingdom of Italy
Congo Free State
Ethiopian Empire
Mahdist Sudanese Anglo-Egyptian victory
1891 1892 Stairs Expedition to Katanga Congo Free State
supported by:
 Belgium
Yeke state of Msiri Congo Free State victory
  • Msiri killed, Mukanda-Bantu becomes vassal prince
  • Belgium acquires the colony of Katanga
1892 1894 Belgo-Arab War Congo Free State Zanzibari slave traders Congo Free State victory
1895 1895 Luba rebellion Congo Free State
supported by:
 Belgium
Luba rebels Congo Free State victory
  • Many Luba men had to perform forced labour in the Katanga mines[2]
1895 1908 Batetela Rebellions Congo Free State
Batetela people
Congo Free State victory
1905 1917 Kasongo Nyembo rebellion[2] Congo Free State (until 1908)
 Belgium
Luba rebels led by Kasongo Nyembo Belgian victory
  • Kasongo Nyembo banished[2]
1914 1918 World War I Allies:

France
 British Empire
 Russian Empire (1914–17)
 United States (1917–18)
and others

Central Powers

 German Empire
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman Empire
 Kingdom of Bulgaria (1915–18)

Allied victory
1914 1918 East African campaign
(part of World War I)
Allies:

 United Kingdom

 Belgium

 Portugal

Central Powers

 German Empire

Allied victory
  • Allied conquest and partition of German East Africa
  • Belgium acquires Ruanda-Urundi from German East Africa
10 May
1940
28 May
1940
Battle of Belgium

(part of World War II)

 Belgium
France

 British Empire
 Netherlands
 Luxembourg

 Nazi Germany Belgian surrender and German occupation of Belgium
1940 1945 World War II Allies Axis powers Allied victory
1950 1953 Korean War  United Nations (UN Resolution 84)  North Korea

 China
 Soviet Union

Ceasefire
1959 1962 Rwandan Revolution Independence of the Republic of Rwanda
Independence of the Kingdom of Burundi
1960 1966 Congo Crisis  Katanga

 South Kasai

Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)

 United Nations (United Nations Operation in the Congo)

Withdrawal of Belgian Armed Forces
1972 1973 Second Cod War  United Kingdom
 Denmark
 West Germany
 Belgium
 Iceland Icelandic victory
1975 1976 Third Cod War  United Kingdom
 West Germany
 Belgium
 Iceland Icelandic victory
May
1978
June
1978
Shaba II  Zaire

 France
 United States

Front for the National Liberation of the Congo Franco-Belgian victory
1990 1991 Gulf War Coalition forces Ba'athist Iraq Coalition victory
1991 2003 Iraqi no-fly zones  United States
 United Kingdom
 France (1991–1998)
 Australia
 Netherlands
 Saudi Arabia
 Turkey
 Italy
Ba'athist Iraq Coalition victory
1992 1995 Somali Civil War  United States
 United Kingdom
 Spain
 Saudi Arabia
 Malaysia
 Pakistan
 Italy
 India
 Greece
 Germany
 France
 Canada
 Botswana
 Australia
United Somali Congress Victory
  • UN humanitarian mandate fulfilled.
  • About 100,000 lives were saved by outside resistance.
  • Civil war is ongoing.
1998 1999 Kosovo War Kosovo Liberation Army

 Albania
NATO force

 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia NATO victory
2001 ongoing War in Afghanistan  Afghanistan

 United States
ISAF

Taliban Fall of Taliban régime

Ongoing Taliban insurgency

2011 2011 military intervention in Libya National Transitional Council

 NATO forces

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Fall of Gaddafi régime
2014 ongoing 2014 military intervention against ISIS  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Ongoing

See also

References

  1. Els Witte, Jean-Pierre Nandrin, Eliane Gubin, Gita Deneckere. Nieuwe geschiedenis van Belgie / 1 1830-1905 / druk 1: 1830-1904 (in Dutch). Lannoo Uitgeverij. p. 35. ISBN 9789020962192. Retrieved 8 August 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Appiah, Anthony; Henry Louis Gates (2005). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Volume 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 656. ISBN 9780195170559. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
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