List of wars involving Lithuania

This is a list of military conflicts in which Lithuanian military forces participated.

Kingdom of Lithuania

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1340–1392 Galicia–Volhynia Wars Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Golden Horde
Kingdom of Poland
Kingdom of Hungary
Duchy of Masovia
Galicia–Volhynia divided between Poland and Lithuania
1381–1384 Lithuanian Civil War (1381–84) Samogitia Grand Duchy of Lithuania Temporary reconciliation
1389–1392 Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92) Samogitia Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland
Ostrów Agreement
1409–1411 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland
Teutonic Order Peace of Thorn (1411)
1414 Hunger War Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland
Teutonic Order Mediation at the Council of Constance
1422 Gollub War Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland
Moldavia
Teutonic Order Victory
1431–1435 Polish–Teutonic War (1431–35) Kingdom of Poland Teutonic Order Victory (Peace of Brześć Kujawski)
1492–1537 Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars Grand Duchy of Lithuania Grand Duchy of Moscow
1508 Glinski Rebellion Grand Duchy of Lithuania Glinski supporters Government's victory
1524 Ottoman-Tatar invasion of Lithuania and Poland Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland
Ottoman-Tatars

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1561–1570 Northern Seven Years' War Polish–Lithuanian union
Free City of Lübeck
Denmark–Norway
Kingdom of Sweden Treaty of Stettin (1570)
1576–1582 Livonian War Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Livonian Confederation
Denmark–Norway
Kingdom of Sweden
Zaporozhian Cossacks
Principality of Transylvania
Tsardom of Russia
Qasim Khanate
Victory
1587–1588 War of the Polish Succession (1587–88) Supporters of Sigismund Vasa, mainly Poles Supporters of Maximilian of Austria, mainly Germans, but including many Poles and Hungarians Victory
1600–1629 Polish–Swedish War (1600–29) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Kingdom of Sweden
1605–1618 Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Tsardom of Russia
Kingdom of Sweden
Victory
1606–1608 Zebrzydowski Rebellion Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Rokosz Government's victory
1618–1648 Thirty Years' War Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Holy Roman Empire
Spanish Empire
Kingdom of Hungary
Swedish Empire
Denmark
Dutch Republic
Kingdom of France
Peace of Westphalia
1654–1656 Russo-Polish War (1654–67) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Crimean Khanate
Tsardom of Russia Defeat
1655–1661 Second Northern War Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Denmark–Norway
 Habsburg Monarchy
Russia (1656–58)
Crimean Khanate
Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–56, 1657–60)
 Dutch Republic
Swedish Empire
Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–57)
Principality of Transylvania
Ukrainian Cossacks (1657)[1]
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
 Wallachia
 Moldavia
Treaty of Oliva
1667–1671 Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–71) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Crimean Khanate
Cossack Hetmanate
Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76)
1672–1676 Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Wallachia
Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate
Principality of Moldavia
Cossack Hetmanate
Defeat
1700 Lithuanian Civil War (1700) House of Sapieha Radziwiłł
House of Wiśniowiecki
Pac family
Ogiński family
1700–1721 Great Northern War Swedish Empire
  • Holstein–Gottorp

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(1704–09)
Ottoman Empire
(1710–14)

Cossack Hetmanate (1708–09)
Great Britain
(1719–20)
Dutch Republic
(1700) Kingdom of England (1700)

Tsardom of Russia

Electorate of Saxony
(1700–06, 1709–19)
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(1701–04, 1704–09, 1709–19)
Denmark–Norway
(1700, 1709–20)
Kingdom of Prussia (1715–21)
Electorate of Hanover (1715–19)
Great Britain
(1717–19)
 Moldavia
(1711)

Treaty of Nystad
1733–1738 War of the Polish Succession Poland loyal to Stanisław I

 France
Spain
 Kingdom of Sardinia
 Duchy of Parma

Poland loyal to Augustus III

 Russian Empire
 Habsburg monarchy
 Saxony
 Prussia

Treaty of Vienna (1738)
1792 Polish–Russian War of 1792 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Russian Empire Defeat

Russian Empire

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1830–1831 November Uprising Congress Poland Russian Empire Defeat
1863–1865 January Uprising Polish National Government Russian Empire Defeat
1914–1917 Eastern Front (World War I) Kingdom of Lithuania
German Empire
Russian Empire
Bolsheviks
Victory
1914–1918 World War I Kingdom of Lithuania
German Empire
Allies of World War I Defeat

Independent Lithuania

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1918–1919 Lithuanian–Soviet War Lithuania
 Saxon Volunteers
 Russian SFSR
Lithuanian–Belorussian SSR
Victory
1919 War against the Bermontians Lithuania West Russian Volunteer Army Victory
1920 Polish–Lithuanian War Lithuania Poland Defeat
1923 Klaipėda Revolt Lithuania
Lithuanian Riflemen's Union
Directorate of the Klaipėda Region
French administration Klaipėda Convention

German-occupied and Soviet-occupied Lithuania

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1940 Occupation of the Baltic states  Lithuania
 Latvia
 Estonia
 Soviet Union Defeat
1941 June Uprising in Lithuania Lithuanian partisans (Provisional Government of Lithuania)  Soviet Union Victory
1941 Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany  Nazi Germany

Provisional Government of Lithuania

 Soviet Union
1944-1953 Guerilla war in the Baltic states Lithuanian partisans
Latvian partisans
Estonian partisans
 Soviet Union Defeat
1990-1991 Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts  Lithuania  Soviet Union Victory
1991 January Events  Lithuania  Soviet Union Victory
1991 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt  Russian SFSR  Soviet Union Victory

Independent modern Lithuania

See also

References

  1. Hrushevsky (2003), pp. 327ff.
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