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This is a list of wars, armed conflicts and rebellions involving Lithuania throughout its history as a kingdom (1251–1263), grand duchy (1236–1251; 1263–1795, although part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during 1569–1795) and a modern republic (1918–1940; 1990 – present), including as well the uprisings of the 19th and 20th centuries to recreate Lithuanian statehood. Dates indicate the years in which Lithuania was involved in the war. Notable militarised interstate disputes are included.

Victory

Defeat

Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive, inconclusive)

Ongoing conflict

## Kingdom of Lithuania

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* Mongol invasions of Lithuania (1258–1259, 1275, 1279, and 1325)

## Grand Duchy of Lithuania

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### 14th century

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Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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Galicia–Volhynia Wars (1340–1392)  |  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Golden Horde |  Kingdom of Poland
Kingdom of Hungary
Duchy of Masovia | Galicia–Volhynia divided between Poland and Lithuania
Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1368–1372)  |  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Principality of Tver | Grand Duchy of Moscow | Lithuanian retreat (Treaty of Lyubutsk)
Lithuanian war of succession (1377–1387)  |  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Jogaila |  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Andrei of Polotsk | Jogaila victory
Lithuanian Civil War (1381–1384) |  Duchy of Samogitia
Kęstutis
Vytautas |  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Jogaila
Skirgaila | Temporary reconciliation
Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392) |  Duchy of Samogitia |  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland | Ostrów Agreement

### 15th century

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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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 (1431–1435) |  Kingdom of Poland |  Teutonic Order | Victory (Peace of Brześć Kujawski)
1432–1438  | Lithuanian Civil War (1432–1438) |  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland |  Grand Duchy of Rus
Teutonic Order
Livonian Order
Golden Horde
Principality of Moldavia | Svitrigaila's defeat
1487–1494  | Lithuanian–Muscovite War |  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Golden Horde |  Grand Duchy of Moscow
Crimean Khanate | Eternal Peace (1494)
1492–1537  | Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars |  Grand Duchy of Lithuania |  Grand Duchy of Moscow |

### 16th century

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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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  |
1561–1570  | Northern Seven Years' War |  Polish–Lithuanian union
Free City of Lübeck
Denmark–Norway |  Kingdom of Sweden | Treaty of Stettin (1570)

## Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

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See also: List of wars involving Poland § Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795)

### 16th century

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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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 (1587–1588) | Supporters of Sigismund Vasa, mainly Poles  | Supporters of Maximilian of Austria, mainly Germans, but including many Poles and Hungarians  | Sigismund victory

### 17th century

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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1600–1629  | Polish–Swedish War (1600–1629) |  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |  Kingdom of Sweden |
1605–1618  | Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) |  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 (1654–1667) |  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Crimean Khanate |  Tsardom of Russia | Defeat
1655–1661  | Second Northern War |  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Denmark–Norway
Habsburg Monarchy
Russia (1656–1658)
Crimean Khanate
Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–1656, 1657–1660)
Dutch Republic |  Swedish Empire
Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–1657)
Principality of Transylvania
Ukrainian Cossacks (1657)[1]
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Wallachia
Moldavia | Treaty of Oliva
1667–1671  | Polish–Cossack–Tatar War (1666–1671) |  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |  Crimean Khanate
Cossack Hetmanate | Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676)
1672–1676  | Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676) |  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Wallachia |  Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate
Principality of Moldavia
Cossack Hetmanate | Defeat
1683–1699  | Great Turkish War |  Holy Roman Empire

* Habsburg monarchy
* Bavaria
* Franconia
* Saxony
* Swabia
* Duchy of Styria
* Royal Hungary
* Kingdom of Croatia
* Duchy of Mantua

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Tsardom of Russia

* Cossack Hetmanate

Republic of Venice
Spanish Empire
Montenegro
Albanian rebels
Serbian rebels
Greek rebels
Bulgarian rebels
Romanian rebels
Croatian rebels

|  Ottoman Empire

Vassal states:

* Crimean Khanate
* Shamkhalate of Tarki[2]
* Upper Hungary (1683–5)
* Moldavia
* Wallachia
* Transylvania

| Treaty of Karlowitz
1697–1702  | Lithuanian Civil War (1697–1702) | House of Sapieha | Radziwiłł
House of Wiśniowiecki
Pac family
Ogiński family |

### 18th century

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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1700–1721  | Great Northern War |

Swedish Empire

* Holstein–Gottorp

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(1704–1709)
Ottoman Empire
(1710–1714)

* Crimean Khanate
* Moldavia
* Wallachia

Cossack Hetmanate (1708–1709)

Great Britain
(1719–1720)

Dutch Republic
(1700)

Kingdom of England (1700)

Tsardom of Russia

* Cossack Hetmanate
* Kalmyk Khanate

Electorate of Saxony
(1700–1706, 1709–1719)
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(1701–1704, 1704–1709, 1709–1719)
Denmark–Norway
(1700, 1709–1720)
Kingdom of Prussia (1715–1721)
Electorate of Hanover (1715–1719)

Great Britain
(1717–1719)
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
1794  | Kościuszko Uprising |  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |  Russian Empire | Defeat

## 19th-century uprisings against Russian rule

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Date  | Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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1830–1831  | November Uprising |  Congress Poland |  Russian Empire | Defeat
1863–1865  | January Uprising |  Polish National Government |  Russian Empire | Defeat

## 20th century

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### Interwar Lithuania (1918–1940)

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Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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Lithuanian–Soviet War

(1918–1919)

|  Lithuania
Saxon Volunteers |  Russian SFSR
Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia | Victory

* Lithuanian independence protected against Soviet attempt to destroy it

War against the Bermontians

(1919)

|  Lithuania  |  West Russian Volunteer Army | Victory

* Lithuanian independence saved

Polish–Lithuanian War

(1919–1920)

|  Lithuania  |  Poland | Defeat

* Lithuania loses its capital Vilnius but protects its independence against Poland

Klaipėda Revolt

(1923)

|  Lithuania

* Lithuanian Riflemen's Union
* Directorate of the Klaipėda Region

|  French administration | Victory

* Klaipėda Region rebecomes part of Lithuania according to the Klaipėda Convention

Polish ultimatum to Lithuania

(1938)

|  Lithuania  |  Poland | Defeat

* Lithuania accepts the ultimatum

German ultimatum to Lithuania

(1939)

|  Lithuania  |  Nazi Germany | Defeat

* Klaipėda Region ceded to Nazi Germany

Soviet occupation of the Baltic states

(1940)

|  Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia |  Soviet Union | Defeat

* Baltic states lose their independence

### Lithuania under occupation

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Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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June Uprising in Lithuania

(1941)

|  Lithuanian partisans

* Provisional Government of Lithuania
* Lithuanian Activist Front

|  Soviet Union

* Lithuanian SSR

| Victory

* Brief Lithuanian independence

German occupation of Lithuania

(1941–1944)

|  Lithuanian anti-Nazi resistance  |  Nazi Germany |
Guerilla war in the Baltic states

(1944–1953)

|  Lithuanian partisans
Latvian partisans
Estonian partisans |  Soviet Union | Defeat

### Lithuania's independence restored (1990s)

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Conflict  | Combatant 1  | Combatant 2  | Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies

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Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts

(1990–1991)

|  Lithuania

* Lithuanian State Border Guard Service

|  Soviet Union

* Lithuanian SSR
* OMON

| Victory

* Lithuanian statehood preserved

January Events

(1991)

|  Lithuania

* Department of National Defense
* Lithuanian Riflemen's Union

|  Soviet Union

* Soviet Army
* 76th Airborne Division[3]
* KGB
* Alpha Group[3]

National Salvation Committee of the Lithuanian SSR

| Victory

* Soviet forces withdraw from the cities
* Lithuanian statehood preserved

## 21st century

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* 2001, War in Afghanistan
* 2003, Iraq War

## See also

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* History of Europe
* List of wars
* Military of Lithuania
* List of wars involving Belarus
* List of wars involving Estonia
* List of wars involving Kievan Rus'
* List of wars involving Latvia
* List of wars involving the Principality of Moscow
* List of wars involving the Novgorod Republic
* List of wars involving Poland
* List of wars involving Russia
* List of wars involving Ukraine

## References

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1. ^ Hrushevsky (2003), pp. 327ff.
2. ^ "Абдусаламов Магомед-паша Балашович Феодальные междоусобицы кумыкских владетелей во второй половине XVII века", ИСОМ, no. 4, C.33, 2014, retrieved 26 May 2023
3. ^ a b Lithuanians celebrate 20th Anniversary assault of the Vilnius television tower by the Soviet Troops. Ukrayinska Pravda. 13 January 2011

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