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Wars in history
More than 3,600 wars, civil wars, rebellions, revolts and armed conflicts, from the Bronze Age to the conflicts still being fought, each drawn as one mark for the whole war.
Open the live mapWhat you see
- Each war as a single mark that stays on the map while the war lasts, then fades.
- Where a source counts the dead, the mark grows with the toll.
- A war’s page lists the battles it included, and every source that records it.
- Opened from this page, the map plays 1900 to 2000 in about a minute.
Where the data comes from
- WikidataWars, civil wars, rebellions and revolts with a date and a place: most of the list, nearly all with a Wikipedia article.
- Correlates of WarInter-state wars from 1823 to 2003, with their battle deaths.
- UCDPArmed conflicts since 1989 with their battle-related deaths, from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.
- Global Wars & Armed Conflicts, 1914–2026A compilation of the 20th and 21st centuries’ wars published on Kaggle, with deaths; its own sources are not stated.
Each source is imported as published; UCDP adds a year at a time.
Good to know
- A war is one point: the coordinates Wikidata gives it, the middle of its battles, or the middle of the countries that fought it. Nine in ten are placed only at an area or a country.
- Where two sources record the same war, TAKIP merges the ones it can match; the war’s page names each source.
- Only about one war in nine has a death toll, so most are drawn at one size.
The deadliest recorded here
- World War II1 Sep 1939 · World war · Deaths 75,000,000
- Taiping Rebellion11 Jan 1851 · Civil war · Deaths 60,000,000
- Second Sino-Japanese War7 Jul 1937 · Interstate war · Deaths 20,000,000
- World War I28 Jul 1914 · Interstate war · Deaths 17,000,000
- Russian Civil War7 Nov 1917 · Civil war · Deaths 9,000,000
- Second Congo War2 Aug 1998 · Civil war · Deaths 5,400,000
- Korean War25 Jun 1950 · Interstate war · Deaths 3,500,000
- World War II in Asia (approx)3 Sep 1939 · Interstate war · Deaths 3,269,818
- Chinese Civil War (resumed phase)1 Apr 1946 · Civil war · Deaths 3,000,000
- Vietnam War1 Nov 1955 · Civil war · Deaths 3,000,000
The first recorded here in each century
- Burgundian Civil War500 · Civil war
- Fujiwara no Nakamaro's planned invasion of Silla600 · War
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath's revolt700 · Rebellion
- Armenian anti-Arab revolts8th century · Rebellion
- Rus'–Byzantine War of 907907 · War
- Croatian–Bulgarian Wars1000 · War
- Swedish–Novgorodian Wars12th century · War
- Jinju Slave Rebellion1200 · Rebellion
- Brussels Revolt14 May 1303 · Rebellion
- Glyndŵr Rebellion1400 · Rebellion
- Guerre huarco-inca15th century · War
- Polish–Swedish War of 1600–111600 · War
- Tragedy of the Siskiwit17th century · War
- Tūhoe–Ngāti Tūwharetoa War18th century · War
- Kuwaiti–Rashidi War1900 · War
- Guinea: Government2000 · Armed conflict · Deaths 649
Goes well with
Battles in historyMore than 18,000 battles and sieges from 3000 BCE to today, each placed where it was fought and nearly all with a Wikipedia article, on one map.
Military operationsMore than 3,100 military operations, raids and air strikes recorded in Wikidata, most from the 20th and 21st centuries, each placed where it was fought.
Genocides and massacres in historyMore than 3,800 massacres, genocides, pogroms, expulsions and deportations recorded in Wikidata, each where it happened, with the toll where it is given.
World War II in EuropeEurope in the Second World War on an interactive map: borders, alliances and occupation month by month from February 1938 to May 1945, with the battles.