List of wars involving Lithuania

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

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

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

14th century

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

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

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

16th century

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

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

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

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result for Lithuania and/or its Allies
1830–1831	November Uprising	Congress Poland	Russian Empire	Defeat
1863–1865	January Uprising	Polish National Government	Russian Empire	Defeat

20th century

Interwar Lithuania (1918–1940)

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

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

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

• 2001, War in Afghanistan
• 2003, Invasion of Iraq
• 2023, War in Ukraine

See also

• History of Europe
• List of wars
• Military of Lithuania
• List of wars involving Belarus
• List of wars involving Estonia
• List of wars involving Latvia
• List of wars involving the Grand Duchy of Moscow
• List of wars involving Poland
• List of wars involving Russia
• List of wars involving Ukraine

References

This page was last edited on 5 April 2024, at 12:14