List of conflicts in Egypt

This is a list of conflicts in Egypt arranged chronologically from

• between 14340 to 13140 BCE
  Cemetery 117^[2]

• c. 3100 BCE Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt^[3]
• c. 3050 BCE Hor-Aha, the second pharaoh of Egypt, led a campaign against the Nubians.^[4]
• c. 2890 BCE After the death of Qa'a, the last pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt, a short war may have occurred for the throne of Egypt, ending with the accession of Hotepsekhemwy.^[5][6][7][8]
• c. 2690 BCE Khasekhemwy reunited Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt after a short period of political fragmentation.^[9][10]

Old Kingdom of Egypt

• c. 2670 BCE Djoser, the first pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Egypt, dispatched several military expeditions to the Sinai Peninsula, during which the local inhabitants were subdued ^{[citation needed]}

First Intermediate Period of Egypt

• c. 2150 BCE The
  4.2 kiloyear event triggered famines, social disorder, and fragmentation.^[11]
• c. 2140 BCE During the reign of the
  Hieraconopolis Ankhtifi, led a coalition of his nome and Edfu against Thebes
  .
• c. 2120 BCE
  Hierakonpolis under Theban control, expanding the Theban kingdom 250 km northward with a border near Abydos
  .
• c. 2075 BCE The
  Akhtoy Nebkaure sacked Thinis

• c. 2061 BCE – c. 2010 BCE Campaigns of Mentuhotep II
• c. 1900 BCE, in year 18 of Senusret I conquest of Lower Nubian
• c. 1880 BCE, Amenemhat II, looting of two cities in Asia
• c. 1860-1850 BCE, Senusret III, four campaigns to Nubia, one campaign to the Southern Levant
• c. =1850 BCE Amenemhat III, short Nubian campaign in year 9 of the king's reign
• c. 1705 BCE – c. 1648 BCE After the
  Nile River Delta region of Lower Egypt with a number of ephemeral or short-lived rulers until 1650 BCE when the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt conquered the Delta.^[12]

• c. 1705 BCE – c. 1648 BCE After the
  Nile River Delta region of Lower Egypt with a number of ephemeral or short-lived rulers until 1650 BCE when the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt conquered the Delta.^[12]
• c. 1649 BCE the Hyksos conquer Memphis, putting an end to the 13th Dynasty.
• c. 1649 BCE – c. 1600 BCE the Hyksos progress south conquering Middle Egypt, then controlled by the Abydos Dynasty or the 16th Dynasty.
• c. 1629 BCE – c. 1628 BCE Neferhotep III certainly embroiled in a defensive war against the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt, which would ultimately overrun the Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt state.
• c. 1582 BCE Final Theban offensive of Hyksos who conquer Thebes ending the 16th Dynasty.
  • c. 1580 BCE The Hyksos had withdrawn from Thebes abandoning it to the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt.
• c. 1560 BCE – c. 1540 BCE The Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt at war with the Hyksos.

New Kingdom of Egypt

• c. 1550 BCE Pharaoh Ahmosis I launches an invasion on the Hyksos in Upper and Lower Egypt, driving them out and chasing them into the Levant until his armies obliterated them. Starting a new era in Ancient Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom under the rule of the 18th dynasty.
• 1457 BCE Battle of Megiddo: Thutmose III defeats Canaanite Coalition

• c. 1282 BCE Seti's military campaigns
• 1206 BCE – c. 1150 BCE
  Shardana and Denyen
  .
  • c. 1178 Egyptian-Sea People wars
    • c. 1178 BCE Battle of the Delta
    • c. 1178 BCE Battle of Djahy

Third Intermediate Period of Egypt

• 925 BCE Battle of Bitter Lakes
• 752–721 BCE Conquest of Egypt
• 671 BCE Assyrian invasion of Egypt led by Esarhaddon
• 664 BCE Sack of Thebes led by Ashurbanipal

Late Period of Egypt

• 530–522 BCE Campaigns of King Cambyses II of Persia
  • 525 BCE Battle of Pelusium
• 522–520 BCE Rebellion of Petubastis III
• 480s BCE Rebellion of Psamtik IV
• 460–454 BCE Rebellion of Inaros II
  • 459 BCE Battle of Papremis
• 411 BCE
  Sais
  , and regaining the Egyptian independence.
• 385–383 BCE – A Persian invasion of Egypt was repelled by king Hakor
• 374–373 BCE – A Persian invasion of Egypt was repelled by king Nectanebo I
• c. 340 BCE – Second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt
• 335 BCE – 323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 333 BCE Pelusium opened its gates to Alexander the Great, who placed a garrison in it under the command of one of those officers entitled Companions of the King

Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt

• 335–323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 333 BCE Pelusium opened its gates to Alexander the Great, who placed a garrison in it under the command of one of those officers entitled Companions of the King
• 173 BCE
  Ptolemy Philometor under the walls of Pelusium
  , which he took and retained after he had retired from the rest of Egypt
• 55 BCE Again belonging to Egypt, Mark Antony, as cavalry general to the Roman proconsul Gabinius, defeated the Egyptian army, and made himself master of the city.
• 10 January 49 BCE – 17 March 45 BCE
  Caesar's Civil War
  • 48–47 BCE Siege of Alexandria
  • 47 BCE Battle of the Nile
• 32 BCE – August 30 BCE
  Final War of the Roman Republic
  • 31 July – 1 August 30 BCE Battle of Alexandria

Roman Province of Egypt

• 32 BCE – 30 August BCE
  Final War of the Roman Republic
  • 31 July – 1 August 30 BCE Battle of Alexandria
• 115–117 CE Kitos War
• 172-173 CE Bucolic War
• 260-262 CE Gallienus usurpers
  • 260-261 CE Revolt of the Macriani
  • 261-262 CE
    Usurpation of Mussius Aemilianus
  • 262 CE Usurpation of Memor
• 270–272 CE Palmyrene War
  • 270 CE Palmyrene invasion of Egypt
  • 270 CE Tenagino Probus’ Egyptian campaign
  • 272 CE Aurelian’s reconquest of Egypt
• 273 CE Revolt of Firmus
• 279–280 CE Probus’ Blemmyan War
• 292–293 CE Busiris–Coptos revolt
• 297-298 CE Usurpation of Domitius Domitianus and Achilleus

Medieval period

Byzantine Diocese of Egypt

• 618–621 CE
  Sassanid conquest of Egypt
  • 619 CE
    Siege of Alexandria

Sassanid Empire

• 618–621 CE
  Sassanid conquest of Egypt
  • 619 CE
    Siege of Alexandria

Rashidun Caliphate

• 639–642 CE
  Muslim conquest of Egypt
  • May 640 – December 640 CE Siege of Babylon Fortress
  • 6 July 640 CE Battle of Heliopolis
  • 641 CE
    Siege of Alexandria
  • 646 CE Battle of Nikiou

Umayyad Caliphate

• c. 720 – 750 CE Bashmurian revolts

Abbasid Caliphate

• 750 – 832 CE Bashmurian revolts
• 809–827 CE Great Abbasid Civil War

Tulunid dynasty of Egypt

• 877 CE Repelling the Abbasid invasion
• 905 CE Mahammad bin Ali al-Khalanji's revolt

Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt

• 1171–1172 CE Ayyubids Conquest of North Africa and Nubia
• 1095–1272 CE
  The Crusades
  • 28 July – 2 August 1174 CE Siege of Alexandria
  • 1213–1221 CE Fifth Crusade
    • 1218–1219 CE
      Siege of Damietta
    • 29 August 1219 CE Battle of Fariskur
    • 26–28 August 1221 CE Battle of Mansurah
  • 1248–1254 CE Seventh Crusade
    • 6 June 1249 CE Siege of Damietta
    • 8 February 1250 CE – 11 February 1250 CE Battle of Al Mansurah
    • 6 April 1250 CE Battle of Fariskur

Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt

• 2 February 1251 CE Battle of al-Kura
• 9–12 October 1365 CE Alexandrian Crusade
• 1367 CE Battle of Cairo
• 22 January 1517 CE Battle of Ridaniya
• 27-30 January 1517 CE Capture of Cairo

Modern Times

Eyalet of Egypt

• 1538–1557 CE
  Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts
• 20 April 1792 – 25 March 1802 CE French Revolutionary Wars
  • May–December 1798 CE Mediterranean campaign
    • 1798–1801 CE French campaign in Egypt and Syria
      • 13 July 1798 CE Battle of Shubra Khit
      • 21 July 1798 CE Battle of the Pyramids
      • 1–3 August 3, 1798 CE Battle of the Nile
      • 21 October 1798 CE Revolt of Cairo
      • 25 July 1799 CE Battle of Abukir
      • 19 February 1799 CE Siege of El Arish
      • 20 March 1800 CE Battle of Heliopolis
      • 8 March 1801 CE Battle of Abukir
      • 13 March 1801 CE Battle of Mandora
      • 21 March 1801 CE Battle of Alexandria
      • 17 August – 2 September 1801 CE Siege of Alexandria
• 18 May 1803 CE – 20 November 1815 CE Napoleonic Wars
  • 1807–1809 CE
    Anglo-Turkish War
    • 1807 CE Alexandria expedition

Khedivate of Egypt

• 1882 CE
  Anglo-Egyptian War
  • 11–13 July 1882 CE Bombardment of Alexandria
  • June–July 1882 CE Egyptian Expedition
  • 1882 CE Battle of Kassassin
  • 1882 CE Battle of Kafr el-Dawwar
  • 13 September 1882 CE
    Battle of Tel al-Kebir
• 1881–1899 CE Mahdist War
  • 3 August 1889 CE Battle of Toski

Sultanate of Egypt

• 28 July 1914 CE – 11 November 1918 CE World War I
  • 29 October 1914 CE – 30 October 1918 CE Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 28 January 1915 CE – 30 October 1918 CE
      Sinai and Palestine Campaign
      • 26 January – 4 February 1915 CE Raid on the Suez Canal
      • 30 January – 12 February 1915 CE Battle of El Tor
      • 23 April 1916 CE Battle of Katia
      • 3–August 5, 1916 CE Battle of Romani
      • 23 December 1916 CE Battle of Magdhaba
      • 9 January 1917 CE Battle of Rafa
      • 13–21 February 1917 CE Raid on Nekhl

Kingdom of Egypt

• 1 September 1939 CE – 2 September 1945 CE World War II
  • 10 June 1940 CE – 2 May 1945 CE Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 10 June 1940 CE – 13 May 1943 CE
      North African Campaign
      • 11 June 1940 CE – 4 February 1943 CE
        Western Desert Campaign
        • 9–16 September 1940 CE Italian invasion of Egypt
        • 9 December 1940 CE – 9 February 1941 CE Operation Compass
        • 4 February 1942 CE –
          Abdeen Palace Incident
        • 1–27 July 1942 CE First Battle of El Alamein
        • 30 August – 5 September 1942 CE
          Battle of Alam Halfa
        • 11 October – 23 November 1942 CE Second Battle of El Alamein
• 15 May 1948 CE – 10 March 1949 CE Arab–Israeli War
  • December 1948 CE – January 1949 CE Battles of the Sinai

Republic of Egypt

• 23 July 1952 CE
  Egyptian Revolution
• 2–3 November, 1955 CE Operation Volcano (Israeli raid)
• 29 October – November 7, 1956 CE Suez Crisis
  • October 1956 CE Operation Musketeer
  • 1956 CE Operation Telescope
  • 1956 CE Battle of Suez (1956)

United Arab Republic

• 28 September 1961 CE Collapse of the United Arab Republic

Arab Republic of Egypt

• 5–11 June 1967 CE Six-Day War
  • 5–6 June 1967 CE Battle of Abu-Ageila
  • 8 June 8, 1967 CE – USS Liberty incident
• 1 July 1967 CE – 7 August 1970 CE War of Attrition
  • 11 July 1967 CE Battle of Rumani Coast
  • 19 July 1969 CE Operation Bulmus 6
  • 20 July 1969 CE – 28 July 1969 CE Operation Boxer
  • 26–27 December 1969 CE Operation Rooster 53
  • 7 January – 13 April 1970 CE Operation Priha
  • 22 January 1970 CE Operation Rhodes
  • 30 July 1970 CE Operation Rimon 20
• 6–25 October 1973 CE Yom Kippur War

• 6–8 October 1973 Operation Badr
• 6 October 1973 Battles of Fort Budapest
• 6 October 1973 Battle of Fort Lahtzanit
• 6 October 1973 Ofira Air Battle
• 6-7 October 1973 Battle of El Qantarah
• 7 October 1973 Romani ambush
• 7 October 1973 Battle of Marsa Talamat
• 7 October 1973 Operation Tagar
• 7-8 October 1973 Battle of the Moses Eyes Fortress
• 8 October 1973
  Battle of Firdan
• 8–9 October 1973 Battle of Baltim
• 14 October 1973 Battle of the Sinai
• 14 October 1973
  Air Battle of El Mansoura
• 15 October 1973 – 17 October 1973 Battle of the Chinese Farm
• 16 October 1973 Raid on Egyptian missile bases
• 17 October 1973 Egyptian 25th Brigade ambush
• 18 October 1973 – October 1973 Battle of Ismailia
• 22 October 1973
  Scud missile attack
• 24 October 1973 – 25 October 1973 Battle of Suez

See also

• List of wars involving Egypt
• Military of ancient Egypt
• Egyptian Army
• Egyptian Navy
• Egyptian Air Force
• Egyptian Air Defense Forces
• Military of the Tulunid Emirate
• Military of the Mamluk Sultanate
• Ptolemaic army
• Fatimid navy
• Ancient Egyptian navy
• Ptolemaic navy
• Military history of Africa
• African military systems up until the year 1800 CE
• African military systems between the years 1800 CE and 1900 CE
• African military systems after the year 1900 CE

References