List of wars involving Uruguay

• Spanish forces of the Portuguese colonial abandoned Colonia del Sacramento

• Battle of Cardal (1807)
• Battle of Montevideo (1807)

• Battle of Las Piedras (1811)
• Siege of Montevideo (1811)
• Siege of Montevideo (1812–1814)
• Battle of Cerrito (1812)
• Battle of Buceo (1814)

• Battle of India Muerta (1816)
• Battle of Sauce (1816)
• Battle of Arapey (1817)
• Battle of Catalán (1817)
• Battle of Paso Cuello (1817)
• Battle of Arroyo Grande (1818)
• Battle of Tacuarembó (1820)

• Treaty of Rio de Janeiro

• Siege of Montevideo (1823)
• Battle of Montevideo (1823)

• Independence of the Republic of Uruguay

• Battle of Sarandí (1825)
• Battle of Colonia del Sacramento (1826)
• Battle of Juncal (1827)

• Imposition of the Colorados in Uruguay

• Great Siege of Montevideo (1843 – 1851)

• Argentine clout over the
  Platine region ends^[2]
• Brazilian hegemony in the Platine region

• Colorados takeover, regime change in Uruguay

• Allied occupation of Paraguay

• Agreement of power-sharing reached

• Death of Aparicio Saravia
• Blanco revolutionaries stop fighting

• Collapse of the German Reich
• Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
• Creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
• Beginning of the Cold War

(1963-1974)

• The Civic-military dictatorship succeeds in arresting all guerrillas.