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List of conflicts in the United States is a timeline of events that includes wars, battles, skirmishes, major terrorist attacks, massacres, and other related items that have occurred in the United States's current geographical area, including overseas territories.

Before the 16th Century

1325 Crow Creek Massacre in present-day South Dakota.

16th Century

1565 Spanish massacre of French Huguenots at Fort Caroline in Florida. This is notable as it's the first conflict between European powers in what is today the United States.

17th Century

1609 - 1613? First Anglo–Powhatan War

1622 Jamestown Massacre in which English settlers are attacked by Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in Jamestown Colony in Virginia.

1644 - 1646 Second Anglo–Powhatan War

1637 Pequot War

1675 - 1676 King Philip's War

1680 Pueblo Revolt

1689 - 1697 King William's War

18th Century

1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War

1711 - 1715 Tuscarora War

1715 - 1717 Yamasee War

1744 - 1748 King George's War

1754 - 1763 French and Indian War

1763 Pontiac's Rebellion

1764 - 1771 War of the Regulation

1773 - 1774 Lord Dunmore's War

1775 - 1783 American Revolutionary War

19th Century

1807 Capture of Saint Thomas and Saint Croix in the West Indies from the French by the British. This is notable as the only action fought during the Napoleonic Wars that took place on what is now U.S. soil (United States Virgin Islands).

1811 Tecumseh's War

1812 - 1815 War of 1812

1813 - 1814 Creek War

1817 - 1818 First Seminole War

1827 Winnebago War

1831 Nat Turner's Rebellion

1832 Black Hawk War

1835 - 1842 Second Seminole War

1835 - 1836 Toledo War (bloodless)

1835 - 1836 Texas Revolution

1838 Missouri War

1838 - 1839 Aroostook War

1839 Honey War (bloodless)

1846 - 1848 Mexican War

1848 - 1855 Cayuse War

1854 - 1858 Bleeding Kansas

1855 - 1858 Third Seminole War

1857 - 1858 Utah War

1859 Pig War

1859 John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia

1861 - 1865 American Civil War

20th Century

1914 World War I - A Japanese fleet captured the Mariana Islands from Germany without any loss of life. This is notable as the only action fought during World War I that took place on what is now U.S. soil (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands).

1916 Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa leads a night raid on the New Mexico border town of Columbus.

1917 Green Corn Rebellion - A socialist uprising in Oklahoma. Helped to fuel the Red Scare.

1921 Tulsa race riot - massacre during a large-scale civil disorder in Tulsa, Oklahoma

1921 Battle of Blair Mountain - in Logan County, West Virginia, between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted state and federal troops in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mine counties

1941 World War II - Japanese sneak attack on American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1941 - 1945 World War II - Numerous American warships and merchant vessels sunk in American territorial waters by German U-boats.

1942 - 1943 World War II - Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.

1995 - Oklahoma City bombing, a terrorist attack aimed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The attack claimed 168 lives and left over 800 injured.

21st Century

2001 - September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Arlington, VA and in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania near Shanksville. 2,993 people are killed in the attacks. ==

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