# List of wars involving Switzerland

Wars and conflicts involving Switzerland since the creation of the Old Swiss Confederacy include:

## Old Swiss Confederacy
### Growth (1291–1523)

| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Belligerents | Outcome |
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Allies | Enemies | Outcome |
| 15 November 1315 | | Battle of Morgarten part of the growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy | Old Swiss Confederacy | Archduchy of Austria | Decisive Swiss victory Pact of Brunnen |
| 9 July 1386 | | Battle of Sempach part of the growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy | Old Swiss Confederacy | Archduchy of Austria | Decisive Swiss victory |
| 30 June 1422 | | Battle of Arbedo | Old Swiss Confederacy | Duchy of Milan | Defeat: Temporarily discouraged Swiss expansion in the direction of Lake Maggiore |
| 2 November 1440 | 12 June 1446 | Old Zürich War | Old Swiss Confederacy | Imperial City of Zürich Archduchy of Austria Kingdom of France | Swiss Confederation victory |
| 1474 | 1477 | Burgundian Wars | Old Swiss Confederacy Duchy of Lorraine | Duchy of Burgundy  Duchy of Savoy | Franco-Swiss victory |
| January 1499 | September 1499 | Swabian War | Old Swiss Confederacy | Holy Roman Empire Swabian League | Swiss Confederation victory Treaty of Basel (1499) Further independence of the Swiss Confederation from the Holy Roman Empire |
| 1511 | 1516 | War of the League of Cambrai | Swiss mercenaries  Papal States  Spain  Holy Roman Empire  England Duchy of Milan | Venice  France  Scotland Duchy of Ferrara | Defeat End of Swiss expansionism, beginning of Swiss neutrality |

### Reformation (1523–1648)

| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Belligerents | Outcome |
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Allies | Enemies | Outcome |
| 1529 | | First War of Kappel Civil War of religions | Protestant cantons | Catholic cantons | Unresolved, no actual battles fought |
| 1531 | | Musso war | Three Leagues Old Swiss Confederacy (Protestant cantons) | Duchy of Milan | Victory Increased Catholic-Protestant tension, leading to the Second War of Kappel |
| 1531 | | Second War of Kappel Civil War of religions | Catholics: Uri Schwyz Zug Lucerne Unterwalden | Protestants: Zürich | Catholic cantons victory |

### Ancien Régime (1648–1798)

| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Belligerents | Outcome |
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Allies | Enemies | Outcome |
| January 1653 | June 1653 | Swiss peasant war of 1653 Civil War | Peasant rebels | City governments troops | Military victory of the ruling city councils |
| 1656 and 1712 | | The First War of Villmergen and the Toggenburg War (or Second War of Villmergen) Civil Wars of religion | Canton of Zürich Canton of Bern Canton of Schaffhausen | Canton of Lucerne Canton of Uri Canton of Schwyz Unterwalden Canton of Zug Freie Ämter Rapperswil | Catholic victory in First war, Protestant victory in second. |

## Napoleonic era and Restoration (1798–1848)

| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Belligerents | Outcome |
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Allies | Enemies | Outcome |
| 1798 | 1799 | French Revolutionary Wars French invasion of Switzerland | | | French victory Establishment of the Helvetic Republic |
| 1799 | 1802 | War of the Second Coalition | French Republic Polish Legions French client states | Austria  Russia  Great Britain (until 1801)  United Kingdom (from 1801) French Royalists Portugal  Two Sicilies  Ottoman Empire | French Republican victory |
| 1802 | | Stecklikrieg Civil war | Centralists Helvetic Republic | Federalists Canton of Uri Canton of Schwyz Canton of Luzern Canton of Obwalden Canton of Nidwalden Canton of Glarus City of Zürich Canton of Bern Canton of Aargau Canton of Solothurn Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden | Collapse of the Helvetic Republic, French Act of Mediation and creation of the Swiss Confederation |
| 1806 | 1807 | War of the Fourth Coalition | First French Empire French client states | Prussia  Russia  United Kingdom  Saxony  Sweden Sicily | French victory |
| 10 April 1809 | 14 October 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | First French Empire French client states | Austria Tyrol (in rebellion against Bavaria)  United Kingdom Sicily  Sardinia Black Brunswickers | French victory |
| 1813 | 1814 | War of the Sixth Coalition | First French Empire French client states | Russia  Prussia  Austria  United Kingdom  Sweden Spain Portugal Sicily  Sardinia | Coalition Victory |
| 20 March 1815 | 8 July 1815 | War of the Seventh Coalition | Seventh Coalition:  Austrian Empire  Russian Empire  Prussia  United Kingdom Hanover Nassau Brunswick  Sweden  United Netherlands  Spain Portugal  Sardinia Sicily Tuscany Switzerland French Royalists | First French Empire Naples | Coalition victory |
| 6 December 1830 | 6 December 1830 | Freiämtersturm | | Freiämtersturm | Freiämtersturm Victory |
| 3 November 1847 | 29 November 1847 | Sonderbund War Civil war | Swiss Confederation  Aargau Appenzell AR  Basel-Landschaft  Basel-Stadt  Bern  Geneva  Glarus  Graubünden  St. Gallen  Solothurn  Thurgau  Ticino  Vaud  Zürich | Sonderbund  Fribourg  Lucerne  Nidwalden  Obwalden  Schwyz  Uri  Valais  Zug | Confederation victory |

## Modern era

| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Belligerents | Belligerents | Outcome |
| Start | Finish | Name of conflict | Allies | Enemies | Outcome |
| 1940 | 1945 | Aerial incidents in Switzerland in World War II | Switzerland | United States Army Air Forces Royal Air Force Luftwaffe | Downing of multiple allied aircraft by Swiss fighters Bombings on multiple towns U.S. Government paid Swiss $4 million and an additional $14.4 million (in 1944/45 dollars) End of allied and German overflights following the end of World War II |
| 1962 | 1966 | Jura Conflict | Switzerland Union of Bernese-Jurassic Patriots (1962-1964) | Jura Liberation Front [fr] (1962-1964) Second Jura Liberation Front (1965-1966) | Swiss Victory Swiss Police arrests FLJ members and leader in 1964. Second FLJ created in 1965, but Swiss police also captures them in 1966. Jura becomes a canton in 1979. |
| 2003 | 2008 | War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | United States  Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ISAF:  Switzerland and others... | Taliban  Al-Qaeda Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin | Taliban victory |