# Timeline of Kurdish uprisings

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## List of conflicts

| Date | Uprising | Location | Result |
| 838–841 | Kurdish Dasni tribe uprising against the Abbasids | Abbasid Caliphate | Suppressed |
| 955–1071 | War against the Musafirid. | Rawadid dynasty | Victory |
| 1045 | Battle of Dvin | Shaddadids | Victory |
| 990–1085 | Kurdish uprising | The Marwanids | Victory, led to the birth of the Marwanids dynasty |
| 1506–1510 | Kurdish-Yazidi uprising against the Safavids | Safavid Persia | Suppressed when the Yazidi leader, Shír Ṣárim, was defeated in battle. |
| 1609–1610 | Battle of Dimdim | Safavid Persia | Suppressed |
| 1775 | Bajalan uprising | Zand dynasty | Suppressed |
| 1806–1808 | Baban uprising | Ottoman Empire | Suppressed |
| 1854–1855 | Yezdanşêr's uprising | Ottoman Empire | Suppressed |
| 1880–1881 | Revolt by Sheikh Ubeydullah of Nehri against the Qajars. | Qajar Persia & Ottoman Empire | Defeat |
| Early March – 4 April 1914 | Bitlis uprising | Ottoman Empire | Suppressed |
| 1914 – 1917 | Kurdish rebellions during World War I | Ottoman Empire | Establishment of a quasi-independent Kurdish state until 1919 |
| 1919–1922 – First Mahmud Barzanji Revolt | First Mahmud Barzanji revolt | Kingdom of Iraq | Suppressed |
| 1918–1922 | First Simko Shikak revolt | Qajar Persia | Suppressed |
| 1918–2003 | Iraqi–Kurdish conflict | Iraq | Victory |
| 1918–present | Kurdish–Iranian conflict | Qajar Persia | Ongoing |
| 6 March – 17 June 1921 | Koçgiri rebellion | Turkey | Suppressed |
| November 1922 – July 1924 | Second Mahmud Barzanji revolt | Kingdom of Iraq, Kingdom of Kurdistan | Creation of the Kingdom of Kurdistan |
| August 1924 | Beytüşşebab rebellion | Turkey | Suppressed |
| 8 February – March 1925 | Sheikh Said rebellion | Turkey | Suppressed |
| 1926 | Second Simko Shikak revolt | Pahlavi Persia | Suppressed, Simko Shikak flees to Mandatory Iraq |
| October 1927 – September 17, 1930 | First, second and third Ararat rebellion | Republic of Ararat, Republic of Turkey | Suppressed, Republic of Ararat disbanded. |
| 1931 | Jafar Sultan revolt | Iran | Suppressed |
| 1931–1932 | Ahmed Barzani revolt | Kingdom of Iraq | Suppressed, low-level insurgency continues through 1933, another revolt by Barzanis erupts in 1943 |
| 1935 | Yazidi revolt of 1935 | Mandatory Iraq | Suppressed |
| 20 March – November, 1937 and 2 January – December, 1938 | Dersim rebellion | Republic of Turkey | Suppressed, see Dersim Massacre |
| 1941–1944 | Hama Rashid revolt | Pahlavi Iran | Suppressed, Hama Rashid driven into Iraq |
| November 1945 – December 15, 1946 | Iran crisis of 1946 | Pahlavi Iran, Republic of Mahabad | Creation of the Soviet-backed Republic of Mahabad, revolt later suppressed |
| 11 September 1961 – 1970 | First Iraqi–Kurdish War | Republic of Iraq | Stalemate, led to the Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970 |
| 1967 | 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran | Pahlavi Iran | Suppressed |
| April 1974 – 1975 | Second Iraqi–Kurdish War | Iraq | Suppressed, the Iraqi government re-establishes control over Kurdistan |
| 1976–1978 | PUK insurgency | Iraq | Indecisive, led to the Kurdish rebellion of 1983 |
| 1979 | 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran | Iran | Suppressed |
| 1983–1986 | Kurdish rebellion of 1983 | Iraq | Indecisive, led to the Al-Anfal Campaign |
| 15 August 1984 – present | Kurdish–Turkish conflict | Republic of Turkey | Ongoing |
| 1986–1996 | KDPI insurgency | Government of Iran | Suppressed; KDPI announces unilateral cease-fire in 1996 |
| 1 March – 5 April 1991 | 1991 Iraqi uprisings | Ba'athist Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan | Victory; establishment of the Kurdish Autonomous Republic, also known as Iraqi Kurdistan |
| March 2004 | 2004 Qamishli riots | Syria | Suppressed |
| 1 April 2004–present | Iran–PJAK conflict | Iran | Ongoing |
| 19 July 2012–present | Rojava conflict of the Syrian civil war | Syria | Kurdish fighters have taken control of 365 towns and villages in Syrian Kurdistan and 2 districts in Aleppo by September 2012. |
| 24 July 2015 – present | Kurdish–Turkish conflict | Republic of Turkey | Ongoing |
| 19 April 2016 – present | Western Iran clashes | Iran | Ongoing |
| 24 August 2016 – present | Turkish military intervention in Syria | Syria | Ongoing |
| 15 – 27 October 2017 | 15 – 27 October 2017 | 15 – 27 October 2017 | Ceasefire, Iraqi Kurdistan loses territory, including Sinjar and Kirkuk and khanaqin |