List of wars involving Norway

This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of Norway in some capacity, both the modern polity and its predecessor states.

ListEdit

Unification of Norway (860–872)Edit

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Viking raid on Nekor^[1]^[2]^[3] (ca. 859)	Norse Vikings	Kingdom of Nekor	Viking victory Vikings occupied Nekor for 8 days.
Battle of Hakadal (ca. 860)	Vestfold	Álfheimr	Vestfold victory Death of Hake Gandalfsson.
Battle of Orkdal (ca. 870)	Vestfold	Orkdal	Vestfold victory Gryting subjects to Harald Fairhair.
First Battle of Solskjel (ca. 870)	Vestfold	Nordmøre Romsdal	Vestfold victory Death of the kings of Nordmøre and Romsdal.
Second Battle of Solskjel (ca. 870)	Vestfold	Sunnmøre Firda	Vestfold victory Rognvald Eysteinsson becomes the Jarl of Møre.
Götaland Campaign (ca. 870)	Vestfold	Geats	Vestfold victory Guttorm Haraldsson becomes King of Rånrike.
Battle of Fjaler (ca. 870)	Earldom of Lade	Earldom of Sogn	Indecisive Death of Håkon Grjotgardsson and Atle Mjove.
Battle of Hafrsfjord (872)	Vestfold	Hordaland Rogaland Agder	Vestfold victory Norway unified under King Harald I.

Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)Edit

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Battle of Rastarkalv (955)	Haakon the Good	Eric Bloodaxe Denmark	Victory of Haakon the Good Destruction of Danish force
Battle of Fitjar (961)	Haakon the Good	Eric Bloodaxe Denmark	Pyrrhic victory to Haakon the Good Harald Greycloak becomes king
Sack of Santiago de Compostela (968)	Norwegian Vikings	Kingdom of Galicia	Victory
Battle of Hjörungavágr (986)	Norway	Jomsvikings	Victory Danish fleet defeated
Battle of Maldon (991)	Norway	Anglo-Saxons	Victory First English payment of Danegeld
Battle of Svolder (999/1000)	Norway	Denmark Sweden Earls of Lade	Defeat Death of Olaf Tryggvason
Battle at Herdaler (1007/8)	Norway	Finns of Herdaler	Defeat Olaf Haraldson got almost killed and lost many men^[4]
Battle of Nesjar (1016)	Olaf II	Sweyn Haakonsson Various farmer-chieftains	Victory to Olaf II Sweyn Haakonsson driven into exile
Battle of the Helgeå (1026)	Norway Sweden	Anglo-Danish Kingdom	Defeat Cnut the Great dominates Scandinavia
Battle of Stiklestad (1030)	Olaf II	Peasant Army	Peasant victory Death of Olaf II
Invasions of Denmark (1048–1064)	Norway	Denmark	Stalemate Peace agreement, mutual recognition and withdrawal
Battle of Fulford (1066)	Norway	England	Victory Norwegians gain Fulford and later York
Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)	Norway	England	Defeat Death of King Harald Hardrada
First Irish Sea Campaign (1098)	Norway	England Irish Kingdoms^{[clarification needed]}	Victory Norwegian reconquest in the Irish Sea
Campaign in Sweden (1099)	Norway	Sweden	Victory Temporary Norwegian control of Dalsland
Second Irish Sea Campaign (1101/1102–1103)	Norway	England Irish Kingdoms^{[clarification needed]}	Defeat Norway loses control of the Irish Sea region
Norwegian Crusade (1107–1110) Siege of Sidon	Kingdom of Jerusalem Kingdom of Norway Republic of Venice	Fatimid Caliphate Almoravid Empire Taifa of Badajoz Taifa of Majorca Barbary pirates of Majorca	Victory Lordship of Sidon created.
Kalmare ledung (1123)	Kingdom of Norway	Norse pagans	Victory The pagans converted to Christianity.
Civil war era in Norway (1130–1240)	Birkebeiners	Baglers	Birkebeiner victory Håkon Håkonsson became king
Battle of the Neva (1240)	Sweden Finns Tavastia Norway	Novgorod Republic Karelians	Defeat Sweden fails to capture Staraya Ladoga
Halland Campaign (1256)	Norway	Denmark	Defeat Norway renounces its claim on Halland
Scottish–Norwegian War (1261–1264)	Norway	Scotland	Defeat Treaty of Perth, Scotland captured the Hebrides
War of the Outlaws (1288–1295)	Norway Danish outlaws	Denmark	Victory The outlaws were granted their demands
Swedish Brother's Feud (1304–1310)	Norway Duke Eric and Valdemar	Denmark Birger Magnusson	Defeat Death of Duke Eric and Valdemar

Kalmar Union (1397–1523)Edit

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
War with the Victual Brothers (1392–1398)	Kalmar Union	Victual Brothers	Victory Formation of the Kalmar Union.
Dano-Hanseatic War (1410–1435)	Kalmar Union	House of Schaumburg Hanseatic League	Defeat Treaty of Vordingborg
Dano-Swedish War (1501–12) (1501–1512)	Kalmar Union	Sweden Free City of Lübeck Norwegian Rebels^[5]	Victory Treaty of Malmö (1512)
Swedish War of Liberation (1521–1523)	Kalmar Union	Sweden Free City of Lübeck	Defeat Treaty of Malmö, dissolution of the Kalmar Union.

Denmark–Norway (1523–1814)Edit

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Livonian War (1558–1583)	Livonian Confederation Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (before 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian union) Denmark–Norway Kingdom of Sweden	Tsardom of Russia Qasim Khanate Kingdom of Livonia	Victory Estonia to Sweden Livonia, Courland and Semigallia to Poland–Lithuania Ösel to Denmark–Norway
Northern Seven Years' War (1563–1570)	Denmark–Norway Poland-Lithuania Lübeck	Sweden	Stalemate Treaty of Stettin, Status quo ante bellum
Kalmar War (1611–1613)	Denmark–Norway	Sweden	Victory Denmark-Norway defended her Dominium maris baltici
Thirty Years' War (1625–1629)	Denmark–Norway Sweden	Holy Roman Empire The Catholic League	Defeat Treaty of Lübeck, disengagement from imperial affairs
Torstenson War (1643–1645)	Denmark–Norway Holy Roman Empire	Sweden	Defeat Treaty of Brömsebro, huge Danish concessions
First Karl Gustav War (1657–1658)	Denmark–Norway	Sweden	Defeat Treaty of Roskilde, huge Danish concessions
Second Karl Gustav War (1658–1660)	Denmark–Norway Dutch Republic Holy Roman Empire Poland-Lithuania Brandenburg-Prussia	Sweden	Victory Treaty of Copenhagen; Bornholm and Trøndelag returned to Denmark-Norway
Battle of Vågen (1665)	Denmark–Norway Dutch Republic	England	Victory British fleet repelled with Norwegian aid
Scanian War (1675–1679)	Denmark–Norway Dutch Republic Holy Roman Empire Brandenburg-Prussia	Sweden France	Stalemate Treaties of Fontainebleau and Lund
Great Northern War (1700–1721)	Russia Denmark–Norway Saxony Poland–Lithuania Prussia Hanover Great Britain	Sweden Poland–Lithuania Ottoman Empire Cossack Hetmanate England Great Britain Dutch Republic Brunswick-Lüneburg	Victory Decline of the Swedish Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Danish–Algerian War (1770–1772)	Denmark–Norway	Dey of Algiers	Defeat Punitive expedition unsuccessful
Theatre War (1788–1789)	Denmark–Norway	Sweden	Defeat Return to Status quo ante bellum
Action of 16 May 1797 (1797)	Denmark–Norway	Tripolitania	Victory Peace treaty with the Bey of Tripoli
Battle of Copenhagen (1801)	Denmark–Norway	United Kingdom	Defeat Strategical defeat of the Danish-Norwegian fleet
Gunboat War (1807–1814)	Denmark–Norway	United Kingdom	Defeat Contributed to the end of the Dano-Norwegian Union
Dano-Swedish War of 1808–09 (1808–1809)	Denmark–Norway France	Sweden United Kingdom	Stalemate Return to Status quo ante bellum
Dano-Swedish War of 1813–14 (1813–1814)	Denmark–Norway	Sweden United Kingdom	Defeat Treaty of Kiel, Norway ceded to King of Sweden

Kingdom of Norway (1814–present)Edit

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	Prime Minister	Casualties
Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)	Norway	Sweden	Defeat (but Swedish acceptance of the Eidsvoll Constitution) Norway entered a personal union with Sweden	Peder Anker	~400 killed
World War II (1940–1945)	Soviet Union United States United Kingdom China France Poland Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa Ethiopia Brazil Mexico Colombia Cuba Philippines Mongolia	Germany Japan Italy Romania Hungary Bulgaria Slovakia Croatia	Victory Collapse of the German Realm Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War	Johan Nygaardsvold	10,262 killed
Congo Crisis (1960–1964)	Congo-Léopoldville ONUC Ireland Sweden Norway India Nigeria Ethiopia	Katanga South Kasai	Victory Debellation of Congolese separatist states	Einar Gerhardsen	None
Bosnian War (1992–1995)	NATO Belgium Canada Denmark France Germany Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Turkey United Kingdom United States	Republika Srpska	Victory Dayton Agreement, deployment of NATO-led IFOR	Gro Harlem Brundtland	None
Kosovo War (1998–1999)	UÇK NATO Belgium Canada Denmark France Germany Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Turkey United Kingdom United States	FR Yugoslavia	Victory Kumanovo Treaty	Kjell Magne Bondevik	None
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)	Afghanistan ISAF United States United Kingdom Australia Canada Germany France Italy Czech Republic Netherlands Turkey Romania Georgia South Korea Poland Denmark Sweden Norway Finland Singapore New Zealand Mongolia Bulgaria Hungary Belgium Estonia Latvia Lithuania Portugal Albania Slovenia	Taliban	Defeat Fall of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban retake Kabul	Kjell Magne Bondevik	10 killed
Libyan Civil War (2011)	NTC NATO and allies France United Kingdom United States Belgium Canada Denmark Netherlands Norway Spain Turkey Jordan Sweden UAE Qatar	Libya	Victory The NTC assumed interim control of Libya	Jens Stoltenberg	None

ReferencesEdit

^ "The Vikings raided Africa and then took slaves back to Ireland | Smash Company".
^ "History: The Viking Adventure In Morocco".
^ Ibn-Adhari, translated in Stefansson, Jon, "The Vikings in Spain. From Arabic (Moorish) and Spanish Sources". In Saga-Book of the Viking Club: Vol. VI Proceedings. University of London King's College, 1909, pp. 40–41.
^ "Heimskringla: Saga of Olaf Haraldson: Part I". mcllibrary.org. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
^ Erik Opsahl. "Knut Alvsson". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

[1] "The Vikings raided Africa and then took slaves back to Ireland | Smash Company".

[2] "History: The Viking Adventure In Morocco".

[Stefansson1909pp40-1-3] Ibn-Adhari, translated in Stefansson, Jon, "The Vikings in Spain. From Arabic (Moorish) and Spanish Sources". In Saga-Book of the Viking Club: Vol. VI Proceedings. University of London King's College, 1909, pp. 40–41.

[4] "Heimskringla: Saga of Olaf Haraldson: Part I". mcllibrary.org. Retrieved 2018-03-22.

[5] Erik Opsahl. "Knut Alvsson". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]