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
- 1637 Pequot War in New England
- 1637 Kent Island Rebellion in Maryland
- 1641 - 1667 First Beaver War in the Great Lakes region
- 1643 - 1645 Kieft's War in New Netherland
- 1644 - 1647 Claiborne and Ingle's Rebellion in Maryland; part of the English Civil War
- 1644 - 1646 Second Anglo–Powhatan War following Opechancanough's Massacre in Virginia
- 1655 Battle of the Severn in Maryland; part of the English Civil War
- 1655 Peach Tree War in New Netherland (Delaware, New Jersey, New York
- 1659 - 1660 First Esopus War in New Netherland
- 1659 - 1660 Fendall's Rebellion in Maryland; part of the English Civil War
- 1663 Second Esopus War in New Netherlands
- 1664 Second Anglo-Dutch War in which the English conquer New Netherland and rename it New York and New Jersey (The war lasts in Europe and elsewhere until 1667.)
- 1673 - 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War in which the Dutch re-capture New York, New Jersey, Delaware but return territory to the English after the war
- 1675 - 1676 King Philip's War in New England
- 1676 Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
- 1677 Culpeper's Rebellion in Carolina
- 1683 - 1701 Second Beaver War in the Great Lakes region
- 1689 - 1692 Overthrow of the Dominion of New England and Sir Edmund Andros; part of the Glorious Revolution
- 1689 - 1691 Leisler's Rebellion in New York; part of the Glorious Revolution
- 1689 - 1692 Coode's Rebellion in Maryland; part of the Glorious Revolution
- 1689 - 1697 King William's War; related to the Glorious Revolution and the Nine Years' War
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