List of Civil Wars
- Rebellion of 1088 - in England and Normandy
- The Anarchy (1135–1154) - in England
- Revolt of 1173–1174 - in England, Normandy, and Anjou
- First Barons' War (1215–1217) - in England
- Second Barons' War (1264–1267) - in England
- Welsh Uprising (1282) - in England and Wales
- Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) - in England and Wales; Richard III was the last English king to die in combat
- Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) - in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
- First Bishops' War (1639)
- Second Bishops' War (1640)
- Irish Rebellion (1641)
- First English Civil War (1642–1646)
- The Confederate’s War (1642-1648)
- Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1644–1647)
- Second English Civil War (1648)
- Third English Civil War (1650–1651)
- Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649)
- Monmouth Rebellion (1685) - in England
- Jacobite Rebellions (1689-91; 1715-16; 1719; 1745-46) - in England, Scotland and Ireland
- Williamite war in Ireland (1688–1691)
- Battle of the Boyne (1690) - last battle between two rival claimants for the throne
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