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War of the Heavenly Horses
The Han–Dayuan War (汉攻大宛之战) was a pair of expeditions by Emperor Wu of Han against Dayuan in 104 and 102 BC to seize its fine horses.
War of the League of Cognac
War of the League of Cognac (1526-1530), or Second Habsburg-Valois War: France, Pope Clement VII, Venice, Milan, and Florence against Charles V after Pavia; marked by the 1527 Sack of Rome and ended with Habsburg hegemony in Italy.
War of the Pacific
War of the Pacific (Guerra del Pacífico), 1879–1884: Chile versus allied Peru and Bolivia over Atacama nitrate territory. Chile won Tarapacá and Antofagasta; Bolivia became landlocked; Lima was occupied; disputes persist.
War of the Potiguares
The War of the Potiguares (Guerra dos Potiguaras, 1574–1599) was a conflict between the Potiguara, an Indigenous people, and Portuguese colonists on Brazil's northeastern coast.
War of the Quadruple Alliance
War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720), also called the war of the Quadruple Alliance powers against Spain: Philip V's Spain, driven by Alberoni and Elisabetta Farnese, seized Sardinia and Sicily; Britain, France, and Emperor Charles VI defeated Spain at Cape Passaro and forced the Treaty of The Hague (1720).
War of the Sixth Coalition
War of the Sixth Coalition (1813–1814), the Befreiungskriege: Russia, Prussia, Austria, Sweden, and Britain defeated Napoleon, culminating in the Battle of Leipzig, October 1813.
War on terror
War on terror: U.S.-led post-9/11 campaign against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and related groups, announced by Bush in 2001, spanning Afghanistan and Iraq wars, roughly $8 trillion in costs, and a later shift toward cartels.
War Remnants Museum
War Remnants Museum (Bảo tàng Chứng tích Chiến tranh), a state war museum in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, opened 4 September 1975 as the Exhibition House for U.S. and Puppet Crimes; renamed in 1990 and 1995, it holds 20,000-plus war-crime documents and artifacts and draws hundreds of thousands of visitors yearly.
Warlord Era
The Warlord Era, also called Warlord China, was the period from 1916 to 1928 when the Republic of China split among rival military cliques, ending with the Northern Expedition's reunification.
Warren Wagon Train Raid
The Warren Wagon Train Raid, also called the Salt Creek Massacre, was an 1871 attack in Young County, Texas, in which Kiowa and other warriors killed seven teamsters.
Warrenpoint ambush
Warrenpoint ambush, also called the Narrow Water ambush or massacre: Provisional IRA double remote-controlled bombing on 27 August 1979 at Narrow Water, County Down, killing 18 British soldiers, the British Army's deadliest Troubles incident, on the day Lord Mountbatten was assassinated.
Warrington bombings
Warrington bombings: two 1993 IRA attacks in Warrington, Cheshire, England; the 26 February gasworks bombing and the 20 March Bridge Street bin bombs that killed Johnathan Ball, 3, and Tim Parry, 12, injuring over 50 and spurring the peace process.
Wars in the Caucasus
The wars in the Caucasus are the armed conflicts in Russia's North Caucasus, above all the two Chechen wars between Russia and Chechen separatists in 1994–1996 and 1999–2000.
Wars of Alexander the Great
Wars of Alexander the Great (336–323 BC): Macedon's conquest of the Achaemenid Persian Empire from the Balkans to the Indus, covering Gaugamela, the Bactrian-Sogdian war, Hydaspes, and the Hellenistic aftermath.
Wars of the Diadochi
Wars of the Diadochi, or Wars of Alexander's Successors (323-281 BCE): conflicts among Alexander the Great's generals after his death in Babylon, ending with the Battle of Ipsus (301) and Corupedium (281) and the rise of the Antigonid, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid kingdoms.
Warsaw concentration camp
KL Warschau (Warsaw concentration camp) was a Nazi German concentration camp established by order in occupied Warsaw, on the razed Warsaw Ghetto site, distinct from the ghetto and Pawiak prison; related deportations sent Warsaw Jews and Poles to Auschwitz, Poniatowa, Trawniki, and Majdanek.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Powstanie w getcie warszawskim) was an armed revolt by Jewish fighters against German liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto from April to May 1943.
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, August 20–21, 1968: Soviet-led forces from five Warsaw Pact states crushed the Prague Spring reforms of Alexander Dubček and prompted the Brezhnev Doctrine of limited sovereignty.
Warsaw Uprising
The 1944 Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie), distinct from the 1943 ghetto uprising, was the Home Army's 63-day revolt against German occupation, August 1 to October 2, 1944, crushed with over 180,000 deaths and Warsaw reduced to ruins.
Washington Naval Conference
The Washington Naval Conference was held in Washington, D.C. from November 1921 to February 1922, where nine nations signed the first treaties limiting naval armaments and Pacific fortifications.
Washington Navy Yard shooting
Washington Navy Yard shooting: September 16, 2013 mass shooting in which contractor Aaron Alexis, 34, killed 12 and wounded 4 in Building 197 using a sawed-off shotgun before police killed him; it triggered major DoD security reforms.
Wat Tyler
Wat Tyler (died 1381), also Walter the Teghler, was the obscure tiler who led the Kentish rebels in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, marched on London, and was killed by Mayor William Walworth at Smithfield.
Wattasid–Portuguese wars
The Wattasid–Portuguese wars (Arabic: حروب البرتغاليين في المغرب) were conflicts between Morocco's Wattasid dynasty and Portugal, from Ceuta's capture in 1415 to the Battle of Wadi al-Makhazin in 1578.
Watts riots
The Watts riots (Watts Rebellion) were six days of civil unrest in Los Angeles starting August 11, 1965, after the traffic stop of Marquette Frye, leaving 34 dead, 1,032 injured, and $40 million in damage.
Waukesha Christmas parade attack
Waukesha Christmas parade attack: November 21, 2021 vehicle-ramming in Waukesha, Wisconsin, by Darrell Brooks Jr., killing six; convicted on 76 counts, sentenced to six life terms plus 762 years.
Welles Crowther
Welles Remy Crowther, the "Man in the Red Bandana," was a 24-year-old equities trader and volunteer firefighter who saved at least 18 people in the World Trade Center South Tower on September 11, 2001, before dying in its collapse.
Wesselényi conspiracy
The Wesselényi conspiracy was an anti-Habsburg plot of Hungarian and Croatian magnates from 1664 to 1671, triggered by the Peace of Vasvár; its suppression led to executions and absolutist rule in Royal Hungary.
West African Crisis
West African Crisis: the Sahel-centered emergency since Mali's 2012 rebellion, also called the Sahel crisis, combining JNIM and IS Sahel insurgencies, coups, the AES-ECOWAS split, and nearly 20 million displaced.
West African soldiers in World War II
West African soldiers in World War II were men recruited from British and French colonies between 1939 and 1945, serving in Burma, East Africa, and the Middle East.
West Fertilizer Company explosion
The West Fertilizer Company explosion: April 17, 2013 detonation of about 30 tons of fertilizer-grade ammonium nitrate in West, Texas, killing 15, injuring 260+, with CSB findings on storage, siting, and regulatory gaps.