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Conflict
Combatant 1
Combatant 2
Results
Battle of Pasca (~1470)
Zipazgo of the southern Muisca
Sutagao & Panche
Zipazgo victory
Sutagao submitted to Muisca rule
Battle of Chocontá (~1490)
Zacazgo of the northern Muisca
Zipazgo of the southern Muisca
Zipazgo of the southern victory
Spanish conquest of the Muisca (1537-1540)
Guecha warriors of the Muisca
Conquistadors of the Spanish Empire
Spanish victory
War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748)
Spain
Great Britain
Status quo ante bellum
Seven Years' War (1762-1763)
Anglo-Prussian coalition victory[ 3]
Colombian War of Independence (1810 –1825 )
Supported by:
Colombian and Allied victory
Venezuelan War of Independence (1811–1823)
Patriots 1811–1816: Venezuela Colombia 1816–1819: Venezuela Haiti [ 4] 1819–1823: Gran Colombia
Royalists Spain
Patriot victory
Ecuadorian War of Independence (1809–1822)
Spanish Empire
Patriot victory
Annexation of the territory to independent Gran Colombia
Dissolution of Gran Colombia (1826-1831)
Colombia
Venezuelan Separatists Ecuadorian Separatists
Defeat
Dissolution of Gran Colombia into the republics of Venezuela, Ecuador and New Granada
Gran Colombia–Peru War (1828–1829)
Gran Colombia
Peru
Stalemate
War of the Cauca (1832)
New Granada
Ecuador
Victory
Occupation of Bocas del Toro of 1836 (1836)
New Granada
Federal Republic of Central America
Victory
The Republic of New Granada takes possession of the Miskito Coast without Central American resistance
War of the Supremes (1839–1841)
New Granada Ecuador
Supremes
Victory
Colombian Civil War of 1851 (1851)
New Granada
Conservatives
Victory
Colombian Civil War of 1854 (1854)
Constitutionalists
Melist Government
Victory
Colombian Civil War of 1860–1862 (1860–1862)
Granadine Confederation
Federal State of Cauca
Defeat
Ecuadorian–Colombian War (1862–1863)
Colombia
Ecuador
Victory
Colombian Civil War of 1876 (1876–1877)
Colombia
Colombian Conservative Party
Victory
Colombian Civil War (1884–1885) (1884-1885)
Colombia
Radical liberals
Victory
New constitution in 1886, Colombia becomes a unitary republic
Panama Crisis (1885)
Colombia Chile
Panamanian Rebels
Victory
Italian blockade of Colombia (1885-1899)
Colombia
Kingdom of Italy
Stalemate
Payment of part of the debt
Colombian Civil War of 1895 (1895)
Colombia
Liberal Rebels
Victory
Curuchupadas (1895-1899)
Ecuadorian Conservatives
Colombia
Ecuador
Defeat
Thousand Days War (1899–1902)
Colombia
Colombian Liberal Party Ecuador Venezuela Nicaragua Guatemala
Victory
Separation of Panama from Colombia (1903)
Colombia
United States Panama
Defeat
Independence of the then department of Panama from Colombia
Separation of Cauca from Colombia
(1909)
Colombia
Interoceanic Republic
Cauca parliamentarians intend to separate from Colombia and create their own state.[ 5]
Battle of La Pedrera (1911)
Colombia
Peru
Defeat
the Peruvians take the position after several days of combat
Separation of Arauca from Colombia (1916)
Colombia
Republic of Arauca
Victory
The Colombian government once again takes control of Arauca
Colombia–Peru War (1932–1933)
Colombia
Peru
Ceasefire [ 6]
World War II (1943–1945)
United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Chile Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Venezuela Uruguay Argentina
Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang
Victory
La Violencia (1948–1958)
Colombia
Colombian Liberal Party and allied militias
Stalemate
Korean War (1950–1953)
South Korea United States United Kingdom Canada Turkey Australia Philippines New Zealand Thailand Ethiopia Greece France Colombia Belgium South Africa Netherlands Luxembourg
North Korea China Soviet Union
Ceasefire
Colombian Conflict (1964[ 7] [ 8] –present)
Colombia
Supported by: Peru Panama [ 9] Mexico Brazil [ 10] Ecuador United States Spain [ 11] United Kingdom [ 12]
Colombian drug cartels and paramilitaries
Supported by: Contras (1979–90)
Mexican drug cartels and paramilitaries
Colombian rebel guerrilla groups
Supported by: Venezuela [ 22] Cuba [ 23] [ 24] Belarus [ 25] [ 26] (from 2008) Nicaragua (alleged)[ 27] Libya (until 2011)[ 28] [ 29] Soviet Union (until 1989)[ 24] Albania (financial support; 1960s–1970s)[ 30] Cartel of the Suns [ 31] FBL [ 22] Shining Path (factions)[ 32] [ 33] ETA (1964–2018) PIRA (1969–98) PKK [ 34]
Ongoing
Operation Traíra (1991)
Brazil Colombia
FARC
Victory
Successful operation against FARC
Operation Atalanta (2015)
European Union Colombia
Pirates
Victory
Operation Ocean Shield (2015)
NATO Colombia Japan
Pirates
Victory
Catatumbo campaign
Colombia
Popular Liberation Army (EPL)
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Los Rastrojos
FARC dissidents
Ongoing