| Dates | Name | Independent Country | Original Country | Result |
|---|
| 1185–1188 | Uprising of Asen and Peter |  Bulgaria |  Byzantine Empire | Independence of Bulgaria from the Byzantine Empire; creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire |
| 1296–1357 | Wars of Scottish Independence |  Scotland |  England | Scotland retains its status as an independent nation |
| 1521–1523 | Swedish War of Liberation |  Sweden |  Kalmar Union | Independence of Sweden from the Kalmar Union |
| 1568–1648 | Eighty Years' War |  Netherlands |  Spain | Independence of the Netherlands from Spain |
| 1640–1668 | Portuguese Restoration War |  Portugal | Spain | Restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain |
| 1703–1711 | Rákóczi's War of Independence |  Hungary |  Holy Roman Empire | Limited autonomy for Hungary within the Habsburg monarchy |
| 1775–1783 | American Revolutionary War(American Revolution) |  United States |  Great Britain | Independence of the United States from Great Britain |
| 1791–1804 | Haitian Revolution |  Haiti |  France | Independence of Haiti from France |
| 1804–1813 | First Serbian Uprising(Serbian Revolution) |  Serbia |  Ottoman Empire | Defeat of insurgents; Ottoman Empire retains control of Serbia |
| 1808–1814 | Peninsular War |  Spain | France | Independence of Spain from France |
| 1810s–1820s | Latin American wars of independence: Argentine War of Independence, Bolivian War of Independence, Chilean War of Independence, Foolish Fatherland, Ecuadorian War of Independence, Mexican War of Independence, Peruvian War of Independence, Venezuelan War of Independence |  Río de la Plata Bolivia
 Chile
 Colombia
 Ecuador
 Mexico
 Peru
 Venezuela
| Spanish Empire | Independence of many Spanish-American colonies from Spain |
| 1814 | Swedish–Norwegian War (1814) |  Norway |  Sweden | Partial independence of Norway within the later United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway |
| 1815–1817 | Second Serbian Uprising(Serbian Revolution) |  Serbia | Ottoman Empire | Semi-independence of Serbia within the Ottoman Empire |
| 1821–1829 | Greek War of Independence |  Greece | Ottoman Empire | Independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire |
| 1822–1824 | Brazilian War of Independence |  Brazil |  Portuguese Empire | Independence of the Empire of Brazil from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves |
| 1825–1828 | Cisplatine War |  Uruguay | Brazil Río de la Plata | Disputed between the Empire of Brazil and United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. Independence of Uruguay from Brazil |
| 1830-1831 | November Uprising |  Poland |  Russia | Defeat of Polish insurgents. Russian retains control of Poland, introduction of the Organic Statute of the Kingdom of Poland, liquidation of Polish autonomy. |
| 1830–1839 | Belgian Revolution |  Belgium |  Netherlands | Independence of Belgium from the Netherlands |
| 1835–1836 | Texas Revolution |  Texas |  Mexico | Independence of Texas from Mexico |
| 1843–1849 | Dominican War of Independence |  Dominican Republic |  Haiti | Independence of Dominican Republic from Haiti |
| 1846 | Bear Flag Revolt |  California | Mexico | The California Republic declares independence from the Centralist Republic of Mexico. The republic is quickly annexed by the United States |
| 1848-1849 | First Italian War of Independence |  Sardinia |  Austria | Kingdom of Sardinia defeated by the Austrian Empire; Italian unification not achieved |
| 1857–1858 | Indian Rebellion of 1857 | India |  British East India Company | Defeat of Indian insurgents; Great Britain retains control of India |
| 1859 | Second Italian War of Independence |  Piedmont-Sardinia Lombardy–Venetia
 Parma
 Modena
 Tuscany
| Austria | France and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia defeat the Austrian Empire; most of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia transferred to France and then to Piedmont-Sardinia; Duchy of Parma, Duchy of Modena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Papal Legations annexed by Piedmont-Sardinia |
| 1863–1865 | January Uprising |  Poland | Russia | Defeat of Polish insurgents; Russia retains control of Poland |
| 1863–1865 | Dominican Restoration War | Dominican Republic | Spain | Independence of Dominican Republic from 4 year occupation by the Spanish Empire; ousts Spain from Hispaniola |
| 1866 | Third Italian War of Independence | Veneto | Austria | Austrian Empire loses Veneto to Kingdom of Italy |
| 1868–1878 | Ten Years' War |  Cuba | Spain | Defeat of insurgents; Spain retains control of Cuba |
| 1869 | Red River Rebellion |  Métis |  Canada | Establishment of Provisional government of the Red River Colony |
| 1876 | April Uprising |  Bulgaria | Ottoman Empire | Defeat of Bulgarian nationalists by the Ottoman Empire; subsequent reprisals by the Ottomans led to the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78 and the 1878 independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1877 | Romanian War of Independence |  Romania | Ottoman Empire | Independence of Romania from the Ottoman Empire |
| 1896–1898 | Philippine Revolution |  Philippines | Spain | Inconclusive; Philippines independence from Spain then achieved by Spanish–American War |
| 1895–1898 | Cuban War of Independence |  Cuba | Spain | Independence of Cuba from Spain following four years of American occupation |
| 1899–1913 | Philippine–American War | Philippines |  United States | Defeat of Philippine insurgents; United States retains control of the Philippines |
| 1902-1932 | Unification of Saudi Arabia |  Saudi Arabia | Emirate of Jabal Shammar Kingdom of Hejaz | Independence of Saudi Arabia from the Kingdom of Hejaz and Emirate of Jabal Shammar |
| 1916–1918 | Arab Revolt |  Hejaz | Ottoman Empire | Defeat of Arab aspirations for independence by post-World War I partition of Arab Ottoman Empire lands into protectorates controlled by United Kingdom and France |
| 1917–1921 | Ukrainian War of Independence |  Ukraine |  Soviet Russia Poland
| Independence of Ukraine from Russia; partition of Ukraine by Soviet Union and Poland |
| 1918–1920 | Finnish War of Independence |  Finland | Russia | Independence of Finland from Russian Empire/Russian SFSR |
| 1918–1920 | Estonian War of Independence |  Estonia | Soviet Russia | Independence of Estonia from Russian Empire/Russian SFSR |
| 1918–1920 | Latvian War of Independence |  Latvia | Soviet Russia | Independence of Latvia from Russian Empire/Russian SFSR |
| 1918–1920 | Lithuanian War of Independence |  Lithuania | Soviet Russia Poland | Independence of Lithuania from Russian Empire/Russian SFSR and Poland |
| 1919–1921 | Irish War of Independence |  Ireland |  United Kingdom | Anglo-Irish Treaty; Partition of Ireland; secession of 26 of Ireland's 32 counties (the Irish Free State) from the United Kingdom |
| 1919–1923 | Turkish War of Independence |  Turkey | Ottoman Empire Allies of World War I | Creation of the Republic of Turkey |
| 1920–1926 | Rif War |  Republic of the Rif | Spain | Defeat of insurgents and Rif Republic; Spain retains control of Spanish Morocco |
| 1944-1948 | Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine |  Israel | United Kingdom | Independence of Israel from the United Kingdom |
| 1945–1949 | Indonesian National Revolution |  Indonesia | Netherlands | Independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands |
| 1946–1954 | First Indochina War |  Vietnam Laos
 Cambodia
| France | Independence of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia from France; partition of Vietnam |
| 1947 | Indian revolutionary movement |  India | United Kingdom | Independence of India from the United Kingdom |
| 1947–1949 | 1948 Arab–Israeli War | Israel  Palestine
| United Kingdom  Arab League
| Defeat of Arabs; Israel retains independence |
| 1952–1960 | Kenyan Mau Mau Uprising |  Kenya | United Kingdom | Defeat of insurgents; United Kingdom retains control of Kenya |
| 1954–1962 | Algerian War |  Algeria |  France | Independence of Algeria from France |
| 1955-1972 | First Sudanese Civil War | Southern Sudan |  Sudan | Conflict between Sudan and South Sudan |
| 1961–1974 | Angolan War of Independence |  Angola |  Portugal | Independence of Angola from Portugal |
| 1961–1991 | Eritrean War of Independence |  Eritrea |  Ethiopia | Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia |
| 1963–1974 | Guinea-Bissau War of Independence |  Guinea-Bissau | Portugal | Independence of Guinea-Bissau from Portugal |
| 1964–1974 | Mozambican War of Independence |  Mozambique | Portugal | Independence of Mozambique from Portugal |
| 1966–1988 | Namibian War of Independence |  Namibia |  South Africa | Independence of Namibia from South Africa |
| 1967–1970 | Nigerian Civil War |  Biafra |  Nigeria | Defeat and dissolution of the Republic of Biafra |
| 1971 | Bangladesh War of Independence |  Bangladesh |  Pakistan | Independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan |
| 1975-1991 | Western Sahara War |  Western Sahara |  Morocco | Partition of Western Sahara between Morocco and Sahrawi Republic |
| 1981-1991 | Somaliland War of Independence |  Somali National Movement |  Somalia | Unrecognized independence of Somaliland from Somalia |
| 1983–2005 | Second Sudanese Civil War |  South Sudan |  Sudan | Independence of South Sudan from Sudan |
| 1988-1994 | First Nagorno-Karabakh War |  Artsakh |  Azerbaijan | De facto independence of the Republic of Artsakh from Azerbaijan |
| 1990-1992 | Transnistria War |  Transnistria |  Moldova | De facto independence of Transnistria from Moldova |
| 1991-1992 | South Ossetia War |  South Ossetia |  Georgia | De facto independence for South Ossetia from Georgia |
| 1991–1995 | Croatian War of Independence |  Croatia |  Yugoslavia | Independence of Croatia from Yugoslavia |
| 1991 | Ten-Day War |  Slovenia | Yugoslavia | Independence of Slovenia from Yugoslavia |
| 1992-1993 | War in Abkhazia |  Abkhazia | Georgia | De facto independence for Abkhazia from Georgia |
| 1996–1999 | Kosovo War |  Republic of Kosova |  Serbia & Montenegro | No legal changes to Yugoslav borders according to the Resolution 1244, but effective political and economic separation of Kosovo from the rest of Yugoslavia under United Nations temporary administration. |
| 2012 | Tuareg rebellion (2012)(Northern Mali conflict (2012–present)) |  Azawad |  Mali | Unrecognized independence of Azawad from Mali. Azawad claimed territory controlled by Ansar Dine. |
| 2014-Ongoing | War in Donbass |  Donetsk People's Republic Luhansk People's Republic
| Ukraine | De facto independence for the proto-states of Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic from Ukraine |
| 2017-Ongoing | Anglophone Crisis |  Ambazonia |  Cameroon | Ongoing |
