HistWarDB

Six Ways to Look at 300 Years of War

Built from HistWarDB's live Wikidata extraction (1700–2026): every war and civil conflict typed as a subclass of war, with its countries, dates, structure and side.

—
Conflicts
—
Participations

Most Common Months for War Start and End

Calendar seasonality of conflicts with real month-precision dates in Wikidata (coarser year-only dates excluded).

The Domino Effect: Alliance and Rivalry Matrix

Co-occurrence of the 15 most war-active countries across shared conflicts: positive (warm) = same side, negative (cool) = opposing sides, faint = shared a conflict with side unrecorded.

Hierarchy of Conflicts: Parent Wars and Sub-Conflicts

Every root conflict that HistWarDB resolved into campaigns, fronts or theatres, radiating out from the center.

Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves of Conflicts by Historical Era

Probability that a conflict is still ongoing after N years, estimated per historical era.

Cascading Timeline of Major Modern Conflicts

1900–present, duration ≥ 2 years, ordered by start date — colored by how long each conflict lasted.

The Price of Victory: Duration vs Estimated Fatalities

Log-log view of the conflicts with recorded casualty estimates in Wikidata — bubble size tracks fatalities.