Historical Civil War Data

This site contains daily and sub-daily coded data on historical civil wars. The data are interval. The date, day, action type, location, each sides' action, captures, injuries and deaths are shown, and there is a description of each event with the identification of the original source, which in these data is typically a history book.

At present you will find all files both in Microsoft Office 97/2000 and in text formats. The data are in Excel 97/2000 format as well as in text and tab-delimited format. Now complete are the Archidmanian, Irish, Russian, Spanish and U.S. civil wars. The Yugoslav civil wars will be uploaded soon.

If you have comments or questions about the data or need an accessible version, please contact the Department of Political Science. Please notify and cite the URL if you publish a paper or a book with the data.