The Romulan-Vulcan War was a conflict between the Romulans and Vulcans which started sometime before the 21st century and lasted a hundred years.
The incident which sparked the war was inadvertently caused by Quinn, who was trying to commit suicide. His events created a misunderstanding between the Romulans and Vulcans.
In 2372, Q referenced this event to Kathryn Janeway, describing it as a "self destructive stunt" that demonstrated Quinn's harm to others. (VOY: "Death Wish")
The war was not named on-screen.
It is unclear when exactly this war happened. Since Quinn was imprisoned for three hundred years before 2372, presumably the war would have begun no later than the 2070s. However, according to T'Pol in ENT: "Minefield", the Vulcan High Command had only limited contact with the Romulan Star Empire prior to 2152. Alternatively, Q's account might refer to the Time of Awakening, which involved at least one battle between Surak's logicians and "those who marched beneath the raptor's wings" (implied, but not confirmed, to be the Romulans' ancestors) as depicted in ENT: "Awakening".
In the first draft script of "Death Wish", the war was said to have been waged between the Romulans and the Klingons, with no mention of the Vulcans having been involved.
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In The Way of D'era, the Romulan-Vulcan War took place from the Earth year 1270 to 1370 after the wormhole which had brought them to Romulus reappeared and then collapsed after a hundred years, thereby putting an end to the conflict. The defeat of the Star Empire saw a weakening of the position of the Emperor of the Romulan Star Empire, which in turn made the position of Praetor rise in power.
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- Vulcan-Romulan War at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works