Warfare

By ThranduilLover122
  • 3000 BCE

    When horses were first domesticated

    Humans acquire their most important single ally from the animal kingdom when they domesticate the horse, in about 3000 BC. Wild horses of various kinds have spread throughout most of the world by the time human history begins.
  • 1027 BCE

    When humans first used bow/arrow

    Although archery probably dates back to the Stone Age – around 20,000BC – the earliest people known to have regularly used bows and arrows were the Ancient Egyptians, who adopted archery around 3,000BC for hunting and warfare. In China, the earliest evidence of archery dates to the Shang Dynasty – 1766-1027BC
  • Period: 499 BCE to 449

    Greco Persian Wars

    The Greco-Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states
  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    The Peloponnesian War

    The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League
  • 300 BCE

    he development of the trebuchet

    The traction trebuchet is believed to be an ancient war engine which was invented in China in 300BC. It is thought that the trebuchet may have developed from the stave sling. ... The Trebuchet (Trebucket) was introduced to England in 1216 during the Siege of Dover - as were many other types of siege engine.
  • Period: 262 BCE to 146 BCE

    Punic Wars

    The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were some of the largest wars that had ever taken place
  • 904

    The invention of gunpowder

    Gunpowder was invented in 9th-century. Originally developed by the Taoists for medicinal purposes, gunpowder was first used for warfare about 904 AD.
  • Period: 1095 to 1492

    Crusades

    Eastern Mediterranean aimed at recovering the Holy Land from Muslim rule. The term crusade is now also applied to other church-sanctioned and even non-religious campaigns.
  • 1180

    the invention of the longbow

    The longbow was invented by the Celts in Wales around 1180 C.E. but was not really used by the English military until the 1300s
  • 1326

    The development of the first hand cannon

    evidence of hand cannons in Europe appeared in 1326 and evidence of their production can be dated as early as 1327. ... Improvements in hand cannon and gunpowder technology
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    One Hundred Years War

    The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the French House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France
  • 1515

    The development of the first submarine

    Vinci sketched a primitive submarine around 1515, and in 1578, William Bourne drafted the first design for a submersible craft
  • Period: 1519 to 1521

    Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire

    The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Spanish–Mexican War, was one of the primary events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas 16th-century narratives of the events by Spanish conquerors, their indigenous allies, and the defeated Aztecs. Wikipedia
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    Thirty Years War

    his led to wars of religion and conquest concluding with the Thirty Years War From 1618 through 1625, the conflict was largely a German civil war, with Protestant German states fighting the Austrian Hapsburgs
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    English Civil War

    The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists

  • The development of the flintlock musket

    Flintlock muskets were the mainstay of European armies between 1660 and 1840. A musket was a muzzle-loading smoothbore long gun that was loaded with a round lead ball,
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    Napoleonic Wars

    The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom

  • The development of the revolver handgun

    Samuel Colt submitted a British patent for his revolver in 1835 and an American paten
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    The Taiping Rebellion

    Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a massive rebellion or civil war that was waged in China from 1850 to 1864

  • the invention of the first ironclad warship

    The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. The first ironclad battleship, and was launched by the French Navy in November 1859.
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    The American Civil War

    The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South.

  • The invention of the first machine gun

    The first practical self-powered machine gun was invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim.
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    Boxer Rebellion

    The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising, or Yihetuan Movement was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China

  • The development of the first fighter aircraft

    The world's first military airplane is demonstrated for the U.S. Army Wright and Lieutenant Frank Purdy Lahm are catapulted down a rail and launched into the air.
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    World War I

    World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

  • The development of the first tank.

    Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tons, got stuck in trenches and crawled over rough terrain at only two miles per hour
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    Russian Civil War

    The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the two Russian Revolutions as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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    World War II

    World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

  • The use of the first atomic bomb

    The “Little Boy” exploded with about 13 kilotons of force, leveling five square miles of the city and killing 80,000 people instantly.

  • The development of the AK-47

    'Kalashnikov automatic device'; also known as the Kalashnikov and AK), is a gas-operated, 7.62×39mm assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union Design work on the AK-47 began in 1945.
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    Cold War

    The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II.

  • When the first hydrogen bomb was first tested

    The first series of thermonuclear tests conducted by the United States took place in November 1952 during Operation IV Yon the small Pacific island of Elugelab at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
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    Rwandan Genocide

    The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a mass slaughter of Tutsi, Twa, and moderate Hutu in Rwanda,
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    Second Congo War

    The Second Congo War began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 1998, little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues. Ended when the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power.

  • The development of the M.O.A.B. (Mother of all bombs)

    The bomb is a weapon that justifies the use of the word 'terrifying' to describe its power and marks a deadly ramping up of the US's military initiative abroad