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3000 BCE
When humans first used bow/arrow.
The earliest people known to have regularly used bows and arrows were the Ancient Egyptians, who adopted archery around 3,000BC. -
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. -
Period: 1200 BCE to 1300 BCE
Trojan Wars
Trojan War, legendary conflict between the early Greeks and the people of Troy in western Anatolia, dated by later Greek authors to the 12th or 13th century bce. -
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 led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. -
300 BCE
The development of the trebuchet.
The traction trebuchet is believed to be an ancient war engine which was invented in China in 300 BC. -
Period: 264 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. -
618
The development of the first hand cannon.
Hand cannons were rudimentary and brutish, but they were the first firearms used during combat in recorded history. Although there have been claims of gunpowder's “discovery” in Europe, the ancient Chinese are generally credited with the original recipe. In 618 A.D -
801
The invention of gunpowder.
Gunpowder was invented in 9th-century China and spread throughout most parts of Eurasia by the end of the 13th century. -
Period: 1095 to 1492
Crusades
The crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best-known crusades are the campaigns in the 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. -
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. Each side drew many allies into the war. -
1500
The development of the matchlock gun.
Matchlock, in firearms, a device for igniting gunpowder developed in the 15th century, -
1515
The development of the first submarine
Leonardo da Vinci sketched a primitive submarine around 1515. -
Period: 1519 to 1521
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Between 1519 and 1521, Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernán Cortés, overthrew the Aztec Empire. -
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Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. One of the most destructive conflicts in human history, it resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence, famine, and plague. -
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English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists principally over the manner of England's governance. -
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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, against a fluctuating array of 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 patent on February 25, 1836 for a Revolving gun. -
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The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion, which is also known as the 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 iron-clad warship.
The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. The first ironclad battleship, Gloire, 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 between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty. -
The development of the first tank.
The British developed the tank in response to the trench warfare of World War I in 1914. -
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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. -
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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 of 1917, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. -
Period: to
World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. -
The use of the first atomic bomb
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Period: to
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. The historiography of the conflict began between 1946 and 1947. -
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 IVY. -
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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, which took place between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. -
Period: to
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. The war officially ended in July 2003, 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 GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB /commonly known as "Mother of All Bombs") is a large-yield bomb, developed for the United States military by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory. -
The development of the anti-satellite laser.
France plans to develop anti-satellite laser weapons but will only deploy them in self-defence, its defence minister said on Thursday, as she laid out the country's new military strategy for space.