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20,000 BCE
Humans first use the bow and arrow
This really helped war, because if you couldn't get that close to kill someone they could use the bow and arrow to attack far away. -
3000 BCE
When horses were first domestic
Horses were good to have in war, because of transportation. They would get people place to place. -
Period: 1345 BCE to 1521 BCE
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
A coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcala warriors led by Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtémoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. -
Period: 1194 BCE to 1184 BCE
Trojan Wars
The Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. -
904 BCE
The invention of gunpowder
Gunpowder was invented in the 9th century China and spread throughout most parts of Eurasia. This helped guns fire. -
618 BCE
The development of the first handcannon
They were the first firearms used during combat in recorded history . -
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 -
300 BCE
The development of the trebuchet
This helped attack the enemies from far away, and helped wipe them out. -
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 -
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. -
1200
The development of the matchlock gun
This was the first mechanical firing device. -
1300
The invention of the long bow
This was invented by the Celts in Wales, but wasn't really used by the English military until the 1300s. -
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. -
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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. -
The development of the first submarine
The first submarine was built by Cornelius Drebbel. -
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English Civil War
he English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists principally over the manner of England's governance. -
Period: to
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
The revolver allows the user to fire multiple rounds without reloading after every shot, unlike older single-shot firearms. -
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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 between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. -
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. -
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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 Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. -
The invention of the first machine gun
The first Gatling guns were used in the American Civil War. These guns were rapid-firing, but they depended on the arm of the operator to crank out the bullets. In 1884, Hiram Maxim invented the first machine gun. This weapon used the recoil from one bullet to initiate the firing of the next bullet. -
Period: to
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. -
Period: to
World War 1
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
This was to keep the project secret from enemies, production workers were reportedly told the vehicles they were building would be used to carry water on the battlefield. -
Period: to
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 2
It was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. -
The use of the first atomic bomb
A discovery by nuclear physicists in a laboratory in Berlin, Germany, in 1938 made the first atomic bomb possible, after Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission. When an atom of radioactive material splits into lighter atoms, there's a sudden, powerful release of energy. -
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. -
When was the first hydrogen bomb created
Tritium is an isotope of hydrogen with two neutrons, which allows for more efficient fusion reactions to occur during the detonation of a nuclear weapon. -
The development of the first anti-satellite laser
Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes -
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. -
Period: to
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. -
The development of the M.O.A.B (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.