Warfare timeline

By Justin vannattan
  • 20,000 BCE

    when humans first used bows/arrows

    Bows were one of the first projecttile weapons there was
  • 3000 BCE

    when were horses first domesticed

    Humans deomesticaed the horse
  • 1885 BCE

    The first machine-gun

    The first machine-gun what a big recoil system to fire up 500 rounds per minute
  • 1470 BCE

    The first matchlock gun

    They where really popular in india
  • 1326 BCE

    The first handcannon

    The first handcannon was used as a like a test subject against cividale
  • 1250 BCE

    Trojan war

    In Greek mythology, 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.
  • 1180 BCE

    The first longbow

    The longbow is a strongly piece of wood and it's 6 feet tall and 5/8 inches wide
  • 900 BCE

    The invention of gun powder

    Gunpowder was the first explosive to be invetnted
  • 431 BCE

    The peloponnesian war

    The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League
  • 400 BCE

    The first trebuchet

    The trebuchet was know as a cabapult
  • 264 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.
  • 1095

    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.
  • 1337

    One hundred years war

    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.
  • Feb 1, 1519

    The spanish conquest of the aztec empire

    Mexica war was one of the primary events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Napoleonic Wars

    The Napoleonic Wars were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon.

  • 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

  • The first iron-clad warship

    the frnech navy was the first to launch it

  • The civil war

    The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people.

  • The first machine gun

    This machine gun yoused a recoil system to fire up to 500 rounds a minute

  • Box Rebellion

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

  • World War I

    world war I, also known as the first world war or the great war.

  • The first tank

    French created the first tank but the british was the first ones to take it into the war

  • 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.

  • World War II

    The vast majority of the world's countries including all the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances.

  • The first atom bomb

    the united states was the first to drop the bomb and the japanese

  • 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 first hydrogen bomb

    It was never tested agaisnt other countrys

  • The first anti-satellite laser

    It was a missle that only took place one time

  • 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.

  • 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 development of the M.O.A.B

    M.O.A.B is a large-yield bomb, developed for the United States military