warfare timeline

By Hamiltonh
  • 100,000 BCE

    When humans first used spears

    It gave them a weapon to kill things with and was the first weapon.
  • 10,000 BCE

    When humans first used bow/arrow

    It was a big advancement for that period and changed the way people hunted forever and gave another weapon
  • 3000 BCE

    When horses first domesticated

    They were the single most important ally for people in war
  • Period: 431 BCE to 404

    The Peloponnesian War

    Ancient greek war fought fought by the peloponnesian league led by sparta
  • Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE

    Punic wars

    The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage
  • 4 BCE

    When was the trebuchet use in war

    It changed warfare and invented a new way to fight
  • 16

    Longbow

  • 850

    Gunpowder used for war

    It opened the way for more weapons.
  • Period: 1095 to 1492

    Crusades

    series of religious wars
  • 1327

    invention of hand cannon

    More modern version of the trebuchet
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    One hundred years war

    Series of conflicts by the house of plantagenent 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 it was one of the most destructive conflicts in human history
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    English Civil War

    it was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists principally over the manner of England's governance.

  • Development of flintlock musket

    First appeared in war in 1660 changed the way wars were fought forever

  • Submarine used in warfare

    Changed ocean warfare
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    Napoleonic Wars

    Series of major conflicts against french empire and its allies

  • When the first pistol was used in warfare

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    Taiping Rebellion

    massive rebellion in china between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

  • MAchine gun used in war

    Gatlin guns were first used in the civil war

  • Use of the iron clad warship

    It was first used in the civil war
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    The civil war

    war between union and confederate
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    Boxer Rebellion

    Anti imperialist anti foreign and anti Christian uprising that took place in China

  • First use of aircraft

    developed in 1909
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    World war 1

    Global war originating in Europe

  • Tanks

    used in 1916 during the battle of somme.
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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
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    world war 2

    Allies vs. Axis

  • Use of bomb

    the bomb was first used in war in 1945

  • Use of AK-47

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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

  • Use of hydrogen bomb

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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 a little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues.

  • M.O.A.B

    Mother of all bombs