Timeline History

Terrorism History Timeline Upto-1900



Year Terror groups Terrorism War colonism dictators Coups military rule / emergency rule Weapons
upto 1300     Hunters use a very primitive wooden bow. (30,000 BC)

Copper weapons are hardened by hammering.(1850 BC)

Roman ships are designed with larger catapults and towers. (40 BC)

Romans begin to use the segmented iron torso armor - lorica segmentata (plate armor), good against smashing and heavy piercing blows.

Square/rectangular Roman fortresses are used along communications routes.

Crossbow appears

Cuirass, chest plate, worn shortly followed by the use of a back plate as well (perhaps to counter the weight.) (1250)
1301-1400   Hundred Years War (1337 -1457)   Earliest known gunpowder weapon described by Walter de Millimete. It was three feet long with a two inch bore diameter. (1327)

Wrought-iron seige bombards firing stone cannonballs of 450+ pounds are being used.
1401-1500     First suit of full plate armor developed. (1440)

Germans develop small arms gunpowder weapons with the harquebus becoming the dominant military small arm
1501-1600   Russo-Polish War (1512 -1521)

Austro-Turkish War (1537 - 1547)
  The French develop gunports for their naval vessels. (1501)

Military planners argue over the relative use of longbows versus gunpowder weapons. (1580)
1601-1650   Russo-Polish War (1609 - 1618)

Siamese-Burmese War (1607 - 1618)

First English Civil War (1642 - 1646)
  Sweden has an advanced army because of the use of lighter muskets and cartridges and lighter artillery pieces which had been recently developed.
1651-1700   King Philip's War (1675 - 1676)

King William's War (1689 - 1697)
  Ring and socket bayonet invented. Bayonet use replaces the pike. Flintlock musket replaces the matchlock harquebus.
1701-1750   Queen Anne's War (1702 - 1713)

King George's War (1744 - 1748)
  Ballisitic pendulum invented. This gave gunners the ability to measure the power of a given quantity of gunpowder. (1742)
1751-1800   Cherokee War (1759 - 1761)

American Revolution (1775 - 1783)

Franco-American Naval War (1798 - 1800)
  British develop cylinder-burned charcoal. (1800)
1801-1850   Creek War (1813 -1814)

War of Texas Independence (1836)

Mexican War (1846 - 1848)
  First practical paddle steamer ship built. (1802)

First use of the exploding canister shell invented by Henry Shrapnel. (1803)

Paixhans invents the explosive shell. (1821)
1851-1900 Ku Klux Klan (KKK) (1866)   Civil War (1861 - 1865)

Spanish-American War (1898)
Dynamite (1866)

Armed and armored car designed by E.J. Pennington. (1896)

First rigid dirigible, the zeppelin, was built by Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1900)
Year Terror groups Terrorism War colonism dictators Coups military rule / emergency rule Weapons


Terror History Timeline 2001-Present

Terror History Timeline 1901-1910

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