
War in 100 Events
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- Intro
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- Why this Book
- Part I. The Ascent of War, 10,000 BCE-476 CE
- 1 c. 10,000 BCE: The Beginning of War?
- 2 c. 3500 BCE: Beginning of the Bronze Age
- 3 c. 2650 BCE: The Battle of Banquan
- 4 1274 BCE: The Battle of Kadesh
- 5 1194 BCE: Beginning of the Trojan War
- 6 1186 BCE: First Naval Battle on Record
- 7 c. 1000 BCE: Incipient Shift from Bronze to Iron Weapons
- 8 541 BCE: Birth Year of Sun Tzu
- 9 490 BCE: First Persian Invasion of Greece
- 10 431 BCE: Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
- 11 399 BCE: The Invention of Mechanical Artillery
- 12 338 BCE: First Campaign of Alexander the Great
- 13 264 BCE: Outbreak of the Punic Wars
- 14 220 BCE: Construction of China's Great Wall Begins
- 15 200 BCE: Opening of Rome's Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean
- 16 91 BCE: Outbreak of the Roman Civil Wars
- 17 9 CE: The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
- 18 378 CE: The Battle of Adrianople
- 19 c. 400 CE: Publication of Vegetius' Epitoma Rei Militaris
- 20 451 CE: Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
- Part II. Medieval War, 476-1494 CE
- 21 533: Opening of Justinian's Campaigns
- 22 629: T'ang Campaigns Against the Eastern Turkic Kahganate
- 23 634: Mohammed's Followers Burst Out of the Arabian Peninsula
- 24 732: Battle of Tours Turns Back the Muslims in Europe
- 25 c. 750: In Europe the Shift Towards Cavalry Begins
- 26 771: Beginning of Charlemagne's Wars
- 27 789: Beginning of the Viking Raids
- 28 894: Beginning of the Hungarian Campaigns in Europe
- 29 1095: Urban II Proclaims the First Crusade
- 30 1197: Opening of Genghis Khan's Campaigns
- 31 1274: First Mongol Attempt to Invade Japan
- 32 1337: Outbreak of the Hundred Years War
- 33 1346: First Recorded Use of Gunpowder in the West
- 34 1370: Opening of Timur's Campaigns
- 35 1380: Dmitry Donskoy Defeats the Golden Horde at Kulikovo
- 36 1427: Opening of the Aztec Imperial Wars
- 37 1438: Opening of the Inca Imperial Wars
- 38 1453: The Ottomans Capture Constantinople
- 39 c. 1460: Dawning of the Columbian Age
- 40 1492: Completion of the Reconquista
- Part III. Fighting with Guns, 1495-1815 CE
- 41 1494: Opening of the Italian Wars
- 42 c. 1522: Introduction of the Artillery Fortress
- 43 1571: The Battle of Lepanto
- 44 1575: The Battle of Nagashino
- 45 1588: Defeat of the Spanish Armada
- 46 1618: Outbreak of the Thirty Years War
- 47 1644: Beijing Falls to the Qin of Manchuria
- 48 c. 1660: Culmination of the Military Revolution
- 49 1667: Beginning of Louis XIV's Wars
- 50 1700: Outbreak of the Great Northern War
- 51 1740: Outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession
- 52 1756: Outbreak of the Seven Years War
- 53 1757: Battle of Plassey
- 54 1769: Beginning of the Wars of Catherine the Great
- 55 1775: First Shots in the War of the American Revolution
- 56 1792: Outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars
- 57 1803: Outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars
- 58 1808: Outbreak of the Wars of Latin American Independence
- 59 1812: War of 1812
- 60 1815: Waterloo and the End of the Napoleonic Wars
- Part IV. Industrial War, 1815-1945 CE
- 61 1830: Beginning of the French Conquest of Algeria
- 62 1832: Publication of Clausewitz's On War
- 63 c. 1835: Beginning of the Military-Technological Revolution
- 64 1839: Outbreak of the Opium Wars
- 65 1846: Outbreak of the Mexican-American War
- 66 1853: Outbreak of the Crimean War
- 67 1859: Franco-Austrian War
- 68 1861: Outbreak of the American Civil War
- 69 1864: Beginning of the Wars of German Unification
- 70 1866: The Battle of Lissa
- 71 1894: Outbreak of the Chinese-Japanese War
- 72 1898: Spanish-American War
- 73 1904: Outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War
- 74 1914: Outbreak of World War I
- 75 1917: Outbreak of the Russian Civil War
- 76 1936: Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
- 77 1937: Outbreak of the Chinese-Japanese War
- 78 1939: Outbreak of World War II in Europe
- 79 1941: Outbreak of World War II in the Pacific
- 80 1945: First (and Last) Use of Nuclear Weapons
- Part V. The Regression of War, 1945 CE-Present
- 81 1946: Resumption of the Chinese Civil War
- 82 1946: Outbreak of the Indochina War
- 83 1947: First Round of the Indo-Pak Wars
- 84 1948: Opening Round in the Arab-Israeli Wars
- 85 1950: Outbreak of the Korean War
- 86 1954: Outbreak of the Algerian War of Independence
- 87 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
- 88 1965: The US Enters the Vietnam War
- 89 c. 1970: Women's Role in the Military Starts Expanding
- 90 1973: The US Ends Conscription
- 91 1979: Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- 92 1980: Outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War
- 93 1980: PTSD Enters the DSM
- 94 1990: First Gulf War
- 95 c. 1991: The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)
- 96 1991: Outbreak of the War(s) in Yugoslavia
- 97 2001: Nine-Eleven
- 98 2001: American Invasion of Afghanistan
- 99 2003: American Invasion of Iraq
- 100 2010: Outbreak of the 'Arab Spring' Wars
- Further Reading
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