Warfare timeline

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The Statute of Winchester
1285
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Battle of Stirling Bridge
1297
2 of 38
Battle of Falkirk
1298
3 of 38
Gunpowder weapons appear in English army
1327
4 of 38
Greater use of mercenaries
1337
5 of 38
Taxation rises rapidly from here to pay for warfare
1337
6 of 38
Battle of Agincourt
1415
7 of 38
Battle of Bosworth
1485
8 of 38
Pikemen and musketeers on the rise
1522
9 of 38
Tudor Militia Act
1559
10 of 38
Trained Bands set up
1573
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First printed drill book
1607
12 of 38
Battle of Naseby
1645
13 of 38
New Model Army set up
1645
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Bayonet invented
1647
15 of 38
Hundred Years War
1337 - 1453
16 of 38
English Civil Wars
1642 - 1651
17 of 38
Light artillary introduced
1740
18 of 38
Revolutionary Napoleonic Wars
1792 - 1803, 1804 - 1815
19 of 38
Militia Act
1757
20 of 38
Sandhurst Military College opened
1800
21 of 38
Battle of Waterloo
1815
22 of 38
Crimean War
1853 - 1856
23 of 38
Battle of Balaclava
1854
24 of 38
Improved artillary, rifles and machine guns
1850- 1918
25 of 38
Cadwell's army reforms
1870
26 of 38
Haldane's army reforms
1908
27 of 38
First World War
1914 -1918
28 of 38
British Flying Corps created
1914
29 of 38
Battle of the Somme
1916
30 of 38
Conscription introduced
1916 and 1939
31 of 38
Second World War
1939 - 1945
32 of 38
Evacuation of London
1939
33 of 38
First London Blitz
1940 - 1941
34 of 38
V1 an V2 attacks on London
1944-1945
35 of 38
First Atomic bomb dropped
1945
36 of 38
Iraq War
2003 - 2011
37 of 38
Army 2020 reform
2010
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Battle of Stirling Bridge

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1297

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Battle of Falkirk

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Gunpowder weapons appear in English army

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Greater use of mercenaries

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