First cannons used in Europe
1326 · Event
Earliest secure European depictions and battlefield use of cannons (Walter de Milemete's manuscript, Battle of Crecy preliminaries). Field artillery follows over the next century.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)
Around 1326
- Ottoman Empire (1299)
- Black Death (1346)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Majapahit Empire (1293)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Reign of Edward III (1327)