First matchlock firearms
c.1400 · Event
First firing mechanism that did not require the user to hold a separate match to the touch-hole; standard military firearm from ~1450 to ~1700.
On these timelines: Master
Around 1400
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Zheng He (1371)
- Age of Exploration (1418)