Maxim gun
1884 · Event
Hiram Maxim demonstrates the first self-powered machine gun, using the recoil of each shot to chamber the next; cornerstone of European colonial warfare for the next 30 years.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England, Industrial Revolution
Around 1884
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Dreyfus Affair (1894)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)