Rocket Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1100

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    Rockets are invented in China.
  • Jan 1, 1232

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    Chinese use rockets arrows against Mongols.
  • Jan 1, 1300

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    Rockets have found their way to European arsenals.
  • Jan 1, 1429

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    Rockets are used in the seige of Orleans.
  • Jan 1, 1500

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    Amonk named Roger Bacon worked on forms of gunpowder used in rockets.
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    In 1650, a Polish artillery expert, Kazimierz Siemienowicz, published a series of drawings for a staged rocket.
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    Germany starts to manufacture rockets weighing from 52 to 120 pounds.
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    Rockets are used in the War of 1812.
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    Rockets take man to the moon.
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    The Spirit rover (MER-A) lands on Mars.