Military / Warfare / Cyberwarfare Timeline Outline

The Archives of the Athenian Cavalry
(Circa 350 BCE – 250 BCE)

Caesar's Gallic Wars
(58 BCE – 51 BCE)

The Emperor Constantine Converts to Christianity
(October 28, 312 CE – 315 CE)

Constantine Becomes Emperor of the Entire Roman Empire
(September 18, 324 CE)

The Only Ancient Manual of Roman Military Instructions that Survived Intact
(Circa 390 CE)

The Last Victory Achieved by the Western Roman Empire
(451 CE)

The Anglo-Saxons Conquer England
(Circa 550)

Arabs Begin their Invasion of North Africa
(670)

The Codex Spirensis, of which Only a Single Leaf of the Original Survives
(Circa 860 – 920)

Foundation of the Tresor des Chartes
(July 3, 1194)

Technological Manuscripts by the Sienese Archimedes
(1419 – 1449)

"A Horse, A Horse, My Kingdom for a Horse."
(August 1485)

Restoring the Whole of Spain to Christian Rule
(January 30, 1492)

The Earliest English Newsbook
(September 1513)

The First Large-Scale Production-Line
(Circa 1525)

The Sack of Rome Marks the End of the High Renaissance
(May 6, 1527 – February 1528)

The First "Computer Manual"
(1606)

The American Revolutionary War Begins
(April 17, 1775)

The First Book Printed in Persia (Iran)
(1817)

The First Indigenous Arabic Press in Egypt
(December 1822)

Florence Nightingale's Rose Diagram
(1858 – January 1859)

3-D Solar Imaging Reveals Details of Sunken Civil-War Era Steampship
(January 11, 1863)

Possibly the Best Statistical Graphic Ever Drawn
(November 20, 1869)

The Earliest Miniature Printed Editions of the Qur'an
(1892 – 1900)

World War I Begins
(August 1 – August 3, 1914)

Destruction of the University Library at Leuven
(August 25, 1914)

The End of World War I
(November 11, 1918)

The Earliest Practical Treatise on the Development of Rocketry for Space Flight
(1919 – March 16, 1926)

Blue-Print for The Third Reich
(1925 – 1927)

The Biuro Szyfrow Breaks the Enigma Code
(December 1932)

Burning 100,000,000 Books and Killing 6,000,000 People
(1933 – 1945)

Origins of the X-Planes and the Space Shuttle
(1933 – 1944)

42,500 Camps and Ghettos Were in Operation During the Holocaust
(1933 – 1945)

Invention of Radar
(February 12, 1935)

An Experimental Electromechanical Cryptanalysis Machine Capable of Binary Multiplication
(1937)

Polish Cryptologic Bomb for Breaking Enigma-Machine Ciphers
(October 1938)

The Full Extent of the Holocaust
(September 1939 – April 1945)

World War II Begins
(September 1, 1939)

Britain and France Declare War on Germany
(September 3, 1939)

Turing Reports to Bletchley Park
(September 4, 1939)

Actress Hedy Lamarr Invents Spread-Sprectrum
(1940)

The Top-Secret Heath Robinson Cryptographic Computer
(1940 – 1941)

The Second Armistice at Compeigne forms the Vichy Government
(June 22, 1940)

An Improved Bombe
(Circa December 1940)

Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor; U.S. Declares War on Japan
(December 7, 1941)

Alan Turing Consults in New York
(1943)

The Colossus
(January 1944)

The Colossus Mark II is Operational
(June 1, 1944)

The Initial Interrogations of the Nazi Rocket Team and the First Publication Outside of Nazi Germany of Rocketry Research at Peenemunde East
(1945)

Bombing of Dresden Destroys Books and Manuscripts
(February – March 1945)

The Collapse of the Third Reich
(April 27, 1945)

VE Day
(May 8, 1945)

World War II Ends
(September 2, 1945)

The ENIAC is Moved from the Moore School to the Aberdeen Proving Ground
(January – August 1947)

Automated Detection and Interception System
(1949)

The First Weather Forecast by Electronic Computer
(1950)

The Origins of NORAD
(February 16, 1951)

The First Trackball
(1952)

The National Security Agency is Founded
(November 4, 1952)

The First Light Pen
(1954)

Physically the Largest Computers Ever Built
(1957)

The First Operational Satellite Navigation System
(October 4, 1957 – 1960)

Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE)
(1958)

A Computer Occupying a Half Acre of Floor Space
(1958)

The Burroughs Atlas Guidance Computer
(July 19, 1958)

The Corona Strategic Imaging Satellites
(June 1959 – May 1972)

The Cooley-Tukey FFT Algorithm
(April 1965)

The Politics of Nonviolent Action
(1973)

ARPANET Splits into ARPANET and MILNET
(1983)

"Death by Government" Statistics 1900-1987
(1994)

U.S. Call to Arms for the Cyber Wars
(November 1996)

IBM and the Holocaust
(2001)

Looting of the National Museum of Iraq
(April 6 – April 12, 2003)

The "Cyber Storm" War Game
(February 6 – February 10, 2006)

"An Uncensorable System for Mass Document Leaking"
(December 2006)

Cyber Storm II
(March 10 – March 14, 2008)

U.S. National Text Pager Intercepts from 9/11 Are Released
(November 26 – November 26, 2009)

Google's Computers in China Come Under Attack, Initiating a Review of the Company's Operations in China
(December 2009 – January 12, 2010)

Exploit Code for Attacks on Google Released on the Internet
(January 15, 2010)

The First Malware to Spy on and Subvert Industrial Systems
(June 2010)

Wikileaks Installs an "Insurance File"
(July 29, 2010)

Pulitzer Prize in Journalism Awarded to an Internet-Only Publication
(April 16, 2012)

Flame: A Virus that Collects Information
(May 28, 2012)

"Anonymous" Plans to Shut Down Syrian Government Websites in Response to Countrywide Internet Blackout
(November 29 – December 1, 2012)

The Secret Race to Save Manuscripts in Timbuktu and Djenne
(December 27, 2012)

Drone Pilots Experience Stress Possibly Greater than Actual Combat Pilots
(February 23, 2013)