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The Heilongjiang hand cannon or hand-gun is a bronze hand cannon [1] manufactured no later than 1288 and is the world's oldest confirmed surviving firearm. [2] It weighs 3.55 kg (7.83 pounds) and is 34 centimeters (13.4 inches) long. The Heilongjiang hand cannon was excavated during the 1970s in Banlachengzi, a village in Acheng District ...
The oldest confirmed extant cannon is the Heilongjiang hand cannon, dated to 1288 using contextual evidence. [45] The History of Yuan records that in that year a rebellion of the Christian Mongol prince Nayan broke out and the Jurchen commander Li Ting who, along with a Korean brigade conscripted by Kublai Khan , suppressed Nayan's rebellion ...
The oldest extant hand cannon bearing a date of production is the Xanadu Gun, which contains an era date corresponding to 1298. The Heilongjiang hand cannon is dated a decade earlier to 1288, corresponding to the military conflict involving Li Ting, but the dating method is based on contextual evidence; the gun bears no inscription or era date ...
The Heilongjiang hand cannon was discovered in Heilongjiang, in northeastern China. [14] [15] It is 3.5 kilograms, 34 cm (Needham says 35 cm), and has a bore of approximately 2.5 cm (1 in). [16] Based on contextual evidence, historians believe it was used by Yuan forces against a rebellion by Mongol prince Nayan in 1287.
The world's earliest known hand cannon is the Heilongjiang hand cannon dated 1288, which was found in Mongol-held Manchuria. [4] In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair , one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could "pierce the heart or belly when it ...
Hand cannons are employed by the troops of Yuan Jurchen commander Li Ting in putting down a rebellion by Mongol prince Nayan. [57] 1288: China: The Heilongjiang hand cannon is dated to this year based on contextual evidence and its proximity to the rebellion by Mongol prince Nayan, although it contains no inscription. [58] [59] 1293: Southeast Asia
Heilongjiang hand cannon; X. Xanadu Gun This page was last edited on 14 January 2024, at 08:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
However, the oldest existent archaeological discovery of a metal barrel handgun is the Heilongjiang hand cannon from the Chinese Heilongjiang excavation, dated to 1288. [259] Handheld firearms first appeared in China where gunpowder was first developed. They were hand cannons (although they were not necessarily fired from the hand, but rather ...