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  2. Heilongjiang hand cannon - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Huochong - Wikipedia

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    Hand cannon from the Chinese Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368). Huochong (simplified Chinese: 火铳; traditional Chinese: 火銃) was the Chinese name for hand cannons. [1] The oldest confirmed metal huochong, also the first cannon, is a bronze hand cannon bearing an inscription dating it to 1298 (see Xanadu gun).

  4. Hand cannon - Wikipedia

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    Bronze cannon with inscription dated the 3rd year of the Zhiyuan era (1332) of the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368); discovered in Beijing in 1935. The earliest artistic depiction of what might be a hand cannon—a rock sculpture found among the Dazu Rock Carvings—is dated to 1128, much earlier than any recorded or precisely dated archaeological samples, so it is possible that the concept of a ...

  5. Blast from the past: Researchers discover oldest US gun ...

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    The bronze cannon, or wall gun, is associated with the first European expedition of the Southwest, and was found on the floor of a Spanish stone-and-adobe building in southern Arizona, near the ...

  6. History of cannons - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving gun bearing a date of production is the Xanadu Gun, dated to 1298. [12] Other specimens have been dated to even earlier periods, such as the Wuwei Bronze Cannon , to 1227, and the Heilongjiang hand cannon , to 1288.

  7. 1288 - Wikipedia

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    The oldest-known bronze handgun in the world is dated to this year, a Chinese gun found in Acheng District, that was once used to suppress the rebellion of the Mongol prince Nayan. Births [ edit ]

  8. Ancient bronze hand found in Spain stuns archaeologists. What ...

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    Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 2,100-year-old bronze hand that both astounded and puzzled experts. At the foot of a castle on Mount Irulegi , the invading ancient Roman army attacked and ...

  9. History of the firearm - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving firearm is the Heilongjiang hand cannon dated to 1288, which was discovered in modern-day Acheng District where the History of Yuan records that battles were fought. Li Ting, a military commander of Jurchen descent, led foot soldiers armed with hand cannons to suppress the rebellion of the Eastern Christian Mongol Prince ...