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  2. 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 ...

  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. Heilongjiang hand cannon - Wikipedia

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    The Heilongjiang hand cannon (in 2021), a hand cannon dated to 1288 based on its proximity to a battle between the rebel prince Nayan and Yuan dynasty forces armed with hand cannons. 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]

  5. 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 ...

  6. Gunpowder artillery in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. History of cannons - Wikipedia

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    Demi-cannons were capable of firing these heavy metal balls with such force, that they could penetrate more than a meter of solid oak, from a distance of 90 m (300 ft), and could dismast even the largest ships at close range. [115] Full cannons fired a 42 lb (19 kg) shot, but were discontinued by the 18th century, as they were too unwieldy.

  8. List of medieval weapons - Wikipedia

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    Hand cannons. Baton a feu; Bedil tumbak; Hand cannon; Huo Qiang lance hand cannon; Heilongjiang hand cannon; Huo Chong; Meriam kecil; Petronel; San Yan Chong three ...

  9. Firearms of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Early Chinese hand cannon. Due to its proximity with China, Japan had long been familiar with gunpowder weaponry. Firearms appeared in Japan around 1270, as primitive metal tubes invented in China and called teppō (鉄砲 lit. "iron cannon").