Maritime timeline explained
This is a timeline of events in maritime history.
Prehistory
- About 45,000 BC: first humans arrive in the islands of Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia via the now sunken Sundaland and Sahul land bridges. These migrations still required crossing expanses of water. They had no advanced watercraft technology, so it is presumed they crossed the Wallace Line via primitive floats or rafts.[1] [2]
- About 6,000 BC: Earliest evidence of dugout canoes.[3]
- 5th millennium BC: Earliest known depiction of a shallow-water sailing boat made from bundled reeds from the Ubaid period of Mesopotamia in the Persian Gulf.[4]
- About 3000 BC, the Austronesian people migrate from Taiwan to the Philippines, starting the sea-borne Austronesian expansion, which at its furthest extent reached Island Southeast Asia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Island Melanesia, and Madagascar.[5] [6]
- About 2,000 BC to 500 AD, a jade maritime trading network is established between the Austronesian settlements in Taiwan and the northern Philippines. This later expanded to a much larger region during the Iron Age (500 BC to 500 AD), encompassing the Sa Huỳnh culture of Vietnam and other areas in Sarawak, eastern Cambodia, and central and southern Thailand. The extent of the maritime trade is evidenced by the double-headed and penannular lingling-o jade artifacts, most of which are sourced from Fengtian nephrite mined in Taiwan and transported by sea to regions around the South China Sea.[7] [8] [9] [10]
- About 2,000 BC, Hannu dispatches a fleet along the Red Sea coast to the Land of Punt
- 1575–1520 BC Dover Bronze Age Boat, oldest known recovered plank vessel
- About 1500 BC:
Antiquity
Middle Ages
- Austronesians (Polynesians) from Samoa and Tonga start the second expansion phase into Polynesia, by rapidly colonizing the Cook Islands, the Society Islands, the Tuamotus, and the Marquesas.[5] [13]
- 793: The raid of Lindisfarne, first recorded Viking raid
- 851: Javanese Sailendras stage a surprise attack on the Khmers by approaching the capital from the river, after a sea crossing from Java.[20]
- About 900: Austronesians (Polynesians) colonize Hawaii[5] [13]
- 916: A polity called Zabag (presumably Java) invaded the Khmer empire, using 1000 "medium-sized" vessels, which results in victory. The head of Khmer's king was then brought to Zabag.[21] [22]
- 931: Black labor was imported to Javanese Mataram kingdom from Jenggi (Zanzibar), Pujut (Australia), and Bondan (Papua).[23] [24]
- 945: Malay people from Srivijaya or Javanese people from Mataram attack the coast of Tanganyika and Mozambique with 1000 boats in an attempt to take the citadel of Qanbaloh.[25]
- 984: Pound locks used in China; See Technology of the Song Dynasty
- 986: Bjarni Herjolfsson crossed the Labrador Sea and saw North America.
- About 1000:
Age of Discovery
See also: Timeline of European exploration.
Rise of steamboats and motorships
- 1783: Claude de Jouffroy constructs the first recorded steamboat.
- 1790: Canal Mania begins in Great Britain.
- 1805: The battle of Trafalgar marks the rise of the Royal Navy to a century of world domination.
- 1807: North River Steamboat, the first commercially successful steamboat, is launched.
- 1819: under Capt. Moses Rogers makes first transatlantic crossing using (auxiliary) steam power.
- 1820: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovers mainland Antarctica; the only recorded discovery of an uninhabited continent.
- 1839 - An early electric boat was developed by the German inventor Moritz von Jacobi in 1839 in St Petersburg, Russia. It was a 24feet boat which carried 14 passengers at . It was successfully demonstrated to Emperor Nicholas I of Russia on the Neva River.
- 1845: becomes first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic.
- 1853: American commodore Matthew C. Perry arrives in Tokyo Bay, enforcing the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
- 1856: Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law outlaws privateering.
- 1859: The first ironclad warship, the Gloire, is launched.
- 1861:, the first purpose-built icebreaker, is launched.
- 1862: The Battle of Hampton Roads becomes the first battle between ironclads.
- 1864: Ictineo II, the first submarine powered by an internal-combustion engine.
- 1865: CSS Shenandoah: The vessel was surrendered in Liverpool marking the last official surrender of the American Civil War.
- 1866:, the first commercially successful long distance steamer sails from Liverpool to China with only one stop for coal.
- 1866: SS Great Eastern: The worlds largest ship that laid the first lasting Transatlantic telegraph cable.
- 1869: The Suez Canal opens.
- 1871: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld braves the Northeast Passage on the Vega
- 1880: The American passenger steamship Columbia becomes the first outside usage of Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb.[31] [32] [33] [34]
- 1881:, the first ship successfully powered by a triple expansion steam engine, making steam competitive with sail on all routes
- 1893: The Corinth Canal opens.
- 1894: The Turbinia, the world's first turbine-powered ship, is launched.
- 1895: The Kiel Canal opens.
Diesel
- 1903: The Vandal, the world's first diesel-electric ship, is launched.
- 1906
- 1912: The Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic. The wreck could not be discovered until 1985.
- 1914: The Panama Canal opens.
- 1916: Battle of Jutland, claimed to be the largest naval battle in history, counting tonnage of engaged ships.
- 1918: becomes the first aircraft carrier used in warfare.
- 1937: becomes the first American vessel to be equipped with radar.
- 1939: Battle of the Atlantic starts the longest continuous military campaign of World War II headquarters command based in Liverpool.
- 1941: The attack on Pearl Harbor starts the Pacific War.
- 1942: The battle of Midway marks the demise of battleships and the domination of aircraft carriers.
- 1944:
- 1951: The first purpose-built container ships enter operation.
- 1955:, the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, is launched.
- 1957: Aircraft supplants shipping as the leading mode of passenger Transatlantic travel
- 1959:
- 1960: The Trieste descends to the Challenger Deep.
- 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis; a major naval confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- 1977: Russian icebreaker Arktika makes the first surface voyage to the North Pole.
- 1982: Falklands War, one of the largest naval campaigns since World War II.
- 1985: The Sea Shadow (IX-529), an early stealth ship, is launched.
- 1987: The is lost, claiming 4,375 lives, the worst peacetime maritime disaster in history.
- 1994:
- 2005: Piracy off the coast of Somalia becomes an international concern.
- 2007: Arktika 2007 becomes the first manned expedition to the North Pole seabed.
- 2012:
- 2013: MS Nordic Orion becomes the first freighter to complete the Northwest Passage.
See also
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- Dick-Read. Robert. July 2006. Indonesia and Africa: questioning the origins of some of Africa's most famous icons. The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa. 2. 23–45. 10.4102/td.v2i1.307 .
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- Hill (June 1960). "Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai". Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 33: p. 98 and 157: "Then he directed them to make ready all the equipment and munitions of war needed for an attack on the land of Pasai – about four hundred of the largest junks, and also many barges (malangbang) and galleys." See also Nugroho (2011). p. 270 and 286, quoting Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai, 3: 98: "Sa-telah itu, maka di-suroh baginda musta'idkan segala kelengkapan dan segala alat senjata peperangan akan mendatangi negeri Pasai itu, sa-kira-kira empat ratus jong yang besar-besar dan lain daripada itu banyak lagi daripada malangbang dan kelulus." (After that, he is tasked by His Majesty to ready all the equipment and all weapons of war to come to that country of Pasai, about four hundred large jongs and other than that much more of malangbang and kelulus.)
- Nugroho (2011), p. 271, 399–400, quoting Sejarah Melayu, 10.4: 77: "... maka bagindapun segera menyuruh berlengkap tiga ratus buah jung, lain dari pada itu kelulus, pelang, jongkong, tiada terbilang lagi." (then His Majesty immediately ordered to equip three hundred jong, other than that kelulus, pelang, jongkong in uncountable numbers.)
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Further reading
- Triastanti, Ani. Perdagangan Internasional pada Masa Jawa Kuno; Tinjauan Terhadap Data Tertulis Abad X-XII. Essay of Faculty of Cultural Studies. Gadjah Mada University of Yogyakarta, 2007.