Events Tagged: "army"

Death of Qin Shi Huang - buried with 8000 terracotta warriors near Xi'an

Marian army reforms - Marius recruits landless poor, creates professional army loyal to generals not state

Conon becomes eighty-third pope - army intervenes in disputed election

Great Heathen Army arrives - Ivar the Boneless and brothers lead massive Viking force to conquer, not just raid

Aethelred establishes heregeld tax system - permanent annual tax to maintain standing army of Danish mercenaries

Albrecht von Roon becomes Prussian War Minister - proposes army reorganization extending service to 3 years, strengthening regular army over Landwehr

Prussian constitutional crisis begins - parliament refuses military budget, Bismarck rules without approval to fund Roon's army reforms