This article gives a concise timeline of rocket and missile technology.

1st Century

• 1st century CE - aeolipile steam rocket on a bearing

12th Century

• 12th century CE - Rockets and fireworks evolved with use in weaponry in China.

15th Century

• 1448 - During the era of Sejong the Great, the 4th King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, Koreans invented the World's first gunpowdered multi-missile launchers called Singijun or Hwacha.

17th Century

• 1650 - Artis Magnae Artilleriae pars prima ("Great Art of Artillery, the First Part") is printed in Amsterdam, about a year before the death of its author, Kazimierz Siemienowicz.

18th Century

• 1798 - Tipu Sultan, the King of the state of Mysore in India, develops and uses iron rockets against the British Army.

19th Century

• 1803 - The British Army develops the Congreve rocket based on weapons used against them by Tipu Sultan.

• 1865 - Jules Verne publishes From the Earth to the Moon as a humorous science fantasy story