AP World History Must Know Dates – Flashcards
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8000 BCE
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Beginnings of agriculture
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3000 BCE
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Beginnings of the Bronze Age
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1300 BCE
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Iron Age
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6th century BCE
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Life of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu
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5th century BCE
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Greek Golden Age
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323 BCE
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Alexander the Great
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221 BCE
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Qin unifies China
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32 CE
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Beginnings of Christianity
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180 CE
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End of Pax Romana
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220 CE
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End of Han Dynasty
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333
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Roman capital moved to Constantinople
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4th century
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Beginnings of Trans-Saharan trade routes
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476
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Fall of Rome
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527
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Justinian rule of the Byzantine Empire
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632
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Rise of Islam
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732
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Battle of Tours (end Muslim move into France)
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1054
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First schism of the Christian church
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1066
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Norman conquest of England
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1071
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Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire)
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1095
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First Crusade
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1215
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Signing of the Magna Carta in England
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1258
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Mongols sack Baghdad
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1271-1295
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Marco Polo's travels
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1324
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Mansa Musa's pilgrimage
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1325-1349
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Ibn Battuta's travels
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1347-1348
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Bubonic plague in Europe
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1433
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End of Zheng He's voyages Rise of the Ottomans
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1453
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Ottomans capture Constantinople
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1488
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Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope
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1492
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Reconquista of Spain
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1502
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Slaves to the Americas
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1517
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Martin Luther - 95 Theses
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1521
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Cortez conquers the Aztecs
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1533
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Pizarro topples the Inca
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1571
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Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of the Ottomans)
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1588
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English
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1600
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Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate)
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1607
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Founding of Jamestown
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1618-1648
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30 Years' War
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1683
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Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
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1689
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Glorious Revolution (English Bill of Rights)
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1756-1763
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7 Year's War (French and Indian War)
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1776
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American Revolution Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations'
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1789
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French Revolution
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1804
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Haitian independence
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1815
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Congress of Vienna
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1820's
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Independence in Latin America
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1839
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First Opium War in China
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1848
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European revolutions Marx and Engles' 'Communist Manifesto'
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1853
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Commodore Perry opens Japan
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1857
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Sepoy Mutiny
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1861
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End of Russian serfdom Italian unification
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1863
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Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
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1871
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German unification
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1885
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Berlin Conference (division of Africa)
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1898
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Spanish-American War (U.S. acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico)
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1899
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Boer War (British controls South Africa)
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1905
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Russo-Japanese War Decembrist Revolt in Russia
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1910-1920
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Mexican Revolution
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1911
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Chinese Revolution
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1914
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World War I
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1917
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Russian Revolution
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1919
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Treaty of Versailles (end of World War I)
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1929
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Stock Market Crash
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1931
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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1935
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Italian invasion of Ethiopia
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1939
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German blitzkrieg in Poland
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1941
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Pearl Harbor (entry of US into World War II)
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1945
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End of World War II
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1947
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Independence and partition of India
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1948
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Birth of Israel
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1949
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Chinese Communist Revolution
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1950-1953
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Korean War
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1954
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Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
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1956
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De-Stalinization Nationalization of Suez Canal
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1959
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Cuban Revolution
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1962
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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1967
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6-Day War Chinese Cultural Revolution
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1973
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Yom Kippur War
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1979
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Iranian Revolution
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1987
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First Palestinian Intifada
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1989
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Tiananmen Square Fall of the Berlin wall
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1991
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Fall of the USSR First Gulf War
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1994
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Genocide in Rwanda First all-race elections in South Africa
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2001
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9/11 Attacks
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2003
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US declares war on Iraq March 19th Saddam Hussein captured December 14th
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December 2007 - Forever
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