AP world history dates – Flashcards
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8000 B.C.E
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Beginnings of agriculture
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3000 B.C.E
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Beginnings of Bronze Age- early civilization
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1300 B.C.E
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Iron Age
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6th century B.C.E
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life of Buddah, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddism, Taosim)
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5th century B.C.E
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Greek Golden Age-Philiosophers
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323 B.C.E
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Alexander the Great
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221 B.C.E
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Qin unified China
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32 C.E
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Beginnings of Christianity
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180 C.E
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end of Pax Romana
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220 C.E
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end of the Han dynasty
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333 C.E
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Roman capital moved to Constantinople
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4th century
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Beginning 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 Byzantine Empire
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622
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founding of Islam
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732
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Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France
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1054
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Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)
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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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1st crusade
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1258
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Monglos sack Baghdad
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1271-1295
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Marco Polo travels
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1324
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Mansa Musa's pilgrimage
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1325-1349
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travel of Ibn Battuta
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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 Ottomans
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1453
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Ottomans capture Constantinople
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1488
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Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
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1492
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Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain
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1502
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1st Slaves to Americas
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1517
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Marin Luther/ 95 theses
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1521
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Cortez conquered the Aztecs
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1533
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Pizarro toppled the Inca Empire
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1571
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Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)
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1588
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defeaat of the Spanish Armada by the British
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1600
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Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa
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1607
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foundation 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 years war/French and Indian War
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1776
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American Revolution /Smith writes 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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1820s
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Independence in Latin America
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1839
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1st opiem war in China
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1848
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European revoltuions/marx & Engles write 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 US
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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 - Us acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico
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1899
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Boer War- British in control of South Africa
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1905
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Russo-japanese war
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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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WWI
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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 WWI
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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 blitzkieg in Poland
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1941
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Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
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1945
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end of WWII
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1947
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independence & partition of India
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1948
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birth of Isreal
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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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1st Palestinian Intifada
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1989
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Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall
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1991
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fall of USSR/1st Gulf war
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1994
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genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa
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2001
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9/11 attacks
