AP World History Timeline – Flashcards
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2380 BCE
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Urukagina, author of one of the first codes of laws, reigns in Lagash
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1760 BCE
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Hammurabi's code is published
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17th century BCE
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Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, lives
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1812 BCE
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Abraham, the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is born
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1235 BCE
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Sundiata Kieta becomes the King of Mali
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1200 BCE
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Vyasa writes the Hindu Vedas
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900-800 BCE
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Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey
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594 BCE
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Solon is entrusted with writing a new Athenian constitution
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563 BCE
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Siddhartha (Buddha) is born
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554 BCE
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Confucius is born
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550 BCE
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Lao-Tze, founder of Taoism, is born
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550 BCE
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Cyrus overcomes the Medians in the Persians' first victory
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434 BCE
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Peloponnesian War begins with Pericles as a leading Athenian statesman
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360 BCE
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Plato publishes The Republic
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335 BCE
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Aristotle builds his school of philosophy in Athens
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329 BCE
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Alexander the Great defeats the Achaemenid Persian Empire
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320 BCE
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Chandragupta found the Maurya Empire
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273 BCE
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Reign of Ashoka begins in India
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210 BCE
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Shi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China, founds the Qin dynasty
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206 BCE-195 BCE
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Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigns
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63 BCE
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Cicero is elected Consul
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49 BCE
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Julius Caesar becomes sole leader of Rome and dissolves the Roman Republic
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27 BCE
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Octavian becomes the first Roman emperor
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5 BCE
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Jesus is born
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36 AD
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Paul's conversion to Christianity
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272 AD
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Constantine, who would go on to be Roman emperor
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496 AD
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Clovis, King of the Franks, converts to Christianity
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570 AD
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Justinian becomes the Byzantine Emperor
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604 AD
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Prince Shotoku publishes the Seventeen Article Constitution in Japan
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622 AD
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Muhammad leads the Hegira
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732 AD
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Charles Martel leads the Franks to defeat the Moors at the Battle of Tours
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800 AD
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Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor
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1066 AD
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William the Conqueror begins his reign in England
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1095 AD
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Pope Urban II calls for crusades to take back the holy land
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1187 AD
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Saladin takes back Jerusalem for the Muslims during the Crusades
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1206 AD
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At the age of 42, Temujin takes the title Genghis Khan, which means "Universal Ruler"
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1270 AD
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Marco Polo departs on his voyage to China
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1324 AD
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Mansa Musa sets out of his famous pilgrimage to Mecca
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1368 AD
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Hongwu founds the Ming Dynasty
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1405 AD
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First voyage of Chinese explorer Zheng He
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1420 AD
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Portuguese explorers begin looking around
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1431 AD
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Joan of Arc is burned at the stake at age 19
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1438 AD
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Pachacuti, the founder of the Incan Empire, is born
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1439 AD
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Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press
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1448 AD
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Moctezuma I becomes the fifth Aztec emperor
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1492 AD
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Christopher Columbus "discovers" the "new world"
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1497 AD
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John Cabot becomes the first explorer to "discover" North America
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1503 AD
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Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa
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1509 AD
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Henry VIII becomes King of England
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1519 AD
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Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses
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1520 AD
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Suleyman the Magnificent becomes Sultan
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1534 AD
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Cartier lands in Canada
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1536 AD
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John Calvin publishes the Institutes of Christian Religion
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1542 AD
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Akbar the Great, who would become an Indian ruler, was born
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1558 AD
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Queen Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
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1603 AD
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The reunification of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu
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1616 AD
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Galileo begins having difficulties with the church
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1637 AD
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Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, publishes his first works
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1648 AD
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Taj Mahal is completed in India under the direction of Shah Jahan
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1652 AD
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Jan van Riebeck and other Dutch settlers found Capetown
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1653 AD
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Oliver Cromwell becomes the leader of England after the English Civil War
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1654 AD
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Louis XIV is crowned King of France
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1682 AD
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Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia
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1687 AD
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Newton publishes the Principia
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1689 AD
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John Locke publishes the Two Treatises of Government
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1762 AD
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Catherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia
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1764 AD
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Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny and kicks off the Industrial Revolution
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1782 AD
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Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of Women's Rights
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1793 AD
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Marie Antoinette is guillotined during the French Revolution
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1804 AD
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Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
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1812 AD
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Shaka Zulu creates the Zulu Empire
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1819 AD
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Simon Bolivar founds Gran Colombia after liberating South America from Spain
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1842 AD
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King Leopold I tries and fails to pass a child labor law in Belgium
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1848 AD
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Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
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1859 AD
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Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
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1861 AD
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Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first king of a united Italy
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1871 AD
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Otto van Bismarck oversees the reunification of Germany
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1876 AD
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Leo Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina
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1877 AD
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
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1889 AD
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Cecil Rhodes gets a license from the British government to rule southern Africa
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1907 AD
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Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, is born
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1914 AD
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Francis Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I
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1917 AD
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V.I. Lenin seizes control of Russia during the Russian Revolution
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1921 AD
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Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize for physics
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1922 AD
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Joseph Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR after Lenin's death
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1930 AD
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Gandhi leads the Salt March in India
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1932 AD
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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1946 AD
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Ho Chi Minh becomes prime minister/president of North Vietnam
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1946 AD
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Jawarhal Nehru is elected the first president of post-colonial India
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1949 AD
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Mao Tse-tung becomes the chairman of the People's Republic of China
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1953 AD
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Nikita Kruschev comes to power in the Soviet Union
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1959 AD
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Fidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba
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1963 AD
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Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech during the march to Washington
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1990 AD
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Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the Cold War
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1994 AD
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Former prisoner Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa
