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AP World Dates Flashcards

490 BC - 2011 CE
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384924791490 BCBattle of Marathon (Athens defeats Persia)0
384924792324 BCChandragupta founds Mauryan dynasty1
384924793323 BCAlexander the Great dies2
384924794221 BCShi Huangdi establishes Qin Empire3
38492479544 BCMurder of Julius Caesar4
384924796220Fall of Han Dynasty5
384924797313Edict of Milan (Constantine legalizes Christianity in Roman Empire)6
384924798476Fall of Western Roman Empire7
384924799622The Hijra (Flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina)8
384924800800Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman Emperor9
3849248011066Norman Conquest of Enland10
3849248021095Council of Clermont begins Crusades11
3849248031206Delhi Sultanate founded in India; Genghis Khan's reign begins12
3849248041215Magna Carta in England13
3849248051347Black Death in Europe14
3849248061324Mansa Musa's Hajj15
3849248071368Ming Dynast founded16
3849248081453Ottomans take Constantinople17
3849248091454Gutenberg Bible printed18
3849248101492Christian Reconquista of Spain; Columbus's first voyage to the Americas19
3849248111517Martin Luther posts 95 theses igniting the Protestant Reformation20
3849248121520Suleiman the Magnificent ascends Ottoman throne21
3849248131526Babur founds Mughal Empire (India)22
3849248141592Japanese invasion of Korea23
3849248151644Qing dynasty defeats Ming and captures Bejing24
3849248161642-1649English Civil War25
3849248171688Glorious Revolution (England)26
3849248181712Peter I moves Russian capital to St. Petersburg27
3849248191776Declaration of Independence28
3849248201787US Constitutional Convention29
3849248211789Storming of Bastille (French Revolution)30
3849248221804Haiti achieves independence31
3849248231807Abolition of slave trade in British Empire32
3849248241815Battle of waterloo (Allies defeat Napoleon); Congress of Vienna33
3849248251820Latin American states achieve independence34
3849248261848Year of Revolutions in Europe; Marx & Engels publish Communist Manifesto; Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls35
3849248271850-1864Taiping Rebellion36
3849248281857Sepoy Rebellion37
3849248291861Alexander II frees the serfs (Russia); American Civil war begins38
3849248301871Unification of Germany39
3849248311884-1885Berlin Conference sets off "Scramble for Africa"40
3849248321910-1920Mexican Revolution41
3849248331914-1918World War I42
3849248341917Russian Revolution43
3849248351929Stock Market crash sets of Great Depression44
3849248361939-1945World War II45
3849248371947Independence and Partition of India and Pakistan46
3849248381962Cuban Missile Crisis47
3849248391979Iranian Revolution; Soviets invade Afghanistan48
3849248401989Tiananmen Square Massacre (China); Year of Revolutions in Easter Europe49
38492484120019/11 al-Qaeda terrorist attack on US50
3849248422008Global Financial Crisis51
3849248432011The Arab Spring52

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