13886587121 | 8000 BCE | Neolithic Revolution | 0 | |
13886589469 | 3000 BCE | First state-based civilizations | 1 | |
13886592866 | 1500 BCE | Iron Age | 2 | |
13886599242 | 500s BCE | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi | 3 | |
13886605140 | 400s BCE | Greek Golden Age | 4 | |
13886607384 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
13886609470 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China | 6 | |
13886612240 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
13886614773 | 180 CE | End of Pax Romana | 8 | |
13886617473 | 220 CE | End of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
13886621428 | 333 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
13886623219 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome | 11 | |
13886626502 | 527 CE | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 12 | |
13886630800 | 622 | Founding of Islam | 13 | |
13886632296 | 732 | Battle of Tours | 14 | |
13886634288 | 1054 | The Great Schism (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) | 15 | |
13886641925 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 16 | |
13886644088 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine) | 17 | |
13886650478 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 18 | |
13886652896 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 19 | |
13886657654 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels | 20 | |
13886661544 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 21 | |
13886664794 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 22 | |
13886694988 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 23 | |
13886697892 | 1405-1433 | Zheng He's voyages | 24 | |
13886700063 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 25 | |
13886702535 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 26 | |
13886704334 | 1492 | Columbus/Reconquista of Spain | 27 | |
13886707519 | 1502 | First slaves to Americas | 28 | |
13886713433 | 1517 | Martin Luther/95 theses | 29 | |
13886715884 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 30 | |
13886717788 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 31 | |
13886722233 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 32 | |
13886723412 | 1588 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 33 | |
13886726202 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 34 | |
13886728767 | 1607 | Jamestown settled | 35 | |
13886732240 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 36 | |
13886733903 | 1683 | Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 37 | |
13886736042 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 38 | |
13886747692 | Mid 1700s | Industrial Revolution begins in Britain | 39 | |
13886782338 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/French and Indian War | 40 | |
13886786805 | 1776 | American Revolution | 41 | |
13886793164 | 1789 | French Revolution begins | 42 | |
13886797025 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 43 | |
13886799930 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna/ defeat of Napoleon | 44 | |
13886808613 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 45 | |
13886810901 | 1839 | 1st Opium War in China | 46 | |
13886815403 | 1848 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
13886819015 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
13886820426 | 1857 | Indian Rebellion (Sepoy Mutiny) | 49 | |
13886824503 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 50 | |
13886825782 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 51 | |
13886827461 | 1871 | German unification | 52 | |
13886828922 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
13886830106 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
13886832440 | 1899 | Boer War - British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
13886834384 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 56 | |
13886836155 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown) | 57 | |
13886837356 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution (Qing overthrown) | 58 | |
13886839291 | 1914 | WWI begins | 59 | |
13886841602 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
13886845884 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 61 | |
13886847805 | 1929 | stock market crash | 62 | |
13886849438 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
13886851428 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
13886853670 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 65 | |
13886854932 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
13886858356 | 1945 | End of WWII | 67 | |
13886864924 | 1947 | Independence and partition of India | 68 | |
13886864925 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 69 | |
13886866344 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
13886870443 | 1956 | Nasser nationalizes Suez Canal | 71 | |
13886869134 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 72 | |
13886876067 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 73 | |
13886877455 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 74 | |
13886877456 | 1967 | 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 75 | |
13886880012 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 76 | |
13886881647 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall | 77 | |
13886885474 | 1991 | Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War | 78 | |
13886887515 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/ Mandela in South Africa | 79 | |
13886893127 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 80 | |
13886894249 | 2003 | US invades Iraq | 81 |
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