4509711665 | 610 | Muhammad begins receiving revelations | 0 | |
4509711666 | 1517 | Martin Luther nails the 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenburg | 1 | |
4509711667 | 1861 | Emancipation of the serfs in Russia | 2 | |
4509711668 | 551 BCE | The birth of Confucius | 3 | |
4509711669 | 1990 | Nelson Mandela is released from prison | 4 | |
4509711670 | 1469 | The union of Aragon & Castile, which creates a united Spanish monarchy | 5 | |
4509711671 | 1200 BCE | Judaism, the first monotheistic religion, begins | 6 | |
4509711672 | 535 | Fall of the Gupta Empire | 7 | |
4509711673 | 220 | Fall of Han China | 8 | |
4509711674 | 476 | Fall of the Roman Empire | 9 | |
4509711675 | 1613 | Begining of the Romanov dynasty | 10 | |
4509711676 | 313 | The Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity | 11 | |
4509711677 | 1815 | The Congress of Vienna begins | 12 | |
4509711678 | 1803 | The purchase of Louisiana from France by the US | 13 | |
4509711679 | 1776 | The Wealth of Nations is published | 14 | |
4509711680 | 1324 | The pilgrimage of Mansa Musa | 15 | |
4509711681 | 39 | The Trung Sisters revolt in Vietnam | 16 | |
4509711682 | 500 BCE | Lao-zi and Daoism | 17 | |
4509711683 | 563 BCE | Birth of Siddhartha Gutama who later becomes the Buddha | 18 | |
4509711684 | 622 | Muhammad leaves Mecca for Medina. The Hijra, the official beginning of Islam | 19 | |
4509711685 | 330 | Constantine establishes Constantinople as the capital of the eastern Roman Empire | 20 | |
4509711686 | 1533 | Fall of the Inca to Pizzaro | 21 | |
4509711687 | 1929 | Beginning of the Great Depression | 22 | |
4509711688 | 1492 | Fall of Granada the last Muslim kingdom in Spain | 23 | |
4509711689 | 1792 | Slave rebellion in St. Domingue led by Toussaint L' Overture | 24 | |
4509711690 | 1258 | Fall of Baghdad to Mongol destruction | 25 | |
4509711691 | 794 | Japanese capital moves to Heian | 26 | |
4509711692 | 800 | Crowning of Charlemagne | 27 | |
4509711693 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles ends WWI | 28 | |
4509711694 | 1991 | Fall of the Soviet Union | 29 | |
4509711695 | 1869 | The opening of the Suez Canal | 30 | |
4509711696 | 1914 | The opening of the Panama Canal | 31 | |
4509711697 | 1776 | The Declaration of Independence is written in America | 32 | |
4509711698 | 1789 | The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille | 33 | |
4509711699 | 1519 | Hernan Cortes invades Tenochtitlan | 34 | |
4509711700 | 1997 | The British return Hong Kong to China | 35 | |
4509711701 | 1914 | WWI begins | 36 | |
4509711702 | 1979 | The Islamic Revolution takes place in Iran | 37 | |
4509711703 | 1215 | The Magna Carta is signed in England | 38 | |
4509711704 | 1941 | Japanese attack Pearl Harbor which draws the US into WWII | 39 | |
4509711705 | 1054 | The schism between eastern and western Christianity | 40 | |
4509711706 | 1604 | Beginning of the Time of Troubles | 41 | |
4509711707 | 63 | Romans remove the Jews from Jerusalem. The second Jewish Diaspora | 42 | |
4509711708 | 1600 | Tokugawa Shogunate founded | 43 | |
4509711709 | 1949 | Peoples Republic of China is proclaimed | 44 | |
4509711710 | 1917 | The Communist (Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia | 45 | |
4509711711 | 1950 | Korean War begins | 46 | |
4509711712 | 1571 | Spanish defeat the the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto | 47 | |
4509711713 | 1265 | The First English Parliament is convened | 48 | |
4509711714 | 1481 | Portuguese fort El Mina is established | 49 | |
4509711715 | 1854 | Beginning of the Crimean War | 50 | |
4509711716 | 1939 | WWII begins | 51 | |
4509711717 | 1096 | The 1st Crusade begins | 52 | |
4509711718 | 1368 | End of Mongol rule in China | 53 | |
4509711719 | 1441 | First shipment of African slaves to Portugal | 54 | |
4509711720 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 55 | |
4509711721 | 1954 | The Vietnamese defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu | 56 | |
4509711722 | 1492 | Columbus discovers the Americas | 57 | |
4509711723 | 1455 | Gutenburg's printing press | 58 | |
4509711724 | 1050 | China's printing press | 59 | |
4509711725 | 1931 | Gandhi leads the Salt March | 60 | |
4509711726 | 1453 | Fall of Constantinople | 61 | |
4509711727 | 1480 | End of the Mongol rule in Russia | 62 | |
4509711728 | 1789 | George Washington becomes the first American president as the new Constitution goes into effect | 63 | |
4509711729 | 1918 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk allows Russia to withdraw from WWI | 64 | |
4509711730 | 1066 | William Normandy is Victorious at the Battle of Hastings | 65 | |
4509711731 | 632 | Muhammad dies | 66 | |
4509711732 | 1947 | India & Pakistan achieve independence | 67 | |
4509711733 | 1945 | WWII ends with the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan | 68 | |
4509711734 | 1588 | Britain defeats the Spanish Armada | 69 | |
4509711735 | 1514 | Ottomans defeats the Safavids at Chaldiran | 70 | |
4509711736 | 1904 | Russo-Japanese war begins | 71 | |
4509711737 | 1985 | Mihail Gorbachev takes power in the Soviet Union | 72 | |
4509711738 | 1917 | Balfour Declaration is issued | 73 | |
4509711739 | 690 | Beginning of the reign of Empress Wu | 74 | |
4509711740 | 1607 | First permanent British colony in Virginia | 75 | |
4509711741 | 1961 | Berlin Wall is constructed | 76 | |
4509711742 | 1757 | Victory at the Battle of Plassey gives the British dominance over India | 77 | |
4509711743 | 1948 | Israel achieves independence. The first Arab-Israeli War begins immediately | 78 | |
4509711744 | 1839 | Beginning of the Opium War | 79 |
AP World History Chronology Flashcards
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