9890723889 | 8000 BCE | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
9890723890 | 3000 BCE | Beginnings of Bronze Age | 1 | |
9890723891 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | 2 | |
9890723892 | 6th C BCE | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi | 3 | |
9890723893 | 5th C BCE | Greek Golden Age- philosophers | 4 | |
9890723894 | 403-221 BCE | Era of Warring States | 5 | |
9890723895 | 323 BCE | Date: Alexander the Great dies | 6 | |
9890723896 | 221 BCE | Qin Dynasty unified China | 7 | |
9890723897 | 184 BCE | Fall of Mauryan Dynasty | 8 | |
9890747243 | 32 | Beginnings of Christianity | 9 | |
9890747244 | 180 | End of Pax Romana | 10 | |
9890747245 | 220 | End of Han Dynasty | 11 | |
9890747246 | 312 | Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity | 12 | |
9890747247 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 13 | |
9890747248 | 4th C | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 14 | |
9890747249 | 476 | Fall of Rome | 15 | |
9890747250 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 16 | |
9890747251 | 550 | Fall of Gupta Dynasty/Empire | 17 | |
9891230580 | 622 | Founding of Islam | 18 | |
9891230581 | C 730 | Printing invented in China | 19 | |
9891230582 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 20 | |
9891230583 | C 900 | Decline of classical maya | 21 | |
9891230584 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox) | 22 | |
9891230585 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 23 | |
9891230586 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine army) | 24 | |
9891230587 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 25 | |
9891230588 | 1206 | Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests | 26 | |
9891230589 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate | 27 | |
9891230590 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels | 28 | |
9891230591 | 1279-1368 | Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China | 29 | |
9891230592 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 30 | |
9891230593 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 31 | |
9891230594 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 32 | |
9891230595 | 1368-1644 | Ming Dynasty | 33 | |
9891230596 | 1405-1433 | Zheng He's voyages | 34 | |
9891230597 | 1438 | Rise of Inca Empire | 35 | |
9904973901 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 36 | |
9904973902 | 1450s | Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg) | 37 | |
9904973903 | ca 1480s | Height of Aztec Empire | 38 | |
9904973904 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 39 | |
9904973905 | 1492 | Columbus/Reconquista of Spain | 40 | |
9904973906 | 1502 | 1st African Slaves to Americas | 41 | |
9904973907 | 1517 | Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation | 42 | |
9904973908 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 43 | |
9904973909 | 1529 | 1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman) | 44 | |
9904973910 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 45 | |
9904973911 | 1545 | Discovery of silver at Potosi | 46 | |
9904973912 | 1571 CE | 1st Manila Galleon (global trade) | 47 | |
9904973913 | 1588 | Spanish Armada | 48 | |
9904973914 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara (beg of Tokugawa Shogunate) | 49 | |
9904973915 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown | 50 | |
9904973916 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 51 | |
9904973917 | 1644 | End of Ming/Beginning of Qing Dynasty | 52 | |
9904973918 | 1653 | Cape Town colony founded (Dutch) | 53 | |
9904973919 | 1683 | 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) | 54 | |
9904973920 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 55 |
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