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140298473618000 BCENeolithic Revolution (beginning of agriculture)0
140298473623000 BCEBronze Age (early River Valley Civilizations)1
140298473636th Century BCEfoundation of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism/Life of Confucius, Buddha, Laozi2
140298473645th Century BCEGreek Golden Age of Philosophers3
14029847365323 BCEAlexander the Great (that hair though!)4
14029847366221 BCEQin Dynasty Founded5
1402984736732 CEBeginning of Christianity6
14029847368180 CEPax Romana begins7
14029847369220 CEHan Dynasty Falls8
14029847370333 CEConstantinople new capital of Roman Empire9
140298473714th Century CETrans-Sahara trade routes established10
14029847372476 CEFall of Rome11
14029847373527 CEJustinian's reign of Byzantine Empire12
14029847374622 CEFounding of Islam13
14029847375732 CEBattle of Tours (to end Muslims pushing into France)14
140298473761054Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox)15
140298473771066Norman Conquest of England16
140298473781095First Crusade17
140298473791258Mongols sack Baghdad18
140298473801271-1295Marco Polo's Travels19
140298473811324Mansa Musa's pilgramage20
140298473821325-1349Ibn Battuta's travels21
140298473831347-1348Bubonic plague in Europe22
140298473841433Ming navy ends23
140298473851453Ottomans capture Constantinople24
140298473861488Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope25
140298473871492Columbus sails the ocean blue AND Reconquista completed26
140298473881502First slaves from Africa arrive in the Americas27
140298473891517Martin Luther's 95 theses28
140298473901521Cortez conquers the Aztecs29
140298473911533Pizarro conquers the Inca30
140298473921588Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British31
140298473931600Beginning of Tokugawa shogunate32
140298473941607Jamestown founded in North America33
140298473951689Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights34
140298473961790Industrial Revolution35
140298473971756-1763Seven Years' War/French and Indian War36
140298473981776American Revolution AND Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations37
140298473991789French Revolution38
140298474001804Haitian Independence39
140298474011815Congress of Vienna40
140298474021820sIndependence of Latin America41
140298474031839Opium War between England and China42
140298474041848Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write "The Communist Manifesto"43
140298474051853Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade44
140298474061857Sepoy Mutiny45
140298474071861Russian serfs emancipated46
140298474081863Emancipation Proclamation in the US47
140298474091885Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa)48
140298474101898Spanish American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico)49
140298474111899Boer War (British put down rebellion by Boers in eastern South Africa)50
140298474121905Russo-Japanese War51
140298474131910-1920Mexican Revolution52
140298474141911Chinese Revolution (end of the Qing dynasty)53
140298474151914WWI begins54
140298474161917Russian revolutions: Duma overthrows Czar Nicholas and Bolshevik Revolution55
140298474171919Treaty of Versailles (to end WWI)56
140298474181929Stock Market crash57
140298474191935Italian invasion of Ethiopia58
140298474201931Japanese invasion of Manchuria59
140298474211939Germany invades Poland (beginning WWII in Europe)60
140298474221941Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore / U.S. entry into WWII61
140298474231945WWII ends62
140298474241947India partitioned and wins independence from Britain63
140298474251948state of Israel created64
140298474261949Chinese Communist Party takes control of China65
140298474271950-1953Korean War66
140298474281956De-Stalinization begins AND Suez Canal is nationalized in Egypt67
140298474291959Cuban Revolution68
140298474301962Cuban Missile Crisis69
1402984743119676-Day War between Israel and Arab nations70
140298474321966-1976Chinese Cultural Revolution71
140298474331979Iranian Revolution72
140298474341989Tiananmen Square protests/Fall of Berlin Wall73
140298474351991Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War74

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