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140206255988000 BCENeolithic Revolution (beginning of agriculture)0
140206255993000 BCEBronze Age (early River Valley Civilizations)1
140206256006th Century BCEfoundation of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism/Life of Confucius, Buddha, Laozi2
140206256015th Century BCEGreek Golden Age of Philosophers3
14020625602323 BCEAlexander the Great (that hair though!)4
14020625603221 BCEQin Dynasty Founded5
1402062560432 CEBeginning of Christianity6
14020625605180 CEPax Romana begins7
14020625606220 CEHan Dynasty Falls8
14020625607333 CEConstantinople new capital of Roman Empire9
140206256084th Century CETrans-Sahara trade routes established10
14020625609476 CEFall of Rome11
14020625610527 CEJustinian's reign of Byzantine Empire12
14020625611622 CEFounding of Islam13
14020625612732 CEBattle of Tours (to end Muslims pushing into France)14
140206256131054Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox)15
140206256141066Norman Conquest of England16
140206256151095First Crusade17
140206256161258Mongols sack Baghdad18
140206256171271-1295Marco Polo's Travels19
140206256181324Mansa Musa's pilgramage20
140206256191325-1349Ibn Battuta's travels21
140206256201347-1348Bubonic plague in Europe22
140206256211433Ming navy ends23
140206256221453Ottomans capture Constantinople24
140206256231488Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope25
140206256241492Columbus sails the ocean blue AND Reconquista completed26
140206256251502First slaves from Africa arrive in the Americas27
140206256261517Martin Luther's 95 theses28
140206256271521Cortez conquers the Aztecs29
140206256281533Pizarro conquers the Inca30
140206256291588Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British31
140206256301600Beginning of Tokugawa shogunate32
140206256311607Jamestown founded in North America33
140206256321689Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights34
140206256331790Industrial Revolution35
140206256341756-1763Seven Years' War/French and Indian War36
140206256351776American Revolution AND Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations37
140206256361789French Revolution38
140206256371804Haitian Independence39
140206256381815Congress of Vienna40
140206256391820sIndependence of Latin America41
140206256401839Opium War between England and China42
140206256411848Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write "The Communist Manifesto"43
140206256421853Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade44
140206256431857Sepoy Mutiny45
140206256441861Russian serfs emancipated46
140206256451863Emancipation Proclamation in the US47
140206256461885Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa)48
140206256471898Spanish American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico)49
140206256481899Boer War (British put down rebellion by Boers in eastern South Africa)50
140206256491905Russo-Japanese War51
140206256501910-1920Mexican Revolution52
140206256511911Chinese Revolution (end of the Qing dynasty)53
140206256521914WWI begins54
140206256531917Russian revolutions: Duma overthrows Czar Nicholas and Bolshevik Revolution55
140206256541919Treaty of Versailles (to end WWI)56
140206256551929Stock Market crash57
140206256561935Italian invasion of Ethiopia58
140206256571931Japanese invasion of Manchuria59
140206256581939Germany invades Poland (beginning WWII in Europe)60
140206256591941Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore / U.S. entry into WWII61
140206256601945WWII ends62
140206256611947India partitioned and wins independence from Britain63
140206256621948state of Israel created64
140206256631949Chinese Communist Party takes control of China65
140206256641950-1953Korean War66
140206256651956De-Stalinization begins AND Suez Canal is nationalized in Egypt67
140206256661959Cuban Revolution68
140206256671962Cuban Missile Crisis69
1402062566819676-Day War between Israel and Arab nations70
140206256691966-1976Chinese Cultural Revolution71
140206256701979Iranian Revolution72
140206256711989Tiananmen Square protests/Fall of Berlin Wall73
140206256721991Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War74

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