3865735883 | 9,000 BCE | Domestication of animals | 0 | |
3865737880 | 8500 - 3500 | development of farming in ME | 1 | |
3865739448 | 4th Millennium | Bronze Age | 2 | |
3865742579 | 3500 | Rise of Sumerians | 3 | |
3865742580 | 3100 | Unification of Egypt | 4 | |
3865744004 | 2500 | Rise of Indus River Valley | 5 | |
3865745572 | 2000 | Judaism begins w/Abraham | 6 | |
3865750023 | 1500 | Shang kingdom in China | 7 | |
3865751371 | 1029 - 258 | Zhou Dynasty | 8 | |
3865752356 | 1000 - 600 | Rise of Hinduism | 9 | |
3865752368 | 509 | Founding of Roman Republic | 10 | |
3865754108 | 5th century | Buddha, Confucius, Socrates | 11 | |
3865755715 | 470 - 430 | Golden Age of Athens | 12 | |
3865757309 | 332 - 323 | Alexander the Great | 13 | |
3865758438 | 332 - 184 | Mauryan Dynasty | 14 | |
3865759602 | 221 | Founding of Qin Dynasty | 15 | |
3865761769 | 202 | Founding of Han Dynasty | 16 | |
3865762912 | 27 BCE | Rise of Roman Empire | 17 | |
3865764646 | 1st century CE | Spread of Christianity | 18 | |
3865770608 | 180 | End of Pax Romana | 19 | |
3865770609 | 220 | End of Han Dynasty | 20 | |
3865773195 | 220 - 589 | Spread of Buddhism in China | 21 | |
3865773196 | 313 | Rome Legalizes Christianity | 22 | |
3865774693 | 319 - 540 | Gupta Dynasty | 23 | |
3865775794 | 476 CE | Fall of western Roman Empire | 24 | |
3865781275 | 527 - 565 | Reign of Justinian | 25 | |
3865782233 | 610 | Rise of Islam | 26 | |
3865783638 | 618 - 907 | Tang Dynasty in China | 27 | |
3865784672 | 661 - 750 | Umayyad Caliphate | 28 | |
3865789310 | 750 | Start of Abbasid Caliphate | 29 | |
3865791492 | 800 | Charlemagne crowned H.R.E | 30 | |
3865792389 | c.800 | Heian period in Japan | 31 | |
3865793313 | c.855 | Beginning of Kievan Rus | 32 | |
3865794551 | 960 - 1271 | Song Dynasty | 33 | |
3865795520 | 1054 | Split of Christian Church | 34 | |
3865796640 | 1096 | First Christian Crusade | 35 | |
3865797913 | 12th century | Rise of Feudalism in Japan | 36 | |
3865798829 | 1200 | Rise of Kingdom in Mali | 37 | |
3865800233 | 1206 - 1227 | Reign of Genghis Khan | 38 | |
3865801789 | 1271 | Founding of the Yuan Dynasty | 39 | |
3865802947 | 1281 | Founding of the Ottoman Empire | 40 | |
3865804213 | 1304 - 1374 | Italian Renaissance | 41 | |
3865805830 | 1320 - 1340 | Spread of Bubonic Plague | 42 | |
3865806898 | 1325 | Rise of Aztec Empire | 43 | |
3865807861 | 1350 | Rise of Inca Empire | 44 | |
3865808995 | 1368 | Beginning of the Ming Dynasty | 45 | |
3865809928 | 1400 | Swahili states flourish | 46 | |
3865811098 | 1405 - 1433 | Zheng He voyages | 47 | |
3865811987 | 1441 | Start of Atlantic slave trade | 48 | |
3865815914 | 1453 | Ottomans conquer Constantinople | 49 | |
3865817345 | 1492 | Columbus expeditions | 50 | |
3865818645 | 1498 | Vasco da Gama reaches India | 51 | |
3865821806 | 16th century | Commercial Revolution in Europe | 52 | |
3865822856 | 1517 | Start of Protestant Reformation | 53 | |
3865824234 | 1524 | Cortez conquers the Aztecs | 54 | |
3865826691 | 1526 | Founding of the Mughal Empire | 55 | |
3865829169 | 1533 | Pizarro conquers the Inca | 56 | |
3865830442 | 1552 | Beginning of Russian Empire | 57 | |
3865831454 | 1571 | Founding of Manila; world trade system | 58 | |
3865835019 | 1600 - 1690 | Scientific Revolution | 59 | |
3865836409 | 1603 | Founding of Tokugawa Shogunate | 60 | |
3865837963 | 1607 | First British colony in North America | 61 | |
3865840833 | 1640s | Beginning of Japanese isolation | 62 | |
3865843905 | 1643 - 1715 | Louis XIV in France; absolute monarchy | 63 | |
3865845025 | 1644 | Founding of the Qing Dynasty | 64 | |
3865846547 | 1652 | Dutch Boers colonize South Africa | 65 | |
3865847885 | 1689-1725 | Peter the Great; Westernization of Russia | 66 | |
3865850685 | 18th century | The Enlightenment | 67 | |
3865862125 | 1756 - 1763 | Seven Year's War | 68 | |
3865862126 | 1764 | British East India Co. controls India | 69 | |
3865863878 | 1770 | Beginning of Industrial Revolution | 70 | |
3865864812 | 1775 - 1783 | American Revolution | 71 | |
3865872239 | 1789 - 1815 | French Revolution + Napoleon | 72 | |
3865874731 | 1792 | Mary Wollstonecraft; feminism | 73 | |
3865877279 | 1792 - 1804 | Haitian Revolution | 74 | |
3865879358 | 1805 - 1849 | Muhammad Ali rules Egypt | 75 | |
3865883438 | 1808 - 1825 | Latin American wars of independence | 76 | |
3865889756 | 1823 | Monroe Doctrine | 77 | |
3865895880 | 1833 | British abolish slavery | 78 | |
3865897001 | 1839 - 1841 | Opium Wars | 79 | |
3865915368 | 1839 - 1876 | Tanzimat reforms in Ottoman Empire | 80 | |
3865916677 | 1848 | Communist Manifesto; Marxism | 81 | |
3865918289 | 1858 | British Raj in India | 82 | |
3865919600 | 1861 | Emancipation of serfs in Russia | 83 | |
3865921756 | 1868 - 1914 | Meiji Restoration; japanese industrialize | 84 | |
3865923061 | 1871 | Unification of Germany | 85 | |
3865925268 | 1871 - 1914 | Height of European imperialism | 86 | |
3865928684 | 1880s | Demographic transition in the West | 87 | |
3865932662 | 1884 - 1914 | Russian industrialization | 88 | |
3865935836 | 1884 - 1885 | Berlin Conference | 89 | |
3865937353 | 1885 | Founding of Indian National Congress | 90 | |
3865944073 | 1888 | Abolition of slavery in Brazil + Cuba | 91 | |
3865946679 | 1890s | European spheres of influence in China | 92 | |
3865951476 | 1910 - 1920 | Mexican Revolution | 93 | |
3865954439 | 1912 | Chinese Revolution | 94 | |
3865955946 | 1914 - 1919 | World War I + Versailles Conference | 95 | |
3865966702 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 96 | |
3865966703 | 1929 | Start of Great Depression | 97 | |
3865975084 | 1931 - 1947 | Gandhi's resistance in India | 98 | |
3865979112 | 1933 | Hitler rises to power in Germany | 99 | |
3865980805 | 1936 | Japan invades China | 100 | |
3865982326 | 1939 - 1945 | World War II | 101 | |
3865983628 | 1945 | Creation of the United Nations | 102 | |
3865986792 | 1947 | India + Pakistan gain independence | 103 | |
3865989859 | 1947 - 1991 | the Cold War | 104 | |
3865989860 | 1948 | Creation of Israel | 105 | |
3865990817 | 1949 | Communist revolution in China | 106 | |
3865992170 | 1955 | Bandung conference; nonalignment | 107 | |
3865993221 | 1957 | Creation of EEC | 108 | |
3865993222 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 109 | |
3865994233 | 1960 | "Year of Africa" | 110 | |
3865995659 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 111 | |
3865996847 | 1990 | end of apartheid in S. Africa | 112 | |
3865996848 | 1991 | Fall of the Soviet Union | 113 |
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