must know dates for the ap world exam
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| 3096050045 | 8000 B.C.E | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
| 3096050046 | 3000 B.C.E | Beginnings of Bronze Age- early civilization | 1 | |
| 3096050047 | 1300 B.C.E | Iron Age | 2 | |
| 3096050048 | 6th century B.C.E | life of Buddah, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddism, Taosim) | 3 | |
| 3096050049 | 5th century B.C.E | Greek Golden Age-Philiosophers | 4 | |
| 3096050050 | 323 B.C.E | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
| 3096050051 | 221 B.C.E | Qin unified China | 6 | |
| 3096050052 | 32 C.E | Beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
| 3096050053 | 180 C.E | end of Pax Romana | 8 | |
| 3096050054 | 220 C.E | end of the Han dynasty | 9 | |
| 3096050055 | 333 C.E | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
| 3096050056 | 4th century | Beginning of Trans-Saharan trade routes | 11 | |
| 3096050057 | 476 | fall of Rome | 12 | |
| 3096050058 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
| 3096050059 | 622 | founding of Islam | 14 | |
| 3096050060 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France | 15 | |
| 3096050061 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox) | 16 | |
| 3096050062 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
| 3096050063 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire) | 18 | |
| 3096050064 | 1095 | 1st crusade | 19 | |
| 3096050065 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
| 3096050066 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
| 3096050067 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
| 3096050068 | 1325-1349 | travel of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
| 3096050069 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 24 | |
| 3096050070 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
| 3096050071 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
| 3096050072 | 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 27 | |
| 3096050073 | 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
| 3096050074 | 1502 | 1st Slaves to Americas | 29 | |
| 3096050075 | 1517 | Marin Luther/ 95 theses | 30 | |
| 3096050076 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
| 3096050077 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca Empire | 32 | |
| 3096050078 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
| 3096050079 | 1588 | defeaat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
| 3096050080 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
| 3096050081 | 1607 | foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
| 3096050082 | 1618-1648 | 30 years war | 37 | |
| 3096050083 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
| 3096050084 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
| 3096050085 | 1756-1763 | 7 years war/French and Indian War | 40 | |
| 3096050086 | 1776 | American Revolution /Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
| 3096050087 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
| 3096050088 | 1804 | Haitian independence | 43 | |
| 3096050089 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
| 3096050090 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 45 | |
| 3096050091 | 1839 | 1st opiem war in China | 46 | |
| 3096050092 | 1848 | European revoltuions/marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
| 3096050093 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
| 3096050094 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
| 3096050095 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 50 | |
| 3096050096 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 51 | |
| 3096050097 | 1871 | German unification | 52 | |
| 3096050098 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
| 3096050099 | 1898 | Spanish-American War - Us acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
| 3096050100 | 1899 | Boer War- British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
| 3096050101 | 1905 | Russo-japanese war | 56 | |
| 3096050102 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
| 3096050103 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 58 | |
| 3096050104 | 1914 | WWI | 59 | |
| 3096050105 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
| 3096050106 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles- end of WWI | 61 | |
| 3096050107 | 1929 | stock market crash | 62 | |
| 3096050108 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
| 3096050109 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
| 3096050110 | 1939 | German blitzkieg in Poland | 65 | |
| 3096050111 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
| 3096050112 | 1945 | end of WWII | 67 | |
| 3096050113 | 1947 | independence & partition of India | 68 | |
| 3096050114 | 1948 | birth of Isreal | 69 | |
| 3096050115 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
| 3096050116 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 71 | |
| 3096050117 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
| 3096050118 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez canal | 73 | |
| 3096050119 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
| 3096050120 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 75 | |
| 3096050121 | 1967 | 6 day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
| 3096050122 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 77 | |
| 3096050123 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 78 | |
| 3096050124 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 79 | |
| 3096050125 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall | 80 | |
| 3096050126 | 1991 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf war | 81 | |
| 3096050127 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa | 82 | |
| 3096050128 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 83 |
